July 26, 2024

Are those 100 snakes in your pants?

Show Notes
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00:11 Retired Couple's Texas Roadhouse Adventure
01:25 Inspired by Grey's Anatomy: A Neurosurgeon's Journey
02:22 Mass Dolphin Rescue at Cape Cod
02:48 Hollywood Producer Rescues Mustangs
03:37 Man Caught Smuggling Snakes

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Calaroga Shark Media. Hi there, Johnny Mack with five good

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News Stories. A retired couple. They're making the rounds. They're

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trying to visit every Texas Roadhouse restaurant in the United States.

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I've been to one of them, and I thought it

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was pretty good. Mike and Judy started this back in

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two thousand and three. Wow, they're from a place in Virginia.

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They first went to Texas Roadhouse in two thousand and

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three when Judy's brother took them to one in Knoxville.

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After going to about thirty seven different Texas Roadhouses, Mike

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looked at the couple's credit card and started a spreadsheet

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to keep track. Mike told USA Today, I was like, Okay,

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let's see how many we can go to. In twenty

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eighteen and twenty nineteen, they went to nearly one hundred.

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At last check, they've been to four hundred and thirty

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four of them. He says. They're supposed to be between

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six hundred and fifty and seven hundred and the United

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States alone, so we've knocked down quite a few of them.

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Mike says, it's good food, I hope. So if you've

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been to four hundred of them. We don't like fancy food.

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We don't like what they call fine dining. It's just

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too rich and it's not worth the price to start with.

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To us, he enjoys the Texas Roadhouses six ounce sirloin

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with salad and baked sweet potatoes, but because he goes

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to so many of them, he likes to switch things up. Now.

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He typically orders sirloin, pork chops, the pulled pork, and

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the chicken tenders. Judy, his wife, typically gets the shrimp

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and chicken dishes, sometimes ribs. A man was inspired to

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become a neurosurgeon by watching Grey's Anatomy. Steven is now

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thirty five. He first watched the show in high school.

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When he was in the fourth year of his residency

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program at Duke University Hospital, there was an announcement that

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the show's producers were recruiting medical consultants to work on

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season nineteen. Stephen jumped at it. He said, I was

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interested in it immediately because watching Grace Anatomy in high

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school inspired me to get into neurosurgery. He was selected

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to be a consultant, providing advice on scriptwriting and guiding actors,

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and after a successful debut in twenty twenty two. They

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kept him on a right for season twenty as well.

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He's now in the sixth year of his residency program.

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He even appeared as an extra in one episode. He explained,

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I'd be consultant on what type of injury he could

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bring two characters working in different medical departments together. For example,

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if they needed a reason for a neurosurgeon and a

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cardiotheratic specialist to be in a room together, I'd come

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up with the injury that meant they were both needed.

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Oh man, that's so fun. One hundred and twenty five

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dolphins were stranded off Cape Cod One Rescue organization calls

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it the largest single mass stranding event in decades. The

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dolphins were herded in highly coordinated response effort to encourage

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their movement back to deeper waters, first on foot, than

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switching to boating efforts as the water returned to high tide.

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It was a twelve hour, exhausting response in the unrelenting sun,

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but the team was able to overcome the challenges and

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give the dolphins their best chance at survival. Meanwhile, a

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former Hollywood producer turned rancher is rescuing mustangs and wild donkeys.

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From being sold at auction. Claire said she first became

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aware that the West wild mustangs are being rounded up

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by the Bureau of Land Manager meant and sold that auction.

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She realized this meant that horse families were being separated

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against their will. She founded Skydog Ranch and Sanctuary, intending

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to provide nine thousand acres of grazing land where mustangs

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and wild donkeys can roam in familial peace for the

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rest of their days. She uses a network of photographers

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to track members of horse families and even herds, and

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uses the money made through her nonprofit operations to buy

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the horses at auctions and then they're reunited at her ranch.

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She says, it's kind of like being a wild horse

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detective if we rely on the photographers who go out

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in the wild. There are certain herds, especially in Oregon,

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where people name horses as they become well known on

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these Facebook pages. All right, I got a question, are

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there was one hundred snakes in your pants or you

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know the rest of the joke? Yeah, man will stop

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by customs trying to enter China from Hong Kong, six

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draw string bags sealed with tape were reportedly found stuffed

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in the man's pockets as he tried to go through

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the checkpoint undetected customs was like umm No. Once opened,

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each bag was found to contain living snakes in all

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kinds of shapes, sizes, and colors. After counting, a total

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of one hundred four snakes was found. Some of the

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snakes included a milk snake, a Western hognose snake, a

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corn snake, a Texas rat snake, and a bull snake.

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