Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - You Lost What?... | 5/2/23

Episode Date: May 2, 2023

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Love them, the NFU Yeah, that's right, NFU Also warns of fruit and vegetable shortages That's not a good thing They're facing a chicken crisis and potentially even more fruit and vegetable shortages due to a prolonged cold weather. Oh, wait, what? Yeah. Well, rising costs are pushing poultry farms to the brink, as many owners are now having to decide between cutting the size of their flocks or not continuing all together.

Without a fair price for the product, British poultry is at a breaking point. the drive to keep food affordable under exceptional market conditions where the cost of production is not being returned through the marketplace is rendering poultry meat business unviable. That is not good. Of course, of course, like the British Poultry Council says access to safe, affordable, nutritious food is always necessary. Not just in the face of a cost of living crisis, but the focus on keeping prices low in this climate is. understandable. Good luck. I don't know what you're going to do about it.

So no chicken, no vegetables. Now the vegetables, a lot of vegetables come from Spain, and I guess temperatures are really hot in Spain. So that's affected the vegetables. Temperatures have been cold in the UK, so the plants got off to a late start. So things are coming together at the perfect time. so we still have significant cost increases energy labor supply chain feed packaging transport and an ongoing

Brexit issues and avian influenza challenges so good luck to the UK for being able to have chickens without chickens you don't have eggs and without good weather you don't have vegetables and fruit I mean, some shoppers at some stores, remember we talked about this, you only were able to buy three packs of each tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, lettuce, salad bags, broccoli, cauliflower, and raspberries, because supplies were running empty at a number of outlets. So they were putting limits on different products for you to purchase. So good times, good times in the UK. And I fear that it could be coming across the pond.

Welcome! Welcome to Chewing the Fass. Sad news for Utah, the porn site Pornhub, of course it's in the name, has blocked Utah residents from accessing the site. So if you're in Utah, sorry about it. You're going to have to maybe change your VPN. So the Pornhub doesn't know where your IP address is. Just saying, apparently Senate Bill 287, which unanimously passed. the Utah legislature this year, requires websites that post adult content to require age verification

and establishes penalties for websites that do not comply. The law goes into effect today. So, viewers received a notice that read 403. This state is not whitelisted when attempting to, you know, log into the site. And then it later gave a longer explanation saying, as you may know, Your elected officials have required us to verify your age before granting you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users. And in fact, we'll put children and your privacy at risk. However, the best and most effective solution for protecting children and adults alike is to identify users by their device

and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that. identification. Until a real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in your region. Please contact your representatives before it is too late. I think it's too late. It went into effect today. So Utah, sorry about it. No porn hub. I know. Well, no porn hub if you use your Utahan IP address. I mean, some would say that porn. have just made it a little harder. You can quote me on that. We've all taken taxi cabs and limousines

and we've taken the buses that take you to the airport. But have you left anything in those particular vehicles? Because we've all taken Uber. And I can say that I have never left anything in an Uber. But apparently a whole bunch of people have. There's a full list of Uber lost and found from last year, holy cow. The ten most commonly forgotten items, clothing, phones,

backpacks and purses, wallace, headphones, jewelry, keys, books, laptops, and watches. The ten most forgetful cities, Jacksonville, Florida, San Antonio, Palm Springs, California, Houston, Salt Lake City, Miami, Atlanta, Indianapolis, Kansas City, and St. Louis. Wow. The 50 most unique lost items. A Danny DeVito Christmas ornament. My dog is in the car, a toy poodle. A blue cap that says, I love the smell of jet fuel in the morning.

Nice fog machine. A fog machine. Some bowling rags. Ankle monitor. Yeah, well, you've got to cut the ankle monitor off. You might as well just leave it in the Uber. A unicycle. 16 ounces of fake blood.

Okay. It was going to a Halloween party. Forgot the blood. A printer and a remote controlled vibrator. Oh, man. That is a shhound. A pin with Jesus holding slice of pizza. Small camping stove at my funeral pamphlets.

Oh, man. Cat collar. My calculator. Small stone carved whales. Boy, I bet you those are worth a lot. Sentimental green pin. Oh, no. A Statue of Liberty green foam crown.

Oh, no. A lightsaber. Ooh, that's nice. A mannequin wighead. Love those. Oh my gosh. Britney Spears' fantasy perfume. Oh man, I bet you they're bummed about that.

A fire swore. Two painted rat traps. Or people forgot a bidet in the back of an Uber? Come on now. No, I don't believe it. Weight loss surgery guide. Horns in a Viking helmet. My friend's fake tooth.

That means they turned it in. Right? I mean, they had to have. I just find it fascinating that people are leaving all this stuff. In their Ubers? Wow. I see where riders around the world left unique items as well. Canadians reported losing everything from a bed sheet to an apple pen to a bathroom shelf.

Riders in Taiwan left behind a gift box that looks like egg yolk, a black belt, a blood pressure machine. Londoners lost some pesto, a plastic Halloween sword, ankle splints, and a jet. washer. Come on now. Brazilians left behind three packages of chicken, Nike sneakers and a computer mouse. The most forgetful days and times? This might be

helpful, though. In the U.S., some of the most forgetful days of the week are Saturday and Sunday. Oh, boy. People are most likely to forget chargers on Mondays. Keys on Tuesday. wallets on Wednesdays,

cash on Thursdays, watches and or jewelry on Fridays, passports on Saturdays, and groceries on Sundays. So listen, if you're taking an Uber and you forget something in the Uber, they tell you what to do.

The best way to retrieve a lost item is to call the driver. But if you leave your phone itself in the Uber, you can log in, tap the menu icon to open the main menu, you select your trips and then the trip on which you lost the item, and then tap find lost item, and then contact the driver about the lost item.

And you, you know, you enter your phone number and the driver will call you. If the driver picks up and confirms that your item has been found, coordinate a mutually convenient time and place to meet and return it to you. If your driver doesn't pick up, oh boy, leave a detailed voicemail describing your item and the best way to contact you. Good luck if your driver doesn't pick up. You're not getting it back. And remember to be consider.

it. The driver's schedule will be affected by taking time to return your item to you. Maybe you could, you know, leave me a little bit of tip, say, hey, thank you. Appreciate it. Appreciate you not taking it. Appreciate you keeping an eye on it for me. I really needed that fog machine. I really needed that Danny DeVito Christmas ornament. I'd like to see that actually. I don't know why. I just want to see the Danny DeVito Christmas ornament. And I really need my bowling rags. Okay. I am going, I'm hitting doing a little kegling this afternoon, and I needed my bowling rags. So now I don't have my bowling rags,

and I'm not happy. Somebody left pet turtles, too. Oh, no. Oh, cuff and link. We're left in the back of Uber? Oh, no. Lotion and chicken wings. Oh, you go ahead and write your own jokes with that.

And then they have, like, trends of things that were lost, from bags of weed to pre-rolls, from medicinal and recreational. We've seen a high increase in forgotten ganja goods. So do you get those returned? Does the driver keep them? Does he pretend like he didn't see him?

I mean, if you're leaving bag in my Uber, if you're leaving pot in my Uber, I didn't see it. Sorry, man, I looked all over. I looked under the seats and everything. Somebody else must have picked it up. Sorry. People were leaving their Nintendo switches in.

That's the number one lost gaming. device this year. More than 70 switch devices lost. Wow, that sucks. I'd be pissed if I left my switch there. False dentures and teeth continue to be the biggest bite out. Oh man. No, you forget your teeth in the back of an Uber? Holy cow. No, no thank you. Passengers also lost, and I say lost, left behind. Underwear, condoms, and the some sex toys, and we did talk about some sex toys earlier as well. And people are leaving their animals behind, too? Leave your

animal behind in an Uber. You must want to. You just don't have the guts to take it to a shelter or drive it out in the country and leave it. You just don't have the guts for that. I'll just leave it in the back of an Uber and hopefully nobody will notice. Come on now.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So there was no 11th hour deal to stave off the Hollywood shakeup. So the writer's strike is on. The members are going on strike. They failed to reach new compensation deal with TV and film producers. For the first time in 15 years, Hollywood writers are going on strike.

The labor union representing about 11,000 TV and film writers have been trying to flip the script on their working conditions amid new contract, negotiations since Tinsletown entered into this streaming era. Writers say that they had to work longer hours, lower wages. They called on the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, the AMP tip, the AMPTP, which represents Amazon, Apple, and Disney to boost the pay and grant protections from AI rewrites comes as the media and tech companies that help produce shows have seen their stocks drop leading to cost cuts and layoffs. Last night, both sides failed to reach that deal.

And sorry about it. We're going on strike. Now, I will say this, that it appears I saw some writers talking about there was no, there was no deal because they said, hey, this is what we want. And nothing was ever coming. Nobody came back with anything saying, well, okay, we'll give you this, but you can't have this. There was no negotiating. There was just them saying, we're not going to give you anything.

Or we're not going to talk to you about it. Oh, and I don't know that. I just have seen some writers saying that. So the strike could take, you know, who knows? Weeks, months? We could be missing shows left and right. Or we could just, they will say that, hey, we're going to use AI to write these shows. And then it's up to us to make a big difference, right?

So you're going to end up getting some streaming platforms, writing shows with AI. And then you're going to get some streaming platforms that will make a deal and say, we only are going to work with humans. You go ahead and write our shows. We'll see. I mean, there's going to be a whole bunch of shows not airing. Other shows just airing repeats or not airing at all. They've got a lot of shows and they can.

We'll see if that does anything. But episodes of shows that you're planning on continuing on with the narrative, I don't think so. I don't think so. And remember, that's why we got all the, reality shows because of the last strike. So plan on getting more reality shows for sure coming out of Hollywood because they don't need writers.

And maybe Jimmy Kimmel can come out and tap dance for an hour. I mean, the show probably would be better, to be honest with you. And we've always talked about, you know, how it takes so many writers for these stupid shows. I mean, it's just a nighttime show. Have the actors come out and you interview them. And you can tell a couple of funny jokes. if you're a funny person.

Guys like Stephen Comer are not funny. They don't know how to be funny. So they need the writers to help them to at least attempt to look funny. So good luck. Good luck to the writers. I'm all for it. Let's get you some money

and get back to making these shows, shall we? And I will say, if they start cutting back on all these shows, are the streaming platform is going to cut my fee that I'm paying every month to view their stream?

streaming product because I'm expecting new content. And if you're not giving me new content, I expect a discount. All right, that's just me, but I'll see if that actually happens or not. And I got my blue checkmark back on Twitter for just about, I don't know, 30 seconds today. There's a story out there that said that all the people that lost their blue check marks because they were legacy blue check marks. if you went in and changed your bio in any way, just put an extra space in, whatever. If you edited your bio,

when you clicked back out of your bio, the blue checkmark came back. And it worked. I did it. And then I actually, I wanted to see how long it would take because I'm sure, you know, it's some kind of small glitch with Twitter.

I get it. So I was in at Jeffrey JFR and I updated my bio. I just put an extra space in. And then I saved it. And I went back and there, was the blue check mark was there and then i went back to the home page and it went away so it's just a small glitch but i did get it back for a few seconds today so i mean and i didn't have to pay for it ha ha elon and how about that met gala last night huh yeah fashion's biggest night

takes place at the old metropolitan metropolitan museum of art in new york city yay the most exclusive party in the world of pops at the at the mat and boy how about that huh so tickets you have to get tickets they're going for like 50,000 a table cost 300,000 wow and that doesn't even mean you get the invite right you can still say hey I'm willing to pay the money and Anna Wintour says oh yeah no you are not allowed here sorry so this year's theme was from fashion designer Carl Lagerfeld so everybody had their

you know, Lagerfeld cat and tried to be really cool. Some of the, some of the fashion stuff is over the top, but I love it. It's just, it's, I like watching what they come up with. It's, you know, it's a little weird. I will say, I was disappointed. No Blake Lively, no Taylor Swift, no Beyonce, no Ariana Grande, no Selena Gomez, no Anna Taylor Joey, no Bella Hadidette, no Zendaya. What are we doing?

Emma Watson, Lady Gaga, Billy Porter, Katie Perry, what's happening? These people were not at the Met Gala. How could this be even called? the bed gala. Sure, Jalo was there. Sure. Sure, Pedro Pascal was there in his shorts and his long red jacket. I got it. But these people are big names and they weren't there. I was really disappointed. Now, you know, Blake is coming off having another kid so she's, you know, getting herself back into shape. So I'll give her a little bit a little bit of leeway. But the others, what's happening? Selina, are you, you struggling a little bit? I mean, why aren't we at the mat? What's happening? Jailo was there. Jaila looked great. is she's got a new album to promote she's looking good I saw the I saw the what you call it sisters

you know the Kardashians they were there and they posted a picture of all three of them together I swear it looked like the witches of Eastwick if you follow me on Twitter I reposted that because it definitely looked like the witches of Eastwick however though I will say that someone posted underneath my post calling it Westwick I should have called it that the witches of Westwick. Yes, that should have been the call. You were right. I apologize.

You wrote a better joke than me. You know, on that one. Okay, just on that one. Don't get too cocky. And speaking of stars, I see where Cher 77 now has postponed her wedding plans. Remember we talked to, she was going to get married to her BF, A.E. Edwards. And I guess not anymore. Producer Alexander A.E. Edwards has been told we're putting the brakes on, okay? Sure, I love you and everything, but no, you are not getting into my $380 million fortune right now. You can still be my boy toy. That's fine.

And I'm still a little love sick about you, but I'm not going to be marrying you. I know you've got me all hot and bothered. And she turns 77 this year. Wow. And not long from now, May 20th. Holy cow, if you're listening live, today is the 2nd of May. So she's got 18 days until she turns 77 years old.

And I mean, you know, I know that he's all hot and bothered with Cher. And of course, I would be too. Share, marry me. And I sure you look a little frightening. and you've, you know, definitely, definitely fillers and three cuts, I got it. But $380 million, yeah, I'm in. But the family's like no share. That's all he wants is your money.

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So who died today? Who died today? Very sad. Gordon Lightfoot. Gordon Lightfoot, the singer. 84 years old has passed away. Gordon Lightfoot, you may know him as a sundown, and if you could read by mind,

he died at 84 years old in Toronto. Very sad. And I, of course, I mean, the, I think a sundown was number one hit, his lone number one hit, then Carefree Highway and sundown. Then, of course, I mean, hello, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.

Hello. Superior they say never gives up her dead. The gales of the Northern Bear come early. I mean, that's a Michigan hit right there, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Hello, I mean, they might have split up, they might have capsized. They may have broke deep and took water. All the remains are the faces and the names of the wives and the sons and the daughters. Think about it. The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

said he was inducted into the songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012. He won 13 Juno Awards in his native Canada. He was induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame. Is he in the Rock Hall of Fame? No way. He can't be in the Rock Hall of Fame. Is he? Gordon Lightfoot? No, he's not

in the Rock Hall of Fame. I see where the Rock Hall of Fame has, I've been searching for Gordon Lightfoot. The 2023 inductees are going to be announced tomorrow, so we'll have the new inductees announced tomorrow at the Rock Hall of Fame. We'll definitely be covering that here on Chewing the Fat and possibly a Chewing the Fat segment during Pat

Unleashed tomorrow on the Blaze Television and Radio Network. So Gordon Lightfoot, survived by his wife, who he's married in 2011. He had six children from past relationships, including two previous marriages. So, you know, welcome to the club with divorces. Oh, we've got to I've got a great story on divorces too around the world. We've got to talk about that today. I've got to get to that. So Gordon Lightfoot. Sorry, Gordon Lightfoot. I'm sorry you died, but we're going to talk about divorces. Okay, you were married three times.

So Gordon Lightfoot, rest and peace, dead at the age of 84. Speaking of guys who have had divorces and lived a long time, the band Aerosmith. I mean, holy cow, how old are those guys now? I mean, between 71 and 75. So they're still rocking. They're still rocking. I mean, they had the big Vegas show that they put on. I don't know how many shows they did.

I feel like Stephen Tyler got sick or something, but they did a couple of small tours around the world a few times, but this is their final tour they announced. They're retiring from the road. It's a 40-date arena farewell tour, the peace out tour. I mean, it might be worth seeing, actually. That was the pandemic interrupted Las Vegas residency. Okay. If you want to blame that out of the pandemic, sure go ahead.

But I feel like Stephen had fallen off the wagon. And that's what hurt that residency. But hey, whatever. That's fine. They haven't toured here in the U.S. for, I don't know, eight or nine years, something like that. So the tour begins September 2nd in Philadelphia, scheduled to wrap up January 26, 2024 in Montreal. The hometown show for Boston on the tour is slated for. New Year's Eve. The Black Crows will open the Live Nation-produced

Trek. All dates go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. So they are going on sale this week already for the Aerosmith Peace Out Tour. That might be a show actually worth seeing. I know. These guys are all 100 years old, but they're

kind of like the Stones, right? You got to see them. They do the tour. You got to see them before they don't look at me like that. No, you don't, Jeff. Well, you know. Okay, you don't. Are they playing? play in Tampa. All right. In September.

Tampa is in October. Where do they play? I play in Austin, Texas, October 23rd. Do they play in Dallas? I don't think so. San Antonio, November. Dallas, November 7th. They play in him in Dallas, November 7th.

So I could see him in Austin or Dallas. I'm not going to San Antonio for that. I wouldn't mind flying into Tampa to see him. That'd be a good time to see him at the arena. Tampa. So there's big, I mean, there's shows all over the country and Canada, of course. And so have fun. I have fun. Well, most of these shows are all in Toronto. Most of these shows are the U.S. except for Toronto and Montreal. Yeah. So they kick it up. Toronto's like the third show, fourth show, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, New York, Belmont, Toronto. And then they ended, as we said, in Montreal.

on January 26th. New Year's Eve. No, Madison Square Gardens, January 19th. What was New Year's? Oh, Boston. Yeah, Boston is New Year's Eve. It would be fun.

It'd be fun to see Aerosmith in there. Peace out tour. And who knows? I mean, they might not even make it. You might want to see them early. You might want to see them in September, maybe October.

Because by the middle of October, I have a feeling they're going to be a little tired. Just a little tired. I mean, Bonnie Ray was just a little tired. I mean, Bonnie Ray was just a little tired. on tour and she had to cancel some I'm sorry, postponed concerts

for surgery and they won't say what it is. She's 73 now and she postponed four of her upcoming shows as she has a medical situation that requires surgery. Okay, so what is

the medical situation? They won't say. She rescheduled shows in Athens, Georgia, Louisville, Kentucky, Indianapolis, and Pittsburgh. And we're supposed to, I guess she's going to get back on the road. You know, we'll see. I don't know if it's going to happen or not, but she's 73.

And she's in the middle of her tour and she goes down. So Aerosmith, they're the same age or older than Bonnie. And, you know, she's out there to her and it has to take a break for a medical situation. I know there's the hippo laws. I get it. But when you're a rock star, everything is known. And so I'd be interested to know what the medical situation was that required surgery to address. Just let us know.

But they haven't yet. And speaking of guys in their mid-70s, Sylvester Stallone, Sly. I love him. I like his new show. Tulsa King was awesome. He needs to be working on season two of that. I don't know if Taylor Sheridan is part of the Writers Guild of whoever's on strike. So I don't know.

Maybe his shows will keep going. because Taylor is the one that writes all those shows anyway. So I don't know if he's part of that or not. Maybe Taylor will break the picket line. Taylor shared it that bastard. So you're going to walk through the picket line and continue to write his shows? That's very possible. It's a good question.

Somebody should reach out to Taylor and ask. Maybe I will. But Sylvester Stallone, 76 now. He has, people have been upset that he wasn't in the new Rocky. And Michael B. Jordan is, you know, that's his deal now. and Sly is not part of it anymore. Well, and I love the Tulsa King. I'm glad he's still working.

He was awesome in it, and the season one was great, and let's just keep that going. But he's going to apparently do cliffhanger two. I mean, did we need a cliffhanger two? I don't know. I don't know. Apparently, the answer to that is yes. So it's in the works, and he's going to return as Gabe Walker.

Gerard Butler is going to collaborate with Rick Roman Waugh and they're going to call the shots, I guess. It's been 30 years. Wow. And that movie hauled in $255 million. That was a big hit for him. That was a huge hit for Sly. So, if you haven't seen Cliffanger 1,

you know, the sequel, I don't know that you'll be able to understand the sequel or not, but you can take a shot. You can go ahead and go to the theater when it comes out, Cliffhanger 2, and see if you can understand it, but it's probably best that you go out and watch Cliffhanger before you have the opportunity to watch Cliffhanger 2. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice.

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. It is alive. The 15 million tonne 5,000 mile wide patch of seaweed known as the great. Atlantic Sargassum. We talked about this at one point. It was on its way. Well, it's arrived.

It's making landfall, the Great Atlantic Sargassum belt. It's making landfall throughout the Southern Atlantic and Caribbean coast, disrupting vacations and marine activities as it collects and rots along the shore. The annual open sea phenomenon. And they call this the annual open sea phenomenon. I don't remember this annual open sea phenomenon. I don't remember this annual open sea phenomenon.

The Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt. I don't remember. But according to this, it's the largest on record, and is expected to inundate shorelines four months. So be ready for the climate change gurus to tell you that the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt is all because of climate change, when in fact, it's an annual open sea phenomenon.

So the macroalgae has been observed in the Central Atlantic, an area known as the Sargasso Sea, for centuries. Well, there you go. Its levels were inconsequential until 2011 when scientists first noted a spike in growth. The yellowish-brown organism is kept afloat by oxygen-filled bladders, the size of berries, providing shelter for small marine life. That does not sound good. I don't know why. I just feel like the oxygen-filled bladders, I'm against. But maybe it's just me.

So its exponential growth is likely due to an uptick in nutrient-rich wastewater flows from the Mississippi, Amazon, and Congo River systems now presents a nuisance and potential hazard to sensitive beachgoers at a steep cost. The cities are looking to keep the beaches clear. Yeah, good luck with that. We saw some of the pictures. If you have an opportunity to... see some of the pictures. In fact, I'll find out one of the pictures I use for the show, my show post

today. If you follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR, Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. I always post a picture related to the show to let you know when the show is up to down, when it's up to download. And I will do that from the great Atlantic Sarcassum Belt. It's pretty incredible what happens with it all comes out on the shore. And it's got to cost a lot of money because they're bringing in tractors and vacos and getting rid of that stuff. You don't want to walk on that of that stuff. If you go to the beach and you say,

come on, honey, let's run in the water and you look at the beach and the great athletic sarcasm belt is there. You may want to go the other way. Find another beach. It's going to cost some of these vacation places are going to be out a whole bunch

of money. And they are going to be angry at the oxygen-filled bladders, the size of berries, providing shelter for the small marine life. And then you're going to step on them when you walk on the beach and you're going to be a little angry at the Great Atlantic Sarcassum Belt. A 15 million tons, 5,000 mile wide patch? That's going to do some serious damage, man. People...

Just be ready to hear more about the Great Atlantic Sarcassum Belt, the DHS, the G-A-S-B, the GASPA. Okay, so I was saying that I got to talk about divorces. All right, so according to World of Statistics, at Stats underscore feed, they tweeted the divorce rate, and it's a divorce rate around the world. Pretty incredible.

So India has a 1% divorce rate. Vietnam has a 7% divorce rate. Tezhekistan has. has 10%, Iran has 14%, Mexico has 17%, Egypt, South Africa have 17% as well, Brazil has 21%, Turkey has 25%, Colombia has a 30% divorce rate, Poland 33%, Japan 35%, Germany has 38%, United Kingdom has 41%, New Zealand has 41%, Australia has 43%, China has 44% then if you go down and I was looking at that on their their Twitter account

and you know it just it breaks down all of these divorces for countries and you get into the you know well United States has 45% South Korea anything under 50% is the Netherlands, Canada, Italy Denmark

South Korea, United States then you get over 50% Sweden France, Belgium, Finland, Cuba now after that You get over 70%. Ukraine, Russia, Luxembourg, all have over 70%. Ukraine has 70%, probably less today. Russia, 73%, and Luxembourg has 79%.

Spain and Portugal, wow. Spain has 85% divorce rate. Portugal has 94% divorce rate. Why even get married in Portugal? And so I looked at somebody should, Saudi Arabia. And then the world of stats answered saying 37%. And then

someone tweeted, this is really funny. He was ever running their Twitter account? Very good. I like it. It's funny. It said, where is Thailand? And their reply was Southeast Asia. Cambodia and Laos border the country to the east and northeast and Miramar lies

to the northwest. You're welcome. Please consider to subscribe. Very Who's ever running the world of statistics? I'm only going to answer a few of your questions, okay? The rest of you, how about you subscribe? But divorce is, holy cow. I mean, I'm telling you, you think 45% is bad in the U.S.,

and it is. I don't wish divorce on anyone. I've been through it. It's not fun. It's a real pain, especially if you have children, and it's, you know, it's agonizing. No question. And, you know, it's always, it's your fault.

100%. It's your fault. I mean, it's my fault. No, it's your fault. I mean, it's my fault. Whatever. You know what? Nobody's at fault.

It's just that we couldn't live with each other anymore. Okay? It's just the way it is. So, but 94% in Portugal and 85% of Spain, we just did that story about Spain and people being open to open marriages and having multiple lovers. I wonder why the divorce rate is 85%. I don't know. I don't know. Why don't you tell me?

Pretty incredible. Israel has 27%, by the way, as World of Statistics, did answer one tweet asking about Israel and Saudi Arabia. And then Saudi Arabia. And then someone asked about Thailand and they had enough. That's why they said. Go ahead and subscribe. We'll tell you where Thailand is. But you need to go ahead and subscribe. Pretty incredible.

That is amazing. And then I see a story talking about. sleep divorce if it can help you feel more rested. Now, let me ask you, if you had to sleep in separate bedrooms and it saved your marriage, is it worth it? I would say yes. And I would say also that a lot of times people sleep better and have a better life if they sleep in separate bedrooms.

I get the idea of sleeping in the same bed and you're a couple and you want to be together. But, you know, when you start talking about snoring and stolen covers and differing schedules, of different alarms, you know, you sleep better in your own bed, right? You do. So people, they want to call it a sleep divorce and they're, you know, sleeping separately from your partner for a better night's sleep. I would say that that's not necessarily, I guess, you know, you call whatever you want, sleep divorce or whatever, but it's actually for the health of the marriage, right? I mean, you could make that case. I am not a marriage psychologist or as a married psychiatrist or a marriage expert well i could be a marriage expert i mean i've been married for who how long have i been married

30 years well well over 30 years i've been married so uh you know sure to different people that's not the point i know what what makes you an expert you know about the thing you're talking about i do know about the thing i'm talking about so i would say that uh sleep divorce may not be a bad thing uh with sleeping in separate beds, maybe even separate bedrooms. Separate bedrooms. I mean, that's their case for sleep divorce, that you're sleeping in different rooms

so that you can get your own sleep and you're still a happy couple because you're getting enough sleep and you're sleeping right. But if you have different schedules, you know, I mean, my kids, my two youngest kids, they don't know a time in their life

when they haven't tucked me in to bed. I was serious, I've gotten up, I would, I've gone to bed early forever. Since they've, I mean, since they've been alive, doing morning shows and being up early, going to bed, you know, going to bed early at, at say, like 7 or 8 o'clock at night, getting up at 2 or 2.30 in the morning.

For years, I got up at 2.30, I don't know, forever. A show started at five. Morning show started at five. And I mean, I taught myself, we've talked about this before. I taught myself how to wake up without an alarm because I hate the alarm so much. So I taught myself how to go to sleep

and wake up when I needed to wake up. And it's not hard, but you have to really, you have to learn how to do it. And you can't be overtired. So if you're overtired, you still need to probably use an alarm backup. Some would tell you that I and I and for a long time I didn't even need the alarm back up.

I just had it down your body just woke up. And it still kind of does. But if I set my mind to what time to get up, I get up. I'm awake. Let's go. Time to get up. And now and I just, I just hate hearing the alarm so much. But that's not necessarily a sleep divorce, but I'm just telling you that there's a many nights when, you know, my wife is coming into bed.

to go to bed and I'm getting up to go to work. So is that a sleep divorce? No, we're sleeping in the same bed, just not at the same time. So that's a sleep separation. That's not a sleep divorce. That's a sleep separation. I'll leave you with a couple of divorce jokes.

Okay, remember the one joke that what's the only thing, divorce proves whose mother was right in the first place? And I love the divorce joke of a divorce court judge said to the husband, you know, I've reviewed your case very carefully and I've decided to give your wife $800 a week. Well, that's very fair, Your Honor. And every now and then, I'll try to send her a few bucks myself.

Just, I'll try to send her a few bucks myself. Yeah, you get it, you get it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.