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Our first story lance is

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about. The. Actor:

5:04

Formerly known as James Bond. One

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of the actors formerly known as

5:08

James Bond that Roger Moore and

5:10

now now it's Pierce Brosnan. He

5:12

seventy years old. Now he's got

5:14

a court date on January Twenty

5:16

Third. Twenty Twenty Four where he

5:18

faces possible jail time. Can

5:21

you believe this could scan bond? possibly be

5:23

sent to jail? I thought you're going to

5:25

say can you believe it He seventy First

5:27

of all this is. One

5:29

of the handful of individuals on my

5:31

man crush list. I don't know if

5:33

you're aware of this, I'm sure you

5:35

are. Ah, I think I fell in

5:37

love with him when I saw that

5:40

picture of him at the airport just

5:42

carrying a basic bag and and just

5:44

looking very cool with his outfit on

5:46

and was just like damn that is

5:48

a good looking dude. This is probably

5:50

like maybe six or seven years ago

5:52

to use in is probably mid sixties

5:54

at the time by Tim. I can't

5:56

fathom what on earth. Pierce.

5:58

Brosnan would have done to. Set

6:00

himself up for possible jail time, Well.

6:03

We'll tell you hear. He. Actually

6:05

went traipsing around the Yellowstone

6:07

National Park and specifically in

6:10

thermal areas that are is

6:12

he doesn't belong And and

6:15

ah, so he's actually facing

6:17

citations of a quote foot

6:19

travel in all thermal areas

6:22

and within Yellowstone Canyon confined

6:24

to trails and violating closures

6:27

and use limits. That's what

6:29

the court records show and

6:32

these files were were filed

6:34

in. Wyoming and they are criminal

6:36

charges federal law states for travel

6:38

in all thermal areas and within

6:40

the Yellowstone Canyon between at the

6:42

Upper Falls. An inspiration point must

6:44

be confined to boardwalks or trails

6:46

that are maintained for such travel

6:48

and are marked by official signs.

6:51

So. The concern here is that

6:53

they don't want people entering into

6:55

these dangerous areas for their own

6:57

safety for the most part. So

7:00

this isn't like he physically harm

7:02

somebody. this was a monkey, defaced

7:04

property, or did anything of that

7:06

criminal nature. This is essentially trespassing.

7:09

Yep! Pretty much and as so

7:11

he went to close to hot

7:13

springs I guess. And.the park says

7:15

that hot springs have injured or

7:17

killed more people in Yellowstone than

7:20

any other natural features, and more

7:22

than twenty people have died after

7:24

entering or accidentally falling into Yellowstone's

7:26

hot springs. According to the park,

7:28

because certain thermal pools can reach

7:30

deadly temperatures of over a hundred

7:33

and fifty degrees Fahrenheit. I

7:35

see so Pierce Brosnan knew that these

7:37

things existed. Apparently there are multiple signs

7:39

and mornings online and in the print

7:42

versions of their maps and trails, but

7:44

he probably wanted to go in there

7:46

to sit in some of these hot

7:48

springs. I don't know. I know now

7:51

that that's a little unclear whether or

7:53

not he was trying to hang out

7:55

there, but this sort of comes on

7:58

the heels of a guy named. Jason

8:00

D. Wix who's forty nine from

8:02

Michigan and he was arraigned in

8:05

Federal court on August Twenty Third.

8:07

Twenty Twenty Three and he face

8:09

criminal charges. Is

8:11

in the same way because he

8:14

was actually drunk and he went

8:16

into the hot springs and of

8:19

apparently burns himself and audience and

8:21

remains under investigation. Trial date has

8:23

not been. Ah

8:26

yes, but he has banned

8:28

from Yellowstone and Grand Teton

8:30

National Parks Until these charges

8:32

have, it will be resolved.

8:35

So. Yeah. There's There's definitely

8:37

some precedent about this. Ah, maybe

8:39

Pierce Brosnan didn't know how serious

8:42

these charges would have been. But.

8:45

Not wise. Yeah, I think that's the case.

8:47

I think if he had known or if

8:49

anybody who violates these laws probably they're not

8:51

expecting a jail time. It they're probably expecting

8:53

what am I going to find? A warning

8:56

or something. Maybe they'll make me, you know,

8:58

say I'm I'm not allowed back on the

9:00

property, But I don't think any of them

9:02

really expecting jail time. And it does seem

9:04

like this is something where people. Maybe.

9:07

Go to and nice they can use. it

9:09

is sort of a bragging point. A I

9:11

was in the hot springs in Yellowstone. Yeah,

9:13

you know people know like oh, you're not

9:15

supposed to do that but I'm of I

9:17

would ever do that. I mean maybe maybe

9:19

in my i mean I'm not smart now,

9:22

but maybe when I was even less smart

9:24

in my early twenties or something I would

9:26

do it. But while they do seem beautiful,

9:28

it's just not my thing to like sit

9:30

in a bunch of warm water. Have you

9:32

ever done hot springs? Ah, I don't think

9:34

I've actually done hot springs. By damn, I

9:36

mean they're. Produced by the emergence of

9:38

geothermal he he did groundwater. Onto

9:41

the survey two of the a

9:43

courtesy of arms as quick at

9:45

the Google but I it basically

9:47

what I'm saying is it it's

9:49

dangerous. They're supposedly a super volcano

9:51

under Yellowstone anyway. like and you

9:53

just playing with fire if you're

9:55

messing around, especially in an area

9:57

you're not supposed to be in

9:59

Yellowstone. And you're all that, the

10:01

offspring. Let me try that. That's ridiculous.

10:03

Yeah, you're playing with magma to be

10:06

relevant, but I could actually been in

10:08

hot springs in Coast The Reagan. My

10:10

friends and I went there when we

10:12

are in our early twenties and we

10:15

went to multiple hot springs that were

10:17

within this one public. Park.

10:19

Do that the base of a volcano and we

10:21

actually saw the volcano erupts which is crazy hellboy

10:24

gas. Yeah I wasn't a huge eruption. does your

10:26

run out of the hot springs? We did run

10:28

out of the hot springs to see the volcano

10:30

because people were saying the volcano erupting but we

10:32

didn't run out because it was dangerous at all.

10:34

You could see those that have a very far

10:36

away and it was all set up in a

10:39

in a way where this was like a tourist

10:41

attraction. it was. i go down and want to

10:43

see resort but it was like a theme park.

10:45

almost they say with hot springs but I I

10:47

didn't enjoy it like I don't enjoy. Sitting in

10:49

like warm water, much more natural and

10:52

healing supposedly then not like a hot

10:54

tub or something. So I think pressure

10:56

at like it more than that. Yeah

10:58

yeah like a more than a hot

11:00

tub. But my question is what is

11:02

Pierce Brosnan I doing here is is

11:04

this some kind of audition for they

11:06

hit show Yellowstone? Legacy.

11:08

Trying to make make headlines along with

11:11

the word Yellowstone so that people either

11:13

think he's on that show or maybe

11:15

hey that's and in to get on

11:17

the show because that show is apparently

11:19

taken over the world will get maybe

11:22

he wants to replace Kevin Costner. A

11:24

given Kevin Costner is upset about this.

11:26

Did the geese senses this? No, no

11:28

I think Kevin Costner is done with

11:30

Yellowstone. I was a yeah yeah yeahs

11:32

A. He's pretty much done with Yellowstone.

11:35

He's got that to part western movie

11:37

that he has been. Working on for

11:39

a few years now. Is that not a

11:41

Yellowstone movie? It's not. He also movie know

11:43

a guy and so actually when I first

11:45

saw the headline about Pierce Brosnan I thought

11:48

it was like I did make that association

11:50

their peers, brother and Yellowstone. A Those are

11:52

the key words that stood out. So I

11:54

did think that this was a connection to

11:56

the series and he was going to enter

11:59

in his like. Character not replacing

12:01

Kevin Costner, but the Star Power.

12:04

Character. He should

12:06

do that. They should recreate what he really

12:08

dead on on the show Yellowstone. He said

12:10

stumble ends and villa like.i'll and hot spring

12:12

I'm on jump and he gets arrested. Big

12:15

time drama Now I be a good story

12:17

line. Yes yeah, big time drama In everybody's

12:19

telling you my. I'm. Gonna say

12:21

his name is our Billie and will

12:23

sit down and believe him there are

12:25

signs everywhere. there's just regular season get

12:28

arrested. And he goes fast. Arrested.

12:31

They can't arrest James Bond

12:33

with generous Billie Bond suspense

12:35

or a lance. And so

12:37

that that brings us to

12:39

our second. The story A

12:41

where we're going to say

12:43

out West Yeah this story

12:45

is about a Giants Volkswagen

12:47

beetle sized tumbleweed. That. Was

12:50

spotted hurdling. it's way down a

12:52

four lane road in California recently.

12:54

I guess this is our in

12:56

November and the video is. I

12:59

was posted to Twitter and fifty

13:01

says the mother of all tumble

13:03

weeds in Spanish and yet it

13:05

it. It is an enormous tumbleweed

13:07

and it got me doing some

13:10

Google in and and some think

13:12

and at first it was funny

13:14

but I realize how much of

13:16

a danger these tumbleweed could be.

13:19

I didn't realize. What a tumbleweed

13:21

was. Until we saw the story and

13:23

same I googled it. I was looking

13:25

into it and I'd learned a lot

13:27

about tumbleweed in a very short period

13:29

of time and how. Yes,

13:32

You're right. They're They're dangerous. Like you could get

13:34

trapped inside your home. Their. Been stories

13:36

of people who have had a tumbleweed outside

13:38

of their door or outside of their car

13:40

door and. We're not

13:42

able to open the door fully

13:44

and to like work your way

13:47

through this like thorny this all.

13:49

is is dangerous yeah and and

13:51

not just one sometimes it's it's

13:53

like an attack of them go

13:55

a tumbleweed is that die a

13:58

spore on this from wikipedia that

14:00

once it's mature and dry, it

14:02

detaches from its root or stem

14:04

and rolls due to the force

14:06

of the wind. And then it

14:08

disperses its seed. Yes, that's

14:10

actually part of its life cycle. And

14:13

it's essentially like seeding the soil as

14:15

it's rolling, which I thought was really

14:18

fascinating because it's actually serving a purpose as

14:20

it's doing this, I guess,

14:22

tropey thing that you see in

14:24

movies and people will say like,

14:26

it's a ghost town and there's a tumbleweed going through

14:29

it. There's like tumbleweeds

14:31

in here, but you don't realize this thing's

14:33

actually serving a purpose here. Right, well, yeah,

14:35

it's serving its own purpose, but it's kind

14:37

of like an invasive thing. It's

14:40

not really great for humans. And in

14:42

fact, have you heard of tumblegeddon

14:45

lands? Oh, please. In 2020, a

14:47

swarm of tumbleweeds took over a

14:49

stretch of Washington State Highway, and

14:52

these tumbleweeds piled up to 30

14:54

feet high in

14:56

some places. Cars and

14:58

trucks were trapped for hours,

15:01

and authorities dubbed it tumblegeddon.

15:03

Yeah, it's pretty wild. There's some more stories

15:05

of this too. Happened on

15:08

New Year's Eve at

15:10

one point where people actually rang

15:13

in the new year being trapped

15:15

inside their cars, and they were

15:18

later rescued. Also,

15:21

I watched a video of houses disappearing,

15:24

basically with, I don't know,

15:26

dozens of tumbleweeds all

15:29

over the lawn and

15:31

the house, and they need legit

15:33

construction crews almost to get rid of

15:35

them. This was really reminiscent

15:37

of the Molasses flood in

15:39

Boston that we covered a while ago, where

15:41

you hear about it the first time, and

15:43

it's kind of funny. And When you start

15:46

reading the details, you realize that this isn't

15:48

funny at all. This is terrifying and tragic.

15:50

This felt like along the same lines, where

15:52

a tumbleweed just felt like this goofy thing.

15:54

Like It's just bouncing along, and then you

15:56

hear these stories about these... Humble

16:00

humble get and then and how

16:02

people are trapped in. Later.

16:05

Life threatening situation. But.

16:08

Tim not all tumbleweed

16:10

are bad. I. Didn't realize

16:12

until looking into this a tumble weezer

16:14

actually edible. Did you know. And

16:17

how high? did not know this? It's their

16:19

edible. It can be cooked in the same

16:21

way when the plant is young. It can

16:23

be cooked in the same way that you'd

16:26

cook collard greens. so I'm guessing you know

16:28

sort of sauce. This tumbleweed. And

16:31

during the dust bowl of the nineteen thirties.

16:34

America's. Cattle. Were. Actually

16:36

saved from starvation because

16:38

they. Were. Able to eat.

16:42

This. Tumbleweed. That.

16:44

Would that was everywhere. So. While

16:46

I mean a they saved America's cattle, so

16:49

I'm just saying you get the good and

16:51

bad here. Thrill.

16:53

Throw. That's that's interesting. I can't

16:55

see myself, ah, trying one necessarily.

16:58

but hey, I don't know. I

17:00

haven't been in I in that

17:02

kind of climate in a while.

17:04

Maybe it's a delicacy in some

17:06

restaurants. And my last fact that

17:08

I found out about these tumbleweed

17:11

says you're familiar Tim at the

17:13

Ground Zero of Southern Nevada new

17:15

killer test sites, right? Sir.

17:17

Well, tumble weeds are always the

17:19

first plants to grow back after

17:21

they test. A nuclear

17:23

explosion. I can't say that surprises

17:26

me because it just looks like,

17:28

you know, like scraggly. You know,

17:30

dead grass. Anyway, well, that's a

17:33

good segue. Yes,

17:35

yes it is. So our

17:37

third story here and again

17:39

we're going to say out

17:41

west this is in Colorado

17:43

the owners of a Colorado

17:45

funeral home of were arrested

17:47

in early November Twenty twenty

17:49

three after nearly two hundred

17:51

decaying corpses were found. In properly

17:54

stored at their facility. Why do I

17:56

feel like we hear these stories? A

17:58

couple of times a year there. stories like

18:00

this often. I feel

18:03

like maybe the problem can can

18:05

get out of hand for some

18:08

people but I'm really curious

18:11

about John and Carrie Halford's

18:13

intentions when they started the

18:15

Return to Nature funeral home

18:17

which I can only picture

18:19

as kind of an ironic title

18:22

now. But they were arrested on

18:24

four felony charges including abuse of

18:26

a corpse, theft, money laundering, and

18:29

forgery according to

18:31

a statement from the district

18:33

attorney for Colorado's fourth judicial

18:36

district and they're being held

18:38

on bonds set at two million dollars. And

18:41

it is a very disturbing story too. There

18:43

are facts that that

18:45

the investigators didn't really want to talk

18:48

about with the media or even in

18:50

court because it's it's kind

18:52

of so I don't know I guess

18:54

gruesome and disturbing. But we'll go

18:56

over a little bit of it.

18:58

Actually Carrie Halford was in court

19:00

on Friday January 12th when a

19:02

judge agreed to unseal an affidavit

19:04

for one of the the funeral

19:06

homeowners where where these bodies were

19:08

found. Although the judge ordered that

19:11

the affidavit cannot include names, images,

19:13

and dates of death to

19:15

protect the victims and their families. But

19:18

they're basically accused of accepting

19:20

payment from families of the

19:23

deceased for cremations and

19:26

then piling bodies on top of each

19:28

other in the facility. And

19:30

they even gave families falsified

19:32

death certificates and bags of

19:34

concrete powder in place

19:36

of their actual loved ones ashes. And

19:38

then they forged death certificates. It was

19:41

ridiculous. I was wondering if this

19:43

was something that they had planned from the start

19:46

as like a fraud like a

19:48

scam or if it sort of developed

19:51

into something when they realized

19:54

I don't know maybe they weren't capable of doing certain

19:56

things or they realized hey we can make a lot

19:59

of money we don't actually have to do

20:01

the things that a normal funeral home would

20:03

do with the bodies. So I was curious

20:05

about that. If they entered into this with

20:08

the intent to fraud

20:10

and dupe their

20:12

their clientele? Well I'll

20:15

tell you this, I think the funeral

20:17

home opened in 2019 and in court

20:19

there were some text exchanges that were

20:22

between a couple that were introduced in court

20:24

as evidence, some of them dating all the

20:26

way back to 2020. And

20:29

so in one exchange John Halford

20:31

messaged his wife that they needed

20:33

to begin restoring the

20:35

building in Penrose and

20:38

he says options A.

20:40

Build a new machine ASAP, which

20:43

there's no explanation of what

20:45

machine he's talking about. B.

20:47

Dig a big hole and use

20:50

lie to I guess

20:52

decompose the bodies but then he says

20:54

where? C.

20:57

Dig a small hole and build a

20:59

large fire where? Once again ask that

21:02

question and then he says D. I

21:04

go to prison which is probably going

21:06

to happen. Not

21:09

a very smart move to be sending those

21:11

as text messages with it on your mind

21:13

that you could possibly be going to prison.

21:16

Yeah I can only imagine he was

21:18

somewhat joking about that but still it's

21:20

pretty clear in those early text messages

21:22

that they knew they were doing something

21:24

illegal. Yeah they knew that they were

21:27

doing something illegal at that point again

21:29

I'm still wondering did it just

21:32

snowball from an incident that happened

21:34

one time and then they realized if we do this

21:36

numerous times then it's an easy way to make

21:38

money and then all of a sudden they have all

21:40

of these bodies like almost 200 bodies. Well

21:43

we haven't heard their defense yet but

21:46

I would imagine there's some

21:48

defense that starts with them

21:52

needing money and starting a

21:54

new business or something like that but

21:57

this is really the grossest part here. This is

21:59

from another text message from John.

22:02

He says, I want to take a shower

22:04

as soon as I get back because while

22:06

I was making the transfer I got people

22:09

juice on me. Oh God. Yeah. And

22:11

then he says, want the double cheeseburger lettuce

22:13

wrapped in everything minus tomatoes please. In

22:16

the same text. Well

22:19

nothing makes me crave a

22:21

burger more than people juice.

22:24

Yeah. Yeah. So

22:26

investigators who entered the funeral home

22:28

last fall testified that they found

22:31

stacks of partially covered human remains

22:33

bodily fluid several inches deep on

22:35

the floor along with flies

22:37

and maggots. Nauseating.

22:40

It is. Nearly two dozen of the

22:42

bodies had death dates from 2019. 61

22:45

were from 2020. 16

22:48

from 22 and 40 were from 23 and

22:51

this includes adults, infants and

22:53

fetuses. And the

22:55

building was apparently 70 degrees at

22:58

the time investigators went in when it should have been

23:00

around 35 to 39 degrees. This

23:03

is one part that is really upsetting.

23:05

The remains of a US army sergeant

23:07

who was supposed to be buried

23:09

at Pikes Peak National Cemetery. His

23:12

remains were actually found inside the building,

23:15

which led investigators to exhume the

23:17

casket of whom they said was

23:20

this army sergeant. And

23:22

inside they found a woman inside

23:25

the military casket. Right. So

23:28

it's just something that's out

23:30

of control. It gets out of control at some

23:32

point and they're not even trying to make

23:35

it function as a

23:37

functional funeral home. Yeah. It's

23:40

bad. That's bad. Yeah. regulations

23:45

when it comes to licensing funeral

23:47

parlors, funeral homes, funeral directors. And

23:50

some of them don't even have the same

23:54

standards or certificates needed that other

23:56

states have. So I think that's one of

23:58

the reasons why this keeps happening apparently. After

24:00

looking into this, it keeps happening in Colorado. So

24:03

it's an easy way to fraud

24:07

people because people need a funeral.

24:10

Everyone dies. People need to have

24:12

that facility if your

24:14

loved one is passed. So just tighten

24:16

up the regulations. Yeah, there's

24:18

probably something they got to do

24:20

there in Colorado. Yeah, it seems

24:22

like these Halfords here sort of

24:25

dove through these loopholes

24:28

headfirst and

24:30

tried to get away with it. But yeah,

24:33

that is just disturbing. I

24:35

feel sorry for the families

24:39

who enlisted the help of this

24:41

funeral home. I know, right? Like,

24:44

imagine that. You've contracted this

24:46

funeral home. One

24:48

of your family members has passed. And

24:51

now you have no option but

24:53

to move on. And

24:58

you're not going to have that moment again where

25:00

you can have the proper wake

25:03

or funeral for that person. So

25:05

what do you do? All you know now

25:07

is your loved one is one

25:10

of the 190 that was

25:12

stacked and just

25:14

decomposing. Unbelievable. And again,

25:16

the name of the funeral

25:18

home, Return to Nature Funeral

25:20

Home, like my

25:22

God. Yeah. That's absolutely just

25:24

absurd to me. And we'll be right back

25:27

after a quick word from our sponsors. Thanks

25:31

to our sponsors. And now we're back to the program. Well,

25:36

from one ugly story to another,

25:38

Lance, there's

25:41

a woman named Kathleen Murray in

25:43

Tasmania who won the

25:46

award of World's Ugliest

25:48

Lawn. And

25:50

this is according to the

25:52

town of Gotland, Sweden, who

25:54

organized this worldwide contest. And

25:57

apparently the contest started two years ago

25:59

to encourage locals to conserve water

26:01

amid a near disastrous drought in

26:03

the town. And this year

26:05

the contest went global. So

26:07

lawns in the US, Canada, Britain, Germany,

26:09

France, and Croatia were all competing for

26:13

these honors. But

26:15

Kathleen Murray's lawn in Tasmania

26:18

features sparse patches of yellow

26:20

grass, shrivel plants, and dry

26:23

divots caused by the

26:25

local bandicoots. You got to love

26:27

a local bandicoot. It is a,

26:30

I believe it's an endangered marsupial,

26:32

but either way, they

26:34

leave these divots

26:36

all over the

26:39

place and especially all over

26:41

Kathleen's lawn. I love,

26:44

love, love this story. It reminds me so

26:46

much of the time capsule story, the lost

26:48

time capsule story in Sheldon, Iowa

26:50

that we covered last year. There's

26:53

this notion of taking something that

26:56

has been, I guess,

26:58

like a negative thing for people with droughts

27:00

and everything. But they, I love it when

27:02

people have a sense of humor about something

27:04

is what I'm trying to say. And

27:07

this is definitely something that comes

27:09

with a large amount of humor. They

27:11

have like an international jury panel from

27:14

all over the world that judged us, which

27:17

I think is amazing. And the

27:19

picture of Kathleen in her lawn is

27:21

hilarious. She's got her t-shirt on that

27:23

says, the world's ugliest lawn. And she's

27:25

so trapped. Yeah, it's definitely

27:27

an ugly lawn. And Kathleen definitely

27:30

has a good sense of humor too. She's

27:32

got a couple of funny quotes here. She

27:34

says, the bandicoots love digging. That's

27:36

how they find their favorite food. Now

27:39

my backyard looks like a real life

27:41

hungry hippo game. Hungry, hungry hippo game.

27:43

And then she goes on, I used

27:45

to think the bandicoots were wildlife of

27:48

mass destruction invading my lawn. But now

27:50

I see that they're, they've actually liberated

27:52

me from ever having to mow it

27:54

again. And she

27:57

says, I'm all for guilt free weekends,

27:59

especially since. since my ex-husband left with the

28:01

lawnmower back in 2016. It's

28:04

hilarious. Good for you,

28:06

Kathleen. That's so funny.

28:08

That's so funny. And that t-shirt that I

28:10

mentioned is apparently a pre-owned t-shirt, bearing the

28:12

phrase proud owner of the world's ugliest lawn.

28:15

So, okay, I think it's fantastic. Do

28:18

you know, did you see anything that

28:20

shows how these lawns are discovered in the

28:23

first place? No. Like,

28:25

do people submit their lawns? I would have to imagine

28:27

they're submitted, yeah. Man, I might just

28:29

go and destroy my lawn to submit it. So

28:32

from one kind of animal

28:34

to a reptile lance,

28:37

there was a venomous snake

28:40

found in a drawer

28:42

recently. And according

28:44

to the New York Post, this is

28:47

actually the

28:49

second most deadly venomous

28:52

snake in the world. And

28:54

so it's an eastern brown snake.

28:56

They're fast moving, aggressive, and known

28:59

for their bad temper, according to

29:01

Australian Geographic. And they're

29:03

native to eastern and central Australia, as well

29:05

as New Guinea, and they can grow up

29:07

to seven feet in length. And

29:10

so that's what happened recently. There

29:12

was a venomous snake found in

29:15

an underwear draw of a three-year-old

29:17

kid. How? How does this

29:19

happen? Good question. Where does the

29:21

snake come in from, and why is it now

29:24

hiding out in a drawer? Maybe it's

29:27

a cool dark space, so I imagine that's part of

29:29

the allure of being in a

29:31

drawer. I don't know. Well,

29:34

this is Australia, right? Yes, so

29:36

there's a snake catcher in Australia

29:39

who was called, his name's Mark

29:41

Pelly. He's also known as the

29:43

snake hunter. Famous. Yeah.

29:47

And so he was called to

29:49

this home where this five-foot eastern

29:51

brown snake was in this woman's

29:53

three-year-old son's underwear drawer. And

29:57

apparently what he believes

29:59

is... is that she

30:01

was doing laundry outside on

30:03

the clothes line and

30:05

folded the clothes and was

30:08

unaware of the snake being in those

30:11

clothes when she brought

30:13

in the clothes, folded them and put

30:15

them away in the drawer. This

30:18

guy, Pelley, says, I've seen people carry

30:20

brown snakes in their handbag or otherwise

30:23

shopping bags. One day this could happen

30:25

to you. Well, it's

30:27

definitely, definitely not going to happen to me. So

30:29

I don't know who the you is, who he's

30:31

referring to. But I think surprisingly,

30:34

this Mark Pelley guy became

30:36

a more fascinating part of the story to

30:38

me because he's a

30:41

registered nurse. He's a

30:43

mental health professional. He has a

30:45

master's degree in mental health, a

30:47

bachelor of psychology and management and

30:49

a bachelor of nursing. And

30:52

he conducts private mental health assessments

30:54

for court and workplaces. And

30:56

he's also a

30:58

registered immunization nurse who runs

31:00

his own vaccine clinic called

31:03

the Vaccine Nation, all

31:06

while being a famous

31:09

snake catcher. So as I

31:11

was looking into this, I was like, who's this guy? He

31:13

must be like this, you

31:16

know, hyper fringy, like

31:18

I was thinking crocodile hunter type guy,

31:20

but he's not. It's almost

31:22

like that's his hobby going to find

31:24

these or it's almost like his

31:27

hobby is rescuing and capturing these snakes. Right. How

31:29

do you get into that going from the medical

31:31

field? How did he learn that he was good

31:33

at that? He

31:35

has to come on crawlspace. He's clearly

31:38

branded himself as the snake hunter, which

31:40

I have to imagine was directly inspired

31:42

by the crocodile hunter. But

31:45

yeah, he's got his own site,

31:47

snakehunter.com.au. He's got

31:49

a little bit of a TikTok following. So

31:51

yeah, he's kind of out there as a

31:53

snake hunter type guy. Apparently

31:56

these eastern brown snakes are kind of

31:58

lightweight as well. So that's how. It

32:00

could happen without people noticing interesting.

32:03

Oh look folding it up in clothing. Yeah,

32:05

I guess so They weigh next

32:07

to nothing. He says one one one minute.

32:09

You're just slithering along and the next

32:11

year in a drawer Check

32:14

out the video to it's kind of crazy. I almost

32:16

wanted to give like a trigger warning at the top

32:18

of this Yeah, because people who have

32:20

fear of snakes like that's kind of Debilitating

32:24

but are do you fear of snakes?

32:26

Why you have to be snakes? I

32:31

don't think I personally really have a fear of snakes, but

32:33

I haven't really been dropped into a pit of them or

32:36

anything like that Yeah, yeah, I really

32:38

haven't had enough contact with them to have a

32:40

fear like yeah, I don't know see

32:42

him I think they're cool. Like how does how does

32:44

that work? You know, how does all that mechanisms? How

32:47

do all the mechanisms work to have it slither

32:50

the way it does like all of those muscle

32:52

contractions? I think it's a fascinating concept

32:54

a fascinating Development

32:57

of just a living thing.

32:59

Yeah, I agree and then they shed their

33:01

skin. That's a kind of cool. It's a

33:03

badass. Yeah But right

33:05

now like I'm looking over like in the corner

33:08

over there Like if I saw a snake over

33:10

there and probably I'd probably get on the horn

33:12

to mark I said crikey bloke what you want

33:14

me to do about it. I'm over here in

33:16

Australia I'm in the

33:18

land down under and I sound

33:20

like I'm cockney Apologies.

33:22

Yeah, apologies But

33:27

you can follow him right on tiktok. He's

33:29

got a bunch of like ice bath stuff, too Sorry,

33:31

I'm just I'm just kind of obsessed with this guy

33:33

now that he couldn't he's got so many things going

33:36

on he

33:38

does seem to have a lot of careers and Lance

33:41

that brings us to our next

33:44

story about an escaping emu named

33:46

Esmeralda who escaped from

33:48

her Alabama home for the third time

33:50

and was spotted running loose around town

33:53

before Returning to her home and this

33:55

is from January of 2023 in the

33:57

town of You

34:01

say emu and I'm

34:03

on board because they're amazing animals.

34:06

You say escaped emu and

34:09

I'm even further interested. Esmerald is a great

34:11

name for an emu but escaped for the

34:13

third time and I'm hooked. I'm in. After

34:16

the first time your emu escapes, don't you

34:19

have a complete reassessment of their area and

34:22

ensure that this isn't going to happen again? And

34:25

then after the second time. Yeah, I would

34:27

think that's something you got to sort of

34:29

lock up a little bit more or fence

34:31

up or whatever. But

34:34

the owner of Esmeralda and

34:36

her sister Ursula, this

34:39

owner's name is Sue Sanford.

34:42

And Sue says that Esmeralda is the

34:45

friendlier bird of the pair but also

34:47

the more adventurous one. And

34:50

apparently the two sisters reportedly

34:52

had a domestic dispute. And

34:55

that resulted in Esmeralda making a

34:57

swift exit from her home. So

35:00

I think Esmeralda is, like you

35:03

said, Esmeralda is the

35:05

more friendly one but I feel like she's

35:07

the more empathetic one and

35:10

things really affect her more because this

35:12

is the third time and she just

35:14

wants to leave these situations that upset

35:16

her which is kind of sad. So

35:19

I feel like her sister should maybe

35:21

reflect on this and think to herself,

35:23

hey, what's something

35:25

bad happens to my sister because I'm

35:29

provoking her to leave. I'm

35:31

starting this domestic situation. And,

35:34

you know, after all, come on, this

35:36

is blood relations here. Yeah.

35:39

And Esmeralda had previously escaped a

35:41

few years ago and became a

35:43

local celebrity when she escaped for

35:45

a second time this past December.

35:48

And then she just did it again. And

35:51

Sue says I get a lot of comments because

35:53

now she's very well known from December. So

35:55

of course right away people say not again.

35:58

And Esmeralda's latest. Keep

36:00

proved short lived as she

36:03

did returned home. On.

36:05

Our own. Which. Is kind of funny

36:07

to me? Yeah, feels like as morale the

36:09

wanted to reconcile with her sister. And

36:11

wanted to sort of join the flock again.

36:14

Probably cool down a little bit. Like my

36:16

personal opinion, like I said, is that she's

36:18

the more empathetic or emotional one, so she

36:20

just needed to like blow off some steam.

36:23

Yeah, I think so. that's what the City

36:25

said in it's an update to it's Facebook

36:27

post. They said that after reflecting on her

36:29

actions while she was on the run, she

36:32

decided that she should remain with her sister

36:34

in the flock together. Since

36:36

ah, hopefully they are reconcile their differences

36:38

as Morale The And Ursula. I hope

36:41

so. I hope so. I was curious

36:43

about whether having an emu as a

36:45

pet was even a good thing in

36:47

the first place. And apparently the really

36:49

good thing. And it's recommended that you

36:51

have more than one, so you need

36:54

two or three. You need to make

36:56

sure that there's a flock to their

36:58

social unhappy? Yes, I think so. their

37:00

social. So they have a good disposition.

37:03

They're. Able to interact with each other. I

37:05

guess just the way it would be with

37:07

any other Pat Like the more they interact

37:09

with other animals, the better that they'll be.

37:11

The calmer they'll be the healthier they'll be.

37:13

Think it's time we introduce a an emu

37:15

here to the household and see if Eric

37:17

will take to the to the emu the

37:19

a nearly two I other. that's pretty much

37:21

the same reasons why we had a second

37:23

get over here. Lance: Similar to anemia. And

37:27

will be right back. After a quick word

37:29

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37:34

program. And.

37:37

I sell if you weren't. To.

37:39

Grossed out about the funeral home

37:42

story earlier. you will be. With.

37:44

Our final story here about and

37:46

exploding toilet at a Florida Dunkin

37:49

Donuts. Yeah. I was thinking

37:51

about how to like intro this story

37:53

Flakes hate him. You love your Duncan.

37:55

You'll have your Duncan coffee, You'll have

37:57

you have entered. Really, I don't either.

37:59

Yes, That that was in a that

38:01

was in a a a proper intro to

38:04

the story. There are also doing this weird

38:06

ad campaign. That. Is taking the

38:08

guilt out of drinking ice coffee in the

38:10

winter in New England? Have you heard this

38:12

ad campaign? It's not gonna land with me

38:15

because I have no guilt about it. I'll

38:19

drink a nice guy if I go to.good a

38:21

brag and again nice coffee and winters summers bring

38:23

of automatic nor city have guilt about it. yeah

38:25

I think that's you'd you'd Now that that's

38:27

my problem with this ad campaign will get back

38:30

to the exploding toilet been affected by the

38:32

says that's my problem of the sad campaign is

38:34

that they're introducing guilt that was never there

38:36

in the first place. So now people who didn't

38:38

have guilt there's probably a percentage of them

38:40

school say A was a even supposed to be

38:42

feel guilty about this. I didn't I didn't think

38:45

that this was even a thing but apparently someone.

38:47

In their marketing department thought that this is a good

38:49

ad campaign. And are to me. Even.

38:52

Have a Dunkin in Florida seems a

38:54

little out of place and I know

38:56

that they took forever to move west

38:58

and they eventually moved all the way

39:00

to California. some of them but I'm

39:02

or of a few he anyway but

39:04

at allow it it does still feel

39:07

little bit at a place to me.

39:09

So this fella Paul Kerouac is seeking

39:11

more than a hundred thousand dollars in

39:13

a lawsuit that he filed recently in

39:15

state court in Orlando and he claims

39:17

he suffered a quote severe and long

39:19

term injuries and quotes phone the explosion.

39:22

Of a toilet in the men's room

39:24

of a Dunkin in Winter Park, Florida

39:26

for footpath little over a year ago.

39:28

I mean it goes without saying that

39:30

this exploding toilet. Did could the him

39:32

with parts of the toilet. Also. Feces,

39:35

Urine. Yet. So what

39:38

I'm wondering is how it exploded. Like

39:40

maybe you know, as a sewage backup

39:42

or something like that, but it sounds

39:44

like part of that oil it flew

39:46

off to. like to thought but like

39:48

a bomb in there like a, you

39:50

know, before firecrackers or out with this

39:52

Ah, I'm just like a sewage back

39:54

up. That was gonna happen at some

39:56

point, no matter what. Yeah, I was

39:58

thinking about that too. It's. It's interesting,

40:00

right? Like there's probably a ton of

40:03

gas that's being generated

40:05

in the sewage system. And

40:08

if there's a backup, then this pressure is

40:10

building and building. And I

40:12

imagined this moment where he flushed

40:15

and for whatever reason that was what

40:17

triggered it, but maybe it

40:19

opened up a gas pocket or something, but

40:21

that's like porcelain. That has to be

40:23

like a powerful explosion that's just

40:25

naturally generated. You know what I mean?

40:28

If it wasn't some sort of like cherry bomb

40:31

or something or some introduced

40:33

explosive device, this

40:35

is a naturally generated gas

40:38

explosion. So

40:41

the toilet farted is what you're saying? It's,

40:45

I wasn't thinking about it in those terms, but I think

40:47

that's a really good way to put it. And

40:51

you don't wanna be, apparently, you don't wanna be around a

40:53

toilet when it farts. Sorry,

40:56

good listeners. You know,

40:58

what's weird about this story is an employee told

41:00

Mr. Karawak that they

41:03

were aware of the, quote, problem

41:05

with the toilet since there had

41:08

been previous incidents. The lawsuit says

41:10

there's no further explanation on what

41:13

previous incidents there were, but the fact that

41:15

there was a problem with the toilet and

41:18

that there were previous incidents has

41:20

me believing that Mr. Karawak is gonna

41:22

win his court case. Absolutely,

41:25

and he should. Physical damage to

41:27

his person is one thing,

41:29

but is he ever walking in a public bathroom

41:31

again and not thinking about this?

41:34

Is he ever walking in a public bathroom

41:36

again, period? It does sound like it actually

41:38

messed with him mentally, at least that's

41:40

what his lawsuit's claiming. So

41:43

it claims that he did suffer bodily injury,

41:45

but he has required mental health care and

41:47

counseling since the incident in January, 2022, two

41:49

years ago. Wow,

41:52

wow, I'm sure his lawyer was like, go

41:54

seek counseling ASAP. You need the

41:56

counseling. We Need to get that on the

41:58

record and stay away from public toilet. I'm

42:00

Dunkin Donuts which rebranded as Dunkin is a

42:02

huge company and imagine that they are from

42:05

Canton, Massachusetts which I thought was like a

42:07

dig at Massachusetts for some reason. Why they

42:09

had to put that in there like a

42:11

like all crappy things have been in his

42:14

come from Massachusetts advocates is where the company

42:16

started right? Yeah, but I felt like I

42:18

know I'm being rational about it but I

42:20

just felt like as a dig at Massachusetts

42:22

because of the Florida thing and I feel

42:25

like Florida's like come on enough like you're

42:27

always making fun of Florida. So how just

42:29

by the way this that's not just us,

42:31

This company you from Massachusetts. It's a huge

42:34

company and I don't know the numbers here

42:36

but I'm going to say a multi billion

42:38

dollar company and I'm sure that this franchise

42:40

owner. In this particular store

42:43

had a. Opportunity.

42:45

To bring in a plumber. And and

42:47

six, the problem with the toilet

42:50

Now. How much would

42:52

that have possibly cost? In.

42:54

Comparison. To what? Is. Being

42:56

asked for in this lawsuit a couldn't

42:59

have cost more than a couple thousand

43:01

dollars. Typically these duncan this have two

43:03

bathrooms so you could shut one down

43:05

and only operate. Under. With

43:08

one restaurant. Mild.

43:10

This one's being fixed. The.

43:12

Really wouldn't have been like a big deal. Where.

43:14

Did the drop in priorities? Where

43:16

did that happen here? Let's a

43:18

great question. I'm now. I do

43:20

know from having worked at a

43:22

Dunkin Donuts when I was sixteen,

43:25

I'm that some of them are

43:27

corporate owned and some of them

43:29

are franchises. So this one maybe

43:31

was a franchise or have owned

43:33

by a person independent really of

43:35

the company they can. It's a

43:37

flake. Rent the the name Dunkin

43:39

Donuts. The So

43:41

maybe that's what was going on this one and it

43:43

wasn't a corporate one? I don't know. But I'm

43:45

being such a big company. As

43:47

you mentioned Lance, a multi billion

43:49

dollar company that Dunkin Donuts is,

43:51

you'd think they'd have better coffee.

43:54

I mean, the coffee is not good.

43:56

Sorry Duncan fans out there. I'm not

43:58

sorry copies not. I'm not saying mike

44:00

I'm a coffee snob, but it's that

44:02

a to drink. And

44:04

in stop and with the dark leafy.

44:07

Just because your coffee is super dark

44:09

doesn't mean it's good. They at some

44:11

point it's just can be tarred. hot

44:13

car or I starved and that's why

44:15

your toilet. Block

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Fi Food or have. To.