October 10, 2025 • 26 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Friday morning, tenth day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for
joining me. It's a day two of fall break for
school kids in our area, for some for the Muscogee
County kids at the very least, I guess there may
be some others also enjoying a fall break. This is
(00:31):
I think we have an inconsistent fall break. It's around
the same time every year, but I think there's some
inconsistency to it. I don't I feel like the number
of days that they get off for fall break isn't
always the same, and it's not like a full like
spring break, where they're getting you know, a full week
off from school. You know, spring break is a five
(00:53):
day and you got the two weekends. There's, you know,
an extended period of time for people to travel and
do things as a family and all those sorts of things.
The complication I think with fall break, And maybe I'm wrong,
correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember fall break
maybe being sometimes it would be like a Friday and
(01:13):
a Monday, and then they would have the weekend built
into it. And then sometimes you know, you have a
long weekend, which is great, and then sometimes I think
it would just maybe be Thursday Friday. I may be
wrong on that. I don't remember it being like two
weekdays and then a Monday and then like a five.
(01:34):
I mean, I'm glad. Good for them. They need it,
and they're finishing their first nine weeks of school and
their first half of the first semester or whatever, so
I mean, good for them. I'm glad. I know my
kids need a little break. Was like it was a lot.
It feels like they were sprinting in this first part
of the school year, so I know the break is needed.
(01:56):
I'm not in any way being critical of it. For
some kids in the in the Muskogee County area, they
were doing p. S. A t's before they went on breaks.
So basically it's Thursday Friday, and then they've got Monday
out as well, so Monday I'm counting as a holiday.
So this will be you know, I'll do the show
(02:18):
today and then we'll take a break Monday, and we'll.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Be back attered on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's what we're doing because it's a holiday for them
and we're going to be doing some family stuff. We
don't have a trip planned. We do know some of
the kids in the area whose families do have trips
plan and that's great. Our big trip, I mean we've done,
you know, some things already, but our big trip was
the Australia trip.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
For this year.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And you know that's that's one of those you don't
have a lot of other trips. When you do a
big trip, big international trip, you don't always have other
trips planned in the same year. That's not how it
always works. All right, it is Friday, so we're gonna start,
obviously with some good news. We like to give you
some of that. And we have a couple of the
(03:00):
first up. Two high schools in Greenville County, South Carolina
have been doing this. They have a competition between the
two schools and they have now raised over a million
dollars for charity and a week Greenville High brought in
five hundred three thousand dollars for Jasmine Road, a nonprofit
(03:21):
helping survivors of trafficking and addiction.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
J L.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Mann High School raised a little bit more five hundred
and thirty two thousand dollars for the Dream Center, which
supports women and children in crisis. The friendly fundraising feud
has become a tradition in the community. This year's Blue
Past Expectations setting example about how all of us showing
an example for all of us, showing what an amazing
(03:47):
thing can be possible in a short amount of time
when you set your mind to it. And I think
I talked about this maybe last year when they did.
This has become an annual thing for them, so fantastic,
over a million bucks. And I know you get into
the competition part of it. High schools can do that
with each other. They can get very competitive obviously in sports.
(04:08):
This is one of those things where there's no loser.
You know, everybody comes out with a positive there. Everybody
can feel good about the work that they did. How
about this story, This is out of the UK. Fourteen
year old Layla Warren was traveling home on a bus
from a friend's birthday in Birmingham, England, and a young
woman had a severe epileptic seizure and stopped breathing. Layla
(04:31):
quickly called nine nine nine, that's their version of nine
one one and performed CPR under the guidance of the dispatcher.
By keeping calm and staying brave, Layla helped revive the
twenty two year old and kept her stable until first
responders arrived. The local head of police, Simon Foster, praised
Layla's bravery, saying what she did on that bus was
(04:53):
nothing short of heroic. The rescue efforts resulted in Layla
attending the Outstanding Citizen Awards ceremony earlier this month, where
she was formally recognized for her bravery and dedication to
her community. And that's a cool story there for a
fourteen year old. All right, how about this story? This
(05:15):
is one of those things that maybe kind of slips
through the cracks when you hear about a restaurant closing.
So this is in Keenesburg, New Jersey. It's a place
called the Beach Gallery. It's a restaurant that recently closed
because of government permit issues. What a shocker. Government regulation
(05:39):
caused a problem in New Jersey. So you would think,
all right, well, restaurants come and go. It's tough to
run a restaurant. It's a tough business to run, and
you know many times restaurants struggle to stay open. But
in the case of the Beach Gallery, the abrupt closing
calls some other problem albums because it is a very
(06:02):
popular wedding venue and there's at least two ceremonies that
were scheduled there, and the closing left those couples looking
around for a plan. B. Well, the restaurant's closed, beach
Gallery's gone, there's nothing that they can do about it.
So what are we going to do? Well, there's another
(06:24):
restaurant in Keenesburg called half Moon decided that they could
help out. Diana Gracie, who runs half Moon with her
husband Emiliano, says that she was surprised when a couple
approached them after hearing the news about the Beach Gallery.
She says, we weren't even open yet and I was
(06:46):
at the restaurant when I suddenly got this knock on
the door. It was a couple, a man and a woman,
standing outside, and they were just informed that the Beach
Gallery would not be reopening and would I be able
to host their wedding in a week. Shortly after that,
(07:06):
the couple left, I guess another couple showed up with
the same story in the same request. So Gracie and
Emiliano got to work and they were starting to prepare
the half Moon for two weddings. Assuming everything goes to plan.
Half Moon will be hosting a brunch wedding for seventy
people tomorrow and a dinner time wedding later in that
(07:31):
evening for forty people stepping up. I mean, this is
a good move. This is a good move for them,
and obviously it's got folks like me talking about them.
And I'm nowhere near New Jersey, but it's got to
be a good story for the people there in New Jersey,
and especially to know if they've lost people that love
(07:52):
this place as a wedding venue, now suddenly they can
start looking at another place as a possible wedding venue.
People that are willing to go above and beyond to
help out. All right, Now, let's dive into some strange
and bizarre news. We'll go back to South Carolina for this.
A couple is asking neighbors to stop calling the fire
(08:13):
department to report that their house is on fire. It's
not on fire, it just looks like it is. Sam
Lee and Amanda Riggins Pedan or Peden say that what
appears to be a raging house fire is an elaborate
Halloween display at their home. It's so realistic with bright
(08:35):
yellow flames and white smoke that the fire department has
received multiple calls from concerned neighbors. Each time, a fire
truck was sent over to the house just to make
sure there wasn't actually a fire. The couple turns on
the display every night between eight and ten and ask
people not to call nine one one. Reactions to the
display have been mixed on social media, with some expressing
(08:57):
amazement at how realistic it looks, and it does looking
at an image right now, it looks like the house
is on fire. Others criticizing the couple for all the
false alarms called to the fire department. And then the
obvious question that comes along for me is what if
the house actually did catch on fire. I don't know
what they're using to like the house up. I assume
(09:18):
there's bulbs inside, and I guess smoke machines or whatever
are giving off the smoke. But what if something did
catch fire and then they called and said, hey, there's
a house on fire, come help us, And then you
know it's the fire department. Come, there's a cry wolf
thing to all of this, isn't there? Because and I
really don't. I mean, it looks great. It's a nice
(09:40):
display of a home that looks like it's on fire.
I don't really understand what that has to do with Halloween.
When did having a house on fire. It's not a
haunted house. It's not a house that looks like there's
spirits and things coming out of it. It just looks
like a house is a blaze, and I don't really
(10:00):
know that I understand what the purpose of that is.
I don't get it, but you know, to each their own,
I suppose it's going to be a problem though, if
the house actually does catch on fire. Speaking of Halloween displays,
there's often a certain amount of acceptance and even people
tolerating Halloween displays, but there are some lines that shouldn't
(10:26):
be crossed. You could make a case that having a
display that looks like the houses on fire would be
one of those. But there's at least one man in
Kentucky who's been arrested for crossing a line that absolutely
shouldn't be crossed. Police say they arrested Stefan Markham because
(10:46):
his Halloween decorations depicted dead bodies of local public officials.
They say he had five fake bodies and trash bags
that were individually labeled. One was labeled District Judge The
others were labeled mayor zoning men, manager c A I
guess record of appeals and then Sis Markham has been
(11:07):
a long running been in a long running legal dispute
with the town of Stanton over zoning issues, and was
recently fined two hundred dollars for a violation. He's now
facing charges of terroristic threatening and witness intimidation. This is
just a protest in Portland, right, I mean, this is
just a average old This is just an average day.
(11:32):
This is but a peaceful protest, isn't it? Has he
done anything wrong? He just wanted to see the bodies
on display.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
A beloved dinosaur mascot is now back home in Los
Angeles at a gas station after a bizarre theft caught
the attention of the Internet and even actress Jamie Lee.
Curtis Claire. A four foot tall, fifty pound Fiberclass dinosaur
was stolen about a week ago from outside seeing Claire
gas station in Brentwood. Surveillance video showed someone using power
(12:05):
tools to remove the statue and loaded into a white
pickup truck. The theft sparked outrage online, with even Jamie
Lee Curtis posting a video of the incident, calling out
the thief, saying not cool, dude, not cool. Fans of
the dinosaur even left flowers at the scene, but then
early Monday morning, Claire mysteriously reappeared. She was wrapped in
(12:28):
fabric and left outside the gas station with a note
attached reading I'm sorry for stealing. Please don't charge me.
There's been no arrest made. Police still investigating. I mean,
they ultimately did the right thing. We went through something
with our you know, Katie the cow here and the
little smaller version of the cow. We've been through that
(12:49):
here locally. We know what that feels like. There were
no big time celebrities involved or Jamie Lee Curtis. So yeah,
I do like Halloween though. It makes me realize I
haven't watched Halloween yet this year.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Need to do that. Maybe this weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Maybe that could be a fall break activity for the family.
The best man at a wedding has a lot of responsibilities.
The groom expects him to plan the bachelor party, hold
the rings, make a memorable toast. In rare cases, like
at a wedding recently in Minnesota, he may be called
upon to handle a wedding crasher with extreme prejudice please say.
(13:26):
Thirty three year old Steve and Andrew James was the
best man at his friend's wedding in Maplewood when an
uninvited guest showed up and tried to confront the groom.
James reportedly stepped in and shot the wedding crasher in
both of his legs. Wedding guests used the belts as
makes use their belts as makeshift tourniquets to stop the bleeding,
(13:48):
and then rushed him to the hospital. Police later found
James at his girlfriend's home, and he was arrested, charged
with second degree assault and is being held on two
hundred and fifty thousand bill. Yeah. I mean, look, I
don't know what the confrontation was about. I don't know
(14:09):
what was happening there, but you're definitely crossing the line
when you start shooting people at a wedding. I mean,
if the other guy was threatening violence and you know,
trying to hurt somebody, it's different.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
All that'll have to come out in court.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Hey, A fire department Germany, Germany, finally found the root
calls of a suspected gas leak after making multiple trips
to a neighborhood in response to repeated calls from residents.
In the end, it wasn't a gas leak at all.
People kept detecting a strong gas smell, but each time
the fire department arrived, they investigated and their meters found
no reading of gas. In fact, there wasn't even a
(14:46):
gas hookup anywhere in the immediate area. When they responded
to the scene for the fourth time, they figured out
the culprit and exotic fruit the Durian fruit, notoriously bad
smelling fruit I found in Southeast Asia. It was on
the shelves of an Asian supermarket in the area, and
it's powerful smell known to resemble noxious gases. The smell
(15:12):
had apparently gotten into the store's ventilation system and billowed
out into the neighborhood. Who's eating the fruit that smells
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All right, we're working our way like a third of
the way now through the month of October and working
our way towards Halloween. This is the month of pumpkin
spice and some of those seasonal flavors, and one of
the seasonal flavors happens to be a certain a certain
(19:19):
type of candy or flavor that has multiple ways to
pronounce it. And I haven't said it yet because I
have the way that I pronounce it, and I think
most people I know maybe pronounce it the way that
I do, but you may not. And some people are
very touchy about it. So for some it's a three
(19:44):
syllable word, for some it's two syllable word. And I'll
just now, I'm just gonna say it because you get
another word. I pronounce the word caramel. Some people call
it caramel. Some people pronounce it with two syllables and
call it carmel. I don't think there's a caramel. Maybe
(20:05):
there is a caramel with two syllables, but carmel, caramel,
and cararamel, I think are the three main ways that
are pronounced. So there's a survey that was done by
the folks at were Through's original fifty seven percent of
Americans they say pronounce it caramel, which would be, you know,
(20:28):
in the majority. So if you pronounce it that way,
and they say that, it's consistent across every part of
the country except the Midwest, where that same percentage fifty
seven percent pronounce it carmel, but the rest of the
country overall says caramel. I don't know why this is
(20:49):
one of those words, but it is one of those
words that has different ways that people pronounce it. I
guess pecan and pecan and I like to say pekin.
And I didn't know that that's a British thing until
I saw one of those British baking shows and they
were calling them pekins, and I was like, I was
just saying in a different way just to be annoying
when I was younger, my teenage years, But apparently that's
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the thing. Do you have special occasion items? How often
do you use them? A new survey found eighty percent
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they reserve just for special occasions, and that sixty four
percent never use them. Forty eight percent say the reason
is that they're worried about damaging them, forty five percent
(21:33):
say that they're impractical, forty two percent say that it
can be a hassle to hand wash.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Those specific items.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Then, of course comes the question, well why do you
have them? What are you going to do with them?
If you never use them. They're just there, they're you know,
getting dusty. How much care can you take of them
if they're not ever being I mean, I guess they're
protected if they're not being used. All right, how about
this if you're vegan or a vegetarian. I think this
(22:03):
is more vegan, but have the expensive taste. I don't know,
maybe it is vegetarian as well. Well, there's apparently we
you know, we've had the impossible burgers. There's very there's
a bunch of different varieties of those, but these different
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plant based like hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon, sausage, all these things.
More and more of these items have have come along,
and now we have one that I'll be honest, I
don't know that I ever really imagined this would be
a version of a plant based food item, but we
(22:46):
have one.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
There's a company called zero z e r Oe Caviar, Yes,
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with some chefs at Michelin Star restaurants agreeing that it
(23:09):
tastes like the real deal. The company said in a statement.
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it's also quite a bit less expensive than actual caviar.
But it depends on the caviar I suppose, I mean probably,
depending you can probably get some really cheap caviar. That's
all I'm pointing out. Yeah, I don't know what the
point of this is other than there's just certain groups
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that are going to want to have their caviar, but
not cross that line, I guess, I don't know, going
into breaking their vegan or vegetarian ways. Sweden has launched
a new wellness tourism initiative called the Swedish Prescription, which
encourages doctors to prescribe travel to Sweden as a way
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to improve mental and physical health. It's backed by research
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northern lights, and even attending music festivals can help reduce stress,
improve sleep boost, mood support, heart health Visit Sweden has
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created a downloadable guide that doctors can use to recommence
specific experiences, from cycling scenic trails to going to museums.
The idea is to treat travel not just as something
for leisure, but also as a form of therapy. I'm
on board with that. But is this a real thing
unless you're able to have your health insurance pay for it.
(24:58):
That's when it becomes a real like is it a
prescription or is it just kind of a novelty thing.
Is it like that note that you got the doctor
saw or somebody to sign. Maybe your employer had to
sign it so that you could get the day off
to watch, you know, World Cup soccer. Remember those things
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were going around. You had to try to go get
someone to sign it, like your middle management boss, so
that the people above you would give you the day
off to watch soccer. I mean, I'm all on board
for that, and I'm all on board for a trip
to Sweden. I'd love to go watch the Northern Lights
in Sweden. That sounds great. I just need to know
that I can pay for it with my insurance they're
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going to cover it. That'll do it for this Friday
edition of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and patrons.
Thank you for listening. Monday is a holiday for my kids,
so it's a holiday for me. I'll catch you back
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Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
Carrol Morning Show.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Friday morning, tenth day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for
joining me. It's a day two of fall break for
school kids in our area, for some for the Muscogee
County kids at the very least, I guess there may
be some others also enjoying a fall break. This is
(00:31):
I think we have an inconsistent fall break. It's around
the same time every year, but I think there's some
inconsistency to it. I don't I feel like the number
of days that they get off for fall break isn't
always the same, and it's not like a full like
spring break, where they're getting you know, a full week
off from school. You know, spring break is a five
(00:53):
day and you got the two weekends. There's, you know,
an extended period of time for people to travel and
do things as a family and all those sorts of things.
The complication I think with fall break, And maybe I'm wrong,
correct me if I'm wrong, but I remember fall break
maybe being sometimes it would be like a Friday and
(01:13):
a Monday, and then they would have the weekend built
into it. And then sometimes you know, you have a
long weekend, which is great, and then sometimes I think
it would just maybe be Thursday Friday. I may be
wrong on that. I don't remember it being like two
weekdays and then a Monday and then like a five.
(01:34):
I mean, I'm glad. Good for them. They need it,
and they're finishing their first nine weeks of school and
their first half of the first semester or whatever, so
I mean, good for them. I'm glad. I know my
kids need a little break. Was like it was a lot.
It feels like they were sprinting in this first part
of the school year, so I know the break is needed.
(01:56):
I'm not in any way being critical of it. For
some kids in the in the Muskogee County area, they
were doing p. S. A t's before they went on breaks.
So basically it's Thursday Friday, and then they've got Monday
out as well, so Monday I'm counting as a holiday.
So this will be you know, I'll do the show
(02:18):
today and then we'll take a break Monday, and we'll.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Be back attered on Tuesday.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's what we're doing because it's a holiday for them
and we're going to be doing some family stuff. We
don't have a trip planned. We do know some of
the kids in the area whose families do have trips
plan and that's great. Our big trip, I mean we've done,
you know, some things already, but our big trip was
the Australia trip.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
For this year.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And you know that's that's one of those you don't
have a lot of other trips. When you do a
big trip, big international trip, you don't always have other
trips planned in the same year. That's not how it
always works. All right, it is Friday, so we're gonna start,
obviously with some good news. We like to give you
some of that. And we have a couple of the
(03:00):
first up. Two high schools in Greenville County, South Carolina
have been doing this. They have a competition between the
two schools and they have now raised over a million
dollars for charity and a week Greenville High brought in
five hundred three thousand dollars for Jasmine Road, a nonprofit
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helping survivors of trafficking and addiction.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
J L.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Mann High School raised a little bit more five hundred
and thirty two thousand dollars for the Dream Center, which
supports women and children in crisis. The friendly fundraising feud
has become a tradition in the community. This year's Blue
Past Expectations setting example about how all of us showing
an example for all of us, showing what an amazing
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thing can be possible in a short amount of time
when you set your mind to it. And I think
I talked about this maybe last year when they did.
This has become an annual thing for them, so fantastic,
over a million bucks. And I know you get into
the competition part of it. High schools can do that
with each other. They can get very competitive obviously in sports.
(04:08):
This is one of those things where there's no loser.
You know, everybody comes out with a positive there. Everybody
can feel good about the work that they did. How
about this story, This is out of the UK. Fourteen
year old Layla Warren was traveling home on a bus
from a friend's birthday in Birmingham, England, and a young
woman had a severe epileptic seizure and stopped breathing. Layla
(04:31):
quickly called nine nine nine, that's their version of nine
one one and performed CPR under the guidance of the dispatcher.
By keeping calm and staying brave, Layla helped revive the
twenty two year old and kept her stable until first
responders arrived. The local head of police, Simon Foster, praised
Layla's bravery, saying what she did on that bus was
(04:53):
nothing short of heroic. The rescue efforts resulted in Layla
attending the Outstanding Citizen Awards ceremony earlier this month, where
she was formally recognized for her bravery and dedication to
her community. And that's a cool story there for a
fourteen year old. All right, how about this story? This
(05:15):
is one of those things that maybe kind of slips
through the cracks when you hear about a restaurant closing.
So this is in Keenesburg, New Jersey. It's a place
called the Beach Gallery. It's a restaurant that recently closed
because of government permit issues. What a shocker. Government regulation
(05:39):
caused a problem in New Jersey. So you would think,
all right, well, restaurants come and go. It's tough to
run a restaurant. It's a tough business to run, and
you know many times restaurants struggle to stay open. But
in the case of the Beach Gallery, the abrupt closing
calls some other problem albums because it is a very
(06:02):
popular wedding venue and there's at least two ceremonies that
were scheduled there, and the closing left those couples looking
around for a plan. B. Well, the restaurant's closed, beach
Gallery's gone, there's nothing that they can do about it.
So what are we going to do? Well, there's another
(06:24):
restaurant in Keenesburg called half Moon decided that they could
help out. Diana Gracie, who runs half Moon with her
husband Emiliano, says that she was surprised when a couple
approached them after hearing the news about the Beach Gallery.
She says, we weren't even open yet and I was
(06:46):
at the restaurant when I suddenly got this knock on
the door. It was a couple, a man and a woman,
standing outside, and they were just informed that the Beach
Gallery would not be reopening and would I be able
to host their wedding in a week. Shortly after that,
(07:06):
the couple left, I guess another couple showed up with
the same story in the same request. So Gracie and
Emiliano got to work and they were starting to prepare
the half Moon for two weddings. Assuming everything goes to plan.
Half Moon will be hosting a brunch wedding for seventy
people tomorrow and a dinner time wedding later in that
(07:31):
evening for forty people stepping up. I mean, this is
a good move. This is a good move for them,
and obviously it's got folks like me talking about them.
And I'm nowhere near New Jersey, but it's got to
be a good story for the people there in New Jersey,
and especially to know if they've lost people that love
(07:52):
this place as a wedding venue, now suddenly they can
start looking at another place as a possible wedding venue.
People that are willing to go above and beyond to
help out. All right, Now, let's dive into some strange
and bizarre news. We'll go back to South Carolina for this.
A couple is asking neighbors to stop calling the fire
(08:13):
department to report that their house is on fire. It's
not on fire, it just looks like it is. Sam
Lee and Amanda Riggins Pedan or Peden say that what
appears to be a raging house fire is an elaborate
Halloween display at their home. It's so realistic with bright
(08:35):
yellow flames and white smoke that the fire department has
received multiple calls from concerned neighbors. Each time, a fire
truck was sent over to the house just to make
sure there wasn't actually a fire. The couple turns on
the display every night between eight and ten and ask
people not to call nine one one. Reactions to the
display have been mixed on social media, with some expressing
(08:57):
amazement at how realistic it looks, and it does looking
at an image right now, it looks like the house
is on fire. Others criticizing the couple for all the
false alarms called to the fire department. And then the
obvious question that comes along for me is what if
the house actually did catch on fire. I don't know
what they're using to like the house up. I assume
(09:18):
there's bulbs inside, and I guess smoke machines or whatever
are giving off the smoke. But what if something did
catch fire and then they called and said, hey, there's
a house on fire, come help us, And then you
know it's the fire department. Come, there's a cry wolf
thing to all of this, isn't there? Because and I
really don't. I mean, it looks great. It's a nice
(09:40):
display of a home that looks like it's on fire.
I don't really understand what that has to do with Halloween.
When did having a house on fire. It's not a
haunted house. It's not a house that looks like there's
spirits and things coming out of it. It just looks
like a house is a blaze, and I don't really
(10:00):
know that I understand what the purpose of that is.
I don't get it, but you know, to each their own,
I suppose it's going to be a problem though, if
the house actually does catch on fire. Speaking of Halloween displays,
there's often a certain amount of acceptance and even people
tolerating Halloween displays, but there are some lines that shouldn't
(10:26):
be crossed. You could make a case that having a
display that looks like the houses on fire would be
one of those. But there's at least one man in
Kentucky who's been arrested for crossing a line that absolutely
shouldn't be crossed. Police say they arrested Stefan Markham because
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his Halloween decorations depicted dead bodies of local public officials.
They say he had five fake bodies and trash bags
that were individually labeled. One was labeled District Judge The
others were labeled mayor zoning men, manager c A I
guess record of appeals and then Sis Markham has been
(11:07):
a long running been in a long running legal dispute
with the town of Stanton over zoning issues, and was
recently fined two hundred dollars for a violation. He's now
facing charges of terroristic threatening and witness intimidation. This is
just a protest in Portland, right, I mean, this is
just a average old This is just an average day.
(11:32):
This is but a peaceful protest, isn't it? Has he
done anything wrong? He just wanted to see the bodies
on display.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Whatever, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:42):
A beloved dinosaur mascot is now back home in Los
Angeles at a gas station after a bizarre theft caught
the attention of the Internet and even actress Jamie Lee.
Curtis Claire. A four foot tall, fifty pound Fiberclass dinosaur
was stolen about a week ago from outside seeing Claire
gas station in Brentwood. Surveillance video showed someone using power
(12:05):
tools to remove the statue and loaded into a white
pickup truck. The theft sparked outrage online, with even Jamie
Lee Curtis posting a video of the incident, calling out
the thief, saying not cool, dude, not cool. Fans of
the dinosaur even left flowers at the scene, but then
early Monday morning, Claire mysteriously reappeared. She was wrapped in
(12:28):
fabric and left outside the gas station with a note
attached reading I'm sorry for stealing. Please don't charge me.
There's been no arrest made. Police still investigating. I mean,
they ultimately did the right thing. We went through something
with our you know, Katie the cow here and the
little smaller version of the cow. We've been through that
(12:49):
here locally. We know what that feels like. There were
no big time celebrities involved or Jamie Lee Curtis. So yeah,
I do like Halloween though. It makes me realize I
haven't watched Halloween yet this year.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Need to do that. Maybe this weekend.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Maybe that could be a fall break activity for the family.
The best man at a wedding has a lot of responsibilities.
The groom expects him to plan the bachelor party, hold
the rings, make a memorable toast. In rare cases, like
at a wedding recently in Minnesota, he may be called
upon to handle a wedding crasher with extreme prejudice please say.
(13:26):
Thirty three year old Steve and Andrew James was the
best man at his friend's wedding in Maplewood when an
uninvited guest showed up and tried to confront the groom.
James reportedly stepped in and shot the wedding crasher in
both of his legs. Wedding guests used the belts as
makes use their belts as makeshift tourniquets to stop the bleeding,
(13:48):
and then rushed him to the hospital. Police later found
James at his girlfriend's home, and he was arrested, charged
with second degree assault and is being held on two
hundred and fifty thousand bill. Yeah. I mean, look, I
don't know what the confrontation was about. I don't know
(14:09):
what was happening there, but you're definitely crossing the line
when you start shooting people at a wedding. I mean,
if the other guy was threatening violence and you know,
trying to hurt somebody, it's different.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
But I don't know.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
All that'll have to come out in court.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
I suppose.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
Hey, A fire department Germany, Germany, finally found the root
calls of a suspected gas leak after making multiple trips
to a neighborhood in response to repeated calls from residents.
In the end, it wasn't a gas leak at all.
People kept detecting a strong gas smell, but each time
the fire department arrived, they investigated and their meters found
no reading of gas. In fact, there wasn't even a
(14:46):
gas hookup anywhere in the immediate area. When they responded
to the scene for the fourth time, they figured out
the culprit and exotic fruit the Durian fruit, notoriously bad
smelling fruit I found in Southeast Asia. It was on
the shelves of an Asian supermarket in the area, and
it's powerful smell known to resemble noxious gases. The smell
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had apparently gotten into the store's ventilation system and billowed
out into the neighborhood. Who's eating the fruit that smells
like you got a ghast leap? That's my question. Today's
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All right, we're working our way like a third of
the way now through the month of October and working
our way towards Halloween. This is the month of pumpkin
spice and some of those seasonal flavors, and one of
the seasonal flavors happens to be a certain a certain
(19:19):
type of candy or flavor that has multiple ways to
pronounce it. And I haven't said it yet because I
have the way that I pronounce it, and I think
most people I know maybe pronounce it the way that
I do, but you may not. And some people are
very touchy about it. So for some it's a three
(19:44):
syllable word, for some it's two syllable word. And I'll
just now, I'm just gonna say it because you get
another word. I pronounce the word caramel. Some people call
it caramel. Some people pronounce it with two syllables and
call it carmel. I don't think there's a caramel. Maybe
(20:05):
there is a caramel with two syllables, but carmel, caramel,
and cararamel, I think are the three main ways that
are pronounced. So there's a survey that was done by
the folks at were Through's original fifty seven percent of
Americans they say pronounce it caramel, which would be, you know,
(20:28):
in the majority. So if you pronounce it that way,
and they say that, it's consistent across every part of
the country except the Midwest, where that same percentage fifty
seven percent pronounce it carmel, but the rest of the
country overall says caramel. I don't know why this is
(20:49):
one of those words, but it is one of those
words that has different ways that people pronounce it. I
guess pecan and pecan and I like to say pekin.
And I didn't know that that's a British thing until
I saw one of those British baking shows and they
were calling them pekins, and I was like, I was
just saying in a different way just to be annoying
when I was younger, my teenage years, But apparently that's
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the thing. Do you have special occasion items? How often
do you use them? A new survey found eighty percent
of homeowners have special dishes, glassware, utensils, linens or cookware
they reserve just for special occasions, and that sixty four
percent never use them. Forty eight percent say the reason
is that they're worried about damaging them, forty five percent
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say that they're impractical, forty two percent say that it
can be a hassle to hand wash.
Speaker 3 (21:39):
Those specific items.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Then, of course comes the question, well why do you
have them? What are you going to do with them?
If you never use them. They're just there, they're you know,
getting dusty. How much care can you take of them
if they're not ever being I mean, I guess they're
protected if they're not being used. All right, how about
this if you're vegan or a vegetarian. I think this
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is more vegan, but have the expensive taste. I don't know,
maybe it is vegetarian as well. Well, there's apparently we
you know, we've had the impossible burgers. There's very there's
a bunch of different varieties of those, but these different
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plant based like hamburgers, hot dogs, bacon, sausage, all these things.
More and more of these items have have come along,
and now we have one that I'll be honest, I
don't know that I ever really imagined this would be
a version of a plant based food item, but we
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have one.
Speaker 3 (22:47):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:48):
There's a company called zero z e r Oe Caviar, Yes,
plant based caviar. They've developed a fresh egg alternative made
entirely from weed and then different herbs and spices. Reviews positive,
with some chefs at Michelin Star restaurants agreeing that it
(23:09):
tastes like the real deal. The company said in a statement.
With its delicate textures and exquisite flavors. Our caviar will
take your taste buds on an unforgettable journey made with
a deep commitment to marine conservation. Or guilt free caviar
lets you savor each bite with a clear conscience. And
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it's also quite a bit less expensive than actual caviar.
But it depends on the caviar I suppose, I mean probably,
depending you can probably get some really cheap caviar. That's
all I'm pointing out. Yeah, I don't know what the
point of this is other than there's just certain groups
(23:49):
that are going to want to have their caviar, but
not cross that line, I guess, I don't know, going
into breaking their vegan or vegetarian ways. Sweden has launched
a new wellness tourism initiative called the Swedish Prescription, which
encourages doctors to prescribe travel to Sweden as a way
(24:10):
to improve mental and physical health. It's backed by research
from the Carolinska Institute and Global Yugov Survey. The program
highlights how activities like forest bathing, sauna use, viewing the
northern lights, and even attending music festivals can help reduce stress,
improve sleep boost, mood support, heart health Visit Sweden has
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created a downloadable guide that doctors can use to recommence
specific experiences, from cycling scenic trails to going to museums.
The idea is to treat travel not just as something
for leisure, but also as a form of therapy. I'm
on board with that. But is this a real thing
unless you're able to have your health insurance pay for it.
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That's when it becomes a real like is it a
prescription or is it just kind of a novelty thing.
Is it like that note that you got the doctor
saw or somebody to sign. Maybe your employer had to
sign it so that you could get the day off
to watch, you know, World Cup soccer. Remember those things
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were going around. You had to try to go get
someone to sign it, like your middle management boss, so
that the people above you would give you the day
off to watch soccer. I mean, I'm all on board
for that, and I'm all on board for a trip
to Sweden. I'd love to go watch the Northern Lights
in Sweden. That sounds great. I just need to know
that I can pay for it with my insurance they're
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going to cover it. That'll do it for this Friday
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