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Strange and Bizarre News with a 400 Lb Naked Man · 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, August first time, Wes. Thanks for joining me.
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Speaker 2: Here we are August. It's here, it is upon us.
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Speaker 2: Can we start counting down to Christmas? We got past
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Speaker 2: the Christmas in July Day and Leon Day and June
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Speaker 2: and all that. Now we're into August, so we can
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Speaker 2: start thinking. I know everybody says you got to think
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Speaker 2: about the other holidays. You gotta put a lot of
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Speaker 2: focus on Halloween and Thanksgiving and all that. But it
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Speaker 2: all just kind of dominoes just start falling down quickly.
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Speaker 2: Don't think it is August. We can celebrate at the
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Speaker 2: very least the fact that Labor Day weekend begins in August.
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Speaker 2: Labor Day itself is actually on September the first, but
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Speaker 2: Labor Day weekend. Dragon Con downtown Atlanta now five host hotels,
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Speaker 2: I guess, and everything you need to know about dragon
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Speaker 2: to radio about two hundred radio stations around the state
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Speaker 2: of Georgia and surrounding states, plus the dragon Con Pregame
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Speaker 2: Show podcast, and you can hear past episodes of that
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Speaker 2: where you're listening to this podcast this year. I told
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Speaker 2: you already I was ready to announce one guest. I
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Speaker 2: now have a second guest that I can announce for you.
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Speaker 2: First up told you that we were adding Katie Sackoff
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Speaker 2: to the show this year. Be talking to her about
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Speaker 2: her time with Battlestar Galactica and Longmire, and the fact
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Speaker 2: that she's also now part of the Star Wars universe
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Speaker 2: and also from the Star Wars universe. Excited to chat
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Speaker 2: with Diana Lee and A Santo, who is the daughter
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Speaker 2: of Dan Innsanto and the goddaughter of Bruce Lee. Her
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Speaker 2: dad a marsh arts choreographer and actor, a legend, and
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Speaker 2: she has followed in that path and that trajectory in
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Speaker 2: her career, doing stunt choreography and doing stunts, training folks
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Speaker 2: in martial arts and an actress as well, and has
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Speaker 2: appeared in the Mandalorian and the Ahsoka series as well
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Speaker 2: as voicing some characters and some animation. The same character
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Speaker 2: actor actually Morgan Elsbeth is the character's name in the
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Speaker 2: Star Wars universe, and I'm excited to add her to
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Speaker 2: the list. We got some more coming soon. I'll tell
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Speaker 2: you the names once I have them, But those two
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Speaker 2: are definitely I've got interviews scheduled, and once they're scheduled,
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Speaker 2: I'm comfortable saying that they're going to be on the show.
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Speaker 2: As always, the Dragon Con pregame show powered by Columbus
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Speaker 2: State University's Coca Cola Space Science Center, And you can
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Speaker 2: go back and listen to past episodes of the shows
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Speaker 2: as well. You can do that as soon as you
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Speaker 2: finish today. What a great to do all weekend long,
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Speaker 2: All right, it's Friday. We begin with some positive news.
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Speaker 2: We'll start with PJ Woodland, who is a football player
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Speaker 2: who now plays for LSU. Grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
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Speaker 2: PJ enjoying success at LSU, but does what some athletes
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Speaker 2: do not all try to give back to the place
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Speaker 2: where they grew up their hometown. He was doing a
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Speaker 2: back to school drive in Hattiesburg, handed out one hundred
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Speaker 2: and fifty backpacks to kids in the area. PJ remembers
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Speaker 2: all the support he received while growing up and playing
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Speaker 2: football in high school, and for years he always wanted
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Speaker 2: to give back. Growing up, I always wanted to do
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Speaker 2: something like this. I always try to lead by example.
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Speaker 2: Now that I have had the community to do something
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Speaker 2: like this with my team and my guys, and we
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Speaker 2: just got it done. I mentioned this story one. It's positive.
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Speaker 2: This is something great that's happening. And I know that
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Speaker 2: this is not the first person to do something like this.
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Speaker 2: But we are in this phase now where college athletes,
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Speaker 2: thanks to NIL deals, name image likeness deals, are making
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Speaker 2: money off of their sports careers. Some of them go
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Speaker 2: out and buy Lamborghinis, not naming names, but some of
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Speaker 2: them do that, which is their right, it's their money.
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Speaker 2: We're in a position where this now becomes a free
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Speaker 2: market situation. If you decide I want to go buy
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Speaker 2: a nice sports car, drive it to Miami or whatever,
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Speaker 2: that's up to you. That's yours, or you know, girlfriend
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Speaker 2: have an accident or whatever the story might be. My
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Speaker 2: point is, this is now a college student who has
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Speaker 2: this NIL deal and is using some of the money
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Speaker 2: from it to give back to his community. Kudos to him,
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Speaker 2: because he could absolutely just be stockpiling it in the bank.
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Speaker 2: No one would fault him for that. He could be
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Speaker 2: using it to invest in his future, which he probably
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Speaker 2: is using some of it to do that, you would
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Speaker 2: hope so. But in this case, at the very least
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Speaker 2: he's doing something to give back to where he grew up,
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Speaker 2: and I like that. That's a nice story about another one.
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Speaker 2: Aunt Crocker lost his wedding ring while paddle boarding on
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Speaker 2: the Great River Owls in England, and he thought it
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Speaker 2: was gone forever. Upon realizing that his ring was missing,
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Speaker 2: Aunt actually grabbed some goggles and dove to the bottom
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Speaker 2: of the river to search. No luck. Visibility was poor.
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Speaker 2: Aunt didn't have enough oxygen in his lungs to do
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Speaker 2: a proper search. That's when he had to call in professionals,
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Speaker 2: and he contacted a local scuba club. Three members of
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Speaker 2: the Bedford Scuba Divers rose to the challenge and the
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Speaker 2: rescue team got into the river found the ring. Get
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Speaker 2: this in ten minutes, and of course was thrilled. I
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Speaker 2: didn't think they would find it, he said, so when
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Speaker 2: they did, I gave them all a hug, even though
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Speaker 2: they were soaking wet, to celebrate the successful mission, and
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Speaker 2: his family took the three divers for he will deserve
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Speaker 2: pint of beer and gave them a donation to their
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Speaker 2: scuba club. Ten minutes, guy dives down to the bottom
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Speaker 2: on his own, thinks I'm going to look for it.
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Speaker 2: Probably doesn't have a lot of hope and they jump
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Speaker 2: in and find it in ten minutes. Now, I don't
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Speaker 2: know if you're like me now this. I try to
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Speaker 2: just focus on the positive because this is a fun story.
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Speaker 2: But the skeptic in me is like, do one of
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Speaker 2: those guys have a wedding ring in their pocket and
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Speaker 2: they just went down and we're like, here it is.
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Speaker 2: Could you give us a very detailed description of what
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Speaker 2: your ring looks like? And then comes up you know
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Speaker 2: they bought one at the store. They probably would have.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how much the donation was to the
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Speaker 2: scuba club. Anyway. No, I don't want to be snarky
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Speaker 2: on this one. This is good. I like this store.
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Speaker 2: I like these positive stories. It's nice to kick off
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Speaker 2: our weekend with a little positivity. But before we can
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Speaker 2: really get into the weekend, let's get into the strange
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Speaker 2: and bizarre news from around the world. Like how about
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Speaker 2: this story out of Argentina. This is one of those
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Speaker 2: weird stories that I feel like we need more information,
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Speaker 2: but this is all we've got. I mean, I could
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Speaker 2: really dig into this, but I'm gonna give you just
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Speaker 2: kind of the overview of this twenty seventeen, and we've
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Speaker 2: all seen the Google car driving around taking pictures of houses.
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Speaker 2: You may have even had that moment where it's kind
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Speaker 2: of you see it coming into your neighborhood, or you've
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Speaker 2: heard it's going to be in your neighborhood, and maybe
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Speaker 2: you tidy a few things up outside just because you
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Speaker 2: know it's coming. Well, in twenty seventeen, the Google street
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Speaker 2: View car rolled through the town of Braggado, Argentina, and
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Speaker 2: at the moment that a certain man happened to be
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Speaker 2: in his own yard sunbathing nude, the car's high tech
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Speaker 2: camera has got a photo of him and published it
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Speaker 2: with his street address, and it ended up online for
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Speaker 2: everybody to see. The man happens to be a police officer,
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Speaker 2: says that he faced a lot of joking because of
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Speaker 2: what happened around the city and at work. It's a
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Speaker 2: small town Brigado. He decided he was going to sue
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Speaker 2: Google took him to court. They violated his privacy and dignity,
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Speaker 2: he said. Well, a lower court initially dismissed the case,
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Speaker 2: saying that he was responsible for not being dressed appropriately
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Speaker 2: in his own yard. Google even argued that the man's
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Speaker 2: fence was too low to expect privacy, but upon appeal,
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Speaker 2: a higher court ruled in his favor, saying that Google
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Speaker 2: had intruded on his private life and failed to protect
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Speaker 2: his identity. The court then awarded him thirteen thousand dollars.
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Speaker 2: Doesn't seem like much, but on principle, if you say, hey,
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Speaker 2: at least I got some satisfaction out of this something.
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Speaker 2: But this has been like an eight year saga for
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Speaker 2: this poor guy, and being a police officer, I would
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Speaker 2: imagine he got teased quite a bit about it. However,
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Speaker 2: they're not taking pictures in the backyard, are they. I mean,
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Speaker 2: I don't know the exact I didn't check the image.
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Speaker 2: I didn't want to do that, but I just wonder
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Speaker 2: how if he was in his front yard, what was
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Speaker 2: going on there and how that was possible? All right,
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Speaker 2: straight into Compton. A woman in Compton, California, a video
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Speaker 2: that she posted from her doorbell camera went viral because
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Speaker 2: she caught something really weird on it. Jessica Ortiz shared
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Speaker 2: late night footage on social media showing a strange, oddly
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Speaker 2: shaped figure walking. PA asked her home she captured the post,
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Speaker 2: anyone please explain what my ring just caught. I'm not tripping,
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Speaker 2: am I. Most commentators have had the same explanation. They
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Speaker 2: must be aliens. It does look a bit like an alien.
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Speaker 2: I've watched it multiple times. I'm not sure exactly what
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Speaker 2: I'm looking at. I'm watching it again and it definitely
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Speaker 2: looks like an alien walking past her porch. It's an
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Speaker 2: oddly shaped thing, whatever it is. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 2: know what an alien really would look like.
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Speaker 1: But.
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Speaker 2: That's what the consensus seems to be. Yes, it's gotta
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Speaker 2: be aliens. Some have suggested, though, that maybe it was
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Speaker 2: someone wearing a hat and carrying a bag, which would
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Speaker 2: look strange in the dark. There's an odd reflection of
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Speaker 2: something on it could be that. I don't know, but
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Speaker 2: it is a little freaky. I gotta be honest with you.
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Speaker 2: I don't know exactly what it is that I'm looking at,
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Speaker 2: but it's weird, and I guess it'll be a mystery
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Speaker 2: for a while unless someone actually comes forward and says, no, no, no,
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Speaker 2: that was me. I was wearing this like Pope like hat.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just a weird shaped thing, and
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Speaker 2: I don't know how to explain what it is. So
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Speaker 2: maybe someone will come forward, all right. A toddler in
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Speaker 2: India survived a cobra attack by biting the deadly snake
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Speaker 2: to death. Two year old Govinda Kumar was playing outside
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Speaker 2: when a cobra slithered up and coiled itself around his arms.
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Speaker 2: Without panic, the child bit the snake as hard as
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Speaker 2: he could, eventually killing it. The boy, however, ingested some
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Speaker 2: of the snake's venom and collapsed. He was rushed to
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Speaker 2: the hospital for a treatment and survived in stable condition.
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Speaker 2: The cobra, however, dead. That's a tough kid, I don't
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Speaker 2: think I I mean, I guess you get in a
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Speaker 2: survival situation, there's you know, especially when you're really young.
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Speaker 2: This is a two year old as a toddler. I
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Speaker 2: don't know how big the snake was, but that's a
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Speaker 2: pretty uh, that's a pretty tough kid. That's like Chuck
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Speaker 2: Norris level legend right there. Visitors to Ohio's Cedar Point
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Speaker 2: Amusement Park may want to start reconsidering riding the park's
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Speaker 2: newest appropriately named attraction, Siren's Curse, The newest ride at
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Speaker 2: the thrill park, left righters stranded on the top track
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Speaker 2: about a week ago, forcing them to nervously walk down
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Speaker 2: the tracks to safety. It was the fourth time this
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Speaker 2: has happened since it's opening about a month ago, and
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Speaker 2: it's not your average roller coaster. Siren's Curse is the
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Speaker 2: first so called tilt coaster in the US. Features a
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Speaker 2: section of track that disconnects from its starting position, turned
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Speaker 2: ninety degrees, and then reattaches to a steep decline track. Fortunately,
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Speaker 2: no injuries were reported from any of the four malfunctions,
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Speaker 2: so I think I'd probably sit in that one out
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Speaker 2: for a little bit until they get all the bugs
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Speaker 2: worked out. I don't know. I don't know how I
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Speaker 2: feel about having to walk down doesn't seem fun. A
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Speaker 2: slow moving escape artist is back home in Devon, England
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Speaker 2: after a very low, sorry very slow, sixteen day adventure. Shelley,
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Speaker 2: a twenty year old leopard tortoise, vanished from her family's
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Speaker 2: garden on July ninth. Her owners were shocked that she
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Speaker 2: managed to get out, had no idea where she could
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Speaker 2: have gone. It's a tortoise, they didn't think she could
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Speaker 2: have gotten very far, But after sixteen days with no
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Speaker 2: signs of her, Shelley finally appeared three miles away out
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Speaker 2: the side an ice cream parlor. A farmer in the
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Speaker 2: area was first to notice her and thought she was
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Speaker 2: a rock until she started moving. Word of Shelley's escape
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Speaker 2: had been in the news, so the farmer got in
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Speaker 2: touch with the owners and arranged for a reunion. They
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Speaker 2: drove to the ice cream parlor to pick Shelley up,
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Speaker 2: then gave her a little ice cream before bringing her
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Speaker 2: back home. They've since reinforced the fence around the yard
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Speaker 2: so Shelley won't make any more ice cream runs. That's nice.
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Speaker 2: This could have been in the good news story. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's weird, but he could have just been in her
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Speaker 2: good news store. That's a positive. I always like what
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Speaker 2: a pet gets reunited, even if it was trying to
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Speaker 2: make some kind of an escape. A family in Oklahoma
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Speaker 2: City didn't have finding a naked four hundred pound man
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Speaker 2: in their home on their Bengo card last week, but
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Speaker 2: they did just that. The naked burglar identified as Cory Cisco.
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Speaker 2: It's a great name. I don't like what. I don't
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Speaker 2: like being four to pound naked guy, but I like
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Speaker 2: the name. Didn't stay long because the homeowners grabbed their
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Speaker 2: guns and he bolted out the back door ran across
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Speaker 2: the yard jumped into a pond, where he stayed for
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Speaker 2: about an hour. Blake Overstreet, who owns the house, said
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Speaker 2: that he waited in the water very much hippopotamus like.
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Speaker 2: I think that's a cut on his size, isn't it,
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Speaker 2: dodging snakes and snapping turtles. Police eventually showed up coaxed
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Speaker 2: him out of the pond. Cisco was under the influence
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Speaker 2: you think, and has been arrested for indecent exposure and
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Speaker 2: public intoxication. I don't know what the blood alcohol level was,
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Speaker 2: but when you're a big fellow, I think they can usually,
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Speaker 2: you know, consume a lot before they start to show
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Speaker 2: any signs of intoxication. Pizzeria in Stouton, Wisconsin shared a
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Speaker 2: kitchen with a licensed edible marijuana vendor. What could possibly
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Speaker 2: go wrong? Dozens of people were sick and after they
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Speaker 2: were accidentally dosed with THHC. Yeah, after eating food from
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Speaker 2: the famous Yeti's Pizza. When the pizza rea ran out
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Speaker 2: of cooking oil, staff unknowingly used THCHC infused oil from
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Speaker 2: the shared kitchen to prepare items like pizza, garlic, bread,
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Speaker 2: and sandwiches. The contaminated food was sold over a three
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Speaker 2: day period, and soon after, emergency crews responded to reports
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Speaker 2: of people experiencing dizziness, anxiety, and other symptoms of TCHC intoxication.
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Speaker 2: Several sorry seven several people were hospitalized. Dozens more reported symptoms.
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Speaker 2: It actually occurred last October, but the CDC recently included
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Speaker 2: it in a new report. In total, eighty five people
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Speaker 2: said that they felt the effects of the TCHC after
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Speaker 2: eating at the restaurant, including children and seniors. Some even
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Speaker 2: tested positive for TC despite not knowingly consuming cannabis. The
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Speaker 2: restaurant owner cooperated with health officials closed the business immediately
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Speaker 2: after learning what happened. The CDC says they're still investigating. Now.
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Speaker 2: This is in Wisconsin. Cory Cisco was in Oklahoma City.
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Speaker 2: I'm guessing I don't want to be mean, but I'm
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Speaker 2: guessing Cory Cisco probably likes pizza. I mean, he was
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Speaker 2: intoxicated in some capacity. I don't know. I'm just doing
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Speaker 2: the math, but I do realize Oklahoma City, Wisconsin not
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Speaker 2: after the break, well, are you familiar with adult summer camps?
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Speaker 2: It's a thing and apparently it's really popular. People looking
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Speaker 2: of like adult summer camp, just for like a weekend
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Speaker 2: with some of my friends. So maybe in a way
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Speaker 2: I have that experience already. But I don't want to
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Speaker 2: get back to the you know, mosquitoes and red bugs
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Speaker 2: and flies and all that stuff that doesn't interest me.
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Speaker 2: I don't need to do that all right. Public toilets
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Speaker 2: can be disgusting. Let's be honest. If you've ever had
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Speaker 2: to use a public toilet, probably was a sincere like
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Speaker 2: time of going. I don't really want to do this
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Speaker 2: am I going to go in there? It might be awful.
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Speaker 2: Usually it is, I think, especially if you're in a
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Speaker 2: larger city, and that's usually the place where you desperately
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Speaker 2: need a toilet, right because if you're not at a
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Speaker 2: restaurant or in a hotel or something, you might need
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Speaker 2: a situation where you think, I've got to use a
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Speaker 2: public bathroom. Sometimes they're just hard to find, period. So
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Speaker 2: as a company called Thrown Labs that plans to make
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Speaker 2: changes to all that, they've created smart toilets designed to
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Speaker 2: be convenient and comfortable, high tech restrooms are unlocked by
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Speaker 2: a QR code, they have running water, they're free to use.
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Speaker 2: They're also monitored with a rating system, and without violating privacy.
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Speaker 2: The system is set up in a way that the
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Speaker 2: toilets are less likely than public toilets to be messed
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Speaker 2: up or trashed by users. Big cities where there's lots
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Speaker 2: of protesters good luck. I mean, we've seen this whole
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Speaker 2: talk about setting a police car on fire is just
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Speaker 2: sort of being a basic activity, right just to watch
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Speaker 2: it burn. So I would think setting a smart toilet
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Speaker 2: on fire might be something people like to watch burn.
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Speaker 2: Not that I'm trying to disparage the idea. I think
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Speaker 2: this is a great idea. I like the idea of
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Speaker 2: having monitors public toilets, not in the stalls, but you
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Speaker 2: know what I mean. A recent study found that humans
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Speaker 2: still outperform AI in one important creative task, making smart toilets.
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Speaker 2: Now the alternative uses task researchers. Researchers matched pairs of
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Speaker 2: humans against AI systems, asking them to think of new
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Speaker 2: uses for everyday objects. While AI showed impressive originality, the
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Speaker 2: best human ideas were still unmatched by the machines. So
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Speaker 2: we got that going for us, right. If you ever
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Speaker 2: wish you could eat French fries while playing games on
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Speaker 2: your brand new switch to and not ever have to
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Speaker 2: look away from the screen, well guess what. A three
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Speaker 2: D print designer created something called gamy fries. That doesn't
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Speaker 2: sound good. You put gamey in it, it doesn't sound good.
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Speaker 2: It's basically a joy con grip that doubles as a
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Speaker 2: holder for your fries. That's what it is. Sounds simple enough.
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Speaker 2: I don't like the name, but I like the idea.
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Speaker 2: It's shaped in the iconic red fry carton for McDonald's
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Speaker 2: and it lets you inhale the fries without letting go
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Speaker 2: of your controller. Yeah, it looks ridiculous, seems unlikely too
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Speaker 2: many gamers we're actually wanting such a thing. But it
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Speaker 2: seems to be a real thing in the three D
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Speaker 2: print world, and it does actually exist. So if you
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Speaker 2: can't stop playing games long enough to and I guess
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Speaker 2: you can put things besides fries in there. I suppose
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Speaker 2: does it have to be fries? I don't think so.
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Speaker 2: I just don't like the name Gamy fries. It doesn't
25:46
Speaker 2: sound good. How about some forgotten websites from back in
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Speaker 2: the early two thousands. Speaking of nostalgia, this is my
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Speaker 2: kind of nostalgia. I don't need to go to summer
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Speaker 2: camp again. I don't need to deal with all of
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Speaker 2: the drama that comes from summer camp. But let's just
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Speaker 2: jump back to the early two thousands and remember some
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Speaker 2: of the websites that maybe you haven't heard mentioned in
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Speaker 2: a while. Remember Napster, Remember Alta Vista, or board dot
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Speaker 2: Com or MySpace GeoCities. I think we all remember GeoCities
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Speaker 2: and ask Jeeves. So some other websites, maybe they have
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Speaker 2: gone in the past, disappeared forever. If we're gonna mention MySpace,
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Speaker 2: we should mention friends her too, shouldn't we remember that?
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Speaker 2: That was like one of the I think that was
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Speaker 2: the OG, at least for me, it was the first one.
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Speaker 2: I remember it all all right. That'll do it for
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