Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Go Another Way…. | 2/27/25

Episode Date: February 27, 2025

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I'm sure this takes place all over the country, possibly all over the world, with the tolls that are being charged, and it gets automatically deducted from your accounts, and you just pay to drive on these roads, which is a wonderful idea, isn't it? So, anyway, they have issued a warning to all the residents here in DFW, and I got this warning after I'd already realized

it was happening weeks ago for the past, I don't know, at least a month. It feels like it was longer, though. I would get text messages from someone purporting to be, the NTTA, saying that I owed them money in unpaid toll tag bills. And the first couple times you just deleted and move on and then you reported a spam and who knows what happens to it after that. You're supposed to not be able to get those text messages anymore and I haven't gotten

one in a while so I'm guessing it works. But they have issued a warning. I get saying that residents have been receiving text and emails claiming to have unpaid toll tag bills. Yeah. And I didn't believe it at the time and you shouldn't either. They take the money right out of your account. So you shouldn't have unpaid toll tag bills. So the FBI advises customers not to click on any links and immediately delete the messages. Yeah, no kidding. So of course the NTTA does not take payments over email and recommends users to check their account online first. Yeah, well, your account should be fine since they take the money right out of your

account. You allow them to do that. They changed how much they, I think it comes down. I think when you get down to $20 in your account, they dig your account for another $20 or $30 because heaven forbid you get below $20 in your NTTA account. You might not be able to, they might have to charge you again when you're going through a toll. And I don't take the tolls very often, but it's nice to have the tags because when you're in traffic, sometimes you want to take those express lanes.

Even if they aren't really express lanes, the other day I was in an express lane that was moving slow and backed up. I don't know that I get my money back from that. Oh, that's funny, Jeff. Anyway, it wasn't an express lane. It was just another lane. So I'd like my money back.

But just remember that if you're getting tax, messages from whatever company, whatever toll company you get your toll passes from. I think they're all basically tied in together now that you shouldn't be getting those. And don't believe them. And for a second, you think, no, I don't. Don't reply.

Don't do anything. Just delete them and report them as best you can because they are not real. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Okay. So today we're going to start with the who died today. Who died today?

Because I want to talk about Gene Hackman. Gene Hackman and his wife, Betsy Arachoa, and their dog were found dead in their New Mexico home. Hackman was 95. His wife was 63, and there's no mention of the name of the dog or how old the dog was. It was reported in one story that they loved German Shepherd, so it may have been a German Shepherd dog. I don't know.

Now, the Sheriff's Department, who were called in to do a wellness check and found the bodies, said that foul play doesn't look like it was part of this. Okay. So what was it? Was it a murder-suicide kind of thing? Was it a gas leak in the home?

Were they poisoned from the family because they wanted the money? I don't, you know, what is it? We have to find out. We have to know. I love that Gene Hacker. he was in so many great movies and i know he won a couple of oscars i think he won one for the french connection and he won one for unforgiven but he was in so many great movies and some of my

favorite i mean there were three of my favorites were um uh twilight which is one of my favorite movies that's with the paul newman and what's her face susan sarandon and what's her faces in that movie too. The blonde chick. You know, the blonde chick. Reese Witherspoon. Stockard Channing is in it. James Garner is in it.

Giancarlo Esposito is in it. Liv Schreiber is in it. Margo Martindale is in it. I mean, it's a really, really good movie. I enjoy the heck out of it. I will say this. I don't think it was as big a hit

as it was hoped to be because it was made back in 1998. And I also was never happy with the ending of the movie. I believe they shot the ending before the movie was actually over, and they should have reshot it because it should have ended

a little bit differently. But I digress. I enjoy the heck out of that movie. It's one of my favorite movies, and Gene Hackman is in it. And then, of course, you have Birdcage, tremendous movie. Crimson Tide, one of my all-time favorite.

movies, a sub-movie, fantastic submarine movie with Danzel, plenty of stars in that movie as well. Same with Birdcage, geez. And then Hoosiers, everybody wants to talk about Hoosiers, probably one of the best sports movies of all time. I mean, he's Gene Hackman, and I just loved his work. So it's very sad that he died, but he was 95. But when they find the wife who was 63 and a dog at the same time, it does make one think that foul play was.

a part of it. And I just want to know the reports. He lived in New Mexico for a long time, years. And that's where he lived. He retired from Hollywood and got the hell out of there. I heard someone make the line of, well,

the Epstein list was coming out today. I do not think Gene Hackman and his wife were part of the Epstein list. But You know, I guess in today's world, you never know. And my gosh, why did they have to take the dog with them as well?

Which makes you think that maybe it was either poison from a family member, and I'm not accusing anyone, I'm just saying the possibilities are out there, poisoning from a family member, you know, hopefully to, you know, for the money. If whatever money Gene had, I'm sure he had made quite a bit in his career. and the wife was a concert pianist. I don't know if she made any money over the years. I doubt the dog made any money, but you don't know that.

The dog could have been a star actor as well. And he wrote, he authored some books after his retirement from Hollywood. So there's some kind of money there. Or was it, you know, an actual accident where there was a gas leak and then nobody knew and then you just end up falling asleep and you're dead. Who knows? But rest in peace to Gene Hackman, dead at the age of 95. Rest in peace to Betsy Arakoa, his wife, dead at the age of 63.

And rest in peace to their dog, who was unnamed and unaged in every story that I read, dead with the dog's owner, Gene Hackman and Betsy Araquah. As long as we're in, who died today, we might as well keep going. We have Michelle Tractenberg, the actress. You know her from Gossip Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. She is dead at the age of 39. 39. Now, she was found on the streets of New York, a 911 call, put her on the streets.

They showed up. EMS responded to a location, and they pronounced the victim, deceased. Criminality is not suspected. Okay, so which is it? Was she, was it an overdose? Was it a health-related thing? Well, we just, we don't know. But again, it's just something what we want to know.

But we don't right now. So let's get to it. The investigation, I'm sure, is ongoing. But again, the police said criminality is not suspected. All right, if you say so. Michelle Tractenberg dead at the age of 39. Then we have an unvaccinated school age child in West Texas, who has died in a measles outbreak that has sickened at least 124 people in Texas,

and it also spread into New Mexico. Is that what killed Gene Hackman and the wife, the dog, measles? I don't know. I think they lived on the other side of the state. Anyway, health officials saying that many people infected in the outbreak were children who were not vaccinated against measles and whose vaccination status was unknown. Okay, there's also a second person who has died from this, or this is the second person who passed away from this measles outbreak. They're the first people to die from measles in the U.S. in a decade. So we do have a big measles outbreak in Texas going on right now.

in West Texas and it's bleeding over into New Mexico. So heads up. He's planning on traveling through West Texas and into New Mexico. Maybe you take another way. At Desjardin,

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you kind of hear what the problem is to begin with. Police say back in January, Sumter was working the drive-thru at this noon and Waterburger. A customer reported to Sanoi Police that its credit card information was used to pay $400 in fines at the Coweta County State Court Proofer. Probation office. Okay, so let's stop for just a second. So she's working at Waddenberger, and she's already on probation. So she owes $400 in fines at the probation office.

Now, if she doesn't pay the fines to the probation office, she goes back to jail. So, I mean, she's caught in a catch-22. I'm not saying she should steal this person's credit card. I'm not saying that at all. I'm just saying we needed to, I don't know if she could get help or if the probation officer says you pay it. It's my understanding in the past in talks with people who have been through this is that they have to come up with the money or they go back to jail. And that is really, really disheartening because that's what drives the people back to crime because they have

to pay off the probation officer to stay out in jail. And so they're in this whole catch-22 thing. I know. She's working at Waterberg. I'm sure she's not. not making enough money at Waddeberger, despite, I don't know, I don't know, maybe she is, but I doubt it to live and survive and have to pay the probation. But, you know, they're saying that, oh, she's the dumbest criminal because she used this credit card to pay off the probation. And we already know that she's the one that took the card and she's the one that spent it. But she didn't want to go back to jail.

Well, then she took off and that's the problem. Another one of the problems. Investigators say they simply searched whose fines got paid. They say it was Sumter and her info revealed she worked at Waterberger. They asked the victim if he'd been to the burger joint. They said, yes, he had. And he later picked her out of a lineup. That's her.

I took out a warrant for probation violation. Sanoi police took out felony warrants for identity theft and credit card fraud. Okay, so now not only does she have the misdemeanor probation, but now she's on the run for the felony. which for the credit card. And it's just, that's, you know, everything is just piling on. In mind, Sumter's probation was just for misdemeanor pot possession. So, right.

Misdemeanor pot. So now she, she had to pay 400 bucks for that. And which is why she stole or used the credit card, stole the credit card and used that to pay off the bill. Wow. Things have escalated significantly. He has no kidding. The authorities gave her until Friday to turn herself in.

but they say she didn't. On Monday, they learned she'd skip the state. After her story appeared on Fox 5 and on social media seemingly everywhere. Yeah, everywhere. She contacted them, asking to turn herself in on Wednesday. So there you go. Everybody knows who I am. I just ran.

I got scared. Can I turn myself in? And the police officer says, yeah, sure, no problem. But, you know, they don't have any confidence that she's going to turn herself in. I just think that maybe we need to revisit the system a little bit. She's on probation for a misdemeanor count, and she's forced to pay $400 in fines.

She's working out of Waddeberger, trying to get her life back together again on a misdemeanor pot charge. And so now she's going to go to jail with felonies because she stole a credit card to pay off a misdemeanor fine. It's just maybe we need to revisit that a little bit. But that's the system and that's the way it works. And, you know, good luck, God bless. And then you took off and ran.

So now you're trying to flee. It's just, you know, it's a whole pile of, what's the word I'm looking for? Yeah, a pile of, you know, that. I would love to talk to a probation officer and have them explain to me why it is the way that it is and how it works. and if she could have done something to avoid that, or if it was, pay the $400 and fines, or you're going to go to jail because you have this misdemeanor charge against you,

which made her commit another crime to come up with the money to pay that off so that she wouldn't go back to jail, but she got arrested for that crime, or she may get arrested if she turns herself back in, and go to jail for an even harder charge on top of the original misdemeanor. It just really, really doesn't make any sense.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Okay, so a couple of days ago, we talked about Lisa Loeb, the singer, on Pat Gray on Leashed, and we talked about her song, Stay. And we found out that I guess she lives here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex,

and she does kid stuff and sings. I'm not really sure. I'm not really sure what Lisa Loeb is up to these days, and I didn't care enough to look. But someone sent me a story from Lawrence, Kansas, and it's about an independent record store titled Tables Turned, cute little name. And they have an award that they give out every year,

sexiest woman alive, and I think they also have a man of the year award as well that they give away. And apparently, Lisa Loeb has won. the sexiest woman alive contest at tables turned for 29 consecutive years. Congratulations to Lisa. She doesn't like being named this, and that's really funny. Apparently, they play the video of stay, and then they vote every year, and so it feels like, you know, the cheat is on, all right?

They said that back in 1992, Kim Gordon, who was touring with Sonic Youth, was awarded the trophy. And she came to the store to pick up her trophy. And she didn't actually leave with it. She pulled a knife on me and said she'll burn this hellhole to the ground if we ever say her name out loud again. And it was amazing. That's awesome. I mean, I can remember having Christina Amphlet from the Divinels pour a picture of beer on me, and I understand how awesome you can feel with something like that happens.

You know, it's just part of the deal. So each year they watch the music video stay, according to the record store, and then voting begins. And Lisa has a voice of an angel and glasses straight out of, you know, the Far Side comics. So everyone votes for Lisa. Now, she's never come to the store, and she's never actually acknowledged this award. Apparently, the store has been contacted by her attorneys. And the attorneys said, we needed to stop trying to contact Lisa, or they would press harassment charges.

That's tremendous. I love, I would continue to reach out to Lisa. Lisa. I mean, come on. Harassment charges. Calm down. Lisa, go to Lawrence Candice and pick up your award at the turn tables. I'm sorry, the tables turned record store.

That is awesome. So, congratulations to Lisa Loeb for winning that award 29 years consecutively. It's pretty impressive. Apparently, the winner of Miss America pageant in 2024, says she's seen multiple negative negative online comments from record store owners since her win. So now we're going to pick on record store owners?

Okay. This Madison Marsh. She said winning Miss America was a dream come true. I don't know what this has to do. The only thing this has to do with this story is that it's a record store. So winning Miss America was a dream come true, but unfortunately the internet could be an ugly place.

Well, welcome to the world Madison Marsh. There have been comments on Instagram and YouTube. Oh no. From older men in radio head shirts saying they wish I married Courtney Love. I'm not exactly sure who that is or what that means.

But it seems threatening. Does it? Does it seem threatening? Well, I hope you can ban them. Right, Marsha, Madison, Marsh, whatever your name is, Miss America, 2024. These are the same guys that send me DMs

offering to buy my used socks for thousands of dollars. I wish there was a different internet that pretty women got to use that didn't allow these freaks to have access to us. Yeah, that's what you need, Madison. You're the nightmare. That's what you need.

I wish I could be separated from these people. These people, I don't like it. I don't like them that have access to me. We should be together with the pretty people. Incredible. So that's just a, you know, bashing record stores. And I don't like it. I worked at a record store for a long time.

And I don't like it. I don't like you bashing record stores. And I love the idea of the Sexiest Woman Alive Award from Tables Turned Record Store. And I wish Lisa Loeb would stop by and issue, stop by, pick up your award and give them like a trespass warning or something against them with your name on it and say, stop harassing me. May file charges, something like that. something they could hang in the store. At the same time, thanking them for their award. They've given you an award for 29 years in a row.

That's got to be worth something, doesn't it, Lisa? Apparently not. Speaking of songs and musicians, I see where Shibuzzi's A Bar Song, Tipsy, is still making the lists. It's now the longest leading hot country songs, number one, by a single artist. Okay, so the crossover smash,

leads for a 35th week surpassing Sam Hunt's body like a back road. So congratulations. It holds top the tally, date of March first track breaks out of a tie with Sam Hunt's body like a back

road. Okay. And so, and I'll see it's the soul I'll see which was 2017 was body like a back road became the sole longest leading title by a single act since the hot country songs became the genre's

singular songs rankings in 1958. Overall, only VEborexa and Florida-Georgia line's duet meant to be has led longer 50 weeks beginning in 2017. Okay, I mean, all right, fine. Because this song was on the Hot 100, all genre for 19 weeks,

and a record-shattering 27 weeks top the all-format radio songs chart. So a bar song, Tipsy from Shibuzi is still cranking along out there. It's got 59.8 million in all format airplay audience, 16.2 million official U.S. streams and 4,000 sold. That's pretty good for that stupid song. Congratulations to Shibuzi. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply.

So I guess this is good news. Eli Lilly is cutting the price of its popular weight loss drug. Zetbound vials will be about $50 cheaper, $349 and $4.99 a month determined by the dosage. The drug maker said that it fends off cheaper copycat versions and tries to, to expand access to patients without insurance coverage. Okay. The company started selling vials of Zepbound last year as patients flocked to discount compounded versions

from companies like Hems and HERS. Unlike the more expensive injector pens, vials require patients to fill a syringe to themselves. Yeah, so good. It's good. They're trying to cut the price on Zepbound and, you know, Zempeg and Mongero are out there as well. and I know that there's plenty of discount compounded versions out there as well.

So if you feel like you need this to help you lose weight, have that. It's going to end up being a little bit cheaper now. I saw this story, too, that, I mean, this is incredible, if true, scientists have developed injectable oxygen microparticles that can keep a person alive without breathing for a short period, Created by researchers at Boston Children's Hospital, love them, these particles encapsulate oxygen in lipid-based shells, allowing rapid oxygenation of the blood when injected. In animal tests, this technology sustained life for up to 15 minutes without respiration, making it a potential game changer for emergency medicine.

Uh, yeah, it's designed for short-term use and not a full replacement for breathing. Wait, what? I mean, I can't just keep injecting myself every 15 minutes with this stuff, so I don't have to breathe? Your body pretty much does that on its own. So if your body isn't doing that, that's another issue altogether. Now, something that made me go, huh, scientists have now discovered, according to this new study in nature,

which I do not miss an episode or an article from nature, researchers at the University of Sheffield say that they believe they have found the earliest evidence that our human ancestors lived in the tropical rainforests of Africa. The study from these researchers at the University of Sheffield dates humans living in rainforests back to 150,000, 50,000 years ago. That's only 80,000 years earlier than found in other rainforest sites around the world.

Just the 80,000 years, though. So, Luma Science and Electron Spin Renaissance dating techniques were used to date sediments containing middle stone age tools found at an archaeological site in Africa to a time when tropical rainforest existed across the region. The study argues that tropical rainforests were not a barrier to the spread of modern humans and supports the theory that human evolution happened across a variety of regions and habitats. Like I said, it makes you go, huh, because when you talk to the people over at the ICR,

the Institute of Creation Research, and they want to show you how. science confirms biblical creation and they do uh it makes one when i hear these studies i go huh that really doesn't worry i'd love to talk i'm going to have to reach out to someone from icr and see how they feel about these new studies and then they even have some articles already at icr.org uh if you go there you can check out a lot of their stuff i mean these guys are and gals are awesome and I'd love to talk to them about that. ICR.org. Oh, and another study from that I read in Nature Microbiology, yeah, I mean, just nature alone doesn't do it for me. I have to read Nature Microbiology as well.

And they are creating more effective tuberculosis vaccines. Researchers at Wheel Cornell Medicine have developed two strains. of micro bacteria with kill switches that can be triggered to stop the bacteria after they activate an immune response oh okay so we're trying to engineer the bacteria that will be safe for use in controlled human infection trials as for better vaccines all right good uh if you want to know more about that you can delve into the published two two pre-clinical studies in the nature microbiology, and that is some good reading. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats.

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including Martin Luther King Jr., Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Billy Holiday, Aretha Franklin, Coretta Scott King, and Frederick Douglass will also get statues. So, I mean, it is time. The National Garden of American Heroes was unveiled by Trump in 2020 and is dedicated to celebrating heroic figures of American history. That are racist. Located on the grounds of the National Mall,

the Garden is designed to celebrate heroes from all walks of life with statues, busts, and plaques commemorating their immense contributions to the country. Building statues. If you are looking for a new gig, man, become a statue builder. I don't know that AI can build statues. They could probably help you in designing the statues,

but I don't know that AI is going to be able to help build those statues because it's not going to happen. You know who's going to end up having a statue in the, The Garden, I'm sorry, the National Garden of American Heroes. You know, it's going to be Caitlin Clark. She's already there. She's a long way before that statue is going to get built. But you might as well start working on it now because Caitlin Clark is definitely going to have a statue in that garden.

But I was just looking at the new Nike ad with Caitlin in it. And it's so weird. I don't know. I guess they think it's okay. I don't. I don't. They rolled out a campaign new videos with WNBA All-Stars, Asia Wilson, Sabrina I-esque on Esco, and Caitlin Clark. And the 15-second video of Caitlin is, you know, got these new billboards across the country,

and it's got Caitlin with a basketball, you know, on her rolling on her finger, and there's a basket, a backboard and a hoop on the side of a barn. And, you know, it's really cool. It's got the light above it. It's really cool. We've all seen, you know, people, Indiana, especially. Speaking of Hoosiers and Gene Hackman playing basketball with, you know, the backboard up against the barn.

But she's spinning the basketball, and then she turns and makes the shot. But the audio is not Caitlin Clark. It just seems weird. I don't know why they would not use. use her voice in their new campaign titled Just Win. Okay, so that's their new campaign. Got it. Okay, with it, whatever Nike wants for their new campaign.

No problem. But this was posted on Instagram with Nike and Caitlin Clark 22, which is her Instagram account. But it's not her voice. I don't understand. Basketball has taught me a lot, but one lesson stands out. She's looking at us with the basketball through and on her finger.

Turning now. It's where you shoot from. Where you shoot from. Boom. And then she makes the shot from the court, from the WMBA court. So she's not in the barnyard shooting. When she turns to make the shot,

they switch to video of Caitlin on the court during a WNBA game. And then, of course, the new campaign line, slogan comes up. You can't win, so win. Wait, what?

You can't win, so win with the Nike swoosh. Okay, sure. You got it. And they never say who the voice is. I don't know if it's an AI voice. I don't know if it's Asia Wilson

or if it's Sabrina Ionesco, if it's one of their voices, if Caitlin does a voice on their campaign ad i don't know i just know that the katelyn ad that's not katelyn clark's voice and it doesn't seem to fit the ad campaign i mean if you're going to use katelyn use kaitland you can quote me on that by the way so you can't win so just win you know speaking of the w nba i see where uh diana Tarasi is retiring, and she's had an amazing career, 20 seasons in the WNBA. Amazing that's been going on for that long, isn't it, without any viewers.

Anyway, she is the WNBA's career scoring leader and a three-time league champion. Yes, she, that will get beaten by Caitlin, no question. She, I think, and I remember right, she kind of snubbed Caitlin to begin with and then realized, you know, I'm probably not going to do that anymore, because they, ended up playing each other, and seemingly she bent the knee to Caitlin, which she should have. Caitlin probably bent the knee to her to two.

She was the leader. She said that she was mentally and physically, I'm just full. Probably the best way I can describe it. Okay, well, congratulations. She won three straight national titles at Yukon from 2001 to 2004. Kept on winning after the Mercury

selected her with the number one overall picked at the 2004 WNBA draft. I mean, she's 42 years old now. She won her sixth, sixth Olympic gold medal at the Paris Games and finishes her WNBA career with 10,646 points, nearly 3,000 more than second place, Tina Charles. Yeah, Caitlin's going to beat that. I think Diana for everything she has brought to the WNBA.

In addition to the WNBA championships, she won six Euroleague championships while playing year-round most of her career. That's because they weren't paying her enough money, those bastards. She was the 2009 WNBA MVP and is one of four players to earn WNBA finals MVP honors more than once. I mean, she right now is one of the greatest players to ever play the game, right? I mean, she made all WNBA first team 10 times. I was out on the first or second team 14 times, 11 WNBA All-Star, four-time USA basketball team. male athlete of the year, 2004 WNBA rookie of the year.

So, I mean, she's had an incredible career. So congratulations to Diana Tarassian. Probably happy that she got out because she did not bring to the league what Caitlin brought to the league. And that is for sure, although she has had a fantastic career and has awesome. It has been fun to watch when I watched her, you know, because I only started watching. when she played when Mercury was playing the fever. So anyway, congratulations to Tarasso and good luck in your future endeavors.

All right, let's get out here. I'll leave you with a couple of jokes for the day. I got to give you two because I'm going to go have to, I got an email from Dwight, who is a little upset that I have not been reading any of his jokes of the day. And he's a little angry with me. And he was threatening me. And I will not take the threats, Dwight. I won't do it.

You know what? If you don't want to listen, fine, but you're not getting a refund. Sorry about it. The show is free. That's part of the deal. So there's no refund to be had. That's the way that works.

Oh, today is the 27th. Holy cow. If you're listening live, today is February 27th, 2025. Happy birthday to my youngest son, Maximus. Maximus, and it's his birthday today.

I remember, it seems like yesterday when he was born. He's 23, I think now. Yeah. I was born. He was born, and then I went into work. And we did the Glenn Beck radio show. So that was when I was working with Glenn back in Tampa Bay. And Max now does the Talking Walking Dead podcast with myself and Jason Bachel every week when we have Walking Dead to talk about.

And so happy birthday to my youngest son, Maximus Fisher. is I remember the bit that's too long of a story but someday I'll tell you the story about when he was born and I came into work and then Glenn and Stu

of course had to do their bit and it was really funny because he wondered why I was at the studios I got a show to do the kid's already born they're sleeping they're fine let's get to work I'll go back to the hospital after

So that's just the way that worked. And so anyway, let's get back to Dwight. Happy birthday, Maximus. I love you. We'll get back to Dwight who threatened me. And I will have it. I won't have a Dwight. I'm going to read a couple jokes that you sent me, but I won't have the threats.

Okay, well, I will not tolerate them. Although it was just an email threat, so it's not really a threat. It doesn't count as one as far as I'm concerned. My wife asked me if I'd seen the dog bowl. I said I didn't know he could. Because she was, he was tell you get it. And then this is coming from Dwight as well. Although I don't think Dwight wrote these, but okay.

You know, Dwight's getting all bent out of shape. She told me to put ketchup on the shopping list. Now I can't read anything. See, because what he did, well, you understand. Subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.