Laser Stories (10/27/25)

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What bizarre news stories are featured in this episode?

Hari Kondabolu 0:00
On the podcast Health Stuff, we are tackling all the health questions that keep you up at night.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 0:04
I'm Dr. Priyanka Wally, a double board certified physician.
Hari Kondabolu 0:07
And I'm Hari Kundabolu, a comedian and someone who once Googled, do I have scurvy at 3 a.m.? And on our show, we're talking about health in a different way, like our episode where we look at diabetes.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 0:18
In the United States, I mean, 50% of Americans are pre-diabetic. How preventable is type 2? Extremely. Listen to Health Stuff on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Unknown 0:34
Nobody had to tell your grandparents not to drive while using their typewriters. Why should it be any different for us kids and our cell phones? Distracted driving was the cause of more than 3,000 deaths in 2022. Come on, we're smarter than this. Let's put down the phones and focus on the roads. Drive safe, everybody.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 0:55
Don't drive distracted. A message brought to you by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Project Yellow Light, and the Ad Council.
Unknown 1:04
And she said, Johnny, the kids didn't come home last night.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 1:07
Along the central Texas plains, teens are dying. Suicides that don't make sense. Strange accidents and brutal murders. In what seems to be a plot ripped straight out of Breaking Bad.
Unknown 1:23
Drugs, alcohol, trafficking of people. There are people out there that absolutely know what happened.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 1:29
Listen to Paper Ghosts, The Texas Teen Murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dr. Leitra Tate 1:38
If you're looking for another heavy podcast about trauma, this ain't it. This is for the ones who had to survive and still show up as brilliant, loud, soft, and whole. The Unwanted Sorority is where Black women, femmes, and gender-expansive survivors of sexual violence rewrite the rules on healing, support, and what happens after. And I'm your host and co-president of this organization, Dr. Leitra Tate. Listen to The Unwanted Sorority, new episodes every Thursday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Dani Shapiro.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 2:12
We were in the car, like a rolling stone came on, and he said, there's a line in there about your mother.
Dani Shapiro 2:17
And I said, what?
Dr. Priyanka Wally 2:19
What I would do if I didn't feel like I was being accepted is choose an identity that other people can't have.
Dani Shapiro 2:25
I knew something had happened to me in the middle of the night, but I couldn't hold on to what had happened. These are just a few of the moving and important stories on my 13th season of Family Secrets.
Dr. Leitra Tate 2:37
Listen to Family Secrets on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 2:48
It's the radio segment that's adding a new feature to your Ring security cam. Now you can get EDM doorbells. Where an air horn plays, strobe lights go off, and a fog machine fills the doorway. Great for those porch pirate partiers who want to get down right before they take off with all your stuff. I'm not answering until the beat drops. Yep. Get yours today with Laser Stories, the segment where we read weird news stories from around the globe just like everyone else does, except we've got a laser. Those are the breakdance bandits. Just don't. This first laser story is out of Tylersville, Pennsylvania. Do you know what Tyler There's a 34-year-old woman named Boonie Swims, and she has a court-ordered ban from going to the nearest Walmart.
Dr. Priyanka Wally 3:38
It makes you someone who should be our hero of the week. I also imagine this is Teddy Swim's grandma. She'd be 34. That'd be quite a young grandma. But we're not sure how she got the ban. We do know she hates it. Because she's not happy about not going to Walmart. Everybody loves Walmart. Well, she recently violated the ban and went there earlier this month. I'm not joking. I've always wondered this. If you get banned from all Walmarts, what if I went to another one in another state and walked in?
Unknown 4:07
Are they going to know?
Dr. Priyanka Wally 4:09
Do they see my face and they have me on a wall? Well, we're going to find out. You tell me, Jeff, right now. Yeah, let's stop this segment. We should just call Walmart and figure out how this works.

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