Nov. 11, 2025

Texas Tech Tortilla Throws Tossed! PLUS 95 year old Taylor Swift Fan

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Texas Tech fans face new rules after tortilla-throwing leads to fines; Spanish police bust a gang stealing restaurant chairs; a woman reunites with her father and 11 half-siblings after decades apart; the American Museum of Natural History resumes sleepover events post-pandemic; and a 95-year-old Taylor Swift fan in a retirement home starts a fan club. Despite no response from Swift, the community finds joy in their shared enthusiasm.

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey, I'm Johnny Mack and good news.

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If you're with the Fun Police, Hi, I'm Johny mackrom

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five good news stories. Yeah, fun Police fans are gonna

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be excited about this one. So at Texas Tech, they

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had a tradition throwing tortillas. Yes, at kickoff, fans would

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throw tortillas into the sky. Well, turns out that the

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Red Raiders have been penalized once too often. During a

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recent forty two to seventeen victory over Kansas, the refs

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flagged the team twice for unsportsmanlike conduct after tortillas rained

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down from the stands. Then the Big Twelve find Texas

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Tech twenty five grand for the tortillas. They also find Kansas.

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Why Kansas claim there was a pocket knife thrown from

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the crowd that wasn't true. Well, Kirby, the athletic director,

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says enough is enough. Fans will be told to throw

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away their tortillas before entering the stadium. Anyone caught tossing

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a tortilla will lose their ticket privilege for the rest

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of the year. Kirby says it's on him. He said,

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I leaned into the throwing of the tortilla at the

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beginning of the football season. Now I must ask everyone

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to stop. Coach McGuire, who once encouraged the tradition, says

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I leaned into it also, I believe in tradition. Both

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men say we cannot risk letting our actions penalize our

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football team. The stakes are too high, or the rest

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could just not call the penalty, just saying is the

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idea to have fun. Meanwhile, in Spain, police have broken

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up a criminal ring. The criminal ring was targeting restaurant chairs.

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Seven people arrested for stealing more than eleven hundred chairs.

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You didn't think I was going to say eleven hundred

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eleven hundred chairs from outdoor seating areas at bars and restaurants.

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In two months, six men and one woman hit eighteen

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different places across Madrid, sneaking in at night and stealing

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entire stacks of metal and plastic seating. I'm not laughing

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at the crime, I'm laughing at the freezing. Police estimate

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that the chair heist was worth about sixty thousand euros.

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Good job, Madrid East Department. Good news for a woman

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who found her family so way back when. When Louise

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was eight she found out the man she thought was

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her father wasn't her father. Louise's mom was in a

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relationship living together with another man for about a year

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before finding out she was pregnant. When Louise was a child,

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mom would say that real dad was irresponsible, probably in

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prison or maybe even dead. Louise always want to know

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who her father was. In twenty ten, she placed an

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ad in the lost Touch column of the newspaper which

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said I'm trying to trace a Gary who lived in

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the local town in the late sixties. Three years later,

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she got a call from a woman named Mary Ann

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who said she was Louise's half sister. Turns out, Graham,

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whose dad is now eighty one years old, he found

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the ad when googling his own name. He wondered what

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had happened to Louise. He decided to send an intermediary

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to get in touch. They were reunited after four decades.

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Louise met her eleven new half siblings from across the world.

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Turns out, Graham father twelve children by seven women. Louis

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he now has eleven siblings, but said to hear her

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real father say I love you was very moving. She

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says I felt complete. We hit it off straight away.

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I feel like I've known him forever. Remember that movie

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Night at the museum, Well, if you want to live

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that sort of the American Museum of Natural History is

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bringing back sleepovers. They had to stop this during the pandemic,

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but it's back now. Museum President Sean warns you things

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don't come alive at night. I haven't seen t Rex

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up and around, but it's still fun to sleepover at

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the museum. Tickets two hundred and twenty five dollars a person.

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Sean says, yeah, it's not a trivial price point, but

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a sleepover in the museum is really a unique experience.

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If you want something a little less pricey, you could

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sleepover at the Intrepid Museum. That's the aircraft carrier that's

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over on the Hudson River. Ninety nine dollars overnight. Sewan

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also says don't get carried away with the movie Night

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at the museum. He points out there's no Egyptian wing here.

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We have sections that cover Egypt, but people think there's

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like mummies and stuff, which we don't have. And Frank,

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he's ninety five years old. He's into Taylor Swift. He's

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at the Remington Heights retirement community. He was chatting with

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a staff member who complained that Taylor Swift had never

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written back to her fan letters. Frank said, I know

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some people. He started his own Taylor Swift fan club.

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People across the country started joining in. Frank wound up

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on TV wearing an I Love Taylor button, orange Swifty bracelets,

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and even a Taylor Swift license plate attached to his walker.

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They're going to send care package to Taylor and Travis.

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Frank says, we're having a wonderful time with this, and

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really that's the point. Whether you're fifteen or ninety five,

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like Frank, it's never too late to be part of

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something joyful. Nobody's heard from Taylor yet. I hope that happens,

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and what it does, I will tell you about it,

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because this is five good news stories and you have

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an awesome day.