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National Barcode Day & National Handshake Day · National Day Spotlight | Presented By National Day Calendar

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  [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to June twenty-sixth on the National Day calendar.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Today, we're scanning the possibilities and greeting each other with a gesture.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Barcode Day celebrates those little striped labels we see everywhere.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: They started getting used commercially in the nineteen seventies and get this.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The very first thing scanned with a barcode was a pack of riggly's gum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: True story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Now they're how we track everything from groceries to packages.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's made inventory so much easier for businesses.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So today, just give a nod to those humble little barcodes and their big roads in modern life.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, well, I just showed up today Really what did you get that first Rigolese gum packet that was scanned by a barcode
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so I think we should just save that for posterity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, don't want to try it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's got to be hard as a rock.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's delicious.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So, seventies, it's got to be incredibly hard.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You got to break your teeth kind of hard.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's hard to I'm trying right now.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's not good.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and Shake Day honors that age-old ritual of gripping another human's hand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It's been run forever since people figured out hiding daggers and their sleeves wasn't the best opening move.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And honestly, everyone does it differently.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We've got the power grip Western Hand Shake.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But then some, like the Zulu people of South Africa, go for a more dummy approached.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So today, go shake someone's hand.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Hopefully, good one.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And enjoy this weird little human custom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you have to admit it is kind of a weird custom.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, who came up with that?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I do not know.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I guess the people who wanted to not be stabbed by daggers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, okay.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's probably a good place to start.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: After some truth to the daggers story.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe we better check that out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe so.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Hi, Allison Anderson.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm Marla Anderson reminding you to celebrate every day.