Ep 118 | Dry Your Eyes, I Survived D-Day & A Few Things, Feminists | Guests: Lauren Tarshis & Amie Wohrer

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

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News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2019

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Many people have been feeling weird about the return of Jussie Smollett to the show, "Empire", but reliable sources might say otherwise. Also, author Lauren Tarshis joins us to share about her New York Times Best-Selling "I Survived..." series of children's historical fiction and how each of her books takes a reader into the heart of history's most thrilling and terrifying events including: the sinking of the Titanic, the Shark Attacks of 1916, Hurricane Katrina, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, 9/11, and many more. Ami Wohrer also jumps onto the podcast to give a new message to Feminists. You can follow everything that author Lauren Tarshis is up to at her website: https://www.laurentarshis.com/ Also, you can follow Amie Wohrer on Twitter @AmieWohrer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	sad news today and I don't know if you're going to be able to get through the
0:05.2	rest of your day I hope you can but you know we reported that Jesse Smollett, his contract was extended on Empire with 20th century Fox and the Fox network and people were you know concerned about him on the show and
0:26.9	there were rumors that he was coming back because they signed the contract and they re-uped his option for being on the show.
0:35.0	Co-creator Lee Daniels took to Twitter and wanted to make sure that people were would have
0:47.2	are aware of what's going on because he wanted to make sure that the rumors out there stayed just rumors.
0:59.3	Those reports that Jesse was going to come back.
1:04.3	Not factual.
1:08.4	Jesse will not be returning to Empire.
1:18.0	Ha ha!
1:20.0	Dry your eyes. Dry your eyes.
1:23.0	eyes. So, I am fascinated by this story I can't I can't stop thinking about it. Friday they
2:10.8	had the the shooting in Virginia Beach horrific. I mean 12 people were
2:17.8	murdered four people were wounded the shooter was killed it was is just a horrible thing.
2:25.0	The gunman, Duane Craddock, you know, just,
2:29.0	you know, I probably shouldn't even tell you his name,
2:32.0	but that was his name and just horrific and I'm
2:37.8	not going to get into nothing else I don't care about all the other arguments about it
2:41.7	I mean I do but I'm not going to get into it here because that's all
2:43.9	I mean we've heard those arguments before and I try not to have those type of
2:48.4	arguments here on chewing the fat but there was one guy, this Ned Carlstrom, a coworker of the shooter who saw him three times when the shooting started,
3:05.0	the shooting started, he saw the shooter three times,
3:08.0	crossed his paths.
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