Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Lawsuits Abounding… | 9/19/24

Episode Date: September 19, 2024

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grand prize. It was a 10-day hunt that was going on. And, of course, I mean, this is done because they want to raise awareness to the threat these pythons posed to the ecosystem. Now, Kiger was the runner-up last year, and so he pulled through this year. Congratulations. The rest of the prize money was divided amongst competitors in the contest three categories, the novice, the professional, and the military.

Donna K-A-L-L-A-L-A-A. A L-I-L was one python away from a tie with Kigar, so second place. She is a contractor from South Florida Water Management District, Swift Mud. She got a $2,500 prize for catching 19 of those pythons. And she is quoted as saying, I'm not afraid of that python. I'm afraid of it getting away. Also in the professional category, Marcos Rodriguez caught 16 pythons. that's R-O-D-R-I-G-U-E-Z for Rodriguez,

spelling everybody's last name. He caught 16 pythons and received $1,500. And Quentin Archie, A-R-C-H-I-E, won a $1,000 prize for catching the longest python in this category, 8 feet, 11 inches long. Thomas Hobbs, H-O-B-B-B-S, won $2,500 for leading the novice category by catching 16 Burmese pythons, while Dennis Crum, K-R-U-M,

caught the longest python in this category and also the entire competition at 9 feet 11 inches. Jeff Lintz, L-I-N-C-E, caught five pithons, only five, winning the $2,500 in the military category, and Antonio Ramos, R-A-M-M-O-S, $1,000 for catching the longest python in this group, nine feet, seven inches. Boy, that group did not do well.

But they still won, and they won some money. So the challenge occurs in mid-August. Hunters are tasked with humanely killing the Burmese pythons and turning in the carcasses to any of the contest. Three check stations in South Florida. So congratulations, the hunters share about $25,000 in prizes, and it did raise awareness. But the only thing that I'm concerned about is that going into Florida,

I now can feel safer because there are at least 195 less Burmese pythons slithering around. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Boy, lawsuits are abounding around this country right now. Just a few that stick in the top of your head. Sean Diddy Combs was denied bail yesterday. We talked about his indictment yesterday, as a matter of fact, and all of his charges and what a dirt bag he is.

And that case is still ongoing. He's still in jail at the Manhattan Correctional Facility. And he is in their so-called S-H-U, which is the security housing unit. So that means that they can track what he eats. So we now have stories about what Diddy Combs is eating in. jail. It also means he gets an hour of daily recreation and three showers a week. So according to this, you know, after he got sent back because the judge said, yeah, no, there's going to be no bail. You're going to stay in jail until we get this thing worked out

since your homes were raided. And they found all that baby oil and lubricant. We can't have that anymore. So it talks about what Sean Diddy Combs ate. while he was in the S-H-U inside the MDC. So he was served Swedish meatballs for dinner, and he could have had egg noodles, green beans, a garden salad with dressing, perhaps a black bean burger, and a 16-ounce beverage.

But that's what he's, Sean Diddy Combs is eating. Well, he's in the, MDC, Metropolitan Detention Center. And then while he's inside the Metropolitan Detention Center, he's also in the S-HU, a security housing unit. So that case is still ongoing, and I don't know that he will ever get out of jail.

Then we have Harvey Weinstein. Harvey pled not guilty to additional sex crimes in New York, where he'll be retried after an appeals court. tossed out his earlier conviction. And don't forget, he was still convicted in California. And California wants him back in California. But, I mean, he just went to the hospital, had, you know, had a heart attack or a stroke or whatever he had.

And he is in very poor health. And he also spent some time at the MDC, but he is now at Rikers, because they have to shuttle him back and forth to the hospital. I was interested. They did talk about another case that got. dismissed between Harvey and New York Knicks owner James Dolan there was a lady Kelly Croft who accused James Dolan and Harvey Weinstein of assaulting her and the judge said no we're throwing this out it was a malicious attempt to assert horrific

allegations and by what what the judge called an unscrupulous law firm so that case is history against Harvey Harvey and the New York Knicks owner James Dolan. However, I don't think Harvey's ever getting out of jail either. And he may not live to get out of jail. And maybe Diddy won't either. Then we have Mr. Beast. You know, Mr. Influencer, Mr. Beast.

And he is being sued now and Amazon by five contestants in the upcoming Beast games, which is supposed to air on Amazon. It's a reality show over, and he's being sued over alleged unsafe working conditions and sexual harassment. If Mr. Beasts and his production company were ever in Beast mode, its officially deactivated contestants from the yet-to-be-released game show Beast Games have filed this lawsuit against the show's creators, and alleging that he enabled the culture of mistreatment and abuse while filming. In the class action lawsuit, five anonymous contestants claimed they were not adequately paid

and were forced into dangerous conditions while filming in Las Vegas. You signed up for it. Okay, sorry. Several contestants were hospitalized as a result of the games. Participants lacked access to medical care were denied breaks during filming

and were fed sporadically and sparsely. Female contestants were subject to sexual harassment throughout the production. That's what they claim. Is all of that true? You know, who knows? I know that this comes after the New York Times you know and you love them,

reported similar conditions due to what was going on to Beast games. It was set to be the biggest game show in history, $100 million budget, thousands of contestants, $5 million prize, and Mr. Beast at Amazon. Yeah, we didn't comment on that.

We're not coming on that. So we've got that going on against Mr. Beast. Then, speaking of lawsuits, We have the Justice Department who's going to seek $100 million in damages from the owners and operators of the Dalley Containership, which destroyed Baltimore's Key Bridge and killed six workers in March. The lawsuit, which also seeks an unstated amount in punitive damages, comes alongside another state and city lawsuits, as well as an ongoing FBI criminal investigation. The lawsuit alleges a Singaporean-based owner Grace Ocean and operator Marine Synergy Group, applied insufficient band-aid fixes to systemic power issues. In part, the lawsuit cites a power failure on Dolly the day before the crash

and that the ship did not report to the U.S. Coast Guard, which they did not report that to the U.S. Coast Guard. Got it. The owners have sought to use a centuries-old maritime law to limit liability to roughly $44 million. Yeah, you're going to end up paying more than that. The 100,000-ton freighter, you know, lost power, broke, smashed into the Baltimore Key Bridge.

They claim in this story, the bridge is expected to cost close to $2 billion over four years to be rebuilt. That's funny. That's funny because I guarantee you that it's going to cost more than $2 billion. And we'll be darn lucky if we have a span open in four years. But it's going to cost more than $2 billion. That is a chewing the fat fact. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too.

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I mean, sure, we're expanding that from, I think, 35 to 45 satellite dishes. Yeah, I mean, I don't worry about the possibility of, you know, China hooking up with North Korea, Russia, to fight against the United States. that should make someone nervous. It makes me nervous and it should make you nervous. And you need to have you and your family prepared. And there's something you can do to ensure that you and your loved ones have medication on hand when it's needed. It's a solution that thousands of people have already discovered. It's called the Jace case.

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I just don't remember ever hearing. about it happening before. So all seven board members, their independent board members, of 23 and me, resigned. Oh, okay. Have a nice day.

We don't want to deal with you anymore. CEO and Wojahikis. They don't like her. She's the sister, remember, of the CEO of YouTube for the longest time. so and Wojjjaseki wanted to take wants to take the company private

and the independent board said, yeah, we don't like your plan and we're quitting. But I mean, the company is worth a lot less than what it started out as, I'll tell you that. You look at that, at one time it was valued $3.5 billion,

23 of me. It now has a market capitalization of $108.2 million. Oh, wow. So in 2021, it was pretty much at a good point, and it is now falling 96.6%. Wow. Because the company went public through a merger with Richard Branson, with his blank check company VG acquisition. So everybody made a whole bunch of money there because they had the stocks cheap and it went higher.

and now it's back to be in nothing again. So they said we believe a special committee and the board have provided ample time for you to submit such a proposal. We've not seen any notable progress over the last five months. It leads us to believe no such proposal is forthcoming. Oh, we're quitting.

Oh, okay. I mean, they've had all kinds of lawsuits that they've had to settle, 23 and me, the, you know, saliva DNA testing company and digital ancestry tools. So, okay. I know everybody was, you know, wanting their DNA test in 2018, but, uh, no, thank you. Now, the business model doesn't often invite repeat customers, which slowed them down.

And since, you know, one DNA test is all a person needs for your ancestry results. Yeah, but you can work out kind of some kind of deals, right? I mean, they had to have some kind of, uh, uh, government contract, right, for DNA testing. I had to have. Anyway, and then they had a big data breach, which included customers' information. That didn't go over well. So, yeah, we had a breach. Sorry.

We're not going to let you know the full extent of the hack, but yeah, we had it. So they had more than 30 lawsuits filed against the company over that breach. And recently, I think this week, they agreed to pay 30 million settlement for a class action suit that claimed the company failed to alert Chinese and Ashkenazi Jewish customers that the breach seemed to target their data in particular. The suit alleged those customers data had been compiled

into lists that were sold onto the dark web. Well, a hack's a hack, but you know, if they're saying that's what the hack got, then that's what the hack got, you can quote beyond that. And they paid $30 million for that. So if you if your information was hacked

that 23 and me, get your money now, because I don't know if there's going to be any money left very soon. All right. Be sure to follow me on X at Jeffie JFR on X. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on my YouTube channel Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can order a cameo from me at Jeffy JFR on the Cameo app.

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All right, we're in the break room. Let me say happy birthday to my wife. Happy birthday to you. I mean, I guess I could order, I guess I could order, do my own personal cameo for her. but that costs money so you know just do it where I can do it for nothing happy birthday to my wife

celebrating another year around the planet I know I know she knows she knows we just leave it there happy birthday to my wife Amber I love you all right so last night we went to Transformers 1

We had a special screening to Transformers 1. I don't know how we got the special screening. I just know, you know, my son said, hey, I got us tickets to the special screening for Transformers 1 on Wednesday night. So we're all going. Okay. So we all got a little poster and a little transformer thing thing. I don't know what it was.

I'm kind of keychain. And which I will get none of that belongs to, you know, other humans in the house. So we all went. And I didn't, you know, I've been to all the other transformers. I'm forced to go because of the. transformer loving humans in this house. And I really enjoyed it. It was really fun.

I will say what ticks me off the most about these movies. Then they're animated and I really enjoy them is that during the whole movie, I'm thinking, I could do that. I should be the voice of that. I could be the voice of that. So I'd like to, I need to make that happen because they're set, even if it's just, I know they had the big name. Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson. Steve Buscemy, Lawrence Fishbourne,

First Fishburn, John Hamm, Brian Tyree Henry, they were all great. They were all really, really good, and I really appreciate their work on the movie, but there were other characters and other segments of the movie. I realize, you know, I'm not saying I'm, you know,

I'm as big a name as these people, you know. Okay, let that one go. But I, you know, there's other, plenty of other characters. in the movie. I'm like, well, come on, I could do that. They had an announcer that was announcing some stuff. I mean, come on now. Why am I not doing that?

Why are they not contacting me? Jeff Fisher here at Chewing the Fat to be a voice in Transformers One. That's what I'm thinking during the whole stupid movie. So I really enjoyed it. It was a lot of fun. It was one of the most fun Transformers movies that I've watched. Really good. It's the beginning, you know, the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron.

I mean, they were been sworn enemies forever, but it didn't start that way. So it's, it was just fun to see the beginning of Optimus Prime and Megatron and a badass atron. When you see the movie, you'll understand the badass atron. And it's really fun. So just go and enjoy yourself and smile and laugh, which we did during the movie. So there was, and the comedy, I don't think, really outweighed the transformer feel of the movie. A lot of people were concerned. I'm told that, you know, the comedy would outweigh all of the seriousness of the Transformers.

And it did not, I thought. I thought they did a really good job of putting that together. And I enjoyed all their work. in the movie. All their voice works sounded great. And even you people that were in the movie that I thought I could do that and I should do that. You were fine. You were fine.

But it just, well, it should have been me. And I don't want to hear, well, why don't you apply for it? Okay, so I don't want to hear that. I don't want to hear, hey, why don't you contact them in Hollywood and say that, you know, it's for you. No, they need to contact me, okay? Isn't that the way that works? No.

Oh, well. Oh, you know, and speaking of movies, I see where Mitch Lowe, remember the guy who started movie pass? He just admitted, speaking of lawsuits today is just a lawsuit case. He pled guilty to securities fraud. What? Yeah. He was indicted by the Justice Department in 2022. He's now pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges. Former CEO admitted to conspiring to deceive the public and investors about the services, sustainability. Oh, okay. They have not made the details of the plea agreement public, but prosecutors claim that he knew from the start of the company's 995 unlimited plan was a short-term gimmick to attract subscribers and inflate stock. I love the idea. But the movie companies did not. The movie house companies did not. So apparently he lied about the company's ability

to become profitable on subscription fees alone and having tech that could generate revenue from customer data. He also claimed movie pass was profiting from multiple revenue streams, despite not having any income beyond subscriptions. So, that was a little bit of a problem. The company settled with the FTC in 2021 over allegations that he intentionally invalidated subscriber passwords to freeze their accounts. Yeah, that was, people were getting pissed about that. I don't blame them. And that blocked their ability to get the movie tickets to the service promised. And so movie pass and his parent company declared bankruptcy in 2020. So there's no sentencing date. None of that's going on. Apparently there's a status conference

court date scheduled in Miami for March of 2025. So the 72 year old former executive faces a maximum of five years in federal prison. He's not going to do that. He's 72. He's already there. And I didn't even put him in jail yet. He's already said, yeah, I plead guilty. I'm going to go back to my house in Miami. Okay. And he'll be fine. He'll be slapped with another little fine and be put on probation for five years. And you have to stay at your home in Miami, okay? So apparently he was initially freed on a million dollar bond that was revoked at

2023 after the Fed's accused of misusing nearly 300,000 in company funds. Well, I mean, the guy was misleading the whole time. You think he wasn't going to do that? Farnsworth, former boyfriend, who he, he, He met on an escort site. It was paid $147,000 and received a Cadillac worth $144,000. After the pair split up, the fed say he falsely accused his ex of stealing the vehicle. So he's a good guy all around.

You know what? He may end up going to jail. I don't know. I just don't know. I know that Farnsworth was accused with Lowe as, you know, the movie pass company. They were, you know, know, in it together. So maybe they all just need to go to jail.

We're not worried about it. We'll just move on with our lives. And what are we watching now? There's some pretty good shows out right now. We've got Bad Monkey releasing episodes every week. I think we're seven in of Bad Monkey. Tulsa King just started back up again. Only murders in the building is back up and running.

I think we're in an episode, I don't know, four or five of that. We've got the old man starting up again on FX, which was, you know, awesome. I was told to watch slow horses on Apple. I started watching it. I'm two or three episodes in. It's okay. We'll see how it goes. I mean, I enjoy the characters, but it's okay. And I'm really looking forward to my father-in-law,

who usually is living with us has not been here for a while. And I really can't wait for him to come back because I want to watch Hell on Wheels with him all over again. That's my way of watching Hell on Wheels a second time. is to just sit through it. Oh, you haven't seen this? Oh, okay.

Well, I'll watch it again with you. I really wish you'd get back so I could go because I'm almost ready to start Hell on Wheels again just because it was so good and so mad at myself for not watching it when it was originally out. And we got news that the last of us, that is going to be back up and running the first half of next year.

You knew it was close because what's her face? and The Last of Us has been doing commercials. We've been seeing her face all over commercials now. So you knew that they were close to talking about the release of Last of Us because she had her mug everywhere. And what's the other show that is going to start up? The Penguin. Yes.

That starts, I think this week. I think tonight. Yes, it is. Tonight. I've still trapped for a mind. Thursday, September 19th. Oh, my gosh. That's tonight.

9 p.m. Eastern on HBO Max, so I don't know, I won't be able to watch it until tomorrow. But I'm excited for it because I really think it's going to be good. Colin Farrell was great as the Penguin. Great. And even though he's a thin guy playing a fat guy. And I really am looking forward to this show on HBO Max, The Penguin. And don't think I haven't forgotten Whisting. Whisting, I had recommended it to me

and it's really good too It's like right in my wheelhouse That's a European detective And it doesn't have to be a European detective But I just like struggling detective shows And you know, they're after serial killers Or they're struggling but they're you know They're their alcoholics or they're struggling with their marriage

And their children and all they focus on is their police work And then you know they try to catch serial killers and they do And that's Wisting. And really good. And it started a few years ago. It's got like five seasons. I'm really, I'm head down into Wisting.

And I'm still in the first season. But I don't know how many episodes I'm in. But really good. And I really enjoyed it. And thank you. I can't remember who recommended it. But you know who you are. And thank you for recommending it because it's right in the old chewing the fat.

Jeff Fisher wheelhouse. And I love it. I mean, it's tough to get to these shows now because I got football season. And, you know, Saturday's, college football, Sunday's NFL. I've got a, you know, I've got other things to watch. It's tough to it's tough to get to these shows.

I've got a schedule to keep. So, just, no, I'm trying to keep up my schedule of watching these shows, but some come up missing. You know, like Whisting, that's going to be a fill binge. Hell on Wheels, that's a fill binge

as well. No question about that. And Bad Monkey, that's once a week. Talsick, I feel like Bad Monkey is dropped on Fridays. Tulsa King, I'm not sure. I can't remember what day that drops, but that's once a week. Only murders is Tuesday. The old man, I think, is on Fridays.

Slow horses, I think is done. I think they're all dropped on Apple Plus now. So, you know, I've got a schedule to keep. No time to say hello, goodbye. I'm late, I'm late, I'm late. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Using the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ.

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J. D. Souther, Sout, H-E-R. He's a singer, songwriter, dead at the age of 78. J-D. wrote some huge hits. He's also listed as a singer-songwriter and actor. He co-wrote some of the Eagles biggest hits, New Kid in Town, Best of My Love, had a solo career. Induct included the top-10 hit,

You're only lonely. Oh, yeah. Died Tuesday at the age of 78. No cause of death was given. So it couldn't be that. Don't be thinking about that. His PR people said he died peacefully at his home in New Mexico. So apparently he was getting ready to go on concert again or go on tour again and do some concerts.

So couldn't have been a long illness. It couldn't have been anything that he'd been struggling with for. a long time because I'm sure he was getting ready to go on do some joint concert dates with Carla Bonoff and who doesn't want to do concert dates with Carla Bonoff. That he performed as recently as five days ago. It seemed to me that it was a pretty fast death. So could it be that? I don't know.

Would they have told us? Oh, well, of course they would have. Anyway, rest in peace. the dead. They saw they're dead at the age of 88. Then we have the remains found beneath Notre Dame, the church, Notre Dame, after devastating fire. Yeah, I remember the big fire. They believe that the remains found under the cathedral are Renaissance poet Joachim de Bélet,

who died in 1560. Now, it could be some street sweeper. It fell into a hole underneath the church. And that's where he is. But they think it's this renowned Renaissance poet. That, well, they found the remains under the church after the devastating fire. So they found the sarcophagus unearthed. Yeah, so it wasn't just a street sweeper.

Someone was actually put into a carsofagus. And I got it. It's a sarcophagus. I got it. I know what it was. Okay, so anyway, he could be him. Apparently he died around age 37 in January of 1560 and was believed to have been buried near a relative in a chapel at Notre Dame

through his actual grave was never found. This is it, they think. So there you have it. If you were wondering, you've been wondering your whole life, where is the Renaissance poet Yakim de Belé? We know that he was buried around the Notre Dame Cathedral there, but we just don't know where. Well, now we know. I mean, you've been wondering since January of 50.

Well, I'm sure people in 1560 knew where, but then they all died off. So there's that. Now, Tarrant County. That's a county in Texas. In fact, that's a county here in DFW in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. They had a deal with North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, where they would give unclaimed bodies to this university for research. And they're not going to do that now.

And according to this, no one's body should be used for medical research absent their pre-death consent or the consent of a loved one. And certainly no one's body should be sold for profit. Well, why not? if we are paying for it as taxpayers, maybe we should recoup some of our money by selling those unclaimed bodies to science. Because that's, remember, one of the signs of the economy doing poorly is more people not going down to the morgue claiming their relatives because they can't afford the funerals.

So they just let the state or the city pay for it. Well, let them make a little money selling off the bodies. So apparently the Health Science Center announced the suspension of its willed body program and the termination of the program leaders. Yeah, they were pissed at everybody. They all must have been taken a cut. And now they've found out. So apparently, an investigation found that the county and health science center officials failed to adequately connect family, contact family members before declaring a body unclaimed and using it for medical training research. Hey, did you call to see if this guy had some family?

Yeah, I called. Okay, we're done. Ship it off. Tell them they owe us some money. So, the unit, okay, so the program, and this program earned the university roughly 2.5 million a year from outside groups. So I don't know what the county was making off it. It doesn't even say in the story what the county was making off of this.

So, I mean, prior to the arrangement, the health science, the county was responsible. Yeah, they're responsible for the unclaimed body. So they spent around half a million dollars a year on burials and cremations. So, I mean, they're going to recoup a little bit of their money. In one case, this guy that we're supposed to feel bad about, Oscar Fitzgerald, died of a drug overdose outside of Fort Worth convenience store. His body was donated to the Health Science Center and used for study for the first year medical students.

when a family member learned of Fitzgerald's passing, they came forward five months later to claim their remains. Five months, we're supposed to be paying for it to refrigerate this guy? No, I don't think so. The Health Science Center told him, you can have it back when we're done with it. We already paid for it. So you're not getting it back.

That makes everybody look bad. And then they talked to this longtime Tarrant County Medical Examiner, who is not the medical examiner anymore. And he's dismayed when he read about the health science centers practice. Are you? Are you former medical examer, Nizam, Perwani, are you? You can't really sell body parts. Sure you can.

It's absolutely unacceptable, says Pirwani, who is on the advisory council for physicians for human rights and has investigated use of excessive force in Rwanda, Gaza, and Bosnia. Yeah, that doesn't have anything to do with we recouping, we here in the U.S. recouping some of our money from unclaimed bodies. I'm sorry, five months. What's the time frame?

How long, how long can you, how long can you hold a body? I mean, if the family came to us two months, one or ten years later, you can, oh, I see. Okay, so what they used to do is the medical examiner, and I'm sure they still do. They keep detailed records on where the body would be buried, whether it was cremated or whether it was buried.

And so then if someone did, did show up. You could say, yeah, it's buried right there. Well, that's what they did. This family knew that went to the university for tests and science. They just said, you can't have it right now. We're in the middle of using it. You can bury it later.

So now we're going to have to research other options regarding the disposition of the disposition of unclaimed bodies and the deceased where families can't afford. burial or cremation services. Right. So we need to come up with some kind of deal and donate these bodies to science. And what's the time frame? Three months? Five months? Six months?

I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I would say that five months is probably too long. Come on now. If no one has claimed a body in three months, you're going to science. We're not going to pay for the refrigeration anymore. You're going to science or we're going to make some money. That's just me, though.

And I have no. They did not consult me for that. But if they did, that's what my answer would be. Three months. 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 ice?

Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes. Because those are groceries, and we deliver those too. Along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats, Now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. All right. Now, these two, well, they're not dead, but they're kind of, they're kind of dead. Ario Speedwagon, you know, riding the storm out, REO speedwagon. They're retiring from touring due to irreconcilable differences between Bruce Hall and Kevin Cronin. These guys have been touring for what, a hundred years? And now they can't stand each other. Oh, okay. So they can't the announcement any longer. Their touring days

are coming to an end. We're going to tour and we're going to stop touring next year. Oh, so I mean, we've got a few months left. Well, they must have some contractual arrangements. They have to agree to make some more money. Irreconcilable differences between bassist Bruce Hall and lead vocalist Kevin Cronin.

The band whose current lineup consists of Hall Cronin, Dave Amato, touring keyboardist Derek Hilland, and drummer Brian Hitt, citing issues that date back to November when Hall exited their tour for back surgery and Matt Bissonette took over as touring bassist. So he had back surgery now that he's back. He wants to be the boss. And they're saying, dude, you're not the boss anymore. I mean, they've been touring for 50 years, 50 years,

REO Speedwagon and now they can't do it anymore. I'll just go listen to the recording of riding the storm out live. I mean, I saw them live a hundred years ago and they were awesome. I mean, riding the storm out live, hello. They opened up for the police at one of the shows that I saw them. And it was, what a great show that was. There was, well, the fabulous Thunderbirds were supposed to be there and they didn't show. So it was Aario Speedwagon and the police and they had some other local band that filled in. I don't remember who because the fabulous Thunderbirds didn't show up.

But, I mean, Speedwagon and the police were. awesome but they're not going to retire anymore so dry your eyes i mean they're not going to they're not going to tour anymore so dry your eyes uh just know that there's no more rio speed wagg if you have tickets to wherever they're touring before the end of the year i would go because uh they're still fighting uh they're still fighting amongst themselves and they have irreconcilable uh conditions and they're not going to tour anymore then did you see jane's addiction that's more sad news for uh for bands uh jane Addiction has now canceled the rest of their tour. Now, there's videos making the rounds of the lead singer and the guitar player

getting into a fight on stage. When you have band members fighting on stage, yeah, that doesn't end well. And so they have now canceled the remainder of their tour. So you Jane's Addiction fans out there, just know that the rest of the rest of the the concert the rest of the tour is canceled because uh you're a guitarist and the singer were fighting each other on stage sure he apologized and you know hey it was behavior that shouldn't have happened but you know sure it did happen though so whether you like the inexcusable behavior or not uh it did happen and uh it was on video and it was all over social

media. So we're just going to go ahead and cancel our tour. Okay. Okay, good. And congratulations, too, to DFW, the place where this show originates from. I saw where now DFW is the fourth largest television market in the United States of America, surpassing Philadelphia. So what, you've got, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, Ford Worth. I wish that that would mean something to the radio market, but because even if we're fifth or six, whatever the hell we are, radio market-wise, you'd never know it. Because a lot of the radio market in Dallas-Fort Worth is,

what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, yeah, not good. I don't want the radio people firing off at me. You know who I'm talking about and who I'm talking for. So just back the hell off me, all right? Let's get out of here. Let's do the joke of the day. I can't remember if I did this joke already

because I've laughed at this joke multiple times and so I'm going to do the joke and if I've done it before, tough. I'll laugh again because it makes me laugh every time I read it.

It's from Mr. Sean's emailed Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. Joan Rivers had so many cuts past three cuts to clown face it could pretty much be classified as taxidermy. that's really good

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