Pheaturing Lee Meriwether

 

Hey there, kids, welcome to the Phile for a Wednesday. How are you? I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: some people just don’t deserve to be parents. Like this Mulberry woman who was accused of murdering her 2-month-old boy. According to authorities, Nancy Williams was arrested after admitting to purposely jamming a wet wipe down her infant’s throat, which fatally cut off the infant’s airway. Crawford County Jail records state Williams is now facing a first-degree murder charge after first responders and police found the 2-month-old child unresponsive. First Responders and Mulberry Police had responded to a call about an unresponsive child. Medics quickly attempted CPR several times and “swept” his mouth but didn’t find any foreign objects inside. Upon further inspection, they realized there was something lodged in the infant’s throat. Emergency personnel had managed to remove the object, which was confirmed to be a baby wipe. They were unfortunately not able to save the child’s life. Court records state the Mulberry woman confessed, telling investigators that the baby was heavily screaming and wouldn’t stop crying. She allegedly didn’t want to wake her husband up, so she forced a bottle into the child’s mouth, cutting his gums. This caused the baby to scream more, and she “wanted him to stop.” Mulberry police noted Williams demonstrated how she cut the infant’s mouth before pushing the wipe hard with her fingers to make the crying and stop the child’s gums from bleeding. She stated that when she lost sight of the wipe inside the child’s throat, she attempted to get it out. That’s when she panicked and woke up her husband, saying the baby was not breathing. When asked why she did not tell anyone about the baby wipe, the insensitive mother replied, “she had other things on her mind.” Obviously the woman was arrested and is being held in the Crawford County Detention Center on a $1 million bond. 

COVID-19 has no doubt taken how life changes within a specific amount of time to the next level. I personally am in a more different point in my life than I was even a few months ago. And everyone has had to make adjustments more quickly than usual, seizing opportunities where they can to stay afloat. Well, for Chef Barney Corrigan, it was never about how he could benefit from his idea, but about how he could serve his community. And now, it could possibly turn into something beneficial for himself. Corrigan is a catering chef who lost his job due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thankfully, his wife’s job was still secure, but he saw how his community in Westville, New Jersey, was severely impacted by the coronavirus spread. Some of the people around him who had lost their jobs didn’t know where their next meals were coming from, especially since they also had to worry about their own bills. So instead of moping about how he didn’t have a job, the caterer decided to create a small food pantry. And he had no idea how big the turnout would be. The New Jersey man started with a small wooden cabinet on his front lawn, filling it with dried goods giving people a chance to stop by and grab what they need without feeling embarrassed. Corrigan told CNN, “When I heard car doors outside my house at three in the morning, that made me smile.” But after asking a few close friends to donate, word got around on social media about Corrigan’s free food pantry, and soon, he had to transfer the operation to his garage. Every other Saturday since April 2020, Corrigan has opened up his garage, providing for at least eight families with weekly groceries and much more for new ones who come in. Calling it Barney’s Place Food Pantry, along with hundreds of donations later, both monetary donations and necessity donations, the work chef has been able to serve at least 60 people biweekly over the past five months. Corrigan’s food pantry is different from most food pantries as well. Since most food pantries give out pre-made boxes of groceries, Corrigan’s pantry is special because it’s “set up like a convenience store, so people can come and pick up whatever they need... and whatever they want. Thanks to the generosity of his community and strangers on the Internet, who donate nonperishable items or money, he stocks fresh fruits and vegetables, milk, butter, and eggs.” And Corrigan isn’t just helping efforts against the widespread food insecurity. He’s also helped the morale of the community, bonding with his regulars to encourage them that they’re not alone during these times. Even though new people are always coming through, many of the visitors not only grab what they need, but they stay to spend time together at the newly popular spot. Jim Gavi, a regular at Barney’s Place Food Pantry who has been struggling to find work, explained, “Just talking with him was sort of like therapy. When someone is more concerned about the well-being of others, it sheds that light needed on the darker days of those in need and gives them hope that everything will truly be all right, and we will all get through this difficult time.” And Corrigan stated, “The folks that are coming here have become like family now.” And now that Corrigan has been serving the community after the loss of his own job, this could potentially turn into something bigger than that. Starting a non-profit, he’s hoping to expand from his garage into a warehouse, saying, “I would love to make this a full-time thing. I love to cook so the goal is to eventually serve hot meals in addition to pantry items to anyone in need.” What a way to turn something good into an opportunity for everyone in involved. 

An anti-immigrant Norwegian lawmaker said Wednesday that he has nominated U.S. President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts in the Middle East. Christian Tybring-Gjedde, a member of the Norwegian parliament for the populist Progress Party, said Trump should be considered because of his work “for a peace agreement between the United Arab Emirates and Israel which opens up for possible peace in the Middle East.” Israel and the United Arab Emirates agreed last month to a historic deal normalizing relations and are scheduled to sign it at the White House on September 15th. “No matter how Trump acts at home and what he says at press conferences, he has absolutely a chance at getting the Nobel Peace Prize,” Tybring-Gjedde, told the Associated Press. He said he nominated Trump today for the 2021 prize, adding that “Donald Trump meets the criteria.” Nominations must be sent to the Norwegian Nobel Committee by February 1st, meaning the deadline to nominate people for this year’s peace prize has passed. Tybring-Gjedde was one of two Norwegian lawmakers who nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2018 for efforts to bring reconciliation between North and South Korea. Any lawmaker serving in a national legislature can nominate someone for the Nobel Peace Prize. Former U.S. President Barack Obama was awarded the prize in 2009 only months into his first term, a move many felt was premature. The Norwegian committee said it honored Obama for his commitment to “seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” Last year, Trump predicted he would win the Nobel Prize “for a lot of things if they gave it out fairly, which they don’t.” The Norwegian Nobel Committee doesn’t publicly comment on nominees. Under its rules, the information is required to be kept secret for 50 years. Tybring-Gjedde has been a member of the Storting, the Norwegian parliament, since 2005. He is known for being pro-Israel and for opposing immigration policies that he thinks have been too welcoming. The lawmaker has often demanded that immigrants adjust to Norwegian society. He called Muslim headscarves an “Islamic uniform” and compared them to robes worn by members of the Ku Klux Klan. In 2006, he nominated Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Dutch-American activist, writer and politician critical of Islam, for the Nobel Peace Prize. The process of considering candidates and awarding the Nobel Peace Prize is done in Norway, in contrast to the other Nobel Prizes, which are awarded in neighboring Sweden. 

A police officer from Lodi, California is being hailed as a hero after body-cam footage of her saving a man in a wheelchair from being killed by a speeding train at the last possible second was released. The northern California police officer, Erica Urrea, pulled up to train tracks on Lodi Avenue in her patrol car with quite literally not a second to spare. The body-cam footage shows her running up to the intersection where the tracks meet the road. Stuck right there in the middle of the tracks, as the train warning bells dinged and the train’s whistle bellowed a final warning to move, was a man in a wheelchair, unable to get his chair unstuck or to get out of it. Finally, Officer Urrea pulls the man out of the chair just... JUST... as the massive locomotive slams into it. The footage is legitimately insane. It gave me a jump scare. Nice work Officer Urrea. You’ve got some iron ovaries. 

California is burning and apparently one of its wildfires was caused by a family’s gender reveal involving a pyrotechnic smoke device held in the El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, California. According to the San Bernardino National Forest‘s Twitter account, the wildfire now raging even harder than the need for attention possessed by the couple who started it has grown to 10,574 acres as of Monday and is just 16% contained. The CAL FIRE San Bernardino Unit took to Instagram to explain the situation and post a press release regarding the fire. CAL FIRE Law Enforcement has determined the El Dorado Fire, burning near Oak Glen in San Bernardino County, was caused by a smoke generating pyrotechnic device, used during a gender reveal party. The fire began at 10:23 a.m. on September 5th, 2020 in the El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa. The fire spread from the park to the north on to Yucaipa Ridge that separates Mountain Home Village and Forest Falls from the City of Yucaipa. CAL FIRE reminds the public that with the dry conditions and critical fire weather, it doesn’t take much to start a wildfire. Those responsible for starting fires due to negligence or illegal activity can be held financially responsible and criminally responsible. Because the weather in California right now is both extremely dry and brutally hot the wildfire has been difficult to combat. CAL FIRE has said that the parties involved may be held both criminally and financially responsible for the fire. Please, forever and ever, stop doing gender reveals. They’re lame. A Facebook post will suffice. And what a way to make an announcement about a human life... doing it by burning an untold amount of wildlife to death. The couple might as well have truly committed to the bit and slaughtered 10,000 goats in celebration of whatever gender they announced like some sort of Babylonian king. Then could’ve at least fed homeless people instead of potentially making other people homeless.  

No one: gender reveal parties.

Hahahahaha. I was gonna get a new tattoo but someone had the same idea I had...

Its that time of the year for that nasty pumpkin spice flavored stuff but this year they are going way too far with it...

That's a hard pass for me. Here's another creative signs telling people to wear face masks... 

In many places, masks are mandatory, so you as well make it your own. There's a mask for every fashion and fandom, and there can also be a mask for every face. People order custom-made masks with photos of their face on them to try and achieve a realistic look. Try being the most important word.

Hahahaha. So, remember Amy Winehouse? Did you know she was a time traveler? No? I'll prove it...

That's really her as a kid. Working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic while also caring for your children is a serious challenge many families are facing right now. Between homeschooling, Zoom meetings, and dividing up household and childcare tasks between your partner and other members of the family... it can all be a lot to manage. Young children who are especially energetic and excited that their parents and siblings are home all the time are not exactly a fun surprise for everyone to have to deal with on an important work call, regardless of how cute they might be. Holding up a dog to the webcam is one thing, but a screaming infant that isn't muted isn't a particularly helpful co-worker. So, when a dad decided to consult the Phile about a conflict he ran into with his one-year-old son and a remote work meeting, my moral compass was ready to deem a proper verdict. 

"Am I wrong for bringing up the fact that my wife makes four times as much when explaining why I had to have my one year old son with me during a video meeting? I work for a local radio station. I’m still part time, despite basically working as many hours as the full time staff does, but I love the job and understand how competitive the entertainment field is, so I’ve never complained. Plus my wife makes good enough money where I don’t even have to work, but I still do. At my job, we have a lot of giveaways and contests coming up for the first time since the pandemic hit, so my boss wanted to have a video meeting via Zoom today at noon. Since my wife works all day, and I’m pretty much the primary caretaker of our son, I had to have him with me during the meeting. Noon is his most playful time of the day, so he’s usually very active during this time, so during my meeting he was making a lot of playful squeaks, banging toys and trying to play with my laptop when I would have him on my lap. At one point, one of my coworkers asked if it was possible to have my wife watch him during the meeting because he was distracting. I told them that she couldn’t because she was having a video meeting in the other room, and it was super important. Then a different coworker pointed out that we were in a meeting that’s super important and she should watch him for just a few minutes because it shouldn’t take too much longer. So then I said, 'sorry but my wife makes four times what I do in a year, so her job has a little bit more priority in this household.' No one said anything after that but there was an awkward energy and I knew I had crossed a line with that quip. I then offered to mute myself during the meeting so they didn’t hear him. Which was accepted in a seemingly begrudging way. Later I received an email from my boss, basically quizzing me on the meeting, and of course I aced it because I know how to multi task with a kid. Even though I proved that I knew everything, I was told that some of my co-workers don’t think I’m taking the job serious and need to do more to prove that. So am I wrong for saying what I said?" Interesting you were asked to fetch your wife to care for your son. Just because you have the ability to be flippant with your job... and you did indicate this flippancy 100% with your response... doesn't mean your co-workers have the same option. It seems like they made it politely very clear that they'd prefer to not be distracted at work a few times, and their requests were met, in the end, with you saying that the job isn't a priority enough in your world to remove this disturbance from your co-worker's days. There were several other options for you, most obviously saying, "Hey, sorry, my wife is in a very important meeting with some clients, but let me just put myself on mute," but, again, you decided to end this minor series of requests by throwing in an awkward one-two punch of "I don't get paid enough to do that" and "my personal situation doesn't allow me to remove this disturbance from your workday, deal with it." This isn't a question of flexibility with working parents. It sounds like you've been given some good leeway already, since you started the call with your kid in your arms but nobody said anything until he was repeatedly distracting. This is a question of respect for your job and your co-workers, which you did not demonstrate by what could have been a simple "sorry" and a mute. Passing the quiz is irrelevant... which, yeah, was a shitty thing of your manager to pull... the real issue here is what sort of environment you create when people are trying to work. Everyone sucks here. Them for assuming your wife should take the kid. You for thinking it's appropriate to use voice-activation rather than push-to-talk with a child beside you. Oh and then responding in a snarky manner belittling the job. So, there you have it! It was rude for his co-workers to assume his wife should take the child but it was also uncalled for to discuss her salary with his company. In general, his attitude did seem like he didn't need the job and choosing not to mute your very young child immediately during a work call is a very strange decision. Good luck, everyone! If you have a problem you want my advice on then email me at thepeverettphile@gmail.com. 

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For most of human history, vehicles had automatic collision avoidance and could even take you home when you were sleeping or drunk. Then we got rid of the horse.

If you spot the Mindphuck let me know Okay, so, it's tiring of rain here in Orlando... let's see what the weather is like live in Port Jefferson, New York.

Nope. Not raining. Ugh. Here's another story from this crazy state I live in...

The father of the year award is definitely not going to John Bloodsworth. Turns out, the Florida man thought it would be hilarious to literally throw his son into the Atlantic ocean and yell at him to swim! All before deciding to leave the child there and walk away from him to mend for himself. According to authorities, witnesses told police that they saw Bloodsworth’s 5-year-old son struggling in the water off Daytona Beach. Bloodworth was rapidly jumping off the Main Street Pier, which is illegal. Mitch Brown, who witnessed the incident and is a former Georgia State Trooper, said he went down to the Daytona Beach pier and confronted the man since he saw how scared the boy was, especially since he was in a deep part of the ocean. Fed up, the former trooper then physically took the father to a nearby Daytona Beach Police officer, who immediately placed him under arrest. According to WESH, Bloodsworth told the officer that he was just trying to teach his son, a little kid, how to swim, adding that he was basically going to jail for “being awesome.” If being awesome means putting your child at risk of drowning and yelling at him to swim, then there seriously has to be something wrong with you. I’m gonna go ahead and guess that this man was mixing alcohol and drugs at the same time and had no role models growing up. Because this is just plain dumb. The last thing beachgoers want to see is a child drown. Authorities charged Bloodsworth with child abuse and disorderly intoxication in public and was bonded out of Volusia County jail after a few hours. Which is kind of disappointing. Keep the man in jail.

Lou Brock

June 18th, 1939 — September 6th, 2020 

Stole home.

The 135th book to be pheatured in the Phile's Book Club is...

Yes, that's my book I wrote. My good friend Jeff Trelewicz will be on the Phile on Monday to interview me. 

Phact 1. There is a donut shop in Michigan run entirely by cops. 

Phact 2. It is cheaper for U.S. companies to use high fructose corn syrup instead of cane sugar because corn is subsidized at $40 billion. 

Phact 3. When melting glass in space, zero gravity increases the viscosity and you can create glass with chemicals other than silica. 

Phact 4. The “Can-Can” song was originally composed for an opera as a soundtrack to a man descending into hell. 

Phact 5. There is a type of pasta, shaped like radiators, called radiatori.

This is so damned cool! Today's guest is an American actress, former model, and the winner of the Miss America 1955 pageant. She is also known for her portrayal of Catwoman, replacing Julie Newmar in the film version of Batman in 1966. Please welcome to the Phile... Lee Meriwether!

Me: Hello, Lee, I am so excited to have you here on the Phile. How are you? 

Lee: Hello, Jason, its great to be here. 

Me: So, I am a big "Batman" fan, or Batman '66 as we know it now. Growing up did you enjoy cartoons as a kid? 

Lee: Oh, yeah. 

Me: What kinda cartoons did you like as a kid? 

Lee: I loved Elmer Fudd way back when. Actually all of them at the time. We would go to the Strand Theater in Phoenix, Arizona. My mother would take us, my brother and myself. We'd get to start to see two serials probably and about five cartoons. It was a Saturday afternoon laughapalooza they'd say. There was serial western that we called them "The Three Mosquito's." I guess it was the Musketeers or something. It was a western bust somehow we thought they were mosquitos. 

Me: So, you started out as a model, right? 

Lee: No, I don't know where that came from but I wasn't a model. 

Me: Really? I swear I read in your bio that you were a model. 

Lee: It's in a bio somewhere. Everybody who talks about me says I was a former model. The only modeling I did was when I was on the high school board in San Fransciso. I was in the 8th grade and I was chosen because of the activities I did around the school. I was one of three in our school, there were others from other schools and they gave us the ability to learn the entire structure in the floor of the Emporium. I was transferred and one of the departments that I worked was the department that did fashion shows. So they out me in a fashion show, That was the only time I was a real model on a runway. 

Me: How old were you then? 

Lee: I was about 17 I guess. 

Me: But you did become Miss America, didn't you? 

Lee: Yes. But reluctantly. I was one of the reluctant Miss America's. 

Me: What do you mean? 

Lee: I was entered by a fraternity and no one told me. I would never have entered. Back then I always assumed it was just a bathing beauty pageant, I didn't know it has scholarships, it was not well advertised at the time I was young and I always bathing beauties were blah... When I grew up with a blogger who made fun of me when I wore a swim suit running around and I heard voices saying, "Who would want to go out with her?" So I would never have entered, and I was talking to a fellow in my radio class in college who saw me going into the radio room. I had an album, a whole bunch of albums, and he said, "You're not going to do a record pantomime, are you?" These were for the finals, we had to develop a whole hour program, write the script, cast it, direct it, and find the music to go with it and actually work the record player so it would come in on time so it was very intricate. I said, "What are you talking about a radio pantomime? This is for the show." And he said, "No, no, no, the Miss San Francisco thing." That's how I found out. "What Miss San Francisco? What are you talking about?" "I don't know, one of the fraternity's nominated you." "I haven't heard a thing." He said, "You haven't?" So we tracked it all down, didn't find out which fraternity it was but it was the last day of auditions. By the time I was told it was the last day of auditions downtown. I called my mother, my mother said call my father, my father called the Chamber of Commerce and found out it was the Junior Chamber who had taken it over from this entrepreneur who ran it for years I guess. They were seeking all area from colleges, universities and seniors and high school who would be of age. I said, "Do I have to?" My father talked me into it, he said, "Listen, you want to be an actress, this would be a good experience. If you have to have a talent you've been working on a Romeo and Juliet scene do that and go down there. Try it." 

Me: So, how did it go? 

Lee: I did as I was obligated and going down the street I was so nervous about it, I was running the speech in my head. Well, I didn't know it that well. I thought what am I going to do, then I thought of what I had done the weekend before. The Rainbow Girls would go out and entertain in hospitals. It went well, they loved it. It was a typical high school girl high school dance. She doesn't get to dance with a good looking guy, she ends up sitting on a piece of gum which she took out of her mouth. It goes on, she ends up sitting on the gum and tears her dress and that's the end of the comedy routine. So I'm sitting there at the Fremont Hotel waiting because I did have an appointment and I had to wait. I'm listening to this moonlight serenade that's being played beautifully, her voice was beautiful. I thought oh my gosh, they are going to laugh me out of here. I was going to do this silly pantomime and I had to something American. So I started working again on the singing and they called my name and I started praying. Literally I started praying, I was thinking help me, help me, help me. All of a sudden I thought what I had done in high school. A year and a half earlier I had done a one act play and I hadn't worked on it at all, I hadn't thought about it. I've done it once and it was over with. I thought well, I'll tell them the story and maybe some of it will come back to me. I started the story of the play, by the time I finished and put my shoes back on and went out and about two weeks later I found out I was number 16 of the finalists in the San Francisco pageant. That's how it all started. 

Me: And what did your parents think? 

Lee: My mother made my gown, she was sitting on the floor doing some hemming, looking up at me and said, "If you win this I'm going to kill you." I asked her later and she said, "I really didn't think you'd win. I didn't want to feel bad about it, I wasn't going to get excited for you." When I won I looked down at her at the table below the stage and I said, "Oh, my mother's going to kill me." 

Me: Okay, let's talk about Batman. How did you come to be part of that? 

Lee: I read for it. Julie Newmar had done the series but she couldn't do the movie because she was already signed to do another movie. I was about I would say easily about a hundred women who read for the part. I walked into the room and saw all this bevy of beautiful women and thought good lord, how am I going to do this? How am I going to make a dent? So I just went in and read and I sat down and licked my hand. I grew up with cats and I knew how to imitate cats, so I did all of that while I was reading the script. I had a relative good ear always with accents or fake accents anyway, not good but fake. So I did a pretty good Russian accent for the scene where she is a Russian correspondent and I got up and said thank you very much and left. The next day I got the phone call and the following day I was in costume. Then the next day we filmed.

Me: I have to show a pic of you as Catwoman. 

Me: They didn't start filming yet? 

Lee: They already started filming some of the stuff so they were up the creek. 

Me: Was the suit uncomfortable? 

Lee: LOL. I don't know if you ever have worn a girdle... no, of course you haven't. 

Me: I'm wearing one now. Hahaha.

Lee: LOL. It was like a really tight swim suit that really doesn't fit but I want to wear it, it's like that but all over. It was really tight. 

Me: How long were the shooting days? 

Lee: It lasted all day. Usually I got to the studio around 6:30 or 7 into make up then into hair and then wardrobe and then shooting all day. I didn't drink much water, that was my secret. I got dehydrated but at least I got to only do it at lunch time. 

Me: Did you know anything about Catwoman going into it? 

Lee: I've seen the show, I saw one of Julie's half episodes but that was it at that time because it was on the air. I had only seen her briefly. They asked me to look at a piece of film but with no sound before I went in to film. I just watched her movements and that was it, but I knew she was a dancer and I thought they got to take what I could do. She's much more agile than me but I have been taking a dance class and I was pretty good with the weight and everything so I did pretty well. 

Me: You came up with the meows and everything as well, right? 

Lee: Yeah, it wasn't in the script. I licked my hand, I did all the cat things that I can think of. 

Me: I saw an interview with you from a long time ago and you said you spent a whole day of just doing the meows. Is that true? 

Lee: Yes, that was hysterical. I thought what do I have to loop. It was because the wind machine was making such a noise. It was when we were flying with the Penguins flying umbrellas. Most of that is what I had to loop. 

Me: Why was it hysterical? 

Lee: Because they had growl, meow, and they had a list of things I had to do. I said can I see where it fits because I did different meows and growls and they said yes, of course. They rolled the film and I saw what it was and I said okay, it was pretty easy to do. I'm sure if anyone walked by they'd be what in the world. 

Me: I got to interview Burt Ward before and wish I I could interview the rest of the cast. What was it like to work with the other villains? 

Lee: I loved working with them. I was the luckiest I think of all the Catwomen because I had the good fortune to work with all of them. Plus Adam and Burt but of course mostly I worked with them. What a lesson in theater and technique and attitude on the set and attention to detail. They taught me so much, I just watched them. They didn't say I had to remember to do this, I just watched them. I watched how they composed themselves on the set, they were always on time, they were genuinely interested in other people and cared about them. It was just wonderful, it was a wonderful lesson for a beginning film student. 

Me: Dd you do any other films before Batman? 

Lee: I had done a few other films but I was young. It was very important to realize how lucky I was. 

Me: Did you ever work with any of those guys again? 

Lee: I got to work with Frank Gorshin afterwards, we did a play together, Play It Again, Sam where I played six women to his one person. 

Me: You played six women in the play? What? 

Lee: Yeah, originally the roles were played by other women, there was one lead role but I didn't play that role but I played all the other women that he became involved with. It was great fun but quite a challenge. 

Me: Ha. So, what was Adam West like? I got to meet him once which is cool. 

Lee: He was sweet, he was gentle, he was very witty. People didn't realize how funny he could be. He was very intelligent. We did a couple of charity events that we were asked to attend and he was absolutely amazing talking to the press, talking to friends, talking to the people there. All that was very genuine. Did Burt talk to you about his rescue for dogs when you interviewed him? 

Me: Yeah, he was all about it. I am a big Batman '66 fan, I have a book self dedicated to it. Are you surprised it's still popular to this day? 

Lee: It was magical. Then when someone grows up they can see all the nuances and catch the jokes that's what I love about it. They geared it for parents and for youngsters. 

Me: It was my parents' first date in London, seeing the movie. What was our favorite scene in the movie? 

Lee: When Batman hit the shark and it sounded like a rubber shark. That makes me laugh every time I see it. 

Me: That's funny. Thanks so much for being on the Phile. I hope you had a good time. Please come back again.

Lee: Thank you, Jason, stay well.

Well, that about does it for this entry of the Phile. Thanks to Lee Meriwether for a great interview. The Phile will be back on Monday with Phile Alum Jeff Trelewicz who will interview me. Spread the word, not the turd. Don't let snakes and alligators bite you. Bye, love you, bye. Kiss your brain. 

I don't want you, cook my bread, I don't want you, make my bed, I don't want your money too, I just want to make love to you. - Willie Dixon