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Strange and Bizarre News with a Vegan Firefighter · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews you need to start
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  Speaker 1: your day. You're listening to The West Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Thursday morning, twenty eighth day of August. I'm West Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me. It is dragon Con day. The convention
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  Speaker 2: gets started today. I'm recording now for you and releasing
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  Speaker 2: this for you, and then I'm gonna leave very soon
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  Speaker 2: to add up to dragon Con. I'll be there for
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  Speaker 2: the weekend. And I appreciate the folks at Columbus State
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  Speaker 2: University's co Cola Space Science Center for sponsoring our coverage
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  Speaker 2: of dragon Con this year and many years in the past.
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  Speaker 2: You can hear the dragon Con Pregame Show wherever you
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  Speaker 2: listen to this podcast. That podcast is waiting for you. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: earlier this week, doctor Sean Cruisin and I released our
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  Speaker 2: Mate of Stars podcast featuring Les Johnson, formerly of NASA
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  Speaker 2: and a very accomplished science fiction author and science author.
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  Speaker 2: He's written some fiction and nonfiction, but he'll be at
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  Speaker 2: dragon Con this weekend beginning today and talking about science
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  Speaker 2: and science fiction. But you can hear the Mate of
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  Speaker 2: Stars podcast and the dragon Con Pregame Show podcast wherever
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  Speaker 2: you're listening to this podcast, and since I'm not doing
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  Speaker 2: a show tomorrow. What a great day to Just if
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  Speaker 2: maybe the boss is and you can sit at your
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  Speaker 2: desk and listen to podcasts all day, that'd be great.
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  Speaker 2: Just get caught up, listen to some past episodes and
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  Speaker 2: of really both of those shows, get caught up on these.
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  Speaker 2: Just get caught up in general. Just listen all day.
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  Speaker 2: You know, from the time you wake up and you're
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  Speaker 2: having your coffee till you go to bed tonight. You
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  Speaker 2: could do that. You could do that for me, right,
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  Speaker 2: appreciate you listening right now. All right, it's Thursday, but
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  Speaker 2: this is our Friday show because we're not doing a
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  Speaker 2: show tomorrow. So let's jump into some positive news before
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  Speaker 2: we roll into the strange and bizarre news from around
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  Speaker 2: the world, because we got to do that because this
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  Speaker 2: is basically our kickoff of the weekend show back in
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  Speaker 2: nineteen sixteen, and we do positive news first though. Something positive.
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  Speaker 2: Back in nineteen sixty nine, Alfred di Stefano was a
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  Speaker 2: proud graduate Fordham University in New York. He was watching
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  Speaker 2: a sunset on a pier at Cedar Beach and its
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  Speaker 2: class ring fell from his hand tumbled into the water.
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  Speaker 2: Alfred says, I remember it like it was yesterday. I
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  Speaker 2: remember watching it slip off my finger into the water
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  Speaker 2: and it was deep, and I said, it's gone. Alfred
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  Speaker 2: was kind of right, at least for a while until now,
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  Speaker 2: because a treasure hunter, Dave Orlowski, was combing Cedar Beach
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  Speaker 2: recently when he found the ring a half a mile
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  Speaker 2: away from the pier, buried in the sand more than
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  Speaker 2: a foot deep. The ring had Alfred's name engraved on,
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  Speaker 2: so Dave was able to find Alfred, who now lives
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  Speaker 2: in Texas, through social media, and he gave him the
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  Speaker 2: good news. Alfred was surprised both the idea that the
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  Speaker 2: ring was found and also the idea that someone would
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  Speaker 2: take the time to return it. Alfred says he could
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  Speaker 2: have just sold it and made some money on it,
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  Speaker 2: but he restored my faith in humanity. Dave says he
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  Speaker 2: was just happy to have been able to do something
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  Speaker 2: nice for someone else. He said, I don't do it
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  Speaker 2: for money. I do it for the thrill. You never
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  Speaker 2: know what you're gonna pull out. I assume he means
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  Speaker 2: out of the ocean while he's combing. You know, I
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  Speaker 2: mean that could be interpreted, but anyway, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: How about this. Laura Travino gave her twin brother, Francisco Alvarado,
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  Speaker 2: the ultimate gift on the birthday that they share a kidney.
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  Speaker 2: After seven years on dialysis, Francisco received a life changing
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  Speaker 2: transplant in Edinburgh, Texas, thanks to Laura's decision to become
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  Speaker 2: a living donor. Laura's donation didn't just say her brother,
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  Speaker 2: It helped him skip the usual five year wait list
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  Speaker 2: and allowed him to turn things around almost immediately. Laura said,
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  Speaker 2: I saw him and his health was deteriorating every day.
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to help him live a better life. Francisco agreed.
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  Speaker 2: The kidney transplant is a chance for a new life.
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  Speaker 2: Francisco said, life on dialysis is really hard. You don't
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  Speaker 2: have a life. This is the best gift. So while
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  Speaker 2: their birthday was spent in a hospital this year, nobody
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  Speaker 2: complaining as they were able to celebrate Francisco getting on
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  Speaker 2: his feet again and having a chance to enjoy many
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  Speaker 2: birthdays to come. What a great story. This is the
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  Speaker 2: reason that we make sure to find one of these
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  Speaker 2: couple of these good news stories. That's the whole. That's
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  Speaker 2: the point of this is getting a story like that.
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  Speaker 2: What a great story, you know, that's just fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: I like it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll do one more because that one was so good.
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  Speaker 2: And this is one of those returned library book stories.
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  Speaker 2: I know it can compare. It really can't compare to
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  Speaker 2: the kidney story. Should have done this one first. I
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  Speaker 2: should have closed on that one. But I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: done a third one if I had done this one.
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  Speaker 2: But this one's about a library book returned in San Antonio, Texas,
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  Speaker 2: eighty two years after it was borrowed. The book, titled
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  Speaker 2: Your Child, His Family and Friends, was checked out July
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  Speaker 2: of nineteen forty three by Maria del SoCoRo al Dritte Flores.
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  Speaker 2: Her family believes she borrowed it before moving to Mexico
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  Speaker 2: City to work for the US Embassy. Somewhere along the line,
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  Speaker 2: Maria's life got busy. The book was never returned until recently.
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  Speaker 2: The book resurfaced in Oregon and was sent to San
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  Speaker 2: Antonio with a short message, I hope there is no
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  Speaker 2: late fee because my grandma won't be able to pay
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  Speaker 2: for it anymore. The late fees were not an issue
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  Speaker 2: because the San Antonio Public Library System got rid of
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  Speaker 2: the overdue fines in twenty twenty one, and if those
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  Speaker 2: finds were still in place three cents a day starting
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  Speaker 2: back in nineteen four three of the amount would be
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  Speaker 2: nearly nine hundred dollars not accounting for inflation, and a
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  Speaker 2: staggering sixteen thousand dollars after inflation. The library noted that
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  Speaker 2: the book is in good condition and we'll be on
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  Speaker 2: display through the end of August. It will be donated
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  Speaker 2: to the Friends of San Antonio Public Library and sold
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  Speaker 2: to benefit the library. Again, I know it doesn't compare
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  Speaker 2: to the We're not going to get anything to compare
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  Speaker 2: to the kidney. That's got to be like maybe the
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  Speaker 2: best one that we'll ever have. Are we ever going
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  Speaker 2: to beat the kidney? Like on their birthday, the twin
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  Speaker 2: sister given the kidnaw. All right, it's the end of
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  Speaker 2: the week. Let's do it. Strange and bizarre news from
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  Speaker 2: around the world. Let's begin in Canada. That's where we're
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  Speaker 2: going to start. A Canadian politician earn a unique accolade.
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  Speaker 2: Marwa Risky, part of the National Assembly of Quebec, earned
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  Speaker 2: a Guinness World Record recently with a unique stunt tied
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  Speaker 2: to celebrating her tenure in office. While the Canadian TV
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  Speaker 2: series Info Man that she was on, Risky put on
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  Speaker 2: a whopping three hundred and sixty neckties at one time,
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  Speaker 2: beating the previous record holder by thirty. Risky says, I
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  Speaker 2: accepted the challenge of breaking the record for the most
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  Speaker 2: neckties worn at once to show that women are equal
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  Speaker 2: to men and that women can wear also can wear
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  Speaker 2: a lot of ties. Yeah. I mean, it's an interesting
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  Speaker 2: speech that she's given for this. It's a cool thing.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all for the setting the records, but it's just
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  Speaker 2: an interesting speech to go with it. Good for her, right,
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  Speaker 2: and I assume that three hundred and sixty ties somebody
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  Speaker 2: can beat that. If she beat it by thirty, somebody
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  Speaker 2: can beat it. Question is whose name? Vegan firefighter Missouri
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  Speaker 2: was forced to come face to face with a warehouse
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  Speaker 2: worth of flaming meat on her first day on the job.
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  Speaker 2: It was a high stakes situation as the newest blood
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  Speaker 2: in the Doolittle Rural Fire Protection District went up against
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  Speaker 2: forty thousand pounds of smoked meat after a tractor trailer
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  Speaker 2: full of raw Ribbi steaks caught fire. The fire department
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  Speaker 2: shouted out the plant based smoke eater on social media.
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  Speaker 2: This was probationary firefighter Jenna Olrich's first fire, and she
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  Speaker 2: got to fight it alongside her father, Glenn Ulrich. Jenna
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  Speaker 2: is on the hose line. Olrich is the only vegan
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  Speaker 2: in our department, so naturally, her very first fire involved
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  Speaker 2: a tractor trailer carrying forty thousand pounds of Rabbi steak.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing says welcome to the fire service like sending the
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  Speaker 2: probe to put out forty thousand pounds of flaming rabbi.
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  Speaker 2: No injuries were reported. Meat lover's can't be happy, though,
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  Speaker 2: because the I mean, it's not like steaks are cheap anyway.
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  Speaker 2: They were declared a total loss. Same fire department is
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  Speaker 2: experience putting out freeway buffets. They extinguished a tractor trailer
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  Speaker 2: that was fully loaded with onions earlier this summer, so
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  Speaker 2: maybe they just had somebody who was, you know, doing
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  Speaker 2: the carnivore diet put that out. Culinary students in Mexico
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  Speaker 2: managed to break not one, not two, but three world
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  Speaker 2: records as they attempted to serve the most tacos in
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  Speaker 2: one hour. The team of one hundred culinary students used
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  Speaker 2: a record breaking twenty three foot frying pan to make
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  Speaker 2: what ended up being the world's largest stir fry. At
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  Speaker 2: the La Descatta Festival, Cooks and Training managed to chef
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  Speaker 2: up and serve a whopping thirteen two hundred and fifteen
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  Speaker 2: tacos in an hour, using a recipe called La Descata,
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  Speaker 2: containing sausage, beef, pork, bacon, tomatoes, peppers, onion, and beer.
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  Speaker 2: The record breaking stir fright took three minutes and yeah,
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  Speaker 2: three minutes and forty seconds okay, to cover up a
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  Speaker 2: wood fire, and yielded fifty three hundred and thirty one
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  Speaker 2: pounds of food. It was more than enough to feed
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  Speaker 2: the festival's ten thousand attendees, leaving several hundred leftover at
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  Speaker 2: tacos to donate to local food banks. So good work
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  Speaker 2: and nice to be able to do something also for
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  Speaker 2: the food banks. That's nice. That's good accomplishing two things
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  Speaker 2: at once. So good stuff there.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: So getting drunk and lying in a ditch will most
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  Speaker 2: like you get arrested, But did you know that lying
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  Speaker 2: in a ditch and pretending to be drunk will also
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  Speaker 2: get you arrested? Police in Elgin, Iowa, responded to a
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  Speaker 2: call about a person lying in a ditch on the
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  Speaker 2: side of the road. They arrived at the scene and
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  Speaker 2: found thirty one year old Caleb Barker in the ditch,
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  Speaker 2: apparently drunk, but he wasn't intoxicated, tending to be. He
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  Speaker 2: was lying and lying in the ditch. I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: unclear exactly why he was doing that, but cops arrested
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  Speaker 2: him and charged him with simulated public intoxication. I didn't
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  Speaker 2: know that was a thing. I mean, I knew like
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  Speaker 2: lying to the police could be bad, but you're just
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  Speaker 2: lying about being drunk. That seems That seems weird, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 2: That seems strange? Uh, Florida driver. We had to get
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  Speaker 2: to Florida eventually, and a Florida driver who picked the
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  Speaker 2: worst possible day to open up his car to go
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  Speaker 2: over one hundred miles an hour. It was an officer
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  Speaker 2: clocked the driver doing one hundred and four an Interstate
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  Speaker 2: four just after midnight on July first. Unfortunately for the driver,
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  Speaker 2: I knew Florida law known as the super Speeder Law,
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  Speaker 2: took effect just moments earlier. Under the law, troopers were
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  Speaker 2: allowed to arrest in jail motorists who were caught driving
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  Speaker 2: more than one hundred miles an hour or at least
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  Speaker 2: fifty over the speed limit. The driver became the first
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  Speaker 2: speedster to be thrown in jail with this law. First
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  Speaker 2: time offenders of the super Speeder Law could be sentenced
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  Speaker 2: uff to thirty days in jail and get a five
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  Speaker 2: hundred dollars fine. The penalty increases to ninety days in
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  Speaker 2: jail on one thousand dollars fine for repeat offenders. Slow Down.
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  Speaker 2: after the break. According to a new study, iPhone users
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  Speaker 2: trust their phones too much. Yeah. The study says that
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  Speaker 2: iPhone users are twenty percent more likely to fall for
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  Speaker 2: online scams than Android users. It seems that many people
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  Speaker 2: believe apples built in security makes them invincible, so they
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  Speaker 2: skip anti virus apps and are more likely to click
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  Speaker 2: on sketchy links without a second thought. Of course, that
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  Speaker 2: can lead to disaster because hackers are equal opportunity jerks,
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  Speaker 2: and yes, they can rip you off as an iPhone
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  Speaker 2: user just as much as they can for Android users.
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  Speaker 2: It is a bit of a fault sense of security,
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  Speaker 2: isn't it. I know a lot of people that have
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  Speaker 2: iPhones and iPads and they just assume there there's no
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  Speaker 2: It's easy. I got protection. It's the protection is built in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be fine. Twenty thirteen Chevy Caprice used to
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  Speaker 2: model police cruisers in the Grand Theft Auto six video
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  Speaker 2: game is officially up for auction. It's not a prop,
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  Speaker 2: it will was is not just a prop. The car
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  Speaker 2: was actually scanned by developers of in the game, and
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  Speaker 2: it will appear in GTA six exactly the way it
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  Speaker 2: looks now decked out with Vice City style decals, lights
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  Speaker 2: and a brush guard, and it is street legal. So
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  Speaker 2: if you encounter a prostitute and you know, throw them
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  Speaker 2: out of the car or whatever, that's on you. But
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  Speaker 2: it you know it's in the game. You could drive
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  Speaker 2: it in the game. You could see it in the game.
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could drive it in I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: The game hasn't come out yet, but it seems to
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  Speaker 2: be the case.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Are you familiar with nude cruise lines. On a nude cruise,
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  Speaker 2: you'd think clothing is optional everywhere. It's close, but not
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  Speaker 2: the whole truth. Nude cruisers are free to roam naked
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  Speaker 2: except in the dining room area. It seems cruise ships
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  Speaker 2: don't want completely naked people sitting on their dining room chairs.
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  Speaker 2: So if you're on a nude cre and you really
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  Speaker 2: really don't want to have to get dressed, you'll be
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  Speaker 2: fed as the self serve buffet in a close free
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  Speaker 2: area part of the ship. I just thought this was
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  Speaker 2: an interesting story because I wasn't familiar with nude cruises.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I didn't know that that was a thing.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't surprise me that nude cruises are a thing,
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  Speaker 2: so but it is. And I didn't know that I had.
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  Speaker 2: I had no idea that there were that there were
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  Speaker 2: nude cruises. Does it surprise you? Is it shocking? I
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  Speaker 2: don't think so, not at all. All Right, here's something
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  Speaker 2: that might be a game changer for owners of electric cars.
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  Speaker 2: Walmart planning to install thousands of EVY charging stations, and
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  Speaker 2: they're parking lots around the country. It's big deal because
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  Speaker 2: Walmart operates more than fifty two hundred stores. Ninety percent
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  Speaker 2: of Americans live within ten miles of a Walmart or
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  Speaker 2: a Sam's Club. That's a lot of access to power
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  Speaker 2: that allows a lot of people to charge the vehicles
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  Speaker 2: while they shop, which could make owning electric vehicles even
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  Speaker 2: more practical. You know, they've got like Target HASM. I
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  Speaker 2: think there's various fast food restaurants around the country that
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  Speaker 2: have started putting them in. So, yeah, that's certainly convenient.
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  Speaker 2: And if you can do your shopping and charge your
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  Speaker 2: car while you're shopping, why wouldn't you take advantage of it?
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  Speaker 2: If you're they've got to do something to try to
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  Speaker 2: get these evs because people are back in a way
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  Speaker 2: very quickly, and adding them to all these Walmart locations
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  Speaker 2: will certainly, you would think, at the very least, be
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  Speaker 2: another possible incentive for people, because that's always the concern,
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  Speaker 2: how do you recharge it when you're on the go,
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people stop at Walmart locations when
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  Speaker 2: they're traveling, you know at night, they'll go, I have
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  Speaker 2: got my camper, I'm going to park out here, go
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  Speaker 2: in the store, So it would be an opportunity for
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  Speaker 2: that as well. I don't know why people are hauling
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  Speaker 2: campers with electric vehicles. According to an DO survey, eighty
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  Speaker 2: percent of employees say AI has made their work lives better,
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  Speaker 2: but twenty two percent say their employer monitors how they're
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  Speaker 2: using it, and thirty six percent say there's an actual
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  Speaker 2: AI policy in place where they work. Survey also found
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  Speaker 2: that twenty eight percent of workers would use AI at
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  Speaker 2: work even if it were banned. It seems employees are
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  Speaker 2: taking advantage of AI tools and they're just kind of
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  Speaker 2: winging it out there. So that's what they're doing. They're
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  Speaker 2: just winging it with the AI. They're they're taking advantage,
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  Speaker 2: but they don't have it structured and they don't really
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on. So just think about that. About
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  Speaker 2: a month ago, the game Donking Kong but Bonanza spelled
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  Speaker 2: switch To. It's a big title and Nintendo wanted to
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  Speaker 2: some of the game's developers described just how far they
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