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Greetings and Salutations, People: Living life like a king! I am Craig Dodge and THIS is Vertically Striped Radio. And just for the record: I hate the Baylor Bears. The Brittany Griner loving, Basketball player putting a hit out on another basketball player, RG3 worshipping Baylor Bears. At 5-5, those bums somehow managed to ruin the most promising K-State season ever. I’m still annoyed.

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Tweet of the Week:  

@juliussharpe
You can stop advertising pizza and beer during football. People who watch football know about them.

*Ducks quacks don't echo. No one knows why. – NOT TRUE

Things I liked this week:

Thanksgiving: Best Holiday of them all!

Going to a Nuggets game

An article I read from a writer named Michael Stusser from Seattle about his week of gorging on social media followed up by a week of doing EVERYTHING offline.

Today on VSR – Turkey: Just say No! Magnificent Seven things we are thankful for, and if we get to it…Million Dollar Ideas!

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(Bring on Face) –

Is the NFC East the worst division in football now?

The whole world has agreed to just pretend like the 12-0 Ohio State Buckeyes don’t exist because several members who played there in the past sold memorabilia for tattoos?

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Let’s get to the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03) 

BOISE, Idaho - A 22-year-old man is due in court in Idaho over the death of a patas monkey at Zoo Boise.

Michael J Watkins faces at least two charges for allegedly taking the monkey and beating it so severely that it later died.

His father, Jerry Watkins, has defended his son to the Idaho Statesman, saying he is "not a malicious monkey murderer".

He said it was a drunken prank. His son was trying to get a picture with the animals.

"I'm thinking the monkey attacked him and he just tried to defend himself," Jerry Watkins said. "I don't think he ever intended to kill it. He's just not that kind of guy."

Authorities allege the suspect entered Zoo Boise on Saturday night, took a patas monkey from its cage and beat it so severely it later died of blunt-force trauma to its head and neck.

A security guard frightened away the intruders, and then discovered the injured animal.

Michael J Watkins went to a local hospital for injuries to his upper body sometime after the incident.

Police say he was visiting Boise with friends over the weekend from his home in Fruitland, about 60 miles away.

Idaho law allows prosecutors to bring a grand theft charge against someone accused of killing livestock or other animals valued at more than $150.

NASHVILLE, Tennessee - By 2009, James Washington believed he had gotten away with a 1995 murder, but then he had a heart attack, and on his deathbed, in a fit of remorse, he confessed to a confidant. (“I have to get something off my conscience,” he told a guard in the jailhouse where he was serving time for a lesser, unrelated offense.) However, Washington miraculously recovered from the heart attack and tried to take back his confession, but prosecutors in Nashville, Tenn., were unfazed. They used it to augment the sparse evidence from 1995, and in October 2012 the now-healthier Washington was convicted of the murder and sentenced to 51 more years in prison.

NEW MILFORD, Connecticut – Michael Carrier, 45, was arrested for soliciting prostitution in New Milford, Conn., in August—not resulting from a police sting, which is usually how arrests for that crime are made. In Carrier’s case, he was disturbing other customers at a Friendly’s restaurant because, being hard of hearing, he was shouting to the prostitute the terms of their prospective business arrangement.

SYRACUSE, New York - Arthur Bundrage, 28, was arrested in Syracuse, N.Y., in October after he returned to the Alliance Bank—which he had just robbed minutes earlier—because he discovered that the employee had given him less than the $20,000 his demand note ordered. Officers arrived to find Bundrage standing by the front doors, trying to get back in.

I’m Craig, and that is the news… (Play News Music – Clip 03)

Bring on the Whale - 7993020

Band name of the week:

Malicious Monkey Murder

Headline: Kung fu nuns teach cosmic energy to CERN scientists – Band name of the week: Kung Fu Nuns

Clip 80 – Flula – Turkey is not MVP

Top 7 Things I’m thankful for:

1. Thankful for my Family

2. Thankful for Beer

3. Thankful for iPhone

4. Thankful for Javale McGee

5. Thankful I’m not a Detroit Lions fan – Challenge Flag fiasco from Thanksgiving

6. Thankful I don’t have to wake up at 4:45 every morning

7. Thankful for Zoos

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Lord Huron – Ends of the Earth

Shalom and Good Evening to you all!