Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Meant To Be… | 8/14/25

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

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I'm going to read that story because I'm thinking of a different triangle. Okay? When I thought of the triangle of death, I'm thinking of a different triangle. come to find out. So apparently the

triangle of death is, you know, right there by your nose and your mouth. So this lady popped a pimple just below her nostril, which is called apparently by dermatologist. I am not a dermatologist.

I know this may come as a surprise to you. They call it the triangle of death. Okay. So she popped a cyst, a pimple, just below her nostril, which is, I mean, that's a pretty common area for, you know, cysts to go. All right. Within four hours, things got bad. She said that the side of her face was swelling so much that when she tried to smile, only the opposite side actually raised into a grin. The results were extremely painful.

Doctors at urgent care put her on four medications to take care of the infestate. including steroids and antibiotics. So her pimple fell inside the triangle of death. Ouch. Yeah. That's the because the pimple popped there can release bacteria into the brain, leading to potentially life-threatening infections. I did not know that.

I did not know that. So popping pimples in the center of your face can be particularly dangerous, according to these dermatologist experts. Okay. So the bridge of your nose down to the corners of your mouth has veins that connect directly to the brain via blood vessels called cavernous sinus. You don't want to pop a pimple. And to a cavernous sinus, you just don't want that because that is the triangle of death. the triangle of death.

That is the triangle of death. Okay. So complications can include blindness, stroke, paralysis, even death. So if you have a pimple in the triangle of death, don't pop it. All right, it's just a helpful hint from me here on chewing the fat. Don't pop it because now we all know that what, you know, I know you were thinking it too. All right. That's not the triangle of death. The triangle of death is right there in, you know,

your nostril in the three corners of your mouth. That's the triangle of death, okay? That is not the triangle you were thinking of. So remember that and don't pop the pimples there. Welcome. There's this anything about popping pimples in the other triangle of death. Welcome to chewing the fat. I mean, I may as well stick with health.

I might as well help you, you know, save your life today here on chewing the fat in the beginning. You already know, don't pop a pimple or a cyst in the triangle of death. And now we have a New Jersey manufacturer that is voluntarily recalling over-the-counter soaps and skin care products after a dangerous bacterium was discovered inside their packages during testing. So dermorite industries, LLC, love them, announced the recall after Berkholdi, Cepsyia complex. The morphophalus. No, that's not called the morphophalis. It's called Berkholdria-sepsia complex.

But those of us in the know call it BCC. It was detected in batches of four products that it sells and distributes nationwide. This BCC is a group of bacteria found in water and soil. It can spread from person to person and cause chronic lung infections, particularly those with cystic fibrosis and other chronic lung diseases. Yes, so if you're already predisposed to it, it will make it a whole lot worse. In the Food and Drug Administration's announcement, the agency noted that BCC poses a risk to everyone,

just not those with immunocompromised positions, but obviously it affects those. But everyone is at risk, which is why they were recalled. So according to dermorite industries, LLC. They have not yet received any reports of illnesses or events related to the recall. Okay. All right. Maybe if you got a cough from derma clean, the antiseptic lotion with vitamin E, or you got a cough from the dermacera, the external analgesic cream, or you got a cough from clean foam, the anti-microbial foam soap,

or you got a cough from the perigene, the antiseptic perennial cleanser. You might not think it was a side effect of being the contaminated soap, but it is. So Burke-Holdria-Sepsyia complex, BCC, I would say that healthy individuals are, you know, okay. You're probably okay. but if you're using this type of soap

you're probably not the healthiest of human beings I'm not judging I don't want I'm just saying that you're that's probably not the healthiest human using those types of soap so anyway they're recalled and if you have them uh you know take them back get your money back or throw them away and then tell the store yeah I bought 150 containers of

derma clean with the antiseptic lotion with vitamin E. So I just need a... The store credit's fine. You don't need to give me cash back out. I don't have the receipt. So I appreciate you helping me out. I told you. I told you that the skies are going to be black with drones, man.

It's going to be dark. You're going to need to wear little cavemen lights on your head. Those are minor hats. Jeff. Yeah, I know what they are. So Amazon announced that they are expanding its same day. delivery service to include thousands of perishable food

items. Okay, that's great. I mean, they're up against Walmart Plus and Instacart. So shoppers in more than a thousand cities and towns across the U.S. can now include fresh groceries, dairy, produce, seafood, frozen foods, baked goods, and meat

same day delivery orders from Amazon. And a lot of this will be delivered with drones. And obviously, Billy's going to be driving the van up, you know, delivering a lot of this too. So Milwaukee, Columbus, Rally, Raleigh, Raleigh, Raleigh, yeah, whatever. It's the triangle, the triangle of death there is there in airlines.

I know where it's at, okay? I got it. So anyway, and I saw a story about how the drone deliveries from Amazon in Kansas City as well. Incredible. The drones that they're using, I mean, I look. Oh, the one drone video I was watching. It looks like they could just pick up a van and drop it in your front yard. There you go.

You just bought a used van from Amazon. Here you go. We dropped it off for you. And that's coming. If you don't think that's coming, you are mistaken. So prime members who pay the $14.99 a month or the $139 annually can use the service for free on orders over $25 in most cities. Non-prime shoppers can access the service for a fee of $12. $12.99, no matter the order size.

So, wow. I mean, that's a, it's a matter what, you order something for $25 and you got to add another $13 on that. Ooh, okay. Hello. So by, obviously, they want this same day delivery of groceries because they need the business. I mean, does Amazon need the business?

Well, like Jeff Bezos, one of the richest guys in the whole wide world. They do everything. Yeah, they need the money. So he's got that too with the wife. We'll get to that. Holy cow. We've got to talk about Lauren too. Oh, man.

The story that I read yesterday is just incredible. But they want to be able to, you know, how you can get milk alongside your electronics and oranges and apples and mysteries. Now, I don't know if that happens. I mean, you know, I'm thinking about getting a new television. You know, why don't you just, I need that, you know what I need is a computer screen. Let's pick up that computer screen and you need some vitamins. Let me have those.

And let me check what I ordered last time. Yeah, I need those AC filters. Yeah. And you know what, what the heck? Throw in some milk and I'll get some oranges. And there's a steak there. I'll get that too. As crazy as that sounds, that's going to happen.

And it's going to happen. right now, man. I mean, they want to have their, they, that's why they bought Whole Foods and Amazon Fresh. That's what they're doing. I mean, it's just amazing what, what's going on with Amazon.

Now, they obviously, you know, have their hands in everything. I mean, I mean, everything, right? And there's no doubt about that. Now, according to this, their gross sales last year, topped 100, billion for more than

150 million U.S. customers. All right. So the two, the grocery sales lagged behind Walmart grocery sales. Yeah, because people think of Walmart as being able to that's the place to get their groceries.

And Walmart was able to make same dead deliveries more than 90% of the country. Yeah. They have a stagnant growth in their cloud computing business. I mean, that's I mean, that's still, I mean, that's still, I mean, are huge. They're not losing anything.

Plus, the head guy, whatever his name is. I can't think of his name. The head guy of Amazon, the CEO, he was the head, he was the head of their cloud computing business, which was booming, which is why they made him CEO. No, it's not Jeff Bezos.

Bezos stepped down as CEO. He's still the founder, and he still has all, you know, all the stock, but he's not the CEO any longer. Anyway, it doesn't matter. Javi or Jesse, that's it. I do. I do I was close. I was close.

Anyway, he was in charge of the cloud business and made it a fortune. And that's why they made him CEO. So now the cloud business is just stagnant. So he's over there going, you guys don't know what the hell you're doing. Oh, who's, I brought in this joint? I got to do everything around here? And yes, yes, that's what you have to do, Mr. CEO, Jossy.

That's his name? Yeah, yeah, yeah, Jossie. Yeah, yeah, Jossie. Anyway, so they want to keep up with that, no problem. But now, I mean, you can still, you can get the groceries. You get the prescriptions. You get the telehealth. And, you know, they're putting up vehicles.

Vehicles on the site, too. So you can get it all at Amazon.com. That's a different business. It's still Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez, but Blue Origin is a different business. Sorry about it. As of right now, you can't just go online and order a flight to the Carmen line on Blue Origin, although I bet that's coming very, very soon. The other story that I saw, babbling on today, the other story that I saw was that it's being

reported that Bezos, who, you know, they had bought MGM Studios. And they happened at the end of last year, I think, I think it was when it happened. And it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter when it happened. And he spent like $8, $9 billion on it. And now it's being reported that he wants the wife, Lauren Sanchez, to be the next Bond girl. Because MGM Studios is creating the new James Bond.

Because Daniel Craig is done. And I don't think they've named a new James Bond yet. They've got a director and they've got a writer. But they don't have a James Bond and they don't have a Bond girl. And so Jeff wants to have Lauren as the Bond girl. I would say Somebody needs to take Jeff aside And say, dude

Come here, man I love you man I do And I love Lauren She's great man She's beautiful She treats you right I know you love her

I know how bad life was for you Before you met her Before you started cheating on your first wife With her and taking helicopter rides I know that I know how bad life was for you I got you man I got you I'm right here for you man

I got you But listen Don't do this Don't make Lauren the bar go on the bond girl man she's she can be your bond girl in your heart tell her that all right go on another trip on one of your yachts and you know on the new yacht either that you use or she uses and you know the next time you go up for helicopter ride and she's fine you know she's piloting you around just tell her you're my bond girl but you can't be a bond girl in the movie okay you just

can't baby just tell her that okay somebody's got to tell jeff that okay someone has to be his friend and I'm willing to do it if they want me to do it. I hate to be the one to do it, but you know, you can email me Chewing the Fat of the Blaze.com. Jeff, you can reach out to me

at Jeffrey JFR on X. You can reach out to me on Instagram or Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can actually send me some money on my PayPal, Jeffie CTF, anytime. Anytime you feel like, I don't know what I want to do

with this million dollars. Just drop it into my PayPal. Jeffie CTF. I'm happy to accept it for you, Jeff. And then maybe I'll tell you, you know what? Lauren should be the Bond Girl. Wow, are you right, Jeff? How much did I get in my PayPal? Two million? You sure are right. I thought you were going to tell him she's not worth it. No, she's fine. With AmX 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. Fabrege sold? I, holy cow. Okay, so luxury jeweler Fabrije. I love them. Okay. Don't look at me like that.

I love Fabrije. They just sold for $50 million. Oh, okay. So the jeweler, I mean, everybody knows Fabrije for the Russian Easter eggs. Okay. They just sold. Amazing.

So Gemfield, gem fields, which mines colored gemstones in Africa, love them, has agreed to sell Faberjé to SMG Capital, a U.S. investment company controlled by the tech backer, Sujjay Masanou.

The struggling miner, which bought Fabergergerger in 2013 for $142 million, from a private equity company, Palinghurst, love them, put the company up for sale in December. When political unrest in Mozambique, I knew it. I knew that political unrest that Mozambique was going to be a problem,

prompted it to temporarily freeze operations of its ruby mine. Wow. So they, holy cost, so in 2013, they sold for $142 million. And then to Palinghurst. And it doesn't say what Pallinger, her sold it to Gemfields for, but now Gemfields is dumping, dumping them off for 50 million. Wow.

Okay. So Faberger, which was founded in 1842, and taken over and transformed by Peter Carl Fabrizier in 1882, that guy was a jerk, is one of the most renowned jewelers in the world, but has come under pressure amid a downturn in luxury goods market. I don't know that that's actually. through the downturn of luxury goods. Okay. It made revenues of 13.4 million in 2024,

down from 15.7. Chief Executive of Gemfield said the deal is the end of an era. It is. Okay. Fabrizira's played a role in raising a profile of colored gemstone's mind by Gemfields and will certainly miss its marketing leverage and star power.

Yeah. Maweson. a venture capitalist and startup investor said it was a great honor to become the custodian of such an outstanding and globally recognized brand. Yeah, for only $50 million, I mean, only $50 million. So Fabrizé holds unique heritage with ties to Russia, England, France, and the USA.

And it opens significant opportunities for further strengthening our position in the global luxury market and expanding its international presence. Ah, okay. So even you walking the streets of Mozambique after the uprising can be wearing Fabrizzi. All right, all right, good luck.

Yeah, I don't think, are these the blood diamonds? Blood rubies? I don't think so. I don't think so. I don't know. But I think they are, actually. Yeah, I think Jebfields is probably part of the Blood Diamond group. So I don't know that, though.

That's just allegedly. Tomorrow is the last day that the Song of the South can be nominated to go on the National Film Registry. The deadline is August 15th. So if you're listening live, today is the 14th of August 2025. So I don't know that it's, is it midnight? tonight? I got to check on the forum now, hold on. But the forum, if you follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR,

I re-tweeted a post from Ed McCray, who's been a big proponent of this, getting Walt Disney's Song of the South into the National Film Registry, which is amazing that it's not. And just incredible. And he runs through all the reasons why it should be. It absolutely should be.

But the post below that, If you just click on that post, gets you to the registry and the form that you need to fill out, and you probably need to fill out, you know, Song of this out. Yes, it was released in 1956. It's a survey monkey thing.

Let me click on this link right now, just to see what happens. Your voice is important, is it? The Library of Congress invites you to submit your recommendation for movies to be included in the national film registry. Okay, not sure what to nominate.

View the list of notable films not yet on the registry. Ooh. That would be interesting to see what notable films are not on the registry. I bet they don't mention Song of the South. Let's see. 1890 monkey shines? Oh, come on.

Dickison, Dixon greeting, 1891, 1894, Annie Oakley, Buffalo Dance, Casito King and Slackwire, Lewis Martinetti, Contortionist. Ooh, that might be good. Shadow number one. Those are all in 1894. Holy cow. I mean, now we're up to the 1900s. Okay, so Song of the South, 1946.

Let's scroll into 1946. Oh, good Lord. Get to it. We're only into 23. Come on, I'm going to skip through some of these years. I don't care about them. Where are we at? What's the year?

Come on, 38. Oh, yeah, we're close. Holy cow. I mean, we all know there's a ton of movies that are. Here we go, 1946. Alphabetical order. Song of the South is on here. All right.

That's a movie that was made and it hasn't been registered. So it's on the list. Well, that was nice of them to put that on there. So go there and tell them that you want Song of the South on the registry. It absolutely should be. Disney has banned this movie. You know, Disney has put it in the special locked-away archive that's a vault inside a vault inside a vault.

Song of the South. We never heard of that movie. What are you talking about? Is that a movie that this company made? No, we don't recall that. We don't recall that. Is that a movie that won awards and starred black people? Yeah, no, we have nothing to do with that.

Nothing to do with that. So it makes it extra special if this were to get, if this were to make it to the National Registry. So it'd be kind of cool to make that happen. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. so there are times in life when you find yourself reliving things that maybe you don't want to relive but then there's times in life when you find yourself reliving things where you're happy about reliving them

and i have with me today brian and jenny drollinger who want you to well they want they want to be america's favorite couple uh with variety they want to be america's favorite couple and all you have to do is vote for them and go to the, you know, to the link and give them a vote for America's favorite couple from variety. And all you have to do is go to second chance on love.com and you can find a place to vote for them. Brian and Jenny Drellinger, welcome to chewing the fat. How in the world are you today? Great. Okay. So if I'm driving people to your website, Second Chance on Love, what does that mean? well second chance on love is a website that that we have for people to go to and actually they can they can they can share their story on their second chance on love but they can find ours and our

friend's backstory that that that uh that we have because we have a kind of interesting um story that we're when we i don't know if we want to get into it right now but but yeah i want to hear a little bit of it absolutely a little bit of the story okay Absolutely. It's important. This is why I want to vote for you. Tell me why I need to vote for you. All right. All right. Well, it's so it starts back in 1985 when my best friend and Jenny's best friend who were dating at the time talked us into going to a dance and seeing each other and meeting. So it was kind of a set up, a setup. Yeah, of course. And this was up in Alaska where I lived, and Jenny had just moved up there. I kind of jokingly say she moved up there to meet me. Oh, there you go.

But then she moved back down to Utah after a few years. But we knew each other. So we knew each other for a few years, and we kind of were the couple in the front seat while our friends were making out in the back seat. We were that couple. Okay, okay. That's really good. And so we weren't like, you know, we liked each other.

Still a couple. We're still a couple. We liked each other. And we went on dates and stuff. But there was always these high school games that we played with each other. Well, and Brian, we went to rival high school. We lived in our part of our school. Yes.

Yeah. Yes. So that was a part of it, too. Okay. And we were part of the same religion. We were part of the same religion as well. So we kind of went to different activities and stuff inside each other and all these things. But there was a lot of those high school games going on.

And in 87, when I left to go on a mission for my church, Jenny decided to go down to Utah and go to school and work down there. And we wrote each other back and forth. In fact, we used to send each other cassette tapes. And you know what those are, Jesse. Sadly, I do. Yes, yes, I do. My grandfather used to tell me about those. Yeah, go ahead.

My grandfather. Yeah, so we used to write each other, but then we also would do talk tapes. And I used to write, well, I was writing songs at the time, and I still do, but I was writing songs, so I'd write a song, and I would play it, and I would send it to her. And so we, that's how we communicated for a couple years. And when I got off my mission, my parents had me. moved on me and they moved to Oregon. I don't know if that was intentionally trying to get rid of me, but they moved to Oregon. And I found them. And when I got back, I called Jenny on the phone and I said,

hey, I want to meet you from lunch because I'm coming down to Utah, down to Salt Lake to shop some of my songs. And I want to meet you for lunch. And so we talked and I went down to Utah, down to Salt Lake. I went to the studio. But the day, the night before I think it was, Denny, that I called you, right? The night before. Yeah, you called me the night before. And you said, I'll call you in the morning. I don't have a car. I'm carpooling. And so I'll have to call you in the morning to tell you where to meet me and what time because you were going to the recording studio to record to music. And you told me the general area you were going to be in, but we just didn't know where we were going to meet up. So, yeah. So the next morning, there was no phone.

call from Brian and I went to make a phone call and the phone was dead and I'm like what the crap there was construction going on on First Avenue in front of my apartment complex and I'm like oh my gosh they hit the phone line so I went over to my neighbors to see if their phone was working and their phone was and I'm like that's really strange so back in those days you can call this was 1989 by the way so you could call I called my phone number and to see if it was working and it said this number has been disconnected. No further information is available. I'm like, what the crap?

See, even back then you had to pay the bill. Amazing. Anyway, go ahead. So you hit zero and it will connect you to the US West operator. And I was like, what is going on? Why is my phone disconnected? And she was really snarky. And she was like, well, due to non-payment,

there hasn't been one payment made on this house. And it was from September to December. And I'm like, what? So back in those days, There was six girls sharing an apartment, and one of the girls had to have the utilities in her name. And then we would just make monthly payments to her as the bills came in, and she would tell us we would go through the phone bill. And highlight where, you know, you called. And, you know, it was a very significant amount after three months.

And we realized all of a sudden that the personal check we were writing to her in her name, I'm not going to say her name out loud on the phone. she it all started making sense because we all worked at the mall for like five bucks an hour back then and she was coming home with shopping bags of you know bomber jackets from learning New York and it was that in my phone bill was $300 every month it was you know you called your family sure significant amount yeah there was long distance in those days sure yeah and it was like a normal thing but instead of paying the bill and being responsible She was shopping on all our money.

So I'm wanting to hang her by her toenails. We were like, what the crap? So all of a sudden, I'm like, Brian's going to think I did this on purpose. In those days, our phone number, weren't associated with all these apps. And so you could change your phone number if you didn't want someone to contact you. Right. So I'm like, he's going to think I'm playing games again. So I immediately ran downtown, down to find, see if I could find him in this place that he said he was going to be in.

and now we know years later he was two blocks further west than where I was looking at the time so that's why I couldn't find him and we never saw the other again we were over and I went home for Christmas to Alaska and I thought maybe when I get back to Utah he will write me a letter because certainly he's been writing me all this time he has my address and be like what happened why couldn't I get a hold of you and in fact my mom she was like being very consoling to me She's like, I'm sure that he will send you a letter. I'm sure that you'll hear from it. No, the volcano erupted in Alaska.

I couldn't get back to Utah until mid-January. So it was like an L-Biter, like, is he going to write to me? He's going to write to me? And like, did I tell him I was coming here to Alaska because he has my address here in Alaska? But then I was like, I got back to Utah and there was no letter. And I'm like, he thinks I did this. I was playing games. And we never saw or spoke to each other for 32 years.

Wow. 32 years. Wow. All because you were rooming with what's your face made of. Okay. All right. I buy it. Sure.

I got it. When I told him, we reconnected years later on the phone, he was asking me, why didn't we ever get together? And I was like, we'll talk about that. I don't want to talk about it right. So she said a player who calls me back again, no, I want to know now. So I told him like, well, my roommate didn't pay the poem, boom, blah, blah, blah, blah.

And he was like, who do I strangle? He was like, you still liked me. That's what he said. He's like, you still liked me. I was like, yeah, I tried to find you. And he was like, oh. Yeah. Sorry about it.

So you both had separate lives all this time, not, you know, realizing that one was, you know, you were parted because of what's her face made off. And Brian decided that, you know, hey, she ghosted me, I'm done. And you moved on, right? Yep, yep, moved on. We both had different lives.

She had two kids. I had seven. Yeah. And I had, and I'd been married for about 30 years. And then things went. Sideways, as sideways, as they do. Yeah, as they do, some time to time. Yep, yep.

And so I was in the midst of a divorce. and my friend from Alaska calls me up, and he's now married to his girlfriend that was in high school, the same two that got us together. They've been married for now for, I think, about 10 years, but he called me and he said, you need to call Jenny. And I'm like, Jenny from high school,

why would I call her? Yeah, she ghosted me 30 years ago. What do I want to talk to her for? I don't want to call it. And he goes, because she's a paralegal in Idaho, where you live, and you can call her, and she can have a firm help you get your attorney. And that's how we actually reconnected

was that I, and I called her and she reluctantly answered. Because remember, I had driven off a cliff and died pretty much. Right. And I called her and she said, she actually talked to her firm and they got me an attorney. And about a month later, and we'd been talking on the phone, but it was all business.

And I had basically said, well, she told me, she said, you have seven kids. She goes, you need to stay married. She told me. And so I tried. I mean, I went through counseling with my ex and everything. And I tried to work it out, but it just wasn't working. And eventually it's like I just, I can't do this anymore. And so I went down to, I went down to Blackfoot.

she lived in Pocatello at the time in Idaho and went down to Blackfoot and that we were having a fair down there and I had a booth there I had I had had a boot there for about 15 years prior to that and every every year and my son wanted to who doesn't by the way have a have a booth at the Blackfoot Fair I mean come on now if you don't if you don't have one you got to get one thank you but but anyway I with the business I'm in I you know I was doing shows, doing events, and my son wanted to go down and work this booth with me. And so I went down there, and that's when I met Jenny and had been like 34 years since I'd seen her. Wow.

And one thing led to another. I mean... And we're back, baby. We're back. We're back. It was honestly, like, really crazy. Like, just seeing her for the first time and her seeing me for the first time. and it was it was just really I think we were kind of speechless for a moment it was just like we were

staring at each other and his daughter-in-law and son were there and they were like you must be jenny oh yeah kind of like whoa this is intense like wow and jepi i have to tell you i wasn't i wasn't i wasn't divorced yet i was going through my divorce and i didn't know that she was going through divorce. I had no idea. But when I saw her, I thought, this must be the devil, the way I'm feeling about shit. Right.

Because I'm not divorced yet, you know, and I'm a committed guy, and I'm like, okay. But it was just one of those feelings that was like, you know, undeniably like this person. Hence, hence we get to second chance on love. That's right. And that's where we're at now.

So now, now Aside from wanting people's votes to become America's favorite couple for variety, how do people go about voting for you? Do they just go to second chance on love.com or is there another special link? Yeah, so there should be, and I'm looking at the banner on our website right now, and I'm not seeing it, and it's supposed to be there. So I need to call our web lady, but there, you can go to our website. And there should be a link to take you straight to America's favorite couple. The website is America's faith couple.org. Yeah, the banner is scrolling on your website, though, second chance on love.

And then it's one free vote a day. And then if you pay for votes after that, it goes to a charity, Oceana and L.A. Free Bank. So it's a tax deductible, or a deduction, sorry, since it's charity. Right. Yeah. And so the winner gets $20,000 in a spread on Variety Magazine. And that's what kind of prompted me.

It's like, oh, this spread and variety would help us launch the book that we're writing. I'm co-authoring with a well-known writer named Tricia Goyer. And that's supposed to be, we're supposed to have that done by the end of the year. And then also we have screenwriters that have written a beautiful screenplay about all the drama of our, of our reconnecting connection. I mean, it is kind of a hallmark movie, a story. It is. It's crazy. And so there's so many other details to our story that we don't have time to even talk about. But it's just like the universe just realigned us back together at the time where we were both at the darkest time of our lives, I want to say.

And it was just being, yeah, reconnecting was just like a godsend. And there was just too many Godwinks, too many divine interventions. I kept saying, oh, this is so weird. This is so weird. Because weird little things kept happening. And my mom finally said, quit saying it's weird and just say it's divine. That's just what it is. Yeah.

Just what it is. There you go. Yeah. It must be. All right. So, is there a ranking right now? I mean, are you guys like number one in the America's favorite couple ranking? Not yet.

Not yet. What? It looks like we're number three in our category. Do you know the couples ahead of you? I mean, are they just like mean people and you don't like them? No. So you want to tell people not to vote for them? Oh, okay, okay.

I'm sorry. I don't know how they've groups us. We're in a group of 15 and we don't know, and none of us know each other. So I don't know how they're placing us or realigning us and putting us on these different groups. So, Ryan, how many are running right now? Well, there was, yeah, there was about $200,000. that actually entered the competition.

And now there's about, I think about 2,500 right now. We're third in our group. Okay. And then, yeah. And so there's probably around, I'm guessing, the 15 is probably around 150, 200 groups. So now the rankings go if you have to be number one in your group and then the number one's face off in the next round, right? Yep, yep.

And then the number one's in the next round. but there's two more rounds after this. You've got to make this happen. What are we talking about? I mean, the other people in front of you in your category, I hate them, okay? Let's move on. I hate them.

Vote for Brian and Jenny. There has to happen. Go to Second Chance on Love.com and get your, it's a free vote. What are you doing? It's a free vote. Go there and help them out. I mean, if you want to spend some money and donate some of the stuff,

go ahead. Fine. I'm not going to stay. stop you, but it's a one vote, one vote is free. Yeah, you can set your alarm, your phone, you can set your alarms to it once a day, just a vote. Oh, that's my vote. You get one a day. It's not even just one vote. It's one a day. Oh my goodness. We need to make that happen. We need to make that happen right now. That has to happen. All right, Brian and Jenny, thank you so much. I can't wait for, so that we have the upcoming book will be as soon and the possible opportunity for

Hallmark to have the story told. I'm all about it. Second chance on love. I love it very much. Yeah, that's awesome. Brian, Jenny, thank you very much for joining me on Chewing the Fat today. I appreciate it. Thanks for having us on.

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you know, Taylor Swift announcing her 12th studio album, Life of a Showgirl, I don't care. I mean, good for her. Apparently she announced she's going to start some, she's going to have some podcast too. She was on the New Heights. That's Travis and Jason's podcast. I mean, the wife got a podcast deal out of that.

And now, does Taylor Swift need a podcast? We need more from Taylor Swift. Yes, we do, Jeff. She can do it and she can do no wrong. Okay. All right, but I just can't. I can't bring myself to care. And then we've got Donald Trump announcing that the 2025 Kennedy Center honorees.

Trump said he was like, you know, like played a big role in picking the new honorees. So you have Kiss, Sylvester Stallone, who I'm sure will be at the White House on July 4th with the UFC fight. Just a just a thought. George Strait, Gloria Gainer, Michael Crawford. And so congratulations to all of them for being Kennedy Center. Honoraries. I don't know. I guess they all, you know, will they take it from Trump?

I mean, kiss. Okay. I think Stanley has already, I think they've already said that they would accept it. So would they all be there? I don't know. Stallone, hello. He's part of their, he's part of, Trump's deal.

Straight, absolutely. Gloria Gaynor, I mean, she'll say that she has to go. Michael Crawford, I mean, nobody cares about Michael Crawford, right? He's Mr. What's the stupid? The mask, the face. Yeah, the phantom, the phantom of the opera. You know, that guy.

And so he, you know, he's, that's only the, I mean, good for him. He's famous, made it work, became a superstar over that stupid show. Good for him. Congratulations. Here's a Kennedy senator, honor. Get out of here. All right, here's a Kennedy Center. And by the way, the little shadow box over there

with the phantom mask. Yeah, congratulations. We're proud of you. And then we have this Georgia woman who was arrested for murder and years-long identity theft of her girlfriend. All right, so I think this is

who died today? Who? died today. Nicole Elston dead at the age of 24 but she disappeared back in 2007 so she was just now

found. So Angel Thompson has been charged she they found Nicole's dismembered body I mean they didn't know that it was Nicole who was in a burning body bag 18 years ago.

More than that, man. So the woman, they discovered, cut into 13 pieces with their hands, feet, head missing in a burning body bag on the side of a Georgia road. Fulton County officials announced at a press conference on Wednesday, hey, you know, it took a true sociopath to do what happened here. Yeah. So some of the body parts from Alston were never found.

Oh, okay, that's special. So they reviewed DNA from the case that matched a relative, which helped authorities confirm that the remains belong to Alston, whose last known location was in Manhattan. Then they learned Alston was in the Big Apple. She used to live with Thompson, who was wanted at the time in New York for theft and identity fraud. and she did it again

because she murdered Alston and then took over her name and Ed in life and she just she milked the system for years I think she stopped using Alston and before they actually found her so she

stole her identity collected social security benefits food stamps food stamps section 8 housing funds under her name for eight years for eight years she had open bank accounts email accounts, even swapped Alston's photo with her picture on her

driver's license back in 2010. Wow. That is unbelievable. And so she collected roughly $140,000 in government benefits under Alston's identity. Then she has been arrested in 2023 for concealing Alstah's death

while she was now arrested and charged with the murder and two counts of identity. theft. It took two years to do that. Wow. Okay. All right. That's fine. They were going to prosecute her and throw away the key, I hope, because that's definitely

someone who's not thinking right, or at least, I mean, a criminal-minded. I believe the Georgia prosecutor said it was a true sociopath to do what happened here. Yeah. So, I guess finally rest in peace to Nicole Alston dead in 2007 at the age of 24.

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Anyway, so it's believed to be among the largest single gifts in history of college athletics. Oh, wow, it's definitely the largest in school history. Yeah, good luck to Kansas. So they're not getting that. So Kansas plans to allocate $75 million of Booth's gift toward launching the second phase of its ongoing transformation of the David Booth, Kansas Memorial Stadium, and construction of the surrounding Gateway District. Okay. The school officials have not revealed a timetable for construction and completion of Phase 2.

Yeah, we need to keep an eye on that. There'll be some definite, there'll be some definitely padding the pockets. I'm allegedly, I don't know that that's going to. going to happen. I was just saying it's possible. Construction sites seem to be a way to, you know, make funds show up and then disappear. That's just me. Anyway, so the remainder of Booth's Gifts will establish an annual additional revenue stream for Kansas Athletics, and isn't that wonderful? And see, here's the thing. It's still Kansas. I dislike the Kansas Jayhawks. very much.

As soon as my son, my oldest son started playing for the University of Missouri, Kansas, knew, we do not like them. Screw the Jayhawks, all right? I don't like them. They need to bring that rivalry back. That actually was a great rivalry. Anyway, those games were played at Arrowhead Stadium.

Great rivalry. That needs to happen. But again, it's Kansas. And then the other reason I hate this story is because I'm doing a story about stupid Kansas That puts Carry on my way Where son

There we be Where you are died Oh no No don't No no Oh What a great song But it's in my head now

And it's not going to go away And I just I was in my head for a long time off and on because my daughter was watching that stupid show. I do know the dead people, supernatural, supernatural. And my daughter was hooked on that, so was my wife. And that's like the main song. And that stupid show is like when someone, I don't know,

when they're happy or they die, I got to remember that. I was forced to watch several episodes. But whenever someone like at the end of the show, they get in the car that they all love and they drive away. And of course, what's on the radio? Yep There'll be peace when you are done TV's turned up

Lay your weary head to rest Don't you cry no more And I'm stuck singing the stupid song Yeah I mean that's That's supernatural And that's Kansas And then I had to do the stupid Kansas story So welcome to my world

Okay, thank you for listening To join the fat I appreciate it. All right let's get out of here With the joke of the day This joke of the day from Dan who sent it with instructions.

All right? Now the instructions are you're going to need to use your northern accent. Think northern Wisconsin, almost Canadian-ish, in the punchline. The last line of the joke, for the last line of the joke,

for full effect. Here's the thing, Dan. I'm not doing that, okay? But I do like the joke. It's kind of funny. So, you know, we'll go with the joke. Sven and Ali. went into the woods to go hunting.

That's a long joke to get to the punchline, too, by the way, Dan. Sven and Ali went into the woods to go hunting. Ali told Svan to wait there, and he'd go drive the deer toward him. And all he had to do was wait and shoot the biggest one, and he saw. Svan agreed. A lot of people do that, by the way. After a little bit, Sven got uncomfortable feeling and knew it was time he had to relieve himself. So he found a tree that had fallen over, dropped his bridges,

and sat down with his butt hanging over the backside of the fallen tree. A lot of people do that, by the way. Anyway, Ali, meanwhile, had found what he was looking for and drove the deer towards Sven and heard nothing. So he hiked back to find Sven slumped over sleeping, pants around his ankles, sitting on this tree. So Ali just shook his head, left him there, and went off to continue hunting.

After a short while, Ali found his trophy and shot the deer. He then had a great idea. He dragged the deer back, checked on Svindon. Venn, who was still asleep, gutted the deer, put all the innards in a pile underneath Sven's backside on the ground behind the tree. Then, Ollie just went a short distance and waited. Suddenly, Ali heard a blood-curdling scream. He jumped up and ran back to Sven, ready to burst out laughing, right?

Ali ran up faking concerns. Sven, what's wrong? And Sven said, I sat down to you. this is where I'm supposed to, I guess, use the Wisconsin-Canadian punchline for the line. Sven said, I sat down to use the bathroom and fell asleep. And while I was asleep, I crapped out my guns. But by the grace of God and this big stick, I got it all back in. What is that?

What is he saying? What is that he used? No, no, you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcast. podcasts.