Laser Stories (8/15/25)
Brooke and Jeffrey
iHeartPodcasts
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
Weird news stories from around the world… with a healthy dose of lasers added in. Does it make sense? No not really, but it doesn’t HAVE TO… it’s Laser Stories!
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| 0:00.0 | It's the radio segment that's making yoga more Italian. |
| 0:08.9 | By adding spaghetti to your workout. |
| 0:12.3 | Stretch your noodle, find your sauce, and achieve your inner al dente. |
| 0:17.5 | With laser stories. |
| 0:20.8 | Aalzente. |
| 0:24.6 | A segment where we read weird news stories around the globe just like everyone else does, |
| 0:25.8 | except we've got a laser. |
| 0:28.0 | Those other fetterweens just don't. I thought you're going to go with Nama pasta. |
| 0:30.3 | Hey, that's good. |
| 0:31.4 | This first laser story is out of France. |
| 0:34.8 | 59-year-old Lauren van Wassenhoven was hired in 1993 by a French telecom company as a human |
| 0:41.9 | resource specialist. |
| 0:43.2 | Gosh, sounds like a boring job, but people need to do it. |
| 0:46.7 | Yeah. |
| 0:46.9 | Good for you. |
| 0:47.8 | Well, due to some health issues, though, she was instead offered a secretarial position, |
| 0:53.0 | and her employer adapted her workplace to suit her needs. |
| 0:56.7 | Oh, that's awesome. |
| 0:57.5 | I can hear stuff like that. |
| 0:58.8 | Yeah, for sure. |
| 0:59.6 | That was until 2002 when the company got purchased and new managers put her on standby, |
| 1:06.4 | meaning they paid her still full salary but didn't give her any actual work. |
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