Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Minimize Inconvenience… | 3/10/25

Episode Date: March 10, 2025

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Oh, okay. So that left one working toilet, which was in business class for some 300 passengers to use. Now, they decided, as they were five hours into the flight of this 14-hour trip, you know what? We probably should just turn this thing around. And instead of going to the closest airport, they returned to Chicago. I'm not quite sure I understand that, but that's what they did. So they turned it around, and off back to Chicago, they went. Upon landing in Chicago, they claim all passengers and crew disembarked normally.

Uh-huh. and have been provided with accommodation to minimize inconvenience. Yeah, well, how's that working out? Alternative arrangements are being made to fly passengers to their destination. Air India said it would offer refunds for the cancellation, but apparently customers were still having issues because they booked with their miles. And, you know, people have dates that they're trying to get to places by, like weddings. and sorry you missed it.

Yeah, we're trying to minimize the inconvenience. Oh, okay. So a lot of people are now in what they're calling customer service hell. Yeah. So apparently, according to reports, it's not uncommon for airplane toilets to get clogged. The issue typically bubbling up when passengers flush unauthorized items down the pipes.

So it was the passenger's fault, not the airline's fault. Oh, okay. No problem. I just hope that everyone is working to minimize their inconvenience. Man, I would be so angry. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. As long as we're talking about airplanes, we might as well talk about the airplane crash.

Another crash in Pennsylvania, a Beechcraft A36TC with the code N347M on its tail. which apparently that's what the aircraft was. It crashed into a parking lot of a nursing home, and you can see the plane just up in flames, five people on board. All five people survived. Came down in Mannheim Township of Lancaster County just after it took off from nearby Lancaster Airport

at 3.15 p.m. yesterday. Incredible. Incredible footage. of the flames and crashing into a parking lot of this nursing home. Multiple cars were on fire along with the plane. Yet all five people survived. Amazing. They were unavailable and they had to rush to the hospital and of course they're injured.

But it's really amazing that they survived. And two of them, I think, still remain in the hospital. So three were taking to another health network, a burn center. so we don't know how bad they are and it could be horrifically bad but well yeah it's in a plane crash Jeff I know I know but they still survived

the plane crash from the beginning so just amazing now we caught the last few seconds of the plane's chat we'll call it a chat it's not really a chat with the communication back and forth between the plane and the tower

at Lancaster Airport Thanks a tower Bonanza 347 Mike has an open door Wow he has an open door and 3 4 7 Mike Roger

you want to make it to 3 1 or 2 6 Those are the Okay And 3 4 7 Mike Roger Blum Wow Wow

Wow so And they all survived Incredible Just another Sunday afternoon flight in my beach craft Amazing Okay well let's just stay in air or at least, you know, above the Earth.

It was announced that NASA is going to launch a SpaceX capsule with their replacements, Sunni Williams, because it's Sunny Williams, SUNI Williams, and Butch Wilmore, the astronauts who were stranded there from the Boeing Starliner debacle that happened nine months ago. Apparently, Cruz will head up there on Wednesday, and then they'll spend a week there, and then they'll come back to Earth. Okay. Good.

Good. I'm happy that that's happening. Does make one a little nervous since we lost the rocket from SpaceX last week. And a while before, the last two giant rockets from SpaceX exploded. We had the private landing on the moon, land sideways again from intuitive machines. and so we'll see how that goes. I mean, do I want them to come back home? Absolutely.

It's been way too long. They felt unsafe, bringing them back home with the Boeing Starliner. And the Boeing Starliner made it back to Earth without incident. So would it have happened with humans in it? One would like to believe that would be the case. So keep your fingers crossed and your prayers for the astronauts taking off from Earth headed to the ISS. And then once it's on...

It's way back a week from, well, they go up Wednesday, so then they're staying for another week. They'll be back at the end of next week. So let's keep our fingers crossed and send our prayers because I want everything to go smooth as silk. May as well continue with above the earth. I see where a Chinese startup company, BetaVolt technology, has unveiled the BV-100,

It's a nuclear battery designed to power devices for up to 50 years without recharging. Oh, okay. Oh, they must be utilizing the decay of nickel 63 isotopes. That's exactly what they're doing. I mean, they should have just asked me. So this coin-sized battery generates 100 micawatts of power at 3 volts. Okay, while promising to lower power applications like medical implants and sensors, its current output is insufficient.

for high demand devices such as smartphones or drones. BetoVolt plans to develop a one watt version by 2025, so sometime this year, aiming to expand its usability across various technologies. So if they could have drone technology that would fly for 50 years without needing to recharge it, that would seem to be an issue. I hope that we're working on the same thing. Hopefully we've developed that already. I don't want China to get that first.

So let's have a drone race, and we need to win that. Okay? Okay, good. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy.

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And we have footage that at least 32 people, 32 casualties have been reported and they have been taken back to land. And so I guess they're burning. How do, let me ask you a question. How does an oil taker and a cargo ship collide? Oh, they run into each other, Jeff. Don't you know that? Yes, I do. I understand the idea of these two ships colliding.

I just don't see how. it happens. It's not like they were going too fast. Or maybe they were. And who hit who? Did the oil tanker hit the cargo ship or did the cargo ship hit the oil tanker? Well, we'll find out, I guess, as the story develops. But as of right now, 32 people have been rescued and taken to land. And we don't know how many people are left on board either one of these ships. But I still have a lingering in question, I wish I could send my reporter out to the North Sea to report on this because I want to know how an oil tanker and a cargo ship actually collide. And I'll rephrase that, Your Honor. I know how they collided. Let me rephrase the question, what caused the collision?

It is interesting that it's being reported that the offshore wind farm vessels are what's being used to transport the victims in this crash. So could it have something to do with instrument issues on these ships caused by the wind farms? Huh. Just a question off the top of my head. That's all. And we still have fires burning in the Carolinas.

As of the weekend, I know that we had forced evacuations in the Carolina forest area near Myrtle Beach. That spread to over 2,000. They're still trying to contain all the active fires in the Carolinas. Right now, officials have listed 81 wildfires in North Carolina. Okay. That was down from over 200. So they may be less than that now,

although they claim that between high winds and heavy rain, that could affect the containment efforts. Uh-huh. And so then that was in North Carolina. have 22 wildfires that are in South Carolina. That's down from 100, according to the South Carolina Forestry Commission. And so you talk about the Myrtle Beach fire. I know everyone wants to believe that, you know, it's climate change.

And that's what causes these fires, that damn climate change. Except, no, that wasn't climate change. I believe the fire by Myrtle Beach is called the Covington Drive fire. And that erupted as flames engulfed, the tree of, line in H-O-R-Y County, H-O-R-Y County. That happened because a lady who was witnessed sparking the fire. Oh, okay. Apparently, she intentionally started a fire in the backyard fire pit near a tree line

and didn't have any proper precautions to stop the debris burn from escaping the pit. and she didn't have any water and we just let it go and we just watch it and there it goes oh gosh darn it there it goes into the woods and the tree line and gosh darn it there we go so unless her name is climate change which I don't

think it is her name the lady that was arrested is Alexandra B-I-A-L-U-S-O-W by a-O-O-O-S-O-O-O-O-So so so so

So she goes by climate change. That's her name. She goes by climate change. She was charged with negligently allowing fire to spread to lands or property of another and starting fire in woodlands, grasslands, and other places unlawful unless certain precautions are taken. Oh, okay. Okay. That's what she was charged with.

So she posted a $15,000 bond and she's, I guess, back home now. or at least she isn't in jail. I did post this on my X account this weekend. It's really, really, really strange that it's not climate change. If you follow me on X, then you saw it at Jeffie JFR. If you don't, what are you doing? Follow me at Jeffy JFR on X. You can follow me on my Instagram and Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio.

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because you can't go to San Antonio without going to Austin so that she could see her grandbabies. and she's driving back yesterday from, and she calls and says, why are the flags at half-mast? And I'm like, I have no idea why the flags would be at half-mast. Seriously, Sunday, do they fly half-mast flags

when time-change weekend? Maybe they do. Maybe that's what it's for. Time-change weekends is now, you know, where we have to fly flags at half-mast. because I was reading federal law around displaying the U.S. flag, and it says here, Section 4 of the U.S. Code, covers things all related to the national flag, and the law states that upon the death of certain officials and the sitting president must order all flags flown at half staff for various periods.

Doesn't say anything about time change. So 30 days for a sitting or former president. 10 days for a sitting vice president, sitting or retired Supreme Court Chief Justice, sitting Speaker of the House from death until internment a sitting Supreme Court Associate Justice, secretary of an executive or military department,

former vice president, sitting governor of estate, territory or possession. And for a sitting member of Congress, one day. Well, there you have it. We did lose a congressman, but we lost the congressman

early in the week. So they are still being flown at half mass because then I read that Governor Greg Abbott, the governor of the state of Texas, has ordered that all flags across the state be lowered to half staff, returning to full staff at sunrise on Saturday. This was not Saturday. They are at half-mast, and this was Sunday.

So did they forget to put them up? The workers didn't show up on Sunday or Saturday to raise them up, so they just left them half-mast, probably until this morning. Oh, okay. They're at half-mast due to the death of Congressman Sylvester Turner. of Houston. I mean, he was a state representative, a mayor, congressman. And so, you know, I get that the flags were flown at half staff for him.

But not for more than a day, right? Maybe we get somebody, you know, to come in and raise the flags back up again. No? Just leave them until Monday morning? Okay. And maybe we just decided, you know what? We'll leave him at half mask for the congressman. And you know what?

It's time change weekend, so they're going to be at half-mast for the entire weekend as well. Okay, how'd it work out for you on time change? You just spring ahead, okay, losing that hour. And, man, it's just so weird. You feel like no problem. You got it. But yesterday was just really, really weird because it just, you have the whole day feeling like it's not the right time. And, well, it isn't the right time, but it is.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I was looking at the top 10 movies for the weekend, and the number one movie, Mickey 17. I'd never heard of. I don't know where I've been. Mickey 17 got 19.1 million domestic. It's 53.3 million global total. But it had $118 million budget.

Ooh. And an $80 million marketing spend. An $80 million marketing spend. not to me. I never saw it. I never saw the promo, nothing that I remember. I certainly don't remember seeing it.

And so the marketing spent, somebody deep pocketed some money without actually creating some kind of marketing. But I saw I was looking at what it is. All right, it's got Robert Pattinson in it. He's their main star. And it also has, what's his face?

Stephen Young, who I love. And so anyway, and Naomi Acky is the Mark Ruffalo's in it That's great So as a reading about Mickey 17 In the year 2054 Mickey Barnes and his friend

Timo Are financially destitute After a failed business venture Oh Okay So unable to repay a murderous Loan shark The pair flea to signing up

As a crew for a spaceship That leaves Earth To colonize the planet NIF NIF N-L-H-E-I-M That's right Niflheim. Nifel hunt.

Timo and a shuttle pilot. So Mickey is on the spaceship as an expendable. So he's using Earthband technology to clone Mickey and restore his memories. So he's treated as disposable. So they sent him to jobs where he probably will die. And if he does, they just clone him again. And so this happened, you know, 16 times before we got to Mickey 17. And then thinking that Mickey 17 is dead.

they create Mickey 18, but that Mickey 17 is still alive. And that's what creates the Bong John Ho's sci-fi comedy. So, I mean, I kind of like the premise. We'll see if it's any good. I don't know, man. That's definitely waiting until streaming. Captain America Brave New World, still hanging in there at number two with 8.5 million.

Wow, nobody went to the theaters this weekend. It's got 370.8. global. Wow, that doesn't seem that good for Captain America, Brave New World. Last Breath, the Woody Harrelson survival thriller hangs on third place. Yeah, that's not doing well at all. It's only got like 14.7 million domestic. Hmm. The monkey. Okay. The gory thriller. Yeah, okay, it's got 31 million domestic. Only made 3.9 million this past weekend. It only cost 10 million to make, though, so they're doing okay. Paddington in Peru. 3.8.

I mean, nobody made any money this weekend. 3 million. It's made 36.9 million domestic, 175.8 million global. Nowhere near the heights of previous installments. Yeah, I don't know what they made for Paddington or what they spent on Paddington in Peru, but they need to probably make more than 175.8 million global.

Dogman, hanging in there at number six. It's got 88.7 domestic total. Those movies will probably do great streaming. Anora only made an extra 1.86 million this weekend, which added to its domestic total, comes to 18.4 million. I mean, it won all these Oscars, and they expanded theaters. So I think it was in like 2,000 theaters, and they still only made 1.86 million. That is not good. And I will say this.

I almost watched it this weekend, because I have not seen it. I almost watched it. It's available on Prime for me to buy. And I'm probably going to watch it because when I went to see how much they were going to charge me to rent it, because I'm not buying it, but how much it was cost me to rent it, with whatever credits, we have some kind of credit program on Prime, it was going to cost me 74 cents. And I thought, no what?

I'll wait until my wife comes back and I'll watch it with her because I'm not going to spend a whole set, 74 cents without, you know, letting the whole family watch it. So I will let you know my review of Anora very soon, but I'm not spent it more than 74 cents on that bad boy. Number 8, Mufasa, the Lion King, they've already made 250.5 million domestic, 700 million global. Yeah, Mufasa, the Lion King, has done pretty well. Rule Breakers, made a little over a million with Angel Studios. Okay. And in the lost land made a million.

A Vertical's post-apocalyptic actioner starring Dave Patista and Malajanovich get scorched by critics. Wow. Yeah, got scorched by no one going to see it as well. I mean, all of Hollywood's got to be kind of hurt. They claim that, okay, so this weekend, or this weekend alone, Hollywood is down 60% from the same time last year. That is, what's the word? I'm looking for. Oh yeah, not good.

Another thing that's kind of not good is I mentioned the show to watch last week called Spotless. And I even got an email from Bill who said, what happened to Spotless? Heard you talk about it on the podcast and even sent myself an email so I would remember

the name of it. Now that's a smart man right there, but it's not on Netflix and when I Google it, everything says you can watch it on Netflix, but it's not here. I don't know. I thought it was on Netflix. that's where it began. That's where at least I saw it.

And I went to Netflix because of you, Bill, and it's not there. I don't know what happened to it. Now, I will say that as I was reading about it, it belonged to another network that is no longer alive. Maybe I should put it in Who Died Today. The Esquire Network, I know. I didn't have never heard of it either. So it was Esquire Network,

and then they moved it to Netflix, took it, and said that it was a, original Netflix series except in France and the United States everywhere else that said yeah it's an original but it really wasn't it was an S-CoI Network show and I mean it's been 10 years since

the show was out it's really good and I don't know why it disappeared I don't know where you can watch it but if you can and you haven't you need to catch it it's called spotless there are 10 episodes and it was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed the heck out of that show

I will say that I thought okay well maybe I found a way that you can watch it for free, this Just Watch.com. And they bring up Spotless and there's 10 episodes, season one from 2015. And then you get down to the bottom and says watch now all free. Season 1 is not available

for streaming. So I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it got burnt up in the fires or something. I don't know what happened to Spotless. But when it returned someplace, I will let you know. And a huge surprise coming from Netflix with love.

Megan's show with Love Megan Netflix announced You know what? We're going to give it a second season Really? Come on now This show took a beating

From the critics A beating It was terrible And this lifetestyle series From Megan Features the Duchess And a group of friends Old and New

Uh huh And so now I guess Netflix said You know what Yeah we don't care We're giving it a second season It's Megan and we're invested in her, and we're invested in her

website too, as ever. They helped her out with that as well. So, Archwell Productions, and that's the company headed by the Duchess and Prince Harry, produces the series with Sony Television Picture Television's Intellectual Property Corporation. Wait.

So the Dutch, let's see, Archwell Productions, produces the series with Sony Pictures Television's Intellectual Property Corporation. Okay. All right. You got me. And Netflix is going to pick it up for a second season. Look, they paid him a lot of money. And we're in business now with her.

So we've got to keep her face in front of your face. And that's why we're giving her a second season. Cannot wait. Apparently, it's already filmed. Maybe that's what the deal was. They just kept filming. And they said, we've still got all these shows here. We might as well make it a second season.

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and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk, business. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with DeWain Wiggins. D. Wayne Wiggins, founding member of the R&B group, Tony, Tony Tone, has died at the age of 64. Wiggins died after battling bladder cancer. Oh, I do not. We have talked about this before. It does seem, I mean, more. More and more people have bladder cancer. I do not wish that on anyone. I don't wish bladder cancer on anyone. Maybe that's just me.

So he was a founding mentor and founding member of Tony Tony Tone. And so he passed away at the age of 64. DeWain Wiggins, dead at the age of 64. Then we have Blues legend. John Mayle. John Mayall dead at the age of 90. Wow. I mean, this guy had immense influence, right?

I mean, he was John Mayle. I mean, with the shape the British blues scene. Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Taker, they all loved John Mayall, man, that's for sure. I mean, his career spent 60 years, over 60 years, really, between the live performances and the recordings and everybody calling him the father of British blues. It's just incredible. John Mayall. It doesn't give a cause of death, but he was 90. So rest in peace to John Mayle dead at the age of 90.

All right. Then we have Dakota Stevens. Dakota Stevens, a 10-year-old boy from Michigan, who died after his foster mom, sat on him for five minutes for acting up, crushing him under her 340-pound frame. So sad. Apparently, The 91-pound boy threw himself on the front lawn outside her home.

He went, he ran, he left the house, went next door. She came out and retrieved the kid from next door. And the boy threw himself on the front lawn outside the home, at which point of this lady Jennifer Wilson sat on him and called the caseworker as he screamed and eventually stopped moving. Wow. So, I mean, he was acting up. She probably had enough of him acting up.

And she's told the police that the boy was faking, being hurt. That's what she thought. Until she noticed his eyelids had gone pale when she rolled him over. Wow. She was visibly distraught. Yeah. Hello. So they ran, took him to the hospital

and he was still alive and then he was taken off life support two days later. So sad. This eye end of a woman, damn. A 340 pound foster mom sits your head. Oh man,

it's so sad. Rest in peace to Dakota Stevens, dead at the age of 10. And I mentioned Michigan, so holding up the hand, they're from way down here in Beryn County.

I think it's B-E-R-R-I-E-N County. Wow, one of the lowest counties in the state. I can barely see it on my hand here. So rest in peace. I mean, she's probably done it before to her foster kids.

That's what she does. That's how she controls them. And I'm sure that it's happened before. She just was lucky that she hasn't killed anyone for sure. I guess there's a ring door camera that reportedly shows a 20-second clip of her sitting on this kid's head. Wow, just so sad. She faces six years in prison if convicted. She was fostering three other children.

And the Child Service spokesman, the Department of Child Services spokesman, confirmed to the outlet which, I don't know which outlet this was, whether it was the New York Post or whatever outlet is reporting on this story, that her foster parent license has been suspended and is being reviewed for a permanent revocation. You think? And I guess we have final notes. Notice on Gene Hackman, too. I guess we're done.

We don't have to worry about it. There was no foul play. Everything is fine. Stop looking into it. It's fine. Okay? Officials said the couple died of natural causes. He of heart disease and she had a rare viral infection.

Okay. She was the caregiver, lover, protector. She died first, perhaps on February 11th, leaving Mr. Hackman 95 years old with advanced Alzheimer's, which is the first time we've heard about this advanced Alzheimer's. But sure, I believe you. He had it. alone in the house for days.

He is believed to have died a week later on February 18th. Then it took another week for them to be found. So their decomposing bodies were not discovered for yet another eight days when a maintenance worker called a security guard to the house after no one came to the door. Emergency workers found the wife on the floor of the bathroom near a medicine bottle, spilled pills. The pills apparently had nothing to do with their death.

One of the three dogs was dead in a crate. Apparently the dog had had had, some kind of surgery, which she picked up the day before, I believe. The body of Mr. Hackman was discovered in a mudroom with slippers and a cane. Okay. The medical examiner said Alzheimer's disease was a contributing factor in Mr. Hackman's death. She had hanta virus. Okay.

Which you get through exposure to excrement from rodents, often the deer mouse in New Mexico. Right. And there was just deer mouse running wild all over the property. Oh, wait, there wasn't? No. Oh, okay, never mind. And apparently they had become a little bit reclusive.

That's what the story said. And so there you have it. It's over. We're done. Move on. Okay. You got it. You got it.

We'll just forget all about it. I don't know. I guess it could be true. I don't know why it bugs me so much. It just kind of does. I feel like there has to be more to the story. But maybe that's just the way we think in today's world. And maybe this is actually.

something that actually happened and she died and he was out of his mind and was wandering around the house not knowing what to do or where to go or you know no food and no medicine and then he died too i mean you know could it have happened sure i guess so it just feels like there has to be more to the story that's probably just me when i got a great deal on a great gift at winners i started wondering Could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. At just $39.99, how could I resist? This luxurious will throw for my sister.

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But Brad Keith Sigmund, the man who we said was on death row and who had chosen to be executed by firing squad, actually was executed by firing squad on Friday evening. It happened. He was hoping for a commute from the governor. That did not happen. And after the state Supreme Court said, now you're still going. You're still going to go for execution. that went on. So Brad 67 was executed by firing squad.

Incredible. Incredible story because he chose to go by the firing squad because he didn't want to die a torturous death by lethal injection, was what he thought. And he didn't want to suffer being cooked alive by electricity. So he was, he chose, you know what, I want the firing squad. And they, the South Carolina put them in the firing squad room, had three rifle bearers come in.

They were, they were people who volunteered. I'm guessing, I'm guessing that they were some kind of prison guards. I don't know. I don't know if they just went along the street and said, hey, want us you to fire and execute a guy? Sure, let's go. Let's go. I had a firearm for you. Go ahead.

I'm sure that it wasn't that easy, but they were volunteers. And they all had live ammunition. They brought him in and they put a hood over his head and they had a target, which I'm quite sure I don't understand why the target had to be hung on his chest. I'm pretty sure that the three people with rifles knew where the man's chest was, but they did. And they fired the shot and he died. He was announced dead at 608 p.m.

at the Broad River Correction. Institution in Columbia, South Carolina. That was according to the South Carolina Department of Corrections. Now, I will say this. I'm fascinated by what the death row inmates that are facing execution order for their last meal. Some states have stopped allowing the prisoners to order their last meal. I mean, we're going to kill them. Maybe we could give them a dinner.

I don't know. It just feels like that's kind of, that's cruel and unusual. Sure, the killing of them is another story, but, you know, we're going to execute them. So let them have a meal. So Brad ordered three buckets of original recipe Kentucky fried chicken so he could share with the guys that he's incarcerated with on death row. He said, this is the attorney.

Brad is someone who served as an informal chaplain to the... guys on death row. He's someone who models the kind of service and ministry. That's the central pillar of his faith. Okay. So there you have it. I guess he changed locations in 2024, so it left him isolated the last few months of his life. And he realized that he's never going to see those guys again. So he wanted his last meal. He wanted to share something special with them. Oh, that is special. I was reading, I reached out to the guy that covered it for the AP in South Carolina. And I, he didn't get back to me. I would love to be able to talk to Jeffrey Collins, this reporter who witnessed the execution.

And he claims in his story that he's now watched through glass end bars as 11 men were put to death in South Carolina prison. none of the previous 10 prepared me for watching the firing squad death of Brad Sigmund. I might now be unique among U.S. reporters. I've witnessed three different methods, nine lethal injections, an electric chair execution, and I can still hear the thunk of the breaker falling 21 years later. Wow. I mean, I really would love to talk to Jeffrey Collins. If you know him, tell him to reach out to me. I would love to talk to him now.

I know he's an AP reporter, so he's a, I know he's a.p. reporter. so he probably has issues with talking to someone from The Blaze. I get it. But I'm not part of him, damn it? Okay, so I am. I get it. But I would love to talk to him as just a fascinating, fascinating subject for me. And I was really like to get his views.

Now, he was interviewed after or held an impromptu press conference around the the execution. And this is what he had to say, just a little bit of what he had to say. My name is Jeffrey Collins. I'm with the Associated Press. And this is the 11th execution I've covered in South Carolina. I've covered nine lethal injection executions. I covered an execution in the electric chair in 2004. But this is the first firing squad execution I've ever covered because it is the first firing squad execution in the state of South Carolina. And just the first since 2010 as well. Now he's outside and they're showing pictures of the protesters out

outside of the prison protesting the execution. You know, let's not forget what this guy did. You know, I know we were against executions. Okay, I guess. But he beat his ex-girlfriend's parents

to death with a baseball bat in their home. And he planned to kidnap his ex-girlfriend and kill her. And then he was going to kill himself. This is according to what he told detectives. But she escaped and then they caught him. So, you know, let's see.

This guy wasn't, you know, an angel fallen from the stars. Anyway, back to Jeffrey Collins. This one, the curtain opens and Brad Siegman, who was the condemned inmate, he's strapped into a chair and there's a target over his heart. Once the hood was put over his head, it was about 90 seconds to about two minutes before the shots were fired. And during that time, there's a lot of anxiety. I mean, because obviously you could see that Bragg Sigmund was breathing very headfully. He was taking some very deep breaths. And so, you're just waiting until you hear that sound. And when you finally did hear the crack of the gunfire,

everyone in that room tinsed up a little bit. I bet. I bet it was startling. No doubt about it. Jeffrey Collins, I would love to talk to you here on Chewing the Fat about all your experiences and your experience with this in particular. I would love to talk to you. So if you know Jeffrey Collins, tell him to reach out to me because I reached out to him and I have not heard back.

All right, let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day today. I've kind of laughed about this for a couple of days now. I was excited to share it with you today. A woman decides to have a facelift for her 50th birthday. She spends 50th birthday.

$15,000 and looks sensational. On her way home, she stops at a newsstand to buy a newspaper, and before leaving, she says to the clerk, I hope you don't mind me asking, but how old do you think I am? How about 32? Nope, I'm exactly 50. A little while later, she goes into McDonald's and asks the countergirl, the very same question. The girl replies, I guess about 29, and with a big smile, nope, I'm 50. Now she's feeling really good about herself, and she stops at a candy shop on her.

way down the street and she goes up to the counter to get some mints and asks the assistant the same burning question and the clerk responds oh i'd say about 30 again she proudly responds i'm 50 but thank you then while waiting for the bus to go home she asked an old man waiting next to her the same question and the old man says lady i'm 78 my eyesight is going although when i was young there was a sure fire way to tell how old a woman was and it sounds very forward but it requires you to let me put my hands under your bra. Then and only then can I tell you exactly how old you are. They wait in silence on the empty street until her curiosity kind of gets the better of her. She finally blurts out, what the hell? Go ahead. And he slips both his hands under her blouse

and begins to feel around very slowly and carefully. He bounces and weighs each breast and he gently pinches each. He pushes her breast together, rubs them against each other. After a couple of minutes of this, she says, okay, okay. Okay, how old am I? And he completes one last squeeze, removes his hand and says, Madam, you are 50. Stunned and amazed.

The woman says, that was incredible. How could you tell? I was behind you at McDonald's. See, because he really, now you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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