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Strange and Bizarre News with a Christmas Tree Attack · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carol Morning Show.
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Friday morning, fifth day of January. I'm Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Closing out this first I guess work week kind of work week. I
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know we had a holiday on Monday, but we're closing out the first real
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work week of twenty twenty four. I hope you're off to a good start.
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Things are a bit hectic around the Carroll household. We're having some construction
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work done around the house. I'll talk more about that, i'm sure in
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the coming days, but anyway, it's just been a hectic week. But
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we're ready to close out this first one. And I know most of the
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area kids are now back in school. Many started back yesterday, and I
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think there may be some going back today. I believe that's right. If
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not, I would assume they're probably going to be back in by Monday at
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the very latest. If you've got homeschool kids, they just do whatever,
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right, They just get started when you're ready for them to get started.
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It is Friday, and that means time for some strange and bizarre news from
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all around. We will start in Minnesota, and this is one of those
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stories. That will absolutely make you cringe if you've had any sort of extreme
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dental work done. Okay, I've had some, I guess extreme. First
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of all, let me say this because there's a few things to explain on
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the I know, people talk about like having a root canal and they say,
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oh, that's that's, you know, the worst thing that you can
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have done. It's not great. It's certainly not not fun at all.
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I have had the the fortune of having a tooth that was broken off at
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the gum line and they had to dig the root out from the tooth,
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and then I had an implant put in. I will tell you this just
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from experience, that was a bit worse than a root canal, because I've
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done both. And not that a root canal is fun by any means,
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but digging out and then later having to because it's a prolong, like you
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have to do two steps to it. They take out the root and then
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they go in and they put the implant in, and then you have to
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go back in and actually have the tooth attached and all those sorts of things.
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So there's you know, worse things that can happen. But anyway,
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none of that compares to what this woman went through in Minnesota. So think
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about four root canals all in one visit, as well as twenty eight other
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procedures that all happened in one dental visit. This woman was forced to endure
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five hours of pure hades in her dentist's office, and now she's had to
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find a lawsuit over the situation. Kathleen Wilson suffered from multiple dental complications and
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went to her dentist, doctor Kevin Mouldrum, for help. She had no
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idea that over the next five hours, she would be given double the recommended
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amount of anesthesia. Now this is according to her and according to the story
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in the New York Times, and endure the four root canals, eight dental
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crowns, and twenty fillings that were done. Wilson claims the extensive work left
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her disfigured and distressed and in need of even more dental work. How much
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more dental work could they do? Well, I guess they got to go
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back and do anyway. She says she's suing the doctor dold Mouldrum's office,
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not Doldrum, Mouldrum's office, for fifty thousand dollars in damages. That's a
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rough day and probably a rough few days to follow that. So there you
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go. Pittsburgh. Couple's dog was not such a good boy and helped himself
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to an expensive meal. Clayton and Carrie Law were having work done at their
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home. Oh that's what we're doing here. I havn't work done. They
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left an envelope containing four thousand dollars in cash on the kitchen counter to pay
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for it. Well, there's no worries there, we don't have four thousand
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in cash laying around. Clayton says that he walked out of the kitchen,
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returned thirty minutes later to find their seven year old golden doodle, Cecil,
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had eaten the cash, about two thousand dollars of it. At least the
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rest was found chewed up on the floor. Clayton says, I walked back
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in the room and all this cash was on the ground. He's just standing
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there and I'm just like, oh my gosh. He ate some of this
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money. And was in shock, he said. I yelled to carry he
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ate the money. He ate four thousand dollars. He says, Cecil's always
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been a good boy. Clayton was shocked to find out that the dog had
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done this. He says he doesn't do many dog things. He doesn't chew
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furniture or and that's why we were extra shocked when he decided to do this.
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The couple called their vet and were told that Cecil would be fine.
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They worked to collect as much of the chewed up cash as they could find,
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but off in the house as well as out in the yard. Everything
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found was taped up, washed, brought to the bank. When it was
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all over, the couple was able to recover all but five hundred dollars of
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the money that Cecil ate. So now any of this when they say it
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was collected from the yard, I mean, this is why I wash my
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hands whenever I have to touch cash, and I try not to touch cash.
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And I know people say it's better to use cash than use your cards,
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but there's zero chants when you use a card of touching cash that has
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been you know, through the entire digestive track of a golden doodle. You
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know, there's zero percent My credit card has not done that. It hasn't
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made that journey through a golden doodle. It sounds like at least there's a
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possibility that some currency that's floating around out in Pittsburgh and possibly to a bank
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near you or a store near you could have passed through this golden Doodles system.
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I'm just saying, you know, it's a possibility. What was a
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dog's named Cecil? Is that his name anyway? Yes? Cecil? All
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right. There's no good position to be in when you're being arrested. But
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a Florida man was basically in a position where he was making dirt angels.
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Now we know snow angels, and you know dirt angels because in Florida,
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I guess in warm climates, because you're probably not going to get many chances
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to make snow angels. Thirty four year old Eliza Ormando Reyes Rios was involved
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in a single vehicle crash on Christmas Eve and was met at the scene by
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a deputy. As the deputy was gathering information from he briefly looked away,
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and that's when Rios decided to make a run for it. Got away from
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the deputy, hop defense into a construction zone, where he proceeded to hide
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out in a giant mount of dirt. A police helicopter was dispatched to the
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area to assist in the search for Rios, and with the use of infrared
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cameras, they located his position and caught him on camera. And I guess
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he was bored because he was making snow angels in an embankment in the sand.
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Helicopter alerted deputies to his location, where he was ultimately apprehended. Rios
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was charged with leaving the scene of an accident, driving with a canceled,
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suspended or revoked license, and trespassing on a construction site. There's a woman
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who has gone to social media, specifically TikTok to discuss her Amazon Alexa and
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if it's something that you have in your home and you utilize them, this
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probably is a story that you should at least be aware of. This woman
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sharing the story, she says that her Alexa got chatty and she had no
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choice but to unplug the Alexa because she and her husband were genuinely being freaked
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out by the Alexa device. Jess, who is on TikTok under the name
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Cozy Life with Bless, says her Alexa started randomly speaking to her and laughing
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at times, even when unprompted. She said, this past weekend, I
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was out of town, but the Alexa kept going off. I'm trying to
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see if there's one going off near me and talking to my husband he was
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playing video games at one am, and was like, this is just super,
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super weird. She had at another time she heard it whispering to her
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dogs in the kitchen at three in the morning. She thought someone was in
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the house. And she said that was the final straw for them, and
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they promptly unplugged those devices from their home. This isn't a news story,
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right, This is something that we've heard about in the past. There have
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been situations where you know, they whisper and talk and giggle and laugh and
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all those sorts of things. But I would imagine when it happens to you,
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it's extra creepy, all right. So this is a story from before
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the start of the year, back to Christmas. It says while most people
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were arranging presents around the tree on Christmas Eve, when woman in Florida was
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rearranging her boyfriend's face with a christ tree. Police in Saint Petersburg responded to
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the home of twenty year old Miracle Rivera, who was accused of you sing
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bowels of holly to deck her boyfriend. Some of the writing of these things.
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It says a Miracle got into a verbal argument with her twenty four year
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old boyfriend. When the situation got heated, Miracle grabbed the Christmas tree and
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repeatedly struck him with it. The man suffered scratches on his arms and upper
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body. Miracle was arrested in charge with domestic battery. She was released from
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jail on Christmas Day in order to have no contact with her boyfriend. I
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mean, I'm not advocating for any sort of domestic abuse, right, anything
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involving spouses and you know, any sort of that, but there's a certain
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amount of creativity that is really impressive that she was able to hit him with
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a Christmas tree. I don't know how big the tree was, I don't
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know how big the woman was, but it's pretty impressive if she was picking
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it up and swinging it at him anyway. A fifty seven year old church
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pastor, Dwayne Waden preaches things like turning the other cheek and loving your enemies,
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but he doesn't tell his congregants to push their enemies heads into a deep
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friar, which is, you know, probably something that you wouldn't think would
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come up normally. But if he did tell them not to do that.
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He should probably start with himself. Maybe that's why he doesn't say it.
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The North Carolina pastor received a call from his forty four year old wife,
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LaToya Gladney, who was at a McDonald's where she was training to be a
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manager. Gladney told him that her employees were disrespecting her and asked him to
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assist her. Waden I stormed up to the fast food restaurant, went straight
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to the kitchen, where he wrapped his hands around a cook's neck and tried
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to push his face into the deep fryer. Luckily for the cook, coworkers
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jumped in pulled Waden off of him. According to police, the cook suffered
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a large contusion to the forehead and right eye, along with scratches on his
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neck, and was taken to the hospital for treatment. Pastor Waden meanwhile arrested
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with assault. Now the contusions and the scratches on the neck, I guess
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are much better than head into the deep fry I mean, that's you don't
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survive that, do you? Your head in a deep fryer? Iikes?
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All right. Finally, one of my favorite strange new stories of all time
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is about a pothole in Grand Haven, Michigan that has gone viral under the
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name pothole living Room. A giant pothole form in the middle of a road
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in a city and urgently needed to be filled. Days went by, nothing
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was done, so someone got the idea to place a recliner in the pothole
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to draw attention to it. Residents thought it was funny and started to bring
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other pieces of furniture to the site, so there was a full living room
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set up in the middle of the street that got people's attention. Soon people
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were coming from all over the area to take photos in the pothole living room
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street seon got the attention of the city. However, officials informed the locals
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that the pothole is actually on a private road, therefore not the city's responsibility.
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But a city official said they would contact the property owner and see that
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the hole is fixed. Pothole living there's a lot of great photos. Just
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look up pothole living Room and you can find all the photos. There's some
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barbie swimming in the pothole, the furniture that does, people just hanging out
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with their kids, people in costumes. There's a Christmas tree in one of
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the photos, someone put some speakers out. I guess they're playing music.
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Well, it was like they're just having a good time taking good care of
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the pothole. Sometimes that's what a pothole needs, is it just needs a
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more West Carol Morning Show right after the break, Well, the Golden Globes
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are this weekend? Does anybody care? I don't know. I don't know
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if people still do the Golden Globes or I guess some people must still watch,
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but I know that viewership is way down. But one of the fun
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things about award shows is when they start talking about the gift bags, and
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this year half a million dollars worth of gift bags. The gift bag,
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put together by Rob Report magazine, includes caviar, wine, beauty treatments,
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tattoo sessions, luxury travel, among other things, totaling up to oh man.
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I just love when people who walk out of a place with a half
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a million dollar gift bag, maybe even wins an award and tells us how
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to live our life and how we're supposed to vote because it's an election year,
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get ready for all that fun? Right? Who wants to know about
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gas lighting? Apparently everyone? According to a new study, gas lighting was
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the most googled word in twenty twenty three. According to doctor Robin Stern,
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co founder of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and author of The Gaslight Effect,
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it also sounds like a name made up by somebody who likes Howard Stern
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Show. According to doctor Robin Stern, gaslighting is the act of undermining another
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person's reality by denying facts, the environment around them, or their feelings,
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specifically with the intent to cause confusion. The gas lighter intends to sow seeds
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of doubt in the person they are gaslighting, hoping to make them question their
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memory, their sanity, their perception, and their reality. So a lot
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of people looked it up in twenty twenty three wanted to know about that gas
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lighting. Did you bring a fake date home for the holidays? Survey by
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dating app Flirtini found that lots of people, single adults brought home fake dates
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to their holiday gathering. Seventy three percent of those surveyed admitting to feeling pressured
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by family expectations during the holidays. More than forty percent of respondents confess to
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asking a friend to pretend to be their date. Fifty three percent saying that
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they've served as someone's fake date. So there you go. Are you that's
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saying like a lot of people? Seems like a seventy three percent, But
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this is on a dating app, so I guess that would be a reason
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maybe the number is pretty high. Are you a nomophobe? If you're not
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familiar with the term, nomophobias a fear of being without your smartphone. The
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name itself is a shortening of the phrase no mobile phone phobia. According to
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researchers, nomophobia is a legit condition and cases are on the rise. Those
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who suffer from nomophobia experience anxiety, depression, increased heart rate, sweating,
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even difficulty breathing if they don't have access to their phone, and it's believed
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that about seventy one percent of the population it's experiences at least some level of
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nomophobia, twenty one percent suffering from severe to extreme nomophobia, and not surprisingly,
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college students and others in that age group are ones that are most affected
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by it. Seems like it could be could be pretty scary. I mean,
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now that I'm thinking about it, I'm starting to have anxiety about a
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situation where maybe I wouldn't have my phone all right, This is not a
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big shocker if you are paying attention to the fact that we have some states
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that are losing populations because of leadership in those states, whether it's taxes or
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just maybe not seeming to care about crime or welcoming folks that are coming across
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the border and just helping themselves to whatever they can get in the form of
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handouts. And some people are deciding to leave those states. And you can
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see a reflection of that in stats coming from the U Haul Annual Growth Index
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Report. Texas was the top destination for one way moving truck rentals for the
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third consecutive year. The company says that their data does not account for total
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population of movers, since not everyone rented a U Haul. Based on their
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own rentals, more people moved to Texas than any other state. Behind Texas
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comes Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Just letting the
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data speak for itself. It's out there. Do with it as you please,
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interpret it as you please. That'll do it for this Friday edition of
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