Day: December 15, 2021

In this special edition of Everything Compliance – Shout Outs and Rants, the gang looks at their favorite or most poignant Shout Out or Rant from 2021. They include:
1. Karen Woody shouts out to starting early Emmy buzz for Ted Lasso.
2. Jay Rosen shouts out to civility.
3. Matt Kelly shouts out to the NJ sandwich shop Hometown International, which with $35K in annual sales resulting in a $100MM market cap evaluation.
4. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out to who show true leadership in a crisis and the Spirit of Christmas.
5. Jonathan Marks expands on his rant about Hall of Fame horse trainer Bob Blaffert.
6. Tom Fox shouts out to John Lee Dumas, who as a college senior on 9/11, knew that night he was going to war, and to all the men and women who served in combat in America’s 20-year war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

1. Karen Woody shouts out to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for providing a great tourist experience.
2. Jay Rosen rants about Tampa Bay receiver Antonio Brown who misrepresented his vaccination status by presenting a fraudulent shot card to the Bucs.
3. Matt Kelly has a Shout Out to the Women’s Tennis Association for their pulling their tennis tournaments out of China in the wake of the Chinese government’s treatment of Peng Shuai after she raised issues of sexual harassment against a high-ranking Party member.
4. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out to the EU Public Prosecutors Office.
5. Tom Fox rants about MLB locking out the players, particularly the inanity of doing so during the offseason. He shouts out to Houston Chronicle sports columnist Brian Smith for editorializing that MLB should use this time to fix the game of baseball, instead of trying to simply save a few pennies.

1. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out and rants about the fraudster Dr Ruja Ignatova and her fraudulent crypto currency OneCoin.
2. Jonathan Marks has yet another rants about the hospitality industry and asks if they could give customers rooms which are not currently assigned to other customers.
3. Matt Kelly shouts out to People Magazine and Paul Ruud. The magazine named him the “World’s Sexiest Man.” Matt starts Oscar buzz for Ruud for his upcoming performance in Ant Man III.
4. Jay Rosen shouts out to dads everywhere by honoring OBS, Odell Beckham, Sr. for getting his son out of Cleveland and to the LA Rams.
5. Karen Woody shouts out to the TV show and pop culture phenomenon Succession.
6. Tom Fox shouts out to the NFL Fashion Police for fining CeeDee Lamb over $15K for having his shirt tail out during a game while fining Aaron Rogers less than $15K for breaking Covid-19 protocols. I am glad their priorities are in the right place.

1. Karen Woody has a shout out WeWork going public via a SPAC.

2. Jay Rosen has a melancholy rant about shooting victims on movie sets.

3. Matt Kelly has an extended rant about the ongoing debt crisis.

4. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out to the graduating class of 2021 and all they went through during Covid-19 to obtain their degrees.

5. Jonathan Marks rants about hotels charging full prices while cutting back on their services.

6. Tom Fox shouts out to Houston Astros who are in the World Series for the 3^rd time in 5 years.

Our fan favorite Shout Outs and Rants from the next episode of Everything Compliance is here. In addition to our new “award-winning status”, we are joined by our newest panelist Karen Woody.

1. Matt Kelly shouts out to Kareem Abdul Jabbar for his evisceration of NBA players in general and Kyrie Irving in particular for their selfish attitudes in failing to get Covid vaccinations.
2. Jay Rosen, CCEP shouts out to Josh Allen and the Buffalo Bills for being one of the best teams in the NFL this season and advises long-suffering Bills fan Lisa Fine to ‘enjoy the ride’.
3. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out to Emma Raducanu for her stunning win in the US Open this year.
4. Karen Woody shout outs domestic tourism in Brown County Indiana.
5. Thomas Fox rants about Waller County and its lack of criminal charges against drivers who intentionally or negligently run over cyclists.

 

Check out the Shout Outs and Rants from Episode 84 of Everything Compliance. Guest Panelist Mary Shirley joins in the fun. 1. Jay Rosen shouts out to those attorneys at DOJ and State AGs’ offices who stood up when Trump tried to steal the election. 2. Mary Shirley rants about the lessening of the CCO role. 3. Jonathan Marks rants about MLB having a Field of Dreams baseball game and then blacking it out to almost ½ of the country. 4. Jonathan Armstrong has a melancholy shout out, as he honors 1st responders to the Plymouth shooting in the UK. 5. Tom Fox shouts out Texas Governor Gregg Abbott and his inaction on the Texas Power Grid crisis, which increased his campaign contributions from the energy industry.

1. Jay Rosen shouts out to the Golden Boy Tom Brady in asked ‘will 8 be enough’ to get the chip off Brady’s shoulders.
2. Tom Fox shouts out to Neil Gerrard for inventing the phrase ‘global amnesia’ for explaining why he lied in sworn testimony during the ENRC trial.
3. Karen Woody shouts out to second season of Ted Lasso.
4. Matt Kelly shouts out to restaurants requiring proof of vaccination of potential customers.
5. Jonathan Armstrong shouts out to author Eric Carle.

Rants and shouts outs from Episode 82.
1. Jay Rosen shouts out to first responders.
2. Tom Fox shouts out to the recently indicted Trump Organization for its Document Document Document policy which led to said indictment.
3. Lisa Fine shouts out to employees and others who speak up, raise valid issues and World Whistleblower Day. She rants about the overuse of the term ‘thought leader’.
4. Matt Kelly shouts out to proposed legislation in Congress to protect Inspector Generals.

Welcome to the Shout Outs and Rants from Episode 81

1. Mike Volkov rants about the DOJ investigations into Democratic members of Congress under the Trump Administration.

2. Jonathan Marks shouts out to the FBI for recovering the bitcoin payment made by Colonial Pipeline to the cyber hackers who breached it.

3. Kortney Nordrum rants about OSHA who after promising guidance for companies on return to work after Covid-19, only does so for health care organizations.

4. Matt Kelly has his own epic rant about Texas’ own Congressman Louis Gohmert who asked a Department of Forestry representative if they had looked at altering the orbit of the earth or moon to combat the effects of climate change.

5. Tom Fox shouts out to the Department of Justice who indicted two US citizens who were engaged in bribery and corruption in trying to persuade the Trump Administration to order the DOJ to drop its investigation into 1MDB.