Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 879 | He’s Not On The List?...

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

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pandemic or the COVID-20 or 21 or 22-plus or wherever we're at on the COVID spectrum. Sure, we have to worry about monkey pox. Sure, we have to worry about, you know, the Asian murder hornets. Sure. Sure, we have to worry about all that. I got it. But now, now we're, I think we're at a step too far. All right. Now we have to worry about jumping worms, okay? It's an invasive worm species known for its voracious appetite and ability to jump in the air. Yeah, I want to worry about jumping worms.

Now, officially, they're called Amethys Agrestes. Of course they are. And, of course, that's what they go by. When you see Asian jumping worms, or the Alabama jumper, or crazy snake worm, you immediately think...

Amethys augrestes. Yeah. And so initially, they were spotted in Wisconsin across the New England area in 2013, and now the war. Worms have spread westward into dozens of states. Now, they were just spotted in California, so now I guess we have to worry about them. So the worms can grow up to about eight inches long.

They have a milky white band around their dark body, are distinctive for their theatrical behavior. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing, that theatrical behavior, including wild movements, even, well, they detach body parts. They're also hermaphrodites, so they can repeat. produce without mating and they produce cocoons at the soil surface. Do you still have a problem with them? I didn't think so. They're extremely active, aggressive and have, as I stated earlier, voracious appetites. So they jump and thrash immediately when handled. More like a snake than a worm. And when you look at them, if you see the video, it is they look like they look like a family of snakes, really. Do snakes have families?

Yeah. And so I would just, you know, be careful out there. And immediately, when you find the Alabama jumpers or the crazy snake worms, whatever you want to call them, just know that immediately you're going to think to yourself, oh, my gosh, those are the. Amunds is Agrestes. And I think we need to find a way to destroy them at any cost. I'm sure my friends at PETA will be against this. I say no, we need to destroy them. We are the humans. We need to destroy them now. Several experts have recommended several strategies to detect and eliminate the worms, including using mustard

pour, a mixture consisting of water and yellow mustard seeds over the soil to drive out any worms to the surface and covering moistened soil with a sheet of transparent polyethylene for two to three weeks until the soil temperature exceeds 104 degrees for at least three days, destroying the worms cocoons, yeah, cooks them and kills them. Okay. Uh, no problem. I'm okay with that. I don't want to have to worry about.

Amunds is Ogresses. Maybe it's just me. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Now we have another asteroid to worry about. I can't. I'm tired of worrying about this stuff. I'm almost ready to say, just, just hit the Earth, okay?

No, not really. I'm just joking. So a large asteroid that could measure 10 times taller than the Statue of Liberty is set to make a close, but they claim safe, approach to our planet on the 27th of May, 2022. Now, today, at the point of this recording, it is the 24th of May, 2022, for those of you. of you listening live. The asteroid, known as 7335, 1989 JA, just a, I mean,

rolls right off the tongue, is scheduled to come as close as 2.5 million miles to the Earth at 1026 a.m. Eastern on May 27th, which is a Friday. That's according to NASA's Center for Near Earth Studies, the C&EOS shows. Oh, okay. Now, you know, at this point, the space rock is going to be zooming past our planet at about 47,200 miles an hour.

It'll be, you know, it's moving. It's doing a little bit of distance. And it's, you know, I know it's close by, you know, space standards, two and a half million miles. So we're still, you know, really, we're okay. That's what they say. All right. I know. I know.

They claim will be fine. Don't worry about it. They say that there are 29,000 near-E-O's that scientists have discovered to date. The majority of which are asteroids, that's the term used to refer to any astronomical body that passes within around 30 million miles of our planet's orbit. More than 2,200 of these NEOs,

including 7335. 1989 JA are currently classified as potentially hazardous given their estimated size and orbits. So it should be fine, but I would say, you know, 10.30 on the 27th of May 2022, keep your head up. I don't know what good it would do. But I'll keep your head up anyway. so you know. Yeah, you're looking to the sky and it's looking like it's going to hit Earth.

At least you'll be prepared. So if you don't want to be prepared, don't look. Just go about your day and then what was that sound? Ah, it's just the asteroid 7335, 1989, JA coming into our atmosphere and exploding into the Earth. That's it, though. I don't worry about it. And then, you know, after 1030, 1035-ish, if you're still, you know, standing in line at the

Starbucks. You're fine. Don't worry about it. Go ahead and get that latte. Well, unless you're in Russia, because you won't have Starbucks to stand in line at. The coffee chain is going to fully exit the Russian market several days now after McDonald's sold its Russian business. I don't know that we mentioned that.

I've had it in my show sheet for a while, but McDonald's is pulling the plug out of Russia as well. Wow. According to this, Russia is not a significant market for Star Wars. which, you know, derives less than 1% of its revenue from its 130 locations in the country. The first Russian Starbucks opened in a Moscow area shopping mall in 2007. So don't worry about it. It means nothing.

That's just another company pulling out of a country. That's all. Don't worry about it. So if you were planning on standing in line at Starbucks and waiting to see if the asteroid 7335-1980, 89. JA, I think, is going to hit the earth. You're going to have to find another coffee shop because there's not one in Russia anymore. Sorry, it's not me. I didn't make the call. Sure, wish we'd come to an end of this Russia-Ukrainian world war that we seem to be in or seem to want to be in.

I mean, we know that they have already predicted a global food crisis in 10 to 12 weeks because Russia has blocked almost all the ports. So the maritime opportunities to export food, you know, grain, barley, stuff that we use. We won't be able to make our food with, that kind of stuff.

Well, that needs to end. And we just keep continuing to talk about what we're doing. I mean, they talked about us drawing up plans to sink the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Okay, so I get it. We're helping them out.

Well, let's not talk about it. We're just, I mean, I wish the great Uniter, our president, who ran on unity, would do something. There's got to be a deal to be had. Let's make a deal. I'm not talking about the game show. Let's just, well, maybe I am. Maybe I am. Let's go before Zelensky and Putin and say, you got three curtains.

Behind curtain number one is this. Behind curtain number two is this. behind curtain number three is this. Pick one and let's move on. Please. That'd be great. Wouldn't it? It would be for me.

But apparently that's not what we want. We want to be in war. We've got Ukraine and Russia. We've got Taiwan that's going to be breaking out here soon. It's here. I mean, they're sure pushing for it. We're sending soldiers back into Africa. We talked about that the other day.

You know, enough. Enough. Let's stop beating the war drums and start taking care of America. Oh, man, I, sometimes I crack myself up because that's just stupid. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Reminder to follow me on my social media accounts, Twitter, at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio Getter I guess is still alive

at Jeffrey JFR I don't know if Parlor Truth they're still up and running in there I still I don't know that I actually have an account on truth yet the last time I tried to log in it was some gigantic number so hopefully that's been resolved and maybe at some point I'll

try to get back into truth and then although you know that sounds weird coming from me because that means I'd have to get back into truth. I'm not really sure that I want to do that. Especially now, I mean, I see where we have hurricane season coming up June 1st, which, you know, I always, while I remember that it is hurricane season,

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percent off. Built.com, promo code Jeffie. Built.com. Congratulations to Conan O'Brien. He sold his digital media company, Team Coco, to Sirius XM for about $150 million. Wow. Under the deal, Conan, Conan's show needs a friend, or Conan O'Brien needs a friend. Team Coco's flagship podcast will make the leap to Sirius XM's podcast network along with Team Coco's network of 10 other podcasts including Rob Lowe's Parks and Recollection

Nicole Byers Why Don't You Date Me O'Brien himself signed a five-year talent agreement and we'll produce a comedy channel for the satellite radio company Team Coco's staff of about 50 employees

will join Sirius. I didn't realize Nicole was a part of Conan's Team Coco. That's awesome. She's really great. We've talked to her here on chewing the fat as well. Conan O'Brien needs a friend, ranked 26th among all podcasts by weekly

listeners in quarter one of this year. That's just a little bit more than this particular show. Congratulations to Conan. And he even said, he was quoted as saying, when I started in television, my ultimate goal was to work my way up to radio, as it should be. Okay? I mean, money is being spent on these podcasts. There's no doubt about that. I mean, that Sirius's largest investment in the podcaster space. Spotify has already made huge investments in that space, along with, of course, the most famous one is the deal with Joe Rogan, which is, I guess, $200 million,

but I don't know that anyone's actually aware of the real deal with that. You know, according to them, they project add revenue to exceed $4 billion by 2024, and that's with $1.4 billion. in revenue in 2021. So, I mean, I would like to have a little cut of that. I do have just a little bit of cut of that. I'd like to have a little bit bigger piece of that podcast, a projected $4 billion revenue.

You'll take what you get, Jeff, and you'll be happy with it. Okay? All right. Congratulations to Yey, who has partnered with McDonald's. And I say congratulations to Yey, because that's his name. They keep dead naming him in all these stories.

I don't know how many times I've got to say it, but it's pissing me off. All right? The headline is Kanye West, partners with McDonald's. Who? I don't know who that is. Because he changed his name to yay.

Okay? So the singular image of a McDonald's food package has been posted on West's Instagram page. It's garnered over 700,000 views in under an hour. He teams up. up with legendary muji industrial designer

Nayado Fukuwashah Yeah I mean Who doesn't love Naota Fukuco Wasawa Amorphafalus To reimagine

McDonald's packaging It's the caption posted next to the image And it says here West also known by the name of Ye Yeah he changed his name That's why he's also known

by that, okay? Oh, my goodness. Anyway, congratulations to Yay for partnering up with McDonald's. Just another few bucks for Yay to rake in. Congratulations. Appreciate it. It means a lot to all of us because we need to reimagine all the McDonald's packaging and their promotions and the whole thing.

Chip-making giant Broadcom is in, talks to acquire VMware, and what would be among the biggest tech deals ever, only worth about $60 billion, is that, would that be big chip then? I mean, are we concerned about the big chip taking over? Apparently not, yes not. And I want you to know that unions are now involved in the video gaming business in a 19 to 3 vote. Quality assurance testers for the active Vision Blizzard subsidiary Raven Software won their bid for a union earlier this week. First, for a major North American video game publisher, the National Labor Relations Board,

accused Call of Duty Maker Activision, currently finalizing that $69 billion deal to be acquired by Microsoft of illegally threatening employees with its strict social media policy. So, anyway, congratulations to the, we shall see how the old unionization works out for them because, you know, Lord knows we need more unions in the world, don't we? Right. Another, I mean, this is a congratulations segment.

Congratulations to Logan Paul, who has announced that he's going to be running for President of the United States of America. Congratulations, Logan. Good luck. I wish you all the best. Well, sure, he can't run right now because he's only, 27 years old. He's going to run for president in 2032. He's already got his eyes set on that election. He said, I've got a job for my brother Jake as Secretary of Defense. And so I'm going to really just those are my aspirations.

I'm looking to be, you know, president of the United States. And I really think that, you know, I know it sounds absurd. You know, I haven't even had a chance to mature into my adult life. So I've been learning and experiencing and just absorbing knowledge. And I'm ready to, I'm ready to go. I just think I'd be a good leader one day. And I think the presidential spot needs a bit of a fresh take. You think? Yes, he does.

He thinks. He thinks the country could use a person who is a little bit more nuanced, a little bit more innovative, and a little bit more authentic. I think a lot of politicians fall short. Do they? Yes, they do. Yes, they do. So good luck.

Logan, I hope it works out for you. And let's see if you're on the ballot in 2032. Get that nomination. Live in large. Good luck. God bless. Plus, Jake is Secretary of Defense. I mean, if I'm Jake, I want to be Secretary of State. Let me travel around the world in

deal with some of the world leaders and take care of a little, you know, Secretary of State business and business. But I guess, hey, look, you'll take Secretary of Defense and you'll zip it. So, okay. And of course, we're still winding down the Depp herd trial. And if you didn't think it could get even stranger, we had the dock yesterday that didn't know Marlon Brando was dead. And, I mean, all the pictures showed Johnny Depp just covering his head.

just amazing. But we also know that we're going to get Kate Moss to testify in the trial. And I think Depp is going to retake the stand. So just when you thought it was over and we're winding down and let's wrap this thing up, nope, we're going to get just a little bit weirder. But I will say things are looking pretty good for Johnny Depp. just my call I don't know how it's going to turn out obviously but

it does seem that Amber should have fired her team long ago Marshall's buyers travel far and wide hustling for great deals on amazing gifts so you don't have to they've bagged this season's Italian leather handbags

designer handpicked the finest sweaters from the rest ooh cashmere landed makeup palettes from the brands you love rushes too and hustled all those wishless topping toys so plush our buyers have got you covered marshals we get the deals you gift the good stuff just when you thought they were gone they're back they keep pulling you back in and this time they're pissed so we found out last week that wrangling brothers and barnum and bailey uh is going to try to have a big comeback to this coming fall.

And they're going to feature a live interaction show called the greatest show on Earth. Er! Which will offer incredible feats that push the limits of human potential and create jaw-dropping moments. This is what field entertainment, the company that owns the circus said. Now, they're going to remove animals from the shows.

And I guess they think that that's going to make things better without being, you know, having the animal rights activists all over them. I know they've had all kinds of claims with animal rights activists on the animals being mistreated. And elephants were removed from the show in 2016. That was earlier than they had originally planned. But they won a case, or at least settled a case, with the Humane Society against, you know, animal cruelty and mistreatment. And they won. The Humane Society paid field entertainment $15.75 million in a settlement.

That was way back in 2014. And yet they still are going to, you know, come after them for animal cruelty and mistreatment. I don't know. But originally, I don't know why they, you know what, what's his face? The head of field entertainment, the CEO Kenneth Feld. It's not field. It's felt. I apologize.

My deepest, sincerest apology. Kenneth Feld is the chairman and CEO of the company. He said that as passionate stewards of Ringling, we are committed to creating a lifestyle brand that connects with families and sparks real fun 365 days a year through live performances, digital content, consumer products, school curricula, youth circus arts programs, and more. I love that. There's always, and more.

Now, I would say that we need to spend more time on the digital content. Just post your axe on TikTok and make some money there and drive everybody to, you know, circus.com or the greatest show on earth.com. No, that's too long. You know, the gse.com. So they're going to put a global search if you've got talent and think you're, you know, worth it. and you're not already working for Cirque to Saleh. The global search for talent will be conducted with rehearsals for the greatest show on earth in June, 2023, according to this press release.

Wait, this show is set to premiere September, 2023, so we're not even talking about this fall. We're talking about next fall. So they're busy just, I guess, you know, putting stuff together. Kenneth, Kenneth Feld, Sir, Calm. me. Call me. You know what? Email me.

Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. We'll figure I will gladly help you out. Okay. I just think that we need to get over maybe taking the future shows on the road. Maybe you have, you try to work a deal with Vegas. I can't give you all my secrets now. Never mind.

Call me. Because I agree with you that, you know, I think the interaction show would be great. And I think that we, you know, have incredible feats that push the limits of human potential and create jaw-dropping moments. I'm all for that. You know, don't not spend a lot of money on travel. I'm going to cut down on the travel a little bit. Okay?

That's all I'm going to say right now. You know, email me, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, and we'll figure it out. All right. More congratulations are in order. I mean, today is like another congratulations day here on chewing the fat. Time magazine has released its 100, most influential people. And boy, congratulations to all of these people

under the artist category, the innovators, the Titans, the Leaders, the Icons, and the Pioneers. And man, there's some big names on this list that you would be, you know, that you know about. Then, you know, you look at the Titans,

and who's the first person that comes to mind when you think of innovators, Titans, leaders, icons. The first person that comes to mind, just off the top of your head, just go ahead and say it, Elon. That's right, Elon Musk.

Is he in the Time magazine 100 most influential people? Nope. So I'm supposed to believe that these people are the top 100? Okay, I got you. No problem. I mean, the innovators we have are, Zendaya, Zendaya, Zemdaa, Michelle's honor, Svigil Musavi, Takiwakia wakati, no, that's not right,

this Taka, Taka, Wattati. Dema, no, don't. Amorpha Phallis. Pretty sure no one's named that here. Demna, Francis Kiddhi, Miranda Lambert, Timette Gibru, David Veles, Derek Palmer and Chris Smalls, Mike Cannon, Brooks, Michael Shats, Karen Miga, is it M-I-G-A,

Ivan Eichler and Adam Philippi, Josh Wardle, and Bella Bajarja. Bella B-A-J-A-R-A-A. Yeah, B-A-J-A-R-I-A. All, I'm sure, huge innovators. No Elon Musk there. Titans, okay, well, we'll put them under Titans then. Tim Cook, Chris Jenner,

Megan Rapino, and Beggy Sarbrah, and Alex Morgan. Yeah, you think of those three when you think of Titans. Oprah Winfrey, I give you that. Andy Jassy, yeah. Elizabeth Alexander. Christine Ellagard. Sally Rooney.

David Zazlov. Michelle Yo. Huang Dong Hayek. Got, don't call me that again. Guadam Adani and Sam Bankman Fried. Those are who you think of under Titans. Of course, there's no Elon Musk

in any of those names. Really weird. All right, let's call me. You don't want, they put them in leaders. They put them under leaders, right? course they did. Of course they did. Leaders. Mia Motley, Ursula von Der Leyen, Olaf Schultz, Christian Cinema, Lynn Fitch, Vladimir Zelensky, Randa Santas, Samaya Suhul Hassan, Gabriel Borick, Umar Atabandini, Keniari Brown Jackson, Joe Biden, Kevin McCarthy,

Karan Perez, San Shulon, Joe Rogan, under leaders, Yun suck, Yul. Stop. It's Yun-S-U-S-U-K. Just stop. Karuna Nunde. Latita James. Xi Jinping. Vladimir Putin.

Abiyamahead. Valerie Zuzzi. Valerie Z-U-Z-U-Z-U-Z-H-N-Y-Y-Y. Amorpha-Falus. I don't think that's the way that you pronounce it. But still, under leaders. No, Elon. Okay, well, then he's under I.

Of course he is. He's under icons then, right? Mary J. Blige. Raphael Nidal. Hoda Camasch. Dmitri Amaratov. Maya Lynn. Issa Ray. John Baptiste.

Keanu Reeves. Nadine Smith. Adele. Peng Shui. Nope. No Elon Musk. Oh, you know what? He's probably under Pioneers then.

Yes. Pioneers. That's what it is. Candice Parker. Emily Austin. Amazing Darwache, Anwarla Bruny, Francis Hoggard, Valerie Master Delmont Panazette, Amit Shelling, Amir Quest, Love Thompson, Eileen Gouin, who I just saw it, the one fashion show for Louis Vuitton, for the women's spring summer line. She looked really good. The whole spring summer line was, I mean, Louis Vuitton.

Anyway, I am fashion. Hello. Christina Valerio Vasquez, Anna Christine Gonzalez Velez, Veles, Sonia Guajara. Tullio di Olivier, Chicula Moya, Gregory L. Robinson, Stephanie Bansel, and non-Goldden. I missed Elon Musk. Is he on the cover?

I don't think he is. I don't think he is. The Time Collection. 100 Most Influential People, 2022. Not Elon Musk. Now, sure, he wouldn't go under artists, right?

Similu. Quinita Brunson, Jeremy Strong, Andrew Garfield, Pete Davidson, Faith Ringwald, Zoe Kravitz, Channing Tatum, Arianna DeBose, Sarah Jessica Parker, Nathan Chen, Jasmine Sullivan, Amanda Seafried, Miley Coonis, Michael R. Jackson. But there's no Elon Musk, under innovators, under Titans, under Leaders, under Icons.

Just seems a little strange to me. Maybe it's just me. I'll give you that. But when you think of Titans, when you think of innovators, when you think of leaders, When you think of icons in today's world, and he's not on the list, stop it. It's the matcha or the three ensemble Cado Cephora of the FACTS

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regrouped for a better quality of price on link on c4.ca or in magazine. All right, who died today? Who died today? We now know, I guess, what the cause of death

was for the three Americans in the Bahamas earlier this month. Now, sure, a lot of people may have hypothesized that it was fentanyl. I don't know who that would be. someone may have hypothesized that it could have been math. And again, I don't know who that could have been.

But come to find out, according to the autopsy and toxicology reports, that have been completed in the death of the Tennessee couple, Michael Phillips, and Robbie Phillips, and the Florida resident Vincent Sherrera, the medical examiner said the cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning. No further information was released. So they died of mysterious circumstances at the Sandals Emerald Bay Resort on the island of Exuma. And they were staying in separate villas. They were found unresponsive in their rooms after seeking medical help for feeling ill the prior night.

Some of the tourists said that they had a strong odor of insecticides. They investigated the food that they were served. So they guess it could be possible leaks from air conditioning. or a water heater on the property, the investigation is still, I guess, ongoing. I'm sure the families are after independent autopsies, and they probably want an independent investigation. So, you know, we'll see what happens as the some investigation,

some of the ongoing investigations at the Sandals Resort, we'll see. I guess, paleont pathologists in the country. and they also have sent the samples to a reliable lab in the United States. I like the way that sound. They sent it to a reliable lab in the United States, making it sound like the resort on, what's the island again? Exuma Island weren't up to snuff.

Huh, imagine that. So none of the deceased showed any trauma. They showed signs of convulsions. Fowel play isn't as suspected. So we'll see. But as of right now, they died of carbon monoxide poisoning. According to the autopsy and toxicology reports from Exuma Island. So Michael Phillips, Robbie Phillips, and Vincent Shirella, rest in peace.

Also, rest in peace to the New York City Public Pay Telephone. I may have to even cry on this. I don't know if I'm going to make it through this one. The two phones that were left on 7th Avenue and 50th Street in Midtown Manhattan. You know the ones, the last two pay phones in New York that had graffiti all over them? Yeah, they were torn down. There's no more pay phones in New York City. I know.

It's so sad. Now, the city began removing pay phones in 2015 and replacing them with public Wi-Fi hotspots. but they got slowed down, of course. They couldn't do it on time. And the process took longer than originally planned. Did it? Well, yes, Jeff, it sure did. We started this back in 2015 to get rid of these public pay phones.

We've had enough of them. We want to get these Wi-Fi hotspots up. They link NYC. And we're going to expand it to add 5G functionality this summer. Oh, okay. Now, in addition to free Wi-Fi, Links, NYC, provides access to social services directory. Device charging.

Free phone calls within the U.S. and transit, along with weather alerts. Oh, that's so special. So goodbye to the pay phone. Man, remember... I remember pay phones. You know, sadly, I remember all the pay phones

and the banks of pay phones that used to be available. So the city has now removed thousands of pay phones. I mean, in 2014, there were more than 6,000 active public pay telephones on city sidewalks. Wow.

And now, no more. So the public pay telephone in New York City, and probably soon in every city around America, the public pay telephone will be gone. Rest in peace. Public pay telephones. I mean, I still see one from time to time. time, there's one I see at a Sam's Club out by the gas station. The gas pumps are away from the

store. And when you're pumping your gas in the lines there, next to the little building where the guy stands and makes sure everybody's pumping their gas properly, there's a pay phone there. At least there was. The last time I was at that particular Sam's Club, that's the only one I see. I haven't seen an actual pay phone in a long time. And because I don't know normally I don't frequent that particular Sam's Club, but I always wanted a phone booth and now it's going to be even harder to find one. I know. It's just one of those things I've always wanted was an actual phone booth.

Not the Doctor Who phone booth. Not the Tarnas. I got the old Doctor Who phone book. But I just want a regular, you know, phone booth. They're kind of cool. That's just me, I know. All right. So then I had this sent to me as long as we're in the Who Died Today segment.

I had this sent to me and they were thinking about who died today. And I thought, well, you know what? I can see why. So I'll share it. It's an obituary printed in the London Times, that it may have been, you know, printed in other places. But what was sent to me was this obituary printed in the London Times posted by an Ian Armstrong. Today, we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who's been with us for many years.

No one knows for sure how old he was, since his birth records were long ago lost in bureaucratic red tape. He will be remembered as having cultivated such valuable lessons as knowing when to come in out of the rain, why the early bird gets the worm, life isn't always fair, and maybe it was my fault. Common sense lived by simple sound financial policies. Don't spend more than you can earn, and reliable strategies, adults, not children, are in charge. health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place. Reports of a six-year-old boy charged with sexual harassment for kissing a classmate, teen suspended from school for using mouthwash after lunch,

and a teacher fired for reprimanding an unruly student only worsened his condition. Common sense lost ground when parents attacked teachers for doing the job that they themselves had failed to do in disciplining their unruly children. It declined even further when schools were required to get parental consent to administer sun lotion or an aspirin to a student, but could not inform parents when a student became pregnant or wanted to have an abortion. Common Sense lost the will to live as the churches became businesses, and criminals received better treatment than their victims. Common Sense took a beating when you couldn't defend yourself from a burglar in your own home,

and the burglar could sue you for assault. Common Sense finally gave up the will to live after a woman failed to realize that a steaming cup of coffee was hot. She spilled a little in her lap and was promptly awarded a huge settlement. Common Sense was preceded in death by his parents, truth and trust, by his wife, discretion, by his daughter, responsibility, and his son, reason. He is survived by his four. or stepbrothers, I know my rights, I want it now, someone else is to blame, I'm a victim. Not many attended his funeral because so few realized he was gone. If you still remember him, pass this on.

If not, join the majority and do nothing. Common sense. Dead in the year 2022. I guess that wraps up who died today. Yeah, may as well wrap up chewing the fat as well. Thanks for listening.