Chapter 1: What unusual stories are featured in this episode?
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Chapter 2: How does Florida continue to provide bizarre news stories?
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Chapter 3: What happened with the raccoon in the liquor store?
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It's all thanks to Laser Stories, the segment where we read weird news stories around the globe just like everyone else does, except we've got a laser. Those other tinnitus takers just don't. This first Laser Story is out of the great state of Florida.
We've just had so many lately from Florida.
Florida is really our MVP.
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Chapter 4: Why was the original Wizard of Oz considered a flop?
They pump it out.
A 38-year-old man named Ricky Puddlefry was being investigated by the cops. He knew that and had been in trouble with the law for some time. So when police paid him a visit, they were still a little surprised to see Ricky had a novelty doormat that said, come back with a warrant.
Oh, my gosh. If you say it in a doormat, it's real.
Here's a photo so my host can see it.
Oh, my God. Where did he buy this from? It looks like a little cute Etsy find. Yeah, it does.
Deputies didn't even knock on the door. They left and an hour later came back with an actual warrant.
Hooray!
All right. They listen.
They say Ricky had been posing as a real estate investor, creating fake documents that made it look like he owned a bunch of properties. He then used them as collateral to take out big loans to buy other houses. And then he'd rent those places out, pocket the money and never pay back the loans.
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Chapter 5: How has the Wizard of Oz become a success years later?
That's a scam.
Yeah, he is a smart guy.
I mean, obviously not. Not that smart.
So a cop said their financial crimes unit interviewed him and established enough probable cause to, quote, execute a search warrant, thereby satisfying the doormat's request.
Wow. Okay.
So Ricky is now facing forgery and grand theft charges.
I bet he's not going to put a comeback soon doormat.
No. In fact, when interviewed by a local newspaper, he said he's kicking himself for not buying a doormat that said, just go away. Yeah, do not arrest me. The cops have to listen to what the doormat said. Yeah. This next laser story is out of Richmond, Virginia. Animal control officers were called to a nearby shop early in the morning yesterday. The reason why?
According to the police report, a male raccoon had broken into the liquor store, got super hammered, and passed out in the bathroom.
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Chapter 6: What new job opportunities are emerging in the adult content industry?
It's not clear how he got in.
We're going streaking.
An employee just found him sprawled out on the bathroom floor the next morning, still completely unconscious, with two bottles of hooch open nearby. Oh, yeah.
His little paws are all sprayed out. Isn't this the second drunk raccoon story we've done this year?
Yeah, it's been a minute.
Remember, we did the one that was in a dumpster and got drunk.
Oh, yeah. Does everybody else want to get drunk with a raccoon? I don't know. Like side by side?
Maybe raccoons have a problem. Yeah. You know, maybe we need to start a little organization for them.
The problem is not enough raccoons. We need to make this a party.
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Chapter 7: How is the IRS involved with OnlyFans accounts?
Yeah. It's kind of lonely. Being a raccoon, though, he also knocked over a bunch of other bottles off the shelves.
Being a raccoon or a drunk raccoon?
Both. Some of them ended up breaking, and then he started licking the booze up off the floor.
Come on, man. We've all been there buddy here before we've all been there and he eventually just over served himself Nobody was even there to hold his little raccoon back in the photo. He's alone in the bathroom Let that happen to your record.
No, I wouldn't it's hard to tell from the photo but animal control described him as very intoxicated and they had trouble getting him to stand the next day and Do they make the drunk raccoons try to walk in a straight line to touch your little nose Officials let him sleep it off in an animal shelter then released him back into the wild.
Oh, man He's gonna have some story
officers say they don't know if he has a drinking problem or not but good news is at least he didn't try to drive that's right responsible raccoon tiny victories this next laser story is out of sin city It's hard to believe, but the original Wizard of Oz was a total flop when it first opened in theaters in 1939. Really?
Which is nuts, because it's the first color movie. Yeah, it should be like everybody was in line for it.
Nope, it lost $1.1 million during its initial run. Oh.
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Chapter 8: What humorous moments conclude the episode?
Yeah. I mean, the tickets are only like a nickel, right? How many people do you have to have in the movie theater to make up a million dollars?
Oh, good point. Flash forward to this year, and the movie is now making $2 million a day at the Sphere in Las Vegas.
Oh, wow. I have seen this and I want to go. Yeah, I want to go to that. In that scene, they actually throw foam apples at you. The tree is throwing the apples at Dorothy. They're throwing real apples into the audience. Well, they're not real. They're rubber.
But whatever. But it's cool. They're able to break $2 million a day because people are paying between $119 for nosebleeds and $377 for the front section. All to see a movie that's almost 90 years old. I agree.
You're not the sphere. You don't need front row seats.
You don't. It doesn't matter, right?
Good for you, Judy Garland.
Yeah, I mean, and to be fair, we are talking like a totally immersive 4D experience with multi-sensory effects, including shaking seats, high-velocity winds, atmospheric fog, fire effects, swirling leaves, floating butterflies, and even falling apples and flying monkey props. Yeah.
Oh, I saw that. Yeah. And the thing is, that's a cheap ticket for anything at the Sphere. That's why you're like, well, I can't afford to go to the $1,000 concert, so I might as well go to the $100 1920s movie.
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