Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Can You Imagine!?... | 6/6/25

Episode Date: June 6, 2025

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The hills except are in Finland. Not here in the United States of America or China. It's in Finland. So apparently they dug a hole, one drill hole, named UKKO-001. And they hit three major gold-rich sections, which exceeded their expectations according to the company's CEO, the company Endomines. So this discovery was found in the bedrock samples taken from a site along the Carillion gold line in Yucalanavra, which, man, is beautiful this time of year.

Man, the Carillion gold line in Yucalanlava, oh man, it is gorgeous. So get there, get there now before the company endomines claims it all. And you'll be able to get some gold. So the gold rush is on. I'm excited about a gold rush. I mean, obviously the gold sent some shockwaves through the gold markets. Yeah, because amazingly, the earth is creating more. Huh.

The earth is doing what the earth does. Huh. So they believe that they're going to have just an overwhelming amount of gold in this new, find. And if the gold rush is on, I'm not sure if you'll be allowed to go in and get your own gold back in the original gold rush days when it was in California and the Dakotas and Alaska. Yeah, I mean, you could, I guess, show up with your weapons and your gold pan and your screen and say, I'm farming for gold. Yeah, you don't want to shoot people over it.

But it could happen. There could be a gold rush in Finland, especially along the Karelian gold line in Yucan Lavra. Good luck. Good luck. No, they're not calling it Amalfa Falas. That's not where it is. It's the Karelian gold line in Yucalanavra.

It is not Amorpha Phalas. It might be, though. I don't know. Welcome. Welcome to two. doing the fat. Just when you think you've got it figured out, well, you don't. Japanese space company, I-space, they had launched resilience, and that resilience was going to land on the moon. Except it crashed. Uh, they failed to land on the moon. Uh,

but potentially that's like the second failure to soft land a vehicle in a couple of years. Yes, it is. The lander neared planned destination of the Sea of Gold. It's the Mayor Frigorous, I think, section. It's a flat region at the top of the moon. And so the mission controllers were unable to establish contact at the time of landing. And, well, we believe that the lander crashed because we don't know what happened to it. And we just lost contact and control.

So what are you going to do? Now, the lander was launched in January by SpaceX alongside a spacecraft from the Texas-based Firefly Aerospace, whose successful moon landing in March was the first by a private company in history. Now, Ispace sought to deploy a small 11-pound rover named Tenacious to harvest lunar dirt and analyze that for future use. And the mission also aimed to deploy several scientific and commercial payloads, including a food experiment module. and they had some moon house art project from Mikhail Ginberg. So, yeah, they didn't make it. That didn't make it.

Sorry about it, but we lost contact and we believe it crashed. I know. Don't look at me like that. No, there was no fire. It's the moon. There was no fire. It didn't start off. It just crashed.

Remember the one company, it landed on the side. and we got the side picture of it. But we're not, I didn't see any pictures from the I-space lunar lander because, well, we lost contact. And so that's a bummer. That's a bummer. You know, Japan is, I got a little bit of a problem these days. I was just reading another article about how low their birth rate is and it's hitting a new low,

I mean, almost yearly. And right now, in 2024, They had 686,061 babies. And that's down over almost 6% from the prior year. Okay, it's 5.7%. Now, it's the first time the number of new birth dropped below 700,000 in a year since records began in 1899. It was the 16th straight year of decline. So, Japan is going to be a whole.

a lot of less people in a very short period of time. In fact, they're saying now, Japan's population of $124 million is expected to sink to 87 million. Now that's by 2070. So, I mean, they've got a few years to crank

out still saying that they're over 100 million people, but not for much longer and it'll be going way, way down. Look, the fertility rates around the world are actually declining except for a few countries. So, good luck, uh, Japan. You need to, uh, pick up the pace. Yeah, we definitely need to pick up the pace.

And there needs to be some serious Japanese business going on. Maybe you spend a little bit less time on that crashed ice space program, uh, on the moon and spend a little time of get on over here because we need to make some more Japanese babies. You know, and sticking with Japan, okay? So they just banned and, and basically, and basically, babies, Japan and babies, okay? So I'm looking at this story, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago or sometimes in the near past, about baby names.

And countries ban names, which I find despicable. I should be able to name my child, whatever in the hell I want to name my child. I don't care. When they become an adult, if they don't like to name that they were given by their parents, you know what, you can change it.

It's all you. But according to this, Japan has recently banned what is known as shiny or glittery names. Okay. So these names could include anything from Pikachu to Nike. Wow. Okay. So other countries, I have restrictions on babies' names as well, including here in the United States.

There are some rules of names that you can't use. For instance, in California, names listed on birth certificates can only contain the 26 letters in the English alphabet, which leaves out letters and accents. I don't know that I like that, but okay. Other names that certain jurisdictions around the U.S. have deemed illegal, illegal, to use on birth certificates include the following. King, Queen, Jesus Christ,

three or three eyes. I, I, I. Santa Claus, Majesty, Adolf Hitler. But I'm going to just pause for a second and say, I almost want to say, you know, I understand banning someone calling their kid Adolf Hitler. But you know what?

If you want to name your kid Adolf Hitler, go ahead. But you know, you can't do anything that says. Messiah, you can't name the kid. at Insignia. And 1.0 at 1069. Okay. Stop it. If I want to...

All right. New Zealand has a bunch of names that they can't name. No one wants to be named. King. Prince, Princess. Princess spelled differently. I like that. Yeah, the alternative spellings.

Nope. Can't do that either. Names with ties to marijuana are also requested and rejected. Dude. You know, I'm just going to, my girlfriend and me are going to have a baby. I was thinking, man, that we should probably name it like bong. A little baby bong. What do you think? I think that's really cool.

Yeah, you're not going to name your kid ball. No Mary Jane. No Mary Jane. I know. No. No. What was the other stupid one that they were talking about? Oh, just the side name.

Mary Jane. Sativa, Indica, just marijuana strains. All right. I can't wear a club. I'm going to name my kid Purple Cush. I'm going to name my kid Colom. Colombian gold. Okay.

All right. If you want to name your kid that, go ahead. But no, they're not going to, you're going to be shot down naming your kid that. And apparently in New Zealand, New Zealand, man. Stop it. Sexfruit is a bad name. And in Mexico, Robocop is banned. What?

Stop it. Other names banned in various countries, according to U.S. birth certificates. com, who I love. Osama bin Laden in Germany, Metallica and Sweden, cyanide in the United Kingdom. Look a little baby cyanide. Come on, that's a good day. I, 007, Prince William in France. Yeah, you don't want that because you've got Prince William in the UK.

You're not going to name a kid Prince William in France. The Quran in China, Judas in Switzerland, devil in Japan. I mean, could you name devil? Could you name your kid devil in the U.S.? I doubt it. Blue in Italy. It's just what ticks me off is the idea that these countries don't allow you to name

your kids what you want to name them. And specifically in the United States. You know what, if Italy wants to ban it, if France wants to ban it, let them. We left that continent a long time ago because we wanted to be able to name our children what we wanted to name our children. That's what it was about.

That's exactly what it was about. A little known fact, all right? It wasn't anything about any other thing than baby names. And so, stop it already. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. What? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.

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you know, get rid of the bullpen, and he wanted to say, hey, can we send you some hats? And I was on my email, I was like, yeah, go ahead. I don't know that I'm going to wear them, but you could send him thinking he wasn't going to. going to send them. Well, Wes came through. He did send them. He is their press officer

media relations for PETA. And I'd like to, you know, thank you, Wes. I appreciate it. I did get the bring on the arm barn hat from PETA

with the big PETA insignia on the back. It's a blue hat. It's called Bring on the Arm Barn. It's a nice hat. Uh, it's a pretty nice hat. I like it a lot. Uh, I don't know that I'm going to wear it, but, uh, I like it a lot. And, uh, so thank you, Wes, I appreciate it.

Also in the box came some stickers. I got a PETA magnet. My daughter will, you know, probably like that on the refrigerator and I'll have to, you know, put it on a refrigerator that I can't see. Is there a refrigerator? You can't see, Jeff? Yes, yes, there is. And then I got a vegan power.

sticker and I got end speciesisms stickers. This is funny to me, but I appreciate it, Wes. Thank you. Then he sent me another little sticker with the QR codes where I can sign up to get my free vegan starter kit. Man, do I want to scan that QR code immediately? And then I got a couple of stickers in the shape of eggs. This is cage free.

go vegan and it shows chickens all stuff together in a chicken farm. Yes, see that doesn't bother me. And then cage free does not mean cruelty free. Don't be duped. Go vegan. Yeah, okay. And then I got a little book here that said it's a little flyer book. It's kind of nice.

Looks like they spent a little bit of money on this bad boy. And it says what PETA really stands for? And then in the back it says pledge to stand with PETA today. Peta.org. slash stand and it has the pages aren't numbered but of course it's going through you know people and then we let's listen people uh i can only i am you only different all see in that special all right so let's see uh we're the next ethical uh do onto others as you would have them do onto you yeah humans humans humans

first. Pretty sure. Pretty sure PETA does believe that animals are considered that in their writings. And then let's see where we go. Treatment. Animals are not ours to experiment on. Eat, wear, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way. Okay, let's stop. Let's pause for just a moment here, shall we?

animals are not ours to experiment on eat, wear, use for entertainment. Yeah, they are. We're humans. Humans first. They are. Now, the end, or abuse in any other way. Yeah, I mean, you have to first consider that

eating them, wearing them, using them for entertainment, doing medical tests on them is abuse. See, if you don't agree with that, Well, then that's a whole thing right there. And that's probably what the... Thank you, Wes. I appreciate it very much. Wes Burdett, Press Officer, Media Relations for the people,

for the ethical treatment of animals. He came through, you did what you said you were going to do, and I appreciate it. And will I sport the bring on the arm barn? I may. I may sport this just because it's a nice hat. and it'll spark conversation. Oh, hey, you're for Pita.

Bring on the Arm barn. No. No, I'm not. It'll bring up some conversations. It'll promote you. And it'll also spark some conversations with people out in the real world. And, oh, isn't that a cute Pita hat? And then we can talk about whether we're for Pita or not.

But thanks, Wes. I appreciate it. All right. So this headline really got me. me. But then when you read all the way at the end, the headline is not correct. So I just, I got burned. So the headline is after 12 years of failed attempts, the man who lost his hard drive containing $742 million in Bitcoin finally ends his search. Now, he didn't lose. It's not, it's worth $752 or $42 million now, right? When he first lost it, it was $8,000, it was probably worth

$6,000. You know, who knows? It wasn't even worth, you know, the 8,000 bitcoins. But now it is, and it's worth a lot of money. And at the time, he lost his hard drive. It went into the trash, the private keys for those coins on the hard drive, and now it was in this landfill in the UK. And he's been fighting all this time to try to find his briefcase in this landfill.

and they keep pushing him at all turns. They say that, you know, you have to go through the landfill and do it properly. Who runs this landfill, PETA, probably. So in the years then, he's gone to, he said I'm fighting, you know, I'll pay for myself. So he had a recovery plan that involved AI powered drones, robotic systems. he wanted to safely search the landfill without causing any environmental damage. It's a landfill. So his goal was to retrieve the hard drive while minimizing harm to the surrounding area

and adhering to all safety protocols. Uh-huh. Even more impressively, he offered to fund the project himself. So the Newport City Council was going to give him permission. Except, not so fast. You know, there's dangers in disturbing the landfill. And so they refuse to grant him permission. And he's been battling with them back and forth.

And according to UK waste management laws, anything disposed in a landfill is technically owned by the landfill site. So excavating it would not only cause environmental harm, but also violate the regulations governing waste disposal in the region. Stop it. Okay. So he's been fighting them back and forth over this. Now remember the headline of the story was that it was over, right?

It was done. He wasn't going to do this any longer, right? He finally ends his search was the headline. Well, now there's a documentary getting ready to come out sometime this year, which he's involved in. And so he's excited about the new documentary. It's going to be called the Barry D. Bitcoin, the real-life treasure hunt of James Howells.

Okay. And so, and it talks about how it chronicles the efforts to recover the Bitcoin and all the legal bag up battles. And I would actually like to see some of the legal battles in these people who are telling him, no, you can't disturb the land to fill. Okay. Calm down. It's a landfill.

Now, at the very end of this story, the very end of the story, it says, despite the court ruling against him, he insists, I'm not giving up the fight. Wait, I got sucked into this story about the howls in his stupid Bitcoin story that I've been hearing about for years now because it said he finally ends his search. Then at the very end of this story, it says, I'm not giving up the fight which is it i mean i'm guessing it's been quite some time now uh this began in 2013 i think somewhere around in there so it's been uh you know 11 12 years so i'm not sure that anything that's in a landfill for that long hasn't had some reaction to the other landfilled goo and so i don't know that that hard drive is going to be worth anything anyway now but

He should have been able to get it before then. But the only thing that just ticked me off is, and it's a fascinating story, it was just that the headline said he finally ends his search. But that's not true, because at the end of their story, they tell me that he is not giving up the fight. So... I know. I know. All right, let's go to the break room.

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care about those. Just listen and watch on X at Jeffrey JFR. Thank you. much. I saw a, and I don't know this is true or not, and I don't necessarily want it to be true because I like Martin Short. And, you know, I guess I want him to be happy, but not this way. It's rumored that Martin Short and Merrill Streep are engaged and are going to be married. And while, you know, I guess I'm happy for the couple, I'm not real crazy. about Merrill Streep.

And I'm guessing, and I didn't read any deeper. I didn't want to know any of the details about Martin and Merrill. But if it's true, I bet they fired up that love affair on only murders in the building because she was part of Only Murders there for a couple of seasons. And I bet you together on that set, Sparks were flying. Weren't they a couple on Only Murders in the building? Oh, yes, yes, they were. so it happened in real life.

Oh, man. How many times does that happen in Hollywood? Huh? I know. So good luck to them if it's actually true. And apparently Marvel fans are a little upset now. And you can't win. You can't win with these damn comic books and hero movies.

You just can't win. So now there's a new reimagined Black Panther's legacy. It's a new storyline. I know. I know. And the Black Panther now, in the premier issue, Marvel Knights,

K-N-I-G-H-T-S is out. And the new character named Ketima, and he is the prince of the African kingdom he's white you bastards you bastards right right right so uh you know i you know i'm just saying you can't win you can't win so don't look at me i didn't have anything to do with it i just

know that you know the black panther is now white and look it was going it's the news generation and a new character and it's going in the new legacy we're reimagining things so so it's not my fault it's not my fault that whitey is now black panther okay not my fault now a person who i'm sure is pissed that the new reimagined black panther is white uh is christian ummpur the CNN journalist, British-born. She is not an American citizen. Good. Anyway, she was on her podcast called the X-Files.

It's the E-X files. And she said on her podcast that preparing to travel to the U.S. recently she had to prepare like she was traveling to North Korea Is that right? Christian Amampur Is that right?

Now she was speaking with her ex-husband Jamie Rubin. I wonder if that's who she only talks to on the podcast. Her and the X because it's called X file. Anyway,

she's her ex-husband, Jamie Rubin, who she was talking to on her podcast, who was a former State Department official. I'm impore recall the speech she gave at Harvard Kennedy School last month. Now, she said, although she's a prominent media figure,

I was scared. I was scared that I was going to be stopped by border security. Were you? Christiane, were you? I must say I was afraid. I'm a foreigner. I don't have a green card. I'm not an American citizen.

Yeah, you hear all the time. We just shoot people dead. Oh, you're a foreigner. You're trying to get into the country. We shoot you dead. We throw you in prison. That's what we do. You hear it all the time, don't you?

Oh, wait. No, you don't. So anyway, she said, I literally prepared to go to America as if I was going to North Korea. I took a burner phone. Imagine that. I didn't, not my mobile phone. I didn't take my mobile phone. I didn't take my mobile phone.

not my iPad, nothing. And I had nothing on the burner phone except a few numbers. Were you smuggling drugs in? Kristina, was that what was happening? Is that what you're doing? Is that why you were so scared? It wasn't because you thought you were going to get busted

because you were a foreigner. It was just that you were smuggling drugs in? No, that wasn't it? Oh, okay. Now, she said that she's heard several stories about citizens being detained for hours and turned around at the border. have you have you christianna amapore now here's a good thing and i mean she's probably relieved as well

she did go on to say yeah you know i didn't have any problem uh while i treated it like i was going to north korea it was fine um i was welcomed into the country the immigration officer was couldn't about have been nicer and it was just a sigh of relief and uh i And now I'm thinking, if I thought that, what do others think? I don't know, Christian Amapur. What do others think? I can't believe that this woman still has a gig with CNN, but she does. And she is agonizing.

This is a perfect example of why she's agonizing, because her narrative, and I'm sure her speech at Harvard Kennedy School, was just beautiful. time for that. But they do because they're Harvard and Kennedy's at the Harvard Kennedy School. Just agonizing. Now, her ex-husband was on the podcast to be pissed about the Donald Trump administration attempting to bar Harvard from accepting foreign students. So that's what he was on the podcast for. And she had just spoken there. So she just related her story about, I've prepared like going to North Korea. Ugh. I, these people. are agonizing.

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That's not it. And it's not a morph of a fallacy either. It's Nicole C-R-O-I-S-I-L-E. Nicole Cro-C-E. Creole. What? Croyle. That can't be right.

Chris Hill. Okay. Croziel. Okay, which is it? Which is it? Crozo. All right. Chris Hill.

All right. Crohn. Okay. So it's one of those. Nicole C-R-O-I-S-I-L-E. I apologize because I want to show pay my respect. She has passed away at the age of 88. Now, she is most famous.

She's a singer from France. And she sang on the soundtrack of the hit 1966 film, A Man and a Woman. And so she had a very long illness, and it's very sad that she died, her manager, her agent, announced her death. But she's best known for her man and woman. song.

So I thought we'd pay our respects to Nicole. Oh yeah. Who doesn't know this song? Right? A man and a woman. Nicole. C. R. O. S-I-L-E.

Oh, man. That is a toe-tapper. Rest in peace to Nicole Choros-S-N. Sierra-I-S-I-L-E, dead at the age of 88. Then we have the death of a podcast.

no not this one I know many of you are thinking thank god no it's not me I know it's uh the Mark marron's WTF podcast he's ending it after 16 years now he's not ending it right now he's you know the fall of pushing it off of the fall because we want to announce you know that we're ending it so we can get everybody to come back in all the big stars to come in and kiss my ass for the next three or four months to we say how great that was and how wonderful my last 16 years

were and you guys started in a garage and then you turned it into a thing and you you were doing podcasts before podcasts for podcasts and you've interviewed all these stars and now it's a wonderful thing you get all these it's a wonderful podcast so come back in for the next three months and i'll do man i'll see if i could bang out two shows a week and uh you guys can come in and kiss my ass and we may even we may even record it in the garage again just uh just to feel like old times. No, we're not going to record in the garage. No, I'm not going back to the garage.

Okay, we're not doing that. And so he said, yeah, you know, he's keep doing the same thing. And the next thing you know, you're 62 and old. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. The other thing is, oh, yeah, don't forget, I've got that new Apple show with Owen Wilson that's coming out. And yeah, I got that new documentary on me that's coming out.

Yeah, you know, it's going to be, it follows me and my, my acting and comedian years and podcaster years. It's just going to be about me. I love that. And then, oh yeah, I've got this comedy special coming up on HBO as well. So we've got that going for us.

But hey, for the next few months, kiss my ass and let me know how great my podcast was because I'm going to stop doing it. Okay, it's over. So rest and peace to the Mark Maren, WTF podcast. dead at the age of 16.

All right. How about those Indiana Pacers, the NBA finals? I'm telling you what, man. Game one in Oklahoma City was awesome last night. And if you're listening live, last night was the game. They won by one point.

At the end of the game, Tyrese Halliburton hits the shot. Tyreys Halliburton, you know, the guy that should have been the MVP of the Eastern Conference Finals, but wasn't, yeah, that guy, him. So a game two is Saturday night. We have game two of the NHL, Stanley Cup finals.

Tonight, Edmonton, Edmonton, is up of one game of nothing over the Florida Panthers. So we got that to look forward to. I did see a story, NBA team sponsorship revenue, up 8% this season. Team sponsorship revenue, up 8%. 1.62 million dollars. Yeah. Yeah, let's use those jersey patches. and keep selling them, baby.

Keep selling them. We want every player to look like a NASCAR driver. NASCAR was way ahead of their time. I've been for that kind of advertising forever. Every school should have their buses wrapped and sold. I'll be making money for the school so that I don't have to pay school taxes. All of that stuff should be sponsored. It should be no...

I'd sponsor it all. That's all. I'm a sponsor at all. And I mean, no, I won't get into that. I could do another hour on that, on sponsorships, and I'm not going to do that. But congratulations to the Indiana Pacers for winning game one against the Oklahoma City Thunder.

And congratulations to the Edmond & Oilers for defeating the Florida Panthers in game one of the NHL. Stanley Cup finals, game two tonight, game two Saturday night for the NBA. Plus we have the Belmont Stakes this Saturday. we have the Tony Awards this weekend. I've got a lot of stuff going on. Plus, we'll have Dead City, so you'll get another edition of Talking Walking Dead next week,

and you can still catch last week's Talking Walking Dead. And one thing, before I let you go, because I want to reach up, I talked to Brian Boone yesterday from the bathroom readers. And I love the stupid Uncle John's bathroom readers. I really do. And Brian's a good guy, and so I'm going to talk to him in just a minute

because I think he's on the line, isn't he? Yeah, he was on the line yesterday, Jeff. That's when you recorded this. Oh, okay. Yeah, so he's on the line. He's coming up right away. I'm not sure that I like this idea, but we'll see how it turns out.

Kleenex, the parent company, Kimberly Clark, is spinning off the tissue brand outside of the U.S. in a $3 billion deal with a Brazilian manufacturer. So at the time, we have all this tariff talk. and things are going to cost more money when they come into the country, when they're not made in the United States. Kleenex is going to be made in Brazil, or are they just going to be owned by the company in Brazil?

Maybe that's it. Maybe that's it. Okay. All right. I guess. It's a global thing now, right? Yeah, it's a global thing. Did you hear that the new Black Panther is white?

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And there's a brand new edition, the action-packed Uncle John's bathroom reader. So, I wanted to reach out to my man, Brian Boone, and who is, I mean, is the bathroom reader? You think of Uncle John's bathroom reader. You think of

Brian Boone. Brian, welcome to Chewing the Fat. How are you? Oh, I'm great. It's always fantastic to be on your show. So what's happening? What's going on with the action packed? What are we bring into the table? It's Father's Day. It's a great gift. Well, it's a great gift anytime. But of course, you know, the special, specialty Father's Day gift would be wonderful with this. I mean, it's, it's built for dads.

Like, you know, every dad seems to know, you know, all that minutia and all those fun facts that they share with you. I feel like this is, this is where they get it. Like, the mystery is solved. They get it from us. And, you know, we put dad jokes in there. We put stuff about fear and sports and, and World War II and Lincoln. You know, all the, all the stuff. that dad's love is in our books. And this one is action-packed. Let's hear about World War II in Lincoln. Oh, I don't know.

Off the top of my head, I don't know. I just know that there's always history. There's always history in these books. We've got the story of, well, this is very dad, the story of how the CIA tried to kill Castro. Okay. 634 times they tried to kill Castro. 634 times.

That's talking about a waste of money is that department. You said you cut that off right now. From like the 50s until the early 80s, they just kept trying. And at one point, they tried to do it at a baseball game. So Castro, you know, played baseball before he got into politics, we'll say. And in 1967, he commissioned this tournament at El Cerro Stadium in Havana. And he made himself this little presidential box. So the CIA found out about this.

Yeah, he's Castro. So he found out, CIA found out, so they sent guys down there. And one of them was supposed to sneak into the control room at the stadium and cut the power like a movie. And then in the chaos of the darkness, who turned out the lights, two other guys were supposed to just kind of hurl grenades into the presidential box. Oh, nice. And they couldn't even pull that off? They couldn't. Apparently, there were guards of the control booth.

They didn't think that that was going to be a possibility. That is awesome. really kind of makes me angry that we failed so many times. And there's so many comical ones. Like they, they, you know, they tried an exploding cigar at one point because Castro loved cigars.

Yeah, of course, Cuban cigars, yeah. And they all, they all grew up on Tom and Jerry cartoons, I guess. Um,

you know, they tried to recruit his ex-girlfriend to like, fake seduce him. Like, again, it's, it's all such movie stuff. No kidding.

It most definitely could be. And it's really, I can't tell you how pissed I am now. I'm so mad right now that we failed that many times. I don't like it. Over 600 times we failed killing this guy. What are we doing? He died comfortably of old age, 90 miles away. I'm even doing. I am so angry. We should just just, that department should be shut down immediately. I can't take it anymore. Okay, I'll move on. I'm sorry. All right, we'll go ahead. I do like the, I did like the, uh, the story of the rear.

around robot because robots are already here. We know that they're here. I don't have, I do not have one at my home yet, although I want one bad. Oh, my robot. In my home, I'm going to call him Dewey. He's my Dewbot. I want, I already have all planned out.

Dewey. Yeah. I've always, I've always on a robot. I started writing the robot pages in this book many years ago. It's reserved for me each year. I've all the writers, it's reserved for me. But, you know, I thought by now we'd have robot butlers, you know, or, you know, sassy wise, sassy, wisecracking robots.

But in the meantime, they're a lot of industrial robots. Samsung's has the best one. It's called, well, it's a robot butt. And because to kind of field test all the cell phones that they make, they need to put them through the wear and the way. Yeah, the testing process. Right. Absolutely. And we've all, you know, stuck our phone in our back pocket and sat down.

Absolutely. shattered it. So they have this robot butt that they, it looks and is the same weight as, as the average adult rear end, and they even dress it in a pair of, ways less than me. Anyway, they put a little pair of jeans on it. And then it just mechanically and repeatedly just sits down on phones over and over again to see how much pressure it can take. I'm a, I'm a proud owner of a Samsung phone. I'm happy they do it. Thank you. I appreciate it very That phone has been, well, a prototype for that phone was under a robot. The robot butt, absolutely. I don't have a fan of that. I don't know that, again, I'm not sure if they have the fat guy robot butt, but I'm okay with it. That's fine.

At least that gets tested for the amount of weight that it takes to smash a Samsung. That's awesome. I do, seriously, I want a robot in my home. Now, they're coming. Elon is making them. Elon says we're going to have thousands of them soon. I don't want to have to keep. keep telling it over and over again what to do. I just want it to be done. I want to program it once and be done. Yes. Clean the bathrooms. Yes.

Sweep. Here's another thing, though. Okay, I have a, this is just a side point that we could talk about as far as we're talking about robots. I have noticed that I haven't seen any robots that get wet. And I want robots that are able to do dishes. Yes. Like, how come we can, I mean, there's like, there's like an okay Roomba that can mop,

but it doesn't do a very good job. But like, we don't want robots to take away our art and, like, the fun stuff. We want to do the dishes and to do the laundry. Right. Thank you. I mean, they're already, I did the story earlier today about, you know, they're talking about using the robots to deliver packages from Amazon. So Amazon is testing, you know, having the robots bring the packages from the truck to the door. Oh, wow.

I mean, that's in prototypes right now. and I'm sure that will happen sooner than we want to, then we're ready for it. I don't know if they'll beat the crap out of somebody that tries to steal the package from it, but it will be fun to videotaping and watch it. America's dogs don't know what's about to happen. That would be awesome. Yeah, bite into that.

Go ahead. Go ahead. So, I mean, they're coming. I want one. I definitely want one. All right, so the action-packed bathroom reader. So what does this? How many additions of the bathroom reader do we have now?

This is number 37. Okay, number 37. So this one is the Action Pact, number 37. So when do we reach a point where we get the cutting room floor bathroom reader? Never, never. You're never going to admit that these are cutting room floor bathroom readers? We always have left. We always have leftovers.

And we can use those in future books. We can use those on our blog. We can make them into other books. Like, no, as humans are alternately amazing, inventive, creative, imaginative, and incredibly stupid. And they do dumb things. They do silly things and ridiculous things. And we get to write about both. And we tell you the stories about so as long as people keep being people and being dumb and being smart, there's, we're never going to write us.

stuff for right about. And there's always an origin of something. Or, you know, like, when the book started, we didn't write about video games. And now every year we write by video games, every year we write about robots. The Simpsons wasn't even out yet. Now, every year we say something about the Simpsons. Like, there's, there's a, it's an ever-changing world full of stuff. And we're here for it. We're here for it. We'll be able to read about it, you know, in the bathroom while you're waiting for your sheets to dry. And are you can read at other times as well. So one of the things I was reading about that I don't want to believe. Okay, I don't want to believe this story. All right. Mr. Rogers. Mr. Rogers. All right. So in your, in your little fancy little book here that we have, you're telling me that my man, Mr. Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers, he was a Mr. Fartbag?

He was a big old fart bag. I mean, we all, we all contain multitudes, as Mr. Rogers would tell you. Everybody has a lot of feelings, and his feelings towards flatulence was that farts are hilarious because they are. Well, they are. It's you I like, he says to farts. No, it took, like, I think he died in 2001, and it took 18 years for his wife to come out and to finally admit it. To disclose this thing that Fred Rogers thought farts were hilarious. He would do it in public and he apparently specialized in the silent, but definitely specialized. Lee variety.

And he would just, and he would just, he would just, he would just, uh, he would just, look over at her and, and flash her that. So, signature smile. So we believe the wife. We believe this isn't just a ruse to keep his name of the news. We believe his wife. I think we can believe his wife. Like, I think, I think nobody else can we believe, but, uh, but we can believe her.

That's true. That's true. I don't know that I want to believe it, though. I mean, it's just to Rogers. I mean, it makes, it makes him more human, you know. It does make it more human. It does. It doesn't. Who doesn't want to be more human like Mr. Rogers? So it's okay. I guess I'll settle down and believe it. It's kind of sad to me, actually. All right. So I'm sorry. He spent so much time with kids, you know, and kids fart a lot. Oh, that's true. He probably just got used to it. Ah, that's true. You know what? I could fart better than you. Yeah. All right. So this is the 37th edition. Now, in this edition, the, the Uncle John's action-packed edition. What is your favorite, favorite fun fact

in the action-packed 37th edition of Uncle John's bathroom reader? Probably just because I'm obsessed with basketball right now because of the finals. It starts tonight, as a matter of fact. Those of you listening live, today is the 5th of June 2025. Starts tonight. My favorite is the robot butt,

My second thing in the whole book is the story of the first player to shatter a backboard in the NBA. And it's just got... What year would that about? 1964. Oh, wow. That's a lot far longer than I thought. 64. They were just barely beginning to dunk, and they were still just very fundamentals-oriented.

But this guy, he was like 235-66, which was really big. They were huge in those days, yeah. Great name. Gus Honeycomb. Johnson, power forward for the Baltimore bullets, which doesn't exist anymore. And in a game against the St. Louis Hawks, his defender was making him so mad in just like, you know, just right there in the post. Yeah. That, that honeycomb dunked with such ferocity that he shattered the backboard and broke off the rim. And it took a half an hour to pick all of the glass out of his hair to

install a new one. And they had to, they had to put a new rule in the rule book to have another backboard on hand in case anybody shattered one. And then when Shaq started doing it like every game in the 90s, they had to reinforce the ribs. And we need to go ahead and take a look at what we're making these backboards out of. Okay. Yeah. Yeah.

Then they switched over to Plexiglass and soon. Yeah. Yeah, that's awesome. 64, though, I don't, I would not, I would have lost that trivia back because I didn't think it would go back that far. That would be alien if like 164 you're watching just, you know, this, the NBA back then, it's kind of boring. and everybody's just passing and layups and stuff like that.

And then this guy comes in a thunderous dunk that shatters the day. Right, right. That's awesome. Yeah, that is awesome. And then you have a bunch of jokes of the day. Of course, you know, a lot of times I end chewing the fat with the joke of the day. So, I mean, I'm sure that you have, you know, your favorite joke of the day to, we can end chewing the fat and this interview with the Brian Boone joke of the day,

officially coming from the 37th edition of the 8th. action-packed bathroom reader from Uncle John, which is available wherever you get your books. That's right. Okay, I got one for you. How did the hipster burn his mouth? I don't know, Brian. How did the hipster burn his mouth? He ate his pizza before it was cool. See, that's sad. That's sad. All right, we're done. I live for it. slash podcasts.