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Strange and Bizarre News with Smokey Bear · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the Wes
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  Speaker 1: Carroll Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, 28th day of August. I'm Wes. Thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. Well, it finally happened. I had to miss
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  Speaker 2: a show because of taking care of my mom. The
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  Speaker 2: good news is that it was for a good reason.
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  Speaker 2: First of all, I make no apology for having to
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  Speaker 2: miss a show because of taking care of my mom.
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  Speaker 2: I really and truly try to live my life by
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  Speaker 2: the philosophy of it's not something that I've got to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's something that I get to do. That is a
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  Speaker 2: switch that I flipped. And I know the moment where
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  Speaker 2: I did it. I was helping someone out. Actually, a
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  Speaker 2: friend's mother that I was helping out with running some
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  Speaker 2: errands one day because I was available to do it.
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  Speaker 2: And I was... 100% the nicest human in the world
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  Speaker 2: while I had her in the car, while she was
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  Speaker 2: out at her appointments and picking up prescriptions and things
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  Speaker 2: that she needed to do. I was grumbling to myself
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  Speaker 2: about how did I get into this. I was really
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  Speaker 2: and truly, when I volunteered to do it, I thought, well,
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  Speaker 2: I seem to be the only person available, so I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to help. And I didn't like my attitude at
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  Speaker 2: when I was in the car. And it was later
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  Speaker 2: that I thought, you know, I did this with intentions
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  Speaker 2: of being helpful and being of service and then, you know,
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  Speaker 2: complaining about it, even if it's just to myself under
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  Speaker 2: my breath. And I thought, that's not a.
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  Speaker 1: Way to do this.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm trying to do something helpful. I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: do something kind. I'm trying to do something in service.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm grumbling about it. And then it occurred to
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  Speaker 2: me that this idea of, you know, we don't got
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  Speaker 2: to do it, we get to do it. And I
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  Speaker 2: try to live by that as a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: mantra when I'm in these positions, especially when it's my
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  Speaker 2: own parents. So anyway, I won't apologize for having to
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  Speaker 2: do that, but she was released from the hospital. That's
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  Speaker 2: the good thing. That's why I had to miss. She
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  Speaker 2: was released from the hospital on Wednesday. and is back home,
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  Speaker 2: and I was in a position where I needed to
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  Speaker 2: be with her, and I still do need to be
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  Speaker 2: with her, but I had to also make a quick
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  Speaker 2: trip home, and that's what I'm doing now, able to
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  Speaker 2: record something for Friday. I'm recording this on Thursday, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm having this available for Friday morning, so That's where
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  Speaker 2: I'm at at the moment. And part of that is
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  Speaker 2: because yesterday on the Made of Stars podcast, Dr. Sean
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  Speaker 2: Cruzan and I interviewed Kim Stedman, who is part of
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  Speaker 2: the science community, the space community. That interview is on
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  Speaker 2: the Made of Stars podcast. But here's the cool. She's
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  Speaker 2: one of the guests. that will be at DragonCon this year.
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  Speaker 2: And last week we interviewed Trina Ray, who also part
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  Speaker 2: of that community and one of the scientists who will
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  Speaker 2: be at DragonCon. And it's one of the cool aspects
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  Speaker 2: of DragonCon. It's not just science fiction. It's also science.
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  Speaker 2: It's part of why Columbus State University's Coca-Cola Space Science
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  Speaker 2: Center sponsors our DragonCon coverage every year. So I had
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  Speaker 2: that interview, had to do that yesterday and needed to
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  Speaker 2: be home. So that's all part of me getting this
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  Speaker 2: show together for today. And I do like to get
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  Speaker 2: the shows. It kind of bugs me when I miss one.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes I have to because of vacations. Sometimes I have
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  Speaker 2: to because I'm being a good son. And I get
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  Speaker 2: the opportunity to do that. So anyway, that's where we
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  Speaker 2: are at the moment, getting this show together for Friday mornings.
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  Speaker 2: And it's Tim Curry passing right after Dolly Parton. That's
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  Speaker 2: a crazy timing on that, isn't it? And it reminds
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  Speaker 2: me of just a few years ago we had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: when Michael Jackson passed Farrah Fawcett. It was just like boom, boom.
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  Speaker 2: And on any other day, I would say Tim Curry
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  Speaker 2: would have gotten a bit more acknowledgement. He is getting
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  Speaker 2: some acknowledgement, but it's just the timing is of dying
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  Speaker 2: right near an icon like Dolly Parton is unfortunate in
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  Speaker 2: that regard because he deserves some acknowledgement for his career
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  Speaker 2: that he had. Anyway, it's Friday, so we're going to
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  Speaker 2: get to some positive news, and then we'll jump to
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  Speaker 2: some strange and bizarre news from around the world. First
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  Speaker 2: and foremost, a gas station in upstate New York knows
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  Speaker 2: people feel the pain at the pump when gas prices
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  Speaker 2: are up. So they've decided to give out a 20% discount,
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  Speaker 2: but the catch is that the customers have to dance
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  Speaker 2: for their discount. The Half Moon Sunoco near Albany offered
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  Speaker 2: customers a discount if they danced for at least 15
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  Speaker 2: seconds while filling up. The idea came from the station's
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  Speaker 2: young social media manager who wanted to bring a little
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  Speaker 2: relief and laughter to customers feeling the pinch at the pump.
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  Speaker 2: So videos of customers showing off their best moves racked
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  Speaker 2: up more than a million views online. The dancers weren't
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  Speaker 2: just having fun, some saving as much as $ 15 on
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  Speaker 2: their gas bills. The station says that more creative discount
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  Speaker 2: promotions could be on the way. Apparently, Michael Jackson twerking
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  Speaker 2: a number of different dances were done. It's great marketing.
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  Speaker 2: It's a great job for the social media manager. Great
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  Speaker 2: job for ownership or management or whatever there that approved it.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly a great opportunity for the customers to just
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  Speaker 2: have a little fun at the pump. Or, you know,
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  Speaker 2: some probably would just say, I'm not dancing. And that's that,
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  Speaker 2: you know. How about this story? Children's Palace, a preschool
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  Speaker 2: and childcare center in La Crosse, Wisconsin. And it's a
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  Speaker 2: normal preschool and childcare, right? Kids can be there and
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  Speaker 2: learn and have a good time and have childcare. But
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  Speaker 2: the Children's Palace also has an event that they organize
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  Speaker 2: called Birthday Party for a Friend We Don't Know. And
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  Speaker 2: it teaches students to exercise their generosity muscles. Last week
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  Speaker 2: at the Children's Palace, they put together a collection of
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  Speaker 2: gifts for a young friend at the La Crosse Salvation
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  Speaker 2: Army Shelter and then delivered the gifts along with freshly
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  Speaker 2: baked cakes. And some extra support came in from different
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  Speaker 2: businesses and organizations in the area. Children's Palace pulled off
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  Speaker 2: the largest donation since starting the tradition back in 2004,
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  Speaker 2: giving shelter kids a big, unforgettable birthday celebration. I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I love it. I like everything about it. Nice job.
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  Speaker 2: And we certainly need more of that in the world.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Strange and bizarre news from around the world.
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  Speaker 2: And we have an international story to get started. We
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  Speaker 2: begin in Poland, where a 23-year-old prankster faces up to
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  Speaker 2: eight years in prison after allegedly ordering hundreds of pizzas
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  Speaker 2: to random addresses across Poland. Police say the suspect used
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  Speaker 2: other people's identities, placed bogus orders, and sometimes included threatening
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  Speaker 2: messages about crimes such as kidnapping and arson. Authorities say
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  Speaker 2: the prank caused significant financial losses for restaurants and left
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  Speaker 2: many victims feeling harassed and intimidated. In one case, investigators
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  Speaker 2: say he ordered 300 pizzas at a value of about $ 10, 000.
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  Speaker 2: Cybercrime officers recently arrested the suspect. Seized electronic devices from
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  Speaker 2: his home. Police are trying to determine his motive. Let's
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  Speaker 2: start at boredom. I got nothing going on right now,
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  Speaker 2: and this is something to do. Let's start at that,
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  Speaker 2: and then we can kind of expand out the possible
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  Speaker 2: motives to go with it. I love stories that involve bears,
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  Speaker 2: and we're getting a little closer to that time of
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  Speaker 2: year where we start getting some bear stories, but here
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  Speaker 2: is one. It's not quite the traditional one, but a
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  Speaker 2: bear in Colorado Springs wandered into a fire station and
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  Speaker 2: made off with a bag of firefighting gear. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think this is prepping for hibernation. Security camera videos showed
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  Speaker 2: that the Colorado Springs Fire Department shows the bear strolling
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  Speaker 2: into Station 16, grabbed a gear bag, and quickly left
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  Speaker 2: with his prize. Firefighters joked on social media that Smokey
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  Speaker 2: the bear seemed to be taking over the job himself.
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  Speaker 2: Officials didn't say whether the stolen bag was recovered. The
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  Speaker 2: department used an unusual encounter to remind residents to secure
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  Speaker 2: food and trash, bring in bird feeders, and take other
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  Speaker 2: precautions as bears become more active as everyone is getting
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  Speaker 2: more and more prepared for winter. And getting more and
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  Speaker 2: more prepared for these types of stories. Let's head down
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  Speaker 2: to Florida, where of course we always end up eventually, right?
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  Speaker 2: where a man is in jail after stealing a car
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  Speaker 2: and led pursuing cops right to the jail. According to
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  Speaker 2: the Orange County Sheriff's Office, the suspect took the deputies
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  Speaker 2: on a chase before turning the stolen vehicle into the
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  Speaker 2: parking lot at Orange County Jail. Video posted to the
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  Speaker 2: Sheriff's Office shows the man getting out of the car,
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  Speaker 2: jumping a fence and running towards a pond on the property. Deputies,
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  Speaker 2: along with the agency's aviation unit, quickly tracked him down
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  Speaker 2: and took him into custody. The sheriff's office joked on
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  Speaker 2: social media, it's not often. that criminals take themselves to jail.
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  Speaker 2: This one did. Officials also praised deputies for their coordinated
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  Speaker 2: efforts in making the arrest. I mean, yeah, it's pretty
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  Speaker 2: convenient and it cuts down on some of the travel
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  Speaker 2: time of getting to the jail. So nicely done, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Well done. Uh, also in Florida, a woman accused of
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  Speaker 2: stealing thousands of dollars from an elderly couple faces additional
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  Speaker 2: charges after investigators say they found the stolen cash hidden
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  Speaker 2: on her or in her while she was in jail. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Authorities say that 31 year old Monique Turnbull was arrested
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  Speaker 2: in connection with a scheme that allegedly target a 70
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  Speaker 2: and 74 year old couple. By posing as a bank representative,
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  Speaker 2: investigators say the victims were tricked into handing over a
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  Speaker 2: bank card, and their account was later drained of $ 3, 180.
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  Speaker 2: The case took an unusual turn when deputies reviewed recorded
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  Speaker 2: jail phone calls. On one call, authorities say Turnbull discussed
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  Speaker 2: hiding the money on her, later admitted that she still
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  Speaker 2: had it in her possession. Deep. in her possession. Female
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  Speaker 2: deputies conducted a search, found the cash rolled up in
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  Speaker 2: a Chase Bank envelope. As a result, prosecutors added charges
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  Speaker 2: of evidence tampering and introducing contraband into a correctional facility.
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  Speaker 2: Investigators say the recovered money will eventually be returned through
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  Speaker 2: the legal process as the case moves forward. Turnbull remains
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  Speaker 2: jailed on multiple felony charges. Where did she have the money?
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  Speaker 2: I don't think any of us really want to know,
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  Speaker 2: do we? I mean, we can guess, but we don't
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  Speaker 2: really want to know. A viral video from New York's
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  Speaker 2: Staten Island Ferry raises health concerns after footage appeared to
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  Speaker 2: show a worker washing his feet in a sink inside
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  Speaker 2: a Dunkin' shop located at the ferry. The video quickly
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  Speaker 2: spread online with many viewers questioning sanitation practices at the
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  Speaker 2: busy commuter location. City officials, including the New York Department
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  Speaker 2: of Transportation and Health Department, are reportedly looking into the incident.
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  Speaker 2: Some social media users suggested the men may have been
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  Speaker 2: performing a religious cleansing ritual, but health regulations prohibit food
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  Speaker 2: service workers from washing their feet in sinks designated for
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  Speaker 2: food preparation or hand washing, even if it's a religious ritual.
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  Speaker 2: Come on, man. That's not allowed. That's not allowed at all.
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  Speaker 2: Not at all. And finally, a Florida man made a
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  Speaker 2: big mistake by driving his lawnmower on a public road.
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  Speaker 2: He made a bigger mistake by having a lot of
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  Speaker 2: drugs on his lawnmower. Authorities in Dixie County say that
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  Speaker 2: a deputy stopped Roy Lee McDaniel in Old Town because
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  Speaker 2: the lawnmower did not meet legal roadway safety requirements. During
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  Speaker 2: the stop, the deputy reportedly smelled marijuana, conducted a search
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  Speaker 2: of a bag sitting between the man's feet. Investigators said
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  Speaker 2: they found marijuana pills, hypodermic needle, drug paraphernalia, and suspected methamphetamine.
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  Speaker 2: McDaniel was arrested and taken to the Dixie County Jail,
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  Speaker 2: where he faces charges that include possession of methamphetamine, possession
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  Speaker 2: of a controlled substance without prescription, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
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  Speaker 2: Get ready for DragonCon 40. It's the 40th DragonCon event.
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  Speaker 2: And it happens Labor Day weekend in downtown Atlanta, September
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  Speaker 2: 3rd through the 7th. And you can get ready for
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  Speaker 2: it with the Dragon Con pregame show coming to radio
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  Speaker 2: and podcast on August the 29th. It'll be aired on
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  Speaker 2: about 200 radio stations around the state of Georgia and
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  Speaker 2: rolling over into nearby states. And you can hear guests
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  Speaker 2: will be attending the Dragon Con convention on It is
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  Speaker 2: the largest popular arts convention anywhere in the world. And
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  Speaker 2: on the pregame show this year, you're going to hear
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  Speaker 2: from guests who will be attending. This year's guest list
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  Speaker 2: includes Star Trek, Doctor Who, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Starship Troopers, Smallville,
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  Speaker 2: some 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: More West Carroll Morning Show right after the break. Well,
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  Speaker 2: this is an interesting trend. Think about the fact that
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  Speaker 2: we have these situations where you have like a new
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  Speaker 2: iPhone that goes on sale and people wait in line
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  Speaker 2: to get it or there's some maybe big sale that's
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  Speaker 2: going on. I assume Black Friday would be the kind
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  Speaker 2: of thing that may apply to this in certain circumstances
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  Speaker 2: if there's some hot item that people want or it's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, a new gaming system, things along that nature. Well,
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm talking about the big items that make
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  Speaker 2: more sense to me, but there's also this trend that's happening,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's somebody who's an influencer and they say, oh,
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  Speaker 2: this particular lip gloss is the thing and everybody wants
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  Speaker 2: to get it. So basically, the idea of having to
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  Speaker 2: go somewhere and stand in line and wait for something
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  Speaker 2: has become a part of this culture of being part
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  Speaker 2: of getting this item. So the waiting in line part
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  Speaker 2: is what is giving people some community and a bit
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  Speaker 2: of exclusivity and bragging rights. So if you do, you know,
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  Speaker 2: a marathon wait somewhere, six or 12 hours or whatever,
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  Speaker 2: to get something, people are taking to social media to
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  Speaker 2: brag on that. A couple of thoughts on this. First
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  Speaker 2: of all, when it's been concert tickets of some kind
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  Speaker 2: or the people that would wait overnight for something, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a new restaurant and you think, well, I might
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  Speaker 2: have a chance to win free chicken for a year
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. The people, I guess, participating in that, I
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  Speaker 2: guess it's along those lines. But what I don't understand
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  Speaker 2: is the people that are participating and bragging about it.
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  Speaker 2: In some cases, it might be, hey, you can't do
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  Speaker 2: this because you're at work. It's just an odd thing to,
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  Speaker 2: but I guess you have to embrace the part of
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  Speaker 2: it that you can embrace. So I suppose we should
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  Speaker 2: applaud people for that. But it is kind of interesting
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  Speaker 2: that in a society that says, well, this isn't fair
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  Speaker 2: because you have this or that, or you have some
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  Speaker 2: sort of privilege. It's just interesting that there are people
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  Speaker 2: bragging about being able to do something while everyone else
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  Speaker 2: is at work.
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  Speaker 1: I guess. Maybe. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe that's what plays into all of this. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: There's a new study that's been done on tattoos, and
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  Speaker 2: it suggests that using a needle to inject ink into
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  Speaker 2: your skin may have some long-term health effects. Researchers found
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  Speaker 2: that the tattoo ink can migrate from the skin to
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  Speaker 2: nearby lymph nodes, potentially causing chronic inflammation. Some studies have
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: found that there's an association between tattoos and a slightly
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  Speaker 2: higher risk of lymphoma, which of course is a type
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  Speaker 2: of cancer. So some researchers stress that the evidence does
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  Speaker 2: not prove tattoos cause cancer and more research is needed.
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  Speaker 2: Experts say that the overall risk appears low, but that
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  Speaker 2: the findings highlight the importance of using reputable tattoo artists
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  Speaker 2: and monitoring your skin for any unusual changes, which is
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  Speaker 2: something you should be doing. Anyway, right? All right, Gen
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  Speaker 2: Z winning at something that maybe people wouldn't have seen
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  Speaker 2: coming based on stereotypes, and that's credit scores. A new
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: FICO report found that Gen Z's credit scores have increased
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  Speaker 2: 17 points since 2019. It's the biggest jump of any generation.
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  Speaker 2: By comparison, boomers saw gains of four points. Researchers say
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: that younger adults are getting serious about their finances. and
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  Speaker 2: cutting back on spending, saving more, and being smarter with debt.
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  Speaker 2: Other studies have found that many are skipping nights out,
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  Speaker 2: scaling back dating expenses, and finding creative ways to save money.
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  Speaker 2: That's despite rising costs for rent, groceries, and just about
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  Speaker 2: everything else. Good for them. I mean, that's why the
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  Speaker 2: stereotypes sometimes can help explain some things, but sometimes they
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  Speaker 2: make no sense at all. And this is one of
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  Speaker 2: those cases where the stereotype, I guess, isn't fair in
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  Speaker 2: that regard. But if you look at the trends on
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  Speaker 2: less socializing and going out in public, I guess that
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: all makes sense. And finally, this is an interesting thing.
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  Speaker 2: And I think it's a testimony to... I was just
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: talking to one of my kids' teachers the other day,
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: and she was talking about how important it is in
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: her classroom that kids are actually using paper and pencil
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: to do work because... of the research that says everything
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: being done on a screen is not good, and this
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: is kind of a reflection of that. But there's one
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: particular high school teacher who had a post that went
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: viral after she said she handed out to her 15-year-old
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: students highlighters during a lesson and said, mark important information
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  Speaker 2: in a reading assignment. She says that there were blank stares,
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: and she had to explain step by step how to
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  Speaker 2: open and use a highlighter. Some students struggled with the task, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: and One even used the highlighter to color.
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  Speaker 1: On the desk.
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  Speaker 2: The teacher said she found the situation more funny than frustrating.
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  Speaker 2: But it did trigger some of this discussion about screens
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  Speaker 2: and classroom habits and people struggling with traditional study tools.
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  Speaker 2: You could make a case, if everything's being done on
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: a screen and on phones and things and typing, that
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  Speaker 2: they don't need to learn to write properly. but we
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: know that they need to learn to write. So why
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: wouldn't they need to learn how to use some of
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: these old school study tools, right? Some of these basic
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: things that you would think that would come in handy
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: over the course of their careers. I mean, that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're prepping kids for, right? Eventually jobs and things. That'll
• 25:04
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