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Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that's organizing an activist team of

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Speaker 1: leaf blowers to fight back against strong winds.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, take them on. They're called the Blowback Brigade. I

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Speaker 2: like it.

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Speaker 1: Just imagine thousands of men and women holding leaf blowers

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Speaker 1: pushing a storm away into a different town.

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Speaker 2: Then we can't control the weather.

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Speaker 1: Just sign up and help rescind the wind. With Laser Stories,

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Speaker 1: the segment where we read weird news stories around the globe,

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Speaker 1: just like everyone else does, except we've got a laser

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Speaker 1: and those other lusty gusties.

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Speaker 2: Just don't you put so much thought into that one.

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: It's a good idea. I think it should make it happen.

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Speaker 1: His first laser story is out of Bangladesh. Not too

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Speaker 1: long ago, twenty four year old Sumaya Khan became obsessed

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Speaker 1: with ramen and Korean food, so much so she made

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Speaker 1: an important purchase her very own personal set of child sticks.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I feel like it's like when you go

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Speaker 2: to the bowling alley with your own bullying ball. You

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Speaker 2: show up to the restaurant with your own chopsticks, You're

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Speaker 2: on another level.

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Speaker 1: It only works with chopsticks though, if you have your

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Speaker 1: own personal fork and knife.

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Speaker 2: I feel like that's like you have a proper Does

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Speaker 2: that say Jeffrey on your fork? Why are you reading it?

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Speaker 1: A good point, jeff Since then, she's eaten almost all

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Speaker 1: of her food using those personal chopsticks.

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Speaker 2: Well.

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Speaker 1: One day at work, a co worker took note of

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Speaker 1: Khan's rice eating skills and suggested she might be able

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Speaker 1: to break the world's record for the most rice grains

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Speaker 1: eaten in one minute using chopsticks.

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Speaker 2: I did you know?

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Speaker 1: It is the hardest thing to do, But when you

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Speaker 1: get a big clump rise in the chopstick, you feel

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's harder to do it one grain at

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Speaker 2: a time. It's got to be hard to judge. You

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Speaker 2: gotta be up close to their mouth to watch that happen.

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Speaker 1: The record was previously said at twenty seven, so to

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Speaker 1: break it, con would have to pick up more single

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Speaker 1: grains of rice one by one using only her shop sticks.

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Speaker 2: And what happened.

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Speaker 1: She completely annihilated the record with thirty seven grains of

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Speaker 1: rice in under a minute.

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to teach my husband how to pick up.

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Speaker 1: One thing with Guinness posted the video of her feet

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Speaker 1: and commenters were not that impressed. One said, self, I

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Speaker 1: ate one a second, I would have the record.

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Speaker 2: Oh, one a second, you'd get sixty. I see because

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Speaker 2: it's in sixty seconds. It sounds easier than it is.

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Speaker 2: But even like getting it up to your mouth, well,

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Speaker 2: now I want to try it anyone else.

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Speaker 1: Others swore they could do it a lot faster, and

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Speaker 1: the majority of people said, wow, they get a world

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Speaker 1: record for everything now, but hangers are gonna.

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Speaker 2: Hate for now. Twenty four year olds too. Maya is

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Speaker 2: a world champion. Yeah, wear that crown his.

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Speaker 1: Next laser stories out of California. If I told you

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Speaker 1: that there was a city in America that had luxurious,

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Speaker 1: high tech public transferation that was fueled by something super futuristic,

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Speaker 1: like positive thoughts, where would you bet that would be.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go like Santa Clara, or like Silicon Valley.

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Speaker 1: Maybe San Francisco, since yeah, it is essentially the home

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Speaker 1: of Silicon Valley. But nope, Actually San fran is the

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Speaker 1: furthest from it. And I know this because a new

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Speaker 1: report came out saying the city's municipal transportation agency has

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Speaker 2: Twelve million dollars to update.

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Speaker 1: The technology of its light rail so it doesn't require

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Speaker 1: floppy discs anymore that much.

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Speaker 2: Dude, I did you hear what I said? Sloppy disc

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Speaker 2: that's still using. No, no, Alexis.

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Speaker 1: It was like maybe three and a half inches by

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Speaker 2: They were big.

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Speaker 1: It was a flat square the same plastics had a

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: People forget the rail system was built in nineteen ninety

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Speaker 1: eight and each train back then feels like it should.

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Speaker 1: It was required to have at least one five inch

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Speaker 1: and it's still.

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Speaker 2: Like that to this day. Oh what a mass.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, the two hundred and twelve million dollars will eventually

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Speaker 1: lead to an updated control system, the same thing that's

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Speaker 2: Oh but disk, we're going to it.

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Speaker 1: The overhaul will take up to ten years to complete,

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Speaker 1: so they still plan to use the floppies until twenty

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Speaker 1: thirty four. Three translate today we had dial up internet. Next,

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Speaker 1: the story is out of the Middle East. Saudi Arabia's

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Speaker 1: breaking ground on the world's largest building, and when it's done,

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Speaker 1: they claim it'll be big enough to hold twenty Empire

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Speaker 2: Why, here's a photo of it.

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Speaker 1: The massive structure is gonna be located in the capital

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Speaker 1: city and called the Moukab.

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Speaker 2: It's beautiful. It's just it's just a cube.

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Speaker 1: It's gonna cost fifty billion dollars to construct. And like

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Speaker 1: you said, just one giant, massive golden cube.

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Speaker 2: So Vegas in the Sphere and they're like, we're doing

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Speaker 2: the queue. You have to walk so far to get

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Speaker 1: Actually, it is exactly like the Las Vegas Sphere hosts

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Speaker 1: because the entire outside of the structure is going to

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Speaker 1: be covered in video screens. Other than that, it's simply

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Speaker 1: a giant box that's gonna be thirteen hundred feet high

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Speaker 1: twelve hundred feet wide. Just for scale, that's fifty feet

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Speaker 1: taller than the Empire State Building, but a whole lot wider.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be like you're living in a futuristic billboard. Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's the plan.

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Speaker 1: It'll have two million square feet of floor space. There's

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Speaker 1: gonna be dining, retail space, offices, restaurants. It's also going

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Speaker 1: to feature one hundred and four thousand department units and

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Speaker 1: over ten thousand hotel rooms. Oh, she's notits Vegas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: And if it sounds pretty terrible to live inside a

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Speaker 1: huge cube, the builders swear it's gonna be great. There's

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Speaker 1: gonna be green spaces all over inside of it, transportation,

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Speaker 1: and the cube will be so strong it'll protect you

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Speaker 1: from sandstorms or any other natural disaster. Why does the

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Speaker 1: green spaces feel like they're just gonna be the potted

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Speaker 1: plants in our office.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be the same vibe. Hey, these are plastics. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Is expected to be completed by the year twenty thirty,

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Speaker 1: so before San Francisco updates the floppy drives, Saudi Arabia

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Speaker 1: will build the world's largest building.

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Speaker 2: It too, like just land inside the qube Good job, America,

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Speaker 2: way to keep up.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, this next laser stories out of Halloween Headquarters.

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Speaker 2: This time of year, many people go to fake haunted.

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Speaker 1: Houses, but some people believe they've been to the real

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Speaker 1: thing or lived in one.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, my house is your current house. No, the one

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Speaker 1: Now is also old, so it's hard you only live

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Speaker 1: in old buildings. In a poll, sixteen percent of people

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Speaker 1: say they've lived in a haunted house before. Eleven percent

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Speaker 1: say they visited, one six percent say they haven't, but

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Speaker 2: A real haunted house.

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Speaker 1: Get actual haunted houses, and twenty nine percent say they

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Speaker 1: have not been and have no interest in ever going

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Speaker 2: That house was it.

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Speaker 1: Can up? Yeah, that's not the house the ghost that.

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Speaker 2: I've messed up.

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Speaker 1: According to the survey, women are more likely to believe

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Speaker 1: houses can be haunted because they have personal experience with it.

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Speaker 2: It was an opera singer that lives in my parents.

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Speaker 1: In fact, nineteen percent of women claim they've lived in

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Speaker 1: a haunted house before, compared to just twelve percent of men. So,

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Speaker 1: I know what you're thinking. Do animals believe in haunted houses? Yes, well,

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Speaker 1: this guy's opinion unclear, but he does participate in a

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Speaker 1: lot of ghosting, so he has that kind fun and.

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Speaker 2: That sound means Laser Stories has come to an end

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Speaker 2: of the day. We'll do it again, same time on Wednesday.

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Speaker 2: Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,