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Strange and Bizarre News with (Sadly) a Dangerous Snake Story from Australia · 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, sixth day of December. I'm West thanks for
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  Speaker 2: joining me. It feels like it's fine by I know
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  Speaker 2: it does. I want to point out, just in case
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  Speaker 2: you haven't stopped to really take this in or you
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  Speaker 2: haven't heard someone else point it out to you, twenty
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  Speaker 2: eighth of November is the latest that we can have
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  Speaker 2: Thanksgiving on the calendar. So when it's that late, it
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  Speaker 2: really puts that crunch in those days until Christmas. You know,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people will maybe start their shopping and
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  Speaker 2: things right after Thanksgiving, the whole Black Friday tradition and
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  Speaker 2: all that in Cyber Monday. But because it's maybe a
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  Speaker 2: week later or days later, you know, not quite a
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  Speaker 2: full week, but it's usually you know, it's obviously it's
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  Speaker 2: in that week, but it's usually not this late, So
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  Speaker 2: it feels later, feels shorter. It's just by days or
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  Speaker 2: you know, maybe even up to five six days, but
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  Speaker 2: still it's a little shorter. It's gonna feel shorter. It's
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to feel shorter. So just remember to
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  Speaker 2: pace yourself. Remember to pace yourself. This is the final
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'll talk about it some on Monday, but
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  Speaker 2: the final time that I'll tell you to get your
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  Speaker 2: tickets with a Nutcracker happening this weekend, the seventh and
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  Speaker 2: eighth of December at the Rivercenter Rivercenter dot org, river
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  Speaker 2: Center box Office, the Columbus Ballet dot org. You can
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  Speaker 2: go get your tickets through any of those. Okay, you
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  Speaker 2: don't want to go through a ticket broker. You still
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  Speaker 2: have time to get your tickets for the Saturday evening show,
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  Speaker 2: the Sunday matine show. Now, this is my sixth year
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  Speaker 2: in the role of Mother Ginger. Looking forward to putting
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  Speaker 2: on the show for you. Actually, later this morning, in
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  Speaker 2: just a few hours, we will be doing our school
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  Speaker 2: show not open to the public, but that is this morning.
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  Speaker 2: That'll be our first real true run. This morning and
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  Speaker 2: just a short amount of time, I will be making
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  Speaker 2: my way to the River Center so that I can
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  Speaker 2: get my full Mother Ginger makeup. This will be my
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  Speaker 2: first full dress run like many of our most of
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  Speaker 2: the performers other than me, I guess last night we
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  Speaker 2: did a full dress rehearsal for the show. Today is
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  Speaker 2: my first full dress run in the first show. But
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  Speaker 2: I'll be and my friend Jana doing my makeup this morning.
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  Speaker 2: God bless her. You may know my friend Amanda, who
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  Speaker 2: has worked with me in radio and podcasting over the years.
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  Speaker 2: If you listen to our NQLN podcast, Amanda has been
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  Speaker 2: on that show and she is the voice that opens
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  Speaker 2: and closes that show. And Jana is her daughter, and
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  Speaker 2: I've known Jana, held her as a baby. So it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of wild when we get to show up at
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  Speaker 2: an event and she does my makeup. The process takes
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  Speaker 2: about ninety minutes to get me nice and fabulous in
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  Speaker 2: stage ready. I've had people ask me, you mean you
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  Speaker 2: don't do your own makeup or you don't get Jill,
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  Speaker 2: your wife, to do your makeup, and I say, one,
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  Speaker 2: I can't do it. I tried to do some of
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  Speaker 2: the basic stuff of it and it's way too complicated
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  Speaker 2: for me. Jill, this is not her area of expertise.
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  Speaker 2: I talked about this the other day. She's a minimal
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  Speaker 2: makeup person herself because that's all she needs. That's all
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  Speaker 2: she needs. She is great. So you know, I have
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  Speaker 2: two dear friends. Sarah. My friend Sarah will be doing
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  Speaker 2: makeup for me on Saturday and Sunday, but Today it's Jana,
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  Speaker 2: Tomorrow Sunday it'll be Sarah. No matter what, they both
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  Speaker 2: make me look fantastic, very similar. They've got a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a different style to how they do it.
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  Speaker 2: But I enjoy getting an opportunity to work with them
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  Speaker 2: and spend time and hang out with them while that
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  Speaker 2: because you know, it's ninety minutes of makeup each time.
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  Speaker 2: And just a reminder today, if you see me at
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  Speaker 2: any point today after the show, or really before the show,
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  Speaker 2: but after the show until this evening's final dress rehearsal,
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  Speaker 2: that is also a show for a sort of VIPs
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  Speaker 2: or I mean it's military and VIPs and sponsors and things.
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  Speaker 2: I'll still be in megap. I'm not taking it off
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  Speaker 2: once it goes on this morning. I'm not taking it
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  Speaker 2: off until tonight when the show is over. Then I'll
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  Speaker 2: take it off and we'll put it back on again
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow evening. I'm not sleeping at it or anything. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't nap in it last year at one point in
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  Speaker 2: between shows, just a short nap with one of those
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  Speaker 2: pillows that doesn't let you turn your head, because I
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  Speaker 2: don't want glitter and makeup all over everything anyway, it's
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  Speaker 2: the Nutcracker Columbus Ballet. Excited to be part of the
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  Speaker 2: show again. Please join us tomorrow evening or Sunday for
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  Speaker 2: the matinee. Typically, I will come out to the lobby
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  Speaker 2: after not in my full wardrobe because the dress is
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  Speaker 2: too big, but I'll come out on the stilts and
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  Speaker 2: walk around and if you're there, love to say hi.
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  Speaker 2: Be great. If you want a photo of a guy
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  Speaker 2: on stilts with a lot of makeup on his face,
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  Speaker 2: I'll do that as well. But I'd love to talk
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  Speaker 2: to you in the lobby. So I'll come out for
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  Speaker 2: a little bit once I can get out of the
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  Speaker 2: dress and I have clothes on underneath. I do have
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  Speaker 2: clothes on it. When I say get out of the dress,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to give you the wrong idea about
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. All right. It is Friday, strange and
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  Speaker 2: bizarre news from around the world. That is what we
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  Speaker 2: do on Fridays. This Friday is no different, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to dive into some of those stories, and we
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  Speaker 2: have some good ones for this week. Let's start with.
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  Speaker 1: This.
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  Speaker 2: One Minnesota woman was arrested for auto theft after she
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  Speaker 2: confessed to the crime in her personal diary. Thirty year
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  Speaker 2: old Vanessa Guerrera accused of stealing a Ford van back
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  Speaker 2: in August and later selling it for scrap The van's
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  Speaker 2: owner reported the theft to police, and an investigation was
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  Speaker 2: opened up. Sheriff's office figured out that the stolen vehicle
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  Speaker 2: was sold to a scrap yard and eventually identified Greerrera
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  Speaker 2: as the possible suspect. Investigators say they paid a visit
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  Speaker 2: to Guerra and during a search of her home, found
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  Speaker 2: a personal journal belonging to her. On the same day
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  Speaker 2: the van was reported stolen, Guerrera wrote that totally stole
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  Speaker 2: a car today is something I never thought of doing.
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  Speaker 2: Super freaking out about it. Investigators considered this an admission
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  Speaker 2: of guilt charged over the receiving stolen property and theft.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weird thing to do, commit a crime, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, you're like, deer diary, this is what I
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  Speaker 2: did today, and then you lay out your confession. I
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  Speaker 2: wish did ever cross her mind when she was writing
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  Speaker 2: it down. This may not be a good idea. Residents
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  Speaker 2: of a community in British Columbia, Canada know how to
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  Speaker 2: take things. They should take it slow on the road
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  Speaker 2: for Deer collisions, and I'm assuming you know you'd have
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  Speaker 2: some probable ice problems from time to time in Canada,
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  Speaker 2: I say, but deer can be a big deal because
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  Speaker 2: you can't see him until it's too late. Except for
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  Speaker 2: the maybe one deer in the area. The community is
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  Speaker 2: completely puzzled over the appearance of a deer seen wandering
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  Speaker 2: around town wearing a high visibility vest. Local newspaper reported
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  Speaker 2: that with a photo about the deer that was wearing
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  Speaker 2: the bright neon green vest, saying they're everywhere around town,
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  Speaker 2: but this one is wearing a high viz vest I
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  Speaker 2: did a double triple take, like, wait, what am I
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  Speaker 2: actually seeing here? Department of Conservations said they are investigating
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  Speaker 2: get it, but they aren't exactly sure what to do
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  Speaker 2: about it. Officer Emon MacArthur with the department says, I
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  Speaker 2: don't even want to speculate on how this might have happened.
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  Speaker 2: They're not predisposed to wearing clothes. But even if you
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  Speaker 2: can get close enough to the wildlife to put a
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  Speaker 2: sweater or jacket or boots or whatever you have, we
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  Speaker 2: highly recommend against that. I mean, if we find out
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  Speaker 2: that it helps people not hit the deer with their car,
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  Speaker 2: and have accidents. Maybe there would be some benefit to
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  Speaker 2: sing them up in high visibility vests, just saying can
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  Speaker 2: we do some tests? Can It's better than some of
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  Speaker 2: the other funding that we're sending money over. We're learning
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  Speaker 2: from Vivek and elon right, we're learning about Hey, what
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  Speaker 2: if we give crack to a monkey and Ecuador? You
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  Speaker 2: know who cares? If we give a high visibility vest
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  Speaker 2: to a deer in Canada? Is that beneficial? That's much
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  Speaker 2: better information to have. Hey, having a spider crawl on
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  Speaker 2: you while you're driving is both horrifying and dangerous, but
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  Speaker 2: nothing compared to what happened to a woman in Australia.
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  Speaker 2: And this hurts me because everybody says are so scared
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  Speaker 2: of spiders and snakes in Australia And it's not as
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  Speaker 2: bad as you hear, I mean, yes, but no. But
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  Speaker 2: here's the story. Police responded to a call from witnesses
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  Speaker 2: who reported a woman was acting erratically on the side
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  Speaker 2: of the road and we're trying to flag down passing
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  Speaker 2: motorists along the high When they arrived at the scene,
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  Speaker 2: they found the woman walking around barefoot and asked if
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  Speaker 2: she was okay. She explained to them. She was driving
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  Speaker 2: when she suddenly felt something on her foot. She looked
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  Speaker 2: down and noticed a deadly tiger snake crawling up her leg.
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  Speaker 2: Told you it snakes and spiders, that's what people are
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  Speaker 2: worried about. She quickly drove on to the shoulder and
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  Speaker 2: jumped out of the car. Cops noted that she was
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  Speaker 2: in a state of shock when they arrived and was
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  Speaker 2: examined by medics. They checked her for bites, luckily didn't
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  Speaker 2: find any. The snake catcher was called to safely capture
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  Speaker 2: the snake and uh take him away. Yeah, that's pretty terrifying.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's not helping tourism. It's not helping tourism.
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  Speaker 2: I tell my friends all the time it's an amazing
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  Speaker 2: place you should really go, And they say, well, what
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  Speaker 2: about the snakes and the spiders. A motorist in upstate
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  Speaker 2: New York took the line over the river and through
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  Speaker 2: the woods a little too literally and ended up in
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  Speaker 2: a water rescue. Police say the driver's thanksgiving took an
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  Speaker 2: unexpected turn when he attempted to take a short cut
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  Speaker 2: through a shallow creek to get to a road on
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  Speaker 2: the other side. After all, he'd seen that type of
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  Speaker 2: off roading performed in TV commercials. Unfortunately, he didn't account
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  Speaker 2: for just how deep the creek is, how strong the
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  Speaker 2: current is, and then his jeep was no match. And
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  Speaker 2: also he's not a professional driver, as it says on
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  Speaker 2: the screen during those commercials. Yeah, a passenger I had
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  Speaker 2: to call police to be rescued, but by the time
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  Speaker 2: deputies had arrived, they had already made it safely to land.
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  Speaker 2: A crew was called to the scene the next day
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  Speaker 2: to pull the vehicle out of the creek. No one
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  Speaker 2: was hurt, but the incident under investigation. I talk about
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  Speaker 2: shoplifting at the wrong place at the wrong time. A
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  Speaker 2: Walmart employee in Virginia called a shoplifter trying to conceal items.
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  Speaker 2: The thief thought it would be just be able to
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  Speaker 2: walk calmly out of the store with the stolen stuff. Well,
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  Speaker 2: they did account for on this particular Walmart, on this
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  Speaker 2: particular day was holding its annual Shop with a Cop
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  Speaker 2: event and the store was packed with police officers. Chesterfield
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  Speaker 2: County Police Lieutenant James Lamb said a member of the
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  Speaker 2: staff at Walmart came up to us informed us they
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  Speaker 2: had a shoplifting in progress between the Sheriff's department and
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  Speaker 2: the police officers. We had about fifty uniform personnel in
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  Speaker 2: there the store. Sorry, the man tried to make a
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  Speaker 2: breakthrough the back door of the store. Never had a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two year old Hector d Velasquez Maldonado was quickly
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  Speaker 2: apprehended and arrested. Not a good day, I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: never a good day. But you see people doing it
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  Speaker 2: on TV and you think, well, we could just take
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  Speaker 2: it and walk out, right, it's easy, piece of k. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's not not on shop with a cop day. And finally,
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  Speaker 2: a Florida woman was arrested for raising hell at Raising Caineans.
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  Speaker 2: Police in clear Water say thirty one year old Mackenzie
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  Speaker 2: Keeling was arrested after going on a verbal and physical
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  Speaker 2: rampage over the number of dipping sauces she wanted for
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  Speaker 2: her chicken fingers. They say Keealing picked up her mobile
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  Speaker 2: food order and drove away. When she opened the bag,
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  Speaker 2: she noticed that she was missing eight packs of cane sauce,
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  Speaker 2: which she had requested. Keeling returned to the restaurant and
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  Speaker 2: spoke to a manager, who apologized and handed over eight
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  Speaker 2: dipping sauces, but Keeling not satisfying, became irate and demanded
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  Speaker 2: more sauces for wasting her time and gas. During her meltdown,
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  Speaker 2: she allegedly hit the manager's leg and ripped off the
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  Speaker 2: keys and employee ID that were attached to the belt.
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  Speaker 2: Police recalled and after questioning everyone involved and reviewing the
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  Speaker 2: surveillance footage, they arrested Keeling. Luke's a big fan of
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  Speaker 2: that place, and we don't have one nearby? Why don't
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  Speaker 2: we If you're an entrepreneur and you're thinking of opening
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  Speaker 2: a restaurant franchise, please raising canes in Columbus, Georgia or
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  Speaker 2: nearby area. Because he really wants me to drive to Woodstock,
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  Speaker 2: Georgia to get him raising canes. And that's a bit much.
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  Speaker 2: That's just a bit much, a bit far to go,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's almost as ridiculous as the behavior of
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  Speaker 2: after the break, let's talk holiday bonuses or you exp
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  Speaker 2: affecting one this year? Do you York for company that
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  Speaker 2: typically gives one out? And you're not quite certain because
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  Speaker 2: over the last couple of years post COVID, everybody hasn't
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  Speaker 2: given them out quite as much or to the same amount. Well,
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  Speaker 2: according to a digital marketing firm called Adjutall sixty percent
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  Speaker 2: of the company's they survey said that they were giving
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  Speaker 2: holiday bonuses this year. However, the bonuses will be a
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  Speaker 2: little smaller, about twenty six percent of employers giving a
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  Speaker 2: bonus between one hundred dollars and two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: dollars and twenty two percent offering a bonus between five
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  Speaker 2: hundred one dollars and one thousand dollars. Only three percent
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  Speaker 2: plan to offer a bonus more than five thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Probably also depends on your job. You know, some jobs
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  Speaker 2: are expecting higher bonuses than the you know, one hundred
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  Speaker 2: to two hundred and fifty dollars range. Eighty two percent
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  Speaker 2: of employers say holiday bonuses boost employee morale. Seventy nine
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  Speaker 2: percent say bonuses are essential staying competitive. So maybe this
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  Speaker 2: a little bit of a bounce back for companies maybe
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  Speaker 2: that weren't doing it the last few years trying to
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  Speaker 2: do it. I think probably it relates a little bit
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  Speaker 2: to the optimism we were talking about when it comes
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  Speaker 2: to consumer trends and things that are starting to pick up.
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  Speaker 2: So maybe that's there. Don't know what it's going to
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  Speaker 2: have as an effect overall. On the job markets as
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  Speaker 2: things are starting to look up a little bit. Fifty
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  Speaker 2: five percent of employee ye say that receiving that holiday
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  Speaker 2: bonus plays a significant role in their overall job satisfaction.
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  Speaker 2: About thirty four percent of employees say they would consider
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  Speaker 2: finding a new job if they were not given a
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  Speaker 2: holiday bonus. Forty five percent say their holiday bonus should
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  Speaker 2: be bigger. I'm surprised that number isn't bigger. I think
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  Speaker 2: most people kind of feel should probably be a little
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  Speaker 2: bit bigger. Well, if you spent the beginning of this
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: week with your Cyber Monday looking for deals, you're not alone.
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  Speaker 2: Online shoppers this year made Cyber Monday the biggest online
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  Speaker 2: shopping day ever. We talked about this yesterday. Here's some
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  Speaker 2: of the stats though. American shoppers spent fifteen point eight
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  Speaker 2: million every minute on Monday, which worked out to a
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  Speaker 2: total of thirteen point three billion dollars. That's up seven
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  Speaker 2: point three percent from last year, and in the sales
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  Speaker 2: over the five day Thanksgiving shopping weekend, the total adds
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  Speaker 2: up to forty one point one billion dollars. Toys being
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  Speaker 2: the most popular items, Electronics, electric scooters, smart watches, gaming consoles,
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  Speaker 2: all at the top of the list. According to wallet
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  Speaker 2: hub holiday shopping survey, fifty five percent of people would
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  Speaker 2: like to outsource their holiday shopping to an AI robot.
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  Speaker 2: That's probably because forty percent forty seven percent, to be exact,
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  Speaker 2: say that coming up with gift ideas is the most
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  Speaker 2: stressful part of the season. Do you put your suitcase
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: on your bed or other furniture when you're packing or
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: when you get to your destination? Things could change after
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: hearing this. According to a social media post, Catherine Craig,
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  Speaker 2: who is an airline baggage handler, reveals the dirty truth
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  Speaker 2: about your bags. She calls it bag dirt, a mix
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  Speaker 2: of grime, germs, and who knows what else that clings
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  Speaker 2: to your luggage it travels through the airports. Craig even
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  Speaker 2: shows her once bright yellow vest turning gray from all
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  Speaker 2: the dirt just from handling the baggage or advice. She says,
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  Speaker 2: never put your suitcase on your bed or any furniture
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  Speaker 2: that you touch regularly. Instead, clean your baggage after every trip.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: That way, you avoid bringing home those nasty germs from
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: the airport or other places. Probably not a bad idea
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: to avoid that, anyway, because if you're going to a
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: place that could possibly have bedbugs, you know, just the
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: bedbug thing could be real. That also relates to if
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: you unpack into furniture when you get there and put
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: your stuff in drawers, you could always bring home some critters.
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  Speaker 2: So you got to be careful with all of that.
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  Speaker 2: Can you imagine a cruise where passengers actually refuse to eat?
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  Speaker 2: Sounds crazy considering, you know, cruises have that reputation of
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: you know, large buffets on the sea, But some people
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: on a three week cruise to Antarctica recently staged a
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  Speaker 2: hunger strike after a mechanical problem cut the journey short.
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  Speaker 2: The sh Diana set sail from South Africa was supposed
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: to include a three day exploration of Antarctica, but an
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: unexpected malfunction forced the ship to skip the frozen continent
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: instead sale to Argentina. Naturally, passengers, disappointed probably an understatement,
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  Speaker 2: were offered a fifty percent refund or a sixty five
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: percent credit for a future cruise. Some passengers still weren't
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  Speaker 2: satisfied when on a hunger strike, refusing to eat until
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: they received a full refund. A statement from Swan Hellenic
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  Speaker 2: Cruise Line. I guess that's the SAH said that the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: most passengers that were satisfied with the refunds, but a
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: select few chose to stage a hunger strike in the protest,
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  Speaker 2: which is rather counterproductive. It's unclear how long the hunger
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: strike went on, but the cruise line confirmed that it
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  Speaker 2: has come to an end. That'll do it for this
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