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Strange and Bizarre News with a Nasty Parakeet · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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  Speaker 1: Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, fifth day of June. I'm Wes, thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Heard from several of you yesterday given some
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  Speaker 2: love to Mary Max in Atlanta. I love that. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: as popular as it is, I did not expect it
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  Speaker 2: to be, you know, me to be the only one
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  Speaker 2: that would ever talk about how great they are. But
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  Speaker 2: it was cool hearing from many of you that also
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  Speaker 2: had great experiences there and always loved that. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, yesterday's show just talked about the fact
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  Speaker 2: that we took my dad there for lunch technically the
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  Speaker 2: day after his birthday, but we wanted to celebrate his
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  Speaker 2: birthday there. And not only did he get a free dessert,
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  Speaker 2: which he said was excellent, evident by the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he wolfed it down quickly, the staff all passed a
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  Speaker 2: card around, I guess in the back and everybody signed
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  Speaker 2: it and it was just a nice personal touch, and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it meant a lot, really does it Just very like
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  Speaker 2: so easy to come out sing a birthday song, put
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  Speaker 2: us some breer on you, or whatever the places do.
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  Speaker 2: And those things are memorable as well in their own right.
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  Speaker 2: But that that personal thing of signing the card, it
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  Speaker 2: just it really meant a lot to me and my
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  Speaker 2: brothers and I know to my dad. So it was
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  Speaker 2: just really nice touch. So it is Friday, and that
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  Speaker 2: means we've got some strange and bizarre news to get to.
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  Speaker 2: We've got some positive news though, to start with, as
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  Speaker 2: we tend to do, and this first one is it's
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  Speaker 2: the Georgia tie to it. But a couple of things,
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  Speaker 2: because you hear me, this is where we're getting into
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  Speaker 2: that time of year where I'll start slowly working in
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  Speaker 2: conversations about Dragon Con. It's about three months away. It's
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend in Atlanta, and it is one of
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  Speaker 2: my favorite weekends of the year. I love to go.
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  Speaker 2: I go to work, I go also to have a
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  Speaker 2: good time. It's a huge, popular arts convention that takes
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  Speaker 2: place there every Labor Day weekend. I've been going. This
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  Speaker 2: will be my twenty fifth time going to dragon Con,
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  Speaker 2: or covering dragon Con. There was that one twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: year where you know it was a virtual convention. I
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  Speaker 2: took part in it virtually. I covered the convention. So
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  Speaker 2: this is my twenty fifth year covering the convention. Since
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  Speaker 2: just kind of stumbling into it the first year, and
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  Speaker 2: I am I believe, I don't know that I've gotten
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  Speaker 2: this officially, but I'm the longest tenured reporter covering it consecutively.
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  Speaker 2: So that's coming up in September. And this is like
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  Speaker 2: one of those deals where Labor Day is like the
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  Speaker 2: latest day that it can be on the calendar. So
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con will fully take place in September this year,
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  Speaker 2: like you know, right at the beginning of September, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll have more on that. I've got a podcast that
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  Speaker 2: I do call the Dragon Con Pregame Show, where I've
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  Speaker 2: done interviews with various guests at the convention, and that
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con Pregame Show available wherever you get this podcast.
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  Speaker 2: That podcast is already there. William Shatner, Zachary Levi starts
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  Speaker 2: from Star Wars, Star Trek, the Walking Dead, various pop
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  Speaker 2: culture phenoms that I've been able to interview, the Marvel
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  Speaker 2: MCU Marvel franchise, Evangeline Lily who was part of that
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  Speaker 2: as well as well, so was Zachary Levi, and of
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  Speaker 2: course Evangeline Lily from Lost and other show. So that's
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  Speaker 2: that podcast, and I cover that convention, which is sort
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  Speaker 2: of the end of summer convention when it comes to
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  Speaker 2: Labor Day. There's another convention that they do in Atlanta
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  Speaker 2: that kind of now is the kickoff for the summer
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  Speaker 2: as far as conventions go, and it takes place over
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  Speaker 2: Memorial Day weekend. And I remember, now, let me before
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  Speaker 2: I get to this Dragon con When I first went,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was less than twenty five thousand. People
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  Speaker 2: got up to a point where it was over ninety thousand.
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  Speaker 2: I think kind of unofficially, I think they that one
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  Speaker 2: year they kind of clocked at about eighty seven thousand.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they went above ninety thousand. I got
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  Speaker 2: some people to say probably more than that. But officially,
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  Speaker 2: I think they colocked it at eighty seven thousand one year,
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  Speaker 2: and then COVID happened, and then they've kind of intentionally,
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  Speaker 2: you know, cut back a little bit on some of
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  Speaker 2: the numbers because they feel like that that ninety thousand
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  Speaker 2: mark a lot of people, and you know, they just
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  Speaker 2: needed to kind of as they were reintroducing more people
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  Speaker 2: into it, and they're getting back up close to that,
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  Speaker 2: but they're not quite at the ninety mark or eighty
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  Speaker 2: seven or whatever. Now, this other convention that started years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I remember having people tell me, hey, you should start
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  Speaker 2: attending this convention at the beginning of the summer as well,
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  Speaker 2: and it's called momo Con. I guess this is twenty
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  Speaker 2: one years for MomoCon. Now, it wasn't the first year
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  Speaker 2: that they invited me, but they would tell me you
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  Speaker 2: should come to this convention and cover it as well.
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  Speaker 2: And as recently as you know, last dragon Con, I
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  Speaker 2: had someone part of Momo Coon on the media relations
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  Speaker 2: team saying you really should come and cover this. And
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  Speaker 2: my my thinking behind it for me, this is for
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  Speaker 2: me personally because I work some of these conventions, and
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  Speaker 2: for a long time now my thinking was, well, Jill
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices labor day every year that weekend for me to
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  Speaker 2: be at dragon Con. So I don't think it's fair
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  Speaker 2: to take that first kind of weekend, that first holiday
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  Speaker 2: weekend of summer and say, well, I'm gonna be gone
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  Speaker 2: for that too. So I haven't actually done momo Con.
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  Speaker 2: I've got many friends who go. They love it. It's
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  Speaker 2: a great convention. It's really kind of focuses a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more on animation and anime, comics, video games, some
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  Speaker 2: of those things. It's not quite that all encompassing thing
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  Speaker 2: that dragon Con is, but it's very specific to its
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  Speaker 2: audience sixty seven thousand people this past year. And I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying all of this because it's part of this week's
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  Speaker 2: positive News. I wanted to work this story in for
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  Speaker 2: them because they basically describe the event as your all
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  Speaker 2: ages geek culture convention. So it's everything you'd expect. It's
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  Speaker 2: voice talent, different designers, writers, artists and things for all
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  Speaker 2: these different anime and things that are there. And of
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  Speaker 2: course people in costume costumes. For Atlantic conventions like dragon
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  Speaker 2: Con and momo Con top level and people come in
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  Speaker 2: from all around the world for these convents engines. So
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  Speaker 2: this year for MomoCon they were supporting and both of
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  Speaker 2: these conventions, by the way, partner up with some nonprofit
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  Speaker 2: that they make a donation to, And for this year
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  Speaker 2: for MomoCon, they were supporting Silence the Shame, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a group focused on helping people with mental health and
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  Speaker 2: wellness and it tries to reduce stigma that surrounds it.
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  Speaker 2: We need more of that, We need more of that.
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  Speaker 2: We see this so many times on the news with
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  Speaker 2: people that they need help and we need to yes
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  Speaker 2: reduce the stigma around it. So their contributions this year
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  Speaker 2: raised ten thousand dollars for Silence the Shame, and I
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  Speaker 2: guess they're already looking forward to whatever they're going to
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  Speaker 2: do next year. It's great ten thousand for that, and
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  Speaker 2: like I said, dragon Con does similar things. I'll have
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  Speaker 2: more more on what they're going to be doing for
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  Speaker 2: this year and their partnership for that coming up, but
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  Speaker 2: kudos to Momo Con. At some point, I'm gonna go.
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  Speaker 2: Jill actually just recently talking with friends of ours who went,
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  Speaker 2: and they were like, well, I should really go to this,
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  Speaker 2: and she's like, yeah, you should go to that, and
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  Speaker 2: I was like, really, really should I? Okay, sounds like permission. No,
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  Speaker 2: And it's not even that, It's just I think it's
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  Speaker 2: you know, especially with our kids, it's not fair and
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  Speaker 2: I could take them. Obviously, we could go to that,
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  Speaker 2: and they may end up popping in at dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: this year. So another quick one I want to do
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  Speaker 2: for the positive news stuff. Two thousand and four is
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  Speaker 2: where this story starts. Firefighter in Colorado Springs named Alan
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  Speaker 2: Kent responded to an emergency call and ended up delivering
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  Speaker 2: a baby girl named Chloe upstairs in her mom's house.
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  Speaker 2: He was the first person to ever hold her. Afterward,
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  Speaker 2: Chloe's mom brought the baby to the fire station to
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  Speaker 2: say thank you, and right then and there made an
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  Speaker 2: awesome agreement Chloe would celebrate her birthdays at the fire station.
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  Speaker 2: Alan promised to show up for every single major milestone
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  Speaker 2: in her life. Twenty two years later, Alan, now retired,
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  Speaker 2: traveled eight hundred miles to Phoenix to watch Chloe walk
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  Speaker 2: across the stage and graduate from Grand Canyon University. How
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  Speaker 2: cool is this story? Alan said that in the decades
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  Speaker 2: is his first responder. He said, you see a lot
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  Speaker 2: of heartbreak. So getting to watch this little girl grow
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  Speaker 2: up has been an absolute blessing. And here's the next
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  Speaker 2: step for this Chloe is getting married this summer. Alan
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  Speaker 2: has already booked his ticket to attend her wedding. Good stuff,
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  Speaker 2: And you know that this has been a blessing for
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  Speaker 2: this guy and for this girl, and they have this
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  Speaker 2: very cool bond, very cool friendship, unlike anything else. It's
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  Speaker 2: nice to hear stories like that. All right, Let's get
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  Speaker 2: to the snark, strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We go to Long Island, where a village on Long
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  Speaker 2: Island holding an election for mayor. The problem is no
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  Speaker 2: one's on the ballot because no one signed up to run.
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  Speaker 2: Bayville Mayor Steve Minikazi announced back in April that he
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  Speaker 2: would not seek reelection, but according to village officials, the
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  Speaker 2: filing deadline passed and there wasn't a single candidate who
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  Speaker 2: stepped forward. That means when voters head to the polls
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  Speaker 2: on June sixteenth, they'll be looking at a blank ballot
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  Speaker 2: for mayor. It's the first time anyone there can remember
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  Speaker 2: something like this happening. The job takes up a lot
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  Speaker 2: of time, only pays five grand a year, which is
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  Speaker 2: why no one really wants it. But the vote must
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  Speaker 2: go on and a winner will have to be determined
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  Speaker 2: through right end votes. One potential candidate, John Taylor, who
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  Speaker 2: ran against Minekazi in twenty twenty two, says he'd be
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  Speaker 2: willing to serve if enough people write his name in.
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  Speaker 2: That seems like a potential candidate of someone who would
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  Speaker 2: kind of reluctantly, Yeah, I'll take it. If they write
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  Speaker 2: me in, I'll take it. I'm a strong advocate for
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  Speaker 2: maybe we don't need a mayor. I mean, does every
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  Speaker 2: town need a mayor, does everybody need a city manager?
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  Speaker 2: Just got questions? Uh. Parakeets pretty uncommon in Scotland. Even
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  Speaker 2: more uncommon are criminal parakeets. A rogue parakeet in a
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  Speaker 2: Scottish neighborhood causing some problems expensive ones at that as.
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  Speaker 2: Residents in a suburb of Inverness say that a small
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  Speaker 2: green bird has been pecking at cars, chewing through rubber
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  Speaker 2: window seals and windshow wipers, and racking up thousands of
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  Speaker 2: dollars in damage. The bird's crime wave has been going
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  Speaker 2: since February. People say that it comes and goes, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: disappearing for weeks before reappearing and striking again. Smart. That's
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  Speaker 2: smart for criminal behavior. You know these TV shows and
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  Speaker 2: movies where you got like a serial killer. They do
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  Speaker 2: their thing and then they go into hiding for a while,
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  Speaker 2: and then the case goes cold and then they're back right.
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  Speaker 2: It was then on Dexter a couple of times. So smart,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not for serial killing, but for this parrot.
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  Speaker 2: Some locals have started covering their cars up to protect them.
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  Speaker 2: Experts say the behavior isn't fully understood. Theories include the
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  Speaker 2: bird reacting to its own reflection, searching for nutrients in
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  Speaker 2: the rubber, or simply just being bored. The parakeet is
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  Speaker 2: believed to be someone's lost or abandoned pet, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: the commonality factor plays into this, and you say, well,
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  Speaker 2: why is someone going to have an uncommon pet and
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  Speaker 2: just let it go. It happens sometimes, you know, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: they escape, sometimes you intentionally let them go. I had
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  Speaker 2: one that kind of I think he got away. I
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  Speaker 2: had a parakeet when I was a kid, and then
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  Speaker 2: he was just gone one day. So we don't know
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  Speaker 2: what the store. I don't know what the real store.
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  Speaker 2: I need to ask my parents, don't her. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if he went away, you know, to one of those
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  Speaker 2: special farms. I don't really remember what the ex I
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  Speaker 2: need to ask all. Maybe i'll update you Monday. A
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  Speaker 2: Florida man went viral for looking like Jeffrey Epstein says
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  Speaker 2: that he's gonna maybe run for mayor of Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 2: He could go up to Long Island. Peter Simel, now
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  Speaker 2: known online and around town, is Palm Beach Pete gained
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  Speaker 2: a huge social media following after a video of him
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  Speaker 2: driving went viral, Viewers joking that Jeffrey Epstein is still
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  Speaker 2: alive now seventy one, Simul is headed right on into
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  Speaker 2: fame and leaning into it with a possible campaign built
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  Speaker 2: more on lifestyle than politics. His ideas include free botox,
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  Speaker 2: use of convertibles, expanded pickleball courts, even importing New York
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  Speaker 2: water to improve local bagels and pizza. Maybe he could,
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  Speaker 2: you know, so he's going to open some grocery stores,
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  Speaker 2: free bus passes for everybody. Oh wait, sounds like he's
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  Speaker 2: kind of tapping into that a little bit. He says
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  Speaker 2: the effort is less about traditional politics more about promoting positive,
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  Speaker 2: fun community vibes. I mean, that's what a guy who
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  Speaker 2: looks like Jeffrey Epstein would support, isn't it. He isn't
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  Speaker 2: officially entered into the race. Shit candidates can't qualify until
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, but he says he's seriously considering it
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  Speaker 2: and plans to self fund. Yeah. You know, if you're
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  Speaker 2: voting on a guy because he looks like Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Speaker 2: I mean I can think of dumber reasons to vote. No,
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  Speaker 2: I can't. I take it back. A Rhode Island man
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  Speaker 2: says he's frustrated after spending more than six hundred dollars
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  Speaker 2: on a Trump branded wristwatch for his wife, only to
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  Speaker 2: receive one with a glaring typo instead of Trump. The
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  Speaker 2: watch face reads Rump Yeah No tea. Tim Pettitt says
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  Speaker 2: that he experienced He experienced his disappointment after what he
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  Speaker 2: was expecting would be a high quality product marketed as
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  Speaker 2: an official presidential item. The company's website notes that the
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  Speaker 2: fine print that only licenses the Trump name and isn't
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  Speaker 2: actually run or manufactured by Trump or his organization. Mishap
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  Speaker 2: comes as other Trump branded products, including a smartphone, have
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  Speaker 2: drawn criticism for delays and changing claims about how they're made.
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  Speaker 2: Following some media attention, Pettit says the company that makes
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  Speaker 2: the watches reached out to him and promised that they
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  Speaker 2: would replace it. So, I mean, maybe they could have
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  Speaker 2: gotten away with it if it was if it just
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  Speaker 2: said Tump like it wasn't the R but Rump. I
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  Speaker 2: So if I were to ask you, what do you
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  Speaker 2: think is the most stolen food in the world, I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what you're thinking, what's going through your head.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna give you along. This isn't one of
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  Speaker 2: those things we're gonna take forever. But just think about
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  Speaker 2: it for a minute. What do you think is the
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  Speaker 2: most stolen food in the world. I was surprised to
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  Speaker 2: learn what it was. I don't I shouldn't be as
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  Speaker 2: surprised as I was. I guess when you kind of
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  Speaker 2: go into the reason why. But it's cheese. Experts estimate
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  Speaker 2: nearly four percent of the global cheese inventory disappears every
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  Speaker 2: year due to theft. And the reasons are it's valuable,
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  Speaker 2: so we're talking about from a monetary standpoint that adds
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  Speaker 2: to the being the four percent. It's easy to hide,
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  Speaker 2: typically even a small piece of very expensive cheese. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it can have high value and be easy to hide,
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  Speaker 2: and then it's easy to resell. And let's be honest,
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  Speaker 2: people like cheese, so they might just eat it. Riseing
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  Speaker 2: grocery prices have made it more tempting for shoplifters. And
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  Speaker 2: this is not just a small time theft either. Organized
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  Speaker 2: heists happen in Italy. Parmesan so valuable that it's often
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  Speaker 2: stored in bank vaults and thieves steal millions of steal
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  Speaker 2: millions of dollars worth of parmesan cheese every year. It
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: sounds third, but it has high value in certain parts
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  Speaker 2: of the world, So there you go. There have been
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  Speaker 2: truckloads of cheese stolen in the US and Europe. Most
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  Speaker 2: theft happens in everyday supermarkets, though, where cheese has quietly
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  Speaker 2: become a high target item, so much so that some
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  Speaker 2: stores will lock it up or tag it with security devices.
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  Speaker 2: Think about having to go to that extreme so that
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  Speaker 2: you could, you know, just have cheese for sale. It's interesting,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. It kind of makes sense at first, it
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: sounds crazy, but then you think about it. I probably
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  Speaker 2: would have guessed some kind of fruit would be commonly
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: stolen again, but I'm thinking I'm not thinking of as
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: far as dollar value, and I think that's probably the
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: big difference. But so we know World Cup's coming, and
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: we know coming soon. There's been some already. Some of
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: those early tests matched kind of situations where teams are
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: playing basically warm ups and getting ready. So they say,
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  Speaker 2: this is like a good opportunity having it back in
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  Speaker 2: the US on US soil. Chance to gauge American interest
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: in soccer, a new U GOV poll finds that most
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  Speaker 2: Americans still not as into it as far as the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup goes at least not yet, more than half
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  Speaker 2: say they're not interested at all. Nearly sixty percent don't
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  Speaker 2: expect to watch any matches. Interest is higher among younger adults, though,
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  Speaker 2: Among fans who are engaged, most planned to watch games
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: at home rather than bars or public events. And when
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: it comes to tickets, most Americans just aren't willing to
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: spend much, generally under one hundred dollars, but da hard
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: fans say that they'd pay several hundred even a thousand
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: to see the US play. And as far as expectations go,
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  Speaker 2: only about twelve percent of Americans think the US men's
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  Speaker 2: team will win. I guess that means win at all,
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: win the whole thing. Yeah, It's always like soccer grows
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  Speaker 2: so much among youth in this country, and you think
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: like it's a gradual increase, and then you get to
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: an event like this where it should be something that
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: really does draw a lot of eyes and a lot of attention,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: and it just doesn't for some reason. But we'll see,
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: we'll see how it all plays out on once we
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: actually get into the matches. I think that will be
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: the real testament to where it is. The opportunity to
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: go the opportunity to go to games. I think for
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: people that can afford them, some of the tickets are
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: pretty expensive. I think you know you're hearing all this
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: about under one hundred bucks. You know, a ninety nine
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: dollars ticket to a soccer match that involves two international teams.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know that people in America are going to
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: want to do that, but we'll see. You know, in
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: some cases you have ties to a team to country
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: and you think, well, maybe you want to go check
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: them out. We know that gas prices they've gone down some,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: but you know they're still they're still pretty high, at
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: least you know across the country. Still not as high
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: as twenty twenty two. Just like to point that out.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: But now as a chance for scammers to take advantage
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: of you at the pump. Law enforcement warning about tricks
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: that scammers go to to try to rip you off.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: Police say thieves may stick a small screw in the
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: nozzle holder, preventing it from fully shutting off. When you
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: replace it back, you're like, hang it up? Does I
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: really call it? I guess, like hanging up a phone,
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: hanging it up, replacing the nozzle is probably what I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: would say, but you know, hanging it up is certainly
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: more more economic when it comes to your words, fewer
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: syllables that you have to say, and basically it tricks
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: the pump into thinking that your transaction is still running,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and then you lead, and then the next person comes
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: up and then fills up on the car that you've
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: already run, like using your money to fill their car
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: up or get as much as they can get. Investigators
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: say the screws can also be part of legitimate repairs,
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: so not every case is necessarily a scam. If you
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: see a screw there, it may or may not be
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: that you want to make sure, though, that you close
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: out your transaction before you drive away. They're urging customers
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: to check before you leave, make sure it gets kind
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: of reset and shut off, wait for the nozzle to
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: click before you leave in some cases if they make
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: the clicking sounds, and wait for your receipt or at
• 25:36
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