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Strange and Bizarre News with a Venomous Aussie Snake · 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, eighth day of March. I'm Wes, thanks for joining me.
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Rolling on into a weekend where week away from Saint Patrick's Day weekend,
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I think Monday should be a holiday for that, shouldn't it. I mean
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Saint Patrick's Day Sunday. I just think that maybe it would be a good
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idea, you know, go ahead and make Monday a holiday. Probably gonna
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be some people not feeling like going to work on Monday. That's all I'm
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saying. That's all I'm getting at. It would probably be a good idea.
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Much like after the Super Bowl, I think people will probably have a
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beverage or two. I mean that happens sometimes on Saint Patrick's Day. And
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we're a month away from the big eclipse, and coming up after the break,
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we'll talk about something eclipse related. I got a story about a beverage.
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If you want to drink a beverage and toast the eclipse. We'll talk
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about that coming up just after the break a little bit later on in the
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show. All right, let's talk about some weird and bizarre, strange and
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bizarre news stories. From all around the world, and we've got some good
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ones. I hate to do it, but we have a very venomous snake
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story that happened in Australia. And I hate sharing those stories because I've got
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friends that are terrified of visiting Australia because they worry about the snakes and they
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worry about the spiders, and they hear all these kind of stories and it
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just makes them even more scared to go there and visit. And I'm not
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in any capacity working for the Tourism board other than just to say it's my
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second home. I have family there, I have in laws there, my
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godson lives there. For crying out loud, my mother and father in law,
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my brothers in law, sisters in law, I've got nephews, galore,
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nieces. They're all there. Okay, they're all there in Australia,
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and I would love for everyone to go and visit this wonderful country. But
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you know, you might encounter a venomous snake every now and then. That's
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all I guess We'll start there. As A homeowner in Australia was terrified when
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she opened her child's closet door and found a highly venomous small eyed snake slithering
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over the hanging clothes. She contacted a snake wrangler who did sound like Steve
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Irwin in the video, and he posted a video of what he encountered when
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he opened the closet door. He said, it's the first time he's captured
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a snake in a closet. Wasn't surprised because small eyed snakes have climbing capabilities,
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and as he kept saying, oh, it's a good size one over
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and over in the video. So there you go. That's our first story.
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And I hate having to do those stories, but you know you have
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to do it. It happens if you go. They do have lots of
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venomous snakes down there. Are you going to encounter them in your closet?
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Probably not. It's rare. You just heard the story. It's rare.
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It doesn't happen often, but it can happen other things that don't happen often.
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Police in New Jersey were contacted. Let's see glass Burrow, New Jersey
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say that a New Jersey man walked into a deli and dunked his head into
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a large ben of pickles. It was a social media stunt. I guess.
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They said he was recording himself as he did it. He then ran
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out of the store. Police reviewed surveillance footage of the stunt working to identify
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and workers at the store had to remove all of the pickles for sanitary reasons.
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They are hoping to track the guy down. I assume on social media
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you do dumb things like that. You're putting yourself in a position to get
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caught. Remember the people licking the ice cream, that kind of stuff.
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I mean, you know, you got to get rid of the pickles.
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I guess I wouldn't want a pickle that there's been a head in the in
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the pickle bin. You don't want that, So that's a big waste.
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I don't know how many pickles were talking about, but I can imagine it
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was a lot of pickles, you know, one of those old barrels of
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pickles. That's what I imagine. Anyway, a snowmobile crashed into a black
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Hawk helicopter, and this was like five years ago when this happened. It
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probably sounds like something out of a movie. But there's a Massachusetts man that
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this happened to, and he is suing the US government. Jeff Smith was
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riding a snowmobile on a trail five years ago, it crashed into a parked
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Army helicopter that he couldn't see it was camouflaged. He suffered life threatening injury
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and required years of treatment multiple surgeries. He's been left without the use of
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his left arm and has respiratory issues. The helicopter was from Fort Drum in
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New York and was being used in a night training exercise. It was camouflage
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parked on an airfield that's primarily used as a snowmobile trail. Smith has already
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sued the owner of the airfield for giving snowmobile drivers and the army permission to
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use the area at the same time, and has settled on an undisclosed amount
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of money. Is lawsuit against US government. He's seeking nine point five million
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in damages. He claims that the crew did not do enough to alert snowmobilers
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of the presence of the helicopter and it did not have its lights on.
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So that's an interesting one. That's one to follow. Interesting news story there,
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but weird because again you would think you're on your snow will, how
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do you miss alicopter? I don't really quite understand all that We had a
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story not long ago about a guy who got stuck in the bathroom of an
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airplane and he had to basically wait for the plane to land before they could
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get him out. This one is a slightly different ending, but it's weird
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that we have another person who got locked in the bathroom of an airplane.
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And this happened on a Delta flight. Someone was stuck in there for thirty
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five minutes. The flyer, whose name was Brent, was flying with his
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wife and kids from Salt Lake City to New Orleans and he got up to
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use the bathroom after about five minutes. His wife wondered, what's taken so
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long? But they were traveling with their kids, two small kids, and
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she thought, well, maybe he's just, you know, taking a little
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extra time. As time went on, flight attendants were wondering where he was.
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His wife heard some of the flight attendants say, oh, there's someone
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stuck in the bathroom. She said, I, that's probably my husband.
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The door was stuck in the lock position. He wasn't able to get out.
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The flight crew tried to pull the door open from the outside. That
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didn't work. Finally, the pilot had to come out of the cockpit pulled
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on the door while Brent kicked from the inside and finally was able to get
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out. If it had been someone who was a little weaker, someone who
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was maybe a senior or a kid, it could have been really bad if
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they were stuck in there. So that's a little bit better than the story
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about the guy who had to just wait in there all the way until the
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actual plane landed. You know, that's not good. It's not good,
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and that's not a good landing sitting on the can. Speaking of sitting on
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the can, let's jump to this story because we got one where a guy
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was arrested while he was on the can a burglary suspect. Let's see.
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Officers responded to a possible burglary in progress when alarm was tripped at a home
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in Lakewood. Officers quietly entered the home and barging on the man in the
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bathroom while he was sitting on the toilet. Body cam footage was released.
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It showed the suspect being interrupted in the middle of doing his business. He
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responded, I'm on the crapper, Bud. I don't know that he said
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crapper, but and I think he said the other word and he slowly raised
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his hands. He was ordered to stand up walk over to officers with his
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pants down. Liquid Police Department posted the video on Facebook and said, while
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we see a lot of things in the line of duty spelled doo d y,
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we had no clue what awaited us this time. The man was charged
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with second degree burglary. So thankfully they didn't add on that indecent exposure because
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you know, as he had to walk over naked, he could have added
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that to it. He didn't pee on their leg though, if you remember
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that from last week's story, all right, a carthief and la tried to
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get into an autonomous taxi and he tried to steal the vehicle. Police say
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that thirty three year old Vincent Maurice Jones watched a passenger get out of the
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Waimo car on Saturday, and he took the opportunity to jump into the driver's
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seat and try to steal the car. He wasn't able to shift it into
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drive. Then a voice came on a speaker told him to get out of
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the vehicle. He refused. The LAPD was called and officers arrived to place
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him under arrest, charged with grand theft, I guess it's attempted grand theft,
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but I don't know. I guess technically he was trying to take the
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vehicle and couldn't really take the vehicle. A man in India was arrested after
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he They say he will be possibly facing jail time for impersonating a police officer.
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As he was trying to help his younger sister pass an exam. Twenty
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four year old anapum madon Kandar thought that he was being a good big brother.
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His sister was taking a highly competitive college entry exam and wanted to help
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her pass, so he came up with a plan that he would dress like
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a police police officer entered the exam site under the pretext that he was a
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supervisor of the students and that he would then be able to pass along cheat
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sheets to his sister. Candar arrived at the site in uniform and met by
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real police officers, who you know, were there to supervise the testing.
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He got nervous and saluted them. I don't know that they salute each other.
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I don't know about in India. I don't know how that works.
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And then he walked on in the real police said there's a few problems with
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his uniform, the name plate was in the wrong spot. They found the
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cheat sheets in his pockets and Candar was arrested charge with impersonating a government servant,
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which could land him in jail. No word on how the sister did
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on the exam, since you know, she wasn't able to cheat or he
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wasn't able to help her or anything like that. So a Nebraska man was
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arrested for robbing a convenience store, threatening a clerk with a loaded box of
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Hostess cinnamon rolls. Police a twenty four year old Isaiah bar two entered a
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quick shop store and walked up to the counter with a box of Hostess cakes
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in his right hand, and he demanded money from the clerk, who believed
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that he was using the box to hide I guess he had his hand in
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the box and they thought there was a handgun in there, so she handed
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him cash so that he would leave. Police arrived at the scene and tried
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to question him. He ran away quickly detained. Cops found in possession of
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meth, a handgun, in cash, and he was arrested in charge with
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robbery, possession of a controlled substance, and use of a deadly weapon.
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I guess if he really had a gun in the box. I mean,
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you don't want him to have a real gun, But you also don't want
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to be the person who was robbed by someone holding a cinnamon roll pointed at
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you, because that doesn't seem all that scary, and it could be.
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I just can't imagine that pointing a cinnamon roll that somebody should be enough to
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make you want a hand over all the cash seems a bit much, doesn't
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it. Motorists and spokene Washington were alerted to a strange road hazard during their
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morning commute as they were advised to be on the lookout for angry raccoons.
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Electronic road sign on the side of the road displayed the message said angry raccoons
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ahead. Motors didn't really know what to do with that information, probably something
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I never seen before on the sign. The Department of Public Works contacted the
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company that controls the sign and decided that a prankster somehow hacked into the sign
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and changed the message. Spoke in Traffic Control that owns and operates the sign
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said they were relieved that the message was at least g rated and not offensive
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in any way, because it easily could have been. I've heard stories.
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I can't say that I know people who've done anything like that. I've just
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heard of stories. That's all. The LA Clippers have a brand new arena
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still under construction, but first shots in the arena have already been taken and
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not by actual LA Clippers players. Oh No. Two teenagers on social media
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broke into the Into It Dome in Inglewood and in the middle of the night,
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had their way with the still unfinished arena. They walked around empty hallways
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and bleachers, shot some baskets on the unfinished practice court, and then climbed
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all the way up on the roof to check out the LA skyline. And
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they shared all of it on social media, I guess specifically on TikTok,
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and they titled it breaking into Clippers Stadium and yes, got a bunch of
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views, but will eventually probably cause them some time because of trespassing. Inglewood
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Mayor James E. Butt says the two teams and their parents have been identified,
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and he says it will be very clear to these young men and the
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people who are TikTok followers that you have a moment of TikTok greatness followed by
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a bit of misery, and so we don't play around with those things.
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They do have previously broken into other sports venues around LA. The two billion
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dollars into a dome scheduled to be completed in August and ready by next basketball
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season. But these guys will be able to always say, hey, we
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took the first shots in there. I mean, they do have that.
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You can't take that away from them. And finally Luke asked me if Luke
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heard about this and brought this story to my attention, And I thought,
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all right, because he was asking me, what do you think you would
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experience if you went to a Willy Wonka themed event in Scotland? And I
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told him what I thought and he said, that's not what happened. So
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this event in Scotland promised paid guests a sweet experience, and it got ugly
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once they showed up. Willie's Chocolate Experience. Glasgow was billed as a place
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where dreams come to life and promised a world of pure imagine with a candy
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landscape, chocolate fountains upa lopas, and there were lots of AI generated ads
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and posters that promised all of these things. But the guests who paid about
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forty four dollars each to attend the event showed up and found a mostly empty
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warehouse with a few Wonka props, a couple of women dressed as Oopa Lopas,
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and an actor who was playing Willy Wonka. Needless to say, guests
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felt ripped off, got angry, immediately demanded a refund, then called the
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police. Even the few actors hired for the event got angry. Paul Connell,
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who was an actor who was hired to play Wonka, felt like he
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was tricked. He told the BBC, I feel for anyone who bought tickets
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to this event, people who were expecting a magical chocolate experience and got me
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in a top hat in a dirty warehouse in Glasgow. The company behind the
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event, House of Illuminati, ultimately refunded the tickets and released a statement saying,
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unfortunately last minute we were let down many areas of our event and tried
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our best to continue and push through and now realize we probably should have canceled
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So people have been using the weight loss drug ozempic, and I guess
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the wegov is another one, and there has been Now let's go back to
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the origins of this particular drug, especially ozempic, but I guess both of
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them. It's a drug that's supposed to help you with diabetes, right,
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supposed to help you treat your diabetes. And they said from the very beginning
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one of the side effects is you may lose weight. And there have been
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some celebrities who were large they have done ads for ozempic and they've lost weight,
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right, And I ultimately, I guess this turned into a thing for
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other celebrities that have said, well, wait a minute, I need to
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lose weight. It's tough being in the business trying to stay slim, trying
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to look good for the screen, and many of them started taking and it
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became a thing. This became a phenomenon of people taking drugs like ozepic and
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with govy to lose weight, even though that's not specifically what the drugs are
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made for there was an issue where there was a demand problem. People were
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needing the drugs to fight their diabetes and they needed it and they weren't able
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to get it because people who did not have diabetes were using the drugs as
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a means of losing weight. So that was one of those and now I
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guess production is caught up where some people are just using it for weight loss.
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Okay, So, and it's interesting to me that even this article is
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referring to them as weight loss drugs. That's not specifically what they are,
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but that's kind of what they've become. Well, now there's yet another side
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effect that is going with these drugs. Apparently there have been people who have
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reported a reduced craving for alcohol, which has led researchers to say, wait
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a minute, maybe these drugs can actually help treat alcohol addiction. There are
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currently several clinical trials being conducted to find proof that the active ingredient in these
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drugs can actually help reduce your craving for alcohol. Whether that's the reason that
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people are reporting this reduced craving, but it's interesting that's another side effect to
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go with the OG side effect. It is interesting, isn't it, it
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started to treat diabetes, and it's turned into a whole other thing, all
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right, and this is one of those stories. But we got to do
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it. We got to do it just because it's interesting. It's interesting,
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and it's odd. I guess there's some people who wouldn't find it odd.
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I find it a little odd, but there you go. You probably are
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going to find it a little odd, but maybe not surprising that we've gotten
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to this point. So a model who has become very very popular in the
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foot fetish community thanks to the online website OnlyFans as now decided that she is
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She's got three hundred and twenty thousand plus followers who really like her feet,
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apparently, so she went the next step and she is now producing a wine
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that she is smashing with her feet the grapes. Her name is Emily Ray.
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She's a British woman who's been posting photos of her feet in the adults
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only platform since twenty eighteen, and has now launched a limited edition Cabernet savignon
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made from grapes that were crushed by her feet. Ray says, one little
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bit of my foot is in every bottle, and I think that's what foot
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fans will love. It's called Simp Wine and it's available at simpwine dot com.
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Als one hundred and twenty seven dollars a bottle one hundred and twenty seven
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dollars a bottle, and I'm just guessing she'll probably sell a lot of bottles
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of it. Again, it's weird. Some people probably wouldn't find it weird,
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and maybe they find it weird, but still don't care. They would
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rather actually have a bottle of wine that touched her feet. So uh.
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There's been a lot of buzz, of course about the upcoming solar eclipse.
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according to Dave Colt, co founder and brewmaster of son King Brewing, is
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to represent the sun with the golden ale and the darkness represented by the coffee
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beans in there. That way, you're getting that clips effect. So there
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you go. It's like a month away. I mean it's right out a
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month away. That's a you know, it's a month from today, so
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get ready. You need to be in the in the area for totality though,
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so that you can experience it. I know people that are doing that,
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they're going there to be in the area to witness totality. So there
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you go. That'll do it for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks
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