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Speaker 1: What happens on this show at this time is that we speak to Barb for Barb Swire. Good morning, Barbara Friedman.
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Speaker 2: Morning, Barry. Nice to chat to you today.
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Speaker 1: We've not done this.
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Speaker 3: No, we haven't. I mean, I've done it with most presenters at some point when they've stood in.
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Speaker 1: It's like being inaugurated, being inducted. Barb, you've got interesting stuff on here today. I've had a giggle just looking at it.
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Speaker 2: The first one, not so funny.
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Speaker 1: Not so funny, you're right.
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Speaker 2: But we'll move on to the music.
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Speaker 3: I thought this was a really interesting sort of second wave of the intense protests we saw coming out of France over the weekend. I mean, more than 3,000 retail stores were damaged or ransacked amongst everything else that went on. And yes, some were these very high-end stores, but there were also some very small businesses. And you've seen the videos of shop owners.
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Speaker 2: Desperately trying to keep these people out of their little stores. But in terms of the high-end.
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Speaker 3: Stores, yes, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Rolex, Gucci. I mean, these stores were absolutely decimated. I think what's so interesting with social digital perspective, because I sometimes try and hook it, you know, that's what I'm talking about, is, you know, digital marketplaces are now part of our lives.
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Speaker 2: And Vinted, for example, is one of the big.
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Speaker 3: Second hand or the used clothing accessories type platforms.
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Speaker 2: And so what is happening is all of these applications.
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Speaker 3: Luxury designer brands since the weekend very quickly began to appear on sites like Vinted and on others, eBay, Amazon, even on TikTok. So these consumer-to-consumer apps are suddenly flooded with Louis Vuitton handbags and the like, Rolex watches. Some of them even have the security tag on.
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Speaker 2: On the picture.
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Speaker 1: Didn't even bother.
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Speaker 2: Well, I suppose it's not easy to get those off.
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Speaker 1: No fair, without damaging the thing.
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Speaker 2: Without damaging the product, you know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, once I walked out of a store not at a shoplift, they genuinely didn't take part of it off. And I had to go back and, you know, they zap it with their little zip-zap thing.
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Speaker 1: Exactly, yeah.
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Speaker 3: So, you know, this is just, you know, it's always this, for me, the interesting, a very modern fallout from a sort of civilian unrest or protest situation.
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Speaker 2: That 30 years ago you wouldn't have seen.
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Speaker 3: Sure. It was all this stolen, looted luxury goods on online market platforms. I also saw videos of some street sellers selling them at little, you know, vendor, you know, pavement stores.
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Speaker 1: Sure, sure.
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Speaker 3: The French authorities have stepped in and they've got hold of all these online platforms and just made it very clear that obviously this is not okay. And it is actually the onus, and here I suppose is the question maybe even for listeners who, if you came across a deal that was too good to be true on an online marketplace, would you purchase it? And understanding that that is actually, I think the onus, where does the onus lie? If you purchase something illegal like that, I think you are actually, I don't know in all countries, but I think in France they're saying there are severe legal consequences. If you believe an item is stolen.
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Speaker 1: Especially if you know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is one day after the protest.
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Speaker 1: No, that must be complacency or aiding in the betting or something in the.
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Speaker 2: Minds of that. I would say something like that.
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Speaker 3: So I think it does raise a kind of interesting modern conundrum for people who do a lot of online marketplace shopping. Who do you think bears the responsibility? Should you as the buyer see, oh, this is great. I'm going to buy a Rolex watch for like 15 euros. Right.
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Speaker 1: No, but I don't even think there's an argument for that person. You know what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: But I'm assuming some people have actually purchased so they could easily face consequences. They are sort of trying to shut a lot of it down. I think the online platforms are trying to send the details of info to the cops. But it is an interesting post-conundrum. The next one hasn't, to.
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Speaker 2: Be clear, been verified. We don't know what stadium it's at, but the video, the photographs... So funny.
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Speaker 3: And they really have blown up. I mean, it's had over 5 million views on TikTok and X. And it shows a man, a dad, very much described as a dad, wheeling a double pram setup, two prams that you push together, I suppose, if you.
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Speaker 2: Have twins or something.
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Speaker 3: And he's wheeling it into the stadium through the turnstiles, a double wide infant pram, literally with blankets piled up, a rain cover pulled down, with total confidence, there he goes, going to watch his game, whatever sports game it was. And the security guard asks to lift the cover, it seems, and a routine check, kind of looking a little bit probably bored. And what does he find under the pram lid? Ice packs and 48 cans of premium beer all packed into this double twin pram. And, of course, the social media responses have been hilarious. People are, you know, one, they just can't, you know, the security guards like amazement. They then denied him entry and confiscated the entire hall. Now, the thing is we know that alcohol at stadiums is pretty expensive.
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Speaker 2: Super.
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Speaker 1: Super expensive. Super expensive.
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Speaker 3: So people are like saying, oh, what a hero, you know, on the one hand. And others are saying, of course, this is not okay.
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Speaker 2: Very divided.
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Speaker 3: But authorities in the stadium management has issued a stern warning. I mean, we know in our stadiums, you're not allowed to bring booze into stadiums, correct?
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Speaker 1: Well, as far as I know.
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Speaker 3: No, you're not.
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Speaker 2: At all. Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: And you can purchase there, as you said, at quite a premium, but you're not allowed to bring it in.
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Speaker 3: And they also have limited, I don't know about overseas, but over here where I've.
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Speaker 2: Been, they sell... A kind of beer? They sell beer and then they sell those sort of alka-pop type drinks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. But I don't believe you can do like Harderhouten. Hard liquors and spirits.
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Speaker 2: It's quite light, yeah, relatively. If you have 20, I'm sure it will add up.
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Speaker 1: It'll do something.
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Speaker 3: So I just think that's quite funny. I mean, is that something anyone would consider doing? Well, you're not going to tell us, obviously.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can anonymously tell us if you've tried to sneak liquor into a movie theater or a stadium. I won't read out your name, but if you're that person … I know the answer here. There's plenty.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 1: Just not everyone gets caught.
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Speaker 2: Of course. And your little hip flask.
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Speaker 1: Little hip flask. Exactly. What I also know people do is they'll take like an Enerjade or a brightly colored drink and mix that with something because, you know, prove it.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. Exactly.
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Speaker 2: I've heard a lot.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, I think it was quite bold to take a twin, a double cab, a double cab, a double pram.
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Speaker 1: It is a double cab.
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Speaker 2: A double cab pram packed with ice and beer. Well, off you go then.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he decided if it's worth risking, I'm going all in.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, you've got to commend him for that.
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Speaker 1: But we won't commend his behavior.
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Speaker 2: Not really. Not really. And I think this last story I just love.
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Speaker 3: And I had to Google how in Scotland. I had to Google how to say the dog's name because it's pronounced S-G-I-A-T-H.
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Speaker 2: It's pronounced skia, actually.
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Speaker 3: Skia.
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Speaker 2: Skia, not skiaff.
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Speaker 3: So Skia is a six-year-old black lab from the Scottish Highlands, and she's officially.
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Speaker 2: Been named Animal of the Year. You might wonder why.
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Speaker 3: Well, she's got this incredibly, equally gross and unusual hidden talent. She can sniff out this environmental menace that's colloquially known in Scotland as sea vomit. So it's not actually vomit, everyone, before you like puke into your coffee. It's the nickname for this carpet sea squirt, which is highly invasive, slimy marine organism that's native to Japan and that it has begun to spread across areas of the globe like wildfire.
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Speaker 2: And it has reached Scotland.
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Speaker 3: And it clones itself, and it actually takes over harbors, and it causes real devastation to things like.
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Speaker 2: The local oyster and fish populations.
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Speaker 3: So it's really hard to find, and it's really hard to identify. And this particular marine ecologist, her name is Dr. Texas Sim, she is the owner of Skia. And she realized her dog had a really incredible nose. So she decided a skier was trained originally as a mountain rescue dog to find lost hikers.
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Speaker 2: So Dr. Sim decided to see if she could teach skier. to smell the sea vomit.
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Speaker 3: And Skia has become the first dog in the world trained to hunt this specific marine threat.
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Speaker 2: Sorry, it's a female dog.
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Speaker 3: When she catches the scent, she doesn't bark or dig.
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Speaker 2: She uses what they call passive.
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Speaker 3: Indication technique where she freezes perfectly still and stares.
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Speaker 2: At the target. Which I think is quite sweet.
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Speaker 1: That is quite sweet.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 3: And it's often buried under layers of seaweed. And so it's really hard for people to see it. But she can smell it out. And she identifies it and she sits there and stares at it. They have done so well that they have found hundreds of hidden colonies.
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Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 3: Sim is now training another three-year-old lab, also with a very strange Gaelic spelling, but pronounced Uisge. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Your guess is as good as mine.
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Speaker 2: U-I-S-G-E, but pronounced Uisge.
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Speaker 3: Uisge. And Uisge is now also being trained to help protect our oceans from this.
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Speaker 2: So I just thought it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe if you've got a dog at home.
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Speaker 1: With a special talent.
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Speaker 3: With a special talent. We know that they smell cancer. We know they smell drugs.
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Speaker 1: Explosives.
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Speaker 2: Explosives.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, with training.
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Speaker 2: But the cancer thing fascinates me. You know, there's this whole new thing, not new, but it's been going on for a while. Yes.
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Speaker 3: That they can actually smell cancer before it's even been diagnosed in humans and whatever.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know if it's related to smell, but you know, these companion dogs that will sense when someone's about to have an epileptic fit or otherwise.
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Speaker 3: Diabetic I have a friend whose little girl got they got a golden retriever who was trained specially and grew up with my friend's child and was her companion animal.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible that they can do that.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely incredible before she has a sugar low they would she would run to.
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Speaker 1: And I wonder what's the tell? How does that doggo know? How do they do it? Because we don't even know how to tell oftentimes if you're not schooled. Is that so?
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: It's like something like five football fields of distance they can smell compared to what we can smell, which is maybe the nose in front of us. Incredible.
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Speaker 1: Barbara, thank you very much. Barb's Wire, as we do, I believe, every day here on this show.
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Speaker 3: All right.
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Speaker 1: It's time we get into matter.
Speaker 1: What happens on this show at this time is that we speak to Barb for Barb Swire. Good morning, Barbara Friedman.
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Speaker 2: Morning, Barry. Nice to chat to you today.
00:00:07
Speaker 1: We've not done this.
00:00:08
Speaker 3: No, we haven't. I mean, I've done it with most presenters at some point when they've stood in.
00:00:12
Speaker 1: It's like being inaugurated, being inducted. Barb, you've got interesting stuff on here today. I've had a giggle just looking at it.
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Speaker 2: The first one, not so funny.
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Speaker 1: Not so funny, you're right.
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Speaker 2: But we'll move on to the music.
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Speaker 3: I thought this was a really interesting sort of second wave of the intense protests we saw coming out of France over the weekend. I mean, more than 3,000 retail stores were damaged or ransacked amongst everything else that went on. And yes, some were these very high-end stores, but there were also some very small businesses. And you've seen the videos of shop owners.
00:00:45
Speaker 2: Desperately trying to keep these people out of their little stores. But in terms of the high-end.
00:00:51
Speaker 3: Stores, yes, Louis Vuitton, Burberry, Rolex, Gucci. I mean, these stores were absolutely decimated. I think what's so interesting with social digital perspective, because I sometimes try and hook it, you know, that's what I'm talking about, is, you know, digital marketplaces are now part of our lives.
00:01:07
Speaker 2: And Vinted, for example, is one of the big.
00:01:10
Speaker 3: Second hand or the used clothing accessories type platforms.
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Speaker 2: And so what is happening is all of these applications.
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Speaker 3: Luxury designer brands since the weekend very quickly began to appear on sites like Vinted and on others, eBay, Amazon, even on TikTok. So these consumer-to-consumer apps are suddenly flooded with Louis Vuitton handbags and the like, Rolex watches. Some of them even have the security tag on.
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Speaker 2: On the picture.
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Speaker 1: Didn't even bother.
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Speaker 2: Well, I suppose it's not easy to get those off.
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Speaker 1: No fair, without damaging the thing.
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Speaker 2: Without damaging the product, you know.
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Speaker 3: I mean, once I walked out of a store not at a shoplift, they genuinely didn't take part of it off. And I had to go back and, you know, they zap it with their little zip-zap thing.
00:02:02
Speaker 1: Exactly, yeah.
00:02:03
Speaker 3: So, you know, this is just, you know, it's always this, for me, the interesting, a very modern fallout from a sort of civilian unrest or protest situation.
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Speaker 2: That 30 years ago you wouldn't have seen.
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Speaker 3: Sure. It was all this stolen, looted luxury goods on online market platforms. I also saw videos of some street sellers selling them at little, you know, vendor, you know, pavement stores.
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Speaker 1: Sure, sure.
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Speaker 3: The French authorities have stepped in and they've got hold of all these online platforms and just made it very clear that obviously this is not okay. And it is actually the onus, and here I suppose is the question maybe even for listeners who, if you came across a deal that was too good to be true on an online marketplace, would you purchase it? And understanding that that is actually, I think the onus, where does the onus lie? If you purchase something illegal like that, I think you are actually, I don't know in all countries, but I think in France they're saying there are severe legal consequences. If you believe an item is stolen.
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Speaker 1: Especially if you know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is one day after the protest.
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Speaker 1: No, that must be complacency or aiding in the betting or something in the.
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Speaker 2: Minds of that. I would say something like that.
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Speaker 3: So I think it does raise a kind of interesting modern conundrum for people who do a lot of online marketplace shopping. Who do you think bears the responsibility? Should you as the buyer see, oh, this is great. I'm going to buy a Rolex watch for like 15 euros. Right.
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Speaker 1: No, but I don't even think there's an argument for that person. You know what you're doing.
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Speaker 3: But I'm assuming some people have actually purchased so they could easily face consequences. They are sort of trying to shut a lot of it down. I think the online platforms are trying to send the details of info to the cops. But it is an interesting post-conundrum. The next one hasn't, to.
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Speaker 2: Be clear, been verified. We don't know what stadium it's at, but the video, the photographs... So funny.
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Speaker 3: And they really have blown up. I mean, it's had over 5 million views on TikTok and X. And it shows a man, a dad, very much described as a dad, wheeling a double pram setup, two prams that you push together, I suppose, if you.
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Speaker 2: Have twins or something.
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Speaker 3: And he's wheeling it into the stadium through the turnstiles, a double wide infant pram, literally with blankets piled up, a rain cover pulled down, with total confidence, there he goes, going to watch his game, whatever sports game it was. And the security guard asks to lift the cover, it seems, and a routine check, kind of looking a little bit probably bored. And what does he find under the pram lid? Ice packs and 48 cans of premium beer all packed into this double twin pram. And, of course, the social media responses have been hilarious. People are, you know, one, they just can't, you know, the security guards like amazement. They then denied him entry and confiscated the entire hall. Now, the thing is we know that alcohol at stadiums is pretty expensive.
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Speaker 2: Super.
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Speaker 1: Super expensive. Super expensive.
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Speaker 3: So people are like saying, oh, what a hero, you know, on the one hand. And others are saying, of course, this is not okay.
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Speaker 2: Very divided.
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Speaker 3: But authorities in the stadium management has issued a stern warning. I mean, we know in our stadiums, you're not allowed to bring booze into stadiums, correct?
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Speaker 1: Well, as far as I know.
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Speaker 3: No, you're not.
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Speaker 2: At all. Absolutely not.
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Speaker 1: And you can purchase there, as you said, at quite a premium, but you're not allowed to bring it in.
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Speaker 3: And they also have limited, I don't know about overseas, but over here where I've.
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Speaker 2: Been, they sell... A kind of beer? They sell beer and then they sell those sort of alka-pop type drinks.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. But I don't believe you can do like Harderhouten. Hard liquors and spirits.
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Speaker 2: It's quite light, yeah, relatively. If you have 20, I'm sure it will add up.
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Speaker 1: It'll do something.
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Speaker 3: So I just think that's quite funny. I mean, is that something anyone would consider doing? Well, you're not going to tell us, obviously.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you can anonymously tell us if you've tried to sneak liquor into a movie theater or a stadium. I won't read out your name, but if you're that person … I know the answer here. There's plenty.
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Speaker 2: Of course.
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Speaker 1: Just not everyone gets caught.
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Speaker 2: Of course. And your little hip flask.
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Speaker 1: Little hip flask. Exactly. What I also know people do is they'll take like an Enerjade or a brightly colored drink and mix that with something because, you know, prove it.
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Speaker 3: Exactly. Exactly.
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Speaker 2: I've heard a lot.
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Speaker 3: But I mean, I think it was quite bold to take a twin, a double cab, a double cab, a double pram.
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Speaker 1: It is a double cab.
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Speaker 2: A double cab pram packed with ice and beer. Well, off you go then.
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Speaker 1: I mean, he decided if it's worth risking, I'm going all in.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely. I mean, you've got to commend him for that.
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Speaker 1: But we won't commend his behavior.
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Speaker 2: Not really. Not really. And I think this last story I just love.
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Speaker 3: And I had to Google how in Scotland. I had to Google how to say the dog's name because it's pronounced S-G-I-A-T-H.
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Speaker 2: It's pronounced skia, actually.
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Speaker 3: Skia.
00:07:09
Speaker 2: Skia, not skiaff.
00:07:12
Speaker 3: So Skia is a six-year-old black lab from the Scottish Highlands, and she's officially.
00:07:16
Speaker 2: Been named Animal of the Year. You might wonder why.
00:07:19
Speaker 3: Well, she's got this incredibly, equally gross and unusual hidden talent. She can sniff out this environmental menace that's colloquially known in Scotland as sea vomit. So it's not actually vomit, everyone, before you like puke into your coffee. It's the nickname for this carpet sea squirt, which is highly invasive, slimy marine organism that's native to Japan and that it has begun to spread across areas of the globe like wildfire.
00:07:52
Speaker 2: And it has reached Scotland.
00:07:54
Speaker 3: And it clones itself, and it actually takes over harbors, and it causes real devastation to things like.
00:08:01
Speaker 2: The local oyster and fish populations.
00:08:04
Speaker 3: So it's really hard to find, and it's really hard to identify. And this particular marine ecologist, her name is Dr. Texas Sim, she is the owner of Skia. And she realized her dog had a really incredible nose. So she decided a skier was trained originally as a mountain rescue dog to find lost hikers.
00:08:27
Speaker 2: So Dr. Sim decided to see if she could teach skier. to smell the sea vomit.
00:08:34
Speaker 3: And Skia has become the first dog in the world trained to hunt this specific marine threat.
00:08:40
Speaker 2: Sorry, it's a female dog.
00:08:41
Speaker 3: When she catches the scent, she doesn't bark or dig.
00:08:44
Speaker 2: She uses what they call passive.
00:08:46
Speaker 3: Indication technique where she freezes perfectly still and stares.
00:08:51
Speaker 2: At the target. Which I think is quite sweet.
00:08:53
Speaker 1: That is quite sweet.
00:08:54
Speaker 2: I know.
00:08:54
Speaker 3: And it's often buried under layers of seaweed. And so it's really hard for people to see it. But she can smell it out. And she identifies it and she sits there and stares at it. They have done so well that they have found hundreds of hidden colonies.
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Speaker 2: Dr.
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Speaker 3: Sim is now training another three-year-old lab, also with a very strange Gaelic spelling, but pronounced Uisge. Okay.
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Speaker 1: Your guess is as good as mine.
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Speaker 2: U-I-S-G-E, but pronounced Uisge.
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Speaker 3: Uisge. And Uisge is now also being trained to help protect our oceans from this.
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Speaker 2: So I just thought it's amazing.
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Speaker 3: I mean, maybe if you've got a dog at home.
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Speaker 1: With a special talent.
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Speaker 3: With a special talent. We know that they smell cancer. We know they smell drugs.
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Speaker 1: Explosives.
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Speaker 2: Explosives.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, with training.
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Speaker 2: But the cancer thing fascinates me. You know, there's this whole new thing, not new, but it's been going on for a while. Yes.
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Speaker 3: That they can actually smell cancer before it's even been diagnosed in humans and whatever.
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Speaker 1: And I mean, I don't know if it's related to smell, but you know, these companion dogs that will sense when someone's about to have an epileptic fit or otherwise.
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Speaker 3: Diabetic I have a friend whose little girl got they got a golden retriever who was trained specially and grew up with my friend's child and was her companion animal.
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Speaker 1: It's incredible that they can do that.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely incredible before she has a sugar low they would she would run to.
00:10:20
Speaker 1: And I wonder what's the tell? How does that doggo know? How do they do it? Because we don't even know how to tell oftentimes if you're not schooled. Is that so?
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Speaker 2: Unbelievable.
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Speaker 3: It's like something like five football fields of distance they can smell compared to what we can smell, which is maybe the nose in front of us. Incredible.
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Speaker 1: Barbara, thank you very much. Barb's Wire, as we do, I believe, every day here on this show.
00:10:41
Speaker 3: All right.
00:10:42
Speaker 1: It's time we get into matter.
