Lorraine and Trev finally have a night to themselves.

Their daughter, Liv is out, but they can't help worrying.

Weird, Liv hasn't text us yet.

That's Liv asking for more data so she can upload a dance to let me guess

Tic-Toc data set the rain and Trev kick back to their saucy romcom. Now she wants picking up. Typical. Share data with your kids when they run out.

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I'm Mike Pesca.

A few days ago, a dolphin showed up dead on a Louisiana beach.

Foul play was more than suspected.

Not a Cameron Parish where a $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of whoever shot and killed this dolphin.

I was tempted to discuss this as a purveyor of facts that you didn't know you needed until you heard them.

I'm a sort of Prometheus of weird news items. And I wondered, as you may have two, had I mentioned it.

Who'd kill a dolphin? What's the message there? That the dolphin sleeps with the fishes? We already knew why shoot a dolphin was a pigeon stuck in his blowhole as a warning to other dolphins in case you know flipper flips but I decided no

though there were jokes to be told, like certain inhumanely sourced tuna,

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