Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Board Gaming?... | 6/27/24

Episode Date: June 27, 2024

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We'd love to talk. Business. Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. If ever, there was evidence and proof of the rule from this show, Chewing the Fat, that just because someone sticks a microphone in your face doesn't mean you have to speak. This is it. If NASA says it's too hot to go to the sun, then why don't we go at night when the sun turns off?

Yes. You heard her correctly. I don't know what kind of question and answer program it was. I saw this on an X account called Mustang Man, Texas, and under the heading, we are doomed. I will just say that you need to follow the chewing the fat rules, please. Just because someone puts a microphone in your face doesn't mean. you have to speak.

I'm happy that they do, because it gives us, if NASA says it's too hot to go to the sun, then why don't we go at night when the sun turns off? That. But, because of that, we could be doomed.

Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. You know, I have been seeing more and more Tesla, cyber trucks on the road. I mean, they're pretty cool. They look kind of cool on the road. I don't know that I want one, but it might be fun to have one. Well, now I see that they're part of a big recall. The recall is, I guess, the fourth one for the cyber truck. This one is the front windshield wiper motor controller can stop working because it's getting too much electrical current. So,

the wiper that fails can cut visibility, increasing the risk of a crash. Tesla says, we don't know of anyone who's had crashes or injuries because of the problem. But they're going to replace the motor at no cost to the owners. I guess you're going to be notified by letter on August 18th. Then there's another recall for a piece of trim that was installed with adhesive that may or may not have been done properly at the factory. They're going to replace that piece of trim as well. And they're going to be notified of that with the letter on August 18th. I don't know if it's going to be the same letter that you get for the windshield wiper

or if legally it has to be separate letters. But those are the two latest recalls for the cyber truck. You know, okay, so they're going to go ahead and fix it. But it does, I mean, I've been seeing more and more of the cyber trucks on the road here in DFW, where I live, which is pretty incredible. I took a picture or one the other day. I don't think I posted it. but I'm seeing them all the time now.

And they're different ones. It's not the same one. I see them all the time now. Yeah, that's the one guy in the neighborhood, Jeff. Now, I see them, I see multiple cyber trucks. They are different ones. But at the same time, I see a new, I don't know, McKinsey and Company's mobility consumer pulse for 2024.

I love the McKenzie and Company's mobility consumer. Pulse every year, but specifically for this year, 2024. It found that 46% of EV owners in the U.S. said they were very likely to switch back to owning a gas powered vehicle in their next purchase. Wow. Okay. According to this story, that even surprised the McKinsey and Company mobility consumer pulse people. Okay. We didn't expect that. No, I thought once an EV buyer, always an EV buyer. No, not so much. In the poll, nearly 37,000 consumers worldwide, Australia was the only country with a greater percentage, 49% of the EV owners than the US who said they were ready to return to owning an internal

combustion engine. The other countries included in the survey were Brazil, China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Norway. Wow. And they all were ready to ditch the EVs. Well, I say all. Okay, so the EVs was 29% that wanted to ditch their EVs across all those countries. The biggest reason EV owners cited for wanting to return to owning a gas-powered vehicle was the lack of available charging infrastructure. The second highest reason cited was that the total cost of owning an EV was too high. Well, I thought it was free. It was so much cheaper than gasoline. Nearly one in three, 32% said their driving patterns on long-distance.

were affected due to having the EV. Yeah, no kidding. Because people want to just go to where they're going to go. They don't want to have to be redirected to charge and wait to charge. We've talked about that at length. And I played you the interview with Elon who said, that's fine. Just let the computer tell you where to go.

Well, Americans don't want that. We're not ready for that. We want to get in our car and go where we want to go. And we want to take maybe 10 minutes at the gas station to fill up and get going. again. We don't want to wait an hour to have our car charged, but, you know, whatever. Now, I know more and more companies are, you know, cutting back on their EV productions, but if you go by what this administration is driving, good luck finding those combustible engine cars because they're going to be very difficult to find. And so they're forcing you to go to the EV. And they're not forcing you.

They're just giving you less choices to choose from. Huh. Now, I'm sure that's going to change when we get all those charging stations that the government said they were going to build. I mean, that's why they passed the infrastructure legislation, right? I don't know, three years ago, committed billions of dollars to building half a million charging stations in the U.S. by the end of this decade. And so now we're three years into it, and we've built seven.

So there's a little... There's not a lot of charging stations being built. I don't think the government should be building our charging stations anyway. But I love the fact that we've committed all this money to building charging stations from the U.S. government. Oh, by the way, that's your money. And they've...

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I mean, protesters were storming and setting fire to the parliament. At least five people were killed. Lawmakers were fleeing underground to tunnels and getting them out of there. And it was all over taxes. A proposed bill to raise taxes. Well, now Kenya's president has decided. Kenyan President William Ruto said that, you know what? I'm not going to sign that bill.

That, you know what? 23 people, 23 people ended up being killed. 300 were injured during the protest at the end of the day. So, wow. They organized on social media, which is another issue that needs to be addressed. I'll bet you. But the president said, you know, the people have spoken. And I'm not going to sign the bill.

So why don't you just calm down a little bit? Interesting, isn't it? interesting. So I was looking at a story that talked about the Biden's president Biden and his wife, Jill, who have a couple of different houses, and they have refinanced these homes almost every 17 months. And I'm trying to figure out why that would happen. Okay. So over the decades, they've borrowed a total of $6 million on both properties.

There's still an outstanding $541,000 mortgage on the current three months. bedroom, which is a four and a half bath, Wilmington House. They call it a mansion in this story, but I mean, okay, we'll call it a, you know, a mansion, uh, nearly 30 years after they bought it. The constant refinancing raises a question of why the Bidens who have reported a net worth of 10 million needed a constant cash flow of extra cash. It does. And it makes one wonder if they are actually, is that money going to them?

Are they just pocketing that money? You know, they bought the, the dump there on Rehoboth. you know, for cash. Holy cow. I mean, they, so they had a five bedroom, two and a half bath home that they purchased for 185,075. They sold that, I guess, it says controversially. I don't know why it's controversial. For $1.2 million in 96, records show the property had a total of 15 mortgage lines of credit

attached to it. And they bought the Rojoboth Beach home, which they got. in 2017 for $2,744,000. And $1. Now, according to that, they paid cash for that house. Interesting. And so they had all these mortgages, and then they got some money,

and they paid cash for another house, which I guess they had smart business, I guess, you know, to have the revolving line of credit. Maybe that's why I'm, you know, don't have any money because I don't understand what they're doing. There's got to be some kind of scam.

Now, are they getting the mortgage and then taking refunds, financing without ever hoping to pay it back. So that money is just like free money? I don't know. Because you've got Jill making what? For years as a senator, he was making what $150, $170,000 a year? Jill is, you know, teaching, just raking in the cash being a teacher, right?

They apparently on their tax returns said that $619,000 last year. And so that that's what they did. earned. They had, you know, book payments and who knows what they've made off book payments because I don't think anybody's buying them. They're just getting the, hey, write a book for us. Here's a bunch of money. We don't care if anybody buys your book or not. It's just really kind of straight. I don't understand how they keep mortgaging things and continue to use it for a line of credit. And then there's got to be something else I'm missing. It has to be. So email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. If you are able to tell me what they're doing, because they, the current home first, a year after buying it, they took out two construction home loans. Get that, okay. Toteling $899,000 to build property from scratch. Okay, then they borrowed a further $134,000, $554,000, $94,000, $94,000. then three paid those off took out another 143,000 mortgage,

then the three credit facility agreements, 30, 35, and 80,000. They canceled all this debt by October 2003, but by then they'd just taken out $649,000 mortgage with the Wilmington Savings Fund Society and the separate 99,000 credit line with the same bank. Then it goes on to over the course of the next nine years, they had six separate home equity credit agreements with the same bank, 149, 10, 45, 95, 115.

Many of these lines of credit deals lasted a few months before being paid off. Then the Biden's moved into the next refinance deal. So are they refinancing getting this money and then getting money from somewhere else, say like, oh, I don't know, Ukraine or China and then paying off these loans. So they get the money. They're getting, they never have to really pay it back with their money. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out how, first of all,

could you and I do this? Maybe if we were smart enough, but I feel like the answer to that is no. Anyway, let's, if you email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com, and let me know what you think, because I feel like there's something not right. Maybe it's just me. Let's go to the break room.

I need something cold to drink desperately. So those of you that see the new, well, now you know, it's a new Verizon logo. You're not going crazy. That is the new Verizon logo. They've ditched a check on Verizon. You know, the logo used to just be, you know, the Verizon with a checkmark. And I guess that's not a checkmark. That's a V with an extended outer line on it.

Now the Verizon logo is black with red letters. And the V, I guess, has a little five. or glow at the bottom of the V of the Vortex. And I guess they're going to start using that plus just the V because it's important when you start making the invisible visible. So they believe that the Verizon network is an invisible thing. And now they want to make it visible. So that's good.

I mean, that's great. They want to be sure that. you know that Verizon is the place to go, and it's a rebrand, a rebrand with that red check. It looks kind of like Netflix if you just go for the V. That's what we're looking for, just the logo. All right, we're just going to ditch the standalone mark altogether and focus purely on the V in Verizon as its ownable shape.

So when you see just the V with the little fire at the bottom, then you know that's Verizon. and they've had the, you know, they've had the, you know, they've had the, this logo when they rebranded, I don't know, 20 years ago or so, but they really want people to realize that we are, we are the halo of media. That's what they claim. From video games, the streaming platforms, the NFL games, all of its partnerships, and perhaps most notably, its lucrative premium tier subscriptions provide for its customers.

We need to take the leap to connect emotionally with consumers. So be ready. If you're not emotional with your internet cell phone provider, you need to be. That's according to. I mean, that's Verizon. That's what they want. So, hello. I, you know, and then they'll sell out and become something else.

Who knows? I mean, who knows what's going to happen? But just know that the new Verizon, the V. with the fire at the end, the light at the end, at the bottom of the V, that's the new logo for Verizon. Speaking of being, you know, emotionally connected, I hope you're emotionally connected

with my social media accounts at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Instagram and Facebook. You can follow me on Chewing the Fat at the Blaze. No, that's the email. You can always email the show, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. The YouTube page is Chewing the fat at the Blaze.com.

The YouTube page is Chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. I want you to be emotionally involved in all of these accounts. And I want you to be specifically emotionally involved in the cameo account at Jeffey JFR. So when you order a cameo, which obviously is not free, you can become emotionally involved because I'll give you the cameo with emotion at Jeffey JFR on cameo. I saw where Scotas, you know, the Supreme Court, issued a big ruling yesterday, six to three. saying that it can urge social, the government, saying that the government, the White House,

can urge social media companies to remove content it deems to be misinformation. A group of conservative-led states that sued to block federal agencies from communicating with employees at social media sites. But the court ruled that the states had no standing to do so. Shortly after the ruling came down yesterday, Bloomberg reported that SCOTUS accidentally posted a draft of a pivotal abortion decision on before taking it down, huh? If made official, which could be as soon as today, the ruling would allow emergency abortions in Idaho despite the state's ban.

That's interesting. I don't even want to get into the whole abortion thing. If you want an abortion, go get an abortion someplace. There are still places that provide abortions. I think it's wrong, but you do you, Beau. But the social media thing, Okay, so what could possibly go wrong with this social media ruling? I don't know.

I mean, what I think in my mind, the Supreme Court is saying, yeah, they can ask for it. They could say, hey, can you remove this? That doesn't mean the social media companies have to do it. Just because the White House says it doesn't mean they have to do it. And of course, we know that many of them do. Zuckerberg has his butt up this administration's butt. Does he have his butt up their butt or his head up their butt?

Anyway, they are butt to butt together. And so hopefully Elon tells them, no, we're not going to do that. You can go talk to the other social media companies, but it stays here up on X. So, I mean, that's really, I think, what I got from that. Now, is that true? Is that actually going to happen? Are there actually, you know, social media companies that are going to be able to say no to the White House? Eh, I don't know.

I don't think that is going to happen. I think it should be documented every time that the White House or anyone from this government requests something to be removed from a social media account. They should, we should be, it should be documented, and they should tell us why they're asking it to be removed. So not just remove it and then come up with their own, oh, this is what we believe. since I want to know what they think. I want to know why they want it removed so that I could be sure that,

well, it's probably a lie. So I missed the ceremony for the Alex Trebek forever stamp for the United States Postal Service. They had a big ceremony on the lot of Sony pictures where the show is shot. The commemorative Alex Trebek, 1940 to 2020, the longtime host of the television quiz show Jeopardy,

who became a respected and beloved presence in millions of home. So the grid of 20 identical stamps resembles the array of video monitors that from the Jeopardy Game Board. And on the stamp is written, this naturalized U.S. citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy for 37 seasons, and underneath upside down is the correct response, who is Alex Trebek. So you get the full forever stamp,

stamps of 20, pains, and it'll always be equal in value to the current first class mail one ounce price, if you were going to use it, if you weren't going to just buy it as a collector's pain. So I was looking at the prices. You could get the current first class stamp is 68 cents.

I did not know that. That's been a long time since I've bought stamps. So I've purchased stamps. So, wow, 64 cents, I guess, for letter, but the 68 is first class. I don't understand. But they're asking for now, starting in a couple of weeks. I think it's going to go up to 73 cents.

Holy cow, I need to start running. I need to be Postmaster General desperately to run this joint. So anyway, get them now while they're hot. The new Alex Trebek postage forever stamp, or it's a forever postage stamp. It's not a postage stamp forever. Anyway, that's the same thing, Jeff. Okay.

And I guess if you get them now, they're cheaper than what they're going to be in a couple of weeks. and you get the whole pain. Because you're not just going to buy one. No, you cannot do that. That is not happening. And at the same time, they're trying to reach out to us

that they're so nice and wonderful and they've got these beautiful commemorative stamps forever. We find out that the U.S. Postal Service has shared information from thousands of Americans' letters and packages with law enforcement every year for the past decade, conveying the names, addresses, and other details from outside of boxes and envelopes

without requiring a, court order. This cannot stand. I must be, I have got to turn this postal service around. I must be the postmaster general or put me on the board of governors. Something, man. Postal inspectors say they fulfill such requests only when mail monitoring can help find a fugitive or investigate a crime. Well, that's not up to you. But a decades worth of records provided exclusively to the Washington Post in response to a congressional probe show postal service officials have received more than 60,000 requests from federal agents and police officers since 2015 and that they rarely say no. Yeah, they're not going to say no. They're going to go,

yeah, sure, all we're going to. You mean that this will help find a fugitive? Yes. You mean this will help investigate a crime? Yes. Well, okay then, here you go. Whatever information you need. Wow, 97% of the requests were approved. Postal inspectors recorded more than 312,000 letters and packages, between the last eight years, 2015 to 2023. The surveillance technique known as the mail covers program has long been used by postal inspectors

to help track down suspects or evidence. The practice apparently is legal. Uh-huh. And the inspectors said they share only what they can see on the outside of the mail. Uh-huh. The Fourth Amendment requires them

to get a warrant to peek inside. That's cute. That's cute. that they're going back to the, uh, going back to the Bill of Rights, uh, the Declaration of Independence.

That's funny. That is funny. The Postal Service law enforcement arm, the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, has traditionally declined to say how often it facilitates such requests. Yeah, I wonder why. Uh,

because, uh, they don't want to, it would decrease the program's effectiveness. Uh-huh. Sure it would. It would decrease your effectiveness of not pissing off the American public. I'll tell you that. The IRS, FBI and the Department of Ham Homeland Security were among their top requesters.

Yeah, I bet they were. Wow. Vote for me. There's no way to vote, actually, to become Postmaster General or on the board of governors. But they should, because I need to be running this joint, man. Wow. Since 1978, a circuit court judge said the mail covers could expose someone's personal life in a manner unobtainable, even through surveillance of his movements,

We're rendering the subject's life an open book, right? So, okay, so that means that they don't care? I mean, we're subjected to warrantless surveillance every year. And now we can't even count on the postal service to put, you know, our mail in the mailbox without telling the police what's going in and out. It's just unbelievable. It's not unbelievable because it's unbelievable. Then you can quote me on that.

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No, it's likely it's possible its natural causes, but, I mean, he was 90 and he died. So we don't know what caused it. So it couldn't be that. If it was that, I mean, they would have said something. So a rest of peace,

I know you're thinking, Bill Cobbs, who is Bill Cobbs? He has been acting since the 50s and 60s, and this guy's been around. And when you see him, you'll go, oh, yeah, that's him. I mean, he's been in all kinds of movies. movies huge amounts of movies you may remember him from being in a night at the museum the bodyguard

the hud sucker proxy he had all these roles that were pivotal in shows and movies and tv shows he was in the sopranos the west wing i mean just i've been in all these shows incredible and you know i mean he's one of those guys you see on the screen and you go yep that's him And he won a, I guess he won a daytime Emmy for an outstanding limited performance in a daytime program for a series called Dino Dana in 2020. But he's been on all these shows, just incredible. He started acting. He was in the Air Force for eight years, started to sell cars. Somebody asked him, hey, you want to be in a play?

And so he got on a play. He said, I kind of like this. So he went to New York. And he started acting for a Negro Ensemble company. alongside Ozzy Davis and Rue B.D. And said, once I realized I could walk on stage with these people, I might as well try acting. And he did and was great at it.

So rest in peace, Bill Cobbs dead at the age of 90. Then, more, more, I mean, every death is sad. I know. But some are, you know, more sad. So not long ago, we talked about, Kevin, the three-year-old Great Dane, who became the Guinness Book of Records tallest dog. Right? Congratulations to Kevin.

We talked about it on this very show. Well, Kevin, the Great Dane, the world's tallest dog, died. I know, sad. Kevin, the three-year-old Great Dane, dead. I guess a couple of days after he was named the world's tallest male dog, he became ill and he had to have an operation and then he was tried to recover from that and then no he did not recover from that so kevin the world's tallest dog i guess he's still well he's not living so he's still considered i guess the world's tallest dog just not living has passed away

uh rest in peace kevin the three-year-old great dane dead Another person that's going to end up in the dead pile soon is under the Reddit name of Jammin the K.Y.102. We may hear that Jammin the K.Y.102 is dead very soon. According to this story, and according to this Reddit post, and if you believe it, this man asked for the opinions because according to this man, he and his wife recently began construction on a new home, and they're nearing the completion of this new home. He said it's, the closing is set, and the couple is scheduled to get the keys

to the brand new house in the next couple of weeks. But I have a scheduled vacation the week of our closing date, a guy's trip that is annual. Every year, the guys and I run a cabin and spend a Wednesday to Sunday board gaming. Is that what you do? Is that what that is? It's a few days of board gaming?

Yeah, okay. All your buddies together in a cabin, I digress. The husband further noted in his post that the day of closing on the new house falls on the Friday of my trip. So I planned to drive from the getaway, which is only about an hour drive to sign the required paperwork before heading back to be with my friend. So I'm surprised he's even going to do that.

You just take care. Well, I guess he has to because both names have to be on the paperwork. The trip, the user had, was planned well in advance. And we didn't even know what was this was going to happen, the days that it was going to happen. So the wife, I guess, is a little upset with them. I don't understand why. I mean, it's kind of a big deal. Moving into this new house that you've been building together,

and I can't. I got to go for a week board gaming with my buddies. Yeah, okay. All right. According to him, the wife remains very angry. Yeah, no kidding. I think that I think you should change those plans up

but the guy says this is my one opportunity I get every year to get together with my guy friends to do something we love board gaming and it's important to me I've tried to explain that to her but she just doesn't understand

a dude if you don't understand you never will and I will say this. I joke around a lot about men being men and putting women in their place, but it's a marriage, and it's supposed to be a two-way street.

I'm not a marriage therapist by any stretch of the imagination. But I would say that perhaps you could do your weekend of board gaming, if that's what we're going to call it, another time, even though this was scheduled, I'm sure your board gaming buddies will understand. and maybe you could just, I don't know,

you know, sure, show up for the first couple of days and get your board gaming in and then go back and sign the papers and spend the rest of the time with your wife in your new house. It's just a thought from me. Otherwise, we will hear that JAMA, the KY-1102, is dead very, very soon. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need

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I just saw a story that talked about how during the Olympics coming up, NBC and Peacock is going to run a daily recap of everything that happened during the Summer Olympic Games, which is really cool. I like the idea, and they're going to use Al Michaels to do the recap, except it's not really Al Michaels. No. It's going to be your daily Olympic recap on Peacock, and they're going to pull from thousands of hours of live coverage from the games in Paris using a large language model or an LLM. The model analyzes subtitles and metadata to summarize clips from NBC's Olympics coverage, then adapts those summaries to fit Michael's signature style. The resulting text is then fed into a voice AI model based on Michael's previous NBC appearances. That was trained to learn the unique pronunciations and intonations of certain words and phrases.

In the end, the multilayered process will yield around 10 minutes worth of highlights for each user. Al Michael's a perfect choice for the feature, and we're happy to lean into this technology enthusiastically. It doesn't say how much they paid Al for this. Now he gave the go ahead. Michael said he was very skeptical until I heard the AI for myself. Frankly, it was astonishing. It was amazing. And a little bit frightening.

He said that it was almost 2% off perfect. I don't know how you get that, but that's what he said. It was Michael's quote was it's almost 2% off perfect. And he's happy that he gets to be a part of the Olympics. And he's been a part of the Olympics for years. in years. I mean, Sal Michaels, he's the guy. And he said that it's an odd way to transition to something not calling the events, not really recording anything. It does keep me somewhat attached to the Olympic Games, which I've always loved. Yeah, no kidding. But it's not him. It is kind of him,

but it isn't. And I don't know what they paid him for it, but they just say, hey, we're going to do it. and if you, we need your, we need your go ahead. I mean, that's, they certainly, I don't know, are they going to do that all the time for everyone's voice? You better own your voice. It better be yours. I don't know, honestly, I don't know 100% of the way to go about doing that, but I'm going to look into it.

I'll tell you that, because that your voice, your likeness, all of that needs to be you. owned by you. Because if not, they're not going to ask much longer. They're just going to go ahead and do it. And we're going to be okay with it because it's going to be, oh, that sounds like Al Michaels. But it isn't.

That sounds like Jeff Fisher and chewing the fat. But it isn't. I'm not saying, believe me, I'll be last on the list to have AI and network want to use my phrases and likeness and voice. for their AI, but I'm on the list. Anyway, I mean, I'm last on the list, but I am on the list, you know, way below Al Michaels, but that's not my point. You need, they're going to do it without asking,

and you're just going to be out of luck. And I don't like that at all. I don't want to be out of luck. And, you know, some would say, well, you already are, Jeff, but I don't want to be. All right, one last story of, believe it or now, we had the Reddit story of a husband, which, you know, his buddy wants to go board gaming with his buddies for a few days and miss the whole first few days

with the wife in the new house which i barely believe is true but uh okay you know whatever fine and then i see this story and this is another story on you know have faith and uh faith will see you through and the story is uh i have $20 to my name right now bills are paid and food is bought but there just wasn't much left over this week that's okay on the way home from grocery shopping today. My kids begged for ice cream, begged, cried, real tears, all the drama. And I said, no, I'm short on money and I might need that $20 before payday. We have plenty of good food at home. We don't need to stop at the ice cream store. I heard little sighs from the back seat and then, God, we'd really love some ice cream.

Is there any way you can give Mommy some money so we can get some ice cream tonight? We know you can. Thank you. And I thought, oh, good grief. Guys, I said, God isn't going to drop money on our doorstep so you two can get ice cream. He's busy right now with natural disasters. Nope, the kid said. God said you'll have plenty of money for ice cream and to give some to the natural disaster people. Joss, it really doesn't work that way.

I started and then I just gave up. And then we got home. How my doorstep was the mail. In the mail was an envelope. In the envelope was a $123 check from an overpayment on a student loan I cleared back in 2007. The kids, unsurprised. God, unfazed. They enjoyed the ice cream.

The Red Cross received a donation, and Mom remembered yet again what it means to have the faith of a child. So what a great story on faith and children and believing if the story is real at all. I know. I guess I want it to be real,

but when I read it at the end, I'm like, nah, that can't be real. I mean, It's like the guy that finds the money at the mall, right? The joke, the guy that finds the money at the mall. I just gave a lady. I say, I've just found $200. What's the joke?

The lady, I met a lady on the sidewalk today crying that she had lost her money. And I gave her $20. And I gave her $20 because I had found $200. And when God gives, you've got to share back. That's what it means. makes me think of. I know that's me and I know it's mean. That's just what I think of. But hey, have faith.

Have faith. Let's make these stories real so I could believe them, okay? Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.