Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - In a Nutshell… | 6/23/25

Episode Date: June 23, 2025

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have been exposed That means that Yours is probably among them And mine as well And I've been saying it for quite some time You can just pretty much count on your password codes Somebody has them out there

somewhere because according to cyber news, Google, Facebook, Apple, all have been hacked over a reasonable amount of time, not just at one time. So they've scattered across 30 different databases for information that, you know, likely overlaps, but the leaked information doesn't come directly from one attack on a company or a single source. So they were obtained from multiple events over time. However, that doesn't change the fact that bad actors are compiling the information and they have it. So just do the best you can to keep your information safe

because I've been telling you for a while here on chewing the fact that, yeah, your information is out there. So according to cyber news, just 16 billion passwords have been exposed. So, I mean, are they older passwords? are they uh you know that's that's one thing that uh doesn't say in the information that i have is just they in total they're talking about 16 billion passcodes that seems like a pretty large number so just uh you know do what you can to keep your information safe welcome welcome to chewing the fat Wow. Okay. So Operation Midnight Hammer, the military operation against three Iranian nuclear sites that unfolded this past weekend. If you're listening live, today is the 23rd of June 2025. So on Saturday, this is Monday. Defense Secretary Pete Hed Seth said that 14 bunkers.

bunker buster bombs and seven B-2 bombers were used in the operation. So we bombed Iran. Now, President Trump is headed to the Netherlands for this year's NATO summit, which is supposed to begin tomorrow the 30th of June, or I mean the 24th of June. That should be fun. Donald just sitting down going, see, I'm the big dog here at the table. So what else you got? That'll be interesting.

That'll be an interesting time at the NATO summit in the Netherlands. One of the things that I did see over the weekend, and everybody was asking me, you know, everybody wants to know their little piece of what's happening between Israel and Iran and the United States. and what is happening there. And I saw a post from a Kia Bennett, K-E-I-B-E-N-E-T, and she gives the history of the Israel, U.S., Iran, issues,

better than, well, I don't know about better than me, but better than me right now. Or right then when I saw it. So I'll let Kia, K-E-I-B-N-E-T, give you the history of the U.S., Israel, Iran issues, we'll call them. All right, I did a serious video about what's going on in Iran, but now I'm going to break it down in a nutshell what happened, all right? Okay. So from the beginning, well, somewhere from the beginning.

All right. Netanyahu, I call him Yahoo. That's the man over there, Israel, right? He kept saying, hey, Iran got nooks, and I'm going to go and hit their ass up because they got nukes. And they keep saying they're going to wipe us off the mouth. So I'm going to just hit his ass first. Donald Trump said, okay, let me tell you what's going to happen. All right, I'm going to send my folks over there. I'm going to send Tulsa Gabbitt over there. And she's going to see if they got news. So she went over there with her intelligence team in March. And she said, hey, it looked like

they ain't got no nukes. And Trump said, all right, cool. That's fine. They ain't got no nukes. He didn't go. Yahu, y'allu, listen. She didn't go over there and check. Rock and rock and roll her eye total. I don't know. I'm going to chill out. And like my plan was, it's peace and we all going to make some bread. Well, Yahoo just went satisfied with that shit because he wore hungry. Look like he wanted to stand power forever. And as long as they're going to keep his seat. So he was like, nah, I know they got some nukes. And I'm going to go over there and strike days.

Trump was like, hey, player, don't do that. We want peace. Well, Ayatollah Khomeini said, rock and roll of Aetola. He said, death to America. Trump said, look, I already told you I ain't in that shit. I'm not sending Israel no money I'm not sending them no weapons I'm just not in that shit

Leave America out of this body We want peace over here right All right All right Israel going bomb their ass And I'm talking about bomb their ass Right So rock and roll I told it was like

Oh shit Oh this this how we playing All right everybody I feel it Donald Trump said Hey I just told you America is in it We don't want nothing to do with this player

I don't know how many times I got to tell you We want peace We really want y'all to shake hands but since y'all on that gangster shit, we're just going to bow out gracefully. Okay. They said that shit again, death to America.

Everybody going to feel it sending out all them threats. So DJT ain't going to take that shit laying down because it's always been a G. Upper case G at that. No doubt. So Trump was like, all right, I'm going to see what's going to happen in two weeks. And then in two weeks, if we ain't broke a peace, then we're going to figure something out. Well, behind the scenes, DJT was like, well, I haven't found out you got three sites where you could have been making nukes. And so since you're still talking big shit, big game player.

I'm feeling to send some shit over there and we're just gonna get rid of that shit where you could have been making noiside, boom. So he's going to send three strikes. He just obliterated three nuclear sites over down Iran. And when I say nuclear sites, I'm talking about what they could have been making bombs underground, right?

So what they drop could go through like, I think 20 feet of concrete, you know, like, the big shits, right? So they just went over there and they obliterated three nuclear sites. So Trump basically, from what I can see, is saying, all right, what you thought they were.

Hey, I don't went and took that shit away. Now you ain't got no reason. I told you I'm going to keep the best supreme leader, Rock and Roller I told her he's still over there. And as for you, rock and roller, I told her. Keep our name and mouth like I told you at the beginning. That's it in a nutshell. That's in a nutshell right there.

Thank you. Thank you, Kea, because that's in a nutshell right there. There you have it. There you have it. The history of. of the more recent history between Iran, Israel, and the United States. And, well, that's in a nutshell. I sure do hope that we did destroy everything we said we destroyed.

And I guess Israel has continued to strike some sites in Iran today. So Iran is still battling back with Israel. I don't know what's going to happen. It's going to turn into a nightmare. But I will say this, we do not need soldiers on the ground in Iran. And we need to be sure that Iran is ready to talk peace and not just death to America still. There's still a whole lot worse things that could happen. And you can quote me on that.

There's still a whole lot worse. worst things that could happen. But hopefully, with everyone's prayers, that it won't happen. All right, I know. I know, I know, I know. I don't like to get into it. I thought Kia's recap of the happenings were pretty darn spot on. And I, you know, now I have to talk about it a little bit.

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places. Researchers have analyzed data of more than 86,000 adults and found that napping habits are also linked to mortality. Yeah. So I know you were all You're all happy with, you know, waking up from your nap and feeling that nappiness euphoria. Yeah, but don't get too happy about it, okay? So I know that, you know, previous research is focused on the link between nighttime sleep and mortality, but it overlooked napping. Right. So that's why they got together at the Division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School,

in Massachusetts General Hospital to analyze the data. of 86,000 adults, and the findings suggest, I know, that certain patterns of napping can serve as early indicators of declining health. Oh, no. Oh, no. Now, this Dr. Gao, or Zhao or GAO, the lead investigator of the study,

was all about this. And he says, napping for longer on a more irregular schedule. We're both associated with a higher risk of mortality. Longer or more irregular naps may reflect poor nighttime sleep. There's underlying factors, of course, to all of this. Long nappers tend to have a higher body mass index. I mean, what is he looking at me?

A larger waist. Seriously, is he drawing a picture of me? High or blood pressure? Yeah. an increased prevalence of metabolic syndromes. That is me. And that study was published in the Obesity Society's Research Journal. I can't wait for every episode of the Obesity Society's Research Journal.

These traits that have been linked to obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. They're also tied to later bed and meal times. greater food consumption at lunch, cigarette smoking. Boy, I haven't done that in six years now. Those who slept less than 30 minutes, a power nap did not appear to have an increased risk of obesity or these other

metabolic concerns. Don't take my nap away. Come on. There are times when I just, I have to stop and just take a nap. And I've been doing that for a long time. I remember, I mean, my two youngest kids who are adults now, they never

and still don't know a time when they haven't tucked me in to go to bed at night because I did mornings forever. And so, I mean, when I come home after the morning shifts, you know, around, you know, whatever time between, you know, 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the afternoon, it was time for the kids to take a nap. And it was time for dad to take a nap with them, too. Don't take my naps away. Don't do it.

So according to the American Sleep Association, and I, I love them. They say a 15 to 30 minute power nap in the mid-afternoon can boost energy but is not meant to replace any nighttime sleep. Well, duh. More than that, the sleeper risk entering REM and outside of midday, the nap may interrupt the nighttime sleeping patterns. Oh, no.

Oh, no. So they want your nap to go away. And if it's not going to go away, cut it short. and in fact, why don't you just give it up? They've still got all kinds of studies to do on this, and I'm sure that they will because they all want study money. But for now, just take it easy and just know what you're doing, and don't take those long afternoon lumbering naps.

You know what I'm saying? Just lay down, close your eyes, quick 30, 30 to 40, you're good to go. I really, I love those. Those are my favorite naps in the whole lot. world. I just have to close my eyes. I'm good, man, 30 to 40 minutes, and I'm good. I'm good until, you know, that nighttime sleep, because I'm not giving that up. If I could, I would. Remember, we talked about this. We should be like a two, we used to be when there was no electricity.

You know, back in the day, when there was no electricity, those were good times, weren't they? Yes, they were. But people talked about having, you know, two sleeps, or you would go to bed at night when it got dark out and you would sleep for a while and then you would get up and you would read or meditate or take care of a little business with the wife and then you would go back to sleep and you would wake up whenever you woke up in the morning and you go about your day and I just I love that I wish I honestly I wish I could actually make that my life is to do that because I hate being woken up by an alarm clock more than anything in life. And I've kind of taught myself how to get up without it.

But it's still, if you're overtired, you end up needing it if you have to get up. And I would just love to be able to not have to get up unless I want to get up. And then go about my day. And I realize that's not feasible for, you know, most people. the way life is. I got it, but it sure would be nice. Share the arrows. Yes, share the arrows is one of the most powerful women's events happening this year.

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I need something cold to drink desperately. I'm reading this story this weekend about Rachel Ziegler. And she, you know, of course, is in the news all the time now. but she's doing a play, Evita, in New York, on her West End debut. And she sings the show's iconic song, Don't Cry for Me, Argentina, from a balcony outside the theater

for a crowd of non-paying onlookers. The patrons who shelled out bucks to see the musical, they watch a live stream inside. I don't know, I got a little problem with that. I paid a lot of money for these tickets. It's how about you sing to me? I get it. We get the live stream,

but let's, I want to see her do it live. I don't know. It just seems kind of weird to me. I know that there's, and we're seeing videos of her singing on the balcony. And, you know, yeah, yeah, I got it. It's cute.

But a lot of people are a little upset that they pay money for their seat inside and she's singing to the dopes on the street that haven't paid anything. Yeah, for sure. That's not the first time. though. The guy, this Jamie Lloyd, is, I guess, the director of these shows, his current Broadway

production of Sunset Boulevard, features cast members singing outside in Times Square while being live streamed in the theater. And he had Tom Holland spouted Shakespeare on the roof as Romeo while drones filmed his performance before he made his entrance on stage. So, you know, it's not new to him. and his shows. It just is kind of,

I don't know, just kind of agonizing. I don't know if I ever told you this story, but there's a thing in Florida called the Strawberry Festival and happens in, I don't know, late February, early March, somewhere in there.

And it's called the Strawberry Festival. It's in Plant City. It's awesome. It's a great event. Love it. And every year we'd get together, you know, they have a big party pre-open and you'd get, you know, free strawberries,

and you'd have everything strawberries. And it just was, it's a nice event. And the week of the Strawberry Festival awesome and they bring in big time acts to perform at the Strawberry Festival and this is I mean my both my stepdad and my mom were alive at the time because they're not now

I know don't look at me like that but they my mom loved Bobby Vinton who doesn't so you know they would go to these shows and they would always go every year so they would get first dibs on the ticket Strawberry Festival would send them saying hey you know

you went last year you ordered tickets and you know so obviously my my dad buys uh you know VIP up front close tickets for my mom to make her happy to see Bobby Vinton so Bobby Vinton comes out and he sings and there's stairs on the on the stage and he walks down the stairs and goes all the way back part of the part of the fun of the Strawberry Festival concerts are the seats in the back are free yeah that's right the seats in the back are free and so that's not the people,

I don't know if you know this, paying. So Bobby Vinton comes down the stairs and he goes back and he sings almost the entire show to the people in the back who didn't pay for the tickets. My dad was so pissed. I mean, he ripped the Strawberry Festival people a new one.

And in fact, after the, that and I don't know if it was the next year, it might even have been that same year, but they went back for another show and, you know, they wrote their apology and sorry. And I don't know if they, I don't remember if they got a discount on other tickets or they gave them their money back or whatever, but they removed the steps from the stage. So the, uh, so the talent can't walk down the steps into the crowd any longer. Yeah, because other people paying money to see you want to see you. Those people back there in the free seats,

yeah, they want to see you too, but not bad enough to pay for it, okay? Yeah, the stadium seating back there? Yeah, that was free. So don't worry about them. So I kind of feel like, I don't know, it's a cute little thing. But if I paid, you know,

I don't know what they're paying for West End show tickets, but I'm sure it's not 10 bucks. I'm probably a couple hundred bucks anyway. way. Yeah, I want to see the stars perform on the stage in front of me. That'd be nice. So you remember Highlander, the movie. There can be only one. Well, it was announced this weekend that they're going to remake Highlander, and I think we talked about that. I think we've talked about the remake of Highlander, and Henry Cavill is going to be the Highlander. I mean, I love that first movie. Christopher Lambert, Sean Connery.

Clancy Brown. I was just, it was really, really good. And, ah, Ramirez. I mean, there can be only one.

Well, so Henry Cavill is going to be the Highlander, which was Christopher Lambert. Russell Crow is going to be Ramirez, which was Sean Connery's character in the original movie.

And they say here, he's going to be a variation. in the part played by Sean Connery. Okay, no problem. I guess the John Wick director, Chad Steleski, will oversee the remake, has the script. So we'll see how it goes. I'm a big fan of Highlander, the movie.

I'm a huge fan of Russell Crow. I mean, I love his work. And so we'll see if it works out. But the Highlander is a pretty mighty bar, because that movie, the first one, that movie alone was tremendous of the very first one so I'm hoping that the new version

and I'll see it will be good you know I spent the weekend finishing up I didn't finish him up I finished up through season four of Animal Kingdom

and I've watched about half of the original movie from the 90s and you know the obviously the TV show series from TNT was awesome And I just really enjoyed it. I just, the first, if you don't watch anything else, I think there's six seasons of Animal Kingdom. And the last two, and it's a spoiler alert here,

is without Smurf. They kill off Smurf at the end of four. And that should have been the end of the show. Now, they milked it for a couple more seasons, because by that time you're bought into all the characters, and you want to see how it works out. So you watch it, but it's, and it's okay, it's okay. But the first four seasons with Smurf are awesome.

They, they kill Smurf off, and then they give you another episode post-Smurf, and everything racks up. And the way they end it is the way they should have ended the whole thing. But they all got greedy and said, you know, we could probably milk this for a couple of more seasons. Everybody loves the characters, and we can still maybe do some flasky, of the original Smurf. So Ellen Barkin plays Smurf in today's time. And then Leela George plays Janine or Smurf in the flashbacks, which was awesome.

I mean, she did a great job. And the rest of the characters were awesome too. I just, it was really good. The first four seasons are outstanding. And then I, you know, then you have five and six, which are fun because you're, by that time, like I said, you bought into the characters. But, you know, you might be another. Enough is enough and they should have ended it.

Now they're just milking it on us. Okay, then we have the bear starting up again this week. Wow, season number four of the bear. Okay, that starts up the middle of this week on Hulu. Incredible. We get the third and according to all accounts, final season of a squid game, which drops on Netflix the end of this week.

Plus the Killer Dalflick, the Megan 2.0 with the M3 G. A.N 2.0. That starts, I think that goes up against Brad Pitt's F1 next weekend. So, and I know they had the big Megan 2.0 lookalike contest and Times Square

and they've been pushing this movie pretty strong, so we'll see if it can go up against Pitts F1. And then next week, which is July already, sorry to break it to you, the Old Guard 2 drops on Netflix, which I am really looking

forward to and it's about time that this movie happened. Should have been a series. We've talked about it before and they haven't done it. That was a mistake on Netflix part. Maybe nobody pushed it, but it was a mistake. But Old Guard 2, the movie drops on Netflix next week,

which is what I'm really looking forward to. As for the movies this weekend, I mean, number one, How to Train Your Dragon, credible. I mean, the live action remake is doing, I mean, they have 358.2 million global already. 28 years later,

did 30 million domestic, 60 million global. My son was talking to me about that, and I get it. I got it as 28 years later, but I don't know that I really want to see it. It's the zombie legacy sequel. Then the worst

opening ever for a Disney Pixar space film. or it should be just Disney Pixar film. The worst opening ever was Allio. 21 million domestic, 35 million global. Wow. They said the audience score is A-Cinema score, A-plus from under 25s, but nobody cared.

Wow, that's pretty amazing. Lilo and Stitch are still hanging in there at 4, Mission Impossible at 5, materialist 6, ballerina, 7, Karate Kid hanging in there at eight Final Destination, Bloodlines hanging in the top 10 still. How much is that made? That made 280 million, wow. And

Cobra, 1.7 million. The Teluga political thriller found its niche audience across key markets, including Austin, San Francisco, and NYC. Okay. All right. So there you go. Those are the top 10 movies that people were seeing this weekend.

We'll see what happens next weekend when we have to when we have to put up with Brad Pitt in his F-1 movie and we also have to put up with Megan M3 GAN 2.0

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BlazTV.com slash Jeffie. Promote, Jeffie, if needed. Okay, who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Fred Smith. Fred Smith, founder of FedEx, an executive chairman, dead at the age of 80. I know. He was a pioneer

of this guy. He founded the FedEx Corporation. He had a dozen planes in the 70s. It does not give a cause of death. But, you know, he stepped down as CEO a couple of years ago and he was just going to be on the board of governance as executive chairman. And he was going to focus on

global issues, including sustainability, innovation, public policy, blah, blah, blah, blah. blah, blah, blah. Just leave Fred alone. He'll do what he does. So he got to do that for two or three years. I mean, it's incredible. Yes, his brother is the football coach, Arthur Smith. And I heard his brother tell a story about how he, how Fred was short on money in the very beginning and there was a problem. And I don't remember the full story.

But he ended up taking money to Vegas and won so that he could keep to. company alive. Pretty incredible. Rest in peace to Fred Smith. That's an American dream story right there. He said that he learned so much of what they did at FedEx through the military. He was U.S. Marines. He was in the U.S. Marines in Vietnam.

And then he went to Yale. And he said, yeah, I learned most of what I use here at FedEx through the U.S. United States Marine Corps. Rest in peace to Fred Smith dead at the age of 80. Then we have Gaylard Sartan, Gailard Sartan. And you're going to say, Gailard Sartain, who is that guy? Well, he is one of those guys that, when you see him, you know him. You go, oh, yeah, that guy, he's dead at 78.

He was on He-Ha. He was part of the Buddy Holly story. He had a long illness, according to everyone around him. Not sure what that illness was. But he was 78. And really, he's an actor-comedian, Gaylard Sartain. And if you, just like I said, when you see Gaylord, you're going to go, Oh, yeah.

Him. Actually, you're going to go, oh, yeah, that guy. Then we have another that guy, Jack Betts. We have two that guys today. Gaylard Sartain and Jack Betts. I mean, this guy was a golden age of Hollywood gunslinger. He's dead at the age of 96. He, I mean, he was in Spider-Man.

When you see him, you'll go, oh, yeah, that guy. And he was supposed to be, you know, he was in all kinds of movies. I don't know, hundreds of movies for sure. And then for something, he just never did click like Clint Eastwood did. And, well, he's dead now. Jack Betts, rest of peace, dead at the age of 96. Then we have a hot air balloon accident in Brazil. Eight people have died.

Well, I guess at least eight people because they were 21 on board. And the people who survived, I guess some are injured. So maybe they'll pass away in the next few days. But 13 people, including the pilot, survived. No one is missing. So that's according to Brazil's national civiate. If I could say it properly, we'll know who it's according to. Brazil's national civil aviation agency, known as ANAC.

So anyway, they're on top of it. No problem. According to the pilot, who is one of the survivors, Huh. The fire started inside the basket, so he started to lower the balloon. And when the balloon was very close to the ground, he told people to jump. And some people did. Others did not. And so then the flame started to grow, and because of the weight, the balloon began to rise again. And later fell because of loss of suspension. Wow. The victims rest in peace to two couples, a mother and a daughter, an ophthalmologist, and a figure skater. And the survivors were taken to a nearby hospital. So ANAC is investigating and the company of the balloon tour company, Sobrivar Cervicos, Turisticos, which operated the flight, has now suspended all activities indefinitely. Also, it apparently had complied with all regulations set by ANAC and had no prior history of accidents, according to ANAC.

I will say this, looking at footage of, I've never gone up in a balloon. And I always wanted to do that. I always did. And I was real close. I had a guy I used to work with in Tampa was a hot air balloonist. He was always going to take us up. And then he got the whole story. Then he ended up getting sick.

And he didn't die from the sickness. But he got real sick. So we never did get to do the hot air balloon because then I wasn't living in Tampa after that. But I always wanted to go up in a hot air balloon. But then I look at this footage and I think, I don't want to be in that basket and have it. Well, you know, I fly on planes too. I know.

Don't look at me like that. And you know, the odds of that happening are probably pretty low. Whether you're dealing with ANAC or the FAA. But it just seems like, I mean, watching that thing drop, I saw some footage this weekend. And I don't know that it was if it was this one or it was others in the past. but it was so scary. Very scary.

And I don't want to do it. I don't want to do it. And so I'm not going to do it. But I guess if someone were to say, hey, I got a balloon out back. Want to come on and hop a ride? Sure, I'm going to hop in. But I doubt very much that's going to happen.

Another thing that I think is dying. If it's not dying, it's on its deathbed. and that is the self-checkout at Walmart. There have been plenty of stores now that are saying they're pulling the self-checkouts out. They're tired of the theft. They're tired of the pain in the neck. The customer satisfaction has dropped way lower than it was when they had cashiers. And they're spending more money dealing with the self-checkout issues than they are,

than they would be with cashiers. So, I mean, I guess that's good news. For a lot of people that do not like the self-checkout, I kind of like it. But I like to have the option of both. And so that's, and I know that's a problem. If it has to be one or the other, go ahead, give me,

I'd rather go see the cashier. But if I have a choice and I only have, you know, two or three items, let me go through the self-checkout so I can get the heck out of here. And maybe that's part of the deal. Maybe some of the stores will leave the self-checkout for, I don't know, under five items.

so that they don't have to, they can only have one person overseeing the self-checkout, and it's got to be under five items. And then they have, you know, seven or eight cashiers open. That's part of the problem. They opened up the self-checkout lanes with, you know, 15. And then I say lanes.

A lot of times it's just, they've got this one area for self-checkout. And then they only have one or two cash registers open with the cashier. Well, that's not giving you a choice, because the line for the cashier is both of them are way long. So I'm just going to go through the self-checkout. They drove us to the self-checkout and now they're pissed that we decided that, you know, as long as you're not paying us to check out,

we might forget to scan one or two things. Sorry, you know, but if I'm checking out and I forgot to scan something, I'm not going back. And you can check and say, hey, did you scan them? I can and I'll say, I thought so. And when they say, no, you didn't, well, I'll go back and scan it and pay for it then. I'm not trying to rip you off. But I'm not going to go out of my way to fix a mistake that may or may not have happened.

You know what I'm saying? I think you do. 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 on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes, because those are groceries, and we deliver those too.

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I know it starts tomorrow. I could show up a little late, fly into Venice and show up a little late and we'll be there on time. I saw that they threw a big party for Lauren's son, a big foam party on their yacht. You know how much work that would be to get rid of all that foam off of that yacht? You know that Jeff and Lauren aren't doing that. The do people are, that's for sure. And I loved how they, all the headlines were on Jeff and Lauren having some, what do they call it, PDA time.

I don't know, it's like PDA. Oh, personal display of affection. because there's a picture of them on the boat, on the ship, on the yacht, you know, covered in foam, hugging and kissing. That's great. That's great.

It was a birthday party for Evan. He's 19. And what better way to throw a 19-year-old party, but on a yacht. And you know what, let's cover it up with foam and suds and have it everywhere. It'll be fun. And I'll get to run around in my bikini

and show off my body for you, Jeff. Won't you like that? and you can show off your hot dad bod too. He does not have a dad bod. Jeff has been working out and he looks pretty, he looks pretty jacked. But he's ready for the wedding. But I'm just saying,

I could be ready for the wedding too. And I did not see an invitation. So congratulations on the wedding, beginning tomorrow, the three-day event. And chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I'll look for my confirmation ticket. And congratulations to the Oklahoma City Thunder as they defeated the Indiana Pacers

in game seven of the NBA championships last night. It was actually exciting. And Tyrese Halliburton went down. Holy cow. Man, did that hurt when he went down on the first quarter because he was set to have a huge game. At least it appeared that way. He had nailed, I don't know,

three or four three-pointers already. The basket was looking. and big to him. He was ready to be on fire. And I think maybe Indiana would have had a shot to beat Oklahoma City with Tyrese. But without him, no way, no way. And I saw that the, which was purported as the script of the NBA was released early because the deal was, oh, the NBA accidentally leaked the script and the Indiana Pacers were supposed to win. according to the leaked script.

They were supposed to win 131 to 128. Not a high scoring game. But no, they ended up losing 103 to 91. And maybe the script was with Tyrese. And without Tyrese, if Tyrese gets injured, then we have to change the script. And Oklahoma City gets to win. Maybe that was it.

But very sad news on Tyrese, Caliburton going down. And he had a great year. And so did the Indiana Pacers. Congratulations to them. But just not good enough. Oklahoma City was the best team in basketball all year. They were unstoppable.

And SGA, holy cow, that guy can't miss. And he had a great season this year. I mean, you look at everything that he had this year was unbelievable. And the reason that he's called SGA is because his name is Chavante, Assyngilghius Alexander. So SGA. He's had the scoring title, the MVP, finals MVP,

and the championship. What a great year for him. And all of Oklahoma City. Congratulations. Now we just have to wait for college football because I know baseball's on and I, you know, I like watching baseball, but I don't watch it enough because I don't like it that much anymore.

But I do look. love playing baseball. I just, I don't know, I got distracted. But whenever I do sit down and watch it, I love it. I just don't love it enough to turn it on every time I sit down, because I got other things to watch. But college football, football season is just around the corner, end of August. All right, let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day from Todd. Todd said he sent this joke in, because I did. I did. I did. I don't know. I did. I I did the joke on Saturday morning live with Brad. I did the cows,

the cow jokes on Saturday morning live. If you'd like to go back to my ex-account at Jeffrey JFR, you can go back and watch and listen to Saturday morning live and catch the joke of the day there on Saturday morning live that happens every Saturday at 9 a.m. Central. You should be there for that every Saturday with myself and Brad Stags. Okay, so this joke is from Todd. A trucker is driving down the interstate, and he sees a hitchhiker walking down the road with a backpack and looking ragged.

And he stops. And he says, hey, need a lift. And the hitchhiker says, yes, thank you. I'll take a ride as far as you can get me. And they exchanged more pleasantries and got on the way. So after talking and getting to know each other for about a half an hour, the trucker tells the hitchhiker that he has a pet monkey. Would you like to see him? And the hitchhiker says, absolutely.

So the truckloader gives him a little whistle and a little monkey hops out from behind the sea. And the trucker tosses a peanut. The monkey catches it and proceeds to break the shell and he's to peanut within. And the hitchhiker says, does the monkey do any other tricks? And the trucker smiles and sure, would you like to see? And the hitchhiker says, yeah. So the trucker smacks the monkey on the back of the head and the hitchhiker's eyes were wide open. And the monkey then proceeds to get on the floor by the trucker's feet and starts to apply a little road

Bittness to the trucker. After the monkey is done, the trucker turns to the hitchhiker with a smile and says, hey, would you like to try it? The hitchhiker says, yeah, but don't hit me as hard as you smack the monkey.

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