Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 938 | It was an Accident!...

Episode Date: August 18, 2022

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charges against him. Huh, I wonder why. The man, Basam el-Sikh Hussein, took six people hostage in a federal bank, bank branch in Beirut, say that ten times, bank branch in Beirut, by brandishing a rifle and threatening to pour gasoline on himself. What was his demand? Well, he was in a bank. He wanted money, of course, duh. But he didn't want everyone's money. He just wanted money from his own savings to pay for his father's medical bills. Huh, I wonder if I could happen here in the United States of America. I don't know. After the bank agreed, they said, okay, okay, we'll give you, sure you have $200,000,

sure you've got that amount in your savings account, we'll give you $35,000 of your money, okay? Okay, well, it took six hours, and a crowd gathered outside of the bank, were supporting the bank robber because apparently withdrawing money in Lebanon from a bank is not a big thing anymore. Why? Well, a couple years ago, the country's currency lost 90% of its value. So banks froze customers' foreign currency assets and restricted how much they could take out each month.

to as little as $200. Nearly eight in ten people in Lebanon now live in poverty. Wow. So they couldn't find anyone that would say that this guy did anything wrong. And they said, hey, desperate people do desperate things. We are all like him. Even the soldiers and the riot police liked him. So the judge just dropped the charges and told them,

get out of here you're fine wow uh incredible because that happened in lebanon could it happen in your country i think you know the answer welcome welcome to chewing the fat speaking of your country if your country is the united states of america uh the kids for cash scandal in pennsylvania had two uh pennsylvania had two uh judges who had sent children to for-profit jails in exchange for $2.8 million in kickbacks. Oh, that's it, though? Yeah. Well, they're former Pennsylvania judges. I mean, they're not judges anymore.

Duh. They've been, you know, they're serving prison time. One of them have been released to home confinement. He served 11 years of his 17-year sentence. And the other judge is still. serving his 28-year prison sentence. So we'll see what happens. Anyway, in this case, they have now been ordered to pay $206 million in damages to hundreds of victims.

Wow. So it was the Kids for Cash scandal, and it's considered, I guess, to be one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history, if you say so. A U.S. District Judge yesterday awarded the damages to a 300 people who filed a 2009 civil lawsuit, 2009 civil lawsuit against the former judges. The pair shut down a county-run juvenile center and sent children as young as 8-year-olds to two-profit jails, to four-profit jails between 2003 and 2008. Many of the children were first-time offenders for minor infractions, petty theft, jaywalking, skipping school. About 4,000 juvenile convictions were thrown out after this scheme was uncovered.

Now, how are these people going to get the money? That is, according to the story, unclear, which means there's not a chance. There's just congratulations, you won. Yes, you guys can divvy up the $206 million of damages after attorney's fees. and I don't know how you're going to get any money from these judges because they've been in prison and have nothing left. So good luck, God bless. I would say perhaps we take a look at getting the money from the state of Pennsylvania.

That's just me. That is just me. But I'm sure that that may actually, that might actually happen. Or for sure, the counties that the prisons were in or the counties that the judges were overseeing. We'll see. I mean, there's got to be a way to get some kind of money for these people and not leave them, you know, holding their own bag. But we'll see.

I mean, maybe you give the kids, I don't know, a free subscription to a meditation app. And let them, you know, just relax. It'll be okay. Sure, you're not going to get a few hundred thousand or a million dollars, but just meditate. You'll be fine. So apparently, these meditation apps, like Calm and Headspace, are facing usage declines from their pandemic peaks.

I know. It's sad. I almost put this in Who Died Today, but I didn't. Because they'll still get their money, because remember a couple of years ago, had the House of Representatives, our representatives, in the United States of America, House of Representatives, inked a deal with calm for its staff. Oh, that's good. That's what I want.

That's what I want the staff members of the House of Representatives to be able to just log in to their meditation app and relax. And I want to pay for it for them. I don't want them to have to pay for it. Someone could make the case that no matter what they pay for, I'm paying for it, but that's silly. to even think like that. So apparently,

people aren't doing breathing exercises narrated by Nick Offerman right now. User sessions of Calm are down 26.4% since last July. And 60% for its primary rival Headspace. Wow. Yeah, because Headspace didn't ink the deal with Congress. So Calm is still okay through there. Wow.

Meditation apps are seeing a 30% decline in usage over the past 90 days. So, all right. I mean, they're laying people off and that's sad. I don't want anybody to lose their jobs. And that's, that's not good. That's not a good outcome of these companies that are having to downsize because people aren't using their services. That is actually sad.

But Calm said that it laid off 20% of its employees. and they said that you know which people just aren't using just aren't using our stuff and I mean we've got sales growth so we should be fine but yeah you 90 people or so yeah you're gone have a nice day

wow all right you say so anyway it's kind of sad for meditation apps I feel like I need to have a meditation app now that I'm talking about it because so many people say you're supposed to meditate and you're supposed to, you know, meditate. I'm okay with the quiet time. I get that, and maybe that is meditation

in its own special way. But I feel like I need to have, you know, I need some help. I need some help with some meditation. Is that the one? Which is the, who's, what's the meditation app with Jay Shetty? You know, the think like. a monk guy I love Jay he's got a genius he's got guided meditations designed to center your mind body and soul and there's other top meditation apps aside from calm and headspace there's

simple habit and 10% happier and then don't forget about the big transcendental meditation that I mean Seinfeld swears by it I think Howard Stern swears by it and so do many other people people and so you know there are other ways to get your meditation on you don't necessarily need calm or headspace look if you're big in meditation email me chewing the fat of the blaze.com I want to know how it helped I really want to know about transcendental meditation because I've watched some interviews with Jerry Seinfeld and it's fascinating to me. And I just, you know, I, I care so much about it that you have to spend a bunch of money

to learn how to do it. And I don't necessarily want to do that. And I know the regular meditation, like, you know, Jay Shetty's genius or, you know, calm or headspace, you know, that's, you can, you know, do that to yourself, you know, close your eyes, look at the, you know, center of dots and go ahead and hum a little sound. And you're, you know, putting yourself in the right mind space and try to let yourself go and just don't think about anything and if you do start thinking about something then stop and bring yourself back to nothingness and go again and continue to do that and in the beginning if you fall asleep that's fine but you need to reach that space where there's nothing there so you can develop yourself and reach the space where there's nothing there

now many of you would say well jeff you've already reached that space that wouldn't be funny all right Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Oh. As I mentioned yesterday on Chewing the Fat, on Pat Gray Unleashed my Wednesday Chewing the Fat segment about the new Snoop Dog Snoop Loops cereal, his brand from Brodus Foods Foods,

And is it Broadus or Brodus? B-R-O-A-D-U-S foods? And I didn't realize he already had other breakfast items. He's got, you know, the oatmeal and pancake mix and syrup through Mama Snoops line. I want to taste it.

I don't have a designated release date for the Snoop loops yet. But it'll be the best tasting cereal in the game, according to Master P. Who doesn't believe what Master P is telling you on Instagram? And Snoop Dog also sells, of course, wine and weed, duh. But I didn't realize that he had it was the Mama Snoop line. I really do want to try the Mama Snoop lines, pancake and oatmeal products.

And syrup. You know, as long as we're trying stuff out. Let's get to it. I see where the Girl Scouts are coming out with a new cookie. Congratulations to them. apparently it's raspberry rally that's going to join the nationwide lineup of girl stock cookies when they start selling again so good luck god bless i mean the thin mints are still the winning cookie from the girl stout scouts uh caramel delights yeah i'm with you i'll tear them up i'm good

to go but uh you know if if i had to choose if you say hey you get one box which one between the caramel and the thin mints. I think you got to go with the thin mints. And I love caramel. And the caramel, the lights are good. But I feel like you get more for your money with the thin mints. I could be wrong. It's the same weight, Jeff.

It's the same amount. It just feels different. The other thing is about the raspberry rallies is that it's only going to be available online. So you're not going to be able to. I think they say it's only going to be available online to enhance, you know, the e-commerce sales and entrepreneurial skills, I think. But if, you know, every place I go, like the Girl Scouts rarely come to the front door hawking cookies anymore.

It does happen from time to time. You get a Girl Scout banging on the door, yammering about selling their cookies. But most of the time in my area, they hang out at grocery stores in front of grocery stores. And they've got their table set up and they're hawking you on the way. in and out and you know they've got them out there so maybe a smart girl scout one with entrepreneurial skills would go ahead and order some raspberry rallies online and have them delivered to the house and then sell them at the grocery stores or door to door when you're out hawking the cookies so you've got the full array so you don't have to

people if you want more of the raspberry rallies of course you have to go online but right now I can get to this box for this price. I mean, I'm just trying to help you out, Girl Scouts. And the Scouts are selling back to selling their popcorn and stuff. I'd see where my daughter, who is involved in Scouts, along with my wife, and my oldest son is an Eagle Scout who doesn't have to do this anymore. But he's part of the O-A. But the Scouts are, you know, hawk on their popcorn for fundraisers and stuff.

And my daughter is selling popcorn. So just follow me on, you can purchase, not purchase it's all up to you okay it's all good stuff and it's all delicious so you know if you can help help if you can't i appreciate you looking but if you follow me on my social media accounts uh at jeffy jfr on twitter jeff fisher radio on facebook and instagram i'll post a link to my daughter's popcorn sales for scouts and have at it. Have at it to your heart's content and help her raise a little bit of money

for her scouting group. Okay, couples in trouble. That could be a new segment. Couples in trouble. I see where Metallica's frontman, James Headfield, reportedly filed for divorce. Wow. I mean, he's been married for 25 years

and he has credited his wife with getting him through all kinds of tough stuff, helping him mature, helping him be, you know, this hard, high-strung character. I call it a character. He doesn't call it a character. I'm sure he doesn't call it a character.

But he's been on the spotlight forever. I mean, he's worth hundreds of millions of dollars. He just moved. I remember the Joe Rogan podcast he was on. He talked about moving from Northern California to Vale, Colorado. I guess it's a big difference for James, but, okay, if you say so, he claims that he was sick of being judged and the negative reaction from locals in Northern California, who didn't look kindly upon his political views and lifestyle choices.

Huh. He said he got sick of the Bay Area, the attitudes of the people there. Really? Yeah, they talk about how diverse they are and things like that. It's fine if you're diverse. of them yeah welcome to the party james but showing up with a deer on the bumper doesn't fly in marying county yeah no kidding so anyway very sad uh they've been married for 25 years he yeah he said she helped me mature uh he's been supposedly uh sober since i think 2002 but i feel like

there's been stories about james possibly falling off the wagon and it wouldn't surprise I mean, the guys toured around the world with Metallica. I mean, that's a tough, tough business. And, you know, you're tough. And I moved to Vale, Colorado. Maybe she didn't want to move to Vale. She's had enough. I don't want to live up here in freaking Vale, Colorado.

I want to move back to Northern California. Okay? We had friends there, James, and you dragged me up here into the mountains. So maybe that's what the divorce is about. I mean, he's got three kids. Imagine me and the kids of James Hedfeld man from Metallica. Wow. Amazing life.

Anyway, sad. Sad news is what that is. Yeah, couples in the news. Sad news. And I see where Brad and Angelina, Brandjolina, are back in the news. They've been fighting for a while now. And Angelina now has sued the FBI

after an investigation against Brad was closed. So they haven't released any of the FBI documents yet. They were some that have been, you know, leaked to several news outlets. But apparently, you know, they talk about Brad on a flight back from France to the U.S. I think that's where the flight was coming from. Isn't that where they have their place in France? Yeah, I think that's where they were flying from. Anyway, hey, we're on this deal.

They were flying. It wasn't like they were flying Delta. and they were on a private flight coming back and Brad said your kid looks like freaking column mine kid you're ruining the family he wasn't happy with the way the other kids were dressing

oh okay now allegedly he took Angelina to the back of the plane grabbed her shoulders shook her while yelling at her saying you're effing up the family. All right. He said, you know, and Brad talked about these were, you know, serious drinking days for him. So, I don't know. She claims he was in a drunken rage, turned into a verbal and physical fight.

And so, yeah, they were coming from France to LAX. This was in 2016, a long time ago. I mean, they do not. They're not happy with one another. That's what's happening. Very sad. So, you know, Angelina wants all the documents released under, you know, the anonymous Jane Doe with her Freedom of Information Act request. You know, the case had been closed.

I mean, L.A. County Department of Children and Family Services concluded that Pitt previously admitted to problems with alcohol, did not physically abuse any of his children. And Pitt was also cleared by the FBI of any wrongdoing. Does that mean anything in today's world being cleared by the FBI? I, you know, sure. Okay, absolutely it does. Okay. Anyway, good luck. Sorry that they're struggling.

And man, I can hope for the best, right? Right. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements.

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So the guy's a bartender. The girl walks into the bar and he says, Hey, I'd like to buy you a drink. And she says, okay. And now there's love and a baby on the way. That's the way usually happens. They realized that, well, I remember you now after I met your mom. It didn't say that he had a little business with the mom.

It just said that he lived in the neighborhood and knew the mom and the dad and, you know, the baby when Evie was born. So there's none of that going on, although, I mean, go ahead and write your own story around that. If you'd like, that's fine. And I see where one couple is, you know, the couple that goes. gets arrested together, stays together. That's what I was told. Apparently, this couple was taken care of a little bidness

at Cedar Point on the Ferris wheel. So the other day we talked about the fat walk of shame at Cedar Point, and now we find out that people were taking care of a little bidness on the Ferris wheel.

So that's a tough deal. I mean, that's a tight squeeze. But they were, you know, it was happening. Now, they originally said, no, we weren't. Sorry, what are you, out of your mind? We weren't having sex. But witnesses included two juveniles, which, I mean, that's what gets you in trouble. You can quote me on that.

The two initially denied it saying, no, no, no, you kidding me? I had shorts on and under my dress. I dropped my cigarette pack. I was trying to get them. One thing led to another. And the witnesses said, yeah, the cart was shut. and I saw the man and the woman both exposed themselves on the ride. And then later on the couple was like, yeah, yeah, you know, yeah.

We were, we were taking care of a little ferris wheel business at Cedar Point. So they're charged with a misdemeanor of the first degree. I don't know what that means. I guess that means that you can't have business on a ferris wheel at the theme park. That's what that means. They were arrested and transported to the Erie County Police Department. I mean, they didn't even just let them go without a warning. Oh, no.

They're going before the judge with a misdemeanor of the first degree. And I am surprised that Cedar Point doesn't have their own little jail in courts. That's got to happen, I would say. Congratulations to LeBron James, signing a new contract, a two-year deal. 97 million contract extension with the Los Angeles Lakers making him the highest

earning player in NBA history and he's such a I'm happy for him I'm so he's a good guy to be happy for isn't he? I don't really like him at all.

Another guy that you kind of want to don't be, you kind of want to be the person that you don't. I am not happy with. Andrew Cuomo it said now that he doesn't have to pay back his $5 million advance for the COVID memoir that was full of lies and BS because the judge said yeah you can't read there's they broke no due due process rules so he doesn't have to get that money back wait what yeah he's fine he can keep the money oh okay and I saw

the same thing Cuomo was backing up Trump on the FBI rating Mar-a-Lago like we can't do that. This is breaking all kinds of protocol. Yeah, he doesn't want the FBI breaking into his home. To be honest, I don't either. So I'm kind of standing with both of them on this. But he's one of those people that you just don't want to be on the same side as.

Congratulations to Solange Knowles for being the first black woman to compose the original score for the New York City Ballet, which premieres in October. I guess that's a big deal. Good. I mean, congratulations. It doesn't. To me,

I would say fantastic. I don't know why that's a big deal, but it is. I did know that the New York City Ballet was this big racist performing ballet. I would guess that if you could do the job,

you could be a part of it, but apparently it's a big deal. We know now, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner, that Anne Hesha's death was ruled an accident. Okay. If you say so. No problem. If you say that Anne Hache's death was an accident, then by gosh,

Anahe's death was an accident. Speaking of Anne's death, and I mean, it was a road death, right? So road deaths in the U.S., well, it was a road into a house death, road deaths in the U.S. climbed 7% in the first quarter of 2022 over last year. It's the seventh straight quarter that traffic fatalities have increased. So be careful out there. Keep your head on a swivel. Always watch out for the other guy. Okay. Always when you're out there on the road, watch out for the other guy. You're just seconds away from something bad happening. And yet we trust all those other people on the road. So just be careful out there. Speaking to road deaths, I see where they have just ranked the 10 to most

bike-friendly cities in the world, according to the 2022 Global Bicycle Index. I know that they have the guide to the Global Bicycle Cities Index, which, man, I study that. Woof, man. I love bicyclists and everything that they present. And I'm happy that they're out there riding around

and blocking traffic. They're not blocking traffic. They're sharing the road. They're sharing the road. And I, for one, am all for that. Now, I will say that the top 10 cities are not in the United States of America. The U.S., in fact, on the Global Bicycle Cities Index, doesn't even show up until, like, 39th.

And that's San Francisco. And then Portland shows up at 41st. I didn't go down any farther because I don't really care. But the Utrecht, Netherlands is number one city, Monster Germany, number two, Antwerp, Belgium, Copenhagen, Denmark, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Malamo, Sweden. Hangzhou, China is number seventh. Bern, Switzerland, Bremen, Germany, and Hanover, Germany are the top ten most bike-friendly

cities in the world. Now, I am all four of every single bicyclist. In America, going to one of those cities so that you can partake in those bike-friendly cities. That would be great. But, I mean, don't get me wrong. I love bicyclists on the road more than you will ever, ever know. I've told you the story before. No, I won't tell you the bicycle story again.

Just know that I made a joke on the air, said it was a joke, and still had to make good on it. I still had to apologize, which I did, which that was before my belief of never bending the knee. That's what turned me, I think. That's one of the things that turned me into never bending the knee. And then I was told by the bicyclist people, Jeff, we knew it was that it was a joke. But still, it's a serious matter. And you have to, you can't be making jokes like that. that. Oh, okay, well, it was a joke. So, a joke, you know, I can't be making jokes like that.

Oh, okay. All right, whatever you say, you're fine. I mean, I was talking about, I was driving a pickup truck at the time. All right, I'll tell you the story. I was driving a pickup truck at the time. And I'm driving to the radio station that I was working at of the mothership, 970 WFL. And I'm going down, if you know, Tampa Bay, I was living in Pinellas County, so I was traveling across Tampa Bay into Tampa to go to the radio station. And I was driving on a road called Gandy Boulevard, and it's the Gandy Bridge that goes across Tampa Bay. It's one of the bridges that goes across Tampa Bay from Tampa to St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg to Tampa. And there were bicyclists on the road driving on the main road. and along the waterway this one stretch there's

it's a kind of a fishing beach dirt area and so I realize it's tough to ride your bikes so they're riding their bikes on the pavement and I just felt like I wanted to just a quick ding from my

rear view mirror all right so again it was just a joke I would never do it all right it was just me talking out loud it's what I do and they got mad and I had newspaper stories

all over the country talking about another clear channel radio host taking a cry of bicyclists and apparently my man who I didn't know at the time Doc Thompson was doing the same thing and so we all got in trouble

you know to clear channel radio hosts you know going against bicyclists so I apologize and I had the bicycle people I don't know the kings and queens or whoever they were come on the show and talk about it and you know That's when the guy said, Jeff, we know it was a joke.

But this is serious business. This is serious. We can't be joking around about that. Wait. It was a joke. Anyway, so no one likes bicyclists more than me. Okay? I appreciate you.

I love you out there. And I'm happy, happy to share the road with you. And I don't talk to me about riding on the sidewalks and having, you know, the curbs down so that people can roll over the curb. so it's not the big bob curbs when i was a little kid riding bikes everywhere there weren't the uh there weren't the there weren't the curbs i mean every every corner had a curb so you had to kind of pop yourself on and over the curbs while you're riding your bike not anymore but apparently that's not those are for people that are walking and for people who are handy capable in wheelchairs and uh you know motor scooters stuff like that motor seats because they're not you know bicycles are supposed to

be able to be on the road and share the road. So great. I'm happy, happy to do that. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank

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recording, as I'm recording chewing the fat today, the Deshawn Watson case for the NFL just came down. apparently Deshawn has reached a settlement with the NFL to serve an 11 game suspension so it's not going to be for the whole season which I thought it would be for the entire season

and pay a $5 million fine to some charity big deal I think he still has one pending case on all the people I think he settled with every massage therapist except for one left on that deal.

So, you know, originally they were giving him six games, and so they appealed, and now he can return in week 13. So he's going to face his former team Houston Texans in week 13, if he, you know, plays on that week 13, which I'm sure he will.

So I'm really surprised that it's not a full season. I thought for sure that Goodell would make sure that, you know, We can work out a deal, Deshawn, but you're gone for this whole season. And that was the deal that the Browns did with him. His money is guaranteed $800 billion contract was that this first year was to only be like a million bucks or something. Because they figured he would be suspended for the season.

So it would be, it wouldn't have, it wouldn't cost him any money. You know, it would cost, it would cost him very little money for the season because he could miss the games and it would only be worth, you know, a million. bucks and the rest of it were the next few years out of the big money. I think it was like 230 or 280 million, right? Was the contract? Holy cow. There's a lot of money and a lot of money guaranteed. So, but the first year, the way it was worked out was it was only to get a million.

And so he has to pay a $5 million fine, whatever. And he's probably, you know, I don't know how much he's paying for these other settlements for the massage therapist. So, you know, that's the deal, I guess. Congratulations, Deshaun. Only 11 games. and $5 million to charity. That's a pretty good deal.

All right. I got a couple of emails. Well, one was just a message on Cameo that I thought was really nice and I appreciated it. You can obviously book me for a cameo at Jeffie JFR, but this came from so many angels and it said,

Jeffie, I don't want a cameo at this time. Why not? I just wanted to say that I enjoy listening to CTF and with the guys in the morning, which would be Pat Gray on Leased with Pat and Keith, and your laugh is infectious and makes me smile. Thank you, Matt Myers. Founder of so many angels.

And so I just wanted to say thank you. I appreciate it. You can go to so many angels.org. It's pretty cool. They provide, they take photos of children with cancer and transform them into whatever or whoever they want. Whoever they want to be when they grow up.

So they have editors that work and get these pictures and they have examples on the website So Manyangles.org. So if you can help them out, do so. If you can't, you know, that's fine. I understand completely. But I just wanted to give them a shout out and say, thank you. I appreciate it. So many angels.org.

Good news for deaf people or people hard of hearing. should say I apologize. People who are hard of hearing. The Food and Drug Administration finalized a rule yesterday, allowing hearing aids to be sold over the counter to those 18 years and older with mild

to moderate hearing loss. So you can pick up your hearing aid at the counter. An estimated 37.5 million Americans older than 18 have some level of hearing loss. I am one of those, man.

And that just comes from wearing headphones forever. I just, I told you the story before. I remember coming into a radio station behind, behind the afternoon guy, Scott Robbins, not the Scott Robbins that's doing the one talk show with Marquis, Van Camp, and Pork and Beans or whatever the show is with Scott Robbins. He, and I like those guys, they're fine.

But he, Scott Robbins, was the guy in Tampa Bay. He was the big, the guy. Anyway, I used to follow him and come in. And his headphones would just be shaking on the counter. And I thought, wow, that's amazing. I can't believe that you're listening to stuff that loud. I'm that guy now. That's what happens.

You put those headphones on. You just get stuff cranked in your head for years. And you need it louder and louder and louder. So apparently hearing aids can cost $1,000 to $4,000 per year and are not typically covered by Medicare or insurance. So the over-the-counter aids are expected to be available at a fraction of the cost. Uh-huh. Now, the moves comes five years after Congress passed legislation ordering the FDA to craft regulations.

And it's always good when the government gets involved. So everything will be fine. Don't worry about it. So apparently the new regulations are going to look similar to the eye care industry. And who doesn't love the eye care industry? That's worked out great, huh? So hearing aids available in retail and drugstores. and it's also expected to increase competition in the industry.

Currently, the four largest manufacturers hold 84% of the market. So maybe we get into the hearing aid business. Maybe you start hawk and hearing at the flea market. And, you know, the rule goes into effect in October. Maybe you work out a deal where you're hawk and heroin aids for people. If you have, I'm sorry, if you have some level of hearing loss, mild to moderate hearing loss. You know, you can, you know, it'll help you out.

You can use a hearing aid. It'd be great. It'd be great. Good luck. I hope that works out great for everyone. You know, I talk a joke about all the time, but my left ear is almost, I mean, it's darn near gone. I can still hear, when I listen to put right out of my left ear, I hear, and so everything's got to be, you know, in the right ear.

Right. Ah! And so, I mean, if I lay on my right ear, all right so if i have if i'm laying down with my right ear covered uh or you know i hold my hand over the right ear or whatever uh and you want to try to talk to me i hear the so it's a good way for me to fall asleep uh lay people can talk to me all they want and i got nothing for you i'm going to sleep okay that's just the way it is so good news good news you'll be able to get uh over the counter

hearing aids starting very, very soon. And then I got a joke sent to me Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. You can always contact me through social media or email me chewing the fat at the blaze. com. Email from J.K. This is a thinking man's joke from J.K. All right. Jeffie, I still listen every day.

Thank you. I did doubt that. And today you reminded me of another old joke. Okay. well thank you i guess uh you know you're welcome so he had to j k i don't know if it's a he sorry uh the person who goes by jk i don't know what they're identifying as uh had to go ahead and type out the joke to me and i'm going to share it with you okay a factory had about 100 employees and one day the CEO called a meeting all employees had to attend he told

told them that the rumors going around were true. The factory is going full automation and no employees will be needed. Before the uproar started, he said that there will be no layoffs, okay? Wages and benefits will continue. And all we ask is that all employees come in every Wednesday to pick up their paycheck. And from the back of the room, a voice said, every Wednesday every Wednesday get it every Wednesday

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