Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Attack of the Pods… | 5/30/23

Episode Date: May 30, 2023

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Seldana was 22 at the time of the shooting work full-time as a construction worker. He was one of the three men charged with the attack. He was convicted, six counts of attempted murder, one count of shooting at an occupied vehicle, and was sentenced to 45 years to life in state prison. Boy, you don't get those convictions back anymore. But in February, a Los Angeles District Attorney's Office learned that another convicted attacker had told authorities in 2017 during a parole hearing that Saldana was not involved in the shooting in any way. And he wasn't even present during the incident. That former district attorney didn't say anything. I just forgot to say something. What are you going to do? You know what? Maybe I didn't even hear it.

So that caused him to spend another six years in prison before the district attorney's office reopened the case and declared him innocent. He was saying it's a struggle every day waking up knowing you're innocent. And here I am locked up in a cell crying for help. And I know everyone is innocent in prison. This is me speaking. Not Daniel. I get it. But he said, I'm just so happy this day came.

Yeah. No kidding. they're still investigating who's responsible for the wrongful conviction and of course they are. I'm sure they're going to dig deep for that. But one of

the things that is surprising to me is that he had an opportunity for parole at least six times. Now he was denied those parole offerings, those six

times, largely because he He refused to admit guilt. He would not bend the knee to the parole board and admit guilt, which cost him, you know, years in prison. Amazing. I don't know that I could do it because you want to get out of there. So it's a matter of, yes, I admitted that I did it, but I just did it because I wanted to get out of there. No. Daniel Seldon said, no, I will not bend the knee.

Amazing. 33 years in prison. And he could have bent the knee a lot sooner to get out and wouldn't do it. Incredible. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. More crime as we go. So we move along here on Chewing the Fat.

A story that has just gnawed at me, the entire Memorial Day weekend. If you're listening live today is the 30th of May, 2023. We're just coming off of Memorial Day weekend. three-day weekend. And this story has nod at me for the entire weekend. So several packages of cocaine washed up on Dauphin Island in Alabama. Dauphin Island is off the coast of Alabama. It's in the Gulf of Mexico. It's beautiful. It's right there where Florida and Alabama meet, and it's gorgeous. So there were 25 kilos valued at $45,000. $45,000. E. beach. Okay? Now, a pair of beachgoers searching for seashells on the West End who found them

or reported it to police. That's how we know about it. You found 25 kilos. Now, I'm hoping. I am hoping with all my heart, the only thing that saves me about this story is that perhaps there were 30 kilos and they did the chewing the fat plan where there were 30 kilos and we're going to turn in 25. We're good Samaritans and man, we were we had to turn this stuff in. We were out looking for seashells and we had to turn these in. So you have the police saying, yeah, something like this falling into the wrong hands could have been catastrophic. And we recovered the drugs and we've contacted.

Homeland Security and we are looking for it. We're most likely the drugs were tossed off a boat. Thank you, detective. And so I'm just saying the only thing that makes me half feel good about this story is that this family or these two people, these two beachgoers out searching for sea shells on Dauphin Island on a beautiful day decided that, you know, we can't take it all. And we need to, we don't want the cartels after us. We don't want the police after us.

Look, here's what we found. 25 kilos. I know. So it was all washed up on the beach here. We've got to call the police. Hurry up and put the other five in the trunk. More on crime. More on crime.

On Friday, during What's the Lie? One of the headlines during What's the Lie was Millionaire's Elaborate Jail Escape Plan foiled in Florida. That was a true story. That was not the lie. And I love the story. It's about this multimillionaire's attempt to break out of jail. I mean, he's no Joaquin El Chapo Guzman, but he thought he was. So they have foiled his attempt.

He's an elderly businessman. He's like 78 now. He's in jail. His name is John Manchek. And he had enlisted all these people to help him escape the Indian, according to the Indian River County Sheriff. Essentially, the plan comes down to this. These folks are on the outside.

They're going to wait until Manchek has a doctor's visit. And then they're going to take out the correction staff while he's out at the medical facility. The plan called for Manchek's employees to pepper spray prison guards, take him to his private plane and nearby Fort Pierce so that he could fly. to France. He has a dual U.S. and French citizenship. He was arrested in 2014 on 49 child pornography charges. Then he left the country to avoid prosecution after posting a $500,000 bond, moved to his medieval estate in southern France, the Chateau Petriegal. France denied U.S. attempts to extrad him, but he couldn't just stay there. He ended up having to go to the Dominican Republic.

public, I guess, I'm guessing he was like, I can't do this. I need some more pornography. Or I need some illegal sex in my life. So I'm going to go to the Dominican Republic. And then he was arrested there and eventually returned to Florida. Now, he had requested permission to leave jail in January, which was denied. The escape plot centered around this medical appointment, and at least one of the people involved tipped off law enforcement, allowing investigators to unravel the plot. So he tried to me. They had his plane prepared.

They had his 140-foot yacht prepared, a military utility van and other vehicles purchased for the escape attempt. He even paid the bail for a cellmate and then allowed them to live in his home. And that person helped prepare for the escape down to packing a suitcase with his feet. favorite liquor, isn't that special? So all he had to do was

get to the doctor's office and then he could be back to his castle in France. Nope, not happening. So now he's back in jail with additional charges related to the escape. Two inmates and two employees were also

arrested in charge with conspiracy in the escape plot. Wow. Plus he's still going down or they're going to attempt to take him down for the child pornography. investigation. What a douchebag. And I might as well recap another story too.

On Friday, we talked about the South Korean airline that had the emergency exit door kicked open while it was still in the air. It was 700 feet in the air. It was on its attempt to landing. I was on his way down to land, not to crash. And the guy just opened the door.

Remember, I thought it was just a bet. He sat there the whole time during the flight going, oh man, you're not going to, you don't have the guts to click over that door. Kick it open. Go ahead. kick it open. And so he finally did on the descent to land. But no, he claims now

that he felt suffocated on the hour-long flight. So he yanked open the door, sending air rushing into the cabin. The video is amazing. And so he's, and this is what he gets for this, though, if convicted and he's already said he did it.

He's violating aviation security law. He faces a maximum of 10,000, years in prison. Yeah. You thought you felt suffocated in that airplane for an hour. Good luck with 10 years in prison, my friend.

Good luck. I also was concerned that I thought the emergency doors couldn't be open during flight. I thought you couldn't kick them open like that. And apparently you can't. The difference in air pressure inside and outside of the aircraft. Hello. But because they were descending to land, the, they were like 700 feet above the ground with that low altitude,

that there wasn't much difference in pressure, so he was able to open it up. So he picked the perfect time to do it, which is why I thought it was a joke. But do, it was not a joke. He felt suffocated. Okay. All right. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

How about that? ending to succession, huh? How about that ending to succession? How about that ending to fatal attraction? Huh? How about those endings? I know. I know.

I got an email Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. By the way, you can email anytime your little heart desires chewing the fat at theblaze.com. From Susan, who was saying in her email, lots of shows ending. Mrs. Maisel, not sure if you watch this. Excellent finessell. Allie, one of the best. I got burned out on it. I started on it, and then I never went back to it.

Probably will, now that the writer's strike is on. It's a show to watch that I still have plenty to watch and get caught up. Fatal attraction, according to Susan, terrible ending. Yeah, although I kind of saw it coming a couple of episodes before, but you're right, they really didn't set it up a whole lot different. It was just like, okay, this is how we're going to end it, and that's it. I really, I know. I know. Succession loved the ending. The whole broken family is filled with horrible broken people.

A happy ending would not have been fitting. No question. No question about that. I don't even, I think it was almost too happy. Too happy of an ending. I mean, that scene, and I know it's a spoiler alert if you haven't seen it, but it was, you know, get over it. That scene of them in the kitchen as adults being kids again, how they do. never left. I mean, that's how they were their entire life. Really, really kind of tough to watch, knowing that that's the life that they had and now they want to be in charge of everything. I know. And so now Susan asked what to watch. I used to start watching from its excellent season on Friday. I know. I actually, I almost wanted to start watching that. It's kind of like, I think

it's from the guy who created Lost. And I, it's, you know, you go into the city. You can. can't get out. And I almost started watching it a little while back than I didn't for whatever reason. I'll get to it. It's kind of like similar to the Netflix show, what was it called? The In Between where people were dying. I know the plot is a little bit different, but these people are locked into the same area and are trying a way to get out. It was okay. I wanted the in between to be better than it was. And then we still have the dead. I mean, Fear of the Walking Dead. The last couple episodes have been really good. My Talking Walking Dead episode that usually we put up on Monday, we couldn't because of the holiday. And now everybody's schedule is

kind of mishmashing. So we'll try to get an episode of Talking Walking Dead up this week. But if not, we'll do a quick double TWD next week. I will say I was very disappointed about one thing in this Fear of the Walking Dead episode. And we'll talk about it. The actual Talking Walking Dead podcast. We can talk about it here for just a moment. I had a theory of who I believed someone to be, that we didn't know who that someone was until,

and that was last week. Now, this week, we've come to find out that my theory was not right. And it hurt. It hurt. It hurt me to realize that my theory was not right. You can follow me on Twitter at Jeff. Jeffrey JFR, Instagram, and Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can always email the show, as I said, Chewing the Fat of the Blaze.com.

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at Jeff EJFR. I mean, we still have some sports to watch. We have the NHL Stanley Cup finals. The Florida Panthers and the Vegas Golden Knights begins Saturday night, June 3rd. The Panthers have been sitting around, you know, partying with their skates up on the stool. So we'll see how that holds up.

I saw a stat last night, as I was watching a little bit of the game against Vegas and Dallas. Dallas got there. Bud's kicked. Vegas was saying, we are going to the Stanley Cup finals, okay? And so the stat was like a team has never won

after taking like nine days off or whatever. And I think the Panthers, when this game starts, on Saturday, will have been nine days off. So Vegas may, you know, may win the Stanley Cup finals. The NBA championship is now set. The Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat. begin their championship games on Thursday night on June 1st, by the way, of 2023.

And Denver has been just like the Florida Panthers. They've been hanging out, just going, you guys let us know when you're ready. We're just over here, you know, we're over here at the bar, and we just let us know when you want us to play. So we'll see. I don't know. It just feels like those resting teams could be, you know, it works. either way, right? And this is the sports prognosticator in me, that you either are too rested and you need to, you know, it takes a while to get the blood running again, and the other team comes in and kicks your buck because they've been playing. They're tired, but they've been playing, and they're ready to go. And same with basketball, right? So both these teams, hockey and basketball. The teams that have been playing are tired and it's been a long series, but they're still in it. Their blood is still pumping. The Panthers and the, the

The Nuggets have been sitting back at the bar, smoking cigars, and having drinks, waiting for another team to show up. So we'll see. We'll see how it goes. We still have those to watch. Anyway, that's, you know, kind of good news, right? And, you know, I started this weekend because of the ending of these shows I was looking for something else to watch, and I started watching Deadwood again. My gosh, what a great show. Fantastic show.

If you have not seen Deadwood on HBO, I'm sorry, Max. You know what? Let's get off on that for a second. I want just, I'll just, I got to remember to get back to HBO and Max. Okay, so Deadwood, started watching Deadwood again. Fantastic shows. My gosh. I started watching, just I started watching from, you know, season one, episode one.

And they are so good. I mean, that show was really, really good. And is really, really good. It still holds up, man. It's fantastic. So if you have a chance and you haven't seen Deadwood, absolutely go back and watch the series on HBO Max. And then they, of course, you know, ended the series,

and then they ended, came back with the movie. And we've been all through that. But well worth, well worth to watch. I mean, the Sopranos were great. Succession was great. Six feet under was great. I'm just talking about HBO shows now. But Deadwood, I don't know.

Deadwood might be number one. I got to tell you, I started watching that first season again. and it's still really, really good. Okay, so let's go back to HBO and Max. I do not like the new logo. I don't know what. I don't like Max on my screen. I keep thinking at Cinemax.

I don't know why. HBO is the brand. And I got all the little reasoning behind it, but I don't know. And it was fun to talk about HBO going to be Max. It's HBO. Max, but it was still HBO. And to take HBO

out of the picture, I think defeats what it was. And again, you know, they did not consult me. I was not consulted in any of this. I just know that it irks me to see Max on my, on my streaming app screen when it should be

HBO. And so that's where we're at. Still the great content that it always was, but it's just Max now. Yeah. Yeah, I know. I got it. Boarding for Flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.

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saw him, a TV star, and hit-making singer, he is dead at the age of 95. Ed's been around for a while. Now, I will say that no cause of Ed's death was given. So you start looking at me like that, you know, it's possible, but I didn't say it because no cause was given, okay? If you're not sure who Ed Ames is, now he was in a lot of shows, Daniel Boone, he played India and stuff,

but his big moment that made him a star forever was on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. Remember the scene of the guy that throws the Tomahawk at the outline of the cowboy and hits the cowboy right in the groin? Yes, that

was Ed Ames. Ed Ames. Ed Ames dead at the age of 95. Then we have George Maharas. George Maharas, star of Route 66. You remember Route 66, don't you? The popular 1960s CBS series? Of course you do. Well, he's dead at the age of 94, George Mahars.

Sorry about it, George. I remember he was on Route 66. I mean, it was a big show at the time. And then he left. He contracted hepatitis. And the doctor, then he tried to come back after a couple months and he started getting sick again. And the doc said, you got to give it up. He claimed it took him a couple of years to get back to actual work again because of the hepatitis.

And so, you know, hello. I guess it worked out okay. He lived to be 94 years old. But you've seen him in a lot of other stuff too. And he played in a lot of, you know, in the days of all. the shows that I like to joke around about the Quinn Martin productions. I mean, he played on

Marcus Welby, Night Gallery, McMillan, and wife, the Bionic Woman, Fantasy Island. He was on all those. And I know those are not all Quinn Martin productions, but you know what I mean in the 70s show. He was in the miniseries, rich man, poor man, too. Whatever, man. During the time when that aired in the, I don't know,

mid to late 70s, that was a monster show for television. So George Maharas, dead. at the age of 94. We have one more. Milt Larson. Milt Larson. The Magic Castle co-founder

and TV game show writer dead at 92. I know. I know. It doesn't say what he died of either. So don't look at me like that. I'm just, you know, I'm just passing you the news, okay?

He worked as a writer for TV game shows for years with Bob Barker and the truth. or consequences, I think was his big show. And then he transformed the Gothic Renaissance mansion in Hollywood as the Academy of Magical Arts. It's the place, the Magic Castle. Man, he's the guy.

So he's the guy with the Magic Castle. He did so much more with his life in Hollywood. And he produced shows. And he was a big part of that Hollywood Renaissance. And he was also a collector. he has relationships with all these old legendary performers, so he has memorabilia from those days of vaudeville, as well as 78 RPM records,

might be very, very interesting to listen to some of that stuff, man. I bet you it is fantastic. Anyway, Milt Larson dead at the age of 92. Okay, so when we talk about how, of the hoity-toity. Sure, we can talk about, you know, Jeff Bezos' new place that he purchased for $175 million in Beverly Hills, and it's been under construction. Then the construction stopped. And now it's back up and running again, I guess construction. People, crews are on the site, the 10-acre beachfront private estate with the three-story main home guest house, Jim, security guard house, you know, all of it. It's all there retaining walls. All of it's beautiful. It's wonderful. Plus, let's not forget when you talk about houses of the hoity-toity. I mean, Bezos has got his Art Deco block in Manhattan's Upper West Side.

That was the four apartments there. Doesn't say what he paid for that. And then he's got the $23 million dump in Washington, D.C. And I think he has more than one place in Beverly Hills as well in Los Angeles. I mean, you can't have just one place. in Los Angeles, because you've got to be up in the hills, and then you want to be close to the city sometimes. So you've got to have at least two places to stay.

That's just, you just have to. So, well, he'll have some place to show up to once he's done gallivanting the planet on his new yacht with the new wife to be, the fiancé, who by the way, I will say, uh, hoof, Lauren, man, you got to lay off the fillers, baby. Just please lay off the fillers. And I know if Jeff likes it, then you're going to do it. I understand. And I know you're happier than ever.

And you've finally found someone that you can just spend your life with. And you're just happier than a pig and poop. I know you are. But lay off the fillers, please. Just tell Jeff, hey, Jeff, I can't. I can't do this anymore. Okay. My lips are too big.

She's not telling Jeff that. She's just not. She's just not. Get him on the phone. I'll talk to him about it, but she's not telling Jeff that at all. But when you're speaking of Los Angeles and the houses of the hoity-to-dy, I would be more interested in seeing this homeless man's tent who gave a local news outlet a tour.

He's got full power supply, a projector, a laptop, and a sound system. Why do you need a home? Well, that is your home. So Pedro Ramirez said he uses a generator to power the devices and a hotspot for Wi-Fi. I'm not doing anything wrong, according to Pedro. I'm not stealing power from anyone.

It makes me feel like I'm home. According to Pedro, he charges his generator and electronic devices at a metro station in Hollywood. I guess we provide that, so yeah, I mean, it doesn't say you can't wheel in your generator

and recharge that. When asked about going to permanent housing provided by the government, he said, They treat us like prisoners in there. You can't even take a lighter in there. They won't let you take razors to shave. So he's lived in his tent for two years.

It took him a week to set it up. It has wall-to-wall carpet, an airbed. That's awesome. I mean, if you're homeless and you can pull that off, that is awesome. I know that many people that are homeless are not living as well as my man, Pedro Ramirez.

But I get, you know, why not? if you can. I know the cameraman said, this is better to my apartment. Now, that's a quote from the story. Is it better than the cameraman's apartment? Doubtful. But that's what you would say if you're out there shooting and you're trying

to be nice to the guy. Wow. It's really nice. It's better than my apartment. Okay. All right. Thank you. Oh, and I need to thank Skynews. At least skynews.com. I'd like to thank you personally. for listening to this podcast, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

I really appreciate you listening, and I would hope that you would do as other subscribers do, and that is tell your friends and family to subscribe to Chewing the Fat. In fact, in your stories that you get from me, just give me credit. That's all. I don't even, I don't want any money from you. Well, you just give me credit, because I see a big headline story,

over this past weekend, saying beginning of the end, Megan Markle is absolutely separating from Prince Harry. Yes, and that's happening, which has been predicted on this show, quite some time ago. So I appreciate you coming along for the ride, skynews.com.com. Yes, it's going to happen. And by the way, I feel like you've kind of turned it around a little bit, so it's like Megan is going to throw Prince Harry back to the wolves.

I think it's going to be the other way around. I think Harry is going to say, nope, I've had enough of you. And he's just going to be gone. Megan's going to wake up on the west side of the Montecito estate. And Harry's going to have the kids, and they're already going to be on a flight back to London. And the next time you see Harry is going to be him getting out of the limo, getting into

headed into Windsor with the kids that would be tremendous if that were to happen and I believe that it will now that having been said I will say that I never thought Elizabeth Holmes would end up in jail and today the Theranos founder

is expected to report to a Texas federal prison to serve an 11 year sentence for defrauding investors she was convicted of course last year of fraud and conspiracy relating to her Silicon Valley blood testing startup.

But I didn't think she'd ever ended up in jail, man. She fought it quite some time. But she's headed there. She's supposed to begin her 11 year sentence today at the minimum security Brian Prison Camp in Texas. Now inmates, according to this, at

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So I've had this story in the fat pile for a while and I keep blowing past it and so I thought I'd finally share it with you. Officials at a hospital in Western Germany have expressed regret after it emerged that one of their surgeons got a cleaner to assist in a toe amputation. Now, okay, so the deal is, is that they were pissed because there was nobody to help the doctor assist in this toe amputation. So he sees this cleaner, this hospital worker, and says, hey, what are you doing? Why don't you come here? Okay?

I need you to help me. I've already got this patient here. I've already given him local anesthetic. Let's go. I need you to hold the man's leg. passed a couple of surgical instruments to me, and we'll all be fine. Okay. So I realized that the cleaner had no medical experience, but he wasn't doing anything medical.

He was holding the guy's leg and passing the instruments that the doctor requested to be passed. So it would seem to me that the hospital would be at fault for not providing this doctor, ample employees, to do his job. But that's just me. And the only reason they really found out about it is, I guess the hospital manager spotted the cleaner with bloody gauze pads in his hands in the operating theater. And this should never have happened. Well, okay, why is that the doctor's fault? It doesn't say that because of that, the guy's toe is still there and he couldn't cut it off.

In fact, they cut off his whole leg because of the cleaner. No, he just performed the surgery. really weird. I'm not sure I get it. I know that, you know, the guy is not, you know, a nurse or an anesthesiologist or, you know, an emergency room or a surgery room helper. I got it. But in those emergency room and surgery room helpers, man, they are great. But anyway, I just don't understand why it's such a big deal. The guy just seems like you had to get your toe amputated. So, who cares? Who's holding your leg and handing the knife to the dock. Well, apparently

this hospital does. Okay, animals are fighting back. And no, I'm not talking about the guy in Florida who lost his arm to the 10 foot alligator. Now, I know that, look, he fell into a pond. He came out of a bar, he needed to relieve

himself, he went, started walking toward the pond, tripped, fell in the water, and the gator was like, ooh, food. And a bit off his arm. And then his buddies rescued him, pulled him out and they finally got the gator and they euthanized him. It doesn't say, I don't believe he got his arm back though. I think the arm was still in the gator and it was not going to be glued back on the guy.

But he was taking it in great stride saying, I lost an arm. It's not the end of the world. Yes, that's very true. You did lose an arm and it is not the end of the world. And it's not really animals fighting back. You should not have fallen into his territory. You were inebriated and fell into his territory and the gator was like, ooh, how you doing? That looks like something I could eat.

And then he realized it wasn't. So you lived. All right. But now we have whales that are attacking boats or attacking yachts off the coast of Spain. Right? So animals are kind of fighting back. We've had a three boats have been. sunk by orcas in the Iberian coast since 2020.

Yeah, I know. It appears to be a coordinated effort by the killer whales to attack ships in the area. Holy cow. So the leading theory is that a female orca suffered a traumatic incident with a a critical moment of agony that caused her to start attacking the vessels because there have been some attacks where the boats did not sink. They were just ramming the boats and being threatening to the boat, but they didn't sink them. So yeah, because the majority of the disruptive interactions between the orcas and the boats off the Iberian Peninsula have been brief caused minimal physical

damage to the vessels. So we're fine. And this was of course published in the journal Marine mammal science. So it's got to be true. But on at least three occasions, including one incident this past month involving a sailing yacht, the orcas sank the boat. They are, we've got a gang of orcas out there sinking ships and they're getting stronger and smarter every day. So just watch yourself. Just watch

yourself. And those of you that laughed at Norway warning residents to stay away, from the friendly whale. Maybe you're not, maybe you don't take them so silly anymore. The beluga whale, that experts say was a Russian spy. I mean, it had a little camera on its head.

It was an adorable little sea creature. And it just, it has an underwater camera on it. And it's a trained whale, and they believe that it's trained by the Russian Navy. so when you start thinking no way a beluga whale it's kind of a beluga whale is kind of a it's not as big as an orca that's for sure but it still could do some damage it's more dolphinish a little bit bigger than a dolphin but it's more dolphinish than you know a giant

killer whale and so you know showing up and being nice and you know giving a little bit of love to humans is great but you know now it's got cameras on it and it's got people feeding them so Norway's like, no, no, no, that is a Russian spy. Leave it be. Don't be doing anything with the stupid beluga whale. That's the Russian Navy. Okay? So, don't be laughing.

I'm hoping that the pod of orcas that are sinking ships, I don't have anything to do with those bastard Russians either, but I don't know that, and neither do you. All right, I'm going to leave you with a few. things to ponder today. Things to ponder, some pondering. I saw 10 things to ponder on some social media thread and I thought, oh, that's, that's some pondering right there. So I thought I'd share it with you. Okay, 10 things to ponder. Number one, if the number two pencil is the most popular, why is it still number two? Number two, why do we press harder on the remote control?

when we know the batteries are getting weak because, I'll tell you, the answer to that is because it'll make it work. It'll make it work. That's like turning the radio down when you're looking for directions trying to find a place. It works.

It has to be quiet to find the place. It just has to be. Number four, or number three, why are you in a movie but on TV? These are just things to ponder here on chewing the fat. What was the best? best thing before sliced bread. Well, hello, just a freshly baked loaf of bread. Number five,

why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? That's a good question, actually. Why do fat chance and slim chance mean the same thing? Actually, they don't. Fat chance means it's, you know, not going to happen at all. Slim chance means there's a shot. Is still got a shot. Slim chance of that happening. That means you still got a shot. Fat chance. Yeah, you don't have a shot. It's over. Number seven, why do British people never sound British when they sing? You know, that's a good question. There's a whole bunch of British people sounding like Americans just to get work. And I, for one, I guess I'm okay with it because there's a lot of really good characters, but some people are not okay with it. Number eight, at a movie theater,

which armrest is yours. Here, allow me, allow me to answer that for you. The one I have my arm on. It's a good question. Now, I would believe that most people believe that I believe that most people believe that the armrest on the left

is your armrest because you're usually dipping your fat face. You're usually dipping your fat hand into the popcorn container, right? So if you're left-handed, foof, sit on the end, baby. So, number nine of things to ponder.

Why are there no B batteries? That's a good question. We have to go to the Congo to find the answer out to that. And number 10. Of the things to ponder today on chewing the fat. Why do people say, heads up when you should duck? They just want you to be aware that something is coming your way.

And so do a quick heads up to see if you can spot what's coming your way. And if you can't, duck. But sometimes you don't heads up fast enough before it's too late. And you should have ducked. And you get dinged in the head. I know. It's just the way it is. It's just the way it is.

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