Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 819 | Torture! Was It?...

Episode Date: February 28, 2022

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If they undergo a certain transplant, a yay. Well, it's not really as good as you think. First of all, according to the trial study, after you go through the transplant, you may be able to eat, I don't know, three or four peanuts.

okay that's it that's the strangest thing we're supposed to be happy about that and you have to go through a fecal transplant wait what yeah uh it's a fecal transplant so if you are resilient to two peanuts oh man that makes life so much better and you know what maybe it does maybe if i couldn't eat peanuts and you said, hey, I've got a fecal transplant you can go do, and you'll be able to eat four peanuts. I mean, maybe that's a good deal. I don't know. But they used fecal stuff from Open Biome, which is a non-profit stool bank in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

I'm guessing that the stool. bank just takes deposit. But here, because of the trial, they used some, they allowed some withdrawals too. So good luck. Good luck if you have a peanut allergy. I mean, if you go through a fecal transplant, you too could eat four peanuts. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. If you live in the South Lake Tahoe area, the greater Lake Tahoe area, you know, around Northern California, Nevada, I would get your weapons out and load them and make sure they remain loaded and, you know, you can leave the safety on, I guess, for now. But be prepared to unlock that safety. So we talked, I don't know, last week or a couple weeks ago about the Hank the tank black bear that has been breaking into homes. And they claim that they're going to attempt to catch it and free it and not shoot it.

No. End the life of this bear. And most importantly, what needs to happen now is we've found out there are three Hank the tanks. Not just one. Three. Okay? Yeah. We know that one of the Hank the tanks

smashed the window, breaking into the house while the people were there. Police that time responded and, you know, we're banging on the house until the bear left. And they let it live. Why did it? I mean, once the bear,

as, what you had the bear inside the house, obviously I understand not wanting to shoot him in the house. I get it. But as soon as he walks out the back, door. You may need more than that, but that'll be fine. But they have

different. It's either Hank the tank or Jake or Yogi or simply big guy. So the one wildlife official described it as severely food habituated bear. That has lost all fear of people and thinks of them

as a food source. And that is a problematic. Yeah. What's problematic is how big it is according to Peter Tera, the spokesperson for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Yeah, it's learned to use the size and strength to break into a number of occupied residences bursting through the garage door or front door. If that happens at my house,

now they claim in this story that once trapping efforts begin, the three hanks may very well form a brigade is they're working together yeah no no no no no no no no I don't want to hear that look we're going to trap them

because that's what they're saying now is that we're going to trap them and then we're not going to we're not going to hurt them we want to release them in a suitable habitat do you do you want to release them in a suitable

habitat Where would that be? Where would the suitable habitat be? I'm just asking. Because they already have lost all fear of humans. And now you're talking about three bears working together? No, thank you. No, thank you.

They must be put down. And we need to put them down in a fashion that makes the other bears go, ooh, hey, we don't want none of that. I mean, like, multiple gunshots. now a couple more all right a couple more yeah that'll work once that's done then we can check the DNA

and make sure we got the right ones because even if we didn't get the right ones at least the other three or two or one we'll start thinking twice about knocking down garage doors and if that doesn't happen we put them down we have got to I'm a big believer and, you know, we shouldn't kill animals, absolutely not, and just to kill them.

But if they're attacking humans, we are the top of the food chain, and we must remind them that we are the top of the food chain. And it doesn't seem like a difficult choice to me. I'll tell you another thing that doesn't seem like a difficult choice to me, and that's a new law that needs to be written. And I think it needs to be, I thought it was a law already, but I guess it was just an unwritten law. I had something happened to me on Friday afternoon that just infuriated me.

So I'm in a drive in lane, a pickup window. Pickup window at this time I was at a pharmacy, picking up some medication for my father-in-law. Now, I did have a way to get out. I wasn't locked in. So it wasn't like once you're in it, you're in it. Although I felt that way in my brain. But I could have got.

and out of line. So I was, I pulled up and I was happy. I was like, okay, cool. There is two cars. No problem. I pull in. And as soon as I pull up, the one front car pulls out. So I'm like, all right. Good deal. And so, because sometimes it takes, you know, a little bit longer at the drive-thru for the pharmacy. I'm prepared for that. It's okay. You know, people dealing with the help through the window getting, you know, their prescriptions, getting the price right, the cost right, all that stuff. I get it. So, you know, insurance issues, whatever. But it usually takes about, you know, I would say, you're happy when it's only a couple of minutes. You're like, oh, okay, that was fast. They got their, you know, they got their medicine, they paid for it. You're on your way. And so, you know,

so anywhere between, you know, a couple of minutes and maybe five or six minutes, you're like, oh, okay, that was fast. like, okay, it's part of the deal. And then, so I'm waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. And it was over 15 minutes. And like when you first see that door open, you know, the drawer to help me, like, all right, we're at the end. But I saw it open like twice and we still weren't at the end. And it was more than 15 minutes.

It was, I mean, it felt like forever. So, and we've all had that little issue in a food drive-thru, right? And we've had that issue at a bank drive-through as well. If you think, you know, I need to talk to the, I need to talk to the bank person. I don't want to go through the drive-thru of the shoot. And maybe even you have it then as well. But it's even more frustrating when you're trying to talk. to a human at the drive-through, right?

So I think that there needs to be a law passed. And I'm not, I don't want to, you know, I'm not big on government. It's fine. The less government, the better, but this needs to be a law, okay? It needs to be that if it's going to be more than, and we can work out of time, is it 10 minutes, is it 15 minutes? It certainly isn't any more than 15 minutes, which is why I'm thinking 10 minutes works, all right?

if it's more than 10 minutes, you've got to go. You got to move. You have to move. It's all 10 minutes. The clock starts when you pull up to a drive-thru window and make your order, maybe when you make your order, right? So it's different. So when you make your order, so at the pharmacy, it would be when you pull up to the window, right?

And so at a drive-thru for food, it would be, same. Pharmacy and bank would be, as soon as you pull up to the window, you're on the clock, 10 minutes, tops. And then at food, make the order. When you make your order, clock starts, 10 minutes. If it's going to be longer than that, now, most drive-through places, if you pull up to the window and it's going to be longer, whatever is there's an issue, they ask you to pull up because they keep everybody moving, right? Keep it going. Which I'm okay with, and that's maybe what needs to happen at these, at the pharmacies, and for sure, the bank, the bank needs to say, just come inside. I mean, we realize that you're

going through the drive-thru because you don't want to come inside, but this, transaction needs to be taken care of inside, drive around. And so food-wise, pull up, you know, we'll have someone bringing out to you, but we've got to keep the line moving, right? So at the pharmacy, it's got to be, you're going to have to pull around, you're going to have to come in, but you've got to get a go-ahead because we've got people in line, you've got to come through. And I personally have had, you know, to wait for things to get filled and stuff at the drive-through. the pharmacy and I said I'm gonna wait here but if a car pulls up behind me I'm gonna I'll pull out I'll pull out and let you take care of them and then you know I'll pull back around no problem

but until then I'm just gonna sit here and that's you know common courtesy but I I was so frustrated on Friday I can't tell you how many times I just almost got out of my car just went up to him and said what is the problem what is going on the rest of us have lives to get to and it was at least. Well, I stopped counting after 15 because I was so angry. And I wasn't leaving. Damn it. No, you're not winning this fight.

I'm here. I'm not going to go around and go in. I'm not. It could have been the problem inside the pharmacy, which I say, okay, fine. Then tell the person, go around. We're having an issue with you. Come in or drive around and come back through the drive-thru.

Whatever. We've got other customers that we can, you know, know, push through fast and take care of business. It's just agonizing. So new law, new law, 10 minute rule. All right, once you make your order, I want to make your order at the drive-thru or get to the window and state your business, 10 minutes on the clock, and the worker has to hit the clock.

There's going to be a stopwatch at the window. It's mandated by law. That's it. And it gets down to 10. You got to go. You got to go around and restart the clock. That's just the law. Sorry, that's the way it is.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Oh, my gosh. So good. Did you know about the Pierce Morgan deal? I don't know why. I feel like I was reading about the deal with Pierce Morgan with Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch. And I was like, I don't remember. Maybe we talked about it. And you say, yeah, of course you did. Jeff, you idiot. You talked about it. But I don't recall it. So he's got to have a new daily talk show. It's going to be aired on Sky News Australia, as well as the UK's brand new talk TV and on Fox Nation here in the U.S. I mean, he's got to deal with Rupert Murdoch, I guess, reportedly worth 67 million, regular college.

in the UK tabloid newspaper of the Sun, New York Post here in the U.S., a book with Murdoch's publishing house, Harper Collins. I mean, you know, I guess he was ready to cancel, cancel culture. That's his deal. He said he vows to cancel, cancel culture. All right. Well, it might be fun. That might be fun if he's just going to, you know, tear into everybody.

he said I'll be calling out extremists from all sides not just in Australia but anywhere while he was this article was talking about him being in Australia to celebrate 25 years of Sky News Australia and they're you know promoting his new show and all his new dealings with the you know the Murdox well good for him good for him congratulations to Pierce I don't know why I

didn't know why I didn't know that it seemed like such a strange deal for him. But, all right, good. And, you know, all I wanted to do all weekend was watch Godfather. That's it. You know, they had the 50th anniversary re-release at some AMC theaters this weekend. And I didn't go. I should have.

I should have just gone. But, I mean, I own all the Godfathers and the books and the, you know, the little stories behind the scenes. So, you know, I can watch them. One, two, and three. To my heart's little desire. I've got them. DVD.

Remember those old things? And I just, I've made me want to watch The Godfather all weekend because of that re-release. I love the Godfather anthology. Love them all.

They were all, I prefer to, I'll, you know, one is great, three is okay. Two is tremendous. One is great.

Three is okay. That's my review of the Godfather anthology series. Oh, and oh my gosh, who died today? Who died today? Sally Kellerman. Sally Kellerman died at 84 years old.

Amazing. I guess she had complications from dementia. She was 84 years old. I loved her in Back to School with Rodney Dangerfield. and I was reading about her life. She had an amazing life. And I met her once, actually, in a restaurant on Venice Beach in California.

We were dining there, and so was she. And, you know, I mean, I obviously just hello and, you know, love your work, that kind of thing. But it was great. It was, she was, I loved her work and she did a lot of really, really cool stuff. One of the things that I talked about, you know, of course, MASH.

you know, hot lips, Hulaan. But she played in, she was in an episode of Star Trek. And she, you know, she was just one episode, she died. But her line, her dying words to Captain Kirk, I'm sorry, you can't know what it's like to be almost a god. Anyway, rest in peace. Sally Kellerman, dead at 84 years of age. And just so you know, when I met her,

I didn't say, hey, hot lips, how you doing? Or, hey, you know, the back to school line, call me sometime when you got no class. I wish I would have now, though. It would have been better than just saying hello and enjoying your work and, you know, eating dinner at a place in Venice Beach. But, oh, well. So for those of you that are subscribed to this show, you know that Walking Dead is back up and running. We're in the second episode of

part two of the final season. Jason Butrell and my son, Maximus Fisher, who just turned 20 years old yesterday. Amazing. Happy birthday, Max. I mean, he's anyway, talking Walking Dead. If you subscribe

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Okay. All right, good. So we have a Talking Walking Dead drop today. Thank you to all the Dead fans. And, you know, if you don't like Walking Dead, you know, listen anyway. And then 18, I watched 1883 yesterday. It drops. I'm not sure what time it drops on a Paramount Plus, but it, you know, I looked in the middle of the afternoon and there it was.

So it was available. The last episode, episode 10, I want so much more. so it's the final episode they wrapped it up so it could end it could be it that can be it 1883 done now that's the series because

they claim they've got a new season they've already they've booked new episodes coming from Taylor Sheridan they claim they have a new show coming out also called 1932 that is still a precursor to Yellowstone

which you have you know season I think think five, which is, you know, going to be out. I don't know. I don't know what these shows are going to be out. They claim 1883, maybe in 2020. So we're not even going to get in it this year because Taylor is, you know, all booked up doing other stuff.

So Taylor, if you need a hand, give me a call. Email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can direct message me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. You can message me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio, or Facebook. Jeff Fisher Radio, either, you know, any way you want to get a hold of me, Taylor, I'm willing to help. I saw, I saw where you were headed with 1883 and I called it. I called what was going to happen. I just want you to know that. I personally called it. You're just going to have to take my word for it since I didn't record it. But I called it of what was the outcome was going to be. Now, the only reason that I changed, you know, about, I don't know, it wasn't long into the,

season, I called what was going to happen. And then I got to thinking, well, after they, after it was so big and they had already called for season two, I thought, well, he's going to change it, change the outcome, because that means it's a, it's a different way. If they end season one, the way I thought it was going to end, and the way it ended, then that changes everything. That's a weird, it's a weird dichotomy of how they're going to do season two now. or how many ever seasons it has.

But it was really, really, really a great, a great season. And I really enjoyed it. And if you haven't seen it, I want to give you so many spoilers. But, and normally I do, because that's just the kind of guy I am. But today, I'm in a good mood.

And don't ask me why. I have no idea why. But, you know, I feel like I need to just be nice today. And so I will. And I won't give you any spoilers for 1883, but they are coming. Okay? They are coming. So they may come this week because I do.

I want to talk about it. So get to it. If you haven't seen it, get to it. Otherwise, there's going to be spoiler alerts coming. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. What seemed like a good plan was not.

So Secret Service agents arrested Home Depot employee in Tempe, Arizona, after he was suspected. I mean, it was probably a pretty good deal for allegedly passing $387,500 in counterfeit U.S. currency. Adrian Jean Panetta was, or Pineta, P-I-N-E-A, was arrested at Home Depot on suspicion of taking genuine currency from the store he works at and replacing it with counterfeit currency. Home Depot reported the losses, happened from 2018 to 2022. So he just got a little greedy is all. So he worked as a vault associate. His job involved counting and bagging money from, the store as cash registers to be transferred to Wells Fargo Bank for deposit.

So the warrant operations marked, you know, they were the strategic investigation enacted by the special agents, Home Depot security, Wells Fargo. And so they got them down. So there was no, you know, the money was being, the numbers were right. It just was the currency, right? And at the time of the arrest, they seized 5,000 in counterfeit, $5,300 a genuine currency. An additional $22,000 genuine currency was recovered at his home.

And so we'll see what happens. It's interesting with the counterfeit money. I wonder, you know, if they caught it. Because if the bank catches it, then they just take it. And Home Depot is out to cash, right? And so they're trying to figure out where that money came from. And, I mean, $380,000 is, you know, a good lump of money to get a little greedy.

I remember, I think I told this story before, but I remember getting a counterfeit $100 bill when I was working for Win Dixie in Florida. This was, you know, 100 years ago. So, you know, the statute of limitations has already passed. And so my manager at the time called me up there and gives me the $100 bill and says, go get lunch and bring me back to change.

And I was like, okay, you know, I'm all for that, no problem. And so I go get lunch and I bring them back to change. And I don't remember if that was before or after, probably before. I mean, it would not be like me to just do it and say, gee, thanks, manager. I appreciate it. So, because he was a really nice guy. And he did a lot of good things for me. And I appreciated him very much.

But he told me that it was counterfeit. And if he turned it into the bank, the bank just takes it. And the store is out to $100. And they're going to, you know, they don't know where it came from. It was in, it was in the, you know, the money. They know what drawer it was. But in those days, you know, it wasn't. There weren't cameras on every register.

And we're not sure where it came from. The cashier had a good idea, but it was on a beach in Florida. So it was, you know, most likely a tourist, not someone from, not someone from Treasure Island, which is the beach that it was on. And so I went got lunch and got changed back so that, you know, the money that I got changed back was real. I know. So I'm getting busted for passing counterfeit money. But, I mean, you start getting into thousands and hundreds of thousands.

I mean, that's what Reacher is about, right? On Amazon, it ends up being about counterfeit. Oh, is that a spoiler alert? Oh, no. Darn the luck. I didn't give you spoilers on 1883, but I'll give you spoilers on Reacher. It's been out long enough now, okay?

And that's what it's about. And they were using real money because of the paper, but they were using, taking small denominations and making it larger denominations. and then shipping it out of the country. So American money was being used, counterfeit money was being used out of the country, and then shipping back here through the government.

So, you know, it was already washed anyway. An interesting kind of thought process there on Reacher with Amazon, the new series on Amazon, which was a fun ride, by the way. But so he was, I mean, it was a good plan. I like the idea that they would, you know, the numbers. would be right. So he accounted for all the

dollars. It was just, you know, somebody said, hey, this is not real money. Sorry about that, Adrian. You're going down. Another crime that seemed to be a good idea was not. Authority seized

a $3 million worth of meth hidden in a shipment of onions during a tractor trailer inspection at federal facility in San Diego. The canine unit for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection alerted to the trailer shipment of onions on Sunday.

So the math didn't quite get covered up by the onions. They found 1,200 small packages of meth. It was kind of weird because they were packages of meth more than 1,336 pounds were shaped into small globes

with the white covering. So it was kind of of blended in with the onions, right? But the smell of the onions did overpower the meth for the dogs. I feel like that's the cost of doing business. It's a lot of work to, you know, have the meth wrapped up to, you know, kind of look like onions. So it's in the bags. But it's a lot of work.

But I feel like that's cost to do a business. $3 million? $3 million worth of meth? I mean, nobody wants to lose $3 million. But you do if you've got, you know. avocados coming in coming in full of mouth too, right? I mean, we've got avocados

shipments coming back into the States. So, I don't know. I know nothing about any kind of smuggling going on with avocados. I just find it interesting that this took place during some of the time that, you know, we were

questioning whether we were going to get the the avocados back. And, you know, so now we've got I mean, I feel like $3 million worth of math. That's a cost of doing business. Speaking of cost of doing business, UPS, cutting $3 off the part-time workers pay? Wow. Thousands of part-time workers at UPS around the U.S.

were informed that, yeah, your hourly wages are going to be cut. Yeah, you know, I know we gave you those raises in 2021. And sure, we told you that they were going to be permanent, but, nah, they're not. Sorry. We hedge up to $18 an hour, and we're going to knock you back down to $1533. That's just the way it is. Sure, we had record profits last year, but increased shipping prices, and we got a lot of stuff going on. So, you know, we got a stock buyback program going on, and I know that we're projecting more growth,

but you guys make it $18 an hour. Yeah, we've got to knock that back. Sorry, that's just the way it goes. Live with it. So these people are going to be looking for ways to use counterfeit money, for sure. We'll see what happens. You know, if they get away with it or not, it's part-time workers. And so, you know, you lost a bunch of workers.

If you tell the workers, hey, you're making $18 an hour, and now it's only $15, have a nice day, but many quit, right? So you get rid of those. and the other people stay, making their 15, and you bring new workers on making 15, and, you know, it's all good, so profits are safe, right? I don't know how they're going to get away with it. I don't know if the union's going to worry about it.

We'll see. I know that, you know, they did, the union probably doesn't have much to do with the part timers, but if they're starting to cut part timers work. That means they're starting to take a look at some of that full-time employees, too. Some of those benefits that the unions have worked out. And so good luck.

Good luck to you, UPS workers. You know, I know, look, 15 bucks an hour is nothing to, you know, shake a stick at. But if you were, you know, making 18 bucks an hour, that's a little bit of a pay cut that you're a little unhappy about. I don't blame you. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here.

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We had some headlines come out of this past weekend with the war. The world's judo body has suspended Putin as its honorary president. I'm sure he'll be bummed. Twitch and Only fans have blocked. all users from Russia due to sanctions. And there's a bunch of users that come out of Russia. So they're unable to get the money that they had in their accounts or money that they were planning on making. I mean, it's the Twitch and Only fans.

It could be an uprising. Could be an uprising more than Putin wants to deal with, which is what, you know, hopefully the sanctions will provide. That is, people start saying, ooh, hey, Vlad, what are you doing here, bra? sure we i mean i'm okay with you taking ukraine but not taking my money so if it means me getting my money how about we back out of that ukraine thing that you got going on how about that we have uh google twitter and meta blocking russian-backed media outlets from advertising and monetizing content on their platforms amid the invasion so that's even more people outside of Twitch and only fans that aren't making money online.

So we got that going on. We have, for sure, we have Sean Penn over there making a documentary. That's good. I mean, that's tremendous. That's something to look forward to. We have at least 100,000 people that gathered in central Berlin to protest the war in Ukraine. Anti-war demonstrations were also held in 48 cities across Russia.

More than 2,000 people were over. arrested. I'm sure it was more than that. I'd bet you that there were more than that. Soccer team and players across Europe showed their support for Ukraine as pressure mounts on FIFA to ban Russia from competition. Poland, Sweden, and the Czech Republic are refusing to play against the Russian national team in World Cup qualifiers. Okay. Now, we had the Ukraine's Antonov-A-N-225 Maria, the world's largest plane. has been destroyed, reportedly destroyed, in the Russian attack on the airport in Kiev,

according to Ukrainian authorities. And that will take, you know, three to five years to rebuild. Oh, okay, that's it, though? Yeah, that's it, no problem. I mean, there's all kind, and we don't know that is true. I mean, there's all kinds of,

well, we'll just call them, we won't call them lies. We'll call them misleading images, uh, coming out of Ukraine. A lot of pictures that were old pictures. And some pictures that were Russians, not Ukrainians. And so they were lies, really is what they were.

And just to kind of get us going. So just be careful and double check what you're watching and what you're viewing. Okay. All right, good. And I will say that it was this war, this attack by Russia on Ukraine, does help the United States in one sense, is that it makes it more important than ever that we have the Second Amendment. Doesn't it?

And don't let me catch you drinking Russian vodka. Okay, don't do it. I don't want to see that. I'm not sure what good that really does. I mean, it's already been paid for. So, I mean, they've already got the money for the vodka. So pouring it out is just a waste of our money. already spent.

But hey, if you want to protest Russia invasion of Ukraine by pouring out Russian vodka here in the U.S., you go right ahead. I mean, it's soon to be party time. You might want to keep the vodka around. I mean, you've got the State of the Union with President Biden tomorrow, which will be fun tomorrow night. There'll be plenty of drinking games to go with that. You might as well keep the Russian Vodka.

vodka around. And we have Marty Gras, beginning tomorrow with New Orleans, so you might as well keep the Russian vodka around. Get drunk on it. Have a good time. I don't know why. It just doesn't make sense to me. We've already paid for it. It's just pouring it out seems

to be a waste as all. Speaking of the State of the Union, I thought the Freedom Convoy that was supposed to be driving across country, which I told them not to do, by the way. Hashtag truck off. Just stop driving, okay?

Don't deliver goods for three days and show America and show the government that they need the truckers. But they're on their way. But apparently they're not going to be there until like the end of the week. They're not going to. I thought the point was to be there for the state of the union. That's why the fences went up. That's why the National Guard was called in. But nope, there's the approximate time of arrival is the fifth.

of March. So, okay, I, I, you know, they want things to go back to normal.

I get it. I'm with you. Nobody supports the truckers more than this broadcast, chewing the fat. 100%, I'm with you.

But the people's convoy, I guess that's what they're called. They're not the freedom. The freedom convoy was up in Canada, right? So this is the people's convoy. But, and they're on their way.

So, okay. I mean, good luck. God bless. I wanted to work out. I'm able. I wanted to work out. the mandates are already coming down, right?

They've stopped some of the masking. Other places are killing the mandates and the vaccination passports are getting, you know, pushed to the side. So good. It's working. I see where they also talked about how the convoy they had on their Facebook page, there was a convoy forming in Maui.

That's a tough drive. that's a tough drive. I don't know if there's like semi-boats or if they hop on barges and just kind of blow their horns across the Pacific. Yeah, like that. Or if they just drive around the island and just circle the island, try to make a point. I mean, if any place needs to be talked about as far as lockdowns, that's the state of Hawaii. so man if they need a couple of semi horns blowing then blow them off

I'm all for that it just seems like it's a weird place to have a convoy on Maui and oh man and this news coming speaking of speaking of semi-horns apparently people in Canada are suffering I know it's already done right they've moved all the semis out. They've moved all the all the truckers out, but the truckers have left Ottawa with the lingering

effect of phantom honking. Oh really? Is that what it is? I know. The first, according to Kevin, he described the first days of the protests in downtown Ottawa as torture. There were trucks right underneath me. And he didn't want to provide the CBC with his last name for fear of reprisal. Yeah, because people would think that you're a puss. But as one thing, he's got animals, he's got three cars and two dogs. So, yeah, it was torture. Wasn't it, Kevin?

Yeah. So he's suffering now from phantom honking. Oh, wow. that's uh man we are in a we are in a sad state of affairs when you have to you know say that it was it's mild trauma and uh it's post traumatic stress from honking and it's phantom honking so it's not real honking that's causing you the problem it's phantom honking so what would happen if you were to hear would you just get into a fetal position on the street? Because that wouldn't be a phantom honking.

That would be real. And you'd be in big trouble. If you're suffering from PTSD because of phantom honking. If you heard real honking, I might do you in. And that's not funny. And I'm not, you know what, I was going to laugh, but I'm not going to laugh anymore because it just isn't funny. PTSD from phantom horn honking is nothing, nothing to honk at.

I mean, maybe Kevin needs to go to the seven cardinal rules for life from contemplative monk. Make peace with your past so it won't disturb your present. What other people think of you is none of you. is none of your business. Time heals almost everything. Give it time. No one is in charge of your happiness except you. Don't compare your life to others and don't judge them. You have no idea what their journey is all about. Stop thinking too much. It's all right not to know the answers. They will come to you when you least expect it. And number seven of course in the Cardinal Rules for the Seven Cardinal Rules for life. Smile. You don't own all the problems in the world. That's from contemplated mark. Maybe

Kevin needs to, you know, needs to get a hold of that and, you know, that'll help him get over the phantom honking that he's suffering from. Let go of the idea that things could have happened differently, Kevin, as if this life is a choose-your-own-adventure book and you simply turn to the wrong page. You did the best you could with what you knew, and the horns were just torture and you were now from phantom honking. So just remember you did do the best you could with what you knew and felt at the time, Kev. Now do better, knowing more. Keep moving.

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