Speaker 1: It's the radio segment that's been pitching Nike on a
Speaker 1: new line of footwear for marsupials, calling him Kanga Shoes Already,
Speaker 1: the kangaroo from Winnie the Pooh turned down the idea
Speaker 1: to be the spokesperson Kanga. He's not given up though.
Speaker 1: It's Laser Stories, a segment where we read weird news
Speaker 1: stories around the globe, just like everyone else does, except
Speaker 1: we have a laser and those other shoe blutions just don't.
Speaker 1: This first Laser Stories out of Tampa, Florida, forty one
Speaker 1: year old named Thomas Colucci was not happy about a
Speaker 1: recent purchase because he bought meth from a guy that
Speaker 1: he normally doesn't buy meth from. Many are starting out strong.
Speaker 1: A meth story out of Florida, the very Top. He
Speaker 1: thought something fishy was going on. How do you tell
Speaker 1: if it's good meth or bad math? He I mean,
Speaker 1: you have to try it, riak me, sniffets. I thought
Speaker 1: it was all bad on home, and he tried some
Speaker 1: of it. According to Thomas, who describes himself as an
Speaker 1: experienced drug user, he thought it didn't really feel like
Speaker 1: meth to him. It felt more like bath salts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: with his body, or you're thinking of somalia, but with drugs.
Speaker 1: So he did what any rational person would do in
Speaker 1: his situation. He called police to see if they'd come
Speaker 1: over and check it out, and when the cops showed up,
Speaker 1: he handed them two baggies that contained a crystalline substance
Speaker 1: and told officers, after they do some testing, he wants
Speaker 1: them to go arrest the guy who sold it to him.
Speaker 1: Oh this is when you know you've done drugs too long.
Speaker 1: Yeah okay yeah. But instead, in a not so surprising twist,
Speaker 1: they pulled out the handcuffs and arrested Thomas on the spot. No, no,
Speaker 1: I'm not the bad guy. Yeah, you guys are confused.
Speaker 1: He actually became I'm upset and told the police quote,
Speaker 1: but I trusted you. The dumbest part is they did
Speaker 1: eventually test the drugs that he gave them, and it was,
Speaker 1: in fact meth not bath salts Man. Does it have
Speaker 1: a very good palent? Got to go back to school.
Speaker 1: But this next laser story is also out of Florida.
Speaker 1: Oh a sweet elderly seventy year old woman named Kathy
Speaker 1: Stevens recently found herself in hot water and probably on meth,
Speaker 1: and the reason is she likes hugging strangers. Seven year
Speaker 1: old woman. For months now, Cathy's been seen hanging outside
Speaker 1: of local department stores, and when someone walks out the
Speaker 1: door after shopping, she runs right up to him and
Speaker 1: gives them a big squeeze. I like this idea. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You wouldn't be freaked out if an old
Speaker 1: lady ran up to you? Oh wow? Ladies to be
Speaker 1: a just one problem with that. Apparently, while Granny Kathy
Speaker 1: would embrace these people, she had another motivation than just joy.
Speaker 1: She'd also pick their pocket. According to witnesses and surveillance footage,
Speaker 1: her target is always older men, and as soon as
Speaker 1: she runs up to give him a hug, the men
Speaker 1: are so taken aback that they hug her too. What
Speaker 1: they don't know is that she also swipes their credit
Speaker 1: cards and their wallets. Old guys, I also got to
Speaker 1: borrow when, kay, buddy? Why does it feel okay? If
Speaker 1: it's like old people doing it to old people? Right,
Speaker 1: you're right. The sheriff's office says Kathy has allegedly spent
Speaker 1: thousands off of all the stolen credit cards, but she's
Speaker 1: now in jail. Oh man, and I guess she goes
Speaker 1: to the jail guard goes, can I just give you
Speaker 1: a quick It's not clear if the hugging bandit has
Speaker 1: obtained her own attorney, yet she plans on walking free soon.
Speaker 1: So old men beware this next laser store where he's
Speaker 1: out of Hollywood. A screenwriter named Michael Jammin has worked
Speaker 1: in Tinseltown for over twenty years as a TV writer
Speaker 1: and producer, and he's just revealed a big secret on
Speaker 1: TikTok that recently went viral. He answered the question why
Speaker 1: do you never see TV characters with cats as pets?
Speaker 1: The reason, yeah, he said. It all started when his
Speaker 1: team hired a Hollywood trained cat for a scene where
Speaker 1: a comedian was eating salmon alone in his house, and
Speaker 1: they wanted the cat to jump up on the table
Speaker 1: during the shot like behavior and it seems like an
Speaker 1: easy trick, but once they called action, the cat frozen place.
Speaker 1: It was freaking out from the silence during the scene,
Speaker 1: and the entire crew spent the next hour trying to
Speaker 1: get the cat to jump up on the table. Oh
Speaker 1: my gosh, it was only for about five seconds of
Speaker 1: screen time, but they had to work on this. But
Speaker 1: they waste in an hour for one shot. The alternative
Speaker 1: is to just let the cat walk freely around through
Speaker 1: the space, but that presents a continuity issue because if
Speaker 1: they're using multiple takes of the same scene, the cat
Speaker 1: would always be somewhere different in the shot. Oh, that's interesting.
Speaker 1: So when it comes down to it, putting cats and
Speaker 1: TV shows and movies, for the most part, it's just
Speaker 1: not worth the effort. I'm the only place I see
Speaker 1: him now that you say that, it's like animated show. Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: like the Katherine Heigels of the animal world. Just too
Speaker 1: difficult to work. What are they going to do when
Speaker 1: they write a movie about Taylor Swift's life? It's going
Speaker 1: to be trickygi those cats. Cats. This next laser story
Speaker 1: is out of computer Land. Cybersecurity firm crunch some numbers
Speaker 1: and figured out how long it take for a hacker
Speaker 1: to crack any password. Oh, and here's what they found.
Speaker 1: Any password that six characters are less can be cracked instantly.
Speaker 1: Now I'm counting the characters. Okay, I think I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good if you let me think mine. I love Jeffrey.
Speaker 1: It's so deceptive though, I had an exclamation point if
Speaker 1: your password is all lowercase letters. Anything less than nine
Speaker 1: letters long can also be cracked instantly. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: what kind of technology? Ten characters can be cracked in
Speaker 1: three days? Passwords at this point let everybody into everything. Yeah, no,
Speaker 1: it gets better because eleven characters would take a hacker
Speaker 1: five months, So we just need a twenty words sentence
Speaker 1: a lot. At twelve it takes them twenty four years
Speaker 1: to crack. And so what does a password need to
Speaker 1: look like to really be safe? It gets exponentially more
Speaker 1: secure as it gets longer. And also if you use
Speaker 1: lower and uppercase letters along with some numbers in there. So,
Speaker 1: for example, a password with eighteen characters, including all the
Speaker 1: stuff that we just mentioned, would take four hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty eight trillion years. Okay, I love Jeffrey Brooke and Alexa. Yeah,
Speaker 1: hold on, give me five minutes. I'm going to log
Speaker 1: into my email real quick. Yes, take me that long paragraph.
Speaker 1: So what can you take away from all this? Probably
Speaker 1: the old adage size matters. That's this guy believes it,
Speaker 1: and that's how we know that Laser Stories is done
Speaker 1: for the day. We'll come back and do it again,
Speaker 1: same time on Friday,