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and if true, I should preface this by If true. In fact, that's probably this entire show. If true. You used to have 17 minutes to escape a house fire. Today, you have just three minutes. to get out before you could burn to death. Now, the dramatic difference comes down to what's inside modern homes.

Newer furniture and building materials, often made with synthetic fibers and plastics, ignite and spread flames much faster than the natural materials like wood and cotton used in decades past. I know! So according to the underwriters' laboratories, and I love them, and they had a demonstration by Rosen reports, which is right there at Underwriters' Laboratories. Awesome.

They showed that a room filled with modern furnishings was engulfed in flames within minutes, while a room styled with older materials took more than 30 minutes to burn. Experts stressed that the importance of having a family fire escape plan and ensuring smoke alarms are functioning, while the furniture industry, points out that, hey, modern materials reduce risk of smoldering fires, which is the most common source of ignition,

the speed of open flame spread remains a serious concern. So you need a quick evacuation at the first sign of the fire. And according to John Drengenberg of U.L. That's a morphophalus. No, that's not what they called themselves. No, they call themselves. underwriters' laboratories, he said,

and I could be a she, but it, they, them, whatever. John Drengenberg said that when your smoke alarm sounds, don't delay, get out immediately, every second truly matters. Holy cow, I mean, if that's true, and you only have three minutes

from when it starts to get out, that's a little frightening. you need to have a plan to get out. My plan would be to, I don't know, maybe toss the wife through the window. That's just a joke. Stop it. But something's going through that window in our bedroom.

If I wake up and there's a fire. No, no. Oh, yeah, well, yeah, you can do that. But then you have to get into the safe to get the gun out. I mean, you've got to throw something through the window. That's all I'm saying. Yeah, not while I'm sleeping. I don't have the gun wrapped on my hip wall.

sleeping what are we 1840 no we do not live in 1840 however uh we do live in a time where it does need to be concerning uh if there's a fire you need to know what you do that's for no that's no joke about that welcome welcome to chewing the fat it's band day uh well actually it's tomorrow but midnight is uh the band day b a n day uh for ticot and So have we heard anything? If you're listening live, today is the 4th of April, 2025. And it's supposed to be the final day. And we've got plenty of businesses now stumbling over themselves to buy TikTok.

The deadline is, well, they say the deadline is tomorrow, but midnight. Today's the last day. And they say that by dance, you've got to sell the app or go dark in the U.S. due to national security concerns. And any deal is subject to White House of Parliament. approval. TikTok is believed to be worth about as much as $100 billion. We talked about Amazon through their hat in the ring to buy it. Zoop is a real startup that did not make the run by Tim Stokely, the founder of Onlyfans.

While H-Barr is a cryptocurrency foundation, Zup co-founder RJ Phillips said he wants creators to benefit directly from the value they generate. So are they going to, you know, they're going to let them in to buy TikTok? Also reportedly in the mix, mobile tech company App Lovin, and who doesn't love App Lovin, Project Liberty, a group headed by the former Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. Mr. Beast put his hat in the ring a while ago. And a private equity investors group led by Andresen Horowitz and Blackstone is reportedly close to earning the White House's blessing. Okay. and I think that Trump has said that he would just extend it. I don't worry about it, just extend it.

I haven't heard anything, though. Maybe, you know, maybe today he comes out and says, oh, by the way, back off me on the tariffs, and we're going to extend the TikTok ban. But I don't know, I guess he can do it. He's Donald Trump. He can do whatever he wants. But so be ready.

Because if they don't get the sale and Don, you know, is in a helic. flying back from the golf tournament and forgets to extend the TikTok band. TikTok could go dark again. And there's plenty of TikTokers out there that are going to be very distraught, very distraught when there's nothing but crickets when they go to TikTok. So good luck. Speaking of Amazon, throwing their hat in the ring to buy TikTok, I see where they are

launching their Starlink competitor. satellites next week. Boy, Jeff Bezos is so jealous of Elon Musk. I mean, he wants good for you. Good for you and me. So Amazon

apparently is going to launch their first batch of constellation of internet satellites. Supposed to lift off on the 9th of April, five days from now in the Atlas V rocket. And I love this story. And even they're

they're quoting me. You know, if the weather cooperates. That's awesome. So the initiative dubbed Project Carmen line. Kuiper. Yeah, they're going beyond the Carmen line. Project K-U-I-P-E-R.

Will pit Amazon against SpaceX Starlink. Will it, though? Okay. So, I mean, they're looking to provide broadband for everyone with these low-Earth orbit satellites. Okay. So, Project Kuiper will eventually boast 3,200 satellites. Eventually, I don't know how many they're going to launch the first time around.

This doesn't say. Covering much of the globe, that's the hope. Starlink already has 7,000 plus satellites orbiting the globe. And they have already said, yeah, you know, we need, I don't know, probably need closer to 40,000 wait what? Yeah, we would probably need those at least 40,000 low Earth satellites orbiting around.

Oh, wow. Wow. Okay, sure, no problem. And we've already got dead junk flying around in orbit as it is. Many of the items come back to Earth and they burn up in our satellite, burn up in our atmosphere. And, you know, we still, once in a while,

a little piece will hit somebody. home. Ah, don't worry about it. No big deal. But I see where, and I've talked about it at length that someone needs,

we need to have a trash company get up there and start taking care of this space trash. That needs to happen. I don't know, you have a big net. I don't know what you do. There's a Japanese company. This EOS X fusion,

EOS X fusion, is developing. a laser system now to eliminate space debris from Earth aiming to reduce orbital congestion and prevent collisions. So

how's that working? How's that working out? Let's get to it. I don't know what the holdup is, but that needs to happen. And maybe you do send up a spaceship that will take you past the

Carmen line. And then you have that with directive laser weapons on it and you just shoot down the dead i mean i know i that's space wars jeff that's what we're doing that's why we have space force i know but i'm just talking about a trash company going up there and in their big green laser gun ship and uh just shooting them out just just blowing them out of the out of the space and just disseminating anything. Is that a dead one? Oh, shoot. Was that one we were using?

Gosh darn it. I didn't mean to laser that one. I mean, that's going to happen. But that space trash is becoming a real issue and needs to be taken care of. And if this company can actually develop a laser system that will eliminate, or at least attempt to eliminate the space debris, good. And listen, if, you know, if Elon, or Jeff

need someone to you know, lead that program. I'm here for them. They can just reach out at Jeffie JFR on X. No problem. All right. I mean, if you don't want to use X, Jeff, you'd go ahead and send it to,

I know you and Zuck are friends, so you can send it through my Facebook page, Jeff Fisher Radio, or my Instagram page, you know, Jeff Fisher Radio. Either one of those, if you didn't want to use they at Jeffrey JFR on X. You could reach out on the YouTube page, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. That's fine.

And you can reach out through, you know what? Probably easier just to email me. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I'll get it. I see them all. I might not respond to them all, but I do see them all. And if, you know, I'll tell you what, Jeff or Elon, if you want to participate in what's the lie, the game show that we have every Friday, I am more than willing to have you as a contest.

We can have celebrity. Celebrity, what's the lie? Yes, today's contestant Elon Musk, Elon, welcome to the program. No, that's not going to happen. But anyway, you know, it could. Just reach out to me. Elon, you could message me on your company's app at Jeffrey JFR. You can do that.

You can make that happen. And so could you, Jeff Bezos. And either one of you could order a cameo. I mean, Elon, you got plenty of kids and plenty of girlfriends that need cameos, assurances, that everything's okay. I'm here for you. At Jeffrey JFR on the Cameo app. Listen, if you put on there, hey Jeff, I'd like to order, I don't know, 8,000 cameos.

I promise I won't say anything to anybody right away. And then I won't tell anybody that you ordered them. Okay, it'll just be on the down low. All right, fine, no problem. So at Jeffrey JFR on the cameo app, it's fine. Elon you can just right there for you In fact if you want to just bypass all that

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Trust. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Real estate agents I trust. com. let's say you're uh you know you want to move to pennsylvania where her she is because uh you could go there and i don't know tour the factory and get free chocolate it's kind of a cool thing so anyway i was reading a story where hersey is buying a company that goes by the name of lesser evil i have not heard of this before i've not seen their products they make organic snacks maybe that's why i

haven't heard of them. That prioritized bold flavors and better for you ingredients. Definitely why I haven't heard of them. The purchase price was not disclosed, but they said that reportedly the deal was worth about $750 million. Hershey probably gave it to them in cash. Please, $750 million of Hershey. Spit on credit.

Just take the cash, okay? So Lesser Evil makes popcorn puff. curls and other snacks using, as I said, healthier ingredients, ingredients that are better for you. That's not going to happen with lesser evil. That's not going to happen. Many of the products are made with coconut oil and avocado oil. I don't know if the avocado oil is part of the...

Avocados from Mexico program, or if with the tariffs coming, might be a little bit more expensive for a lesser of evil product. made with Avocados from Mexico. So the acquisition furthers Hershey's push into salty snacks by adding another fast-growing brand

to its portfolio while increasing the snacking options it provides to customers. Listen, according to this, Hershey's was built on its iconic sweets, including kisses, Reese's, and Twizzlers. In recent years,

the Pennsylvania-based company has aggressively moved beyond its signature confections by building a presence in salty snacks. And that's what we're doing. Yeah, because they did the Skinny Pop. All right, I have heard of that,

seen all those everywhere. Maybe that's after, you know, Hershey bought it, which was the largest deal in history at the time. They paid $1.6 billion in 2017 for Skinny Pop. It also acquired Pirates Booty Cheese Puffs. And in 2021, it doled out $1.2 billion.

another $1.2 billion. They're just throwing money around left and right. Hershey, if you want to throw another billion around, uh, uh, uh, uh, Jeffrey CTF is my PayPal. It will accept $1.2 billion.

I hope so. Just give it a shot. See if they do. If PayPal turns it down, I'll be pissed. Uh, they bought $1.2 million for fast-growing dots home style pretzels. Uh, it's Midwest co-manufacturer pretzels ink.

Yeah. So, I mean, if you, the pretzels in, uh, Pennsylvania, awesome. That's really, really good. And you know, that's the thing. With the steak sandwiches and stuff in Philly as well, it's not just about the steak and the cheese.

It's about the bread. It gets made there. So just a thought about Philadelphia. Things that I've heard. This is a segment called Things that I've heard from my wife. Why we should live in Pennsylvania. So anyway, you can look for, I'm sure coming to a shelf near you soon

will be the lesser evil snacks and man that's good I can't wait I can't wait because I want to have snacks that are better for me if that means I'm going to have to eat lesser evil well then I don't think that's going to cause that

I don't think it's going to cause it I think you're fine what may cause it though so there's a big there's a recall of a Walker's wine juice based in Forestville, New York. It's pumpkin juice. Well, it may be contaminated with botulism. You don't know that.

It's just maybe. It may be. You know, what is botulism anyway? It's just a fatal form of food poisoning. It can cause the following symptoms, general weakness, dizziness, double vision, trouble with speaking, swallowing. Yeah, it's, you don't want it.

I don't want it. I don't want you to catch botulism. So if you purchased Walker's wine juice, no, you don't, no, we do not want that. We do not want that. Apparently they sell to at-home winemakers. I mean, I think about, do I want to be an at-home winemaker? And if I did, I would buy this, but I don't.

and commercial wineries. They also sold some to retail stores in New York. The recalled pumped juice was distributed to a limited number of commercial wineries in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. Limited number, though. Limited number. And so if you are, you know, if you bought some of this pumpkin juice in Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Minnesota. New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, and you're walking around.

Get medical attention. All right. Seek medical attention right now. So the pumpkin juice and the five-gallon hot pack, the two-and-a-half-gallon bag in box, or the 30-60 and 275-gallon bulk containers. Wow. That's what I want.

I want. 275-gallon. gallons of this pumpkin juice are subject to the recall. Potential contamination was discovered after an inspection by the New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets Food Inspectors, and I love them, found that the pumpkin juice pH was too high to be processed per Walker's hot fill schedule process. As a result, it was determined that no adequate killstep, was used to address the possibility of microbiological hazards.

Okay, so I got that going for you. According to Walker's wine juice people, the plant manager, all of our commercial wineries were notified in advance of the announcement and there is no product left on the market. Okay, well, if you say so, well, what if someone bought one of those? jugs of pumpkin juice from some store in one of those states. I mean, I don't know if you know this,

but botulism is a serious illness. So you don't want it. I don't want you to get it. And so far, there have been no illnesses reported from the pumpkin spice. No, see, I don't want that for people. And I don't want you to get that. So there's no illnesses have been reported.

And if you have an issue, issue and you've purchased the pumpkin spice, you know, contact the company and determine the appropriate disposal of the remaining product. Here's the appropriate disposal of the product, okay? Throw it away. Don't tell anybody. And then orgs have the company send it back to you. Yeah, or burn it. Do whatever. I mean, I heard pumpkin spice that's infected with botulism burns fast, really fast. Maybe even before you have a, you have a little bit more. You have a an opportunity to so probably fine.

All right, while we're thinking about drowning our sorrows in botulism pumpkin juice, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Not that, though. Desperately. As I'm sitting here, getting myself a cold drink here in the break room,

I was looking at a video. I'm not sure. It looks like it's college baseball. a college baseball brawl that happened. So the guy is batting, and he gets hit by the pitch. All right. Now, instead of going after the pitcher, he turns and starts,

and he swings his bat onto the catcher, and then he hits him again with his bat, and then backs off. And as he's backing off, then the catcher starts coming toward him and throws his glove. You mean he, stop hitting me with the bat. I'm going to hit you.

my glove. Wasn't his mask? And then we got into a bench clearing brawl. So that's baseball. I'm watching. And I don't know if the bat is, you know, one of the torpedo bats. It's in college, so it's not. But, you know, it probably hurt a lot.

Because he didn't hit, he didn't hit the chest. He hit the back of the catcher. So, I mean, that's going to do some, that's, that's going to hurt. It's an awy. It's going to leave a bruise. Ouch. Exactly. Anyway, that's what I was looking at here in the break room.

So we all have problems with our voice from time to time. And I bet you those baseball players on that college baseball team are going to be have a sore throat because they were fighting and hollering and screaming at each other. Ouch. It's possible. Now today they're probably not talking much because their throat hurts. Never mind that whole bruise on his back from a baseball bat. That's baseball I'm watching though If there's going to be brawls I'm watching it

I was reading a story about Jessica Simpson Who I love okay I've been it's it was embarrassing years ago When she was on television the way she looked at me And I mean I had to tell her personally I met her in Tampa Florida In the 4002 Gandy Boulevard Radio complex

That doesn't exist anymore Very sadly And she was coming around the corner there in the building and I said, Jess, she had her little puppy in her arms. And she had her whole entourage there, but she just happened to be alone

with her puppy coming around this corner of a hallway. I think she was going to the restroom. I'm not positive, but she was just coming around the corner alone. And I was fortunate enough to be there. And I was, you know, we just kind of stopped because we were coming around, met each other at the corner.

And I wasn't stalking her. And I just said, And Jess, I went, oh, Jess. She's got her little puppy. She went, hi. And I went, it's embarrassing the way you've been looking at me from your TV show. So if you could stop that, that'd be great. And she had the look on her face.

This was pre-clown face cuts too, by the way. So she had to look at her face like, I got to get away from this guy. I don't know who this guy is. I don't know why I'm alone in this building by myself. I've got to go. and she chuckles and carries her dog and onward she goes, it was awesome. It was awesome.

It was a great moment. And then I saw her again in the Thanksgiving Day parade. The Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, we were there seeing it live in person in Manhattan. And she was one of the people that got on a float. And she had ballooned down. out. She was probably pregnant. I know. I get it. I'm not saying. I'm just saying that it was a little distraught. It was a little distraught that she had ballooned out because when she looked at me like she normally looked at me, I was a little like, no, no, no, stop it. I'm not doing that. Anyway,

she's releasing a new album. Nashville Canyon, Part 1. You can write your own jokes with that title. and she tells a story I guess she was I don't know some kind of it was some kind of video story that she was doing and she's talking about things

that she used to help her voice and she said they asked her what she was drinking and she said it was like a Chinese herb thing and

I'm like I don't know my vocal coach told me to drink it. They googled the ingredients, and in the ingredients of this herbal drink she was drinking, is snake sperm. So if Jessica starts coughing, it's because of, she's allergic to snake sperm. And she said it's like honey.

And if you want a good, if you want good vocal, you got to drink snake sperm. So, and she looks, yes, I love you, but, baby girl. Easy on the cuts, okay? Easy on the fillers. Easy, just easy on it all, okay?

Just easy on it all. I do love you. I do. Just easy, okay? And just know that I think it's okay, that you're drinking snake sperm for your vocal cords, okay? You didn't ask, but I think it's okay. and it makes me want to listen to Nashville Canyon Part 1,

which is a collection of five soul and rockabilly infused tunes. It's out already. All right, she released that in March. Yeah, we got, oh, we have to hear a little bit of Nashville Canyon part one. Okay, so this is Breadcrumbs from Nashville Canyon, Part 1. Oh, no, let's hear, let's hear, uh, use my heart against me. me. Use my heart against me. She described her first single,

Use my heart against me as a sexy song to write. I woke up with the lyric in my head. It's kind of craving someone that you want again, and you don't care if your heart is used against you. If it's just not one night, like give it over just for the experience again. Oh, okay. I feel the same way, Jess.

I feel the same way. Okay, so this is This is use my heart against me? All right. It might be good to see this live in my way. I'm not going out of my way. It is better than the first song we heard. I'll tell you that.

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genetic heart disease. That's pretty incredible. I wonder what the trials were on the snake sperm, because I can't get that out of my head. No, I get, I mean, Jessica's not coughing like that. That's what's keeping her from coughing like that. The special vocal, cord, throat elixir

that is mixed with snake sperm. Now, I wonder, just, I was just thinking out loud. Just thinking out. Was it Eli Lilly? that said, you know what we should do is test snake sperm. I get the venom. I got the venom.

We need the venom. We got to get the venom to, you know, if you get bit, then you got to have the venom to fight it. I got all that. But was that, were they the same people? Was it the venom people that said, you know, we're already selling liquid stuff out of the snake? We might as well use it for the sperm, too.

they said it in Chinese and then they went to the Guangdong province and they got themselves some snake sperm and they mixed it up and they said yeah just tell them it's good for the throat somebody will be

somebody will believe it and she did so her vocal coach did and then she took it because the vocal coach said take it so did the vocal coach have some kind of investment in snake sperm or yeah it's the ancient Chinese secret right what was that for was that dry cleaning right dry cleaning yeah yeah did they use snake sperm for dry cleaning and then they realized you know I've been using this for years and my throat always is good I've never had a sore

throat not once have I got if people come into my dry cleaners and heard this not once not once You know what that is? Snake sperm. All right, we can do Who Died Today? Who died today? Sadly. Not that they all aren't sad, but this one is in particular sadder than the rest as of today.

Austin Metcalf, 17-year-old boy from Texas, passed away. And he didn't pass away. He was murdered senselessly. Here in Texas, he went to Friscoe Memorial High School. which is in the DFW Metroplex. He has a twin brother who was with him at the time that he was stabbed and he was stabbed by another 17-year-old Carmelo Anthony.

And Carmelo is in jail now, and the story is just heart-wrenching. I mean, they were fighting over because he'd gone into it. They were at a track meet, and each school had a tent. that they were to be under when they took a break or whatever. How each school says, that's your tan, it's our tent. So this Carmelo Anthony came to Metcalf's tent, and they were like, dude, this ain't your school?

This is different. Why don't you get out of here? And they started getting into a fight. And that's when he reached into his backpack, took out a knife and stabbed Medcaf in the chest. And it was just senseless, completely senseless. And now the dad says he doesn't want to make it. a race thing because

Carmelo Anthony is black and Medcaf is white. Austin was white and so I mean the dad was a weird interview from the dad and the mom was interviewed too and they're trying

to get the message out and they're sad about their son I can't, I'm not going to say anything. I get it. It was just kind of weird and I see where the dad started to go fund me to help with the the final costs from Austin and that's at 96,000

or it was last night already. I don't know if the mom gets any of that. They're not together. It's a weird thing because in the interview, the dad says when I last spoke to Austin, he said he was going to come over and mow my lawn

because my elbow was hurting or my shoulder was hurting or something. And I thought, wait, so he's not living with you. So I guess he lives with the mom. And it's just the whole thing. It's just so sad. It's so senseless. And of course, you know, the dad says yesterday a day after the murder, he doesn't want to make it a race thing.

Too late. Too late, dad. It's already a race thing. Okay? Already started. I mean, if this was, if you reverse it, if the white kid had stabbed the black kid, they, the world, the race baiting haters would all be here in Dallas, Texas. Texas today. Period. There would be no, the private airline airports would be full of private jets of the race hustlers here telling us how bad and evil white people are. Guaranteed.

Guaranteed. And so I just, the whole thing is sad, sad, sad. Do I want it to be a race thing? No. Do I want to believe that it was just two young kids fighting? Yes. that's what I want to believe. So rest in peace,

Austin Metcalf, dead at the age of 17. And another story that's captured everyone's attention. This is kind of like, Who will die tomorrow? Who will die tomorrow? Well, we don't know. But the Department of Justice has

they're seeking the death penalty for Luigi Mangione. The Attorney General Pam Bonnie said that she's directed federal prosecutors to seek the death penalty. against Banjone, who was charged with murdering the United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. We saw it. We've all seen the video. He shot him cold blood on the street in Manhattan

in 2024. It was last year. He faces separate federal and state indictments, which will proceed on parallel tracks. The federal charges include the possibility of the death penalty, while the state charges carry a maximum of life in prison. Angione has pleaded not guilty to the state charges. but has not yet entered a plea for the federal ones. The Trump administration's pushed to reverse a Biden-era moratorium on federal executions. Yeah, that's already done. We have a nice day.

No, the floodgates are open on that one already. You're on the federal death row. You're going down. This is a new sheriff in town, and that's what's happening. And people are all wound up and saying he doesn't deserve to be, get the death penalty, and he's such a good-looking young boy. And he's talked about how he wanted people to. the stop sending him letters and stop sending him love letters

because he doesn't have time to see them all in jail and in prison and everybody's he's so happy. We can't give the guy that shot the evil healthcare guy on the street. The death penalty, that can't happen. If it happens to anyone, it should be this guy. Just saying. Just saying. I mean, it's just amazing.

I know, that's what he said. He didn't have time. Now, the prison, obviously, you know, allows him so much time. I mean, he's not sitting in his cell and having the mailman drop off letters at the cell, although why, why not?

Just give him to him, let him read in the cell, be done with it, have a nice day. Nobody, maybe he gets packages with goods and goods in it, and so they've got to go through them all, right? The prison goes through all your mail, and so he's definitely not getting the snake sperm packages. He's not going to get

packages with the But he's not going to get the packages with that in the jail cell. Dude. I just got to, I got to sit here myself and go through these letters. This chick, this chick from the Carolina's whacked out of her mind, man. I got to write her back. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, I think you do.

That's not happening, okay? So, so sad. Another thing that's sad about the story is I cannot do this story ever without thinking of Chuck Mangione, the horn player that had the heads and feels so good Chuck Manjone. And that's what's sad, actually. I hate doing the story about Luigi Mangione because all I think of is Chuck Mangione. Am I right? Who doesn't think of this? I got to listen to, you know, someone who they say I'm related to Chuck.

It does feel good, though, dude. It does. Classic Chuck Mangione coming at you on chewing the fat. Thanks for listening. We'll be taking your request all weekend long. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide, hustling for great deals on amazing gifts. So you don't have to. They've bagged this season's Italian leather handbags.

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Count them one, two, three, four headlines. One of them is not true. Thus, that's where we get. What's the lie? Our contestant today, Jed Blau. If he wins, not only will he get to come back for another round, he will win a Talking Sense, Jeffrey Blue Freshie. For more information, you could go to the Talking Sense Facebook group

and find the Freshie Senate design just for you. also if you or someone you love would like to be a contestant on what's the lie you can email chewing the fat at the blaze dot com jed welcome to what's the lie how are you sir i am doing great geoffie i it's a dream come true because ever since i heard about what's the lie i have wanted to know what in the world a talking sense jeffy blue freshen well you got to win you got to win let me ask you question your name is jed blow are you named after the airline jet blue or you guys cousins or anything or what i was just wondering oh i killed me i kill me as what i are doing so uh jed what do you do for a living what do you pull down here i drive truck oh nice

big rig down the highway nice the lifeblood of america the heartbeat of america i love that what do you usually haul i haul glass oh yes i like bongs and stuff or Solid glass. Solid glass. Glass for windows. Oh, okay. Not bongs or anything like that. It's glass for windows.

Okay. All right, well, that's good. Hey, we need those two. Fine. Whatever. All right, so you ready to play? What's the lie? I feel like I made it pretty easy today.

So you ready to go? Oh, good. I think so. I hope so. All right. Four headlines, one not real. What's the lie? Headline number one.

Cheeseburgers and chicken so far fail to entice a rescue dog who spent weeks on the run in Alaska. Headline number two. Old school metal braces are making a comeback. Headline number three. Popular Japanese restaurant chain shut 2,000 branches down after a rat was found in soup. Headline number four, high demand for two few Zumba instructors

has gyms looking to high schoolers. Those are your four headlines. Headline number one. Cheeseburgers and chicken so far failed to entice a rescue dog who spent weeks on the run in Alaska. Headline number two, old school metal braces are making a comeback. Headline number three, popular Japanese restaurant chain shut 2,000 branches down after a rat was found in soup. Headline number four, high demand for too few Zumba instructors has gyms looking to high schoolers. Those are your four headlines.

Jed Blow. What is the lie? Well, Jeffrey, I'm going to go out on a limb here. I had metal braces when I was in high school, and I think that Invisaline things pretty darn popular. I'm having a hard time thinking people would want to go back to metal braces. I'm going with number two. Jed.

Gosh, darn it. I wanted you to win so bad, but I'm sorry. That's just the way it goes. Hey, thanks for playing, and thanks for listening to what. the lie what's the lie is a subsidiary of chewing the fat enterprises all information is probably accurate at the time of recording ctf w tl m m xxv so you want to take another shot number three so you want to take another shot number four yeah there you go see if you'd only pick that you to have it, no problem.

Yeah, so if only, if only, you would have picked that. At least of, you know, today, you know, they're probably, they're good with Zumba instructors at the gym. I'm sorry, Jed, you know. Gosh darn it, I wanted you to win, too. Well, I got to blow the horn for you, Jeff.

All right, thank you. Let me just say. Oh, that's a nice one. I like that one a lot. That's a good one. Use that for safe measure at all times. I appreciate it. All right. Be safe.

Be safe. Thank you. All right. Bye. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.