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Strange and Bizarre News with a Really Cute Bank Robber · 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, seventeenth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. Before we jump in to our usuals for Fridays,
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Speaker 2: I want to thank astute listener Colin who pointed out
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Speaker 2: to me yesterday that at some point, apparently over the
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Speaker 2: course maybe of the week, he pointed out that it
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Speaker 2: had changed. I don't know when exactly it changed, but
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Speaker 2: according to what I was telling you about yesterday, that
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Speaker 2: story from earlier in the week about the gone with
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Speaker 2: the Wind placard or whatever you want to call it,
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Speaker 2: the placeholder on Netflix, and apparently it has been taken down.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if that happened just this week. The
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Speaker 2: story I was talking about remember looking at it back
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty. I would have told you about it
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Speaker 2: back then, probably on the radio, and I remember checking
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Speaker 2: it then and then checking it a few months later,
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Speaker 2: and all the Black Lives Matter stuff was still there.
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Speaker 2: But the story that I was quoting from yesterday was
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Speaker 2: from earlier in the week, so maybe that's what happened
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Speaker 2: as it got taken down during the week, because it
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Speaker 2: was pointed out it was still there by somebody anyway,
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Speaker 2: So thanks Colin and Colin who I didn't address this,
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Speaker 2: but he did point out the fact that you know,
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Speaker 2: there was, in fact, the first Black Academy Award winner
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Speaker 2: came because of Going with the Wind. So people can
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Speaker 2: talk about the racism and Gone with the win, but
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Speaker 2: just know it's a movie about a period in time,
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Speaker 2: and yes, a black actress who was cast in the
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Speaker 2: movie won an awesome So you know, let's see it
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Speaker 2: for what it is and it's a historical movie. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: I know, you can't simplify things anymore. Everything has to
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Speaker 2: be like, let's dig into this and find some way
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Speaker 2: there's a narrative to it. But anyway, all right, it's Friday,
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Speaker 2: and we start our Friday show with a little bit
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Speaker 2: of positivity. This is a pretty cool story. Ten years ago,
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Speaker 2: Rashi Sharma was an eighteen year old high school graduate
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Speaker 2: who was curious and passionate about World War two history.
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Speaker 2: But instead of just you know, reading books, watching documentaries,
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Speaker 2: watching history channel, whatever, Reschi set out to interview World
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Speaker 2: War Two veterans and record their stories. Since then, he's
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Speaker 2: traveled across all fifty states and multiple countries to interview
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Speaker 2: more than three thousand heroes selfless project called Remember World
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Speaker 2: War Two doesn't make him any money and he takes
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Speaker 2: no salary, instead uses all the funds for travel and
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Speaker 2: giving the hours long recordings directly to the families of
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Speaker 2: the veterans. With the number of living World War Two
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Speaker 2: vets dwindling from seven hundred thousand to just thirty thousand
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Speaker 2: in the last decade, where she is racing against time
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Speaker 2: to help ensure the stories of the greatest generation are
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Speaker 2: never forgotten. Nice work, and it's a fantastic story. Next
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Speaker 2: we have this is kind of a cool one. Members
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Speaker 2: of the Vashon Island Quilt Guild in the state of
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Speaker 2: Washington completed a six month charity project that involved handstitching
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Speaker 2: and delivering twenty five custom bed quilts to the island's
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Speaker 2: main fire station. The quilters were inspired to give a
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Speaker 2: boost to the hardworking firefighters to use during their overnight shifts,
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Speaker 2: with each firefighter receiving a personal quilt to use at
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Speaker 2: the station and tuck away in their locker. As the
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Speaker 2: guild workers worked on the massive project, members shared stories
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Speaker 2: of all the times these emergency crews had rushed to
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Speaker 2: help them and their own families and friends. Quilters from
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Speaker 2: the guild, who have also made quilts for local medical
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Speaker 2: centers and women's shelters, are still at work planning their
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Speaker 2: next charity project. I know it's not quite the scale
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Speaker 2: of the guy that went interviewing all of the World
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Speaker 2: War Two veterans, but it's still a pretty cool story
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Speaker 2: and it is very nice. And the fact that they
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Speaker 2: go on to the next project, they move on to
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Speaker 2: the next thing, and that they're inspired to keep working
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Speaker 2: on it. It's pretty good stuff. And they're doing what
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Speaker 2: they love, right, They're quilting, and that's what they want
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Speaker 2: to do, and that the fact that they're able to
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Speaker 2: do it for others, it's pretty nice. All right. Let's
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Speaker 2: get into some weird and strange and bizarre news is
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Speaker 2: the better word, right. I mean they're weird too, but
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Speaker 2: strange and bizarre news from all around the world. We
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Speaker 2: begin in Maryland, a bizarre bank robbery attempt attempt involved
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Speaker 2: an unlikely accomplice a stolen kitten. Police say that a
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Speaker 2: man took a three month old kitten named Magnolia from
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Speaker 2: a pet store, walked into a nearby bank, handed the
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Speaker 2: kitten to an employee, and then passed a note demanding cash.
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Speaker 2: Authority say that the robbery failed and the suspect was
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Speaker 2: arrested at the scene. Magnolia was found unharmed in the
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Speaker 2: bank manager's office and is now back with a local
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Speaker 2: rescue group, where she remains available for adoption. I don't understand,
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Speaker 2: Like I thought maybe when I first saw this story,
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Speaker 2: I thought maybe they had like the note was somehow
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Speaker 2: attached to a collar around the kitten's neck. But the
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Speaker 2: significance of the kitten, I guess is just maybe is
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Speaker 2: a distraction, or perhaps the person involved was just mentally
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Speaker 2: ill and they just grabbed a kitten and thought, hey,
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Speaker 2: let's take this kitten in there and try to commit
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Speaker 2: bank robbery. I don't know. Some things that should just
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Speaker 2: be obvious to people and go without saying, Like don't
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Speaker 2: walk through a police station with a grenade. It seems
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Speaker 2: like that should be obvious. The Ontario Provincial Police in
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Speaker 2: Ottawa issued a warning to residence after someone stopped and
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Speaker 2: went into the station so that they could return a
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Speaker 2: World War II era grenade. Authority say transporting old explosives
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Speaker 2: can be extremely dangerous, not only for the person carrying them,
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Speaker 2: but for anyone nearby. Instead, officials basically advise anyone who
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Speaker 2: finds a suspected explosive device to leave it where it
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Speaker 2: is and call authorities. Police can then send specialized explosive
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Speaker 2: disposal units to safely handle and remove them, and in
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Speaker 2: some cases not handle them, you know, because handling them
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Speaker 2: might be part of the Yeah, don't pick up a
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Speaker 2: grenade and carry it around, and for that matter, don't
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Speaker 2: take a grenade in a police station. Don't take a
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Speaker 2: kitten into a bank to rob it. That's another thing
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Speaker 2: that you could do. We always eventually get our way
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Speaker 2: to Florida. Usually we have a couple in Florida. Now,
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Speaker 2: a Florida man underrest after police say that he pepper
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Speaker 2: sprayed his family inside a pet store because he was
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Speaker 2: upset that the couple's children didn't want his want to
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Speaker 2: pet his dog. He wanted them to pet his dog
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Speaker 2: and they didn't want to, so he decided that he
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Speaker 2: should pepper spray the parents. Police in Gainesville say seventy
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Speaker 2: five year old Marshall Avener approached the family inside the
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Speaker 2: pet store, I guess pet smart is where it was,
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Speaker 2: and asked the children if they wanted to pet his dog.
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Speaker 2: The children apparently ignored him, and investigators say that he
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Speaker 2: told him, will then pet me. See that's different. That
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Speaker 2: story takes a turn at that point, and then he
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Speaker 2: pepper sprayed them. Six people, including the children, were affected
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Speaker 2: by the spray. Avener fled the scene. Workers at the
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Speaker 2: store know him and identified him to police. Avener was
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Speaker 2: arrested in charge with battery, child abuse, being held without bond.
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Speaker 2: Avener has denied the allegations. Told police the victims were
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Speaker 2: just lion them old lion snakes in a pet store.
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Speaker 2: He didn't say snakes, but just seemed appropriate. Also in Florida,
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Speaker 2: a man was arrested earlier this year for inappropriate conduct
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Speaker 2: with a vacuum in public and has now officially been
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Speaker 2: found guilty of indecent exposure. Fifty one year old Kevin
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Speaker 2: Dale Westerhold was caught I don't know how to say
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Speaker 2: this other than vacuuming himself at a resort community near
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Speaker 2: Disney World back in January. Witnesses provided statements and a
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Speaker 2: cel phone recording of the incident. Deputies responded to multiple
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Speaker 2: nine to win one calls, but Westerhold had already left
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Speaker 2: by the time they arrived. He was done vacuuming. Investigators
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Speaker 2: later linked Westerhold to the scene and arrested him. Wester
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Speaker 2: Hol and his wife own rental condos at the resort,
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Speaker 2: which is that they list on Airbnb. Court records show
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Speaker 2: that he entered no contest plea and was sentenced to
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Speaker 2: twelve months of probation fined two hundred and seventy one
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Speaker 2: dollars in order to undergo psychological and sexual behavior evaluations. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: that seems about right, you know. I mean, you know,
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Speaker 2: he's just working a vacuum. That's what he was doing
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Speaker 2: near Disney World, of all places. That's what makes it
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Speaker 2: even worse that he was near Disney World. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's bad that you're out in public, it's worse when
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Speaker 2: you're at Disney World. So all right, let's get to Indiana.
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Speaker 2: A zoo in Fort Wayne, Indiana, was briefly evacuated when
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Speaker 2: a resident wildebest decided it wasn't happy with its new surroundings.
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Speaker 2: Zoo officials say the African Journey exhibit was cleared after
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Speaker 2: the newly arrived wildebeest was discovered in the wrong habitat.
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Speaker 2: The animal, which had just arrived at the zoo three
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Speaker 2: days earlier. Apparently escaped its enclosure and crossed a pond
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Speaker 2: into an area of a neighboring exhibit. A zoo employee
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Speaker 2: spotted the wildebest, and the staff quickly evacuated the area
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Speaker 2: to create a calm environment while keepers worked to guide
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Speaker 2: the animal back home. The zoo's vice president of Animal
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Speaker 2: Care and Conservation Education said that the incident was exactly
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Speaker 2: the type of situation that staff trained for, adding that
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Speaker 2: their quick response helped to safely secure the area for
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Speaker 2: the animal and the guests. The wildebest was returned to
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Speaker 2: its enclosure, where it remains at least for the moment,
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Speaker 2: and you know, can it still cross the water? I
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Speaker 2: don't know, like, does it still have access potentially escape
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Speaker 2: its enclosure and cross the water, because they could be
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Speaker 2: looking at a repeat of fence. The reason you don't
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Speaker 2: hear a lot about shoplifting on airplanes is because it's
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Speaker 2: a tough getaway, right, but doesn't deter everyone. A passenger
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Speaker 2: was removed from a Breeze Airways flight in Westchester, New York,
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Speaker 2: to Vero Beach, Florida. They weren't in Florida yet after
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Speaker 2: a dispute over an in flight snack. Airline officials say
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Speaker 2: the passenger took items from the beverage cart without paying
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Speaker 2: for them. Police met the aircraft when it landed in
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Speaker 2: Vero Beach Regional Airport and escorted him off the plane.
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Speaker 2: He was issued a trespass warning but wasn't arrested because
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Speaker 2: Breeze Airways said that the passenger ultimately paid for the
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Speaker 2: snacks and there was no security breach or breach that
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Speaker 2: took place during the flight. So no security threat and
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Speaker 2: no breach. So yeah, like a big deal out of it,
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Speaker 2: but he took them. I guess his defense might have
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Speaker 2: just been and this isn't even a joke. Maybe he
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Speaker 2: just thought it's on the cart, you can just help yourself.
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Speaker 2: But apparently that's not the case. Police in Denver say
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Speaker 2: that the driver of a pickup truck with vanity plates
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Speaker 2: and bumper stickers that read you can't fix Stupid fled
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Speaker 2: the scene after a serious multi vehicle crash then involved
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Speaker 2: a semi truck and a massive fuel spill. Cops say
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Speaker 2: that the hit and run crash occurred on US Highway
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Speaker 2: thirty six on Saturday morning, where a Dodge Challenger abruptly
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Speaker 2: crossed out of the hov lane and cut off of
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Speaker 2: fort f one to fifty. The pickup truck lost control
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Speaker 2: and slammed into the semi's fuel tank, spilling an estimated
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Speaker 2: fifty to sixty gallons of diesel fuel along the highway.
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Speaker 2: Authority say that both the anger and the f one
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Speaker 2: to fifty drivers fled the scene, while the Semi driver
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Speaker 2: was uninjured. The highway was shut down for several hours
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Speaker 2: as has met Cruz cleaned up the spill. Investigators are
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Speaker 2: asking anyone with information on the drivers who fled the
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Speaker 2: scene to contact Colorado State Patrol and they may have gotten.
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Speaker 1: Them by now.
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Speaker 2: This is it's been, you know, almost a week since
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Speaker 2: this happened. This is one of those deals where you
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Speaker 2: just kind of go the customized plate and the bumper stickers,
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Speaker 2: that's what gotcha. Everybody always says I want to have
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Speaker 2: like a customized plate, That's what I want, and people
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Speaker 2: like to get a like I want to get a
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Speaker 2: real simple one, like a one as the license plate,
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Speaker 2: and somebody probably has that. But think about how easy
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Speaker 2: it is to catch them, you know, if they're causing
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Speaker 2: accidents and spilling sixty dollars worth of diesel fuel and
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Speaker 2: stupid thing. A new survey says twenty percent of people
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Speaker 2: currently in relationships would consider leaving their partner for a
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Speaker 2: followed by Florida, where forty two percent said they'd leave
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Speaker 2: most faithful people, though seventy nine percent said no jackpot
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Speaker 2: would make them leave their partner. So if you live
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Speaker 2: in one of those states, plan accordingly. I guess if
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Speaker 2: you're you know, if your significant other is playing the lottery,
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Speaker 2: a lot gives you some idea of where things might
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Speaker 2: be heading. The rise in AI may be killing some
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Speaker 2: jobs or potentially killing some jobs, but it is creating
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Speaker 2: big opportunities in some other career fields, like in skilled trades.
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Speaker 2: Former dirty jobs, host Mike Rowe recently pointed to a
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Speaker 2: group of electricians under thirty working at AI data centers,
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Speaker 2: in particular one in Texas, and he said they were
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Speaker 2: making between two hundred and forty and two hundred and
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Speaker 2: eighty thousand dollars a year with no student debt, and
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Speaker 2: we're being actively recruited by other employers. The stigmas and
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Speaker 2: stereotypes that need to overcome for parents and kids to
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Speaker 2: feel good about exploring these careers, they're real. According to
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Speaker 2: micro He hopes that stories like this will help change
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Speaker 2: perceptions about blue collar careers, arguing that electricians, welders, plumbers,
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Speaker 2: and other skilled workers are in high demand as companies
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Speaker 2: race to build infrastructure needed for AI and other technologies.
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Speaker 2: Through his micro Works Foundation, he has also helped fund
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Speaker 2: vocational scholarships to encourage more young people to enter the trades.
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Speaker 2: No surprise in any of that we talked about, they said,
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Speaker 2: the one if you're pursuing a college education, the one
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Speaker 2: most safe and most secure job. Now this is outside
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Speaker 2: of the trades, but if you are looking for higher
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Speaker 2: education for your kids, the thing that maybe you could
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Speaker 2: encourage them to if they have what it takes to
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Speaker 2: do it is actually nuclear engineering, because the AI data
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Speaker 2: centers will need crazy amounts of power and the best
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Speaker 2: possible place to get that power is going to be
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Speaker 2: nuclear energy, So just keep that in mind. If you're
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Speaker 2: tired of discovering forgotten leftovers in the back of your refrigerator,
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Speaker 2: experts say that there's a trick called the eat me
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Speaker 2: first rule that may help you not waste so much food.
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Speaker 2: And the idea is to create a designated spot in
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Speaker 2: your refrigerator for foods that should be eaten first, whether
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Speaker 2: that's leftovers, some right produce, ingredients nearing expiration dates, and
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Speaker 2: that by keeping those items front and center, you're more
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Speaker 2: likely to use them before they go bad. One writer
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Speaker 2: who tried the method found it only reduced food waste.
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Speaker 2: Not only did, but it also inspired more creative meals
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Speaker 2: by encouraging her to build recipes and other ingredients that
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Speaker 2: needed to be used up. So sounds like a simple hack,
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Speaker 2: sounds like a simple plan, and it can reduce waste
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Speaker 2: and of course make meal planning a little bit easier
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Speaker 2: as well as save yourself just a little bit of
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Speaker 2: money on top of everything else. So just kind of
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Speaker 2: a handy tip makes some sense. And the latest trend
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Speaker 2: from gen z Money is basically about not necessarily cutting
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Speaker 2: out luxury, but about planning for luxury, with many young
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Speaker 2: adults creating a fun money fund dedicated to basically for
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Speaker 2: savings so that they can have experiences like travel, concerts, festivals,
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Speaker 2: and other bucket list adventures. So rather than spending impulsively,
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Speaker 2: they're setting aside money in advance so they can enjoy
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Speaker 2: those experiences without guilt or having to use a credit card.
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Speaker 2: Sounds a little like the old envelope trick, doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: The trend reflects a broader shift in priorities, with many
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Speaker 2: younger people saying they're spending less on fast fashion, random
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Speaker 2: online purchases, and other short lived trends, and putting more
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Speaker 2: money toward experiences that create lasting memories. Financial experts support
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Speaker 2: the idea, noting that intentional spending can be just as
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Speaker 2: important as saving. Basically, the fun Money Fund is all
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