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Episode Date: September 16, 2025

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Landscape Gardner Seed Cellar Outdoor Gear Designer Along with some green fingered support from his family He now has the tallest

sunflower ever Now I will say I don't think it's the Guinness record though I don't think Guinness has given him the record yet. He grew it in his backyard in Fort Wayne, Indiana. And they've nurtured it, and he's built like a, it looks almost like an oil rig going up, to keep the sunflower growing up.

So when assessed by representatives from the Allen County Department of weights and measures, love them. And several master gardener graduates from Purdue University. Love all of those guys. The humongous heliynthos. Amorphophalus. No, it's a heliynthos. Okay, so that's the wrong plan. It was confirmed to be 35 feet nine inches high from the base of its stem to the tip of the highest flower. Now there's a guy. No, no, no, we're not to come here. Maybe the guy in Germany who's held the record like three different times, well, he might start up with, hey, that's a good-looking sunflower seed.

Anyway, the progress of the sunflower has been garnering a lot of attention in the horticulture community. Oh, you couldn't get the horticulture community to shut up about the sunflower. So the measuring drew a large crowd, and it's almost the double the height of the Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial. and it's easily tall enough to reach the rooftop of a typical three-story house. So this obliterates the mark of 30 feet one inch achieved by this guy in Germany who broke the record three or four times between 2009 and 2014. Now, I read all this and I'm still not seeing that this has been certified by the Guinness World Records. Now, he may hold this record in Indiana

you know, they may say, yeah, you've built the oil rig, and you've got everything going, and it's the tallest ever, and it's a world record. But until it is rubber-stamped by Guinness, you do not have the world record. Now, I grant you, I understand you have the world record in your heart. So congratulations. And I hope that at some point soon, Guinness shows up

and rubber stamps your sunflower plant named Clover as a new world record. Don't look at me. I didn't name it. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. This story kind of ticks me off. And I'm mad because it's Elton John. Okay.

So, and I love Elton John. I'm a huge fan of Elton John. So Elton has apparently found a new way to ensure his legacy lives on forever. All right. Now, according to this, He, you know, he's known for his, you know, stage outfits and, you know, in his new documentary called Elton John touched by gold, which I have not seen yet. He says that Elton's life has been touched by gold in fascinating ways, both on and off the stage. Here is his story, the description for the film, which was released on YouTube, September 15th, by the World Gold Council. Okay.

I'm not seen it yet. After speaking in the documentary about his life has been filled with gold due to many accolades he's received over the decades, including his coveted egot wins. John revealed the unusual gold accessory that he made. Okay. So he had knee replacements. I've had one knee replacement. Hopefully soon I'll have a second. What he did is he turned his kneecaps into gold jewelry.

Okay. he repurposed the bones and he shows shows you the jewelry made it's got gold wrapped around his knee bone ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha okay so he used the goldsmiths using a jewelry designer theo fennel's shop in london and i mean who doesn't love theo's work i mean this top notch always when i had my kneecaps removed the left one first and then the right me too Although I haven't had the right one yet, but that's coming. I asked my surgeon if I could keep my kneecaps. Me too.

I wanted the whole thing. I wanted it all because what they do, if you're not aware of how they give you a knee replacement, they cut your bones, okay? And they just cut that whole section out. And what they do is they take your kneecap, which is kind of weird that he didn't keep his kneecaps because you could make the joke that he's been on him enough. Anyway, I'm not making that. No, I'm not making that joke, so just stop it.

I'm just saying that it's weird that he had fake kneecaps made then because my knee replacement, what they did is they open you up and they take your kneecap and they just kind of set it off to the side and then they cut your bones and they put the replacement in and then they put the real kneecap back on top. Ouch. Yes, it is definitely ouch. There's no question about that.

And that's the surgery I woke up on. in the middle of that. I'll never forget. I mean, they were in the middle of, you know, cutting my bones and putting in the replacement. And I remember sitting up going, oh, and I remember the doc looking up, whoa, big man.

And pushing me back down. And then I don't know how much juice they gave me after that, but I think I woke up a week later. They were like, I don't know, this man could not be awake any longer. Anyway, but my point is, I don't know if I wanted the whole knee. I wanted the knee.

You know, you see the, in some, if you go to orthopedic surgeon's office, they have, you know, there's knee models there. And I wanted my own. And they said, no, you can't have it. And I'm like, it's my knee. Put it in whatever juice you got to put it in and give it to me. I'll sign whatever you need. I want, I want my knee.

And they wouldn't give it to me. But Elton gets his kneecap, and now they make it into gold jewelry. That ticks me off. That ticks me off. So anyway, he said, then he rang and he had his kneecap, and he shows the jewelry that they made. And it's pretty, it's fine.

It's, you know, it's Elton John kind of jewelry. It looks like a little heart with the gold chain going through it and gold wrapped around gold. And I'm sure he's going to have a new song out soon with his, you know, kneecaps. Well, maybe not as better as they ever did, really, with the knee surgery. So apparently they baked him. and then they had to bake them and dry them out and then they rather like

pumice stone they're very porous so we had to paint them with acetate and then just polish them up he was pleased with the final results then ended up with a very nice sort of while holding the shiny necklace yeah okay they were pleased with results and so there you go and it just kind of ticks me off

a little bit because just because he's Elton John he gets to keep his bones Okay. Yeah, whatever. It's not fair. And they even engraved it. They even engraved it. They engraved it with the Latin phrase

that means I will no longer bow to any man. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Get it? Because it's the kneecaps and you're not going to bow to any man. Although you've got to believe that Elton John didn't have fake knee pads put in. Stop it. We might as well stay over where. you know, Elton is from, or in that neck of the woods, the UK and Europe.

And I did not know this was still actually going on. But an ex-British paratrooper has begun a murder trial in Northern Ireland. The first prosecution tied to the 1972 Bloody Sunday Massacre. Sunday, Sunday, same thing. 13 people were killed and 15 wounded when soldiers opened fire and unarmed civil rights demonstrators. The Deadliest song of, yeah, the deadliest shooting from decades of violence known as The Troubles. I mean, it's also was made famous from U2, right, forever. And Soldier F, whose identity is protected is the only regiment member to face trial.

He has pleaded not guilty on two counts of murder and five counts of attempted murder. Sixteen other soldiers and two alleged Irish Republican Army members were not prosecuted due to insufficient evidence. The trial follows years of legal setbacks. Yeah, this is from 1972. Okay. The case was initially dropped after government claims of self-defense, which in a 2010 review overturned that, concluding troops had shot fleeing civilians and lied about it.

Well, that's, I mean, and they still couldn't find any evidence on the others. So the troubles marked a violent conflict. I mean, you should know about the troubles, right? I mean, it's the conflict over Northern Ireland's political status between pro-British, predominantly Protestant unionists, and Catholic majority Irish nationalist. Yeah, they got like 3,600 people died in the troubles. And I would venture to say that that's probably low in that battle.

But still going on, still going on. Finally, finally, somebody's going to pay, except he's pled not guilty, and they haven't been able to find anybody else guilty. So, you know, maybe he's the guy. Maybe he's the guy. maybe he's the guy. Soldier F might be the guy, but he might not be. But maybe he is that guy. And there's a lot of people hoping that he is.

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It's a little disappointing, okay? Nope, well, I mean, I don't know. I just know that I found something that they were talking about in the story, and now I believe I have it. I believe that I have eating amnesia. Okay. So a recent study found that watching television while eating leads to a significant increase in food intake. And this has a domino effect on your overall hunger. That's absolutely true. And watching television will definitely assist in your hunger cravings.

Because, I mean, they promote food products all the time. And the food products look great. I mean, most of the time I find myself saying, I wish that product was as good as a good. it looked because most of the time they're not. But sometimes they are, man. Sometimes you go, oh, yeah. Those are great. I love those wings. Whatever it is.

And you know, you just do this. So you've got to take it easy. Well, you're watching TV. And a lot of people do a lot of mindless eating. And that's eating amnesia. Okay? So researchers have analyzed multiple, I think that's part of what happens to you. Makes it more difficult to not speak.

No, I don't need that right now. but put that thing out. Holy cow. I get that. If I fire that thing up. That definitely helps in the eating amnesia too. I'll tell you that. So researchers analyzed multiple experimental studies

with participants of different ages, weights, statuses, and backgrounds to understand the relationship between distracted eating and caloric intake. The data showed that when people ate while watching TV, they consistently ate more, both in terms of calories and a poor sizes compared to eating without distractions.

It's been a big deal for a long time to eat without distractions. Eat with a smaller plate. You know, Americans usually have the bigger plates. Eat with the smaller plates and eat without distractions so that you're thinking about what you're eating, how you're eating it, that sort of thing. Watching that distracted eating is what's giving you eating amnesia. And I have it. I'm suffering from it for sure.

So across the board, people who ate while watching TV consumed 10 to 25% more calories than those who ate without distractions. Researchers believe that TV creates a dual distraction. First, like my mother said, I want to go back to what my mother said years ago, that television is going to be the ruination of the world. And she's being proven right.

First, it pulls attention away from the physical act of eating, making you less aware of portion sizes and fullness cues. Second, engaging content, such as a thrilling show or a sports game, can lead to mindless eating where people consume food automatically rather than in response to hunger.

Well, yeah. It also reduces memory and awareness which influences appetite. Studies show that people who focus on their meals and remember what they ate earlier in the day tend to eat less at later meals. However, when TV disrupts this process, it can lead to eating amnesia, which is what I have, where people forget how much they've consumed and continue to eat more.

I'm suffering from it right now. If you're trying to manage your weight, eating without distractions, slowing down your meals, paying attention to what you eat, smaller plates, definitely smaller servings, help you regain control of your hunger. So this is my mind. It's educational as well as I know now what I'm suffering from, eating amnesia. It doesn't say, you know, once you know the problem,

now you, now that's the first step, right? Now that I know the problem, that's the first step. I've got to, now I've got to act on solving that problem. I don't know. It sounds like a terrible disease. I don't know that you can get rid of it. I mean, I don't, I don't know. I mean, I'll try.

I'll try. But, you know, what am I supposed to do? Watch TV without eating. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So as I was headed to the break room, I ran into Allie Beth Stucky. And that reminded me, oh, my gosh, she has the Share the Arrow's event coming up. I know.

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and we broke it down a little bit. But I didn't have the information of the governor's gala, which follows the Emmys. All right. So if you go to the Emmys and you're there, you get to then go to the Los Angeles Invention Center. The gala is produced by Sequoia Productions. And let's take a look at the menu.

Drinks are flowing. Everybody's having fun. There's the wall, the Emmys wall, where you get to take your pictures for your Instagram account. And then you have, the director's cut, which is an elevated old fashion. That's a nice drink. You have the showrunner.

And I see what they're doing here. An espresso martini variation. You have the nominee nightcap, which is a Scotts Spritz. You have wines from Decoy wines and Francicota. And you have Fiji Water. Now, food offerings from celebrity chefs, Jet Tilla, Mia Lin, and Leanne Wong, include sesame shrimp toast and chicken rabs, along with creations requiring some eye-popping numbers.

Okay, so there were 400 pounds of shrimp, 400 pounds of tuna, 44 quarts of coconut milk, 21,000 assorted market berries, 300 pounds of shaved prime rib, filling 3,000 cheese steak hoagies, more than 16,000 culinary man hours in preparation,

14,500 samples of LA's most iconic desserts. Man, it would be fun to go to the governor's gala, wouldn't it? Yeah, you know, it would have been fun until you start having to talk to people. And you start having to realize that, ah, isn't that Hannah Endbinder, and didn't she just say

Go Birds, F. Ice, and Free Palestine? Yeah, I don't want to talk to her. Is that Robert Dush, Neum, row over there it is I don't want to go. Hey Bobby Bobby F you too pal

F you're going to go around saying F Trump F you two Yeah I don't know if Alec was there Hey Alec take it easy Yeah no no I'm not shooting a movie With you okay and put that thing down That would be That would be fun

There's not a chance I'm ever getting in that thing And you know I will say that thinking about it, that's why you do the drugs, right? I mean, that's what you go to those after-parties and you just get high, no matter what drug it is. The drug of choice obviously would be

cocaine, not cut with fentanyl. And my guys got that for you right back over here by the other side of the shrimp table. And you just, then you're able to just chat about stuff that doesn't matter. And it just talk the night away with BS, right? And then

you go home. And you look at all the Instagram photos that you posted and go, wow. And you and you and your friends were there and you're going, wow, I didn't realize I was that high. I got to go to the pool. Okay. Goodbye. And I mentioned posting on Instagram.

It looks like they were probably posting on TikTok as well. And I see where they announced that the U.S. and China have reached a framework deal to allow TikTok to continue operating in the U.S. No, we're not applauding that yet. It's going to fall through. I'll believe it when I see it Okay, they've already They've already extended it what

Two or three times And they'll have to get ready to extend it again Unless this deal works out Besson said he was You know they've been talking to Chi Yeah, Chi and China And Trump has helped put the deal together

And it's you know They're two private parties Getting rid of You know TikTok's Chinese owner Bite Dance and a U.S. partner he didn't have any further details and I guess Trump was going to meet with the Chi on, yeah, I keep thinking Chi, that's his name, right?

The head guy from China, Chi Jing-Pang. No, they don't call him that. Oh, he'll kill you for that. It's, uh, Chi-Jing Ming, yeah, he's the president or the head. Besson kept calling him the chair of the party. It's got to be like, I don't know, I just sounded weird. But the announcement came ahead of tomorrow's deadline. Yeah, so, I mean, big deal.

They're just going to, you know, continue it on. And, you know, TikTok has got 170 million users, active U.S. users. And if it shuts down again for less than 24 hours, people will be pulling their hair out. So they're going to continue it. And I just feel like China's going to say, you know, we did agree to that deal when we were talking over the phone. But I've had some time to think about it. And I think we should do this now. and so that'll you know the deal will fall apart i just

hopefully not hopefully not i hope it doesn't and it'll all be all be good and we you can tick-tock you're a little hard away i still am concerned over the whole party chair thing that besson keeps calling him in the clip he kept calling uh jing ping party the party chair and i couldn't i'm not sure if that's a if that's a you know a good thing or if that's like a little dig at Xi Jinping. So according to AI, as Xi Jinping holds three primary official titles in China, General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party,

this is considered his most important title, and the source of his power as the paramount leader of China. He also holds chairman of the Central Military Commission. This makes him the commander-in-chief of the armed forces. He also is president of the People's Republic of China. That's what I hear that one a lot. He's the president of the People's Republic of China. While this is his official title as head of state

and the one most often used by foreign media, right, it is largely ceremonial and the least important of his three main positions. But the combination of these three roles allow Xi Jinping to control the state, the military, and the ruling party, solidifying his status as China's undisputed leader. But that don't say nothing about calling him party chair.

Okay, so I feel like that's best it's a little dig. So if you think you're getting a deal done after you're on national TV, call it, well, like the party chair. We met with the party chair and not with the general secretary or the president. I don't know. I just feel like that's a little dig and I have to go ahead

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Well, let's begin with Robert Redford. Robert Redford dead at the age of 89. Very sad. Robert's been around a long time. He was an actor, a director, he sailed to Hollywood

stardom and turned into classics of his butch casting the Sundance kid, all the president's men, He invigorated American Independent Cinema as the founder of the organization behind the Sundance Film Festival. He died at home surrounded by those he loved. He was at his dump up there in the mountains of Utah dead at the age of 89. I'm sure Robert has a pretty sweet place in Utah. and he has passed away and left us rest in peace to Robert Redford dead at the age of 89.

Then we lost Bobby Hart. Bobby Hart. And you ask yourself, wait, who's Bobby Hart? Bobby Hart was a musician for the monkeys, okay? Hey, hey, we're the monkeys. Yeah, he's dead at the age of 86. Now how bad do you feel you don't remember Bobby Hart? Yeah, that's what I thought.

He wrote songs for the popular six. he's pop band, which consisted of Mickey Dolan's, Davy Jones, and Michael Neesmith, and Peter Tork. So they got all the credit, and Bobby Hart was the guy in the back room making all the hits, okay?

And so, rest in peace to Bobby Hart, dead at the age of 86. It doesn't say, what was the cause of death? He was at his home. Oh, after his health decline, following a hip break last year. Yeah, man, that is

a hard one to overcome when you're in your 80s. I will ask this question, though, and I've asked it before about these hip breaks, okay? So this is actually a question that my man, Travis, who is Chris Cruz's father-in-law,

he, what a good guy, what a great guy, he's having heart surgery today, as a matter of fact, and I'd like to have all your prayers go to him today. I mean, who among us hasn't had a heart surgery, right? So he's going to be fine, I'm sure.

But, I mean, holy cow. He also is the... He's also a big part of Conroe taxidermy down there in the Woodlands here in Texas. He's a big part of Mercury 1. So, Travis, good well soon. Let's get back on your feet. And as I said before, who among us hasn't had heart surgery.

Now, let's get back to, now that I've been sidetracked, let's get back to Bobby Hart. Oh yeah, because he died and he had a hip break, which led me to Travis, because Travis was the one who first talked to me about his thoughts of, is it a hip break? Or, you know, people always say, well, they fell and broke their hip.

Well, he believes that people don't fall and break their hips. What happens is their hip breaks and then they fall. Okay, so it's something to do. You don't fall and break your hip. Your hip breaks and you fall. And so you need to make sure that you're doing things to keep your hips strong. Like, you know, sit in a recliner for eight, ten hours a day.

It's always good. It's always good. So, you know, your bones weaken and then your bones break, right? And so I just, it's a fascinating thought because people always say, you know, now they're calling it a hip break, right? They're not, and people have, well, he fell, broke his hip. Eh, I feel like, I feel like his hip broke and he fell.

Anyway, get well soon, Travis, and rest in peace to Bobby Hart, who has passed away at the age of 86. And then we have veteran Canadian journalist and the CTV news anchor Beverly Thompson has died of cancer at the age of 61. She has fought this disease for 23 years, according to this story. So I don't know that, I guess she's 61. I mean, holy cow.

She's been fighting cancer for that long, 23 years? Wow. She died Sunday morning, surrounded by her loved ones. She was diagnosed with Brett's cancer in 2002. After her diagnosis, she became an outspoken. an advocate for cancer research and successfully led fundraisers for breast cancer. She was regarded with great respect for more than a 30-year career and one of the most recognized broadcasters in Canada.

So rest in peace to Beverly Thompson, who has died apparently from cancer at the age of 61. You know, in the past couple weeks, we've talked a lot about people that you don't really want to share the earth with. You can't believe that you're sharing the earth with those people. And all of us have said that. It's just a matter of who those people are, right? So I'm reading this story about this guy, Timothy Taylor, traveled from North Carolina. This actually, let's see, this happened back in 2023. All right, so I don't want to share the earth with Timothy, okay?

Timothy traveled from North Carolina to Schenectady, New York. That is gorgeous this time of year. Fatally stabbed his ex-wife to Sean Fogholtz Taylor at her home. That was after she already allegedly murdered his current wife in Brooklyn and said he felt bad after he killed his first wife because his ex-wife deserved it more. so that's when he drove to synectady and took care of her

Schenectady right I said that right I don't want people in Schenectady to get all upset of me Amorpha Fallis Yeah no they don't say it like that But I would just say that he's He faced his 22 years To life in prison

That's where he belongs And I don't want to share the earth with him But we'll have to share it with him As long as he's over there in prison But if he's out on the streets do we do not want that. But it is funny to me that after

it doesn't say anything about the death penalty for Timmy. He's going to be in life in prison. That's it. It should be the death penalty though. I mean, he's killed two people. He's a serial killer. And the I just found it struck me it struck me funny

that he would kill his first wife and then think to himself man. Or he killed his second wife and then think to himself, shoot, the first wife deserves this more than she does. I got to drive over there and kill her. It's not funny. It's not funny at all and stop your laughing.

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by region. See app for details. Congratulations to Arthur Z. And if he pronounces it differently, it's spelled S-Z-E. Okay, if he pronounces it differently, I apologize. But to me, S-Z-E is Z. Now, he was named the 25th U.S. Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress. And the author will begin his laureateship duties on October 9th when he reads one of his pieces in the library's historic Coolidge Auditorium. Tickets for the event are still available,

and you can buy them at LOC.gov starting, let's see, September 18th. Oh, so tickets aren't even on sale yet. It's calm down. Okay. So the latest U.S. Post laureate is here. 25th. News comes after Z-74, won the libraries, 2024, Rebecca Johnson-Bobbitt National Prize for poetry.

That's where we must have talked about them there, because I'm reading about this guy wouldn't be in this Florida and I'm like, I think I talked about this guy before. That must have been it. I must have congratulated him on his win of the Rebecca Johnson Bobbitt

National Prize for Poetry. So his duties will begin on October 9th when he reads one of his pieces into the historic Coolidge Auditorium and can't wait for that. Z, who also a translator aims to translate poetry from other languages

during his time as a poet laureate. He is the son of Chinese immigrants and as a sophomore who decided to leave MIT to pursue a dream of becoming a poet. I mean, that's the deal, right? Live out your dreams. I guess he lives in Santa Fe now. Good for him, though.

Good for him for, you know, laying down the gauntlet and saying, no, I... Mom and dad, I don't want to be an engineer from MIT. I'm going to be a poet, darn it. And you can't stop me. And, you know, thankful for us. He became a poet. Now he's part of the U.S. Poet Laureate, the Library of Congress.

Okay, so I would like to read one of his poems. Now, I don't know which poem he's going to read when he reads it there at the Cool Age Auditorium. But this one is the first poem that popped up when I searched for it, and it's called Downwind. Okay, so there may be better. There may be worse. I don't honestly I don't know this is the first one that popped up and it's got like three paragraphs or three refrains or whatever you call the poetry so it means it's not too long okay when the it's called downwind from uh arthur z

i don't know if i need music yet i don't know if it's good enough for that just wait and see keep that on keep that on hand though okay uh when the air clears after days of smoke you year to swim in an alpine line lake that mirrors clouds and wash the scent of burned pines from your hair. From the west, smoke has traveled a thousand miles, the point of ignition where a pine snapped a transmission line. When the air, how good is it so far, I know. When the air clears after days of smoke, you notice the serrated edges along apple leaves.

Locate a point of ignition in a word, a jab, a man chocks, a cue stick, and slamming the white ball into a pyramid of balls, feels for a millisecond, a point of ignition, and surge in the clatter. All right, we need the music for the final refrain here. Let's bring that up a little bit, okay? Just bring it down a little bit.

Just bring it down a little bit. Just so it's there. When the air clears after days of smoke, you believe you were simply casualty, downwind. But as you hold a Rubik's cube of time in your hands, the orange

sunrise is nowhere everywhere and damn that pieces are pieces you cannot flip back downwind from poet laureate Arthur Z congratulations Arthur for being a Poet Laureate

the 25th Poet Laureate oh man just so good so good I hate to end the show with the joke of the day that's just so darn good but now well we'll do it anyway This joke of the day comes from Brian Brian sent it into chewing the fat at the blaze.com

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