Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Formal Warning… | 4/15/25

Episode Date: April 15, 2025

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Do you know where that is? On the hand map, it's right there. And, you know, it's southeast Nebraska on the, close to the border. And it's a beautiful, beautiful this time of year. Pawnee City, Nebraska. Is 50,000 enough to get you to move there? If it is, enjoy. Welcome.

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Many of us have taken an Uber, no question. And even aside from Uber, you've taken care. and limos to different places, and you may or may not have left something in that cab, limo, or Uber. I was looking at a list of the 2025 Uber lost and found index. And it is incredible. So the top three spots for most commonly left behind items

went to phones, keys, and wallets. And I guess I can see that. The most forgetful day was October 26, but as usual, riders don't forget the essentials. They left behind everything from a Ghostbusters ghost trap and sticky boobs to 175 burgers in the back seat. The most forgetful city was New York City, yeah, because you're taking an Uber more times than not in New York City and cabs as well. They had mannequin heads, live lobsters. Would you leave your lobster? I'm not thinking about having a lobster tonight for dinner.

Oh, crap. I left it in the Uber. Now, there's a way. It doesn't say that everyone got their items back. You can go to the app, and there's a step-by-step instructions on how to get your lost items back on the Uber app. The 50 most unique lost items,

and I don't know if we'll go through all 50, but at number one, the mannequin head with human hair, the Viking drinking horn. Ghostbusters goat ghost trap we mentioned. A chainsaw? I forgot. What did I do with my chainsaw?

Breast milk. Okay. Some fine china. A turtle. A urinal. Stop it. Club promoter sign reading Annie's married.

I guess that belongs to the club. Sticky boob bra. Aviation headset. Shrek ears. Bermuda shorts. Ooh, I don't know if he was wearing him when he got into the Uber. A pink fan that has two hearts and the word bimbo on it. A DNA testing kit.

Yeah, I was going to get it tested, but I forgot it in the Uber. Pickleball paddles and ball. Yeah, okay, a couple of mattresses. What? Ubering a dump truck? 15 hookas. Okay. An aquarium, a witch's broom, unicycle.

Can't be. It's got to be someone stole those items and just left him in the Uber. right a photograph photographs yeah course peacock feathers yeah sewing machine you left a sewing machine

in an Uber okay divorce papers ooh that would be a tough one are we gonna did you sign the papers yet no this is the back of the Uber that I took earlier today

I forgot them in the Uber oh sorry about that Cornish hands so much for dinner oh well I left the I left the Cornish hands in the back of the Uber Lobsters

They had 10 live lobsters left. I don't know if they were all together or if it was a total of 10 lobsters throughout the year. A chicken sculpture, Hannah Montana merchandise, a DJ mixing board. Okay. Now, the tent most commonly forgotten, of course, is the phone, the wallet, the keys, luggage, headphones, yeah, glasses, clothing, passport, ooh, that would stink. A vape and water bottles, of course. So if you live in New York, yeah, you're the most forgetful city, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. are the top five. And the bottom five of the top 10 are San Francisco, Boston, Newark, Dallas, Houston. So if you live in those cities, remember what you bring with you in your Uber because you do not want to leave it there. And also on the Uber app, there's a step-by-state.

step way you can get your merchandise back. If, of course, you want it back. You know, and speaking of items, I see where the TSA has approved 11 new items, you could now travel with in any size. And that's so nice of them. That's over-the-counter medications, prescription medications in gel liquid or aerosol form, ice packs or gel packs for medically necessary items, food and drink for infants and toddlers, wet batteries.

I love, I prefer the dry batteries. Live fish transported in water. Okay. Biological specimens. Breast milk or baby formula. Liquid filled teeters. Duty free items sealed in a tamper evident bag. And fresh eggs.

Okay. All right. That's great. Can you calm down on the fresh eggs? That'd be great. So the reason that they're doing this now is that Remember, you can only fly with 3.4 ounces in containers tucked inside a quart-sized clear plastic bag. Well, that's changing because of new TSA technology, the counterterrorism measure.

The reason they were doing that is to prevent attacks using liquid explosives. And the 3.4 ounces would be the maximum amount that could detonate within a cabin without causing catarrow. catastrophic damage. So that's what they use as an excuse. And they say that it minimizes the risk of hazardous substances slipping through security screenings on notice. Uh-huh. Well, now they've got a new computed tomography scanners,

the CT scanners that can analyze the contents in bottles that are currently being installed at all the airports. So this means that full-size items could soon be on the roster again. Not yet, though. No, not yet. I mean, we've installed these at Atlanta, JFK, LAX already. And so, you know, some of this stuff they may allow. But if your airport that you're flying into and then flying back out of doesn't have the technology, now you're going back to the old ways.

So they tell everyone, be sure to check the, my TSA app for the handy, what can I bring feature? Yeah, okay, we got it. I wanted to bring fresh eggs. You can't, you can now. That's back on the list. That's great. So, but not, you know, shampoo, perfume, sunscreen,

body washes. Yeah, they're not on the list yet. Okay. I got to wait until all the airports have the new tornography scanners. And once that happens, then, and it's not tornography, it's tomography scanners. They can analyze the contents in the bottles. So that's great.

We've got new merchandise coming in. And I'm sure those are really, really cheap. But there's, you know, good news. They're, you know, allowing you to fly with your wet batteries or live fish transported in water again. So, man, we're back to being a free nation on airlines, aren't we? Yeah, we are. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes What?

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raping, aspiring actress Jessica Mann in 2013, and a new allegation of four. oral sex at a Manhattan hotel in 2006. So opening statements could begin as early as the 22nd of this month with the trial expected to last up to six weeks. Wow. Because his 2020 conviction, which included guilty verdicts for assaulting Haley and raping man were overturned in April of 2024. So the court found the jury had been unfairly influenced by testimony from women whose allegations were not part of the formal charges. Yeah. So the retrial will feature fewer witnesses and tighter roles on testimony language. Now, he's still serving his 16-year sentence in California following a separate

2023 conviction for rape and assault. He has denied all the allegations and maintains that all sexual encounters were consensual. But he's still in New York. California, you know, wants him back. I don't know if that's ever going to happen. He will probably die according to him before. before this ever happens. Then we have the jury selected in retrial of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin libel suit against the New York Times. That is happening. Then we have CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who the antitrust trial is happening, and he testified

yesterday over his purchases of Instagram and WhatsApp. So we'll see what becomes of that. We have Jelaine Maxwell. well, Epstein's accomplice, currently serving a 20-year sentence for aiding Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse of underage girls, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn her conviction, arguing she was protected by Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement. Her appeal follows repeated rejections by lower courts, which ruled that the deal applied only within Florida and didn't shield her from prosecution in New York.

So we'll see what becomes of that. How's those Epstein files coming, by the way? We have all of those, those up and running. They are? Oh, we have seen them all? Oh, we haven't? Oh, well. Oh, that's just silly.

Why would we get those? I thought our new FBI director, Cash Patel, was going to release those immediately upon getting into office. Uh-huh. Then we have the case of Hollywood director James Tobak. That case has wrapped. up and he was ordered by a New York jury to pay $1.68 billion to 40 women who accused him of sexual assault, psychological abuse, false imprisonment, and coercion. That's it though.

The jury's not funny. The jury broke down his financial obligation to reflect 280 million in compensatory damages and 1.4 billion in punitive damages. More than 30,000. We're accused towback of incidents of sexual harassment spanning decades in 2017. That's all started because of an investigation from the Los Angeles Times that has come to light and brought all of this to light. 20 women testified in person. Another 20 testifying in pre-recorded video. Wow. Now, he has been going on since I think December of 2022, something like that. he has asked the judge prior to this ruling to dismiss his case. Nope, sorry, not doing that.

Wow, okay. And the attorney for the plaintiffs said that I think the jury spoke loud and clear. We wanted to hear, we wanted their voice to be heard and to reverberate across the country to tell insiders and people in positions of power that we will not tolerate using that power against women. Yeah. Does he have $1.68 billion? Well, we're assessing whether he has any assets that we could go after. We'll try to recover as much as we can. But that's not the only motivating factor. Oh, okay. Now, he is denied all the allegations. When he was contacted by the Times in 2017, saying that he had never met any of these women, or if he did it, it was for like five minutes.

I've got no recollection. He also repeated claims to that. that prior the last 22 years, the prior 22 years, it had been biologically impossible for him to engage in behavior described by the woman, saying he had diabetes and a heart condition that required medication. And the jury said, so, pay these women $1.68 billion. So congratulations. You had your voices heard. and now I guess

I mean he's 80 now so he's not going to be around much longer it's not prison time and so it's just to pay him a bunch of money which he doesn't have so good luck to everyone involved and I hope everyone gets what they deserve

and I'm not sure I understand this protest at all it's not as many protests I don't understand but this one in particular so the opening of passage Church, which is in South Lake, Texas. It's not far from Gateway Church. Was met with protest because the preacher, the elder, is the son of Robert Morris, who was part of Gateway Church, founder of Gateway Church.

I've met Robert and his family before when we first moved to Texas. And he has now been charged in Oklahoma. with five counts of sexually abusing a child. The woman at the center of the case, this Cindy Kleminger accuses the elder Morris of sexually abusing her back in the 1980s when she was 12 years old, and Oklahoma is using this 1890 law

to bring this pastor, Robert Morris, to what they consider justice. Anyway, the son has, they left Gateway, the whole family left Gateway. Gateway is distancing themselves from the Morris's, and the son has started his own church, the passage church. And so people were protesting outside of a passage church because he's the son of Robert Morris.

Wait, what? Yeah, one protester said, yeah, we're standing up for survivors of sexual abuse and assault as it pertains to the church. And NDA's non-disclosure agreements need to have no place. They have no place in the church as it relates to the abuse of a child. Okay. So, I mean, James Morris and his wife left Gateway Church last summer after the abuse accusations against his father, not him, were brought to light.

So we see a connection between Passage Church and Gateway Church, and it raises more concerns on whether the two churches have any ties. Well, first of all, even if they do have ties, so. But Passage Church said there are no ties between Gateway Church and Passage Church. We are a separate nonprofit church, and there are no connections between the two churches. The only connection that we have is the same connection that we have with all Christian churches, which is that all churches are connected by being the bride of Christ. The blood of Jesus connects us with all churches in the world that professed Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior. Outside of this, there is no connection relationally, governly, or financially.

The only connection is that Jesus Christ died on the cross for all that chose him, and therefore all Christian churches are our brothers and sisters in Christ. Okay. That was pretty good answer. From James Morris, the pastor, or he's calling himself the elder of passage church in South Lake, Texas. so we're protesting that the son of a guy who's been charged with doing something dirtbaggery back in the 80s his court appearance is scheduled for May 9th

his first court appearance I mean he surrendered in Oklahoma and we can't have the sun start his own church come on now what in the world are we doing all right let's go to the break room I need something cold to drink desperately Okay, I'd like to have just a little conversation with K-N-U-E-101.5, their K-N-U-E.com, as they had a story here that says the Texas Barbecue Restaurant named Best for fourth straight year. And they are talking about the best barbecue in Texas. and it goes on to talk about how this one Texas barbecue restaurant that doesn't have to claim anything

because the magazine has once again named them the best barbecue joint in the Lone Star State. And when it comes to Texas, when it comes to barbecue in Texas, you have many options. And this, of course, was written by Billy Jenkins on April 4th of this year. And there are many big names that have quite the reputation for having some of the very best found in Texas. The restaurant that was named by Southern Living to have their best in Texas was Franklin Barbecue. And the food speaks for itself, but it's always fun for visitors when they can meet the celebrity pit master, Aaron Franklin. And what are the best things at Franklin Barbecue? When it comes to Texas Barbecue, you want to try everything, and that includes all the sides.

And the last thing you want to do is miss out any of the tremendous flavors being served up. So when visiting Franklin, you're going to want to, you don't want to skip the brisket, the tender port. ribs and you want the jalapeno cheddar sausage as well and the restaurant doesn't open until 11 a.m. If you want the best selection of meats, you'll want to start lining up for barbecue around 7 a.m. Trust me while standing in line for that long might not seem great. The food makes the experience worth it. That's wonderful from KNUE. Where is Franklin's barbecue?

That's what I want to know in the story. It doesn't tell me where it is. uh is it in houston is it in df w is it in san antonio is it in el paso no it doesn't tell me where it is now i know that i know that it's in austin and there's a video in fact attached to the story where it gets mentioned that this guy who's reviewing the barbecue joint and he talks about franklin's barbecue in austin texas i've driven past franklin in Austin, Texas before. I've never eaten there.

But the story itself doesn't tell me where the restaurant is located. So I'd just like to mention to Billy Jenkins when you're writing a story for K-N-U-E-101.5 FM, just, you know, when you're writing your story about any particular establishment, you might want to put where the establishment is in your story. That's all I'm saying.

Okay? All right. Thank you. It just irked me. I was reading. I saw it late last night. I'm on my phone and I didn't want to, I figured that the video would have where it was. And I knew that, you know, it was in Austin, but it just irked me that I read,

this whole story about the best barbecue restaurant in Texas. And it doesn't tell me where the restaurant is. Just kind of irked me. That's all. All right. So what are you watching these days? I mean, there's plenty of good shows. Hacks dropped on Mac.

which I was, you know, I'm very happy about. The first two episodes dropped, which I caught. The Pit just ended. Really awesome. I watched every episode of The Pit. It was really, really good. HBO, I'm sorry, Max was saying that they were getting, they were happy with 10 million global viewers per episode on the pit,

which is, I mean, yes, it's well worth it. Really good with Noah Wiley. I will say that I started watching. a pulse on Netflix and not as good as the pit, but it is an ER. It's in Miami and, you know, made me kind of miss Florida. But there was a hurricane coming in.

I know, I still missed Florida. And there's another show on Netflix that apparently almost got 30 million views, The Life List. I have not watched this. I will give you a review, but apparently it's the starring Sophia Carson.

She plays a young woman who has recently lost her mother to cancer, That sounds fun already. In order to receive her inheritance, Alex's mother sets her on a task from beyond the grave to complete the bucket list she wrote as a 13-year-old. What follows is a classic trio of discovering herself, finding love, and unlocking family secrets.

So, yeah, that sounds fun. She gets the inheritance in the end, I'm sure, but probably doesn't want it because she's so full of love. Yeah, okay. Then we have Mobland on Paramount Plus, which has been really, really good. And I will say that it's probably a good idea for many to put the closed captioning on

because you don't know that you can understand everything that they're saying it's based in London and they're all Brits. And it's easier. My father-in-law was watching it with me. And he's, what do you say? And I'm like, I'm just going to put on the closed caption. There you go.

There you go. now you can understand it all. You know, Reacher ended. We still have a Bosch legacy dropping two episodes a week, which has been really good. A huge fan of Bosch, and this is the final series, final shows of Bosch.

Very sad with Titus Willemar. I talked about the territory on Netflix. Well worth the watch. That's in Australia. If you're having a tough time with the Brits in the UK, you may have a tough time with the Australians, so put on the close caption on that as well, the territory.

You don't want to miss. anything that they say that you're like, what? What the heck did they say? It makes it easier that way. And the other day, we got word that Mickey Rourke was given a formal warning for offensive comments made about Jojo Sliwa in Big Brother. And I thought, okay, well, first of all, I didn't know that Mickey Rourke was on the stupid celebrity Big Brother UK, but he was. and I say was because he was issued a warning from the reality television series for comments he made toward fellow competitor Jojo Siwa,

according to the BBC, not Sliwa Siwa. During the 24th season of Big Brother UK, wow. The actor asked Siwa if she liked girls or boys, to which the karma singer explained that she's attracted to women and that her partner, Kath Eves, is non-binary. If I stay longer than four days, the 72-year-old then responded, You won't be gay anymore.

It's not funny. That's not funny at all. Now, holy cow. Mickey Rourke is 72. Holy cow. See, we replied by assuring, I can guarantee I'll still be gay and I'll still be in a very happy relationship.

So later in the series, when the castmates were called to vote someone out of the house, Mickey explained that he's going to vote the lesbian out real quick. And apparently that's homophobic. And at one point, so they got mad and work said he needed an F and jestered to the 21-year-old and said,

I'm not talking to you. At that point, he still went on and on and blasted him and they gave him a verbal warning. Well, he's now out. Mickey Rourke has agreed to exit Celebrity Big Brother UK following continued use of offensive language.

Oh, no, we cannot have that. He's agreed to leave Celebrity Big Brother House this evening following a discussion with Big Brother regarding further use of inappropriate language and instances of unacceptable behavior. And so have a nice day, get out. I mean, it does make me want to watch the show now. And I mean, I want to go back and watch the ones

were the episodes that he's in. Because according to spokespeople for Siwa, all housemates received respect and inclusion training and an extensive briefing from the Big Brother senior team

to prepare them for living in a house and to set out Big Brother's expectation for appropriate behavior and language. Housemates are monitored 24 hours a day and instances of inappropriate behavior are dealt with appropriately and timely.

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All right. So who died today? Who died today? First up, or down, is Mario Vargas Elosa, the Peruvian author and Nobel Literature Laureate dead at the age of 89. Doesn't say what his cause of death was, but he was, you know, 89. You remember him as the prolific author and essayist with such celebrated novels as the time of the hero and feast of the goat, which won a myriad of prizes.

And the Nobel Committee said that they were awarding him in 2010 for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat. So, Mario Vargas Elosa, dead at the age of 89. Then we have this man, Larry Borgh, Bastein, Larry Bastain, dead at the age of 90. Again, no cause of death given. But you remember Larry, he was the helper of Garth Brooks when Garth was busy being a serial killer.

Just stop it. He wrote songs. He was a songwriter. I mean, this guy actually wrote some great. great songs in the country music world. He wrote a number of hits for Garth Brooks' unanswered prayers, and he would do the dance and friends in low places, and then rodeo.

It was another Larry Bastain song. Larry wrote Conway Twitty's Saturday Night Special, Sammy Kirshaw Yard Sale. I love that stupid yard sale song. Cardboard sciences yard sale. A real estate science is sold. I love that stupid song. And Craig Martin, look at us.

I mean, this guy wrote some serious hits, and he wrote some hits for Jane Friggy and David Frizzell, Merle Haggard, Reba, George Jones, Neil McCoy. Guy was a monster in the songwriting business for country music. He has passed away at the age of 90 at his home in California. Very sad. rest in peace to Larry Bastain

dead at the age of 90 Family picnic table holds all that it can hold on the grass and on the sidewalk well there must be half the town

ain't it funny how broken home bring the prices down I just love that stupid song. I can sing the whole song, really.

I love that stupid song. We also have to say rest in peace to the Judas Priest, or former, Judas Priest drummer, Les Binks, Les Binks dead at the age of 73.

He was the original, well, I guess he was with Judas Priest. In fact, he had broken away from the band. He said he was never mad at the band. He was just mad at the management. And he played with them when they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And, I mean, Judas Priest, that was forced to like Judas Priest for years. There was a guy I used to work with that loved freaking Judas Priest.

So, Lesbanks, dead at the age of 73. Again, no cause of death given, though. Then we have Don Hasselbeck, Don Hasselbeck, dead at the age of 70. Now, he was the father of two NFL quarterbacks as well, and they did not have as great a success as Archie Manning's two kids. Yeah, I know. So Eli and Peyton had great success in the NFL. Don had great success in the NFL.

He won a Super Bowl with the Oakland Raiders. And his two sons played in the NFL, and they were okay. His eldest son, had a pretty good career in the NFL and his youngest son was not really not really that great

but he was a great father and he died of a cardiac arrest this past weekend at his home rest in peace to Don Hasselbeck dead at the age of 70 and the list

continues on today oh man Danny Dearden Danny Dearden, X-Factor contestant, dead at the age of 34. There was no cause of death given for Danny, but at 34, holy cow, we can only surmise what the possible cause of death was. But he was the X-Faster contestant. I think he had a couple of hits too as well after his performance on X-Factor.

Although it does say in here that back in 20203, and I don't follow Danny on Instagram that he had posted on Instagram thanking the NHS at one point I was told probably wouldn't be here today but he did not disclose

what his treatment had been for so anyway rest and peace to Danny dear dead at the age of 34 with MX Platinum $400

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Okay, so we're not going to do our weight loss pill because a patient reported liver damage. That's interesting. Interesting coming from Pfizer. And this story just kind of makes me say, I lived in Florida for a long time. I know about carpenter ants. I know about ants. And they just drive me in crazy. You know, the best you could do in most places, Texas, Florida,

probably most states is keep them at bay. You don't really kill them. I mean, Florida would sink if it wasn't for the ants, if you killed them all. But now we find out, according to these studies, this peer-reviewed study, published in the Science Journal, and I love that. The current biology highlights how Florida carpenter ants handle severe wounds among their nestmates.

Wait, what? Yeah. These ants, thanks to this study, we now now operate on themselves. Wait, what? Yeah, when there's severe wounds. Like, say, I don't know, you would see a carpenter ant and you step on it. but you don't really kill it, you just break a leg. Well, these ants will come up and if it calls for amputation or cleaning,

they'll amputate it and then they save the life of the ant. Wait, what? So be sure now, I'm just saying this is a helpful tip from chewing the fat. Make sure that you kill the freaking carpenter ant, okay? Don't wound it. Don't think I've got it. Just make sure it's killed. Because if not, they're going to heal it up.

up and then pretty soon you're fighting a one less legged carpenter ant who's pissed and you don't want that you do not want that wow so ants are just you know doctoring themselves to be stronger i do not like that at all and this story would just i would be so angry hundreds of passengers were forced to stay on planes overnight after international flights were diverted to an airport with no customs. Holy cow. So two flights from Mexico were diverted to an airport in Alabama, and that airport didn't have customs, and passengers were stuck inside the planes overnight. Ah, no.

One came from Cabo San Lucas, and one came from Mexico City, and they were redirected from their destination of Atlanta to. the Montgomery Regional Airport due to the weather risk. Yeah, there was big storms going on. So the Montgomery Airport has no customs and they couldn't facilitate international travelers, forcing nearly 300 passengers to remain on board the planes on the tarmac all night. Wow. So the Delta spokesperson said that we apologize to our customers for this experience. We fell short of how we aspire to serve and care for our customers amid thunderstorms in the southeast U.S.

I mean, it's not really their fault, but we're reaching out to each customer with the full refund of their booking. Wow, that's a big move for Delta. Big move. So you get a full refund. Both flights landed around 10.30 at night. And then, let's see, we were held on board

the aircrafts until 5 a.m., at which time they were allowed to enter the airport. The passengers were confined and guarded inside. Yeah, you get out the planes, but, yeah, just right here, as we not go any farther, or we will shoot you dead. I who didn't say that. So the Montgomery Regional Airport site stated flights were backed up, back up and running after 4 a.m.

Okay, then they flew to a nearby Birmingham Shuttle's Worth International Airport. Love that place. Just over 100 miles away, has customs, but wasn't a feasible option for the diverted planes because of intense storms. so you had to be stuck on a plane, and then you could get off the plane in the morning, but you can't go anywhere. You can stay right here.

And if you try to get out of the area, we will shoot you dead. But you get a full refund, so good for you. And then I see a story where Terry Bradshaw, I mean, Hall of Fame quarterback, Pittsburgh Steelers, four Super Bowls. I love Terry. He was stuck on a plane in Pittsburgh.

Coming out of Fort Worth, I think he flew out of DFW, and he lives in this neck of the woods. and he was flying into Pittsburgh to be a part of Mel Blunt's Celebrity Roast this past weekend. And they said, yeah, Doris stuck. And we were stuck on the plan here for a little bit.

At which time Terry Bradshaw gave him a little hand and popped that thing up. So even as Terry Bradshaw, I mean, he's like 76 year old now, right? I mean, Terry's getting up there. He's still Terry Bradshaw, though. NFL Hall of Famer. And so we're not messing around. And he helped him push open the door that was stuck. Good.

The pilot said, thanks to the strength of one of our passengers, we were finally able to get the door open. And, you know, of course, they were talking about Terry Bradshaw. So good news for Terry. He wanted to get off that plane just as bad as you. All right, let's do the joke of the day and get the heck out of here.

The joke of the day. The day, I want you to be clear. that this is a joke of the day that was sent to Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, and I didn't write it. It's not me telling you this. It's just the joke of the day, okay? The day after his wife disappeared in a kayaking accident,

an Anchorage man answered his door to find two grim-faced Alaska State Troopers. We're sorry, Mr. Wilkins, but we have some information about your wife. Did you find her? Mr. Wilkins added. The troopers looked at each other. One said, we have

some bad news, some good news, and some really great news. Which do you want to hear first? Well, fearing the worst, he said, well, give me the bad news first. The trooper said, I'm sorry to tell you this, sir, but this morning we found your wife's body in the Cacahamic Bay. Oh, no, that's sad. And, oh, my God, exclaimed Wilkins. I mean, swallowing us hard.

He asked, what's the good news? The trooper continued, well, well, well, we'll be. When we pulled her up, she had 12, 25-pound king crabs attached to her and six good-sized dunginous crabs clinging to her. And we feel you're entitled to share in the catch. Stunned, Mr. Wilkins demanded, if that's good news, what's the great news? The trooper says, we're going to pull her up again tomorrow.

See, that's just wrong, isn't it? Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.