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And now chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher
Good news for those of you who like Starbucks coffee
You can now go to Starbucks
Well unless of course you use a third party app
Like a DoorDash or Uber each
You're not going to be able to do this
You're going to be able to bring your own cup
To Starbucks
Yay
And use your own cup
Your own personal cup at Starbucks
You just have to tell them on the app
under the customization button during the ordering process
or just bring it into the store and say,
hey, fill this one up
and they give the mug to the barista in the pickup area
where the drink is made
and then give it back in a contactless vessel.
I'm not sure what that contactless vessel is.
Is it just rubber gloves on a barista?
Is it some tweezers?
I don't know what the context.
A robot maybe?
but the contactless vessel will then give you your mug with coffee back.
Now, you have to remember, you have to clean them before you bring them.
Yeah, the baristas aren't going to rinse them out.
And for those of you thinking, I'm going to bring an oil can in and fill up my oil can full of Starbucks coffee.
That's my large coffee.
No, no, no, no, no.
You can't do that.
No cups larger than 40 ounces.
But you can bring at least 40 ounces in for your large coffee.
at Starbucks and I'm sure they're mad at me because they're not largest. I know, I know, I got it,
but really, they are. Plus, you're going to get a 10-set discount and 25 stars on the change
rewards program. So, hey, how cool is that, huh? Bring your own cup at Starbucks. They're also
working on borrow-a-cup programs. They've apparently been working on that for a while.
I question the borrow a cup program,
but they tested it in Seattle
where you paid a like a dollar deposit
and had to return the recyclable cup
to a smart bin
and you get your dollar back.
And they've tested those programs in,
well, in Seattle and Japan,
Singapore and the UK.
I don't know how those are working out.
I don't know that I want to use the recycled cup.
I don't know that I trust the barista
to clean it, but I guess you have to.
So, but I don't have to worry about it now because I can bring my own cup.
And I am looking forward to seeing what a contactless vessel is.
Welcome.
Welcome to Chewing the Fath.
Okay, here we go again.
Lake Superior State University, I love Lake Superior State University,
and Sue St. Marie, Michigan, which is in the Upper Peninsula.
You know, if you, this is the lower peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula is up here.
Sus-A-Marie is way up there.
They have a tradition of listing the words that need to be banned from the previous year.
Now, they received more than 2,000 suggestions from 20 different countries.
That's what they said.
And the number one word this year that needs to be banned is hack.
Hack.
H-A-C-K.
So don't use it anymore.
All right, and needs to be banned.
Since 1976, more than 1,000 everyday terms have been banished.
Some of them more than once.
Last year, goat topped the list.
Before that, it was, wait, what?
It was just more than one word I might have.
And no real surprise, COVID-19, banished in 2021.
2020 was jelly, was the top word to be.
banished. Not the fruit's been spread, obviously, but the abbreviation of jealous, which we know
still happens. Some people may have not got the message. That's all. So there are 10 words that have been
banished this year that we're not supposed to use it. Okay. So hack obviously is number one. Coming in at
number two, impact, impact. I-M-P-A-C-T. Banished word. Can't use it anymore. At the end of the day,
I guess these are just banished words, but banished, I mean, also,
phrases, right? But it says
banished words, so
we've just moved down and how about you
just shut up, Jeff, and read what they've banned,
okay? At the end of the day
is number three. Four is
Riz. Yeah,
that Riz was a big one of the
top words of the year.
Slay, or phrases of the year. Number five,
Slay, S-L-A-Y.
Number six, iconic.
Number seven,
Cringe-worthy.
Number eight, obsessed.
Number nine, side hustle.
And number 10, wait for it.
No, not the, that's what they, that's the phrase that the two or three words that needs to be banned.
Wait for it.
Not, you don't actually have to wait for it.
So we can't use those anymore.
They need to be banned completely.
Thanks to the university up there in Su-Sing.
Marie, Michigan, the Lake Superior State University.
So we just need to stop using the, what they call,
cringe-worthy words, but cringe-worthy isn't part of the banished words?
All right, all right, if you say so, no problem.
Now, the university has a very scientific way of creating their list every year.
Okay.
They get suggestions.
As I said, they got over 2,000 suggestions from 20 different countries.
And the English department decides which words will be banished.
So, man, you want to talk about science.
That is a scientific way to talk about banished words.
So don't use them.
Don't use them.
I don't want to hear you.
Not once use the word hack this year.
That you're going to see them.
everywhere, obviously.
But they are agonizing.
The one that I see all the time that drives me crazy is side hustle.
I will say that.
When I see the list.
Yeah, cringe-worthy.
Number seven, thank you.
That's what I thought it was on the list.
And they use it in their story.
What do we?
I thought they were banned.
If you're banning phrases and words, you can't use them in the story.
Sorry, that's the way it works.
I thought.
But apparently, once again, what do I know?
Well, nothing.
Nothing is what I know.
I will say I do know this.
This is one way every year that the university, Lake Superior State University, in Sioux-St.
Marie, Michigan, makes people aware that they exist.
Because unless you don't see this banishment list every year, you have no idea that Lake Superior State University exists in Sioux-State.
You don't want to, holy cow, that's up there.
I mean, that's cold business up there.
Plus, the snow and, oh, man.
I'm sure it's a fine university.
Absolutely love Lake Superior State University.
I had forgotten that its former name was the Michigan College of Mining and Technology.
That's why I keep forgetting them.
And then they went to Lake Superior State College of Michigan Technological University.
And then they went to Lake Superior State College.
So now we're at the Lake Superior State University.
The colors are blue and gold.
So it's not maize and blue like the University of Michigan, but blue and gold.
And their mottoes are Believe in Blue and redefining the classroom.
Oh, that's special.
And their nickname is the Lakers.
Huh.
So the Lake Superior State University Lakers,
I'm sure they've got an excellent team support program,
and their mascot is Seymour the Seeduct and Foghorn the Sailor.
Man, when you see.
Seymour the Seeduct,
it makes you want to see Foghorn the Sailor that much more.
So there you have it with the Lake Superior State University.
So fine, fine, fine, university.
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So if you're an organic food customer, you probably haven't been eating organic food.
Just saying.
I see where a man in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 66-year-old man in St. Paul, Minnesota.
James Clayton Wolf, a corn and a soybean farmer in beautiful Jeffers, Minnesota.
He pleaded guilty to the scheme.
He lost his organic certification back in 2020, but that did change his what they call scam.
He went and purchased rail cars full of grain and then sold them as certified organic,
which they were not.
So because he was getting more money
for the organic soybeans and corn,
he decided, hey, I'll just tell people it's organic
and I'll get more money.
The judge was unhappy.
The judge said, I'm an organic food consumer myself,
and I don't like being a victim of organic grain fraud.
So he and his,
godson and his nephew, I think, were also found because they had signed insurance documents.
They, you know, they got, I don't know, they got like supervised prohibition,
probation and $100 hours of community service because they had signed some insurance documents.
But James got three years.
Now, the government was looking to throw them in jail for five years or prison for five years.
So the judge was pissed, but she wasn't that pissed because she only gave them three years.
so if you've been thinking that oh man that organic grain that i've been using the corn and the
soy yeah uh it's not it wasn't organic at all uh so because james clayton wolf was just buying
regular corn and grain and selling it to the uh organic people now he's been doing this for a long
time and uh there was a consolidation of some company that he
purchased grain from or that he sold I think it was the consolidation of the company that he
purchased the grain from but he would buy train cars of the corn of the soy and then sell
them to a company in Pennsylvania as organic it's not funny I'm glad this man is
behind bars okay
I am so pissed right now that I could have been eating organic corn and soy.
No, let me rephrase that.
I could have been thinking that I was eating organic corn and soy, but I wasn't.
I mean, the horror.
They took a bunch of stuff from his farm, too.
This is where the forfeiture comes into play, right?
So the judge made him, took over some land and some tractors.
and some sports cars that he used
the tainted funds to purchase
after he'd been found guilty,
by the way, not before.
And so the judge
even said in her statement
that she believed
that he would return
from prison and resume farming
because he said in his statement
that he loved farming
and he had sorrow
and that he let the temptations
to gain additional money
overtake his
good judgment. But then the judge
said he's going to resume farming, but he's going to
come back and he's not going to have the new pieces
of land or the tractors. He may have to
go back to selling
tainted. See, the thing is
the corn and the soy weren't tainted.
They just weren't
organic. So
that's all.
I just love the whole idea
of, oh, these
are organic. These are made
with organic corn and grain.
Uh, no, no they weren't.
All right, let's go to the break room.
I need something cold to drink desperately.
So Nigel Lithgow.
I don't know if you know who Nigel is, but he's a Brit who has produced and judged several competition shows in the U.S. and the UK.
Gladiators, American Idol, so you think you can dance.
and he's been a choreography on several other projects,
like, so you think you can dance.
And I'll give him the credit, musical time machine
and one more time.
Love those.
Man, can't get enough of those.
But those, first, those, I mean, Gladiators, American Idol,
and so you think you can dance, were huge shows.
Gladiators was on for, I don't know,
seven or eight years, American Idol.
Isn't that still going?
Anyway, his American Idol was 2002 to 2014.
That's when he was producer.
and so you think you can dance
that's probably still on as well
but his part of it was 2005 to 2014 too
so for many years I mean he was doing both those shows
making a lot of money
Nigel is in trouble
he's got a couple of few
sexual assault allegations going up
against him one of them from
Paula Abdul
okay so Paula just filed
a suit against Dilithgow on Friday
this party you know that was prior to the deadline
of California's sexual abuse
and cover up accountability act.
Now, she wanted to get this in.
She stayed quiet for years,
but she had to say something now, right?
She just had to do it.
And she claims that Litts got assaulted her
during the time that she worked for American Idol
and so you think you could dance.
Now, she didn't say anything
because she was afraid to get fired
and she wanted the job,
which actually did.
did happen. She continued to have her job
for many years and make a
lot of money. Now, Nigel says that not only other claims
false, they are deeply offensive to me and to everything
I stand for. Paul's history
of erratic behavior is well known. I can't
pretend to understand exactly why she would file
a lawsuit that she must know is untrue.
But I can promise I will fight this appalling smear
with everything I have.
Okay. So, we'll see.
You know, he claims now he's going to fight back.
And Paula said, hey, I signed a non-disclosure agreement as part of her employment on both shows.
And that prevented me from publicly disclosing sensitive information.
Not in today's world, Paula.
Look around.
I mean, that hasn't stopped people for years now.
But okay, if you, you know, that's what you say.
No problem.
So, and she was, and she also said that she feared to that he was going to retaliate against her.
And that he would call her.
He called her once and said,
seven years in the statute of limitations had run out.
He wanted to rub it in and taunt her with it.
That's what she said.
I, you know, I'm just saying what Paula reported.
Okay.
Now, she said that the first sexual assault occurred while Abdul and Lishkao were
on board on the road filming auditions for an earlier season of American Idol.
Abdul says Liskow groped her in the elevator of their hotel after a day of
filming and began shoving his tongue
down her throat. She pushed him
away and ran to her hotel
room when the elevator doors
open.
Okay. So she claimed in tears,
I quickly called one of my representatives
to inform them of the assault.
But ultimately decided
not to take action for fear that he would
have fired me from American Idol.
Huh. Interesting. Which she
was on for, I don't know, the first
eight seasons. And then
he was so horrible,
that she decided to work for him again
so you think you can dance.
And that was around that time
that Lithgow forced himself
on top of her
during a dinner at his home
and tried to kiss her.
So let's stop for one moment.
She already is claiming
that she was assaulted once by this guy
in the elevator.
He put his tongue down her throat
and tried to wrap his arms around her
and she had to push him away and run away.
But a few years later,
you know what,
I'll have dinner with you at your home. No problem.
So that's
when he forced himself
on top of her during a dinner at his
home and tried to kiss her.
She said again, I pushed Lithgow
and immediately left.
Uh-huh. And she only
worked for two seasons on that show.
Oh, okay, only two seasons.
All right, no problem.
We'll see. We'll see.
You know, I'm just, some of it sounds
a little fishy. Like, Paula doesn't
need the money, right? She just
doesn't need the money. So there's two other people now that have filed suits against Lithgow.
And this is an assault on Jane Doe, which is Jane Doe KG, and another Jane Doe, K-N.
And they say that they've suffered emotional distress, embarrassment, loss of self-esteem,
and will to continue to incur expenses for medical and psychological treatment,
counseling and or therapy.
Okay,
stop it.
What horrific thing
did Nigel do
to Jane Doe
KG and
Jane Doe KN?
Well, let's take a look,
shall we?
Once at his home,
according to this,
he made sexual advances
to both of them.
He attempted to kiss
Jane Doe KG
pushing her body
close to his
I don't know how they're getting by in life
I just don't know how they're surviving
are you okay
come on now
I just
stop
I know I know I know
if it's true
he's a douchebag
or he's really nice just a douche
he's just the guy looking for a little bit of this
and you said no
so have nothing else happened?
I just, I can't.
I just, I can't.
And then there's the crazy story out of Florida.
I know, surprise.
This is not a Florida man.
This is the Florida woman story.
She is Cynthia Ann Ray.
She was arrested and charged with a count of aggravated stalking
and one count of sending written threats.
Okay, you do not want to,
well, I'm sorry, sending written threats to kill.
So you do.
don't. I know, she's in trouble.
Cynthia's in trouble. Plus, she's crazy.
We've all known Joni-tonies,
and we've all known, you know, fatal attraction-ish women in real life.
Haven't we?
No? That's just me? Oh, okay.
So, anyway, she was all wound up at her ex-boyfriend, all right?
And she said that she was going to kill him and his new girlfriend.
Well, you know, unless they had sex with her and they had a thing.
threesome. Wait, what? Yeah, that's what she said. That's what she said. Now, the boyfriend,
the ex-boyfriend, he claimed that she's been harassing them and, you know, she slashed his tire,
her driver's side tires on a new truck to his current girlfriend's vehicle. And after it,
it was parked outside of his home. And then after he fixed the damage tires, she punctured the
tires a second time and then stayed outside the house while honking her horn.
I mean, I don't know.
It's not funny because it's crazy.
And like I said, we've all had crazy neighbors and crazy, you know,
Joni-Tonies in our life.
He also claimed that she would show up at his house and multiple occasions, just show up.
And he started receiving text telling him that she wanted to kill him and his current girlfriend,
unless, you know, you had a threesome, unless we do a threesome.
And I want to do a threesome with you there.
then I won't kill you.
And he had other messages on his phone
that he showed the police
where Ray continued to say,
that's the last night.
I keep thinking that that's the guy.
Cynthia and Ray.
Cynthia sent him that she was going to kill him
and that she demanded that she wanted to see him.
She didn't care.
She was going to continue to harass him.
So when they showed up to arrest him,
to arrest Cynthia.
She was inside a tent at her mother's property.
So even her mother didn't want to live with her.
I'm just staying in a tent now.
Oh, okay.
So she's in jail now.
And she goes before a judge, I don't know, in two or three weeks.
But you could have that.
You could have that going on.
That's, I mean, holy cow, I don't know what you do other than,
I guess you have to, well, you can't do that either.
So never mind.
Just what a nightmare.
What a nightmare.
And I have been around Joni-Tonies and I have been around crazy neighbors that you can't do anything about because they don't really break the law but they yell and scream and they throw stuff and they drive by the house real slow.
and I could just go, I mean, there was one lady that used to live across from my parents' house in Florida.
And she was whacked out of her mind.
But it didn't start that way.
When she first moved in, she was nice.
And then I forget what happened.
Something broke the court.
Maybe she ran out of meds.
I don't know.
But it was off the deep end then.
And I kept telling my folks, don't let her get to you, but she would get to me.
And it's just, I don't know, you can't do what you're, what you're thinking.
I know what you're thinking and you can't do that.
So it's good that at least this guy in Florida, you know, went through the authorities and got some help because what you're thinking, yeah, you can't do that.
Although it does remind me of, you know, the old joke of, you know, I helped my neighbor bury a rolled up piece of carpet today.
Her boyfriend would have helped her.
but he's out of town.
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Okay. Don't be that person. Don't be that person. Who died today? Who died today? Well, Tom Smothers.
the Smothers brothers.
Yeah, he had a brother. Remember? Dick?
Yes, okay. So Tommy was the older brother and Dick was the younger brother.
Dick actually is still alive. He was the one who announced that his brother Tom had passed away.
Very sad. He had cancer. They were still going to tour. They were doing all kinds of stuff.
And then he got cancer last year, or at least he announced that he had cancer last year.
and he passed away at his home with family and friends around him.
Very sad.
I was just watching a stupid bit from the Smothers Brothers.
He used to, you know, I used to do comedy and music.
And you can't find good, clean entertainment like that anymore.
Right?
I was watching an old Carson segment, and they were on with John.
And so that's why I was watching the Smothers Brothers.
It was not part of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour,
which I don't even, I actually don't know that I actually ever watch the Smothers Brothers
Comedy Hour with my grandfather.
But I do remember, you know, the Smothers Brothers.
Anyway, Tommy Smothers.
I guess they called him Tom.
I'm calling him Tommy.
He is, he's passed away at the age of 86.
Then we have Franco.
Bourne. I think that's how you pronounce her name.
Francois
Borneé. F-R-A-N-C-O-I-S-E-B-R-N-E-E-T.
Francois-B-R-N-E-T-W-R-N-E-T-W-E-V-E-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-W-E.
Wait, who is Franco-Bern-Bernet?
Well, do you remember the photo from Paris?
The Kiss by the Hotel, by the Hotel DeVille.
It was taken back in 1950.
It's a couple kissing.
They were embracing on the street.
It became this huge success in the 80s.
It was taken in 1950 by a photographer Robert Doseno.
And it was with her boyfriend, her and her boyfriend were the ones that were kissing.
And when it became a big deal back in the 80s, a bunch of people stepped up and said,
hey, that's us.
We owe us money.
and Frank Claw was like, no, that's me.
And that's my boyfriend.
And oh, here by the way, is the original photo signed by the photographer.
So why don't you all just shut up and stop lying, okay?
And so she became famous.
She was an actress for many years as well.
And they were just out in the streets.
They were going to school.
They were at an acting school, I think.
And then they were taking pictures
on the photographer said,
hey, here's a couple of bucks.
Why don't you guys,
I love the way you guys look
when you were kissing.
Go ahead and kiss and embrace.
And I'm going to take some shots.
And then, you know, here's a couple of bucks.
And it was virtually just, you know,
nowhere around.
Then someone in a commercial agency
that owned the photos
was going through these old pictures
looking for, you know,
looking for something.
And they found it.
It's one of the big, the classic photos for Paris ever.
And she sold the original copy of the photo, I don't know, back in 2005 for like, I don't know, 150,000 euros or something like that.
Which seems it's nothing.
2005, she put that on the market today.
You're making more than 150,000 euros, I'll tell you that.
And so the whole thing, all the photographer, the boyfriend, her husband, and her all dead now.
but the picture
the photograph
the kiss
by the Hotel Deville
lives on
forever
rest in peace
Francois
okay I want to know how this happens
I want to know how this happens
all right
so a 16 year old boy
mistakenly
boards a frontier airlines
flight from Tampa
thinking he's going to Cleveland,
but ended up in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Okay, so first of all, let's stop there for a moment.
You get on the wrong plane.
I don't know how you get on the wrong plane.
I guess they don't look at your tickets.
The flight attendants aren't doing their jobs.
I don't know.
But you're on the wrong plane.
They say, while you're sitting there,
thank you for Flying Frontier.
We're on our way to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
as a 16 year old, don't you say, hey, I was supposed to be going to Cleveland?
Guess we're not going to Cleveland, huh?
I mean, that's what, don't you say something there at the gate?
I guess not.
So then the flights were boarding, I guess, sequentially at the same gate, which seems
a little strange, but okay.
And he unintentionally boarded the San Juan bound floor, the flight.
So he claims that he asked someone for help and no one checked his
ticket and simply allowed him
to board the wrong flight. Man, do I
find that hard to believe. I don't know how
you do it. I don't know how a buddy did it.
And I find it hard to believe that no
one on these flights are
helping this guy.
So then, so he lands
in San Juan, Puerto Rico
and decides, hey, this is in
Cleveland, I want to go back.
So Frontier flies him back to Tampa
on the same aircraft
and arranged for a flight to
Cleveland the next day. And the
airline obviously extended
sincere apologies to the family
for the error.
Okay.
Children, I think age 15
and older can fly alone,
but I guess Frontier doesn't have a
formal unaccompanied minor
program with escorts,
which is kind of strange because I thought they all did.
Maybe they do only for younger children.
But it says here in the story
that they do not have that program.
I just find that strange. I don't know how it happens.
Really weird.
just me
dealing with the airlines and airports
and travel
that seems like something
that couldn't happen
but
it did
but it did
and I
from the very beginning
the whole thing
I don't know how you get on the plane
and
okay so
we're looking forward
to getting you
to San Juan Puerto Rico
and you say
nothing
I had my headphones
on John. Okay. Somebody asked me what I was listening to and I said chewing the fat and then I just thought
we were going to Cleveland. Okay. All right. No problem. Have fun. But the airline took care of it and he's now in
Cleveland and probably wants to be back in Puerto Rico. Although that probably isn't true either.
That's a tough times when you want to be in Cleveland instead of Puerto Rico.
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So congratulations are in order to Willis Gibson.
Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old, who has become the first player to officially beat the
original Nintendo version of Tetris.
Congratulations.
Oh, actually, he goes by Blue.
scuddy in the gaming world.
And he made it to what gamers call a kill screen, a point where the Tetris code glitches
crashing the game.
That's a pretty big deal, because I didn't think you could do that.
Honestly, I didn't think anybody could ever do that.
And even many people in the gaming industry didn't think you could do that because
they even talk about how for years they were stuck in the 20s and the 30s levels because
they did no techniques to get any further.
Level 29 posed, I guess, this big roadblock.
I never reached 29.
The game controller couldn't respond.
The blocks would fall too fast.
You couldn't respond fast enough.
So then players found ways that they could reach level 30 using a technique called
hyper-tapping.
You could use that for many meanings, but what they're talking about is the game.
So during the game, they hyper-tapped, and the player would rhythmically vibrate their fingers to move the game controller faster than the game's built-in speed.
And that technique took players to levels 35 and beyond.
And that, I'd only happen, I don't know, five or six years ago, something like that.
I remember reading about that.
I don't necessarily remember that it was called hyper-tapping.
But, okay, if you want to hyper-tap, so you can rhythmically vibrate your fingers.
So the controller moves faster.
I'm all about it.
It's fine with me.
So then they found out that the gamer started using a multi-finger technique.
Just stop.
Don't even, why are you looking at me like that?
Don't.
I'm just telling you what they call it.
So this multi-finger technique, this is not hyper-tapping.
This micro or multi-finger technique originally used on arcade games.
and they call it rolling,
and it's a much speedier approach.
And that helped one player reach level 95 a couple years ago.
But he still stopped, right?
They couldn't get to it.
So then we've got Willis,
my man Willis, who is using hypertapping,
finally hit the level and it reached the kill screen
on level 157, 157.
157.
So congratulations to, oh, I'm sorry.
It's not.
Man, I keep calling the kid his real name.
Willis Gibson, that's not his name.
He goes by Blue Scuddy.
Okay.
So Blue Scuddy defeated Tetris on level 157 where it just glitched out and crashed.
So congratulations.
If you think it can't be done, you're wrong.
But you're not going to get there simply.
You're not going to get there by hypertapping.
It will help you get there if you hypertapping.
But then you need to move to the multi-finger technique, which, who isn't a fan of the multi-finger technique?
So I was shown this website the other day, and I can't stop looking at it now.
And I can't go on around the country.
It's called hoodmaps.com, h-o-o-d-m-a-ps.com.
So if you want to have a little fun, you know, for, I don't know, a little bit of time, you can go to hoodmaps.com and type in your city.
And then it has, they have, you know, they give you what's happening around your city.
Like I typed in Dallas and it has overpriced condos from Compton to Portlandia, super sketch, danger zone, no-no zone, to be gentrified in 25 years.
I pay Dallas taxes way outside of Dallas.
white liberals
more white liberals
it's really funny
it's a bail bond boulevard
and it'll take you around the cities
and let you know
where the hoods are
a little Mexico
no one goes here
really funny so you can go to hoodmaps
dot com and then type in your city
and you can find out you know
where the super sketch
and the danger zone
no no zones are
And especially, I mean, if you're in any kind of trouble, you want to know where Bail Bond Boulevard is, don't you?
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