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You're listening to the News and Grooves podcast. I'm Jim Murray.

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Thanks for coming in. Let's get started. A Pennsylvania couple who divorced nearly 50 years ago is planning to remarry. Faye Gable and Robert Wenrich met because he was her older brother's best friend and she says he told them he was going to marry her someday. They were wed in November 1951 and had four children together, but divorced in 1975 for reasons they declined to discuss. Both eventually remarried and remained with their spouses for many years until the spouses died.

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However, relatives say Gable and Wenrich always had a good relationship and often attended family events together. They recently decided it was time to tie the knot again. They're like two teenagers in love. They do everything together. Carol Smith, the couple's youngest daughter, said, referring to her father, she said he said she was the first love of my life. I never thought I'd get her back and now that I did, I'm not wasting any time. Wenrich turned 94 on Friday, while his once and future bride is 89. They have 14 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and twin great-great-grandchildren, and Gable has two stepsons who will be among those attending the wedding Sunday in the borough of Denver in southeastern Pennsylvania.

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I think we'll be good now for the next couple years, wenrich said, presented on the News and Grooves podcast. It seems I mean no disrespect, my love when I say that I ain't sure of anything lasting that long, because all history proves things to change over time. But, darling, when I put my heart and my soul into something, it's yours. I have never known a love Temporarily. It always fleshes out, is out, and when I drown, you are the only song I'm singing about.

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I mean no disrespect, my love, when I say that I ain't sure of anything lasting that long, because all history proves things to change over time. But, darling, when I put my heart and my soul into something, it's yours. You have severed all my tethers. It looks like I'm here to stay Always and forever, or so it seems, standing in front of a steeple, always and forever, always and forever, or so it seems, making promises to love you Always and forever, or so it seems, darling, I'll always love you. I mean no disrespect, my love when I say that I ain't sure of anything lasting that long, because all history proves things to change over time. But, darling, when I put my heart and my soul into something, it's yours.

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Googly eyes have been appearing on sculptures around the central Oregon city of Bend, delighting many residents and sparking a viral sensation covered widely by news outlets and featured on a popular late-night talk show. On social media, the city shared photos of googly eyes on installations in the middle of roundabouts that make up its so-called roundabout art route. One photo shows googly eyes placed on a sculpture of two deer, while another shows them attached to a sphere. It's not yet known who has been putting them on the sculptures. While the googly eyes placed on the various art pieces around town might give you a chuckle, it costs money to remove them with care to not damage the art, the city said in its posts.

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Here's Rick Rocket with our music story of the day.

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Johnny Cash so sure. Known as the man in black. This so-called legendary American singer-songwriter-guitarist is just celebrated for his totally extraordinary baritone voice and his life-changing storytelling that obviously crossed over every genre you can think of, like country rockabilly and gospel no big deal. Right Throughout his five-decade-long career, he casually released countless iconic albums that showed just how much he could connect with his audience, like it was the easiest thing in the world, through raw motions and dishonest lyrics. Today, he remains an influential figure in popular music, with a lasting impact on countless musicians across genres.

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Exclusive original music continually featured on the News and Grooves podcast. Oh, she was, my queen, my radiant light, ooh yeah.

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But life's funny ways took her out of my sight. We danced in the night groove, tied as can be. Now I'm singing out loud. She ain't here with me. Hey, hey, call and respond. Can you hear me now? Ooh, yeah, I lost my baby, but still I get down the one that got away. But I'm staying strong, let's keep it moving. Gotta funk all night long.

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Memories of her, they still light up my mind Every laugh, every smile, the moments we find she slipped through my fingers Like sand in the breeze. Yet I keep on grooving, keeping with ease. Hey, call and respond. Can you hear me now? Ooh, yeah, I lost my baby, but still I get down the one that got away. But I'm staying strong, let's keep it moving. Got a funk all night long. Now, listen up y'all, cause the story ain't done. A celebration of life, love and the sun. Though she's far away, my spirit stays bright. I'll keep on dancing all through the night. Call and respond, can you hear me now? Ooh, yeah, I lost my baby, but still I get down the one that got away. But I'm staying strong, let's keep it moving. Gotta funk all night long, oh, not long.

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A new Netflix docuseries claims to go behind the scenes of the Jerry Springer Show to expose its biggest scandals, both on and off camera. However, a former producer on the lowbrow daytime talk show slams the series as a whitewash and says the actual details are even more shocking. Norm Lubo, who was a controversial and outspoken cannabis advocate in the 90s, told the Irish Sun that he appeared on the Jerry Springer show a half-dozen times before he was hired as a freelance guest booker in 1996. It didn't take long before he was promoted to full-time producer and Lubo claims it's because he essentially served as a pimp for host Jerry Springer, who died at the age of 79 in 2023. In the Netflix doc Jerry Springer Fights Camera Action, one incident is detailed that allegedly took place in 1998, in which Springer was caught on camera having a threesome with a guest of the show, a porn star named Kendra Jade and her stepmother. Lubo says that's just the tip of the iceberg and that he regularly would recruit attractive female guests of the show to do what he calls double duty. When we were first hired, jerry came out to meet us in LA and picked us up in a limo. The first thing Jerry said to us was I want to get laid. Where are the hookers? Lubo recalled we were like whoa, but basically we realized right away it wasn't just about getting guests for the show, it was about getting him laid, which of course we did. That just became part of our job and that's why we were so successful and we moved up the ladder. He explained we found him women who were happy to do double duty, come on the show and look after Jerry after filming.

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Lubo said that luckily he knew a lot of good-looking women strippers from his days in the Los Angeles music scene, which meant that he ultimately was successful at his job. When I became a full-time producer, I'd bring on a good-looking guest and Jerry would go. I want to meet that guest, he continued. I'd go up them and say uh, you know I'm a new producer here and it would do me a huge favor if you would go out with Jerry tonight. He thinks you're great and they would. So I was like the pimp. It didn't take much persuading. The girls were happy to go off with him.

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Lubo chalks up Springer's weakness with attractive women to him being an unpopular geek in high school and that he was like a kid in a candy store due to his fame. It was just an accepted part of my job being his pimp, and on the Netflix show they make out that he had this one sex scandal. No way, that was just the only time he got caught, he added. Lubo was hired along with his friend Al Bowman, then a celebrity limo driver in Hollywood, who corroborated his claims to the Sun. Yes, we did that, and many other things as well, bowman said. I co-produced nine shows. We forever changed how television works. We opened the floodgates for reality TV to thrive and grow. Before finding success on daytime television, springer had a political career in Ohio, famously resigning from his seat on the Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after he was caught soliciting a prostitute using a personal check. However, the scandal didn't stick and he was subsequently elected back to the city council the following year, eventually serving as mayor of Cincinnati from 1977 to 1978.

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1977-1978. The platform's alive with the whisper of fate. The rails hung on the dirge, the night's given in. Hold on to the edge of where it begins. The last train is leaving. It's the end of the line. The stars in the sky scream. We're out of time. Run through the shadows. Don't look behind. The last train is leaving. Hold tight to the climb. The whistle it wails like a ghost in the dark. A flicker of hope, just a fleeting spark. Your heart beats a drum pounding steady and wild. The horizon's an ocean. The night is exiled. Oh, the last train is leaving. It's the end of the line. The stars in the sky scream. We're out of time. Run through the shadows. Don't look behind. The last train is leaving.

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Hold tight to the climb. Oh yeah, the engine. It roars Like a beast in the storm. Every step to the steel Breaks away what's worn. The city fades fast, collapsing in flames. You race the dead air to outrun your pain. The last train is leaving and it's the end of the line. The stars in the sky scream. We're out of time. Out of time. Run through the shadows. Don't look behind. The last train is leaving. Hold tight to the climb. Hold tight to the climb.

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I take a walk down your street in the middle of sleep, where no one but me knows the time, when the roses are swaying and the trumpet vines fading and the broken glass paints a mural on the road.

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Morning will soon be a glow, so I slip into your light and close both of mine Sleep. Walk your street in the middle of sleep, where no one but me hears the song when the roses are swaying and the trumpet vines fading, and your windows and doors and the shadows dream on. Oh, the flies in each alley carve words into stone Of a past life of heaven, words you thought you had known and I wish I could show you how I sing to you now, but you might recognize this tune. Sleepwalk your street in the middle of sleep, where no one but me hears the song when the roses are swaying and the trumpet vines fading, and your windows and doors and the shadows dream on. Sleepwalk your street in the middle of sleep when no one but me hears the song when the roses are swaying and the trumpet vines fading and your windows and doors and the shadows stream on.

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Tyler Wade Gibson, 35, and his wife Bailey Alexis Gibson, 32, were charged with child abuse on November 27 in Columbia, Missouri, After Tyler tried to perform a circumcision at home on their infant son. Law and crime reported. The parents took the child to Lake Regional Hospital after being alarmed by the amount of blood. Bailey told police she was very hesitant about her husband doing the procedure, but helped him do it. Social services went to the home on November 29th and removed five children. The Gibsons are scheduled to be back in court.

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I'm feeling lucky. And I went to find her. She was sitting in bars, she was sitting in diners.

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And I am just snapping my tongue and I said Do you see me? She said Are you dumb or do you just believe anything? She said love is a four letter word. You don't get the letters just letting you know who's to say. Yeah, yeah, who's to say yeah, yeah, yeah, who's to say?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, oh baby, it would suit me, you and me, it would suit both of us, sort of. But love is a four-letter word. You don't get the letters.

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Just letting you learn who's to say I was sitting on my own in a caravan, the engine running. There you were, cities like a jungle and we're living in our own world. It's just absurd. Then you uncross your leg and touch my leg. Yeah, I was sitting on my own in a caravan, the engine running. There you were Cities like a jungle and we're living in our own worlds. It's absurd.

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Looks like we're about out of time for this show. Thanks for coming in.

Speaker 1:

We enjoyed having you. We'll see you again next week. We're out of here.