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Strange and Bizarre News with an Ostrich and Some Bees · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 1: Friday morning, tenth day of April. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 1: joining me.
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Speaker 2: Artemis too coming home today, scheduled to come a little
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Speaker 2: after eight pm Eastern time tonight with the splash down
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Speaker 2: off the coast of San Diego. I'm going to say
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Speaker 2: what it means from anchorman, but I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: do it, not here, not on this show. But they're
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Speaker 2: going to be splashing down today. It's an exciting day.
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Speaker 2: They've been to the moon, around the moon and they
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Speaker 2: have come home and a lot of major milestones and
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Speaker 2: accomplishments and pretty historic things on this trip. And if
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Speaker 2: you would like to hear some of the breakdown that
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Speaker 2: doctor Sean Cruise and I had about this Artemis mission
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Speaker 2: thus far, we had it in yesterday's episode of the
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Speaker 2: Mate of Stars podcast. Wherever you get your podcasts, where
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Speaker 2: you get this podcast, you can get that podcast, and
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Speaker 2: it's one of the things that we discussed. I'll give
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a spoiler, is when people ask
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Speaker 2: questions like why are they sending people up? What is
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Speaker 2: the purpose in sending humans on these missions, and we
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Speaker 2: discussed that the reason that that's necessary and some of
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Speaker 2: the things that we are aware of that took place
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Speaker 2: during this trip that make that human element important to
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Speaker 2: all of it. Other things we talked about were some
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Speaker 2: of those human elements, and we went into a couple
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Speaker 2: of depth on a couple of those things, and maybe
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Speaker 2: even got a little emotional at one point because we
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Speaker 2: learned about some of the emotion that the crew of
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Speaker 2: Artemis two experience. So anyway, you can check out that
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Speaker 2: show for this week the Mate of Stars podcast, and
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Speaker 2: then last week's show was the one that we recorded
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Speaker 2: live at the Coca Cola Space Science Center, So if
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Speaker 2: you're looking for some Friday time killers, you can check
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Speaker 2: those out today at work or sometime over this weekend.
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Speaker 2: It's not like the information is outdated at this point.
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Speaker 2: You know, they're coming home. They're coming home, heroes. It's
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Speaker 2: a big day. So that's going on today on this Friday.
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Speaker 2: Before I get to the strange and bizarre news and
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Speaker 2: some positive news that we like to kick off in
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Speaker 2: the weekend, I just want to just talk just for
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Speaker 2: just a second, and this obviously could be one of
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Speaker 2: our topics into next week. I don't know yet, but
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Speaker 2: we're going to be following it closely. But Eric Swallwell,
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Speaker 2: Representative in California, he's running for governor. I believe at
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Speaker 2: last check he's in third place. He's the top. We
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Speaker 2: address this. I believe we talked about this on the
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Speaker 2: show a couple of weeks ago, the fact that there
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Speaker 2: are so many, and I know that we did. There's
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Speaker 2: so many. Sometimes the conversations I have with a handful
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Speaker 2: of people feel like I'm doing a show that kind
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Speaker 2: of runs together for me. But anyway, there's so many
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Speaker 2: Democrats that are running in this The way that they
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Speaker 2: do this election, you know, they eventually want to get
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Speaker 2: it down to two and then you have your runoff
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Speaker 2: election is what they do. Well, there's so many Democrats
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Speaker 2: running and only a handful of Republicans. There's two. And
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Speaker 2: the concern a couple of weeks ago by a lot
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Speaker 2: of people on the left is wait a minute, there's
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Speaker 2: so many more Democrats running that and none of them
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Speaker 2: want to get out that there's potential here that it
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Speaker 2: could be two Republicans who make it into the final
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Speaker 2: run and one of them, you know, it would be
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Speaker 2: guaranteed a Republican governor in California. I think there's some
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Speaker 2: people in California that once upon a time would have
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Speaker 2: not wanted that, not voted for that, not supported that,
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Speaker 2: that are kind of going, maybe we need that right
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Speaker 2: now because they're in trouble. They got a lot going
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Speaker 2: on California. It's a lot. There's a mess in California,
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Speaker 2: and the federal government does not want to have to
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Speaker 2: bail out California because of a lot of bad decisions.
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Speaker 2: So I think it, you know, republican governor would be
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Speaker 2: probably just what the doctor ordered. But there are two
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Speaker 2: Republicans that are at you know, right out there up
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Speaker 2: at the top, looks like they could be the two
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Speaker 2: and Eric Swawall, I believe, is the top Democrat right now.
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Speaker 2: And now some accusations have come out that some of
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Speaker 2: the other people running for governor on the Democrat side
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Speaker 2: are calling them troubling. Former Representative Katie Porter is one
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Speaker 2: saying that sexual assault allegations and sexual inappropriate sexual conduct
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Speaker 2: with female staffers and other women have them very concerned
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Speaker 2: about the upcoming June gubernatorial primary election. So and many
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Speaker 2: just expressing their disappointment. So, you know, if you want
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Speaker 2: the trust of the vote. Now, this is a guy people.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting to me that people are saying, you know
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Speaker 2: it is does even give you what the trust of
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Speaker 2: the voters he had like a Chinese spy living with him.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's had that already. I don't understand why
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Speaker 2: that automatically should be a pretty significant disqualifier. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: so we'll keep an eye on that story. I don't
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Speaker 2: know where all that's going, but it's very like it's
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Speaker 2: starting to build and build, and we'll keep an eye
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Speaker 2: on what's going on there. All right, let's jump over
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Speaker 2: now to some good news stories. And I erroneously said
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Speaker 2: something last week. I referred to it as an autism
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Speaker 2: awareness month in April, and they don't call it that anymore.
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Speaker 2: It's now. And normally when they do these changes in
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Speaker 2: some of these terms and names, I just kind of
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Speaker 2: roll my eyes and I go, whatever I want to
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Speaker 2: call it, whatever I want to call it. In this case,
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Speaker 2: I think it was done correctly. And it's now referred
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Speaker 2: to April as Autism Acceptance Month, and I think that's appropriate.
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Speaker 2: And I know nobody's asking me to tell them what's
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Speaker 2: appropriate and what's not. But some of these things, they
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Speaker 2: make these changes, and we go it's just a semantics thing,
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Speaker 2: you know, the what do they call it, It's you know,
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Speaker 2: can't say homeless anymore. You have to say houseless or
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Speaker 2: de homed or whatever the term is. And they get
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Speaker 2: into this political correctness thing. I don't think of this
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Speaker 2: thing with Autism Acceptance Month as being a PC thing.
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Speaker 2: I think that's really just more of a people are
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Speaker 2: aware of autism, they need to be in a position
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Speaker 2: of acceptance for what it is, need to accept what
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Speaker 2: it is, accept what it does to people, what it
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Speaker 2: does to lives. And I've already voiced some of my
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Speaker 2: concerns about an experience and things that happened at Disney,
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Speaker 2: So let's just say, you know, acceptance is the right term,
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Speaker 2: that's all. And I mentioned this because this is a
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Speaker 2: really cool story. Matt Sipes Wooddale, Illinois. He was started bowling.
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Speaker 2: He was an energetic kid. He had ADHD and was
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Speaker 2: on the autism spectrum, the double down, and you got both, man,
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Speaker 2: you got two things fighting with each other, two different
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Speaker 2: types of neurodivergence. So basically he started bowling and he
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Speaker 2: had so much fun. He just kept asking his parents,
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Speaker 2: let's go bowling again. Well, he's now twenty three years old.
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Speaker 2: He's moved from junior leagues to a college scholarship, and
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Speaker 2: on March the twenty fifth, after all of his hard
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Speaker 2: work and dedication, Matt rolled his first sanctioned perfect three
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Speaker 2: hundred game, officially joining the Professional Bowlers Association. Matt said,
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Speaker 2: it's something I've dreamed about my entire life. To finally
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Speaker 2: achieve it feels almost surreal. I'm so grateful, and I
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Speaker 2: hope I can inspire other athletes who are on the
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Speaker 2: spectrum celebrating the achievement and then back to work trying
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Speaker 2: to achieve as much as possible in the bowling world.
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Speaker 2: He says, bowling has helped me become the person that
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Speaker 2: I am today, and that neurodivergence has as well. Matt
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Speaker 2: where it proudly great stuff. I like it. I love
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Speaker 2: the story. As soon as I saw it, I said,
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Speaker 2: I'm doing this one this week in the midst as
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Speaker 2: we're in the second week of Autism Acceptance Month. How
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Speaker 2: about this story. There's an old South diner, it's the
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Speaker 2: name it in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The diner is experiencing a
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Speaker 2: ridiculous lucky streak. I guess. Massachusetts Lottery says a two
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Speaker 2: million dollar powerball ticket recently sold there was the fifth
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Speaker 2: million dollar win tied to the diner over a two
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Speaker 2: year period. The latest winner a lifelong Nantucket resident named
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Speaker 2: Mary Hayley, and she called it a win for the
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Speaker 2: whole community. The Diners' winning ways began March eleventh, twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four, when a visitor from Boston scratched off a
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Speaker 2: one million dollar prize. A few months later, another customer
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Speaker 2: won two million dollars. Weeks after that, a man casually
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Speaker 2: stopped in for a snack walked away with a million
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Speaker 2: dollars of his own, and then another two million dollars
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Speaker 2: was won on a scratch ticket. The diner's stroke of
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Speaker 2: good luck has boosted lottery sales there by more than
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Speaker 2: thirty percent, earning the diners sixty thousand dollars in bonuses.
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Speaker 2: As the manager put it, there's just something about this place. Now.
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Speaker 2: If I were being sent I'm not gonna do it,
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Speaker 2: not on one of our good news stories. I'm not
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Speaker 2: gonna do it. I'm gonna do one more. I know
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Speaker 2: we got to get to the strange. But California woman
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Speaker 2: and her dog have some catching up to do they
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Speaker 2: were apart for five years. Her name Michelle Bluestone recently
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Speaker 2: got a call from animal shelters that had her dog, Lola.
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Speaker 2: Someone had found Lola on the side of the road,
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Speaker 2: turned her in microchip identified her owner. The Schnauzer mix
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Speaker 2: got out of Bluestone's yard in twenty twenty one and
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Speaker 2: not to be seen again for a while at least.
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Speaker 2: Bluestone said that she frantically searched for her dog, hung
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Speaker 2: flyers all over town and she was never found. She
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Speaker 2: feared the worst Lola had maybe been hit by a car,
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Speaker 2: killed by a coyote, or had, you know, moved on
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Speaker 2: with her life. She was shocked when she got a
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Speaker 2: call from an animal shelter saying Lola had been found.
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Speaker 2: She needed some medical care, but was in good condition considering,
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Speaker 2: you know, being on some kind of an adventure. Lola
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Speaker 2: is back home getting adjusted to a whole new life,
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Speaker 2: which includes a new family. Since she ran away, Bluestone
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Speaker 2: got married and moved to a new home and adopted
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Speaker 2: another dog. So Lola's got some new people to meet,
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Speaker 2: so and some new things to you know, pee on,
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Speaker 2: and all those things that dogs do, because that's what
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Speaker 2: you do when you're a dog, you gotta go dog.
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Speaker 2: So what a great story, and as always, I'd just
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Speaker 2: like to know what Lola got up to. I wish
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Speaker 2: that we could know. That's all and escaped. Just get
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Speaker 2: over to some strange and bizarre news. I forgot to
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Speaker 2: say that this sounded like I was still a positive story.
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Speaker 2: But this is a weird story because it involves an
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Speaker 2: escaped Ostrich. Brought some unexpected drama to a highway. Of course,
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Speaker 2: a highway. That's what you're gonna do if you're an
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Speaker 2: Ostrich and Thailand, the bird escaped from an animal cafe,
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Speaker 2: of all places, slipping through an open gate an animal cafe?
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Speaker 2: Is that food for animals or they eating animals? I
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Speaker 2: don't know what that means. They slipped through a gate
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Speaker 2: and it ran into traffic, chased after a cement truck
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Speaker 2: and ended up spreading nearly ten miles down a busy road.
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Speaker 2: Drivers captured this real scene as the Ostrich ran alongside
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Speaker 2: vehicles that would be a wild day on the highway.
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Speaker 2: Videos quickly spread online. Fortunately, witnesses managed to safely corral
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Speaker 2: the runaway bird and now back home without a scratch.
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Speaker 2: That's a good see we know the adventure of the
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Speaker 2: Ostrich that got out back at the animal cafe. I'm
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Speaker 2: assuming people are eating while the animals are there. I
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Speaker 2: would hope that's what that means by animal cafe. All right,
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Speaker 2: two tourists. We didn't have any Florida story. We had
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Speaker 2: kind of a Florida story. This is our Florida story
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Speaker 2: right here at number two. This week, two tourists facing
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Speaker 2: felony charges in Florida after wildlife officers say they strapped
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Speaker 2: a debt alligator on the roof of their car and
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Speaker 2: drove it across central Florida. It's almost the plot of
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Speaker 2: Smoking the Bandit three. It was a shark though on
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Speaker 2: a dead shark. But still it's an underrated movie. It's terrible,
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Speaker 2: but it's underrated. You should check out Smoking in the
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Speaker 2: Bandit three this weekend if you get a chance. It's bad, though,
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Speaker 2: just know that it's so bad it's good. Officers arrested
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Speaker 2: fifty six year old Anthony Bull of New York City
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Speaker 2: and fifty seven year old March Whalen Chadwick. That's a name.
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Speaker 2: Guess where March Whalen Chadwick is from. Just get when
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Speaker 2: I tell you. In your mind right now. I want
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Speaker 2: you to think a guy named March Whalan Chadwick. All right,
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Speaker 2: think of it. Think of a state right now, just
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Speaker 2: in your head. Think or even think of a color.
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Speaker 2: You know, either one of those, a color or a state.
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Speaker 2: All right. And if you and when I tell you
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Speaker 2: the state, you're gonna know the color I'm going for.
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Speaker 2: And if if you had that color, any version of it,
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Speaker 2: you also win. All Right, you got it, Tennessee. After
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Speaker 2: tracking their vile from Celebration to Melbourne, according to the
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Speaker 2: arrest report, and the men admitted that they knew it
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Speaker 2: was illegal to possess an alligator in Florida, but planned
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Speaker 2: to take it to a taxidermist. At one point, they
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Speaker 2: even covered it with a white sheet after being warned
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Speaker 2: by bystanders. Both men charged under Florida Lull, which bands
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Speaker 2: killing or possessing an alligator without a permit. They appeared
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Speaker 2: in court and were released on bond. So yeah, don't don't,
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Speaker 2: don't drive around. But an alligator on your car, that's
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Speaker 2: that's it's I mean, even if it was legal, that's
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Speaker 2: not okay. It's not okay. An American Airlines flight out
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Speaker 2: of Charlotte, North Carolina was delayed for about an hour
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Speaker 2: due to a swarm of bees gathered inside one of
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Speaker 2: the plane's engines. Passenger captured video as beekeepers and airline
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Speaker 2: crews carefully removed the bees and placed them in a
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Speaker 2: box in a safe location. Once the bees were cleared,
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Speaker 2: the flight continued to San Francisco, arriving about an hour
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Speaker 2: behind schedule because they didn't have the bees speeding them up.
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Speaker 2: Some people on social media plotted the airline for saving
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Speaker 2: the bees, while others suggested they should have they would
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Speaker 2: have flown away once the plane started moving. Others didn't
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Speaker 2: care and said the engine could have just sucked them up. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: you know, save the bees if you can. What are
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Speaker 2: they were? An hour? They lost an hour to save
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Speaker 2: some bees, and it sounds like it was, you know,
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Speaker 2: enough bees to make it worth their time. I'm not
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Speaker 2: against saving bee? Are you against saving bees? People? Emergency
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Speaker 2: crews in Kansas pulled off a unique rescue after a
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Speaker 2: car got stuck inside. I'm sorry a cat. A cat
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Speaker 2: got stuck inside. I'm looking at the cat. I don't
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Speaker 2: know why I said car. I see the picture of
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Speaker 2: the cat. Car came out. I guess I was trying
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Speaker 2: to look at it while I was also reading Let's
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Speaker 2: try this again. They pulled a cat that was stuck
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Speaker 2: inside of a recliner and it was trying to avoid
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Speaker 2: a trip to the vet Overland Park Police. The cat
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Speaker 2: was aware it was going to the vet for an
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Speaker 2: annual checkup and just didn't want to go. Climbed into
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Speaker 2: the chairs in or workings and could not get out.
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Speaker 2: Firefighters had to saw open the chair with the help
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Speaker 2: from animal control. Cat was unharmed. The bad news is
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Speaker 2: cat had to go to the vet anyway. And I
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Speaker 2: guess if you're already going to the vet, you know,
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Speaker 2: if there had been some sort of injury which you
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Speaker 2: didn't want, nobody wants that, you know, nobody wants the
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Speaker 2: injury to the cat. But it was already going to
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Speaker 2: the vet, So I mean, that's maybe the one thing,
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Speaker 2: Seltzer that's inspired by the old commercial calling Sunny D
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Speaker 2: Vodka Seltzer Purple. Yeah. So it's sunny D Vodka Seltzer Purple,
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Speaker 2: limited time flavor, described as light and bubbly four and
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Speaker 2: a half percent alcohol by volume. A spokesperson says purple
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Speaker 2: was always the mystery in the fridge. Now it's the
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Speaker 2: boldest thing in the cooler. We're excited to see the
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Speaker 2: lively discussion start all over again. It hits select stores
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Speaker 2: nationwide starting this month. Now, I saw this and I thought,
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Speaker 2: surely this is like I was trying to see if
21:51
Speaker 2: they announced this on April first. They did not. It
21:55
Speaker 2: certainly sounds like an April full stay joke, how many
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Speaker 2: times at a picnic, at a family gathering where there
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Speaker 2: are adult beverages and children's beverages is a kid going
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Speaker 2: to pick up a sunny d out of a cooler
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Speaker 2: and drink it even though it says vodka on it.
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Speaker 2: I think it's surprising that this wasn't an April Fool's
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Speaker 2: Day prank. But good for them. I guess, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, i'd be curious to try one, but I
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Speaker 2: don't know. I don't know that I would like it.
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Speaker 2: I guess i'd give it a shot. Couldn't tell you
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Speaker 2: the last time I drank sunny to light period. So,
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Speaker 2: if you get a vacation coming up and you're going
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Speaker 2: to be out of work for a little while, out
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Speaker 2: of the office, you know, there's the old out of
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Speaker 2: office reply that you can set up on your email.
22:52
Speaker 2: There's also an option that you can do where you
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Speaker 2: can have an Icelandic horse respond to your emails for you.
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Speaker 2: Iceland's Tourism board invites you to out hoorse your email
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Speaker 2: instead of outsourcing it. Real Icelandic horses will take over
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Speaker 2: your out of office replies. Well, you unplug and enjoy
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Speaker 2: your vacation. Visitors can go online, pick a horse, and
23:17
Speaker 2: that horse will literally walk across a giant keyboard and
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Speaker 2: send auto replies on your behalf. There's even a behind
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Speaker 2: the scenes video showing trainers teaching the horses, so you
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Speaker 2: can see how it works. Again, suspiciously close to April first.
23:35
Speaker 2: I really, I really don't know what to believe, and
23:40
Speaker 2: you know, we're ten days deep and I just don't
23:43
Speaker 2: know what to believe when it comes to some of
23:46
Speaker 2: these posts. But job seeker recently went viral for reporting
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Speaker 2: a LinkedIn job posting as harassment. It wasn't the language
23:56
Speaker 2: in the posting necessarily, but the salary this person, saying
24:01
Speaker 2: that the pay was insultingly low. Career strategist Kate Henman
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Speaker 2: shared a screenshot on social media the job posting from
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Speaker 2: the WME agency. I think it's William Morris right, one
24:15
Speaker 2: of top entertainment companies in the world. In the country
24:17
Speaker 2: at least position was an HR assistant role in Beverly Hills.
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Speaker 2: It paid between sixteen and eighteen dollars an hour, despite
24:24
Speaker 2: demanding serious responsibilities and experience. Henman, who's done this same
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Speaker 2: type of work before for much higher pay, said the
24:32
Speaker 2: wage felt offensive. Especially giving the cost of living in
24:35
Speaker 2: LA and California's rising minimum wage standards and of course
24:40
Speaker 2: high taxes. She didn't say that. I'm throwing that in
24:43
Speaker 2: post struck a nerve with other workers who were underpaid
24:46
Speaker 2: with high expectation jobs. And basically they say companies are
24:51
Speaker 2: normalizing wages that simply aren't livable anymore, and then acts
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Speaker 2: surprised when no one applies for the jobs. This is
24:58
Speaker 2: the kind of thing in california' You've got companies in
25:01
Speaker 2: California that are cutting wherever they can, and I'm assuming
25:05
Speaker 2: that this is a byproduct of that. But hey, gen
25:08
Speaker 2: Z is apparently still embracing nostalgia. We've talked about a
25:14
Speaker 2: number of ways that they've done that, and one of
25:16
Speaker 2: the ways that they're doing it is that they really
25:18
Speaker 2: like going to the movies. According to Fandango, gen Z
25:23
Speaker 2: is now the most active movie going generation, going to
25:26
Speaker 2: theaters more often than millennials, gen X, or boomers. Young
25:29
Speaker 2: audiences aren't just showing up more frequently, they're also spending
25:32
Speaker 2: more per visit, especially on concessions and premium formats like Imax.
25:39
Speaker 2: For gen Z, they say, movies or less about killing
25:41
Speaker 2: time and more about social connection and shared experiences. We
25:44
Speaker 2: hear that over and over again, over and over again. Overall,
25:48
Speaker 2: box office attendance still trails pre pandemic levels due to
25:52
Speaker 2: fewer releases. Experts say Z's enthusiasm is helping keep theaters alive,
25:57
Speaker 2: proving that the big screen still matters younger audience. It's
26:01
Speaker 2: good for them, it's great, great for the theater. It's
26:03
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26:06
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