Today’s show starts with a snippet of Jonathan Edwards “Shanty”which coincidentally involves “sitting round the kitchen”. It’s like HE KNEW.
People don’t buy bootlegs anymore.
We’re going to start doing Show Notes here on the website because apparently that’s a big deal for podcasts.
Australian doctors have figured out how to use dead hearts for transplants. This could save 30% more heart transplant patients. It took they 12 years to develop a solution to soak the hearts in. Darren wonders if they could’ve just used Sunny D.
A doctor in NYC has Ebola. Some perspective on the Ebola Crisis? More Americans have married Kim Kardashian than contracted Ebola here in the U.S.
They’ve named a tarantula after John Lennon. Darren says a beetle would have made more sense. No word on when scientists will create a Tarantgirrafe.
Escape From Wisconsin gives us an old man who shoplifts from a Wal-Mart in Sheboyganbecause he feels the lines are to long and a Cheesehead named Peters who gets his jollies throwing dildos at young girls. Crimony.
A guy with neck tattoos thinks not getting a job because of them is a form of discrimination. Every here says, “too bad”.
The annual list of crazy excuses why people called in sick to workis out. I couldn’t make it to work because I accidentally boarded a plane seems to be our favorite. Darren points out the crafting of a good excuse depends on whether or not you have to prove it. We reminisce about a former colleague who couldn’t come to work because she was “allergic to paint…in ALL its forms.”
Our Daily Dumbass Award winner is a Chinese guy whose wife called the bar looking for him. Dave points out that’s a crummy bartender to give him the phone. Dave remembers TI PING is NOT a city in China signs taped to the walls and cash registers of bars he used to hang out in. Darren thinks he’s making that up.
Back to the Daily Dumbass: Fang cuts through a sewage treatment facilityto hurry home to his irate wife only to fall in the sewage and need to get pulled out. His wife made him sleep outside.
