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Strange and Bizarre News with a Bear on Campus · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: Start your day with Wes. You're listening to the West
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Speaker 1: Carol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Friday morning, eighteenth day of October. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me. It is Friday. I had to double check
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Speaker 2: because you know, we had the short week some of
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Speaker 2: us did with the holiday. Not everybody got Columbus Day
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Speaker 2: off for Indigenous People's Day or whatever day they call
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Speaker 2: it now. I don't know. We live in the city
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Speaker 2: of Columbus, we have Columbus State University. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: would think if that's the case, and that's going to
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Speaker 2: continue to hold the holiday, could be Columbus Day, right,
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Speaker 2: But whatever you want to celebrate, I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: hold it against you. You celebrate however you want to celebrate,
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Speaker 2: That's what you can do. You know. Manate Awareness Day,
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Speaker 2: I heard it was called that is there some rumor
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Speaker 2: about Columbus and manatees and he thought it was a
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Speaker 2: mermaid or something. I don't know, no evidence to support
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Speaker 2: that rumor, but I guess he did see manatees at
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Speaker 2: some point pot and said, oh, that's what that is.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he said it like that. You know,
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Speaker 2: he probably said it with a thick Italian accent. But anyway,
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Speaker 2: I don't even know is it considered an accent if
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Speaker 2: you just speak Italian and that's not an accent, is it.
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Speaker 2: It's only an accent when you know you're speaking another language.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know that he was speaking any other
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Speaker 2: language other than Italian, So I guess we could just
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Speaker 2: probably assume that he was just speaking Italian, probably all right,
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Speaker 2: before we get into our Friday strange and bizarre news
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Speaker 2: that we like to do on Fridays, I just wanted
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Speaker 2: to quickly go back and look at a couple of
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Speaker 2: things concerning the Vice President and her interview on Fox
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Speaker 2: News with Brett Baer. Had a chance to watch all
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Speaker 2: of it yesterday. I'd seen a little bit of it,
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Speaker 2: but I wanted to watch the whole thing before I
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Speaker 2: really talked about it, because, you know, I just want
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Speaker 2: to make sure I've got everything covered with it. First
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Speaker 2: of all, Brett Bair did a great job. Brett bar
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Speaker 2: doing something that a journalist should do, and I truly
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Speaker 2: believe if he were doing the same interview with any
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Speaker 2: candidate for either party, he would have handled it the
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Speaker 2: same way. I think we're looking at a candidate in
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Speaker 2: Kamala Harris, who has dodged answering questions, has done everything
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Speaker 2: she can to just stay on talking points, don't say
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Speaker 2: anything that might put the campaign in any sort of jeopardy,
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Speaker 2: which interestingly enough, seemed to have been an effective strategy
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Speaker 2: four years ago. Polling currently showing it may not work
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Speaker 2: this time, which I think should even if she's your candidate,
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Speaker 2: even if that's truly who you think needs to be
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Speaker 2: the president of the United States, I think we all
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Speaker 2: should take a moment and know that it's not good
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Speaker 2: if we have a second president, a second administration that
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Speaker 2: got into power by not really running a real campaign. Okay,
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Speaker 2: just be aware of the fact that it's you know,
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Speaker 2: you've had one candidate who's been out doing interviews, doing appearances,
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Speaker 2: doing town halls, and only in the last few days really,
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Speaker 2: but weeks have we seen Harris starting to do any
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Speaker 2: of that. And what's really interesting is that she's tried
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Speaker 2: to politicize and saying, well, Trump's not doing that anymore,
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Speaker 2: and I'm doing it. And now Trump's laying low, and
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Speaker 2: he's now old, and he's senior, and all of the
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Speaker 2: things that were associated with her campaign or with her
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Speaker 2: current boss in President Biden. So it's an interesting turn
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Speaker 2: of where things have gone. Right. It's just kind of
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Speaker 2: weird that that's become the strategy that they think is
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Speaker 2: going to be effective. Maybe they see Trump's strategy of
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Speaker 2: doing that working against her, so now she's going to
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Speaker 2: try to turn that on him. It's it's such a
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Speaker 2: weird thing to go, well, now we're going to be agist.
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Speaker 2: We were going to be the party of you know,
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Speaker 2: for the second time. We're gonna run the guy who
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Speaker 2: probably should be getting treatment for cognition issues, maybe dementia.
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Speaker 2: It's looked more and more like it, and we're gonna
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Speaker 2: run him and just say you're being an agist for
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Speaker 2: going after him. Yeah he's old. We're gonna pretend he
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Speaker 2: didn't have his birthday, all those sorts of things. But
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Speaker 2: now that it's sort of flipped, they're trying to go, well,
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Speaker 2: she's the candidate of youth, and now Trump is the
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Speaker 2: old man. Trump seems just as sharp as ever. I know.
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Speaker 2: People are trying to mock him for his little like
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Speaker 2: drying his neck with a towel dance that he was
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Speaker 2: doing the invisible towel that was very much taken out
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Speaker 2: of context, as things tend to be as it now
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Speaker 2: seems that this whole story about, you know, a militia
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Speaker 2: that went after FEMA in North Carolina as that the
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Speaker 2: of course, you give it a little time and then
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Speaker 2: you realize it's not really what it seemed to be,
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Speaker 2: because the current reports now is it was one guy,
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Speaker 2: and if it's one guy, it's not much of a militia.
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Speaker 2: You know. It's not to say that you couldn't have
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Speaker 2: one guy. I mean, I would think, you know, any
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Speaker 2: one of those guys from the movie Predator could be
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Speaker 2: a militia in their own right. Maybe not the two
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Speaker 2: little guys, the other guys, any of the others. You know,
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Speaker 2: they would kind of be a militia just by themselves.
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Speaker 2: So if it was one of them, you know, maybe,
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Speaker 2: but then their fiction. So you know. Anyway, I hope
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Speaker 2: Brett Bhair did a great job. I think that he
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Speaker 2: pressed Harris on issues that she needed to be pressed on.
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Speaker 2: She tried to, you know, eat the clock. They had
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Speaker 2: agreed to twenty four minutes or whatever it was. Apparently
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Speaker 2: they tried to crunch it down as much as they
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Speaker 2: could and get as little time to him. She tried
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Speaker 2: to just run out the clock on the questions she
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Speaker 2: talked about Trump. She talked one of the things that
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Speaker 2: the one thing I really feel like Bear maybe could
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Speaker 2: have said, and maybe it would have sounded very you know,
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Speaker 2: elementary school student counsel if he had done it, But
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Speaker 2: she just kept bringing up Trump. His question was, do
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Speaker 2: you know how many illegals are in the country since
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Speaker 2: you guys dropped the executive orders that Trump had in place?
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Speaker 2: And she said, well, Donald Trump blah blah blah. And
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Speaker 2: he said, well, do you know the number? Well, let
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Speaker 2: me finish Donald Trump blah blah. And it just it
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Speaker 2: was nothing but a let's talk about Trump. He asked,
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Speaker 2: does she feel like she owes the families of people
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Speaker 2: who have died or you know, borderline like any of
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Speaker 2: the people greatly affected by some of the people who've
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Speaker 2: come into the country unvetted, even acknowledging Bill Clinton, former
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Speaker 2: President Clinton's comments about Lincoln Riley. She tried to get
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Speaker 2: back on Trump on that point, and he kept asking,
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Speaker 2: do you think that you owe them an apology? And
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Speaker 2: she said, I'm sorry for their loss, but Donald Trump,
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Speaker 2: you know, untruthful about Trump and the and it's one
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Speaker 2: of those political lies that again Brett Behar called her
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Speaker 2: out on it. She said that none of this would
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Speaker 2: have happened if you know, Republicans in Congress had passed
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Speaker 2: legislation that they were trying to push from the left.
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Speaker 2: And Bear said that legislation that was this year. You
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Speaker 2: know these things I'm talking about that happened. The tragedies
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Speaker 2: all happened before that, after you guys got rid of
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Speaker 2: rescinded the executive orders, and before you even tried to
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Speaker 2: pass legislation that, by the way, five Democrats voted against.
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Speaker 2: So good for him for doing that. But the one
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Speaker 2: thing that I feel like is she said, he said,
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Speaker 2: how's it going to be different? She said, Joe Biden's
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Speaker 2: not on the ticket, and he said, well, you know
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Speaker 2: what what's different? And she said, I'm I'm I'm ready
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Speaker 2: to end this period of name calling and finger pointing
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Speaker 2: and Donald Trump. And that's what she's That's been her
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Speaker 2: whole campaign is finger pointing. It's been name calling and
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Speaker 2: pointing Donald Trump. And she did it during the interview
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Speaker 2: while she was saying she wanted to bring an end
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Speaker 2: to the name calling and finger pointing. I wish she
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Speaker 2: had pointed that out. That's the one thing that I
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Speaker 2: feel like was missing from that. But I'm sure we'll
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Speaker 2: be talking more about that interview and some of the
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Speaker 2: fall up from that. She got in the words that
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Speaker 2: she wanted to say that. I think her campaign was
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Speaker 2: hoping that she would get out for the purposes of
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Speaker 2: sound bites, that's what they were. They were able to
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Speaker 2: do some of that, feeling like, hey, great job, look
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Speaker 2: what we did. But she should have been tested before. Now,
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Speaker 2: this is something that is shouldn't have taken till. You know,
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Speaker 2: many states are already voting before she actually gets tested
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Speaker 2: by a reporter, a journalist. But all right, it's Friday.
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Speaker 2: We got time for a few as strange and bizarre
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Speaker 2: news stories from around the world. We like when animals,
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Speaker 2: especially when bears are in the in the news, assuming
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Speaker 2: that no one's injured. You don't want anybody to get hurt.
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Speaker 2: The University of Montana's mascot is a grizzly bear named Monty.
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Speaker 2: But did you see this? There was a warning to
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Speaker 2: students and faculty that a real bear was wandering around
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Speaker 2: on campus. Campus police said the intruder was first spotted
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Speaker 2: near a bike rack outside a dormitory and was later
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Speaker 2: seen following a student around as they walked to class.
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Speaker 2: That's scary, the student was. The student reported that the
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Speaker 2: bear was not aggressive. The animal eventually moved on to
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Speaker 2: a nearby courtyard and apparently they kind of lost track
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Speaker 2: of it. So students were told just keep an eye
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Speaker 2: out for this bear. But I suppose if he lingers
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Speaker 2: around enough, maybe he can take the mantle of Monty
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Speaker 2: and they can put him on the sidelines until you know,
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Speaker 2: Pete gets upset about it. Police in Oregon arrested a
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Speaker 2: man finding his large stash of illegal drugs, and I
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Speaker 2: like at least his idea on not getting caught. Police
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Speaker 2: pulled the man over in his vehicle, and after and
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Speaker 2: the plates discovered the car was stolen. They immediately arrested
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Speaker 2: the driver, who is thirty five year old Reginald Reynolds.
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Speaker 2: Sounds made up old Regie Reynolds his thirty seven year
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Speaker 2: old passenger, Mia bagging Stove's Officers say Reynolds was in
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Speaker 2: possession of a loaded handgun and a bag of meth
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Speaker 2: amphetamine and thirteen hundred and sixty dollars in cash. Officers
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Speaker 2: also noticed a brown bag that had printed on it.
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Speaker 2: Definitely not a bag of drugs. Cops weren't full though,
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Speaker 2: and discovered the bag was definitely full of drugs, about
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Speaker 2: a half a pound of myth. That's when Reynolds and
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Speaker 2: bagin stoves both were charged with a number of felonies,
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Speaker 2: including theft and drug possession. I like, at least the attempt,
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Speaker 2: you know, I mean, there's an effort made there to
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Speaker 2: write that out on the bag. So kudos for the attempt.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it didn't work, but it was a good try,
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Speaker 2: you know. Applause for the try. That's all I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: An Oklahoma man doing court for allegedly stealing a car
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Speaker 2: was running late to get to court for this crime,
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Speaker 2: and because he was running late, I guess apparently made
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Speaker 2: a decision to steal another vehicle to get to court
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Speaker 2: on time. Cody Adams accused of stealing a life Net
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Speaker 2: emergency medical vehicle when he couldn't find anyone to drive
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Speaker 2: him to court to face a previous stolen vehicle charge,
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Speaker 2: Adam drove. Adams drove to the court and ditched the
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Speaker 2: vehicle outside. A trooper saw him and arrested him at
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Speaker 2: the courthouse. Adams admitted to taking the vehicle, but insisted
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Speaker 2: he was simply borrowing it because he needed to get
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Speaker 2: to court. The trooper escorted Adams to the courtroom for
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Speaker 2: his hearing and then took him to jail for the
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Speaker 2: new charges. Speaking of car thieves, a man in Maine
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Speaker 2: led police on an hour's long chase that involved four
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Speaker 2: stolen vehicles, including a dump truck, before he was finally caught.
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Speaker 2: Pulice say thirty three year old Garrett Littlefield was first
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Speaker 2: pursued in a stolen chrystlole the baron and used spike
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Speaker 2: strips that they used to disable the vehicle. Little Field
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Speaker 2: was able to ditch the vehicle get away on foot.
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Speaker 2: From there, he stole a Ford F one to fifty
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Speaker 2: truck from a nearby home innovated police by driving down
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Speaker 2: a back road. Hours later, police spotted little Field, this
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Speaker 2: time in a black Chevy truck he was speeding through
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Speaker 2: a stop sign, and pursued him in a high speed chase.
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Speaker 2: Another set of spike strips was deployed, but failed to
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Speaker 2: stop the truck until two of the tires flew off
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Speaker 2: and the truck headed into a ditch. Little Field and
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Speaker 2: a passenger identified as twenty two year old Chantel Rodriguez
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Speaker 2: fled on foot. Rodriguez was captured and arrested, but little
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Speaker 2: Field got away again. A few hours later, a Littlefield
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Speaker 2: emerged again, this time in a dump truck that he
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Speaker 2: stole from a housing development. Police eventually found him at
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Speaker 2: a gas station where he was trying to steal a Subaru.
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Speaker 2: This time they were able to arrest him, facing a
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Speaker 2: slew of charges, including a looting, police, reckless conduct with
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Speaker 2: a dangerous weapon, and operating a vehicle with a suspended license.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's like the fugitive, you know, maybe he
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Speaker 2: was looking for like a one armed man. Or how
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Speaker 2: about this story in Georgia a sheriff under fire for
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Speaker 2: an incident involved a Burger King whopper and an apparent
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Speaker 2: abuse of power. This is Cobb County Sheriff Craig Owens,
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Speaker 2: running for re election. His challenger brought a twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: three incident back into the spotlight. Owens, who was not
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Speaker 2: in uniform, got angry at a Burger King drive through
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Speaker 2: and his order was not the way that he wanted it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, they tell you you're gonna have it your
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Speaker 2: way at b so he called for backup. Sheriff Owens
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Speaker 2: had three deputies dispatched to the fast food restaurant as
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Speaker 2: he waited in the parking lot. The deputy's body cams
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Speaker 2: captured the interaction with Owens as he asked them to
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Speaker 2: go inside take down the names of the manager and
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Speaker 2: assistant manager so that he could file an official complaint.
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Speaker 2: The workers inside locked the doors of the restaurant because
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Speaker 2: they were afraid Owens was going to get violent, but
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Speaker 2: the deputies convinced them to unlock the doors and provided
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Speaker 2: their names. Critics accusing Owens of abusing his power, Owens says,
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Speaker 2: I was not in my uniform, and at no point
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Speaker 2: in my interaction with the staff did I identify myself
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Speaker 2: as a member of law enforcement. At no point did
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Speaker 2: I indicate my position, nor did I ask the responders
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Speaker 2: to do anything that they would not had not, or
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Speaker 2: have not done to anyone else who makes a business
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Speaker 2: dispute call. Apparently, he's also been set on record that
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Speaker 2: maybe he should have just left. That probably would have
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Speaker 2: a good IDEA. Frontier Airlines passenger I had a crazy
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Speaker 2: meltdown on a flight from San Diego to Las Vegas
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Speaker 2: after she was told the pilot would not taxi the
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Speaker 2: plane back to the gate so she could retrieve her
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Speaker 2: phone that she had left behind. The woman, who was
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Speaker 2: not identified but was captured on video by a fellow passenger,
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Speaker 2: immediately flew into a rage and made some crazy claims.
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Speaker 2: She said that she was a sovereign ruler, president of
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Speaker 2: this whole country and seven continents I own. She accused
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Speaker 2: the pilot of being racist and that's why he refused
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Speaker 2: to take the plane back to the gate. She then
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Speaker 2: turned to the other passengers and said, keep laughing. Watch
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Speaker 2: your watch. The video ends after ninety seconds, so it's
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Speaker 2: not really clear how the whole rant ended, and it's
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Speaker 2: Morning Show right after the break Well. It seems that
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Speaker 2: loneliness is not really getting any better. A new Gallup
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Speaker 2: poll finding that twenty percent of adults report feeling lonely
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Speaker 2: on a daily basis. It's the highest rate of reported
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Speaker 2: loneliness in the past two years. The percentage up slightly
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Speaker 2: from earlier this year, when eighteen percent of survey respondents
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Speaker 2: reported feeling only I think we covered that then. It's
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Speaker 2: lower than the peak of twenty five percent during the
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Speaker 2: pandemic from twenty nineteen to twenty twenty one. The survey
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Speaker 2: didn't ask why people are feeling isolated from others, but
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Speaker 2: according to the research director for Gallop, a National Health
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Speaker 2: and well Being Index, Dan Witters, he says politics may
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Speaker 2: have something to do with it, saying, these are divided times.
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Speaker 2: As we get closer to the election, that's going to
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Speaker 2: drive people indoors to avoid areas of conflict. It makes
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Speaker 2: some sense, but it's still very, very concerning, and I
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Speaker 2: don't know that no matter the outcome of this election,
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Speaker 2: things are going to get any better. If you're one
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Speaker 2: of those people that that would be a factor for
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Speaker 2: when you're working from home or when you're in the office,
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Speaker 2: it can be a habit to not take a dedicated
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Speaker 2: lunch break. Some people eat at their desk, keep working.
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Speaker 2: Some even skip lunch altogether just power through. But workplace
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Speaker 2: experts warn that skipping your lunch can be harmful. They say,
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Speaker 2: if you are still doing work, it's not a lunch break.
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Speaker 2: This according to professor Mark Mortensen, and he said basically
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Speaker 2: sitting in front of a computer working and eating at
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Speaker 2: the same time is multitasking. It's not having a lunch break.
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Speaker 2: He says that your lunch break should be that a break,
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Speaker 2: and it should be an opportunity to recharge, reset, connect
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Speaker 2: with others. He says it should not be a time
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Speaker 2: to scroll through social media or stream something that makes sense.
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Speaker 2: It's good advice and you really need to, you know,
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Speaker 2: especially if there's any sort of team component to your job.
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Speaker 2: I would think it might be a good time to
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Speaker 2: sort of shut off from work and maybe a little
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Speaker 2: bit of team building. But sometimes you just don't want
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Speaker 2: to be around your coworkers and that's just the reality.
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Speaker 2: But that doesn't mean you can't have lunch with someone else,
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Speaker 2: possibly a friend or you know, maybe a former coworker.
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Speaker 2: Pepsi is finally paying attention to customers complaints about getting
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Speaker 2: fewer and fewer chips in their bags. I say, Pepsi,
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Speaker 2: Pepsi Co. It's the owner of Lai's, Dorito's, Tostitos and Ruffles,
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Speaker 2: announcing that it will put more chips in some bags
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Speaker 2: to win back shoppers who got tired of shrinkflation and
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Speaker 2: turned to cheaper options by stopping buying chips all together
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Speaker 2: or buying other brands. I guess the Tostitos and Ruffles
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Speaker 2: bonus bags will contain twenty percent more chips for the
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Speaker 2: same price to standard bags, and the variety pack with
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Speaker 2: smaller bags will expand from sixteen to eighteen bags. I
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Speaker 2: told you this is one of the culprits I've been
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Speaker 2: telling you. On this show, they went to the little
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Speaker 2: tiny bags that were two dollars and people went, oh,
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Speaker 2: my gosh, these are only two dollars, and then suddenly
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Speaker 2: they were three dollars or more. So I told you
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Speaker 2: that this was one of the companies that was guilty
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Speaker 2: of it. Again, I don't blame the companies. I bring
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Speaker 2: the current administration that has caused the need for them
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Speaker 2: to raise prices because they're still trying to make a
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Speaker 2: profit because they're a business. But good for them that
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Speaker 2: they're trying to I don't know what the angle is.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how this plays into future shrinkflation. I
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Speaker 2: have to analyze it a little bit more, all right.
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Speaker 2: Most people don't think about healthy eating around Halloween. But
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Speaker 2: if you know that you need to have candy in
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Speaker 2: the ouse and want to pick on the healthier side,
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Speaker 2: experts say that the healthier candy to go with is
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Speaker 2: peanut m and MS, a registered dietitian named Rose Brent
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Speaker 2: telling USA Today that the peanuts in the candy at
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Speaker 2: least provide a little bit more substance in terms of nutrition,
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Speaker 2: including some fibrin protein. It's slightly better than a Reese's
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Speaker 2: peanut butter cup, which contains more sugar. If you don't
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Speaker 2: like chocolate and prefer a sugar retreat, she recommends Smarties
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Speaker 2: because a single serving contains just twenty five calories six
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Speaker 2: grams of sugar. Compare that to one serving of Sour
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Speaker 2: Patches Kids, which is one hundred and ten calories and
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Speaker 2: twenty four grams of sugar. So there's that. And then finally,
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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, pumpkin spice not really going anywhere. And
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Speaker 2: basically there's a new study done by lending Tree saying
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Speaker 2: consumers are paying basically a pumpkin spice tax, with some
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Speaker 2: retailers that are charging up to ninety two percent more
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Speaker 2: for their pumpkin products. So it could be a latte,
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Speaker 2: a muffin, pumpkin scented candle, You're probably gonna be asked
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Speaker 2: to pay a little bit more if you haven't already
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Speaker 2: been asked to pay a little bit more for your
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Speaker 2: pumpkin spice fix. That'll do it for this Friday edition
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