Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 681 | Fat Pile Friday: Alcohol and Regret

Episode Date: August 6, 2021

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Wow. We'll jump on the gun today. Welcome to chewing the fat. Happy Fat Pile Friday. You know, really, welcome to it. Thanks for coming along for the ride today. Incredible amount of fat to get to on the fat pile today. So we might as well just jump in.

Smack dab in the middle of the fat. We can start with the man in Hawaii, who is now free, but for two years, he wasn't because of a mistaken identity. And the authorities just covered it up because they didn't want to admit it. Incredible. Now, thanks to the Hawaii Innocence Project,

and I'm sure that's a fine group of people at the Hawaii Innocence Project, they say the officials just arrested this man who was homeless and they thought he was somebody else and after they realized he was somebody else, they covered it up. Oh, okay. So according to this,

this man fell asleep while waiting in a food line outside of a Honolulu shelter. And his name is Spresterbach. Spresterbach. S-P-R-I-E-S-T-E-R-S-B-A-C-H. So Spresterbock fell asleep and the police came along and arrested him. Now he thought they were arresting him for sleeping. on the sidewalk, which is banned in Honolulu. Now, even if you're homeless, you know what's banned.

You can't be falling asleep on the sidewalk, so, you know, you may get arrested. I'm sure normally the police come along and go, hey, you move! I know you're not sleeping out in front of this homeless shelter. Get off the sidewalk. But this time they arrested him. So apparently they thought he was, obviously they thought he was some other guy. and he said after he finally realized that they thought he was this other guy, he said,

I'm not him. I'm not him. And they said, oh man, this guy is crazy. Get him to the crazy house. So they sent him to the crazy house. They had him committed to the Hawaii State Hospital.

Oh, okay. So for two years, this guy is in the crazy house going, I'm not him. I'm not him. I'm Spresterbach. Spresterbach, that's me.

Two years. And every time he did that, the hospital was like, give him some more meds. Give him some more meds. The guy's obviously out of his mind. He doesn't even know who he is. He tells somebody else.

And just give him some more meds. So after about a year and a half, A psychiatrist says, huh, you know, he's been saying that he's the, not this guy, Castleberry, and saying that he's Spresterbach for a year and a half now. We ought to look into that. And they did, and they realized, you know, the guy who they thought Spresterbrock was, was on another island at the time that they arrested Spresterbock. And they didn't want to admit it, so they just kept him.

him in the crazy house. Wow. So then they realized, oh, you know what, let's just let him go. We just let him come go. Don't worry about it. So now, I guess, you know, the chickens have come home to roost or the homeless people have come home to roost. Although he's not home because he's now living with his sister in Vermont.

And his sister has him living on their, it says here that they move to her 10-acre property, which he now refuses to leave. So now she can't get rid of him. And I don't know that he's living at her house or if she's got him pitching a tent on the back couple acres. Yeah, you can live those two acres over there are yours. No problem, you go ahead. But holy cow.

And maybe she loves him now because Hawaii's going to be giving him some cash. If I'm him and I have the ever-present whole, Hawaii Innocence Project working the farm for me. I'm getting some cash from Hawaii, man. They owe me some money. That is agonizing. It's almost, you know, you hear about it or you see it in movies that, you know, they put you in the crazy house by mistake.

I'm in here by mistake. And nobody believes it because it's a crazy house. And when you say anything you can. No, this time it was real. It took me a year and a half, a year and a half to have one guy say, You know, maybe he's telling the truth. I had to look into that. Oh, yeah, yeah, he is.

Go ahead and get out of here. You know, sorry. Sorry, just go ahead. Get out of here now. Didn't mean to do it for you. Take care. Just like, you know, who else is saying? Sorry.

Yeah, boy, sorry. Yeah, we screwed up. So, LaGuardia Airport. charges a guy $28 for a beer. $28 for a beer. That's exactly what we're talking about with price gouging. Everybody's so concerned about price gouging when there's a storm coming by,

but event pricing and airport pricing, no, that's not price gouging. That's making the product available for customers, and of course the price is going to be more. Oh, okay. So this guy says, hey, 28 bucks. tweets out a story saying, ooh, this airport is selling me beer at 2785 for a beer. And so they were saying, oh, you know what?

No, man, we are so sorry. Those prices were listed incorrectly. Those prices were for the 23-ounce pores. Oh, it wasn't just for the Samuel Adams bottle of ale. No, no, gosh, no. Good catch. Thank you. Man, it was incorrect.

We've updated that now. Don't you worry about it. It's okay. Oh, really? Yeah. And you know what? The next time you're in LaGuardia, stop by, we'll buy you beer.

Well, we'll buy you a lot, okay? It'll get you on. No problem. You take care, okay? So, it's not 2785, you idiot. It's only $18.15. Do you know anything? So they corrected it.

So how long has that been going on? Right? I mean, that's a long time and a lot of money. So now it's only $18.15. But the state is like, hey, you ought to take a look at that. What's going on? So the company that runs all this, this OTG, now they have to audit all their prices.

And they have to do it to the Port Authority. Now the prices, of course, went up. because the port authority or the city mandated that they had to raise their minimum wage to $19 an hour. And since they had to raise the minimum wage to $19 an hour, they got to raise their prices by 10%. And they added an extra 10% COVID recovery fee. Oh. Okay, that's good. but it's still, we were wrong, and we should have been,

that 2785 was wrong for that beer. We're so sorry, man, it should have only been $18. Incredible. You talk about price gouging, man. They've got you buy the, well, by those when they have you at the airport, man, they're charging you whatever the heck they want, and you've got to pay it. And it's not price gouging.

It's just, it's prices. Huh. You mean, items have a price on them to purchase, so it would be just prices. So there really shouldn't be anything called price gouging, right? Right. Okay, all right. And what is going on?

Speaking of airports, as long as we're at LaGuardia, let's talk about airports. We've talked about it a little bit on the show about the madness that's going on for the airlines, right? And people are out of control on the airlines. I got it.

There seems to be more of an issue with passengers on airplanes these days. Now, I will also say that there's also an issue with flight attendants. Okay. We gave them their little yellow crossing guard vest, and we let them have the rules and regulations. They're able to find you and kick you off and make you not fly. We gave them all these powers. So now any time that we don't hold the line,

we got to put up with little flight attendants telling us, you can't do that. And I know you have to be nice and just take what they say because they just throw you in jail. Just shut you down. I mean, I've told you the story a thousand times. I could have been thrown in jail easily. If it wasn't for my wife, I would have been thrown in jail.

Because she, I mean, I should just calm down, just stop it, stop it. And had she not been there, there wouldn't have been any stop it. I was all wound up. And that was before now. So I'm definitely, I mean, I'm definitely getting duct taped to a chair on a plane. Oh, you mean they do that to people? Yes, yes, they do.

So Frontier Airlines, big story, had a passenger get out of control. And they duct taped that person to the chair, to the seat. And you think, okay, well, you know, I get it. Okay, no problem. That could happen. So apparently a passenger groped two attendants and punched a third one in the face. And the initial statement said that the flight attendants involved had been suspended pending further investigation because they didn't follow proper policies for restraining a passenger.

And then they said, nope, you know what, we're for the flight attendants. we're backing them 100% and there was video of the passenger and I know that there was they had absolutely backlash from the union which you know demanding frontier reinstatement

and of course they did they sent a revised statement saying that they're on paid leave and it's fine we're just investigating it don't worry about it well then I'm watching a newscast

and the flight attendant Alfredo Riviera and their news is interviewing him and I love the live shots from the newscast you know that's I mean it's one of my favorite things in the whole world is the live shots but as I'm watching this and the the underline has Alfredo Riviera flight attendant but as I'm listening to this guy and looking at him on screen

I'm thinking he's not a flight attendant That is not really. He's got this news channel hosed. He's just pulling their leg. And I'll let you listen to it because I don't believe that this guy is a flight attendant for Frontier or any airline, to be honest. Now, you may enjoy the things he has to say,

but as I'm watching this and listening to him, I'm thinking, this, I don't think this is real. Now, I understand something. I'm a flight attendant. That means I attend the flights. Okay, stop for just one moment. Sometimes our job has to...

I just got to tell you, if you're watching live today, it's the 6th of August, 2021. If you're listening and watching live, so I'll put the video up so you can see it. The man is an overweight black man. All right. There's... Right there is your first sign. that he's not a flight attendant. He's an overweight black man.

And it doesn't matter whether he's black, yellow, purple, or grain. He's too overweight to be a flight attendant. That's right. I'm fat-shaming. Because I could tell you that I was a flight attendant. You would say, ooh, no, honey, no. I know that our standards have dropped a little in flight attendant world, stewardess world.

but they haven't dropped that far. All right. So go ahead. Alfredo. Now, I understand something. I'm a flight attendant. Plus, stop for a second. There's no way.

There's no way that this guy is Alfredo Riviera. Or Rivera. Or whatever the hell is named Rivera. He's not a car either. He's Rivera. R-I-V-E-R-A. Yeah, there's no way this guy is Alfredo. Revere.

In the flights. Sometimes our job has us attending to crazy people. Right. If you push us too far, you're going to have to attend this ass whooping. You see, because on this particular flight, I'm sitting in a jump seat, and I'm just looking at him at the damn fool. He's spitting and cutting and going crazy. I say, that's enough.

I got up and I walked over there. And by the way, this man smelled like a pack of Marlboro cigarettes, four shots of ever-clear alcohol and red gritty. So I know something's about to go down. Awesome. At this point, he touched all over my co-worker's breast. And where he fucked up at is when he touched my tedious. Because I don't play that.

So what I did is I took that the duct tape. I said, he got scared, start stuttering, say, hold up, wait a minute, something ain't right. I say, yeah, we bought the, yeah, ma-man-ma-ma-ma-muffe y'-muffe now, boy. So we wrapped him up. Better than any Christmas present you at

ever see. He won't be coming on no more frontier flights at all. So, uh, the newscast, the newscast, uh, global Montreal, uh, was proud to have a flight attendant from Frontier show up. It's not real. Okay. I do it when I saw it, but it has been verified that it's not. I mean, I, you see something you know it's not real. You know it's not real, But until it's verified, you gotta believe it, right? Right? Right. All right, let's go to the break room.

I need something. Oh, cold to drink. And let's hope that this is refreshing, because I don't think it's gonna be. Very disappointing. I expect so much more every time I drink out of the new Coca-Cola Zero Sugar and it just doesn't happen.

I'm so disappointed. Anyway, just saying I'm so disappointed. You won't be disappointed. You know, if you're listening to this right now and you're not a subscriber to this show, what are you doing with your life? You need to turn your life around and that's become a subscriber.

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Turn your life around. Turn that frown upside down and subscribe to chewing the fat. And don't forget, the main rule, once you are a subscriber, is that no matter what you're listening to, you can have your headphones on and listen to, you know, I want you to listen to other things. But if somebody asks, hey, what are you listening to? You have to tell him chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.

It doesn't matter. I don't care what you're listening to. But if someone asks, hey, what are you listening to? Your answer must be with chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Duh. So, okay. Hey, Richard, did you? Richard Trumpka died.

Richard Trumpka. Amazing. And you think, Richard, who? You know Richard Trumka, the head of the AFL-CIO. You know him. 72. Just dropped over. They don't know if it was Wednesday or Thursday because they found him Thursday.

They don't know if he dropped over Wednesday night or Thursday. I guess he was all by himself. Somebody walked in Thursday morning and went, hey, Dick, we're here for you, take you to work. And they didn't hear any response. So they went to look for him. And oh, my gosh, there he is, humped over the railing upstairs. I don't know where they found him.

But, I mean, that's what happened. That's sad. I thought Richard had a family, but I guess the wife didn't like him either. But anyway, Richard, rest in peace. Really, hashtag RIP, Richard Trumka, dead at the age of 72. Yeah, he was a fighter for the people, man. He was a fighter for the people. You know, he was a powerful, powerful figure for the AFL-CIO labor organization.

He served as president, which represents more than 12-pointed. million workers for more than 10 years. And he was called a dear friend by our president, Joseph Biden. And just a wonderful, relentless, relentless champion of workers' rights, workplace safety, worker-centered trade, democracy. And my favorite, so much more. Richard Trumpka, dead at the age of 72.

thought Sharon Stone was running for the SAG Aftera deal. Didn't we talk? We talked like last week or something about Sharon Stone getting pissed. She lost her insurance. She wants everybody to be vaccinated. If you're living anywhere in a 100 mile radius of her, you have to be vaccinated. Right. So I thought she was running for the presidency of the SAG Aftera thing with her team.

But she's out because Tom Hanks just endorsed Fran Dresher. for president of SAG After and so Sharon either didn't pay the right people. Doesn't know what she's talking about but Hank's has endorsed Fran Dresher and he's also backing

of course her running mate Anthony Rapp and their entire team of candidates running on the ruling parties unite for strength and USAN Slates. So I mean don't look at me like that.

This is the SAG After platform, not mine. Tom said that the SAG After Future is in streaming. Thank you, Tom. We appreciate it. That's forward thinking right there. Is it, Tom?

Come on. Are you kidding me? The future isn't streaming. Really? Thank you. We appreciate it. Where you been, Tom? It's just agonizing.

Members deserve stronger contracts, more residuals, Better protections and ending unfair exclusivity. I'm supporting USAN leadership, Fran, Anthony, and their entire team. Your vote matters. Does it? Tom, let me ask you a question.

Let me ask you question, Tom. When you work out your contracts, do you know what's in them, right? Why do, I mean, that's part of your deal, right? Tom. So I know the future is in streaming. Thank you. My name is Tom Hanks.

The future is in streaming. It's 2021. Thanks, Tom. Appreciate you being on it, man. I mean, Fran is out. Fran is out there. Do you know who else is for Fran? Alec Baldwin.

Alec Baldwin. Debra Messing. Jay Kaysan. Rosario Doss. I mean, they're all for Fran. Fran's in. Franz. Franz a lock now.

Got Alec Baldwin and Tom Hanks for the friend Dresher Anthony Rap team of Sag Aftera. congratulations that's that's powerful powerful powerful powerful stuff speaking of powerful stuff the Rolling Stones back on tour no filter tour yay yay yay I mean you're gonna pay to see them it's the Rolling Stones right I mean come on they're on tour starting in September and in St. Louis they're touring they're touring the states all right they're going to be here in the states St. Louis Charlotte Pittsburgh

Nashville, New Orleans. They're going to play at SoFi. I mean, that'd be a fun show to see it, so fine. They're going to play at U.S. Bank of Minneapolis. They're going to play at Raymond James in Tampa. Last time they played at the big sombrero when they were in Tampa a thousand years ago on one of their wheelchair tours.

But they're going to play at Raymond James. Why are they not playing at AT&T Stadium in Dallas, Irving, or whatever you want to say? Jerry doesn't like the, doesn't like the Stones? What's that? I mean, play at the Cotton Bowl? Why I played at the Cotton Bowl? I don't know. Somebody get Mick on the phone. Because then they go to the, then they go to Allegiant in Vegas. They're playing all these at Mercedes-Benz in Atlanta, Ford Field in Detroit. They're playing all these great stadiums. And they're going to play at the Cotton Bowl? I mean,

come on now. They're slumming it when they come to Dallas? I don't like it. I don't like it. But I will say sad news about the Stones tour for you, okay, this I'm going to break it to you right now and you can go ahead and sit down. You sitting? Okay. Charlie Watts, unlikely to make the tour.

I know, right? Sad. So he said he had a procedure done. So because of the procedure, which was completely, completely successful, by the way.

He's not probably, he's going to, he said doctors say I need proper rest and recuperation and with rehearsals starting in a couple of weeks. It's disappointing to say the least, but it's fair to say no one's not coming. You know, I'm only 150 years old looking to go on tour

and I won't be able to make it. How old is Charlie Watts? these days anyway. It's got to be. Okay, so he's 80. He's 80. All right. He's not 150. I'm sorry. But didn't he already, he just had, this wasn't it Charlie that just had the twins a couple years ago. Mix popping them out.

I mean, these guys are awesome. I love him. The rolling freaking stones. And, I mean, Charlie Watts, the guy has been on deathbed for the last few years. He had cancer a few years back. He even said the one interview that he talked about where he had the cancer, I just figured that's what you do. You get cancer and die. Oh, okay.

But no. They cleared him up. He's good. So now, thanks to the procedure, he's going to miss the tour. I know. Sad, sad, sad news. But there's the guy that's touring for him

that's playing the drums for him. Now, he's been... What's his stupid name now? I can't remember the guy that was playing drums for him now that he said, I'm happy to... sit in and whenever Charlie can come back, man, I'm happy to just relinquish the

drum chair for him. Steve Jordan, Jordan's going to be his stand-in, and he's played on all of Keith's albums, and he's, you know, a friend of there. So, I mean, the fill-in drummer is just not Charlie. So anyway, disappointing news for you, though. We're excited about seeing the Rolling Stones' No Filter Tour here in the States. You might want to hang on and wait to see later on in the tour. right because early on in the tour no Charlie he may show up though

and I wonder if he's going to show up maybe on before the show at least show up and Charlie I really wanted to be there well I have a successful procedure it just happens so I'll be there

maybe at the end of the tour Mick you guys ready to come out now so we're wrapping up the Olympics here this weekend as we come to an end and I'm getting a little nervous. Getting a little nervous. We are way out in front on the medal count, but we are not in the lead with the golds. And I don't like it. I won't have it.

I won't hear of it. I don't want the end of the Olympics to happen and have us have, you know, over a hundred medals and still be second place in golds. No. I don't want to be number one and then be number two. No. I won't hear of it. Somebody get the IOC on the phone right now.

I won't allow it to happen, okay? As of this recording right now, we have 98 total medals, and we have 31 total gold medals, and China has 36 total gold medals. I don't know, that's going to do some doing for us to beat that, because I feel like it's not going to happen. I feel like it's not going to happen. I have good old U.S.

S of A, red, white and blue, America. Take the bronze and get out of here. That's what I feel like we're at. You know what? You got the silver too. Get out of here. You're not getting the gold, okay? Get out of here.

We're taking the gold. So, I mean, let's make it happen. I may break down and actually watch some events this weekend because it's coming up on the end, but we'll see. I see we won the gold for the shot putter, though. My man, my man set the world record, and he, he set the Olympic record but he didn't break his own world record

in the shot putting. I love those guys. My son actually was training with one of the Olympic shot putters at one point to become, they were after him to start training for the Olympics as a shot putter. And he was really good. It was really good.

And then we went to the state finals in track and field and he was a shot putting and discus throwing in the state finals. And the guy at the state finals, eliminated him, told him that he called, he said, we called you, you weren't there,

so you're out. And Elvis is like, no, I was sitting right here. We were sitting right here. I'm waiting for you to call me. Nope, we called you. You're out. Sorry, done.

It's over. That was the end of his track and field from that point on. He was so pissed at these track and field people over that. He gave up the whole thing. What a loser. And he ended up in the NFL.

What a loser athlete he was, man. I don't even want to talk to him anymore. Wow. Anyway, so there's... I see this story about a whale being saved. A beached killer whale. And I think, okay, well, you know, why was the whale? You know, it wasn't a bunch.

It wasn't like a pot of whales that were committing suicide. It was just one whale that was beached, and these people are helping. It was a six-hour ordeal. Maybe even more until, you know, maybe the whale was like Richard Trumpka. He was just stuck there until somebody saw him. Anyway, these people find this orca whale, and it was on this Alaskan shoreline, and these bystanders were like, oh, no. And the whale was doing his whale howling like the whales do when they're beached.

Oh, okay. Oh, okay. Yeah, see, they're ready to save him. He's busy. Actually, that might have actually been a thank you. Let me hear that. Oh, okay. See, I think that was a thank you because that lady was there splashing water out of them.

These ladies are bringing buckets of water and they're hosing them down. They're saving them. And they're waiting for the tide to come back. Okay, so all these people are there rescuing this whale, this orca killer whale, because he didn't go back out with the tide. I mean, we brought in all kinds of people. They brought in all these people working for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Noah were there. And in fact, when the tide came back in and the whale decided to swim with the water, they didn't want anyone filming. They didn't want to spook the whale. The whale has been stuck. on this ground for hours. But we don't want to spook him when he was back in the ocean.

Okay, first of all, I mean, it's nice of these people to save this whale. I got it. You want to be nice, save the animals, whatever. Is it really our fault that this whale, I mean, maybe the whale is one of the, you know, slow whales. Yeah. Oh, okay. You might be one of the slow whales. And maybe, you know, that's what happens on the planet.

You swim up to the, and the tide starts going back out, and if you are too dumb to realize you need to swim back out into the ocean, maybe you die. Maybe that's the end of you. Right? I just... Right. Thank you.

And maybe that's the whale. Maybe that's the whale saying, let me die. And they're taking it the wrong way. They're thinking it's saying save me, but really in whale speak. and say it let me die. She doesn't understand. Oh, okay. No, if it was okay, you'd let me alone.

Stop pouring this water. I don't want to live. I don't want to go back to that pod of whales. Okay, can you understand? Just kill it. Let me die. But no, they saved him. They saved him.

So thank you. Thank you. I mean, I don't know. I can't speak whale. So maybe if someone can speak whale, they can email, chewing the fat at the blaze. and let me know what this means. Does it mean thank you?

Please let me live or does it mean stop it? I want to die. I don't know. Maybe you can tell me. I do like having the sound effects back. We're back at the studio, recording in studio, and I have access to some sound effects in my home studio. I call it a home studio.

My wife's desk. But I like playing the sound effect hearing the sound effects again. And I was looking through the computer board of some of the sound effects. I'd forgotten I had some of them. All right. So what I'd like to do now is maybe do a Fat Pile Friday sound effect board check. This is really kind of a sad. It needs to be a better name for it.

But let's go through the sound effects so I can remember what I have. Oh, go ahead. Just start with one. Oh, yeah. Oh, yes. Sad news. Okay, I like that. Sad news, all right.

Oh, yeah. The president's coming to town. Thank you. Ah, so that's just a different version. Yeah. Depends on how, you know, how noble you are. That's the orangutans. Yeah, that's...

Yeah, that's the orangutans from the zoo. They're speaking. Yeah, they're counting down. I think they're doing the alphabet or whatever from the orangutang speak. That's what I'm saying. That's what the whale. The orangutans are saying alphabet

and stuff. Maybe the whale was saying something else too. Right. Let me die. Got shot. Yeah, I'd like to have that. Oh, yeah. What about? Circus?

What about, don't we have any of the, I got the sound effects, but what about the, don't we have like live news shot people? Oh, you have no idea. I heard it on the news. Thank you. And I said it was ridiculous, man. Would you hear this? That's it.

Would you hear this on any other show? Just know that that comes from this show. That pissing me off of that. Ain't nobody got time for that? I love her so much. Anyway, she saved herself from the building was on fire. This also, you know, hearing her. Play that again.

I heard it on the news. No, not. Hey nobody got time for that. When you hear that, it's remind. reminds me to remind you, listener of chewing the fat, a rule that you can live by. Just because someone puts a microphone in front of you

doesn't mean you have to speak. I mean, I thank you for it. The news teams absolutely thank you for it. But you're able to say, ain't nobody got time for that? Yes, and walk away. Next? I don't know what, that's a donkey,

and people are applauding the donkey. I'm not sure. I'm not sure what the donkey just got done doing, but I will say he's getting applause for it, so he must have done a really good job. We did have a guy once at one radio show that I did. We gave away tattoos, and this guy who came here to this country, immigrated from this country from Colombia. He got the American flag tattooed on his arm. He was so happy because he had just become a citizen, the legal way. And he, at that time, we made him.

When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could Could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. It's just $39.99? How could I resist? This luxurious wool throw for my sister. This gold watch for my partner? A wooden puzzle for my niece?

Leather gloves for my boss? Ooh, European chocolate for the crossing guard? At these prices, could I find something for everyone at winners? Stop wondering. Start gifting. Winners find fabulous for less. He talked about being in the, in the general. jungles of Colombia fighting the drug lords.

And he talked about how guys that he was in the military with would do it to donkeys. They would do... They would do donkey business. And he imitated the donkeys how they sounded. It wasn't like that donkey, but it was like a donkey. Go ahead. Oh, God. The ice cream truck.

you know, that's what we need to do, how we need to get people, the vaccine. We need to get people vaccinated with the ice cream trucks. That's a, I'm telling you, if they're going to come door to door, hello, yes, we were just, we're here for some, give you some vaccine information. Are you vaccinated or vaccine?

No. Oh, well, you need some information. You should get vaccinated. And here comes the ice cream truck. Yeah, there is. He was up around the corner. And he just pulls up in front of your house, man. And we'll get you vaccinated, right.

Yeah, that's going to happen. That's going to happen. I was waiting to tell you, speaking of being vaccinated, I was waiting to tell you after my second shot. But Pat Gray got all jumpy this morning

after he found out I got the first vaccine shot this past weekend. I was fine. I got the shot of some moderna. And it was fine. No, I didn't lose my arm. I haven't grown a third tail.

I was able to walk by the refrigerator without it pulling me toward it. magnets weren't flying off the refrigerator to me. I didn't fly to the refrigerator. It was fine. So we'll see what happens after the second one. That comes in a couple of weeks, two or three weeks. It's like four weeks, I think.

Something like that, whenever, whenever I stop in there. Because when I stopped into the pharmacy, I was stopped in to pick up another medication, and my pharmacist, I love him. He's a nice guy. He says, Jeff, you haven't got the vaccine yet? And I was like, yeah, no, I hadn't planned on it. I was just, you know, I'm in the hesitant pile I hadn't planned on it. What are you doing?

You need to get the vaccine right now. You're getting it right now. We're going to get to, we're getting it right now. I've got the Moderna. I've got it right here. You're getting it right now. All right. Fine.

Go ahead. So we'll see what happens in two or three weeks if I actually grow a third tail or if something bad happens. But for right now, all good. No, no, seriously, I'm fine. Fine. Welcome aboard Air Canada. Rocky's vacation here we come.

Whoa, is this economy? Free beer, wine, and snacks. Sweet. Fast free Wi-Fi means I can make dinner reservations before we land. And with live TV, I'm not missing the game. It's kind of like I'm already on vacation. Nice. Air Canada.

Nice travels. Wi-Fi available to Aero plan members on equipped flights. Sponsored by Bell. Conditions apply. See air Canada.com. All right, two quick Friday stories to get you into the weekend. Okay, so a woman who secretly swapped pebbles for diamonds has been arrested. I know.

I didn't even know she was arrested and now she's going to prison. Incredible. Five and a half years in prison. Lulu Lakatos. Lulu was, and if you see a picture, if this is actually Lulu, the picture, I don't think it can be, but I think AP just put up a woman from France and said, yeah, that's Lulu. That's her, because I don't think it is.

But they have a picture of Lulu, 60 years old, sentenced to five and a half years in prison for her part in this international gang that fled to France after stealing diamonds from Boodles on New Bond Street in London. So the gems have not been recovered, by the way. Okay, so according to officials, this was an audacious theft, carried out in plain view. Oh, okay, really? What happened? Yes, the meticulous planning and execution of this theft reveals to me that those involved were highly skilled criminals.

Well, yeah, you haven't arrested them all, and they still have the diamonds. Duh, who won? So in the days leading up to the heist, the criminals held a series of meetings with the with the Boodle's staff. They wanted to, they were scoping out the joint. And they pretended to represent a wealthy Russian investor

who was looking to purchase gems. How many times? How many times in your life have you said, you know, if I could just pretend that I was a Russian investor who was looking to purchase gems,

they'd just let me have them. So the lady, Lukatos, was born in Romania. right of course lived in France and posed as a gem expert okay so so she inspected the gems which included a 20-carat heart-shaped diamond valued at more than 2.2 million pounds a good thing it didn't weigh that much i don't know how much you get tough carrying that bad boy out. So they were individually wrapped and placed in a locked bag

that was supposed to be held in the jeweler's vault until payment was received. But swift-handed Anna, you know, Laccados, the criminal, uh, put the bag

back into the safe. She diverted the Boodle's expert and switched the bags. So she took the diamonds and the bag was you know, the pebbles. then one of the employees became suspicious. Did they?

Did they? Took them another day to get suspicious. They x-rayed the bag and found out, those are just rocks. Those are just pebbles. They're not really diamonds. Oh, okay. So then they went to the video.

Let's go to the video. It's roll tape. Now, I didn't see the video. It says there's video, but I didn't see it. After leaving the store, the lady takes off her, takes off her jacket and her coat and her scarf, boards a high-speed Eurostar train to France.

Before she gets on the train, she gives the bag to somebody else. One of her accomplices. Oh, okay. Now, the two men who worked with Lakados had already pled guilty to this with conspiracy to steal. They were sentenced to three years and eight months in prison. Police are still investigating the involvement of two other women, and they don't have the diamonds yet.

So who won? I don't know. I don't know that I would have. She went to prison? That means she admitted it. Then she's saying, yeah, I did it, but I don't have the diamonds. She's got no money. That stinks.

You got to deny, deny, deny, deny. You don't let them take you to prison over nothing. I don't have the goods. Maybe she gets it when she gets out, though. He figures she could do five and a half. She takes her money, two and a half million pounds. and she lives happily ever after. She's already 60, right?

She's a 60-year-old gypsy from Romania. She takes the money, she gets out of prison. It's all good, right? One last story. And this story is the only thing that makes it worthy is why. Why are we doing this? Okay. So scientists have now figured out how they can send

freeze-dried mouse sperm on a postcard. I mean, isn't science grand, really? Scientists, you don't have to worry about bottles of mouse sperm breaking in transit. How many times? How many times have I heard my postal worker outside my house yelling and screaming? I'm like, well, what's wrong? Oh, another bottle of mouse sperm broke. I got it all over the car.

It's melting through the envelopes. Man, how many times? So they have now figured out a way to freeze dry. sperm on a plastic sheet and they can withstand being mailed on a postcard. That's so good. That's so good. That's science being science, man. I love it. Some would say that people have figured out how to move and mail that particular product on paper years and years ago. But I don't think think it's viable. I think that's a difference. I think once it hits that kind of paper and is mailed, it's not viable. What these scientists are saying is that they've freeze dried it.

They could mail it on a postcard and then it'll still create mice, right? If someone were to get a package in the mail with that particular stuff on it, it wouldn't be viable. So don't even worry about it. It's don't even worry about it. Science has figured it out for you, okay? Now, we also found out that we can use this. They're testing on the space centers, and they've birthed mice on the space center from this mouse sperm. I don't want mice in space. The point to go into space is not to have mice or mice or mouses or any of it.

Oh, what about there's the cheese on the moon? Oh, okay. All right, fine. There's cheese on the moon. So anyway, good news. Aside from creating mice in space, the good news is we can now send mouse sperm on a postcard. Huh?

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