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Strange and Bizarre News with Flying Spaghetti · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Friday morning, twenty sixth day of April. I'm Wes, thanks for joining.
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How was it already almost May? What happened? What happened to the
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I know it's one of those thirty day months, but how do we almost
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into April? This is I mean done with April. We're almost into May.
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Kids will be getting out of school soon and we will be really diving
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headfirst into summer. We did get this little cold snap that came through.
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We had a nice, little little break from when it's normally just ridiculously hot
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right about now. Don't worry that's coming. It will be upon us before
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we know. It depends on where you're listening, but I'm speaking of the
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Chattahoochee Valley area where we from where we do the show. Let me get
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my preposition in the right spot. It's Friday. That means it's time to
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do some strange and bizarre news from around the world. We'll start in Scotland
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this week with a woman who's nineteen years old and her name happens to be
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Taylor Swift. Now she's nineteen, her parents named her Taylor Swift before the
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other Taylor Swift became famous, and she says that sharing a name with Taylor
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Swift is not all that great causes lots of problems. She said she's had
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difficulty with getting jobs because people think that she's not telling the truth when she
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tells them her name, maybe even on her resume. She also says that
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she's been questioned about her passport while traveling and probably you get really tired of
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it. I guess, even if you're just trying to order coffee at Starbucks
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and they're laying and you're like Taylor and they're like, I like Taylor Swift,
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and you can't say, well, that is my name. But I'm
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not that Taylor Swift can't be fun. It can't be fun. And I
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mean, it's not like the parents did it on purpose. It's not like
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anyone knew that name was going to become Taylor Swift at some point. So
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you gotta feel bad. I mean, if your parents did it to you,
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then there's at least somebody to blame. This is just a you know,
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bad luck. I guess I don't really believe in luck, but this
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is just unfortunate for her. Uh, an Indiana woman and got a little
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saucy during a road rage incident. She threw a container of spaghetti at a
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pregnant woman and drenched her and her car in the marinera sauce. The victim
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called nine to one one to claim that she'd gotten into a dispute with the
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subject, who made a left turn in front of her and then break checked
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her. Then the pregnant lady yelled at the bad driver. In response,
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the road rager flashed a gun and then followed her until she finally stopped,
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and then took out the spaghetti and sauce and used it as a better choice
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and weapon than the gun. I mean, at least that's the positive in
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this story. She didn't use the gun. She threw spaghetti at the woman.
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Sheila Pride of Indianapolis, who's been charged with intimidation and pointing a firearm,
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claims that she was just following the other woman to get a picture of
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her license plate after an alleged fender bender. I hope police can get to
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the bottom of this. They need to get to the bottom of it.
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At the very least, I hope somebody had some garlic bread to go with
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it. Australia known for having some of the world's deadliest snakes. We've talked
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about them in this On Friday's Strange and Bizarre News segments. Unfortunately, people
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sometimes get bitten by them rush to the hospital, but emergency rooms in Australia
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are pleading with snake bite victims not to bring the snake with them to the
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hospital. May have been told that. You may have been told, hey,
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if you're bitten by a venomous then you need to make sure that you
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bring the snake with you so that they can work on tracking down the right
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anti venom That's not the case. Hospitals in Australia say it's pretty common if
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they don't know if they're just bitten by even a non venomous snake, and
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they don't know it's if it's venomous or not, they bring it to the
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hospital and they say that's a bad idea. Many times people bring them in
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an unsafe bag or container, who poses a risk of them getting out,
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possibly threatening other patients in the hospital. Emergency room doctors are trying to make
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it very clear, I'm a doctor, i am not Steve Irwin, i
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am not a snake expert. Don't bring the snake thinking that the doctor is
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going to know whether or not that snake happens to be venomous. Doctors can
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just test to the patient and see if they need anti venom administered. They
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don't need the snake, They don't need you to bring the snake. Don't
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bring the snake. And this isn't just true in Australia. We have venomous
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snakes here. I know they get the they got the reputation. It's deserved.
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I know not all of it is deserved, though it's not. They're
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not just everywhere. The whole continent does not look like that one particular tomb
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in Indiana Jones with all the snake. That's not what it looks like just
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on the ground. People aren't just tiptoeing through venomous snakes all the time.
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You encounter them from time to time, but you encounter them here from time
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to time. They don't have the exclusive rights to venomous snakes, is what
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I'm saying. Uh, Louisiana woman in search of an encounter with multiple people,
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two other people, you know I'm talking about one of those encounters.
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You know it's got that word manage in it. It's that's what she was
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trying to do. And uh, I guess maybe this is the first rule
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of that is that you make sure that the other people are willing participants.
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I mean, that should be a rule of all encounters of that kind,
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even if it's just with one other person. Police a thirty one year old
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Shadona Rationette heard you Got three Names, forced her way into a male neighbor's
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home, where she wanted to have a little interaction with him and his girlfriend.
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The couple, who didn't even know herd declined her request and told her
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to leave. Police were called to the apartment, and the couple gave him
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a description of her, who was arrested the next day, charged with unauthorized
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entry of an inhabited dwelling, disturbing the peace, criminal damage, and resisting
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an officer. So McDonald's customer in jail and could spend quite a bit of
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time behind bars after he shot another customer in a fit of rage and started.
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The incidence started when a drive through employee forgot one of his sauces should
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have had spaghetti. Cop say forty eight year old Wesley Lee Bullock visited a
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Tampa area McDonald's and ordered food. When he noticed that his requested sauce was
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not in the bag, he lost his mind, shouting at employees through the
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window. Nineteen year old Justin Garlitis was inside the restaurant waiting for his food.
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He stepped in to defend the employees, and that only got Bullock more
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angry. Garlitis then went outside to try to calm him down. Bullock began
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punching and choking him. Garlis broke free from him and then tried to flee
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in his car, but Bullock got into his car, followed Garlitis to a
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nearby gas station, and he exited the vehicle and pointed a handgun at the
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younger man's forehead, pulling the trigger, but the gun unfortunately jammed and did
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not fire. The two men wrestled around in the chaos. The gun then
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fired, shot Garlitis in the finger. Bullock fled the scene, but was
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arrested the next day, charged with aggravated assault with a firearm arm burglary all
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over a packet of sauce from McDonald's. It doesn't say what the sauce was,
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and again there's some positives in this story. The gun jammed when it
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was pointed at Garlitis's head. That's the positive in all of this. But
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again, you're going to get into it with somebody, and you've got it
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as an option. Go with the spaghetti. I mean, I don't want
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spaghetti thrown at me, but it's a lot better than the experience of having
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a gun jam while pointed at your head. I would imagine Garlitis is living
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a brand new type of life after that whole incident. Man in Argentina became
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a local hero for the common consumer after he used an unusual tactic to stand
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up to the shady practices of a car dealership. Al Ebelardo Usan Divares was
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a horse reader in Buenos Aires who sold his truck used the money to put
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a down payment on a new truck. The dealership told him that the new
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set of wheels would be delivered within one hundred and twenty days, But as
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time went on and his repeated phone calls to the dealership for an update on
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the truck's status went unreturned, he decided to do something extreme. Since he
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couldn't get the owner's attention, he decided to visit the dealership and not leave,
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barricading himself inside and vowing not to leave unless he received his promised truck
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or at least got his down payment back. The man's story went viral and
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his struggle became a huge topic in the news. He's been cheered on and
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praised by everyone who's ever felt taken advantage of as a consumer. The dealership
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has offered to give him the truck, but they're demanding more money because the
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value of the truck has changed over the past few months. But Abolardo isn't
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having that because he had a deal, so he's taking the business to court.
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In the meantime, decided to buy us truck and simply just wants his
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money back. Good for him, I mean, I hate that he's going
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through all of it, but good that he's become like a folk hero.
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A Houston mother was arrested in charge with child abandonment after she left her young
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kids at home alone while she went on a cruise for a week. Police
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say twenty nine year old Lakeisha Woods Williams left her luxury high rise apartment on
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April fourth to embark on a cruise without her eight and six year old children.
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A few days later, neighbors began to suspect the children may have been
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left alone, so they called police and had them check on them. When
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police arrived at the apartment, they found the kids alone, surrounded by trash
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and leftover food. The children said that their mother left them alone and went
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on a cruise, but had set up a webcam so she could watch and
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talk with them while she was away. That's nice of her. It's good,
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good to think ahead that way. Police said that children needed to be
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examined, and they were by medical personnel and turned them over to their aunt.
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Williams was contacted by police and was uncooperative. She also refused to return
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to the home and denied being away on vacation. She was later arrested and
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is being held on twenty five thousand dollars bail. You know, many of
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these cruise companies kids can cruise for free. Some of them do you could
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take the kids with you, I mean, it's an option, I guess.
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I don't know who she was cruising with. I don't know what the
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occasion was for the cruise. Maybe she was just needed a vacation from the
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kids. I don't know, but six and eight that's not okay. And
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finally, a Florida man was arrested for aggravated assault with a firearm, but
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was very clear that he did not, in fact let a beer get warm.
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He was more focused on that than the gun charge, I guess.
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Police responded to a report of shots fired at a home near Daytona Beach.
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As officers arrived at the home, they could hear the shots being fired.
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A neighbor told police the man next door it threatened to shoot them. Moments
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later, another shot was fired. An officer searched the property for the gunman,
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who was later identified as Brett McPeak. The man walked out of the
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house, Cops ordered him to put his hands up. McPeak was holding a
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beer in his hand and told officers that he was going to crack it open.
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Cops asked if the man had a gun on him, to which he
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replied no, but said there were firearms inside the house. He then very
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casually said this beer is cold and I want to drink it. I just
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want to drink this beer. Is that cool? Cops placed him under arrest
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without incident and charged him with an aggravated assault with a weapon. Unclear whether
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they let him finish the beer or eventually they were the ones responsible for letting
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him get warm. But he was not going to let the beer get warm.
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That is not something that he would do. He did not do it.
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He was prepared to do it. He just wanted to drink his beer.
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who spent eight years caring for people who were dying, and she says that
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in their last days, her patience would reveal regrets in life, and she
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has said that she likes to share. I guess the things that people regret
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in life, and I guess maybe the possibility of helping others not get there.
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I guess that's our motivation behind it. It seems noble. But according
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to Bronnie Ware, the one regret in particular that was common among patients was
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that they wish that they had lived a more authentic life. Where says that
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the regret most often shared was I wish I had the courage to live a
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life true to myself and not the life that others expected of me. Some
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of the other regrets were they wish they hadn't worked so hard, that they
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wish that they had the courage to express their feelings, wish that they'd stayed
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in touch with their friends, and they wish that they had let themselves be
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happier. It's a little sad, isn't it. It's a lot sad when
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you think about it. Can parents be lonely? Maybe you got kids in
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a spouse around you, But that doesn't mean that moms dads don't feel lonely.
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In fact, a study from Ohio State University's Wexner Medical Center found that
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sixty six percent of patients surveyed said the demands of parenting sometimes or frequently will
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make them feel isolated and lonely. Two thirds said that they feel burned out
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by their responsibilities as a parent, thirty eight percent said they don't feel like
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they have anyone to lean on for support, and nearly eighty percent said that
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they would love to connect with other parents outside of work and home. Sorry,
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it's getting heavy. We took a real turn from our strange and bizarre
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news to some heavy stuff. All right, we'll just transition a little bit
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and we'll go to decluttering your home. We're in spring, we're getting close
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to summer. Everybody talks about spring cleaning and all the things they want to
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do to declutter their home. Well, apparently the twelve twelve twelve method is
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popular these days by Joshua Becker of becoming a minimalist. He says, this
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is how you can employ the simple concept, find twelve things to throw away,
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twelve things to donate, and twelve things to be put away where they
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actually belong, and continue this process until you have, I guess, organized
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yourself or become a minimalist. I don't know what about the lady that used
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to say, you don't keep anything that doesn't bring you joy, and don't
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keep any and then she stopped doing that. Did you hear that she had
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kids? I think, and decided that she was going to kind of live
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outside of that lifestyle for a while, which I get. It's hard.
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It's hard to live that minimalist lifestyle. I assume it would be very hard
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for me. I'm not capable of it. But I just think it's interesting
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that the lady who's been telling people that this is how they can keep their
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lives organized herself doesn't or didn't for a while. I don't know if she
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started back doing it again, but trying to, you know, deviate from
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that lifestyle. She's not doing it. Maybe she's doing it now, I
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don't know. All right, add this to a list of things that AI
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can do. Couples are choosing chat GPT to plan their wedding. A survey
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found fifty two percent of engaged couples are leaning toward using AI to deal with
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the details of the big day. According to the couples, using AI is
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much cheaper than a wedding planner and helps cut the time and stress of planning
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their wedding. A grateful newlywed told The New York Post AI was just so
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useful. Wedding planning was so overwhelming. Chat GPT helped me put in the
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least amount of effort when it came to having a good time. I understand
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not everybody can afford a wedding planner. Not everybody has the time to plan
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their wedding. This is just a possibility. I would say that having an
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actual human being to be accountable for it would probably be your best scenario.
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But not everybody has the money for that. And I get that, so
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I'm just passing that along as some people I guess are starting to do it.
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I don't really know how it works. I just know that you do
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enough of this stuff with AI, and eventually you know you got people coming
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back in time looking for Sarah Connor and John Connor, and things get out
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of control at that point. Well, we're getting closer and closer to college
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graduations and when it comes to lesson learn, there's one thing that most college
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students wish they'd learned in college, and that's how to handle finance. As
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a survey found eighty one percent of college grads that they wish they had learned
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more life skills in college, especially financial skills like how to invest, long
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term financial planning, how to budget, how to manage their student loan debt,
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the fact that they probably would have to pay their student loan debt even
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if the president tries to buy their votes for it. No, that's not
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in there. But there are other life skills that grad still need help with.
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Seventeen percent of college grad surveyed said they don't know how to cook or
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do their laundry, and twenty six percent felt lost when it comes to basic
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home maintenance things like unclogging a toilet and resetting a Wi Fi router. So
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those are some of those skills that maybe you want to think about making sure
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that your kids know before they go to college. If it's something that you
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can pass along to them. That'll do it for this Friday edition of the
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