Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It Bugs Me… | 9/23/24

Episode Date: September 23, 2024

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The recall applies to twin, full, queen, king, and Cal King-sized beds. They were sold in stores and online at Amazon.com, Bedbath and Beyond, Belk, Brookside, eBay, Home Depot, JCPenny, Lowe's.com, Lucid Macy's, Menards, Oversed, Oversed, QVC, Sears.com, Target.com, Meloff, VIP, Wayfair, and Walmart. From September 2019 through April 2024, for between $150 and $250. CVB, Inc. has received 245 reports of the beds breaking or collapsing during use, resulting in 18 injuries. Consumers are advised to immediately stop using the recalled beds. Anybody who purchased the recalled beds can receive a free replacement bed frame by emailing a photo of the support rails on the underside of the bed or a picture of the law label to recall at lucid mattress.com.

Before taking a photo, consumers must write recalled on the support rails of the bed with permanent marker. Now, if this is true, be safe and do the whole recall thing. But when we got down to taking a photo and must write recalled on the support rails, I just feel like it's not real. If it is real, I want people to be safe and absolutely be careful and don't, you know, don't do things that may, you know, collapse your bed if you own a CVB-Inc, lucid-branded platform bed. But when we get to the, take a picture of the law label and you, you know, you, you know, You must write recall of the support rails of the bed with permanent marker.

I just feel like it's not real. I feel like this is a made-up story. But, you know, it may be, it isn't. So if you own one of these beds, be careful. And, you know, go ahead and write recall down the support rails with permanent marker and take a picture of that law label and a recall. Send it to a recall at lucid mattress.com. And then I guess you get your money back or they send you a new bank.

Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. How long? How long has this show and myself been warning the world about the spotted lanternfly? I know. I'm sick and tired of talking about the spotted lanternfly. Well, now, in the state of Ohio, and notice I didn't say the worst state in the union, has prompted the state to issue quarantines in areas seeing infestations of this damned spotted lanternfly. So the pest originally from Asia poses a significant threat to agriculture and forestry due to its destructive feeding habits. Yes, not good. So quarantines are in effect in 12 Ohio counties, four of them in northeast Ohio.

And the spotted lanternfly feeds on sap of various plants, including fruit trees, hardwoods, woods and ornamentals. It is characterized by its distinctive black and yellow spotted wings, as well as its bright red underwings. So if you run across them, you need to first take a picture and send it to the Ohio Department of Agriculture's website. And then you need to, according to the Ohio Department of Agriculture, kill the bug. Anytime a department from the government is telling you to kill an insect, I'm all for it.

So kill that damn spotted lanternfly. Now, you may ask yourself, hey, how did the spotted lantern fly, which is, you know, originates from Asia, get to the United States of America? Well, it's presumed that they got here from a stone. shipment from China in 2012. I mean, I guess that's probably about as long as I've been warning people about the spotted dragon fly. I mean, the lanternfly. Yeah, I don't want to get them confused with the dragonfly.

It's the lantern fly. The spotted lantern fly. Now, they show a map of, I think of life cycles and the map of where the spotted lantern fly is. It's pretty much all over in the northeast, but it does start branding. I mean, we've got them down as far as Charlotte, out to Nashville, and all the way to Des Moines, Iowa, where I guess people have spotted the spotted lanternfly. So take a picture, send it to whatever Department of Agriculture in your state, city,

county, and then kill the bug. I mean, I guess you could still leave the counties where the quarantine is in effect, but I don't know how you stop it. They lay eggs, like 30 to 50 eggs at a time. Their life stage is from, you know, insect to nymphs to adults. They can fly, hop, or drop onto a vehicle, meaning that the pest can easily be transported to new areas where it can develop infestation.

Are we hosing down every car that leaves the particular quarantined county? I don't know. I mean, because they're talking about it can be found in landscaping and remodeling. or construction materials. I mean, it came here in a stone shipment from China, they believe.

Firewood, packing materials, all the plants, outdoor items, vehicles, lawn chairs, everything could be a house for the nasty

spotted lantern fly. So I don't know how you, I don't know that we ever do get rid of it now. We just have to keep it at bay. So again, if you run across one or more

of the spotted, the dreaded spotted lanternfly, take a picture and kill the bug. Now, I realize that those of you living in Ohio are, you know, all happy because Wendy's is currently testing frosty Sundays at select locations in Ohio. It hasn't even been launched nationwide yet. So I know that you're all excited about testing the Wendy's Frosty Sundays

because, you know, you've got the marshmallow charms. You can choose between vanilla or chocolate frosty topped with Lucky Charms, marshmallows, Geradelli, sea salt, caramel sauce. Oh, I bet you that's good. And whipped cream. The chocolate lovers frosty Sunday, a vanilla or chocolate frosty topped with Gerardelli chocolate sauce,

Oreo cookie pieces and whipped cream. Classic strawberry frosty Sunday, a vanilla or chocolate frosty topped with strawberry sauce. sprinkles and whipped cream. Holy cow. I know that you're excited about that. I would be too. And I'm looking forward to the national launch of the Wendy's frosty Sundays.

But don't get too excited because you've got to worry about that damn lantern fly. So at least when you're out, you know, stopping by the old Wendy's to get your frosty Sundays, be on the lookout for the lantern fly because you don't want none of that. While you do want the Sundays, you don't want none of the lantern flies. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move.

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Okay, do you have nicknames for people that you work with, your co-workers, friends, you know, nicknames? And so, I mean, I was raised with Nick-A-S-E-F-E-Ras. And so, I mean, I was raised with nicknames my whole life and uh you know i was called several nicknames uh in my life uh and and so one still holds true today no i'm not going to tell you what it is i may have told you on this show before either chewing the fat or jeff fisher radio program or fisher files or whatever you know period of time uh the name of the show was that i was doing uh the past 150 years. I may have told you what that nickname was,

but I'm not going to tell you now because a couple people still call me my nickname from 100 years ago. But, you know, like now, people that I work with, I don't see very often. I mean, outside of Pat and Keith and Chris, you know, the day-to-day show stuff, Brad Stags. But, you know, the workers at the Blaze Studios

and at the Mojo 50 studios, I don't, you know, there's like, you know, the person, that sits over there. Them. The dinkleberries that work in the back, you know,

and so that's their nickname, just dingleberries. But I was looking at this list of nicknames for coworkers. Kind of funny. You know, you can call a person

that's always taking a break. Kit Kat. You can call the person that's not the sharpest tool in the box? Butter knife. Does half a job? Arthur.

Motion light. Only works when someone walks past. Really funny. Always wants to go home. E.T. Floats around all day and stinks like crap? Seweed. That's funny.

Lantern? Not very bright. Has to be carried. Always folds under pressure? Deck chair. You can never find. them. G-spot. Daisy? Yeah, some

Daisy's in, some Daisy isn't. Very funny. Or she. I don't want to be specific like that. I don't want to just say he. Disappears when things get hard? That's foreskin. And they're 90% cabbage coal slaw. So those are some nicknames that you can use in the future for some of your co-workers that will help you out. You'll know exactly who they are.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So yesterday was the 30th anniversary of the debut of Friends. Wow. So, I mean, it's, you know, it was a huge show. And it still, get this. So Netflix paid WarnerMedia $100 million in 2018 to stream the show in the U.S. for one more year before it made its way to Max.

Last year, Friends, was the eighth most streamed show at 25 billion minutes per Nielsen. A jump attributed, obviously, to the death of Matthew Perry. When the show began, the cast reportedly made $22,500 an episode. As of 2018, the main cast. of six, we're making about $20 million each annually in syndication money.

That's not bad. That is not too bad. We also have, I think this week starts the 50th season of Saturday Night Live. So Gene Smart is going to host the Emmy winning actress from Hacks. She'll be great. And we also have Jelly Roll as the musical guest.

And so I guess they're bringing back former cast member Maya Rudolph or Maya Rudolph to portray Kamala Harris and we're also, we have some new cast members as well. So we'll see if the 50th season of Saturday Night Live can actually, I don't know, be funny, learn to begin and end bits and not have them be never-ending bits.

That's one of my biggest complaints about the Saturday night live bits. I don't know in the past few years is that there's some of the premises for the bits are funny, but they don't know how to end them. And it's, they need to, I mean, they didn't call me. They all they do is call me. Email meet you in the fat at the blaze.com.

I'm happy to help them out. No problem. But, uh, you know, they don't do that. So they, that's why they're suffering. Just saying. I was looking at the, uh, and, uh, for those of you that loved Wednesday, uh, the show on Netflix, uh, with Jenna Ortega.

I see that season two is expected, released in early 2025, so you get a second season of Wednesday. I was looking at this list from a world of statistics, which rates the best TV series of all time. I don't know that I agree with this rating of these shows, but the shows are definitely, I agree with. On this list, they have, well, we'll just do the, I mean, Breaking Bad number one, Game of Thrones number two, Chernobyl Number three Sopranos number four Sopranos were worse than

Chernobyl? No. Band of Brothers The Wire, come on now. The Wire Band of Brothers and Chernobyl were better than the wire? No. Better Call Saul?

No. Stranger Things was 8. Sherlock, number 9. Peaky Blinders, number 10. I mean, that's still banging Peaky Blinders. The movies. I mean, I don't know.

I think they were. They may have begun filming or they're going to begin filming the movie that's supposed to wrap it all up. Remember because what's his face said? He wasn't going to do any more Peaky Blinders because he was sick of smoking. I mean, that's what Sillian said. Sillian Murphy, he said his character on Peaky Blinders and his character on Oppenheimer. All they did was smoke. He didn't want to do characters that smoked anymore.

And then Netflix said, hey, we'll give you a bunch of money to film the movie for Peeky Blinders to wrap everything up. Well, okay. I guess I could do that. Funny, funny how that happens. Number 11, Twilight Zone, Fleabag, Fargo. House was 14th. That was really good. In its prime.

That was awesome. Friends is 15th. Dark. The office. Succession. Battlestar Galactica. Freaks and geeks. Mad Men.

Narcos. Mind Hunter. Yeah. Mr. Robot. Blackman. Yeah. Hardstopper. Severance.

It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Yeah. Seinfeld 29th. Come on. now. Seinfeld below friends? I think not. Peep Show, The Last of Us, When They See Us, The Mandalorian, Lost, Line of Duty, yeah, that was really good. Deadwood. Deadwood before Line of Duty, I think not. The Boys, Mayor of East Town, really, really good.

Hannibal, yeah. The Bear, what's one of the newest ones? Yeah, I guess, okay. And those are the top 40 best TV shows of all time. I'd have to really sit down and think about that because there's some that don't belong on this list. That's for sure. Certainly not in the top 40, please. And the rankings of some of these shows are incorrect. But again, they did not consult me for the best TV series of all times. Now, according to this list, it's based on combined ratings of IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes,

rotten critics meta critic and meta critic tv.com okay well so some of this is is subject to interpretation and

my definitely rankings would be subject to interpretation so again though when they talk about what it's based on they did not consult me I haven't got to the penguin yet on Max because well it's football season. And it came, it dropped Thursday. It drops Thursday nights, which is up against Thursday

night football, and then Friday rolls around, and you've got college football, and then Friday all day, and Sunday you've got NFL. So I'm getting to it today. Plus, one of the reasons that I did squeeze it in between some of the games I wanted to watch is that Maximus and my wife now really wants to watch the penguin. So I have to, I can't do it on my own time, which is, you know, a little disappointing, but I'll be nice. I'll play nice with the family, so I'll let you know tomorrow about the Penguin, which their first episode was last Thursday.

Plus, you know, I've been watching the shows that I've been talking about. You know what, one of the things that really irks me, and it's just me, I know. But the show The Old Man with, what's his face? Jeff Bridges. And I really like it. It's been great.

And I know, I know what's his face is in it, too. John Lithgow. Yeah, I got it. But so the dog. that they're all going to rescue and who was the FBI agent. And so she's pregnant in this second season. And so they're trying to make it like she's not pregnant. And it's just agonizing to me because there's no reason,

there's no way that she would be pregnant in the show. But she's pregnant, you know, in real life. But they're trying to cover it up with different camera angles. And she was in a couple of fights. It's really annoying to me because I can tell the difference between, you know, her stand-in body double that's fighting and then her being shot in the frame to get up because of her. It's just, I know, I guys, maybe it's just me, but it just drives me insane through the whole series, the whole second season now because every scene I'm like, okay, can we not, we're supposed to just pretend. So that's what I try to do is just pretend that she's not pregnant. And it's very hard to do.

I mean, she probably's already had the kid already. I mean, I realized this was shot probably last year. I got to find out now. Let's take a look at this. Hold on. What's her name again? Alia Shawcat. That's right.

Allia Shawcat. When did she give birth to her kid? In 2023. There you go. So why didn't we just wait? Oh, that would have been later. We couldn't have put the whole show together, you know, then. We couldn't have filmed after she had her baby.

Oh, okay. No problem. I never mind. So I know. Again, it's just me. I know. It just drives me crazy. And a quick look at the top movies this weekend.

Beetlejuice, still number one. I'm sorry, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Still number one. Transformers 1, number 2. They're calling it an overwhelming start for the prequel. But, I mean, I got 25 million. 39 million global. It will pick up.

That was really a fun movie. And, you know, the future of that movie on all platforms is going to be a lot of money. Speak No Evil, number three. Never Let Go, number four. Deadpool and Wolverine crank in another $3.9 million, which that means that they are now the fifth highest MCU. No, they passed. So they're fourth. They pass the Avengers as the fifth highest.

Which is it? Hold on. They had $627.2 million domestic total. Passes the Avengers. as the fifth highest MCU film domestically. Okay, so they're number five. The substance, I got three million. Am I a racist?

Matt Walsh picked up another 2.5 million. He's got a 9 million domestic total. Pretty good. No, I have not seen it yet. Yes, I want to see it. It looks like it could be fun. Reagan, wow. 1.6 million, 26.5 million domestic total.

Zhengk, I am still. 1.4 million and Alien Romulus I picked up another 1.32 million with a 103.6 million domestic total. Wow.

Okay. Okay. I mean, they're saying, yeah, we passed a hundred million mark, but I feel like that's, really isn't that good.

So whatever. Congratulations to all those movies at the theaters. I also saw a story, oh my gosh, that these movie theaters, We talked about this before, how the movie theaters think that they can, they've got to up their game. We were upping our games now, up yours.

But they're talking about how these theater chains are planning to invest in upgrades to their theater chains, right? Because of for the theater experience with sound and dining and projection, seating experiences. They're all going to be upgraded. But then I see where some theaters are going to add pickleball, and zip lines and bowling alleys. Okay, go ahead.

But really what you need to do is just make sure that the seats are comfortable and the audio is awesome and you can have someone bringing me food to my seat. Okay, then we could talk. Until you have comfortable seats, until you have sound that's awesome and you have someone bringing me food to my seat, Then the rest of it, pickleball, zip lines, bowling alleys don't care.

I mean, when I have to walk into a theater carrying my own food, what do we cavemen? I have to carry my own popcorn and snacks to my seat. That's completely unacceptable. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old.

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I appreciate you listen to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Okay, who died today? Who died today? Let's begin with David Graham. David Graham, dead at the age of 99. I know what you're thinking. David who? David Graham, the actor,

known for voicing characters in iconic TV series such as Peppa Pig, Thunderbirds and Doctor Who. You, of course, know him in Peppa Pig. He was the voice of Grandpa. Grandpa Pig in Peppa Pig. Hello. So David Graham, dead at the age of 99.

If Peppa Pig is looking for a new grandpa, they can reach out chewing the fat at DeBlaze.com. Happy to, you know, happy to give it a world. then so rest in peace David Graham dead at the age of 99 then we have Catherine Crosby Catherine Crosby

dead at the age of 90 now you think Catherine Crosby the wife of Bing Crosby she's still alive yeah well Bing was in his 50s when he married Catherine and Catherine was like 23 or something like that

so she's around a lot longer than Big Big died back in the 70s He was golfing in Spain or something and fell over from a heart attack. So she's been without Bing for quite some time. They had like three kids. And Bing had kids from another marriage. And I love the story about when they hooked up, they were engaged. But he kept pushing the wedding off because he was hooking up with some other Hollywood stars.

Yeah, I want to marry you. I do. But not right now. okay because uh i am uh i'm taking care of a little business with some other actors okay like grace kelly and uh anger stevens so why don't you just back off and i'll be with you in a little bit okay katherine he finally did come around to katherine though and uh they were married i will say another interesting point and i don't know i have any idea what it means it's in the story about her life, she married her

longtime companion, Maurice William Sullivan, who they married in the year 2000. Big died back in the 70s, so she was single and a mom to the kids for years. But William, Maurice William Sullivan, an educator

whom she and Bing had hired to tutor their kids. So he was coming into the house tutoring their kids and taking care of a little bit. And he later, and he later became the trustee of the Crosby estate. So once he got his foot in the door, he was there. Now, he died in 2010 when he and Catherine were in a car accident in Sierra Nevada. And he was at the

wheel and their vehicle went off the road, rolled over, struck a boulder, very sad. And very sad. But so she's, you know, she's been alone since 2010 or just, you know, single since 2010. And the kids are all, kids and grandchildren are all up and, you know, living off of, well, off of the Bing estate. Oh, Jeff, they have their own life. They're, you know, an amateur golfer and an actress. Yeah, I know. I know. I get it.

They're not living off the big Crosby estate. Okay. Rest in peace. Catherine Crosby dead at the age of 90. Then we have a former football. star Mercury Morris, part of the Dolphins, two Super Bowl wins and their perfect season, dead at the age of 77. And I saw them give Mercury a little love on Sunday night football last night.

You know, he passed away at the age of 77. Very sad. They did not mention on Sunday night football about the time that Mercury spent in prison, you know, after his football career, of course. He was arrested for cocaine. What was the stupid charges? Cocaine trafficking. And he was sentenced to 20 years in a prison,

which was with a mandatory 15-year term. Wow, that was back in 1982. And then in 86, his conviction was overturned by the Florida Supreme Court because evidence he had offered to prove his entrapment defense had been excluded under a mistaken characterization as hearsay. Aha, was mistaken. And then so he was granted a new trial. And then he reached a plea bargain with prosecutors resulted in his release from prison after

having served three years. He later appeared in some, you know, anti-cocaine public service announcements and then he was a motivational speaker. And he was a good guy. And back in 82, come on, the world was covered in cocaine back in 1982. So to be convicted of cocaine trafficking. Come on now. Anyway, he spent time in prison.

Then they forgot to mention that on the, you know, giving him his due on Sunday night football. I can understand why. I'm just saying they didn't mention it. A rest in peace to the NFL Miami Dolphins legend, Mercury Morris, dead at the age of 77. All right. So let's say you're on a flight, I don't know,

from Oslo, Norway to Malaga, Spain. And you're just, you know, sitting down to have an in-flight meal on your way to Spain from Norway. And you open up your meal, take the cover off because they serve it to you with the cover. And there's a mouse on your... What would you do? What would you do? Well, this flight went ahead and diverted to Copenhagen, Denmark.

And, you know, we had to get a... had to clean, fumigate that plane right down. What do you say as a captain? We just, those of you back there, you already know there was a mouse in the food. So we're going to go ahead and divert and land in Copenhagen and get this plane fumigated. So apparently, I would assume that this would be true,

but I didn't know this, that the airlines maintain strict regulations regard rodents on board. Huh. Really? That's weird that airlines would have strict regulations against rodents on board, you know, to prevent damage to electrical wiring, something like that. But I did love the comment from the spokesperson. This is something that happens extremely rarely. Oh, so not once in a lifetime, not, you know, not rarely. It just that they specified rarely. It's extremely rarely. It's extremely. It's extremely. rarely. So, you know, every once in a while it does happen. So be ready for that. That's the new movie. Mouses on a plane. I hate nieces to pieces. Meeses on a plane. That is the next new movie. And oh, man, that would just be nasty if the plane started swarming with rats. Oh, I don't want none of that. I'd divert the plane right into the ground.

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And, you know, Texas is number one, Georgia number two, Ohio State number three, Alabama, number four, Tennessee, number five. Those are your top five. All right. And so Pat Gray's a BYU team finally got into the top 25 at number 22. Keith's stupid team, Nebraska, dropped out because they got beat. My team, the Missouri Tigers, that my son played for for six years. And we can talk about that whole six-year thing at another date. But they are undefeated.

And it's interesting to me that they were sixth in the country in the top 25. And they beat a ranked team, Boston College, and dropped to ninth. And then this was. week, they won against a SEC opponent, a conference opponent, Vanderbilt, and they were dropped down to 11th. So you continue to win at Missouri, but continue to get dropped down. Now, they played like crap, no question.

And I said on the air Friday during Pat's On Least show that Missouri always plays like crap against Vanderbilt or Vanderbilt is always a struggle, more of a struggle than it should be against Missouri. No question always is, has been since I can remember. But I will say that they continue to win and they're undefeated. And the facts remain that they continue to win. And yet they continue to drop in rankings in the top 25. Huh.

Really kind of weird how that happens. Some would say that they don't get any respect. And I can understand actually that thinking because they played like crap against Vanderbilt, it looked like crap. And they deserve to be dropped out of top 25. That's what I was screaming on Saturday, but I didn't really mean that. I mean, if you win, you're supposed to at least stay stagnant where you're at. But nope, not in today's world.

Not if you're Missouri. If you win, you continue to drop down in the rankings of the top 25. So it's just interesting to me. That's all just interesting. You know, another thing I find interesting is what is happening in our schools? Because we talked last week about the kid that, got suspended and written up because he reported something that another student brought a bullet to class, but he didn't do it in a timely fashion.

He reported it, but he didn't do it in a timely. He didn't do it fast enough. So we're going to suspend him for that. And now we have another 13-year-old boy, and I remember the age of the boy who didn't report the bullet. But this story is from about a 13-year-old boy who took a picture. of empty Dr. Pepper Cans. I think they're empty.

Let me look at this picture here of the Dr. Pepper Cans. I can't tell if they're empty or not. But they're Dr. Pepper Cans. They might not be empty. And he has them where they look like a rifle. Like an A, like the horrible AK-47. It's just one line of Dr. Pepper Cans

with, you know, one Dr. Pepper Cair for the scope up on top. And then two Dr. Pepper Cans with an, angle at the bottom so you know represents what could be a gun it could represent i don't know just dr pepper cans on a table but uh he posted a picture like that and uh the school has suspended him for three days and uh yeah he's in fact confessed to posting the picture you bastard uh sure we don't know anything about uh the people really any more than uh we knew from the first day of who people who

tried to assassinate the former president of the United States. We don't know anything about what's going on in the Secret Service. We had a Secret Service member, I'm told, fire their weapon and shoot themselves this weekend. If you've seen that anywhere? Have you seen that anywhere? No, you haven't. We just know that, you know, look, we made some mistakes and we're just moving on. And I don't worry about it.

Everything is fine. No, I don't. But we're, you be sure to, you be sure to suspend these kids. school that are not reporting something wrong fast enough. And for one kid who took a picture of Dr. Pepper Cans, those threatening Dr. Pepper Cans. I mean, the school deemed it to be threatening. Okay.

Come on now. I'm not sure that Dr. Pepper Cans can be threatening. but those particular Dr. Pepper Cairns are threatening. So. And I love the school posting lengthy statements regarding the boys' antics saying we have enough information to believe the video had caused fear to at least one student. And understandably so, said Superintendent Lanna Tharp. understandably so

that maybe one student got a little triggered oh did I say the word triggered oh I'm sorry I didn't mean that because that would mean that I was talking about you know a gun

all right let's get out of here I'll leave you with the joke of the day in fact the joke of the day actually actually has a gun mentioned in it it doesn't isn't called a gun in the story, but you realize that it is a gun. This is a joke sent to Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com from Shane. This is the joke of the day.

And it's a school story, too. Isn't that interesting how that tied it together? Mrs. Teacher noticed little Johnny dead asleep during her lecture. She sauntered over and slapped her hand on the desk and yelled, Why are you asleep in my class? Little Johnny jerked to attention and exclaimed, I'm sorry, Mrs. Teacher, but I was plucking chickens all night.

Mrs. Teacher asked, why on God's Green Earth were you plucking chickens all night? Little Johnny explained. All the commotion started just after bedtime. Old Duke commenced to balling his fool head off and the chickens were screaming something terrible.

Well, Paul jumped out of bed, grabbed the long Tom from the hook and ran out of the house in such a panic that he didn't even stop to pull up his drawers. When he got to the chicken coop, he pulled both hammers back, crouched down real low, and used the barrels of long tom to ease open the coop door. The old Duke came up sniffing behind paw and cold-nosed him. We've been plucking chickens ever since. Seek us with the dog. Ah, you understand.

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