Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Infinite Workday… | 6/19/25

Episode Date: June 19, 2025

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I'm trying to remember if we talked about this or not. The men aged 31 to 60, reportedly followed a Brinks semi-truck over 300 miles from a trade show to the rest up north of Los Angeles. Just after 2 a.m., while one guard was getting food and another one was asleep, they nabbed 24 of the 73 bags of jewelry in the truck. Okay. The feds used cell phone records and surveillance footage to identify the suspects, several of whom are also linked to a string of smaller robberies. Wait, what?

Authorities recovered some jewelry and arrested two men this week. Another suspect is serving time for an unrelated charge, and four are still at large. Oh, okay. The charges announced will carry a max. maximum sentence of five to 20 years in prison. So they've charged seven men, four are still at large for this jewelry heist.

Okay, good, good. Let me know when you've caught them. Pretty incredible that they followed this truck for, you know, hours, and then the one guy falls asleep and the other guy gets out for food, and that's when they robbed the truck. It's almost like a animal kingdom, robbery. If you watch Animal Kingdom, I've been watching it again and just dropped on Netflix

all six or seven seasons on Netflix. You know, the family is a family of thieves and some of their jobs are similar to this. So it's worth it. But just know you're safer. The streets are safer now that seven men have been charged with the crime. Sure, four of them are still at large, but you should feel a lot safer that these men have been charged with this robbery. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. The days of 9 to 5 are over. More people are logging back on at night.

Yeah. No kidding. According to this new study, the infinite workday is now a thing. people logging on in the early morning hours, people logging on at night after 8 p.m. So according to this new report, infinite workday, 16% spike in meetings after 8 p.m. And over 50 messages sent outside business hours per average employee. Uh-huh.

The trend defies gender, but has taken an interesting turn from the, you know, the millennial girl boss to the manosphere. year. So there's plenty of people that talk about getting up early. Elon Musk, you know, sleeps on the floor of his workplaces. And so the hustle culture apparently did not die. The hustle culture. It's called the infinite workday. We've all had that, at least I've lived that for many, many years. Now, I just took it as part of this business, that that's what we do. But apparently it's with every business. So they are blaming a lot of this on the pandemic. When what they say, remote work blurred the boundaries of normalized and normalized quick calls between diaper changes and dinner prep, yeah, no kidding.

They expect you to be at their call whenever they wanted. And I say they, the bosses, and you try to get the work done whenever you can. That's what the benefit of working at home is. You work when you can and get the job done when you can. I will say, it is interesting when you send, let's say, you know, you send a text or an email at night, you still expect a reply. You don't expect someone to wait until, oh yeah, I didn't start working until 5 a.m., so I didn't answer your text. No, I text you last night at 9 p.m. I expect an answer. So that, apparently, we are all now in the infinite workday.

So those of you that find yourself working at night or early in the morning, outside of the normal workday, you're not alone. You most definitely are not alone. And, of course, that just makes it seem like for many people, the work day never ends. And really, it doesn't, if in today's world, depending on your job, it never ends. The days of being able to clock in and clock out, and not worry about anything after you've clocked out,

those days have been washed away, whether you blame it on the pandemic or not. The infinite workday is a real thing for almost everyone. I mean, one could make the argument that that's what vacations are for, right? And when you clock out on vacation, you're gone. And that's a difficult thing to do in today's world. But that's your clockout time, right? I'm on vacation.

I cannot be reached. Have a nice day. I know, you know, there's still people, everybody is going on strike. I've been thinking about vacationing in the Sudan. Can't go there now. There's a war. I was thinking about maybe going to Lebanon. Nope, they're saying their tourist days are done, at least for a while now,

thanks to the Israeli-Iran war. And I see where. Then I thought, okay, well, you know what? I'll go to Paris. I'll go to the Louvre. Nope. The Louvre people went on strike a couple of days ago, too. I think they're back.

I think they just shut it down for a day just to, you know, make a point. But they're saying the protest of the employees were protesting against overwhelming crowds, understaffing and deteriorating infrastructure following all these frustrations over mass tourism across Europe. Okay. So we just not long ago talked about how the French president, Emmanuel Macron, had announced this renovation plan, this decade-long run. plan that was going to cost, I don't know, a billion dollars, probably end up costing a billion. It was seven or eight hundred million.

No way. Those kind of things never come in under budget. But that's because of a memo that leaked out, leaked out, said talking about water leaks and temperature fluctuations and overcrowding that threatened both the artwork and visitor experience. So employees, I guess, have been expressing concerns about the foot traffic and they staged a walk out a couple of years ago. And so, you know, the Louvre is in trouble, too.

According to this, the oldest areas of the Louvre date back to the Middle Ages. I would love to tour that, although I have not. And apparently, you know, I can still go there, but it's going to be pretty crowded. And hopefully I show up on a day when the workers haven't walked out on strike. So I don't know where I'm going to go on vacation this year. It's been a long time since I've actually gone on a vacation. But I will say this. There are several places in the world that you do not want to go.

Now, getting us back to the infinite workday, vacations are the only time, I think, now, as I'm talking out loud about it, where you could say, I'm off. I'm off. It's my vacation time. I'm not taking any calls. I'm not taking any texts.

I'm not answering any emails. I'm off. I think that's your time down. Now, that's it. So good luck on your infinite workday because use your vacation time for sure. I mean, that also may be why I was looking at a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that was published in JAMA Network. I'm sorry, JAMA Network Open, which, man, I love that. According to that new study, white-collar.

workers are more likely to have mental health complaints than blue collar workers. And that might have to do with the infinite workday. Blue collar workers are the ones that are not on call 24-7 anymore, right? And they're the ones that are clocking in and out. And they go to work. And when they clock out, there's no more work to be done, at least for that particular job. And so now, according to this study, white collar workers are more likely to have mental health complaints than blue collar workers. Okay. According to the study, people working in arts, design, entertainment, sports, media, health care support, sales, and food preparation, and serving were three or, I'm sorry, food preparation and serving, were three to four times more likely to report frequent and extreme mental distress. There were also more likely to report ever having been diagnosed with clinical depression. Okay, the manual laborers, agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, mining, utilities, construction, manufacturing, wholesale trade, transportation, warehousing, significantly lower rates of self-reported depression and mental stress. I mean, that absolutely is part of the infinite work day.

In the study, they talk about work overload. Yeah, that would be infinite work day, right? Absolutely. You have the long hours, and I don't know, off and on hours. I kind of like it. I always have. I'm always working, but there's downtime. That's, I mean, that's the life that I've chosen, and I like that life.

Lack of control over workload, social and physical isolation, poor communication, harassment, okay. And interpersonal conflict are linked to workers, poor mental health. Okay. Additionally, work-related injuries and illnesses negatively affect mental health. Really? So they analyzed 536,279. civilian workers in 37 states who responded to a survey from 2015 through 2019.

Wow, before the pandemic. Among them, 469,1129 shared their industry, job, demographics, and mental health information. That's where it all comes from. So just be careful out there. And you know what you're into when you are a white collar worker. And you know what you're into when you're a blue collar worker. And if you're a white collar worker, you are pretty much buying into the infinite workday. So, as I stated earlier, take those vacations. And that is so easy to say and very hard to do. I know, believe me, I have not been a good vacation taker in a long, long time. I had arguments with our, you know, HR people about taking vacations because the company would pay for those vacations, whether I took them or not.

So I would just say, hey, I'm not taking a vacation. Give me the money. And according to her, she believed that, and she did identify as a her. So I'm not doing anything wrong, gender, shaming, that I'm losing money by not taking the vacation. Okay, if you say so. Because I feel like I'm still making my money, which I still would make, and I would still make the vacation money. And yet I'm providing work. So if I don't take the vacation, then I'm adding to my workload and I'm not really earning anything extra.

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So I don't know that I knew this about Mariah Carey, and I kind of wish I could live like this, but then, you know, I realized that, well, you can't. The 56-year-old, and I'm assuming she's 56 years old, Mariah Carey does not believe in time and the passage of time. Oh, okay. She doesn't feel the need for clocks, time zones, or even annual occasions, with the exception, according to this article, anniversaries. I don't have a birthday that if I need to make plans, I'd have somebody call you and figure it out. Oh, okay.

Now, she was doing this interview with Capital FM, which I love them. And they asked about the rumor. And she said, I just don't believe in it. Let it go. Okay. She said that I do need someone to be like, okay, we've got to go. You're running late.

She said that a few years ago. I'm like a petulant child. My true fans know this and that I'm eternally 12. And so if I show up late at something, that's just because I just don't believe in time. Oh, okay. So there's no age. There's no time.

we've made a big hit over that time of Christmas, haven't we, Mariah? That's something different, though. Oh, okay, that's something different. So I really am interested, so you have to have due people to be your time. If you don't believe in it or age, you don't believe in it. So you don't celebrate birthdays, which I'm a fan of. But just because you don't celebrate them, you don't want to really admit that they exist, they still do, right?

So she doesn't believe in time. Okay, I guess that's fine if you're Mariah Carey and you have due people running around. I mean, she's got a couple of kids, right? Nick Cannon has two for Mariah, and I think he's got another couple hundred out there. He and Elon Musk are trying to repopulate the world. But she said that she feels she's younger than her kids, Sometimes. Okay. I mean, she has 14-year-old twins. And so, okay, I just don't understand how you could go through your life, not believing in time. I guess you do believe in it. You just don't adhere to it. I don't, I don't want to have anything to do with time. I don't have anything to do with anniversaries or dates. I just want to live my life. And when I show up at something, well, that's when I show up. My real fans, understand. Okay. All right. I'm a little jealous of all these people. When they have all their do

people, that's, I need do people. I need do people so that I can live my life without time and without any kind of, I don't have to worry about it. It's just that my due people will take care of it. That's why I want a robot. That's why I want Dewey in my house, so I don't have to worry about it. And I can just, you know, Dewey will tell me, you have 32 minutes to make it to your appointment if you leave Now you will have to drive 42 and a half miles per hour without any stops to get there on time. Something like that. I need that. I need Dewey.

I need do people. And I hope that you have the due people that you need in your life. I do because I am jealous of anyone who has due people and are using them properly. Because then you can just do what you want and you just know your due people will take care of it for you. I'm a fan. Be sure to follow me on my social media at Jeff EJFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram. I do have a Blue Sky account at Jeffy JFR, I believe, is my Blue Sky account.

I haven't, I don't know that I've posted on Blue Sky. I may have said hello. I don't, honestly, I don't recall. I saw where J.D. Vans, you know, the vice president of the United States of America, apparently joined Blue Sky and then got immediately banned. Oh, okay, sure, no problem. I'm sorry, banned. He was suspended.

Oh, okay. So he posted something on Blue Sky, and within 12 minutes of the post, they banned him from the platform. Now, I guess it was some sort of mistake, so they have reinstated his account, so he could still get JD on Blue Sky. but that's special that blue sky oh no we have vice president jd vans on blue sky no you are suspended

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Worth every doggone cent that you pay for it, though. At Jeffrey JFR on the Cameo app. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So it looks like Charlie Sheen, you know him, you love him, is going to publish a memoir that's supposed to come out in the fall of this year, 2025. The actor, I'm sure, Charlie Sheen, the actor. I'm going to look back on his storied career on screen as well as his personal moments, his Hollywood childhood and his experience with addiction.

Yeah, that's all we want to know about. Okay. And I guess we can finally, we'll be able to find out exactly, you know, the real story that went on behind the scenes of Charlie Sheen. We know a lot of the Charlie Sheen story. I will look forward to seeing and reading some of the stories. I got to reach out to see if I can get Charlie Sheen on the show. I would love to talk to him about his storied career on screen and all his personal moments as well.

You know, speaking of drug addicts, I mean people with addiction issues. I was reading a story the other day. I never was a big fan of Janice Joplin, really. But I know I appreciate who Janice Joplin was. I appreciate who Janice Joplin was. wasn't a huge fan of her. But I was reading a story about her, and I did not know this about her,

and I don't know why I didn't know this, but her album, Pearl, was released, I mean, it was critically acclaimed and success. It was a number one solo album. It charted for nine weeks. It had her first number one single, Me and Bobby McGee.

It had since, it's now gone quadruple platinum, and has been named, you know, obviously one of the 500 greatest album of all time by Rolling Stone. However, I don't know that I knew this. She was not alive when the album was released. She saw none of it. Okay, so she passed away on October 4th, 1970,

what the coroner deemed to be a heroin overdose, compounded by alcohol consumption. Yeah, okay. Now, she, her star was on the rise at the end of the 60s. She'd performed at Woodstock and was recording an album. that was supposed to be her masterpiece. Okay, I knew that. The last song she recorded was Mercedes-Benz, October 1st, 1970.

Okay, another huge song for her. So she went to the studio to listen to this instrumental track that her band put together called Buried Alive in Blues, and she was supposed to come back the next day or that night to record the lyrics to the song. and then she didn't show up to the session. And that's where they found her dead in her hotel room. Wow. So they just ended up releasing the song without the vocals on the album.

And they were going to try to have someone come in and do the vocals for the song. And everybody was like, ooh, yeah, no, we're not doing that. Sorry, no. So just incredible. I don't know that I knew that, that she did not really know about all the success of her music. She was, I mean, she was still a star, but she didn't, I mean, the success after the album was monstrous, and she did not see any of it.

It's really kind of sad, but I didn't realize that she had died before the album was released. So I mentioned earlier, I am hooked on Animal Kingdom again. It's a big guy show, man. it is definitely a big guy show, but it is so much fun to watch. And the struggles in this family are incredible. I think they did like 75 episodes, and so I don't know how many seasons that is. It's like five or six, maybe seven seasons.

And they all dropped on Netflix again. It was an FX show to begin with. And I remember watching most of them. There was a couple episodes that I watched so far. I don't know. I'm in season three or whatever. And I kind of remember the storyline. But I don't think I caught every episode.

So I will be able to say I caught every one of them once I plow through all these Netflix shows. But it says here they had 75 episodes. Now, the sons, and some of them adopted, some of them real, were in all the episodes. Sean Hatticey was Pope, Ben Robson, Jake Weary, Finn Cole. They were all in every episode. Smurf is played by Alan Barkin. She was in 49 episodes. So they did have a season there, or maybe a season and a half,

where without Smurf. But Ellen Barkin is great. It's just crime and struggles with some of the robberies. It's just awesome. It's just fun to watch. It's a big guy show, though. Do not think that it is a family show because it is not. It's family for them, but it's not family the way you think family is.

That's for sure. And I know I tell you all these stupid shows. I'm watching because I want you to know where my head's at at the time. You know, like hacks. I've watched, I have not finished the latest season of hacks, and I don't know why. I just, I was in the middle of an episode, you know, I'm almost through it. Almost through it. And they just re-upped it for another season.

They just re-uped the pit on Max as well. They're filming the next season of Pitt. So if you haven't seen the first season of Pitt on Max, well worth the show. And in fact, Sean Hattesey from Animal Kingdom is in the pit, and he plays a great character in the pit as well. So I haven't been, you know, I haven't finished hacks yet, and I'm going to get to that very, very soon. I don't know why. I just, I was in the middle of an episode and I paused it, and I never went back. So I've got to get back to hacks.

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Okay. I know it's a difficult time and we need to honor his memory. Absolutely. But we don't know what caused his death at the age of 52. So Dave Scott, rest in peace, dead at the age of. of 52. Then we have another Dave, David H.K. Bell. You remember him. David Hacalia Kno Bell, the Lilo and Stitch actor, dead at 46. He was, he's remembered as the prince of a man, the gentle giant. He had the big screen debut in Lilo and Stitch, the live action, which just was released. Incredible. He was excited about that. And his sister said that he passed away. at the age of 46.

They did not release the cause of death for my man, David, H.K. Bell, either. So, I'm not sure. I mean, he was a big guy. Yeah. Could that have something to do

with the brought on his death? Absolutely. But he, you know, passed away and we don't know why at the age of 46. So rest in peace to David H.K. Bell. actor dead at the age of 46. And we have a 19-year-old, very sad.

He's a minor league baseball player, Baltimore Orioles. He died in a jet ski accident down in Florida. A little hint, don't run into things when you're on a jet ski. And if you don't know how to run them, don't ride him. So according to this, he died as a result of his injuries, suffered during a vessel incident, according to Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission. Luis Givera, 19-year-old. years old. Very sad when something like that. Apparently, four people were thrown into the water

as a result of two jet skis colliding head on. We've went a little chicken off the coast of Sarasota there in Florida. Okay. It was there off Alito Key in Sarasota County? Beautiful, beautiful area. Everybody's sad about it. He played for the Orioles. He signed with the Orioles as part of the international free agent, grew up in Venezuela. He played in the Dominican for a year, and then he was playing here in a USA-Double-A. So, you know, he had a bright future in baseball ahead of him, and he's playing chicken with a jet ski off the coast of Florida and crashes, and that's what killed him.

So rest in peace to Luis Guivara at the age of 19. Then we have, well, this isn't someone who died because he already died. Matthew Perry. Yeah, we already did our rest and peace to Matthew Perry. But the doctor charged with giving Matthew Perry ketamine in the month leading up to his overdose is going to plead guilty. There is not going to be a trial for the doc. Oh, okay. Dr. Salvador Placensia agreed to plead guilty to four counts of distribution of ketamine, according to the signed document filed in federal court in Los Angeles. In exchange for his plea, prosecutors agreed to drop three additional counts of distribution of ketamine and two counts of falsifying records. They still say that with this plea agreement, he could face up to 40 years in prison. Uh, no, let's make the plea deal a little bit better than that. But I guess they're going to, you know, let the plea deal go and we'll find out who, what the sentencing is in a few weeks from now.

So, okay, I mean, there's text messages with him and another doc saying, were going to see how much money they could get from Matthew Perry for the for the ketamine um the medical examiner ruled that the ketamine typically used as a surgical anesthetic was the primary cause of death he'd been using the drug throughout his you know through his regular doctor in a legal but off-label treatment for depression but then he had this placentia and another doctor give him a ketamine and inject him and he got ketamine lozages and serene ranges. Wow. And then this other doc, this Mark Chavez, agreed to supply some more ketamine for him. And then the doc, Placencia, went to his house, injected him a couple of times, and taught Matthew Perry's dooboy.

Like, gosh, darn it. I want a do boy, how to inject him. And the doboy ended up injecting him and receiving drugs from the other doctors. incredible. So then there's still the lady, right? The witchy lady or whatever her name was, that she is, she's not doing any kind of plea deal. She's going to trial. And apparently she provided some ketamine for Matthew Perry. And she's still in jail.

She has not entered a plea agreement. And she has not, she is not out on bond. I mean, the doc was at least out on bond. this lady Sangatha I think that's her name, right? Yeah, Jassvin Sangatha

She has not doing any kind of pleading And she's going to go to trial She's still sitting in jail Over this. Holy cow. Good luck. Good luck, God bless. I mean, Perry was the one

Who was addicted to the drugs And I just read a story the other day Where the friends, all the actors and friends, I think still get $20 million a year from that stupid show. Incredible. So you live a pretty good life when you were on friends. I mean, Aniston, Courtney Cox, Lisa Cudrow, Matt LeBlanc and David Swimmer, along with Matthew Perry.

I mean, they were getting $20 million a year since the end of that show in 2004. Wow. That's living a good life. And yet, he wanted to continue to get ketamine as much as he could and it eventually killed him. Good luck to Jasveen Sengatha, who is still in jail. That trial is coming up in August.

We'll see what happens to her. All the other people involved have done plea deals. No one has been sentenced yet. The Dew Boy, all the doctors, they've all done plead deals. So nobody sounds like no one wants to go to trial with this case. But not Jasveen. Jasveen says, no, I'm not pleading to any.

anything, let's go to trial. So that'll be fascinating. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence. While Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go. Explore the new Peloton Cross-training tread plus at one peloton.ca. Congratulations to the Florida Panthers. They are the Stanley Cup champions.

I forgot to congratulate them yesterday. I apologize if you're listening live. Today is the 19th of June 2025. Oh my gosh, it's Juneteenth. Happy Juneteenth to you. I don't want to go through the day without wishing you a happy June 10th. Anyway, NHL.

Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers. They defeated the Edmonton Oilers and are the Stanley Cup champions. Congratulations to them. That's their second Stanley Cup championship in a row. It's their third Stanley Cup championship series in a row. Incredible. They just an amazing team. Now, apparently, they damaged the Stanley Cup during their partying.

And it has happened before because they do all kinds of crazy things with the Stanley Cup. but apparently it was dented and cracked. And no problem. I mean, they have the, what they call the keepers of the cup. And they claimed that, hey, we're aware of the damage.

We're ready to fix it. Don't worry about it. We've got, you know, they've, plenty of teams have damaged the Stanley Cup over the years during their celebrations.

I mean, they've had, it's like a 131-year-old trophy and people, you know, throw their drinks in it. I know the cupkeeper, Howie Burrow, I'm not sure if he's the one I met.

But wherever the cup goes, the cup keeper goes. And so I've actually been with the Stanley Cup, the real Stanley Cup, and the cupkeeper before in my life. And so, I mean, people have put, you know, ice cream and cereal and pierogies and chicken wings and all kinds of food in it. He said he's, the cupkeeper has said he's seen caviar put in it. Multiple players have christened their newborn babies in the Stanley Cup. So they believe, look, wherever it goes, people are happy.

and so these guys are celebrating and every player gets it. I'm pretty sure every player gets it for a certain amount of time for a day or whatever it is, and then it goes back. So it's okay. Don't even worry about it. Don't get mad at the Florida Panthers for denting and, you know, injuring the Stanley Cup because they're going to fix it and it's still the Stanley Cup. Okay, everything is fine.

Then tonight we have game six of the NBA championship with Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Patriot. Pacers, and I will tell you this, the Oklahoma City Thunder are up three to two. I've been rooting for the Indiana Pacers. I want them to win the series. I do. But the way they looked the other night, it does not look good. The game is in Indiana tonight.

Will Indiana win tonight? It's possible. Very possible because it's at home. And I would like to see, you know, I'm sure the NBA would love to have a game seven. And the fans in Oklahoma City would love to have a game seven. so that the team could win the series in Oklahoma. Because you think about if Indiana wins tonight and it's tied 3-3, and they go to game seven for the Saturday night game, I think,

for the NBA if they have to, if they lose, if Oklahoma City loses tonight, the fans, that place is going to be on fire. That's going to be the place to be. And Oklahoma City has not lost back-to-back game since, I don't know, the beginning of time, it feels like. So it would be fascinating. I do want, I would like to see Indiana win the series.

So if they went tonight, they still got a shot. But boy, they did not look like they had a shot losing the other night. That is for sure. So good luck for the Pacers. And, you know, for the Oklahoma City Thunder fans, good luck to you. Because if they win tonight, you can still have the big celebration, but it's not the same as having it at the house. I mean, it's still going to be a party.

And there's going to be a massive parade and, you know, the returning to Oklahoma City will be monstrous later on tonight or early tomorrow morning. But if they, if Indiana wins and you guys get game seven, that would be incredible. Because I don't see Oklahoma City Thunder losing a game seven at home. I do not think that's going to happen. Wow. And speaking of the NBA, the Los Angeles Lakers have just. sold the majority stake to the Lakers. The bus family has owned it since 1979. They spent $67.5 million on the Los Angeles Lakers in 1979.

They're selling a majority stake of the Lakers to this businessman Mark Walter. The deal values the team at $10 billion. Wow, that is a return on one's investment. I will say the Boston Celtics sold, I think last year, or whenever it wasn't long ago, for over $6 billion. So when the rankings of the valuations of teams, the Lakers, they claimed were worth like $7 billion, but it's worth what anybody will pay.

So if they worked out a deal where the Lakers are worth $10 billion, hello, that makes them a storied franchise worth more than any of the other deals and any of the other teams. So congratulations to them. Wow. From 1979, you spent 67.5 million. And now in the 2025, you're going to sell it for $10 billion. Okay.

And I guess the boss, Jenny Bus, who's, you know, she's run the deal. She gets to be still on the board. She still has a minority stake. So she still has some say. very little, but she still has some stay and she'll make a little bit of, you know, she's making a little bit of running around money. A little pocket money still hanging on with the team.

Yeah, she retains a minority stake in the team and she also will retain her governor seat. So she'll have a little running around money on top of, you know, the $10 billion that she's selling the team for. Incredible. The guy who bought it, Walter, He's the CEO and founder of the Guggenheim Partners.

And he also is a majority owner of MLB's Los Angeles Dodgers, the WNBA's Sparks and Cadillacs, forthcoming Formula One team. He also owns the professional women's hockey league. So he's a pretty good businessman. And he makes pretty good deals. So congratulations to Mark Walter and Jenny Bus for finally selling that dump of a team the Los Angeles Lakers. Oh, man.

This is just, the numbers are amazing. Let's get out of here with the joke of the day. I got this joke of the day from Megan, and I'm only doing this because in her email, Megan says, my husband says the jokes are not funny, but he laughs when you tell the jokes. Okay, so he doesn't think they're that funny. What?

So here's the joke. that she attached to that comment. And this is for Megan's husband, okay? What's the difference between a politician and a thief? A thief will steal your money and run. A politician will run and then steal your money. I mean, maybe your husband's right. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content

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