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Strange and Bizarre News with a Badly Executed Jedi Mind Trick · 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: Carrol Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Friday morning, twenty eighth day of March. I'm Wes. Thanks
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  Speaker 2: for joining me. Some schools in our area winding down
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  Speaker 2: their spring break this weekend, and some just getting started
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  Speaker 2: as kids going to school today will be, and some
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  Speaker 2: not even going to school today, because when you're kicking
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  Speaker 2: off spring break sometimes you get that little head start
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  Speaker 2: into some kind of a spring break trip. We've been there,
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  Speaker 2: We've done that. I won't apply to us this year though, because,
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  Speaker 2: as I've mentioned before, we're doing an international trip this summer,
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  Speaker 2: and all of our travel funds went towards that, because that's,
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  Speaker 2: you know, what you got to do sometimes, especially if
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  Speaker 2: you're going halfway around the world. And I'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: more about that when we get closer to the trip,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm planning to do some shows from Australia. I'm
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  Speaker 2: gonna be working while I'm on this trip. It is
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  Speaker 2: a vacation, but you know, the show must go on,
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  Speaker 2: you know, that's the rule. Maybe a slightly limited number
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  Speaker 2: of shows, but we'll keep the shows going while we're
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  Speaker 2: on our trip. But we'll talk more about that as
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  Speaker 2: we get a little bit closer to the actual trip,
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  Speaker 2: which will be in June. So I wanted to mention
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  Speaker 2: something here because a lot of conversation going on around
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  Speaker 2: the country, around the world, even about the movie snow White.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about it at the beginning of the week
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  Speaker 2: because it's a flop. I mean, this is a movie
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  Speaker 2: that was in trouble from the very beginning. They cast
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  Speaker 2: someone to play snow White that basically came into it
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  Speaker 2: twenty years old. I think she came into it sort
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  Speaker 2: of with a lot of negative energy directed at the
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  Speaker 2: original snow White project, something that is deemed a classic.
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  Speaker 2: As I point, you can go back and listen to
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  Speaker 2: Monday Show if you want, but basically laying out how
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  Speaker 2: this should have been a complete home run, an easy
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  Speaker 2: slam dunk win for this. This isn't a you know,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you're gonna have cgi some of the animals and
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  Speaker 2: things in it. You got those situations where there's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a few I'm not a big fan of doing
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  Speaker 2: the remake, the live action remake of movies like The
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  Speaker 2: Lion King or any of the ones that really found
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say Lee Loo and Stitch, but that
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  Speaker 2: you've got one character that's kind of cgi'ed in that,
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  Speaker 2: but with the Lion King, which is a fantastic right,
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  Speaker 2: But if you're going to do a live action remake
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  Speaker 2: of it and it's just all animated versions of the
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  Speaker 2: same characters, then it's really just a different type of cartoon. Right.
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  Speaker 2: The Lion King doesn't have any human characters in it,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not really live action other than you're just
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  Speaker 2: CGI and these animated characters. I guess onto you know,
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  Speaker 2: the desert or the Serengetti or you know whatever. So
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  Speaker 2: when you're making one, though, that's just an easy live
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  Speaker 2: action remake people human beings, most of your characters. It
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  Speaker 2: should be a slamm dunk. You could do shot for shot.
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  Speaker 2: You don't have to make any changes. I think they
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  Speaker 2: did Lion King shot for shot, just a different type
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  Speaker 2: of animation with it. So, and then you take a
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  Speaker 2: star of this thing that is, you know, a Hispanic actress,
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  Speaker 2: Latina actress, whatever the term is. Now, I know it's
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  Speaker 2: not latin X. I know I know that it's Evenewsom
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  Speaker 2: has tried to say I had no one on my
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  Speaker 2: staff as ever, the governor California, no one's ever used
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  Speaker 2: that term and then there's a bunch of audio of
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  Speaker 2: him using it. That guy's already setting himself up to
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  Speaker 2: be a train wreck as a political candidate moving forward
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  Speaker 2: for president, I guess. But anyway, Tide the point doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean he can't win. I mean, I think we've learned that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a lot of things that people will
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  Speaker 2: tolerate just in the name of you know, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to vote for my team no matter what. But that aside,
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  Speaker 2: they cast this actress who doesn't look like snow white
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  Speaker 2: in the traditional sense, doesn't fit the description from the story,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't fit the description that's been the description of this
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  Speaker 2: character forever, and they cast her, and that basically they
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  Speaker 2: had a built in excuse. Well, if people don't watch it,
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  Speaker 2: they're not going to watch it because they don't like
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  Speaker 2: the fact that she's got brown skin. Didn't help that
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  Speaker 2: she basically took a pro Palestine stan an anti Israel
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  Speaker 2: stance on the politics of the day. And oh, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, her co star is an Israeli actress. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm only mentioning this because we're rolling into another weekend.
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  Speaker 2: This is where the real pain of this will come
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  Speaker 2: in a not great opening weekend but it's so so
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  Speaker 2: opening weekend for it, and then the drop off from
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  Speaker 2: week one to week two is when you really get
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  Speaker 2: an idea of how bad a movie is, because word
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  Speaker 2: of mouth tends to have a huge impact on the
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  Speaker 2: second weekend and there's always some not always, there's usually
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  Speaker 2: some sort of a drop off, but anyway, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: see how badly it goes this weekend. Disney hoping that
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  Speaker 2: maybe snow white Halloween costumes will save them. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: when you start looking at Halloween costumes and toy sales
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  Speaker 2: as the way to try to save your movie that's
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  Speaker 2: not going to make its budget back, and they're hoping
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  Speaker 2: for you know, Disney of vacations to go up and
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  Speaker 2: those sorts of things, And I just don't know that
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  Speaker 2: this movie is going to help them with that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: it just puts Disney top of mine as a destination
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  Speaker 2: for people. But anyway, the other reason I'm bringing it
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  Speaker 2: up is I have been one of those people who
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  Speaker 2: has fluctuated on and basically however, I've heard someone mispronounce
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  Speaker 2: the Israeli actress in questions name, and I have been
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  Speaker 2: a little lazy with it because I hear an interview
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  Speaker 2: and Apparently she does not correct people when the interview
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  Speaker 2: is taking place, typically when they mispronounce her name. So
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  Speaker 2: I've heard her name pronounced different ways, like to her
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  Speaker 2: face or with her present, and she doesn't correct them
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  Speaker 2: because she acknowledges it's a tough name. But I did
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  Speaker 2: my due diligence because I really wanted to know, because
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  Speaker 2: I've said it different ways, and I didn't say it
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  Speaker 2: correctly on Monday. But her name is gal Goodotte, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So as the guy who reads names at graduation for
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  Speaker 2: Columbus State University, where I went to school and graduated,
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  Speaker 2: I pride myself on getting names right. And I realized, oh,
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  Speaker 2: I really butchered her name many times, but really a
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  Speaker 2: lot on Monday. So but she plays the evil witch,
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  Speaker 2: who in no universe is less beautiful than the snow
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  Speaker 2: white character, so shouldn't have anything to worry about. That
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  Speaker 2: should have ended the whole movie right away. She goes
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  Speaker 2: to the mirror, the mirror goes you. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: the fairest, and then that's it. It's over. Moviees over.
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  Speaker 2: We don't even have to go through all the apple
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  Speaker 2: and drama and everything. Hey, it's Friday. Let's dive into
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  Speaker 2: some strange and bizarre newsom around the world. How about
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  Speaker 2: this As I'm preparing for a long flight this summer.
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  Speaker 2: As previously discussed, this one is a little little scary.
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  Speaker 2: Not scary, but inconvenient. It's scary to know that this
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  Speaker 2: is an opportunity, this is something that could happen. A
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  Speaker 2: United Airlines flight from la to Shanghai, China was forced
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  Speaker 2: to turn around over the Pacific and land in San
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  Speaker 2: Francisco when the pilot realized two hours into the flight
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  Speaker 2: that he had forgotten his passport. Once he realized the error,
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  Speaker 2: he announced the mistake to the two hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 2: seven passengers on board and told them that they'd have
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  Speaker 2: to return to the US. The plane landed in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 2: passengers were taken off. The plane later reboarded with a
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  Speaker 2: new crew, all of whom had their passports with them,
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  Speaker 2: and the end passengers had to endure a six hour
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  Speaker 2: delay in getting to China. The airline provided everyone with
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  Speaker 2: meal vouchers and compensation. That stinks. You get on a
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  Speaker 2: plane and you're expecting a really the mindset if you
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  Speaker 2: haven't flown a long international flight, and that's a long
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  Speaker 2: one and I've done the We're actually this this time,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna do Melbourne to Dallas direct. That's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: a really long flight.
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  Speaker 1: Now.
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  Speaker 2: That is catching the you're catching the tailwinds on that one,
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  Speaker 2: but it's still a long flight. When you mentally get
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  Speaker 2: ready for a long flight, at least for me, and
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  Speaker 2: then having it yanked away from you, that's got a sting.
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  Speaker 2: Florida man arrested for drug possession tried to use a
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  Speaker 2: Jedi mind trick on police and obviously not strong with
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  Speaker 2: the force. Cops say they pulled over forty one year
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  Speaker 2: old Thomas Carpenter on a routine traffic stop found evidence
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  Speaker 2: of drug use in his car. He was with a
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  Speaker 2: woman and two children. Officers found drug paraphernalia, marijuana, and
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  Speaker 2: meth in the car. They also noticed Carpenter was having
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  Speaker 2: trouble staying awake. His female companion said that they had
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  Speaker 2: smoked wheed in the car before they were pulled over.
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  Speaker 2: The woman was let off with a warning, but Carpenter
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  Speaker 2: was placed under arrest. While he was being booked and searched,
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  Speaker 2: officers found several small bags of meth hidden in his underwear,
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  Speaker 2: to which Carpenter firmly stated there's nothing wrong with drugs.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's not quite. These aren't the droids you're
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  Speaker 2: looking for, but it's a good attempt didn't work, and
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  Speaker 2: he was hit with additional drug charges because of what
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  Speaker 2: they found in his underwear. I guess I got questions
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  Speaker 2: about the kids in the car and the woman who
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  Speaker 2: was just let off with a warning. I don't really
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  Speaker 2: understand that, but anyway, a Florida woman. Maybe they were
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  Speaker 2: just concerned that some federal judge was going to step
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  Speaker 2: in and say, don't charge her. Florida woman was caught
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  Speaker 2: shoplifting at Walmart by using the banana trick as it's known,
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  Speaker 2: and she'll face more charges than just theft. Catherine Gordon
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  Speaker 2: was caught stealing eighty three dollars worth of groceries by
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  Speaker 2: peeling the barcodes off bananas and placing them on other
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  Speaker 2: items to make them less expensive, paid for them at
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  Speaker 2: the self checkout, and left the store. Police stopped her
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  Speaker 2: as she walked into the parking lot and placed her
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  Speaker 2: under arrest. Once she was in custody, she mentioned that
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  Speaker 2: there were two children in her car. Cops checked found
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  Speaker 2: two young kids locked inside the vehicle with the windows closed.
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  Speaker 2: It's unclear what Gordon's relationship with the children is, but
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  Speaker 2: she told police that their parents leave them in the
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  Speaker 2: car all the time. The kids were taken out of
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  Speaker 2: the car. Gordon charged with child neglect in addition to
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  Speaker 2: the theft. I know they call it the banana trick.
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  Speaker 2: I don't really understand how this works, and I'm not
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  Speaker 2: advocating doing it, so I'm not trying to get an
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  Speaker 2: understanding of it so that people can do it. That's
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  Speaker 2: That's not where I'm going with this. But if you
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  Speaker 2: scan the code for the banana, you have to weigh
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  Speaker 2: the banana. So how does that help you? You're better
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  Speaker 2: with a code for another low priced item, right the
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  Speaker 2: people that put it, like on a ring or something,
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  Speaker 2: and scan their ring instead of the item, That makes
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  Speaker 2: more sense to me. I don't get the banana thing
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  Speaker 2: because you're gonna have to waste something. Maybe they have
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  Speaker 2: something really like that they're weighing on it. Anyway. The
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  Speaker 2: family of a late Florida man is paying tribute to
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  Speaker 2: him in a brutally honest obituary that was published in
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Times. Arthur Nixon Bates, the fourth passed
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  Speaker 2: away on March fifth. In his obituaries, family says he's
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  Speaker 2: succumbed to a life of drugs, Marlboroughs, fast women and
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  Speaker 2: Ford Broncos. It goes on to say he survived by
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  Speaker 2: three daughters, none of whom know how they will get
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  Speaker 2: by without Dad calling to ask for twenty dollars for
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  Speaker 2: cigarettes and methadone one last time. Comments from friends and
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  Speaker 2: family in the guest book for the obituary said things
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  Speaker 2: like Bates was a true Florida man. He still owes
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  Speaker 2: me twenty bucks. You're not getting the twenty bucks back.
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  Speaker 2: You probably knew you weren't getting it back when you
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  Speaker 2: loaned it to him. That's just my hunch. He Louisiana
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  Speaker 2: man was arrested for attacking his wife with food probably
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't represent himself in court. Police say fifty eight year
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  Speaker 2: old Willie Cook got into a heated verbal argument with
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  Speaker 2: his wife and it turned violent when he began throwing
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  Speaker 2: food at her. He also allegedly hit her in the
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  Speaker 2: head with a metal spoon. Police arrived at their home
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  Speaker 2: and saw food in the bedroom where the wife said
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  Speaker 2: the attack occurred, and she had a bruise on the
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  Speaker 2: back of her head. As cook was being taken into custody.
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  Speaker 2: He argued, it is not a crime to throw food
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  Speaker 2: on your wife. I guess it depends on the context.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, he may have a point. Officers had a
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  Speaker 2: different opinion and arrested him for aggravated domestic battery. He
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  Speaker 2: spent two days in jail before posting five hundred dollars bond.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's probably some circumstances or throwing food on
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  Speaker 2: your wife would be okay. I mean, obviously there has
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  Speaker 2: to be some consent, But I mean I can think
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  Speaker 2: of a few scenarios where it might be legal if
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  Speaker 2: he's making that case. Hey, a Florida woman with a
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  Speaker 2: history of robbery convictions is back in jail again, probably
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  Speaker 2: because she's not very good at what she does. Police say.
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  Speaker 2: Forty four year old Allison Fetting of Coconut Creek went
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  Speaker 2: into a dairy queen and left with a tip jar
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  Speaker 2: containing a dollar fifty. Ordinarily, that would be a small
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  Speaker 2: misdemeanor crime, but Fetting felt the need to pull out
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  Speaker 2: a gun and demand the tip jar rather than cash
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  Speaker 2: from the register. Cops caught up with her the next
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  Speaker 2: day placed her under arrest. She has a history of
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  Speaker 2: theft and previously served jail time in two thousand and
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  Speaker 2: three for robbery. I mean, you can see the tip jar.
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  Speaker 2: You typically know if there's very much in there. You
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  Speaker 2: could kind of gauge by how many coins, what types
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  Speaker 2: of coins are their bills in there? What types of
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  Speaker 2: bills in there. I would think you ought to be
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  Speaker 2: able to eyeball that it's a dollar fifty pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not one of those guys you can
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  Speaker 2: throw a bunch of coins in the air and hear
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  Speaker 2: them bounce on the floor and say how much money
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  Speaker 2: it is. But I think I can get a pretty
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  Speaker 2: reasonable estimate on how much is in a tip jar
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  Speaker 2: just from walking up and taking a look at it.
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  Speaker 2: Emergency room doctors at a hospital in China have seen
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  Speaker 2: just about everything, but then a guy walked in with
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  Speaker 2: his girlfriend's hand stuck in his mouth. Doctor's jaws dropped
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  Speaker 2: when a couple walked in seeking emergency medical assistance. The
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  Speaker 2: woman explained that she and her boyfriend were making a
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  Speaker 2: funny video for social media showing how she can fit
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  Speaker 2: her entire fist in her boyfriend's mouth. She achieved her objective,
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  Speaker 2: but then the boyfriend's jaw locked and she couldn't get
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  Speaker 2: her hand out. Doctor sat the couple down and got
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  Speaker 2: them to relax, and then they used a special device
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  Speaker 2: to open the man's jaw just a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: until the woman was able to finally pull her hand out.
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  Speaker 2: Stupid things in stupid videos can lead to stupid trips
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  Speaker 2: right after the break. Well, it's almost April, and April
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  Speaker 2: eighth marks a significant moment in the world of you
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  Speaker 2: lottery players, because, as you may recall, back in October,
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  Speaker 2: there was an announcement that came from the folks at
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  Speaker 2: Mega Millions that they were raising the price of a
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  Speaker 2: ticket from two dollars to five dollars, and you know,
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  Speaker 2: some people didn't take well to that, but apparently one
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  Speaker 2: of the reasons for that is so that they could
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  Speaker 2: up the jackpot amounts. They were trying to create a
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  Speaker 2: situation where they would have more billion dollar opportunities for people,
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  Speaker 2: because some people just you know, don't play the lottery
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  Speaker 2: when it's only twenty million dollars down at that sort
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  Speaker 2: of base level, like it's just twenty million. Well, apparently
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  Speaker 2: on April eighth, it's going up to a minimum jackpot
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  Speaker 2: of fifty million dollars and non jackpot prizes will go
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  Speaker 2: up to ten million dollars. So basically they're saying they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be improving your chances of winning, and then
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  Speaker 2: by having larger jackpots, your chances of winning lots of money.
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  Speaker 2: So there you go, cost you more to play, but
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  Speaker 2: better chances to win big jackpots. It's still, you know,
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  Speaker 2: ridiculous odds, and it's still called the tax on people
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  Speaker 2: who are bad at math. But you know, if you
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  Speaker 2: play it assuming that you're going to lose, knowing that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to lose, and you're not putting all of
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  Speaker 2: your savings in retirement and future into it, you know
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  Speaker 2: you can have fun with it. You just need to
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  Speaker 2: understand you're almost certainly going to lose. Hey, over the
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  Speaker 2: last few years, you've probably heard a lot about declining
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  Speaker 2: pollinators like honeybees. Well, experts say that twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 2: could be the worst year yet for honeybees. In the
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  Speaker 2: last decade, b colonies have suffered annual losses of forty
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  Speaker 2: to fifty percent. Entomologists say that this year, though it
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  Speaker 2: could be up to a seventy percent loss due to
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  Speaker 2: nutrition deficiencies, might infestations, viral diseases, and pesticide exposures. And
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  Speaker 2: they say that. You know, you may seem like, well,
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  Speaker 2: it's the honey bee. We can live without honey. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: But the pollinators are the issues here. They pollinate everything.
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  Speaker 2: And there's also some issues with butterflies. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: that a couple of weeks ago. So trying to do
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  Speaker 2: things to improve the lives of the pollinators if you
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  Speaker 2: can do it, whether it's using fewer pesticides, maybe only
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  Speaker 2: using certain types of pesticides, maybe using them in certain areas.
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  Speaker 2: I know, if you're like us and you have kids
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  Speaker 2: who really really don't like flying insects, it can be challenging.
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  Speaker 2: But for the long term, for the long haul, we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna need these guys, and seventy percent drop is a
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  Speaker 2: pretty significant one. I'm no entomologist, I'm no expert on
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  Speaker 2: the subject. I can just tell you I do like
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  Speaker 2: the idea of us having food, and I also really
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  Speaker 2: really like butterflies. So and my kids don't just like
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  Speaker 2: those flying insects. Hey, we all get stressed at times,
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  Speaker 2: but it seems residents in some states are more stress
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  Speaker 2: than others. Wallet Hub did their deep dive into find
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  Speaker 2: out what the most stressed states are and they decided
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  Speaker 2: to look at average hours work per week, average hours
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  Speaker 2: of sleep on a nightly basis, the health of the
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  Speaker 2: average adult, credit scores, affordable housing, divorce rates, crime rates,
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  Speaker 2: and more. And according to the research, the top five
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  Speaker 2: most stressed states are New Mexico, Nevada, Louisiana, West Virginia,
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  Speaker 2: and Mississippi. On the other end, Nebraska is the least
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  Speaker 2: stressed state, Minnesota, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Iowa. If
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  Speaker 2: you're wondering about us here in the southeast, Alabama ranking
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  Speaker 2: at number eight on the list, Florida at number nine,
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  Speaker 2: and Georgia down at number thirteen. Tennessee up there at
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  Speaker 2: number six, Arkansas seven, So southeast getting some representation. It's
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  Speaker 2: not just about those desert states. I mean, the desert
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  Speaker 2: State's certainly placing high, and you wonder if the desert
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  Speaker 2: is having any impact on it. Finally, have you heard
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  Speaker 2: about appstinence. It's what it sounds like people that are
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  Speaker 2: giving up basically, whether it be just smartphones in general
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  Speaker 2: or giving up maybe certain apps. I like to think
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  Speaker 2: maybe it's certain apps, because this idea of completely giving
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  Speaker 2: up smartphones and going to what they call dumb phones
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  Speaker 2: that have, you know, nothing but the ability maybe to
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  Speaker 2: text and make phone calls. You know people are doing that,
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  Speaker 2: but there's a good possibility that you're listening to this
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  Speaker 2: show on a smartphone, and I like to think that
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  Speaker 2: you would continue to do that. So if you're going
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  Speaker 2: to practice abstinence, I would say maybe just giving up
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  Speaker 2: certain apps, certain certain time wasters, certain brain rot inducing apps,
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  Speaker 2: not necessarily ones that allow you to listen to podcasts
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  Speaker 2: like this show. That'll do it for this Friday edition
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  Speaker 2: of the show. Thanks to our sponsors and Patronspatreon, dot com,
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  Speaker 2: slash Wes, Carol God bless those of you supporting us
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  Speaker 2: there and some new supporters that have come in here recently.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for that, and thank you just for listening.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate that as well. I'll catch you back here
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning.
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