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Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that's finally making kids tea sets

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Speaker 1: more realistic with My Little Happy Hour. It's got shortened

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Speaker 1: barstools that come with it in four tiny child proof shotglasses, a.

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Speaker 2: Little mixer so that they can you know, mix.

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Speaker 1: That one sold separately, so if dad doesn't want to

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Speaker 1: sit down for tea time, let him play bartender and

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Speaker 1: teach your tyke how to get lit 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: or's other tequila tots just don't this first Laser Stories

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Speaker 1: out of Whales. And we talked about this guy before,

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Speaker 1: thirty nine year old James Howell. He's well known in

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Speaker 1: the worlds of crypto because he's the IT engineer who almost.

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Speaker 3: Got rich off of bitcoin.

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Speaker 1: And I say almost because back in twenty thirteen he

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Speaker 1: had a hard drive with eight thousand of them on

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Speaker 1: it and accidentally threw it away.

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Speaker 2: Oh tens of thousands of dollars. I bet that that

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Speaker 2: so many people have thrown them away without even remember age.

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Speaker 1: And if you're wondering, eight thousand bitcoin today would be

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Speaker 1: worth over half a billion dollars.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, my god, my god.

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Speaker 2: And the picture that you passed of him, he doesn't

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Speaker 2: look rich.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think he owns. I don't have to money. Shame.

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Speaker 3: His photo broke.

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Speaker 1: Him. He mined them back in two thousand and nine

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Speaker 1: when they were worthless, and then forgot about it and

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Speaker 1: tossed the drive while cleaning out his desk. So it's

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Speaker 1: been buried under a mountain of trash for over a decade.

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Speaker 1: And that's why he's in the news because the city

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Speaker 1: won't let him search for it, so he's suing them.

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Speaker 2: What Yeah, how are you going to find a hard

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Speaker 2: drive the dump?

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Speaker 3: Like that would be impossible? Good question.

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Speaker 1: He claims he's assembled a team that can xivate the

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Speaker 1: site and find the hard drive because he knows roughly

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Speaker 1: where it should be at the dump site and thinks

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Speaker 1: it'll cost around thirteen million dollars to do it.

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Speaker 3: Oh my god, we're talking excavation.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Even offered to give the city ten percent of the

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Speaker 1: bitcoin once he finds it, or around fifty million law

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Speaker 1: but they won't budge. They say digging up that much

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Speaker 1: trash would cause an environmental disaster that could take up

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Speaker 1: to three years, then another one to bury it all again.

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Speaker 3: Nobody got tamping.

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Speaker 1: No James predicament Like, who side are we? Ah? We

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Speaker 1: have so many environmental disasters though, going on, what's one more?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Like toss it on the pile? God, not the attitude.

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Speaker 1: James will have his day in court though later this year.

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Speaker 1: But even if he loses, he's gonna take it all

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Speaker 1: the way to the Supreme Court if he has to.

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Speaker 2: Dude, God, he's going to be so mad when he

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Speaker 2: gets at hard drive and it doesn't work.

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Speaker 3: All of it.

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Speaker 1: Ye.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. This next laser story is out of the UK.

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Speaker 1: A woman named Karen Connigan was recently laid off by

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Speaker 1: her employer IAG, the parent company in British Airways, and

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Speaker 1: she filed a claim against them, arguing that they breached

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Speaker 1: an equality law by not giving her a farewell card, but.

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Speaker 3: She wanted someone to say goodbye to her. Well, there's

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Speaker 3: more to the story, though.

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Speaker 1: Management looked into it and discovered the company had a

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Speaker 1: card for Karen, but only two people were willing to

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Speaker 1: sign it, so they opted not to give it to her,

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Speaker 1: figuring that giving her that card was worse than not

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Speaker 1: giving her one at all.

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Speaker 3: And someone gets laid off and you're like, I hate

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Speaker 3: that person. I am not signing that card, but I

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Speaker 3: would still put my name on it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Now you're probably wondering our farewell card's that big of

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Speaker 1: a deal across the pond.

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Speaker 3: The answer is no. Oh, okay, maybe it's a thing we.

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Speaker 1: Don't sounds like Karen was really something. She had several

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Speaker 1: issues with other coworkers, including igniting an argument with one

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Speaker 1: because they corrected her spelling of whiz with two z's

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Speaker 1: in another card for coling.

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Speaker 2: She literally k she was a fun person to hang

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Speaker 3: At the office. I'm kind of with Karen on that.

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Speaker 2: I bet you're.

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Speaker 3: Spelling. Is there for a reason.

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Speaker 1: When she left, Karen had forty official complaints and her

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Speaker 1: boss said there was nothing to them, saying she'd harbored

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Speaker 1: a conspiracy theory mentality and mistook normal workplace interactions for harassment.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Karen, you asked for all of this to come out,

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Speaker 2: and you just couldn't move on without the card.

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Speaker 1: In any event, a judge tossed her case and it

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Speaker 1: was determined she was appropriately laid off.

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Speaker 2: Wow, that's probably a hard film.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys sign my good morning card? Nope, check

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Speaker 3: the trash for that one.

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Speaker 1: Use me this next lazer Stories out of the world

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Speaker 1: of the Wealth. I guess the presidential suite just isn't

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Speaker 1: enough anymore, because in the news this morning, rich people

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Speaker 1: are building actual mansions on top of skyscrapers.

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Speaker 3: Now, oh, what do you mean. I'm showing a picture

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this is an actual house, like a

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Speaker 2: giant bill.

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Speaker 1: You could see the photo on our instance stories at

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Speaker 1: Broken Jeffrey. But the photo that's going viral is a

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Speaker 1: sprawling mansion sitting directly on top of a thirty three

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Speaker 1: story tall building in India. Wow.

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Speaker 2: And it has a pool, it has a yard with grass.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's like an actual home.

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Speaker 2: I'm a little concerned there's no fence because that is

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Speaker 2: a little frightening. Huh. Yeah, don't play fetch with your

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Speaker 2: dog too aggressively.

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Speaker 1: It's supposed to look like the White House, but it's

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Speaker 1: not quite as large.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The rich guy who built it started construction more than

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Speaker 1: a decade ago, and it reportedly cost over twenty million dollars.

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Speaker 3: What do we need trains to build your house? Only

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Speaker 3: twenty million?

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Speaker 1: It's like a two bedroom in San Francisco, maybe really.

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Speaker 1: One reporter called it an extreme example of a trend

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Speaker 1: that's been picking up steam. The world's wealthiest people are

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Speaker 1: bored with their normal penthouses and they want something a

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Speaker 1: little more impressive.

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Speaker 2: If you're in the tallest building in the city, you're

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Speaker 2: gonna I'm gonna build a building on top of a building.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna build a building than a house, and then

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Speaker 1: a building on top of the house.

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Speaker 3: It doesn't even view anymore.

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Speaker 2: You're above everything.

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Speaker 3: That's the point I think you poor people.

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, the guy who owns the home in this particular

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Speaker 1: picture might never get to live in his sky mansion

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Speaker 1: because he fled India in twenty sixteen after he got

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Speaker 1: accused of fraud and money lag drink Wow, and if

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Speaker 1: he ever goes back, they will throw.

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Speaker 3: Him in jail.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so living in the brook that means it could

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Speaker 1: be on the market to buy. The opulence is out

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Speaker 1: of control right now, but this guy supports it because

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Speaker 1: he wants his terrarium placed on top of.

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Speaker 3: A foot locker. That's the view he's looking for.

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Speaker 2: That'll give a little less than twenty million A dreamy.

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Speaker 3: Big little guy. That's sound means lads of stories has

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Speaker 3: come to an end for the day. We'll do it again,

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Speaker 3: same time on Friday, Brooke and Jeffrey in the morning,