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TikTok challenge goes wrong and Burger King sued over burger size · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: So I this is up. You already know well you
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  Speaker 1: sent me this story I think this morning. This is
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  Speaker 1: one of the ones that you sent in your uh
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  Speaker 1: your morning stuff email. Correct. I don't know. You've kind
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  Speaker 1: of heard where I'm going on this already. Do you
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  Speaker 1: do you want to correct my course? Or are we
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  Speaker 1: in the same same mindset here?
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  Speaker 2: I used to do this when I was a kid. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: but there's more to the story that should be elaborated
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  Speaker 2: on than just ringing a doorbell and running away.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently more is there more to the story than what
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  Speaker 1: is in what you sent me?
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  Speaker 2: No, I mean in the story, I mean somebody they
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a a break in and somebody it
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  Speaker 2: sounded like somebody who's kicking in the door. So there's
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  Speaker 2: a little more nuanced than what people are hearing if
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  Speaker 2: they haven't heard this story before, where ding dong ditch
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  Speaker 2: and somebody gets shot.
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  Speaker 1: Last night, I was griping about, you know, the children's
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  Speaker 1: services situation, and they've been involved in a child was
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  Speaker 1: still dead. Nonetheless, and this actually kind of falls into
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  Speaker 1: the same category. It's a different world. It is a
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  Speaker 1: very different world, and we've got a man who is
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if he has been tried yet or not.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll recall about a year ago a woman came
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  Speaker 1: to his house. She was an uber driver or a
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  Speaker 1: lyft driver or something like that, who thought she was
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  Speaker 1: picking up a package. And the old man had been
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  Speaker 1: receiving these harassing calls and somebody was going to come
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  Speaker 1: to the house and shoot him or whatever. And he
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  Speaker 1: comes out and he's scared, and she won't cooperate and
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  Speaker 1: he ends up shooting her, and he was going to
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  Speaker 1: face charges. This basically, this terrified old man. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not happy that this woman was shot. I absolutely not.
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  Speaker 1: But we want to make excuses for everybody in society.
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  Speaker 1: Every time bad guys intentionally do bad stuff, there's somebody
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  Speaker 1: wants to come up with an excuse. Now you've got
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  Speaker 1: just a terrified old white guy and this black woman
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  Speaker 1: pulls up in his driveway after he's been told somebody's
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  Speaker 1: coming to hurt you, shoot you, steal fort whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: he takes action, thinking he is defending himself against a
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  Speaker 1: threat that is coming. And it turns out that it
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  Speaker 1: was all a hoax. It was just somebody playing some
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  Speaker 1: stupid game on both of these people. There was no
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  Speaker 1: package for her to pick up and there was nobody
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  Speaker 1: coming to hurt him, but they put them in there
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  Speaker 1: and they let this happen. Those people, those people that
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  Speaker 1: made those calls, created that situation, are far more culpable
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  Speaker 1: than that old man is as far as I'm concerned.
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  Speaker 1: But the world being the sick, twisted place that it is,
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  Speaker 1: and people want to do everything on YouTube and TikTok
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  Speaker 1: and get famous for creating chaos and havoc, that's what
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  Speaker 1: causes things like this. Now, this story comes from TikTok,
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  Speaker 1: and this is not again, It's a different world where yeah,
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  Speaker 1: knocking on the door and running, or ringing the doorbell
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  Speaker 1: and running, or making a phone call and hanging up,
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  Speaker 1: and you know that stuff. The world was not filled
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  Speaker 1: with crazy people to do insane things back when you
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  Speaker 1: were doing that, Zach. Today it is and people are scared.
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  Speaker 1: And I've been saying this over and over. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to get worse. People are tired of bad people doing
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  Speaker 1: bad stuff and getting away with it. They are scared
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  Speaker 1: to go outside, they're scared to go to the parking
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  Speaker 1: lot from the grocery store. They got to have the
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  Speaker 1: head on the squad constantly looking around quiet Virginia suburb
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  Speaker 1: turning deadly when an eighteen year old high school senior
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  Speaker 1: was shot while filming with friends on prom day. What
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  Speaker 1: started as a ding dong ditch for social media ended
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  Speaker 1: with an arrest for second degree murder. Reports The Washington
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  Speaker 1: Post equaled. Bosworth, Junior, and two others had been filming themselves,
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  Speaker 1: knocking on strangers doors and fleeing around three a m. Saturday,
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  Speaker 1: when a resident opened the door after an emergency call
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  Speaker 1: about a possible break in the Spotsylvania. I guess I've
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  Speaker 1: never heard a spots Sylvania County Sheriff's Office said the
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  Speaker 1: incident took place near Fredericksburg. Bosworth, who was two weeks
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, was weeks from graduation and said to attend
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  Speaker 1: the prom later on Saturday, was shot in the torso
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  Speaker 1: died at the hospital. Another team was also wounded. Sheriff's
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  Speaker 1: office arrested Tyler Chase Butler, twenty seven, charging him with
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  Speaker 1: second degree murder, malicious wondering, and use of a firearm
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  Speaker 1: in a felony. This is the guy who lives there.
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  Speaker 1: The unidentified call who reported the incident told police that
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  Speaker 1: three individuals tried to kick down a door. Investigators learned
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  Speaker 1: the group was doing the ding Dong Ditch videos on
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  Speaker 1: a TikTok challenge. Police noted the teens already hit a
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  Speaker 1: couple of doors in the neighborhood before the shooting. One
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  Speaker 1: jew and I said the group was running from home
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  Speaker 1: a home when the gunshots came. NBC News said Butler
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  Speaker 1: remains in custody as a court hearing next week on
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  Speaker 1: unrelated misdemeanor charge of violation of a protective order and
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  Speaker 1: unlawfully disseminating images of another. So again, three o'clock in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, and look, I've got I've mentioned it on
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  Speaker 1: the year before. I've got two or three of these
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  Speaker 1: crime apps on my phone. So when something's going down,
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  Speaker 1: the sirens starter with BBBB, I get a notification what's
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  Speaker 1: going on in the area. So you're in a neighborhood,
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  Speaker 1: it's three o'clock, middle of the night, your phone goes
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  Speaker 1: BBB neighbor reports three to two tried kicking in their
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  Speaker 1: door or whatever. And then three there's somebody at your
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  Speaker 1: door after you. And you're not supposed to be worried, concerned, paranoid,
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  Speaker 1: prepared when you open the door, I mean, face it
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  Speaker 1: there's culpability on both sides of this argument. This person, though,
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  Speaker 1: who did the shooting. If the story is all there
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  Speaker 1: is to the story attempted murder, use of a firearm
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  Speaker 1: while committing a felony, they're going after him wholeheartedly. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see any mention of any sort of repercussions for
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  Speaker 1: the two remaining teenagers that were involved in this. It's
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  Speaker 1: not that I'm heartless. I feel bad this eighteen year
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  Speaker 1: old kid is is gone doing stupid stuff. I feel
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  Speaker 1: bad about that. But I'm also not going to sit
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  Speaker 1: here and say this guy needs to go away for life.
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  Speaker 1: Because as people get more paranoid and bad guys become
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  Speaker 1: more more belligerent in their badness, this is just gonna
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  Speaker 1: get worse. There will be more and more stories like this.
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  Speaker 1: Trust me on that. A two one nine eight six
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  Speaker 1: A two one WUTV and Harry standing by here. Harry,
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  Speaker 1: how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I'm doing good?
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  Speaker 1: How are you okay? As far as I know? Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I have I have a real quick question to wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, Hang on, Harry, you're breaking up. You said,
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  Speaker 1: you said, I listened to you, and then you got
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  Speaker 1: all staticy wayman.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I listen to the radio stations.
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  Speaker 1: Can you hear me? Yeah, about six in the morning.
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  Speaker 3: Till probably seven thirty eight o'clock every day, five days
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  Speaker 3: a week.
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  Speaker 1: Bless your heart.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a dedicated fan.
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  Speaker 1: Uh that killed the people on the bus. Hang on,
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  Speaker 1: hang on, you said, I'm a dedicated fan, and the
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  Speaker 1: you staticed out again.
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  Speaker 3: In the bad area.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, now I got you. Don't don't move Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: I thought he finally found a zen place there to
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  Speaker 1: use his cell phone.
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  Speaker 2: Any well, if we had any if we have any
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  Speaker 2: other callers on the line, you can.
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  Speaker 1: Tell them if Harry was uh, or if you're somewhere
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  Speaker 1: where you can stop driving or moving around or whatever
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  Speaker 1: and just just stand still. When I could hear you,
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  Speaker 1: I could hear you very well, but then you would
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  Speaker 1: just drop out, as if you maybe you were driving
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  Speaker 1: down the road or whatever. So if you can, if
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  Speaker 1: you can hold still, go ahead. We still got a
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  Speaker 1: few minutes left where I can get your get your
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  Speaker 1: call in anyway. I'm just the reason I bring you
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  Speaker 1: this story is, you know, cautionary stuff. First off, you
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  Speaker 1: got the the young people in the house that are
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  Speaker 1: on the TikTok. Just look, man, they're eating tide pods,
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  Speaker 1: they're dubbing water on themselves, they're eating peppers that will
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  Speaker 1: kill them because they're so hot. And now they're doing
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  Speaker 1: stuff like this. Fifty years ago, it might have been
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  Speaker 1: cute during the doorbell and run, or ordered the pizza
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  Speaker 1: and have it sent to the neighbor's house because he's
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  Speaker 1: a mean old man. But this is a different time
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  Speaker 1: and you you can't do it anymore. You cannot do
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. And before I get out of here and
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  Speaker 1: now I must tell you about what this on the
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  Speaker 1: surface might be judged to be a frivolous lawsuit. However,
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  Speaker 1: I understand because I think this all the time. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about fast food advertising. Those burgers they look so good, ah,
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  Speaker 1: and then you get one and it's somehow it's just
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  Speaker 1: not the same. Well, Burger King, I'm sorry. Now that
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  Speaker 1: was the old Jim. What's the new Burger Burger Burger, Burger, Burger, Burger, Burger,
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  Speaker 1: Burger Burger. Yeah, they're terribleper I don't know who's getting
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  Speaker 1: paid for their marketing, but they need to be fired.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it gets stuck in my head, but I
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  Speaker 2: listened to it a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Burger King is in the hot seat because of the
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  Speaker 1: size of the whopper. So this don't ever lie about
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  Speaker 1: the size of your whopper. People. In twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen customers across thirteen states fought a class action lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: alleging that the chain was misrepresenting the size of its
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  Speaker 1: whopper in the advertising. The plane is alleged the advertisements
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  Speaker 1: showcase burgers that were approximately thirty five percent larger in
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  Speaker 1: size and contained more than double the meat than the
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  Speaker 1: actual burger. Burger King filed to dismiss the lawsuit, but
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  Speaker 1: earlier this week a federal judge ruled that the lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: can indeed move forward. Burger King has admitted it's photographers
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  Speaker 1: here's the quote styled sandwiches more beautifully than a restaurant
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  Speaker 1: worker would. A spokes spokesperson claims, the flame grilled beef
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  Speaker 1: patties portrayed in our advertising are the same patties used
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  Speaker 1: in millions of burgers we serve to guest across the
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  Speaker 1: United States. US District Judge Joy Altman, who was presiding
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  Speaker 1: over the dismissal case, ruled that the advertisements go beyond
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  Speaker 1: mere exaggeration or puffery, which allows the case against Burger
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  Speaker 1: King to move puffery. That's the word.
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  Speaker 3: At least people say that about me.
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  Speaker 2: God a puffery, I.
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  Speaker 1: Could see you. Yeah, anyway, so it gets to move
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  Speaker 1: forward here. Spokesman for Burger King alleged the plaintiffs' claims
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  Speaker 1: are false. The lawyer representing the plaintiff stated that they
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  Speaker 1: are happy with the judges ruling. They're ready to move forward.
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  Speaker 1: Food stylists everywhere beware. So yeah, you know, look, I've
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  Speaker 1: said this for a long time. When they show the
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  Speaker 1: fountain Coca cola or whatever next to the burger, the
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  Speaker 1: Coca cola is fizzier and bubble ear, and the burger
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  Speaker 1: is bigger, and it's all neat and laid out nicely,
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  Speaker 1: and that's never, ever, ever what you get when you
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  Speaker 1: go to order the food. However, they're saying thirty five
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  Speaker 1: percent difference in size for something generic that is very particular.
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  Speaker 1: Call me crazy, but I think Burger King. I think
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  Speaker 1: Burger King may may lose this one.
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  Speaker 2: They put those burgers. It's they use when they use
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  Speaker 2: those advertisement, they use.
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  Speaker 3: Glue and stuff to glue the like lettuce on the
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  Speaker 3: right way and ever to make it look perfect. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: so it's not going to look the same as when
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  Speaker 3: you order it, when me or Julio back, they're making
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  Speaker 3: it for you.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna be good Man,