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Strange and Bizarre News with A Knife Attack at an Egg Hunt · 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, twenty ninth day of March. Good Friday, I'm Wes.
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Thanks for joining me as we roll on into Easter weekend and roll on out
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of the month of March and out of the first quarter and into the second
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quarter and all of that. But most importantly, of course, it's Easter
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weekend, and I hope you are able to celebrate and appreciate and maybe have
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a renewal all of those things that come with the Easter holiday. And I
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hope you're able to take some time to reflect all those important things that you
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need to do. I've talked about this before radio and here, and I
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think it's worth noting again. I had a very unique experience years ago while
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I went to do one of those floats, and we've got a place here
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in the Chattahooche Valley called Uptown Float. They hosted me there to come in
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and just they comped me an experience. Come in and do it and tell
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your listeners about it, which I'm still doing years later, and I'm happy
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to do it because I went basically this time of year to go to do
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my float. It was definitely and I believe it may have even been on
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the Friday. It may have been good Friday, but it was rolling into
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Easter and I just went into this float. This is the you know,
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sensory deprivation experience, is what it was. And for me, I took
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time as I was getting in thinking about the Crucifixion, thinking about that moment
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when the first time in his life, Jesus was cut off completely from God.
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And obviously I can't fathom that experience that he had, but for me,
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I tried to equate it to this sensory deprivation. Losing light, losing
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sound, Losing the smell was definitely there, but losing all of the senses
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while you're in this particular tank and you're just floating in darkness. And they
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had warned me sometimes when people go in and do this, you might see
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lights, you might see you know, some it's almost a little psychedelic for
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some people. For some they fall asleep. There's a few things that they
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said you can kind of expect while you're in there. But that's what I
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took in with me, and it was a great experience for me because it
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was a time for me to reflect on this moment where because there's Jesus taking
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on the sin of the world and God can't have contact with sin, they
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had to break that connection. They had to completely sever that connection for the
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Crucifixion and for you know, ultimately until he arose. So that is what
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I took into it, and that is what I experienced there, and it
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was I would say life changing, but I'd already had the life changing experience
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of it, but for me, it was different perspective life changing. It
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gave me that ability to take that into it, and that came, you
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know, while I was there, while I was experiencing it, and I
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feel like God revealed a lot to me in that experience because I was doing
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it at that time of the year, and that's what I took away from
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it, and I meditated on it while I was in there. I prayed
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while I was in there, and it was a great experience for me.
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And I'm saying it again just because it is a great experience if you want
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to and I'm not getting paid anything at this point from the Uptown Float,
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folks, I'm just mentioning that experience that I had while I was in there,
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and if that's something that I mean, there's other benefits to it.
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It's you know, for some it's just you know, basically like going to
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get a massage or you know, it's a stress relief. There's a few
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things that you can get from that experience. But that's what I got from
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it, and it meant a lot to me that God put that on me
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while I was experiencing that. So it's something I like to share on this
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time of year, especially if it's on Good Friday, to be able to
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talk about it. All right, One more thing I wanted to mention here
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on this Friday is that today, if you were a T Mobile customer in
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the Columbus area and your typical T Mobile store is the Veterans Parkway location,
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they are reopening today. They've been closed for a remodel. They've made the
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store bigger and it's very different. I got to go in and check it
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out before they reopened the store and while they were still doing the remodeling,
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and it's a store experience. They're doing a brand new type of store at
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that location. You're going to be able to do some things there that you
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couldn't do at the store before. But today they have reopened, and they've
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got all kinds of stuff going on today this Friday, twenty ninth of March.
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So if you're listening to this later, just know you can still go
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into the store, but you may have missed out on the grand opening experience
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of checking out the store today for their grand reopening. But this is the
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Veterans Parkway location of T Mobile in Columbus sixty seven seventy Veterans Parkway to be
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specific. All right, let's jump into some strange and bizarre news from around
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the world. That's probably what you're expecting. You weren't expecting it to get
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heavy and talk about Easter and all that, but you know, sorry,
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gotta do what I gotta do. We can do some strange and bizarre news
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stories now, though. Let's start in Washington, DC. A lottery player
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in d C stun when they picked all nines on their ticket and that's what
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was drawn. Winning lottery numbers from the DC four drawing were nine to nine
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to nine, nine, which earned someone the top prize of five grand for
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matching all four numbers. Little did they know that they weren't the only one
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to pick all nines, and there were three hundred and sixty five other winners
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who had the same idea. After taxes, DC Lottery had to pay out
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eight hundred and seventy five thousand dollars, its largest payout ever. Oddly enough,
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it's the not the first time something like that's happened. In twenty twenty
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one, a California Pick four sorry Carolina Pick four drawing had thirty three hundred
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and twenty six winning tickets. With the drawing pulled up all zeros. That
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was a total of ten point three million paid out to the winners. Pretty
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wild interesting and as much as you can sit here and say, wow,
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all nines came up, it's statistically the same odds as any other four numbers
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coming up. And I know it's one of those if you're not a math
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person, your brain might be going, what, But it's exactly the same
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odds of those numbers coming up as any other combination of four numbers. It
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just feels weird when it's four of the same number that comes up. A
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Michigan man hiding colorful eggs for an Easter egg hunt ended up in jail after
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he tried to hide a knife inside one of his family members. Police say
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the thirty six year old was hiding eggs with his female partner for an Easter
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egg hunt at an elementary school when the two started arguing over where to place
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the eggs. When a family member tried to intervene, the man pulled out
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a knife and cut that family member multiple times. Deputies responded and convinced the
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man to drop the knife. He was then taken into custody, and he's
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been charged with aggravated assault. The victim was treated for minor lacerations. It's
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always wild when your high and Easter eggs and a fight breaks out, especially
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when a knife fight breaks out. That's not that's much you would think statistically
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less likely to happen than all Nines coming up. I don't know. Maybe
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the all nines thing is less likely to happen. A Nigerian woman could be
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sent away to prison for three years for committing an unspeakable crime of leaving a
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bad online review for a can of Puade tomatoes. Thirty nine year old Chioma
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o'coli is accused of breaching the country's cyber crime laws when she left a negative
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review of Nageeko tomato mix, criticizing it for being too sweet. She then
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asked her eighteen thousand followers to share their opinions on the product. A week
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later, she was arrested and the company that makes the product had accused her
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of in instigating the public against the company for violating Nigeria's Cyber Crime Prohibition Act.
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If found guilty, she could face up to three years in prison in
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a fine of five thousand dollars. The company has also filed a separate civil
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lawsuit and is seeking more than three million dollars in damages. The case has
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sparked widespread protests across Nigeria from groups charging the government of persecuting a Kolie for
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exercising her right to free speech. It doesn't sound like they have that right,
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you know. It doesn't sound like they have that free speech right.
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If you can't just say, hey, this tomato sauce is too sweet,
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what do you guys think? Do you have free speech? At that point,
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I mean, I realized that we told that line with some of our
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issues here where we say we have free speech. But you know, it's
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pretty uh, it's pretty severe there, just for not liking that particular pure
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A well meting British woman with a love for animals recently saved the life of
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a baby hedgehog, or so she thought. The woman found the small animal
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on the side of the road, scooped it up into a box, and
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she then brought it home and tried to nurse it back to help. She
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kept it warm in a dark room, put some cat food in the box,
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hoping it would eat. But after some time passed, she was concerned
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that the animal at and moved or eaten or pooped, so she picked up
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the box took it to a nature reserve and animal hospital. A veterinarian looked
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inside the box immediately knew why the hedgehog wasn't moving. It wasn't a hedgehog.
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It wasn't a living thing at all. It was actually a pom pom,
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like the thing that goes on top of a ski hat. The animal
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hospital wrote on face book, our hearts melted as a kind soul thought she
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was rescuing a baby hedgehog, adding remember kindness knows no bounds, even when
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it's a fall. Furry friend, I got lots of questions about how someone
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might think that a you know, piece of a hat could possibly be confused
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for a living creature. I mean, I do have questions, but I'll
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just say good on her for trying. Good on her for making the effort.
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I didn't see any photos of it, so I don't know exactly.
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I don't know exactly what it looked like, but I'm pretty sure it couldn't
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have looked that much like a hedgehog. That's just my hunch. But good
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for her for trying. I never want to criticize somebody for putting in the
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effort. A Utah man was arrested over the weekend for his not so clever
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method of beating rush hour traffic. Police in the southwestern part of Utah say
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that a forty seven year old installed red and blue flashing lights on the front
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grill of his work truck so that other drivers would move out of his way
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and he could get to work on time. Some other drivers were suspicious of
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the truck because there was a construction company logo on the side, so they
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called nine to one to one. Troopers caught up with the driver pulled him
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over after he exited the freeway. He admitted to turning on the lights to
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move cars out of his way. Troopers also found illegal drugs inside his truck,
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and he later tested positive for marijuana amphetamine met amphetamine, and he told
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police that he took the drugs to help him stay awake while driving. Wow,
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I'll keep you awake. I guess he's charged with impersonating an officer,
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drug possession, and DUI. So yeah, that's a bad combination. I
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mean, any of those things is bad. You put them all together,
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you know, driving while intoxicated. That just really adds to all of it,
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doesn't it. California Creep won't to have a leg to stand on when
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he shows up to court answer for charges that he stole the leg off a
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woman's corpse and ran off, taking bites out of it. Eh witnesses spotted
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Ressindo Telez approaching the body, which had been hit by an Amtrak train in
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the town of Wasco near Bakersfield. He reportedly picked it up and bolted,
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stopping to wave the severed limbit the cops, then holding it above his head
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like a trophy. Some censored news footage showed the twenty seven year old taking
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several bites out of the leg before cops were able to subdue him. Telez
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has been charged with misdemeanor removal of human body parts and mutilating a body and
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finally, an Indiana woman got denied warranty coverage by an appliance repair man,
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so she told him that he was covered by a handgun she pulled on him.
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Rebelajoy Wilson called a maytag man to her home to take a look at
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her on the Fritz Tryer, but when it came time to settle up,
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she told him a different repair man. It told her that she was good
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to go. Forty two year old Wilson wasn't pleased when he told her that
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he couldn't accept another company's warranty, so she whipped out a weapon, pointed
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it at him, and that's when the victim ran for the door. Wilson
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fired wildly, didn't really come close to hitting him. Wilson charged with criminal
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com more West Carol Morning Show right after the break. Do you take the
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day off when you're sick or do you just power through it? I think
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for some people maybe it's a it's a combo. Like some days they think
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I don't have anything going on at work, I need to recover, and
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some days you just think I got too much to do and I can't take
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the day off. Well, Apparently most people leave a lot of sick days
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unused. According to a new survey, the average American spends eighty four hours
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a year working while sick, and forty seven percent said they would rather just
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power through than take a sick day. The reason they feel pressure too,
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and they worry about what people would think about if they're being by calling in
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sick. I think mental health days are really underrated, and I think employers
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should appreciate the occasional mental health day just in case, because some people get
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burned out and they just need it every now and then. It's not a
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bad thing if you don't have a lot going on at work that day and
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you're not putting a lot of people out and inconveniencing them. You're only as
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old as you feel. And if you're not sleeping, well, it probably
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means you're feeling old. According to researchers out of Stockholm University in Sweden,
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found that sleep has a big influence on how old you feel, regardless of
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your actual age, and the reason when you're tired and sluggish, you don't
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feel youthful and energetic, you feel old. I mean that makes sense,
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doesn't it? All? Right? A high end Manhattan restaurant has raised the
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bar on fancy junk food with a twenty eight dollars chicken nugget. Yes,
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that's the cost of one single nugget, even the four pack. That's not
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the ten pack at Burger King. No, no, no, that's one
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nugget. The newly opened And I guess I'm saying this right. Cocadac put
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the item on the menu to lure in the social media generation, including the
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TikTok crowd, and it's apparently worked because the chicken little is loaded with a
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spoonful of golden drinky. Again, I don't know if I'm saying that right.
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Caviar, most diners aren't stopping at a single nugget, they're ordering enough
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for everyone at the table, along with champagne to wash down the nuggets.
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And that's up to forty eight dollars a glass. So yeah, I mean,
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it's not really a chicken nugget. It's you. It's caviar. I
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mean, if you're paying twenty eight dollars for a nugget, if you're paying
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twenty eight dollars for a nugget with caviar, that's a little different. That's
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not exactly the same thing as paying twenty eight dollars for a nugget, now,
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is it? Gen Z workers have found a new trusted co worker to
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turn to with help from their tasks every day, chat GPT. According to
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a new poll from the Pew Research Center, about thirty percent of Americans between
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the ages of eighteen and twenty nine admit to using the AI chat box at
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work. That's up from nineteen percent a year ago. Adults with postgrad or
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advanced degrees were the ones most likely to use it. But despite the growing
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population of chat GPT users, forty percent say that they don't trust all the
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information that they get from it. And you probably shouldn't because if you trust
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it too much, it will bring about the end of the world. I
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mean, I think we learned something, I hope from the Terminator franchise.
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Picking up and moving to another country may sound like fantasy or pipe dream,
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and maybe it is, but more than one third of Americans say that they
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would do it if it were logistically possible for them. According to a Monmouth
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University poll, thirty four percent of people say that they would like to settle
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in another country The results varied based on political affiliations. Independence make up the
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biggest group of people looking to flee the country, with forty one percent saying
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they would love to do it. That's compared to thirty five percent of Democrats
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twenty two percent of Republicans. The number of people saying that they'd like to
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move to another country has nearly tripled in the last thirty years. I do
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find it interesting that some people who seem to think that they don't like anything
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that America stands for wants to stay here and change it, rather than saying,
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Hey, what a great place that I'm blessed to live in, and
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I should preserve what was you know, fought for and bled for by so
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many people, and what a rich history we have. It's not always great
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history, but we've got a rich history of this idea that is America.
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And if you don't like it, and you think, no, I'd rather
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live in a place that's socialists or communists, then when I go to one
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of those places available, they're readily available. We've got a very very socialist
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country just north of us that would love for you to come and settle in
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some of their rocks and trees and trees and rocks and water. That'll do
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