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Strange and Bizarre News with a Doll in a Suitcase · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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  Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, fourteenth day of August. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. We get ready to roll on into the weekend,
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  Speaker 2: getting ready for in a few more weekends, Dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: pregame show for twenty twenty six, the fortieth Dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: and my twenty fifth year covering the convention. At this point,
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  Speaker 2: we have two guests officially booked, one more hope to
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  Speaker 2: tell you about by Monday, maybe Tuesday, but Tom Welling
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  Speaker 2: from Smallville. I haven't had an official guest as a
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  Speaker 2: Kryptonian on. I did have Supergirl on, but that wasn't
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  Speaker 2: a full scale interview. That was just a quick conversation
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  Speaker 2: about Dragon with her that made it on one of
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  Speaker 2: the pregame shows. And then also we dipped back into
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  Speaker 2: the pool for Battlestar Galactico and Tricia Helfer, who played
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  Speaker 2: Ssilon number six on their reinvented that role. I feel like,
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  Speaker 2: just for her, maybe I should ask her about that.
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  Speaker 2: Both of them booked for the pregame show for this year,
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  Speaker 2: and another really hopefully, hopefully by Monday, I'll have this
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  Speaker 2: other name for you. Really excited about this year's show,
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  Speaker 2: though at the very least those two are going to
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  Speaker 2: be great to talk to, and some more guests still
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  Speaker 2: to come. And it is powered by Columbus State University's
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  Speaker 2: Coca Cola Space Science Center. And you can listen to
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  Speaker 2: past episodes of the dragon Con Pregame Show wherever you
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  Speaker 2: get your podcasts the dragon Con Pregame Show Podcast. It
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  Speaker 2: is Friday, and that means we should jump into some
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  Speaker 2: positive news, some good news that we will have for
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  Speaker 2: you now. And we start with a This story reminds
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  Speaker 2: me of a Norm m MacDonald joke. I'm not the
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  Speaker 2: Norm McDonald joke is kind of long, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna tell the Norm MacDonald joke. We'll come back to
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  Speaker 2: the Norm McDonald joke. But a four month old pet
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  Speaker 2: goose named Goosey seems like a name maybe I came
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  Speaker 2: up with. Being hailed a hero in Fort ben County, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: After alerting his family that there was a barn fire
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, owner Bert Gerber was
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  Speaker 2: asleep on the couch when Goosey started frantically honking on
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  Speaker 2: the back porch. Bert stepped outside to investigate spotted flames
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  Speaker 2: billowing from the barn managed to douse the fire with
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  Speaker 2: a garden hose before it could spread. Goosey's warning was
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  Speaker 2: perfectly time, the family said, things would have been a
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  Speaker 2: total disaster for the barn and the animals inside if
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  Speaker 2: Goosey had just waited a few more minutes to speak
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  Speaker 2: up to help. Goosey provided during this emergency strength in
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  Speaker 2: the bond that they had with the family. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, as you can imagine, I inspire the family
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  Speaker 2: to adopt another goose, his girlfriend named Lucy, to reward
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  Speaker 2: Goosey for his heroic actions. That's the least they could do, right,
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  Speaker 2: So let me just get to this because this does
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  Speaker 2: it sounds also a little bit like something from Charlotte's Web,
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  Speaker 2: maybe some goose If you will, just Norm MacDonald has
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  Speaker 2: a joke about a pig with three legs. Just just
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  Speaker 2: look that up, just just google it. Look it up
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  Speaker 2: and it's worth your time. I promise you the joke.
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  Speaker 2: It's worth your time. Now. My wife does not particularly
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  Speaker 2: like the joke, but it's one of my favorite Norm
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  Speaker 2: MacDonald jokes. So just look that one up. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's get to Dave bell Enrico, Virginia. He happens to
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  Speaker 2: have a long white beard because his job is he
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  Speaker 2: is a Santa's Helper and he helps spreads here to
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  Speaker 2: children across Central Virginia every December. So right now is
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  Speaker 2: the off season for Santa's Helpers, as you probably know.
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  Speaker 2: So he decided this is a Dave Bell and I
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  Speaker 2: feel like this is one of those stories when it's
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  Speaker 2: somebody that's done something horribly bad we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say their name. Is very much this case, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like I should say his name every time because of
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  Speaker 2: what he did. So, Dave Bell made the most of
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  Speaker 2: his summer break by donating a kidney to a stranger.
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  Speaker 2: He said, when I found out you can do this
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  Speaker 2: and still live, it was like a no brainer decision.
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  Speaker 2: It's not even a decision to make. It's like, well, then, obviously,
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  Speaker 2: this is what I want to do. Along the way,
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  Speaker 2: Dave brighton the spirits of the medical team at Henrico's
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  Speaker 2: doctor's hospital and his amazing gesture impacted the life of
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  Speaker 2: a complete stranger in a big way. He hopes his
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  Speaker 2: adventure will inspire others to step up and help others.
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  Speaker 2: He said, if I can do this, then you can
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  Speaker 2: do it. And if you can, then do it is
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  Speaker 2: what he said. So it's a great story. I like it,
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  Speaker 2: and it doesn't involve a three legged pig, so my
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  Speaker 2: bride won't have an issue with it, so you can
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  Speaker 2: just enjoy it without having to worry about all that.
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  Speaker 2: So this is a great story, and you know, obviously
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  Speaker 2: it's a complete stranger, which makes it even more special.
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  Speaker 2: So one thing, when you have a relative that comes
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  Speaker 2: along and says, hey, I need a kidney, can you
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  Speaker 2: help me out, or a close friend you hear, those
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  Speaker 2: are more common and it's still a big gesture, But
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  Speaker 2: when it's a complete stranger, it's a huge gesture. So
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  Speaker 2: nicely done there, Dave. All right, let's get to some
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  Speaker 2: strange and bizarre news from around the world. We'll start
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  Speaker 2: where else but Florida. We'll go to Miami as police
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  Speaker 2: say they cracked an unusual theft case involving avocados. Authorities
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  Speaker 2: arrested a thirty seven year old man after they allegedly
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  Speaker 2: caught him taking more than one hundred and forty avocados
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  Speaker 2: from a grove in southwest Miami. Dade County deputies say
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  Speaker 2: they found bags of freshly picked avocados near the suspects
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  Speaker 2: pickup truck during a late night patrol. The fruit, valued
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  Speaker 2: at about eight hundred and fifty two dollars, seems about right,
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  Speaker 2: according to the arrest report. When investigators tried to question
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  Speaker 2: the man, he reportedly replied, why do I need to
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  Speaker 2: speak to you? I was caught stealing avocados. He now
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  Speaker 2: faces charges of grand theft and trespassing and was being
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  Speaker 2: held on a three thousand dollars bond. So it's something
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  Speaker 2: when you steal enough of a fruit item that you
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  Speaker 2: get into grand theft. You hit that five hundred dollars threshold.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot of avocados. It's one hundred and forty
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  Speaker 2: avocados valued at that, but I mean, try to keep
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  Speaker 2: it under five hundred. I mean, I'm not advocating stealing,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, if you're stealing fruit. A New York
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  Speaker 2: couple says they were horrified to discover a stranger relaxing
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  Speaker 2: inside their queen's apartment while they were away on vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Bill and Yellen Kim received an alert from their home
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  Speaker 2: security camera and watched as an unknown woman wandered through
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  Speaker 2: their home, helped herself to a drink, and lounged on
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  Speaker 2: their couch. The couple claims that a doorman at the
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  Speaker 2: luxury building mistakenly gave the woman their apartment keys after
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  Speaker 2: she posed as a dog walker. She left before the
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  Speaker 2: police arrived and has not been identified. Police are investigating
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  Speaker 2: the incident as a burglary. Building management says the employee
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  Speaker 2: involved was fired and staff have been retrained. The shaken
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  Speaker 2: couple says they no longer feel safe and are looking
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  Speaker 2: to move. That's pretty scary stuff. And you know, I'm
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  Speaker 2: just looking at the still image of the video of
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  Speaker 2: this woman sleeping on their couch. I can see why
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  Speaker 2: they would be very disturbed. I don't know what was stolen,
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  Speaker 2: if they're treating it as a burglary, if something was
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  Speaker 2: actually stolen or not, but yeah, at the very least,
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  Speaker 2: you know, how did she know they weren't home, That's
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  Speaker 2: one question I've got. How do you go in? Or
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  Speaker 2: maybe she just took a stab at it and said,
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  Speaker 2: I'm a dog walker and I'm staying in room XYZ
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  Speaker 2: whatever you know, on the floor, whatever floor, in whatever room,
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  Speaker 2: and got in there, thought this seems like a good
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  Speaker 2: spot for a nap. I guess, Thank goodness they had
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  Speaker 2: the security camera inside, so just a handy tip when
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  Speaker 2: you go on vacation, all right, driving a stolen fire
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  Speaker 2: department vehicle while naked may sound like a good time,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not gonna end well. Police in Wisconsin' say
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  Speaker 2: thirty six year old Emily Fair stole an official pickup
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  Speaker 2: truck from the Pleasant Prairie Fire Department in the early
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  Speaker 2: morning hours, turned on the emergency lights, and drove away.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say that she also made strange radio transmissions, including
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  Speaker 2: asking dispatchers for food. That's not even anything weird in
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  Speaker 2: this story, she asked for food. Officers tracked down the
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  Speaker 2: vehicle about an hour later found the woman naked behind
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  Speaker 2: the wheel. Clothing was reportedly in the bed of the truck.
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  Speaker 2: She was charged with operating a motor vehicle without the
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  Speaker 2: owner's consent and could face felony penalties if convicted. You
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  Speaker 2: know everything about this kind of checks. She's naked, she's
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  Speaker 2: driving the fire vehicle. You know, you know, the felony
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  Speaker 2: thing seems appropriate if they end up like coming with
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  Speaker 2: some kind of a plea deal and you know, at
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  Speaker 2: least paid to you know, clean the at least pay
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  Speaker 2: to clean the truck. You know, got to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Probably I think that's a good idea. A suspected homicide
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  Speaker 2: case in Australia took an unexpected turn. Police received a
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  Speaker 2: phone call from two men who reportedly that they found
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  Speaker 2: a dead body stuffed inside of a suitcase and left it
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  Speaker 2: on the side of the road. Investigators arrived at the
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  Speaker 2: scene immediately opened to murder investigation. The dead body was
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  Speaker 2: sent to the Medical Examiner's office, and authorities used every
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  Speaker 2: forensic tool they had to determine that the body was
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  Speaker 2: actually just a life sized doll, wearing clothes with hair,
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  Speaker 2: nose piercing and markings that resembled bruises. Authorities insist the
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  Speaker 2: doll was so realistic that officers followed standard crime scene
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  Speaker 2: procedures before confirming it was not human. Investigation was closed.
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  Speaker 2: I think they should probably have it opened still about
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  Speaker 2: whoever made this call, Who stuff to dummy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: in a suitcase? I think that and then called and
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  Speaker 2: reported it. I think that should have I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that they should close this. I think there's still questions
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  Speaker 2: that need to be answered. That's all I'm saying. Also,
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  Speaker 2: as a side note, I feel like I need to
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  Speaker 2: rewatch Lars and the Real Girl. It's a great movie
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have anything to do with a suitcase, but it
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  Speaker 2: does involve you know, I don't even say a dummy,
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  Speaker 2: a big life sized doll. That's probably the better way
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  Speaker 2: to say it. All right, Back to Florida, where a
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  Speaker 2: man faces felony charges after deputies say that he snuck
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  Speaker 2: into a parked Jet Blue plane at Fort Lauderdale Hollywood
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  Speaker 2: International Airport and fell asleep in the plan's bathroom. Authority
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  Speaker 2: say thirty two year old as Samuel Prescott Lackey climbed
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  Speaker 2: a perimeter fence, entered a secured maintenance area, and boarded
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  Speaker 2: an airbus A three twenty that was undergoing maintenance. Workers
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  Speaker 2: discovered him during a routine inspection that was done on
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  Speaker 2: Sunday morning. Deputies say that the incident delayed the aircraft
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  Speaker 2: operations and cost JetBlue about twenty four hundred dollars. That's
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  Speaker 2: almost three lots of those avocados, isn't it. Lackeye has
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  Speaker 2: been charged with burglary, criminal mischief, and trespassing on critical infrastructure.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm glad they found him before they started
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  Speaker 2: operations for the day. You know, seems like that could
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  Speaker 2: have been pretty startling at the very least two Florida
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  Speaker 2: business owners were arrested for scattering about fifteen hundred mothballs
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  Speaker 2: on the beach in Saint Peter's Burg. Police say the
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  Speaker 2: bizarre act wasn't to keep moths from eating clothes, It
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  Speaker 2: was to get rid of some unwanted birds. The men
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  Speaker 2: allegedly thought the mothballs would keep the endangered black skimmer
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  Speaker 2: birds from nesting nearby Authorities say the men were worried
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  Speaker 2: the birds would lead to fencing restrictions that could hurt business.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators claim surveillance, video, purchase records, phone data, and text
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  Speaker 2: messages linked them to the scheme. They face felony charges
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  Speaker 2: of dumping and wildlife related misdemeanor charges. Wildlife officials say
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  Speaker 2: volunteers removed roughly one thousand mothballs, only to find another
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  Speaker 2: five hundred appeer overnight. The pesticide filled mothballs can be
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  Speaker 2: harmful to both wildlife and people, and officials say the
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  Speaker 2: effort delayed the bird's nesting season. So if they can
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  Speaker 2: find a way to blame it on Anthony Fauci back,
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  Speaker 2: you know a few years ago, he's you know, already
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  Speaker 2: got a federal pardon. So maybe maybe if they could
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  Speaker 2: just get him to fess up to it. I guess,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. He doesn't, He pleads the fifth on everything.
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  Speaker 2: There's an unusual health warning coming out of China. On
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  Speaker 2: speaking of Falgi, an eighteen year old camper temporarily lost
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  Speaker 2: part of his hearing after spending more than four hours
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  Speaker 2: surrounded by loud sounds of cicadas in a forest. Doctors
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  Speaker 2: say that the team developed the ringing in his ears
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  Speaker 2: and hearing difficulties after exposure to hundreds of the insects
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  Speaker 2: all at once. We call that August around here. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know about in China. While a single cicada isn't
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  Speaker 2: typically loud enough to cause damage, experts say large groups
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  Speaker 2: can exceed eighty five decibels, a level that can harm
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  Speaker 2: hearing over time. The team recovered fully after treatment and
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  Speaker 2: two weeks of rest, but doctors say prolonged exposure to
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  Speaker 2: any loud noise, even sounds from nature, can pose a risk. So,
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  Speaker 2: YEAHB he doesn't want to visit Georgia, you know, in
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  Speaker 2: the late summer. Probably not a good plan for him
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  Speaker 2: in the future. Get ready for Dragon Con forty. It's
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  Speaker 2: the fortieth Dragon Con, and it happens Labor Day weekend
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  Speaker 2: colleges nationwide continue to look for ways to address the
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  Speaker 2: rising mental health concerns among students. While the news may
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  Speaker 2: be a relief for freshmen, it isn't really sitting well
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  Speaker 2: with some older folks, who argue that the move is
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  Speaker 2: not helping students because it's not preparing them for the
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  Speaker 2: real world. Eh, color me an old folk. I guess
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  Speaker 2: there is actual accountability out in the real world. So
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  Speaker 2: one person commenting not sure their bosses will do the
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: same on their first jobs, and another saying that by
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  Speaker 2: help acclimate, we mean delay acclimating by an amount of
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  Speaker 2: time equal to the exactly exactly one semester. Yeah, I
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: mean you're just delaying the inevitable. Right. If you've got
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: a sweet tooth, it may say more about your personality
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: than your dessert order. A new study found that people
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: who really love suites are less likely to take financial
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  Speaker 2: risks and more likely to choose smaller rewards right away
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  Speaker 2: instead of waiting for the bigger payoff later. In other words,
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  Speaker 2: sweet lovers tend to play it safe and prefer instant gratification.
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  Speaker 2: Researchers compared self described sweetskers and sweets dislikers through a
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  Speaker 2: series of decision making experiments and found that candy fans
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  Speaker 2: were generally more risk averse when it came to gambling
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  Speaker 2: style choices. So if you're the first one in line
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  Speaker 2: for cake, cookies or ice cream, you might be the
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  Speaker 2: type who skips the risky bet and takes the sure
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: thing interesting. It sounds a little horoscopy, though, what'd you think?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's some research involved in it, but it
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: just sounds Virgo likes to take to sweets. I don't know.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: Robots have infiltrated every part of human life, and soon
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: they may be in the kitchen watching your dishes, taking
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: out your trash. This sounds good. San Francisco company called
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Tau Robotics has launched a pilot program that let some
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  Speaker 2: residents hire humanoid robots to vacuum wipe counters and take
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: out the trash for thirty dollars an hour. Robots use
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  Speaker 2: artificial intelligence and are still heavily supervised, though by human
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: operators working remotely through VR headsets. Researchers say that today's
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: humanoid robots can still be clumsy, raising safety concerns around
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  Speaker 2: children and household objects, privacy, and other issue since the
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: robots use cameras to navigate and improve their AI systems.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: While the humanoid robot industry is attracting major investment, analysts
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: say it could take five to ten years or possibly more,
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  Speaker 2: before robots can reliably handle everyday chores all by themselves.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you've got to have a guy, you know,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: operating it from afar. It's basically a drune that's just
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: cleaning your house, right, So interesting. I like the idea
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: possibility of getting there, But again, we're starting to get
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: to robots and AI affecting jobs and things. Fans of
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: seven Up may notice something a little different about their
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: favorite drink, mainly that it's now a lime lemon soda
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: no longer lemon lime. The brand making its biggest recipe
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: change in more than fifteen years, shifting from the traditional
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: lemon lime flavor to a more lime forward flavor. The
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: company says the new formula is brighter, crisper, and puts
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: more emphasis on lime taste. Testers found the change noticeable
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: but subtle, with a stronger lime aroma and slightly more
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  Speaker 2: refreshing finish. The updated recipe along when new packaging will
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: roll out nationwide later this month. It's never been a
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: bad thing for a soft drink to change their formula.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That's never gone wrong ever the history of soft drinks.
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  Speaker 2: So I realize that you're not going to put, you know,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: seven Up in the same group as coke, But I
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: guess maybe in this case, I just did. And finally,
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: the new pumpkin spice is apparently bananas as a social
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: media trend that features banana milk and coffee drinks, cold foams,
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and other beverages has sparked a full on banana craze. Now,
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: food brands are jumping on the bandwagon, rolling out everything
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: from Duncan's Going Banana's menu to M and m's banana
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: nut bread candies, as well as little debbies banana pudding
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: cream pies. Khalif of Farms even fast tracked a new
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: banana banana cream almond creamer Yeah to cash in on
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the trend. So could it become the new pumpkin spice obsession?
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: We'll see how far it goes, but I guess as
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: a possibility. That'll do it for this Friday edition of
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