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Episode: 678
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Title: HPR0678: Terminally Stupid Episode 1
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr0678/hpr0678.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-08 00:46:02
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Music
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Thanks for joining us for episode one of Terminally Stupid A Show where I highlight the
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terminally stupider those who come awfully close.
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Everyone washes hair, but those who want to license to apply shampoo in Texas to somebody
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else's hair need 150 hours of training, with a hundred hours in the theory and practice
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of shampooing, including a study of neck anatomy.
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A February Wall Street Journal report on excessiveness of state regulation highlighted California's
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year-long training to be a barber, Alabama's requirement of 750 hours of schooling to be
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a manicurist, and Michigan's 500 practice hours for performing massages.
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Okay, we all want someone to be trained when they work on us, but by contrast, many
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of the less tightly regulated states seem not to suffer.
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Connecticut has no license to sing.
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They only have six complaints last year against manicurists.
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Four of them involve disputes regarding gift cards.
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The next story comes from New York Post, December 19, 2010 edition.
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Rap singer Treval Coleman trying to bring closure and get right with God for having shot
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a man in 1993, confessed the assault to New York City police in December, hoping that
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his humanity might impress the judge, however police checked and then booked Coleman for
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murder.
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Coleman said, for some reason, I didn't think the victim had died.
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See the problem here for Coleman is, A, he shot somebody.
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B, he was too stupid to have checked to see if the man lived or died.
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Would Newt have simply made more sense to confess to a priest?
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I guess this just proves that you have to be smart to get away with murder.
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Of course, it's true intelligence, most of those types don't usually break laws.
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Here's another brilliant criminal.
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This one comes from WTNHTV and New Haven, Connecticut on February 4, 2011.
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Robert Michaelson was arrested and farming to Connecticut in February after he called 911
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to ask an operator about the lawfulness of a marijuana plant that he was growing.
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The operator then informed him that it was illegal.
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Of course, online when one calls are automatically traced and recorded, this isn't a new practice
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and Michaelson was soon arrested.
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After this incident, Mr. Michaelson, I'd venture to guess that growing and smoking that marijuana
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probably isn't helping your intelligence level.
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This one is a classic.
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It dates back to November 5, 2004.
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Patricia Frankhouser filed a law suit in Jeanette, Pennsylvania in November 2004 against the
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Nofook Southern Railway as a result of being hit by a train 10 months earlier as she walked
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on the tracks.
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Most of these entries occur when people have headphones on or just aren't paying attention,
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but she claimed that her injuries were because the Nofook Southern was negligent for not
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posting signs warning that the railroad tracks were sometimes used by trains.
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That comes from the Pittsburgh Tribune Review.
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Patricia, I have one question for you.
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What else are railroad tracks used for?
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Stupid people aren't the only stupid things in the news.
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Actually, on this next item, the jury is still out, it is called the Beans Awayve.
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I have not been able to find anything more recent than 2009 on this item, but it is so
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off the wall, yet strangely intriguing that I had to mention it.
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The Beans Awayve is, or was, a gadget being developed by Hines.
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It is a tiny microwave that measures 7.4 inches tall to 0.6 inches wide and 5.9 inches
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deep.
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It is designed for use at your desk and runs off power from your USB port on your PC
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or laptop.
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In the article I found there is also some talk about the possibility of powering it with
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rechargeable lithium ion batteries.
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I was also able to find a video demonstration of the Beans Awayve, and I'll post that video
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on my blog with the show notes.
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Well, thanks for listening.
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That wraps up this edition.
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Hope you enjoyed the comedic vector involved in all of this, and I hope you don't repeat
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these people's mistakes.
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If you have any comments, suggestions, or questions, please feel free to email me at
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MrsZoke.
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That's MRSXOKEE at gmail.com.
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You can find links to these articles, see the show notes, and more at CaptainDramaticSmom.blogspot.com.
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Or you can reach me at our forum at forum.zoke.org.
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Thanks, and please join us again next time.
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Music offered under Creative Commons license share alike 1.0.
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The track featured on this podcast is titled Peaceful Henry by the Heftone Banjo Orchestra.
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From their album, MusicBoxRag, you can get a copy of this song and many others at www.Heftone.com
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forward slash orchestra.
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Stay tuned for the full-length version of this song.
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Thank you for listening to Heftone Banjo Orchestra.
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Thank you for listening to Heftone Banjo Orchestra.
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Thank you for listening to Heftone Banjo Orchestra.
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Thank you for listening to Heftone Banjo Orchestra.
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