Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Inconsistent… | 3/4/25

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

Dominos Pizza catches up to the others… My Pillow not paying bills?... Fl. Woman kills terminally ill husband… NOAA protests… Frankie MacDonald still on it… Email: [e-mail] Oscars: Ratings, Grok, Brody and Demi… Reagan movie disqualified?... Gloden Globes stops paying for votes… Hollywood looking for more California tax credits… Who Died Today: Carl Dean 82 / Glenn Padnick 77 / James Harrison 88… Pope update… Kroger CEO resigns… Giant Goldfish wreak havoc… Joke of The Day… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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They announced that they are going to have stuffed crust pizza for the first time. I would have said, well, they already do have it. In fact, three quarters of Domino's customers thought, yeah, they already offered stuffed crust pizza. Nope. So good news for those that like Domino's, you can now get stuffed crust pizza at Domino's. I mean, I guess Pizza Hut, Little Caesars, Papa John's,

they all have stuffed crust. and so I guess Domino's finally decided, you know what we need? We need stuffed crust, you think? Because Pizza Hut says they sold $300 million worth of stuffed crust in its first year. And Papa Johns followed suit in late 2020 and sales for the quarter jumped 30%. So it's probably a good idea to have stuffed crust pizza on the beach. menu. And again, I would have lost the bet because I would have thought for sure that dominoes already had stuffed crust pizza. Nope. But good news. They have it now. Welcome. Welcome to chewing

the fat. So Mike Lindell, you know him, you love him, my pillow CEO. He may be driving up to your house and delivering his pillows personally soon. Apparently. Apparently, he has stiff FedEx for nearly $9 million in delivery fees. Wow. Okay. So actually, it's only $8.8 million. So it's not, it's not $9 million. Oh, sorry about that.

So apparently the relationship between My Pillow and FedEx began in February 2021. And, but by last December, FedEx had ceased shipping my pillow products due to non-payment. at which point Lindell's company owed approximately $8.5 million. So now it's 8.8 because of late fees. I can't tell you how much I hate late fees because that's just a made-up money. That's made-up money. Anyway, Lindell did not comment on this, but the legal disputes follows a ruling in January by a Minnesota judge that my pillow had to pay nearly $778,000 to DHS for on.

unpaid bills and associated costs. Oh, okay. Apparently, and then they agreed to pay D.HL 550,000, but they didn't follow through on that payment, according to this. So Lindell responded to the D.HL lawsuit by stating that My Pillow had stopped using the company's shipping services more than a year ago due to issues he attributed to DHS's handling of the shipments. So he's fighting back and saying they were handling his shipments wrong. Okay, that's fine.

I get that. So he's still being sued by the Dominion voting systems in Washington, D.C. and Smartmatic in Minnesota. They hate this guy because he doesn't believe Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. And he believes that it was turned because of Dominion voting and Smartmatic. Okay. How's that going for you, Mike? Because, wow.

you have a big issue if people can't have your pillows delivered. And then last year, we found out that his attorneys represented him, in that case, withdrew from representing him because he wasn't paying them. Okay. So maybe Mike, dude, unless you're going to start driving around the country delivering pillows personally, which I'm not opposed to, I just don't think you can keep up with that demand. But look, if there's plenty of people looking for work, and maybe they can just become my pillow representatives and deliver my pillows to people who purchase them

around the country in different states and different cities, but you still have to pay him, Mike. And he's a nice guy. I mean, I've met Mike. His story is an incredible story. No question. But it's really, he's taken a huge beating since his

put the hammer down on the belief that Donald Trump won the election and that it was stolen from him. So I don't know how that's going to work out for him but while it's certainly working out for him where he can't sell his product and when he does sell his product

then he doesn't have the money to have it delivered. So it's really, we'll see. We'll see if my pillow continues to exist. All right, let's go down to Florida and talk a little, murder in Florida, shall we? The, you know, the headline of Florida woman sentenced to one year for

killing terminally ill husband is a little misleading because, yes, her husband was terminally ill, and yes, she killed him. But, so now she've gotten a year, she should be in jail in Canada, they call that

doctor. People should be able to do that. And there are states that allow that. Yeah, there is. But, you know, that doesn't tell the full story because she was sentenced to 366 days in prison, including the 42 days served, as well as 12 years probation. She is 78 now, Ellen Gilland. She will also have to perform eight hours of community service a month and write letters of apologies to the other people on the hospital floor and the officers involved in the incident. And you think, come on. People work at hospitals.

They see death all the time. how could she have suffered? She killed her husband. Well, she said that she made a pact with him to kill herself after taking his life, but couldn't go through with it. And she regarded hubby, Jerry, as the love of her life. She also fired shots at hospital staff and police on the day of the shooting. She barricaded herself inside the 11th floor room for hours.

She had moments earlier shot her, shot and killed her husband. she was out on, you know, now she's being sentenced again. Okay, so she pleaded no contest to manslaughter with a firearm, three counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. Prior to her no contest plea, she indicated she was indicted on charges of assisting in self-murder, two counts of aggravated assault with a firearm, a count of aggravated assault of a law enforcement officer with a firearm.

She faced 10 years in prison for that. Pretty incredible, because you want to be on her side. Right. Hubby is really, really sick, and they made a pact, and, you know, he doesn't want to live that way. And he, you know, they made the deal that she would kill him and then she would kill herself, according to her. And she didn't go through with it. So then she just locks herself in the hospital room and, you know, shoots at people when they're trying to come and get her. Oh, okay. That is, it's not good. I mean, even if Florida had this medical aid in dying law, that's not really what she did.

She barricaded herself in the room for several hours, threatened to shoot anyone who came in. She said that she put the gun up to her husband's head and then pulled it away, and he grabbed her hand and pulled it toward his head. And that's when she shot him. and she said that the nurse who was working at the hospital at the time the shooting made clear that he was severely impacted. Thank you. I appreciate it, really?

Yeah, no kidding. The one person at the hospital said I didn't feel safe anymore. I left my job. I have nightmares at night. Okay, calm down. But when you see the headline, Florida woman, sentenced to one year for killing terminally ill husband. It was a little bit more than that.

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Okay, so NOAA had some jobs eliminated. They were about a little over 600 employees were let go at NOAA. And that was about 5% of the workforce at the National Weather Service and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, 5% of the workforce. So when you talk about... about when you hear it's going to go dark and we won't be able to know when it's cloudy and storming. Okay.

I don't think so. But if your job was worthy, you'll get it back. But it was only 5% of the workforce. But people are all wound up about it. And their job, of course, was the most important job at NOAA. And so they got together to protest. Now, let me say this. their protest that they had is not winning people over.

I don't know what makes people think that they lose their job and when they show up they have to sing will win people over because it doesn't. So I'm not sure where this protest was because I think there were protests at different locations around the country in Colorado and in Maine. People were all upset that just 5% of the workforce got cut at no. and that means that we're all going to die because we won't know when the rain is coming.

I get it. But the singing, it doesn't win me over, okay? It just doesn't win me over. And this is what they were singing as they were holding up signs, hands off my Noah. Oh, my gosh. This joy that I have. The world didn't give it. The world didn't give it.

Oh, the world can. Can't take it away. Never mind. I didn't know the song. Yay! Okay, did you win me over yet? Hands off my NOAA. Thank you, Rapid Response Choir.

Yeah, thanks to Rapid Response Choir. You didn't win me over. And, first of all, if you have an opportunity to be part of the Rapid Response Choir at NOAA, is it really a protest? I guess so. Yes, it is. And Doggone, I don't. want anybody to lose their jobs but come on now i know hands off my noah and do we need those 600 employees

or 600 plus employees at noah to give us the weather i don't i don't know the answer to that my original my gut reaction would be no i mean we have frankie mcdonald who gives us reports on his youtube channel and they are probably just as good and accurate as noah and frankie's warning about a big storm coming to Ontario tomorrow. So if you're listening live, today is the 4th of March 2025. And Frankie's a little concerned. This is Frankie McDowell, my own TV station live in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Major snowstorm is headed towards Team Inns, Ontario on Wednesday, March 5th, 2020.

It's going to bring 20 to 25 centimeters or snow more. It's going to bring long snowed team in San Antonio home in the Kinsuklop Podcast, where Jamie Kumpton co-host of Kinsuql is firm. It's going to bring a lot of snow. Winds are going to be really strong. It's going to cause blown, drift, and snow, reducing visibility, dangerous and stressor strivenging conditions. It's going to bring a lot of snow.

Yeah. Blown snow. Drifting snow. Yeah. Really dangerous driving conditions as well. Streets roads, highways, and Highway 101 will be snow covered in Timmons, Ontario, and surrounding areas is going to bring a lot of snow, greater Tavis, Ontario surrounding areas as well.

It's going to bring big huge snow drift, blowing snow, drift, and snow, reduce visibility. Yeah. Strachers shop gives us well. Pee pool and Tim and Ontario, be prepared. Have you with the boot ready with the track is ready? Had some glove and scarf with ski pants is ready. Thank you.

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if anybody live in Timmons, Ontario? Be prepared for majors. Yeah. Wednesday, March 5,000, 25, take your safety. Go kick on a major. Yeah, so, I mean, do we need NILA? I think not. We have Frankie McDonald giving us weather warnings.

And if you're in Timmons, Ontario, you know it's coming. So, be prepared. I mean, you can follow Frankie McDowell on his YouTube channel, and he posts weather updates frequently on his YouTube channel, Frankie McDonald. You can follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR. You can follow me on Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on YouTube.

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I need something cold to drink desperately. We found out that the ratings for the Oscars, they had 18.1 million people tuned in to the ABC Telecast for the 97th Academy Awards, which was like a 7% decrease from the year before. I'm sure that 7% had nothing to do without, you know, not being able to log in on Hulu for the first, you know, 10, 15 minutes of the show. So that many people just decided to go away. I'm sure they had nothing to do with it. So, you know, they're holding steady at 18 million people. Congratulations.

And I saw where Adrian Brody, congratulations to him. He has now has the record for the longest acceptance speech in the. in Oscars history. In fact, he told the music started and he told them turn the music off. And they did. He said, I've been here before. I know the drill. And so, okay.

Well, congratulations. You went on for five minutes and 40 seconds. Five minutes and 40 seconds. Wow. Okay. It beats the record of five minutes and 30 seconds held by Greer Garson. When Greer won for Mrs. Miniver in 19. 43. There's no existing footage of the speech in its entirety. But congratulations to Adrian Brody for now holding the record for the longest acceptance speech in Oscar history. You don't know, I see where Grock, you know, X's Grock, put out a post on Sunday in the afternoon and gave its pick.

for the Oscar winners, and it was 100% right. And really, everyone was kind of, you know, knew Kieran was going to win. Brody was going to win. Zoe Seldana was going to win. Nora was probably going to win. You know, there was a conclave kind of was in the running for that as well. Best director, Sean Baker from Anora.

But nobody thought that Mikey Madison was going to win. They thought they were going to go. That was going to go to Demi Moore. But Grok, the Groc Stradamus, picked them correct and said Mikey Madison with the best actress and she did and Demi Moore who thought you know was the front runner to win that

I saw where she posted a shot after the big party where she was just in her robe at some hotel room with two big plates of fries in front of her and the fries look good too they look done just perfectly it looked like they're seasoned just right I think missing is a bottle of Heinz ketchup

but if you think that Demi Moore is eating those two trays of fries. You're sadly mistaken. Dimmy Moore, there's no way I believe that shot. Maybe the rest of the people had her little gathering and whatever hotel room she's gathered in is eating food food trays of fries, but Dimmy Moore is not eating those two trays of fries.

But they still look good, Demi. Gosh darn it, I sure wish you would have won. I didn't matter to me one bit, but, you know, congratulations for your nomination. Oh, and I see. you were a screenwriter for the movie Reagan with Dennis Quaid and that

movie wasn't that good. But the screenwriter said that the film did not meet diversity, equity, and inclusion guidelines which disqualified the film from being considered for the best movie category in the Oscars, which very well may be

true. But even if it did meet the DEI requirements of the Academy Awards. The movie itself did not meet the requirement and that would be, at least being good. I know, I know, I haven't seen

the Nora yet. I'm looking forward to it. A lot of big guy words. It's about, you know, a strip club and sex workers, so it's right down my alley. I should have already seen it. I apologize, but I will have it in my, I will have it in my repertoire very, very soon.

I promise you that. And speaking of awards, I see where the Golden Glover are cutting their voters' paychecks. Wow. Okay, good for the Golden Globes, I guess. So they had a big Zoom call. Certainly wasn't Skype, because Skype is going away in May. They had a big, apparently it was called a Surprise Friday Zoom call.

Golden Globes boss, Helen H-O-E-H-N-E, told about 50 members. They're no longer going to receive $75,000 annual salaries for picking award winners. I don't know that I knew that they were getting paid. Maybe I did, but 75,000 a year, I'd be happy to pick Golden Globe winners for 75 grand a year. But instead, what's going to happen is they're going to get a one-time $102,500 good buy payment, but can still vote without pay for future ceremonies.

So you can take your 105 check, and you can walk away and be pissed and not, vote anymore or you can continue to vote. Oh, okay. So the change makes the Globes more like other major award shows where voting is considered an honor rather than paid work. The move comes as part of an ongoing effort to fix the globe's damage reputation following the 2021 scandal over ethical concerns and voting practices. The new owners, Todd Boley, B-O-E-H-L-Y, and Jay Penske, are clearly on a mission to scrub away any whiff, of bias in the voting process.

Okay. You know, let's see. We got them in the Globes drew about 9 million viewers, which I guess they're trying to climb back from that. So the voters for Goldie Globes no longer are getting paid

except for this final payment. If you'd like to write me a check for $102,500, I'm happy to take it. And you know what? I will vote for the Golden Globes. for the rest of my life, for that $102,500 check.

I promise, okay? So we'll make that happen. I won't hold my breath for that check to arrive. Then I see where Hollywood is headed up to Sacramento. That's the capital of California, for those of you that don't know that. And they are pissed because California, they want to continue with their tax credits for movies in California.

And they're getting their new battle cry. Keep California rolling. Wow. I mean, that's great. That's the battle cry from the Hollywood unions. They send 100 members, maybe they'll break into song, to convince lawmakers to back Governor Newsom's

$750 million tax credit plan, more than double what California offers at $330 million. Also, two new bills introduced last week aimed to make more types of shows and movies eligible, helping California compete against states stealing film jobs. Yeah, the states aren't stealing film jobs.

They're just taking the film jobs. Newsom calls the situation a real crisis, with Georgia offering unlimited tax breaks worth billions. New York putting up 700 million. Yeah, no kidding. 17,000 entertainment jobs vanished in California, 40% less production, and 77% of projects denied

California tax credits simply pack up and shoot elsewhere. Duh. With the budget hearing looming amid wildfire recovery, will California lawmakers keep this in mind? Good luck with that. Hollywood's saying they want more tax credits so we could, I guess, you know, they're saying that it creates jobs in California, so it needs to happen because it certainly is creating jobs in Georgia and Texas.

They're trying to make that happen in Texas. And other states want that business to film movies I really don't understand why Texas doesn't just do an unlimited tax offering and let Hollywood come to Texas. But what do I know? Nothing is what I know. 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?

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They were married for nearly 60 years. He was the man behind the star. Carl Thomas Dean. Dally Parton, he was private. He is dead at the age of 82. The family requested. Privacy, the cause of his death was not immediately announced. But very sad.

And I'm sure. Dolly is really bummed. They've been together for, you know, at least 60 years, a long time. And he was always the rock for her to be the star that she was and is. And then go home and have Carl there for her amazing. So anyway, rest in peace. Very sad for Dolly Parton. Rest in peace to Carl Thomas Dean.

dead at the age of 82. Then we have Glenn Padnik, Glenn Padnick, the TV executive, don't look at me like you don't know who he is. He's the TV executive who guided Jerry Seinfeld's NBC sitcom through all nine seasons. He has passed away at the age of 77. Actually, Padnick co-founded the fame production company in 1987

along with Alan F. Horn, Rob Reiner, Martin Schaefer, and Andrew Scheiman. and they brought you different strokes, the facts of life, who's the boss married with children. He was hooked up with Norman Lear to work on one day at a time and the Jeffersons. I mean, this guy created some monsters for television shows. Very sad.

Apparently, he had been really sick for quite some time. He passed away from complications from Erdheim Chester disease. I don't know what that is. But I don't think you want it. I don't think you want to have the doc come in and say, well, you have Erdheim Chester disease. Apparently, it's a disease as a rare blood. It's called a rare blood disorder that affects multiple organs.

Yeah, you don't want it. You don't want it. You don't want Erdheim Chester disease. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say, yeah, you don't want that. And he was dealing with that for 25 years or so, and it finally, very sadly got the best of. of them. So rest in peace to Glenn Padnik, dead at the age of 77. Then we have James Harrison, James Harrison, who died at the age of 88. I talk about a guy who had a rare blood disorder. His blood

protected millions of babies. No kidding. So this guy was an Australian railway clerk, and according to the numbers, he helped save 2.4 million babies by donating the rare antibodies in his blood every two weeks for more than 60 years. Wow. Pretty incredible. So he apparently had major lung surgery when he was 14 years of age, and he was an intensive care, and he discovered that he had received extensive blood transfusions.

And they figure because of that, he was blasted with this anti-D, which is an uncommon antibody, and so it helped prevent hemelotic disease. I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce that word. Hemalytic. Yeah, like I said, hemolytic. Hemalytic.

Yeah, I got it. It's hemolytic, okay? So it's blood plasma containing anti-D, which is this uncommon antibody, which they took from him for 60 years. And that's incredible. He saved all these lives. There's 2.4 million babies, like I said.

the number of babies whose mothers received the injection while pregnant, there's also many people walking around with a little bit of James in them. Pretty incredible. He had to stop a few years ago because they said, you know, hey, you've given too much blood and, you know, your health is on the line, which he would have kept going forever, he said. But his, apparently he gave 1,173 donations and earned him the moniker, the man with the golden arm.

Okay. So, very sadly, the man with the golden arm, James Christopher Harrison, dead at the age of 88. Now, under the heading of, well, not dead yet, this is Pope Watch, Pope Watch. We're on Pope Watch. Yesterday, we were told that he was doing fine and everything was fine. Ooh, that is not the case today. He suffered two new acute respiratory crises and was put back on non-invasive mechanical ventilation. So they didn't have to innovate him, but he's wearing a mask, I guess. They just put a mask on him. So that's a big setback for the Pope.

And he's still fighting pneumonia. he's got according to this they extracted copious amounts of mucus let me go out on a limb you don't want copious amounts of mucus in your lungs i know he had two broncoscopies broncoscopies broncoscopies yeah like i said broncoscopies she is starting to get annoying brinkoscopy yeah i got it thank you I have actually had one of those before, and it is not fun.

I also had one done in another part of the body of butectomy, and that's not fun at all, although the first one was great. I could talk to you about that a little bit at another time, but the first butectomy I had was pretty awesome because I got to watch, and then now they don't let you watch it anymore. Very sad. Anyway, so the Vatican said the mucus was his body's reaction to the original pneumonia infection and not a new infection.

Uh-huh. So a test don't indicate any new bacteria. Okay, so there you go. Let's Pope watch. Pope watch. And Pope Francis is, you know, everyone is, all the Catholics in the world are praying for him. And he's had chronic lung disease forever. I mean, he had a lung removed, our partial lung removed when he was a little boy.

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The company said the change came after a board investigation found that McMullen's personal conduct was inconsistent with Kroger's policy on business ethics. Oh. Okay. So what did he do? Well, we're not telling you. We're just saying that that's what happened. The board investigated of his personal conduct.

And while it's unrelated to the business, it was inconsistent with Kroger's policy on business ethics. So I guess he was bopping the secretary. I mean, what are you going to do? You're the CEO of Kroger. The secretary comes in, and, you know, you got nothing better to do. Everything's running smoothly at the old warehouse. And you've been the CEOs, I don't know, for 10, 11 years.

You're taking care of a little bit in the Kroger CEO office. So, that had to be it, right? That had to be it. And the secretary, we don't know if the secretary was, you know, male or female. We just know that it was inconsistent with Kroger's policy on business ethics. Okay. And they turned it over to this guy, Ronald Sargent, who was as interim CEO, and he's been with the company for a long time. Why don't they just give the job to him?

Yeah, no, effective immediately, you're the interim CEO, and we are going to, you know, start looking for someone to take the job. Oh, so you really don't believe in me? Well, not for that job. Now, maybe you'll get the job. Maybe this is just, we have to pretend like we're looking for somebody, but it's really your job, Ronald, and we're going to give it to you in another month or so. But right now, you're just interim CEO.

And, you know, we'll give you another two bucks an hour. And keep your hands off the secretary, will you? Oh, no. We've got trouble right here in River City with a capital T, and that rhymes with P, and that stands for P. Name that movie. I'll tell you, if you can't, guess it, I'll tell you, maybe at the end of the show, but

just you can name that movie. We've got trouble right here in River City with a capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool. We've got big problems. According to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service up in Pennsylvania, they have spotted and recovered what they're calling a megalodon goldfish during a recent electrofishing survey at some state park in Pennsylvania. Oh boy. So they are trying to remind the public, hey, this aquatic creature isn't

supposed to be here. Someone released it thinking they were being kind. Instead, they created an invasive problem that could last decades. So don't be setting your goldfish free, okay? Kill it. Okay, you don't want to goldfish anymore. Kill it. But don't set it free. They turn lakes and water. Waterways into murky messes. They steal food from native fish. They wreck water quality. If you can't keep your fish at home, just don't let it loose. Yeah, so that means kill it.

Okay. So big problems. We've got giant goldfish swimming around in lakes and rivers in Pennsylvania, probably all over this country. Now, the average lifespan of a goldfish is about 41 years. Wow. Which reports they can top five pounds. Yeah, I've seen giant goldfish.

before. There used to be a restaurant. We used to go to in Florida that had the giant stupid goldfish swimming around below it. I hope they better not to set those free. I'll tell you that. Maybe they just send them over to Gator. I don't let the Gators eat them. That'd be fine. So we've got big

problems right here in River City. And do not get rid of your goldfish. Don't just throw them in the lake with your kids because they can grow and they cause come in and carry parasites and they got other diseases, which other fish lack immunity too. They're just nasty. They're big old nasty goldfish that just grow to take

over and pretty soon we're going to have, uh, you know, we're going to have big problems. And there'll be a movie coming soon, I'm sure, of a giant goldfish taking over. As long as they can't walk on land, we're still kind of safe. But no, then they mess with the drinking water and our food supply. So we don't want that at all. We don't want maglodon of goldfish taking over the country. So just like they tell you to do in Pennsylvania, don't be throwing them in the lakes and rivers. Now, apparently, you're not supposed to use them as bait either.

Well, okay, so you just kill them. That's all they're telling you to do. Apparently, 16 states, it's legal to use goldfish as bait, but many places don't want you to use goldfish as bait and never, they say, never, according to the United States Fish and Wildlife Services, never dump your bait. Man, don't do that. Which is what?

I mean, if you're using partial cut-up goldfish's bait, that can't be as bad as setting them free, can it? Of course, I'm sure that the fish and wildlife will tell you, yes, it is. but in my mind it's not. But don't use them for bait either. You don't want your goldfish, just kill it and be done with it, okay? All right, do you remember the movie now?

You don't? All right, it's called The Music Man. Yeah, it's a musical, I know. 76 trombones in the big parade. And that's, they're pissed when the pool table comes to town. We've got trouble right here in River City. The capital T and that rhymes with P and that stands for pool. I don't know.

That movie has got to be, what, from 1963? That's what sticks in my mind. Now I have to know. 1962. That's pretty darn close. All right, let's get out of here. If that wasn't a joke enough for the day, since Frankie McDonald told us it's going to be a huge snowstorm in Ontario,

let's do, I have several people sending me polar bear jokes. So we'll do this joke of the day. from Robert. He sent the email in at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. An infant polar bear was hanging out with his mom near the North Pole and the infant said, mommy, am I a polar bear? And the mother looked down and said, of course you're a polar bear. I am a polar bear. Your father's a polar bear. That makes you a polar bear. Still though, not convinced the infant goes down near the water where his dad is. And he says, Daddy, am I a polar bear? And the dad says, of course you are a polar bear. Your mother is a polar bear. I am a polar bear. That makes you a polar bear.

Why are you asking me this, son? And the infant replies, because I am freaking freezing. See, because he was, I know, you understood. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.