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Speaker 1: Fred's show is on Fred's Biggest Stories of the Day.

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Speaker 1: Noone texted handwriting, not even curse up, just general handwriting.

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Speaker 2: No one taught you that is getting scary.

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Speaker 1: I kind of believe it depending on how old you are,

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Speaker 1: because I mean, you got laptops at iPads and tablets

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Speaker 1: and whatever plenty, so it's like, you know, it's gone

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Speaker 1: of the days when you got to pick out your

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Speaker 1: trapper keeper, you know, And if you don't know what

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Speaker 1: that is, I'm not that old. So if you don't

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Speaker 1: know what that is, you missed. You missed out, you know.

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Speaker 1: I guess now you can pick the cover that goes

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Speaker 1: on your iPad or something. I don't know, but like

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Speaker 1: a trapper keeper, man, that that spoke to who you

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Speaker 1: were at the time, your style, your interests.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you know if you were that girl? Were you?

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Speaker 2: I was sometimes that girl? Sometimes I was that girl?

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Speaker 1: You know every now that you My mom would like

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Speaker 1: to come to the peer pressure and be like, fine,

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Speaker 1: you can have the fatty thing that everybody wants.

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Speaker 2: But for the most part she would never let me

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 1: She never she'd never keep up with the joneses my mom,

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Speaker 1: except for the Nintendo games. You know there was that,

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Speaker 1: there was that moment I will never forget.

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Speaker 2: To look in her eye. I was maybe six years old,

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Speaker 2: seven years old.

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Speaker 1: We went to Chicago and she bought me a Nintendo

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Speaker 1: at Fao Shorts, and it was a big deal. I

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Speaker 1: think it was mostly because I was an only child

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Speaker 1: and my parents were beating divorced, and I think she

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Speaker 1: wanted me to like play the game instead of watch

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Speaker 1: my watch my father drink and move out but and

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Speaker 1: smoke cigarets. But Pauline and I can relate to so

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Speaker 1: many in so many ways, more more than you would

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Speaker 1: ever know. Hey, honey, you go play duck Hunt. It

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Speaker 1: so much fun, you know. I'm pretty sure that was

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Speaker 1: the motivation. But anyway, and so it came with like

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Speaker 1: one game that had three games on it. It was

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Speaker 1: I think it was Mario Brothers Duck Hunt. I don't

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Speaker 1: know what the third game was. And so that was

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Speaker 1: fine for its six seven year old whatever. And then

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Speaker 1: I went to my neighbor's house. My neighbor had one

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Speaker 1: and he had like eight games. And I came home.

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Speaker 1: I'm like, mom, so and so has eight games. And

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Speaker 1: she didn't like this neighbor kid. She's like I'm sorry,

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Speaker 1: Chad has how many eight games? I'm like, yeah, come on,

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Speaker 1: get in a car. We go to home depot or no,

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Speaker 1: not home deepo. We go to towys Ters whatever it was.

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Speaker 1: And it was now I had ten. I had ten games.

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Speaker 1: Then she's like, pick out how many you got one?

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Speaker 1: Pick out seven or eight more, like there's no way

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Speaker 1: that kid will have more than you. But then most

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Speaker 1: of the time she wouldn't fall for that, Like, you know,

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Speaker 1: you know the kid that had more money than everybody else.

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Speaker 1: They always had the brand new shoes, and they always

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Speaker 1: had the brand new this and that. My mom wouldn't

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Speaker 1: she wouldn't fall for that trick. I tried, Yeah, might

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Speaker 1: be so much cooler mom if I had. She's like,

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Speaker 1: I guess you're not gonna be cool. You are not

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Speaker 1: gonna be cool. Then headlines. So it's official. Starting January

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Speaker 1: first of twenty twenty six, Hawaii is introducing the new

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Speaker 1: green feet that we talked about to help combat climate change.

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Speaker 2: It's gonna be kind of expensive.

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Speaker 1: This initiative will raise the states transient accommodation tax from

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Speaker 1: ten point two five to eleven percent. County SURD charges

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Speaker 1: will bring the tax a hotel and vacation rentals to

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Speaker 1: almost nineteen percent, which is the highest in the nation.

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Speaker 1: So your hotel room is going to be nineteen percent

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Speaker 1: more just from taxes. Forget about the resort fee. Oh

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Speaker 1: my god, which a Vegas guy rid of resort fees?

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Speaker 1: By the way, now the number is the number. I

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Speaker 1: couldn't stand that. You know, you'd be like, oh, I

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Speaker 1: could go two hundred bucks, that's cool. You show up

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Speaker 1: at seven hundred dollars, Like, what is all this? Wat

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Speaker 1: Weren't you gonna go to the gym? You fatty? I mean,

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Speaker 1: oh you weren't. You were gonna look at the pool,

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Speaker 1: weren't you. That's gonna cost you? Oh you thought, oh

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Speaker 1: you wanted to go in the lobby of the hotel. Oh,

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Speaker 1: they got to pay the resort fee. Then now it's

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Speaker 1: all lumped him, but almost twenty percent, the highest in

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Speaker 1: the nation. To go to Hawaii, the twenty twenty five

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Speaker 1: scripts National Spelling BEEE has taken place. I cannot even

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Speaker 1: say the word I know. I mean either that Faison

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Speaker 1: spelled correctly. And what a story of redemption. To my

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Speaker 1: understanding as I read it this morning, is that Faison

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Speaker 1: lost last year and came back and won it all

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Speaker 1: this year. But I come here, Kiki, come here. I

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Speaker 1: want you to look at this word. I want you

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Speaker 1: to look at this word, and then I want you

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Speaker 1: to tell me how to say that that right there?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, how do you say that word? This is a win.

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Speaker 1: Forget about spelling it? How do you say that word?

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Speaker 1: Clare cemente cement? That might be the closest, that might

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Speaker 1: be the closest to anyway the winning word right here? On?

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Speaker 2: What you got memos? How do you spell it? Come on?

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Speaker 2: Clack system on? How do you say? How you come on?

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Speaker 2: Is right to a great start?

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Speaker 1: This p yeah, sounds like.

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Speaker 2: Clack syphilis? What is it? Syphilis?

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Speaker 1: No, no, no, they'll make the kids spell that. Nobody

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Speaker 1: wants that E C L A I R C I

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Speaker 1: S S E M E N T M like there's

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Speaker 1: just absolutely no way.

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Speaker 2: There's no way.

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Speaker 1: I can't even spell definite, so there's no correctly most

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Speaker 1: of the time, So there's no way I would have

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Speaker 1: gotten that right. But Faizan got it right. And it

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Speaker 1: means a clearing up of something obscure. The winner gets

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars, which if you can spell eclect SYSTEMA,

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Speaker 1: then you you should get more than fifty thousand dollars. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: fifty thousand dollars is not enough money. We need to

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Speaker 1: adjust for inflation and tariffs. In my opinion, what would

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Speaker 1: you do in this situation? I gotta find the audio

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Speaker 1: and I'm played for you in a second. I don't

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Speaker 1: have it in front of me right now. But flight

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Speaker 1: attendance let a child sing Mawana songs on the intercom

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Speaker 1: during a two hour tarmac delay. I've been watching this

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Speaker 1: video different people's point of view.

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Speaker 2: I gotta find it. It's so bad.

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Speaker 1: I gotta I'll play it for you to manut. I'll

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Speaker 1: find it during the song, Well she does.

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Speaker 2: But like imagine being trapped on a plane for two hours? Yes,

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Speaker 2: so it was.

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Speaker 1: A two hour tarmac delay a Delta flight to Orlando.

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Speaker 1: A preteen girl took to the plane to intercom to

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Speaker 1: sing how far I'll go from Disney's Mowana. Sounds like

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Speaker 1: that'd be a situation where I'd be asking myself how

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Speaker 1: impromptu performance shared on TikTok by one a Bunch of

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Speaker 1: users now quickly went viral. Some passengers and Allline viewers

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Speaker 1: found the gesture heartwarming, others were less amused. The here

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Speaker 1: nightmare and personal helm. Absolutely zero hate to this girl,

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Speaker 1: but major side out of her parents. Yes, she's actually

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Speaker 1: it's a flight to Orlando. Someone else said, but I'm

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Speaker 1: assuming a flight attendant said okay, yeah, sure, go ahead.

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Speaker 2: Whose idea with it? But two hours of.

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Speaker 1: Saying okay, hey, hey guys, we're gonna be delayed for

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Speaker 1: and hey, just the little girl's going to Disney. She's

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Speaker 1: so excited. You know. Here's a little whatever her name is,

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Speaker 2: And then she does it.

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Speaker 1: And it's like two or three minutes, and even that

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Speaker 2: Then oh hey, that was so good.

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Speaker 1: To eat some pretzels or whatever, like I don't know.

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Speaker 1: And then I have two final stories for you here.

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Speaker 1: One's nice, and one, of course is Smundy. There has

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Speaker 1: to be a Smundy story, and there has to be

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Speaker 1: a food related story if I can help it.

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Speaker 1: The day, Jacksonville, Florida police are searching for a guy

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Speaker 1: who allegedly stole a ferret. So that's bad. You can't

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Speaker 1: steal ferrets. Where do we if you were going to

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Speaker 1: good place to store the ferret after you've stolen it?

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Speaker 2: You know, during your escape? Where would where would you

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Speaker 2: think a bag? Backpack?

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Speaker 1: He put it in his pants. Survalance footage reportedly shows

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Speaker 1: the guy handling the ferret before placing it down his

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Speaker 1: shorts and leaving this store. Authorities are actually looking for

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Speaker 1: this guy. If you know who stole the ferret in

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Speaker 1: I mean they got little teeth, yes, and claws right

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Speaker 1: how big this thing was? And here's a nice story.

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Speaker 1: McHale is a young man eighteen years old from Georgia,

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Speaker 1: just half just hours after dawning his cap and gown

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Speaker 1: headed right to his shift at Burger King, still wearing

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Speaker 1: his graduation stole and his medals and everything. While his

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Speaker 2: His commitment didn't go unnoticed.

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Speaker 1: A fellow customer was so moved by his work ethic

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Speaker 1: and the community so far has responded, raising forty five

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Speaker 1: overwhelmed with emotion. He shared that he'd been considering a

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Speaker 2: So here's what.

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Speaker 1: He graduates high school and he could very easily have

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Speaker 1: earned and deserve. No, he went and did his job.

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Speaker 1: Somebody saw it, and now he's well on his way.

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Speaker 1: So there's a lesson there. It's National Creativity Day, National

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Speaker 1: Mint Juleb Day, National Water of Flower Day. Today, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make this little girl famous, get her a record deal.

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Speaker 1: In just a second, I gotta find his splip for

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Speaker 1: the Mowana singing, and then I'm gonna play it for

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Speaker 1: you all, and she can have even more fame if

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Speaker 1: she wants to. I mean, surely we have more people

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Speaker 1: listening than people on an airplane. What was that about

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty Maybe okay, never mind, maybe you

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