Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Agonization… | 7/22/25

Episode Date: July 22, 2025

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weeks were published this week, and it revealed that the shortened schedule without any pay cuts boosts job satisfaction, yeah, no kidding, reduces burnout and improves well-being. Well, then, let's go ahead and do it. Nearly 2,900 workers from 141 organizations, in the United States, Canada and the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, shifted to 32-hour, four-day weeks for six months. Companies had two months to restructure workflows, largely by trimming unnecessary meetings. At the end of the study, employees reported improved performance, better sleep, yeah, they were working less, and less fatigue.

Over 90% of participating companies kept the truncated schedule. suggesting that the output and profit weren't harmed, though the study didn't measure company-wide productivity. And while many Americans view the five-day work week as standard, look, you're dumb. It only became commonplace after the passage of that damn fair labor standards act in 1938. Interest in shorter work weeks have grown since the COVID-19 pandemic. Uh-huh.

And it reignited conversations about, work-life balance, with 22% of the National Survey respondents reporting their employer, their employer offered four-day weeks in 2024. Oh, so 22% of the companies offered four-day work weeks in 2024 compared to only 14% in 2022. Yeah. Is that going to become commonplace? I don't know. Sure, we can say that we're going to offer four-day work weeks, but the robots that we have work seven days a week and they feel really less fatigued at the end of each day because they just have to put in a new battery pack. So sure, we offer four-day work weeks, but we don't have any employees right now except for the robots. So good luck. God bless. Incredible. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the

fat. For those of you listening live, today is the 22nd of July, 2020. It's also going to be a very short day. So we had one of these days on July 9th, and we have another one coming up on August 5th. But today is, well, it's going to be a short day. And I don't know, it's going to throw you off because there's going to be between 1.3 and 1.51 milliseconds shorter than normal. So I don't know.

Wow, it's going to throw the whole equilibrium off. with today being one of those short days. Now, we also, I just found out, that in 2027, we're going to have a rare total solar eclipse that will plunge parts of southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East into darkness for up to six minutes and 23 seconds. That's, I guess, pretty cool.

Kind of weird? Okay, sure. It's known as the, great North African eclipse. Of course it is. I mean, if you had said that instead of just saying, hey, there's a total solar eclipse coming in 2027. If you would have just said, hey, there's a great northern African eclipse. Oh, yeah, that. It'll be the longest eclipse visible from land between 1991 and 2114, making it a once in a century spectacle. So we've got that to look forward to.

Yesterday, we talked about the Alaska Airlines temporarily grounding its entire fleet over the weekend. And according to an FAA advisory, the airline sought approval to ground over 200 planes under its brand. And then it expanded it to the Horizon Air Unit, which is part of Alaska Airlines. And it stemmed from a computer network outage. And so the ground stop was lifted after three hours. and they said that they were going to have, you know, there could quite possibly be residual impacts to its operations. Uh-huh.

It'll take some time to get our overall operations back to normal. Okay. So I talked about, you know, we were just coming off of, well, a year or so ago, with the crowd strike hack that caused chaos with the airlines. Well, then I find out through a text from my friend and our friend who's been on the show, chewing the fat, Chuck Palm, that Microsoft's SharePoint document management software had its servers hacked. Could that have affected the Alaska Airlines? I don't know, but it certainly is plausible.

The software is used by hundreds of thousands of businesses and government agencies. Oh, okay. So did that cause the Alaska Airlines to be grounded? And will this? that effect? Will that have residual impacts across the country? Yes, I believe that it would and will. So that if you use or your company uses Microsoft's SharePoint, heads up because it was hacked. And yes, I'll talk to you about locking my keys in the car again. So I stopped yesterday at a convenience store and I was messing with my wallet, getting my wallet out of my briefcase. And when I do that, I take my keys out of the ignition, I set them on the armrest, took my glasses off,

got, I was going to, you know, pay with cash. So I threw my wallet down, I got the cash out. And then as I hopped out of my car, and as I'm closing the door, I'm like, no, no, no, no. And it's too late. The keys are already there. And you've probably seen the pictures online. You can see the photo of my keys and my glasses,

and you can see my wallet on just on the far side of the armrest. And it's there. and I look through the window and there they are locked again. Ah, it happens ever so often when I do that. And that's exactly, I do the same thing all the time. I set them on the armrest like that and then I'm screwed. And so I was really close to the house and then I realized I actually don't have an extra set of keys. I don't have another key.

My wife brought a key that I thought was the extra key and it was not. So then I had to wait. My automobile insurance has roadside assistance. And so, you know, I just call and they send roadside assistants out as part of the insurance policy. But it takes a while. And the guy got there faster than they said it would. They originally said, I'll be there about 70, 80 minutes. And I texted them saying, drive faster.

And I got a response. Now, I did say, please. I did say, please drive faster. And this is the timeline. and then I get a response saying, this is roadside assistance dispatch, not the driver. He currently has three calls ahead of you, so should be arriving within about 70 to 80 minutes.

Could be sooner. Okay. I mean, right there I'm done for. So he showed up less than an hour. It was like 45, 50 minutes. Okay, so they did do a great job. All right, he did do a great job. But as he's unlocking my car, you know, popping the lock.

And they don't just pop the lock. with the lock popper anymore. I got to put a little airbag in the middle and, you know, blow it up so that they can stick a hanger in there and pop the lock. I got it, okay? I've had it done before.

So he's telling me a story, and I'm telling him, Matt, I appreciate you getting here as fast as you could. I really, I text your service and told them to make you drive faster, and he just laughed. And he said, yeah, I was at a dealership where someone had just purchased a range rover

and they were in the lot of the range roller dealership. I don't know if it was a used range rover or was the actual range rover dealership, but he had locked his keys in the car. And the dealership would not unlock his car for him. They didn't want the responsibility. Oh my gosh. I would have been so angry. I would not have purchased the car.

I mean, he went out there and he popped the lock. And obviously he's not happy the way he's. has to do it with the airbag and, you know, kind of, you know, kind of bend the door a little bit to get it in there and, you know, open the door. So he wasn't happy about that on his new Range Rover. And I would have been a livid that this new dealership or the dealership would not unlock my car. I would not have purchased the car right then and there.

I don't care. I give me where the deal is over. You can take it back. I'll sign. Here, where do I sign? because this deal is done. I just bought an automobile from you, and the range rovers are what?

Anywhere from what, 70 to 120,000? I don't know. What does a range rover go for? Let's look, shall we? Okay, so if I go to, what is this, Land Rover DFW, okay, which is where this show originates from, I can get a new 2025 range rover,

$181,810. Now, the asking price is $181,21515. Oh, that's special. Now, if this is the place, and I have no way of knowing if it is or it isn't, but if I just spent between $100 and $180,000 on the vehicle, and you won't pop the lock, my door lock because I locked my keys in the car,

car? First of all, I didn't realize it was possible in the new cars, because usually they won't lock if the key fob is in the car. My car is not supposed to lock if my keys are in the ignition. But if they're sitting on my armrest, it will. And in fact, I have had that door lock with the keys in the ignition, but that's another story, which I told on this show. That was quite a while ago. However, I'm just saying if I am a customer at this place and they wouldn't do that for me, I would not have purchased the vehicle. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time.

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Comexonterio.ca. So I'm reading this story about beef prices and they continue, according to this story, they continue to go up and there is no end in sight. Wow. And I'm looking at this chart and it's gone up dramatically since 2021. They're at record highs and they say that it's going to. continue to either stay where it's at or even go higher. Steak prices have jumped 8% year over year.

Ground beef has averaged $6.12 a pound. Wow. Nearly up 12% from a year ago. And for the first time that ground beef has been above $6 since they started collecting data on it, and that's been since what, 1980s. So the meat price, according to this, average Americans are expected to consume 59.1 pounds of beef in 2025 compared with 102.5 pounds of chicken and 50.3 pounds of pork per this data. And I guess the beef supply chain is being strained from multiple angles, climate policy and economics, of course. The multi-year drought shrunk cattle herds and global imports are under threat.

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has this place existence been covered on the show? And he was talking about the Four Sixes Ranch Steakhouse in Vegas. So once again, there's a story about Vegas, which will get Viva Las Vegas back stuck in my head, and I'll be singing in it again for another couple of weeks. And it had not, because I don't remember hearing about this place. And it's the 4-6s Ranch Steakhouse at Wynn, Las Vegas. Now, it started back in 2024.

It's almost a couple of years old now. And it was started as a pop-up dining experience. Of course, you know, inspired by the legendary 4-6s ranch in Guthrie, Texas, which is owned by Taylor. Sheridan. I know they always like to put in and other investors. Yeah, they spent like 320 million on this ranch. It's got 266,000 acres. Pretty sure it's one of the biggest ranches in Texas, if not the biggest ranch in Texas. And he shoots a lot of his shows there, which is incredible because he bought the ranch and then he charges to shoot his show there, which was actually genius.

So it's still there, still ongoing. They talked about it. I was really, reading a story about when it opened and demand was so high that I guess it's continuing on now. There's not going to stop it, but it's just going to continue on. In fact, they advertised that it had the $999 and $90.00. Yeah, that's what I want. Hook me up with that right there. Look at the restaurant, the 4-6s Ranch Steakhouse, you're going to have prime steaks and cuts from the 4-6s' runs. from the 4-6's ranch. The menu uses ingredients that are local to Texas

and have bold, fiery flavors. Highlights will include the only caviar tower with potato tots. Boy, doesn't that sound good. Kettle chips, brioche toast, country fried steak chicken tenders, fire sauce,

beef tartar, prepared tableside, and served with Texas corn tortillas. A signature cut of the 4th,4, 6's branded 28-ounce cowboy steak, a 40-ounce tomahawk steak, yes please, a carved tableside from Wyoming's grazing star ranch, and what they call a decadent tumbleweed banana pudding. You're not walking out of that place without spending a couple of bucks. But as I'm reading about it, you know, of course all the stars are there and they all wanted a piece of it. I don't know if they still do, but it's been going on.

now for almost two years. It opened like in September of 2024. I apologize. I don't remember talking about the four-sixth's ranch steakhouse at Wynn, Las Vegas. But I definitely now, it's just another reason, another reason to Viva, Las Vegas. All right, let's go to the break room.

I need something cold to drink desperately. So on Friday, a show drops on next. Netflix Happy Gilmore, the sequel of Happy Gilmore. It's going to drop on Friday for you Happy Gilmore fans. Will I watch it? Yeah, but am I a huge fan? Not really. But okay, let's see if it can match some of the 1996 classic magic of Happy Gilmore.

But it's going to be, we'll see. It may be fun. It may bring a smile to your face. And then tomorrow, which is Wednesday, the 23rd of July, for those of you listening live, a new season of South Park is set to arrive after. I mean, they've been crushing, fighting each other. They've been bashing the merger, the pending merger between Comedy Central, parent company Paramount and Skydance Media.

So we'll see. We'll see if it's worthy another season of South Park. And we talked about how ComicCon has been really struggling. to fill the halls. Well, it kicks off on Thursday of this week. And so we'll see if it's been, it's going to be another worthy year at Comic Con.

I'm sure the Fantastic Four. Oh, wait. No, I don't think Fantastic Four people will be there. But, you know, hey, whatever. It's still Comic Con. Right? Right. You know, I started watching a show.

I think it's on Prime. It's called Blue Ridge. And because I needed something to watch. And it's kind of in the genre that I like, you know, It's kind of like Longmire, untamed, in that vein. At least it's trying to be. It's not, but it's trying to be.

And they explain it by it's because of the movie Blue Ridge, which I remember seeing. When I started watching this, I feel like I've seen this before. I think it was because of the movie. And it's with this former Green Beret, Justin Wise, and he becomes a sheriff in the Blue Ridge Mountains, this small town that he's from. the family's there, whatever, and this is, you know, he's trying to get his life back. So he's a struggling kind of law enforcement officer, but he's not really.

And it's just, I don't know, it's more of a soap opera-ish kind of thing. It's not a Longmire by any stretch of the imagination or even untamed. But it's something to watch. And there's one season, I don't know how many episodes there are. Probably 12 or something like that. Let's see. How many episodes of Blue Ridge do I have to sit through? 14.

Oh, boy. Okay. So I don't know where I'm at three or four or something like that It's okay I get I started watching it But it's not you know if you if you need a Phil show Which I'm actually I should you know Scrunch my nose in 14 episodes It's a Phil show and I've already started it

So will I make it through all 14 at some point I will But there's going to be other shows that could show up And I can get back to that as one of my Phil shows So we have that obviously to look forward to And then I see an interview with Jeff Daniels. And Jeff Daniels is on a show that I didn't know existed. I apologize to Nicole Wallace.

I didn't realize the MSNBC host, a commentator, had her own podcast, and it's called The Best People with Nicole Wallace. Oh, isn't that special? And she interviewed Jeff Daniels. Now, I like a lot of Jeff Daniels work. I do. But he is agonizing. And I know I should have already realized that he's even doubled down on agonization

because I think he co-hosted a couple of times on a Stephen Colbert show. Ooh, I'll help run that show into the ground. But as he's talking to Nicole Wallace, he talks about the state of the country. We've lost decency. We've lost civility. We've lost respect for the rule of law. Uh-huh. Lost it.

Yeah. We have normalized. Who's fault that is? Verbal abuse. Right. Right. Does that never happen before you know who showed up? Normalized bullying.

Much as the woke generation tried to, you know, change that. Uh-huh. Yeah, they sure did. Um, and along out the window goes character. Right. Integrity. Right. I mean, nobody has.

great things to say about politicians I never have Mark go back to Mark Twain but ideally we're supposed to elect the best of us not the worst of us are we

okay and who's the worst of us he's everything that's wrong with not just America but with being a human being right he's everything that's wrong

with not just America, but with being a human being. Wow. Thank you, Jeff Daniels. I will say this. This clip is making the rounds. And the entire podcast is 46 minutes and 24 seconds. I don't know that I can take it.

That doesn't make me want to listen to it. But there may be some good material in it. So I may have to, for you. You don't have to. But I will. I may listen to it just for you, because who knows? There may actually be some more good content in there,

but I doubt it because we've lost civility and we've lost respect for the rule of law. Did he forget about what happened before Donald Trump? Anyway, we've normalized verbal abuse. Yeah, that never happened before Donald Trump took office, did it? No, no, it did not. I don't remember anything being abused, any kind of abuse. any kind of abuse anywhere until that damn Donald Trump showed up.

Jeff, come on. You are supposed to be smarter than that. And I say supposed to be because I really do enjoy a lot of your work. And I know you're just an actor. And I know that Nicole Wallace is talking to the best people. But seriously, Jeff. Come on now. He's everything that's wrong with not just America,

but being a human being. Wow. Okay, Jeff. Maybe just take a step back and take a real look at what you're talking about. Maybe. He's not going to, but I wish he would.

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subscription with a $20 discount. I know, I know, I know, I give and I give and I give. Okay, who died today? Who died today? Well, we have to begin with Malcolm Jamal Warner. Malcolm Jamal Warner dead at the age of 54. Very sad. He drowned. He drowned in Costa Rica. Apparently he got caught up in some riptides and they couldn't get to him. And by the time they did and tried to do life-saving procedures, there was no life to save. Very sad. Malcolm Jamal Warner. You remember him, of course, I'm sure, because he was on the Cosby show. I mean, he was a, you know, that's where he got his start. I was forced to watch him not long ago in a show that my wife loved called The Resident. He was on that show. And he was good, and it was fine. I liked him. He was fine. I like Malcolm Jamal Warner. He told, one of the things that I thought was very cool about Malcolm Jamal Warner is that he talked about his proudest achievement in life. And that was being able to have a post-Cosby life

and post-Cosby career and still have his head on straight. Pretty cool. He said, he had an awesome life. He said at the time, this was back in 2013. I've got my ups and downs and all of that, but if I die tomorrow, I know I would go with a smile on my face. I don't think that was true, but okay. He added, I have a peace of mind, and for me, you can't put a price on that. And I could definitely say that I feel successful in my post-cosby life and having a peace of mind. I mean, that's awesome. That's all you can ask out of your life. right and I saw that Bill Cosby commented and saying he never stopped being a father to him you know obviously he was the TV dad Cosby making a statement although I don't think it was Bill that made the

statement I believe it was his people I think it was Bill's due people I don't think Bill speaks anymore not in public that's all I'm saying he's 88 now and he's probably struggling struggling health-wise although you know better than at some home confound than in prison. But he said, and I say he, his spokesperson, his due person, also shared that Cosby told him, while I was their TV dad,

I never stopped being a father to them. Okay. And he also compared, not Bill, but the spokesperson said that Bill compared Warner's death to losing his own son, who was murdered in 1987. Okay. So at least Bill is having his due people speak

on the sadness of the death. of Malcolm Jamal Warner. So rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner dead at the age of 54. I hope that it doesn't come out that he was drunk or high or on, you know, doing some things that weren't right. Gosh darn it. I hope. I mean, it doesn't matter now.

No, but I don't want it to tarnish him. I like Malcolm Jamal Warner. So if it was actually an accident and he was swimming in Costa Rica and he got caught up in this ripped tide and couldn't get out of it, that happens. And it's horrible. and I certainly don't wish that on anyone. But I hope that it wasn't caused because he was using some coincident drugs or alcohol.

That would be sad. That would be even sadder than just, well, he died. So rest in peace to Malcolm Jamal Warner dead at the age of 54. We lost another actor, Tom Troop. And I bet you I will bill at any money that I'm pronouncing his name wrong. It's Tom, T-R-O-U-P-E. And if I pronouncing it wrong, I apologize.

But I'm going to say his last name is Troop. He was on Mary Hartman. He was a Star Trek actor. He was in Cheers. Kelly's Heroes, my own private Idaho. He's one of those guys. He is one of those guys that you go, oh, yeah, that guy. He is one of those, that guys.

He has passed away at the age of 97. So, rest in peace to Tom Troop. He died in Beverly Hills, California, at his home of natural causes, according to the release and his family members. And his wife died in 2023, so I'm sure that he was really struggling the last couple of years without his wife.

And so, when you see him, you go, oh, yeah, that guy. Tom Troop. And if that's not how he pronounce his name, I apologize. Dead at the age of 97. Then I never got to last. Last week to say rest in peace to former Nigerian president,

Mohababadu Buhari, former military general who campaigned on rooting out government corruption in Nigeria has died at the age of 82. Apparently he died after a prolonged illness in London. He did not die in Nigeria. Huh, weird. So, you know, the current Nigerian president sent their condolences to Bihari's wife and offered his vice president to travel.

of the UK to accompany Buhari's body back to Nigeria, so he's going to be buried in Nigeria. Rest in peace to former Nigerian president, Muhammadu, Buhari, dead at the age of 82. You know, speaking of Nigeria and Africa, I see that the DRC, Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda, the rebel group M23, they have signed a declaration of principles. Remember, they were in D.C. signing a piece of paper that said that they were going to sign a piece of paper for peace. They signed a declaration of principles. Okay. So this is just another paper that they're signing. They're getting closer to actually signing the paper that actually means something in Qatar. The document brings the two sides just another step closer to a permanent ceasefire agreement.

Okay. I mean, this is one of the longest conflicts of the planet Earth. So I mean, in 1994, we had the Rwandan genocide. two million hoodies crossed into eastern DRC. Violence between armed militias drew foreign powers until, I don't know, the mid-90s, there was two wars. We would kill millions of people, at least six million people have died. So I guess we're still killing people, just not as many. And they're trying to get this to stop.

So according to all reports, the DRC in Rwanda, the group M23, I guess who's running Rwanda now. They are, you know, one step closer. They're not completely done with it, though. You know, sure, we're going to say we're going to release prisoners and, you know, detainees. But we'll see if that actually happens. Now, it's supposed to happen in August. We'll see if the two sides are still able to do that come August.

But according to this, that declaration of principles were signed. So we are one step closer to. the DRC and the Rwanda war ending. Amazing. Another war ending in the world now that we have a new president in office. In South Korea, I saw a story where they had flooding and landslides, at least 17 people, at least that they're acknowledging and 11 more are unaccounted for in these intense downpours in South Korea. Very sad.

And then I saw a story about the Texas flooding that we had the amazing, unbelievable Texas flooding in South Texas. Apparently, we are down to only missing three people now. They say, we've lost, you know, I don't know how many lives, over 130 lives. Mercury 1 is still down there. And if you want to help any way you can go to Mercury 1.org. 100% of your donations go to whatever catastrophe, tragedy they're working. on. You just have to tell them where the money, where you want the money to go, Mercury1.org. But many of the people that were considered, well, we had the list, right? There was like

180 or 90 missing. And we figure those people are all dead. Many of them have been found alive. So, I mean, that's something to really smile about. So, I mean, we're down to three people missing. And I guess we're just, if they're missing, we assume that they're dead. But many of them aren't. So that's good news coming from this tragedy. Right? Right. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. And I cannot leave the show today without mentioning Hunter Biden, a son of former the United States president,

Joe Biden. He was on a podcast called Channel 5. It's a YouTube show podcast, Channel 5 with Andrew Callahan. Now, it's a YouTube podcast. I had not heard of this show before, but he's got millions of followers. And it's interesting that Hunter chose this particular show to be interviewed on.

It's like three hour long. It's like a Joe Rogan interview with Hunter Biden. And he just rambles on and on and on. And he gave us recipes for crack. He gave us why we need immigrants in this country, because how are you going to get your hotel room cleaned? How do you get food on your table? How do you wash your dishes?

I don't know, Hunter. We'll figure it out. We have to have the illegals here to do all that. Yeah, I got it. Okay. So my faith, I mean, there was three cuts that just are my, my new Hunter Biden favorites. Okay. So a couple of them are political-ish.

The third is a recipe. Which I love. So the first is he talks about why his dad had such a poor performance at the debate. Remember, after the debate with Donald. Trump, it was over. He was out. The Democratic Party did a coup and kicked him out. Have a nice day. You're done. And we decided, without anybody's vote, that we wanted Kamala Harris to be the Democratic

National nominee, and so it be. So it was. But he had an idea of why his dad had such a poor performance at that particular debate. I know exactly what happened in that debate. He flew around the world. basically the mileage that he could have flown around the world three times. Yeah. He's 81 years old. He's tired as shit. Give him Ambien to be able to sleep.

He gets up on the stage, and he looks like he's a deer in the headlights. Yeah, it was because he took too much Ambien to sleep. He'd been traveling so much. I don't know that it was ever reported that he had a prescription for Ambient. So maybe we need to look into that, but they won't. I will say that's what happened to Joe Biden. He's just been traveling around the world and he needed to sleep.

He's an 81 year old man. And they gave him an ambient to sleep better. Maybe one of his, you know, do people said, here, just take one of these. And he did. And then he just couldn't get it, get up and going. Really? You take an ambient to sleep and then it takes a while to get you up and going.

Okay. All right, sure. If you want to use that for an excuse, go ahead. I mean, the entire interview is Hunter using the F-bomb which I'm okay with, but most of America is not. But he talked about George Clooney and F him and everybody around him. Yeah, F them. They cost me my connection to global leaders who were giving me a bunch of money to do nothing

and be able to just smoke crack any damn time I wanted to and have hookers come in and out, okay? F all those people. I mean, good on my man. My man, Andrew Callahan, from his YouTube channel, Channel 5. Good on him. I would have loved to interview Hunter Biden.

I would have asked him about Bo. And I would have asked him why he didn't title his book, I'm Not Bo. All of this. That was so much good stuff in here. He was just a beating up on Nancy Pelosi and F her and F-Bom here and F-bomb there. It was awesome. It was three hours of Hunter just going off.

Now, perhaps Hunter is back smoking crack again. I don't know. I don't think so because he talks about, he doesn't want to talk about it because talking about it will remind him how euphoric it makes him feel and he won't be able to say no to it. I'm pretty sure that's what he means when he gives the recipe for crack cocaine. Andy also gives some information on crack that I don't know that I was aware of. There's the only difference between crack cocaine and cocaine is sodium bicarbonate and water and heat.

That's it. That's it. And those things are pretty much free if you go to like a science store. They're not pretty much free. You can go to your neighborhood convenience store and just get, anyway, I don't want to tell people. how to make crack cocaine, but it literally is a manage jar of cocaine and baking is how different is the experience. That's literally, yeah. It's vastly, vastly different.

For real, I feel really reluctant to kind of have some euphoric discussion. I know you're not asking you do that. Right. Because if I start talking about crack cocaine, I think this might be kind of the opposite here. Okay, no, it's the exact opposite. I'm saying I don't want to have the experience of some euphoric recall. that's how powerful. Euphoric recall.

That's how powerful it is. I like that. Is cocaine make you act any differently? No. Oh, I didn't know that. Alcohol? Probably. People think of crack as being dirty.

It's the exact opposite. Oh, okay. When you make crack, what you're doing is you're burning off all the impurities. Right, so it's perfect. It's perfect. Which makes it smokeable. That's all.

You know, all of these actors and, you know, people in the past that talked about, they had a problem with cocaine and free basing. They were smoking crack. Oh, okay. So strong on the stove is the same thing. Not exactly. No, no, no.

But you're close, too. Yeah, close. It's a little bit different. But anyway, my point about it, your point about it, which I think is true, is that there's a thing about crack that is really insidious. Uh-huh. And what it is is that any time, you know, I think one of the reasons that they believe that smoking cigarettes is so addictive is because it combines, different chemicals in your body. It's habit forming.

There's an oral fixation and there is a ritual combined with it. Yes, there is. We've talked about that many times here on this show. There's a habit and a fixation that we learned very early, even as children. Right. The pacifier with a spoon with your thumb, even to breastfeeding. Okay, so that really, so I, and I don't want to get into the psychotic. So it's just like breastfeeding.

I'm no expert. But I do know this, is that you combine with that ignition, combustion, and then you combine the ritual, You have your cigarette in the morning. You're starting to have a euphoric recall. You have your cigarette with your coffee. Crack is that on steroids. It's over and over. There's ritual to it.

There's a ritualized part of it. The combination of all of those addictive behaviors together becomes like really powerful. And drug in and of itself is immediate euphoric. It doesn't make you do anything different though. You said that. Than in my experience, cocaine alone. Does it require it? I can't.

Thank you. Hunter, thank you. I know, but he was close to having that euphoric recall. Who? I wish I was, I mean, I've, good for, you know, this guy for getting Hunter to do this interview. But how are, how is the Biden family allowing that to happen? Holy cow. Wow.

All right, let's get out of here. That really should just be the joke of the day. It really should be just the joke of the day. But I'll give you an hack. actual joke of the day. I had a Trump joke. I'll do the Trump joke in honor of Jeff Daniels and Hunter Biden

and their hatred for Donald Trump. I'll give you a Trump joke that I saw in my timeline the other day. Trump dies, so they all should be happy about that. Trump dies, and he goes to hell. And he sees the devil and the devil says,

oh man, I'm all full. But you definitely need to be here. So, I'm going to let you choose. We're full, but I'm going to let you choose who we kick out so that you can take their place. And there's three doors there. Pick one of those doors, and that's who you're going to replace,

and that's where you're going to stay in hell. So he opens up door one, it's Barack Obama diving off a diving board into a pool, and he says, oh, man, I don't think I could just, and he keeps doing it. Hopping out of the pool, jumping on the diving board, back on the pool. I don't think I can jump up and down off this diving.

board and jumping into a pool for eternity. So I'm going to go to door number two. He opens up door number two. And there's George W. Bush, banging rocks. It's got a hammer, and he just keeps banging rocks. And then when he's done banging a rock, another rock appears. And he has to continue to bang the rocks. And he goes, oh, Trump says, ah, my shoulder.

I can't see myself, you know, banging out rocks for eternity. Let's try door number three. And he opens up door number three. And there's Bill Clinton tied up in a bed and Monica Lewinsky on top of Bill doing what Monica Lewinsky was famous for doing to President Bill Clinton. And Trump looks and says, yeah, you know, okay. You know what? I can do that for eternity. So I choose door number three.

And the devil says, okay, Monica, you're out. See, because, oh, no, you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.