Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Check Your Drawers… | 11/7/24

Episode Date: November 7, 2024

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So the police department posted on their Facebook page that the department did not specify which monkeys escaped the facility. The company's website says it conducts research projects for government, university, and private industry clients. Ah, okay. So traps have been set around the area, and the MSC Police Department is currently on site utilizing thermal imaging cameras, and they're attempting to locate the animals. They are warning people to, I'm sorry, they're advising people, residents. to refrain from approaching the monkeys.

Immediately call 911 if you see any of the escaped animals. Make sure you lock all your doors and windows because we don't know where these monkeys will be or what they're going to attempt to do. So, okay, I mean, I can't help but think about the documentary that we've seen how this plays out before. We have, well, there were actually four different documentaries. One called Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

The second was called Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. And then we had War of the Planet of the Apes. And then, of course, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes was the latest version. But in dawn, after the primate escaped from Genesis Labs, You know, I know it's not the same name. Sure, it was Gensis in the movies, I mean in the documentary, but this particular lab in South Carolina is Alpha Genesis, so it's not the same at all.

But I can't help but wonder, we saw the beginning of the documentary Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, right? Of course, so a throat, stay home. I'd say 95% chance this was manufactured came out of a laboratory. The source of the virus was traced back to drug testing done at Gen CIS laboratories in San Francisco. A lab technician now known as Patient Zero was accidentally exposed to retrovirus ALZ 113, an Alzheimer's trial drug that was being tested on chimpanzees. The infected champs showed signs of erratic and aggressive behavior that led to their escape from the facility. The now famous incident on the Golden Gate Bridge, a six-hour stand-up with the...

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How many of the simian flu crisis? All regular government functions have been suspended indefinitely. Wow. Oh, it is. pretty soon. Again, that was in 2014. That documentary was made in 2014. And it was made on the, you know,

started on the west coast. This is on the east coast of America. So I'm sure there's, I'm sure everything will be fine. And it's just 40 monkeys that have escaped from Alpha Genesis. And it'll be fine. You'll be fine.

But if you live in that neck of the woods, heads up. And be sure to tag me. in all your photos of the primates that you see, you know, in your, in your backyard, at your front door, coming along the side of your house, you know, coming into your garage, whatever the case may be. I'd like to see those photos. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat.

I don't know if you can get it, but there are three coins that are out in the world that they claim are, you know, they say the potential value is up to. $2.2 billion each. Now, I don't know if you're going to get that. So let's say, what a shame. I found one of these coins, and I only get a billion dollars. Okay, that's fine.

You know what? I'll take $800 million cash, and you can go try to sell it for, you know, a billion and a half for $2 billion. So there's the 1946 Roosevelt dime. It was minted at the Philadelphia Mint. following Franklin D. Roosevelt's death in 1945, it was done as a tribute to him

with the March of Dimes organization in an effort to fight polio. Now, this particular dime is extremely rare because it was produced during a transitional period when the design was changing. Only a limited number of these coins were minted, making them extremely scarce and highly sought after collectors.

Okay. So they're saying that, I mean, if you find one of these coins, the Roosevelt dimes, the 46 Roosevelt dimes, could be worth up to, a 2.2 billion. Then you have the 1971 Eisenhower dime. And that's

unlike typical dimes. This particular version was created to honor President Doyd. Eisenhower. Most of the people are familiar with Eisenhower dollar. The Eisenhower, I mean, of course, who doesn't know about the Eisenhower dollar? Duh. But the Eisenhower dime holds a special place in the

coin world because of limited production and commemorative nature. And it was, they were producing special coins to honor past presidents. and the Eisenhower dollar was widely circulated. The dime version was produced in limited numbers, making it a collector's dream, and now its scarcity has made it one of the highest sought after dime.

So it could be, again, worth $2.2 billion. Are you going to get that for these? You know, doubtful. Then the coveted 1976 bicentennial quarter, these were made with a specific minting error, the error is often looked by the untrained eye you unwashed masses that don't know coins often overlooked this error so a few of these coins were you know make them very valuable um it was an error because they weren't part of the standard printing uh process the minting process so coins let's see

what is the see they show a deviation from the intended design making them highly like the rare somebody's about a specific minting error. It doesn't say exactly what the specific minting error was, so look at them close. But it could be, it may be, $2.2 billion worth for that bicentennial coin. I mean,

are you going to make some money if you have one of these coins and you want to sell it? Yes. But are you going, it could be worth up to $2.2. It could be up worth $18 billion, too, but you're not going to get it. Good luck. However, it would be,

willing to part with my bicentennial quarter for, you know, a billion, and then I'll let you go and try to sell it for more than that. Okay, we good? Good luck. I mean, these coins could be anywhere, right? I mean, they could be in someone's ashtray in their car. They could have been burned up in a fire. They could be at the bottom of a coin jar collection at your grandmother's house that's down in the basement, who knows where they are. I mean, it could be anywhere. And it does make you want to look at all your coins that you have. If you have coins, you know, we all have a jar of coins or an ashtray full of coins

or, you know, coins under your seat in your car. And maybe you drove through a drive-thru when you didn't want to use your card. So you had a couple of bucks. And it was, you know, 212. So you grabbed 12 cents out of your ashtray. Did you look at those coins when you grab the 12 cents? Of course not. and you just gave it to the drive-thru.

So are they in the drawer of McDonald's and then now they've been sent to a bank or they've been given to somebody else who threw them out the window, gave them to a kid, dropped them in a Goodwill Santa cup. I mean, who knows? They could be anywhere.

But it makes one, you know, pause every time you have a coin and you look at it in 99.99% of the time. It's just a coin. disappointing, but it could be, it could be worth $2.2 billion. You know, it's just like when you're trying to sell a house. You can ask anything you want for it, but are you going to get it? You know, that's questionable.

And that's why you need a professional to help you with that asking price. I mean, any time you have to make a big change, it's hard. And, you know, you don't, you've got to go through with all the planning to buy or sell a home. And it's, you've got to take a lot of time and a lot of jumping through hoops. and you may think your house is worth, I don't know, $2.2 billion. And then when you have a professional look at it, they're going to bring you down to earth a little bit. And then you're thinking, oh, my gosh,

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We'd love to talk. Business. Okay, so now we've updated the taco recall. I think we talked about this, the Resner's fine foods that were recalled earlier this month. And now they're including the recalled chicken from the ingredient supplier Bruce Pack contaminated with Listeria. All impacted products have now been given a class two recall classification by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. That means exposure to the product may cause temporary or medically reversible adverse health consequences. And you don't want that.

I don't want that for you. You don't want that. Restors Fine Foods meal kit recall products. And there's plenty on the list. the 30, there's 30 states. And I could read them off to you, but just know there's 30 of them. If you live in, yep, Texas, yeah, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wyoming. Yeah.

Tennessee, South Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina is worried about primates too. Oregon, Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Ohio, North Carolina, New York, Nebraska, Montana, Michigan, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Louisiana, Kentucky, Kansas, Indiana, Illinois, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, California, Arizona, and Alabama. of the 30 states. It would almost been, you know, short of just to tell you the states it wasn't recalled in. But the full details, we're on all the codes, and you can go to the FDA website if you want. And, of course, you know, we're doing this out. You know, you can throw the product away or take it back for a recall. You don't want these food-borne illnesses.

Do. I do not want Listeria. I don't want you to get Listeria. Then we have a new recall of cheese. I know. I'm bummed. Although it's Brie cheese. so I'm okay with it being rigged.

In fact, I don't think stores shouldn't sell it. I like brie cheese, Jeff. Okay, good for you. So out of an abundance of caution, of course, the cheese company voluntarily recalled the selected batch of ripened cheeses, all brie, over the potential Listeria concerned. Six different kinds of brey

manufactured at Seventia Cheese USA facility have been contaminated with listeria. It's, you know, you don't, again, you do not want listeria. So the bacterium was identified in the processing equipment at the manufacturing plant after it was just a routine test that we conducted. And we found out, whoa, hey, that machine's got a little bit of Listeria. What's happening? So it's a limited regional distribution in select stores across the country.

and a few retailers didn't even receive the products. So, I mean, if, you know, if you like the Aldi and the market basket are the select retailers that are impacted by the Sevencia cheese recall. So Indiana, Missouri, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Texas, Iowa, New Jersey, California, Oregon, Colorado, Washington, Illinois. And you, of course, take them back or throw them away, you know, whatever you want to do. And, but you don't want the breach cheeses from all the ore market basket. And there's a bread recall too. What are we even doing? Now, the bread recall is because they failed to issue, let people know that there was

an allergen in the bread. So Aunt Millie's bread, the Bakehouse Hawaiian hamburger buns, the Bakehouse white Pullman bread, bakehouse 100% whole wheat Pullman bread. Whole grain dinner rolls, Texas toast, and whole grain white hot dog buns. Yeah. They forgot to tell you that's got sesame in it. So you don't want that. That's a class one recall because there's a reasonable probability that the use or the exposure to the product could cause serious adverse health consequences or death.

So it's a level one. Woo! Level one. I don't have the level one sounder. The products have been recalled in 12 states, and Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wisconsin, and they're dated September 13th or earlier.

Sesame is one, I did not know this. Sesame is one of the nine major food allergens in the U.S. Wow. The eight others are soybeans, fish, crustacean shellfish, wheat, milk, eggs, peanuts, and tree nuts. and tree nuts, and I'll tell you this, that if these are not listed on your packaging, we're going to shut you down, okay?

First we're going to recall it. We're going to give you a level one, and then we're going to shut you down, okay? So, what if you were allergic to one of those, Jeff? Then you'd want it on the packaging. That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. It should be on the packaging.

Because you don't want. You don't want to be allergic to tree nuts and have them in the bread that you purchase and not be told about it. You don't want that. I know, I know. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink without tree nuts desperately. So I see where Richard Gere, you know, you love them, 75 these days,

just sold his Connecticut home for $10.75 million. Now, I remember we talked about him buying this place a couple of years. years ago. And he bought it in Connecticut, New Canaan, 10.8 million. So he sold it for 10.75 million. So he lost money, 50,000, which, you know, whatever. I mean, that's for Richard gear, whatever, 50,000 is 50,000. But he bought it from Paul Simon and E.D. Brickle a couple of years ago, right? E.D. Brickle, is that her name? And they sold it to Richard for that 1075. They bought. it, Paul Simon bought it for $16.5 million. So he lost a lot of money on that house.

I mean, you start losing millions. You start thinking, well, that hurts a little bit. Now, it's Paul Simon again. Is Paul crying over $5, $6 million? Over is over $6 million? Maybe. I know I would be. I'd be crying over that $50,000.

But the reason that they're selling this dump, six bedrooms 11 bathrooms a pool multiple gardens three bedroom guest cottage 32 acres because remember i remember talking about this because he wanted to turn it into this horse farm or whatever and i thought whatever rich just do it no tell us you're going to do it anyway uh the wife wouldn't stop bitching about moving to spain and he finally gave in and said fine uh that's fine And she gave an interview to, it was her, did they both give an interview, or maybe it was just him,

gave an interview to Vanity Fair Spain, and I loved them, that he wanted to spend more time in his wife's native Spain. Do you? And to get her to stop whining and bitching about me moving back to Spain? Yeah, that's, so she could be closer to her relatives.

Ah, yeah, I just, I couldn't take it anymore. And I said, fine, we'll move to Spain. so they're moving to Spain taking their two kids with them I mean Richard is 75 he's got these young boys too man these young kids right he's got Alexander 5 and James 4 good luck God bless so he's also got a 24 year old I think and he's got

she's got another son from somebody else too so they're you know they've got some kids going on a little bit this is going on in Richard's house but he said I love Spain And this is when his interview to Vanity Fair, Spain. I love Spain. And the ability of the Spanish people

to live transmitting joy and happiness. So, okay. All right. Now, maybe the wife will zip it and stop whining about wanting to move to Spain. Oh, I'm sorry. I mean, Richard wanted to move there, you know, for her to move closer to her family.

And he's so wanted to move to Spain because he loves it so much and it means so much to him. He still has another place in New York that he's going to keep. Just in case. I don't want to be able to have to come back to the U.S. and not have a place to stay.

I don't want to have to stay in a hotel. I'm Richard Gere, but if she kicks me out of Spain, I at least have a place to go. So they've had 11 amazing years together, and they're looking forward to a whole lot more in Spain. And I see where Netflix has said they are going to release the final season of Stranger Things 5 next year in 2025.

What is it going to be Stranger Things? Retirement Home? I mean, it hasn't been a long time since this show has began. When did this show first drop? 2016. So, 2016 was when the episodes first released on Netflix. So it's been eight, nine years. And, I mean, these kids are grown up now.

So, okay. All right. fine that's fine i didn't realize that uh november 6th uh was stranger things day so we probably should have celebrated that yesterday uh you know lived in the upside down or talked about the upside down so i apologize but uh you're going to get season five the final season of stranger things in uh in 2025 and it's going to be eight episodes so enjoy stranger things final season So we've talked about the hard times that temperware brands have been talking about for quite some time. I mean, they filed for Chapter 11 in September.

And now they are getting ready to terminate operations at its Orlando headquarters permanently close the facility. 145 employees get laid off. Effective December 31st the end of this year. Wow. So I guess they're expected to buy certain assets of the company and extend job offers to some of the employees, but they don't know exactly what they're going to do right now. We talked a while ago when they, when they filed for bankruptcy, how big Tupperware was at one time in America. Well, I'm walking through Costco the other day and I didn't stop to see how much it was.

And it's obviously I didn't care enough to stop. But they've got Tupperware box full of this Tupperware, I don't know, their designer food storage set from Tupperware. And I thought, well, they still, if they're still on. stuff at Costco, then they've got to be making some money, right? I guess not. I mean, and they, I just read an article about how people were, you know, swooning over the nostalgic Tupperware set bought on Amazon because, because of the marvelous Miss Maisel, and she brought back the Tupperware craze in America.

Okay. I mean, I'm still using temperware products that my mother and grandmother purchased 100 years ago. Maybe that's the problem. They're just made too darn good. But so then now they're closing the front offices. So am I going to be able to still get Tupperware? Is it gone? I don't know. People were complaining. I saw one

complaint on the Tupperware. So it was some Reddit plan or maybe it was an ad, I don't remember. I saw, you know, people's comments about the product. Oh, the lids hold, you know, carry too much water. It takes too long to dry. Come on. Give me a break. That's what, that's your

problem with Tupperware? Okay. All right. I mean, they don't all have the little grooves on them, do they? I mean, maybe the nostalgic Tupperware set does, but I know the temperware products, a couple that I still used are not that. They don't have the groove seals, although they're not the food storage sets. So I still have got one that hold for a thing of crackers. And I've got one that holds, I think my wife uses it for flour. they're all like 100 years old and they were they're great so Tupperware come on man get your stuff together it's too late Jeff they're shutting down okay sorry I mean reach out to me email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com I'm happy to help we'll get Tupperware back on their feet again I'm a big fan and I'm willing to do some ads and we could talk about some marketing plans

to get the Tupperware back up and running again. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can reach out on my ex account at Jeffie JFR. You can reach out on my Instagram or Facebook page, Jeff Fisher Radio. I'm pretty sure Tupperware doesn't want to get a cameo from me, but they can at Jeffie JFR on the Cameo app. I know they're going out of business and filed for bankruptcy. I'm still going to charge them, though. That's the way the cameo app works. Yes, not free.

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I love this story. I don't know why, but it's just fascinating to me. Henry Kissinger, you knew him, you loved him. He died last year at the age of 100. Yeah, he was in Who Died Today, for sure. And he was, you know, he made Who Died Today list. But he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. Now, his will directed his executors of the will to pay all amounts necessary to erect the tribute,

which he wanted a monument to go on his grave. That's not going to happen. They reported that he was worth at least $80 million. Henry Kissinger, worth at least $80 million. 80 million dollars. Wow. Oh, you know, for his, you know, his consulting firm, Kissinger Associates. Uh-huh. I mean, they worked all over the world, including dealings with China.

They're worth 80 million dollars. Wow. Okay. So, and that didn't even include his Connecticut home and his Manhattan home. I mean, the guy was worth a lot of money. I didn't realize that he was worth that much money, but, you know, whatever. So anyway, he wants. this monument to be on his gravesite, and that's not going to happen. They've already said,

ooh, yeah, no. We're not going to be doing that. Arlington is marked with the simple white headstones that stretch over most of the cemetery, 600 acres, and there's only a few graves that have larger headstones, which the cemetery refers to as private markers. Now, that's where Kissinger is buried. He served in the Army during World War II. He's buried in the section the cemetery that includes some of the larger headstones. The headstone next to Kissinger is the former leader of the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy celebrated aerial squadron, is also located near the 50-foot Corinthian column topped with an eagle

that honors those who died in the Spanish-American War. So the executors of his will, one of them was on former New York mayor, Michael Bloomberg. And Michael's like, I'm not commented on that. Oh, okay. So what are we going to do? Now, apparently they've had meetings with Arlington National Cemetery, and they said, yeah, we've got rules wrapped around this whole deal of the installation of private markers. But since the Secretary of State received a presidential reservation for his gravesite in 2017,

and had requested a private marker before the implementation of new rules, as executors will be allowed to erect a headstone on his grave at his estate's expense. So it's not going to be some 50-foot column. And it's going to be, the size will be limited to no more than four feet high, four feet wide, two feet deep. Okay. So the iconic white headstones are 42 inches tall, 13 inches wide, and four inches thick.

I love the fact that Henry Kissinger, Henry Kissinger. You know what? I want a monument. Oh, I want to be married at Arlington National Cemetery. And I'm on a level of monument. No, ink. No.

No, you're not. I know that you represented all kinds of companies and, you know, are worth, you know, $80 to $100 million, but sorry about that. We're not going to be able to put the headstone in the grave. This is as big as you're going to get. So I guess he has to believe that the four feet high, four feet wide, and two feet deep is going to be the monument to Henry Kissinger.

Speaking of dying, I guess this is almost, who died today, but they're not dead yet. Spirit Aerosystems, which is a key supplier to Boeing, warned that there is substantial doubt that the company is going to be able to continue as a going concern. Yeah, they are concerned that they're just going to have to shut down because they were burning through the cash reserves that they had. And what caused that, I wonder?

Oh, I know, the strike from Boeing. Sure, the strike is over now. but they said that Boeing is seeking to boost production of its 737 max after the strike, and Spirit Arrow makes, produces the fuselage for the max, but they are still going to have to have a little money to continue going on. They said they had drawn down an entire $350 million bridge loan set up when Boeing agreed to acquire the supplier in June. so we'll see we'll see but there's

I'm sure this isn't going to be the only company affected by the Boeing strike but it certainly is affecting companies the domino effect is underway and Stalantis is laying off like 1,100 workers in Ohio at their Jeep plant

remember Stalantis formerly known as Chrysler isn't that the same company huh that just got a new union deal and they're apparently they're attempting to execute a turnaround plan following a years-long decline in U.S. sales. I mean, these companies, Ford's closing down and they're stopping production until the first of the year. I mean, all these companies are really struggling to sell new cars.

Maybe, maybe with the economy, hopefully turning around now that we have a president in office that knows what he's doing, that will turn around and these companies will be able to survive. I saw, you know, TGA Fridays that, you know, they filed for bankruptcy and they closed down some stores. But they said in a store I was reading this morning that they, the franchisees were getting pissed because they would still have to, with the, with the corporate filing for bankruptcy, the franchisees were going to have to honor the gift cards when corporate runs out of dough. So according to this story, TGI Fridays has $49.7 million dollars in. in outstanding customer gift cards and just 5.9 million cash on hand, which is, you know, they're using that money for the restructuring process. So the outstanding gift cards, which in theory don't expire, are 21 years old in some cases. And if you don't, you know,

look, are you going to, is all of those TGI Friday gift cards going to be used? Absolutely not. is there going to be a run on TGI Fridays with their gift cards? I doubt it because if that was going to happen, that may have helped save them because people usually use a gift card. Say you've got a $30 gift card and you go into TGI Fridays and you spend $50 or whatever the case is. But there's still a possibility that this money could come in and they would have to honor them, which would cost the franchisees money.

$49.7 million. an outstanding customer gift cards dig through your drawers no not those drawers your kitchen drawers your cabinet drawers to see if you have a tg i friday gift card because i would use it soon is even if you could find one a tg i fries that's open i would use it soon and i remember see you know this is why i would use my card and this is just me personally but i remember the last time i went to a tg i Fridays and it was not as good as it used to be. Maybe that was part of the problem. Maybe you could address that when you're restructuring. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing

of Amex. Conditions apply. Oh, I mentioned the other day about Mount Fuji not having any snow on it. first time for, I don't know, since the beginning of time that it has had snow on it in the 1st of November, well, it does now? So does that mean climate change is over? Or are we just saying that because of climate change, it didn't happen until, you know, late? Okay, just whatever. Just let you know the snow is back on Mount Fuji. So, you know, you can rest assured everything is fine. And the hurricane, Hurricane Raphael does not look like it's going to be hitting the United States of America. It's possible. Part of it. of the cone of death, the cone of uncertainty,

it looks like it may hit, as I said yesterday, the very tip of Texas into Mexico, but that's very doubtful as is now. And it looks like it's slowing down. It might not even make landfall, or at least as a hurricane, if it does make landfall eventually. It looks like it's going to just

kind of peter out there on the Gulf of Mexico in the southwestern kind of corner of the Gulf of Mexico. So you can rest assured that no problem. Don't worry about it. Hurricane Rafael. It's fine. Knocked a bunch of,

knocked Cuba's power out again. I mean, did they even have it up and running yet? They had all that power go off in Cuba, and then they were fighting to try to get it back on, and they shut some off, and they turned some back on, and then they had the storm hit it, knocked their power out again.

So, sorry about it, Cuba. And more and more numbers are coming in on the election. It looks like Texas, victory for President Trump was the largest for president-elected 20 years since he had a 14-point victory in Texas this year. And George W. Bush beat John Kerry, 61% to 38%.

Ooh, kicked his butt in Texas. Well, at that time, he was seen as a Texas guy. And John Kerry, who was not? But I see Texas cast 11.3 million votes. And Florida cast 10.8 million votes. So everybody's all happy about to say, and what he's done in Florida. And they did a great, I mean, they

turned out. People turned out to vote this year. That's awesome. And of course, more people were bummed out for Kamala Harris because it was her loss. It wasn't just because she was a crappy candidate, but she had an arrogant staff as well.

The answer to that is yes. And if you follow me on acts, I mean, I listened to her concession speech yesterday agonizing. And in the beginning she had, I don't know, half a dozen thank you. I thought she was going to go on for more.

And then she had, I don't know, five or six, maybe even half a dozen of good afternoons to start the thing. And I think she caught herself. She said good afternoon half a dozen times. And then she said, thank you. And on her, about the fourth or fifth thank you, she realized, I think, I'm going to give her a little credit here,

that she realized, ooh, I can't do this again. And so she moved on because she was close. to continuing on with some more good afternoons and thank yous. And while I would have enjoyed it, you know, people would have made fun of her and we can't have that. It was agonizing. I mean, Doug and Tim Tom and the wife were there and the kids were there. And they shed a tear for Kamala.

And as well, I guess they probably should. But Goodrins, have a nice day. It was supposed to start. She walked out. The video I watched, she didn't walk out until, I don't know, 40, 45 minutes, something like that, 40-sub-minute, into the video. And then, that was a C-SPAN feed, I think.

And then she spoke for, I don't know, 10, 12 minutes, something like that. And then she was done. Have a nice day. Get out of here. And it was at Howard University. I will say that was probably the best thing she did because the night before when she told everyone, or she didn't tell everyone. But her campaign co-chair, Cedric Richmond, came out and said, you can go home now.

You can't stay here. You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. He came out because Kamala wasn't going to speak on election night. But she did come back to Howard University of the same place to give her concession speech. But that's all I wanted to hear from Cedric was, go home now. Name that movie. Go ahead. Name that movie.

I'll give you a second. Coming to America. It's when they're going to have the big war. wedding and then he decides that he's going to go. So is Royal Oates in America. And so the king comes back out, James Earl Jones, and all the people are there to party. And he's, go home now. It's awesome. Okay, so I'm looking at my show sheet for the joke of the day. And I feel like I did this one already from Ian, right? A guy walks into a bar, spots an attractive Middle Eastern woman in the corner. He approaches her and they instantly hit it off. The guy is smitten.

He says, can we get together on Tuesday? She says, I'm sorry, but I'm involved in some kind of jihad stuff that night. And he smiles and says, well, what do you do it on Monday? I feel like I did that one already, right? And then yesterday, I tried to work out on the, you know, the pito, the gay man, and a hooker walk into a bar. And I think yesterday it was the bartender says, hey, we don't, we don't serve Democrats here, something like that, right? Well, so pito, a hooker, and a gay man walk into a bar. The bartender says, how may I help you, Mr. President?

Madam Vice President? Governor? See, those are not funny. I got to work on those. I know. This is the working, it's open mic night. I got to work on those. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content

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