Hi! Christmas is less than two weeks away. You’re welcome.
Longtime Bay area-based radio personality Bubba The Love Sponge Clem is off the air at Beasley Broadcast Group’s local station WBRN, though his show will continue to be broadcast on 96K-ROCK in Fort Myers. We’ll always have the Hulk Hogan sex tape, live pig castration, attempts to manipulate Nielsen ratings and Bubba Army stickers, though. Humanity: truly nature’s greatest triumph.
A Florida man was arrested in Bradenton last week for claiming to be a dentist and pulling 10 teeth “during house calls” without anesthetic. There are, astonishingly, real dentists who still make house calls. But they come with vehicles in wraps and verifiable credentials and the latest techniques, not with angry, slightly confused eyes and a pair of pliers they introduce as “my assistant, Nurse Grabbenpull.”
And finally, a new WalletHub report finds Tampa to be the 12th “most sinful” of America’s 150 biggest cities. Orlando and Miami are both more sinful, at 4th and 6th place respectively. The study also places Tampa 4th in terms of strip clubs per capita, just in case PolitiFact wasn’t a credible enough source for you in debunking the whole “strip club capital of America” thing.
This article appears in Dec 8-15, 2016.
