Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - But Why... | 7/8/25

Episode Date: July 8, 2025

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Hi, I'm Sophia Loper Caro, host of the Before the Chorus podcast. We dive into the life experiences behind the music we love. Artists of all genres are welcome. And I've been joined by some pretty amazing folks, like Glass Animals. I guess that was the idea, was to try something personal and see what happened. And Japanese breakfast. I thought that the most surprising thing I could offer was an album about joy. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts.

Oh, and remember, so much happens before the chorus. Radio Network. And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Nothing says love like having a baby with the person that you love. Especially when you conceived the child by passing semen through air vents using a bedding line. Then having the female use a yeast infection applicator to inseminate herself. And ta-da! Then we were pregnant and a baby was born.

So a little over a year ago in Miami, this couple, and I say that lightly, had a baby. They were both imprisoned in the Turner-Gilfoyd Knight Correctional Center, which I love in Miami-Dade County. The pair are both in their 20s. They're there for separate murder charges, but let's not get bogged down with that. They never have actually met each other in person, but they just talked through AirVey. and they felt like they were in love and they wanted to have a baby together. She calls the child a miracle baby. Uh-huh.

Attributing the magical properties to their own rather clever way to get pregnant. So, like I said, they passed the, he would send her his man goo. It's even sounds worse, saying it that way. three to five times a day and she would then scoop it up and use her yeast infection applicator to inseminate herself and then ta-da

and he did that by you know wrapping it in saran wrap and so I don't know now that we have a baby who's paying for the baby they certainly are not raising this child so that's an issue with me

I mean, I guess the baby goes into foster care. And what a proud childhood he'll have, knowing his parents are in prison for murder. I think they're still in jail. I mean, they were in there because of murder charges. Maybe they got off on that. I don't know. But I do know that they were in the jail for murder charges

at the time that they were passing their love to each other through AC air vents and then getting pregnant by inseminating herself with the yeast infection applicator. Now, I haven't said whether it was a bouncing baby boy, whether it was a bouncy baby girl, they just said, ta-da, the baby was born healthy.

Oh, okay. Well, congratulations to both mom, dad, and the prison department in Miami-Dade because they've got to be so proud at the Turner-Gilford Knight Corrections. Center. They've got to be so, so proud. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Well, thank you for flying, chewing the fat air, affectionately known as the Spring Airlines from Japan. We're flying to Tokyo today out of Shanghai. We'll be flying at approximately 36,000 feet,

and we have about 191 passengers and crew, and we hope you just sit back and relax. Have a nice ride. to Tokyo. Then all of a sudden, you drop 10,500 feet. Yeah, you'd be pretty panicked. And there's footage of passengers freaking out, clutching their oxygen masks. Some even lost consciousness, according to this story. I heard, you know, one lady said that she was on the verge of tears

as she wrote her will and the details of their life insurance and bank card pins. She thought for sure they were facing certain death. I'm guessing that she was writing all that after the plane leveled out. I doubt that she was doing that as it suddenly dropped 10,500 feet. That's a little scary. Just a tad scary. Yeah, we had a little mechanical issue. We're not real sure.

exactly what happened, but we're going to go ahead and divert this flight and we're going to land at Cansa International Airport. You're not going to make it to Tokyo today, at least on this plane. Sorry about that. No injuries reported. They are still looking to find out what happened. I guess that the passengers were given the equivalent of $104 in transportation compensation and given one night. a free accommodation. We're going to go ahead and give you 100 bucks and hotel room for your trouble.

I need a little bit more than that, I think. But they're on it. Japan Airlines and Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism. I love them. Man, I can't get enough of Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism. they didn't respond when they were asked about that so hey what's happening with your investigation yeah they didn't respond at all be a little bit scary i got it i will say i would uh be a little frightening as you're just cruising along at 36,000 and then drop over 10,000 feet all of a sudden

that's why we're going to ask that those of you that are in your seats please wear your seat belts at all times that's why uh because of something like that happens, you're going to want to be seat belted. It's not funny. Not funny at all. I'm glad that everyone is okay. And we still don't know exactly what happened to the airline. Then we had a story about an American Airlines flight. And we're going to be flying out of Puerto Rico today. We're headed to Dallas. No problem. We should be there in reasonable time. We may be a little bit delayed. We're heading and do some headwinds, but other than that, we're fine. So someone on this flight, about 30 minutes in after they take off from Puerto Rico to Dallas,

sees a passenger next to them on their phone. And they saw a message that said, RIP. So instead of saying to the passenger, rest in peace, what are you talking about? Does this something I need to be concerned about? oh no, we had to alert the crew. And then the flight carrying 193 passengers had to go back to San Juan where law enforcement met the plane and investigated. So I guess this whole time, this person sitting next to the RIP person

after getting up and complaining to the flight attendants, I'm sorry, the sky waitresses. And now we're just going to go back and sit down and pretend like nothing is happening, but we're going to turn the plane around and go back to San Juan because I was looking at your phone and I saw rest in peace and I think you're going to take us down. Okay. All right.

Calm down. But they go ahead. They turned around, went back to San Juan. Law enforcement met the plane. And here's what happened. They asked questions. And they investigated. And the passenger who had just lost a relative

was flying home early. It wasn't a threat at all. It was just talking about this tragic death. I mean, just a little talk. That's all. Just a little talk, that's all. And then once the investigation, they realized that, hey, dummy, looking at this person's phone, thinking that RIP was meaning that they were going to hijack the plane.

It was just a message that they were worried about a person and family who had just died. We're going to go ahead and take off and get back to Dallas now, okay? Oh, man, I would be so angry. I would be very, very angry. And I get it. It's all about everybody's safety, but come on. If you're sitting next to someone and you see something that is concerning, don't just say something? I don't know.

Just weird. And then when you say something to the flight attendant, don't they come up and say, hey, we got some information that, you may be up to something. What's going on? There's no communication on the plane at all. We're just going to turn it around in secret. All right. We got a little problem.

If we're going to return to San Juan, just buckle your seatbelts. And we'll get you back to San Juan. And then maybe we'll go back to Danwan. Dallas, maybe we won't. It just depends on what happens after our investigation, but nothing to worry about. And now, so then they land and they have this big investigation. I don't know if they dragged the woman off or not, or the man.

I don't know who it was. I'm just guessing that it was a woman. But, because it sounded like something a woman would do. It probably was a woman looking at a man's phone, right? I don't know. It doesn't say. But I'm just just guessing. And, you know, as long as we're talking about airlines, I still am on the press release program for the Catmine National Park and Preserve because of the yearly Fat Bear Week.

So they apparently had a plane crash there at the Catmine National Park and they had a big press release. Apparently this small float plane, Cessna 8 180J, crash landed near Brooks Camp within the Catmine National Park. The four occupants of the plane, including the pilot, transported to an acreage hospital, not critical injuries. They all survived. And we don't know what actually happened. The incident is unknown.

What caused it? And we're having a multi-agency investigation. I love those, the multi-agency investigations. Yeah, my plane, how about we talk to the pilot? And maybe the pilot could tell you what happened. And that's why we had to crash in the middle of this National Park. That's a tough investigating right there.

And we actually do have some good news coming from the airlines, I guess, we'll call the TSA, the airlines. It's a government agency, Jeff. No, I know. But apparently it's being reported that the TSA is letting travelers keep their shoes on now when they go through airport security. Okay. So that's nice of them, right?

Uh-huh. You don't have to shuffle through the old airport with your socks. on as you go through security. That's nice of them. That's nice of them. I'm sure that a few of the other things that the TSA does to you as you're going through security is not being

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And it'll happen when you least expect it. So the other night, my wife comes walking past and she goes, I sent you a link. You'll be, you'll like it. And the link was the announcement of the new project runway, which I'm happy a season 21. Wow.

It's going to be on free form, Disney Plus, and Hulu. And I was, you know, okay, Heidi Klum is back. And Tim Gunn is coming back with her on Project Runway. I was forced to like this show in the beginning. And then I grew to love it. over the years. And then I realize, wait, I look at the promo, and there's no Tim Gunn in the promo.

And I'm like, what the heck are we doing? We can't have Project Runway without Tim Gunn. Tim's the man. And so then I start searching. What happened to Tim Gunn? Maybe he turned him down. Maybe he said, no, I'm not going to do it. I don't want to be on your dumpy Project Runway show.

I don't know. I did it enough. Okay. I know Heidi's coming back. I don't want to work with her. No, he claims they didn't invite him back. Wow. You want to talk about a kick in the butt or the front part.

That is what that is. So apparently, Heidi thought he was. Heidi said, I sent him a text saying they're talking about bringing Project Runway back with us, with you and me. And would you do it? And he said, I replied, of course. There was not a moment of hesitation. But apparently, nobody ever got a hold of him from Disney, Freeform, or Hulu. So then she sends Tim a text, hey, you happy with your contract?

And Tim is like, I haven't seen a contract. So then he called his agent and said, hey, what's going on? What's happening? The executive producers on the show, they said, you know, were we good at 10? apparently the executive producers didn't want Tim Gunn. Holy cow. So now you've got, if that's true, and I have no reason to doubt Tim Gunn on this,

that the producers are kicking Tim to the curb. That's not what Heidi wanted. So we'll see. Maybe she'll get Tim to come in on some special dispensation judge or something. But I don't like it. I don't like it one bit. and if we're going to do Project Oneway, it's got to be done with Tim Gunn. Okay? In fact, that's the saying.

If we're going to do Project Runway, it's got to be done with Gun. Okay? It's got to be done with Gun. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Well, as I mentioned earlier, today is the 8th of July, 2025, for those. of you listening live and it is Amazon Prime Day. Yeah, Amazon Prime Day, all kinds of deals.

Shoppers are expected to spend nearly $24 billion. But it's not just Amazon Prime Day. It is Amazon Prime Days. So today, through Friday the 11th is when you can have big sales and big deals

on Amazon Prime and get your sales in. Help Jeff Bezos out. He's got Sanchez to pay for still got paying off that wedding. It costs them at least 50 million, maybe more. And it's being reported now

that apparently, you know, this is just rumor mill thing going on now, that Jeff Bezos is looking to buy Vogue. And there's saying that he's going to buy Vogue as a wedding gift for Lauren.

Oh, that's special. That is special. And apparently Anna Wintour is brokering the deal. Isn't that interesting? Now, we just found out that she's stepping down as editor-in-chief, but she's still going to work for, what's the name of the stupid company, Condé Wettnast, that owns the whole thing. And she's going to be like the global chief content officer

and Vogue's global editorial director for Kandei Nass. Well, apparently, and don't forget, Lauren was on the cover and the Instagram and all of it was the first cut for Vogue. Now, here's the deal, all right? He's not just buying Vogue. It's being reported that he's going to buy Condé Nass, the whole damn thing.

As a gift for Lauren. Isn't that special? Yes, it is. gosh darn it, it's so special. And I'm happy that he's in love. And, you know, it's the fashion industry. And Lauren is just, you know, so darn smart. And just could, smart as a whip.

And she would be, you know, perfect for the head of Condé Nast and Vogue. Just take it over. Here, I bought you this company. I would like to say, Mr. Bezos, if you'd like to, if there's any company that you think, you know, hey, Jeff Fisher could run. I can. So if you want to, you know, reach out and, you know,

give me some money to run a company, that would be wonderful. You can just drop it in my PayPal at Jeff ECTF and let me know what company it is or how much money you're going to drop in there. I'll see how much money you drop in there and what it's for. You can just leave me a message on my PayPal at Jeff ECTF PayPal. And let me know. Let me know. I'll run any company you give me the money for. Well, congratulations to Lauren, though, as she might possibly get maybe getting Vogue

and the company who owns Vogue as a wedding present. Okay, I started watching something last night on Netflix, and I thought, okay, I'll give it a shot. And I think I like it. I like the characters a lot, Holt McHaltony, Maria Bello, Jake Weary. He was in Animal Kingdom, and this is a new show on Netflix called The Waterfront. And it's just about a crime family. Owning a town on the waterfront of the Carolinas. I like it.

I like it a lot. The Buckley family. When you're talking about family, crime, I like it. Underworld, yeah, I'm in. So I started watching The Waterfront. I think it's got eight episodes. I'll let you know how it works out. But so far, I like it very much.

And I see, I'm not going to be able to make it tonight, but they're having the big red carpet event at the Alamo draft house where in Dallas, where they have many red carpet events for this new docu series. I think it's a seven-part docu-series called The Religion Business. Looks really good.

I mean, the rise of modern megachurch and celebrity pastor culture and the impact of the absence of oversight on community trust, humanitarian outcomes and donor confidence. And they talk about one stat in here. I don't know how much they're going to cover it in the docu-series, but they talk about how in 2021 alone, an estimated $53 billion was stolen from churches by staff members.

Now, I don't know how they get to that number, but I, you know, people are just deep pocketing, you know, 50 bucks a week or something. I just, I am not quite sure how that goes, but according to this, over 50% of U.S. churchgoers feel their church focuses too much on money. Yeah, well, they focus too much on money. So do the people who work there and steal it. Anyway, the seven-part docu series, the religion business, just look for it. I was hoping to go to the red carpet event tonight in Dallas and I'm not going to be able to make it. So when you see the pictures from the red carpet event, yeah, I won't be there.

Oh, and did you see where AT&T sold its remaining 70% stake in direct TV to TPG? So they are fully exiting the entertainment business. AT&T is on the outs. Wow. Okay. Okay. good just do your little cell phone business over there okay we'll see a private equity firm which has a 258 billion dollars in assets under management previously acquired 30% stake in the satellite TV

operator back in 2021 which valued the business at 16.25 billion dollars at the time oh okay so they give all kudos to direct TV and what a great uh what a great uh what it would great thing it is and how well positioned they are to compete and thrive in a rapidly evolving content and technology landscape. So have a nice day following the deals closing, independent board members, Steve McGraw, as well as all of AT&T appointees, AT&T chief strategy and development officer and senior vice president, all kick to the curb. I'm sorry, step down.

Yeah, we EU services are no longer needed. Wow. So AT&T acquired DirecTV for $49 billion, which is $67 billion when including all the debt. Okay. I guess they expect $7.6 billion in cash payments from Direc TV and TBG, AT&T that is, through 2029, which includes $1.6 billion,

$7 billion in pre-tax quarterly distributions in a second half of 2024, $5.4 billion after-tax cash disbursed payments. Final payments in 2029 of after-tax proceeds. So we get $7.6 billion in cash through $29. It must be nice to have $7.6 billion in cash. Yeah, we just, you know what? we'll give it to AT&T. No problem.

No, but they need it. They need it. I know they need to focus on their cell service and focus on, now they need to not focus on TV and video, that's for sure. They need to, and said that they're going to continue to focus

on being the leading wireless 5G and fiber connectivity company in America. And this is going to strengthen our balance sheet. And we are moving forward. So congratulations to everyone. involved, especially that's 7.6 billion in cash. That's nice. That's a year. It sounds like that's a year. Maybe that's total in the next four years to get $7.6 billion in cash. Like every year you get, you know, a couple of billion.

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I'm so sad. I don't know what, I don't think you could console the families enough over the death of your children at this, the camp, or any place where they died. But if you find in your heart that you can help out, you can give to mercury1.org, 100% of your donations go to helping the victims of the Texas floods.

or help any tragedy. You can specifically ask where your money goes. Mercury 1.org. The whole thing is just horrific. And I do not wish that on anyone ever. But if you, you know, your prayers and your thoughts and if you want to help, but the only way you know of is to give money,

you can do that at mercury1.org. That would be greatly appreciated. Okay, so who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Andrei Battalov. Andre Battalov was the vice president of Russia's national oil pipeline. Now, he's been found dead after he fell out of a window. He didn't fell out of a window at a hotel or at an office building.

It was out of a window from his home. What an idiot! Oh, what a loser! That's not funny. It's not funny at all. It was home in suburban Moscow. I guess they were unhappy. He was unhappy.

Apparently, the work was very hard and difficult during the stressful period due to wartime sanctions. I don't know if he was friends with Vlad or not, but, man, that's up saying that he's not. just jumped out of his bedroom window at his house and is dead. So rest in peace to Andrei Baddlov, dead at the age of 62. Then we have another Russian minister who was found in his driveway, who, and they say, he committed suicide, self-inflicted gunshot won't.

The end. Close it up. Send it home. Over. this guy was just fired by the Kremlin. Okay. That's not good. So Roman

Starvoid, Roman Starvoit, S-T-A-R-O-V-O-I-T, was fired and then shot himself in the driveway. Is that unheard of? No. Is it very possible? That's what happened? sure, but there's a number of people in the surrounding sphere of Vladimir Putin who end up committing suicide or falling out windows when their work is no longer needed from Vlad. So rest in peace to Roman Starloid dead at the age of 55.

Boy, I feel like the numbers are getting higher on these. We have to... Langley Perer, P-E-R-E-R, has passed away at the age of 44. She was the manager of Mosaic Media Group. She produced the 2011 remake of Arthur. She has died at the age of 44, as I said. She died at Cedars-S-I-M-E-Madical Center in Los Angeles after a four-year battle with cancer.

Huh. So it's 2025, four years battle with cancer. Isn't that interesting? That just got really, really bad in the last four years. Weird. So rest in peace to Langley Perrer dead at the age of 44. Then we have Mark Lipsitz. He was the CEO of Bar Nund Records and veteran music executive dead at the age of 61. Interesting. He just died of a heart attack. That's all. Yeah. He just died of a heart attack at 61. Just dropped over. Oh well. Rest in peace, DeMarcly Clippwitz heart attack dead at the age of 61. Now that happens. I know. I know. But then I see a story with this Eagle former Philadelphia Eagle football player who has been diagnosed with a rare form. of cancer. Huh. Isn't that really weird? Brian Brahman has been diagnosed with this rare, he's undergoing carty cell therapy in Seattle for this rare and aggressive form of cancer. Wow. So it's

spreading rapidly and due to his compromised immune system and previous treatments, his chemotherapy options are now limited. So there's a go fund me to help Brian out if needed. I mean, he won the Super Bowl with the Eagles. Pretty incredible that we just keep hearing stories more and more about more people getting

rare cancer. Isn't it? I know. I mean, the guy's 38 years old. He's not dead yet and he still has an opportunity to live. Uh-huh. But it's just

so strange that all these people are being diagnosed with what it seems like all these people are being diagnosed with this rare form of cancer or rare form of cancers. And he, you know, he's hoping to, he's still trying to survive. Incredible. So it's not rest in peace yet. Sorry, Brian. I know.

I made it seem like it was rest in peace. But it's not. So it's, I guess it's, I don't want to, if I say it out loud that it sounds mean. But it's not meant in a mean way. Not dead yet, Brian Bromond at the age of 38. There was another athlete who just passed away from a rare form of stomach cancer. He died in Portugal. I know.

Don't look at me like that. Bobby Jenks dead at the age of 44. Now, what's so interesting, and I'm very sad that he died of this rare form of stomach cancer. but the post on social media from ESPN, people were not happy with the post from ESPN. The post was Bobby Jenks, a two-time all-star pitcher for the Chicago White Sox, who was on the roster when the franchise won the 2025 World Series died on Friday in Sinatra, Portugal, the team announced. Okay, so this is what you get when you have AI posting your,

your social media posts. And this is what you get also. If it's not AI, this is what you get when you have, you've given your social media over to people who are not going to look up the history of anything that they're writing about. Because a lot of people were pissed. Because ESPN, according to even one of his fellow teammates, Doug McIntywitz, ESPN should be ashamed and embarrassed for writing something like this.

Was on the roster? He was the closer on a championship winning team. do some research before you release something. Have some respect. Rest in peace, Bobby Jenks, condolences to his family and teammates. And that was his former teammates. There were other just regular fans and viewers. We're a little pissed over that too.

He was on the mound pitching for the last out of that world series. What is this? Who is this on the roster stuff? This is what you get, though. This is what you get when you turn it over to AI or, young people who don't care about the history. And this is what you get. So come on in, AI.

Come on in. And yet another fairly young man at the age of 44, Bobby Jenks, dead of a rare form of stomach cancer. Rest in peace to Bobby Jenks, dead at the age of 44. Boarding for flight. 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time.

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There was a one 78-year-old person who, had to be resuscitated, but no one died. And according to city officials and local fire officials, who have never experienced anything like this before, said that, well, you know, the incident may have been related to Asian hornets threatening a beehive that had been installed on the roof terrace of a downtown hotel 10 years ago. Wait, what?

So there was a beehive on the roof of a hotel, been there for 10 years. And then according to them, they think, well, some Asian horrants were threatening. So the bees just went crazy? Okay. Sure. Whatever you say. Whatever you say. Thankfully, no one died.

But for 30 minutes, people are being attacked by bees in this town. Okay. This does not sound fun. at all. Just go outside. You're walking to church or you're just going to your car, you're running to the market,

whatever you're going to do, and bees start attacking your whole family. That does not sound like fun. But it was because they had that damn beehive on the roof of the downtown hotel. It's been up to 10 years.

I've been telling them the whole time, the whole decade. Get rid of that thing. They're going to bees are going to try to attack it. Other bees are going to attack and then we're going to have a bee war. That's exactly what happened.

Okay, sure. You got it. I believe you. I'm glad that no one was killed because that could have happened easily. Now, they moved the beehive outside of the city limits now. They got rid of that damn beehive. They told the beekeeper to get rid of it. There's nothing in the story that says they moved the beehive

while the attacks were still taking place. or if they just realized afterward, well, we got to blame it on something. So let's blame it on the beehive and get the beekeeper on the line and have him move that damn beehive outside the town, okay? And we'll just hope and pray that nothing like this ever happens again.

Pretty sure that's probably where we're at. Okay, so I'm reading a story that is really the American dream story or an American dream story. Being lived, you know, by a Canadian. So the story is about stupid, Butterfield, okay, he was a philosophy major from Canada, who was building Flickr. He stumbled into building Flickr. What started as a feature in a failed game became the photo sharing site of the early internet.

And then Yahoo came knocking. And Yahoo promised the world, more resources, better infrastructure, global reach. Butterfield and his co-founder sold for a reported $25 to $35 million. in 2005. Wow, that seems like so long ago. They thought Yahoo would help Flickr flourish. Instead, something entirely different happened. Yahoo immediately forced Flickr to integrate with their clunky systems. They made users sign up for Yahoo accounts just to log in. The community revolted, but the worst part, Yahoo's executives didn't care about what made Flickr special. So we didn't give a crap about the community, the theory

behind buying Flickr was to monetize the image index. That's literally what a Yahoo executive later admitted. They saw Flickr as just a database, not the vibrant community Butterfield had built. Then things got worse, and Butterfield's team

presented ideas to improve customer care. Ha! Like, they cared about that. They did not. Yahoo's VP looked at his watch mid-meeting and walked out. That's how much I care about what you're saying. I got to go. I don't even know if he got it.

I got to go. He just looked at his watch and left. So it was an open dismissal of everything they'd built. So by 2008, Butterfield had had enough. And he posted his resignation. And he said, I'm out of here. There you go. And so he left Yahoo with this resignation letter.

And he said he'll be spending more time with my family, tending to my small but growing alpaca herd. and of course getting back to working with 10, my first love. So apparently he didn't really have an alpaca herd to take care of. So he raised $17.5 million for a new company. He was building another online game, Glitch. For three years, he poured everything into it. Then in 2002, he said it was over.

I don't have anything to give you glitches over. It was a failure. I just didn't know. I was done. All right. So during Glitch's development, his team built a communications tool. Nothing fancy,

just a way for the team to stay connected. After Glitch died, Butterfield realized something we wouldn't work without a system like this again. They decided to turn the tool into a product. They called it Slack. And now, within five months,

it grew from 10,000 to 90,000 daily users. No marketing team, no sales team, just word of mouth. The numbers were staggering. I mean, right now, I'm sure the numbers are unbelievable. In 2014, major companies were adopting Slack. Yeah, I mean, I used it many times.

The Guardian users couldn't get enough of what Butterfield built. Within months of launch, Slack was valued over $1 billion. Meanwhile, Yahoo's flicker was dying. Today, Slack has become one of the most valuable communication platforms. Yeah, no kidding. Yahoo killed Flickr that's not even a top 50 photo app now and so it's pretty much over

just amazing that he gave up and then he realized what we were what we did while we were building something that was a failure is actually going to be the success so I guess the moral of the story is never give up that's the moral of the story never give up and you will soon be living your American dream.

No matter what country you're from. All right, let's get out of here. I'll give you the joke today and we'll be out of here. So this was sent to Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com from Sherpa Man. Okay, so we've got a herd of alpacas and we've got an email from Sherpa Ban. He said multiple jokes of the day.

I don't know if we're going to get to all of them, but I'll give you one of them that I actually enjoyed. I enjoyed a couple of them. So you get a couple of them anyway. as the week goes on. But this one is, how much did the pirate pay for corn at the farmer's market?

I don't know. How much did the pirate pay for corn at the farmer's market? A buccaneer. Huh? Get it? Because it was, yeah, now you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content

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