Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 908 | How Long Is It?...

Episode Date: July 7, 2022

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10 feet tall, 22 feet long. It's a gorgasaurus skeleton. Going up for auction later this month. It's like a cousin of the T-Rex. It's a full skeleton of the gorgasaurus. Now, it's the last one or the only one right now that is of private ownership, which is why it's going up for auction. The pre-sale estimates for the dinosaur skeleton has been between $5 and $8 million. I'm willing to bet it's going to go for a lot more than that. However, I'd like to have it. Wouldn't you?

I'm a little short on cash right now. I have a couple of bucks to put in the pile, but I'm just under that $5.8 million total. So, you know, if you'd like to start a go-fund me, I mean, how cool would that you that be to have that real life skeleton in your house? I mean, my neighbors have, you know, the fake ones for Halloween, and those are pretty cool too, but they're not as cool as the real one. You have the Gorgasora skeleton in your house? Yeah, don't mind that. Yeah, and I haven't dusted it in a while. Some cobwebs in the ribs there, so I don't mind those. That'd be awesome to have that. No doubt about it. So, listen, maybe if I started to go fund me, you know. I mean, I mean,

I'll also share your pictures and everything and let you come and see it and take a look at it. Just, you know, hey, there's my Gorgasaurus. Whoa, easy. Welcome! Welcome to chewing the fat. So I missed it again. The running of the bulls. I know.

I would like to, well, be there for it. Not necessarily I'm not going to be running in front of the bulls or beside the bulls, hoping to get gourd from a bull but it's finally back it took a couple years hiatus because of COVID and Pamplona in Spain had it back and up and running this year I mean the city is like a couple hundred

thousand people and I mean millions show up or at least a million do I mean it just explodes there's it's a big holiday over there I think it's a several day festival that goes on but especially you know, over the weekend because people

show up and they want to, you know, party and then wait for the whole two and a half minutes of the bull run. Now, this year, no one got stomped, trampled, or shoved to the cobblestone pavement. I mean, pavement. Well, that's part of the fun.

That's what you're there for, right? I guess an animal's horn smacked at least two men in the head. Neither suffered a securing. The hospital said six people were brought in for treatment. One American who fractures his left arm. 16-year-old Spanish boy lost part of a finger. And in the bullring, apparently there was a big pile-up at the beginning. Yeah, you got to figure that out, man.

When they open up the gate, you got to figure it out. Otherwise, you know, you get that big clog. You don't know what's going on. So he lost a finger very sad. And they, it would be fun. I'm not going to run with them. No way. But it would be fun to be there.

When you watch the footage, it's not the same. I mean, we've all seen the videos of the Bull Run and people getting, you know, gourd and what happens to them. It's, you know, it's been quite a ride for them. I mean, it wasn't, they canceled the last couple of years because of COVID, but it hadn't been canceled since the 1930s. the Spanish Civil War it would just be fun to be there look it happens every day during this festival so this was the first of eight

it just happened yesterday first of eight scheduled and then you just party so I mean it's gotta be it's a blink of an eye right I mean the the bulls go by the whole thing is a couple minutes

three minutes long maybe something like that so depending on where you're at on the run you know behind the boards or up on balconies you know

you only get that 30 seconds maybe a little bit more depending on you know again depending on where you're at where you're observing so you know

goes by pretty fast so you need to be there for the whole festival so you get to see one every day now I know that animal rights activists have been all over

ending this bull run because what happens at the end, you know, they run the bulls. They run each morning, and then they kill them in the afternoon by bullfighters. So, I mean, you're looking at what? 48 bulls for the entire festival go down, right? Because six bulls, six bulls a day.

So, I mean, well, you know, look, it's a bull. Humans first. That's a chewing the fat law. you know that. That's actually the first of the chewing the fat fat laws. Humans first. So I get that we're using

these animals for our enjoyment. And then the bullfighting thing is something I'm not quite sure I understand. But, you know, it's a thing. So you can quote me on that. It's a thing. So why not let it happen? I mean, this

first run, no one got gourd. a little, you know, uneventful. Eight people were gored during the last festival in 2019. Sixteen people have died in the bull runs since 1910. The last death, according to this, happened in 2009. Plus, there's seven more. Seven more runs to go. So we could still get some gore and set a record this year in 2022

for being, you know, the worst bull run year ever. There's always hope. Always hope. Like the Texas inmate who was sentenced to be executed on the 13th of July, 2022. If you're listening live, today is the 7th of July 2022. He has been found guilty and he's all, you know, the whole process is done.

He's asking now to get a reprieve for 30 days because he wants to be considered a living donor to someone who is in. urgent need of a kidney transplant. Oh, okay. So we want to just kind of postpone the old execution until we can take his kidney or until he can give his kidney. Oh, okay. Now, according to all people around him, they claim there's been, you know, there's no doubt

that his desire to be an altruistic kidney donor is not motivated by a last minute attempt to stop or delay his execution right okay even if that's so we'll make it happen why i mean can't we just hop sing on that i mean are we do we know i feel like we don't know that there's a person that needs his kidney right so he said the inmate can be considered a living donor to someone who is in urgent need of a kidney transplant so they don't have anyone in mind yet. He's just saying, hey, that's a good idea. I can, you know, postpone my execution. If I say I'll give my kidney away to someone who needs it. So they need the time to do all the tests to find someone who does it. Why haven't we done that already? I mean, we should be doing that to every person on

death row. That should just be a done deal. I'm sorry, that should not be up to you. I know that's a big fight, but you're on death row. We're going to execute you. Oh, and by the way, you've been healthy enough to, in the last few years here on death row, you've got some body parts that we're going to use. And that's just the way it is. And we're going to go ahead and take them before we execute you. That's probably not going to go over well. But I will see if that actually happens because I have a feeling that Governor Abbott is going to say, how about no? But there is always hope for Ramiro Gonzalez. So again, there's always hope. That is the most beautiful sound in the world. That's the sound of the best bacon ever cooking in a frying pan.

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Okay, first, let's start with Hulu. I thank them last week. for dropping the first two episodes of only murders in the building. And I assume, did you know what happens when we assume, that they were going to give us two episodes each week? Ah, wrong. They only dropped one episode this last week. Hulu, come on, man, you're killing me. At least you could, the least you could do is dropped two a week.

But, you know, whatever, very, very disappointing that they're only going to continue to drop one episode a week of only murders in the building. Still really good though. I see where James Cameron doesn't want anybody whining about the length of his film, the new Avatar

2. He did an interview with Empire Magazine and said I don't want anybody whining about the length when they sit and binge watch television for eight hours. It's like give me a break. I've watched my kids sit and do five one hour

episodes in a row. So I guess that means Avatar 2 is going to be a long movie. I mean, the first Avatar was over two hours as well, right? So, I mean, Avatar 3 is probably going to be three hours

or, I mean, it can't be longer than three hours, right? I mean, what's the long? Three 10, maybe? Something like that? Holy cow. But he says, don't quit your whining. Here's the deal, James. there's a little bit different

binge watching shows and watching long movies at home. The reason that people don't complain is because we have a thing in our homes called the pause button and we're able to pause and we can take a phone call. We can tweet something

a news story. We can read a story. We can go to the bathroom. We can grab a snack and come back to our chair and push play. Or hit the pause button again depending on how your remote works and what you're watching starts up again so you're able to be there so it looks like you're sitting in the same spot for eight hours doing the same thing but you're not really so cut it

off i mean this guy james cameron is such a douche and i know i get it and i have a feeling that i I didn't even think this movie would be made. I mean, this movie is, I don't know how much money spent on it. A billion dollars? Who knows? I don't know. But it's going to be, I don't know that it's going to be the monster hit at theaters that they think, especially after the first weekend and how long it is.

But it'll be huge, you know, on all the streaming services, whatever, however it's released and that way. And I'm sure James doesn't care about the little people and doing a streaming deal. he'll want you to pay top dollar from here to eternity to watch this stupid movie. But that's the thing. The movie will be great on the streaming device is because we'll be able to pause it and say, okay, I'm going to go do something and then come back and finish it. That's the thing.

And the first avatar was kind of that way. I mean, you can just put it on and let it go. And there's a couple times, but that's a movie that you just put on and you just kind of leave it on while you're doing other stuff. That's how good it was, James. That's how good it was. I put it on and I would just do other stuff. So that ever so often I look up with the screen and go,

oh, yeah, this is a cool part. And I watch the part, and then I go back to doing whatever I was doing. So anyway, as far as James Cameron is concerned, quit your whining. When the movie comes out in December, he doesn't want to hear it. Okay? Just go to the movie and shut up. Speaking of the movies, I haven't seen Lightyear yet, and I probably, you know, I may or may not see it if it goes.

up on one of the streaming services in the future. I'm not going to go out of my way to go to a movie theater and see it. But I always questioned how you have Buzz Lightyear without Tim Allen as his voice. I mean, Buzz Lightyear is Tim Allen. That's the whole thing. They've had, you know, three or four movies in these Buzz Lightyear. Hello, it'd be like having Woody without Tom Hanks. Just doesn't seem to happen.

Now, this latest one, Tom Hanks. Thanks actually spoke out about Tim Allen not being in the movie. They claim that, you know, hey, look, Chris Evans voiced the iconic character because, look, the character change was necessary because the Buzz Lightyear character needed to be less goofy. Tim's version of Buzz is a little goofier and is a little dumber, and so he is comic relief. In this film, Buzz is the action hero. He's serious and ambitious and funny, but not in a goofy.

way that would undercut the drama. Chris Evans has the gravitas of that movie star quality that our character needed to separate him from the movie from Tim's version of the toy in Toy Story. Well, here's the deal. I think Tim could have pulled that off, but you never

gave him the chance, and that still left Tim Allen as Buzz Lightyear, a younger buzz prior to him becoming you know, funny, the comic relief. But a Tom was asked about it and he said, you know, hey, I don't understand why Alan was not cast for one of his signature roles.

Yeah, hello. You know, he's, Hank's obviously, is up against Buzz Light Year with Elvis. And he said he loved me. He was looking forward to being up against head-to-head with Tim Allen and doesn't understand why that happened. Yeah, the world doesn't understand. And I see that, you know, they keep saying, is it a flop or isn't it a flop? It's made $191 million. According to this, it's made box office mojo.

It's made $191,739,266 worldwide. Now that, you'd say, wow, that's pretty good. It's made over $100 million domestically, $84 million globally. That's pretty good. And then you look, according to this, they used to had a $200 million budget. That means that it is a failure. They didn't make more than they haven't made more than their budget. Now, they'll end up making more than their budget

with, you know, streaming rights and merchandise and, you know, all that stuff. I get it. But not having it come out on top like that at the theater. It's about the theater's what, two or three weeks now? And you got minions out. So, you know, but light year is going to go away. So there you go. There's the choice you made.

The choice you made to dump Tim Allen and it cost you. cost you big. Now they asked Alan, you know, hey, how come you remain silent? What's the deal? And he said, I stayed out of because it has nothing to do with Buzz Lightyear. This whole new team really had nothing to do with the first movies. And he said that he originally thought Lightyear would be a live action movie, but was surprised to learn it is an animated film. He also knocked the film for not including Woody. It just doesn't seem to have any connection to the toy. Alan said as the new movie,

there's really no toy story Buzz without Woody. Interesting, isn't it? I do get the idea of wanting to break away from toy story and focus on specific, you know, the specific toy. But it just, you know,

you've built such an iconic character with Tim Allen as his voice. And to make that go away, That cost you. And by you, I mean Disney. But no big deal because the CEO, Bob Chapic, look, he's struggling. Okay. His base salary is only $2.5 million.

So he's, you know, this year with bonuses, it's going to pull in probably about $20 million. So life's tough for Bob. And that's what happens when you make dumb calls. And you talk about going. the Florida don't say gay law and the he made some bad calls and that's why he

and Iger don't like each other because Iger's like I don't know I could do it for you and well I can run this joint no they're both there'll be in a fight at their hoity tooty meeting there at the Sun Valley conference this week should be good but anyway just so you maybe shed a little tear for Bob

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in Pascagoula River in Mississippi. I mean, this kid is a hero. So he is standing there on Interstate 10 boat launch. that, you know, ends up in the Pascagoula River, and a car drives in and begins to sink. They drove straight under the water, Evans said, like only a little bit of the car was still above water. With that, Evans said that he tossed off his shoes,

shirt and phone, and jumped into the river. I was just like, I can't let none of these folks die. They need to get out of the water, so I just started getting them. I mean, the kids, the Pascagoula Gula, a high school student. I wasn't even thinking about nothing else. Evans had added that he was behind them, trying to keep them above water and swim with

them at the same time. So, and then he wasn't the only hero of the morning. One of his friends, K.J. Bradley, Karen, K.J. Bradley, I guess it's Karon, K.A. R.O.N. K. K.J. Bradley jumped in as well and helped get the girls to the top of their vehicle. Amazing. So I guess his kid's been swimming forever. He said he's been swimming since he was three years old,

and he helped bring the three girls to shore. But then he sees a police officer who jumped in and tried to help, and the police officer looked like he was going to start drowning and started hollering for help. So I went back out there, and I grabbed the police officer, and I'm like swimming him back until I feel myself I can walk. Incredible. He said the victims, you know, he talked,

in the interview he talked about the victims were throwing up because they had a lot of water, get inside them all, and it was a lot of swimming. He said his legs were tired. Anything could have been in that water, though, but I wasn't thinking about that. So he saved the police officer, and he saved the three girls, he and his friend.

Incredible, heroes, 100% heroes. Now, and I say that only because if that were me, I mean, I would want someone like Corey and Evans to come and help save me if you go into the drink like that. But if I'm in the shoes of Corian Evans, you probably are going to make it. And I know that's mean. It's mean, but if I'm standing there on the shore and the car goes in, you see it, you know, all the way under, you're thinking, man, somebody ought to jump in.

Oh, stop it. I would at least make it look like I was trying to get in and save them. You see where there's a new, it's called the pre-drinking pill called Merkle, M-Y-R-K-L. It promises to make you not have a hangover, I guess. But the way they talk about it, it sounds like you could get pretty drunk and still be okay. I don't know how it works in the DUI checkpoints. it spares you from alcohol remnants that give you a hangover in the first place. Okay, so it says that you're be headache free the next day.

Okay. I mean, they claim to cost about a buck 50 a pill. So that's, they say not expensive, but buck 50 a pill. Well, if you're a drinker, big deal, right? All I have to do is just take two pills. So now you're up to three bucks, three bucks a night. Take two pills at least an hour before drinking. Once you've taken them, the pills use a few times.

types of bacteria to break down the alcohol in your gut so that your liver doesn't have to do it for you. Merkel claims that the pill can zap up to 70% of the alcohol in your body after 60 minutes, transforming it into harmless water and carbon dioxide. Oh, you know, is this one of those things that just isn't true? I guess you can get it in the UK now. The Swedish company behind it claims the pill has been independently, clinically, clinically, tested, has it. Oh, well, they claim it.

So that's true. Yeah, absolutely. So we'll see. We'll see if their data holds up. But I guess British pharmacies are refusing to stock it. So you get to buy a bottle of 30 pills online. Why won't they sell? It's a product.

Sell the stupid product. Well, they don't know what it's going to do to you in the long run, right? There's no studies. All these pills have side effects anyway. So if you're a drinker and you want to ease up on the drinking and the hangovers, you're going to take it no matter what, right? I wonder how the interaction is between other drugs. See, that's the thing.

We're in a big thing these days that, you know, the interaction between all the other drugs that we're taking is a big deal. And nobody's looking at that, so I don't want to get into that health talk. But that's a big deal. And it should be looked at for sure. But it's not because the drug companies only care about what a particular drug does. But they don't have to look at what a particular drug does when it hooks up with other drugs. They leave that to the doctors to say, ooh, yeah.

No, the last time I gave that pill and that pill to one of my patients, yeah, it didn't work out so well. So maybe you ought to not take those together. But they claim, look, it's just a supplement, and we're not trying to jump through any FDA hoops yet. I mean, this is just in Europe. So I don't know that I could get it shipped here to the U.S., probably. I mean, it's the Internet and online.

You can pretty much get anything. So I believe you could give it a shot, depending on where you're at in the world, to get the old Merkel pre-hangover pill. And give it a shot and see how it works. Don't worry about you're already getting drunk. What does it matter? Right.

Right. I mean, you can get anything online. I see where, you know, I guess congratulations are in order. Amazon and Grubhub are hooking up. So if I may use this, actually, but I'm a little disappointed that it doesn't mean I could get free food. It just means that Amazon and Grubhub are teaming up so you can use your prime account and sign up for. And this is something that Grubhub just started. It's called Grubhub Plus.

I must have missed the memo on everything having to be called Plus, but everything does have to be called Plus. I may have to start a channel Chewing the Fat Plus. I guess that's what we need to do. Anyway, the company will send free deliveries for a year. So Amazon has agreed to take stake in Grubhub over the next few years. So if I have a prime membership or you have a prime membership, you can get free Grubhub Plus unlimited to $0 food deliveries from restaurants. Now, that doesn't, I mean, stuff to pay for the food.

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They were exploded. They were put a bomb and they exploded. They all didn't go down. And so the government came in and finished it off. And they had to knock it down. You know, for safety reasons, of course. I mean, the 19-foot-high monument displays the 10-part message. You know, it's America's Stonehenge.

And I can't remember if we talked about it or not. I remember reading about it not long ago. Because it's a fascinating story. The names of four ancient languages are inscribed on the sides near the top, the Babylonian and the cuneiform and classical Greek, sandskirt, Egyptian hieroglyphics. And nobody knows really who. sponsored it, who took care who got it there, and it's kind of

cool because it had a hole and the one structure that the sun came through at, you know, at the day's date on an engraving every day at noon. So the son would come through that hole and it would give you the date. Kind of cool, right? And it had the rules, right?

The 10-part message in eight different languages. Maintained humanity under 500 million and perpetual balance with nature. right 500 million i think that's right got five five zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero i feel like joe budd guide reproduction wisely improving fitness and diversity unite humanity with the living new language rule passion faith tradition and all things with tempered reason protect people and nations with fair laws and just courts let all nations rule internally resolving

external disputes in a world court, avoid petty laws and useless officials, balance personal rights with social duties, prize truth, beauty, love, seeking harmony with the infinite, be not a cancer on the earth, leave room for nature, leave room for nature. I mean, okay, I don't know that I disagree with that. If you break it down, you probably do. Remember the story? The guy went to the, uh, the, uh, there was one guy that went to the quarry and commissioned the stones,

and then a separate person or another person bought the property under a pseudonym name of the property. And then it was just like they appeared. Really, it was a fascinating story, the guide stones. But they're gone now. We lost them. I know. It's very sad. So who knows if they're going to be replaced?

Are they able to even be replaced? Can we get the granite in today's world? to make that happen like that? I don't know. But rest in peace, the Georgia Guidestones, America's Stonehenge, dead at the age of, what,

42? It was unveiled in 1980. Wow. So it wasn't around that long. Also, rest in peace to Bradford Freeman, a World War II veteran who was the last living member of the famed band

of Brothers Company. He has passed away at the age of 97. He enlisted in the military in 1942. He volunteered to become a paratrooper for the Army. They assigned him to Company E-506 paratroot infantry

regiment of the 101st Airborne Division, known as EASE Company. He parachuted into Normandy, France on D-Day. He did a band of brothers, the award-winning HBO series. uh he was according to this you know of course he was a kind and generous and humorous individual

um he said that uh me and my buddies did a job for america now it's time for the new faces to take up the cause uh he recounted his experience in the war in an interview with american veteran center in 2018 describing his time in europe holding a town for the allies during the battle of the bulge and getting injured in the leg along with another man from Pennsylvania. Wow. I mean, uh, Freeman was hit by a blast of a screaming Mimi,

nickname for the German rocket fire. I don't know, but it came in, hollering and then it exploded. He got a purple heart for being wounded in that battle. Uh, just incredible. Uh,

these guys and he was one of them that just, uh, you know, do we have a new face? Well, we definitely have new faces for the American cause, but are they the faces that we want? I guess they'll have to be, won't they?

They will have to be. Bradford Freeman, last living member of the famed band of Brothers Company from World War II, rest in peace, dead at 97 years of age. And congratulations are in order to Betty Nash, the oldest and the longest, serving flight attendant in the world. That's according to Guinness.

So another world record holder that I am not holding. Betty is 86 years old. She started flying back in 1957. So she's going to celebrate 65 years in flight this fall. Pretty amazing. She can choose any route she wants. And she's been, she continues to do New York, Washington-Boston shuttle.

She does that route because she says it allows her to be home every night with her handicapped son, who she continues to care for to this day. Amazing. When she first started flying, I mean, some of the stuff she talks about those days are do not come back. Passengers bought life insurance from a vending machine before boarding, and the airline would check on her at home to ensure she wasn't living with a man because flight attendants had to be single.

The airline also weighed her before shifts and could suspend her if she gained too much weight. What happened to those days? I don't know, fat man. Why don't you tell me? You had to be a certain height. You had to be a certain weight. You used to be horrible.

You put on a few pounds and you had to keep weighing yourself and then if you stayed that way, they would take you off the payroll. Think about it. She started flying with Eastern Airlines. I was thinking I've flown Eastern Airlines through she did Donald Trump Airlines in the 80s then ended up at American Airlines She said pass Payed passengers used to pay flight attendants when they boarded the plane

I've actually done that I forget what the name of the airline was but I have paid on board like that We used to pass out cigarettes and matches on the flight After the meal service I would go around with kents and Marlboroughs man those are going good times, huh? Old plane snick in the cigarettes. She said she still attends regular flight attendant training. I would hope so.

It's the law. Duh. But I can remember smoking on airplanes. I can remember thinking, man, this is not good. I mean, I was smoking. I was a smoker. And I remember they had the little ashtrays in the armrest. And, you know, they had sections, the smoking,

sections, which I mean, come on now. But it's just, I remember, I remember actually lighting one up on an airplane once and thinking, no, I can't do this, and I put it out. I did not smoke the whole thing. But I've been on planes with people, you know,

go, hey, this is a smoking section, I can smoke, you're going to do what I want, I'm smoking. I always felt that way in cars, too. Just, I mean, you watch, and you remember how life was, I mean, my grandfather, seriously, my serious, real grandfather, used to smoke all the time. He was a smoker.

Right? I mean, he would smoke. And he was raised in the days of smokers smoke wherever they want. And that's what you do. I mean, it's just incredible how we lived. I mean, the houses were all full of smoke. And, you know, I could remember airing the house out. My grandma always wanting to air out the house.

I mean, I could still see my grandfather take. I used to spend the summers with my grandparents, which, you know, I love. and just we could talk about that forever. But I remember, you know, we always do, it was nap time. You take a little break. You go home for lunch. Or if you're at home,

you stop working wherever you're doing. You know, whatever garden work, whatever repair work you're doing around the house, like, you know, fixing the screens, painting the house, painting the fences, hoeing the garden, making sure the flowers are right,

mowing the lawn, trimming the trees, making sure everything is around the banks of the river. Not that I was there to do summer work for my grandparents all summer long, but you gotta take a break. It's lunch time. So you go in, you take,

have your lunch, you sit down in a chair, you take a little bit of a break, and I could still, I could still see my grandfather sitting in his chair with his little duck ashtray and that cigarette,

he'd let a cigarette, he'd take a couple of puffs, and then he'd put his hand down and the cigarette would be burning between his fingers, you know, up in the air, like a candle out of his hand, and then he would fall asleep.

And I could remember watching, that cigarette burn all the way down to the filter. And then there's just this long ash sitting there on that filter. And he's sound asleep. And he would wake up and he would go, oh, and he would lift his hand up straight and turn it to the side.

So the whole thing fell in the ashtray. It didn't fall over onto the floor or the chair most times. And at least the times I remember, it didn't happen. It went right into the ashtray. And I got to go. And up we'd go and off we would go. And, you know, of course, then he'd fire up another cigarette because that one's been sitting there for quite some time. But you don't get those.

Those days are long gone. Oh, yeah, there's still people, I guess, they're smoking in their homes. You know, your home is your castle. So if you smoke and you want to smoke in your house, bless your heart. Good for you. But I've told you the story about when, you know, in my smoking days, we went to a party next door. And they were friends. They became friends of ours forever.

But I remember when they opened up the door to let us in. I mean, the smoke from their house just smashed us in the face. And at that time, my wife and I, my first wife and I were, you know, both smoking in the house. And we came home from the part we didn't say anything. We opened up the windows. That was the last time that we smoked in the house. Because it was like, holy cow. If that's what their house smells like, then that must be what our house smells like.

and that cannot happen. So we, you know, we're smoking outside after that. I know. Really weird. I feel like I shouldn't have given in. But what are you going to do? Stop smoking. Okay, I know the music just played in and the podcast is over,

but we do have breaking news. As I'm turning my microphone off, Who Died Today? Edition, James Kahn, the legendary actor. I mean, the Godfather, Brian's song. Playboy Mansion. James Kahn, 82 years old, has passed away. We're just receiving news of that.

Very sad. It hasn't, they haven't released what he died from. I mean, he was 82, and he lived a heck of a life. So I'm not sure if there were other illnesses plaguing James or not. The family appreciates all the heartfelt condolences and asks that you respect to the. their privacy during this difficult time. I mean, he's got five kids, I believe,

and I don't know that he was married yet again. He was married his last wife, I believe, but I'm not mistaken. He was married to her until 2009. So for the past few years, I don't think he's had a wife, but I'm sure there's been some sort of female in his life. as always. He has, yeah, five kids. So anyway, James Con, you'll be hearing about it everywhere, has passed away at the age of 82. Rest in peace, James Con. Okay, thanks for listening to Chewing the Fat.

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