Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 494 | Fat Pile Friday - Crime and more Crime EDITION

Episode Date: October 23, 2020

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Starting point is 00:00:00 I knew it. It just didn't feel right. So we don't know exactly what's going on with the California hiker that was lost in the Zion National Park. And I say gone missing in the park for two weeks who didn't have any food and didn't have any water and said she hit her head and stayed where she was at next to the river close to a water supply. But then when they found her, she was dehydrated and come to find out there was really no wound on her head. And now we have a Utah sheriff saying there's no way that she drank from that river because this time of year, it's full of all kinds of toxins from the algae bloom. So she would have been really, really sick unless she had. some sort of super immune system, but she could not have left the park on her own.
Starting point is 00:01:04 They would have had to help her out, which they didn't have to do. And so something is up. I don't know what. I don't know why it intrigues me. It just does. I mean, she's missing, missing for two weeks. And then all of a sudden she's found thanks to a tip. and she's telling us she lived off this water and the river that's really kind of not true and that she hit her head.
Starting point is 00:01:39 And she's raised about 12,000 on the GoFundMe page. So I don't know. I just, I can't wait to find out exactly what happened. Maybe we'll never know. But I hope we do. Where are the journalists in the world? Where are the journalists when we've got stories like this out there? Perhaps I should reach out and talk to her myself here on Chewing the Fat.
Starting point is 00:02:07 Welcome to Fat Pile Friday. All right. I mean, there's a plethora of fat to go through on the pile today. A lot of crime. We've got some coronavirus. We've got some fun stories. And we've got stories talking about, there's a new story here that talks about their new study.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Shoppers will visit fewer stores than ever this holiday season. You think? So, I mean, we just went through how stores are saying there's not going to be a Black Friday and purchase things online and sales will be throughout the holidays starting now. And so now they're giving you the numbers on who and what. Well, more like who, not really what. we'll be going into the stores instead of shopping online. And it is less than ever.
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Starting point is 00:05:18 Fundrise.com. Okay, incredible. This survey found that 51% of the people are anxious about going to stores this holiday season, due to the COVID panic. Well, okay, if you say so. Consumers are planning to visit just 5.2 retail stores on average from Deloitte. They found in its annual holiday survey. That's down from 7 last year.
Starting point is 00:05:47 And the closest was 5.7 in 2017. You know, they're saying that they're saying that. they want to shop early because they're afraid that their packages won't get there on time, and they plan on traveling just 9.6 miles on average to buy gifts this season. So we'll see how that goes. You know, that having been said, they're talking about the foot traffic being down 25% year over year. I would say that's going to be more than that. It seems like it's going to be more than that.
Starting point is 00:06:22 Although I will say I saw a picture of just in speaking. of, you know, the lockdowns and masks. And I just was surprised. I saw a picture of Governor Greg Abbott at the World Series. And he was, you know, he was at the game. And he looks like he's on the field. And he's got his cowboy hat on and a mask. And man, did he take a beating for wearing that mask out there on the field in the stadium?
Starting point is 00:06:55 I mean just a beating. And Texas is, you know, not 100% open, but where I live in DFW, sure feels like it's 100% open. I got to tell you, traffic is back. Stores seem to be open. Nobody, everybody is out and about. Sure, there's mask wearing going on, but I see a lot of people without masks as well. So, I don't know. I don't know what's going on around the rest of the state, but here in DFW, and that's,
Starting point is 00:07:25 That's where the World Series is being played between the Tampa Bay Rays and the Los Angeles Dodgers. By the way, one in one starts up tonight, the third game of the World Series. It seems like it's back. So, man, the people are still mad at Governor Abbott for not keeping Texas open. I think most people in the state of Texas, when they were locking down things, We're like, how about no? We'll do what we want and we'll decide what we will make the choice. And it was a difficult thing here in Texas to lock it down.
Starting point is 00:08:05 I'll give you that. But he still hasn't come back around to 100% and taking away the mask mandates. So I don't know. Good luck. God bless. We'll figure it out, I guess. The long list, long list in the crime category today here on Fat Pile Friday. I give you the headlines and then we'll delve into a couple of.
Starting point is 00:08:24 of the stories. All right, so we have a rapper charged. We've got a road raid shooting. We've got a no crime increase study. We have citizens suing for no police. We have a man lying about his wife's death. We have a guy using Kool-Aid packets at the self-checkout
Starting point is 00:08:45 and a Michael Jackson accuser lawsuit dismissed. So there's a, you know, there's a that's not all of them. I'm just kind of breaking them down quick to what's accumulated here on the fat pile here on Friday. So we had a rapper charged with coronavirus benefit fraud after boasting in a song about the benefit fraud. Uh, that's, hello, dude.
Starting point is 00:09:14 What are you doing? So he boasted about it in a YouTube music video, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office. The rapper known as, and I'm sure you know this rapper, nuke Bizzle, who doesn't know Newk Bizzle? I mean, his real name is Fontrell Antonio Baines, but, I mean, I know Fondrell Antonio Baines, but, you know, everybody calls him Newk Bizzle. So he was arrested for, allegedly,
Starting point is 00:09:49 obtaining fraudulent unemployment insurance benefits under the coronavirus aid relief and economic security act or the CARES Act. He applied for $1.2 million in jobless benefits and used stolen identities. Okay, good. He's accused of exploiting a provision in the CARES Act. Really? Called a pandemic unemployment assistance. You know, he's not the first one either.
Starting point is 00:10:18 There's other stories that I've read of other. single people, businesses, getting all kinds of money, and they're going after him hard for doing this. So he had cards issued by Bizzle were allegedly issued in other people's names, including those who were victims of identity theft, duh. 92 debit cards were sent to an address linked to Bizzle, more than, as I said, 1.2 million obtained. Wow. Bizzle and co-conspirators were able to, allegedly.
Starting point is 00:10:52 access uh easily $704,000 in benefits. He, you know, used,
Starting point is 00:11:03 this is genius. Uh, he used, uh, names, uh, aliases, nuke Bizzle 1
Starting point is 00:11:11 and Newk Bizzle 23. Boy, that's, uh, that's, that's, I'm thinking there.
Starting point is 00:11:18 So he bragged about defrauding the benefits program in the video. and he holds up a lot of envelopes from the employment development department and claims he got rich by going to the bank with those envelopes. Another rapper states, you got to sell cocaine? I just file a claim. You got to sell cocaine. I just file a claim.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Okay, I mean, genius from my main man, nuke Bizzle. 22 years. He could face a maximum sentence of 22 years. Woof. That's a tough one. We had a road rage incident, and this is, you know,
Starting point is 00:12:03 I've lived through similar situations, and it's, you know, I guess I'm lucky, but there was a road rage incident in Dearborn, Michigan, outside of Detroit, and there's video of it, and you see the cars in the,
Starting point is 00:12:20 you know, backed up in traffic, and you see the Road Rager pull up next to the guy, and the guy says, you know, talking to each other through the window, and all of a sudden he sees something you hear like, put that gun away, and he just pulls out the gun and fires. Just shoots at him. Okay. So now we're just looking for the guy.
Starting point is 00:12:40 Well, I mean, he's on video. I don't think it's going to take long to find him. But, oh, wait, no, it didn't. He was already arrested. So we'll see what happens there. but I mean, I could see it happening to me. I mean, I've talked about it here on the show of the road rage incidents. The last one is still, you know, still heavy on my mind, the last one where I was making the right-hand turn on the red.
Starting point is 00:13:04 And the guy was making a U-turn from the turn lane on the other side of the road. And he was so angry at me. I mean, I just couldn't believe how angry he was, throwing his hands and slamming his truck. And it was just incredible that he was so mad. and you know so I could see someone similar to that anger issued human
Starting point is 00:13:28 just pulling a gun and shooting so be careful out there when you're come up against the road ragers that are out there we talked about the study that finds no crime increase in cities that adopted sanctuary policies despite what Trump said
Starting point is 00:13:47 oh Okay. Okay. So according to a new Stanford University report, one of the first to measure the effects by looking at data on violent crime and property crime. They compared statistics across more than 200 sanctuary counties in jurisdictions between 2010 and 2015 when the policies were adopted in many U.S. cities. all right so the data show that the policies were effective at limiting deportations of nonviolent offenders yeah no kidding but did not result in higher crime rights
Starting point is 00:14:30 in those cities okay I would like to I would like to see that myself it would seem to me and perhaps it is because in those sanctuary cities they have made criminal activities
Starting point is 00:14:48 a harder thing to get charged for. I don't know. That's got to be it. That's a tough study for me to find, especially since the story next to it is the Minneapolis residents suing the city over police shortages amid violent crime wave.
Starting point is 00:15:06 The citizens say, we want law and order. Really? No kidding. So residents have sued the city over what they say is insufficient policing that has left residents fearing for their lives amid this violent crime wave. Okay.
Starting point is 00:15:29 In the lawsuit, there are currently fewer sworn officers employed with the Minneapolis Police Department than what is required by the city charter. Ha! Who listens and pays attention to the city charters? Stop. So then we have the story of the couple who are no longer because the husband was convicted of killing her. But he tried to get away with it and didn't do a good job of it. So they got married in 2004 and they settled on hubby's pig farm in Earlville, Iowa.
Starting point is 00:16:09 She was a registered nurse. They had three kids. and they, which she gave up to stay at home, be a stay-at-home mom and help hubby on the farm. And she loved it, but then she got scared of hubby and said that she had felt like a slave and felt, you know, he was too controlling. And then things weren't well. she had told her brother that she was going to wait until after the crops had been harvested and then she was going to leave and file for divorce. This was in 2018. And the brother said that he had put aside some furniture for a new life and she was fine because she figured that she would
Starting point is 00:16:58 be entitled to half the farm and $2 million in the farm's trust that she'd be able to provide for her children. Okay. So she was concerned that hubby would freak out if she left. Well, if he's a controlling person, as she said, yeah. Well, she then started having an affair with the field manager. I mean, what are you going to do? You're out there working on the farm and you got the field manager. You might as well take care of a little business out in the cornfield.
Starting point is 00:17:33 So they were exchanging messages back and forth on the phone, and she was really concerned that if hubby found out, he would throw her to the pigs. Well, yeah. So he did find out. And he grabbed the phone, and it revealed all these texts, and he confronted both of them. They denied an affair, and he continued to work on the farm,
Starting point is 00:18:01 and she, you know, I guess stayed on the farm. stayed on the farm and focused on, you know, leaving the marriage. And then she had some sort of medical procedure. It doesn't say what she had done. But she was, you know, kind of recuperating at the house. And he called her out to the barn. And she said that he was, she was dizzy and having dizzy spells. And then the next thing, you know, he is calling.
Starting point is 00:18:33 9-1-1 from his truck saying there's been a horrible accident and apparently um amy had fallen on a corn rake twice one time she fell on it so it looked like the corn rake was being stabbed down into her and the second time she fell on the corn rake it looked like she had fallen on the corn rake and it was protruding upwards into her back so i mean how many times you hear about that? that people falling on corn rakes like that right right of course so it was just a horrible horrible farm accident except that the autopsy saw the way that she fell twice on that and uh they decided that uh knew there's a little bit of a problem then they went back and found some more texts uh between her and jerry and how mullis uh you know was upset that's the hubby and so you know that was it
Starting point is 00:19:33 They tried him, they arrested him, and he went in front of the court and was found guilty. Now, apparently on the 911 call, it said here that he was calling from his truck, but on the 911 call, it said that they played it in court and they said that, you know, you can hear him calling her or telling her. Go to hell, you cheating whore? Okay. Now they claim, you know, the defense attorney says you can't make that out of the 911 call. But first degree murder, he's going down.
Starting point is 00:20:18 He still claimed his innocence all the way. He got life in prison without a chance of parole. Wow. Which he has appealed and requested a new trial, of course. But holy cow. Working on the farm is a. a dangerous, dangerous place to be. Oh, I mean, holy cow.
Starting point is 00:20:43 So then we have the Florida man who had a genius idea. Okay. So he goes to Walmart and he buys $994 worth of goods. Okay? I love it. Naples, Florida. All right. He gets all the merchandise.
Starting point is 00:21:04 He picks up, he's got a shopping cart that includes a scooter for $248, a dual navigation system at $119.87. $160 worth of batteries. And he also, before he did that, I don't know why he had to do this. It doesn't make any sense. he went to the shelf and grabbed a soda and a fan and then returned them to customer service getting a refund for 948. I don't know why you would do that.
Starting point is 00:21:46 I guess just practice. Just trying to figure it out. Okay, I guess. But you get the 948, you know, they get you over a thousand bucks. Okay. I guess maybe he needed $1,000. So as he's ringing things up,
Starting point is 00:22:04 he grabbed a packet of Kool-Aid and had it in his hand. So it appears like he's scanning the items, but really he's scanning the Kool-Aid packet. So the total was $24. That's a good idea. I mean, a horrible idea. idea. I what is this guy? That's just I mean these damn criminals. That's good thinking. Now it was too
Starting point is 00:22:37 much. Here's it here's the thing. This is what gets you all the time is greed. And you know, he got greedy. He got the big items. And so it stood out to even the Walmart people as you're going through self-checkout with, you know, with your scooter and your navigation system and all these batteries, you are, you know, standing out a little bit. So, but if you were to just go there and buy a few things grocery-wise and use the packet of Kool-Aid for that, say you've got like, I don't know, $30 or $40 worth of groceries, and you just scan half of it with the Kool-Aid packs. Okay.
Starting point is 00:23:24 You know, if you get busted, of course, and I don't recommend you do this because this It's a criminal thought, and I don't want people to break the law, ever. Let's be clear about that. I'm just saying that it's possible that this is not that bad of an idea. What do I know? I don't want to go to jail for Kool-Aid packets. And then one last crime story. The Michael Jackson accuser, James Safechuck, who was in the HBO documentary,
Starting point is 00:23:53 leaving Neverland, accusing Michael Jackson of abuse. His lawsuit against the estate of Michael Jackson was just dismissed. Yep, it's going away. It's over. Yep. Hello. Have a nice day. The judge threw out his revived lawsuit against the abuse.
Starting point is 00:24:15 Oh. Huh. That's kind of weird because we all believed it was 100%. But according to the judge, the legal team presented no facts to support their key argument. namely that honchos at MJJ Productions and MJJ Ventures Incorporated had a legal obligation to supervise MJ's behavior. So, okay, well, this really doesn't mean that Michael Jackson didn't do it. This just means that the money he was hoping to get from MJJ productions and MJJ Ventures
Starting point is 00:24:48 is not going to come to him. He was, you know, it's not their deal to protect. the kid, but I got, okay, so the court found that since Mike was essentially the top dog, there was no evidence his subordinates had the power to supervise him. Well, I know, but he's dead, and these are companies that he was in charge of.
Starting point is 00:25:20 Weird, really weird. Boy, the Michael Jackson family has got to be really happy with this but this really doesn't mean that Michael is innocent and you can't quote me on that Let's go to the break room. I need an ice cold beverage to go down my throat right now Oh my gosh. Yes, say it with me so good. So good. So as long as we're in the break room, let's just talk a little bit about Jennifer Lawrence, shall we?
Starting point is 00:26:19 She says that hubby is okay with, doesn't mind her having sleepovers. Okay. I don't think I would mind that either, just to be, you know, throwing that out there. I know. He's an understanding hubby, and he doesn't have issues with me having sleepovers because he knows I value my girl time. Okay. You know, Jennifer was doing some podcast.
Starting point is 00:26:53 I don't know why. She wasn't doing, why I wasn't talking to her here on Chewing the Fat. She was talking to some other podcast. Absolutely not with Heather McMahon. I'm, you know, I'm sure it's a great podcast. But she admitted that she had to sleep over the night before, before the interview on the podcast. And look, my friend came over and wasn't planned. She just ended up spending the night.
Starting point is 00:27:16 We slept in my bed and hubby slept in our guest room. So it's fine. He knows the drill. It's part of my life. It's been part of my life for years. And it's just since we got married, you know, we were pretty young. And my friend was really young. And I was like, well, things are going to change now.
Starting point is 00:27:35 And you've got your man. And she was like, no, absolutely not. We're still having sleepovers. Just you and me. Okay. I'm a fan. I'm a fan of that. I just want to go on record
Starting point is 00:27:50 saying, you know what, Jennifer, I'm okay with it too. And apparently you don't feel bad about it and you shouldn't. You shouldn't feel bad about that one little bit. One of the things that you should do, though, Jennifer, is subscribe to chewing the fat.
Starting point is 00:28:08 I don't know what you're doing on this other podcast. I'm a little hurt. But let's go ahead and change that. subscribe to chewing the fat. And if you're listening to this right now and you're not a subscriber to chewing the fat, it's time to enhance your life. It's time to take that extra step
Starting point is 00:28:24 to make your life that much better. And by subscribing to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher, you're going to make that step. And your life is going to be that much better for it. Now, there's a plethora of platforms this show is on. So just choose one. You can use iTunes.
Starting point is 00:28:41 You can use Iheart radio. You can use Stitcher. You can use Bottom. or you can use one that, you know, warms the little inside of your sleepover heart. But subscribe. All right. And it's just simple. Jennifer, when you, if you're not a subscriber, let me know.
Starting point is 00:28:58 Email me at Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. And you and I will talk. We'll see how those sleepovers are going. Okay. Also, while you're at it, now's the time if you believe in more voices, not less, you should subscribe to Blaze TV. Right now is the time to do it. If you go to blazTV.com slash jeffy and use the promo code, Jeffie, it's going to get
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Starting point is 00:30:04 But the subscription to Blaze TV is keeping more voices alive rather than less, which is most important. As long as I'm hawking, I want to remind you that for those of you listening live here on Fat Pile Friday on the 23rd of October 2020, tomorrow night, the 24th, is the Mercury 1 virtual event, the M1 yearly event. And it, of course, you know, it's, you know, the pandemic. It has to be virtual, but it's, you know, you're going to be able to see the new American Journey Training Center. starts at 7 p.m. Central. Hey, that's 8 p.m. Eastern for those of you that are looking at time zones. There's going to be live auctions. We've got all kinds of really cool items for you to spend your money on.
Starting point is 00:31:13 You'll listen to Glenn and Tanya and David Barton. The auction is what this event is, is, is, is, it raises money so that, you know, we can pay the bills. because when you donate during the year to disasters or different things that Mercury 1 is helping people with, 100% of that money that you donate goes to that particular event. This money pays the bills and keeps the lights on. And that's why we have the yearly event. And this year it is America goes back to work. It's going to be airing on all social media, all the events on Blaze TV.
Starting point is 00:32:01 Just, you know, you need to join us. And, you know, take a look at some of the auction items and check it out. It's going to be fun. It'll be a great evening. And so it'll be America goes back to work. The M1 Virtual Event 2020 starts at 8 p.m. Eastern Mercury 1. And you can go to mercury1.org or you can go to M1 Nextchapter.com for more information. So I see where Remdyspher is the first virus drug to get FDA approval.
Starting point is 00:32:35 Yay! I find that interesting that the news broke late yesterday about Jiliad's Remdyspher being the first virus drug to get FDA approval. And the day before I got an email saying a drug called Remdyspher, magnanimaturedified by Gilead Sciences is now being reported as the ultimate cure for COVID-19. And they talk about how the patent is currently held by China through an agreement with Gilead's drug patent sharing subsidiary called Unitaid or, you know, UNI-T-A-I-D. You know, Unitad, Unitade, whatever you want to call it. but they talk about the investors of Unitate,
Starting point is 00:33:28 George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, and the World Health Organization. I believe Unitate has offices, of course, in China. I mean, it's a China thing. Near in this email saying Wuhan, China. So, I don't know. Is it interesting? That, is it interesting?
Starting point is 00:33:50 Yes, it is. Is it true? I don't know. I don't know. It wouldn't surprise me. In this email, it talks about how Juliette's and Unidate were financial backers of Hillary Clinton in the last election. I don't know. Is it true?
Starting point is 00:34:09 Would it surprise me? No, it would not. No, it would not. I see, speaking of Wuhan, where it has been announced that Wuhan has welcomed more than 18 million tourists between October 1st and October 1st and October 1st. October 8th. Right. Sure. I mean, who doesn't believe data from the
Starting point is 00:34:36 Wuhan Tourism Bureau? There's no way. No way. It's funny, though. It is funny. No question about that. So as long as we're doing a little coronavirus chat here to wrap up this portion
Starting point is 00:34:57 of the program. We can talk about congratulations to the taste of Sicily, an Italian restaurant in Pennsylvania. It made headlines when it defied the
Starting point is 00:35:13 governor's COVID-19 shutdown mandates and scoffed, laughed at the $10,000 in fines that came along with them. And they would hear of it and they took it to court and they won. They opened to full capacity, which was a violation of shutdown orders.
Starting point is 00:35:34 They didn't require masks or social distancing. And plexiglass barriers weren't set up at all. They couldn't do it. They wanted to feed their families. They wanted to work. They had support from the local elected officials. And they kept getting fines and they said, we ain't paying it. We don't have any fear.
Starting point is 00:35:57 We continue to came to work. The governor ain't going to do anything about it. And so they took it to court and they won. So we'll see. You know, I'd like to have more and more places do that. But Judge said that the family business was unconstitutionally cited and the restaurant was found not guilty. adding that taste of Sicily owners won't have to pay any fines and they're waiting for a hearing date against the Department of Agriculture.
Starting point is 00:36:33 Wow. Now you know the governor is not going to let that lay. No way. That appeal is happening right now. The governor can't let that slide. No way. I mean, that is just, that's embarrassing. for the government because, uh, guess what?
Starting point is 00:36:55 Your, uh, many of your new lockdown laws that you, uh, you know, seized power on that you blamed President Trump doing, but you were the ones doing it, uh, are unconstitutional. So get over yourselves. Okay. Some of those lockdowns and mandates, we allowed to happen, which, you know, we questioned at the time. And we shouldn't have allowed to happen, quite frankly. but the people who didn't allow it to happen, bless you. Bless you.
Starting point is 00:37:29 It should be our choice. That's what it's supposed to be. And that's what President Trump was doing. I don't want to get into that. I just don't. How about that debate last night? Right? Right?
Starting point is 00:37:41 I made it. I made it through this portion of the program without mentioning it. I know. I know, I know, I know. I know. I can't. I just, I just can't. I just can't.
Starting point is 00:37:54 I want to. I want to, but I just can't. I mean, we can stick on the coronavirus stuff. I mean, Japan researchers have just done a study on masks. And they say in their study that masks do block coronavirus. And not perfectly, though. not perfectly uh you know sure they can offer some protection from airborne coronavirus particles but you know even professional grade coverings can eliminate contagion risk entirely so there's that
Starting point is 00:38:36 you know don't worry about it there's that okay eh that's fine and i'll leave you with a you know a a friday fact and i find this i don't know i haven't looked this up i just this was in one of my morning emails and I thought, oh, that's an interesting little Friday fact for you on Fat Pile Friday. The most common place names in the United States. So the most commonplace names in the United States. Washington. Yeah, I give you that one.
Starting point is 00:39:09 Franklin. Okay. Arlington. Okay. The last two I question. Centerville. Lebanon I don't know
Starting point is 00:39:20 I just feel like I question that but Washington Franklin and Arlington yeah I give you that no problem so those of them according to my morning email which has got to be fact
Starting point is 00:39:34 these are the most commonplace names in the United States Washington Franklin Arlington Centerville Lebanon I question that fat pile Friday fact, but, you know, it's a fat fact, so it's got to be true, right? Right.
Starting point is 00:39:59 Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. So I see where Keith Malinac, who works on the Pat Grace program, Pat Unleashed, tweeted out, he was apparently in Jimmy John's bathroom. and if you know anything about Jimmy John's man do you want to go into the bathroom there for sure there's no place else you'd rather be so apparently they had a they've got an information board in the Jimmy John's bathroom called 18 thoughts to think about I mean this is a sign made for my heart in the Jimmy John's bathroom and I was thinking about Keith anyway because I know his separate podcast what is it inside the mic standing on the sitting on the mic, at the mic, his podcast. It's at the mic. He interviews my wife on this edition, the latest edition of At the Mike.
Starting point is 00:41:00 So I'm not telling you to listen to it. I'll tell you that. It's not a chance that I'm telling you to listen to that. But I'm just letting you know that she's on there. So anyway, back to the Jimmy John's bathroom. The 18 thoughts to think about. there's a list of funny things like most toilets flush in the key of e flat the average life expectancy of a toilet is 50 years 72.4% of people place their toilet paper to be pulled from over the roll
Starting point is 00:41:32 rather than under well that should be a lot higher than that if you have your toilet paper to pull under that's that's that's damn near on america that's unacceptable and i will say this. I have gone into bathrooms. I don't remember, and obviously it's been a while with, you know, I don't visit other people's homes very often now during the pandemic, but I have gone into homes and seen a roll of toilet paper on the roll under, and I change it. That is unacceptable. The first toilet cubicle in a row is the least used and consequently the cleanest. I mean, I do kind of believe that. The toilet is flushed more times during the Super Bowl halftime than any time during the year. Okay. 70% of the house guests snoop through other people's medicine cabinets and drawers.
Starting point is 00:42:30 Yeah, I get that. An average person visits the toilet 2,500 times a year. That's about 6 to 8 times a day. You'll spend about three years of your life on the toilet. Wow. That's a long time. That's why you need a stall. and you need a, you need a stall, a separate water room, and you need a urinal. Every house should have a urinal. That's something that needs to be a mandate. Build a new house, it comes with a separate water room, toilet room, and a separate urinal, just saying, it needs to happen. November 19th, wow, coming up close.
Starting point is 00:43:13 November 19th is World. toilet day. People use about 57 sheets of toilet paper every day. The first toilet ever seen on television was on Leave it to Beaver. Wow. Which, I mean, that was a long time ago anyway. So in those days, you couldn't show, you know, husband and wives in bed together. Just weird.
Starting point is 00:43:36 The appliance that uses the most use of water in the home is the toilet. Well, duh. Only 7% of homes are. in Afghanistan have a flush toilet but 19% have a television I'll give you that it takes about 384 trees
Starting point is 00:43:54 to make the toilet paper rolls that one American uses in his lifetime well that's not I mean I mean you know that's not
Starting point is 00:44:07 well women are more likely to be grabbers while men tend to be folders. Thomas Crapper did not invent the toilet. He perfected the draw-off flush system we use today. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year. That is embarrassing. 40,000 Americans are injured by toilets every year. I wonder if that's slamming the seat down.
Starting point is 00:44:49 Well, I can't, you know, I guess if you're working on it or something, maybe. Common names for the toilets are, you know, John, the Dunny, the Crapper, the throne. Think and Stink. See, those are just, who calls it that? Lavatory, S-house, water closet. I'm big on the water closet. I like that. The loo, the potty, the head, the facility.
Starting point is 00:45:13 privy, the can, the latrine, the porcelain, the porcelain god. Okay. Just a few 18 thoughts to think about it, Jimmy John's bathroom. And wow, is that fascinating? And it has a typo where it says, when it comes to toilet paper, woman are more likely to be grabbers, while men tend to be folders. Of course they screw up the word woman.
Starting point is 00:45:46 I mean, hello, so wrong. So yesterday I mentioned a new organ in the throat that these doctors thought they found. And I was just questioning how in today's world are we finding new things that we don't know about? I mean, I know things change, but it just seems like we have information right at our fingertips every day. And then I see a story about these giant hornet balls.
Starting point is 00:46:24 And that's what they're called. They're called hornet balls. Okay, they're in Virginia. If you didn't know this, Virginia was, you know, the first gold rush in America. First gold was discovered there in 1782. Thomas Jefferson discovered a rock containing gold ore along the, along a riverbank, and then it was, you know, it was off and running. And it was over by, you know, they didn't find very much, and then it was off to, you know,
Starting point is 00:46:55 California. But there's a museum there, this Virginia gold mining museum that's there. And they have these giant hornet balls, they're called. And they don't know what they were used for. They were at the gold site and the mining site, and they're not sure what they were used for. Okay. They're seven feet tall, over 20 feet in circumference, each way seven tons. And they don't know what they're used for.
Starting point is 00:47:31 So they've got this mesh. You know, it's concrete around this mesh. So they don't know if they put the ore inside the bun. ball and then rolled it? Or if they put the, put the, you know, the dirt on the ground and rolled the balls over it, or what it was used for.
Starting point is 00:47:51 I guess there's nobody wrote a note and said, hey, we're making these giant balls and this is what we're using it for? I don't know. It's just so weird. They were thought to be mounted on an axle and then rotated around at a point by a horse or steam power.
Starting point is 00:48:11 Right. So you would either crush what was underneath it or you would put something in it. But, and they don't even know how it got their name of Hornet balls. I mean, I guess it looks like a giant Hornet's nest. I don't know about you or me, but, you know, it's going to have to go, I guess it was named after the Hornet's nest because I personally have not seen. those on a horn have you that's what i thought and a couple of uh a couple of reminders to go vote i got it everywhere you turn man it is never freaking ending vote vote vote go vote i mean we got the news from Jeff Bridges that he has lymphoma.
Starting point is 00:49:11 Very sad. I'm very sorry to hear that. I hope and pray that he gets better. He tweeted out that as dude would stay, you know, his character that he played in that stupid movie, The Big Lobowski, um, as dude would say, new S word has come to light. I've been diagnosed with lymphoma, although it is a serious disease. I feel fortunate that I have a great team of doctors and the prognosis is good. I'm starting treatment. I'll keep you posted on my recovery.
Starting point is 00:49:42 I'm profoundly grateful for all the love and support from my family and friends. Thank you for your prayers and well wishes. And while I have you, please remember, go vote because we're all in this together. Vote.org. Love Jeff. Okay. Thanks, Jeff, for reminding us. I appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:50:00 And then we get the, you know, and just to remind us again, and more importantly, the fun that is happening with our star, coming together to remind us to vote and in particular vote for Democrats and Joe Biden we have Happy Days The Happy Days Reunion is coming out for to help
Starting point is 00:50:21 Wisconsin. Yes, the Democratic Party of Wisconsin is presenting Happy Days Cast Reunion. I know. I know. The 25th of October. Oh my gosh, that's my son's birthday, by the way.
Starting point is 00:50:38 Sunday. I say it out loud that I remember it. Oh, that's right. I had a kid that day. You can chip in any amount and watch this exclusive live event. How cool is that? I mean to tell you, Henry Winkler, Anson Williams, Potsy, Marion Ross, mom, Donnie Most. Who is Donny Most?
Starting point is 00:51:02 The Redhead Puts. And special guests and additional cast members. And, oh, yeah, Ralph Melf. I just thought of Doughtybos. I was a stupid Happy Day show. I had to remember who the heck he was. What character he played. But good, good, good.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Man, you can't expect, you got to expect some excitement from the Happy Days cast because they're all about a hundred now. I mean, so what, really? I mean, Henry Winkler is still working, and they're all still working, and good for them. And it's, you know, it's a comic con. But it's all for Democrats.
Starting point is 00:51:40 and Joe Biden help me. Please, Lord, help me. And look, we've had parks and recreation. We've had Veep. We had the Princess Bride. We've got Hamilton cast all coming together. Just, you know, doing these virtual events for Democrats and Joe Biden. You'd think that he was a lot farther ahead.
Starting point is 00:52:09 Like, they claim. and wouldn't need to have happy days reunion virtual event come out to get the vote out in Wisconsin. You'd think that. But you'd be wrong and so would I, because the Badger State is important. And my gosh, we've got to get that back. And that's a show that was based. You know, they remember they said they were in Milwaukee. so good good good and we're thrilled and gosh darn it i'm thrilled too so get out there and vote and if you
Starting point is 00:52:50 haven't been told yet to get out and vote let me remind you get out and vote because we're all in this together ugh

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