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Strange and Bizarre News with Devil Spiders · 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, twenty fourth day of July. I'm Wes, thanks
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Speaker 2: for joining me. We're gonna get to our typical Friday stuff,
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Speaker 2: but before we do that, there's just kind of a
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Speaker 2: weird story that's kind of hanging out there, and I
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Speaker 2: feel like it's worth addressing. It's not quite in the
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Speaker 2: strange and bizarre news thing. It's just kind of one
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Speaker 2: of those stories that it related to something that was
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Speaker 2: certainly very strange back when one of the two people
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Speaker 2: was really relevant in the world. I guess they were
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Speaker 2: both relevant back then more so than they are now.
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Speaker 2: That's probably not fair, but as far as the popularity peaks,
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Speaker 2: I guess for both of these people, and it's a
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Speaker 2: it's a weird story that's kind of played out. If
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Speaker 2: you remember Courtney Stodden, she's the woman who I guess,
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Speaker 2: when she was sixteen or seventeen, famously got married to
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Speaker 2: someone who was much older than her and she is
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Speaker 2: now an advocate. She's trying to push California legislation to
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Speaker 2: prohibit child marriage people under the age of eighteen, and
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Speaker 2: that's something that she's passionate about for different reasons. Clearly
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Speaker 2: she's lived some of these things. So and I say
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Speaker 2: that as far as her popularity, I mean, she's doing
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Speaker 2: something very productive with her experiences.
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Speaker 3: So that's great.
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Speaker 2: This is where her heart is and all these things.
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Speaker 2: We are in a different time. There was a time
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Speaker 2: when you know, fourteen year olds, thirteen year olds were
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Speaker 2: getting married for various reasons in early America or even
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Speaker 2: kind of you know, mid range middle age, if you will,
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Speaker 2: for where we are now America. So you know, there
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Speaker 2: were different times. It was a different time, different place,
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Speaker 2: and certainly now the idea of someone under eighteen getting
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Speaker 2: married still makes some people uncomfortable the thought of it,
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Speaker 2: even when you start talking about I mean, I've been
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Speaker 2: doing family tree work. There's people in my family tree
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Speaker 2: fourteen fifteen years old who got married and you know,
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Speaker 2: not recently, but back in the day anyway. And this
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Speaker 2: isn't necessarily commentary on that topic. It's just me pointing
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Speaker 2: out the fact that this is what Courtney Stodden was
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Speaker 2: known for back in like twenty twelve, in that time period,
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Speaker 2: and she was seventeen at the time of this particular incident,
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Speaker 2: and they made a Funnier Die video and Jason Alexander,
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Speaker 2: better known as George Costanza from Seinfeld Again, you go
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Speaker 2: back to a time when his popularity was a little
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Speaker 2: higher than his now. Not that anybody hate I'm not
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Speaker 2: hating on Jason Alexander by any means. But he did
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Speaker 2: a sketch with Courtney Stadden, and the particular sketch is
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Speaker 2: supposed to be a comedy thing, and he was supposed
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Speaker 2: to be like a daytime talk show host, and he
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Speaker 2: was kind of making suggestive comments and he was rubbing
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Speaker 2: a mobile phone around on her chest, and she has
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Speaker 2: come out and talked about this. He has now made
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Speaker 2: an apology publicly. He says, I completely agree that it
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Speaker 2: was inappropriate, and I truly regret it. I am deeply
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Speaker 2: sorry for any harm or distress that it caused. Stawden
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Speaker 2: has acknowledged the public response and encouraged Alexander to support
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Speaker 2: the California legislation prohibiting child marriage. I just feel like
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Speaker 2: it's worth mentioning, and I look, I don't know any
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Speaker 2: of the fallout from this beyond that this was something
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Speaker 2: that happened in twenty twelve. I don't know the context
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Speaker 2: of them getting together and saying we're.
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Speaker 3: Going to do this sketch.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if theyre there's a certain amount of
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Speaker 2: we're going to be ad libbing, if are we going
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Speaker 2: to be doing improv with all this, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what led him to do this. I
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Speaker 2: think it's a positive thing if what's happened, and I
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Speaker 2: know this isn't going to be extent of it, because
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Speaker 2: there obviously will be people who will continue to make
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Speaker 2: a big deal about this forever, and maybe they shouldn't.
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Speaker 2: I can't pretend to know enough about the circumstances of
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Speaker 2: it to say how big of a deal it should be.
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Speaker 2: I'll just say this, if this is something that something
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Speaker 2: happened many years later, someone feels comfortable coming out and
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Speaker 2: talking about it and using it as part of this
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Speaker 2: platform to say, hey, we don't need to sexualize people
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Speaker 2: under eighteen. Jason Alexander obviously did what he should do
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Speaker 2: and apologize for something that happened. Then she's apparently accepted
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Speaker 2: the apology or at least acknowledged it, and says, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's work together to prohibit children getting married, you know,
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Speaker 2: under the age of eighteen. If that's the takeaway, from it,
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Speaker 2: and we can kind of see the way adults handle
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Speaker 2: things years later. Then I think that could be a
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Speaker 2: good thing. If something positive comes out of this, and
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Speaker 2: you know, she's able to come out publicly and talk
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Speaker 2: about it, he's able to acknowledge it and apologize for it,
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Speaker 2: and then they're able to and I don't know that
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Speaker 2: he's going to get involved in the legislation or not.
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I'm just pointing out the fact
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Speaker 2: that it is possible for someone to make a mistake,
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Speaker 2: apologize and move on, right. It's possible to do that.
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Speaker 2: And I'm not here to make an argument about whether
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Speaker 2: or not how disgusting what he did was or wasn't.
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Speaker 2: That's not what I'm here to do. I'm not being
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Speaker 2: an apologist for him. I just know that this was
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Speaker 2: a comedy skit that was being recorded and that was
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Speaker 2: the context around what going on. I don't know what
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Speaker 2: his thinking was when they were recording it. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what her thinking was when it was being recorded.
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Speaker 3: I'm just pointing that out.
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Speaker 2: And I wanted to mention the story because it's one
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Speaker 2: of those things that people have been talking about. Friday
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Speaker 2: seems like a good place to do at the beginning
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Speaker 2: of the show.
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Speaker 3: So there we go.
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Speaker 2: Let's move over to some of our positive news, right,
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Speaker 2: actual serious positive news. You can say that's positive or
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Speaker 2: you can say that other story was negative.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you feel about it, but I
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Speaker 2: want to talk about this. It's maybe our last one
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Speaker 2: of our final things talk about concerning the World Cup.
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Speaker 2: The city of Elos Pallisios e Villafranca in Spain population
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Speaker 2: about thirty five thousand, and had some pretty significant soccer
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Speaker 2: players come from this town, and they have a unique
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Speaker 2: way of honoring their local heroes. So, following their World
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Speaker 2: Cup victory for Spain, Fabian, Ruis and Gavi returned home
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Speaker 2: to a special townhall ceremony to collect the reward. This
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Speaker 2: town is known for giving them their exact weight in
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Speaker 2: locally grown tomatoes. This tradition goes back to twenty ten
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Speaker 2: when a fellow town native, Jesus Navas won the World Cup.
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Speaker 2: Both players stepped onto the scales for their reward. Fabian
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Speaker 2: tip scales at one eighty five gave weighed one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty pounds, and sure enough, the city followed through
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Speaker 2: and giving the guys fresh produce Los Pelasios. Evilafranca then
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Speaker 2: sent them on their way with dreams of another World
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Speaker 2: Cup victory and tomatoes in four years.
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Speaker 3: So pretty cool stuff.
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Speaker 2: Anytime you get something that's that unique to a town
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Speaker 2: that gets attention, it's pretty good stuff. Next, how about
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Speaker 2: this Joel Lapont, Montreal, planning a summer road trip on
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Speaker 2: Google Maps in late twenty twenty three when he spotted
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Speaker 2: a strange circular pitch.
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Speaker 3: In the middle of nowhere.
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Speaker 2: Joel, an amateur astronomer, admits he's not a scientist. His
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Speaker 2: first instinct was to doubt himself entirely. I told myself,
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Speaker 2: you haven't discovered anything, Joel, It's not possible. They may
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Speaker 2: already know about this. He started poking around, checking databases.
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Speaker 2: Nothing showed up, so he started reaching out to experts,
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Speaker 2: getting turned down more than once before a research team
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Speaker 2: finally agreed to look at it and finally confirmation of
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Speaker 2: what Joel suspected, a genuine meteorite impact creator fifteen miles wide,
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Speaker 2: three hundred ninety million years old, which was before dinosaurs
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Speaker 2: were roaming the planet. Canada hasn't had a new impact
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Speaker 2: crater confirmed since twenty ten, and now thanks to Joel's curiosity.
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Speaker 2: This one has a name, uhhawk a tick.
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Speaker 3: I think that's right, hackatic.
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Speaker 2: Joel got confirmation at work that he had been right
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Speaker 2: after sharing the news with the coworker, also happened to
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Speaker 2: be an amateur astronomer. The two reflected on the remarkable
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Speaker 2: fine a crater older than nearly everything else on earth
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Speaker 2: identified by someone who was simply planning a fun road trip.
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Speaker 3: And that's it. Great stuff, great work. I like it.
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Speaker 3: I'm all about it.
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Speaker 2: Let's go to some strange and bizarre news from around
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Speaker 2: the world. Let's begin in Maryland, where two men face
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Speaker 2: charges after police say they ran an unlicensed photo shoot
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Speaker 2: featuring exotic animals, including monkey, snakes, and others, inside a
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Speaker 2: parking garage. Investigators say the men advertised the sessions online
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Speaker 2: did not have a federal license required to exhibit the animals.
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Speaker 2: Police later arranged in an undercover photo shoot, leading to
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Speaker 2: a search of a residence where the animals were found.
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Speaker 2: Authorities say that a lemur and a spider monkey, anytime
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Speaker 2: you get a lemur and a spider monkey together, we're
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Speaker 2: being kept in improper condition, showed signs of neglect. The
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Speaker 2: animals have since been turned over to the Maryland Zoo
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Speaker 2: for care. The two suspects face charges related to possession
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Speaker 2: and use of exotic animals. Investigators say the case highlights
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Speaker 2: the risk of putting wild animals in public photo op settings.
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Speaker 2: I'm not advocating for the mistreatment of animals by any
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Speaker 2: means at all. In fact, I am very anti mistreat
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Speaker 2: meant of animals. But I do kind of question this,
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Speaker 2: like when people are trying to do art, sometimes they
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Speaker 2: break the rules a little bit. Again, not advocating for
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Speaker 2: the mistreatment of this poor lemur and spider monkey or
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Speaker 2: any of the other animals. I'm just pointing out the
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Speaker 2: fact that sometimes for art you take a chance or two,
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Speaker 2: so they probably I mean, I don't know what the
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Speaker 2: pictures look like. I can't in any way defend it.
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Speaker 2: I just know that sometimes for art people do things
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Speaker 2: like that. Let's go to Massachusetts, another m state. A
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Speaker 2: twenty nine year old man who was known locally for
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Speaker 2: dressing as a mime in public was charged with criminal
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Speaker 2: harassment after i led frightening female employees and visitors at
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Speaker 2: a state park near Boston. Prosecutors say that Hermann villagren
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Speaker 2: Lux repeatedly approached women over several months, staring at them
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Speaker 2: in what witnesses described as an unsettling manner, refusing request
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Speaker 2: to leave the area. Authorities say the behavior recently escalated,
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Speaker 2: with one incident involving Lux allegedly stripping down to his underwear,
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Speaker 2: covering himself in cooking oil, and exercising near a staff
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Speaker 2: work area. Three female park employees reported numerous encounters, including
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Speaker 2: one woman who said she had more than fifty interactions
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Speaker 2: with him.
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Speaker 3: That's a lot.
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Speaker 2: State police arrested Lux during a court hearing. He reportedly fainted.
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Speaker 2: His prosecutors outline the allegations. It's a min Did he
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Speaker 2: really faint or did he pretend to faint? Maybe he
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Speaker 2: was in a box and ran out of air, I
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Speaker 2: don't know. After proceedings resumed, a judge ordered a mental
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Speaker 2: health evaluation. The case also prompted concern on social media,
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Speaker 2: where several people said they recognized the suspect and claimed
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Speaker 2: that he had approached or followed women in nearby communities.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, that's uh, that's pretty wild.
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Speaker 2: I do wonder, though, I really really do wonder. Like
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Speaker 2: visible box, I think we should look into the invisible
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Speaker 2: box theory on the fainting let's zip on down to
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Speaker 2: Florida for a couple stories. A bizarre theft case in
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Speaker 2: Marion County where deputies say that a man returned home
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Speaker 2: after a stay in jail and discovered that his collection
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Speaker 2: of tarantula's had disappeared. Investigators say that a local woman,
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Speaker 2: Stephanie Laurn Brooks, allegedly took the spiders and sold them
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Speaker 2: while the owner was away in jail. The missing tarantulas
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Speaker 2: reportedly included a golden knee choco tarantula and a striped
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Speaker 2: devil tarantula.
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Speaker 3: If you don't want people.
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Speaker 2: To be afraid of a species of spider that are
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Speaker 2: already kind of have this stigma of being big and hairy,
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Speaker 2: I don't give them names like stripe devil, golden ee Chocoh,
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Speaker 2: that's not bad, stripe devil. The owner estimated that his
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Speaker 2: losses were nearly six hundred dollars. Authorities say Brooks faces
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Speaker 2: stolen property and petty theft charges. According to investigators, a
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Speaker 2: child witness said the spiders were removed because of safety
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Speaker 2: concerns and the cost of caring for them. Deputies also
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Speaker 2: say Brooks told them that she sold the tarantulas because
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Speaker 2: they were dying while acknowledging they belonged to the victim.
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Speaker 2: The case remains under Investigation's authorities work to determine where
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Speaker 2: the exotic pets were sold and whether they can be recovered.
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Speaker 2: Here's an idea. I'm just throwing this out there. Just
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Speaker 2: this is like an experiment maybe in ethics.
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Speaker 3: I don't know. If the spiders are.
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Speaker 2: In danger of dying and you're gonna go sell them,
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Speaker 2: maybe just hang on to the money for the guy
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Speaker 2: who owned them, you know, and maybe a list of
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Speaker 2: like where they went, so if he wants to go
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Speaker 2: buy him back, give that option.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Their work hours. Look, let me just.
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Speaker 2: Say this, the idea of just kind of pretending to
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Speaker 2: do work may sound like a horrible thing, all right,
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Speaker 2: I'm just going to present this other side of it.
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Speaker 2: Because there was a stretch for me with a couple
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Speaker 2: of jobs that I had. I had a specific list
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Speaker 2: of things that I needed to do at work. Right,
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Speaker 2: some of those things they had to be done at
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Speaker 2: a certain time each day. Some of the things that
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Speaker 2: I had to do, I might you'd be just waiting
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Speaker 2: for someone to turn in like a ticket for me
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Speaker 2: to work on it. And I would have some days
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Speaker 2: where I would be working on that well after work,
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Speaker 2: and then I would have some days where you know,
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Speaker 2: I just kind of had to be there waiting for
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Speaker 2: a work ticket to come in. And in those cases
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Speaker 2: sometimes you do just kind of try to look busy.
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Speaker 2: You definitely don't want to be caught, you know, napping
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Speaker 2: at your desk. You don't need that, So you want
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Speaker 2: to look busy. And there might be some busy work
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Speaker 2: things that you can do that kind of are making
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Speaker 2: you look busy. I'm just I'm not fully defending it
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Speaker 2: in a broad sense, but in some cases there are
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Speaker 2: situations where it makes sense, because if you're expected to work,
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Speaker 2: you know, a couple of hours past when you're actually
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Speaker 2: getting paid to work, and then you have some days
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Speaker 2: where there's not a lot to do, looking busy sometimes
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Speaker 2: is the best way for.
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Speaker 3: Survival, that's all.
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Speaker 2: Do you have good beach etiquette? On a new survey
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Speaker 2: from beach dot com, who knew there?
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Speaker 3: I mean, it makes sense. There's a beach dot com.
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Speaker 2: But I didn't know there was a beach dot com.
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Speaker 3: Now I know.
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Speaker 2: This new survey found that ninety three percent of adults
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Speaker 2: say that they have good beach etiquette, but when broken
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Speaker 2: down into specific rules and behaviors, ninety two percent admit
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Speaker 2: to at least one bad beach habit. The most common
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Speaker 2: common confession about seventy percent say that they've peed in
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Speaker 2: the water. We're gonna come back to that. Nearly half
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Speaker 2: admit to drinking alcohol where it's not allowed. Almost forty
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Speaker 2: percent have taken sand or seashells home as souvenirs.
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Speaker 3: When asked what annoys them the.
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Speaker 2: Most about beachgoers, littering top the list, followed by people
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Speaker 2: not cleaning up after pets and setting up too close
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Speaker 2: to Okay, those last three, to me all definitely qualify
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Speaker 2: on the bad beach etiquette list. I know they say,
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Speaker 2: in most cases, you're not supposed to take home sand
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Speaker 2: or seashells. I mean, I know that they say that,
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Speaker 2: but I don't think that's really a bad beach etiquette thing.
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Speaker 2: It may be bad kind of in an environmental sense,
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Speaker 2: if you want to get the people that are telling
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Speaker 2: you not to do it, I don't think that's really
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Speaker 2: an etiquette thing.
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Speaker 3: Alcohol where it's not allowed.
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Speaker 2: I mean, that's a legal thing more than an etiquete thing,
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Speaker 2: isn't it. I mean, if you get you know, inebriated
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Speaker 2: and you're obnoxious, that's another thing. Now I'm want to
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Speaker 2: point this out about the sorry, but this idea about
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Speaker 2: peeing in the water being bad etiquette. There are billions
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Speaker 2: of animals that are constantly urinating in the water, so
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Speaker 2: they're not all con but there's constantly some animal urinating
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Speaker 2: in the water, don't I don't know.
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Speaker 3: That that's a problem either.
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Speaker 2: It's a it's an ocean, and we're not talking about
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Speaker 2: like if you get in the hot tub and you
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Speaker 2: pee in it.
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Speaker 3: That's that's different. That's swimming pool.
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Speaker 2: Yes, there's different things where you go. These are increasingly
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Speaker 2: more taboo. I don't know that peeing in the ocean
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Speaker 2: should be considered bad etiquette. I mean, if you're peeing
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Speaker 2: right next to somebody and you know, looking them in
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Speaker 2: the eye, yeah, that's uncomfortable, that's awkward.
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Speaker 3: You don't you don't.
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Speaker 2: Need to do that, that's not okay. I mean if
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Speaker 2: you're just looking them in the eye. But it's an ocean.
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Speaker 2: There's a certain amount of animal urine in the ocean
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Speaker 2: at any given moment.
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Speaker 3: That's all. That's as much as that's it. That's all
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Speaker 3: I gotta say.
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