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“Certified Questionable” · UNFIT FOR RADIO with JAYKERS

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SPEAKER_01: Ray! Did I ever tell you I used to work at a bank?
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SPEAKER_01: No, I didn't know that.
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SPEAKER_01: What happened?
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SPEAKER_01: Well, you know how I have dyslexia, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: What'd you do?
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SPEAKER_01: Miscount the money?
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SPEAKER_01: No, actually I was pretty good with the money.
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SPEAKER_01: But one day, a customer walked in and asked me to check her balance.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh-oh.
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SPEAKER_01: So I pushed her over.
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SPEAKER_01: Did she bounce?
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SPEAKER_01: Apparently not.
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SPEAKER_01: And it turns out the FDIC insurance doesn't even cover that.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's too bad.
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SPEAKER_01: Welcome to Unfit for Radio with Jakers.
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SPEAKER_01: The show's so funny, it even cracks up a blonde Polish and dyslexic dude.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm that guy.
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SPEAKER_00: And I'm your host, Jakers.
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SPEAKER_00: And I am Ray.
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SPEAKER_00: I am known as the sane one of the duo, and I'm also as old as dirt.
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SPEAKER_01: That kind of hurt.
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SPEAKER_01: Not the dirt part, but the you're saner than me or you're referring to.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah, I'm yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, yeah, sometimes you get a little wild.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's go.
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SPEAKER_01: On this episode of Certified Questionable, we're bringing back the spirit of episode 28 control shift.
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SPEAKER_01: For the next hour or so, I'm handing the keys to the kingdom over to Ray.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's officially in charge for the entire show.
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SPEAKER_01: If this ends up being one of the best episodes ever, I'll gladly take partial credit.
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SPEAKER_01: But if it crashes and burns in a spectacular fashion, we're all going to remember whose idea this really was.
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SPEAKER_01: Ray, good luck.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't screw up and uh take it away.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: Here we go.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope our listeners are ready for all of the stories that I have today.
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SPEAKER_00: I've got a wide variety.
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SPEAKER_00: Some uh I believe they're all true.
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SPEAKER_00: So that would make it kind of interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow.
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SPEAKER_01: Let's check out Ray's portal.
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SPEAKER_00: And some of them are even personal.
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SPEAKER_01: No way.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Uh let's start with this story.
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SPEAKER_00: Um, a few months ago, I was in a bookstore, and I was looking at the magazine, right?
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SPEAKER_00: Because I was going to buy me uh some puzzle books, and I ran across this magazine called Forty in Times.
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SPEAKER_00: I had heard of it, didn't know anything about it.
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SPEAKER_00: So I bought one, and it's a strange little magazine about all sorts of strange conspiracies and and strange things.
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SPEAKER_00: It's called Forty in Times.
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SPEAKER_00: Forty in Times.
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SPEAKER_00: Named after a guy named uh Forty N Times or Forty N Times?
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SPEAKER_00: F-O-R-T-E-A-N.
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SPEAKER_00: Forty N.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, 14.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Forty in times.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, named after a guy named Fort.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know what he was.
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SPEAKER_00: He was he's dead now.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry to interrupt.
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SPEAKER_00: That's okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So I found this little article about a nuclear family, and I thought it was interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: Explosive.
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SPEAKER_00: I had seen this on a TV show, so I knew exactly what they were talking about.
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SPEAKER_00: While radioactive Boy Scout David Hahn attracted the attention of the police and the U.S.
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SPEAKER_00: Environmental Protection Agency with his 1994 attempt to build a fast breeder nuclear reactor in his garden shed, which eventually needed to be disposed of as highly radioactive nuclear waste.
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SPEAKER_00: Jackson Oswald, 13 from Memphis, Tennessee, got a rather easier ride when he built a successful nuclear fission reactor in his garage.
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SPEAKER_00: No way.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: He merely got a polite visit from the FBI to check for radiation leaks.
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SPEAKER_00: However, as Oswald had built his reactor with the full knowledge of his parents, who had sought advice about appropriate safety measures, there were none, so they left him in peace to continue with his project.
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SPEAKER_00: That's wild.
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SPEAKER_00: There's more.
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SPEAKER_00: His work paid off.
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SPEAKER_00: After a handful of stressful tests just days before my thirteenth birthday, I successfully achieved fusion and detected these neutrons as proof.
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SPEAKER_00: Jimmy Neutron?
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SPEAKER_00: Must be like Jimmy Neutron.
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SPEAKER_00: This resulted in him being recognized by Guinness as the youngest person to achieve nuclear fusion.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh age 13.
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SPEAKER_00: And we got scientists that hardly know how to do this.
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SPEAKER_00: No way.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_00: Yep.
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SPEAKER_00: I know this is early in the program to do toilet humor, but I have to have some in here at all times.
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SPEAKER_00: Every episode.
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SPEAKER_00: So let's see what I got here.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry, folks.
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SPEAKER_00: A 75-year-old homeowner in County Cork, Ireland, was disconcerted to hear a blast of loud music from someone in his house.
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SPEAKER_00: Disconcerted?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, disconcerted.
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SPEAKER_00: Wow, I like that word.
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SPEAKER_00: You'll see that why that is um appropriate word.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Investigating, he found a complete stranger, Trevor Morey, 38, in his bathroom, sitting on the closed toilet lid, listening to a religious ceremony on his phone.
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SPEAKER_01: No way.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes way.
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SPEAKER_00: Asked why he was there, Maury replied, God sent me.
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SPEAKER_00: Then he resumed listening to the ceremony until the police, called by the homeowner, arrived and arrested him.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_00: Who goes into somebody's house, sits down on their toilet, and listens to a radio program?
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SPEAKER_01: That's just that's uh that's yeah, that's a little cuckoo, cuckoo.
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SPEAKER_00: I know that's the kind of m magazine this thing is.
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SPEAKER_00: It's got all sorts of stories.
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SPEAKER_00: You got a cuckoo magazine?
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SPEAKER_00: That's a cuckoo, yes.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: The Doll Man podcast gave the Lifetime Achievement Award to Peter Hansen, 85, for inventing the smell of gas in the 1970s.
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SPEAKER_01: Which smell?
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SPEAKER_00: Natural gas.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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SPEAKER_00: Natural gas does not have a smell, making it almost impossible to detect leaks.
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SPEAKER_00: So Hansen came up with a substance to be added to it that provides the characteristic pong that alerts people to the problem.
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SPEAKER_00: Hansen described the smell as being inspired by bad eggs and flatulence, saying it is horrible and naughty smell.
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SPEAKER_00: It's very district distinctive, and added he could not be more proud of receiving the award.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a naughty smell, and I'm so proud.
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SPEAKER_00: So if he hadn't done that, we can have all sorts of gas leaks and we would never know it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: That would be sad.
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SPEAKER_00: That's crazy.
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SPEAKER_01: Mm-hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: But what what a way to be known.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, oh here this one's this one's really outlandish.
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SPEAKER_00: Inhabitants of Daydar, a village in oh boy, in India, were confused when they woke up to find a full-grown buffalo stuck on the roof of a newly built house.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I would question that too.
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SPEAKER_00: A buffalo on the roof of a house.
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SPEAKER_01: Buffalo.
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SPEAKER_00: We have no idea how it got up there.
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SPEAKER_00: When we woke up around 5 30 a.m., the buffalo was already on the roof.
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SPEAKER_00: The family had to wait until 2 p.m.
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SPEAKER_00: for a crane to arrive, which lifted the buffalo off the roof unharmed.
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SPEAKER_01: That is really weird.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: How in the world would the buffalo get up there?
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SPEAKER_00: If you needed a crane to take it off, how did he walk up there?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, did it just blow up there or obviously the wind wasn't blowing that hard.
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SPEAKER_00: It couldn't be blown that hard, it would have blown the house down.
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SPEAKER_01: They had a strong roof though.
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SPEAKER_01: I want a roof like that.
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SPEAKER_01: My roof can hold a buffalo.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: That's kind of yeah, that would be a good commercial for your roofing company.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: But um I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: That's that's too much.
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SPEAKER_01: I'll have to call that nine-figure roofing guy and ask him about it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's one about smoking.
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SPEAKER_00: But people shouldn't do that anymore.
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SPEAKER_00: But this is a man who went for a smoke.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh.
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SPEAKER_00: In January 2025, a 46-year-old Hungarian man got off a high-speed train heading for Nuremberg to have a smoke break.
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SPEAKER_00: But he failed to reboard in time.
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SPEAKER_00: So he jumped onto the outside and clung to a bracket between between carriages.
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SPEAKER_03: No, hanging on speed.
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SPEAKER_00: Hanging on for 19 miles at speeds up to 175 miles per hour.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, heck no.
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SPEAKER_00: I couldn't do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Until police stopped the train and removed him.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't even imagine that.
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SPEAKER_00: I mean, a 60 mile per hour train is bad enough.
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SPEAKER_00: I can't imagine 175 for 19 miles.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope he didn't try and smoke during that.
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SPEAKER_00: I would think now you'd take all his might just to hang on.
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SPEAKER_01: Or to and not inhale this whole cigarette.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
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SPEAKER_00: Whew.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got a long one here, but I'll save that one for another time, probably.
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SPEAKER_01: A long one?
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SPEAKER_00: A longer.
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SPEAKER_00: A longer story.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I think it's about a train two.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's see what else I got.
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SPEAKER_00: Move my script over and oh, look at that.
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SPEAKER_00: I got a notepad with stuff on it.
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SPEAKER_01: You got a big desk over there.
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SPEAKER_00: I do, it's full.
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SPEAKER_00: I found this the other day on uh the internet, and I thought it was interesting, so I'm going to uh let our listeners know about it.
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SPEAKER_01: It must be true if you found it on the internet.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, it is true.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: It's a customer satisfaction survey about fast food.
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SPEAKER_00: Somebody did a survey about people and they ranked them um with so many points, and I'll tell you who's at the top and who's at the bottom.
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SPEAKER_01: This sounds interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes.
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SPEAKER_00: It really does.
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SPEAKER_00: For the first time in 10 years, Chick-fil-A was not first.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I can see why.
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SPEAKER_00: Jersey Mike's was first with a score of 84.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't see why that, but okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Chick-fil-A was next at 83.
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SPEAKER_00: Tied for third place was Jimmy Johns and Panda Express at 81 points.
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SPEAKER_01: Ah, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: The next one at 80 points was a tie between Papa John's and Pizza Hut.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: So I thought that was interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: But is this fair?
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SPEAKER_01: Like, is it so what's the survey being taken off of?
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SPEAKER_00: Just the most customer customer service.
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SPEAKER_00: So they would ask people specifically about the customer service.
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SPEAKER_00: They're not talking about the quality of the food.
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SPEAKER_00: But did they ask the same amount of people?
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know that.
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SPEAKER_01: Because yeah, I mean, if you asked 10,000 Chick-fil-A people and you only asked a hundred Burger King people, you might not get the same.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know the uh nobody nobody elaborated on the I'm not trying to put a whole in your story, but carry on.
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SPEAKER_00: Sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, sorry.
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SPEAKER_00: 79 points was Domino, Starbucks, Raising Canes, and Subway.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: They all tied at 79.
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SPEAKER_00: I know somebody that works at Domino's.
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SPEAKER_00: I do too.
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SPEAKER_00: And at 78 was Burger King, Duncan, Culver's, and Panera Bread.
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SPEAKER_00: Ooh.
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SPEAKER_01: I just ate at Panera yesterday.
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SPEAKER_00: And down near the bottom, which is only 72 points, was um DQ and Mickey D.
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SPEAKER_00: Interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: So and as an aside, I just saw that Pizza Hut has just been sold.
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SPEAKER_00: Yum Brands is going to concentrate on Taco Bell and KFC.
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SPEAKER_00: They sold Pizza Hut.
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SPEAKER_00: Do they still own Pepsi too?
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SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't say.
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SPEAKER_01: Um that's very interesting because I also heard that uh recently uh Pizza Hut is going to try and go back to some of their old ways, and they're gonna actually have the uh the E in restaurant with the bullshit.
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SPEAKER_01: Well, I would love that.
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SPEAKER_01: With the salad buffets and the pizza buffets and make it more family-oriented again.
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SPEAKER_00: I loved that in the olden days.
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SPEAKER_00: I remember that.
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SPEAKER_00: I would go there and eat, and I loved it at lunch because I could get pizza and salad as much as I wanted, and it was cheap, and I could afford it, and yeah, that was good.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: I remember going to New Mexico one time.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh I think it was like Lordsburg or Silver City, one of those uh places I was visiting, uh, some people over there, and they took me to Pizza Hut, and man, it was like an experience.
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SPEAKER_01: Like you walked in and it wasn't like Pizza Hut like what you see on TV.
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SPEAKER_01: Like it was like a restaurant, like uh it was it was very cool.
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SPEAKER_01: It was a very cool experience.
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SPEAKER_01: The salad, the uh the pizza little buffet, the just the overall environment that it just brought you back to like an old pizza diner, and it was cool.
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SPEAKER_01: I liked it, I enjoyed it.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought their restaurants were very comfortable inside with the booths and tables, and and if you had a big party, there was tables in the middle, and you could push them all together and have a big group, and yeah, it was nice.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: You have another favorite pizza place though.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh they play uh organ music there.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, they do.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: It's called um Organs Stop.
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SPEAKER_00: Organ Stop.
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SPEAKER_00: And it's in Mesa, and it's the only one in the state.
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SPEAKER_00: And um, I do like it a lot.
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SPEAKER_01: They have uh they have a memorable organ there too.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like one of one of the biggest ones in like the country or something like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's it's very large.
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SPEAKER_00: They've got a lot of uh pipes and they can do a lot of things with it.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah, and we're not just blowing smoke.
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SPEAKER_00: No, we're not, no, we're not.
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SPEAKER_00: All right, Ray, carry on.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought that I would talk a little bit about uh me.
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SPEAKER_00: I've I've already used almost every true story that I know on former previous bro uh podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh yeah?
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SPEAKER_00: So um I had to really dig deep to come up with some of these because dig deep as in like uh fantasyland?
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SPEAKER_01: You made it up?
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SPEAKER_00: No, yeah, dig deep as in uh examine my brain.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh and see what what was rattling around.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just about.
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SPEAKER_00: I had to because it was uh it got lost in there.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh no!
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, cool.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay so the first thing I'm gonna talk about is a giant soda shop in the state of Oklahoma.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, like a real fountain?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay, and even bigger than that.
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SPEAKER_00: It's called Pop's 66 Soda Ranch, and it's on uh Route 66.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, it is, and out front they have a giant, giant bottle that's 66 feet tall, and at night it's all lit up and it's beautiful.
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SPEAKER_00: I saw it at night.
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SPEAKER_00: And inside they have 700 varieties of soda for sale.
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SPEAKER_01: No way.
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SPEAKER_00: Seven hundred.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they got different rooms you go in.
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SPEAKER_00: Some of it's refrigerated, some of the bottles are refrigerated, and some of them they're just on the you know, by the case, and and you just grab what you want.
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SPEAKER_00: Does does this place still exist?
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, it still exists, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: It's still there.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh, we gotta go.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you gotta go.
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SPEAKER_00: But guess what?
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SPEAKER_00: What?
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SPEAKER_00: We didn't buy anything.
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SPEAKER_01: What why'd you go all the way there and up?
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SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
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SPEAKER_00: It was on our way.
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SPEAKER_00: We were d traveling Route 66, and we just stopped because we saw it, and uh, we didn't go in for the soda, and we weren't hungry and thirsty, so we didn't get anything to eat, and we just we just walked out without buying anything, which was kind of silly.
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SPEAKER_00: But gotcha.
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SPEAKER_00: So and uh this next one I think you've told me about, because I think you've been there too, uh, is about the St.
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SPEAKER_00: Louis Arch.
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SPEAKER_00: My wife and I went there one time on one of our travels and um signed up and given the time to show up at the door, and we went in and sat down on this uh little carriage thing, and it's an elevator that tilts.
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SPEAKER_00: It goes up the the arch at an angle, and you get to the top and you look out a small window.
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SPEAKER_01: And then does it go down the other side?
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SPEAKER_00: And then it goes down the other side or or the same side or something.
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SPEAKER_00: I forget how I think it goes up one side and down the other.
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SPEAKER_01: That's really cool.
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SPEAKER_01: No, I don't remember telling you a story about that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I thought you'd been there and you told me about that.
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SPEAKER_01: I think if anything, I was a younger person and um my parents were just driving through the city.
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SPEAKER_01: We didn't actually tour no.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, you didn't actually tour.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: We were headed to uh Florida or Illinois or somewhere.
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SPEAKER_01: Somewhere.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, we're talking about elevators.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll talk to you about the elevator at the Washington Monument.
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SPEAKER_00: Going up.
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SPEAKER_00: We went in there.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, we had to line up early, dark and cold, uh, because it's first come, first serve.
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SPEAKER_00: You don't get buy tickets ahead of time or anything.
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SPEAKER_00: You just go there and line up, and they let you in at a certain group and you go up in the elevator and part way up the elevator stops.
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SPEAKER_00: Where's this at?
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SPEAKER_00: Uh Washington Monument in DC.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, wow, okay.
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SPEAKER_00: And um it's the back wall, the big back wall of the elevator is glass, and it but it's frosted.
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SPEAKER_00: But when you get to a certain point, they stop and they push a button and the glass clears, like they, you know, the you've seen that kind.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you can see uh a block that was left up there uh during um construction, and I don't know, it's had state names on it or something.
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SPEAKER_00: I don't remember what was on it.
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SPEAKER_00: And then you go up another one, and I think they stop two or three times up there to show you stuff that's so is Washington actually in there or no?
17:43
SPEAKER_00: Um no, he's not there.
17:45
SPEAKER_00: He's buried alter probably in his hometown.
17:49
SPEAKER_01: Gotcha.
17:50
SPEAKER_00: And I forget the name of that place, but there must be a cherry tree somewhere.
17:53
SPEAKER_00: There's got to be one someplace, even though that's not a true story.
17:56
SPEAKER_00: It's not?
17:57
SPEAKER_00: You didn't know that?
17:58
SPEAKER_00: That's not a true story.
17:59
SPEAKER_00: No.
18:00
SPEAKER_00: No, that was that was all made up.
18:02
SPEAKER_01: Are you serious?
18:03
SPEAKER_00: I'm serious.
18:03
SPEAKER_00: I've I've I've seen stories about that.
18:05
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
18:06
SPEAKER_00: He never had a cherry tree.
18:07
SPEAKER_00: He never he never had well, he may have had a cherry tree, but he didn't chop it down and said he'd never tell a lie and all that.
18:12
SPEAKER_00: No, that was okay.
18:14
SPEAKER_00: That was just made up to make him better than he was.
18:17
SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
18:18
SPEAKER_01: I'm sure there was a few other things that was fluffed up, but we'll never know.
18:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got an interesting story here.
18:27
SPEAKER_00: From a previous episode, you learned that um I was in a movie, barely.
18:31
SPEAKER_00: You were in a movie.
18:33
SPEAKER_00: I was barely in a movie, and I had forgotten that my wife and I were in the background of another movie.
18:40
SPEAKER_01: Ray, you are just you got all these little issues.
18:43
SPEAKER_00: I got all these little stories that I just keep forgetting about, and these are all true stories.
18:49
SPEAKER_00: We were in Seattle, and we were um at a shopping place somewhere, and we happened to be up on the second floor, and we all this commotion down below.
18:59
SPEAKER_00: We looked over the the railing, and uh there was a fight scene going on, a fake stage fight scene, and the camera people were around and they're you know, filming it, and and the people the crowd was there watching and all that, and um that were part of the movie.
19:14
SPEAKER_00: And so we watched that part, and then uh they dispersed and went on, and we went on, and we went down to the main floor and we sat down on a bench that was uh against the building.
19:25
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and uh we watched some of the actors and production people walking around and everything, and we were sitting there, and off to the left, a ways down, was the street, the city street, and they were getting ready to do a scene.
19:41
SPEAKER_00: Uh-oh.
19:42
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
19:43
SPEAKER_00: So, and then a production assistant came toward us, and I thought, oh bear, we gotta move.
19:48
SPEAKER_00: So he came toward us and I said, We do we have to move?
19:51
SPEAKER_00: He said, No, just don't pay any attention to what's going on down there.
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Why?
19:55
SPEAKER_00: Because you don't want to pee, you know, the background to look at uh oh, they're making a movie, you know.
20:01
SPEAKER_00: You're not supposed to notice that they're doing that.
20:03
SPEAKER_00: Just act normal, basically.
20:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, just like we were normal and we didn't know what was going on.
20:07
SPEAKER_00: So we just sat there and we talked and we didn't watch the background.
20:10
SPEAKER_00: I asked him what the name of the movie was, and he told me, but I've never been able to find it.
20:15
SPEAKER_00: So uh it was either a lie or they changed it or something.
20:18
SPEAKER_00: So I've never been able to find the movie that we were at the background of on that one scene.
20:23
SPEAKER_01: Oh, that's very interesting.
20:25
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so they had the car come up and some guy got out and they were arguing or something.
20:29
SPEAKER_00: It was yeah, it was a little action film.
20:31
SPEAKER_00: So that was so we were in the background of another movie, but I have no idea which one it was.
20:36
SPEAKER_00: That's really cool.
20:37
SPEAKER_01: I'll have to look it up someday.
20:39
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I don't know how to do that, but I'll see what I can do.
20:41
SPEAKER_01: Our audience might bring it to us.
20:44
SPEAKER_00: I got another interesting tidbit here that that'll blow your mind.
20:47
SPEAKER_00: Tidbit away.
20:48
SPEAKER_00: I got lots of tidbits.
20:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
20:50
SPEAKER_00: Do you know that I have actually been in an Amish house?
20:55
SPEAKER_01: Walk us through this.
20:57
SPEAKER_00: Um, my grandfather had a piece of property in northern Indiana.
21:02
SPEAKER_00: It was on the it was on the Indiana border, actually, with Michigan.
21:06
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
21:07
SPEAKER_00: And uh he had a little place up there that he built himself, uh a little cabin.
21:12
SPEAKER_00: It wasn't done yet.
21:13
SPEAKER_00: It had an outdoor pump, and uh the plumbing wasn't in yet.
21:18
SPEAKER_00: He had plumbing in, but it wasn't connected to water, and it it didn't have electricity either.
21:24
SPEAKER_00: We had to have uh gas stove and and gas uh lighting.
21:29
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
21:30
SPEAKER_00: Because it wasn't connected to electricity yet.
21:32
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, uh there was an Amish family that lived across the border and and just into Michigan.
21:40
SPEAKER_00: Okay, and they they were kind of like friends with with the with my grandparents.
21:44
SPEAKER_00: All right, and they had a couple of boys my age that would come down and go to the stream that was through the the property and come down, just say hi, and they'd ride their horses down and everything.
21:56
SPEAKER_00: And well, one day my grandmother sent me over there because I had to.
22:00
SPEAKER_00: Take something or pick up something.
22:02
SPEAKER_00: I can't remember.
22:03
SPEAKER_00: I was 12 at the time.
22:04
SPEAKER_00: That was, you know, way back in the dark ages.
22:07
SPEAKER_00: So I walked down the road and knocked on the door and told them I was here, you know, why I was there, and they invited me in.
22:15
SPEAKER_00: So I walked in and was inside and I saw the living room and their kitchen.
22:19
SPEAKER_00: And it was it was an open floor plan.
22:21
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:22
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
22:22
SPEAKER_00: Before we had open floor plans, because they they just have they like big rooms.
22:27
SPEAKER_00: They and they don't go chop up the house into little spaces.
22:31
SPEAKER_00: And you had the dining room and the living room and the kitchen, everything was all in one big room, and I just stood there and waited while they did what they were supposed to do and brought me something and I brought it back home.
22:43
SPEAKER_03: That's interesting.
22:44
SPEAKER_00: I saw the inside of an Amish house, and it's Did they have power?
22:50
SPEAKER_00: I doubt it.
22:52
SPEAKER_00: I doubt that they had electricity.
22:54
SPEAKER_00: They probably had gas, but no.
22:56
SPEAKER_00: I oh that was that you know, that was back in what 1870 or something.
23:01
SPEAKER_01: Did they have a curfew where they were like supposed to be back before sundown or something like that?
23:06
SPEAKER_00: Not that I know of.
23:07
SPEAKER_00: But they you couldn't work the field after sundown because it got too dark.
23:11
SPEAKER_01: I was just curious.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
23:12
SPEAKER_00: So anyway, so that was interesting.
23:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's an interesting little bit.
23:20
SPEAKER_00: When my wife and I are on uh vacation, one thing we like to do was visit cemeteries and look at the some of the tombstones.
23:27
SPEAKER_00: That's eerie.
23:28
SPEAKER_00: Why?
23:29
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, we just find it fascinating to look at how when somebody died and how old they were, and and the different tombstones and the statues and the monuments and different things.
23:39
SPEAKER_00: So we would do that.
23:40
SPEAKER_01: Creepy.
23:41
SPEAKER_00: And unlike Arizona, in most other states, the cemeteries were open day and night.
23:47
SPEAKER_00: They didn't have a fence around them.
23:48
SPEAKER_00: You could just walk in anytime or drive in.
23:51
SPEAKER_01: Creepy.
23:53
SPEAKER_00: So there was one that we that we went in at night.
23:58
SPEAKER_00: And I don't remember I don't remember even remember what state it is.
24:02
SPEAKER_00: We drove in and I was headed toward, I was going to head toward the left part of the cemetery.
24:08
SPEAKER_00: And as we got in, we were barely in, and Linda said, get out of here.
24:13
SPEAKER_00: Get out, get out, get out, get out.
24:15
SPEAKER_00: So I said, Okay.
24:16
SPEAKER_00: So I turned around or something.
24:18
SPEAKER_00: She saw something.
24:22
SPEAKER_00: And I said, What why do we have to leave?
24:25
SPEAKER_00: She said, Over there by that big tree, I saw this thing standing up with the skinny's boneless arm sticking out there, and and it was it was just pointing, and it was scared her.
24:36
SPEAKER_00: She won't even talk about it today.
24:37
SPEAKER_00: She was so it terrified her so bad that she won't even talk about it today.
24:43
SPEAKER_00: And this was years and years ago.
24:46
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, she saw something there, and um I didn't see it because I was busy driving, and she had opportunity to look around.
24:53
SPEAKER_00: So um yeah.
24:55
SPEAKER_00: Creepy.
24:56
SPEAKER_00: I have another ghost story, a true ghost story.
25:00
SPEAKER_00: We were in a certain hotel in a certain city, and I will not mention either one because I don't want to um I just don't want to say anything.
25:07
SPEAKER_00: Linda had two different experiences there.
25:10
SPEAKER_00: One morning she got up um earlier than I did, and she heard a voice and um the the male voice said, Oh, you're Harry's wife, aren't you?
25:20
SPEAKER_00: Wait, what?
25:21
SPEAKER_00: A voice out of nowhere said, Oh, you're Harry's wife, aren't you?
25:26
SPEAKER_00: And she heard that out of I was still asleep, and she heard that.
25:29
SPEAKER_00: Where where was this voice at?
25:31
SPEAKER_00: It was just in the room, right close to her.
25:34
SPEAKER_00: It was just a voice in the room right close to her.
25:37
SPEAKER_00: And then she had another experience.
25:39
SPEAKER_00: She was in the bat the bathroom putting on her makeup, standing in front of the mirror, and all of a sudden the makeup flew out of her hand and landed on this on the counter.
25:49
SPEAKER_00: She didn't throw it, she didn't drop it, it just flew out of her hand and landed on the counter.
25:54
SPEAKER_00: And she'll tell you that story today, and it it really happened, and I missed both of them, but um, so she had two ghostly experiences for real in the same hotel room.
26:05
SPEAKER_00: Really?
26:05
SPEAKER_00: Was it was it a haunted hotel or uh not that I know of, but that room may have been at one time.
26:11
SPEAKER_01: I don't know, but yeah, that that's uh that's a little strange.
26:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, that was a little strange.
26:16
SPEAKER_01: Actually, a lot of strange that's really strange.
26:18
SPEAKER_01: That's creepy, that's weird, that's goosebumps-ish, yuck.
26:23
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:25
SPEAKER_01: Freakyoso.
26:26
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
26:27
SPEAKER_00: So uh oh, something else the the uh listeners don't know about me is that I collect old telephones.
26:35
SPEAKER_00: Like we used to use a plug-in to the wall and things like that.
26:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
26:41
SPEAKER_00: So I collect those.
26:42
SPEAKER_00: I got about well, they're hard to count because they're all over.
26:45
SPEAKER_00: But I think I've got somewhere around 35 different telephones and different styles and colors and shapes.
26:52
SPEAKER_00: And um, my oldest one, I believe, is 1901, and it came from a train.
26:57
SPEAKER_00: It was on the it was in the caboose.
26:59
SPEAKER_00: It was a wall phone with the little ear thing that you pick off, and um, it was so the uh conductor could talk to the engineer at up front and they could discuss without having to walk the whole length of the train to talk.
27:13
SPEAKER_00: So that's my oldest one.
27:15
SPEAKER_01: That's really cool.
27:17
SPEAKER_01: That's worth something.
27:18
SPEAKER_00: It it well, I didn't pay that much for it, which really surprised me for what it was.
27:22
SPEAKER_00: I looked it up later after I bought it, and I oh, that's what that thing is.
27:25
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
27:26
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, because it had it had a number or a name or something on it, and I could look it up.
27:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh, that's yeah, from a train, 1901.
27:32
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but you probably probably bought it, what, in like 1910?
27:36
SPEAKER_00: Probably, right, yeah, when it was brand new.
27:38
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, but um it was still in service.
27:41
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, still in service.
27:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, they took it out just for me.
27:44
SPEAKER_00: Um my most interesting phone came from a prison.
27:49
SPEAKER_00: A prison phone.
27:50
SPEAKER_00: A prison phone.
27:51
SPEAKER_00: It's it's armored.
27:52
SPEAKER_00: It's like it sort of looks like an old old time um payphone, but it's not, and it's armored, and it's got the uh it doesn't have a vinyl or rubber cord.
28:03
SPEAKER_00: It's got a uh metal one, so the prisoners can't destroy it.
28:07
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, it's very heavy, and I it's too heavy to hang on the wall, but I've just got it sitting around, so it's uh I believe it's blue and yellow, if I remember correctly.
28:17
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, that's my most interesting phone.
28:19
SPEAKER_00: How'd you get that one?
28:21
SPEAKER_00: Got it in an antique store.
28:24
SPEAKER_00: Go figure.
28:25
SPEAKER_00: I know such uh I know.
28:31
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's a here's something I saw the other day on the internet.
28:34
SPEAKER_00: I think it was just a couple days ago.
28:37
SPEAKER_00: There was a young man went to Las Vegas.
28:40
SPEAKER_00: I don't know how often he goes, but he went to Las Vegas, he walked into a casino, he sat down at a machine, and it's a machine I'm familiar with, I know the name of it, and he was playing five dollars a spin.
28:56
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy, and he had barely gotten started, all of a sudden, ding ding ding.
29:03
SPEAKER_00: He won ten million dollars in Vegas?
29:07
SPEAKER_00: In Vegas, he won ten million dollars, he got the big jackpot, it was a mega bucks slot machine, and he it just happened to come up and he had barely got into town, barely sat down to play, and he won ten million dollars.
29:22
SPEAKER_00: Now, how much of that he gets to keep after they take out the taxes, I don't know, probably half of it.
29:27
SPEAKER_01: But um anyway, I thought that was um I've never had those experiences.
29:33
SPEAKER_00: No, I I wouldn't know what what to do.
29:36
SPEAKER_01: I I I I would guess I need to play five dollar rent.
29:39
SPEAKER_00: I guess I would just sit there.
29:42
SPEAKER_00: So those are some of my personal experiences.
29:47
SPEAKER_01: Personal?
29:48
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
29:49
SPEAKER_00: Now I have um some other things about money here.
29:58
SPEAKER_00: That it just leads right into this.
30:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah.
30:01
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
30:03
SPEAKER_00: Headline.
30:04
SPEAKER_00: Man wins largest prize in game show history.
30:09
SPEAKER_00: The story.
30:10
SPEAKER_00: In December 1987, a man identifying himself as Patrick Quinn went on the TV game show Super Password, and he won$58,600.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
30:22
SPEAKER_00: What year was this?
30:23
SPEAKER_00: 1987.
30:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
30:25
SPEAKER_00: The largest one-day jackpot in the show's history.
30:29
SPEAKER_00: The show aired on January 8, 1988, and within minutes, phones at the password offices began to ring.
30:38
SPEAKER_00: We started getting calls from people saying, that's not Patrick Quinn.
30:43
SPEAKER_00: There is no Patrick Quinn, executive producers told reporters.
30:48
SPEAKER_00: The man was actually Carrie Ketchum, who was wanted by the Secret Service for faking a$100,000 life insurance claim on his wife, who had not died.
30:59
SPEAKER_00: No way.
31:00
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, he was trying to he was trying to do a little fraud there.
31:04
SPEAKER_00: So when Ketchum showed up at the super password offices to pick up his check, he was arrested.
31:12
SPEAKER_00: He pled guilty to two counts of male fraud and forfeited his winnings from the show.
31:17
SPEAKER_00: Not female fraud.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: Reason.
31:18
SPEAKER_00: He gave a false name when applying to the to be a contestant, and that's that constitutes fraud, and he could not he could not claim the money.
31:26
SPEAKER_01: So that's very interesting.
31:31
SPEAKER_00: Who would commit a crime and then show up on a national TV?
31:33
SPEAKER_00: You know, that where people would know you.
31:36
SPEAKER_01: He was super that was dumb.
31:38
SPEAKER_01: He was super smart.
31:39
SPEAKER_00: This is not under the category of dumb crooks, but it's under the but I would call it a cat dumb crook.
31:46
SPEAKER_00: Here's another one.
31:48
SPEAKER_01: And another one.
31:50
SPEAKER_00: Man loses 10 nearly$10 million in the lottery.
31:54
SPEAKER_00: So we just heard about a man winning$10 million.
31:57
SPEAKER_00: Now here's the man that lost$10 million.
31:59
SPEAKER_00: Easy come, easy go.
32:01
SPEAKER_00: On October 19, 1990, a real estate executive named Joseph Sutra won the Mass Millions Prize in the Massachusetts lottery, collecting a jackpot of almost$10 million to be paid out in annual installments over 20 years.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:19
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
32:21
SPEAKER_00: Years earlier, Sutra had swindled hundreds of seniors in Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and other states of their retirement savings in bonus, bogus.
32:33
SPEAKER_00: Not bonus, bogus real estate deals.
32:36
SPEAKER_01: Swindlers.
32:37
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
32:38
SPEAKER_00: So when Sutra won the lottery, more than a thousand swindled retirees spotted his name in the news stories.
32:46
SPEAKER_00: So many claims were filed against the winnings that Sutra was forced into bankruptcy.
32:52
SPEAKER_00: A federal judge awarded his winnings to his victims in 1994.
32:57
SPEAKER_00: Wow.
32:58
SPEAKER_00: By then he had he was already serving a five-year prison sentence on federal fraud charges.
33:05
SPEAKER_00: So he lost all 10 million because he had swindled people.
33:11
SPEAKER_01: Well at least those people got paid back something because if he hadn't won that 10 million, I don't think his restitution would have covered 10 million worth of payments.
33:19
SPEAKER_01: No, they never would have caught up with him, would they?
33:21
SPEAKER_01: So I mean it's some good and some bad there, I guess.
33:26
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
33:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I have another ghost story that I just thought about.
33:32
SPEAKER_00: My wife and I were traveling as we usually do.
33:34
SPEAKER_00: We were in Salem, Massachusetts.
33:36
SPEAKER_00: Salem.
33:37
SPEAKER_00: Salem.
33:38
SPEAKER_01: You know, where they-one in Oregon too?
33:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh, yeah, there's there's several Salems around the country.
33:42
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
33:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
33:45
SPEAKER_00: And uh Salem is where you remember they had the witch trials back in the days.
33:50
SPEAKER_00: Ooh, okay.
33:52
SPEAKER_00: And we were also at there right next to the uh very close to the Salem Cemetery, which we also went to visit, was the House of the Seven Gables.
34:03
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
34:04
SPEAKER_00: So we went, it was it was getting uh later in the day, and we didn't have time to we didn't want to spend the money or go in to to take the tour.
34:14
SPEAKER_00: So we just stood in the parking lot and we looked at the house and I took a picture of it.
34:19
SPEAKER_00: All right.
34:20
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
34:21
SPEAKER_00: We got home.
34:22
SPEAKER_00: That's back in the days of film, and we had the film developed.
34:26
SPEAKER_00: And what do you think we saw?
34:28
SPEAKER_00: We had a ghost in the in the parking lot there at the house.
34:32
SPEAKER_01: Explain.
34:32
SPEAKER_00: There was there was a there was a wispy thing that looked just like a person.
34:36
SPEAKER_00: We it was something you could see through.
34:38
SPEAKER_00: It was it was very light colored and see-through.
34:41
SPEAKER_00: It was not there when we took the picture, and uh, so we got a picture of a ghost here by the house of the seven gables.
34:47
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
34:49
SPEAKER_00: So that was uh interesting ghost story.
34:52
SPEAKER_00: There's a little bit more than seven gables in that picture.
34:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, talk about something that just happened today.
35:01
SPEAKER_00: As I was driving here down the freeway.
35:05
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy, who'd you run over?
35:07
SPEAKER_00: I didn't run over anybody, but I was looking and I was noticing almost every billboard that I passed was a billboard for an attorney.
35:16
SPEAKER_00: Called exactly, exactly.
35:21
SPEAKER_00: And so um I I got to thinking, it's like, you know, I bet those are very expensive.
35:26
SPEAKER_00: And then I got to think, well, who's paying for those?
35:30
SPEAKER_00: And then I got to thinking, well, you know, it's not the attorney that's on the billboard that's paying for those because he doesn't want to lose$10 million in income paying for that himself.
35:43
SPEAKER_00: So what do they do?
35:45
SPEAKER_00: They jack up the price.
35:46
SPEAKER_00: They charge 30% more usually when they're doing advertisements like that.
35:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
35:51
SPEAKER_00: So they they get get it from their clients, and the clients are not doing themselves any favor by going to these attorneys that advertise.
36:00
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
36:01
SPEAKER_00: I yeah, that probably would be a better term, although anybody that's an attorney wouldn't would disagree with me.
36:07
SPEAKER_01: But uh we didn't name anyone in the go and try and sue me free to just go look at the boards along the freeway and you know who I'm talking about.
36:16
SPEAKER_01: There's many up there.
36:17
SPEAKER_01: All those people that look like models, they don't look like real lawyers that's actually in the courtroom.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: Right.
36:23
SPEAKER_01: And when you call the number, that person doesn't ever pick up the phone or return your call.
36:29
SPEAKER_00: No.
36:30
SPEAKER_00: A paralegal does.
36:31
SPEAKER_00: Right, and you never see the person because they're probably out of state anyway.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
36:35
SPEAKER_00: So I have an interesting story, but I'm going to save that for another episode.
36:40
SPEAKER_00: Oh boy.
36:41
SPEAKER_00: Another upcoming episode.
36:42
SPEAKER_00: I think it would fit better there than it would um with this one.
36:46
SPEAKER_00: So I'm going to uh defer that one to later.
36:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's one, the dumb crook.
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SPEAKER_00: Dallas, Texas.
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SPEAKER_00: Ronnie Bell, 30, was arrested in Dallas for attempting to rob the Federal Reserve Bank.
37:10
SPEAKER_00: Now remember, that's the federal bank, you know, the where they keep the money and okay.
37:18
SPEAKER_00: According to police, Bell handed a security guard a note that's read, This is a bank robber of the Dallas Federal Reserve Bank.
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SPEAKER_00: Give me all the money.
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SPEAKER_00: Thank you.
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SPEAKER_00: Ronnie Darnell Bell.
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SPEAKER_00: The guard pushed a silent alarm while an oblivious Bell chatted amiably, revealing to the guard that only minutes earlier he had tried to rob a nearby post office, but that they threw me out.
37:43
SPEAKER_00: Oh my.
37:44
SPEAKER_00: So he signed the note with his name so they knew who he was.
37:48
SPEAKER_00: What a nut.
37:50
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
37:51
SPEAKER_00: And then he admitted to trying to rob the post office.
37:55
SPEAKER_00: So he probably got a double, double whammy on that one.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: Jeez.
37:58
SPEAKER_01: A post office, that's a federal building too, just like a bank.
38:01
SPEAKER_00: So yeah, that's Yeah, that's that's yeah, that's yeah, federal charges times two.
38:08
SPEAKER_00: Yep.
38:08
SPEAKER_00: This one is it happened in Baltimore, Maryland.
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SPEAKER_00: Bank robbers usually take the money and run.
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SPEAKER_00: Not Jeffrey Thomas, police said.
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SPEAKER_00: Thomas, who was 35, walked into a signet bank on Monday and handed the teller a note demanding money.
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SPEAKER_00: When police arrived and asked which way he went, employees pointed to a man counting cash next to a teller station.
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SPEAKER_00: It was Thomas adding up the take.
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SPEAKER_00: Thomas, who was unarmed, was taken into custody.
38:39
SPEAKER_00: Oh Lord, these people.
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SPEAKER_00: Instead of running out the door and trying to get away, he counted his stash right there because he wanted to make sure he had enough, I guess.
38:49
SPEAKER_01: Most of these people are guys, too, so that's that's pretty bad.
38:53
SPEAKER_01: The guys are so thick-headed they think they can get away with stuff like this.
38:59
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's because they think they're smarter than everybody and they end up being dumber.
39:03
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
39:05
SPEAKER_00: We do sometimes.
39:06
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's one.
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SPEAKER_00: Dade County, Florida.
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SPEAKER_00: On several break-ins, Ronald Bradley, 21, carefully wore gloves.
39:16
SPEAKER_00: But he wore golf gloves, the kind that left his fingertips naked.
39:20
SPEAKER_00: He was sent to prison for three years because he left his fingerprints everywhere.
39:24
SPEAKER_01: Oh no, those little fingerless gl oh, what a nut.
39:28
SPEAKER_01: Ain't nobody could get you by your palm.
39:30
SPEAKER_01: I mean, that's a lie.
39:31
SPEAKER_01: They can get you by your palm print too, but your fingerprints are where it were majority of it's.
39:37
SPEAKER_00: That's where it counts.
39:38
SPEAKER_00: Kind of reminds me of the guy that put the cellophane tape over the bank camera and the guys that rubbed lemon juice on their face so they wouldn't be seen.
39:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
39:47
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
39:48
SPEAKER_01: Or the the teenager he put uh clear tape over the camera before he rubbed his own till.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
39:54
SPEAKER_00: Isn't that great?
39:55
SPEAKER_00: What a nut.
39:57
SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
39:58
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I got one more.
40:00
SPEAKER_00: Just one.
40:01
SPEAKER_00: This is Minneapolis, Minnesota.
40:04
SPEAKER_00: Suspected purse snatcher Doris Waddell in suburban Minneapolis last winter stood on a police lineup so the 76-year-old female victim could have a look at him.
40:16
SPEAKER_00: When police told him to put his baseball cap on with the bill facing out so as to be presentable, he protested.
40:24
SPEAKER_00: No, I'm not gonna put it on backwards.
40:26
SPEAKER_00: That's the way I had it on when I took the purse.
40:30
SPEAKER_00: What?
40:33
SPEAKER_00: He just confessed to it.
40:35
SPEAKER_00: No way, big mouth.
40:37
SPEAKER_00: Talk about idiots.
40:39
SPEAKER_01: He snitched on himself.
40:40
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
40:42
SPEAKER_00: Here is an interesting piece of uh I don't know if you'd call it trivia, but a piece of information that I think a lot of people don't know about.
40:51
SPEAKER_01: Okay, please share.
40:52
SPEAKER_00: Please share.
40:54
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
40:55
SPEAKER_00: Frank Zamboni owned, okay.
41:00
SPEAKER_01: No, you shouldn't laugh.
41:01
SPEAKER_01: I'm sorry, couldn't get through that one.
41:04
SPEAKER_01: Zamboni.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
41:05
SPEAKER_00: That's his real name.
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SPEAKER_00: Frank Zamboni owned an ice skating rink in Paramount, California in the early 1940s.
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SPEAKER_01: That's even funnier because a Zamboni is has to do it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
41:18
SPEAKER_00: This is the story of how the machine came about.
41:21
SPEAKER_00: Really?
41:22
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
41:23
SPEAKER_01: So this makes sense now.
41:24
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
41:25
SPEAKER_01: All right.
41:25
SPEAKER_01: All right.
41:25
SPEAKER_00: He hated paying five men for the one and a half hours it took to smooth out the ice every night.
41:30
SPEAKER_00: And after seven years of experimenting, he finally invented a machine that could do it in 15 minutes.
41:36
SPEAKER_00: Oh Olympic skating star Sonia Henney practiced at Zamboni's rink.
41:42
SPEAKER_00: She made the machine famous when she paid him$10,000 for two of them and brought them with her on her nationwide tour.
41:51
SPEAKER_00: By 1960, Zambones were in use at the Winter Olympics.
41:55
SPEAKER_01: Wow, that is really cool.
41:57
SPEAKER_01: I didn't know you were going that way with the story.
41:59
SPEAKER_00: I thought this was No, it was not it was not a comedy.
42:05
SPEAKER_00: That's really cool.
42:06
SPEAKER_00: I like that.
42:08
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's one.
42:10
SPEAKER_00: You should be so lucky as to have this problem.
42:12
SPEAKER_01: What?
42:13
SPEAKER_00: What's this?
42:15
SPEAKER_00: Being unrecognized.
42:17
SPEAKER_01: Sometimes I am.
42:18
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
42:19
SPEAKER_01: I slid on stage recently and there was a lot of people that didn't have to be around.
42:23
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, didn't really.
42:23
SPEAKER_00: Well, that's because you had changed your look so much, but that's that's beside the point.
42:29
SPEAKER_01: You gotta be a chameleon.
42:31
SPEAKER_01: You gotta, you know, be able to adapt sometimes to different environments.
42:35
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, well, you know what?
42:36
SPEAKER_00: If we ever do video, probably nobody would probably ever recognize me because I'll probably be different every show or something because I don't want to be seen.
42:44
SPEAKER_01: You would have a wig every time or something.
42:46
SPEAKER_00: Probably, and a face mask and different Elton John glasses, and uh yeah, you'd never How would you read your your your your material?
42:55
SPEAKER_00: Um hold it real close.
42:57
SPEAKER_01: Okay.
42:58
SPEAKER_00: Hold it close.
42:59
SPEAKER_01: Tiny papers.
43:03
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
43:04
SPEAKER_01: I know.
43:05
SPEAKER_01: I'm weird.
43:06
SPEAKER_00: Uh well, yeah.
43:07
SPEAKER_00: No, you're interesting.
43:09
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
43:09
SPEAKER_00: This is a true story about Treasury Secretary.
43:12
SPEAKER_00: Don't lie to me.
43:13
SPEAKER_00: Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal found himself in an embarrassing situation in Beethoven's.
43:19
SPEAKER_00: It's an expensive San Francisco restaurant in 1979.
43:23
SPEAKER_00: Oh, really?
43:24
SPEAKER_00: Blumenthal was confronted with a sizable dinner bill, an expired Visa card, and a waiter who wanted proof of signature to back up an out-of-town check.
43:34
SPEAKER_00: Blumenthal thought for a moment and solved his predicament the only way he could.
43:39
SPEAKER_00: He produced a dollar bill and pointed to his own signature, W.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: M.
43:42
SPEAKER_00: Blumenthal, in the bottom right hand corner.
43:44
SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
43:45
SPEAKER_00: The signatures matched, and Blumenthal's personal check was accepted.
43:50
SPEAKER_00: That is hilarious.
43:53
SPEAKER_00: Only one person in in the whole United States could do that.
43:57
SPEAKER_00: And it just happened to be him.
43:59
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
44:00
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I like this.
44:02
SPEAKER_00: This is kid writing.
44:04
SPEAKER_00: You know how kids are s not always too brilliant when they write things.
44:09
SPEAKER_00: And I it doesn't say what age it is, but I would imagine it's junior high high school, judging by what they wrote.
44:17
SPEAKER_01: Okay, so like teenager type.
44:19
SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
44:21
SPEAKER_00: These are musical bloopers.
44:24
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
44:24
SPEAKER_00: Oh?
44:25
SPEAKER_00: Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf.
44:28
SPEAKER_00: He was so deaf he wrote loud music.
44:30
SPEAKER_00: Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died from this.
44:34
SPEAKER_01: Huh?
44:36
SPEAKER_01: Whoa.
44:37
SPEAKER_01: Whoa.
44:38
SPEAKER_01: Whoa.
44:40
SPEAKER_01: I'm gonna need a history major to explain some.
44:43
SPEAKER_01: How did he expire and then die?
44:45
SPEAKER_00: See, that's what the kid uh he may have meant retired, you know, and then he died later after that.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: That would make more sense.
44:51
SPEAKER_00: That would make more sense, but he used the wrong word, you know, as kids are kids are prone to do.
44:57
SPEAKER_00: A virtuoso is a musician with real high morals.
45:01
SPEAKER_00: Virtuoso.
45:03
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what they mean by that.
45:05
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, I thought it was funny.
45:08
SPEAKER_00: Refrain means don't do it.
45:10
SPEAKER_00: A refrain in music is the part you better not try to sing.
45:16
SPEAKER_00: No.
45:16
SPEAKER_00: No.
45:17
SPEAKER_00: That's the that's the chorus.
45:18
SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
45:19
SPEAKER_00: The chorus.
45:19
SPEAKER_00: But anyway, they refrain.
45:22
SPEAKER_00: Refrain.
45:24
SPEAKER_00: Well.
45:25
SPEAKER_01: That's funny terminology.
45:27
SPEAKER_00: That is funny.
45:27
SPEAKER_00: That is not what that means.
45:29
SPEAKER_00: No.
45:29
SPEAKER_00: Musicians would really like these.
45:31
SPEAKER_00: That was funny.
45:32
SPEAKER_00: When oh, this is funny too.
45:34
SPEAKER_00: When electric currents go through them, guitars start making sounds.
45:38
SPEAKER_00: So would anybody.
45:41
SPEAKER_00: So if electric current went through you, you'd start making sounds too, right?
45:46
SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness.
45:47
SPEAKER_00: They don't even realize that it's somebody playing them, not just the electrons going through it.
45:53
SPEAKER_00: Oh well.
45:54
SPEAKER_01: That's that's that's hilarious.
45:57
SPEAKER_00: My very best like piece of music is the bronze lullaby.
46:01
SPEAKER_00: Why is that?
46:03
SPEAKER_00: It's Brahms.
46:05
SPEAKER_00: Written by Brahms, not bronze.
46:10
SPEAKER_00: I missed it.
46:11
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, you missed that one.
46:14
SPEAKER_00: Obviously.
46:15
SPEAKER_00: Oh, this one.
46:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh, this one.
46:17
SPEAKER_00: No, this next one.
46:18
SPEAKER_00: I hope you get this one.
46:20
SPEAKER_00: Probably the most marvelous fugue was the one between the Hatfields and the McCoys.
46:25
SPEAKER_00: Uh-huh.
46:25
SPEAKER_00: He wrote fugue, which is a type of music instead of feud.
46:29
SPEAKER_00: He got it mixed up.
46:31
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I get it now.
46:32
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
46:33
SPEAKER_00: Most authorities agree that music of antiquity was written long ago.
46:38
SPEAKER_00: Which I think would uh probably be true.
46:42
SPEAKER_00: Because if it was from antiquity, you know, sixteen, seventeen hundreds, that would be a long time ago.
46:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
46:52
SPEAKER_00: Oh.
46:54
SPEAKER_00: I know what a sex tet is, but I'd rather not say a what?
46:58
SPEAKER_00: A sextet.
47:00
SPEAKER_00: Group of group of six singers.
47:03
SPEAKER_00: But he had thought it was something nasty, so he didn't want to say what it was.
47:06
SPEAKER_00: So did I.
47:10
SPEAKER_00: Oh, I have another true story.
47:11
SPEAKER_00: This reminded me of one.
47:13
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
47:13
SPEAKER_00: We talked about the Hetfields and the McCoys.
47:16
SPEAKER_00: Um, Linda's um sister-in-law lives in uh West Virginia.
47:23
SPEAKER_01: West Virginia.
47:25
SPEAKER_00: And they live near the Hat where the Hatfields and McCoys were, and they took us there and showed us out in the out in the forest where the Hatfields and McCoys actually were buried and showed us cemetery, and some of them were buried there and where the feud actually took place.
47:39
SPEAKER_00: And yeah, it was interesting.
47:40
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was interesting to see that because I'd heard about it all my life, but to actually be there in the same area where where they were, it's like, oh, that's interesting.
47:48
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, that's very fascinating.
47:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it was.
47:50
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's one.
47:53
SPEAKER_00: It's totally now for something totally different.
47:55
SPEAKER_00: In March of 1997, the Sunday Oklahoman, which is a newspaper, profiled Oklahoma City homemaker Mary Clamser, 44, whose deterioration with multiple sclerosis had been abruptly halted in 1994 when lightning struck her house while she was grasping metal objects with each hand and wearing her metal leg brace.
48:19
SPEAKER_00: Wow, that caught her at the wrong time.
48:21
SPEAKER_00: Suddenly she began walking easily, and though doctors told her the condition was probably only temporary, she still walks easily today.
48:29
SPEAKER_00: As if that weren't enough, good luck.
48:31
SPEAKER_01: The lightning healed her?
48:33
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
48:33
SPEAKER_00: Clamser, in order to fly to California for a TV interview in April 95, was forced to cancel a local appointment she had made at the Oklahoma City Federal Building for 9 a.m.
48:45
SPEAKER_00: on April 19th.
48:47
SPEAKER_00: She would have been there when they exploded the the building.
48:50
SPEAKER_01: Oh my god.
48:51
SPEAKER_00: And she had so she had to cancel it.
48:54
SPEAKER_00: And so she had two lucky things.
48:56
SPEAKER_00: Not only was she struck by lightning and healed, but she missed the the bombing at the federal building in Oklahoma.
49:03
SPEAKER_01: I have a friend.
49:04
SPEAKER_01: Um she's been a guest on the show a couple times.
49:07
SPEAKER_01: I have a friend named Christine.
49:08
SPEAKER_01: Oh, I know her.
49:10
SPEAKER_01: She um she has an incredible story similar to that.
49:13
SPEAKER_01: She was supposed to, she actually had a meeting at nine uh uh one of the Twin Towers on 9-11 on that morning.
49:22
SPEAKER_01: Yes.
49:23
SPEAKER_01: And Christine is so uh organized, she's never late in her life.
49:29
SPEAKER_01: And I'll let her tell the story.
49:30
SPEAKER_01: Um if she would um be so gracious to come back and and do it.
49:34
SPEAKER_01: Um but short version is is uh she's she's so organized, so planned, and for whatever reason, she just could not get to the um her meeting that day.
49:44
SPEAKER_01: And although she um some of her co-workers that she knows actually got there, she didn't, and God spared her life.
49:55
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, she's still around, isn't she?
49:57
SPEAKER_01: She's uh she's an amazing woman.
49:59
SPEAKER_01: I I love it when she's on the show and I do too.
50:01
SPEAKER_01: She has interesting stories.
50:03
SPEAKER_01: I'll have to have her um come back on, but she uh her first episode she was on was uh human resources.
50:10
SPEAKER_01: And um yeah, Christine.
50:12
SPEAKER_01: I'll have to have you come back on and share your 9-11.
50:15
SPEAKER_01: Yeah, I'm sure she would do that.
50:19
SPEAKER_00: Oh, you've heard the term graveyard shift?
50:21
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
50:22
SPEAKER_00: Okay, here's where that came from.
50:24
SPEAKER_00: Now it didn't come from where you think it would.
50:26
SPEAKER_01: No, but I actually think I've heard this before.
50:28
SPEAKER_01: Let me see.
50:30
SPEAKER_00: The graveyard shift is a night shift for workers.
50:33
SPEAKER_00: Origin.
50:33
SPEAKER_00: It was not coined by morticians, but by shipbuilders.
50:37
SPEAKER_00: The name originated during World War I when the first time shipbuilders and munitions workers found it necessary to work round the clock in order to produce enough for the war effort.
50:48
SPEAKER_00: It is still used today for any shift covering the midnight and early morning hours.
50:54
SPEAKER_00: So I always thought it was named after morticians.
50:58
SPEAKER_00: But it wasn't, it's the shipbuilders because they had to work, you know, three shifts a day.
51:03
SPEAKER_00: Day and night, yeah.
51:04
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, round the clock.
51:05
SPEAKER_01: Wow.
51:05
SPEAKER_01: I never knew that.
51:07
SPEAKER_01: I'll have to share my other one some other time.
51:10
SPEAKER_01: I need to research it a little bit more.
51:12
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
51:13
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's the story.
51:14
SPEAKER_00: And we talked earlier about man winning in Vegas.
51:16
SPEAKER_00: Here's a story about Vegas.
51:20
SPEAKER_00: Following a report of a suspicious person lying outside the affordable cremation and burial service funeral home, Las Vegas police found a corpse face down on rocks at the front of the property, its feet covered with plastic bags.
51:35
SPEAKER_01: No way.
51:36
SPEAKER_00: Yes, way.
51:37
SPEAKER_00: Further investigation revealed a smashed window and an empty coffin outside on a trolley.
51:43
SPEAKER_00: Ugh.
51:44
SPEAKER_00: CCTV evidence led them to Patricia Sierra, 47, who admitted trying to steal the$2,600 casket and dumping the body it contained outside the undertaker's premises.
51:57
SPEAKER_00: Although she explained she had a hazy recollection of events having blacked out from drinking six beers before she attempted the heist.
52:05
SPEAKER_00: No way.
52:08
SPEAKER_00: Are you serious?
52:09
SPEAKER_00: I'm serious.
52:10
SPEAKER_00: This is a true story.
52:11
SPEAKER_00: Oh my.
52:12
SPEAKER_00: It was reported September 5th, 2024.
52:14
SPEAKER_01: My my.
52:15
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I know.
52:16
SPEAKER_00: Oh, oh, here's one.
52:20
SPEAKER_00: Four men from California who alleged that a rampaging bear had done 112,000 pounds of damage.
52:27
SPEAKER_00: I don't know what that is in um American money, to several cars, including a Rolls-Royce and two Mercedes, had their insurance claim rejected after the insurance department analyzed the video that they had submitted.
52:40
SPEAKER_00: They actually had a video of the bear destroying their cars.
52:43
SPEAKER_00: Okay.
52:44
SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
52:45
SPEAKER_00: Upon further scrutiny of the video, the investigation determined the bear was actually a person in a bear suit.
52:51
unknown: What?
52:51
SPEAKER_00: They concluded that when police raided one of the claimants' homes, they found the bear suit complete with metal claws used to inflict the damage.
52:58
SPEAKER_00: As a result, the men were arrested on charges of insurance fraud and conspiracy.
53:06
SPEAKER_00: That's funny.
53:08
SPEAKER_00: They barely got by.
53:09
SPEAKER_00: Barely got by.
53:10
SPEAKER_00: I tell you, if they had Oh my goodness.
53:14
SPEAKER_00: They should have got a better bear suit or something.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: I don't I don't know.
53:17
SPEAKER_00: You shouldn't have tried it in the first place, probably.
53:25
SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
53:26
SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's one.
53:28
SPEAKER_00: After a thief snatched a pair of Tiffany and Company diamond earrings worth nearly$770,000.
53:35
SPEAKER_00: I can't imagine anybody buying those.
53:37
SPEAKER_00: Then I can't imagine anybody wearing those out in public, but they stole it from a jeweler's in Orlando.
53:45
SPEAKER_00: He fled by car, but was pulled over by State Trooper on the Florida Panhandle Highway.
53:52
SPEAKER_00: However, before officers reached his vehicle, the thief swallowed the jewelry.
53:56
SPEAKER_00: No way.
53:57
SPEAKER_00: Yes, way.
53:58
SPEAKER_00: This did not deter the police, who had him x-rayed and identified the stolen items in his digestive tract.
54:09
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
54:10
SPEAKER_00: These foreign objects are suspected to be the earrings taken in the robbery, but will need to be collected after they are passed, said the arrest report.
54:20
SPEAKER_00: The 32-year-old thief said I should have thrown them out the window.
54:24
SPEAKER_00: So they had to wait him and watch him under observation until they uh came out.
54:30
SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
54:32
SPEAKER_00: Yuck.
54:33
SPEAKER_00: I would hate to have that job.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: Yes.
54:36
SPEAKER_00: I got some about the beginnings of t television.
54:40
SPEAKER_00: You were there.
54:41
SPEAKER_00: I was there, almost.
54:43
SPEAKER_00: I was almost there.
54:45
SPEAKER_01: Weren't you the Oz and the Wizard?
54:48
SPEAKER_01: The Wizard of Oz?
54:49
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
54:49
SPEAKER_00: I was behind the curtain, but we don't talk about that.
54:53
SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I'm going to read you a little information about how television came about.
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SPEAKER_00: All right.
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SPEAKER_00: One fact that most often quoted about the origins of television, more or less a century ago, is that it was created by Scottish inventor John Baird.
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SPEAKER_00: Little understood is what drove Baird to invent television in the first place.
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SPEAKER_01: No way.
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SPEAKER_00: Including his interest in spiritualism, the occult, and science fiction.
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SPEAKER_02: Cool.
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SPEAKER_00: One of Baird's inspirations was a 1899 tale by H.
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SPEAKER_00: G.
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SPEAKER_00: Wells called The Sleepers Awake, which depicted a machine that conveyed moving images across space.
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SPEAKER_00: The earliest technologies that Baird drew upon were connected with supernatural notions like communicating with the dead, boosting human telepathy, or even contacting alien beings on other worlds.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what led him to do television.
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SPEAKER_00: Huh.
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SPEAKER_00: The word television means seeing at a distance and conjures notions of going through technologic of looking through a technological crystal ball.
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SPEAKER_01: Wow, that's very interesting.
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SPEAKER_01: I never heard that.
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SPEAKER_00: No.
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SPEAKER_00: Baird's first significant public demonstration television took place January 1926, 100 years ago.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh so wow.
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SPEAKER_00: And I've got more.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, don't hold back.
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SPEAKER_00: I'm not going to hold back.
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SPEAKER_00: In 1927, Baird broadcast the first long-distance television transmission across a telephone line stretching from London to Glasgow Central Hotel.
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SPEAKER_00: Over 400 miles.
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SPEAKER_00: By 1928, he demonstrated the world's first color television transmission.
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SPEAKER_00: The first transatlantic broadcast from London to New York via shortwave radio.
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SPEAKER_00: And in 1929, the system was adopted by B the BBC for their experimental television service.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: That really is.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's how television started.
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SPEAKER_00: I didn't know there was colored television way back at the beginning.
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SPEAKER_00: I thought that came many, many years later after they figured out how to do it.
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SPEAKER_00: See.
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SPEAKER_00: You learn something new every day, even at your age.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, even at my age, and I was almost there at the time when they did that.
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SPEAKER_00: You're never too old, right?
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SPEAKER_00: I know.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, there's something interesting in this magazine.
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SPEAKER_00: I'll show you later off because it's a photo, we can't show it on our podcast.
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SPEAKER_01: You can't show a photo through the screen.
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SPEAKER_00: No, I haven't quite figured out how to do that.
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SPEAKER_01: They say a picture's worth a thousand words.
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SPEAKER_00: I know.
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SPEAKER_00: Use a thousand words.
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SPEAKER_00: No, and I'm not going to go there.
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SPEAKER_00: But I will show you the photo because I think it's rather interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: Let's see, is there anything else?
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SPEAKER_00: That's all out of my 40 in times that I that I had.
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SPEAKER_00: All out of your what?
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SPEAKER_00: The 40 in times.
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SPEAKER_00: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_00: We talked earlier about uh the the origin of uh the graveyard shift.
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Here's the origin of to get someone's goat.
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SPEAKER_01: What do you mean by this?
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SPEAKER_00: It means to annoy someone or make them lose their temper.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, okay.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, we have to go.
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SPEAKER_01: Like a like a boiling point.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: The origin.
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SPEAKER_00: This very American phrase came from the practice of putting a goat inside a skittish racehorse's stall because it supposedly had a calming influence.
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SPEAKER_01: No way.
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SPEAKER_00: A gambler might persuade a stable boy to remove the goat shortly before the race, thereby upsetting the horse and reducing its chance of winning and improving the gambler's odds.
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SPEAKER_01: Huh.
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SPEAKER_00: So that's what it means to get someone's goat.
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SPEAKER_00: You actually stole their goat.
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SPEAKER_00: That that's amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: That's very That is amazing.
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SPEAKER_00: I like that perspective.
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SPEAKER_00: I've never heard it.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's the whole nine yards.
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SPEAKER_00: Not you've heard you've heard that uh that phrase, the whole nine yards?
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SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: It means everything, the whole shebang.
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SPEAKER_00: Curiously enough, the nine yards does not refer to distance gained or lost in any kind of athletic contest, which I thought it did.
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SPEAKER_00: The reference is to the amount of cement contained in one of the rotating cement mixing trucks used by construction companies.
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SPEAKER_00: When emptied, it would discharge the whole nine yards, thereby completing its mission.
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SPEAKER_00: And I didn't have any idea that had to do with cement trucks and so it contains nine squ nine cubic yards of concrete, which I had no idea.
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SPEAKER_01: That's that's a lot of concrete.
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SPEAKER_00: That's a lot of concrete.
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, it is.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's some speaking of DOM, this is just I I wasn't going to read this, but I will.
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SPEAKER_00: From the from the files, Lagos, Nigeria, which is in Africa.
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SPEAKER_00: Two small buses collided when their drivers tried to slap each other's hands in greeting, the news agency of Nigeria reported.
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SPEAKER_00: As a result, seven people died and two drivers were among them.
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SPEAKER_00: They were passing each other on the road and they were slapping, you know, high-fiving each other as they drove by.
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SPEAKER_03: What?
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SPEAKER_00: And so serious?
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SPEAKER_00: Yes, that's what it says.
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SPEAKER_00: Seven people died, among them the two drivers.
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SPEAKER_00: That was stupid.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my gosh.
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SPEAKER_01: That was that's that's weird.
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SPEAKER_01: I never heard of someone like this.
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SPEAKER_01: They're high-fiving each other when they're driving by.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: And they died.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh, here's one you might find interesting because you got two little ones.
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SPEAKER_00: Herman Fisher and Irving Price.
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SPEAKER_01: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Together with Helen Shell, they founded the Fisher Price Toy Company in 1930 to make toys out of Ponderosa Pine.
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SPEAKER_00: Their first big hit, Snoopy Sniffer, a loose-jointed, floppy-eared pull toy who woofed when you pulled his wagging spring tail in 1938.
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SPEAKER_00: The company made its first plastic toys in 1949.
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SPEAKER_01: That's cool.
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SPEAKER_01: I like that.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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SPEAKER_01: You pulled a tail though?
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, it's a springy tail and this is interesting too.
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SPEAKER_02: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: The story.
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SPEAKER_00: David Adams, a Tennessee man wanted in connection with a number of fraud and arson cases, was nabbed at a Nashville country fair after two women recognized him from an America's Most Wanted episode that had aired two days earlier.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh no.
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SPEAKER_00: Yeah, so so they saw him.
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SPEAKER_00: This funny.
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SPEAKER_00: The women alerted Park Rangers who took Adams into custody.
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SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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SPEAKER_00: Problem is David Adams turned out to be actor Christopher Cotton, the man hired by America's Most Wanted to portray the crook in the show's crime reenactment sequence.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my God.
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SPEAKER_00: They got the actor instead.
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SPEAKER_00: Cotton showed proof of identification to the Rangers, but it didn't win his release, at least not right away.
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SPEAKER_00: According to news experts, Adam had often used fake identification in disguises to elude authorities.
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SPEAKER_00: So the authorities had to take Cotton into custody until photo and fingerprints could be compared.
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SPEAKER_00: I guess it's an occupational hazard, he told reporters.
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SPEAKER_00: But I never expected it.
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SPEAKER_00: You never know how people are going to react to television.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my God.
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SPEAKER_00: So they got the actor instead of the real dude.
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SPEAKER_00: They saw the guy and they called.
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SPEAKER_00: Mm-hmm.
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SPEAKER_01: I hope they didn't get their reward.
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SPEAKER_00: I hope not.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh.
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SPEAKER_00: Well, folks, that's a wrap on episode 39 Certified Questionable.
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SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening and be sure to join us next week as we talk tech, the future of AI, and what it's like to volunteer to work with the deceased.
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SPEAKER_00: Oh my goodness, that sounds interesting.
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SPEAKER_00: It's the conversation that's equal parts.
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SPEAKER_00: Just the way we like it here.
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SPEAKER_00: The episode is shaping up to be absolutely drop dead.
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SPEAKER_01: Amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh yeah, I like your pun.
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