Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Lost and Found… | 12/12/23

Episode Date: December 12, 2023

Ring found in vacuum?... Record returned to Library from 1976… Flying car hits the road and air... chewingthefat@theblaze.com Bruce Willis is not good… Paramount+ with Showtime… Golden Globes is... still happening… TV ratings for Sunday night… Amazon dropping Venmo… www.blazetv.com/jeffy Promo code: Jeffy… Spotify and Hasbro cutting jobs… Stellantis laying off… Euro food delivery hurting… Job openings two year low?... Google / Facebook under fire… Navalny missing… Texas abortion case… Handicapped birth in India… Redneck vocabulary Bday card… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:53 After suspecting it had been stolen. Luckily, luckily. Ritz security guards found the ring. Right? Where did they find it? Well, it was among the dust in a vacuum bag. Oh, was it? Was it in a vacuum bag?
Starting point is 00:01:16 Okay. All right. So the newspaper reported this, said that the guest had traveled to London on Friday and then went back to Malaysia, but we'll now return to Paris to get her. ring yeah no kidding uh i would let go ahead and let ritz just you know pop that in the mail for me anyway it's only worth 750 000 euros in a statement uh the hotel said thanks to the meticulous work of security guards the ring was found this morning and we would like to thank the staff at the ritz paris
Starting point is 00:01:48 who mobilized for this search and who work each day with integrity and professionalism uh-huh the business woman told the police that she left the ring on a table in her hotel room When she went shopping in the city for a few hours, who doesn't leave the $750,000? I'm sorry, $750,000 euro ring just sitting on the table. That's all. Just leave it here. It was not the first time that jewelry has been reported missing at the hotel.
Starting point is 00:02:17 Huh. That is weird. A Saudi royal family reported a theft of hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of jewelry in her hotel. room sweet. I wonder if they found that in the vacuum bag. I don't think so. And now the hotel was also robbed of jewelry too at the shop inside the hotel a few years ago as well. I don't know that that had anything to do with the employees. But it is interesting that it has happened before at the Ritz in Paris. And we just happened, happened to find the ring in the dust of the ritz in Paris. And we just happened, happened to find the ring in the dust of
Starting point is 00:03:00 the vacuum bag. Man, that is good work. Good work to the security and the cleaning team at the Ritz in Paris. Because I'm sure that's exactly where it was found. Because anytime that you clean up a room, you always sweep the top of the table, right? So here's a good rule of thumb. And this is just, you know, maybe a helpful hint from me. Whenever you're vacationing,
Starting point is 00:03:30 anywhere and you have a ring worth 750,000 euros, maybe not leave it on the table when you go out shopping. Just maybe, I don't know, put it in the safe. As you never know, who in the cleaning crew is going to come and sweep the table. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fats. Good news for the Boston Public Library. They have had an album. returned after almost 50 years ago and now they have it back. The anthology by Junior
Starting point is 00:04:12 Walker and the All Stars, a Motown record, says it was borrowed from the Eagleston Square Branch and was due back by October 27th, 1976. So it's been a few years, I don't know, like 50 when it was
Starting point is 00:04:28 checked out and they have finally had it returned. Librarian Shane Gellerman at the Jamaica Plain Branch, and I love the Jamaica Plain Branch Library in Boston. I said it just showed up in the drop box last week. Not sure who dropped it off or exactly when. The libraries don't have some kind of cameras on their drop boxes. Just a thought.
Starting point is 00:04:53 And anyway, she said we were checking things in, and it was sitting at the bottom. We had a book sale the same day, so we've been getting lots of donations. Maybe they thought it was a good time to return an old item. and the punch card in the records jacket, I guess could hold a clue. However, the machines that read the punch cards, yeah, they don't have those anymore. They don't know how to work it. There's no machines and it's all computerized. So they have no idea who checked it out.
Starting point is 00:05:23 So we're just happy to get it back. One of the interesting things I found about the Boston Public Library System, they stopped charging late fees in April of 2021. So the person who had the record doesn't owe any money anyway. Do you think maybe they would owe it from, I don't know, 76 to April of 2021? Then whatever fees they would have been accrued after April of 2021 wouldn't be charged. But that's silly. I know, that's just silly.
Starting point is 00:05:58 So congratulations to the Boston Library System for getting back their Motown record that was checked out and due back October 27, 1976. I guess it's just going to go into some local history collection since they don't even check out albums anymore or records at the library. They haven't done that for many, many years as well. So good to have that LP back. And it looks like we have flying cars finally that are actually working. The world's first flying car recently completed its first flight in Moses Lake Washington at the Grant County International Airport. The aircraft known as Switchblade was designed by aircraft maker Samson Sky. It's a street legal three-wheeled vehicle that can convert into a flying aircraft in less than three minutes.
Starting point is 00:06:56 It comes with two retractable wings and a tail. that collapse into the body. The flying car can see two passengers. I bet there's no fat guy seating. And reportedly has enough room to hold two overnight bags. Maybe you get a fat guy in there, but you can only hold one overnight bag. Anyway, Switchblade has the ability to travel 125 miles an hour on the road. You would get a ticket.
Starting point is 00:07:18 And 190 miles an hour in the air, as well as reaching 13,000 feet above sea level. The report also mentioned that it can get 700 miles on a single tank of gas and 400. 150 miles if the pilot decides to take it to the air. Wow. So you can purchase one of these. It's going to cost about $170,000. That's not bad, actually. But you're going to have to build more than half of the vehicle yourself.
Starting point is 00:07:46 So you can get it. It's like a kit car for $170,000 bucks. And then you can, you know, go ahead and build it yourself. Plus, if you want to fly one, you must have a private. pilot license. Yeah, good luck with that. If I buy that, pilot license or not, I'm going to go ahead and fly it. So there's 2,300 people from 57 countries who have already reserved one of these flying cars. Really incredible. Now, will it just be an experimental craft or is it going to be,
Starting point is 00:08:18 you know, an actual transportation vehicle or is just going to be, you know, a toy for the hoity tooty? Well, we'll see. Plus, they are, they, they're, they, They're going, we've talked about this before on this very show. They're going to have to deal with rules, laws, regulations, all of that. Because you can't have, with all the drones we have flying around, delivering goods, and then we have, you know, actual, I don't know, airlines flying in and out of cities. And now you're going to have flying cars? Yeah, no, there's got to be, there's got to be something.
Starting point is 00:08:52 There's got to be rules and regulations. You're not going to be able to take it up inside the city or within, you know, a sort of, you know, a certain distance from airports. That's why I said all along. Let's just contact me. Email me towing the fat at the blaze.com or reach out to me on social media. And I'll be happy to sit in on any of your meetings because what needs to happen is that these vehicles, if they become, you know, actual part of our lexicon here in the U.S.
Starting point is 00:09:20 or around the world, they need to be outside of city limits. so you would build an area outside of the city where you could pull over, turn into a flying aircraft, and take off. And then you could only go so high. And you could only go so high. And then before you get into the next city, you have to land, turn into a car and go, you know, drive on the street. It's the way it's got to be done. There's no way they can have these things flying around the cities. They just can't.
Starting point is 00:09:51 You know, as cool as it is, and as much as fun as I'd like to say, you know, I'd like to have one. And I'm sure that I'm not going to be flying 13,000 feet above sea level. I'm sure there's some kind of weight limit on that bad boy. Yeah, we're only getting up to about five or six with you, okay? And the gas mileage isn't going to be as good as we said it was because it's heavier to fly. But you're going to have all of that issue to deal with. And it's not going to be, it's not going to be easy.
Starting point is 00:10:23 people are going to be pissed and that's just the way it is but that's what has to happen because there's no way that we can have these kind of vehicles flying around the city when we expect to have airlines be safe you can't fly drones around airports and we've got to we've got drones delivering packages around the country now and now we're going to have the flying cars in the air got to be i'm not i'm not a fan of rules and regulations and laws but there does have to be some guidelines for this and i'm happy to be a part of it for you if you'd like. No? Well, I'm here anyway if you need me. All right, let's talk about your skin. You know, your skin that gets clean with that store-bought soap that you buy, but it also dries out.
Starting point is 00:11:08 And then you have to buy other products from the same company that you bought your store-bought soap from. They're lotions that make your skin soft because their other product makes your skin hard and crusty. Yeah. You don't want that.
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Starting point is 00:13:11 I need something cold to drink desperately. Hey, if you need me involved in anything, as I stated earlier, you can always email the show Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. Happy to be here for you. I see all the emails come through. Thank you. You know, I'm willing to sit in on the flying car rules and regulations, but, you know,
Starting point is 00:13:38 you got to email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Now, you could direct message me on one of my social media sites at Jeffrey JFR on X, Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram. You can follow me on YouTube, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. So there are ways that you can contact me if you would like my help in anything, really, but for sure for the flying cars, I'm here for you. And you can always order a cameo from me if the flying car people would like me to do a cameo for them, just at Jeffie JFR.
Starting point is 00:14:09 Tell me what you'd like, happy, sad, mad, mean, and I'd be happy to do it for you. That's not free, cost money, but it's a way for you to reach out to me. Cameo at Jeffie JFR. So I watched a couple of movies this weekend. I watched Equalizer 3. again, my wife was a little angry with me since I purchased it. It was available to purchase and I didn't have a copy. I saw it at the
Starting point is 00:14:33 theater. I'm ready to see it again. Apparently there was a well, there was some kind of present for the holidays coming up with the Equalizer 3 involved in that. Hey, you know, no, I'm happy with seeing the
Starting point is 00:14:50 charge come through from this weekend. But I ended up I watched that. It was great. I mean, Denzel. is awesome. And I watched Bruce Willis Live Free or Die Hard. So the next to last diehard. I hadn't watched it all the way through in quite some time. And, you know, I just was sitting there and I was like, okay, I'll watch it. And
Starting point is 00:15:12 it was awesome. I mean, I love those series. And Bruce Willis is the man. And the Live Free or Die Hard, Timothy Oliphant is the bad guy. And it's good. I enjoy the heck out of it. So then today I see a story about Bruce Willis, and they're unsure how long he has left. Oh, my man, I love Bruce Willis. He's not in Who Died Today, yet, but he is battling the front-to-temporal dementia.
Starting point is 00:15:43 I want to make sure I pronounce that correctly. And he's not doing well at all. His health has deteriorated significantly over the last few weeks. More bad days than good, very, very serious. said. But he's living with the entire extended family. He's got the new wife and the kids. He's got Demi and the old kids. And they're significant others. They're all living. All milk and Bruce's money. I mean, they're living with him. Just take care of him. That's what they're doing. So he's got them all there. They're all rallying around him. Uh-huh. And once he was diagnosed,
Starting point is 00:16:20 everyone came together to keep his memory of the family intact and to be there as a constant reminder. Shearry has 24-hour care with nurses and doctors, but we want to be here too. I want to make sure no matter how crazy Bruce gets with the, what is it again, I want to make sure I pronounce it correctly, frontotemporal dementia, that he doesn't change anything in the old will. But I'm sure they're there to take care of them, stop it, they all love them. I see the pictures that they post of them with Bruce. You know, they post some old photos of Bruce when he was in his heyday when the kids were real little.
Starting point is 00:17:02 And then they also post pictures of Bruce today. And it's really, really, really sad. I don't wish this on anyone for sure. But they've been very public about his dementia. And they want to take what they're struggling with and help other people and turn it around. And so it's, you know, it's just sad. And I don't want anything bad to happen to him. but I don't want them to suffer forever either.
Starting point is 00:17:27 But the whole family is there, the whole kitten caboodle. He's got Emma, the wife now, and their two daughters, Mabel and Elevent and Evelyn. And then he's got Demi Moore and their three daughters. And I see in the picture that their daughters have their significant others there too. So it's just a one, you know, it's one happy family, all living. I think they're in Demi's place, which I'm sure Bruce probably paid for. Demi's made a lot of money, but she has not made Bruce Willis money.
Starting point is 00:17:58 So I'm sure that, uh, I'm sure they're getting a fine little, you know, payment from the Bruce Willis trust. But that's okay. I mean, that's what he made the money for. I just, it's sad to see him suffer like that. Okay. So I see where Paramount Plus will officially become a linear cable channel next month. It's going to be, uh, we talked about it being, uh, them, uh, coming together with
Starting point is 00:18:24 Showtime, so I guess it's 100% official now. It's going to get rebranded as Paramount Plus with Showtime. Okay, that took some time. I'm sure we sat around the table for a while. What should we call it? Paratime Plus, no. Show Mount Plus. No.
Starting point is 00:18:45 How about just plus? No. So it's already used on the streaming side as names go. And it's, well, I mean, I don't know if it's better than max it's still HBO everyone calls it HBO is just silly that it's max so anyway it's going to be paramount plus with showtime huh man that is that's genius right there and i see where um the golden globes were announced i guess they're doing a revamped january seventh award show uh okay uh all right fine. Oppenheimer, I think, was up for eight Golden Globes and Barbie led the nominations with
Starting point is 00:19:28 nine Golden Globe nominations. All right. Fine. We'll see us. The 81st Golden Globes. It's going to be the first major broadcast of the award season on CBS. Don't even have a host yet. So we'll see what happens with the award show. We'll get into the breakdown of the Golden Globes at a later date. I've got to. to dig into who there, who's the frontrunners there. But it got me thinking about ratings for these award shows. They should just do what I said they should do, and everything should just be on social media.
Starting point is 00:20:00 But I was thinking this past Sunday night, as I was getting ready to watch a little bit of the Eagles Cowboys game on Sunday night football, I see a promo for a Grammy salute to 50 years of hip-hop. Man, did I want to watch that? But the football game is on. So what are you going to do? As I'm watching, and I wondered, well, I wonder if anyone is watching the Grammy
Starting point is 00:20:23 salute to 50 years of hip-hop, well, a little over 3 million viewers watched a Grammy salute to 50 years of hip-hop. For the NFL Eagles and Cowboys game, it had over 20 million people watching. So just a tad bit of difference with what was happening. Plus, and when you go back earlier, football night in America had 11 million, NFL overrun with some of the earlier games had 23 million. So, and I'm sure that as numbers for the Eagles Cowboys game would have been more had the game been closer. But the Cowboys did some damage on the Eagles on that Sunday night game.
Starting point is 00:21:04 But I'm just saying, perhaps the Golden Globes should rethink how they're going to give us the 81st Golden Globes. because not a lot of people care anymore. Well, that's not true. We do care about the award show, but we just don't care to see all the hoity toys together drinking and partying and, you know, touching each other and glad-handing each other. We see it all year.
Starting point is 00:21:35 Just tell us about the awards and let's move on with our lives. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So those of you that use Venmo to purchase goods from Amazon, eh, you're going to have to find another way.
Starting point is 00:22:15 The company announced that would no longer accept Venmo at checkout. Huh. So PayPal owns Venmo. So they are like, hello? What's going on? So Amazon notified the users that it will soon stop accepting Venmo as a payment method as of January 10th. So you can still use Venmo through the holidays and through the first of the year. I guess they said that they will still accept Venmo debit and credit cards.
Starting point is 00:22:47 But then Venmo announced the move in a separate notice posted to its website. Venmo could no longer be added as a payment method. It will remain available to users who could. currently have it enabled in their Amazon wallet. Oh, so if you do not have it enabled, you can't use it. So good luck. God bless to those of you that thought you'd be able to purchase your Amazon products with Venmo because that ain't happening anymore.
Starting point is 00:23:15 Sorry about it. Plus, companies are laying off people too. It's always this is time of year when you think, why do your companies do it at the holidays? Because that's when they do it. so Spotify is laying off no I'm sorry cutting these jobs
Starting point is 00:23:33 about 800 employees Spotify has already dismissed this year in two waves of layoffs partly because of investors disappointment with the big bet on podcasting and so they want to make some profits they're laying off another
Starting point is 00:23:50 1,500 employees oh okay the CEO, Daniel Eck, announced that the company would be cutting 17% of its workforce in order to hit financial targets. Oh, that's special. Stalantis, the parent company of Jeep, says it may cut nearly 4,000 jobs due to reduced vehicle demand, and they are blaming it on California's strict emissions regulations, putting the company at a disadvantage. Huh. I wonder why that is plus.
Starting point is 00:24:23 I mean, nobody is buying your product, right? We also know that I found this really weird, that, and I don't know why, I just, I saw the headline, I thought, oh, that's interesting. 75%. That's the combined market value, three European food delivery companies, delivery hero just take away and deliveroo,
Starting point is 00:24:46 have lost, they have lost 75% of the market value. Nobody wants to have. their food delivered in Europe. Or at least no one wants it delivered from delivery hero, just eat, takeaway, and deliver rue. Wow, in the last couple years. That's pretty amazing. Now, on the other hand, or really the other continent,
Starting point is 00:25:08 U.S. job openings hit a two-year low. Another sign of the cooling labor market. Yay! Yeah, you didn't really want a job anyway, right? Available positions in the U.S. dropped to 8.7 million in October. That's still a lot of jobs, but it's the lowest since 2021. And so we'll see how that goes,
Starting point is 00:25:28 as people still need to work. And there are jobs out there for you to get. I guess there's jobs out there for you to get. That's what they claim. I see a lot of help wanted signs, and they never go away. So does that mean that no one was taking the jobs? Or does that mean those are just false ads saying,
Starting point is 00:25:49 yeah, we're going to tell people we want to, we need them. We need them to come here and come in and work for us, but we're just not going to hire anybody because we can't really afford it. I don't know. I don't know. All I know is I continue to see help wanted signs. I continue to hear and read stories of people complaining that they can't find good help, that there's not enough help in whatever store they're talking about.
Starting point is 00:26:18 And yet, no one is filling those jobs. So is it that no one is. is filling those jobs or they aren't filling those jobs. I know. I know. It's just me asking stupid questions. All right, let's go to the courts. Man, there is a lot going on in the courts.
Starting point is 00:26:34 I could do probably a whole show on all the court cases that are going on that are interesting court cases, or at least interesting to me. But for sure, we found out that Fortnite, the maker that had been up against Google with the antitrust suit, the landmark verdict, the jury in the epic, games lawsuit against Google over the fees charged by Google Play Store found that the tech giant was operating an illegal monopoly, although Google has said it will challenge the decision, duh, and the judge has not yet ruled what penalty may be appropriate. It's possible that Google will have to make significant changes on how it runs the App Store. If Epic being involved in a major
Starting point is 00:27:15 antitrust lawsuit sounds familiar, that's because it seems they've been broiled in a similar a year-long battle against Apple, though it's been less successful so far. So that's still, I mean, they're still ongoing. Plus, United States District Judge, James Donato, I love him. I guess he identifies as a him,
Starting point is 00:27:35 claim there is disturbing evidence that the technology company, Google, erased internal chat logs and instructed employees to label some documents as privileged and confidential. So that'll go over good. That will go over good. Also, I see where META and the CEO, Mark Zuckerberg,
Starting point is 00:27:57 were slapped with a civil lawsuit by the state of New Mexico that claims Facebook and Instagram have become a marketplace for predators in search of children upon whom to prey. I'm not really sure what can become of that, but that's what the lawsuit says. And Zuckerberg, and this happened, I don't know about, at the same time. He sold some stock for the first time since 2021.
Starting point is 00:28:25 He unloaded $185 million worth of shares after holding onto all his stock while the company struggled in 2022. Yeah. So he didn't sell anything in 2021 or he sold some in 2021. Then he kept it through 2022. And then he was like, yeah, I've got to put some money in the ground so that I have some cash because of all these lawsuits coming down. So I go ahead and sell 185 million, which I do wish.
Starting point is 00:28:55 And I know it's just me. You know, you obviously would not feel this way listening to chewing the fat. But I wish it was me. I was able to sell $185 million worth of shares. Because a company struggling or not, I'm selling. 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.
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Starting point is 00:30:17 So the 47-year-old was due to appear via video for a court hearing. Abba failed to show up. As attorneys have been unable to get in touch with him for the past week or two. And the penal colonies were. he's supposed to be at they don't have him listed as an inmate so he's just missing poof not funny at all uh Vlad is just making sure he goes away uh he just disappear this guy so he's been in prison since 2021 yeah hello he was scheduled to transfer to a higher security penal colony after being sentenced in August to 19 years in prison on extremism charges
Starting point is 00:30:58 I mean, Vlad just puts you away. It's almost, sounds familiar what's happening in Russia to him and what's happening here in the United States these days, doesn't it? No, no, that's just silly. We wouldn't throw opposition government people in jail, would we? No. He'd already been serving a 12-year prison term for other charges, including fraud. His disappearance comes as Putin.
Starting point is 00:31:25 He's starting a new presidential campaign? So that's just a coincidence. Vlad, I'm sure, will win overwhelmingly his fifth term as a president of Russia without any opposition. Funny, funny how that happens. Man, it sounds a lot like what's going on in other places around the world, but not here. Not here, my friends. So those of you listing live, today is the 12th of December, 2023. And yesterday we talked about the decision by the Texas Supreme Court that overturned the lower court ruling that allowed this pregnant woman in Texas to get an emergency abortion under the medical exception for the state's near totally abortion ban.
Starting point is 00:32:13 Well, I questioned the thought, why doesn't she needed it so bad? And it's so difficult to go, I don't know, to the next state over. You want to kill that kid, go to the next state. There are states that you can go to. to kill your babies. I'm not arguing that. I'm just saying that, you know, you can't go there to have an abortion. I'm sorry, not kill your babies.
Starting point is 00:32:36 Have an abortion. Silly me. Thinking an abortion is killing a baby. So we find out now that she did do that. After the ruling from the Texas Supreme Court, the lawyers for Kate Cox said in a court filing that she had left the state to obtain the abortion. but nonetheless wanted to pursue the case. Now, she said her fetus had a fatal diagnosis
Starting point is 00:33:03 and that her health was at risk if she continued the pregnancy to term, including her ability to have more children in the future. So she did actually go and, you know, have an abortion. Kill the baby. And I get that it was diagnosed with some fatal diagnosis about the fetus. in the lady but then I read a story that uh it was a story that happened in India and it was weird okay
Starting point is 00:33:37 so this baby is born with two heads now if this baby had been here it would have been diagnosed with a fatal diagnosis right yes so when it was born in India now this story comes from 1783 okay so I know that We have technology now that we obviously didn't have then. But the story goes that when the baby was born and had two functioning heads, the midwife was so freaked out, it threw it into the fire. That's true the whole thing in the fire. Now they saved him.
Starting point is 00:34:17 They saved it with just some minor burns, according to the story. Okay. Now, it said that one head was light sensitive and had poor vision, and still they shared the same pain sensation. Okay. So, and the heads operated independently. One could sleep while the other was awake or cry while the other smiled. Wow.
Starting point is 00:34:41 So the condition is cranopagus parasiticus. C-R-A-N-I-O-P-A-R-N-I-O-P-A-A-A. G, U, S-P-A-R-A-A-S-I-T-I-C-U-S. Craniopagus Paracidicus. That's pretty close to what I said. Anyway, it's a rare occurrence in about two and every five million children. So post-mortem examination of the boys showed that each had had its own brain and blood supply. He was otherwise healthy during his short life because he died when he was
Starting point is 00:35:25 four years old. Now the boy's skull is on display at this museum in London. Oh, look at that. That's the kid with two heads. Apparently, seeing a chance for profit, the parents took the boy to Calcutta, where people paid to see his unique condition. Yeah, he did a look, come and see my two-headed kid. Pay me money. And so he provided a purpose for the family. All life provides a purpose. That's somewhat say that. Obviously, Ms. Cox from Texas would not say that. She did not see
Starting point is 00:36:01 that at all. The sad thing is, okay, so the mom, she's got a kid, he's got the two-headed baby. That she's charging people to see, okay? And they took the kid to Calcutta, and they were making money. So
Starting point is 00:36:17 apparently, at the age of four, I don't know how much money they'd made, the mom went to fetch water and the kid I got bit by a cobra and died so
Starting point is 00:36:29 I guess they didn't make enough money to have a due person to go fetch water and that was the end of the two-headed baby and Calacotta. My point is all life has meaning
Starting point is 00:36:43 even if you were born with cranioapagus parasidicus I know many of you may say hey what kind of life is that to be, you know, dragged around by your parents and charging people to come and look at you. I know, but that's not for me to decide.
Starting point is 00:37:04 All right, so I'm going through trying to throw some stuff out here at the house. I know, big surprise. And I found an old birthday card. I don't know how old it is, because on the back of this, it's a Hallmark card for $3.99. USA, $5.49 in K. Canada. This card has got to be
Starting point is 00:37:25 at least $20 in today's world. All right. So this is an old card. But it's a test your redneck vocabulary. And I love the redneck. If you've watched Ozark, you know, there's a great scene about rednecks and hillbillies in that show. And the one
Starting point is 00:37:45 had both of the second in command of the cartel calls the people from the Ozark Rednecks and then she kills them. And I want to think about Mexicans. They'll send more. Anyway, they'll be calling them rednecks, okay? They're hillbillies. But this card, test your redneck vocabulary. See if you can use these words in a sentence. And it's got a little wheel that you turn,
Starting point is 00:38:10 and it comes up with words and a sentence for these words in the birthday card. And the first word that comes up is rat. The sentence is, go down the road and make a rat turn at the bait shop. let's turn the wheel all a WL I need to go get a quarter of all for my outboard motor
Starting point is 00:38:33 we're testing our redneck vocabulary now FAR F-A-R my still blew up and caught off far the next word on the wheel is Bass B-A-S-S
Starting point is 00:38:52 that was the bass moonshot I ever had that's kind of that, but I got that. Cheer. Cheer. C-H-E-R. Pappy sure does like
Starting point is 00:39:04 sitting on his rocking cheer. Next one on the wheel is ranch. Ranch, R-E-N-C-H. Can you have me that ranch from my toolbox? I'll forget, we're testing our redneck vocabulary here.
Starting point is 00:39:26 The word is did, D-I-D, there's a dead possum in the middle of the road. So silly. And let's see, the next word, and I think it's the last word. Bard, I don't know how big this wheel is. Bard, B-A-R-D. I barred that old hell Camino from my cousin Jimmy. Yes, that's the last one of the wheel.
Starting point is 00:39:54 Bard was the last, the last redneck vocabulary. word on the wheel. I borrowed that El Camino from my cousin Jimmy and then we're right back at rat because you want to go down the road and make a rat turn at the bait shop. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. It was the night before the gathering and all through the house. The host rapid cozy cashmere throw from homesense for their spouse, kids toys for 699 under the tree and crystal glasses for just 1499 for their brother Lee. A baking dish made in Portugal for Tom and Sue and a nice $599 candle, perfectly priced just for you. Happy holidays to all and to all a good price. Home sense.
Starting point is 00:41:03 Endless presents perfectly priced.

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