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Strange and Bizarre News on a Thursday... Again · 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: Thursday morning, fourth day of September. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. It is a special Friday edition of the
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  Speaker 2: Thursday edition of the show. This is gonna be my
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  Speaker 2: last show of the week because, as I've mentioned a
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  Speaker 2: couple times, I am having surgery today and I got
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  Speaker 2: the early draw, so I'll be heading in very soon
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  Speaker 2: for this. I didn't have time to do two shows.
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  Speaker 2: I thought about trying to do a Friday show ahead
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  Speaker 2: of time, but we'll get this one in before I
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  Speaker 2: head off for surgery. So I drew the early straw,
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  Speaker 2: which is good. I hear that's the best one to get.
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  Speaker 2: It's my preference anyway, but I've always heard that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess statistically it's the best slot to get one
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  Speaker 2: of the first ones. I got the very first one,
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  Speaker 2: which means no show tomorrow, So that means today you're
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  Speaker 2: getting a very special Thursday edition of Strange and Bizarre
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  Speaker 2: newsm around the World. I know it's not quite as
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  Speaker 2: special because we did it last week because of Dragon Con,
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  Speaker 2: so it's a double whammy of it back to back. Now,
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  Speaker 2: just moving forward, I have no idea what to expect
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  Speaker 2: with recovery. I know that I'll have my surgery. I
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  Speaker 2: know that they're going to be doing some work on
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  Speaker 2: my neck behind all of the vertical tubes in my throat.
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  Speaker 2: It's what they do. They go in through the front
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  Speaker 2: and work around all that stuff. So I don't know
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  Speaker 2: how agitated my throat and voice will be and what
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to sound like next week. My intention is
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  Speaker 2: to be back with you on Monday. That's the intention.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see how this goes. The first thing is getting
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  Speaker 2: through the surgery this morning and then swallowing. That's apparently
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  Speaker 2: a big part of this surgery. Once you're done, you
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  Speaker 2: got to be able to swallow, which you know we
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  Speaker 2: all need to be able to do that. So that
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  Speaker 2: was that's the first step. And if I can swallow,
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  Speaker 2: If I can do that, I'm in good shape. That's
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  Speaker 2: what I need. Anyway. I am in starting yesterday some
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  Speaker 2: of the most intense pain I've had before this procedure,
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  Speaker 2: and this has been probably a ten year thing that
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  Speaker 2: I've been dealing with with this pain. So this was
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  Speaker 2: almost like God reminding me there's a reason you're doing this,
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  Speaker 2: and here you go here's a sampling, just a reminder
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  Speaker 2: of what you're going to get some relief from. So
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  Speaker 2: that's what's happening today for me. If you're listening to this,
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  Speaker 2: you know by lunchtime surgery's done. I would assume it's
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  Speaker 2: almost certainly done by this point. If you're listening first
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  Speaker 2: thing in the morning, as it comes in while you're
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  Speaker 2: having your coffee, I very well may be, you know,
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  Speaker 2: working my way into the o ar at this point
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  Speaker 2: or something like that. I can't know because I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how long it's going to take. I'm just telling
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  Speaker 2: you that at some point between release of this show
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  Speaker 2: this morning, when I officially post it, versus whenever you
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  Speaker 2: listen to it, hopefully surgery's gone. Well, if you're listening
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  Speaker 2: to it like first thing when it drops, i'd love
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  Speaker 2: a prayer. Just think about me for a minute, that's all.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that the steady hands of a surgeon is
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  Speaker 2: going to be working near my spinal cord, but happy
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  Speaker 2: with the guy I picked. Let's see how we go,
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  Speaker 2: right anyway. So I'm a little loopy because it's not
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  Speaker 2: a great night's sleep leading into surgery. Because I can't
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  Speaker 2: take any medicine. It's just been kind of a wild
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  Speaker 2: ride for about a week, but we're finally to the day.
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  Speaker 2: So and if you're listening, I appreciate you, and I
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  Speaker 2: hope we back at this on Monday. That's my intention
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  Speaker 2: to be back on Monday. All right. We always start
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  Speaker 2: our strange and bizarre news days are typically Fridays with
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  Speaker 2: some good news. I got a couple of good positive
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  Speaker 2: stories to start off the week. We'll jump into a
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  Speaker 2: start off the weekend for me. I guess this is
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  Speaker 2: what I mean start off the show. So let's do this.
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  Speaker 2: First up, some positive news. Kelly Castro, her son Carson,
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  Speaker 2: was diagnosed with autism, and it caused her to worry
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  Speaker 2: about his future, and she learned about unemployment rates for
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  Speaker 2: autistic adults can be around eighty five percent. So Kelly
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  Speaker 2: launched something called Carson's Cookie Dough. Started as a side
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  Speaker 2: business that just sold raw cookie dough to customers, but
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  Speaker 2: over the past years it's grown into a full service
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  Speaker 2: bakery that trains and employs young adults with disabilities. The
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  Speaker 2: shop teaches everything from mixing ingredients to customer service, all
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  Speaker 2: with a goal of helping them build confidence to move
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  Speaker 2: on to other jobs, Kelly explaining, I don't want adults
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  Speaker 2: with disabilities to work here in adults without disabilities to
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  Speaker 2: work everywhere else. I want them to start here, get
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  Speaker 2: some confidence, and go and use the skills and competency
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  Speaker 2: at a job somewhere else where. They're real dreams are
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  Speaker 2: How about this? This is the kind of This is
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  Speaker 2: the whole story. This is why we have some of
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  Speaker 2: these positive news stories, you know, to start off our weekend.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we do, all right? How about this one?
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  Speaker 2: The Lee County Literacy Coalition in Alabama YEP, Lee County
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  Speaker 2: hosted its annual Great Grown Up Spelling Bee, and it
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  Speaker 2: brought together businesses and educators to raise awareness for adult literacy.
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  Speaker 2: It was a fast paced speed spelling showdown in front
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  Speaker 2: of a rowdy crowd, featured eight teams two battling head
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  Speaker 2: to head to the bitter end. Eight teams up two.
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  Speaker 2: The winners ended up being two professors, Heather Johnson and
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  Speaker 2: Doss Buccaloo. Dass is a business chair of the Business
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  Speaker 2: Department and Heather is an English teacher. Heather and Doss
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  Speaker 2: reigning champions for the next year until the event it
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  Speaker 2: swings back around for more fun and more awareness to
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  Speaker 2: help adults in Lee County who struggle with literacy. That's great,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a local story. I love it, love it.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I'm talking about, all right, one more because
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  Speaker 2: I like this one. In Phoenix, Arizona, eighty five year
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  Speaker 2: old Betsy Vincent is using her talent to put smiles
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  Speaker 2: on the faces of people going through bumpy times in
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  Speaker 2: their lives. Betsy's been painting since she was a child
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  Speaker 2: has been working with Saint Vincent de Paul's De Paul
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  Speaker 2: Manor Shelter. There's a lot of DePaul in there place.
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  Speaker 2: It helps people transition out of homelessness. The shelter is huge,
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  Speaker 2: fifty thousand square feet of floor space, which means a
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  Speaker 2: lot of empty walls to fill. So Betsy has been
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  Speaker 2: painting and painting using vibrant colors and donated hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: canvases for everyone there to enjoy. In a fun generous twist, though,
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  Speaker 2: she says that every resident who moves into permanent housing
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  Speaker 2: gets to take the painting with them, so that means
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  Speaker 2: forty three residents so far have taken home their own artwork.
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  Speaker 2: She says, I am so lucky to be able to
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  Speaker 2: share some of my work with other people, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: really happy to do that. The real gift to me
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  Speaker 2: is that because when I'm gone, my paintings will continue
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  Speaker 2: to bring joy. That's a great story. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: Only these are people helping other people, right, That's what
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  Speaker 2: it is. It's people helping other people and you know, positivity.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great way to kick things off. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned the Lee County story, I don't think I
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  Speaker 2: actually said, but the two winners, Heather and Dass, Southern Union.
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  Speaker 2: That's where they are, community college. So how about that?
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  Speaker 2: All right? Now, let's get to the strange and bizarre news,
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  Speaker 2: because that's what we're here for. That's what you come
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  Speaker 2: for on the Fridays, isn't it. You come for the
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  Speaker 2: strange and bizarre news from all around the world. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get things started in the UK. If you think you're
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  Speaker 2: a fan of roller coasters, well there's a UK based
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  Speaker 2: adrenaline junkie who set a new record by riding nearly
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  Speaker 2: five dozen coasters over the course.
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  Speaker 1: Of a week.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty six year old Dean Stokes got buckled in and
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  Speaker 2: fired out of fifty five coasters in just seven days.
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  Speaker 2: As impressive as that is, he actually would have managed
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  Speaker 2: to hit sixty coasters of inclement weather didn't lead to
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  Speaker 2: two theme parks being unexpectedly shut down. He bested the
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  Speaker 2: previous record holder, who only managed to go on thirty
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  Speaker 2: coasters in a week long period. The lifelong thrill secret
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  Speaker 2: says he's been a fan of amusement parks since he
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  Speaker 2: was a teenager, and he's not stopping there. His next
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  Speaker 2: goal is to ride each and every roller coaster in
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  Speaker 2: Britain and Ireland. This could have gone in either category.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a strange story, but it easily could
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  Speaker 2: have also been a positive one, I think. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is a guy trying to you know, he's got goals.
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  Speaker 2: He's meeting those goals, all right. How about this? You
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  Speaker 2: heard a cat stuck in trees? How about a twucn
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  Speaker 2: stuck behind a dishwasher? A Virginia woman's pet, Tucan Chester
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  Speaker 2: had a heck of a day when Maria Stagliano is
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  Speaker 2: the woman's name, says. Excitement began when Chester accidentally falling
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  Speaker 2: into the toilet while she was cleaning the bathroom. She
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  Speaker 2: reacted quickly to pick the bird out of the toilet,
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  Speaker 2: took him over to the sink for a bath, which
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  Speaker 2: Chester did not appreciate. Before Maria could dry him off,
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  Speaker 2: Chester got away and went into hiding behind the dishwasher.
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  Speaker 2: Maria was not able to coax him out, and she
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  Speaker 2: was afraid that he'd find some roach traps or rat
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  Speaker 2: poison behind the appliance, so she called the fire department
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  Speaker 2: for assistance. Three firefighters respond and were able to safely
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  Speaker 2: remove Chester from a tight spot. He was unharmed and
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  Speaker 2: a little ruffled. Get it and he uh, yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: a good looking bird. It's a picture of her here
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  Speaker 2: holding the bird. He looks like a classic. It looks
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  Speaker 2: like he could be selling fruit loops. He's a good
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  Speaker 2: looking too, can that's all. Residents of Chester County, Colorado,
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  Speaker 2: got an earfull when there was an overnight truck crash.
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  Speaker 2: The semi truck overturned and spilled corn all over the highway. Luckily,
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  Speaker 2: the driver was uninjured. Emergency crews were dispatched to the
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  Speaker 2: scene to close off the road and figure out what
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  Speaker 2: to do with all the corn. They eventually got a
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  Speaker 2: brilliant idea to put a call out on social media
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  Speaker 2: to local residents to come and get some corn. Sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: office wrote in a Facebook post members of the community
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  Speaker 2: can pick up sweet corn at the fire station on
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  Speaker 2: the northwest corner. Firefighter volunteers and posse will be on
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  Speaker 2: scene to assist. Meanwhile, at the scene of the crash,
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  Speaker 2: crews reopened the road by the evening and Warren motorists
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  Speaker 2: that some corn horn remnants on the road may attract deer. Nah,
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  Speaker 2: how about that. See, when I first read it, I thought,
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  Speaker 2: oh no, the concern here is that maybe it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: make the road slippery. Maybe it's gonna call some kind
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  Speaker 2: of complications. Oh no, that's not it at all. It's
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  Speaker 2: the fact that there could be deer makes sense. What
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  Speaker 2: are deer gonna do. They're gonna they're gonna come and
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  Speaker 2: try to eat the corn. Maybe there could be people
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  Speaker 2: that are just trying to pick up cornels of corn
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  Speaker 2: if that's where they think the free corn is.
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: How about this man known as the butt sniffing Bandit
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  Speaker 2: has reared his ugly head once again. Here we go.
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  Speaker 2: It's not funny, but it is a weird story. It's
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  Speaker 2: you know here, let's just get into it. Calise Karen
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  Speaker 2: Crowder was previously arrested a month ago for a creepy
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  Speaker 2: crime when he was caught lurking around Nordstrom Wrack in Burbank, California,
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  Speaker 2: crouching down sniffing the backside of a female shopper. Less
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  Speaker 2: than a month later, he's back at it, the gentleman.
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  Speaker 2: I don't like the way this is. The nosey sicko
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  Speaker 2: is the way it's worded. It was caught for the
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  Speaker 2: second time in less than a month last week, and
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  Speaker 2: this time Burbank Walgreens, where he was trying to get
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  Speaker 2: a whiff of another female shopper. There's nothing funny about it.
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  Speaker 2: It's weird. It's disgusting. I mean, some people would find
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  Speaker 2: humor in it, but it's not. This is a violation.
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  Speaker 2: We got to be serious here, as serious as you
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  Speaker 2: can be when you're doing a story about a guy
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  Speaker 2: sniffing people's butts without their permission. All right, Let's get
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  Speaker 2: to Florida, where a woman was arrested for committing a
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  Speaker 2: crime that was definitely just to be frank. Forty eight
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  Speaker 2: year old Marsha Morgan was angry at her neighbor and
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  Speaker 2: the neighborhood parked a car too close to her yard,
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  Speaker 2: so she covered the car in toilet paper. Gets better though.
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  Speaker 2: She was also very drunk and dressed as a hot dog.
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  Speaker 2: Police officers arrived at the scene and found Morgan in
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  Speaker 2: her hot dog costume. They grilled her about what she
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  Speaker 2: had done, but she was uncooperative and resisted arrest. The
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  Speaker 2: next day, she pleaded no contest to disorderly conduct and
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  Speaker 2: resisting arrest. She was fined five hundred and fifty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: There's been no explanation for why she was dressed as
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  Speaker 2: a hot dog. Perhaps she just relishes a good parking dispute. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Well.
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  Speaker 2: It seems that Greek life might be losing its appeal
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  Speaker 2: at universities, at least with gen Z, and apparently they're
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  Speaker 2: showing less interest in joining fraternities and sororities than previous generations.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, one report found that fraternity sorority membership has
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  Speaker 2: declined by over fifty percent in the last decade. While
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  Speaker 2: these organizations are still growing strong at some big schools,
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  Speaker 2: especially in the South. Many gen Z students say they're
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  Speaker 2: just not into it, and the reason experts say there
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  Speaker 2: could be a few reasons. For one, they the eight
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  Speaker 2: kids aren't drinking or partying as much. They also value diversity, authenticity,
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  Speaker 2: and independence, and many view Greek life as too rigid
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  Speaker 2: and rule field, and they say that college costs have
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  Speaker 2: been on the rise, so many don't want to spend
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  Speaker 2: extra money on dues or give up time they could
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  Speaker 2: use for work or other activities. With that said, many
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  Speaker 2: students still find real community and supporting Greek life, especially
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  Speaker 2: at a time when loneliness is a problem for their generation.
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  Speaker 2: So would the frat party may not officially be over,
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  Speaker 2: it's definitely changing quite a bit. Never appealed to me,
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  Speaker 2: not at all, not even a little bit. Never never did.
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  Speaker 2: And I knew people that did Greek life and fraternities,
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  Speaker 2: and as soon as they couldn't pay their dues that month,
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  Speaker 2: they weren't allowed to come to the parties or hang
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  Speaker 2: out anymore. And I was like, those aren't really your friends,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I mean, I get it from an organizational standpoint,
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  Speaker 2: but if you're calling them your friends and your brothers,
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  Speaker 2: and that's where you're coming from anyway. A new study
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  Speaker 2: finds a lot of Americans are leaning into their gut feelings, prayers,
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  Speaker 2: and vibes when making major life decisions like losing or
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  Speaker 2: choosing a new job when they lose one, or moving
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  Speaker 2: into a relationship, even where to invest their money. Instead
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  Speaker 2: of relying on logic or spreadsheets, people are trusting their
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  Speaker 2: intuition more than ever gen Z, especially vibe driven, twenty
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  Speaker 2: two percent say they base decisions on social media posts. Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Seventeen percent of millennials look to cosmic signs from the
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  Speaker 2: universe when making big decisions. Uh yeah, going into social
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  Speaker 2: media to make your life decisions. All right, do your thing,
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  Speaker 2: I guess, Do what you gotta do, man, do what
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  Speaker 2: you gotta do. A new global study has found that
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  Speaker 2: people in their teens and in their twenties are less
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  Speaker 2: happy than people who are middle aged. For years, there
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  Speaker 2: was a midlife unhappiness hump pattern where people start off
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  Speaker 2: happy and then that happiness dips when people hit their
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  Speaker 2: forties and fifties, and then rising again in retirement. But
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  Speaker 2: now the pattern has flipped. Young people are starting off unhappy,
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  Speaker 2: and the shift is largely driven by rise in mental
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  Speaker 2: health issues among young people. For example, the CDC has
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  Speaker 2: data that shows that poor mental health among young men
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  Speaker 2: jump from two point five percent in ninety three to
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  Speaker 2: six point six percent in twenty twenty. Four and among
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: young men from three point two percent to nine point
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  Speaker 2: three percent. So what's behind it? Experts point to several factors,
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  Speaker 2: growing up with smartphones and social media, the isolation of
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  Speaker 2: the pandemic, and high levels of personal debt. One of
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: the studies authors even suggests banning smartphones in schools and
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  Speaker 2: encouraging more in person socializing to help them turn things around.
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  Speaker 2: It's interesting. It is interesting the way that it has flipped.
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  Speaker 2: I think for me more than anything else, But I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. You would think maybe it does have some
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  Speaker 2: thing to do with the way we gen xers or
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  Speaker 2: even some of the I guess the millennials right behind
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  Speaker 2: us were raised, So you would think maybe there is
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  Speaker 2: some contribution to that as well. Maybe Researchers in Poland,
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  Speaker 2: Italy and Cyprus are developing a robot goat to work
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  Speaker 2: with forestry experts. The robot goat will walk through rugged
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  Speaker 2: terrain to count trees, collect samples, even scan for artifacts,
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  Speaker 2: all while reducing the need for human labor and hard
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  Speaker 2: to reach areas. The first prototype expected in twenty twenty six,
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  Speaker 2: and the hope is that the robot goat will improve
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  Speaker 2: conservation and protect evidence of human history. In around two
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  Speaker 2: thousand protected areas of forest throughout Europe. So I mean,
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  Speaker 2: as long as it can't be connected to AI or
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  Speaker 2: satellites and suddenly become a problem, we don't need robot
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  Speaker 2: goats taken over the planet, is what I'm saying. According
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  Speaker 2: to a new survey, around thirty percent of iPhone users
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  Speaker 2: are thinking about jumping ship to Android this year just
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: to get their hands on that foldable phone. With Samsung
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: and Google already in the foldable game, it seems some
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Apple fans are impatient and don't want to wait for
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: the rumored iPhone fold coming next year. The shift towards
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: foldable models is the biggest thing we've seen in a while.
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  Speaker 2: In Apple's delay might cost them some of that loyalty
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  Speaker 2: that they hang on to, so precious loyalty. That'll do
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