Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Nope, Not That!... | 12/15/23

Episode Date: December 15, 2023

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of any country in the world. You thought it was going to be the United States of America, didn't you? Nope. China has just pushed us off the top of the mountain. We're in second place, though. But it's the first time in 20, 30 years since the world coffee portal started tracking. The number of chain coffee shops in China

grew by 58% last year. They are drinking some coffee in China, okay? That is amazing. U.S. outlets, it surpassed U.S. outlets by more than 9,000 storefronts this year. Pretty incredible. The other upset was Lucan Coffee, L-U-C-K-I-N coffee, the Chinese company. It is the largest coffee chain brand in China after it pushed Starbucks off the top of the mountain. And so, okay, Starbucks is still the second largest market.

for China other than the United States. Pretty incredible. The chain right now has, let's see, Starbucks, the chain has 6,500 stores in China, and Lukens has 11,000. And Starbucks is saying, hey, we're going to get to 9,000 by 2025.

So congratulations to China for being the number one coffee chain drinking country in the world. And speaking to Starbucks, you see where the feds are, they may end up forcing Starbucks to open stores. I don't see how they can do that. But the company, we talked about at one point, shut down 16 locations in July of 2022 last year. Since if you're listening live, today is the 15th of December, 2023. And they closed the stores and they were located in Seattle, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland, and Chicago, you may remember. But,

But the National Labor Relations Board stated that, yeah, eight of those Starbucks locations were unionized at the time that they were shut down. And the company failed to notify the workers. No, they notified them when they shut it down. Okay. But Starbucks Workers United were not giving a heads up. And so that denied the union the opportunity to bargain. Hey, we're going to shut down.

We didn't know. don't shut down, we still won our jobs. Nope, bargaining over. I mean, come on now. Stop it. So we'll see, that cannot. That cannot be let to stand. I'm sorry.

There's no way that they can force a company to open up stores that they have now closed. I'm just sorry. I don't care what the deal was. No, you have to open your stores. You closed them down, but you've got to open them back. up. They want them to open back up, re-hire the employees, provide those workers with lost pay and benefits, and bargain with the union. Look, I'm really sorry that those people lost their jobs. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. But sorry about it. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fad.

You know, speaking of companies closing down and, you know, laying people. pull off and closing the doors. I see it's becoming, I mean, this economy, man, is turning right around, turning right around. And this article of layoffs, these tweet on Etsy, the online marketplace, where

you know, it's laying off 11% of its staff. The CEO blamed macroeconomic environment and previous overhiring despite gross merchandise sales remaining flat. Okay. Hasbro, the toy maker, laying

off 1,100 workers, roughly 20% of its staff. Yeah, I know less than stellar sales we're reporting, so all right. And they cut 800 jobs earlier this year. Wow. Now Spotify. Spotify,

we talked about their layoffs. Well, they just announced their third round, right, earlier this month, which cut 1,500 jobs, and that equates to about total now 17% of their staff. Just incredible. And in the same article, what I find amazing is that it talks about that getting an employee headcount reduction email right after a company Christmas party competition isn't a great, isn't for great for staff morale.

No, but that's what happens. Right around this time of year, companies start cutting the cords on people. I get it. But they claim in this story that the CEO is blaming challenging challenging challenging challenging. macroeconomic factors seems to be at odds with most Americas finally starting to feel like the economy

is turning around. I'd like to ask you, the listener of Chewing the Fat, the Americans, not the people outside of America, I know how you feel. You can email me at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, but the Americans, do you feel that the economy

is turning around? Because I certainly don't feel that way. Yeah, maybe you do. do. And maybe you like me like a fresh, cold glass of water. No, we're not going to the break room yet.

But the California State Water Resources Control Board knows all about that fresh cold glass of water. And they are tentatively planning a vote next week to approve a

landmark water regulation. Now, this is happening over the holidays. Just letting you know because they're planning this vote next week. All right. Was that Christmas week? Oh my gosh, yes it is. They are planning this vote next week on regulation that would turn sewage into drinking water across California. There was doing faces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling in a stunk so bad. And you'll be drinking that now. And you're not going to be throwing it away. You're not going to be scraping it off. You're going to just toilet to tap, baby. Wall to tap, wall the tap, wall the water. Okay, so the rules would allow

the toilet to tap converting water right into drinking water man does that sound good the project of course is an effort to tackle say it with me now

climate change and of course droughts we have to worry about those droughts out there so currently the sewage water gets treated and released into oceans rivers water parks and used to irrigate fields in California this is specifically to California.

So the new plan would take the wastewater and have it treated at a higher level and send it back to the main water supply over a course of hours to days. I would like to vote for days. If we're going to do this, not ours. Don't just, yeah, that's fine. Go ahead and put it back on the drinking water. So right now, there are a couple different ways to do that. You can, the indirect potable reuse, which is what we do a lot.

in this country, and so does California, uses the environmental buffer, such as a lake, river, or groundwater aquifer before the water is treated into the drinking water treatment plant. So they treat it, they put it back in the aquifer or the lake or whatever, and then they take it back from there

and treat it again through the thing. So it has time to filter through, I don't know, what's the thing called again? Oh, yeah, Earth. And so they have a chance to do that. Or you have what they want to do, is direct potable reuse, which involves the treatment and distribution of water

without an environmental buffer. And who needs the environment? I mean, who needs Earth to do what Earth does? No one. No one needs that. So, just so you know, it's not going to happen overnight. I've approved the California Sanitation Districts hope to start construction in 2025

and begin delivering water by 2032. That does seem like a long time. It does seem like a long time before. Before we have to start drinking toilet to tap water. Now, the good thing is this is being used around the world already. Singapore is doing this. And Nambia. And Nambia is beautiful this time of year.

Now, the problem with it, though, is that Nambia has already reported water contamination crisis. And the water is not fit for human consumption. That won't happen here. Don't even worry about it. That will not happen. and here. Even if you were to wake up and find... There was due to feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad. Take a drink. There's nothing like a fresh, cold glass of water.

You know, for a while, I've talked about taking the train from Trenton, New Jersey into Manhattan every day. When we were doing the show out of Manhattan, I lived in Philadelphia. The closest this big junction was Trenton, New Jersey, and you take the train, 601 Express every morning from Trenton, New Jersey, right into Manhattan. And there were times when you come back or in the afternoon and they have someone has hurt themselves

on the track or there's, you know, it gets stalled and you have to stop. And it is so frustrating because you're stuck, you're on the train. It's taking long enough as it is to get from Manhattan to Trenton, then you've got to drive home, but then, you know, you're there on the tracks,

just sitting there. doing nothing. Well, so the other day, there was a loose bull on the train tracks in New Jersey. You know how pissed that would be? Being in a train and a bull

is stopping the trains from running because he's down the tracks? They didn't even know where it came from. We don't know. We don't know who belongs to. We don't know where it came from. It's just a ruddy brown bull with long, dark-tipped horns standing on the tracks

at Newark Penn Station. That's a main hub. That's the hub. One of the last hubs, well, there's one more in there, but one of giant big hubs heading into New York and also shooting off

into Newark and New Jersey. Tracks all meet there. I would be so tipped. I mean, so pissed. Holy cow. So the police response and holding up train traffic just stopping

because this bull is on the traffic. How about no for hours they're trying to get this bull off the tracks and they finally I don't know wrangled it into some fenced area and got it sent to some local animal sanctuary Oh isn't that special because I would say oh look there's a bull on the train tracks we don't know who it belongs to we don't know how it got here Hey, Bull, move away from the tracks. No? Going down. And we carried it off the tracks and we move on with our lives.

Okay, have a nice day. And this isn't the first time that it's happened. It hasn't happened in a while. But they had it in 2006. Wow, this is before I was, when was I riding New Jersey Transit? I was writing New Jersey Transit. 10, 11, and 12.

Okay, so this is before. then. Because the first one happened in 2004. And they captured it. And they took it to a slaughterhouse. Good. I mean, they should have, no matter, this was back in 2004.

At least they didn't take it to a sanctuary. But they did not take care of it right away. Because then in 2006, another bull, just roaming around. the city for hours. They don't know where it came from who it belonged to. You know what this bull belongs to? No.

Yeah, he'd take two shots on that. It was a pretty big bull. So what are you going to do? Anyway, I just, I'd be so angry. So I read this story. I was, I was angry. I don't even write about it anymore. Like this bull is blocking trash.

You know what it reminds me of? It reminds me of these climate activists. And maybe it's a climate activist bull. Maybe it's a Palestinian bull. That's what it is. It's a Palestinian bull. freedom free Palestine uh cease fire for Palestine bull blocking traffic because you know you can't you can't do anything to any of the protesters and heaven forbid I mean I realize I realize that

if you were to you know that bull belongs to no how long has been out here we got the train stopped we got traffic stopped we've been out here for about an hour all right that's good train's going again. You know how pissed people would be, man? It would be awesome. They just show, they have helicopter shots of the bull covered up with a white sheet on the tracks carrying that thing off.

It looks like it looks like the police are covering up the bull. The police are now cutting up the bull. My gosh, what are they doing? Taking the meat home for themselves? Trains are still running though, so everything is fine. I mean, that would be awesome. It's just me

thinking it would be awesome? All right, never mind. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something. Oh, we're not drinking California water in the break room. I'll tell you that. No, that is not happening. All right, so the Food and Drug Administration has issued a recall on 12 packs of Diet Coke, Fanta Orange, and Sprite.

The Coke Zero is still good. They were sold in Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. be still good. I'm living in Texas now. Show originates from Dallas Ford Worth, the Metroplex. So I don't have to worry about it. I can still do that.

So the recall was made due to the potential presence of foreign material in the cans of soda. There was due to a feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad.

It was not, they did not say that. Okay, it just said foreign material. They would have specified. because it does say in the story it wasn't made clear what the foreign material may be inside the cans. No, but it's not that. It can't be. The floor, the ceiling in a stunk.

So bad. If that's the case, they need to shut down the production plant at the old Diet Coke, so I'll tell you that. Now, they claim that all the cans have been taken off the shelf. So if you have some, you can obviously return it. Don't drink it. There were 417 cases of Diet Coke, 14 cases of Fanta Orange, and 1,557 cases of Sprite. So if you have any of the impacted products, do not consume them.

I'm telling you, now if you were to open a can of Sprite and you got a whiff of... There was due to feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, in a stunk. So bad. Yeah, I'm not drinking that. All right. So those of you listening live, like I said, today is the 15th of December, 2023. That means Prime's Reacher drops today. I read a tease that it was supposed to drop last night, but I looked, I don't know, sometime in the evening and it hadn't dropped yet. So it drops today. I'm a little ticked at Amazon Prime because they, we may have talked about this. I don't

remember, but I'm still mad at them so we can talk about it again. Instead of dropping the whole series, you know, like I already pay for the application. I already pay for the app. And so just give me the show. Just drop the show. It's already done. Put it down. Let me watch it at my own time.

No. Can't do that. We're going to give me the first three episodes today this weekend. And then it's going to drop a new episode every week until, I don't know, sometime in January. Just stop it. I'm going to go back to your app anyway. your platform? I use your platform. You making me go back once a week. It just drives me insane.

And you know what else I started watching was the new Fargo, the season 5 Fargo? I only, I've watched about one and a half episodes. Looks really good. That whole, that series has been really good. And so I'm looking forward to it. That first episode was really good. So I started watching Fargo again. Oh, you know what else I found out too? And I did not realize this. Paramount Plus. I figured that it would be tough for them to do another season of fatal attraction that they did. The first season was good.

I enjoyed it. But I figured it would be difficult to do a season two. But Rabbit Hole on Paramount Plus, definitely with Keith for Sutherland, that first season was really good. Nope. Canceled. Fatal attraction. Canceled. So I'm not sure what's up with Paramount Plus.

but you better start creating. I know you're still, I know you've got the deal with Taylor Sheridan, so you've got Bass Reeves, which has been really good. Only one episode of Bass Reeves left too, by the way. And they only give me, that's a weekly drop.

So anyway, and they have all the 1883s and the Yellowstone prequels and stuff that have been really enjoyable. And they had a couple more that was worth it. So never mind. I'm not complaining about Rabbit Hole. They could go ahead and just cancel those damn shows.

And I guess, I guess congratulations are in order although, you know, whatever. Trevor Noah is going to host the Grammy Award. They searched the world over and thought they found true love. But, sorry, good.

Okay. It's an old stupid song. Where, where are you tonight? Why did you leave me here all alone? I searched the world over and I thought I found true love. You mad?

Another and He was gone. I was not expecting he-ha today. That was, that was He-Ha! That's from He-Ha! Yeah, yeah, yeah. He-ha, classic.

They'd have the star come in, wear the bib overalls. The star would have his back to the crowd. Then you'd have either, what's his face or what's his face from He-Ha facing the crowd. And they would sing it. And then he would elbow the star

and the star would turn around and finish up, search the world over with a, she was gone. Classic He-ha-ha-ha right. there, man. I was forced to watch that with my great-grandfather. Anyway, congratulations to Trevor Noah.

I would love to see if Trevor Noah even knows what He-Haul was, because I bet he doesn't. Anyway, he's tapped to host to Grammys, just coming up on February 4th. And like I said, the reason it got me into He-Haul is that they searched the world over, because this is the fourth

year in a row for Trevor. I mean, it's like Grammys, what are we doing? I just give it to Trevor. Just let Trevor do it. It's fine. He'll be fine. He's done it for the last three years. Just let them do it. People, that way, nobody whines, and they don't have to talk.

Just let Trevor do it. So that's what we're doing. Isn't that great? Of course it is. Okay, so now I can't stop thinking about he-ha. Because we've got junior side. I think of all these stupid bits that they did on he-haw.

Junior samples. You know, the big fat guy with the bib overalls and he would come and shop and come and shop and call BR-5-49. He'd always have to plate. BR-5-4-9. It would be upside down. He'd turn it over.

He'd look down. Oh, you turn it back over. Grandpa Jones with his, I kept the love letter right here next to my heart, heart, heart,

and then he pulls it out of his back pocket. Awesome stuff. But those were some darn fine musicians on he-ha. You know what I'm saying? You, of course you do.

I mean, you had Roy Clark who could play every instrument in the world, and you had Buck Owens. Hello? I've got a tiger by the tail. Come on,

That's good American television right there. He-ha! Oh, my God. I got to take a break. Boarding for Flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. What? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.

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has died at the age of 73. No. No, it doesn't say that. He died following complications of a cardiac arrest. Duh. And he suffered. No, no, he was still, no, he had the cardiac arrest. He was still alive. He was struck.

Yeah, then. Yeah. So then, but he had a struggling with the bad back. He had multiple back surgeries. So, you know, there was other issues. So it definitely, definitely, wasn't that. George McGuinness, dead at the age of 73. Then we have Emmanuel de Beaver. I think it's Debever. It might be De Beaver. D-E-B-E-V-E-R. I apologize if I mispronounced her name.

She is the actor who accused Gerard DiPardte d'Au of sexual assault. Okay. So she accused Gerard DiPardot of sexual assault and then there was going to be there's this big documentary about DePardot that was airing on France too

and they were you know this was about this and she died of an apparent suicide nope she jumped off a bridge nice try though nice guess

she jumped off a bridge so that definitely wasn't that okay so if you're thinking about I mean people jump off bridges all the time I mean I would not say I'm not going out I'm not saying that anybody with you know Gerard de Pardue had anything to do with you know

the Clintons or anything like that and somebody you know took a fault no she jumped off a bridge there was no as far as I know there were no gunshot wounds but if you or someone you love or is struggling be sure you can have there's 9-8-8. There's the suicide and crisis lifeline.

I'm not kidding about that. Suicide has touched all of our lives. So if you or someone you love needs help, get it. It's available. 9-88 is the suicide and crisis lifeline. Then we have a Brazilian gospel. I'm telling you. Who died today? It's full of who died.

It's a little disappointing, actually. The Brazilian gospel sayer, Pedro Henrique, 30. He's doing a live performance. Falls over. Dead! Rest in peace, Pedro Henrique. I mean, that dehydration will get you every time.

Every time. I'm sad about that. Because it doesn't, I mean, he just collapsed. Doesn't say what made him collapse. So stop looking at me like that. Then we have the Turkish lawmaker who has a heart attack after saying Israel will suffer the wrath of Allah.

And then immediately he gets done, drops over dead, right there on the stage. Now, it's interesting to me, see the way you're looking at me now, as you're thinking, oh yeah, on the wrong side of the gods. But, I mean, for sure it wasn't that, right? It wasn't that. Or was it? Or is that the wrong side of the gods? Now it's, you don't want to mess with Israel, man.

You can't be on the wrong side. That is being on the wrong side of the gods. So, I suppose I should say, rest in peace to Hassanbid. One more. Who died today? Twelve hundred tons of sardines and mackerel. Rest in peace. It definitely wasn't that.

That's for sure. I don't think the mackerel and the sardines had that. But they were found floating on the surface of the sea at a fishing port. in Japan. I mean, the pictures. Clean it up, man. It is going to... You're going to be able to smell Japan.

If you're downwind of Japan, it's going to be thousands of miles, man. That's not going to be good. Ooh. The smell of those fish are going to be terrible. No. The floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad. I mean, it's going to stink real bad.

It is going to stink real bad. real bad. There's no doubt about that. Now, experts, they don't know what happened. They just figure, maybe they had become stranded after being chased to the point of exhaustion. Okay. All right, they were chased

to the point of exhaustion. So the schools of fish were chased to the point of exhaustion. That's what they do. So they don't know what caused it. Now, the officials, a big surprise here, have blasted the report.

Because it could have nothing to do, because that's the first thing I thought of. This right here is that didn't they just start releasing treated wastewater from Fukushima into the water off Japan? Didn't we talk about that? Ding, ding, ding, ding, yes. Now, the Japanese officials, no, Japanese officials, it's not that. It's not that. Leads one to believe maybe it is. Holy cow.

So then, I mean, they say it's not that. They tried to pick up the fish as much as they can. Some of the fishermen are like, we've got to get them out of the water because that just leads to less oxygen in the water which is going to kill more fish. So just good rule of thumb for a little while. Stay upwind of Japan for a while. Okay, so we talked about layoffs and, you know, the holiday layoffs,

But there are some good things that have happened recently. Alaska Airlines agreed to buy Hawaiian Airlines. The two states that get an insert on a map in the U.S., they're coming together. That's a funny line. In a surprise deal, that's not my line. So that's what I'm just saying, you know, it's a funny line. Alaska Airlines announced that it will purchase its struggling Pacific region rival Hawaiian Airlines

for $1.9 billion. And the deal is expected to close in the next year. Yeah, I mean, they're struggling. Okay, we'll buy you for $1.9 billion. Okay, we'll take it. So regulatory, the Biden administration has been hostile to, yeah, no kidding, to the takeovers. There's no doubt about that. So let's see, because he wants to block the JetBlue acquisition of spirit.

Good luck with that. We'll see how that goes. Honeywell is going to buy Carrier, so we're going to have Big AC. Coming at you soon. Honeywell's buying carrier for $5 billion. It seems like carrier would be worth more than that. I would guess carrier. Anyway, well, you suck.

You're only worth $5 billion. And then Occidental Petroleum, the company has agreed to buy oil driller Crown Rock, which operates in the Permian Basin here in Texas. That deal is going to be $12 billion. Yeah, more. That needs a bigger cash register sound. It's the biggest deal for Occidental, since it snagged this $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway, to take over the Anadarko Petroleum in 2019.

Comes as major oil and gas players are snapping up other companies to secure their supplies, including ExxonMobil's $60 billion purchase of pioneer natural resources, and Chevron's 53. billion deal for Hess. Yeah. We're going to get a bigger cash register sound.

And then I see where Macy's they said, I think the buyout from Arcos management and Brigade Capital Management, I feel like that is going to happen for

$5.8 billion. Then we have Choice Hotels. They decided to launch a hostile takeover. I was like fat business. Two in the fat business. CTF business. CTF on the floor.

Choice Hotels launched the hostile takeover bid of budget hotel rival Windham. Wait. Choice, they're saying is a higher end than Wyndham? I think not. but okay. All right, if you say so. There was due to a few. No, no. All over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad.

I don't think that was Wyndham or choice. But if it was, holy cow. So they've repeatedly tried to make a deal over the Wyndham. And Wyndham keeps saying, no, that's why they launched the hostel takeover. I'm going to take about $8 billion for that deal. Incredible. Incredible. Good luck. Good luck to all involve. Everybody keeps their job.

Hope everybody grows these businesses. And everyone is happy. Hope that happens. There's no layoffs. No union issues. And, yeah, that's what I want. Okay, so you still have time to do this. This is a tremendous idea.

I wish it was mine. I'm going to make it mine, though, because it's such a tremendous idea. I love it. I love it to, for the fun of it, I love it to get people talking I love everything about it All right we're coming up on the holidays

It's going to be tough to get it done for this year But it's something to put in your hip pocket Nobody has a hip pocket It's going to be something to put in your back pocket For next year Okay I love this idea And I just came across my timeline

On my Instagram account At Jeff Fisher Radio It might have been Facebook at Jeff Fisher Radio. Might have been X at Jeffrey JFR. It might have been my YouTube channel Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You know, it could have been an email.

Somebody sent me at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. Anyway, I saw it on one of those accounts. And it's a fantastic idea. Now it's presented as to get your relatives speaking again. All right, so if you have a family that's not talking, this is a way to get the family talking. I would say this is a way to get them talking

whether they're talking or not, okay? you send a heartfelt Christmas card Merry Christmas from all of us The Fisher family And you put in an extra kid that nobody knows in the picture That is fantastic I cannot tell you How many cards are going to get sent out

From Jeff Fisher next year With I don't know where I'm going to get the kid But there's going to be another kid in the picture We're going to have my wife's grandkids we're going to have the kids and there's going to be a kid that nobody knows and all you just say is from the family

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What's the Lie? What's the Lie? Where contestants try to decipher the lie from four, count them one, two, three, four have lines. One of them is not true. Thus, that's where we get. What's the lie? Our contestant today, Josh Kinder, if he wins, not only will he get to come back for another round, he'll win a Talking Sense Jeffie Blue Freshie. And for more information on those, you can go to the Talking Sense Facebook group and find the Freshie scent and design especially for you. 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.com.

Josh, welcome to What's the Lie. How are you? I am doing great, Jesse. How are you? I am fantastic. It's been a long year. We're coming up on the culmination of the great 2023.

I hope you had a wonderful 2023. Oh, I had an awesome 20203. So you live in the great state of Tennessee, I understand. The greatest state there is, yes, sir. I mean, okay. And if you say so, how long have you lived there? I have lived here all my life except for I lived in the god-awful state of Ohio for a few years.

Well, were you in, you, symbiotical with you, my friend, okay? Eye to eye. Where did you? Oh, my gosh. Where did you live in Ohio? Outside of Cincinnati. Oh, even, yeah. Holy cow.

The roads are pitted with holes. Oh, it's just awful. It's just awful. It's great. Did you ever go to Cedar Point though? Cedar Point, no. I went to Kings Island. Okay.

All right. You know, whatever. Whatever float your boat. That's fine. All right. So, Josh, you've been keeping up on the news, right? I've been trying my best. All right.

So you're ready to play? I am ready. All right. Four headlines, one not real. What's the lie? Headline number one. Dakota Johnson, the actress. likes to sleep for 14 hours a night.

Headline number two. A new study finds that blondes need fewer haircuts. Headline number three, dolphins spotted in grease appear to have thumbs. Headline number four. Scientists are making transparent wood to be used for smartphone screens. Those are your four headlines. Headline number one, Dakota Johnson, the actress, likes to sleep. sleep for 14 hours a night.

Headline number two, new study finds that blondes need fewer haircuts. Headline number three, dolphin spotted in Greece, appear to have thumbs. Headline number four, scientists are making transparent wood to be used for smart salon screens.

All right, those are your four headlines. Josh, what is the lie? Oh man, they all sound like they could be true. That's the, oh my God. Gosh, what? I know.

I would love to sleep for 14 hours a day. Okay. Would you, though, really? I mean, it's funny to say, but that's a long time. Anyway, go ahead. I'm going to go with number four.

The wood, the clear wood. Oh, no. Josh, I wanted you to win, too. Oh, no. No, that really bums me out. You know what caused that? Living in Ohio once in your life. Thanks for listening to What's the Lie.

What's the Lie? The subsidiary of Chew and the Fed Enterprises. All information is probably accurate at the time of the recording. CTF, WTL, MMX, I, I, I. It was the dolphins, wouldn't it? You want to guess again? Because no? don't tell me

14 hours Nope Because you want to try again It was the blonde Oh I'm horrible at this game No But you had fun right

Yeah You had fun right I had tons of fun And it wasn't with Stu So we're doing good You my friend Have just become my friend Stream and subscribe

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