 Hey there, welcome to the Darren Marlar radio show. If you want to like me, poke me, tweet me, follow me, stalk me, you can find links to all of my social media at DarrenMarlar.com. Welcome to the show. Coming up today, it's not often that somebody asks police to arrest him. But Williamsport, Pennsylvania Police, they say a 27-year-old guy did just that. That story is coming up in our brain on drugs later on. The C, it just might be watching you. I'll explain about that. Training for what to do in case of a robbery ends up as a moment of duh for one couple. But if you want to know how long grandpa is going to live, check out his pace of walking. Details on that coming up later on, and have you ever been rejected? Well, take heart. It might have made you a better judge of character in the future. Got our Weird Holidays coming up as well. I'm Darren Marlar, going to start the day off with this story. A man's pants saved him from a bullet. Willie Marbury, he's an innocent bystander waiting for a bus when he's struck by a bullet from a nearby domestic argument. Marbury, thankfully, was okay thanks to the fact that he was wearing three pairs of pants. Police say the 53-year-old man escaped injury because he was so far away from where the gun was shot that the bullet was able to penetrate all three pairs of pants. In fact, the bullet was recovered from one of his pockets. Now, as for the question that's on everybody's mind, I know, why was he wearing three pairs of pants? Well, an officer replied, we don't ask those types of questions. Sometimes the answer's frighten us. It must be true, it must be true. Hey there, I'm Darren Marlar. Let's take a look at today's weird, wacky, strange, zany, odd, bizarre, quirky, unusual holidays. Today's Thursday, August 10th, you now have 136 shopping days until Christmas. And today is Improve Your Ice Cubes by Swapping Recipes Day. This may sound funny to you, but true story, my wife honestly and truly told me once that I was making ice cubes incorrectly. Seriously, apparently I wasn't using enough water. Today is also National Lazy Day, today to take it easy. One suggestion, don't make anything more complicated than ice cubes. Scientists at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada claimed they have found that women sometimes ovulate several times in a single month, which may require the rewriting of medical textbooks and explain why the rhythm method of birth control doesn't always work. This should be fun, educating married couples on the importance of abstinence. Your cooking is okay, but not like mother makes. The diamond in the ring I bought you is a fake. If you're a man who wants to live a long and happy life, these are the things you don't say to your wife. For a man who doesn't want to get killed with a knife, these are the things you don't say to your wife. If you've ever been rejected, well, take heart. It might have made you a better judge of character for the future. I've got details on that coming up for you here in just a bit. Hey, if you'd like a few laughs after the show, you might want to check out my daily dose of weird news. I post a new episode every weekday and you can find that at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, Gordon Gekko, he was wrong. Greed is not good, especially if you want to live a long and happy life. Researchers at the University of Notre Dame reached that inclusion after analyzing the lives of more than 700 ambitious high achievers, many of whom graduated from power schools like Harvard and Yale. Ambitious people do achieve more successful careers, but that does not seem to translate into leading happier or healthier lives, says Professor Timothy Judge. He says despite their many accomplishments, ambitious people end up only slightly happier than their less ambitious counterparts, and they actually live somewhat shorter lives. And he continues on saying the investments they make in their careers come at the expense of healthy behaviors, stable relationships and deep social networks. If you want your children to lead happy and healthy lives, you might not want to overemphasize professional success. Office workers who are depressed, they are twice as likely to call in sick and miss work as their happier colleagues. This report brought to you by the Labs of Studying the Obvious. If you'd like to be a part of the show, I would love to get an email from you, I might even share it on the air. You can email me at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, if you've ever been rejected, well, you know you can take heart in that it might make you a better judge of character from now on. A Miami University study finds that being rejected by peers, friends or family members may give people the added advantage of spotting a fake when they encounter one. The study shows the people who have faced rejection have an enhanced ability to determine whether the happy face in front of them is a genuine happy face. Researchers found subjects who were manipulated to feel rejection were able to distinguish a fake smile from a real one nearly 80% of the time. According to researcher Michael Bernstein, real smiles are incredibly difficult to fake because a real smile is an automatic response to a positive feeling. He says if you can tell the difference between a real and a fake smile, you can identify a good person you can relate to while weeding out the trash. Turns out there was a shortage of anesthesiologists in America, so much so in fact that hospitals are asking colleges to encourage students to step into the field. In the meantime, surgeons are making due by putting patients to sleep with recordings of the Darren Marlar radio show. Today's birthday wrap-up for Thursday, August 10, celebrating birthdays today from Law & Order and Rosolian Isle's Angie Harmon is 45. From the Mask of Zorro, spy kids once upon a time in Mexico, also the voice of Puss in Boots in Shrek movies Antonio Banderas is 57 and from desperately seeking Susan in the whole nine yards actress Rosanna Arquette is 58. One Alaskan bridegroom, Kelly, gave his wife to be the ultimate gift on their wedding day, a chance to hear her late son's heartbeat. Becky Turney left an empty seat for her late son Tristan Green at her wedding ceremony, having no idea that her husband to be would ensure that her late baby boy would be there to share their big day in more than just spirit. Kelly contacted Jacob Kilby, the man who received the boy's heart transplant, and invited him to the wedding to stand in as an honorary groomsman. What an amazing story! If you want to read the entire story in detail, you can find it in my blog right now at DarrenMarlar.com. Definitely worth the read. It'll give you a warm feeling for the rest of the day. DarrenMarlar.com Well, if you want to know how long Grandpa is going to live, check his pace of walking. A report in the Journal of American Medical Association found a strong correlation between walking speed and expected survival rates for people over the age of 65. The analysis from nine studies showed faster walking speed among older adults was associated with increased length of survival. This does not bode well for me. I'm only 49 years old. I'm already getting lapped by ladies using walkers. Training for what to do in case of a robbery, it ends up as a moment of duh for one couple coming up. What is a pregnant goldfish called? I'll have the answer for you coming up here in just a bit. By the way, you can keep up with everything I do by signing up for my free newsletter. It's the Marlar Sheet. You can sign up for it at DarrenMarlar.com. Training for what to do in case of a robbery, that ends up as a moment of duh for one couple. Hey, I'm Darren Marlar and a 72-year-old Melbourne, Florida woman was accidentally shot by her husband during a robbery drill that the couple staged to practice how they would respond to an intruder. The Brevard County Sheriff's Office said Arnold and Patricia Morris had very little experience with guns, big surprise, and the shooting was clearly accidental. Arnold Morris called 911 after the .380 caliber pistol fired and his wife was airlifted to the hospital for surgery. The two were fortunate to escape serious injury. Patricia Morris was expected to make a full recovery. Hey, if you'd like to get social with me, you can find me on Facebook, Twitter, anchor.fm, mines.com, LinkedIn, Instagram. You can find links to all of my social media at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, it turns out I don't want to scare you, but the C might be watching you. By training fish to spit at photos of human faces, a new study has found that one species of tropical fish has the ability to distinguish one face from another. The study discovered archer fish are able to recognize faces with a pretty decent amount of accuracy. The fish were able to spot the right face 81% at the time and their accuracy improved to 86% when the researchers used a set of black and white images. So, archer fish are racist. Hey, if you miss any part of my show, you can catch up with me at DarrenMarlar.com. Well, the day is quickly coming. August 21st, the big solar eclipse and rural towns in the path of the eclipse are bracing for a flood of smartphone-toting visitors. Here we are in an era of Instagram and Snapchat, live streaming on YouTube and Facebook. All of these people are almost certainly going to want cell phone service, right? Well, that could be a problem because cell service basically doesn't exist in a lot of these small towns along the route of the solar eclipse. So, in response, all four nationwide carriers, AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile and Sprint, are addressing this problem by rolling out surge capacity. The mobile sites are all designed to do one thing particularly well, boost wireless capacity in some cases by more than 300%. All of this for a single moment in history. I guess this big solar eclipse thing is kind of a big deal. Anyway, if you want to read a little bit more about that, you can find it in my blog at DarrenMarlar.com. Scientists have found a way to grow human tissue on apples. Kind of freaky. I'll also be looking for greeting cards saying, you're the apple of my earlobe. You know, it's not often that somebody asks police to arrest him. Well, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, they say the 27-year-old Patrick McCarty did just that. Our brain on drug story is on the way. Today's question is impossible. What is a pregnant goldfish called? Well, it's called a twit. It has nothing to do with Twitter, and if I was a goldfish, I'd be a little offended by that. In 1994, two men broke into the National Gallery in Oslo and stole a version of Edward Monk's The Screen. They left a postcard that read, Thanks for the poor security. It's great to see that even some criminals have good manners, isn't it? Well, it's not often somebody asks police to arrest him. Williamsport, Pennsylvania police say 27-year-old Patrick McCarty did just that. McCarty allegedly told police he wanted to be arrested for being stupid. When police told him that that wasn't a crime, he took police to his apartment and handed over marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Well, that was enough. McCarty is being held now in lieu of $10,000 bail on drug charges. Welcome to the Darren Marlar radio show, and we haven't done this one in a while, Soul Glow, some stories that I just find special, heartwarming. Runner Jesse Oreck collapsed short of the finish line at the Beach to Beacon 10K race in Maine recently. He said, It kind of seemed like it was over for me. Then I felt someone pick me up. Arrival runner Robert Gomez helped Oreck to his feet, and together they crossed the finish line. Then Oreck collapsed again. Gover told reporters he ran a better race. He gave it more than I did. I didn't deserve to win. I couldn't leave him there. The touching moment was captured by news reporters and photographers, and Gomez and Oreck both had the same time, 31 minutes, 31 seconds. Oreck later explained that he had suffered a heat stroke with his core body temperature peaking at 107.3 degrees. Pyro Nakajima, the actor who stomped in a rubber suit to portray the original 1954 Godzilla, has died. He was 88 years old. He'll be cremated using hot breath from a giant lizard, then be put out to sea and come back again 52 times. If you'd like to listen to shows from the past, you can download my free mobile app to search for Marlar House in your phone app store. I'm Darren Marlar and U.S. soldiers. They are going to extremes, taking diet pills and laxatives, even starving themselves and getting liposuction. Why? Well, to meet the military's weight standards, according to the Army Times, more than a third of uniformed men and women, they don't meet the Army's weight standards, according to a recent military fitness report, and those officers are subjected to dreaded tape measurements to determine body fat percentage. If soldiers exceed the body fat limits, they can't earn leadership roles or promotions. Are most of our soldiers using technology nowadays, like flying drones, navigated missiles and rockets? I say forget the weight limits. We should be going after the fat slobs living in their parents' basements that spend all their time on halo and world of warcraft.