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Speaker 1: So you're telling me there's a theft problem in America.

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Speaker 2: Well, more shoppers admit to stealing from the self checkout.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy.

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Speaker 2: Twenty seven percent of shoppers admit they've intentionally stolen an

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Speaker 2: item at self checkout. That that is a twelve percent

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Speaker 2: increase from the same exact survey that was done two

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Speaker 2: years ago.

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Speaker 1: Oh wow, what do.

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Speaker 2: You think there's stealing?

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Speaker 1: Well, how much is ripen? Well, that's what I'm saying, Like,

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Speaker 1: how much is really available in the self checkout? I

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Speaker 1: mean you got what candy bars, right or gum?

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Speaker 2: Well, it's items that in their shopping cars.

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Speaker 1: Oh, I see what you're saying. They're saying, they're gonna

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Speaker 1: say they pill for something out of the self checkout.

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Speaker 1: There you're saying, they're saying not scanning. You didn't scan something.

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Speaker 1: Now I am hyper paranoid about this, like because I.

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Speaker 2: Is, because the big camera right in front of it

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Speaker 2: face honest.

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Speaker 1: Like anybody could actually when you're doing all this stuff

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Speaker 1: yourself and you're moving to da da da. I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it totally accidentally happens all the time, or somebody's trying to,

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Speaker 1: you know, put things in or I think I scanned

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Speaker 1: something or didn't register, like there's no militia intent whatsoever.

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Speaker 1: But I'm always hyper paranoid, like I check every item

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Speaker 1: because that's the last thing I need. Like I didn't

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Speaker 1: scan something properly. Rob Kendall goes down to detain for

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Speaker 1: stealing something from the Walmart. So I'm always just very

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Speaker 1: very paranoid. But these people are saying they they purposely

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Speaker 1: didn't scan something right.

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Speaker 2: And then walk out the door, oh wow, yeah, with

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Speaker 2: it in their cart, or they'll just put it in

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Speaker 2: a bag without scanning it. And the surprising part about

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Speaker 2: this is it's not big ticket items. It's not like electronics.

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Speaker 2: It is essential items like food, water, and basic household

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Speaker 2: or health products.

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Speaker 1: There was an article, this was a while ago, I'm

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Speaker 1: don't remember where it was, but that stores were pondering

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Speaker 1: getting rid of the self checkouts again because of the

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Speaker 1: theft issue, and what they were losing in terms of

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Speaker 1: product and merchandise was offsetting or even more than what

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Speaker 1: they would have had to pay someone to run these

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Speaker 1: these registers. And now there's some stores, and I don't

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Speaker 1: know if it's gotten any traction or not, but some

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Speaker 1: of these major stores are pondering going back to the

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Speaker 1: you stand in line and scan everything out.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Some of the stores are responding by restricting or

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Speaker 2: reducing these self checkout or the number of items. For example,

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Speaker 2: Target now has a ten item limit dollar General and

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Speaker 2: five below. They put in fewer self checkout lanes. Walmart

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Speaker 2: has removed some of the machines. Sam's Club now is

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Speaker 2: pushing their scan and go app instead of doing it

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Speaker 2: at the register, and the stores are increasing their video monitoring,

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Speaker 2: their staffing in some cases, and also AI systems now

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Speaker 2: to detect suspicious behavior.

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Speaker 1: This is a big deal because it's costing you money

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Speaker 1: every ounce of theft. The store doesn't eat.

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Speaker 2: It then pass it on to you.

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Speaker 1: They pass it on to you. So the more prevalent

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Speaker 1: it just becomes, the more you shrinkage. Thank you. The

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Speaker 1: more prevalent this becomes, the more you're going to pay

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Speaker 1: for stuff every time you go through the through the

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Speaker 1: to the grocery store.

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Speaker 2: So you have to wonder why are people stealing? Is

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Speaker 2: it just there a holes to get their kicks?

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: Forty seven percent say that essentials are too expensive.

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Speaker 1: Well, okay, before you read that the rest of this list,

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Speaker 1: let's just stop there. I guarantee you ninety five percent

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Speaker 1: of those people have an iPhone or equivalent. Right, So

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Speaker 1: don't give me some sad story about how you can't

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Speaker 1: afford food when a lot of these people, I guarantee

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Speaker 1: have streaming services all the stuff the nails done exactly. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I don't buy that for a second. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: get that they may give that as an excuse, but

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Speaker 1: I don't buy that that's the reality on the ground

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Speaker 2: So forty six percent say that price increases are due

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Speaker 2: to tariffs. Thirty nine percent feel that prices are unfair

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Speaker 2: and too high. So there's a portion of people who

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Speaker 2: just want to stick it to the corporation.

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Speaker 1: But it's not the corporation causing the inflation. This is

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Speaker 1: what Look. I'm not on the side of corporation because

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Speaker 1: you know, I think they're trying to make as much

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Speaker 1: money as they possibly can at the expense of you,

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Speaker 1: and I think they're trying to get as much out

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Speaker 1: of their employees as they can at the expense of

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Speaker 1: the employee. But the price rising has been directly caused

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Speaker 1: by actions of our government, whether it's the magical money

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Speaker 1: printing factory, whether it's shutting down supply chains, whether it's

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Speaker 1: now these tariffs, like the corporations Walmart didn't just wake

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Speaker 1: up one day and if it were some big act

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Speaker 1: Target or Meyer or whoever, would immediately undercut them and

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Speaker 1: take all their business. Everybody's prices are rising because of

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Speaker 1: all the stuff the government has done, both Democrats and Republicans,

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Speaker 1: and yet for some reason people just refuse vote better.

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Speaker 1: But they always complain about their circumstance where they're at

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Speaker 1: and blame everybody but the people that they've put in

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Speaker 1: charge to make these policies.

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Speaker 2: So sixty nine percent believe that self checkout makes it

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Speaker 2: easier to steal, and it does break down across gender.

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Speaker 2: Men are twice as likely to steal as women. Really. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: And of the people who.

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Speaker 1: Say you did the study, who put this together? It

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Speaker 1: always fascinates me who the who the actual study.

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Speaker 2: Is lending Tree?

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Speaker 1: Okay, all right, very good.

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Speaker 2: And of the people who have stolen in the past,

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Speaker 2: sixty one percent say they do it again.

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Speaker 1: Have you ever gotten out of the store with something

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Speaker 1: that you didn't pay for accidentally? Because I guarantee it's

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Speaker 1: not that I'm.

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Speaker 2: Aware of, because I'm pretty good at checking that, not

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Speaker 2: only checking to make sure that everything is scanned. But

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Speaker 2: when I do this self checkout and put everything in

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Speaker 2: the bag, so I always spin the wheel again to

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Speaker 2: make sure that I have picked up the bags, you know,

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Speaker 2: with the items that I've put in, Because very much

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Speaker 2: like you, I would that would be the stupidest thing

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Speaker 2: to go down for.

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Speaker 1: And I wonder maybe somebody who is in this industry,

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Speaker 1: because we have a.

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Speaker 2: Course, somebody who's done.

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Speaker 1: It, well, yeah, or somebody who's done it, let us know.

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Speaker 2: If you've shoplifted.

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Speaker 1: You don't need not give your name when you're If

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Speaker 1: you do this, is there's some there has to be.

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Speaker 1: There's no way that if you paid for one hundred

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Speaker 1: and fifty dollars in groceries and you had some two

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Speaker 1: dollars and fifty cent jug of milk that you just

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Speaker 1: didn't scan, there's no way they called the cops on

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Speaker 1: you for that. So my question is if you've been

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Speaker 1: a victim's not the right word, but if you've had

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Speaker 1: this happen to you, do they what is the.

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Speaker 2: Process like let you go back in and oops, oh,

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Speaker 2: let me just pay it.

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Speaker 1: There's no it has to be relative to what you're

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Speaker 1: actually doing, right, I mean, there's no way. You would

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Speaker 1: be an insane person to spend all this money in

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Speaker 1: groceries and then risk it on, you know, one little thing.

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Speaker 1: There has to be some some formula that they used

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Speaker 1: to decide whether they're going to go. Hey man, I

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Speaker 1: think you forgot to pay for that versus going nine

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Speaker 1: one one. You know, we've got a serial thief on

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Speaker 1: our hands.

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Speaker 2: Well, according to this study, the people that have stolen,

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Speaker 2: forty six percent have been caught, and there are some

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Speaker 2: sociopaths doing it because thirty one percent say they don't

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Speaker 2: feel remorse.

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Speaker 1: Well, you'll love this. When I worked at the State

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Speaker 1: Auditor's Office, so this was years ago, one of the

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Speaker 1: guys I worked with had a part time job at

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Speaker 1: I think it was Target, but I don't know that

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Speaker 1: for sure. I can't remember his Target or his Kmart.

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Speaker 1: But he had a job. His weekend job was he

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Speaker 1: worked in loss prevention and he would come in on Monday,

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Speaker 1: you know, he'd work there Saturday and Sunday, and he

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Speaker 1: was the eye and the sky guy, right and he

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Speaker 1: was this guy was perfect for this. He was totally

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Speaker 1: cerebral about everything, very sharp, and he would tell me

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Speaker 1: these stories of what was stolen and how they would

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Speaker 1: catch get red hated. And then his favorite part was

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Speaker 1: he was not the guy that approached them then. I

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Speaker 1: think they had like an office are on duty who

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Speaker 1: then when they would do, okay, that person whatever. And

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Speaker 1: the excuses then, because they take you back to some

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Speaker 1: sort of not holding cell or whatever, but some way

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Speaker 1: that they, you know, try to get you to fess up.

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Speaker 1: And the excuses that these people would give when they've

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Speaker 1: got them right on camera, he said, they were just,

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Speaker 1: I mean, the worst, but it was hilarious the stuff

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Speaker 1: they would try to come up with to explain stealing

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Speaker 1: the stuff