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The Iran conflict and nuclear weapon concerns are at the forefront of international discussions, with the Pope's stance on the issue sparking controversy. Meanwhile, identity theft and tax season concerns are affecting Americans, and a special episode of Health Discovered explores the realities of living with non-small cell lung cancer.

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He's on his way to do very, very important. Prime Ministery things. As it were. And I don't I don't know what he thinks he's doing. NATO decided, so these European nations, they decided that they were going to get together and do what the United States already did, which was to talk about right talk about opening of the strait.

It was Sky News. Prime Minister Kirstama has arrived in Paris. To co-host talks with Emmanuel Macrone on the reopening of The Straight. Oh, come! Lil little late.

Slick. They're on their way to talk about doing the thing the US already did.

So What's the point of any of this. What is his. Are they trying to flex and act like they still have some kind of? Ability or relevance, or I don't know. I mean, the whole thing is.

This is just so it's so performative and it's so pathetic. That's kind of You know, there's nothing that he can do because he already foobarred the opportunity to do anything. Remember their destroyer, the one little destroyer that they had. It is. I mean, it's it's shameful.

Come on. And they're not going to accomplish anything that we already didn't do. That's it. Not only that, but they weren't involved at all as it pertains to the. Ceasefire.

with Lebanon and Israel. That was also on POTUS. That's it. That was also on POTUS. He did that.

He did it.

So, I'm not quite sure what. This is a cut three because POTUS was asked.

Well how is the conflict in Iran going? Listen to his response here. I will say the war in Iran is going along swimmingly. We can Do whatever we want. And it should be ending pretty soon.

Yeah, so. I'm just saying, let's also take in a couple of other things. This, so that's uh three. He also was talking about Uh he mentioned Israel and Lebanon and the cease the ceasefire there cut too. We're out of Lebanon and trying to make peace and shore.

What's going to be the difference this time? Me. I'm the difference. Big difference. Me.

Hmm.

So yeah, there we have it. Uh in addition to this We have the foreign minister of Iran. This was him saying, well, you know, we've officially reopened the naval block. We did that. Again, we did it.

Cut 11. We're just getting this in, so bear with us. Shreda Hormuz is on the screen for a reason. The Iranian foreign minister, who seems to be really the guy in charge, at least publicly for Iran, just fired this off in a post on X, and I'm going to read it for you now. In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon, the passage for all commercial vessels through Strait of Hormuz is declared completely open.

For the remaining period of ceasefire on the coordinated route, as already announced by Ports and Maritime Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

So, on that news, the stock market is flying through the roof. That opens in 28 minutes, so we'll watch that.

Now while this is happening, the U.S. has brokered a 10-day ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon. Apparently, that was one of the conditions that Iran wanted.

So the president's saying that he may host both countries at the White House. And hopes of striking a lasting truce there.

So, a lot to go through. We'll take it moment by moment here. We already did it. They didn't they act so Iran's acting like they did it.

Well, we did this. They are so desperate not to give POTUS any kind of credit at all whatsoever. It is just the TDS is insane. If it's not the people here, the woke Rikers, that are trying to lead the divide by freaking out and acting like nothing's been done and we're losing, which is something that they were telling people for weeks upon weeks upon weeks, then it's, well, Iran says that they've opened the strait and then Europe acts like they've had something to do with it. All because they want to get that narrative going, and there's going to be people stupid enough to believe this, unfortunately, is the reality of it.

Some of the other things that we have to hit as well, because we're watching everything. With the very successful blockade and Kirst Armer, by the way, it's our resources that were used to do it.

So if the United States decides that we want to levy tolls, that's tough beans for you. Because it was our muscle and our might that did it. We opened it. And oil prices have plunged, by the way, because we did it.

Something we did.

So I'm not gonna, why are we acting like the United States has to do something, and then when the United States does something, people are resentful that the United States did something. U.S. Intel also detected China's weighing that China is providing Iran with advanced. X-band radar systems. Of course.

They have been. I mean this isn't a surprise. We knew that they were doing this. Not only were they doing this, the Russians were also assisting. But they've been as they've they've been providing them with a lot.

That's uh that I also had the story about how they were planning on doing airdrops of equipment in, and that's something that uh POTUS was able to. That didn't happen. That didn't work out for them. Uh in addition And pull down here. We have this situation with Italy.

Because it seems as though POTUS and Italy's back and forth. I wouldn't say that it's. I don't know if I'd say that it's increased, but it's definitely. I don't know if you can say that they're besties at this moment. POTUS was talking about Italy and their contributions to all of this.

And this is cut. Looking at my rundown. This is cut four? No, that's not cut four. But he had said that, well, you know, Italy, he put this out on True Social.

He said Italy wasn't there for us and we're not going to be there. for them he was asked about it as well when he was at his his uh chopper And he said, yeah, it's you know, it's if they're not going to be there for us. We're not going to be there when they need us. And this is after the air base in Messina in Sicily.

Now that I do think, I don't know if I want to chalk that up to Them outright refusing to accommodate the United States, the way that Maloney's government put it was that. It is It was a protocol that had to do with a treaty between Italy and the United States. But still What happened after when you had Maloney, et cetera, talking about Lebanon being involved in the ceasefire, et cetera? This is cut 28. Listen.

Took a shot at the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Maloney, who you see the two of them there. They have had. Pretty friendly relations up until this moment in time. He said she had said that his attacks on the Pope were unacceptable. President Trump responded to that saying it's her who's unacceptable because she doesn't care if Iran has a nuclear weapon and would blow up Italy in two minutes if they had it.

And they can reach Italy. I mean, we saw that. They have the missiles that can absolutely reach their land. They went 4,000 kilometers instead of two. Remember, they all said, no, we don't have those long-range ones, and they had the long-range ones the entire time.

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So the drones delivery with Amazon is still having a bit of a time. Video shows a drone dropping a package directly onto the concrete, smashing literally everything that's inside of it. It didn't go so well. They've been doing their prime, little prime delivery drones, and they're having a bit of a bit of a time, Kane. Having a little bit of a time.

A bit of a pickle? It's in a bit of a pickle. I don't know why it got British, but they did. Let's see. A NASA astronaut, this is a great story.

He found God after returning to Earth. Reed Wiseman. He said that it was a very emotional experience. He was asked whether or not the crew was, whether or not they experienced any shift in consciousness following their 10-day journey. And he said he had.

And he said, I'm not a religious person. He goes, but there was no other avenue for me to explain anything or experience anything. He goes, so I asked for the chaplain on the Navy ship to come visit. And he goes, and when that man walked in, I've never met him before. He goes, but he had a cross on his collar and I just broke down in tears.

He said it was very hard to fully grasp what they went through. And it was otherworldly and amazing. And that kind of echoes what the other astronaut said. His name's Victor. What he said, because he said he felt so small when he was up there.

And it really just put things, it puts things in real perspective.

So that's very interesting to read. More young men are attending religious services regularly. I want this to be a legitimate thing, but I also know that there is a huge trend. as I said, to weaponize one denomination particularly. But they said that 40% of men ages 18 to 29 are attending religious services monthly.

It's a seven percentage point increase. I think that there is a psyop in society, and you see it with all of these influencer videos and social media, and not even influencers.

Sometimes they're just videos of like pictures and words, images, things like that, to try to get people back to that. I do absolutely think that there is an op. Here in the United States, to try to push people back to that point of trad normalcy. Uh, and it's just uh concurrent with some other organic stuff that's happening. Very interesting, though.

A North Texas fisherman thought he caught a catfish.

Okay. He didn't. It's an ugly catfish, if that's true. It was actually a gator.

Now, this is the county in which we live, Cain. And it's a body of water that is not far from here, Kane. And it's an alligator cane. It shouldn't be there, Dana. This is why I don't do lakes.

If I can't see what I'm swimming in, you don't know what's there. A giant sea monster could be there with its mouth open underneath you, and you can't see it because of the lake water. I'm just, I am very odd with nature, yes.

So I love it. The guy goes, I pulled up on it, and it was a dang alligator. I can literally hear his twang. I love it. But he got a citation, though, too.

There's an accident. He didn't know. Come on. Let it go. Let it go back there.

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Terms apply. Why, welcome, Cheerio. We are at the top of the second hour, Daniel Ash with you. You can listen coast to coast as well as catch us on the Simulcast, Channel 357, and follow along on X and Facebook and YouTube, all that good stuff. Oh, substack, don't forget chapter and verse.

Lots of good stuff goes out there regularly.

So, two things that we're gonna get into. First job. The I need you to hear Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Try to explain. Her perspective of how she categorizes the conflict in Iran.

And well, just play. This is I think I believe eighteen. Listen. We have to assert our congressional authority. The theater of conflict in Iran is far too large to call it anything but a war, and wars require congressional authority to continue.

And so I think it's extremely important, especially given the stakes and the President's threat against the Iranian people, to ensure that Congress has had its own. Does she understand what theater of war means? Because Theater of Wars, when you're talking about the entirety of sea or the entirety of, and the entirety of air and the entirety of everything, that's not even. That's not you're talking about a I mean a strategic Uh region. And she's like, well, because it's so large, it has to be a war.

What do you mean? The area is large? Or do you think that our. Response is large because it's not actually a large response. I mean, we've got resources that we have built up in the area, but that's.

honestly like a drop of what we could actually do. with our military. And It so far its air supremacy with very little. And we removed the blockade. They're blockading, we have our own.

Again, with very little. I feel like she hasn't been paying attention. I read all the MilSpec blogs and all of that, and it's very enlightening because especially when they get into like the types of jets that are used and older jets and all this, I mean, it's pretty, it's very interesting. But I'm on, I remain entirely unconvinced. Um after You know, paying attention to this stuff, I'm entirely unconvinced that.

This is what she's alleging that it is. And then, secondly, she says that, what is this in her sound bite? She says that You know, it requires congressional authority to continue. techni I mean, if POTUS decides to commit further, there's a debatable point at which Congress would convene. But this is the thing that I go back to.

And you can state this fact. Without it being an endorsement of action, I feel like there are too many stupid drive-bys out there who don't understand that merely observing a fact is not the same thing as endorsement.

So go back to 2001. When Congress issued and granted authorized use of military force. following the terror attack of 9-11, right?

So after the tariff tackle 9-11, The authorized use of military force that was passed specifically, and we've read it on air. I've written about it on Substack. I've screenshotted it and have placed the verbatim language up there in the screenshot off the government website. Any entity That is Or was involved? in the planning, the implementation.

The execution or had given aid to anybody. That Again, planned, executed, etcetera. the nine eleven terror attack, would be considered Covered under the 2001 use, authorized use of military force. As a terrorist entity party to the 9-11 attack.

Now, the reason that this is a debated topic as it pertains. to Iran. Because Iran wasn't mentioned specifically, they like to tell you.

Okay, fine. You don't have to mention them specifically. But the truth of the matter is that they gave al-Qaeda an international headquarters. At the time, Al-Qaeda was deciding between Qatar and Iran, and they went with Iran and put their international headquarters there right outside of Tehran. They also gave a safe transit.

Not just for Their terrorist soldiers, but also munitions, equipment. Rockets, the whole nine yards. They were a hub. And I would say And I think anybody else would say, and again, it's without endorsement, it's just the fact of it. that that would fall.

Under the specific language. As to who or what is covered by the 2001 authorized use of military force, which is still available. Online, and anybody can go and read it and come to the same conclusion that I did.

Now here's the thing. All of these lawmakers that are so upset over it Not a single one of them We're upset enough, not when Barack Obama was droning Americans overseas. Not when they were involved in destabilizing Libya. Not when they tried to destabilize Egypt. Not when they went into Syria, not when, I mean, the entirety of the Obama administration, the Biden administration, Trump's, not a single lawmaker.

at any point. decided We need to end it, and not a single one of them proposed anything to either redefine, to clarify, or to conclude the 2001 authorized use of military force.

So, all of these lawmakers that are getting up there telling you that we don't have the right to do this actually. And again, you can merely observe the fact without endorsing they do. The United States does have that right because you, as members of Congress, granted it in 2001. And you, as members of Congress, continued to grant it by not doing a single damn thing to modify, clarify, or conclude either the entire authorization or the language therein.

so do not come and bitch to us. About something that we don't have control over, but you have control over, and refused to exercise that control over it. Just asinine.

Now We have POTUS and the Pope. And I made this remark earlier, and I'm going to tell you something. I'm very nice to everybody, and I'm very nice to people of different denominations, but do not make the fatal rhetorical error. of trying to shame me for not following your denomination. And then do not express shock when there is not courtesy leveled towards your way in response.

The um Thing that I saw this headline from ABC. And it said, while the Catholic Church teaches forgiveness, American Catholics may not extend mercy to President Trump over his, and here's the word, attacks, which I'm so stupid. On Pope Leo, some observers said, first off, criticism isn't an attack.

Okay. It's not an attack. Uh that is Hyperbolic, sissy language that is issued by people who are too weak to be disagreed with because they are too weak in their own convictions. People who are strong in their convictions and strong in their logic and confident in their viewpoint don't wince. Or flinch.

When someone merely disagrees with them, I'm not talking about actual hysterical, victriolic. You know, purposeful ad hominems, you know, mean, malicious attacks or criticisms. I'm talking about actually having a disagreement. And that's what POTUS has done. He has disagreed.

And it's been very... I mean I I don't get it. This is what he was asked. This is uh cut four. where he was, POTUS was asked about this, listen.

But I'm not going to let you. Are you worried? No, no, I don't I have to do what's right. The Pope has to understand that, very simple. I have nothing against the Pope.

His brother is MAGA all the way. I like his brother, Louis. I'm not fighting with him. The Pope made a statement. He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon.

I say Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And if the Pope looked at the 42,000 people that were killed over the last two or three months, As a protester with no weapons, no nothing, I mean, you take a look at that. Uh so I could disagree with the Pope. I have a right to disagree with the Pope. Yeah.

And he does. Everybody does. Everybody has a right to disagree with the Pope. I mean, that is it, the only pure and perfect person and, you know, people can Disagree all they want to, but biblically he's Christ.

So, yes, absolutely. You call balls and strikes. I disagree with Trump, I'll agree with him on things. And I think that. Especially the Pope too.

enjoys the benefit of the veneer of faith. And that's a true statement. He's very left. That's inarguable. I mean, he deleted his entire exaccount, but before he did so, there were a lot of screenshots taken.

And he sounds A lot of his stuff sounds like Mandani. I'm not going to lie. He is not a, I mean, at best, maybe a socialist. He's very far left. And His language, I think, has been interesting.

The stuff that he says, whenever, because I asked the other day, I said, Well, I wish that he would criticize. When he talks about Western nations responding with violence, I wish that he would criticize with equal fervor. Islamists who have been waging war on non-Islamists for who knows how long with violence. And people go, well, here's where he says it. He never actually says the word Muslim or Islam.

And any of the examples that anybody gave me on social media, he just says, oh, I'm you know, it's sad to see our brothers and sisters attacked, et cetera, and doesn't mention that it's Muslims that are attacking them in Muslim majority countries, doesn't mention Islam, doesn't mention Islamists. Not by name. Not at all. I mean, I've looked at it and people have tried to send me examples, and not a single example at all given does he do that.

So I absolutely do take issue with it. If you're too afraid to speak, Of the thing that is persecuting your people, your flock, then how can you ever expect to be effective against it? For the purpose of what, keeping a false sense of peace? I mean, that's just asinine. It doesn't make any sense.

I'm so tired of hearing and he says the same coexist stuff that everybody else says. and you've seen it before. Just says it over and over again. I really do feel like I said that. that the media is part of this op.

to stoke a fight between Trump And the very intentionally, very intentionally left. Pope as part of this overall plan to hijack The Catholic Church bait division between the denominations. and loosen Christianity's hand on the rudder of the right. That is the entire point of this. And there are a lot of people falling for it.

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I was in shock. This week on a special episode of Health Discovered. We're taking a closer look at a common form of lung cancer that accounts for 85% of all cases. I'm Janet Freeman Daly. And I've been living with non-small cell lung cancer since 2011.

Non-small cell lung cancer. It's a diagnosis that changes everything, and yet the conversation around it too often stops at the biology. and misses what patients are actually living through every single day. There are some things you used to be able to do that you can't do anymore. It's easy to become depressed when you're dealing with all those losses.

So mental health plays a really big role.

So, what does it really mean to advocate for yourself when you're living with non-small cell lung cancer? Listen to Health Discovered on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's tax season, and by now, I know we're all a bit tired of numbers. But here's an important one you need to hear: $16 billion. That's how much money and refunds the IRS flagged for possible identity fraud.

Here's another one. One in four honest, hardworking, taxpaying Americans has been a victim of identity theft. But it's not all grim news. LifeLock monitors millions of data points per second for your personal information and alerts you to threats you could easily miss on your own. If your identity is stolen, Lifelock's U.S.-based restoration specialist will fix it, backed by another good number, the Million Dollar Protection Package.

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Terms apply. It's his life mission to make bad decisions. Yeah. It's time for Florida Man. Oh boy, where'd it go from here?

Okay, so a Florida man was caught hauling over 2,000 pounds of the Marajawana on I-75. Yeah. And it what? I guess it had to be a big truck, a big truck. Yeah, it did.

That they stacked it all up and it's literally bigger than the police cruiser. The SUV. It's as long and it's almost as tall. That's actually nuts. Florida Highway Patrol Tampa posted the gallery of photos showcasing the seizure.

They used a K9 named Lobo. But two over two thousand pounds. A fifty five year old Key Largo man was doing it. They said the yeah, over two thousand pounds in fact.

So I don't even know like what the penalty for something like that is. That's That's crazy. I don't relate to it. Oh man, this story. This woman looks unbelievably happy in her mug shot.

Did you see that? She's like, yeah. Also, her eyelashes, while fake, are not ridiculous. It's a first. Uh according to Lauderhill, apparently a woman named Veronica Whitset Fort Lauderdale was taken into custody after she twerked in front of them at a 7-Eleven while soliciting customers for cash and drugs.

The assistant manager apparently called the police because she had been soliciting customers for money and drugs while ignoring repeated requests to leave the business. They made contact with her inside the store, and the situation just got out of control. They said that she started twerking. And yeah, that's then they they ended up having to take her into custody 'cause she refused to she wouldn't leave, she wouldn't follow commands. Uh and they told her to leave the property and she had pretty much absolutely refused.

So she was taken into custody at Broward County Maine Jail and she's just smiling. She's all happy in her mug shot. I mean, she's just, she had no idea apparently the trouble that she's in, that's all. Uh let's see this uh a Florida man Yeah. Um For six hundred dollars.

Yeah. Robbed a bank for $600. This guy is an idiot. Gets outsmarted by the hidden money tracker and three pit maneuvers. He thought he pulled off a payday at the plane.

All he got was $600. $600. Oh man, he tried to get away in his red Kia Sol too. Uh the uh South Florida he had a handwritten robbery note, a bag of bait cash, uh all this stuff. And then apparently he was able to like try to get through three police pit maneuvers.

Before his red Kia Sol Ran into a cement wall. Tommy Dwayne Dennis.

Okay, you have three first names, sir. That's your first problem. 56 year old. Also, no man. And I mean, there's rare exceptions, but mostly men should not have names that end in Y.

If your name is Timmy, you're Tim. If it's Tommy, you're Tom. That's it. The only exception maybe is Johnny because Johnny Dupp. Uh, but other than that, no.

But this guy has three first names. That's not no.

So he faces federal bank robbery charges, over $600. He told authorities that he had been using crack cocaine throughout the day and his impaired state led him to make a mistake. I wonder if that $600 is the count of the bait money. I don't know. That's insane, but they tracked him.

Yeah, I mean, total bait money it was. That's just, I don't know. Oh man, let's see here. We got a guy. Oh, a Florida man running for governor was arrested for beating up old people with his, with a cane and a cell phone.

Yeah, Kevin Chaikowski. Yeah. He has been oh book okay. Uh, count of aggravated two counts of aggravated assault with the deadly weapon, two counts of battery on a person over 65, aggravated battery with the deadly weapon, tampering with a witness, two counts of robbery by sudden snatching. What is that?

I've never even heard of that. Sudden snatching. Uh so he's uh Apparently, he beat up his parents, Stanley and Christine, and they were, it was called, the police were called, a bedridden Christine told 911, he's 46, wow, had struck her husband with a cane and threw a phone at her head. It hit them, they were bleeding. He was taken into custody, and I really don't think his gubernatorial campaign is going well, this fella.

Really don't think that that's going to be a winner for him. A Florida man was arrested at a sports bar after he brutally beat a family member. Say deputies. Can we stop beating families in Florida right now? Lee County Sheriff, deputies were called to the home for a domestic disturbance.

When they arrived, they found a victim with head trauma, severe head trauma, because they had been beaten. They had gotten a call two hours later from a sports bar. Saying that the guy they were looking for arrived at the bar covered in blood and was telling everybody he beat a family member.

Well, that's one way of finding him. They went to the bar, they found the guy, took him into custody. Easy peasy. He was charged with aggravated battery, causing bodily harm. I don't even know.

A Florida man shoots at an Uber driver after an argument over politics and immigration turns dangerous. Late night ride in Pinellas County. That's why, whenever I'm not one that talks. And I'm definitely not answering any of your questions.

So, when people ask me what I do, I will literally make up something completely stupid. I polish potatoes. Yeah, I actually am a professional potato polisher. My job is to go into grocery stores, and I've had people believe me. And I'll make up a story: like, I polish all the fruit and I arrange the fruit.

in a a visually pleasing Manner. Oh, did you have to go to school for that? Yes, I got an art degree. I got a doctorate actually.

Sounds like an important job, though. It's a very important job. I, this is what I do if people are like, What is it that you do? And I'll say, That's what I say. I'm like, I'm just no.

So, this is in Pinellas County. A passenger pulled out a gun, opened fire on his Uber driver because they had a political argument that got out of hand. And this was at three thirty in the morning. Nothing good happens after midnight.

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Thank you, Mr. Chair. Ms. Letlow. I uh good on Perry Farrell for bouncing back like that and you know after his fight with um Yeah, it is.

Been caught stealing. Been caught stealing that hair color. What the heck? Barney wants it back, man. Um Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's good to see him bounce back like that and now in Congress, although I don't know what his deal is. He seems a little, I don't think the rage has left. That's Rosa Delaro, aka Perry Farrell. That's his doppelganger. She's I don't understand her.

I don't think that she's ever I actually don't think I went look. She's not proposed anything recently. I think she just exists to be a bomb thrower and. I she likes to see herself on video doing that kind of stuff. acting like she's castigating people in hearings and that's really but she doesn't really do anything else.

She's from New York, as if you can't tell. But uh yeah, and we'll parry we'll parry Farrell there. I mean, whenever I see her on my TV, I just don't listen to anything she says. She is upset over raw milk. She was mad at the guy who cut off a a raccoon dong on the side of the road and then That's according to the book about him.

Lorraine reminded me yesterday about the whale that was on top of his car. I mean, for real, RFK Jr. has like a hard time with animals. Dead bears, dead whales, and now dead raccoons. It's always some dead animal on the side of the road.

He just finds Roadkill fascinating. I don't get it. I mean, you've heard the story. Wasn't he the one talking about shoving a dead bear in his car? And he was telling that to Roseanne, who was trying to hide her.

I mean, she was using all of her years. of acting and being on stage to hide the shock on her face. You could tell there was a struggle mentally. She was just trying to choke it back. Like, what the hell am I hearing right now?

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So that's one definitely to watch. A Tennessee tourist in a hockey mask attacked a stripper at a Key West club and cut her hair. I feel like that we should say that for Florida, man, I'm a Tennessee tour.

Well, he's a Tennessee man in Florida, though. Uh in a hockey mask and apparently there's CCTV footage. Cops, of course, got involved. He's a 44-year-old, and apparently, he was described as having caused issues. Slightly.

Uh she's I mean she has her hair cut but she's you know okay shaken but good heavens that's a very odd thing. That's a no a golden toilet left on a county lawn baffles the local sheriff. They said literally it was just a gold toilet, like a standard gold toilet that was left on somebody's front lawn of an administration. It was on the lawn of an administration building. They really don't, they think it's a prank, but they have no idea where it came from.

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