Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - That's Not a Decoration?... | 10/18/23
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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.
How does this happen in today's world?
A female middle school teacher in West Virginia,
Cassandra Sizzler, crazy-looking white woman,
was arrested and taken into custody.
She's been charged with four counts of child abuse
in connection with incidents that took place in her classroom.
She was arrested for abusing one male student on more than one occasion.
She allegedly used duct tape to cover his mouth, bind his hands, and wrap tape around his head during class.
That's not funny.
That's not funny at all.
This is serious charges and serious incident that took place in her classroom.
Central Preston Middle School in Kingswood, West Virginia, which is beautiful this time of year.
But in today's world, how do you think that duct taping a kid, his hands, his mouth, and his head,
and you're going to get away with the, come here.
Bobby, I am not telling you again, when we're in the middle of class, come here.
Get this duct tape out right now.
Wrap around your stupid mouth.
I can't even undo.
That's hard.
It's a roll a duct tape I have my hands.
Well, this isn't duct tape.
This is guerrilla tape.
She was using duct tape.
She was using gorilla tape.
Oh, my gosh.
You can't.
I think that's not going to do with me.
I mean, how does that happen?
How?
How does that happen in today's world?
You have anything to say, Billy?
I just want to say, okay?
No.
All right, everybody raise your hand.
Except for you, Billy.
You know, you're the kid.
I duct taped your arms down.
I just really want to go home and say,
I mean, I guess if you're a parent,
if your kid comes home and says,
you know, the teacher duct taped my head
and my hands and my mouth shut today in class.
Do you believe your kid?
I mean, I have to.
The first time around, no.
The second day, the first day you go,
okay, Billy, shut up.
The second day, Billy comes home and says it again.
He goes, Billy, come on now.
The teacher's not duct taping you.
It's not happening.
And then the third day, you're like, okay, now you've got to investigate.
And you go, stop in to, hey, Ms. Sizzler, what's happening?
Yeah, this is Billy's dad.
I was just wondering, he keeps coming home and telling me that he's been duct taped to the chair
with his hand bound and his duct tape over his mouth and his head.
Is that happening?
Yes, your son is a menace to class.
I mean, in today's world, how does that even happen?
Come on now.
Holy cow.
It's amazing times we live in.
It is amazing times we live in.
Welcome to chewing the fat.
This is a second.
Welcome.
Welcome to chewing the fat.
And to get that tape off.
More recalls.
Federal health officials report a lot of
line of frozen burrito products sold in Kansas are being recalled for a food-borne disease.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service said Don Miguel Foods of Texas
is recalling more than 10,000 pounds of frozen, ready-to-eat carne asada burrito products.
The burritos may contain Listeria monocytogens.
The FSIS said the burritos were made on September 27, 2023.
They come in a 7 ounce individual wax paper packages,
and they have a date code on them.
And they have an establishment number on them.
And they were shipped to retail store locations across the country.
So not just Kansas, across the country.
So Don Miguel Foods discovered the issue during laboratory testing.
Oh, that's good.
So they're taking care of it themselves.
the FSIS said no reports of injury or illness have been made yet
because most people went, wow, a burrito did some damage to me
and then they moved down with their life.
But no, you shouldn't have done that.
The burrito should not have caused that to happen with you.
So just remember that eating food contaminated with Listeria monocinogens
can lead to Listerosis, nobody wants that,
which can cause serious infection, can cause harm to older adults,
those with weak immune systems along with pregnant women newborns
again you don't want any of that
and cause fever muscle aches headache
stiff neck confusion loss of balance
convulsions along with gastrointestinal issues
yeah that was the burrito
it wasn't just a rig okay
all right that's regular
that's nothing wrong it's not Listerosis
with the mono
psilidogens now
oh right enough seriously
it's not funny this is a
thing, the recall from the burritos.
So if you purchase them, you can
return them
or you can throw them
away. I would say
if you think you actually
purchase these, just go back into the store
and say, hey, I purchased some
Don Miguel burritos and
I got a real issue
for a couple days and I need to have my money back or
some new burritos would be nice.
What are they going to do? Say no.
The way.
We have another plane with poo on the plane.
That's going to be a movie.
And I'm not talking about Winnie the poo on a plane.
I'm talking about human poo on a plane.
That's going to poo on a plane.
There was doo-do feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad.
So, an easy jet flight from the Spanish island, Tenorife.
I love the Spanish Island, Tenorife, man.
You get that this time.
a year? Beautiful. To London, Gatwick, had been delayed for several hours, so it's already
been delayed. And so then they ran into more problems, so they had to switch to another plane.
And there was a smaller plane, and customers were already a little wound up from having to go
to the smaller plane. But they got on, according to one passenger who reported the issue.
And it took more than an hour to get onto the smaller plane. The bags offloaded, and the aircraft
kept being overweight.
So apparently there were some fat people
on the plane and then we were moving to a
smaller plane so it's like, okay, if either
the fat people go or the luggage goes,
either one. And so
I guess someone thought, hey,
I guess
I need to lose some weight on
this plane. So I'll go into the
bathroom and
I will poo
in the bathroom.
And it was just on the floor.
And apparently then the
unpleasant smell followed
the people on the plane
believe that it was an accident
they said they saw two passengers visit the front of the
bathroom so they got a pretty good idea
of who it was
and it was just an uncomfortable
experience and
it was an unsanitary state
so they had to get external
cleaners out from the airport to clean it
so that's when they decided
Okay, we're done.
We're not, the flight's over.
Have a nice day.
Take care.
So they made everybody get off again,
and they sent everybody to a hotel,
which was, I don't know,
45 minutes away from the airport.
And then they scheduled another flight the next day.
And I guess apparently the next day's flight was fine.
Now, EasyJet said that, yeah,
hey, flights were delayed initially due to safety reasons.
Yeah.
Yeah, we moved them to a smaller plate,
and then somebody decided to poo in the bathroom on a plane?
There was due to a feces thrown all over the walls, the floor,
the ceiling in a stunk so bad.
It did say that.
There was an unpleasant odor.
I don't know if I'm happy or sad that something like this never happened to me while I was flying.
I haven't flown in a long time.
I've had issues with the airlines.
No question about that.
but never over.
I mean, we've had the diaper.
They thought it was a bomb, right?
Nobody looked, nobody went,
I think that's just a diaper.
Nobody looked in the bathroom and said,
I think that's,
I think it's just a diaper.
I mean, they rerouted the flight back to Panama.
And now we have someone using the bathroom on an airplane
and not using the toilet.
I mean, come on now.
Come on.
Stop it.
I couldn't. It was an accident.
No, I don't believe that. I don't.
Okay, then we go from, you know, poo on a plane to a grubhub driver who went to pick up food at this restaurant, this Mexican restaurant.
And the owner of the restaurant came outside, and the driver who had already picked up the food was feeding himself with the food that was to be delivered to the customer.
and he had his mouth,
the food was falling out into the container
and the restaurant
called the person
who had ordered the food
and said,
yeah,
you might even not want to eat that.
It was an issue.
So I guess it arrived.
He delivered the food.
It wasn't like he didn't deliver some of it anyway.
He did deliver some of the food
after he got done eating it.
And it was already repackaged
like no one ate it.
So if you're getting food from, you know, delivery service
and it doesn't look like it's the full order,
that's maybe because the driver is eaten.
So good luck.
I hope that works out for you.
I would be so angry.
But on the other hand, if I'm a delivery driver,
it'd be tough to be tough not to.
Right?
If somebody orders a fresh order of fries,
and maybe a cheeseburger.
Let me eat.
Right.
And you just, you know,
you take yourself a couple of fries.
I mean, that's not going to hurt anybody, right?
Right.
All right, let's go to the break room.
And it's just a couple of fries.
Let me alone.
And I will say the picture that they have of the guy
out in front of the restaurant
shoveling down the food.
He looks like he has done it before.
He wasn't starving.
He was not starving.
This was extra eating on his part.
So just if a person of a grubhub delivery driver shows up at your house
and he looks like, I don't know, me,
I would be concerned that he's eating some of your food.
Again, that's just a helpful hint from chewing the fat.
All right, let's go to the break room.
I need something cold to drink desperately.
I mean, if the drink is right here,
I might as well just take a sit.
You can follow me on Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio.
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You can follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR.
I see where it was reported today that X, formerly known as Twitter,
will begin charging new users $1 a year.
to access key features,
including the ability to tweet and retweet.
That's, yeah, I mean,
now, that's new users.
So I don't know, I don't know really what that means.
I haven't seen the full report.
You know, Elon's trying to make some money.
It's time for me.
I think I'm going to have to start charging Elon.
All right, I'm going to have to charge.
I'm sorry, but he's charging me.
And you're going to charge him for the blue check.
And now I'm asking you to follow me on X.
and if you're a new user,
you're going to have to pay for tires.
Sharia, we'll get to the new car,
but you're going to want to drive that thing, right?
So you might as well pay for the tires, too.
And that's what's happening.
So you'd be able to look at Twitter, I guess.
I'm sorry, X, I guess.
I mean, that's what we decided, right?
It's X, you're posting,
I don't know, you're posting on X,
but you're still tweeting at, you know,
and whatever.
But I don't know what's going to happen with X,
but we give them,
and I just we,
the media in general
shows in general
give X
millions of dollars of
advertising free of charge
that
I don't know how you quantify it
but we have to because we're going to have
to start billing Elon and so
you're going to charge us
or you know what we're going to charge you as well
just
but hey follow me at Jeffie JFR
on X okay and be sure
to email me chewing the fat
at the blaze.com.
You know, we talked yesterday
about how, how many times,
was it yesterday or the day before,
how many times people shower in a week?
And, you know, most importantly,
when you shower, you want to be clean.
Whether it's once a week, twice a week,
three times a week, once a day, twice a day,
how many ever times you shower?
Whatever you like, you do you, boo,
but make sure you're clean, okay?
And by being clean, I mean use goat soap, okay?
You can use that store-bought soap,
and it may get you kind of clean,
but it's going to dry out your skin,
then you're going to have to go back to the store
and keep buying more products, more lotions.
Guess what?
That stuff is made from the same company.
It's almost as if they're doing it on purpose, isn't it?
It is almost as if they're doing it on purpose.
But soap doesn't make your skin dry,
and doesn't leave you feeling like,
oh, I just need more
when it's made the right way.
And that is with goat's milk.
That's where my man, Quinn Pittman,
has discovered goat soap is numeral uno.
He first started learning about soap.
He was making it the right way ever since.
He was using it at nine years old.
He realized, hey, I can make soap with this.
And it realized how good it was.
So if you want to be,
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The one thing I haven't tried that in Quinn's goat soap extravaganza is the laundry soap.
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Now, when you think of soft, luxurious skin, you think of Britney Spears, don't you?
Oh, you know, no, that was just me?
Oh, okay.
Yesterday, it was some excerpts from her upcoming memoir was released, The Woman and Me,
revealing that the pop star had an abortion during her relationship with Justin Timberlake.
Wow.
In the book, Spears said if the decision had been left only to her,
She never would have done it.
Spears and Timberlake began dating in 99 when she was 17 and he was 18.
They split in 2002.
Spears added the pregnancy was a surprise, but not a tragedy.
She said that Timberlake definitely wasn't happy about the pregnancy and that he was so sure he didn't want to be a father.
Now Timberlake has not commented on this portion of her book, The Woman in Meals.
But that's a pretty big reveal for Britt.
Because she has her kids and she's still upset about having an abortion that long ago.
Wow. Pretty incredible.
You know, we talked when they first launched it because everybody and everything has to have a podcast now.
The CIA had their new podcast, The Langley Files.
And I guess during the podcast, and I apologize, I haven't listened to every episode of The Langley Files.
they admitted to backing the Iranian coup in 1953.
Huh.
Huh.
It's another reason for people to look upon the United States with a frown from Iran.
And it's just interesting that that would be admitted to now from the Langley files.
Huh.
That's all.
That's just an interesting little thing.
To me.
That's all.
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Xbox and Activision or Activision and PlayStation or whatever the deal was there,
that's all done.
That's a done deal now.
They're one big happy family.
Everybody made their billions and were one big happy family.
well now we find out
not only does Netflix want to raise your prices
once the actor's strike is over
not only do they want to have the Netflix houses
brick and mortar places for you to go
around the country
and the world to promote their shows
they also now
are getting into the video game market
Netflix so the plan has been in the work for years
but the streaming content platform
announced that
the new gaming service
is coming to the United States
in a beta testing format
subscribers in the UK and Canada
already have access
and the game's
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and mole Hughes mining
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man I mean
you want to have some fun
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that will be fun
is that like mine is that the Netflix version
of Minecraft I mean honestly I don't
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I could come up with some ideas
of what would be oxen free but I bet
it's different than what the game actually is
but be ready
for Netflix and be ready to play
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oxen free and have little Joey
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all right oh it's mining adventure
It's mining adventure, you dumb little.
Okay.
So be ready for that.
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Who died today?
Who died today?
Robert Owens.
Robert Owens of North Carolina dead at the age of 34.
Now, I know.
No, don't look at me like that.
We don't know how he died, but we don't know that either.
we just know
that he was found
and
along the side of a driveway
at a house in North Carolina
and they thought he was part of a Halloween display
I know how that you think to yourself
oh my gosh how could that happen
but he's just lying there
he was found
of an abandoned home
so abandoned homes don't have a Halloween decorations
So they said that they discovered the body had been ignored
Because there was a guy that showed up and mowed the lawn
And he just mowed around him
I mean that's what you do as a yard guy
Whatever
That's a Halloween decoration
I'm mowing the lawn I'm moving on
I mean at least like he's the San Francisco guy
Mowed over the dead bodies
Here this guy at least goes around them
So they I don't know how they could do that
sister to my man.
I don't know how they could do that.
Well, he's laying there.
Just demote around him. It was really easy.
And I don't know how you could assume it was a Halloween decoration.
That's a good question.
I do have a question on that.
So anyway, he had very few clothes on.
He was eventually found by, you know, construction worker.
I guess somebody said, hey, isn't that a body?
And so he had cuts and scrapes on his arms like defensive wounds.
It's a complete mystery how he.
ended up at the abandoned home on shoe road. Okay. My grandmother's lived off a shoe road for 40 plus
years, but he's never been to this house. Never known of this house to go far off the road. He's
never been back here. He's never been known to come here. That's the sister speaking. Okay. That's
the sister speaking. Now, just let me say this to you. Did he have, did Robert, I know you love him
and he's your brother.
But did Robert have a drug problem?
Well, he's been known.
He's been known to take drugs.
Oh!
Okay.
I bet he's taking more than that.
He's firing up more than a ball.
Okay.
When you hear the lighter,
that's for that crack bite.
I'm not saying Robert did that.
I'm just, I'm guessing.
I'm guessing.
Now, police have now.
Police have not ruled his death of homicide.
Huh.
The investigation is ongoing.
Now they're going to have an autopsy, obviously,
and they'll have more information.
So it's possible that he wasn't murdered at all.
And he just OD'd in the front yard of this house,
and it took a while for people to realize
that it was an actual dead body.
I will say it does seem to turn the yard guy,
probably, you know, Jose or Hoseby,
mowing the lawn. I don't want to judge.
But they just, I'm not, they're not saying anything.
They got work to do. I got to get this yard done.
And you know what? It looks like a Halloween decoration.
I'm mowing around it. I'm moving on with my life, man.
So don't bog me down. I got yards to get to.
I guarantee you that's what's happening.
So Robert Owens, the 34 of North Carolina, rest in peace.
You know, I was thinking about the lady in San Francisco.
They got run over by the John Deer.
and come to think of it is a little bit different
than my man Robert Owens in North Carolina
because Robert,
we don't know this though
now that I come to think of it.
Robert may have been dead
when the long guy mowed around him.
He may not have been.
The long guys went around him
and said, cute Halloween direction and moved on.
But the lady in San Francisco,
she was homeless,
sleeping in the tall grass
and wasn't dead
until the John Deereux.
year rolled over.
I still can't get over that the parents
went back to see where she was run over by the lawnmower.
I don't have the story in front of me,
but I remember the parents going back
to the park where she was run over by the lawn.
It's got to be horrific, and I'm sorry that it happened, okay?
I am.
But as they're in the park, they're like,
isn't that her hand?
They found parts of her still in the
Still in the park.
Horrible.
Horrible.
It's not funny.
I'm not laughing at that at all.
Horrific.
Horific.
And I'm very,
very sad.
Okay.
All right.
Can we stop with this?
Now we're getting news
that prosecutors in New Mexico
are looking to refile
involuntary manslaughter charges
against Alec Baldwin.
It does bring back the gunshots, though.
are the rules of the show.
When talking about this case,
the rust shooting.
Very sad.
You know,
human died. Other human
got shot. Helena Hutchins
died and,
you know, what's his face?
You know, Joe Sousa
got shot.
So it's very sad. However,
they dropped the charges
against Alec.
In April's over. It's done.
The other people have worked out
deals. I think we still have some ongoing
trials of some of the other dangleberries
but they're not going to
look, you're not going to put Alec
in jail.
No wait, that's, no, Alec.
Okay, so the rules are,
the rules are, if I
say
the gun cocky goes off when I say
the first name, the gun shot goes off
if I say the full name. If I
say Mr. Baldwin, nothing
happens is good.
Those are the rules of the show. That's what happened
when this case first came to light.
That's what we decided.
And we decided that it can't go away
with our very accurate poll
on email.
So, no,
when I said
whatever it was wrong,
whatever you did there was wrong.
I don't know what it was,
but I know it was wrong.
So they're going to recharge,
it's what they're reporting,
they're going to refile charges
of involuntary manslaughter
against Alex
Baldwin.
just amazing
I cannot believe that this is going to happen
so they believe that they
with this second analysis of the gun
that there's no way
he could not have pulled the trigger
all right it's not the same gun
remember we talked about it
when they dropped the original charges
the analysis from experts
in ballistics and forensic testing
based in Arizona and New Mexico
relied on replacement parts
to reassemble the gun
fired by Mr. Baldwin.
No, that's...
After parts of the pistol
were broken during earlier testing
by the FBI.
So it's a different gun.
It's got different parts.
You can't...
Oh my gosh.
I mean, do I want...
Do I want Alec?
to go to jail
I mean I wouldn't mind it
it be fun to see
but no
I don't think he deserves to go to jail for this
I really don't and I think this is just silly
I don't know why we're keep dragging this guy
this case up but it's just to get
press I know and I'm sorry
that Helena's dead I'm sorry
Joel got shot I'm sorry the whole
nightmare of the rust
set happened
but it's long
gone now and to
according to this,
Rust movie productions has paid
$157,000
in fines to the state workplace safety regulators
following a scathing narrative
of safety failures in violation of standard
industry protocols, including testimony
that production managers took limited
to no action to address two misfires on the set
before the fatal shooting.
Yeah, they were all getting high
and partying and drinking and have a great time.
And those people are getting charged and need to be charged.
But what happened with Alec Baldwin was a mistake, an accident.
And to hold him accountable for an accident just doesn't seem right.
Although, again, would I like to see him take the perp walk into jail and or prison?
Yeah, kind of.
Kind of.
Bye, Alec.
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Okay, we've got Major League Baseball playoffs going on.
We have WNBA playoffs going on.
We have NFL being played.
We have soccer.
Well, we do have soccer.
played but that's over there.
We have some soccer here too
that's going on and we have
college football. A very little
soccer excitement
from me, although I love the sport.
I just haven't followed
it lately because it's
football season and
that's what I care about is the football
season. But I just
got news that the U.S.
Summer Olympics team
which is going to happen in 2028.
So we still have the Bedbug
Olympics in France happening in
2024 next year. But in
2008, we host the Olympics.
And the International Olympic Committee
has officially now
greenlit cricket,
flag football,
baseball slash softball, lacrosse,
and squash for the
28th summer games in Los Angeles.
It's the first for flag football,
or squash, and a return for cricket and lacrosse,
which had a short-lived Olympic debut,
and of course you remember this 100 years ago.
There's no guarantee that these sports will stick around after 2028.
So, I mean, they've already,
they've made surfing, I think, is permanent now
that they just put in, I don't know, a couple Olympics ago or so.
The addition to cricket, they're happy in India
because the Olympic broadcasting rights,
they're saying,
you know, now that we've got cricket,
we can charge a lot more money.
Oh, okay.
How much more?
At least a couple hundred million more.
Oh, okay.
Love cricket.
Man, do we love cricket?
So according to this,
it remains the second most popular sport in the world.
Cricket!
I don't know that I knew that.
But, I mean, India is the most populated country in the world,
and that's where it's the biggest sport.
So, okay.
And they want, of course, they want people in North America to love it.
And the NFL, you saw the commercials.
If you watch NFL on Sundays or Mondays or Thursdays,
you see the NFL promoting flag football.
And there, you know, the Olympic organizers are happy that the NFL is behind the flag football movement.
They want the flag football growth.
I mean, some of the new rules in NFL are making the,
and really college, too.
but I mean it's not unwatchable yet, but it's close, man.
It is really close.
And we'll see if Major League Baseball allows the players to play in the Olympics
because then that would make us the gold medal team.
Clearly, we're not losing that.
Karate was introduced in Tokyo in 2020.
Yeah, we're not putting that back in.
We had enough.
I take your little yellow belt and your little gray belt and your little black belt.
head, get out of here.
And the one thing
that you'll be happy about is
skateboarding stays.
So, congratulations.
That came to light in Tokyo
and everybody loves it. So, 2028
skateboarding.
Skateboarding
will be included.
So the 28 Olympic Games
can't come fast enough,
can they?
But hey, let's get through those bedbug games in France.
first. And I'm not kidding about
those bed bug games. We need quarantine
issues going on from France
for this 2024 thing.
I don't want bedbugs. They're already.
We're already hearing about them coming to America
and coming to other countries.
How about no?
You're going to all Olympic athletes go to
France. Fine. Good luck.
Hope you win. Want to see you up on one of
the podiums. Gold medal hopefully
but silver or bronze, whatever it is.
Happy about it. But you're not
new. Would you
you're coming back, you're going to stay over there for about, well, at least three or four days.
And we're going to hose you down and hose all your stuff down.
And you're going to be in a mayonnaise jar sealed on Funkin-Wagnall's porch until we decide that you don't have any bedbugs on you.
And then we're going to let you back in the country.
So how do you know if a company wants you gone or not?
Okay, that's the question.
How do you know if they want you gone, but they don't know how to fire you?
well, they have to find something to fire you over, right?
So they did that.
Citibank did that with this guy.
And they fired him because he had expensed his partner's meals to the company
and then claimed,
ah, they were for me.
They were for me.
And so now they just won a lawsuit.
Citibank won this lawsuit because he sued them for wrongful,
well, wrongful termination,
but that's not what they fired him.
I mean, he sued them for that.
He sued them saying, yeah, I was wrongfully and unfairly dismissed by Citibank.
And so now the court documents were just made public,
and they wanted him gone,
because they kept calling him back over this one trip.
He took a business trip to Amsterdam,
and then he told a colleague he was taking his partner on a three-night trip,
and upon returning from abroad, he signed off for six weeks on medical leave.
So they didn't want that.
They were pissed about that, I'm sure.
They obviously don't say that.
But he claimed in court, yeah, I was struggling with the loss of my grandmother, and it was a significant loss.
And when the director said, hey, your expense report appeared to show meals for two people,
what colleague ate with you on this trip?
Well, no colleagues.
I ordered all the food for me.
I ordered food for two.
And I ordered two coffees.
They were real small coffees.
I mean,
City's expense policy clearly states
spousal travel and meals are not reimbursable
and that any employee attendees,
the company,
has been asked to pay for a must be named.
Oh, okay.
So they had to have liked this.
So then he responded with that, and it said they queried him again.
They came after him again.
Then he had a Zoom meeting with the bosses.
They called him in over Zoom and said, hey, why are two meals being charged to the company on these occasions?
Oh, don't worry about it.
I'm fine.
I ate for two.
Yeah, no, no, no, no.
Sorry about it.
So they let him go.
And he sued them back and he lost.
City Bank won this case
And I would say
I'm on his side kind of
And I get it
Stealing from the company
He was breaking the rules
I know
I know
But
I would be willing to bet
Looking
If you were to go into city group
And start digging into
Company dinners
And expense reports
that many expense reports are incorrect
or with added drinks
or I got that, let me get that.
So I'm sure that this was specific to him
because they wanted him gone.
And the only way they could get him gone
was breaking the actual rules,
which he did.
He did break the rules.
But I find that those are one of the rules
that I'm sure are laxed,
for some employees
and not so laxed
for guys like this guy.
All right, I'll leave you with some
writing advice.
All right.
And I just, I saw this
last night and I thought, man, this is a
good, this is a helpful hint right here.
And this is what this shows about.
Chewing the fat, helping.
A colon
can completely change the meaning
of a sentence.
For example,
Jane ate her friend,
friends sandwich.
Jane ate her
friend's colon. See how it changed
the complete meaning of the
you get it.
You get it. I know you do.
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