Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It’s Good For Now… | 5/4/23

Episode Date: May 4, 2023

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of public health epidemic. He said half of U.S. adults experience loneliness. And that can be as dangerous as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day. Hmm. Research over the years has also found isolation can lead to sleep issues, depression, anxiety, heart disease, stroke, and dementia. The pandemic only exasperated these problems. Now, in an 82-page advisory, which I have not fingered through yet, Murthy outlined a framework to repair social

connection. It recommends boosting social infrastructures with volunteer organizations, public transportation, and green spaces. It also encourages the government to track and stop harmful policies. How about harmful products and harmful services? Yeah, those further isolate people. So I'm not sure how they're going to pay for that, but this comes during Mental Health Awareness Month. So happy mental health awareness month. And remember to get out there and stop being lonely. Because if you're lonely, it's the same as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. I find that hard to believe.

But you know what? He's the U.S. Surgeon General. So who am I? Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So loneliness may cause dementia, and a way to get around that is to use the internet. You write a study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society. And do I love the Journal of the American Geriatric Society?

I can't wait for that to arrive at my mailbox. suggested that older people who regularly use the internet were less likely to develop dementia. So show your grandparents or your great grandparents how to post on Instagram. Make sure they send a birthday message on Facebook, okay? Okay, that would be great. And getting them to use the internet may help their brain. health as well. Researchers saw this association after about eight years of tracking 18,154 adults between the ages of 50 and 65 who did not have dementia when the study period began.

The adults were part of the Health and Retirement Study, a multidisciplinary collection of data from the representative sample of people in the U.S. that is gathered by the National Institute on aging in the Social Security Administration. Thank you. Each of the participants was asked a simple question. Do you regularly use the World Wide Web or the Internet? Isn't that the same thing? For sending and receiving email or for any other purpose, such as making purchases,

searching for information, making travel reservations, or, I don't know, looking at porn. They don't mention that, but I guess that would be using the Internet. People who use the Internet at the start of the study, had about half the risk of dementia as people who were not regular users. That's pretty incredible. The researchers also looked at how often these adults were online from not all to more than eight hours a day.

Those who used the internet for about two hours or less a day had the lowest risk of dementia compared with those who didn't use the internet. Okay. So if I'm on it for eight hours a day, what is that? Oh, well, it tells you. People were online six to eight hours a day had a higher risk of dementia. So the happy medium is a couple of hours.

Oh, boy, I'm in trouble. Scientists still don't know what causes dementia. So the new research can't really pinpoint the exact connection. Well, okay. So we're just guessing. We've done this study, and we're just guessing. Okay, this is what the study is. That's great.

Online engagement may help to develop and maintain cognitive reserve, which can in turn compensate for brain aging and reduce the risk of dementia. That is the words of co-author, Dr. Virginia W. Chang, Associate Professor of Global Public Health at New York University School of Global Public Health. Now, all that time that they used to study, I mean, it was eight years and over 18,000 people, the study did not look at what people were exploring online. You know, were you looking at cat videos, were you looking at conspiracy theories?

That all can be intellectually stimulating. So some studies have shown that intellectual stimulation may help to prevent dementia. Okay. A 2020 study founded an association between cognitively stimulating jobs and a lower risk of dementia, for example. Okay, well, that's great. As for people, it's natural for brain processing speeds to slow a little, and it may get harder to remember what's on all those open browser tabs on your computer. Now, but if you just slide the mouse over it, it tells you what the tab is. That's amazing. About 6.2 million people, 65 and older, has Alzheimer's disease.

Wow, that's too many. I just want to go out on a limb and tell you that's way too many. The most common form of dementia, which is Alzheimer's, right. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the number is expected to grow ex-opponentially as boomers age. Wow. So right now, I would say that be out of the Internet for a couple hours a day.

And, you know, part, I don't know. And what if you're just listening to podcast? Does that count? Because you're listening on the Internet. I would say that this show, chewing the fat, definitely helps. but you are not developing dementia. I haven't had a study yet, but I will. We're putting a study together with the National Institute on Aging and the Social Security Administration.

I'm hoping I could get Dr. Chang involved in my study because she, of course, is the Associate Professor of Global Public Health at New York University School of Global Public Health. So I would just like to say that listening to chewing the fat each and every day will help you to not develop dementia. Look at science. Okay, that's what it is. And now I guess people in Utah and Louisiana have to worry that they're not going to be online long enough to help with their mental issues because they can't get porn. I know. Apparently Google searches for VPN have skyrocketed.

in Utah this week. Huh, I wonder why. Oh, I know, because you can no longer visit Pornhub from a Utah IP address. So if the state legislation requires porn sites to verify users are over the age of 18, and we talked a little bit about this earlier in the week, but if you fire up incognito mode and head to Pornhub with an IP address in the state of Utah, you'll be diverted to a page that has an adult performer not safe for work reading, a statement from the site that claims giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform

is not the most effective solution to protecting users. Louisiana implemented a similar law at the first of this year, but it has a digital ID program that residents can use to verify their age and access adult sites. I know nobody, nobody visits Pornhub. nobody visits Pornhub, but according to the statistics, 76 million U.S. visitors a day in February alone. So I know that nobody is visiting Pornhub, but someone is. Someone is. I know lawmakers are pushing forward legislation that aims to protect the youth from alleged harmful effects of social media on mental health. Okay, well, isn't social media the Internet?

I mean, we have the study saying that mental health will be helped if you're on the internet for a couple hours a day. So, which is it? Which is it? Oh, that's when you get older. That's not the kids, Jeff. Oh, okay. All right. I know social media companies say that restricting access to their sites is a limit to free speech and push younger users to less safe, more fringe corners of the internet.

Okay. I know that, you know, many porn sites, including Pornhub, would like to have you believe that. So some policy experts also caution that adding age and identity verification would only hand big tech companies even more user data. I'm sure they don't save it. Right? Right. And speaking of the internet, Google, remember last year, released an inclusive language function to flag certain words. and recommended alternatives for writers using its Google Docs program.

When a suspected offensive word is used, the program pops up a message to the writer that reads, Hey, idiot, you don't want to use that? No, it says, inclusive warning. Some of these words may not be inclusive to all readers. Consider using different words. Yeah, how about no? So the computer program, which launched in April of last year,

suggested changing landlord to property owner or proprietor. It also recommended using the term humankind instead of mankind, and it flagged policemen, housewife, and motherboard. And, you know, they are always, according to Google, we're always trying to improve our technology and, you know, helping to identify unwanted word associations and biases. Well, now they have reached out,

to their employees in the United Kingdom. They've sent a new inclusive language dossier to the United Kingdom staff, asking them to stop using terms such as man-hours and you guys. They encouraged employees to refrain from using potentially offensive language. The style guide targeted common IT lingo, including whitelist, black hole, blacklist, and black box can't have that it also asked the staff to avoid referring to people or things as chubby dummy variable i've never heard someone to refer to as dummy variable but i mean i maybe i have over the years or crazy bonkers or mad language guide was specifically sent to

google developers and that's special now the staff uh needs to be more gender inclusive in the workplace and they need to replace the term mad hours with person hours. That's just dumb. When referring to a group of people use non-gendered language such as everyone or folks. Oh, geez.

I mean, this is just nonsense. I know that we've had, according in this story, it quotes, an anonymous Google employee, is anyone anonymous anymore, by the way? An anonymous Google employee

said that we are just, too busy to be concerned with inoffensive terms. Are you, though? Are you? Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Well, today is the day. Not only is it May 4th.

May the 4th be with you. It's also May 4th, the day that we release the movie reopening on Blaze TV. I'm excited to announce that Blaze TV is embarking on a mission to save comedy from the humorous left. And we're launching this mission tonight by releasing the first ever full-length comedy film. As I said, the movie is called Reopening. And it's the kind of comedy flick, Woecollywood would never release.

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So in order to join the fun, head over to blazTV.com slash reopening. Use the promo code reopening and get $20 off your subscription. BlazTV.com slash reopening, promo code reopening. All right, so I forgot to mention, we mentioned this on Pat Unleashed. I've been doing Pat's show, Pat Unleashed on Blueprint. plays television and radio network every day this week and the first couple of days of next week, along with this show. I mean, I give and I give and I give.

Anyway, we talked a little bit about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and the new inductees unveiled the 2023 inductees. And I just wanted you to hear them as well if you did not listen to a Pat Unleashed Overtime. the other day. So the new 2023 inductees have been announced. Under the performer category, you have Kate Bush, Cheryl Crow, Missy

Elliott, George Michael, Willie Nelson, rage against the machine, and the spinners. Wow. I mean, that list right there says rock and roll, doesn't it? George Michael, Willie Nelson, the spinners?

Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. Nothing says rock and roll. that list right there. And then they have the musical influence award, which is going to go to DJ Cool Herk and Link Ray. I mean, I guess Link Ray counts as rock and roll. I mean, one of the top guitar players, I guess, Rolling Stone called him that. I liked, he was more rockability. I think he, they called it Rumble, is the music he was in, but okay, congratulations. Yeah, that was the musical influence award. Then the Musical Excellence Award goes to Chuck a con. Al Cooper and Bernie Toppin. All right, I mean,

Chucka Khan and Bernie Taupin definitely deserve that. I'm not sure if Al Cooper does. And then the Amet Ertagan Award. I love the Amet Ertigan Award. That's going to Don Cornelius. So those are your 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Duck D's. Huh? I know.

I know. So Ruth's Chris Steakhouse, you know them, you love them. If you've never eaten there, I'm sure you've missed out because they're good. I've been very happy with my meals that I've purchased at Ruth's Chris Steakhouse. So the original Ruth's Chris Steakhouse opened in New Orleans in 1927. And it was acquired by Ruth Fertel in 1965, had 154 locations, including 80 company-owned. owned or co-operated restaurants at 74 franchised restaurants. The company now based in Winter Park, Florida, suffered as most restaurants did during the pandemic, closed 23 restaurants, furlowing workers, and executives were taking less pay.

So now they are being sold. Darden is buying Ruth Chris Steakhouse for 715.15. million dollars. Yay! Now, Darden Restaurants, Inc. owns Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, a yardhouse, cheddars, scratch kitchen, the Capitol Grill, seasons 52, Bahama Breeze, and Eddie V's.

And they also now will own Ruth's Chris Steakhouse for $715 million. So congratulations to. Darden Restaurants, Inc. And also Ruth's Griss, for that matter. Speaking of food, I see where Jenny Craig has told employees it's going to shut its doors. Jenny Craig!

Who would have thought about Jenny Craig shutting its doors? After 40 years in weight loss and nutrition business, they're shutting down. An email sent to employees earlier this week said the company said it will close due to its inability to secure additional financing. Jenny Craig corporate and salaried field employees last day will be Friday, which is May 5th, 2023, and the hourly center employees last day was yesterday. For those of you listening live,

that would have been 5'3, 2023. I guess you don't have to be listening live to know that 5-3 was yesterday. Anyway, the company operated about 500 company owned in franchise stores in the United States and Canada. Jenny, I guess HIG Capital acquired Jenny Craig for an undisclosed amount in 2019. So it now employs more than a thousand people. Last week, corporate employees from the company's Carlsbad, California, office received a Warren Act, W-A-R-N Act notice, that the company would be closing the office June 24th, but may close as soon as Friday.

Yeah, we may close on June. You know what? Now, just lock them up right now. The FAQ frequently asked questions was also sent by Jenny Craig to employees, explaining that it would wind down physical operations to transition to an e-commerce model. good luck. Good luck. The past two weeks,

Jenny Craig, has been running out of money and has been searching for a buyer. So, the company's going to file for bankruptcy and we're

closing it down. Now, HIG Capital, which is a $55 billion private equity firm, has not really responded to any questions from anyone.

so okay good luck to Jenny Craig in this story they say the company has faced increased competition recently after a handful of drugs that can help people lose weight

okay so the drugs of the OZEPIC and the other diabetes drugs that people are using to lose weight has nothing to do with what Jenny Craig does I'm sorry

Jenny Craig is a weight loss eat our foods and lifestyle changing company. It doesn't say, hey, take a drug and lose weight. Most people want to take drugs and lose weight, but that's not the way it works. They spend a lot of money on advertising, which could have been an issue. Kirstie Alley, who's dead now. Valerie Burdenelli, Jason Alexander, Mariah Carey. They never talked to Jeff Fisher.

That's one of the weight loss companies I have never done commercials for is Jenny Craig. I know, I know, you'd think they'd want me. I would, I would do it. I would do it. I'm sure it works, fine, but I never, I never worked for Jenny Craig. I never did any commercials for Jenny Craig, which is a little disheartening. So you know what, good. I'm glad they're shutting down.

Not really. I don't want people to lose their jobs. But, you know, maybe I kind of do. With AmX Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only set, satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So who died today?

Who died today? Linda Lewis, singer-songwriter, died at the age of 72. You, of course, remember Linda, who is known for her five-octave vocal range and the ability to perform in a wide array of genres. She enjoyed solo success in the seven. with hits like it's in his kiss and rock a doodle do. Cat Stevens has been paying tribute to her. I mean, she worked with Kat back in the 70s,

and they became friends, and she became his personal support act during the 74 bamboozle tour. Who can't forget about the Cat Stevens' 1974 bamboozle tour? And traveled with his true. across the world. And back at that time, Cat Stevens was a monster. So it was a big deal. So Linda Lewis has passed away at the age of 72. And when I say they became friends, I know there's stories about her sleeping with Cat Stevens for several years on again, off again. She said that she asked her boyfriend if it was okay if she slept with Cat Stevens. And he did not answer.

Of course, he was fast asleep. But she took him. his silence as approval and went ahead with it. And she also described really funny here. She described as taking LSD the night before the Glastonbury Festival at 1970 as

not a sensible move. Yeah. That was not a sensible move before the show. It doesn't say what she died of. So she may have, I guess, been sick. The family is saying, we regret to share the news.

She passed away peacefully at her home. We respect privacy and allow us to grieve at this heartbreaking time. So I don't know what you're thinking she died from, but it isn't that. I mean, I know what you're thinking. And obviously it's not that. So he's not dead, but he's still in the hospital with a medical complication. That's Jamie Fox. We don't know what's wrong.

It doesn't say he was filming his movie with Cameron Diaz, which we talked about. And he's still in the hospital and dealing with his medical complication. I mean, he's been in the hospital for three weeks now since the 11th of April when he went down. So we'll see. I know everyone he posted on Instagram, appreciate all the love, feeling blessed. Okay, well, we know that Nick Cannon and Kelly Osborne, have been tapped to take over his role on beat Shazam. Cannon will host the sixth season, according to the show's Instagram,

while Osborne will be the DJ booth for Fox's daughter, Karen. So we have that. I mean, that show's still going to go on, and Nick is stepping in. He's a busy man. He's a busy man. He's a busy man taking care of business with about 80 kids, and he's a busy man always working.

And I guess if you have that many kids, you have to be always working so you can support the kids. but I will say that this medical complication, again, I know what you're thinking, and it isn't that. Or is it? Congratulations are in order to the world's highest paid athletes, by the way. Coming in at number one, the highest paid athlete for 2023, according to Forbes, Cristiano Ronaldo, 130.

$6 million. Now, he's over in Saudi Arabia. Things aren't going, I don't think things are going too well. He may leave Saudi Arabia. We'll see. The money's awful good, though. The money's awful good. Coming in at number two on the Forbes

Top Town Money List in 2023, Lionel Messi. So, Messi's having some issues too now. He's looking to leave PSG at the end of the season with the, you know, Frontside not planning a new contract.

He was suspended for a couple of weeks after making an un-sanction trip to Saudi Arabia. So we'll see what's going to happen with Lionel. I mean, it's Lionel, Messi. Do what he wants. Number three, Kali and Mbapé, three soccer players

in the top three of the top money earners in 2020. Mbapé made a $120 million. Messy was $130 million. million. Ronaldo, Cristiano, 136 million. Incredible. LeBron James, number one and American, the first top American athlete, at $119.5 million. Then the Canelo Alvarez with 110 million, Dustin Johnson with 107 million. Phil Mickelson, $106 million. Steph Curry, $1004 million. Roger Federer $95.1 million. And Kevin Durant, rounding out the top 10 at $89.1 million.

So congratulations to all those athletes who have done pretty darn good. And Federer is retired. So he's not even, I mean, he's still earning big money. Wow. These guys, man, with appearance. fees and licensing income. Congratulations to these guys, man. Good work. These guys are all, they worked hard for it.

So we'll see. I know that the Live Golf Away break, the golf breakaway made a lot of PGA players. A lot of money. And if you're wondering yourself, hey, who's that Canelo Alvarez?

How come I never heard of him before? He's a Mexican boxer. And he is in the top five with $110 million. And as long as we're talking about money and sports, I see where Snoop Dog, my main man, you know him, you love him,

has joined businessman Neko Sparks in a bid to buy the Ottawa Senators. Because when you think hockey, you think Snoop Dogg. At least I do. Maybe it's just me. So he posted on his Instagram

that he, I'm looking forward to being a part of that ownership team. I want to bring hockey back to our community. So he wants to purchase the Ottawa Senators. Okay. Good

for him. Snoop Dog has 80 million followers on Instagram, by the way, just a side note. That's just a few more than Jeff Fisher Radio has, but I'm getting there. So I'm just telling you you can follow me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. And you can follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR.

And you can follow me on Facebook, Jeff Fisher radio. I am not quite up to the Snoop Dog 80.2 million followers on Instagram, but I'm climbing. I'm getting there. So if you follow me, you'll be helping me get closer to Snoop Dog. So there's a dozen investors that are looking to purchase the Ottawa franchise and it's probably going to reach more than a billion dollars for the Ottawa franchise, which will make it the richest sale in NHL history. And for sure it's going to happen because there's a dozen investors and several investors are people of color. So that will happen. You can count on that. It's hockey season and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost,

almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes. Because those are groceries. And we deliver those. too. Along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol and other everyday essentials. Order Uber eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. So a couple of really cool things. Prehistoric pendant has DNA that reveals the person who held it. It's an innovative method that they have now that reveals that an ancient trinket was handled by a woman some 20,000 years. ago. So they claim that, you know, even Stone Age humans enjoyed the finer things in life,

such as animal tooth jewelry. Duh. Capitalizing on ancient fashion, scientists have extracted DNA from a 20,000-year-old deer tooth pendant to identify the person who presumably either made or wore the ornament, a woman of North Eurasian ancestry. The team developed an elaborate process to extract DNA from the tooth without damaging the priceless specimen. The pendant was on earth in the Denisova cave in Serbia, Russia, which was occupied by various species of hominin over 300,000 years. The study was published in nature today. It's almost like you open a time travel machine, says co-author Elena Essel, a molecular biologist who works on ancient DNA at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

I love the names of these places. With each sample, we are able to learn a bit more and make more inferences about how these people lived. So the animals' genetic material is stored deep within the pores of its bones and teeth. Yeah, we get it. And they were extensively touched as a necklace. It can also carry the DNA of the person

who handled them in the deep past. Previously, it was impossible to associate tools. and jewelry with those who handled them unless the artifact was found near a specific burial. So, Essel and her colleagues got DNA from inside the pores of the ancient pendant by soaking it in an increasingly warm salt solution, which they found did not alter the pendant. And once released, the small amounts of genetic material were sequenced and compared with other sets of ancient DNA. Microprodial DNA, which is handed down from mother to offspring, extracted from the pendant, show the object is roughly not. 19,000 to 25,000 years old, and that the tooth belonged to a wapit. Also known as an elk.

Analysis of nuclear DNA from the ornament suggests that it's been made or worn by a female homo sapiens, whose genetic makeup resembles that of North Eurasian individuals who lived around the same time, but were previously known only from remains found farther east in Serbia. Huh. Now, the co-author Elena Azablo, a geneticist now at the University of California, Berkeley, says that the technique, no word on what she's doing at the University of California.

I'm a little disappointed, but she is a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, says that the technique can connect ancient humans to tools that they created, but unlike other methods, does not destroy the artifact. Okay, that's really cool, and I love it, and I'm all for it, but when do we learn, you know what? Ah, that's wrong.

You know what? That really didn't work the way we thought it did, and we don't know what we're talking about now. Actually, that was a deer tooth that the girl that was working on the site dropped. I mean, I don't want that to happen, but I'm just guessing it probably will. Now we also have news in the Florida Keys, where they have found an underwater 19th century hospital graveyard. Huh. So they found the remains of this 19th century quarantine hospital on what was once an above sea island in the Florida Keys. That's kind of cool. The Dry Tortugas National Park announced the discovery of the archaeological site near Garden Key.

Park official said the hospital was used to treat yellow fever patients from Fort Jefferson between 1890 and 1900. They found the remains of let's leave those people there. How about we just leave those people there? You know what? They had yellow fever, and they're underwater now, either from a storm or it sank, whatever the case. Let's just leave those people there. It's already submerged. I know we're all crazy about, hey, we want cultural resources and we want to get down there and let's find out what it was.

No, no, thank you. I just say leave it there. They've found one grave, I guess, has been identified. It belonged to a laborer, John Greer, who died 1861, November 5th, 1861, of unknown causes while working at Fort Jefferson. How about we leave dear old John right where he's at? I'm sure he was a fine guy. I'm sure he was a hard worker. He was working at the hospital there, taking care of the old yellow fever patients that were coming in from

Fort Jefferson and I'm sure that he died completely of unknown causes, but let's just leave it there. Okay. I mean, he had a headstone. So he was, I mean, they knew it and that we found the headstone and it bore his name. So that's kind of cool. He was, you know, it was a Fort Jefferson post cemetery and it held the graves of dozens of people and soldiers. Okay, that's great and it's cool. But, you know, these people were in prison.

during the Civil War Fort Jefferson also served as a naval coaling outpost, a lighthouse station, an upper quarantine facility. We used to send people there. Hey, we don't like you. Go there. So how about we leave all those people there?

Yep, we know it's there. And we can take people to diving tours. That's what we can do. We could use this particular site to have diving tours. And it's a good way to make a little for the parks and the Florida Keys. Yes, you can jump in and we'll rent you.

You can go down and take a look at it for money. And we'll make a little money for the parks. But let's not bring anything up. Okay, let's leave it right where it's at. Thank you. And I can't promise anything, but it's possible that very soon I could not be doing chewing the fat anymore. I got an email from Brian Smith at the, from the email address. DR Treasury Department at Gmail.

And Brian has written a letter to me in this email. Or it's an email, not a letter. Same thing. It says, Dear Friend, he's talking directly to me. I am a personal attorney to Mr. Reynolds, 56 years old divorce with no child, who was into a medical and hospital equipment. He was awarded a contract to supply medical equipment in 2020 here in Canada before he died after a brief illness on 21th May 2020.

I'll just read you as it's printed. Mr. Reynolds, 56 years old divorce with no child who was into a medical and hospital equipment. He was awarded a contract to supply medical equipment in 2020 here in Canada before he died after a brief illness on 21. May 2020. The contract payment has already been paid to him, which he deposited the total sum, $9,500,000 H.SBC Bank. If I can trust you to claim the funds

so we could make a plan for a long-term business relationship. Hello, you just called me, dear friend, I'm in. Particularly the HSBC Bank, where the deceased had an account valued at about $9,500,000, United States dollars. The management has issued me a notice to provide the next of kin, or they will have the account frozen

within the next 10 official working days. I decided to make a search to locate any member of his family, friends, business associate, hence I contacted you. I seek your consent to present you as the next of kin to my client so they can process

this amount valued at $9,500,000 will be paid to you. Then this will be invested into your line of business or can be share between two parties 60% to me and 40% to you after all expenses, if any, in this transaction. Let me know if you agree with the percentage sharing. If you're interested to execute the deal, provide the following information so that I will help you draft an application that will be submitted to the bank. He wants my full name, my phone number, addresses, my age, my current occupation.

I look forward to your cooperation and good investment partnership. Thank you. Yours sincerely, barrister Brian Smith. So, I mean, this could be the end. I'm going to send this off today. And we'll see if I get $9,500,000. I'm not really not. Now, he wants to break it up, split it up with me.

In the beginning of the email makes it seem like you're going to get it all. And then he throws in the old $6,000. 40 split. So, I mean, now I'm looking at, you know, not even half, depending on who gets the 60 and who gets the 40. And is there really $9,500,000? Sadly, I want to believe there is. I want to believe there is.

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