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Strange and Bizarre News with an Escaped Iguana · 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: Carol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, thirty, first and final day of July. I'm Wes.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for joining me. You know, Fridays we jump in
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  Speaker 2: and talk to you about some positive news and we
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  Speaker 2: handle the strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: And we're gonna do both of those things today. Just
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  Speaker 2: want to mention again Dragon Con pregame show coming up
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  Speaker 2: on August twenty ninth, the weekend before Labor Day weekend,
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  Speaker 2: and it's your chance to learn everything you need to
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  Speaker 2: know about the universe's biggest pop culture convention. It's not
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  Speaker 2: just I mean, it's listen, it's nerdy stuff. I get that.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say it's not just nerdy stuff, and
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  Speaker 2: it's not. It's a lot of other things, many of
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  Speaker 2: them nerdy. And that's okay. We're in a time where
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  Speaker 2: everyone should embrace their nerdiness. You just should. You should
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  Speaker 2: have been doing it for quite some time now, but
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  Speaker 2: you really should be doing it now. But when I
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  Speaker 2: say it's not just nerdy things, it's a lot of things.
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  Speaker 2: And I guess maybe some I don't know. Is pro
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  Speaker 2: wrestling considered nerdy? I don't know is live music considered nerdy.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of things all crammed into a giant
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  Speaker 2: costume party that takes place over several days. And the
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  Speaker 2: home base for this event is five four star hotels
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  Speaker 2: in downtown Atlanta and America's Mark where all the vendor
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  Speaker 2: halls are and you can buy nerdy things. Yes, but
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  Speaker 2: I say that in a good way. This is my
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth year covering this convention and you should be
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  Speaker 2: there with us. DragonCon dot org has all the information
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  Speaker 2: you need about the upcoming events, including the guest list,
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  Speaker 2: people to see, and places to get your memberships that's
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  Speaker 2: what they call them. You're not getting tickets, you're getting
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  Speaker 2: a membership for the convention for that weekend, and we'll
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  Speaker 2: have everything you need to know condensed into one radio
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  Speaker 2: show and a podcast. Past episodes of the dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: Pregame Show podcast waiting for you wherever you get your podcasts,
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  Speaker 2: The dragon Con Pregame Show podcast, that's it. Check them out,
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  Speaker 2: past interviews, and we'll have a brand new show for
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  Speaker 2: you on August the twenty ninth as a podcast and
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  Speaker 2: on radio in about two hundred radio stations around the
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  Speaker 2: state of Georgia. And surrounding states. It is powered by
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  Speaker 2: Columbus State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's jump into some positive news, and I want to
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  Speaker 2: start with this story, some positive news about Kaitlin Clark. Look,
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  Speaker 2: Kaitlin Clark is one of those people that she made
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  Speaker 2: this huge splash into the WNBA. They should have embraced her.
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  Speaker 2: They should have said, my goodness, we now have eyes
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  Speaker 2: on our game. We have people that are showing up
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  Speaker 2: up into arenas that had been kind of empty, and
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  Speaker 2: now they're packing in to see Caitlin Clark play. And
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  Speaker 2: once you've got like that player that is drawing that
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  Speaker 2: many people, you should embrace them. But no, no, they didn't.
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  Speaker 2: They have players that hated her for all the attention
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  Speaker 2: she was getting, and they knock her around and beat
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  Speaker 2: her up. And then she's kind of according to what
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  Speaker 2: people are saying, now, she's flopping a lot in games.
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  Speaker 2: She's turned into that. I don't know. Maybe she picked
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  Speaker 2: it up from the World Cup or Lebron. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: As much as Lebron takes heat for the flopping, he
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  Speaker 2: doesn't take the same heat that Caitlin Clark took for
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  Speaker 2: the flopping, But that's another story altogether. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: story here about Caitlin Clark. I saw it. Normally I
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  Speaker 2: probably would have just blown by it, but it is
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  Speaker 2: a positive news story, and it's I think she needs
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  Speaker 2: some positive news. I'm prepared to give that to her.
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  Speaker 2: So she grew up in Iowa, she went to college
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  Speaker 2: in Iowa, as you probably know, and she went back
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  Speaker 2: to Iowa to get kids ready for heading back to school.
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  Speaker 2: The Caitlin Clark Foundation is an organization that she has
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  Speaker 2: and she teamed up with the Des Moines Public Schools
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  Speaker 2: des Moines, by the way French for these Moins, it's
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  Speaker 2: a Dave Barry joke and I like it. And they
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  Speaker 2: teamed up for their third annual back to school backpack
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  Speaker 2: event at Hoover High School. About five hundred kids walked
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  Speaker 2: away with new backpacks stuffed with school supplies and books
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  Speaker 2: from Scholastic and snacks and other things. And for Caitlin,
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  Speaker 2: she says giving back through reading and education, it hits
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  Speaker 2: close to home. The quote is reading and education have
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  Speaker 2: always been a huge important part of my life. I
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  Speaker 2: remember picking out the books from Scholastic flyer and how
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  Speaker 2: empowering it was. From his child and how motivated I
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  Speaker 2: was to read. I want to help kids have the
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  Speaker 2: same experience to develop their reading skills and open their
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  Speaker 2: imaginations to dream big. There you go, it's not flopping,
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  Speaker 2: it's not getting knocked around. Just some good news from
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  Speaker 2: Caitlin Clark Right. Another story that I like. I love
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  Speaker 2: stories that involve animals either being returned home, being found
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  Speaker 2: after years, or being rescued. This one goes back to
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  Speaker 2: early July. Fourth of July in the San Francisco area.
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  Speaker 2: There was a small dog named Prieta and got spooked
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  Speaker 2: by firework noise as happens, and escaped from her family
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  Speaker 2: home and since then the family has been worried about
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  Speaker 2: finding her. Well. Last week a break in the case.
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  Speaker 2: Somebody in the Bay area called nine to one one
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  Speaker 2: to report that a small dog had run into the
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  Speaker 2: bay and just kept swimming. Firefighters responded to the call.
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  Speaker 2: They used a drone to locate the dog and then
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  Speaker 2: launched a boat into the bay, plucked the dog out
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  Speaker 2: of the water and it was Prieta. How about that?
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  Speaker 2: Fire department connected Prieta with her family, shared the story
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  Speaker 2: of her rescue and return on social media. The fire
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  Speaker 2: department writing firefighter Tyler, who scooped up Prieda from the
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  Speaker 2: bay in one perfectly time to move, was able to
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  Speaker 2: see her dry and how much happier she is now
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  Speaker 2: in her mother's arms. Prieta's owner was emotional as she
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  Speaker 2: expressed her gratitude to all the rescuers who helped bring
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  Speaker 2: her beloved dog home after an especially difficult time in
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  Speaker 2: her life. Man, that is love. When they're reunited, you
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  Speaker 2: get to that point where you don't want to give
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  Speaker 2: up hope. You're starting to give up hope, and it's
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  Speaker 2: a struggle and it all comes together in a happy
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  Speaker 2: ending in the end, and you wonder about all the
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  Speaker 2: adventures that your dog got into while they were gone.
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  Speaker 2: We've had two dogs in my adult life, Jill and
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  Speaker 2: I have, and our first our current dog thankfully has
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  Speaker 2: not been away from us since we got him. But
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  Speaker 2: our first dog got away one day. He had one
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  Speaker 2: day that he got out and we just we couldn't
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  Speaker 2: find him for a day. And we had this fantastic
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  Speaker 2: story about getting reunited with him, but and all we
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  Speaker 2: could wonder is, like, what was he up to for
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  Speaker 2: that one day that he had away? All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: get into some strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: We start in Memphis. We're in a wayward iguana delivered
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  Speaker 2: a scare to a bunch of FedEx employees in Memphis
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  Speaker 2: when it broke free from its shipping box and began
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  Speaker 2: running around the store owner Roderick Duncan, who was expecting
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  Speaker 2: delivery of the iguana. Now, I didn't know that they
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  Speaker 2: delivered iguanas from FedEx, but they do like appropriate packaging
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  Speaker 2: for live animals. I don't you know what, now that
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  Speaker 2: I think about it, I think we did have a
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  Speaker 2: chicken delivered to the radio station once, not to me,
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  Speaker 2: but to someone else, and that may have been FedEx
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  Speaker 2: now that I think about it. But anyway, this isn't
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  Speaker 2: about chickens. It's about iguana that I think they say
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  Speaker 2: taste like chicken, but I don't know if you're supposed
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  Speaker 2: to eat iguanas. The owner, Roderick Duncan, was expecting the delivery,
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  Speaker 2: was called to the location to pick up his new
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  Speaker 2: pet because the weather was hot and he knew the
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  Speaker 2: building would be air conditioned. And the company allows certain
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  Speaker 2: harmless reptiles to be shipped domestically using overnight services, though
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  Speaker 2: the shipper must receive prior approval and use FedEx approved packaging.
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  Speaker 2: So see, that's what we got. Duncan, who was who
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  Speaker 2: was there to capture the reptile without incident, said he's
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  Speaker 2: currently letting the iguana settle in his enclosure before beginning
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  Speaker 2: to feed and handle them more regularly next week. Duncan
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  Speaker 2: insists that he's pretty chill. He hasn't really jumped on
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  Speaker 2: anything right now, well, other than you know, around FedEx.
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  Speaker 2: It's another it's kind of another story about him being reunited.
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  Speaker 2: Were just thinking about an iguana running around and you know,
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  Speaker 2: the people working at FedEx maybe don't have a lot
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  Speaker 2: of experience with iguanas. So it's good that he was
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  Speaker 2: able to get there and take care of that. A
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  Speaker 2: Colorado man who stole a family's beloved Labrador retriever had
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  Speaker 2: second thoughts and returned the pup along with the notes,
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  Speaker 2: saying he was drunk when he took the dog. Owner
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  Speaker 2: Paul Torres says the unnamed pooch poacher was caught on
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  Speaker 2: surveillance tape walking off with a two year old blanco.
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  Speaker 2: The family put a plea out for the dog's return,
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  Speaker 2: and it worked. About seventy two hours after the theft.
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  Speaker 2: Blanco or Blanco, I don't know Blanco, I guess was
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  Speaker 2: returned with an apology note attached to his collar. The
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  Speaker 2: handwritten notes that I am very sorry for what I did.
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  Speaker 2: I was drunk and I don't remember much. I've been
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  Speaker 2: taking care of him. I bought him food and made
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  Speaker 2: sure that he had water. So again, reunited. That's what
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  Speaker 2: you want in a story involving a lost pet. An
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  Speaker 2: Iowa woman with a history of impair driving arrests has
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  Speaker 2: uh MO problems, MO money more problems, but this is
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  Speaker 2: m ow problems. After being pulled over for radically operating
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  Speaker 2: a lawnmower at a busy parking lot, Michelle Hudson was
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  Speaker 2: busted Friday night after a witness called nine to one
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  Speaker 2: one to report that the defendant appeared to be intoxicated
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  Speaker 2: as she rode the mower outside Casey's Convenience store in Tiffin,
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  Speaker 2: a city outside Iowa City. According to the police report,
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  Speaker 2: thirty six year old performed poorly on a series of
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  Speaker 2: sobriety tests and showed measurable signs of impairment like slurred speech,
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  Speaker 2: poor balanced bloodshot, watery eyes. Wasn't Hudson's first wasted rodeo.
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  Speaker 2: Back in twenty twenty two, she was named for driving
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  Speaker 2: an suv under the influence, but that time it was meth.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little worse. Drivers in central Ohio found that
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  Speaker 2: themselves in a bit of a pickle when a truck
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  Speaker 2: crashed and spilled pickles all over the road. Happened last week.
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  Speaker 2: The accident ended up being a big deal. Traffic on
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  Speaker 2: State Route three sixteen in Pickaway County came to a
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  Speaker 2: halt for several hours as crews worked to clean up
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  Speaker 2: the mess. Officials with the Ohio Department of Transportation said
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  Speaker 2: that the driver was not injured, joking on social media
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  Speaker 2: that while the driver was fine, the pickles, however, were speared.
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  Speaker 2: Unclear what caused the accident. Those are good when no
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  Speaker 2: one was injured and you can have all your puns.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think that's important when you can do that.
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  Speaker 2: And who doesn't like a pickle? You know? I mean
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  Speaker 2: my oldest son doesn't. But who besides him doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: a pickle? By the way, your spaghetti and meatballs, if
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  Speaker 2: you're not putting chopped up pickles on them, you're missing
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  Speaker 2: out if you have. I'm on a meatball sub it
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  Speaker 2: makes sense you do it on your spaghetti rank. A
• 12:03
  Speaker 2: viral video from a Carnival cruise sparked plenty of outrage
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  Speaker 2: and discussed. A passenger was filmed in the dining area
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  Speaker 2: repeatedly scraping the bottom of her foot with a dining
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  Speaker 2: fork before continuing her meal. Other passengers visibly disgusted. The
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  Speaker 2: video quickly racked up millions of views online. The woman,
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  Speaker 2: dubbed foot Fungus Lady by the person who posted the footage,
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  Speaker 2: was reportedly aboard the Carnival Sunrise. After the incident was reported,
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  Speaker 2: Carnival says crew members confronted the guest and immediately removed
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  Speaker 2: the fork service. In a statement, Carnival said, we can
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  Speaker 2: confirm that forks are intended for food and not foot care.
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  Speaker 2: Once we became aware of the situation, our team quickly
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  Speaker 2: addressed it with the guest and removed the utensil from service.
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  Speaker 2: The cruise line added that while the video may be
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  Speaker 2: getting laughs and gaps online, cleanliness is taken seriously. The
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  Speaker 2: company maintains high sanitation standards across its fleet. No word
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  Speaker 2: on if they removed her spoon from service, because we
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  Speaker 2: can only imagine, you know, she might can we imagine
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to, but we can kind of imagine
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  Speaker 2: maybe something that might have happened with the spoon. Do
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  Speaker 2: we know for sure they got the right for it?
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  Speaker 2: That's my other question. Get ready for dragon Con forty.
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  Speaker 2: It's the fortieth dragon Con and it happens Labor Day
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  Speaker 2: weekend in downtown Atlanta September third through the seventh, and
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  Speaker 2: you can get ready for it with the dragon Con
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  Speaker 2: a pregame show coming to radio and podcast on August
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  Speaker 2: the twenty ninth. It'll be aired on about two hundred
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  Speaker 2: radio stations around the state of Georgia and rolling over
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  Speaker 2: into nearby states, and you can hear guests will be
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  Speaker 2: attending the dragon Con convention. It is the largest popular
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  Speaker 2: arts convention anywhere in the world, and on the pregame
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  Speaker 2: show this year, you're gonna hear from guests who will
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  Speaker 2: be attending. This year's guest list includes Star Trek, Doctor Who,
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  Speaker 2: Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Starship Troopers, Smallville, and more. Coverage of
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  Speaker 2: the dragon Con pregame show is powered by Columbus State
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  Speaker 2: University's Coca Cola Space Science Center, where you can learn
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  Speaker 2: the science behind the science fiction and it is coming
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  Speaker 2: August twenty ninth. In the meantime, you can listen to
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  Speaker 2: past episodes of the dragon Con Pregame Show with some
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  Speaker 2: of the guests who will actually be attending this year.
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  Speaker 2: Some of them have been on multiple shows, including Ross
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  Speaker 2: mar Kwan from The Walking Dead and The Marvel Universe. Also,
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  Speaker 2: I've interviewed William Shatner, Evangeline Lilly who was the Wasp
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  Speaker 2: also ant Man Quantumnia, but we won't talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: Carol Morning Show right after the break. Well, we talked
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  Speaker 2: a little bit about this yesterday with back to school
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  Speaker 2: coming up and this idea of me getting a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a break from being a dead uber and
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  Speaker 2: taking kids to school. So done by millennial or four
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  Speaker 2: Millennial parents found that they spend an average of thirty
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  Speaker 2: eight minutes a day driving kids to and from school
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  Speaker 2: activities over the course of a typical school year. That
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  Speaker 2: adds up to nearly seven thousand minutes about fifteen full
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  Speaker 2: work days spent behind the wheel. And that's no surprise
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  Speaker 2: at all, since parents say that the school year makes
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  Speaker 2: life feel more hectic and unpredictable, along with juggling schedules,
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  Speaker 2: rising school supply costs, meal planning, lack of sleep all
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  Speaker 2: being major stressors. Dinner another daily challenge. Nine out of
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  Speaker 2: ten parents say they struggle to come up with meal ideas,
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  Speaker 2: many admitting they regularly worry about what to make for dinner.
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  Speaker 2: So as a result, more families are turning to quick,
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  Speaker 2: easy meals just so they can keep up with their
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  Speaker 2: busy schedules. Makes sense. You got to trade something off.
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  Speaker 2: Just don't do too much of the shortcut stuff. The
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  Speaker 2: short stuff can be quick and easy, but it's often
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  Speaker 2: full of salt and fat and all that stuff. So
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  Speaker 2: just a heads up. I mean, I think people are
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  Speaker 2: aware of it. Just don't let it creep up on you,
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  Speaker 2: That's all I'm saying. More retailers introducing sensory friendly shopping hours,
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  Speaker 2: giving customers a quieter, calmer experience. Stores like Spoura, Walmart,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: Target all introducing their reduction in music, bright lights, other
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  Speaker 2: distractions during designated times. The goal is to make shopping
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable comfortable for people who are sensitive to noise, lights, crowded,
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  Speaker 2: strong smells, many neurodivergent shoppers included in that. Experts say
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  Speaker 2: that the quieter hours can also benefit parents with young
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  Speaker 2: children and anyone who prefers that less hectic environment. So
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  Speaker 2: far as new quiet hours take place during the first
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  Speaker 2: hour of business on Tuesdays and Saturdays at participating stores,
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  Speaker 2: and as more retailers are embracing the idea, sensory friendly
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  Speaker 2: shopping may be moving into the mainstream. I know of
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  Speaker 2: several places already doing this, and I think it's a
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  Speaker 2: great idea. And they also many of the stores now
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  Speaker 2: have those new chairs. There's like a wheelchair shopping cart combo.
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  Speaker 2: There's one where it's an actual wheelchair and then the
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  Speaker 2: shopping cart is in front and you kind of push yourself,
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  Speaker 2: but there's actually a chair that is it's facing the
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  Speaker 2: person who is pushing it, and then has the shopping
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  Speaker 2: cart built into it. And it's for people who have
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: adults or people with disabilities, and they need to be
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  Speaker 2: able to kind of keep them there, facing them, and
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: all of those sorts of things. So I'm all for it,
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  Speaker 2: like absolutely anything that makes the experience better for everybody involved.
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  Speaker 2: And these are easy things that stores can do. I
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  Speaker 2: know it's probably inconvenient to have the special hours in
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the store if they're having to open earlier or anything
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: like that. But if if it's just part of your
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  Speaker 2: regular business day, you just you know, cut the music off,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: dim the lights a little bit and give everybody a
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  Speaker 2: pleasant experience and have that opportunity to do that. So yes,
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  Speaker 2: I am all about it. The twenty twenty six Lumberjack
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  Speaker 2: World Championships were recently held in Hayward, Wisconsin, and over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred elite athletes gathering for high powered chopping, sawing
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  Speaker 2: and log running. And for this particular event for twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six women really stealing the show. Three new women's
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  Speaker 2: world records were shattered. Carolina or Manova of the Czech
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  Speaker 2: Republic set two world records by slicing through white pine
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  Speaker 2: in both the underhand chop standing chop. I like the chopping,
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  Speaker 2: you get the underhand chop, you got the standing chop.
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  Speaker 2: And then Meredith Ingbritson, who set the record for boom
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  Speaker 2: run by sprinting across floating logs over water in just
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  Speaker 2: thirteen point seven eight seconds. They're calling her a local star.
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  Speaker 2: Somen't know if that means that she's a Wisconsin girl.
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  Speaker 2: I guess this year's event highlighted the rapid growth in
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: women's timber sports, and it should only increase enthusiasm for
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  Speaker 2: more women to get in on the lumberjack action in
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  Speaker 2: the years to come. Congratulations ladies, fantastic work there with
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: your standing chop, your underhand chop, and your boom running.
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