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Strange and Bizarre News with a Gator Named Irwin · 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, twelfth day of June. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. I am gonna be taken next week off.
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Speaker 2: It is I don't do this often. Usually there's kind
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Speaker 2: of a holiday built around it. There is a holiday
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Speaker 2: next week at the end of the week, the Juneteenth Holiday,
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Speaker 2: and we are going to be taking a vacation next week.
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Speaker 2: So I'll take a week off, and I should something
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Speaker 2: come up that warrant's putting something together over the course
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Speaker 2: of the week, I may do that. I may save it.
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Speaker 2: It's weird because often when I take like a week off,
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Speaker 2: I spend a lot of my time thinking of things
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Speaker 2: to talk about, and I just they start stacking up
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Speaker 2: in my head. I'm gonna try my best to shut
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Speaker 2: the old brain down a little bit and actually enjoy
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Speaker 2: a week off with my family. But we're gonna do
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Speaker 2: a little travel, a little beach time and do that,
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Speaker 2: and I'll talk more about that. But house sitter will
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Speaker 2: be taking care of things here. I guess in an
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Speaker 2: absolute emergency situation, I could work with the house sitter
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Speaker 2: to record something from a from Afar. I don't think
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Speaker 2: we're gonna get to that, but it could happen anyway,
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Speaker 2: So we'll take a little break next week and get
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Speaker 2: back to it. We're supposed to be back by Friday.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that I'll do a show Friday if
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Speaker 2: we get back. I think we're planning to come back
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Speaker 2: on Friday. But anyway, I'll just I'll just take a week.
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Speaker 2: How about that. I am planning to get Made of
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Speaker 2: Stars taken care of for next week, but other than that,
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Speaker 2: I'll be taking just a week off. So just a
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Speaker 2: heads up on that. When I disappear for a few days,
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Speaker 2: that's the reason for it, and and I'll be back.
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Speaker 2: I have before announced a vacation and not come back.
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Speaker 2: That's not what's coming this time. I didn't have anything
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Speaker 2: to do with this job. It had to do with
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Speaker 2: another job, but that wasn't anything to do with me.
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Speaker 2: It had had to do with some other factors at play.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, so the I'll just say this. I didn't
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Speaker 2: talk about it on yesterday's show, but it's it's worth
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Speaker 2: talking about just for a little bit today because yesterday
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Speaker 2: we had to watch clip after clip after clip in
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Speaker 2: just regular news of Taylor Swift at the Knicks game
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Speaker 2: the other night and just going crazy and celebrating the
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Speaker 2: Knicks winning. I'll just say this, and look, just bear
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Speaker 2: with me on a couple of things. I know not
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Speaker 2: everybody has the same feelings on this particular topic that
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Speaker 2: I do, but I'm just gonna say where I'm at
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Speaker 2: with all this. I'm a big advocate for, you know,
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Speaker 2: sticking with a team, not jumping around the teams based
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Speaker 2: on if they're winning and having success. And Taylor Swift
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Speaker 2: seems to be like this epitome of you know, jumping
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Speaker 2: around to teams that are having success. Now, I know
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Speaker 2: you could say that the Chiefs. You know, she's engaged to,
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Speaker 2: you know, whatever whatever is going on there with Travis Kelcey,
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Speaker 2: and she jumped in like at the right time in
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Speaker 2: that situation. I don't know if she grew up a
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Speaker 2: lifelong New York Knicks fan. You know, I understand it's
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Speaker 2: possible to be a fan of different teams in different
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Speaker 2: parts of the world. I get that I grew up
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Speaker 2: as a kid something for me just clicked about the
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Speaker 2: New York Giants. And in spite of the fact, you
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Speaker 2: know that I've never lived in New York. I've spent
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Speaker 2: some time there, but I've never you know, I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: say in any way lived in New York and to
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Speaker 2: be a New York Giants fan or a New Jersey
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Speaker 2: Devils fan in hockey, they were just teams that I
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Speaker 2: you know, when I was when I was younger, I
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Speaker 2: just decided and then you stick with them. You roll
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Speaker 2: with them, and you roll with them, and that's what
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Speaker 2: you do say. And and you know, regionally, the Braves
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Speaker 2: certainly a team that I pulled for as a kid.
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Speaker 2: And then you know, just college sports. I think college sports,
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Speaker 2: you start jumping around, you like, really get caught out
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Speaker 2: for being a goon around here. But anyway, and you know,
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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift from Pennsylvania, I don't know, like I would
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Speaker 2: would have thought maybe she'd be a Sixers fan, but
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Speaker 2: you know, you don't have to be. You can be
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Speaker 2: a fan of whatever. It's just for the people who
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Speaker 2: don't like her, just it's piling on when she's court
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Speaker 2: sided at the next game, and some diehard Knicks fans
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Speaker 2: maybe could be court sided a k next game instead
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Speaker 2: of her. But I don't know, I don't like, I
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Speaker 2: can't judge and honestly, why the Spurs didn't fire their
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Speaker 2: coach immediately for that loss. I think there was a
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Speaker 2: point in the fourth quarter when they would have been
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Speaker 2: justified and just going out and going you know what,
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Speaker 2: you can just go go get your stuff. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: go ahead and put you on a plane back to
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Speaker 2: San Antonio. You can go ahead and clean out your office,
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Speaker 2: and by the time we get back, we'll have another
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Speaker 2: coach in place. We're gonna have another coach in place
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Speaker 2: for the rest of this game. I just I don't understand.
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Speaker 2: And I saw Charles Barclay's comments on this. And while
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Speaker 2: I don't watch a lot of NBA games, if at all,
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Speaker 2: I try to avoid them as much as possible because
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Speaker 2: it just to me the game is very boring compared
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Speaker 2: to what it used to be. There was a lot
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Speaker 2: more fundamentals. There's defense, there were actual you know, you're
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Speaker 2: running plays where you're trying instead of just chucking up
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Speaker 2: threes all night, and that's all it is. And you
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Speaker 2: watch a team like the Spurs get this huge, like
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Speaker 2: twenty nine point lead at halftime or whatever it was,
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Speaker 2: and then they come out and they just start chucking
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Speaker 2: up threes in the second half and they're missing them
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Speaker 2: and the Knicks are just coming back. And I'm not
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Speaker 2: a I don't watch a lot of basketball. I was
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Speaker 2: watching because Luke was watching, and he was just kind
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Speaker 2: of watching this train wreck happen for the Spurs. I've
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Speaker 2: got a longtime friend who lives in San Antonio from
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Speaker 2: that area, and I know he was dying on the inside,
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Speaker 2: and I reached out to him after the game. But certainly, no,
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Speaker 2: I never played basketball. I mean not more than like
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Speaker 2: pick up or you know. I was in one league
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Speaker 2: once because they needed another player, and I finished the season,
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Speaker 2: I think, with six points. But even I can watch
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Speaker 2: the game and go, you know what, you got twenty
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Speaker 2: nine point lead, You just you don't need to take
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Speaker 2: another three. Just get out there, put up, put up
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Speaker 2: some twos, and you're good. You're gonna win. You It's
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Speaker 2: a very difficult lead to overcome if you're just out
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Speaker 2: there making twos, and then at the end of the
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Speaker 2: game to not be ready to know with fourteen seconds
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Speaker 2: left to get a loose ball, just dribble around and
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Speaker 2: eat some clock. Games basically over instead of trying to
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Speaker 2: force a shot and then just everything about the collapse
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Speaker 2: there at the end. And I told Luke at the
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Speaker 2: start of the fourth quarter of that game that this.
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Speaker 2: You can ask him, but I told him the magic
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Speaker 2: number for the Spurs to win that game is one
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Speaker 2: hundred and eight points early in the fourth quarter, is
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Speaker 2: what I said to him. They need one o eight games.
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Speaker 2: They lost one o seven one oh six. And he
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Speaker 2: just looked at me when the game ended and he's like,
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Speaker 2: how did you do that? And I just knew, like
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Speaker 2: that's what they needed to win the game. I'm not
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Speaker 2: making it up. I know it sounds like I'm making
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Speaker 2: it up. I'm not making it up. True story. It's Friday,
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Speaker 2: and it's time to jump into some positivity before we
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Speaker 2: jump into strange and bizarre news, We'll start with this one.
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Speaker 2: We got some dog related stories. Eleven months back, Woodrof family,
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Speaker 2: not of Columbus of Colorado Springs, adopted a dog named Ruger,
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Speaker 2: who had just retired from a canine program. Just a
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Speaker 2: few days after bringing Ruger home, Chad Woodroff decided to
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Speaker 2: bring the pup along to the barber shop that he owns.
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Speaker 2: He made sure to pack up everything the dog would need,
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Speaker 2: but things went terribly wrong when a customer arrived early.
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Speaker 2: As soon as the door opened at Ruger darted outside
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Speaker 2: and vanished. The community launched a massive search. Ruger managed
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Speaker 2: to evade everyone for an entire Everyone involved was frightened
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Speaker 2: for Ruger because it's hard to imagine how a domesticated
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Speaker 2: dog could survive in brutal Colorado's winter all on his own. Well.
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Speaker 2: The mystery recently solved as regulars at a local golf
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Speaker 2: course spotted Ruger living out in the wild with a
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Speaker 2: pack of coyotes. Ruger Din just survived the while coyotes
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Speaker 2: completely accepted him, and the golf course crew thinks that
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Speaker 2: even they even let him crash in an old coyote
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Speaker 2: den to stay warm. After nearly a year on the run,
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Speaker 2: animal control finally caught up with him. Aside from being
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Speaker 2: a little dirty, he didn't have a single scratch on him.
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Speaker 2: Ruger back home where he belongs, making up for lost time.
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Speaker 2: His human family thrilled by how quickly he's adjusted back
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Speaker 2: to life indoors and is enjoying every moment of having
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Speaker 2: him home. He's officially retired from his wilderness adventures. That's
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Speaker 2: two retirements now. Chad says he's soaking up indoor life
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Speaker 2: under approximately forty seven layers of supervision. So a good
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Speaker 2: story there. One more quick one here, just because I'm
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Speaker 2: going to stick with this dog theme here, if you've
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Speaker 2: seen this dog. With the World Cup now underway, there's
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Speaker 2: a thirty pound Chihuahua Dotson mix named Rinaldo who has
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Speaker 2: gone viral on social media, named after Yes Ronaldo, and
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Speaker 2: basically they were trying to teach this little dog how
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Speaker 2: to dribble and score goals with a snout, And turns
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Speaker 2: out Ronaldo was actually a goalie, and the viral videos
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Speaker 2: of this dog have gone to millions of use. For
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Speaker 2: this dog sprinting, diving, and sliding the block regulation size
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Speaker 2: soccer balls, He's gotten so good. He did a little
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Speaker 2: live halftime showed a college soccer game, obsessed with the sport,
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Speaker 2: and they have to force him to take timeouts for
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Speaker 2: water breaks. I like it. Let's get it. Let's get it, Ronaldo.
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Speaker 2: Let's do this all right. Strange and bizarre news from
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Speaker 2: around the world will start in Florida as it's fun
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Speaker 2: to do as a woman dubbed the Banana chip Bandit
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Speaker 2: police say fifty nine year old Annette Nichols repeatedly stole
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Speaker 2: bags of banana chips from a public supermarket near her
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Speaker 2: home in Vero Beach. They say she would sometimes pay
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Speaker 2: for a few bags, but then skip the rest at
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Speaker 2: the self checkout. Investigators say the thefts happened on multiple occasions,
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Speaker 2: totally about three hundred dollars, and even led store staff
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Speaker 2: to limit how many bags that they put out. When
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Speaker 2: officers caught up with her, Nichols admitted to the thefts,
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Speaker 2: saying she didn't know that she was stealing something so
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Speaker 2: stupid or didn't know why she was stealing him. I
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Speaker 2: guess search of her car turned up thirteen bags of
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Speaker 2: banana chips. She's facing a misdemeanor theft charge and was
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Speaker 2: released after posting bond. It's a weird, random thing to steal,
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Speaker 2: and I guess if you steal it, you just think, well,
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Speaker 2: nobody's gonna care. They're not going to miss it. It's
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Speaker 2: no big deal. It's not a big deal at all, right,
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Speaker 2: It's just some banana chips. A large greenhouse in New Zealand,
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Speaker 2: which is a popular tourist attraction for its massive collection
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Speaker 2: of ferns, had to be temporarily shut down because of
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Speaker 2: fecal matter. Yeah, in case you're wondering. We're not talking
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Speaker 2: about some weird excuse to call it poop from a plant.
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Speaker 1: No.
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Speaker 2: Officials in the town of Masterton announced on Facebook they
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Speaker 2: temporarily closed the greenhouse called the Fernery after multiple incidents
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Speaker 2: involving people leaving human waste inside. The attraction, which features
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Speaker 2: more than sixty types of ferns, was closed for cleaning
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Speaker 2: I hope deep cleaning, and local leaders called the behavior
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Speaker 2: a public health hazard. They pointed out there's a public
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Speaker 2: restroom just a short walk away, and they warned repeat
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Speaker 2: offenses could bring police involvement. Yeah, let's get the police involved.
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Speaker 2: What do you mean could let's get the police involved?
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Speaker 2: What are we waiting for? Why would we not get
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Speaker 2: the police involved? I as soon as possible, and I
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Speaker 2: don't want to hear any fertilizer arguments. A Louisiana man
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Speaker 2: led state police on a chase that got pretty exciting
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Speaker 2: when an alligator suddenly got involved. Authlready say. Forty year
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Speaker 2: old Victor Reeves was wanted for reckless driving possible DUI.
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Speaker 2: When troopers tried to pull him over at New Orleans.
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Speaker 2: He fled on foot, even jumping from an elevated roadway.
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Speaker 2: Into a swamp. When police tracked him down again, he
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Speaker 2: ran back into the marsh, where an alligator bit his arms.
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Speaker 2: Despite his injuries, Revis kept trying to get away before
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Speaker 2: officers finally caught him with the help of a drone.
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Speaker 2: He was treated at the hospital, then taking a jail,
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Speaker 2: facing multiple charges, including impaired driving, hit and run, resisting arrest.
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Speaker 2: Police say the incident is a dramatic reminder that impaired
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Speaker 2: driving can lead to unpredictable, sometimes wild consequences. I'm thinking
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Speaker 2: the gator bytes probably would give you a little bit
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Speaker 2: of cred in jail, you know, just a little bit
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Speaker 2: of like, you know, like being shot. You know, when
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Speaker 2: people say, yeah, I've been shot. I would think being
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Speaker 2: bitten by an alligator would count for something, wouldn't it.
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Speaker 2: An Air Canada pilot was arrested in charge with fraud
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Speaker 2: after authority say he flew hundreds of flights carrying thousands
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Speaker 2: of passengers and he didn't even have a proper license.
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Speaker 2: Case came to light during a routine certification check that
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Speaker 2: uncovered inconsistencies, prompting a police investigated that was dubbed Project Icarus.
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Speaker 2: Air Canada says passenger Safety was not compromised, noting that
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Speaker 2: all of its pilots undergo regular training and frequent competency check. Still,
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Speaker 2: the airline called proper licensing a critical safety requirement and
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Speaker 2: says that the pilot is no longer employed. The pilot
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Speaker 2: was released, expected to appear in court later this month
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Speaker 2: an investigator's investigation that continues to examine how the discrepancy
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Speaker 2: went undetected for so long. It's reassuring when they say
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Speaker 2: that nobody was ever in danger, but you know to
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Speaker 2: fire the guy, and I'm sure it's policy at that point,
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Speaker 2: but I would think there might have been some danger,
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Speaker 2: just a little if they didn't know for sure, if
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Speaker 2: he wasn't certified or didn't have what he needed anyway, authority,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure, I'm sure Air Canada had it all covered.
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Speaker 2: Authorities in northeastern Indiana are keeping an eye out for
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Speaker 2: a missing alligator. Oh, this is another alligator story forgot.
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Speaker 2: I had another alligator story that escaped from an animal
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Speaker 2: show operator in Auburn. This is in Indiana. Uh Mark Colehorst,
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Speaker 2: who runs the Marx Arc Animal show, says the two
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Speaker 2: foot gator named Irwin. I love it. That's a great name.
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Speaker 2: For a gator. Uh I I have a you know
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Speaker 2: those uh those are those stuffed animals, you know, the
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Speaker 2: the stuffed the stuffed animals that are so popular now. Uh,
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Speaker 2: my my friend Sarah gave one to my bride that
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Speaker 2: was like a stingray. And uh she she gave this
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Speaker 2: to Jill. She thought, oh, Jill might like this. She
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Speaker 2: likes animals and and uh, I said, you're you're giving
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Speaker 2: Jill a stingray, the animal that killed the crocodile hunter.
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Speaker 2: And she said, oh, I'm sorry. I wasn't even thinking
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Speaker 2: about that, and Jill's Jill just sort of was like,
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Speaker 2: what so, yeah, Irwin the stingray is I kind of
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Speaker 2: use Erwin for propping my head up anyway. Sorry, I
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Speaker 2: like the name Erwin. In this scenario, it's much more tasteful.
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Speaker 2: Jill would not have it. Jill does not call him Irwin,
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Speaker 2: but I do, just because of the goof up. Back
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Speaker 2: to the story, two foot gater named Erwin slipped out
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Speaker 2: of its container when he returned home from a show
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Speaker 2: and discovered the cooler was empty. Coal Horse says, the
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Speaker 2: small reptile and this is a small gator isn't dangerous
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Speaker 2: and would likely avoid people, but some nearby residents aren't
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Speaker 2: convinced and worry that it would still call some harm.
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Speaker 2: One neighbor believes that it's not the first time that
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Speaker 2: Coal Horse has lost an animal, and recalled another gator
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Speaker 2: that was found in upon nearby ten years ago. This
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Speaker 2: alligator still on the loose. County officials now reviewing local
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Speaker 2: rules as neighbors race concerns about keeping exotic animals in
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Speaker 2: residential areas and you gotta be careful with that. Gotta
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Speaker 2: be careful with that, and my Irwin, I know exactly
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Speaker 2: on the stuffed animals squish mellows is what they're called
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Speaker 2: spiked on, and mine's just called Irwin. Again, not to
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Speaker 2: be disrespectful or distasteful or any of that, I just
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Speaker 2: that's just what we named him. Let's talk about kitten fishing.
22:11
Speaker 2: You've heard of catfishing, Well, there's a bit of a
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Speaker 2: toned down version of it called kitten fishing. So catfishing
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Speaker 2: is when you pretend to be a completely different person,
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Speaker 2: and then kittenfishing is about stretching the truth just enough
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Speaker 2: to make yourself seem more appealing. When you're dating or
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Speaker 2: using apps, isn't that what everybody does? It can look like,
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Speaker 2: you know, bumping up your height an inch or two,
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Speaker 2: hyping up your background, claiming a degree that you didn't earn,
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Speaker 2: for example, shaving a few years off your age, relying
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Speaker 2: on older or heavily edited photos that don't exactly match
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Speaker 2: how you look now. Problem though, is that it sounds harmless,
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Speaker 2: it still messes with trust and people meet in real
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Speaker 2: life and that's when things get atle awkward or this
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Speaker 2: isn't what I was expecting one of those deals. Experts
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Speaker 2: say that it usually comes from insecurity and the pressure
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Speaker 2: to seem perfect on dating apps. In the end, it
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Speaker 2: can lead to disappointment and problems connecting with people. How
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Speaker 2: does this play out with the filters, the face filters
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Speaker 2: on on apps? You know, like on social media when
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Speaker 2: people you meet somebody and you go like, that's that's
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Speaker 2: not what you look like, That's not what you look
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Speaker 2: like at all, or the you know, excessive amounts of
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Speaker 2: makeup sometimes and then they take it off and you go, ye,
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Speaker 2: I don't have any first and experience with that one,
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Speaker 2: but I've heard horror stories. I'm just curious, is that
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Speaker 2: count as kitten fishing. Have you heard of tan maxing? Right?
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Speaker 2: We were all warned growing up as gen xers that
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Speaker 2: early on it was hey, everybody get up in the
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Speaker 2: sun and tan up. And then we got to a
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Speaker 2: certain age everybody was like, skin cancer, Yeah, tanning bed's bad.
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Speaker 2: Wear sunscreen. Well, apparently there are some folks like gen
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Speaker 2: Z and younger that are doing this thing called tan maxing,
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Speaker 2: and you try to get as tan as possible. That's
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Speaker 2: what That's what we when I was a kid, That's
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Speaker 2: what the adults all did. They were tan maxing, and
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Speaker 2: basically they track UV levels now and they spend more
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Speaker 2: time in the sun tanning pills. It was a movie,
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Speaker 2: wasn't it, soul Man. It's blowing up on social media
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Speaker 2: like TikTok tan fluencers if you will, sharing tips showing
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Speaker 2: off the results, which reinforces the idea that being tan
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Speaker 2: equals looking better. Needless to say, experts are alarms saying
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Speaker 2: it's basically old school tanning culture with a gen Z makeover,
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Speaker 2: and you could do some serious damage to the progress
24:57
Speaker 2: that's been made around sun safety and skin can or awareness.
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Speaker 2: I tell you what, if you really want to be educated,
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Speaker 2: on the dangers of sun exposure. You marry in Australian,
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Speaker 2: they will remind you often. They will remind you often,
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Speaker 2: and that's good because otherwise I would just be you know,
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Speaker 2: doopy doo and living life instead of being reminded. And
25:21
Speaker 2: I'll just tell you this another thing about me personally.
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Speaker 2: I hate the feel of sunscreen on my hands. I
25:27
Speaker 2: hate when you put it on. And I know that
25:28
Speaker 2: the spray on stuff is not as good. You can
25:31
Speaker 2: get away with it a little bit, but I hate it.
25:34
Speaker 2: So the number of times when coaching soccer, I would
25:37
Speaker 2: be standing on the sidelines, like prepping the team for
25:40
Speaker 2: a game, giving a little pep talk or watching them
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Speaker 2: warm up, and Jill was there putting sunscreen on my arms,
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Speaker 2: my neck, my calves and my face like I was
25:53
Speaker 2: a little kid, Like is the same thing that many
25:58
Speaker 2: of the parents were doing with their kids. She would
26:01
Speaker 2: be doing that for me, and I just think that
26:03
Speaker 2: was a major, you know, psych out move against the
26:05
Speaker 2: teams that we were playing against. You know, they were like,
26:07
Speaker 2: what's going on over there? And they couldn't get it
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Speaker 2: out of their head. Why is that adult man over there? Why? Why?
26:16
Speaker 2: Why is this happening? And then they would throw him off.
26:19
Speaker 2: So you know how about this? An unusual flavor combination
26:25
Speaker 2: has seen some renewed attention thanks to the you know
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Speaker 2: Key and Peel. This is Key Keegan Michael Key. Of
26:32
Speaker 2: course that's Key and it's not Peel. I guess he's
26:36
Speaker 2: got a snacks podcast that he does from Delish. He
26:40
Speaker 2: says one of his favorite desserts was or he doesn't
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Speaker 2: do it. I guess they do it and they were
26:44
Speaker 2: talking to him maybe. He says. One of his favorite
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Speaker 2: desserts he had when he was a kid was apple
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Speaker 2: pie with melted cheese on top. He says he started
26:53
Speaker 2: ordering it in diners after seeing Robert de Niro's character
26:56
Speaker 2: do it in the movie Taxi Driver. He says, when
26:59
Speaker 2: I was in high call, go to a restaurant, to
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Speaker 2: a diner and go, can I have a slice of
27:03
Speaker 2: apple pie please? With some cheese. He says it's been
27:07
Speaker 2: one of his go to desserts ever since. The flavor
27:10
Speaker 2: combination may seem strange, but it's actually not that uncommon
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Speaker 2: in certain parts of the country, New England and the Midwest.
27:18
Speaker 2: So that'll do it for this Friday edition of the show.
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Speaker 2: Before I thank the appropriate people. I want to remind you, yeah,
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Speaker 2: going to be taken next week off and then back
27:31
Speaker 2: at it the week after. But I do want to
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Speaker 2: supporting us by listening. And if the week that I'm
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Speaker 2: out you want to go back and get caught up
27:48
Speaker 2: on some other shows, maybe check out the Made of
27:52
Speaker 2: Stars podcast or the dragon Con pregame show podcast. Getting
27:56
Speaker 2: ready to start cranking up on that again. I got
27:59
Speaker 2: a comedy show called NQLN that I do. You can
28:01
Speaker 2: check that one out as well, any of those things.
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Speaker 2: Check those out while we're gone next week, and uh,
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Speaker 2: you know, thank you for listening. I'll catch you back
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