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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand.

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Speaker 2: Happy Halloween, everyone from the beautiful undecorated KFI Studios. Tiffany

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Speaker 2: Hobbs here sitting in from seven to ten. I hope

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Speaker 2: you're all enjoying your Halloween, whatever you're doing, if you

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Speaker 2: are driving to your destination to take your littles trick

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Speaker 2: or treating, or haunted housing or haunted hay writing, whatever

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Speaker 2: it may be, or you're in the house, or you're

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Speaker 2: coming home from work, whatever you're doing. If you have

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Speaker 2: us in your ears, thank you so much for spending

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Speaker 2: your Halloween with us. I know, typically I think I'm

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Speaker 2: out celebrating in some way.

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Speaker 3: I'm a big kid and I love to get out there.

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Speaker 2: I dressed up today and if you want to see

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Speaker 2: my costume I kind of teased it last night with

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Speaker 2: Michael Monks, you can certainly do.

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Speaker 4: So.

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Speaker 2: You can go to my Instagram at tiff hobbs on

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Speaker 2: here at tiff hobbs on here on Instagram or on

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Speaker 2: Facebook and you can see what I was. I said

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Speaker 2: I was going to be the scariest thing ever for teenagers,

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Speaker 2: and people started guessing. They were like, what you know, No,

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Speaker 2: Wi Fi, what a lack of snacks in the house.

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Speaker 2: All of those things are true, yes, but I was

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Speaker 2: a cell phone with a low battery and to see

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Speaker 2: what I mean what that turned into, go to my

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Speaker 2: Instagram at tiff hobbs On here and you can see

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Speaker 2: what that costume actually amounted to a lot of fun.

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Speaker 2: This is one of my favorite holidays. So we have

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Speaker 2: a fun show.

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Speaker 3: We're gonna get to the news.

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Speaker 2: We're gonna cover some of the things that we need

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Speaker 2: to cover around the South Land or around the nation certainly,

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Speaker 2: but we're gonna spend a big bulk of tonight enjoying Halloween.

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Speaker 2: So we have stories about pumpkin decorators. That's a thing

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Speaker 2: you can hire people to decorate your porch with pumpkins.

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Speaker 2: We have a deeper dive segment on the history of

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Speaker 2: escape rooms. You might have heard of those, but what

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Speaker 2: actually are they, When did they start, why are they

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Speaker 2: so popular, and what are some of the not so

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Speaker 2: hidden dangers that actually do happen with escape rooms. We're

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Speaker 2: gonna talk about Freddy Krueger himself getting his star on

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Speaker 2: the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, and a little bit

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Speaker 2: about the nightmare on Elm Street franchise. We're going to

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Speaker 2: talk about our favorite horror remakes, not just your favorite

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Speaker 2: scary movies, but your favorite horror remakes, because there have

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Speaker 2: been a lot, and I have a list of what

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Speaker 2: someone believes is the best twenty five horror remakes of

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Speaker 2: all time. Definitely gonna bring Ronner in on that one.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully we'll get some trigger treating stories. We're gonna have

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Speaker 2: a really fun time. And then also we're going to

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Speaker 2: talk about why Halloween is simply getting more and more

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Speaker 2: expensive every year, why you might have been priced out

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Speaker 2: of buying candy for trigger treaters if that's your thing,

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Speaker 2: and what that amounts to as well. But first and foremost,

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Speaker 2: probably one of the scariest things on many people's minds

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Speaker 2: here in Los Angeles or if you are outside of LA.

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Speaker 2: If you're a Dodger fan, then you are watching this score.

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Speaker 2: You're watching this game very closely. You heard Timmy talking

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Speaker 2: about it. Dodgers are up three.

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Speaker 3: To one, three two one.

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Speaker 2: But if they do not win tonight, the most horrific

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Speaker 2: thing happens to the Dodgers. They get knocked out of

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Speaker 2: the series. If they do win, then they will continue

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Speaker 2: to play and they will move on to Game seven.

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Speaker 2: I believe that's tomorrow in Toronto as well, So watching

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Speaker 3: Toronto is pitching, or you know they're pitching.

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Speaker 2: Dodgers are at the mound, not at the mound. What's

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Speaker 2: at the mound. At the mound is pitching. Dodgers are

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Speaker 2: at bat. Toronto's at the mound. And it's three to

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Speaker 2: looking good. It's a scary time, but Dodgers, hopefully we'll

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Speaker 3: And advance to Game seven.

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Speaker 2: Now we'll continue to watch that, and let's get into

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Speaker 2: some of the stories as well that we're keeping up

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Speaker 2: to speed on. You might have heard there's been some

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Speaker 2: somewhat of good news on the horizon for the many

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Speaker 2: tens of millions of people forty two million in fact,

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Speaker 2: adequate food. That glimmer of hope has come in the

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Speaker 2: form on the thirty first day of the government shutdown

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Speaker 2: by two federal judges who ruled nearly simultaneously that President

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Speaker 2: Trump's administration must continue to fund SNAP. Yes, these judges

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Speaker 2: ordered that the Trump administration have to use tingency funds

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Speaker 2: SNAPS specifically. Now, the rulings came a day before the

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Speaker 3: That's tomorrow.

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Speaker 2: That's what's supposed to happen tomorrow, November first, to the

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Speaker 2: SNAP program because it's said that it can no longer

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Speaker 2: keep the funding due to the shutdown. Now, the program

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Speaker 2: serve about one in eight Americans. California has five point

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Speaker 2: five million recipients of SNAP, and one point five million

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Speaker 2: of those people reside in La County. Specifically, the ruling

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Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean that SNAP benefits will be disrupted this weekend,

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Speaker 2: because the judges gave the Department of Agriculture until Monday

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Speaker 2: officials also said that there's a separate fund there with

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Speaker 2: but it's not immediately clear just how quickly debit cards

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Speaker 2: for these beneficiaries will have their money reissued or reloaded

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Speaker 2: after the ruling, because the process can take weeks, one

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Speaker 2: to two weeks specifically. But there is that glimmer of

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Speaker 2: SNAP benefits to be completely cut tomorrow, November first. That

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Speaker 2: is probably the scariest thing happening around the nation. Not

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Speaker 2: the Dodgers score, not Halloween. This four forty two million

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Speaker 2: people around the nation, five point five million in California,

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Speaker 2: over one and a half million right here in La County.

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Speaker 2: Another story that's coming down the pike here is that

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Speaker 2: there's no sufficient evidence for the Thailand NAW autism link,

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Speaker 2: and that comes courtesy now of Health and Human Services

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Speaker 2: Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, who just last month said the opposite,

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Speaker 2: But he now is saying that there is no sufficient

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Speaker 2: evidence that Thailand AW causes autism, and I believe Tony.

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Speaker 2: We have some audio from RFK himself where he is

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Speaker 2: saying that after warning pregnant women against taking the medication

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Speaker 2: and saying that circumcisions led to autism, that none of

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Speaker 2: this is sufficient evidence for that link with Thailand.

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Speaker 5: All we've all said from the beginning that the UH,

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Speaker 5: the the causative association with thilet between tiland all given

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Speaker 5: and pregnancy and the parent natal periods is not sufficient

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Speaker 5: to say it definitely caused autism, but it is very suggestive,

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Speaker 5: and it suggestive and animal studies and core blood studies

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Speaker 5: should be a cautious approach to it. And that's why

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Speaker 5: our message to Asians, to mothers, to people who are

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Speaker 5: pregnant under the mothers of young children is consult your physician,

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Speaker 5: and we have asked physicians to minimize the use to one.

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Speaker 5: It's absolutely necessary.

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Speaker 2: Again, all people who are on medication should consult their physicians,

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Speaker 2: especially people who women who are pregnant. But there you go,

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Speaker 2: there's your admission of mistaken I would say assignment of

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Speaker 3: And lastly, banks.

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Speaker 2: And retailers are running short on pennies. The US mint

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Speaker 2: has stopped making them, and banks and retailers are saying,

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Speaker 2: wait a minute, We've been pushing for the abolishment of

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Speaker 2: the penny, but not like this, because now we're for

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Speaker 2: because we're going to have to round down. We don't

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Speaker 2: have pennies to issue or even offering certain promotions for

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Speaker 2: do not have them, and things are only getting worse

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Speaker 2: as the country heads into the holiday season. When we

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Speaker 2: come back, we're going to talk a bit more about

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Speaker 2: snap funding and how LAUSD specifically and other school districts

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Speaker 2: around the nation are looking to support families amid this

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Speaker 2: government shut down. All of this and more. It's Halloween.

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Speaker 2: We're going to have some fun Halloween stories coming up.

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Speaker 1: You're listening to KFI AM six forty on demand, Tiffy.

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Speaker 3: Hobbs here, Happy Halloween.

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Speaker 2: I'm here till ten o'clock and if you're out, hit

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Speaker 2: the talkback app let me know the talkback feature. Let

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Speaker 2: me know what you do on Halloween? Are you a

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Speaker 2: person who hands out candy? Are you a person who

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Speaker 2: prefers to kind of let the day go by? How

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Speaker 2: do you celebrate this day? Are you festive? Do you

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Speaker 2: have one of those elaborate porch decorations? What's your deal

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Speaker 2: with Halloween? Not necessarily your favorite costume or give me

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Speaker 2: what you're doing right now, what you usually do? Dodger

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Speaker 2: score still three to one. It's the bottom of the seventh.

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Speaker 2: They have to win. They have to win.

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Speaker 3: I keep saying it feels.

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Speaker 2: Like Toronto wants it more, and I hope I'm wrong,

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Speaker 2: And if I am unfortunately correct, then this will certainly

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Speaker 2: be a very scary Halloween for a lot of people.

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Speaker 2: Those are not fireworks, those are gunshots.

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Speaker 3: So let's keep going.

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Speaker 2: We've been talking about SNAP and one of the ways

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Speaker 2: that LAUSD is hoping to take care of its students

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Speaker 2: should this government shut down result in the revocation or

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Speaker 2: lack of doling out of the benefits of the SNAP program,

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Speaker 2: and this is to use those contingency funds to keep

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Speaker 2: SNAP going, LAUSD, under the advisement of Superintendent Roberto Carvallo,

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Speaker 2: Monday through Friday food assistance in the form of three

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Speaker 2: meals per day per student. No questions asked, All right,

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Speaker 2: Tony ready, here we go.

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Speaker 6: LAUSD wants the families of the two hundred and seventy

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Speaker 6: one thousand students in the district who rely on food

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Speaker 6: benefits to know that November first, free breakfast, lunch and

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Speaker 6: dinner will still be made available.

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Speaker 7: We are ramping up our efforts and ensuring that across

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Speaker 7: most of our schools supper will be available to be

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Speaker 7: picked up for any child up to the age of eighteen.

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Speaker 8: Folks, We're not going to ask questions. And we did

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Speaker 8: this during the pandemic and we will do it again.

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Speaker 8: That was a national crisis. We have another national crisis

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Speaker 8: and we will be there and we will feed our families.

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Speaker 7: The rumbling stomach of a child will prevent that child

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Speaker 7: from learning. It is not humane, it is not compassionate.

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Speaker 7: We will not stand by it.

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Speaker 6: And LAUSD is also working in cooperation with La County

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Speaker 6: to plan in case more essential benefits go unfunded.

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Speaker 2: Here I go saying Roberto Carbllo, It's Alberto Carvallo, and

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Speaker 2: I think I was just so caught up in what

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Speaker 2: LAUSD is hoping to do, because this is monumental. This

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Speaker 2: is certainly a precedent setting move by Alberto Carvallo and

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Speaker 2: to recap. He's saying that the six hundred LAUSD schools

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Speaker 2: will be available to access on their website lausd dot org,

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Speaker 2: where they'd compiled also a food resource list and you

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Speaker 2: can find what schools are nearest to you. They're going

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Speaker 2: to offer dinner to these students. They already offer breakfast

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Speaker 2: Two hundred and seventeen thousand students in LAUSD are SNAP

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Speaker 2: recipients and as Superintendent Alberto Carballo said, no questions asked,

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Speaker 2: you are a student I know during COVID, And they

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Speaker 4: No, because I'm not a fool with more money than sense.

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Speaker 3: No pumpkin scaping for you.

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Speaker 9: Of the just the the innocence, the imperials, the charm

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Speaker 4: When we cover up your dirty pumpkin.

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Speaker 3: Cover dirty pumpkins away.

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Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs here, and that's Tony in there on the

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Speaker 2: these classics. These are great. You have a favorite Halloween song?

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Speaker 3: I mean probably what player's raining blood?

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Speaker 9: Right?

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Speaker 4: That's that rings up there?

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Speaker 3: Can you play that?

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Speaker 2: Okay, make sure you play that tonight. Get some thriller

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Speaker 2: in there at some point, you know, a very cliche.

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Speaker 3: I know it's cliche, the.

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Speaker 2: One everybody goes to, but we gotta go to it.

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Speaker 2: Somebody out there wants to hear it. Thank you, Tony.

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Speaker 2: If you are giving out Halloween candy this year, you

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Speaker 2: might have been faced with the decision. You went to

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Speaker 2: your grocery store, you went to your Costco, your Sam's Club,

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00:26:30,880 --> 00:26:33,479
Speaker 2: or whatever it is, and you stood there in the

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Speaker 2: aisle and you looked at that price of that bag

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Speaker 2: of chocolate, and you thought to yourself, do I keep

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Speaker 2: my lights on or do I buy this bag of

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Speaker 2: Hershey's Because the price of chocolate is competing with any

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Speaker 2: common utility at this point, it's astronomical. I remember standing

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Speaker 2: in front of the again, the candy aisle there looking

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Speaker 2: at chocolate, just wanting to get some stuff, and teachers

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Speaker 2: want to give some stuff my kids, and I ended

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Speaker 2: up buying it.

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Speaker 3: I'm not you know.

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00:27:02,280 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 2: I had to do it, but it hurt. I didn't

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Speaker 2: want to. It hurt because the bag of chocolate was

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00:27:07,640 --> 00:27:12,120
Speaker 2: like eighteen dollars for I don't remember how many pieces,

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Speaker 2: But it wasn't this huge, ginormous bag that can feed

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Speaker 2: you know, fifty people. It's like these many mini bars

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00:27:20,480 --> 00:27:24,760
Speaker 2: of chocolate, the variety pack with your dark chocolate and

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00:27:24,760 --> 00:27:26,520
Speaker 2: your milk chocolate, you or your kit cat whatever it

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00:27:26,560 --> 00:27:29,320
Speaker 2: is in there, and it was like eighteen dollars and

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Speaker 2: that was the discounted sale for Halloween price.

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Speaker 3: And it's just impossible.

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Speaker 2: If you are a person who enjoys Halloween, then again

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Speaker 2: you're finding yourself faced with these economic decisions of do

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Speaker 2: I buy or do I do something a little different.

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Speaker 2: And the fact is that Halloween candy is getting more expensive.

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Speaker 2: Not only is it getting more expensive, but the producers

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00:27:52,160 --> 00:27:54,720
Speaker 2: of chocolate are saying that they're doing different things to

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00:27:54,840 --> 00:28:01,960
Speaker 2: cut corners that are also making chocolate, specifically less chocolatey coco.

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00:28:02,119 --> 00:28:05,440
Speaker 2: Prices are up, the price of chocolate is up, that's

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Speaker 2: no surprise. But what this means for the consumer is

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00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:15,639
Speaker 2: less chocolate per package. That's how the businesses and the

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Speaker 2: retailers are getting around this. Less chocolate per package, higher prices,

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Speaker 2: and less cocoa content equaling less chocolate chocolate. Compared to

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Speaker 2: previous years, overall, candy is ten point eight percent more

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00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:39,880
Speaker 2: expensive this Halloween season. Last year, Americans shelled out seven

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Speaker 2: point four billion dollars in Halloween chocolate and candy sales.

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00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 2: That's a steady increase. Next year, we'll see that twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five was likely more than that, and that's all

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Speaker 2: courtesy of different analysis by different sorts of data. Nilsen

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Speaker 2: IQ data as well as Groundwork Collaborative found that in

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Speaker 2: inflation is just absolutely hitting stores when it comes to

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Speaker 2: chocolate specifically, and some specialty chocolate makers are also reducing

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Speaker 2: the cocoa content in their bars and increasing the sugar

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Speaker 2: so that when they sell you a bar of chocolate,

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00:29:19,800 --> 00:29:25,080
Speaker 2: you actually are getting sixty five percent cocoa content instead

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Speaker 2: of the normal seventy five percent. They are scamming us,

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Speaker 2: and they are telling us that there's nothing we can

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Speaker 2: do about it, because there's nothing they can do about it.

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00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:41,360
Speaker 2: Companies are also cutting corners by launching special flavors. They're

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Speaker 2: saying people shouldn't be as reliant on chocolate. Instead, let's

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00:29:46,640 --> 00:29:50,880
Speaker 2: do a pumpkin spice kit cat, Let's do a cinnamon

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00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:54,800
Speaker 2: toast flavored kit cat, and they say that this helps

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Speaker 2: save on chocolate costs as well. Now customers can expect

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00:29:59,480 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 2: to pay as much or more for Halloween candy this season.

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Speaker 2: We've seen that, and this will carry through Valentine's Day

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Speaker 2: of twenty twenty six. And now what people are saying

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Speaker 2: is because of what's happening with Snap, because of the

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00:30:16,480 --> 00:30:20,840
Speaker 2: unstable economy and the government shutdown, instead of giving out

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Speaker 2: typical chocolate with its really high prices and now lower

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00:30:24,680 --> 00:30:29,560
Speaker 2: cocoa content, let's give out alternatives. And what people are

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Speaker 2: doing across the US is they are now giving out

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Speaker 2: what they call our shelf stable foods. They're giving these

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Speaker 2: to trigger treaters, and this is to help.

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Speaker 3: Fill the void left by the Snap cuts.

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Speaker 2: Some of these foods and shelf stable foods include cheese sticks,

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Speaker 2: mini cereals, canned soup, or even diapers to trigger treaters.

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Speaker 2: How festive you imagine carrying your cute little pumpkin?

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Speaker 6: Uh?

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00:31:02,920 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 4: What is that?

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00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:05,000
Speaker 3: Your your candy bowl?

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00:31:05,040 --> 00:31:08,560
Speaker 2: There, your candy bag, and it's filled with cans of soup.

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00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:13,600
Speaker 2: Your your six year old is hauling ten pounds on

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Speaker 2: each arm of soup.

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Speaker 4: Kids love the soups and I.

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00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:22,080
Speaker 3: Get it, I get it, I get it, I get it.

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Speaker 2: Also packs of ramen, those are those noodles, oatmeal, juice, pretzels,

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00:31:29,320 --> 00:31:33,960
Speaker 2: and fruit snacks in addition to sweet treats, and instead

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00:31:34,040 --> 00:31:36,160
Speaker 2: of expensive chocolate.

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00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:38,320
Speaker 4: How about like a handful of saltines.

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Speaker 2: I think that if you put in a plastic bag

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00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:43,120
Speaker 2: then you might be able to pass that off and

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00:31:43,200 --> 00:31:45,200
Speaker 2: like a little ziploc bag, but right out of your hand.

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00:31:45,280 --> 00:31:46,920
Speaker 2: That might be a little cause for caution.

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00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:48,720
Speaker 4: We're like little ketchup packets.

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00:31:48,880 --> 00:31:52,480
Speaker 2: I've seen people hoard ketchup and like soy sauce and

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00:31:52,520 --> 00:31:54,320
Speaker 2: they said they're going to give that out this year.

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00:31:55,120 --> 00:31:58,240
Speaker 3: This is, this is These are the times we're living in.

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00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:02,200
Speaker 2: People where we're we're chuckling, but this is really happening.

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Speaker 4: Halloween sucks.

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00:32:03,360 --> 00:32:06,040
Speaker 3: Now, Halloween is not what we remember it.

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00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,920
Speaker 2: You remember getting full sized bars of chocolate, full sized

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00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:13,200
Speaker 2: candy bars because the Good House had them down there.

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00:32:13,240 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 3: You knew exactly where to go.

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00:32:15,080 --> 00:32:16,640
Speaker 2: Now you're going to go to the house down there

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00:32:16,680 --> 00:32:19,240
Speaker 2: to get your ramen, or to get your can of soup,

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00:32:19,320 --> 00:32:25,880
Speaker 2: or your diapers, diapers, pipers, diapers. Nobody wants chocolate and

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00:32:25,960 --> 00:32:29,880
Speaker 2: diapers together. That doesn't work. No, it sends a bad message. Here,

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00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,760
Speaker 2: kids have fun with the diapers. When we come back,

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00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:37,600
Speaker 2: we're going to continue our Halloween conversation and we're going

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Speaker 2: to look at the history of escape rooms. I love

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00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:45,480
Speaker 2: escape rooms, but where'd they start, why are they so popular?

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00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 2: And what are some of the very real risks of

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00:32:48,920 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 2: escape rooms should you find yourself in one of these scenarios.

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Speaker 2: All of that in our deeper Dive section as we

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Speaker 2: continue our Halloween Show seven to ten tonight with Me

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Speaker 2: Tiffany Hobbs, Mark Ronner's There, Tony's There. Kf I AM

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