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Strange and Bizarre News: A Snake, a Horse, and a Baby Shark · 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. It's seventeenth day of November. I'm Wes, thanks for joining
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me. It is my son Luke's birthday today. I cannot believe he's twelve.
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I got another year and then I'll have two teenagers officially in the house.
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But you know how it is when your kid's eleven or twelve and there's
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already a teen in the house, they kind of are already teenagers really,
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I mean, not officially, but it starts to, you know, become
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a thing, and it's hard to not observe certain things that just you know,
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hormonally and emotionally, there's things going on there. But anyway, we're
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celebrating my baby boy who's twelve today. So and we are now a week
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from Black Friday, less than a week to think Thanksgiving, and I'm planning
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next week to take some time off. I haven't decided how much. I
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don't know yet. It's probably the whole week. I think I might do
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that. I think that might be nice, probably do a Made a Star
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show or something. Sean and I will try to do that at some point
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next week. But otherwise, you know, planning to take the week off
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from this show next week, so I hope you're able to get some time
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off. It is Friday, so it is time to do some strange and
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bizarre news stories. I've got a couple from Australia. You know, I
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have family in Australia. I'll begin with those stories. We've got some odd
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animal stories in here, and the first of these stories from Australia involves an
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animal. I've got friends that tell me that they would go to Australia,
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but they hear all these horror stories about the spiders and snakes and how everything.
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All the animals want to kill you. All the animals don't want to
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kill you. First of all, let's get that out of the way.
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Yes, there's a lot of venomous snakes. Yes, there's a lot of
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dangerous insects like spiders. Yes, that's factual. I've seen spiders that are
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enormous. I have I've I don't know, not encountered any venomous snakes in
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Australia. In the world, I've encountered venomaus stakes. You know here in
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the States, you know, we have a lot of them too, especially
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here in the Southeast. But most of the snakes that you encounter anywhere,
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probably you are going to be non venomous, and it's not a big deal.
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I mean, if you're not a snake person, I understand you want
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to get away from them. You're not a spider. I don't like any
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insects. I really don't like any insects. I'm not a fan of insects,
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So the spider thing, I get it. But they're not just everywhere.
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They're not just you know, it's not like the scenes in the Indiana
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Jones Temple of Doom. You're not just walking around with insects everywhere. But
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this story does in off a venomous snake. Just let you know. An
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Australian hiker thought he was bringing home a souvenir for his kids on one of
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his hikes, and it almost got him killed. The dad wrangled up a
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snake while on a hike and thought, oh, kids might like this,
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might want to see the snake, brought it home, didn't realize he had
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brought home a venomous snake until it bit him on the hand. That's usually
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one of the indicators. I mean, if you don't know how to recognize
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them in the wild. You don't know what they look like. You don't
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know about the shape of the head and markings and things on snakes. Maybe
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you don't know. But when they bite you on the hand, and as
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was the case with him, you start to feel sick and vomiting and your
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hand swells up. Violent vomiting is how they described it. Yeah, that's
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probably an indication you've been bitten by a venomous snake. He ultimately went to
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the emergency room for anti venom and treatment. Back though snake's still in the
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house or wherever it was when it bit him, so they had to call
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a reptile catcher to remove the snake. It was identified as a broadheaded snake.
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A venomous snake closely resembles a non venomous diamond python. I guess that's
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what he thought he had. They said that the bite victim was extremely lucky
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because it could have ended up a lot worse than it did. I would
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think too, if he was going to show it to his kids, that's
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the could have been a lot worse scenario, right, if he shows the
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kids and then wham, one of them gets bidden starts violently vomiting. I
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would think that would be why it doesn't say the ages of the kids,
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but all right. A police officer in Australia is accused of pointing a gun
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at a fellow cop because he threatened to spoil the plot of Top Gun Maverick.
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Thirty year old Constable Dominic Francis Gainor has pleaded guilty to gun charges.
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According to the victim's complaint, Gaynor was working behind the counter at the police
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station when a colleague mentioned that he had seen Top Gun Maverick and joked,
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I'll spoil it for you. Gaynor reportedly then said, don't spoil the movie.
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I'll shoot you, and then he drew his handgun from the holster and
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pointed it at him for several seconds. Gaynor's attorney said he did not intend
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to threaten the officer and simply made a bad decision. The victim, who
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has since left the force, says he's been suffering from depression and anxiety since
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the incident, and a judge has sentenced Gainer to two years of probation.
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Okay, I got a lot of questions here. First of all, movie's
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been out a little while. I understand if you haven't seen it, and
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you don't want the story, the plot to be ruined. I get that,
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but there's a certain amount of you know, and if someone's intentionally deliberately
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trying to spoil a plot for something for you, that's also another thing.
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But I mean, the movie's been out a while. I don't know this.
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It's not like it's in theaters and you're thinking, man, I haven't
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had a chance to see it yet, and then he points a gun at
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the other officer, and uh, I mean, it's basically the same plot
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as the first movie. It's a little bit different, but it's not much
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different, is it. It's kind of the same, A little difference in
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it, but not a whole lot different. Is it very similar movie?
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Isn't it how different? I mean, the whole fifty first fifteen minutes is
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like almost shot for shot the same movie. I don't know what part of
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it. Maybe it's just the ending, I don't know. All right,
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let's go to Florida. We always end up in Florida with these stories at
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some point, don't we. Florida. Man with a large neck tattoo that
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reads all Gas, no Brakes was arrested after he led police on a high
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speed car chase and then crashed his Cadillac. Thirty seven year old Timothy Hoague
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was being pursued by police by police because he was a suspect in a series
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of recent car burglaries. Hoague decided to, I guess, live by the
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neck tattoo, try to evade police, gave it a bit too much gas
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and lost control of the vehicle and crashed. It doesn't say that the brakes
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went out, but that would be fun irony, wouldn't it. He suffered
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minor injuries and has been hit with a quite a few charges burglary, conspiracy
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to commit burglary, possession of methamphetamine, and resisting arrest. No charges for
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neck tattoos. That's not against the law. You know, in some cases
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it's not a good idea. If you're a banker or something, that might
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not be a good idea. I don't know. All that's kind of changed,
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hasn't it. You can get a neck tattoo if you want one.
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Go whatever you be, You you do what you wanted. Some of my
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favorite people have neck tattoos. There's a okay, that's another Florida story.
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Florida woman who has twice now had to deal with false reports of her death.
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Michelle McKenny is alive, but the state of Florida thought that she died
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once and that caused some problems because she was trying to collect Social Security benefits
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for her and for her son. McKinny says the problem started when she contacted
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the bank, who informed her that she'd been reported dead, so her account
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was frozen and her Social Security benefits were returned. McKenny said, my son,
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he's only thirteen years old. He's my world and the fact that I
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can't maybe buy food for him, keep a roof over his head scares me
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to death. So McKenny finally got the mistake corrected, and then it happened
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again a month later, and now she's fighting again to correct the problem.
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Social Security administration has informed her the investigation is underway and efforts are being made
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to fix the mistake. Can you imagine you finally get it corrected and then
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it's you're reported that you're dead again. It's nuts. Cargo all right,
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this is like one of the best ones. This is really because it's weird.
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It's just not something that you're gonna probably ever hear again. A cargo
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plane from New York to Belgium was forced to turn around and return to JFK
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International Airport when a horse got loose on the plane. A horse. The
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plane, operated by Air Atlanta Icelandic had just gotten over the Atlantic Ocean when
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the horse got loose. The pilot got on the radio and told air traffic
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control that they would need to return to JFK, explaining, the horse managed
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to escape from his stall. We don't have a problem flying wise, but
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we need to return back to New York. We cannot get the horse secured.
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Once the plane returned to JFK, a vet boarded the plane to examine
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the horse, make sure he was healthy and okay. The horse was then
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safely secured back in the stall, and then the flight took off again and
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then landed safely in Belgium. But a horse, now, I'm assuming this
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isn't just you know, running up and down the aisles of the plane.
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I mean, that's what thought pops in your head, probably, but that's
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not what happened. But they were able to get the horse back under control.
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At least it wasn't a venomous snake. Samuel L. Jackson would tell
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you all about it. A Washington DC man had been pulled over on suspicion
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of drunk driving and thought her police officer boyfriend would get her off the hook.
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He's a cop, he can't get me out of trouble. He showed
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up to discuss the situation with his fellow officers, but when he got there,
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he was drunk as well. Ultimately he got arrested as well. Metropolitan
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Police officer John Bruley was off duty and driving home when he got a phone
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call from his girlfriend letting him know she'd been pulled over. Beuley, I
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say bruly. Buley drove to the scene and arrived in time to see officers
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conducting a field sobriety test on his girlfriend. He got out of his car
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started yelling at his girlfriend to leave the scene with him. He then approached
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the officers and was ordered to stay away. When he did not, he
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was put in handcuffs. Officers detected a smell of alcohol on his breath and
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arrested him for DUI, in addition to resisting arrest and obstruction of justice.
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Ah, she called him there. She probably didn't know he was trunk,
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though I would hope maybe she didn't know he was drunk. Cans of a
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marijuana infused apple cider sold in Michigan are being recalled because they have a tendency
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to explode. The Armada Cannabis Companies Cannabis Apple Cider, which contains twenty milligrams
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of THHC as issued a recall a fifteen thousand cans with a January second expiration
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date. Check your cupboards, check and see if you got some in the
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in the cooler, in the fridge. They say that they had two reports
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of from retailers at the cans. Exploding. Company says exploding cans are not
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caused by the cannabis, but by the lack of a necessary ingredient to ensure
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shelf stability. After cans being recalled, I've already been sold to consumers somewhere
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between October eleven and November first, the company says they've not received any reports
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from consumers about exploding cans. I don't really know how this works with the
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THHC in there. I'm not one of those marijuana people. I'm not into
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the I don't know, but if people are drinking this stuff, does it
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mean I don't have to smell it everywhere I go? Is that an option?
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Is that something that we can because it's everything. It just no matter
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what I do, it just I constantly feel like I'm walking around, like
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in Snoop Dogg's house or near his house outside. It's just everywhere. I
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smell it in pockets everywhere. I guess I'm sensitive to smell in general.
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And I've been around it. I've worked in radio for almost thirty years.
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You know, I'm at concerts. It's around. I get it. I've
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never smoked it myself. I've never been close enough for a contact high or
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anything. I'm just not interested in it. But did this smell? When
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you're at a concert? You go, You're gonna smell that smelling it everywhere
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everywhere all the time. It's getting old. It's just getting old, That's
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all I'm saying. Massachusetts woman thought she had potentially hit the lottery jackpot when
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a FedEx driver mistakenly delivered a large box containing twenty thousand dollars worth of scratch
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off lottery tickets. Danielle Alexandrov of foul foul Mouth, Massachusetts. What that's
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Boston? Isn't it foul Mouth? Open the package? No, it would
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be foul Mouth. I opened the package. And thought it was a I'm
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kidding, I like Boston. I got nothing against it. She opened the
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package, thought it was a joke. They were stacks scratch off games with
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a receipt stating its value at twenty thousand dollars. Thank goodness, she didn't
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start scratching them off. She decided this is probably not the right thing to
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do, so she contacted the Massachusetts State Law and they informed her of the
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box was supposed to be delivered to a lottery store. She returned the tickets
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to the state lottery. That's the right thing to do. Good for her,
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she did the right thing. Had she scratched off the tickets, she
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wouldn't have been able to collect any prizes, though, because the tickets actually
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had to be validated and activated I guess at the retailer, so there's no
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way to collect the winnings. So it's just as well she did the right
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thing morally, and it would have been, you know, fruitless anyway.
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Right. Homeowner in Spain with a leaky water pipe decided that after his plumber
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quoted him an estimate for a job at his home, to just point a
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gun at him and hold him hostage. Police say the man called a plumber
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for help. Needed help fixing a leaky pipe, went crazy when the plumber
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gave him the estimate, pulled a gun, threatened to kill him. Neighbors
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heard the commotion called police. When officers arrived, Man wouldn't open the door
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and refuse to release the plumber hostage. He said if police tried to come
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in, he would detonate a buttane cylinder. After some negotiating, officers convinced
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Man opened the door just a little so they could see the plumber was okay,
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and they burst in and took him into custody. So resolved, but
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a little scary there. This is a Georgia story. Georgia man under arrest
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accused of trying to use fireworks to shoot down a helicopter carrying newlyweds. David
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Jeter of Cherokee County lives next door to a wedding venue and as a history
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of making threats to the owners as well as guests attending the events there.
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Back on October twentieth, the wedding had just concluded to bride and groom were
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leaving in grand fashion aboard a helicopter. As the couple boarded the aircraft,
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Jeter was heard shouting angrily outside his house. Fifteen minutes later the helicopter took
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off. Witnesses say they heard firework go off and it was in close proximity
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of the helicopter. Because it was still low. Security at the venue immediately
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suspected Jeter was behind it. I suspect they may have had issues with this
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guy before they knew right away it was probably old Jeter. Officers visited Jeter's
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neighbor, who lives across the street, and reviewed the doorbell camera, which
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showed the firework rocket being set off from Jeter's home. Officers had probable cause
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to arrest him, and he was charged with terroristic acts. So there you
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go, all right. Finally, one last weird animal story, and we'll
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call it a Friday. A shark gave birth to a baby at Chicago Zoo.
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Took the staff by surprise, couse they didn't know she was pregnant and
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didn't know it was possible for her to get pregnant. The epaulet shark arrived
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at the Brookfield Zoo in twenty nineteen. Never shared a habitat with a male.
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Recently, she hasn't been sharing a habitat with any other sharks at all.
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Workers at the fasacility were shocked when one of her eggs hatched into a
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pup. It's the second recorded case of an epaulets shark giving birth by asexual
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reproduction. How about that? All right? Life finds away into the Jurassic
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Park? All right? That is that? I think I got one more?
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Do I have one more? Oh? I like this one? Lunging
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at someone with a knife. It's the Florida story. Florida man's made the
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mistake and lunging get someone with a knife, but wasn't as big as the
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mistake is when the person ended up being a former MMA fighter Aavi or baias
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we had won five of his eight professional MMA fights, was sitting alone in
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his car when he was approached by fifty year old Omar Morrero, a shortstop
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for who hit one of his car windows and tried to jump into the car
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to cut him with a knife. Bias got out of the car, tried
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to calm him. A man down, Morrero came at him again with another
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knife. That's when Baia's body slammed him to the ground and choked him out.
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Bias says, when you train some many times it just becomes a reflex.
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I've been training my whole life, black belt jiu jitsu, wrestled in
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college. I've got eight profits MMA masters, I've got a great training partners.
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Once he Edmurea, restrained by US, was able to call police and
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they arrived and placed him under arrest. Yeah, that's uh. I mean,
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he just picked the wrong guy, period. I'm glad he picked the
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wrong guy was the outcome of the story. But he just he picked the
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Earlier this week, nineteen sixty two Ferrari two point fifty gto sold for
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fifty two million dollars at an auction. I'm not a car guy, so
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if I get some of these names wrong, you have to excuse me.
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I'm not a car guy at all. So the second most expensive vehicle ever
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sold at auction, and if you're curious, Top said it is a distant
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second place top selling car nineteen fifty five Mercedes Benz three hundred slr uhlin haut
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Coop. I don't even know if I'm saying that right. Only two Wherever
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manufactured. One of them sold for one hundred and forty two million dollars last
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year. So, like I said, it's a big drop off one for
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two to fifty two scientists say that Singularity, the moment when artificial intelligence is
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no longer under human control is coming. They say, when AI goes off
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on its own and does its own thing. One scientist Bert go Gortzl,
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CEO of Singularity Net, believes that Singular, Well, he's using the name.
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How do we know he's a real person. We need to give him
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that test to find out if he is AI. He says, Singularity is
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now less than a decade away. So basically, you know, we get
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to this point where artificial intelligence may start telling us what to do. I
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don't know. I don't know what this means. It's a scary thought.
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I've seen science fiction movies. I'm familiar with them. I know how they
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work sometimes. All right, how about this story? I really like this
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one. Earlier this year, Davey Bauer of Missouri was dealing with a serious
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lung infection after about with the flu. The infection was so bad he had
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to undergo double lung transplant. While doctors were working on his lungs, they
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needed to support his heart, so doctors kept his heart in place and working
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with a pair of double D breast implants. It all worked out. Davy
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survived the lung transplant and now has the new nickname Double D Davy. How
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about that. I like it. I like the nickname, I like the
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they were just ingenuity. I like all of It's a great win, isn't
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it. New research from Massachusetts General Hospital found that study participants who did heated
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yoga sessions ninety minutes in a room heated to one hundred and five degrees experience
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reduced feelings of depression, and the results were significant. Fifty percent had a
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decrease in symptoms of depression. Forty four percent had such low symptoms they were
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considered in remission. They said yoga and heat based interventions could potentially change the
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course of treatment for patients with depression by providing a non medication based approach with
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additional physical benefits as a bonus. This is a quote from lead author Marin
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Nyer, director of Yoga Studies at the Depression Clinical Research Program at Massachusetts General
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Hospital and assistant professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. All that have to
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just say she's smart. Finally, if you go to Chuck E. Cheese's
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for the games. I think they dropped the apostrophe s that was the name
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of the place, and people just said Chuck E Cheese And it used to
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annoy me. It was one of those stupid things that would just bother me
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because it was Chuck E. Cheese's. And now I think it's actually they
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changed it to just Chuck E Cheese. I'll go with whatever. Whatever the
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name of the company is, That's what I'll go with. But if you
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go for the games and the fund and the pizza, good news, you
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can keep doing that. If you were going for the music and the munches
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make Believe Band, The Animatronic Rock Band is being forced into retirement as Chuck
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E Cheese announcing it's removing the Animatronic Band from all of its locations except one
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north Ridge, California. A spokesperson for Chuck E Cheese's parent company, CEC
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Entertainment, says that as an important part of the legacy of the brand,
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we know that Animatronic Band holds a special place for many fans in their childhood
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memories. We want our fans to know that the decision to keep the band
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here is meant as a gesture of love and gratitude as our legacy continues to
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evolve in new ways. That's a big, long quote just to say she's
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smart. Removal of the munches make Believe band is part of the company's effort
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to upgrade all five hundred and sixty seven locations and they can had more games,
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you know, maybe more tables for people to have birthday parties or whatever.
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You know. I mean, you know, we had Showbiz pizza,
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We had that, right, we had those bands. You know, it's
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got to be a lot of up trying to keep that. They look creepy.
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They look creepier than they ever did. So anyway, all right,
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