Oct. 18, 2025

A self-driving Waymo car is pulled over for making an illegal U-turn

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1) Amelia from Philadelphia becomes the first American to win gold in the Cheese Monger Olympics in France. 2) Rico, a dog rescued from a Portuguese pound, now helps track lost pets and animals in England. 3) Marcus, a 12-year-old, returns a 60th home run baseball to Seattle Mariners’ Cal Raleigh in exchange for signed memorabilia and experiences. 4) Tom opens a Bozo the Clown museum, fulfilling a lifelong passion dating back to 1969. 5) In California, a self-driving Waymo car is pulled over for making an illegal U-turn, highlighting challenges in ticketing autonomous vehicles.

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Calaruga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Chiney Mack with five

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goodoo stories. Now in France, cheese has its own museum,

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there's a hospital ward for people who get sick eating

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French cheese, and of course they have the Cheesemonger Olympics. Now,

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if you're like, what's a cheesemonger, A cheesemonger is the

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person who sources and sells cheese. While congratulations to Amelia.

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She is the first American to win gold in the

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Cheesemonger Olympics. She's from Philadelphia. She learned the profession at

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the Philly Cheese School. She's been cheesemongering for years. She

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told CBS News. My teammate Courtney and I are the

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first all female team USA. They had never sent two

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girls before. They beat out cheese stronghold nations like Switzerland, Spain, Italy,

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and of course France. She had to compete in four events.

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The events are a blind tasting, the perfect cut, a

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cheese sculpture, and a one hundred centimeter square plateau centered

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around a theme. She says in other parts of the world,

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like Europe, being a cheesemonger is seen as a really

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respected career in America. It's not as respected as it

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should be. It's definitely skilled labor. We have to have

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an encyclopedic knowledge of the cheeses. In the case if

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you want to try some cheese, she recommends that point

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reyis Formstead in California, who's Bay Blue is the perfect

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first time with blue cheese. You could open to find

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and don't even have to pay to import it. All right,

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that's cool. Good news for Rico the dog. Rico the

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dog was days away from being euthanized when Rachel, who

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runs a dog training school, paid two hundred dollars to

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rescue him from a Portuguese dog pound. She told the news,

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I saw this picture online of this really cute black

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and tan dog in Portugal and they said he only

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two days to live. I paid the fee to get

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him out of the pound, but they had found him

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at home, so I ended up paying him and bringing

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him over to England. She took him home and discovered

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he's really good at tracking. It was like hide and seek.

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Now Rico is being used to track down lost pets

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and animals which escaped from their enclosures and probably wind

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up as the fifth story on this podcast more often

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than not, including a runaway Campabara. Now Rico is training

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other dogs across the world to also rescue pitts. That's awesome.

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Cal Rale from the Seattle Mariners met a twelve year

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old Marcus, who had wound up with Cal's sixtieth home

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run baseball. Marcus gave it back to the Mariners in

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exchange for gifts and experiences. That's nice, kid. You could

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have probably walked in that thing off. Marcus was there

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at the game, sitting with his dad, and the baseball

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landed in their section. After Cal hit the home run,

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it ricocheted off. Multiple hands came to arrest. Marcus said,

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at lands in, this guy named Glenn's hands, I go

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for a high five and just gives me the ball.

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In that moment, I was just surprised that Dad said

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it happened so quick. He was crying. I was in shock.

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Within moments, Marcus and Dad were ushered away by Mariner's staff. Yeah,

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I'm sure they wanted that baseball. Dad said. By the

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time he rails, what happened that he hit a home run,

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He's touching history the sixtieth ball. The Mariners escort us

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away and everything's a blur. The Mariners people asked, Hey,

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what do we gotta do to get this baseball from you?

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Dad said, this is your moment. I'm not gonna tell

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you what to do. You make the decision. I'll support you.

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The kid decided to trade the ball for a signed

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bat and tickets to the Dodgers game. He's also given

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field access with his whole family to batting practice. Marcus

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told the News, I wanted to exchange the ball because

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some people wouldell it for a lot of money. But

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I just wanted to give it to cow. I think

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that's a special part of it. It's his sixtieh im

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run and all his family was here. You probably could

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have gotten more than tickets to the Dodger game. Kid,

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But hey, nice story. All right, Let's talk about Tom.

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He's very passionate about Bozo the Clown. He's been passionate

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about Bozo the Clown since his mom got him a

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bendable Bozo the Clown toy back in nineteen sixty nine.

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He has now opened up a museum called the Boseium.

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Love It. Tom said, I don't know how it happened.

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I really don't. I can't explain it. It's just been

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piece by piece, day by day, and it's been fun.

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He is a self proclaimed bosologist. He has written the

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book on Boso and he's now opened the Boseum, eight

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hundred square feet on Douglas Avenue, and says, once it's

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all set up, I think this would be pretty cool.

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I want people to remember the fun. At sixty one

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years old, he's looking to the future, hoping one person

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will take over the collection someday. He said, it'd be

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nice if it stays together, but if it gets broken up,

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it doesn't matter. It'll all find its own place. And

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in California, the police pulled over a car for making

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an illegal U turn. Here's the problem. It was one

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of those self driving weaiymos. The Waimo made an I

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llegal U turn, but there was no driver behind the wheel,

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so there was no one to give a ticket to.

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They say their citation books don't have a box for robot.

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They had fun with this on social media. They wrote

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that's right, no driver, no hands, no clue, and they

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posted pictures of an officer peering into the driverless car.

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They contacted Wayboa to report a glitch. Some people were

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outraged the police didn't ticket the company. People also wanted

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to know how the police got the car to pull over.

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A local sergeant said they can only ticket a human

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driver or an operator for a moving violation, unlike parking

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tickets that can be left with the vehicle. However, next

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year a law kicks in allowing police to report moving

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violations to the DMV. They're trying to figure out how

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the old ticket driverless car is making illegal you turns.

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Welcome to the future, folks, and those here five good

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news stories for today, have a good one.