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Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that just invented a brand new

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Speaker 1: board game for kids called Hey in a Needle Stack,

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Speaker 1: where blindfolded toddlers reach their hands into a pile of

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Speaker 1: three hundred sharp needles to look for that one rascally

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Speaker 1: strand of.

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Speaker 2: Hair's supposed to get around mom. Finally that doesn't hurt.

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Speaker 1: The first kid to find it wins. It's Laser Stories,

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Speaker 1: the second 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 so the pokadopes just don't. This first laser story

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Speaker 1: is out of New York City. Forty eight year old

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Speaker 1: Mickey Burretto moved to New York from la and he

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Speaker 1: rented a room in the Towering New Yorker Hotel. And

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Speaker 1: that's when his boyfriend told him about a loophole that

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Speaker 1: allows occupants of single rooms in buildings constructed before nineteen

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Speaker 1: sixty nine to demand a six month lease. Oh man,

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Speaker 1: and since Mickey had paid for a night in the hotel,

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Speaker 1: he claimed that he counted as a tenant.

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Speaker 2: It's not an apartment building.

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Speaker 1: Hold on, though, so he asked for a lease, and

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Speaker 1: the hotel promptly kicked him out.

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Speaker 2: Okay, darn nice, try squad in hotels now.

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Speaker 1: Well that's when he took his case all the way

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Speaker 1: up to the State Supreme Court. Whoa, And it just

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Speaker 1: so happened that the building's owners didn't show up for

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Speaker 1: the trial, so Mickey one by default. No, he lives there.

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Speaker 1: He got a key to his new hotel apartment and

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Speaker 2: Shut up, what are they amazing?

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Speaker 1: This is the crazy part. Apparently the owners were so

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Speaker 1: mad about it they never wanted to negotiate a lease

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Speaker 1: with him, and so they couldn't kick him out, so

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Speaker 1: he went on living there for a whole year free

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Speaker 1: of charge. Wow, I could think to be so mad

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Speaker 1: they'd try to take all his money. They didn't even

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Speaker 1: want to see him, so he didn't even have to

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Speaker 2: So all you have to do to get free ret

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Speaker 2: is become the worst, the most obnoxious person in the building.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm almost there, and that's hard to do in

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Speaker 1: New York. Yeah, my god, imagine But how long did

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Speaker 1: this go on? Five years later? Wow, Nickey was still there.

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Speaker 1: I'm in the New Yorker building not paying a dime. Wow,

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Speaker 1: you guys be in New York City for free. But

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Speaker 1: then he got greedy and started claiming he owned the building.

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Speaker 2: Okay, the power is gone head.

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Speaker 1: He said that since the hotel had never been subdivided

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Speaker 1: and a judge gave him possession of the one room,

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Speaker 1: he therefore technically owned the entire thing.

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Speaker 2: If you look up, push your luck in the guy.

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Speaker 1: So he changed the utilities count to say that he

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Speaker 1: was the owner and demanded the hotel transfer all of

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Speaker 1: their bank accounts over to him.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Vicky, get a job.

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Speaker 1: Sadly, it all came to an end last week when

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Speaker 1: cop showed up and arrested Mickey for filing false property records.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, there it is, sorry, Mickey Malone, and he'll get

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Speaker 2: him a little close to the sun. He gets another

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Speaker 2: free stay, but this time in jail.

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Speaker 1: I own this jail now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: His next laser story is out of Mesa, Arizona. Multiple

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Speaker 1: people called nine one one the other day to report

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Speaker 1: alligators swimming around a lake in a city park. Who

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Speaker 1: that's the type of thing That kind of sounds like

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Speaker 1: it'd be a prank. Yeah, totally, but they still dispatch

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Speaker 1: the fire department, police, and Fish and Wildlife to the scene,

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Speaker 1: and after observing the two mammoth gators floating peacefully for

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Speaker 1: over thirty minutes.

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Speaker 2: They were really there. It was real.

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Speaker 1: Apparently the city added some realistic looking foam gators for

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Speaker 1: birds and turtles to sit off. Oh my god, it

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Speaker 1: looks so real.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the picture right now, the city, you know, like

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Speaker 2: put up a side.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's fun. You'd like to see the screaming

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Speaker 1: kids running in terrorce So authorities laughed it off and laughed. Unfortunately,

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Speaker 1: the nine one one calls kept coming in.

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Speaker 2: Imagine, so good, we could fix this so easily.

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Speaker 1: Some people who like to go swim in that lake

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Speaker 1: were fully convinced that they were real.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely.

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Speaker 1: One woman even claimed a gator latched onto her boyfriend's

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Speaker 1: fishing line and put up a twenty minute struggle with it.

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Speaker 1: Stories Despite the confusion, doesn't sound like the city plans

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Speaker 2: It's broad.

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Speaker 1: In fact, they actually just doubled down and added two

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Speaker 1: enormous foam hippos, which are styrofoam hippo heads that float

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Speaker 1: around the pond. But with the hippo heads, it does

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Speaker 1: look like they're lurking underneath the water about to attack

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Speaker 1: with just their heads out.

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Speaker 2: There's an actual, real hippo in there, Jeffrey, and they

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Speaker 2: don't believe it.

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Speaker 1: I'm willing to take my chances with that. This next

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Speaker 1: laser stories out of tech trends. It's amazing that we

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Speaker 1: have cars that can drive themselves, computers that can think

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Speaker 1: for themselves, and yet we're still dealing with the same

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Speaker 1: printer problems we always have. Seriously, how many times does

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Speaker 1: our printer breakout?

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Speaker 2: There?

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Speaker 1: It really has.

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Speaker 2: We spend more time on that than any other saying it's.

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Speaker 1: True, And somehow the office printer nightmare is only about

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Speaker 1: to get worse because HP Hewlett Packard said that their

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Speaker 1: plan is to make printing a subscription only service. So

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Speaker 1: assume companies will have only one option for Toner and

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Speaker 1: ink cartridges, and that's to subscribe to it like Netflix.

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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, we play netflixund effect. Apparently HP has

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Speaker 1: been a temn idiot customers to do this for years

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Speaker 1: via their instant ink program.

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Speaker 2: Okay, if it's not working, then it's because it's not

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Speaker 2: a good idea yea. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Well, they admit that they lose money on printer sales

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Speaker 1: and rely on high profit margins from ink supplies and

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Speaker 1: paper to make up the difference. So this is what

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Speaker 1: they're going with.

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Speaker 2: That's why the cartridges cost so much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's why the bankrupt a different this model.

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Speaker 2: I hate that.

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Speaker 1: I wonder if that means password sharing with our radio

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Speaker 1: station printer is allowed.

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Speaker 2: Oh what do you mean, like we can like hack

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Speaker 2: into somebody else's.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that'll be our charity for this year. We'll just

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Speaker 1: give out our printer this next Laser stories out of

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Speaker 1: word World. Dictionary dot Com just added three hundred and

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Speaker 1: twenty seven new words and terms, including a bunch that

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Speaker 1: gen zers like to use. Here're the ones that are

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Speaker 1: catching people's attention. Number five the ick overused now though

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Speaker 1: I swear everything gives everyone a nick.

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Speaker 2: As soon as I start saying it, it'll be over.

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Speaker 1: The definition is a sudden feeling of disgust or dislike,

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Speaker 1: often in response to the actions of another. Number four

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Speaker 1: is mid Oh yeah, okay, means mediocre, unimpressive, or disappointing.

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Speaker 1: If you're any of those things, you're mid, but like

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Speaker 1: it's funny because you're saying or mediocre average, but it's

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Speaker 1: really an insult. Yeah, that's just super. It means you're

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Speaker 2: I think even mediocre is still yeah, would love to be.

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Speaker 1: It's not just people. You can use it to describe

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Speaker 1: movies and radio shows too. They can also be radio

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Speaker 1: right now. Number three the word bustin' That means great, wonderful,

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Speaker 1: or amazing, like the opposite of mid Number two, bubne.

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Speaker 2: Is that way you get old and your boobs finally

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Speaker 2: go down to where they.

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Speaker 1: No, it's not describing your boobs, bro it means pimples

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Speaker 1: or a rash caused by your bra and you get boobney.

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Speaker 2: I really didn't want them to go down that.

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Speaker 1: And finally, one of the top gen Z slang terms

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Speaker 1: to recently make it all the way to dictionary dot com,

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Speaker 1: girl dinner. It's an oftenly attractively presented collection of snacks

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Speaker 1: that involve very little preparation.

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Speaker 2: It's like, why can't my kids eat just bread and

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Speaker 2: cheese for dinner?

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Speaker 1: And seriously, I know I know someone who'd be busting

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Speaker 1: all over a girl dinner with this guy.

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Speaker 2: He didn't like that they gave you the ick. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: When Jeff tries to us he.

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Speaker 1: Loves a little collection of stacks as long as they're

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Speaker 1: not mid with boobney on them, then he gets the

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Speaker 1: get that's how It's Laser stories is over. Let's do

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Speaker 1: it again, same time On Wednesday

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Speaker 2: Brook and Jeffrey in the morning,