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Speaker 1: Welcome to an episode of Laugh with Me Shorts Podcasts

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Speaker 1: of Cherity Otum. I'm your host, jay O the Shorts. Hey,

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Speaker 1: if you're a listener of Laugh with Me, like a diehard,

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Speaker 1: you've probably heard this before. But for those of you

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Speaker 1: who are brand new to Laugh with Me, and there's many,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna enjoy this. This is uh basically, the concept

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Speaker 1: is it's a small clip from an episode way back

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Speaker 1: in the vault. You know it was fun. Give it

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Speaker 1: a try, a little sample if you will. This is

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Speaker 1: like something you'd find at the grocery store. Those people

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Speaker 1: that are like, hey, try these a gos. You maybe

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Speaker 1: have never had this flavor of lavender ago before. Try it,

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Speaker 1: buy it special deal on it right now. We're the

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Speaker 1: first to have it. It's one of them. It's a sample.

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Speaker 1: It's Laugh with Me Shorts. Enjoy. Something that you and

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Speaker 1: I have encountered many and many and many at times

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Speaker 1: is the old shoplifter. I mean, it's people when people

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Speaker 1: think of it, and it's evolved, right because people used

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Speaker 1: to think at the grocery store the shoplifter was the

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Speaker 1: high school kid with the backpack. Oh yeah, which is

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Speaker 1: still around. It's just that's a lost art. Now it's

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Speaker 1: the folks with the grocery carts full of tide that

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Speaker 1: they're gonna sell on eBay. Oh yeah, and they're just

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Speaker 1: walking right out. Yeah, there's no hiding it. It has

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Speaker 1: become so you hear major retailers all the time. I

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Speaker 1: know Walmart and Kroger have both said that that is

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Speaker 1: a been an impact on their earnings because I've had

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Speaker 1: so much walk out, you know, at their stores, and

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Speaker 1: it's just go crazy. But what we're not supposed to do,

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Speaker 1: obviously is to go after the shoplifters just because of

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Speaker 1: safety anymore. But you know, obviously you want to retain

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Speaker 1: your goods. I want to say that I'm a proud

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Speaker 1: pepper spray survivor. In one of these instances, they hit

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Speaker 1: you like square on ode. Oh yeah, so full grocery

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Speaker 1: cart full of goods, birthday cake on the top. I

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Speaker 1: wanted my grocery back, yep, And I asked for the car.

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Speaker 1: I said, give me my cart back, and she said no,

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Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I'm taking my car. And

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Speaker 1: I pulled a cart and she pulled out the pepper

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Speaker 1: spray and luckily I saw the pepper spray or something

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Speaker 1: coming of a person. I kind of turned my head

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Speaker 1: and I just got soaked on the side and the

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Speaker 1: back of my head, like soaked. Right, they just for

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Speaker 1: like ten seconds string she emptied the can. Yeah, she

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Speaker 1: emptied the can on me. And the thing is I

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Speaker 1: was turned right, so at that moment it wasn't in

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Speaker 1: my eyes. And I laughed, and I'm like, hare, you're

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Speaker 1: out of pepper spray. Now, what are you gonna do?

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Speaker 1: And I took that cart and I grabbed my phone.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, I'm calling the police. Well she takes off running,

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Speaker 1: so she gets away, right, and I call the police

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Speaker 1: and they're all, you know, they're looking for somebody running

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Speaker 1: through the neighborhood. And I have my Groceri's back. I

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Speaker 1: thought it was funny, except for I had long hair then,

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Speaker 1: and I'm outside and it's windy and I'm full of

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Speaker 1: pepper spray. So the pepper spray, you know, instantly gets

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Speaker 1: on my face and in my eyes, and I come

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Speaker 1: inside it and I'm I'm bringing in this grocery cart

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, you don't get it ready. The police

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Speaker 1: all out of the ordinary, Johnny. If you haven't told

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Speaker 1: everybody this is how you're doing your holiday shopping, you

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Speaker 1: really missed the boat. I mean, that's what. That's why

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Speaker 1: I told my family and they're like, what happened. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: I got Pepper's braid, and everybody's like, oh my god,

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Speaker 1: what happened. I got Pepper's brain. I just told you.

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Speaker 1: And so I've never been pepper sprayed before? Have you? No? Oh? Never.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to, No, don't do it, but I did.

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Speaker 1: So I didn't know what to do. So I'm like, well,

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna wait. I'm gonna wait for the police. Maybe

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Speaker 1: the police need to smell the pepper spray or something,

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Speaker 1: because I've just been assaulted. You didn't do anything. There's

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Speaker 1: nothing I could do. No, I needed to wait it out.

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Speaker 1: Just shove water in your face or something. Well, we

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Speaker 1: have those eye washing stations, you know, so I I did, like,

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Speaker 1: but my hands, you know, they touched my hair. So

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Speaker 1: I'm just I'm trying to be careful. I'm just trying

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Speaker 1: to dab a little bit, just a small dab, and

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Speaker 1: then I get it just enough so I can kind

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Speaker 1: of open my eyes. And it hurts like it just

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Speaker 1: it's just an unbearable pain. And you know, you know

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Speaker 1: when you ate that hot chip, the one Chip challenge,

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Speaker 1: and you know how that felt coming out awful? Those

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Speaker 1: were my eyeballs. Those were my eye falls. Okay. So

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Speaker 1: I'm talking to the police and they're like, hey, you

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Speaker 1: gotta wash yourself like you're you're covered in pepper spray

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Speaker 1: and you're walking around this place. And I'm like, what

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Speaker 1: do you want to do. I've never been pepper sprayed,

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Speaker 1: and you know, side note, I did a little side

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Speaker 1: note on this. I had an armed police officer or

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Speaker 1: security guard or whatever they are in the building. What

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Speaker 1: that did nothing for me? You know what this person did.

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Speaker 1: This person took notes and this person made sure to

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Speaker 1: ask me every question in the book when I came

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Speaker 1: back with the goods. But they were not there to

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Speaker 1: help me when I was getting attacked. But I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to become a video on YouTube. They were trying to

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Speaker 1: avoid that situation. Oh man, that would have been that

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Speaker 1: would have been a funny video. But so the police,

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Speaker 1: luckily I did wait and talk to them because they

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Speaker 1: did give me a warning that helped me immensely, which

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Speaker 1: is wash it all out right, get soap, water, get

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Speaker 1: get it all out. But be careful because the next morning,

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Speaker 1: when you wash your hair and get it wet again,

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Speaker 1: it reactivates. Oh no, I would not have known that,

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Speaker 1: and I would have just have been a washing and

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Speaker 1: probably felt that burn all over again. So so what

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Speaker 1: are you supposed to do? You just gotta be careful,

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Speaker 1: wash your hair out like you do the first time.

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Speaker 1: Just don't touch your eyes, you know, be careful and

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Speaker 1: it'll it'll eventually come out, but it reactivates at least

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Speaker 1: that first time. And I know my head was soaked,

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Speaker 1: so you know, that's crazy. That's the break. We're just

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Speaker 1: we're working grocery stores, you know. That's did you get

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Speaker 1: a metal for those? I did not? I did not,

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Speaker 1: but you know, a couple of months later, that was

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Speaker 1: one of the final straws with me, and I ended

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Speaker 1: up leaving that company. But Bo