Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Data Needed… | 4/10/25

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

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But they have now a new A new siege on self-gratification. The 89th Texas legislature And they've just busy as little bees in their hive They have a new Senate bill filed by North Texas Senator Angela Paxton. Isn't she the wife of Attorney General, Ken Paxton?

Why, yes, she is. Isn't he running for a United States Senator from the great state of Texas? Why, yes, she is. Anyway, the new bill that she has put forward is going to require online shoppers to submit a photo identification before purchasing a sex toy. So she's on it. Man, they are on top of it in the 89th Texas legislature. That's not going to happen, though, unless you have an 18, unless you're 18 and you have a photo ID.

What about the 18-year-olds that don't have photo ID? What are they supposed to do with their sexual toys? Well, they're not supposed to have them is what's going to happen. So there is a sex-focused bill that has come before, Senate Bill 3-003, and that was protection of minors by regulating the online sale of obscene devices to those under 18. Because according to Texas Penal Code, man, we have to follow that, a Texas Penal Code. An obscene device is qualified as a device including a dildo or artificial vagina designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs. We've got to be on top of those penal codes.

So this bill would make selling and distributing sex toys to a minor or failing to implement an age verification process at the point of sale, a Class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of $4,000 for selling a 17-year-old a dildo. Okay. It would also impose a $5,000 civil penalty per offense. Acceptable age verification processes include submitting. government issued photographic identification, utilizing third-party verification services, that access public records to verify age and limiting sales to payment methods only available to those 18 and up.

While the bill does not prohibit the online sales sex toys, no, we're not doing that. We're just saying who you can and cannot sell to. That's all. Wow. I mean, okay, sure. Let's do that. How dare you?

I'm not sure, you know, is there a big push? on under 18 year olds buying sex toys? Is that actually a thing? Because I don't, I mean, I admit, I admit. I'm not hanging out in front of sex toy stores asking people how old they are. I'm not. I, you know, I don't care.

Here's another thing. I don't care. I really don't. Oh, Jeff, what about a five-year-old walked in there? You know, that's not going to happen. I'm sorry, that is just, if a five-year-old walks into the sex toy store and says, excuse me, I'd like that one right there, please. You know what, you got me.

Maybe they're buying something for their mom, for a birthday present or their grandma or something. That maybe I could see. But are we, is it really a big deal? Is this really happening? Jeff, we're talking about online, not actually brick and morgue. order stores, okay. We're talking about online. Okay, so I can search any app from around the world at 15.

Maybe you make the age 14 or something. Just if it makes, you know what, I'll tell you what, if it makes you happy their state senator Angela Paxton, why don't you just instead of under 18, make it under 13? Under 13. Under 13, no, you're not allowed to buy. sex toys online. Oh, okay.

You know, maybe I'm okay with that. Because who's doing it anyway? But if they attempt to, they realize, I'm not that old, I can't do it. Now maybe, I don't know. It just seems really silly to me as all. It's really silly to me. If you can prove to me that when the 16, 17,

15, 16, 17 year old comes in or goes online, I want to buy a delto. I can get it mailed right to my house. Good luck with the tariffs. Anyway, I can get it mailed right to my house and nobody will be the wiser. Okay, why are you doing that? I'm really tired of using my mom's out of the bedroom.

I'm just sick of it, and I make sure I have to wash it every time. I mean, I just want my own. Is that, I mean, is that wrong? I yeah, I want the data. I want the data on that. Come on now. Come on.

Stop it. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. You know, it's interesting to me that yesterday we got news that meta, you know, the founding father of Facebook, Instagram, and threads, whatever hell else they own, is now blocking teens under 16. Speaking of blocking people from doing things under age, they are blocking teens under 16 from live streaming on Facebook without a parent's permission as part of the company's efforts to protect young users.

Well, isn't that special? And yet that news broke. I mean, that's good news. Thank you for doing that Facebook. Well, man, we appreciate you being part of the whole, yeah, whole world community. making things better. Except yesterday, Sarah Wyn Williams

testified before a Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism and she was telling us how, I'm sorry, she was alleging how meta compromised national security by sharing U.S. artificial intelligence initiatives with China to expand business there.

That's it though. Oh, that kills me. Oh, yeah. It was just sharing with the Chinese government. You know, they just wanted to do business in China. You know, we'll give them some of our information for the AI tech, and they'll let us do business there. That's all.

Hey, did we tell you, though, that we're blocking 16-year-olds from live streaming on Facebook without parents' permission? You know, that's a backup for just a little bit. Is that a big problem that 16-year-olds are, live streaming on Facebook because I think the answer to that is no unless you're talking about Instagram then maybe even if that's an issue but it says specifically sit under 16 live streaming on Facebook

that seems to be and there's no 16 year olds on threads come on the 65 year olds are barely on threads there's no 16 year olds but Instagram yeah I get that and do they own Snapchat does Facebook does Meta on Snapchat? I don't know. I don't know. But I'm sorry, Snap. But I don't think, again, I don't think that's a problem. I don't think there's a huge problem of 16-year-olds

live streaming on Facebook. I could be wrong. You know what? Show me the data. That's all. I just said I want to see the data because that's all. Remember, this is the book that Facebook sued her over, and they kind of won. because they said that they weren't going to take the book off the shelves, but she can't promote it. She can't promote her new book called Careless People.

They took her to court. Well, I'm sorry, they ended up with an arbitrator. And the arbitrator found it potentially broke a non-disparagement agreement. She signed when she worked with the company. So she can still have the book out there, but she can't promote it. Ooh, that hurts. That hurts. So, I mean, damn, it's too bad that she can't promote her own memoir, careless people that's available now on many platforms.

Man, that stinks. Huh? I know. She was the director when she worked there of global public policy. Okay. Now, they, Facebook meta, not happy with this testimony at all. and in fact said that her testimony is divorced from reality

and riddled with false claims. Oh, okay. Can you point out what is fault about what she's saying? Or you just want to tell us that it's riddled and part of false terror? Okay. Because in this book, remember she talked about how C.O. Sheryl Sandberg made an assistant by $13 worth of lingerie?

Who among us hasn't done that? The current present of Global Affairs, Joel Kaplan, asked Wynne Williams' invasive questions like where she was bleeding from after complications while giving birth. Did that right? That's not funny at all.

It's not funny. I'm not laughing, Sarah, Wyn Williams, at that, because that's terrible. I just had my baby, and I had some complications. Where are you bleeding from? Right.

Where are you bleeding from? I seem like a legitimate question to me. Well, maybe that's just me. The company, she said the company pitched the Chinese government on implementing data collection and censorship tools so the platform could expand

in the country. Yeah, I mean, tell me you don't believe that? Absolutely. You know, I just got a letter. Speaking of Facebook and, you know, sharing information with China and how to better control what they have, information-wise.

I just got a letter from one of my doctor's offices where they were hacked. And not the doctor's office. The company they sub-contract to, I should have brought the letter with me today. The company they sub-contract to was hacked. And so our information is out there. I can start a commercial.

You know what you need. But they're offering some kind of, you know, first of all, they take my security very seriously. Do they? Anyway, and they offer it out. I could sign up for some free special service to keep my information safe for a year that they'll pay for. I might actually do that.

Just, you know, whatever. In a year, they're going to say, if you don't tell us no, we're going to start charging you. So make sure to write the date down that you want to cancel that. But I just remember the office of the comptroller of the currency, the comptroller of the currency, said that, yeah, our email. systems were hacked. You know, we're calling it a major incident, but don't worry about it. Don't worry about the highly sensitive information that was hacked. It just involved a financial condition of federally regulated financial institutions.

That's it, though. You guys, you guys are silly because we, you know, we got oversight processes. And we know what, we know what's going on. and yeah, the breach, well, we first found out about it in February and involved the information related to all the financial conditions of the federally regulated financial institutions. And we looked at it now and, you know what, we supervise national banks. It's fine.

We found the hack and they were using an external cybersecurity expert for full review. So don't even worry about it. You know what? Don't even worry about it. It's fine. Okay. Sure, no problem. It was just...

What did they end up getting? They ended up getting... And who knows if this is actually true? In the story, it talks about how the hackers had access to more than 150,000 emails from June of 2023 until February of 2025 earlier this year. That would be when they hacked it, okay? Early this year, yeah.

So don't worry about it, though, because we take your privacy seriously. Ain't nobody got time for that? And we're investigating it, just like we're doing with my doctor office hack, the third-party hack. They take it very seriously. And look, here's a, we're sorry, and here's a free company you can use for a year to, you know, keep your information safe. Not going to help you because your information's already out there. but it'll make you feel better now because we're not going to do anything else for you I'll guarantee you that I mean I would be happy with maybe a you know a gift card you know

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A miracle baby. A miracle baby. has been born. It is the first child in the UK to be born to a mother using a donated womb. Now, I did not know that you could

donate your womb. Do you get it back? I mean, are you renting them? Are we renting wombs? We're going to WOMS? I guess not. The baby mom, Grace Davidson 36, was born without a functioning uterus, and received her sister's womb

in 2023. In what was then the UK's only successful womb transplant. Two years after that pioneering operation, Grace gave birth to her first child in February. Oh, so she got the womb transplant, and then she got pregnant. I mean, that's kind of awesome, actually. So the baby was, we don't know how much it weighed.

It says two kilos. We have no idea. It could have been 18,000 pounds, or, you know, five pounds. We just don't know. We just don't know. It was quite overwhelming.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grace and Angus, who live in North London are originally from Scotland. Yeah, but when you're out womb hunting, you can't pick a country. I mean, you just got it wherever the womb is, that's where you go. Wom is for sale.

The couple initially wished to remain anonymous, but following the safe arrival of Baby Ami are now speaking to the BBC about their miracle, a little miracle. Yeah. No kidding. And plus, I mean, there's nothing weird about this, really, except that it's amazing that we can take a womb and transplant it into another woman

and have that woman get pregnant. I mean, that's incredible. Now, it was her sister. So I don't know if you can, you know, go up to Millie on the street and say, hey, want to sell a womb? She can just hang out outside of a hospital. hospitals with your sign need a womb and see if someone, you know, we'll stop by and say, I've got one for you. Sure. No problem. It's like buying tickets. It's like buying tickets.

It's like buying tickets. You stand outside the hospital with your sign. Womb needed. That's outstanding. Okay, so I guess there's a study that's going on that, let's see, the UK is doing with these womb. So I guess, It's donated wombs. So if you have a womb and you don't know what to do with it, go ahead and donate it. Let's see. The donated womb will be removed after the birth of the second child. Why?

This will allow Grace to stop taking the daily immunosuppressants she is currently on to ensure her body does not reject her sister's womb. So if it rejects it, then you get sick. And so they're just going to take it out. So taking these drugs can increase the risk of developing some cancers, especially have taken over many years. But the surgeon said, Ah, you're fine.

You're fine. No problem. You can still take all these drugs. Don't worry about it. We're going to go make another baby because we want to be able to have another baby in this womb and say that it actually worked. According to this, the surgical team has permission to perform 15 womb transplants as part of a clinical trial,

five with living and ten with deceased donors. So we're just taking them. Oh, no. Aunt Mary died. Yeah, can we have her womb? They might not even be asking. I'm sure for the study that they're asking, but do they? So no details have been made public about the three women

who have so far received womb from deceased donor organs. Yeah, I mean, we don't know if their body will accept it or not, right? Once you get the womb transplant, you've got to take those immunosupplement, what do they call them? Immuno-suppressants. Yes, immunosuppressants. Amorphophalist.

Exactly. That's exactly what she's taken. That's a quote from the doctor. They have 10 women, have embryos in storage, or are undergoing fertility treatment. and the requirement for being considered for womb transplantation, each transplant costs about 30,000, and the charity has sufficient funds to do more.

Okay, so it's not costing, it's not costing the parents anything. That's pretty incredible. So we're just putting the womb in, and this is, now we're getting into rent-a-wom. This rent-a-womb, man. Put it in, have the baby, get pregnant. Goodbye, get this thing out of it.

of me. Wow. And that can probably that I mean, the trans people might be able to rent a womb, have a womb put in and then get pregnant and have a C-sectioned out and just take the womb, take everything

out. Right? Impregnate the womb, put the womb inside the trans person's belly and let it grow and and get its goodness, get its goodness, get its good from the other human body, the adult human body,

and then cut it out. Wow. That's going to happen soon. So, need a womb? Business. Well, yeah. Now you have to do a little business to have the,

you know, have the baby in the, in the rent a womb. It's not really a rent-a-wom yet. It's just a donated womb. Second class, like goodwill womb. This one isn't, though. this one comes from the sister, so we're good.

Yeah, in the future it's going to be like bowling shoes. Yes, I'd like that womb. And, oh, no, that came from her. Oh, no, I don't like that. That looks, ooh, I couldn't give birth to a baby that size. Give me that womb there. I'll take the little one. Yeah, that's coming.

Oh, that is outstanding. I can't wait. I seriously, I can't wait for the people standing outside of hospitals with need a womb sign. That is awesome. And that can work both ways. You either have to sign up for a need a womb like I want one or need a womb like I've got to sell one.

Okay, so need a womb, you want one. The sign if you're trying to sell your womb is WOMS for sale. Oh, WOMS for Sale. We could probably get sued from Rooms for Sale for that because you don't want rooms to go for that. You don't want to have to come up with a new name because wooms to go.

Rooms to go is going to get pissed. They're going to sue for that. Yeah. So it's just going to have to be wombs. Because you can't be wooms are us because Toys R Us will see you for that. So it's just got to be

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All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. I am actually losing my mind. If you want to know how my mind works, I'll explain it to you. So Chris Cruz has got to go to Amarillo. All right. And he was asking us if we'd ever been to Amarillo. All right?

And I was thinking about it, and I was thinking, you know, I don't know that I've ever actually bed to Amarillo, but I've taken the exit before by mistake. Because if you go to Austin from here, there's a big exchange in Fort Worth where it goes all directions. And one of them is Amarillo.

And I could remember at one point, you know, the wrong way. And, you know, if you look at a map, it's right here. See on my hand where it is. And so anyway, so then I end up with Amarillo by morning in my head, okay? The song Amarillo by morning. All right. But that song gets me to, I'm much too young to feel in this damn old by Garth Brooks. And I cannot get that song out of my head.

So I've been singing as much too young to feeling this damn old by Garth Brooks all day long. And I can't get it out of my head. No matter what. In between, I just, as I'm talking to you now, all I'm thinking about is a much too young to feel in this damn old. Yeah. A worn out tape of Chris Ladoo. I don't know when they're women and bad booze.

I mean, classic. And when I was in country music, I actually, this was 100 years ago. I mean, I played this. I can remember playing this at 1450 J.B. Country. Sleep would be best, but I just can't afford it the rest. I got her right in Denver. I'm gone to. What about the wife, though, Garth?

You called her? Oh, see? Yeah. Yeah, she's probably done with you. I knew it. Yeah, told you she's done. It's over, yeah. I guess he's through with me

Yeah To tell the truth We can't either Darth We can't either I bet you're getting tired though Doing all this driving Yep I do it

I do he's gonna crash It's gonna go I don't make me listen The whole thing I would give me to Uh What about your ace? Oh you don't have them left

Okay Oh yeah, give me to Chris Ladoo. That's got to be the next verse, right? Oh, we got to go through a whole musical interload. Ah, never mind. Give me out of it. I can't.

I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. Please stop it. You're going to give me to the verse? You know, I can't recall. What I take for Chris Laudeau?

lonely women and bad booze I can't I just I just now that's the way my mind works I'm sorry it took me from Anna Merlo by morning into Garth and I just that's where I'm at so I apologize

for being me okay I just apologize and then I look at this story and it's going to hopefully get me into some other songs okay because we have a new national recording registry songs have been put

on the list. So fantastic. All right. So created in 2000 by the Library of Congress to help bring attention to the preservation efforts. The registry now contains 675 titles. Okay. And let's go down the list. Shall we have the 25 that were just put in the registry. Aloha by the Hawaiian quintet, a 1913 single. I love that one. sweet Georgia Brown, brother bones, and his shadows from 1949. That's actually good. Happy Trails by Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Hello. At one time, Ray Rogers was a monster. Radio broadcast of Game 7 of the 1960 World Series, Chuck Thompson. That's fun to listen to. Harry Urata Field Recordings from 1960 to 1980. That's you. good. Hello Dummy by Don Rickles, the album. Colerious. Don Rickles, I mean,

absolutely. The Chicago Transit Authority by Chicago, a 1969 album, a Miles Davis album from 1970, Bitches Brew. I was hooked on Miles for a long time. That guy, man, he hated white people so much, and yet I love, I mean, I saw him live. Before it was, before it was trendy, Miles hated white people

Okay And but I saw him live And all he did was just I mean he played this day It was a great concert And he just walked with stage Back and forth Across the stage

Looking at the floor I believe that was Post heroin addiction So I don't think he was high At the time But it's possible that he could have been Then Oh man

Charlie Pride Kissin Angel good morning Yes Classic by Charlie Pride I Am Woman by Helen Reddy. Oh my gosh. How can you have a registry without Helen Reddy and I Am Woman? Vincent Fernandez El-Rei from the 1973 single.

Elton John, goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Yeah, I mean, why don't they just put the Elton albums in? What are we doing messing around with? Well, let's just do the Yellow Brick Road single. No, let's not do that. Let's put the album. Just put the catalog in. Yeah, don't even want.

There's no point in doing a song at a time. time, it's stupid. Put the catalogs in. I mean, holy cow. And now that he's, well, he hasn't buried the hatchet with Madonna. Madonna has buried the hatchet with him. We talked about that the other day. Madonna best fucking live act. Fuck off.

Because she's the one that said that she wants to, you know, bury the hatchet because she's trying to find a way back to relevancy. That's for sure. Freddie Fender. Love Freddie Fender. Before the next tier drop falls. Oh, my gosh. 1975 single, yeah.

Thelma Houston and the pressure cooker, not the pressure cooker, it's Thelma Houston and the pressure cooker. I've got the music in me. Oh yeah, classic from 1975. Keith Jarrett, the co-in concert. I had a friend of mine that loved Keith Jarrett.

I mean, I was forced to listen to Keith Jarrett. I have never, oh, man. Steve Miller Band, fly like a needle. And I don't mind Keith, I don't mind some of the Keith Jarrett stuff. I mean, I got it. Okay, I got it. Steve Miller, Van, Fly Like an Eagle. The Nimrod Workman

Collection. I am not familiar with the Nimrod Workman Collection from 73 to 94. I'm going to have to figure that one out. Tracy Chapman, the Tracy Chapman 1988mian-1988 album. Yeah, just give her the album. Thank you. We're not just piecemealing this by song by song.

Mary J. Blige, My Life, from the 1994, the album. Okay. Brian Eno, Microsoft Windows reboot chime from 95. Brian Nino, that's one strange dude, man. I love his, Brian Nino, My Life in the Bush of Ghost. What a great album.

Oh, my gosh, what a great album. Brian Nino, my life in the bush of ghost. It's so weird, man. But there's one song, I can't remember the name of it. Gosh darn, darn. He's got the live preacher, man. It's so high, you can't get over it. It's so wide you can't get around it.

It's so low you can't get under it. Help me, somebody. Help me. That's on the Brian, you know, album, My Life in the Bush, it goes. Anyway, that's not the album that went into the registry, though. The album that went into the registry is Microsoft Windows reboot, chime.

Celine Dion, My Heart, will go on. Oh, from 97, yes. Oh, yeah. Chance clear, Chanticleer, our American Journey. Yeah. What do we just do a thing about Chanticleer? Oh, yeah, the Coastal Carolina team. Right.

The Chanticleers. Yes. Go shots. Yes. Duh. Amy Winehouse. Back to Black. Oh, yeah.

Sad. I mean, that's rehab. It's coming out of rehab. Back to Black. Anyway. Daniel Rosen. the 2011 album, Minecraft Volume Alpha,

and the entire album from 2015 with the original Broadway cast, Hamilton goes into, yeah, that had to be there. Another one needs to go in is six. What a great soundtrack. I mean, if you're, if you like any kind of Broadway soundtracks,

and I was forced to listen to Hamilton from my daughter and my wife, and I was forced to listen to six with my daughter and my wife. Awesome. The six soundtrack is tremendous. I love it. Seriously. We get into the car, if my daughter puts that on,

I'm happy. They did a, that show. I never saw it live. I know. I never saw it live, but I would pay to see it. And the original singers now are not part of it, so it's kind of sad. So that's why you've got to listen to the soundtrack.

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Well, let's begin with Ray Shiro. Ray Shiro. Who is he? Well, he's the former general manager of both the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New Jersey Devils, and he has passed away at the age of 62. And it was with the Minnesota Wild. and the only thing that caught my attention with this is that he's 62, all right? And there was no mention of how he died. So is that, what does that mean?

What is that? It means that they cared and they didn't want people to know how he died. Okay. But I feel like that we're going to get information that it was, if we're going to do a story on this guy who used to be the general man, of the national hockey league teams and he's only 62, then there's got to be, there's other, there's underlying issues. Maybe just put that in the story.

Dead at the age of 62. The cause of death? Underlying issues. And then we'll let it go. Then we have Alice Tan Ridley, Alice Tan Ridley. She was from America's Got Talent, the singer. she was 72. Remember Alice Tan Ridley, the mother of precious,

and the American story actor Gadbury Sibbe. And she was the singer who performed for several decades in New York City subway stations, Harlem Cotton Club, and other venues before finding the national fame in her late 50s on America's Got Talent. She died at the end of March of this year. Very sad, rest in peace.

her death was announced and the cause was not stated here either. So, underlying issues. Then we have an update from the bar in the Dominican Republic. We're now up to 124 people. Passed, have been killed from that roof caving in on the bar in the Dominican Republic.

So, rest in peace. Arriva, ariva, ariva. Rest and peace to all the people, no, we're not singing, Arriba, and I guess they're pulling out more. It's a slow process. because it's the Dominican Republic and you can't

you can't do stuff like that quick right you just can't and an update on yesterday's story about the hippopotamus which uh you know I want to hippopotamus for Christmas um so the Democratic Republic

of the Congo the story we did yesterday talked about 50 hippos in Varunga Africa's oldest national park which is located in the DRC but they were found in the river

that separates the DRC from Uganda, the river south of Lake Edward. And they died of anthrax poisoning, which I found was strange, and they were giving excuses about how it could happen.

And so then, as I'm reading more, reading more about the dead hippos, the DRC. and the Congolese president he just commuted death sentences of three Americans who had been convicted on charges of participating in a botched 2024 coup attempt

tried to take him out the pardon came as the Congolese people are trying to get in talks with Donald Trump to strike a mineral deal hey you can't get Ukraine we're over here, come to the DRC and the Congolese, and we're ready to go. That's what you want, is you want to start working there.

Then there had nothing but war there for, I don't know how long. I mean, they've got the, I don't know, is the DRC part of the Rwandan rebel group? I honestly, I don't know. I don't know all the factions, but they have been fighting out there. Now, according to this, hippopotamus is, I mean, we've got hippos and other animals. ones, they even say to the story, other

mammals, hippopotamus's and other mammals have already fallen victim to anthrax several times in Varunga. I don't know, we don't need to go there. Sure, we need the minerals. We need the rare earth. We need the rare earth. But do we want to be traveling in

Varunga and worrying about anthrax? Well, yes. Nobody got time for that. Yeah, but we do. We do have time for that. And I could bet you that we're going to do that. Now, according to the Verunga website. I love the Verunga website. The park was home to the largest hippo

population in the world in the 1970s with about 29,000 animals. But since, ooh, it talks about instability in the region. Yeah, it's called anthrax. Oh yeah, poaching too. Yeah, poaching. Yeah, yeah. 95% decline. So according to the World Wildlife Fund,

hippos are a vulnerable species. There's an estimated... Yes? Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. All right, I'll get just some food. Hold on.

Hippos are right now vulnerable, and there's an estimated 115,000 to 130,000 believed to live in the wild. That's not even counting all the ones that we've got caged up to look at in the zoos. So we're doing okay with hippos. We're doing all right. And if you want to hear the history of hippos

trying to become the can. of the U.S. You can go to episode seven of chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher because I gave you what happened to the hippos. Man, that was a long time ago, episode seven. But it's an interesting story on how hippos were attempted to be brought to the United States as cattle. And then they realized, not so much.

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So I should have put this in Who Died Today, actually, because, well, they're not dead yet. So that's, yeah, I mean, this is, well, not dead yet. Weight Watchers, reportedly preparing for bankruptcy. Weight watchers. Wow, Oprah has sucked that place dry. Man, what is happening? Is there anything OZEPIC can't do? That's the first post under the story.

It's funny. The weight loss drug and its ilk took over, Hollywood and boasted a slew of potential health benefits, and so did Oprah, who was on the board of Weight Watchers. And instead of saying, yeah, no, I just used Weight Watchers. Oh, I may have used some other drugs, too.

So according, I mean, it's been around since, what, 1963. The Wall Street Journal reports that the debt-laden Weight Watchers International is preparing to file bankruptcy to facilitate a deal to hand itself over to its creditors. The company has

$1.4 billion of loans and bonds coming due in the next few years. And while it may negotiate a deal out of court, it's most likely to seek Chapter 11 protection sometime in the next few months. Wow, that is incredible. They were so huge. Oprah should pay that bill. Oprah Winfrey herself should pay that bill. I'm sorry.

No. She drove that. That was all her fault, man. I know she wanted to help people and use Weight Watchers and I'm a big fan of Weight Watchers, I got it, I know the process, I understand it, I appreciate what they were doing and what they're doing. But Oprah and Ozempic

kicked the living crap out of Weight Watchers, man, because people realized, wait, I don't have to actually watch my weight, I can just stick this needle in my stomach and then eat. And even Oprah said that to herself. And so, man, she should be the one paying that bill. No doubt about it.

Okay, so I saw a, yeah, hello. She's made a lot of money from them. Oh, she donated her time. Did she? Because I don't think she did. She invested in the company. Oh, okay. All right, all right.

Whatever. That's fine. Whatever. You're good. I saw where the former prime minister, I guess that was his title, Prime Minister of the UK Boris Johnson, was that his stupid title?

Was he the prime minister, or did he have another stupid title that they gave him? All right, Jeffie, I have it for you. Okay, let's have it, what I'm supposed to call him? Boris Johnson, what was his stupid title? So the official title, if you're saying it informally, it's prime minister.

That's what I said. He's probably his prime minister. It is the right honorable. Yeah, I'm not doing that. If you're diplomatic, it's his excellence. Yeah, I'm not doing that either. He was prime minister. That was a stupid title.

That's all I care about. His official status, though, is chief minister of the crown, great office of the state. Formerly. Formerly. Yeah, he doesn't do that anymore. Anyway, so Boris was in town.

He's here in Texas. He was vacationing with the family. I know. And he went out to Fossil Rim, which I love Fossil Rim, the Wildlife Park in Texas. If you have an opportunity to ever go out to Fossil Rim Wildlife Park, do it. It's well worth the time. You drive through the park and the animals are free and they roam around you. The giraffes come up to your car.

The ostriches come up to your car. All these animals. Some animals, you know, there's some lions and tigers and bears, oh my. That they, you know, thank you. That, you know, they have those, you know, you're safe. But it's really cool. And it's called Fossil Rim. And I've been out there before.

It's fantastic. And so Boris was in town. I did not know Boris was here. I would love to have chatted with Boris here on Chewing the Fat. I do have some questions. I may have used it as title if he was face-to-face with me. But if he's not face-to-face with me, I'm not using a stupid title. Anyway, so he's out there with the wife and the kids.

And apparently, we would have never known this, except that the wife posted a video on her Instagram of the ostrich coming up to the car and grab it on to Boris. It's really funny. So you're in the car, he's got his little daughter there, I think. A little kid, I don't know if it's a girl or boy. One of his children, if that's the only one, sorry. But he's got a child that I believe is a child.

that I believe is his daughter in the car. You don't need the seat belts on. You're driving like two miles an hour through wild, you know, through fossil rim. And she's just watching the animals come up to the car. And Boris is driving. And this happens.

Oh, Christ. Oh, Christ. Okay, so the ostrich comes up and it comes right to the car, you've got the window open, and they usually, usually have feed, right? I didn't see any feed from Boris.

Boris didn't want to spend the extra money at the house, at the front house to get extra feed for the animals. Cheap bastard, former prime minister. And so you want to, so those ostrich is coming up to the car going, hey, where's some of the feed I'm used to? You don't have it? All right, I'm going to grab your arm. Yeah, that's an amount.

American ostrich, okay? We don't care about your prime ministership or whatever title we're supposed to call you. All right? No, it's Chief Minister of the Crown, the Great Office of the State. Yeah, the ostrich doesn't care about that either. All right, let's get out of here. I need to go

get something. I'm probably going to listen to Garth Brooks again. All right, let's go joke of the day. Given to me through email chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can contact me there anytime. You can tell me you want to be part of what's the lie, which we do on Friday.

You can tell me, you can send in your, you know, opportunities for jokes of the day. Or you can send your thoughts and comments. You know, I prefer the good ones, but you can send the bad ones if you want. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. And you can reach out on X at Jeffrey JFR. You can reach out on Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio, Instagram, which I'm going to reach out to Boris on Instagram. Oh, reach out to the wife on Instagram. You're in Texas and you don't stop in?

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harder for younger people to acquire such toys. So do you get in trouble if you're a parent? And I just thought about this. So if I'm a mom and my daughter is 17, 17 and a half, and she says, you know, I'd really like to use that, mom, the one that you have in your dresser. And mom gives it to her. Is that a crime?

I don't know. I don't know. I'm just asking for a friend. friend is all I'm doing. This joke was sent to me from from Neil at June the Fat at the Blaze.com.

Why was Darth Vader referred to as Lord Vader? I don't know, Jeff. Why was Darth Vader referred to as Lord Vader? Because, calling him Master Vader

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