January 23, 2024 • 26 mins
What would you do if you got stuck at the bottom of an outhouse for 3 days? Have you ever heard about the mysterious appearance of Jesus as a shadow on a freezer? What are your feelings about an emotional support snake? These questions may sound bazaar, but not if you're googling Florida man. Take a stroll down south with Jessica and Karmen, as they try not to laugh. Don't miss your exit.
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USA. Nice shoul knockers for oneon har we Italliet. Hello Jessica,
(02:38):
Hi Carmen, how are you.I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
How was your holidays? I knowwe've been on a break. Really
nice. Actually New Year, TheNew Year was uneventful, but nice.
You know. I think I wasin bed, like fight nine o'clock.
I don't know. We watched theball drop on YouTube at about I can't
(02:58):
remember. It was a little bitearly, yeah, but we were just
getting tired, so we were like, I can't wait any longer. Let's
just find this New York ball dropon YouTube. And then we didn't tell
my daughter it wasn't really New Year'syet, but whatever, we just watched
it and we celebrated and then wewent to bed. Yeah. See,
I treat myself to some real cozysweatpants and uh hot tea maybe I don't
(03:22):
know again, just a real cozy, cozy woesy. That's me. The
weather has been crazy, but Idon't think. I don't think we can
blame the weather on some of thethings that are happening in Florida. Yeah,
there's so much and usually involves somebodywithout a shirt on, you know,
(03:43):
yeah, oh yeah yeah, walkingaround and I don't know, some
kind of hurricane, probably with ahat that says who farted? You know,
it's like, oh god, youknow, god, Oh I hope
that's not my uncle. I'm gladyou're thinking about safety with the cap no
shirt flip flops and some Bermuda shorts. Nice. Yes, but I was
(04:06):
looking at some of the headlines.I guess probably with the political crap that's
going on. You know, Florida'spop it up everywhere because of that guy
from Florida. So I'm gonna readyou some headlines and you tell me if
you can you can accurately explain thestory without reading it. I'll do my
best. Some of these are prettyeasy, Okay, okay, Florida man
(04:30):
cut driving booty patrol truck facing chargesbooty patrol, booty patrol. What is
a booty patrol? Like common?Booty like actual? Like like badonka donk?
So what's illegal about driving a bootypatrol? Well, it's painted just
like a it's painted just like aborder patrol truck. Okay, okay,
(04:55):
but it says booty patrol instead ofborder patrol. Ah, you just take
it into custody because he had histruck specially painted to look like a border
patrol truck, but it said bootypatrol. And he has apparently had multiple
run ins with the law, bigsurprise, due to that truck and even
(05:15):
his ticked He has a TikTok accountfor the truck. Was he pulling people
over and inspecting their booties because thatwould be illegal? I don't know.
I don't know, but I meanI don't think you can have you're not
vehicles that look like law enforcement vehicles, right, you're not supposed to do
that, Yeah, right, rightright? But also like I don't know,
(05:36):
but you know, how much didhe spend doing that? He was
really serious about He was very serious. Do you remember the shirts. I
don't know if you remember this,but there was a time when there were
shirts, I think in the probablyseventies or eighties, women had shirts that
said itty bitty titty Committee fucked,very classy stuff. I think men headshirts
(06:03):
that said Certified titty Inspector or somethinglike that. You know, just like
real, real great stuff. Yeahreally yeah. Well, and then you
know, like we moved into thisphase of like having like juicy across our
butts and like things like that,which, yeah, I don't know how
you feel about gross. It isgross, isn't it? It is?
(06:28):
It's gross? I mean, whatare some other gross words you could use
to describe a butt? Squirty stywouldn't you put like something like stinky across
your butt? That'd be more accuratethough, you know, yeah accurate,
Yeah, sweaty Yeah, whoa shirtlessFlorida man, I should say fans climbing
(06:53):
tree like Tarzan after a police chase. Okay, So what I think happened
was probably probably had bananas in hishand. That's what I'm imagining right now,
is that he stole bananas. Hewent on a chase or maybe on
foot, I don't even know.It sounds like he must be on foot,
climbed up a tree and was like, you know, hanging out there
(07:13):
waiting for them to catch him.That's what I'm That's what I'm imagining,
Yeah, pretty much. I don'tknow if it was bananas, but he
was in trouble for something, sothey went on a chase and uh he
climbed a large oak tree without ashirt, which is also pretty impressive.
And he tried to swing from onetree branch to another and failed. Yeah.
(07:36):
So that's a sad sort of endingto that story. Doesn't say,
but I mean it kind of anevolution like people coming from apes, but
going back to ape. That's that'sdifferent. That's that's what is that called
evolution, devolution, revolved evolution.Yeah, so there you have it.
(08:00):
How about this? This is agreat picture. I sure wish I could
share it with everybody wanted. Floridawoman found hiding inside couch. What okay?
Wow? In the pic couch Yes, And the picture shows the deputy
pulling her out with her hair Ohmy gosh. And she looks like about
(08:24):
uh, I don't know, probablymy age, middle age. I guess
I'm a little older than middle age. I wonder what she was. I'm
just going back to think, likewhat would it possess somebody to I mean,
I get hiding from the law ifyou do something wrong, But I
just wondered what she did to dothat? And then why the couch,
Like there are other things to hidein, like the couch you have to
literally like maybe get all of thesprings out of there to fit. Or
(08:48):
was she just like like a tacolike you know, a sandwich where she
was in the in the cushions.I'm just imagining this like woman first the
bottom of the couch, then thiswoman laying straight across of it, and
then the cushion's on top of her. But you can clearly see there's a
woman between the cushions in the bottomsthat I'm picturing, or was this hollowed
(09:11):
out, like somebody went to themeans of like getting the springs and all
this stuff out from the couch soshe could hide in it in case the
police came in. I mean,god, what the heck? What was
she thinking? Thirty nine years oldand I'm telling you she doesn't look my
age. But she was on parole, oh for the sale of fentanyl and
(09:33):
unlawful use of a two way communicationdevice, which is pretty serious. I
don't know if that's a phone ora walkie talkie. What's a legal What
kind of a legal acts can youcommit in a over a walking talkie?
You can make drug sales? Okay, okay, yeah you probably can.
And here she's caught on camera emergingfrom the inside of a couch after a
(09:56):
failed attempt to hide from deputies.Well, you know, I'm sure people
who are selling ventanyl or using ventanylaren't thinking as clearly as they probably.
Yeah, I don't think she mighthave just been taking a nap. She
just was like, I don't havea blanket, so not to make white
out the fentanyl crisis. No,no, no, no. My favorite
(10:16):
Florida stories are though, the oneswhere the people get attacked by alligators,
like like drunk people trying to puttheir head in an alligator's mouth. Why
why does it ever end? Well, that's just like out here, you
know, in the desert, themost common person to get bit by a
(10:39):
rattlesnake is a white man with tattoosdrinking. Yeah, it seriously is.
It's a statistic. It's not justme like making this up. That is
one of the most common data pointsfor people who get bit by rattlesnakes.
Because you can just hear it's like, you know, like here, who'd
(11:00):
year, I'm gonna go take careof this rattlesnake over here. Don't freak
out out. Catch one. Yeah, don't do that, my bear,
don't freak out. I don't thinkany good story ever comes with the beginning.
Hold my beer, yeah exactly.So you know, Florida is not
like the only place that sees likecrazy stories. I wanted to bring up
(11:22):
some stories that I found over thesouth of our United States, just because
it seems to be a theme.And this one is in Tennessee. The
story is entitled Jesus on the DeepFreeze, And so I'm gonna go ahead
and it was actually in nineteen eightyseven, so this was a while ago.
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But he's in a deep freeze fora long time. You really can,
you really can. But it's anIt still springs, Tennessee, all
right. People traveled from miles awayone hundred miles in one instance to gaze
at the shadow play on our leanGuard Gardener's General Electric upright freezer last night.
It was the latest in a nightlypilgrimage to the place where people say
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the shadowy mixture of light and darkwhich appears to be a face nightly on
one side of her freezer. Some, like Gardner says, believe it to
be the face of Jesus Christ anda sign that he is coming again soon.
Since last week, Gardner said thattwo thousand people have come here to
see the face on the freezer.Last night, the crowd was about fifty
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to seventy five people through the evening, and it was actually small compared to
the other other evenings, but theywere just very curious. I wanted to
see if you could really see aface on a freezer, said James Glover
of Carthage. He drove there lastnight with his wife Karen those Karen's let
me tell you, I see aface, and I don't really see anything
that could be it naturally. Ican't disagree with people who say it's a
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miracle. It is interesting. Theimage appears around eight thirty PM when Gardner's
next door neighbor, Catherine, turnson a bright front porch light that casts
a shadow onto the freezer, andlast night the crowd began gathering early,
lining up behind a step ladder twentyfeet away from the freezer to get the
best view. Gardner and her familyspent most of the eating, witnessing to
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visitors, and directing traffic to parkingplaces on the narrow Country road. The
image that people say they see isthat of a bearded man's face about two
feet long and two feet wide.Gardner says the image is a miracle,
a sign from Jesus that he iscoming again. She says that it was
revealed to her in a dream.Some visitors say they believed Gardner's story of
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the shadows and weep when they seethe face. Several people were here last
night getting second and third looks.You can see a silhouette of the face
if you want to, said PeggyHenderson of Winchester Springs County. But it's
just the reflection of light. It'snot a religious experience. It's nothing to
get excited about. For the gardenersand their neighbors. The image has become
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a difficult event. So everybody aroundthe neighborhood is really not loving this event.
Parents of a local Church of JesusChrist, Minister John Parton says nightly
crowds have become a trial for hisfolks. They need a rest. The
crowds will wear anyone out. Onenight, my father couldn't even get up
his front door to eat supper.Give us a break. That's uh,
(14:22):
that's something you know. What wouldbe even better if Jesus was coming and
eating like hot pockets instead of prayinghands. If it was like a pizza
hot pocket. I just love that. Like the reason that you see the
shadow is because the porch like comesdown at eight thirty from her neighbor's house.
So so it returns every night ateight thirty when such and such person
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turns on their porch. And asthey found out it was just a lawnmower.
People are starting to like walk infront of it, like where is
it coming from? I think thatkind of speaks to well, first of
all, well, I think peoplewill do anything to be famous, but
also just the deep need for somepeople to be close to Jesus, right,
(15:13):
yeah, yeah, you know.I mean, if you're a spiritual
person, you know you can seeJesus and everything. Sure, my mom
made some toast the other day.It looks like the outline of Jesus.
Well I chewt it like and thenyou know, I have a hard time
believing that Jesus is going to tryto reach the masses by pasting a shadow
(15:37):
on a freezer exactly, you know, I mean, Jesus Christ, you
could do anything. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. You know,
maybe a billboard, lots of billboards, maybe lots of billboards. It was
yea, the moon, the moon, the moon using the moon. Yeah
(16:00):
yeah. Why did he stand thereso long? Does he try to catch
a cat? Oh my gosh,he's been really still Jesus on a deep
freeze, right, that doesn't seemvery elegant. I have another story,
and this one it is from Virginia, wythe county Virginia, wythe like w
(16:23):
y t h E wythe county Virginia. Okay, I know it's entitled God
Don't let Me die like this isthe name of the article. I'm trying
not to laugh, all right.This happened in nineteen ninety seven. Coolidge
win Set Winniset. I think arewind Set. I don't know Winniset Windset
(16:44):
something to that. Coolidge w IN E S E T T. I
would say, Winniset, Winnisett,That's what I was thinking. Coolidge Winnisset,
who was seventy five, said there'sonly one way to describe what it
is like being trapped for almost threedays at a bus bottom of his Southwest
Virginia outhouse after its floor gave way. Oh oh my god. I compare
(17:11):
it to the Bible's Hell, saidWinniset, a World War Two veteran and
retired janitor. Oh. I don'ttrying not to laugh. But it's just
the coincidence of what he's really comparingit to and that he was a janitor.
I just sorry, I feel meanright now, but these are those
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stories, okay, right, herewe go, Here we go. It
had hellish elements, the smell maggots, snakes, snakes in the commode,
yes, spiders and rats. Plusthere were yes yes, plus there was
a persistent notion that he'd done somethingwrong to deserve it, recalled, speaking
(17:56):
by phone from his bed in WhiteCounty Community Hospital, where he is recovering
from dehydration and injuries he suffered whenthe fifty year old outhouse floor collapsed from
dry rot Saturday afternoon. I sufferedawful down there, Winnisset said. I
kept trying to figure out what I'ddone wrong. I said, God,
don't let me die like this.That would be off, by the way,
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That would be an awful way togo. Well, it turns out
God had other plans, and theform of a mail carrier, Jimmy Jackson,
who told Tuesday's win sorry, canget through it. I tried really
hard, Winnisset. He's noticed onTuesday that Winniset's mail was accumulating at his
farmhouse and went to investigate. Well, that's a good neighbor right there.
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He knows that he's usually out thereget mail, and Jackson said he called
out for Winniset, who was partiallyparalyzed from a stroke, doubled over and
hallucinating in a pit. It wasn'tpretty. It really wasn't pretty. Carmen
I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Justso you know, this is this scription
of the outhouse. When is setsaid, he builds it in the outhouse
(19:03):
a modest wooden affair of oat planksover a dirt pit. He built that
in nineteen fifty. That was hisouthouse. I don't use it much.
Usually depend on the restrooms elsewhere Ieat out most of the time. So
he didn't have a bath indoor.He was one of those guys that goes
into the waffle house and just fucksit up. I can't. Yeah,
(19:27):
I know. I was at thedoctor with my mom the other day and
so I came into the doctor's officeand just destroyed and like, you know,
I'm like, I'm not going there, and the floor may as well
just fall in. Yeah, right, oh, he said. I screamed
till I ran out of voice,he said. And after he fell in,
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winnisaid said he was suspended over thebad stuff, the sludge by a
subfloor and the cracked floorboards. Eightpenny nails from the stug into his flesh.
His body was contorted and immobilized.He was there for the next sixty
nine hours. He spent dealing withthe creepy crawley things. They said.
(20:10):
They slithered all over him. Atsome point he saw that rat and he
told it to get the hell awayfrom me, and then laughed about talking
to a rat. He's going intoI think I would go insane too.
I had mirages. Somebody was handling, handing me food, cheeseburgers. I
said, I told him, thankyou, But there was nobody there.
Oh. In alone in the hall, he recalled the arc of his life.
(20:33):
You know, he was a WorldWar Two veteran. You know,
he went back to the South Pacific. He said, in his mind,
I can't imagine. Wait, justwhen he was at this weakest, he
heard the foot footfalls of Jimmy Jackson, and I got the strength to holler
just a little bit more, andhe heard me right when he got you
know, he got out. Jacksongot him a coke and he called the
ambulance the coke. Sorry, soGeorgia, but it's not. It's in
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Virginia. So it is just wellstill, it's nine hours in a ship
box. Your first thought is becausesomebody after this whole ordeal, whinnis it
said? You know, he realizedthat in the past he couldn't afford it,
but I'm going to have to putme a bathroom in. Yeah,
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you'd think, I mean, likesomebody should buy this guy toilet. Yes,
I really do. What are yourfeelings about emotional support animals? Emotional
support animals? Yeah, I meanI do think dogs are they understand your
emotions, like they react to people'semotions like and vice versaly, like our
emotions also get kind of put onthem. Oh yeah, A lot of
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time dogs are us, you know, in a lot of ways. So
yeah, I think they definitely absorbour emotions. And yeah, but I
don't think they go through as muchpractice or train as a as a dog
that would actually be a service dog. So there's like an emotional support dog
and then there's a service dog.So it just depends. I've seen it
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really in good ways and bad ways. But I also think they, you
know, the training needs to alsobe provided because there could be a lot
of bad things that happening your dogaround. I'm just gonna take us,
you know, our last little,yeah, little tidbit. I'm going to
back down to Florida. A womana woman wanted to bring her four football
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python onto the plane because it washer emotional support python. Can you imagine
the panic and fear for everybody elseon the plane, Like, I'm not
afraid of snakes, but oh mygosh, yeah I'm not either, But
but I know a lot of Ithink I think a lot more people are
(22:56):
afraid of snakes than not afraid ofsnakes. Yeah, I like deep terror.
Yeah, so yeah, you know. And then there was an emotional
support woman. I don't know ifshe was. I don't know if she
was from Florida, but we're justgonna go ahead and say she probably was.
He had an emotional support peacock ona plane. Peacock. Yeah,
(23:18):
that's what I'm talking about. Likewhere is the training come from? Like
there has to be Okay, soif you take a dog to get training,
that's one thing. The dog willbe trained. A python, I
don't think it has the capabilities noresist, Like what if there let me
just say, like, what ifthere is an emotional support python on the
plane as well as the emotional supportpeacock. You know what happens in that
(23:42):
circumstances the python resist, you know, and does the peacock not get crazy
scared that there's a freaking snake onthe Plane, which is also a movie
that I watched recently. Anyways,really I think with Sam Jackson, yeah,
he's sexy. I think a peacockcould kill a snake, just saying
(24:03):
I thought's go. It's a python, though, But where does it stop?
Where does it stop? You know, like emotional support. I think
you could probably train a bunny.Yeah, I think you probably train a
duck maybe, h You can't traina python. The only thing you can
do with a python is you know, of course they come towards food when
(24:25):
you have food dangling in front ofthem, if they're hungry. But they'll
also bite your hand if your handsmells like food and they're hungry. You
know, there needs to be alimit. There has to be a better
way, and there has to becertain animals. There's only certain animals,
let's be real, but animals thatare domesticated. And you know, I
can see emotional support horse. Okay, can't bring it on a plane,
(24:47):
but I can see horses as beingemotional support. But it was a small
horse. Yeah, I mean allthe domesticated animals were put it out there.
A pig. I could see that. I wouldn't mind being on the
plane with a pig. Maybe ifit can't wear a vest, it shouldn't
be a it shouldn't be emotional oranimal has to be able to wear a
vest, keep it off. That'sa good that's a good rule. Yeah,
(25:08):
but you're yeah, your edimal hasto be able to wear a vest.
I'm sorry. Snakes do not havearms or wings. So I just
think that, you know, withthe the government burning books and taking books
out of libraries in Florida, maybewe should make a stand to remove all
of the weird motionless Yeah, allof the people they just say that I
(25:32):
really love my animal. I meanthere's a difference, Like you can love
your pet. How about if you'retaking a snake on a plane, say
the truth? Like, I reallyneed attention. So, uh, I
think will end on that note,I'm going to go out and try to
find some shirtless people and take somepictures. On that note, yeah,
stay classy too. So thanks everyonefor joining us today on small Town USA.
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USA. Nice shoul knockers for oneon har we Italliet. Hello Jessica,
(02:38):
Hi Carmen, how are you.I'm doing good. I'm doing good.
How was your holidays? I knowwe've been on a break. Really
nice. Actually New Year, TheNew Year was uneventful, but nice.
You know. I think I wasin bed, like fight nine o'clock.
I don't know. We watched theball drop on YouTube at about I can't
(02:58):
remember. It was a little bitearly, yeah, but we were just
getting tired, so we were like, I can't wait any longer. Let's
just find this New York ball dropon YouTube. And then we didn't tell
my daughter it wasn't really New Year'syet, but whatever, we just watched
it and we celebrated and then wewent to bed. Yeah. See,
I treat myself to some real cozysweatpants and uh hot tea maybe I don't
(03:22):
know again, just a real cozy, cozy woesy. That's me. The
weather has been crazy, but Idon't think. I don't think we can
blame the weather on some of thethings that are happening in Florida. Yeah,
there's so much and usually involves somebodywithout a shirt on, you know,
(03:43):
yeah, oh yeah yeah, walkingaround and I don't know, some
kind of hurricane, probably with ahat that says who farted? You know,
it's like, oh god, youknow, god, Oh I hope
that's not my uncle. I'm gladyou're thinking about safety with the cap no
shirt flip flops and some Bermuda shorts. Nice. Yes, but I was
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looking at some of the headlines.I guess probably with the political crap that's
going on. You know, Florida'spop it up everywhere because of that guy
from Florida. So I'm gonna readyou some headlines and you tell me if
you can you can accurately explain thestory without reading it. I'll do my
best. Some of these are prettyeasy, Okay, okay, Florida man
(04:30):
cut driving booty patrol truck facing chargesbooty patrol, booty patrol. What is
a booty patrol? Like common?Booty like actual? Like like badonka donk?
So what's illegal about driving a bootypatrol? Well, it's painted just
like a it's painted just like aborder patrol truck. Okay, okay,
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but it says booty patrol instead ofborder patrol. Ah, you just take
it into custody because he had histruck specially painted to look like a border
patrol truck, but it said bootypatrol. And he has apparently had multiple
run ins with the law, bigsurprise, due to that truck and even
(05:15):
his ticked He has a TikTok accountfor the truck. Was he pulling people
over and inspecting their booties because thatwould be illegal? I don't know.
I don't know, but I meanI don't think you can have you're not
vehicles that look like law enforcement vehicles, right, you're not supposed to do
that, Yeah, right, rightright? But also like I don't know,
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but you know, how much didhe spend doing that? He was
really serious about He was very serious. Do you remember the shirts. I
don't know if you remember this,but there was a time when there were
shirts, I think in the probablyseventies or eighties, women had shirts that
said itty bitty titty Committee fucked,very classy stuff. I think men headshirts
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that said Certified titty Inspector or somethinglike that. You know, just like
real, real great stuff. Yeahreally yeah. Well, and then you
know, like we moved into thisphase of like having like juicy across our
butts and like things like that,which, yeah, I don't know how
you feel about gross. It isgross, isn't it? It is?
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It's gross? I mean, whatare some other gross words you could use
to describe a butt? Squirty stywouldn't you put like something like stinky across
your butt? That'd be more accuratethough, you know, yeah accurate,
Yeah, sweaty Yeah, whoa shirtlessFlorida man, I should say fans climbing
(06:53):
tree like Tarzan after a police chase. Okay, So what I think happened
was probably probably had bananas in hishand. That's what I'm imagining right now,
is that he stole bananas. Hewent on a chase or maybe on
foot, I don't even know.It sounds like he must be on foot,
climbed up a tree and was like, you know, hanging out there
(07:13):
waiting for them to catch him.That's what I'm That's what I'm imagining,
Yeah, pretty much. I don'tknow if it was bananas, but he
was in trouble for something, sothey went on a chase and uh he
climbed a large oak tree without ashirt, which is also pretty impressive.
And he tried to swing from onetree branch to another and failed. Yeah.
(07:36):
So that's a sad sort of endingto that story. Doesn't say,
but I mean it kind of anevolution like people coming from apes, but
going back to ape. That's that'sdifferent. That's that's what is that called
evolution, devolution, revolved evolution.Yeah, so there you have it.
(08:00):
How about this? This is agreat picture. I sure wish I could
share it with everybody wanted. Floridawoman found hiding inside couch. What okay?
Wow? In the pic couch Yes, And the picture shows the deputy
pulling her out with her hair Ohmy gosh. And she looks like about
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uh, I don't know, probablymy age, middle age. I guess
I'm a little older than middle age. I wonder what she was. I'm
just going back to think, likewhat would it possess somebody to I mean,
I get hiding from the law ifyou do something wrong, But I
just wondered what she did to dothat? And then why the couch,
Like there are other things to hidein, like the couch you have to
literally like maybe get all of thesprings out of there to fit. Or
(08:48):
was she just like like a tacolike you know, a sandwich where she
was in the in the cushions.I'm just imagining this like woman first the
bottom of the couch, then thiswoman laying straight across of it, and
then the cushion's on top of her. But you can clearly see there's a
woman between the cushions in the bottomsthat I'm picturing, or was this hollowed
(09:11):
out, like somebody went to themeans of like getting the springs and all
this stuff out from the couch soshe could hide in it in case the
police came in. I mean,god, what the heck? What was
she thinking? Thirty nine years oldand I'm telling you she doesn't look my
age. But she was on parole, oh for the sale of fentanyl and
(09:33):
unlawful use of a two way communicationdevice, which is pretty serious. I
don't know if that's a phone ora walkie talkie. What's a legal What
kind of a legal acts can youcommit in a over a walking talkie?
You can make drug sales? Okay, okay, yeah you probably can.
And here she's caught on camera emergingfrom the inside of a couch after a
(09:56):
failed attempt to hide from deputies.Well, you know, I'm sure people
who are selling ventanyl or using ventanylaren't thinking as clearly as they probably.
Yeah, I don't think she mighthave just been taking a nap. She
just was like, I don't havea blanket, so not to make white
out the fentanyl crisis. No,no, no, no. My favorite
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Florida stories are though, the oneswhere the people get attacked by alligators,
like like drunk people trying to puttheir head in an alligator's mouth. Why
why does it ever end? Well, that's just like out here, you
know, in the desert, themost common person to get bit by a
(10:39):
rattlesnake is a white man with tattoosdrinking. Yeah, it seriously is.
It's a statistic. It's not justme like making this up. That is
one of the most common data pointsfor people who get bit by rattlesnakes.
Because you can just hear it's like, you know, like here, who'd
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year, I'm gonna go take careof this rattlesnake over here. Don't freak
out out. Catch one. Yeah, don't do that, my bear,
don't freak out. I don't thinkany good story ever comes with the beginning.
Hold my beer, yeah exactly.So you know, Florida is not
like the only place that sees likecrazy stories. I wanted to bring up
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some stories that I found over thesouth of our United States, just because
it seems to be a theme.And this one is in Tennessee. The
story is entitled Jesus on the DeepFreeze, And so I'm gonna go ahead
and it was actually in nineteen eightyseven, so this was a while ago.
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But he's in a deep freeze fora long time. You really can,
you really can. But it's anIt still springs, Tennessee, all
right. People traveled from miles awayone hundred miles in one instance to gaze
at the shadow play on our leanGuard Gardener's General Electric upright freezer last night.
It was the latest in a nightlypilgrimage to the place where people say
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the shadowy mixture of light and darkwhich appears to be a face nightly on
one side of her freezer. Some, like Gardner says, believe it to
be the face of Jesus Christ anda sign that he is coming again soon.
Since last week, Gardner said thattwo thousand people have come here to
see the face on the freezer.Last night, the crowd was about fifty
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to seventy five people through the evening, and it was actually small compared to
the other other evenings, but theywere just very curious. I wanted to
see if you could really see aface on a freezer, said James Glover
of Carthage. He drove there lastnight with his wife Karen those Karen's let
me tell you, I see aface, and I don't really see anything
that could be it naturally. Ican't disagree with people who say it's a
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miracle. It is interesting. Theimage appears around eight thirty PM when Gardner's
next door neighbor, Catherine, turnson a bright front porch light that casts
a shadow onto the freezer, andlast night the crowd began gathering early,
lining up behind a step ladder twentyfeet away from the freezer to get the
best view. Gardner and her familyspent most of the eating, witnessing to
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visitors, and directing traffic to parkingplaces on the narrow Country road. The
image that people say they see isthat of a bearded man's face about two
feet long and two feet wide.Gardner says the image is a miracle,
a sign from Jesus that he iscoming again. She says that it was
revealed to her in a dream.Some visitors say they believed Gardner's story of
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the shadows and weep when they seethe face. Several people were here last
night getting second and third looks.You can see a silhouette of the face
if you want to, said PeggyHenderson of Winchester Springs County. But it's
just the reflection of light. It'snot a religious experience. It's nothing to
get excited about. For the gardenersand their neighbors. The image has become
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a difficult event. So everybody aroundthe neighborhood is really not loving this event.
Parents of a local Church of JesusChrist, Minister John Parton says nightly
crowds have become a trial for hisfolks. They need a rest. The
crowds will wear anyone out. Onenight, my father couldn't even get up
his front door to eat supper.Give us a break. That's uh,
(14:22):
that's something you know. What wouldbe even better if Jesus was coming and
eating like hot pockets instead of prayinghands. If it was like a pizza
hot pocket. I just love that. Like the reason that you see the
shadow is because the porch like comesdown at eight thirty from her neighbor's house.
So so it returns every night ateight thirty when such and such person
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turns on their porch. And asthey found out it was just a lawnmower.
People are starting to like walk infront of it, like where is
it coming from? I think thatkind of speaks to well, first of
all, well, I think peoplewill do anything to be famous, but
also just the deep need for somepeople to be close to Jesus, right,
(15:13):
yeah, yeah, you know.I mean, if you're a spiritual
person, you know you can seeJesus and everything. Sure, my mom
made some toast the other day.It looks like the outline of Jesus.
Well I chewt it like and thenyou know, I have a hard time
believing that Jesus is going to tryto reach the masses by pasting a shadow
(15:37):
on a freezer exactly, you know, I mean, Jesus Christ, you
could do anything. Yeah, yeah, I'm pretty sure. You know,
maybe a billboard, lots of billboards, maybe lots of billboards. It was
yea, the moon, the moon, the moon using the moon. Yeah
(16:00):
yeah. Why did he stand thereso long? Does he try to catch
a cat? Oh my gosh,he's been really still Jesus on a deep
freeze, right, that doesn't seemvery elegant. I have another story,
and this one it is from Virginia, wythe county Virginia, wythe like w
(16:23):
y t h E wythe county Virginia. Okay, I know it's entitled God
Don't let Me die like this isthe name of the article. I'm trying
not to laugh, all right.This happened in nineteen ninety seven. Coolidge
win Set Winniset. I think arewind Set. I don't know Winniset Windset
(16:44):
something to that. Coolidge w IN E S E T T. I
would say, Winniset, Winnisett,That's what I was thinking. Coolidge Winnisset,
who was seventy five, said there'sonly one way to describe what it
is like being trapped for almost threedays at a bus bottom of his Southwest
Virginia outhouse after its floor gave way. Oh oh my god. I compare
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it to the Bible's Hell, saidWinniset, a World War Two veteran and
retired janitor. Oh. I don'ttrying not to laugh. But it's just
the coincidence of what he's really comparingit to and that he was a janitor.
I just sorry, I feel meanright now, but these are those
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stories, okay, right, herewe go, Here we go. It
had hellish elements, the smell maggots, snakes, snakes in the commode,
yes, spiders and rats. Plusthere were yes yes, plus there was
a persistent notion that he'd done somethingwrong to deserve it, recalled, speaking
(17:56):
by phone from his bed in WhiteCounty Community Hospital, where he is recovering
from dehydration and injuries he suffered whenthe fifty year old outhouse floor collapsed from
dry rot Saturday afternoon. I sufferedawful down there, Winnisset said. I
kept trying to figure out what I'ddone wrong. I said, God,
don't let me die like this.That would be off, by the way,
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That would be an awful way togo. Well, it turns out
God had other plans, and theform of a mail carrier, Jimmy Jackson,
who told Tuesday's win sorry, canget through it. I tried really
hard, Winnisset. He's noticed onTuesday that Winniset's mail was accumulating at his
farmhouse and went to investigate. Well, that's a good neighbor right there.
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He knows that he's usually out thereget mail, and Jackson said he called
out for Winniset, who was partiallyparalyzed from a stroke, doubled over and
hallucinating in a pit. It wasn'tpretty. It really wasn't pretty. Carmen
I'm pretty sure it wasn't. Justso you know, this is this scription
of the outhouse. When is setsaid, he builds it in the outhouse
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a modest wooden affair of oat planksover a dirt pit. He built that
in nineteen fifty. That was hisouthouse. I don't use it much.
Usually depend on the restrooms elsewhere Ieat out most of the time. So
he didn't have a bath indoor.He was one of those guys that goes
into the waffle house and just fucksit up. I can't. Yeah,
(19:27):
I know. I was at thedoctor with my mom the other day and
so I came into the doctor's officeand just destroyed and like, you know,
I'm like, I'm not going there, and the floor may as well
just fall in. Yeah, right, oh, he said. I screamed
till I ran out of voice,he said. And after he fell in,
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winnisaid said he was suspended over thebad stuff, the sludge by a
subfloor and the cracked floorboards. Eightpenny nails from the stug into his flesh.
His body was contorted and immobilized.He was there for the next sixty
nine hours. He spent dealing withthe creepy crawley things. They said.
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They slithered all over him. Atsome point he saw that rat and he
told it to get the hell awayfrom me, and then laughed about talking
to a rat. He's going intoI think I would go insane too.
I had mirages. Somebody was handling, handing me food, cheeseburgers. I
said, I told him, thankyou, But there was nobody there.
Oh. In alone in the hall, he recalled the arc of his life.
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You know, he was a WorldWar Two veteran. You know,
he went back to the South Pacific. He said, in his mind,
I can't imagine. Wait, justwhen he was at this weakest, he
heard the foot footfalls of Jimmy Jackson, and I got the strength to holler
just a little bit more, andhe heard me right when he got you
know, he got out. Jacksongot him a coke and he called the
ambulance the coke. Sorry, soGeorgia, but it's not. It's in
(21:00):
Virginia. So it is just wellstill, it's nine hours in a ship
box. Your first thought is becausesomebody after this whole ordeal, whinnis it
said? You know, he realizedthat in the past he couldn't afford it,
but I'm going to have to putme a bathroom in. Yeah,
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you'd think, I mean, likesomebody should buy this guy toilet. Yes,
I really do. What are yourfeelings about emotional support animals? Emotional
support animals? Yeah, I meanI do think dogs are they understand your
emotions, like they react to people'semotions like and vice versaly, like our
emotions also get kind of put onthem. Oh yeah, A lot of
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time dogs are us, you know, in a lot of ways. So
yeah, I think they definitely absorbour emotions. And yeah, but I
don't think they go through as muchpractice or train as a as a dog
that would actually be a service dog. So there's like an emotional support dog
and then there's a service dog.So it just depends. I've seen it
(22:11):
really in good ways and bad ways. But I also think they, you
know, the training needs to alsobe provided because there could be a lot
of bad things that happening your dogaround. I'm just gonna take us,
you know, our last little,yeah, little tidbit. I'm going to
back down to Florida. A womana woman wanted to bring her four football
(22:33):
python onto the plane because it washer emotional support python. Can you imagine
the panic and fear for everybody elseon the plane, Like, I'm not
afraid of snakes, but oh mygosh, yeah I'm not either, But
but I know a lot of Ithink I think a lot more people are
(22:56):
afraid of snakes than not afraid ofsnakes. Yeah, I like deep terror.
Yeah, so yeah, you know. And then there was an emotional
support woman. I don't know ifshe was. I don't know if she
was from Florida, but we're justgonna go ahead and say she probably was.
He had an emotional support peacock ona plane. Peacock. Yeah,
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that's what I'm talking about. Likewhere is the training come from? Like
there has to be Okay, soif you take a dog to get training,
that's one thing. The dog willbe trained. A python, I
don't think it has the capabilities noresist, Like what if there let me
just say, like, what ifthere is an emotional support python on the
plane as well as the emotional supportpeacock. You know what happens in that
(23:42):
circumstances the python resist, you know, and does the peacock not get crazy
scared that there's a freaking snake onthe Plane, which is also a movie
that I watched recently. Anyways,really I think with Sam Jackson, yeah,
he's sexy. I think a peacockcould kill a snake, just saying
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I thought's go. It's a python, though, But where does it stop?
Where does it stop? You know, like emotional support. I think
you could probably train a bunny.Yeah, I think you probably train a
duck maybe, h You can't traina python. The only thing you can
do with a python is you know, of course they come towards food when
(24:25):
you have food dangling in front ofthem, if they're hungry. But they'll
also bite your hand if your handsmells like food and they're hungry. You
know, there needs to be alimit. There has to be a better
way, and there has to becertain animals. There's only certain animals,
let's be real, but animals thatare domesticated. And you know, I
can see emotional support horse. Okay, can't bring it on a plane,
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but I can see horses as beingemotional support. But it was a small
horse. Yeah, I mean allthe domesticated animals were put it out there.
A pig. I could see that. I wouldn't mind being on the
plane with a pig. Maybe ifit can't wear a vest, it shouldn't
be a it shouldn't be emotional oranimal has to be able to wear a
vest, keep it off. That'sa good that's a good rule. Yeah,
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but you're yeah, your edimal hasto be able to wear a vest.
I'm sorry. Snakes do not havearms or wings. So I just
think that, you know, withthe the government burning books and taking books
out of libraries in Florida, maybewe should make a stand to remove all
of the weird motionless Yeah, allof the people they just say that I
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really love my animal. I meanthere's a difference, Like you can love
your pet. How about if you'retaking a snake on a plane, say
the truth? Like, I reallyneed attention. So, uh, I
think will end on that note,I'm going to go out and try to
find some shirtless people and take somepictures. On that note, yeah,
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