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Car-Sized Pumpkin: Which Car? Nobody Will Say
From the BBN segment “Seven local papers now run the car-sized pumpkin story”, cut down to under a minute.
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: The Coloradoan.
Hank LedgerSix more local papers, from Missouri to Florida to New Jersey, have now run the record pumpkin story, and every one of them uses the exact same headline.
Kenji MoonfieldSame headline, six papers. That's a group chat, Hank. Somebody sent it and everybody else just forwarded it.
Hank LedgerThe pumpkin is said to weigh as much as a car, which is the part I keep coming back to.
Kenji MoonfieldWhich car?
Hank LedgerThe reports don't say. A hatchback and a pickup truck are very different amounts of pumpkin.
Kenji MoonfieldSo seven papers, one pumpkin, and nobody has a number. That pumpkin is building quite the media empire.
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