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Mike Cornell here with Quick News of the Weird. It's brought to you by Shingle Restoration Services. For a free estimate call 740-328-9582. Ok. Question: What is the top concern of everyone out there right now? The economy? Trump's cabinet picks? No and No. It's got to be: What will Mike Tyson do? I for one am concerned. He's set to receive only 20 million dollars from his fight with Jake Paul. Every time he spends a dollar of that 20 million, he'll be reminded...that he's a loser. In addition to the psychological cost, there are physical costs. When you count a lot of money like that..it makes your hands all gunky..Then there's the danger of paper cuts. Anyway, while the match was a harsh realization that age finally caught up with Not So Iron Mike, it also brought back memories that he had been a formidable force back in the day. Tyson is and was a serious risk taker. Biting Holyfield's ear back in '97? He didn't know where that ear had been? Ear wax can carry disease. Tyson just gave an interview in which he said he once made an offer to fight a gorilla. The incident dates back to the late 1980's when Tyson, alongside his wife at the time Robin Givens, visited this zoo
for a private tour. When they got to the gorilla cage, there as one big silverback gorilla bullying all the other gorillas. Tyson offered the zoo attendant $10,000 for a chance to fight the bully gorilla..or in Tyson's words..."to let me smash that silverback's snot box." The attendant declined the offer. Tyson always had a thing for wild animals. He kept two tigers as pets at his Las Vegas mansion for a while. He eventually realized that keeping the big cats at his home was not a great idea. Oh..I know what Mike Tyson should do now. Fight the animals. Next on Animal Planet...Elephants, Rhinos and Mike Tyson...oh my. ... See MoreSee Less

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Mike Cornell here with Quick News of the Weird. It's brought to you by Shingle Restoration Services. For a free estimate call 740-328-9582. You know my lovely and talented colleague, Newsman Dave Doney...um..sorry..my barely presentable and talented colleague Dave Doney..hardly goes a week without telling you about some phone scam making the rounds. Well, one company has recently come up with a way to get some sweet revenge on the phone scammers...with the help of AI. I know...folks are really worried about AI. It's supposedly going to put everyone out of work and destroy civilization as we know it. But maybe in this case, it can be used for good instead of evil. The company has created this "scambaiter" tool in response to research which found that 70 percent of people wanted to get some revenge on scammers but didn't want to waste their own time doing so. Scambaiters get phone numbers linked to this AI tool called Daisy which is added to lists used by scammers to target vulnerable consumers. Daisy has the voice of an elderly grandmother to play on scammer stereotypes about older people. Daisy has been successful in keeping numerous scammers on calls for up to 40 minutes at a time by frustrating them with meandering stories as well as by providing false personal information and made-up bank details. By tricking fraudsters into thinking they were scamming a real person, Daisy has prevented them from targeting real victims. Too bad my grandma isn't still with us. She'd be a perfect model for Daisy. When I was over at her house when I was a kid, she'd cook these great casseroles and let you stay up past your bed time. She could tell really awesome stories that I wanted to listen to. But if I misbehaved, she'd say..."Go out in the yard and pick yourself a switch." The switching wasn't too bad. But the walk to the switch tree..and the walk back to her house from the switch tree..were the longest walks of my young life. ... See MoreSee Less