Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It’s a Good Idea!... | 7/3/25

Episode Date: July 3, 2025

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So instead of telling people, hey, I need the money, chasing offers, he launched a $1 raffle to win the house. and he got $2 million. He sold $2 million tickets worldwide, which is awesome. So the winner gets the house for a dollar, and he gets the $2 million. What a great idea. And I would say that this is probably ongoing because I know that this is a, you know, social media kind of deal, but I would guess do it now.

And I don't think that it matters if it's a huge estate or a, you know, a, a, you know, a lesser home than an estate. If your house is worth, you know, $500,000, hey, we'll give it away for a dollar. Buy a raffle ticket and we'll give it away. And you sell, you know, a million raffle tickets for a dollar, non-refundable, of course. And so if you don't get the amount of money that you want

with the addendum at the bottom, this may be canceled at any time. And so if you only get, you know, a couple hundred thousand, you're like, well, I walk away with a couple hundred thousand. and I still am left with the house. Just a great idea, I thought. So just something to think about. I bet the real estate agents are not happy about this.

That's for sure. But if you have a place to sell and you are not going to get the money that you think the place is worth might not be a bad idea to start that dollar raffle and let the winner walk away with the house, but you walk away with the raffle money.

I know, right? Welcome. Welcome. chewing the fat. If you're listening live, today is the third of July 2025, one day away from our 249th birthday in the United States of America. I did not know that the July 4th holiday is one of the most dangerous times of the year for truckers and the serious risk for major cargo thefts over the holiday period.

Something to think about. increased theft risk during this holiday. This cargo net warns of a significant spike in cargo thefts during the July 4th holiday, with data for the last four years showing 106 thefts, averaging $257,8662 per incident, particularly targeting high-value goods like electronics and alcohol. So criminals exploit the extended holiday weekends when facilities, are closed using methods like fictitious pickups, identity theft, California, Texas, and Florida, being the top states for theft incidents.

So if you're a stakeholder, you may want to enhance some security measures. Maybe you lock down those trailers a little bit better. Maybe you make sure that you have some kind of tracking device on every trailer just in case, because who knows, it may be when you drive it down the road, going to Aunt May's house for the 4th of July, and you see all those truckers on the road,

many of them may be stolen. But then you have to, you know, you have to move the product that you stole the electronics and the alcohol, and sometimes that becomes difficult. That's why when watching the documentary Animal Kingdom, they want to rob for cash and jewelry, because jewelry is easier to fence and pawns,

off and cash of course you keep for yourself and you just have to wash it a little bit when you have excess cash but just be careful out there that's all if you're uh you know if you're a cargo company could be a good time to pay extra attention over the holiday and i bet that the fourth holiday is not the biggest they claim you what in the last four years they had 186 thefts i bet when you start looking at the numbers uh that other holidays are worse than the fourth but anyway, you know, heads up. And yesterday, you know, we had the Diddy verdict come down and the three big charges were not guilty and then he had two that he was guilty of.

And he had planned on getting out on bail. Nope. Sorry about it. The judge denied Diddy bail. So he still is in jail because of his propensity for violence. Holy cow. we've let, you know, possible murderers out. Out on bail.

But Diddy can't get out on bail? He's been in prison or in jail since September of last year. And now they don't even have a sentencing date set until October of this year. And he still has to remain in jail. Wow. Okay. Now, I know they did talk to the judge about. moving up the sentencing hearing.

So I think they have a meeting the 8th of this month, a few days away, to take a look at it and give a new sentencing date. But there still is no actual sentencing date other than October officially sent. And he's still sitting in jail? Wow, that is, it doesn't seem right. It just doesn't seem right. And I got it. He's a douchebag.

I know. And, you know, a lot of people don't care about Diddy. I know. But it just doesn't seem fair. Something is off with this. And I did love the crowd outside the courtroom yesterday. No Rico, Freiko. And they're pouring baby oil all over themselves.

Come on. No, Rico, Freiko. And let's pour baby oil all over herself. We're happy for Diddy. Okay. Codown. We may as well stick with crime for a little bit, only this is a crime from, I don't know,

a state, the state of California. They just signed off on something. If you leave your crypto untouched for three years in a platform like any exchange, they can take it. Wait, what? Yes. No login, no movement, no activity.

The state labels it abandoned. And it has the right to. to grab it and sell it. How about no? It doesn't matter if it's Bitcoin, Eurythium, or some other coin. This new rule doesn't touch self

custody wallets, just the ones on platforms. So it passed without a single vote against 78-20, and now it's heading to the Senate. So it's not a law yet, but it's coming. Do you foresee the Senate saying no to this in

California? Yeah. The answer to that would be no. So that is a crime. And I don't know that it's constitutional, but do they care? What's the other answer I'm looking for? Oh yeah. No. You know, I learned something new yesterday. And I honestly, I did not know this. I've been playing chess for a long time in my life. It's been a while since I've actually played a game of chess. I have the app, an app on my phone that I play once in a while. I have a couple of chess boards. I love chess. I've played for a long time. and I learned about a rule I did not know existed and I'm a little shaken by it

and I learned about the rule because chess.com posted a post on X which they still called Twitter which is weird so it must be an old post but it said dear global chess community yesterday we were informed that Twitter it's X user by the name handle of chess god C-H-S-S-G-O-D

encountered game ruining bug. He contacted us and said, WTF is this BS, kindly informing us of this issue. A pawn has seemingly learned how to capture another pawn directly next to it. This is, of course, BS. No way could a pawn capture a piece like that. And Chess.com says we apologize to anyone else who has encountered this horrible bug and we won't stop until every last cheating pawn is brought to justice. That's funny. And I look at it. to it like, well, what are they talking about? And they're talking about this rule called N. Pissant, which I had never heard of before. And those of you that are chess gods and above the

peasant rate that I am at chess will go, yes, Jeff, it's N Pissant. We can't believe you haven't heard about this. So N Pesant is a special pawn capture. It occurs when an opponent's pawn advances two squares from its starting position, landing beside your pawn on the fifth rank. for white or fourth for black. You can capture it if it's moved only one square, but only on your immediate next move. This prevents pawns from bypassing capture. Which is, you know, so if it's the first move as a pawn,

you can move it one space or two. Now, if you move it two and it ends up right next to your opposing, the opposing pawn, the pawn can slide forward because the pawn can go one space forward or one space forward or one space diagonally. And it goes diagonally. It could go diagonally there. And that takes the pawn,

which shouldn't really happen because the pawn should only be able to go diagonally when it actually takes a piece that's on that square. But according to this rule, with emphasis, it can take that pawn, which is not actually on that square. Anyway, it's a rule. I guess it's been around since, you know,

who knows, the beginning of time. And it's still a valid rule. still a valid move. And those of you that don't play chess are like, what are you, hell are you talking about? And those of you that are, you know, like I said, way past my peasant rating on chess are saying, yeah, we knew about it, Jeff, you're an idiot.

But I have never, you learn something new every day. Now I'm ready to sit down and play chess because I've got a new rule. 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.

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biggest chain in China. And it is now in the United States of America. Almost seems like we shouldn't allow that, but you know, whatever, it's America. So the chain opened in 2017, surpassed the number of stores Starbucks had in China in 2019. It now has 22,000 locations in China. Okay. In 2023,

luggage revenue in China exceeded what Starbucks made there for the first time. And I guess they had some kind of scandal in 2020, some accounting scandal. Uh-huh. And so they got booted from the NASDAQ. I guess everything's fine now. No worries. But I guess since Luckin has been, you know, coming on strong, Starbucks has not really looked good in China.

And then they tried to present themselves as the high-end coffee in China. That did not work out well at all. People preferred the cheaper alternative. And so now Luckin is in the United States of America. It has now, obviously, Starbucks. is a mainstay in the United States, but they've been kind of struggling and trying to change the rules

and figure out what's going on. And now they're going to have, I mean, there's coffee shops everywhere. I get it. But not really that have, I don't think any have a real idea how to beat Starbucks. It looks like Luckett does have a way to beat Starbucks.

And maybe that's only because it's in China and the United States is a different ball game. But I'm sure Starbucks is, you know, busy looking over their shoulder for sure. I hate to talk about this. You know, as we're heading into a holiday weekend, like to be a little upbeat, but we have some news about

there's FedEx is laying off employees in North Texas. Only about 131. If you're one of the 131, though, you don't feel like it's only 131 employees at this North Texas facility. Microsoft. This is talking about laying off

another 9,000 employees. Wow, they just laid off like 6,000 two or three months ago. And they're laying off another 9,000? Okay, I guess Bill has to pay for another wedding to go to. Just a joke, just a joke. And I see where Meta, you know, this story's been in the fat pile for a couple of days. Meta announces their super intelligence labs focusing on AI models that rival human intelligence. And I think we've talked about this a little bit before.

and apparently META is out there poaching workers from, I hope some of the workers at Microsoft can, you know, hop over to the superintelligent labs. But Open AI is where Zuckerberg and META is really poaching their AI scientists or developers. And apparently Open AI is giving employees a week-long vacation, mandatory. Please, we want you to have a good time. Go, get out of here because we do. not want metta poaching any more of our employees. So go. Have a good time. Take care. We love you. Go take a week on us. Take care. Good luck with that. Good luck with that.

Oh, and sad news. This is almost unbelievable news. Del Monte Foods. Del Monte Foods. I mean, if you don't have a can of green beans or some kind of vegetable from Del Monte Foods in your pantry, what kind of out-American are you? They filed for, maybe you don't now, maybe that's the reason why. They filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Wow, they're looking for somebody to buy them out. Del Monte Foods. And they, according to this, they have 2,780 employees, four factories, two in the U.S., two in the U.S., two in Mexico. Well, I would, I would have bet Del Monte had more employees than that. Wow. I mean, they were founded in California in 1886. Wow. I mean, canned vegetables, canned fruit, Del Monte. So they have the canned fruit, the namesake in vegetables. They also have Contradina College Inn and Joyba. And it sells under private labels as well. I guess their business has been shrinking, which is really weird.

And so they're looking to, they filed for bankruptcy and they're looking to sell because at times are tough at Del Monte. Pretty incredible. I mean, I guess that the store brands aren't what Del Monte is doing under the private labels. I kind of thought they were, but maybe not. Maybe the store brands are like, we're doing it ourselves and we don't need Del Monte. And maybe that's the problem. Okay. And they're trying to blame some of the tariffs on, you know, steel and aluminum.

for the canned goods, but that's affecting even the store brands. So it just, I just, it's just amazing to me that Del Monte, been around forever, seemingly forever, is now probably going to go away. Wow, just really sad. All right, be sure to follow me on my social media at Jeffrey JFR on X, Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher on YouTube. You can order a cameo from me. At Jeffie JFR on the Cameo app.

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But that is a little distressing to me, which, uh, leads me to believe that perhaps the normal Saturday morning live show with Brad Stags and myself will not happen this Saturday. So we'll have to see. But usually we do Saturday morning live at 9 a.m. Central, which you can watch on my ex account at Jeffie JFR. Brad puts it on some other platforms, but really the only one I care about is my ex account at Jeffey JFR. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So yesterday, the second of July 2025, the Old Guard 2 movie dropped on Netflix, and I did watch it yesterday.

And I enjoyed the heck out of it. I love these two movies. The first one is Old Guard and Old Guard 2. And, you know, Charlize Theron is the main old guard. Although Uma Thurman was in this one. as the oldest immortal. And the girl that became immortal in the first old guard, we learn is the final immortal,

at least according to Uma Thurman, who plays the oldest immortal. They gave her the name of Discord. I don't like that. It should have been a better name than that, but they didn't ask. And I always thought they did another recap of how, you know, they became immortal, how long they've been immortal,

you know, it had to do with their girlfriend. They obviously, you know, the oldest immortal got the girlfriend that was in the tomb in the ocean, you know, for, I don't know, 500 years, 500 years, waking up, realizing you're in this tomb, screaming and hollering and thinking about hope that someone's going to find you, and then you're dead, you're drowned. And then you come back to life because you can't die. And so, I mean, it's just madness.

There's no doubt about that. So it should have been a series You watch the original Old Guard And they show you the history That the CIA guy Found on Charlize And all the good

That the immortals are doing And that should have been a series I don't know why it wasn't I'm always disappointed I talked about it before I should just write I just write it and put it to them And say why isn't this a series

But it was well worth to watch Wellworth, and they set it up for an Old Guard 3. Will that happen? I don't know. It took years. It's been four or five years since the first one was out. So we're going to wait another four or five years. Charlie's there, and I like Charlize, but she's what?

She's almost 50 now. So she's getting a little long in the tooth. She doesn't think that, though. I was just reading a story. She, of course, did an interview with, what's her face? from the Call Her Daddy podcast, which is making a fortune. But in that podcast, she talked about, I recently had sex with a 26-year-old,

and it was really amazing. And I've never done that like that before. Uh-huh. Okay, sure. I believe you, Shirley. She's not married now, and apparently on the podcast she talked about having relationships, but she doesn't really want to get married.

And she said that she's having the kind of sex that she never had. in her 20s and 30s. Uh-huh. And she gave dating app advice. She said, I don't like the apps, but guys, the pictures are just horrible. It's a clown show.

Come on. She said, don't do it. Don't do Burning Man photos. No photos of you with other women. I don't want to know that you have other girlfriends. And no selfies in the closet within your jean jacket. Kind of funny, actually.

And good advice. It also talks in this story. This article about her children, which I did not know that she had kids. She has two daughters, which she adopted. And it says in the story, it's funny, to me, anyway, that she's trying to raise her kids. And, you know, she realizes that her kids are really important. And that's good. I 100% like that about her.

But they talked about how she got the kids. and it was really kind of strange wording. I had never heard that wording before. It says that she has these two daughters that are adopted. Jackson, who she adopted in 2012 and August, whom she brought home in 2015. I just, I just brought her home. Yeah, she's my daughter now.

I never, okay, all right, I don't know. if she's adopted or if we just stumbled across her on the street and said, yeah, come out home. You're living with me now. And she said they don't care about her Oscars or anything. Yeah, uh-huh. I bet they don't until they do. And you pretty much know they're adopted because they're two African-American children.

And so, and they're not mixed as far as I can tell. they're not actually her children? Oh, yes, they are, Jeff. She adopted one, and the other one she just brought home. Okay. All right. She's raising them, though, and she's trying to raise them right, so I guess good for her. But really, really weird.

And we finally got the actual renewal of the bear, season five. See, I miss, I was thinking, I was reading about this, they finally greenlit season five for the bear, and they just released season four and not long ago. And I thought that they had greenlit seasons four and five, but they had actually greenlit seasons three and four, you know, after season two. So they had never renewed season five, but they have now.

So we get another season of the bear. Good. When that will happen, who knows. And we talked yesterday about AMC adding commercials, more commercials, to their previews before the movie. before the movies actually start. And I guess it was a pretty good idea.

But then today we see why, because they just secured a $223 million new funding package and they were able to restructure their debt as they try to recover from the resurgent box office. Okay, all right, good luck. God bless. I know. If the ads make it happen, good for them. but I just, I feel like there's more of movie theaters struggling than they are making it.

We've got the CMX cinemas down in Miami, right? They have that whole luxury experiences, state-of-the-art technology. They apparently are facing shutting down. There's the Chicagoland movie theater, Cinemax Holdings, I guess, in Chicago. I think they're shutting down. Just really straight. time for the movie theater business. And I know Tom Cruise saved him and all.

He's going to get his special Oscar. But did he? Did he? We'll see. Because I want to go see Jurassic Park, the latest Jurassic Park in theaters this weekend. It opened yesterday. I really do want to see Jurassic Park rebirth in theaters.

However, if I were not to see it in theaters, let's say I don't get there this weekend, which is, you know, a possibility. Then will I be completely bummed? well yeah I'll be bummed that I missed it but as soon as it's on streaming I'll be watching it at my house which is what I prefer in the first place

so I get I mean movie theaters I told you already how to help save yourselves okay I don't care about the commercials fine add the commercials no problem you need to do a better job on the local commercials but you know you can email me to in the fat of the blaze

dot com I'll help you out with that and you know and your national ad campaigns before the movies but what you need to do, instead of lowering ticket prices and having people come in during the day or at night, late or whatever with cheaper ticket prices, you need to lower your prices on your food. But Jeff, that's where we make our money.

I know. But it needs to be an idea that is driven home so that people show up and know that they're not going to spend $8 billion on popcorn. and Twizzlers, and then, you know, they'll show up for a cheap, you know, buy one, get one free popcorn night, buy one get one free, snack plus free soda, something so that it gets them in there to the theater. But what do I know? Nothing is what I know. Nothing. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well,

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Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Eric Tarpinian Jackham, 21, of Granbury, Massachusetts. Rest in peace to Eric. He was an intern in Washington, D.C., and was shot by a stray bullet. It wasn't meant for him.

Oh, okay. So it wasn't meant for him? That makes it okay? No, I don't think it does. Police said that they found him unconscious and suffering gunshot wounds after they responded to reports of gunfire in Washington, D.C. Huh, go figure. So apparently, Eric and an unnamed woman and a 16-year-old boy were transported to a local hospital

where authorities said the college students succumbed to his injuries. So rest in peace. Man, we've got to do something with Washington, D.C. I don't know what, but something's got to be done. you know what something's got to be done with america we're celebrating 249 this is going to be the 250th next year is going to be awesome so rest in peace to eric tarpinian jacum jacch y a c h y m if i'm pronouncing it wrong i apologize dead at the age of 21 we have another death out of an airplane as well now they didn't name the victim and they really didn't name the airline which is really weird so this was a flight

from Dubai to Sydney, Australia. Okay. And one passenger apparently suddenly died just before landing. And so the ambulance was summoned to the Sydney airport. And the victim was treated by paramedics as soon as the flight touched down, but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Now, they believe that the man died of natural causes. Wait, he wasn't poisoned, stabbed.

or anything from the plane? No. And they held all the passengers. The passengers could not disembark. I would be so angry. I'm sorry the guy died. Here's my name. In fact, you know my name because I'm on this airline

and I'm on this flight. I have anything to do with this death. I got to go. Okay? They waited at least an hour. There were multiple reports of two hours waiting for this to be done with before they let these passengers disembark.

Man, I would be so angry. I am sorry. Rest in peace to the guy who died. I don't wish that on anyone. I didn't want him to die whether he was on an airplane or not. But I got to go where I got to go. So let's go ahead and move on with our lives. Okay, you can investigate, do your thing there, Sydney Police,

but I'm out of here. Take care. I'll think, David, I'd probably be arrested. And another story, which is going to be happening over the next couple of days, which is really going to be sad. We're going to have fireworks explosions and people are going to die. Well, at this Esparto area fireworks show, we still have seven people on accounted for and two were injured.

The explosions and the fire caused evacuations and power outages. It was at this fireworks facility. Holy cow. And some of the footage is just amazing, this massive bloom, black smoke. Whenever these fireworks wearhouses blow up or where they make the fireworks, man, you have some serious damage and it's not good. And seven people are unaccounted for. They are probably dead.

So rest in peace to them. I saw an interview with one of the workers' girlfriends, and she had not heard from her boyfriend, but he was supposed to be off. It's really sad, really sad. So they're hoping that, you know, that he's still alive. And maybe he, you know, had left and was someplace else. But we don't know. Devastating pyrotechnics updated its website saying our hearts and thoughts are with those we lost,

their families, and everyone impacted in our community. Yeah. And we don't know what happened or how it happened. But that is not good. You can quote me on that. When fireworks factories blow up, it is not good. And speaking of life and death, I see where the first complete human genome

from ancient Egypt sequenced, 4,800-year-old DNA reveals ancestry was 80% North African and 20% Massopotamian. Okay. Great. I'm glad that we did that. And also, as far as we're talking about, the genetic sequencing. The genetic ancestry

linked to the risk of contracting severe cases of dengue fever. See, this is the kind of genetic testing that we need. I'm okay. Yeah, okay. The ancient Egypt people were, you know, North Africa and

Massopotamium. Got it. But this particular genetic ancestry sequencing is good for us. We found out that contacting severe cases of dengue Fever, the findings partially explained the wide variability in cases. Dengue fever kills 20,000 people, at least 20,000 people a year.

We need to find out why. We need to find out why. And if it's genetic testing and we find out, oh, yeah, you've got the gene that's going to get you dengue fever. Maybe you do something about it. Maybe you stay. Here's a helpful hint for everyone, whether you have the gene that gives you severe cases of dengue fever or not. Maybe you stay away from areas that

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but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Good news for some of the people that have sport jackets made from the country of Vietnam, of which I am one, one of my favorite sport jackets of all time, was made in Vietnam. President Trump announced the trade deal with Vietnam. So American goods entering Vietnam will not be subject to tariffs, while Vietnamese imports will still be assessed 20% tariff,

which is down from 46%. So we'll be getting a few more Vietnamese products in here. And if they continue to, you know, make good sport jackets, then I'm all in. I have one of my support jackets. I love the sport jacket. I don't think it fits me anymore because I may have, you know, gained a couple of pounds. It was made of Vietnam. I love that sport jacket. And then at my one outdoor jacket that I have, kind of a windbreakerish jacket, but it does have some lining.

It was made in Ukraine. And I love that jacket. So two countries that I have jackets from that, you know, I love. And one is from Ukraine and one is from Vietnam. Anyway, congratulations. We got a deal with Vietnam. Or is it Nam? Man, we've come a long way since the Vietnam War.

Haven't we? Yes. Why, yes, we have. All right. Let's, again, you know, we're celebrating the birthday of the United States of America, right? I mean, hello. Tomorrow marks 249 years

since the second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. Founding father, second president, John Adams. He thought we should celebrate it on July 2nd. No. Sorry about that. We're not doing it.

We're doing it. We're celebrating on July 4th, okay? 1776. Okay, that's what we're doing. We have 13 colonies with 2.5 million people, 50 states now with 14 territories, and over 342 million people. Wow, that's amazing.

And we're all connected by 5,000 airports. ports, 4 million miles of roads, 140,000 miles of train tracks, and 5.5 million miles of power lines. That's America today, damn it. We don't care about those 13 colonies. We've got 50 states and 14 territories. We need to add a couple more territories to that.

Greenland and Canada come to mind. But for right now, we have 50 states and 14 territories. So there's that we have going for us. So have a great Fourth of July. Okay. I was looking at some of the patriotic trivia. Everybody's putting out. And I thought, okay, well, that's kind of interesting.

You know, who ruled England when the colonies established independence? King George III. How many people were estimated to be living in the colonies? I just told you that. Two and a half million. That's right. Which city hosted the first official Independence Day? celebration on July 4th, 1777. My wife blabs to be this.

Philanalfia. Philanalfia. That's my hometown. We have to live there. Ugh. And then, when was the first Fourth of July celebration held at the White House? July 4th, 1801. You're right. Thomas Jefferson was president. Who has the oldest 4th of July parade? According to this, Bristol, Rhode Island. Yeah, I didn't know that one either. And what was the first state to declare the 4th of July a state holiday? Massachusetts, of course.

And the year that the 4th of July was declared a national holiday, should have been from day one, 1870. So there's a couple of, just a couple of trivia questions from the United States of America. Let's get out here. I was looking at, I was going to go down this list of the, best hot dogs in America. I'm not doing that because I got a little angry at the list and did not mention Kogel hot dogs from Michigan.

And if Kogel hot dogs is not on a list of some of the best hot dogs in this country, then it's not a real list because Kogel hot dogs are the best. The Kogel Viannas are the best hot dogs in America. Bar none, according to me. There are some that are good and they're close to Kogels, but they're not Kogels. And that's the brand. and that's an unpaid commercial for gogels. You can order them online.

They'll deliver them right to your house. Because apparently 150 million hot dogs and sausages will be eaten on the 4th of July. And we've got the big hot dog eating contest too. See how many Joey Chestnut can pound down tomorrow. Looking forward to that. All right, let's get out here with the joke of the day. Number four, the fourth joke of the day from Jay. It's a week-long celebration of Jay's jokes that he told us was they were from

Sherpman, and I'm not real sure again what Sherpman or who Sherkman is, but Jay said that's where these are from. Now, we gave you the Jimmy Crack Corn and no one cares, and they're not really jokes. They're more thoughts, you know, ways of thinking about things. Like if Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a stupid song about him? That was Monday. If corn oil, yesterday, thanks to the Diddy Trial,

If corn oil is made from corn and vegetable oil is made for vegetables, what is baby oil made from? I know. I know. That's in honor of the Ditty trial. And then Tuesday was, Why Does Round Pizza Come in a Square Box? We all know the answer to that.

And today will be the statistics on sanity is that one of every four persons, if, I'm sorry, the statistics on, if I can say the word even, the statistics on sanity is that, that one of every four persons is suffering from some sort of mental illness. So think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you. I mean, I'm pretty sure that we all know it's you, right?

We do. We know it's you. Yeah, yeah, we do. All right, I'll give you the Fourth of July, joke of the day and get out of here. All right. What do you call? This comes from. from Denny, who emailed the show Chewing the Fat

at the Blaze.com. What do you call a duck that bursts into flames? Come on, you know it. I don't know, Jeff. What do you call a duck that bursts into flames? A fire quacker. Have a happy and safe fourth

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