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Strange and Bizarre News and Some Awful Bigamy · 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, nineteenth day of July. I'm Wes. Thanks for kicking off
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your day with me. Weekend almost here, and we are boys. We're
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just discussing how close we are to school getting started again. How it's just
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kind of weeks away, isn't it just I mean, it's a few weeks,
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but it's weeks away knocking on the door of it at least, and
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then at school getting started at the early August, and that means we're getting
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closer, at least in our area. And then we're getting closer to Labor
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Day and Labor Day weekend. Excited to tell you again, big shocker,
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I'll be at dragon Con Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta as we get ready
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to celebrate all things pop culture. And proud to have Columbus State University's Coca
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Cola Space Science Center back as our sponsor for our dragon Con coverage this year,
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and we appreciate that as always, and they allow us to cover the
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event as a sponsor, and then we do our interviews either on site or
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ahead of time. My dragon Con pregame show podcast has lots of interviews with
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past guests, and I've got some interviews already lined up. There's really only
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one that I'm comfortable sharing with you. I can just tell you that I've
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already chatted with Ross Mark Kwan from The Walking Dead and the Avengers movies and
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the new X Men animated series that has come back so at X Men ninety
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seven, so I play place Professor X on this new version of it.
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Anyway, and he was part of a dragon Con pregame show in the past
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that was a winner at the Gabby Awards, so there's some conversation that we'll
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have to have about that. I saw him recently. He was in Columbus
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and I had a chance to talk with him and we took some photos with
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the award from the Gabbys, which he had not seen in person yet.
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We had swapped some texts about the win and I'd send him pictures of it,
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but he finally got to actually put his hands on the award, which
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was pretty exciting. But anyway, he'll be at dragon Con this year among
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the other guests that are still filing in, but looking forward to getting some
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interviews for the dragon Con pregame show Powered by Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space
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Science Center. One more thing of note is that next week shows are going
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to be a little different, And I don't know how this is going to
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work exactly, because I will be mobile next week. I will be in
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Florida at the Kennedy Space Center. We'll do a regular Monday show, but
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then at some point Monday I'll be heading down with doctor Sean Cruzin. We'll
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take the Mate of Stars podcast down to Kennedy Space Center because the Artemis rocket
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will be arriving and they'll be allowing us opportunities to ask some of the people
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involved in the Artemis mission some questions. Plus we'll be able to take some
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photos, and we're just gonna anything that they say, Hey, would you
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like to We're going to say yes because that worked out well for us last
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time that we were down there. So we will have lots of coverage of
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that next week. But how the morning show is going to go next week,
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I don't fully know. We'll see, you know, and maybe a
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lot of me and Sean together, maybe us talking about Artemis as a means
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of kind of leading you over to what we'll end up being our MATEI stars
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show for next week, but we'll get some shows done for you and we'll
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have some good content talking about sending people back to the moon. That's pretty
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exciting. So there's that. That's the other thing. Now, let's get
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it's Friday. Oh and Republican National Convention wrapped up last night, and just
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a solid week for Republicans. I don't know. I mean, you talk
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about a week that last week ended Saturday, if you technically go buy that
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calendar setup. Saturday obviously was horrible and it could have been so much worse.
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But when you have a former president who's campaigning to be president again,
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who was shot in the ear, and knowing that you're just talking less than
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an inch away from a week, a very different week that we would have
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had, and I told you yesterday, I think it would have been a
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terrifying week. It would have been riots, it would have been we would
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have been on the brink of potentially civil war. I hate when people talk
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about any discussion of civil war in this country or anywhere really, but in
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this country, and they're not just horrified. The people that say, ah,
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the civil war is going to break out, and it's like that doesn't
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terrify you. You say it with such it's just flippant, like, you
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know, ah, civil war. No, it would be horrible, it
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would be absolutely horrible, unthinkable. There's no way for any of us to
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really comprehend what that would be like in present times. I can't really fully
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understand and imagine what it was like when we actually had a civil war.
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I can't think about the revolution. Anything that happens on us soil, it's
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to me it should terrify us. All. So that's how last week ended,
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and then this week began. Obviously, we knew that Trump was okay,
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we knew that he was going to be able to continue on his candidacy,
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and we just got into a position where they started the see there was
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a strong showing of unity. There was the filing in of the other contenders
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for the nomination, all showing their support for Trump. So overall, a
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strong showing of unity and certainly a positive look moving forward for the Republican Party.
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But we'll talk more about that some, I'm sure next week, especially
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on Monday's show, because a lot can happen this weekend. You just don't
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ever know, You never know what's going to happen. And there's a lot
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of things kind of at play, especially for Democrats. All Right, so
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it's Friday. Let's get into some strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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Let's start with let's go to Houston. A woman was scrolling through Facebook
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saw a post that stopped her deadner tracks. It was a gift registry for
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an upcoming wedding for her husband and another woman. The woman, identified only
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as Tammy, was understandingly upset find out that her husband, Marcus Andre Shorten,
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was so I guess maybe we could say Tammy Shorten, but I don't
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know. Marcus Andrew Shorten was marrying another woman while they were still legally married.
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They separated back in twenty nineteen, but never finalize their divorce Because Marcus
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did not want his family to think of him as a failure. Marcus ultimately
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married that woman his fourth marriage, even though he was already legally married and
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was charged with bigamy, a felony that could get him ten years in jail
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and maybe more importantly, make his family think that he's a failure. When
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asked by reporters about the charges, Marcus said he wasn't aware of them,
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and he denied being married to anyone. Tammy said, you can't go around
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lying in misleading individuals at your self satisfaction. Is that I told him,
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before you let your whole world know what you're doing, make sure you got
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your business right. That's good advice. I think that's good advice for really,
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for everybody, you know. We got two stories that kind of made
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me think of Peewee's Big Adventure. First, a five year old in Delaware
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celebrated Independence Day back on July fourth by sneaking out of the house while his
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parents were asleep and then riding his bike in traffic, but at least received
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a call about a young boy riding his bike on a dangerous road. Caught
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up to him. On his back was a north Face backpack, which still
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had its tag on it. Apparently the boy had stolen the bag from a
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north Face store at the beginning of his journey. Police brought the boy back
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to his surprise parents and the stolen backpack was returned to the store. No
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criminal charges were filed, so out of the bike is what made me think
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of Pee Wee's Big Adventure. And then this guy in Ohio there was a
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guy who apparently broke into a pet store and a bunch of animals out and
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then fell asleep outside with hamster stuffed in his pockets. Thirty one year old
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Matthew Pancake, that's his name. He was asleep outside a big lot store
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and wearing leopard print pajamas, found with hamsters in his pockets. Long rap
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sheet. Anyway, that story also made me think of that scene and when
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the fire I remember any had to go in and get the snakes and bring
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him out. But anyway, so I mean the two stories that kind of
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made me think of Peewee's Big Adventure. Okay, frantic nine call about a
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missing child in El Paso, Texas see that made me think of Marty Robbins
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led police on a wild goose chase and ended with an arrest of a woman
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who made it all up. Investigators say nineteen year old Stacy Dasha Marie Smith
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called nine when one and claimed her small child was inside a vehicle that had
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been stolen. Police quickly mobilized and eventually located the stolen vehicle, found no
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sign of the child, and then they eventually learned there was no missing child.
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Smith apparently made up the story because her friend's car had been stolen and
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she thought it would get a quicker response from police if she made up the
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part about a small child being inside the vehicle, which was probably accurate.
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Detectives arrested Smith charged her with making a false report. No arrests had been
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made in connection with the stolen car. Reminds me of another story that happened
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in Alabama a little while ago. Right as if getting through airport security isn't
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hard enough, imagine if you were in line behind literal snails. US Customs
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and Border Protection agents in Detroit detected an odd odor coming from a passenger's bag
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and alerted agriculture specialists. The passenger, who had just arrived from Ghana,
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declared that he had fresh food items as well as beef skin and peppers,
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made no mention of the ninety giant Africa and land snails that authorities eventually found
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inside his luggage. Agent sees the snails. It's an invasive species in the
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US, and authorities believe that they were likely intended for consumption. I mean,
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if they're with his fresh peppers and beef skin, seems like maybe he
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was planning to, I don't know, maybe just eat the snails. A
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Florida man under arrest after he hid inside a Walgreen's restroom until store closing and
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then spent the night cruising the aisles and munching on snacks. Police in New
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Smyrna Beach received a three am call from the store's alarm company telling them someone
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was inside the store. Surveillance footage showed forty six year old Christopher Morgan entering
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the store at nine to forty pm and going straight to the restroom. He
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stayed there until two forty two am, when he finally walked out and began
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helping himself the Snap candy soda cigarettes. When cops arrived at the store,
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they found Morgan stealing cigarettes from behind the counter, and they placed him under
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arrest, which really begs the question people still smoke? Is that still a
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thing that people still do that? I mean, don't get me wrong,
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you know my stance and position on people being able to live their life and
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do what they want to do? Is people still do that? Apparently?
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I guess. A shared bag of potato chips responsible for sending fourteen Japanese high
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school students to the hospital. One student brought a bag of spicy potato chips
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to share with his classmates, and they were labeled R eighteen plus. Curry
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chips included a warning urging people under the age of eighteen not to eat them
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because they're so spicy they might cause you pain. Kids ignored the warning,
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or perhaps they seemed to take it as an invitation and ate him anyway,
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and they immediately regretted it as it made him so sick that the school had
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to have them transported to the hospital. One of the students couldn't even walk.
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The label on the bag shows the main ingredient as ghost pepper, one
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of the hottest peppers in the world. We all know that, but to
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me, you put on there, don't eat this. It's not recommended for
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you under eighteen. That makes it more tempting for a kid, doesn't it.
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All right, there's speeding and then they're speeding at nearly one hundred miles
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an hour over the speed limit. New Hampshire man is in some trouble after
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police clocked him at speeds of up to one hundred and sixty miles an hour.
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The state Police said they responded to a call about a group of motorcyclists
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speeding and weaving in and out of lanes on route one oh one, where
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the speed limit is just sixty five. Trooper clocked one of them at one
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fifty eight and another was clocked going one ten. Troopers on the ground believed
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it would be too dangerous to pursue him, so they called an airplane to
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track him and again clocked him going one forty four on I ninety five.
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The driver, later identified as twenty one year old Zachary Dion, eventually pulled
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into a gas station and was arrested. He was charged with disobeying an officer,
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reckless driving, unregistered vehicle, unsafe lane changes, resisting arrest, reckless
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conduct with a deadly weapon, failure to display plates. No word on whether
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or not he was a charge. Was not wearing a seat belt. Oh
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wait, you don't have to do that on a motorcycle. It's just in
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the car because it makes you safe in the car. But it's not necessary
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on a motorcycle. But in a car, you know you have to do
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it. You have to do it. I mean, you know my position
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on that too. I think you should wear your seat belt in the car.
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I just don't think they should be able to write tickets for it.
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That's my position. On it, and I still maintain seat belts good seat
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eight forty five hundred O dccolumbus dot com More West Carol Morning Show right after
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the break. All right, so we were talking ice cream earlier in the
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week and how much people love that. I told you I love the popsicles.
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Well, the trend is catching all on my friends as popsicles or a
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hot item. So what I did there in New York as people And it's
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not just popsicles expensive popsicles, And if you know anything about me, you
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know that I don't do ultra expensive much of anything really, Although I'm curious
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about what makes these expensive New York City popsicles so good. Here's some of
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the flavors that are catching on. How about corn? I wonder if that
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kid from the memes had anything to do with that. And they've got a
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what is it kafir lime? Is how you say that they're selling them for
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eleven to nineteen dollars per serving? I'm assuming that just means per popsicle that's
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a serving, right, or do you get like a whole box of them
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for that? No? Thanks, I'll stick with my strawberry ones when they're
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bogo from the grocery store. That's what I'll do. Hey, we're getting
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We got the Olympic fever yet, are you ready? We'll get ready because
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some Olympic athletes will be basically wearing spray on sneakers at the twenty twenty four
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Games. Kenyon distance runner two times silver medalist Helen Obiri working with a company
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to develop basically it got approval from the Olympic Committee. So here's the deal.
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You place sure a foot form on the arm of a robot. The
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shoe's entire upper part is sprayed on in three minutes, and then after another
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three minutes, the sneakers dry and then they're ready to wear. So I
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guess you get fresh spray on pair of shoes every time you want to run.
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I'll just tell you this. If Kenyon distance runner in two times silver
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medalist Helen Obiri says they're good, I think that's a pretty solid endorsement.
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You know, that's just my hunch. I know some Kenyans. We've got
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some great friends that are Kenyon. I would trust them too. They also
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like to run. I beat one of them in a race once, but
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that's a story for another time. It's one of my proudest moments. Okay,
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So let's talk about quality of life. Everybody wants good quality of life
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no matter where they live. Some cities they say are better than others.
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Of course. New study looked at fifty three different metrics to determine the best
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and worst cities when it comes to overall quality of life. Researchers looked at
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things like air and water quality, housing, access to healthcare, economic stability,
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employment opportunities, safety, education, recreational facilities, and they say the
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city with the best overall quality of life is the suburb of Seattle Redmond,
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Washington. Seven of the ten lowest quality of life scores were located in Texas,
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but the worst belongs to Flint, Michigan. Thinking there might be some
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water issues involved in that. So here's the top ten. Redmond, Washington,
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Newton, Massachusetts, Woodbury, Minnesota, Bellevue, Washington, Pleasanton,
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Yeah, Pleasanton, California. Sorry has looked weird. It's got extra syllables.
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I wasn't expecting. Carmel, Indiana, Plymouth, Minnesota, San Ramon,
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California, Irvine, California, Castle Rock, Colorado. A lot of
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stuff out west. I mean, we got a little bit of the Midwest
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stuff going on there with Indiana, Minnesota and then one you know in Massachusetts,
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and that number two spot on the East coast. But there you go,
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all right. If you have a hard time getting your kids to eat
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their macaroni and cheese, Craft has a solution for you. If they're big
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fans of Super Mario Brothers, because they're putting out their dinner in a box
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with Super Mario shaped pasta. Yep, they've teamed up with a Nintendo to
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sell more mac and cheese. I mean, that's really what they're doing.
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But you know, if you say, hey, it'll get your kids to
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eat it. The pasta will be in the shape of the Fireflower, the
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Superstar and Super Mushroom, and you could tell your kids, look, you
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eat these, you'll get powered up like Mario and Luigi. I don't know.
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We always had, you know, we did the dinosaur trees things with
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broccoli, and our kids still eat broccoli, so I don't know. Maybe
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there's some value in that. Speaking of value, meat processing company stall Meyer
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back in the fifties used baseball cards to promote their hot dogs, and a
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lot of the cards, because they were in hot dog packages, didn't fare
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well. But one particular card, a certain Mickey Mantle card, survived in
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mint condition. It's believed to be the only one to exist. Is heading
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to auction. It was last purchased in nineteen eighty eight for twenty two hundred
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dollars. It is expected to be sold at auction for over two and a
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half million dollars. That's a solid investment. That is some forethought back in
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nineteen eighty eight. Hey, I got this Mickey Mantle card. Kind of
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smells like hot dog water. It's only twenty two hundred bucks. Let's make
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this investment. That's a solid one. And finally, according to a new
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survey, thirty eight percent of workers who spend most of their workday on a
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computer said chat GPT helped them get a pay raise. Twenty nine percent said
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it helped them score a promotion. Some of their success was the result of
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using AI to seek out new opportunities and better prepare for interviews. These employees
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also gave AI credit for helping them be more productive, efficient, and creative,
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which led them to being more valuable on the job market. We're in
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that sweet spot window of AI making it possible for you to be more productive.
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How far are we from it making you obsolete? That's the only concern.
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You got to remember that that's always kind of lingering. There isn't it.
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That'll do it for this Friday edition of the show. Thanks to our
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