Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Now On Notice… | 12/16/24

Episode Date: December 16, 2024

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I did not know that they were building a museum underneath the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Now, the Lincoln Memorial is only, I don't know, 175-ton marble sculpture. But apparently, there's this undercroft underneath it that's like a dark basement. And you could, it's big enough, they say. you could turn the Lincoln Memorial upside down and it would fit in the area below. Okay. I mean, we just put it on a spindle and have that thing circle around. They're not going to do that, though.

What they're doing, though, is they're building a museum underneath that. And they started off in 2016 with an $18.5 million grant or, you know, a gift from, philanthropist David Rubinstein but it didn't get underway until last year according to the park service now of course the work proved a greater challenge than originally anticipated uh-huh most of the delay was taken up by the design process of course figuring out how to construct the facility without damaging the iconic memorial some older elements were removed new ones were added several thousand yards of concrete and 400 tons of galvanized metal rebar were used in new structures.

Okay. During a test on the old pillars, workers found groundwater only six foot below the surface. The new area occupies only about 15,000 square feet of the 50,000 square foot undercroft. The glass walls are being assembled with special British-made glass. Why are we using British-made glass? We can't make it here in the U.S. Anyway, it's going to be heated once in place to keep condensation from obstructing the views. The project is due to be completed by 2026.

I'll believe that when I see it. He said that the National Park Foundation, the nonprofit foundation, raised $43 million for the project. Now, that $18.5 million is included in that $43 million. They also got another 26 million from the park, from the federal government to the park service. So now we're at $69 million. Wow. Okay. I guess it's going to tell the fuller story of Lincoln.

It's going to tell the full story of how the Lincoln Memorial has become part of our nation's history. The memorial was built on a spot called Kidwell Flats, which was an insect-ridden tract on the potential. on the Potomac River that had been reclaimed with mud dredged from the bottom of the river. Ground was broken in 1914. The statue of the seated Lincoln was made from 28 blocks of Georgia marble carved by sculptor Daniel Chester, French in the New York studio of the Piccarelli brothers, a team of renowned Italian stone cutters. The blocks were then shipped to Washington and assembled inside the memorial in 1919. The memorial was dedicated in 1922 in the presence of Lincoln's son, Robert, then 78, about 50,000 people attended, and they make a point of letting

you know that African Americans, as was the cruel custom in the then segregated Washington, were shunted off to the rear, which of course is disgusting. And I'm glad that we're past that, or at least many of us believe we're past that. The cornerstone, I don't know that I knew this, the cornerstone, I definitely didn't know about the museum, the building of the museum, the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial was put in place on February 12th, 1913, 1915, the birthday of the assassinated 16th president. Inside the cornerstone is a sealed copper box that contains copies of the Bible, the U.S. Constitution, a signature of Lincoln's, a map of Gettysburg Battlefield, a dollar bill, $2.6 in change.

and I'm not sure what the $2.6 in change represents, but it's there. A copy of the February 12th, 1915 Washington Post and a small silk American flag. That is what's in the cornerstone of the Lincoln Memorial sealed in a copper box. So they're, I mean, they're working on this as we speak to build this museum underneath the Lincoln Memorial.

Just amazing. And it's only, so far, costing six. $69 million. So, man, is it, what are the odds that it comes in under budget? Ha ha ha ha. You guessed right. It probably won't. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. Stanley Cup. Yes, Stanley Cup is now recalling 2.6 million mugs. Wow. 2.6 million mugs. They were sold at Walmart and. and Amazon, Dick Sporting Goods, Target, or wherever.

I mean, they were sold at all kinds of stores. Stanley Mugs are sold, you know, wherever you get your mugs. So, anyway, they're recalling 2.6 million mugs. I know, because of a possible burn hazard. Oh, no. The two products are the switchback and trigger action travel mugs in various sizes. Remember that? Switch back and trigger action travel mugs.

in various sizes. The mugs are being recalled because it was found that the threads on their lids could shrink when exposed to torque and heat. If the threads shrink, the lid could detach during use causing burns if the mugs contain hot liquid at the time. Wow, that's a big time stretch. Anyway, the total is 2.6 million mugs that are being recalled. So if you have the switchback and or trigger action travel mug already wrapped up for a Christmas present. You might want to take a look. The 12 ounces, the 16 ounces of the switchbacks, and the 16 ounces, 12 ounces, trigger action,

and another, there's two separate trigger actions that are 12, 16, and 20 ounces of the trigger actions. So if you've got them wrapped up, be careful because it's possible and just possible. and just possible that when they're being used, the threads on the lids could shrink when exposed to torque and heat. If the threads shrink, the lid could detach during use, causing burns if the mugs contain hot liquid at the time. Wow, is that, yeah, they're being recalled in all for your safety from Stanley Mugs. Then we have the largest seafood distributor on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, and two of its managers have been sentenced federal charges of misleading inexpensive imported seafood as local premium fish. Wow.

Okay. So this large scale scheme to missed brand imported seafood as local Gulf Coast seafood hurt local fishermen and consumers. and I knew, I knew eating that fish didn't taste like it came from the local waters, and it didn't. So these criminal convictions should put restaurants and wholesalers on notice that they must be honest with customers about what is actually being sold. Yeah, okay? That's what I'm saying. So sentencing took place in Gulfport for Quality Poultry and Seafood, sales manager Todd A. Rosetti and businessmen. manager James W.

Gunkel, QPS and two managers pleaded guilty to conspiring to mislabel seafood and commit wire fraud. Wow. So QPS was sentenced

to five years of probation order to pay $1 million in forfeitures and $500,000 in criminal fines. Prosecutors said the misbranding scheme began as early as 2002 and continued through November of 2019. Rosetti received eight months in prison, followed by six months of home detention,

one year of supervised release and 100 hours of community service. He received two years of probation. Gunkel received two years of probation, one year of home detention, 50 hours of community service. Okay. So Mary Mahoney's old French house and its co-owner manager, Anthony Charles Savitanovich, Savitanovich, C-V-I-T-A-N-O-V-I-C-H, pleaded guilty to similar charges in May and was sentenced

last month. Mahoney was founded in Biloxi in 1962, building date 1737, blah, blah, blah. They admitted that between December 2013 and November 2019, the company and its co-conspirators at QPS fraudulently sold the local premium species about 58,750 pounds of frozen seafood imported from Africa, India, and South America. I mean, it's terrible, but I knew it tasted funny. I knew it tasted funny.

And so they all got fined and they're all going to prison. Those bastards. I'm sure that the local fishermen were really pissed. And they probably knew it had been going on for a while. They just needed a way to prove it. And one of the ways to prove it was that customers were like, are you sure this is from the Gulf of Mexico? Yeah, that's what it says.

But they were lying. So good. Good riddens. And while many of you will be happy about this, but Bud Light is no long. the most used draft beer in America, most popular beer on tap. I know. So it's Mikhailov Ultra. Mikhailov Ultra has surpassed Bud Light in its share of U.S. draft lines, making an end to decades of dominance by Bud Light.

Really, amazingly, though, you know, all the boycotts started when they had the sponsorship with Dylan Mulvaney, and then they had the big boycott, and then a lot of bars started pulling the Bud Light drafts. And so we went to Mickelope Ultra, which is owned, I don't know, by the same company. So I know you're making, everybody is making their point with Bud Light, but not really,

because, yeah, Bud Light goes down, but the company is just selling more of another beer that they make. So I don't know that you're affecting it. Anyway, that's what's happening now another blow to bud light it sank to third place in sales at grocery and convenience stores during the summer so miclebe ultra was number two bud light was number three and modella was number one wow so medella maclope ultra bud light suit It's kind of a big, a big hit for Bud Light. And it's just, it's amazing. Whatever, you don't want to drink Bud Light.

Don't drink Bud Light. But they still have big sponsorships everywhere. And they're still trying to fight back from the boycott over the stupid Dylan Mulvaney sponsorship, which was just an Instagram sponsorship. It's so weird how that just went viral and took off just because of an Instagram sponsorship. That's what happened. though the big companies you know they have other people doing their ad campaigns and they want to do their ad campaigns with uh you know with content providers and dylan molvaney was a definite you know

content provider so they did the deal and that was the wrong thing to do you know it's funny about the same time uh they just they made a big deal about a sponsorship on the pat mackafie show Bud Light. I mean, it was a huge deal. It was the same time that the Dylan Mulvaney thing broke. And then it just went away on the Pat McAfee show. One of the biggest shows in the country. The Bud Light sponsorship just went away because they didn't want to have anything to do with the Dylan Mulvaney boycott.

And that's hurt Bud Light dramatically. So they're no longer the top draft beer in America at bars. Very sad. Very sad that the beer owned by A, B, Bev. I think that's the company that is the overall company. Now I realize they're separate. You know, I'm sure that they're separate, you know, financially, but the main company A, B, InBev owns them both.

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And then actually there's a drawing tonight. as well, a powerball, $55 million jackpot, $25.7 cash. Yeah, that's tonight, but, you know, it's only $55 million jackpot. You can walk it away with $25 something. So one of the emails that I get in the morning, one of the things that they do, I think it's once a week, it might be more, they show you a house, and then you look at it and they show you a couple pictures and tell you about it, and then you try to guess how much it is.

So the last one that I saw was a six-bedroom, 12 bath, 19,893 square feet in Weizata, Minnesota. And man, do I love Weizata, Minnesota. And so we look at the house, and it's a six-bedroom, 12-bath, as I said, almost 20,000 square feet. I was scrolling through the picture. It looks beautiful. And you've got a boat dock, of course, on, I'm sure it's Wayzata Lake. The address is Breezy Point Road.

It's got a, looks like it's got a gate. entranceway, but there's no gate. It's just a two, it's just an entrance way with no gate, but that will have to be installed if that gate doesn't work. Attached to the house is a three-car garage. Then there's an unattached picture of a three-car garage as well. So that's interesting that I don't see on the property picture where that other three-car, unattached three-car garage is.

It's beautiful, big kitchens. One of the things I do really like in the house, it's got a huge movie room. but the movie room looks like it has 10 chairs, 10 movie chairs in it, but the screen could be bigger. I think we need to work on installing maybe perhaps it's a, perhaps a drop-down screen, because it's a projector. I see the projection screen, the projector up on the ceiling, but the screen doesn't look that big.

I think it should be bigger. I'd rather have a larger screen in a movie room that size, but, you know, hey, it's not my house yet. Also, the lap pool. it has. It is awesome. You have no idea how I want a lap pool in my house. I mean, it is beautiful. And they've got a big gym and a hot tub,

but I really, I really want a pool in my house. There's no way I've ever going to have one, unless I hit the mega. Maybe the Powerball would get me enough money to have a pool in my house. I don't want to pool out the backyard. I've had a pool in the backyard before. I don't want to half and halfer. I don't want to have half in, half out.

I want a pool inside in my home. So I can just walk down and go swimming on my lap pool and get out and be done. And that's all I want. Is that asking too much? Is it? Is it? I feel like it is because it hasn't happened. There's some beautiful rooms, game rooms.

Pretty beautiful yard. Tennis court looks like it has set up in the back. Maybe that's where the other. maybe that's where the other garage is off the tennis courts there. That'd be nice to have a tennis court. See, here's a shot of the one property, but it doesn't show the unattached garage. I have not liking that photo. Plenty of woods, plenty of woods around the property.

It looks beautiful. It doesn't say how much property it's on. I would guess that that's probably an acre, maybe two tops. Although when you look at the lot lines, it goes from the breezy point road all the way out to the lake. That's one of the bigger lots. So the property that's kind of adjacent to it has maybe a little bit more land. Not really, though.

Now, this is one of the biggest lots. So it very well could be, you know, does that one, two, three, four acres maybe? Big, big land to take care of. Boy, there's some expensive houses around there, but not as expensive as this one. so got that to worry about anyway it's beautiful so they're your guess you got to try to guess how much it would cost for the

for the breezy point home and you know I would say it's in Minnesota and so I would say what 10 million but it's actually 12 million 495000 in Minnesota and you know that's a hefty price for the property and the home

and so you know It's outside of Minneapolis. I'm not sure how far it is, but I'm sure that someone from Target owns it. Or maybe the governor, you know, the guy that we hate so much, a weirdo Tim. I'm probably a friend of his.

But you can get it. I would, my adventures, I said 10 million. You could probably get it for $9 million because it's up for sale. And in fact, when you go to the sheet, it says request a tour as early as today. So they are looking to sell it. And they want $12,000, $4.95. Tell you what,

nine mill right now and i bet you they would take it you know nine million of your money not mine i see in florida i hope uh that this man in florida followed the chewing the fat rule uh that's being he found 25 kilos it's being reported that he found 25 kilos of cocaine worth 1.7 million floating in the atlantic ocean near brevard county it had a scorpion logo on it and the it says in the story they were promptly turned over to local authorities earning praise from Sheriff Wayne Ivy. I hope there were 30 kilos of cocaine that he found, or 35 kilos of cocaine that he found, and he turned in 25. So it looks like he's good, but he still has some extra leftover. If you turn them all in, holy cow, that's a mistake. The sheriff,

Wayne Ivy, you know, was happy about the good. deed and he humorously suggested that the cocaine had inadvertently fallen off the back of someone's boat during a leisurely coast alluding and he said hey the owner can come forward at any time and there's no strings attached ha ha ha ha oh that's funny he even joked about offering a reward to stay at ivy's iron bar lounge ah ha ha ha ha ha oh that's uh it's funny that's funny business Now, they are still looking where the source of the cocaine came from. Uh-huh. But that's a lot of cocaine floating around in the Atlantic Ocean.

And I hope this is just a, you know, I'm sure it's not because a good citizen turned it all in. And there was nothing, you know, I'm happy that the good citizen fishermen turned it all in. But please, just in my mind, in my mind, I want to believe that he kept some. But no way to prove that. just have to believe it's so. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. All right, so did you happen to go to the movies this weekend?

If you did, you may have been part of the group that saw Moana 2 as the number one movie. 26.6 million domestic. Wow, they've got $717 million globally for Moana 2. Incredible. Number two was Wicked. 22.5 million. The fourth second place, 359 million in domestic,

524 million global, surpassed Greece to become the highest grossing Broadway adaptation domestically. Okay. Number three was Craven the Hunter. Craven the Hunter at $11 million. That's opening weekend for Craven the Hunter.

That's a Spiderverse history. And, I mean, it was really terrible. The lowest debut of the studio is Spider-verse history. 50% Rotten Tomato score, a C-Cinema score. That's not good. It's not good for Craven the Hunter. Gladiator 2 came in fourth with $7.8 million domestic, where we have a gladiator, 245.9 million domestic,

398.5 global. Yeah, that's pretty good. I'd like to see that go a little bit higher, and it will. Lord of the Rings. Red 1 Red 1.4.48 million domestic That's got, it's only got 92.68 million domestic total for Red 1.

Wow, I thought that would do better. And I haven't seen it yet. I plan on seeing it very soon, but I just, maybe that's the problem. Everyone, I haven't seen it yet, maybe I plan on seeing it. I just haven't done it yet. Interstellar, of course, to re-release.

Push-pa. Push-pa, the rule. Okay. The best Christmas pageant ever and queer at 791,000 domestic weekend, which was at 460 theaters or whatever. I did watch Conclave this weekend. And, you know, it was okay. I mean, it had all these stars in it, Ralph Finnis and Stanley Tucci and John Lithgow and Sergio Castellito and Isabella Rosalini. And it's got all the stars.

No question. You see their faces. If you don't know their name, you know their faces. They've been in movies across the board. And so that's fun. But, you know, the movie itself is, it's okay. It's all about, you know, behind the scenes of the conclave and voting for a new pope because the pope is dead.

So we have to get a new pope. And the politics behind it is fascinating. And, you know, I did enjoy that. It's not a surprise to me that it will win. a bunch of awards because if this is a spoiler alert the person who

becomes Pope is and I'm going to spoil it for you all right I'm going to spoil it for you is an intersex that was assigned male at birth

and which means he also had a uterus and ovaries and he didn't know that until he had a recent epidectomy and the Pope that died knew this, but all the new people around did not know this. And he was a Mexican, he was a Mexican bishop that nobody knew about in Afghanistan, and he knew about war.

And of course, he gets voted to be Pope Innocent XIV on the seventh ballot. So that's conclave. Sorry if I spoiled it for you. of course of course that's who becomes Pope duh be sure to follow me

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Conditions apply. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with the parents of Conan O'Brien. Very sad. Conan lost his father, Dr. Thomas O'Brien, at the age of 95. Rest in peace. apparently his health had been failing, lost him on Monday, December 9th. Then Thomas's wife of 66 years, that would be Conan's mom, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, died Thursday,

the 12th, aged 92. So rest in peace to both Dr. Thomas O'Brien and his wife, Ruth Reardon O'Brien, mother and father of Conan O'Brien, dead at the age of 95 and 92. Rest in peace. So, I mean, that's kind of strange, right? I mean, both your parents, you think that they loved each other for years and years. They've been married for over 60 years, 66 years. So when one goes, the other one goes. And we all have this, we have this magic thought in our head, the notebook that, you know, something like that could happen. But when it does, very sad.

I mean, Conan lost both his parents. And, you know, within three days. So, you know, it's very sad. And I wish him the best. But on the other hand, you know, dad was 95 and my mom was 92. And Conan was out trying to, you know, tape his television shows all over the world. So, you know, rest in peace. Sorry, he lost his parents.

But, you know, that's just the way it goes. And then we have Zakir Hussein. Sikir Hussein. H-U-S-S-A-N. He's one of the world's greatest, or was, one of the world's greatest tabla players

dead at the age of 73. Now you're asking yourself, what the hell is a tabla? Well, it's a tabla is a pair of hand drums from the Indian subcontinent, okay? And that's been a principal percussion instrument

of Hindasani classical music since the 18th century. So it could really play played solo or as an accompaniment, and Zakir Hussein was one of the world's greatest tabla players, and he died at the age of 73. The Indian classical music icon died of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lung disease, at a hospital in San Francisco.

Hussein was a four-time Grammy Award winner and has received the Padma Vibhusan, India's second highest civilian award to his performance. He transformed the tabla into a globally loved solo instrument that was the star of the show. So rest in peace to

Zakir Hussein, dead at the age of 73. Then we have Nancy Pelosi, who is 84. No, she is not dead yet, but she was over in Luxembourg with some other members of Congress

to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge, during World War II. And but to that party was fun. And so she was, they had a group photo. And when the group photo was over, then she fell down these stairs while walking down the stairs

or attempting to walk down the stairs. She fractured her hip. And that's not good for an 80-old. It's not good for anyone, but specifically an 84-year-old. And then they took her to the U.S. military base in Germany and they gave her a hip report. placement. So there's no, we don't know when she's coming home. She's doing a little rehab there in

Germany. They thank the medical staff at Kirchberg. I guess that's the hospital and for their excellent care and kindness. And there go. There you have it. So we'll see what happens to Dirol Nancy after hip surgery. But that's never, do not wish that on anyone. And you know, there is a thought process that she didn't fall. and break her hip. There is a thought process that her hip broke and then she fell.

And so there's no, we always say that someone fell and broke their hip. But really, I feel like what happens is your hip breaks and then you fall, right? You know, I don't know.

Maybe as you're 84, you fall down some marble stairs or I'm guessing these are marble stairs that, you know, no matter how old you are, you're gonna, you could possibly break your hip. So they didn't,

in the story they talk about they didn't reveal any details of the accident or what precipitated it. You mean like a gallon of booze before the event? Yeah, they didn't say that? Oh, okay. All right.

All right. No problem. Whatever you say. And then over the weekend, we found out that ABC, the ABC Network, has settled a lawsuit with Donald Trump. And they're going to pay

$15 million toward Donald. Donald Trump's presidential library to settle a defamation lawsuit over-anchored George Stepanopoulos, inaccurate on-air assertion that the president-elect had been found civilly liable for raping writer E. Jean Carroll. Now, that whole story is a nightmare in and of itself, but he didn't rape her, okay? As men as part of the settlement made public, ABC posted an editor's note to its website, expressing regret over Stepanopoulos's statement. Uh-huh. During a March 10th segment on this week program, and then the network will also pay a million dollars in legal fees to the law firm of Trump's attorney Alejandro Brito.

So the settlement agreement describes ABC's presidential library payment as a charitable donation with the money earmarked for a nonprofit organization that is being established in connection with the yet-to-be-built library. So we're going to have a nonprofit set up, and this $15 million is going to go to it, and that's for the Trump presidential library. I'm sure it's probably going to be at Mar-a-Lago because I don't think any other state except Florida would, you know, would help with the presidential library for Donald Trump, but you never know. So, Stepanopoulos was supposed to sit for separate depositions next week,

and that means his testimony will no longer be required. Yeah, they did not want any of that. So, look, we'll give you $15 million, and we'll give them the, we'll pay for the attorneys for a million, and then we'll get this lawsuit out of the way. Okay? Well, okay, sure, no problem. And then we have, oh, last week we talked about the restaurant, and we mentioned a waiter staff that said that they weren't going to serve Trump people, okay? And the server said I would personally refuse to serve any person in office who I know

as being a sex trafficker, trying to deport millions of people at this saloon in Capitol Hill. And it's not, oh, we hate Republicans, is that this person has moral convictions that are strongly opposed to mine. And I don't feel comfortable serving them. Her remarks were part of a report about whether there would be local resistance to certain Trump figures when they were in public. Yeah, no kidding. And settings again, after several high-profile incidents during his first term, Yep. I included the then-aid Sarah Huckabee Sanders being ejected from a restaurant in Lexington. Protesters swarming the then Homeland Security, Kristen Nelson and D.C. Mexican establishment. I mean, it goes on and on and on.

Well, this person at this saloon in Capitol Hill has been fired. Yes, I'm sure that the boss was unhappy about that. And the restaurant said she'd been fired after she spoke about possibility of refusing service to incoming Trump administration officials. Yeah, the boss was probably not too happy. How about we serve the people that come into our restaurant? That's

what we're here for. Okay? And so the saloon restaurant, I'm sure it's a haunt of all the politicians in DC, was unhappy about her comments

and told her to take a hike. We're still the same restaurant, known for our warm service and friendly staff, and hope you will all visit us. Uh-huh. We look forward to serving you. All of you. Ha ha ha ha ha.

And this waitress's comments does not represent the entire waitstaff or the restaurant. So please come to our saloon. Please, please, please come to our saloon. 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 rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those.

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Travis Hunter, the two-way star from the Colorado Buffalo. He won the Heisman Trophy this weekend. He beat out Ashton Genti from Boise State, Dylan Gabriel from Oregon and Cam Ward from Miami. He was going to win all along. I know the world thought that Genti was going to win. And Genti won the fan vote for the Heisman Trophy, but the Heisman Trophy voted. they were not going to, they were not going to allow anyone but Travis Hunter

to win the Heisman Trophy. He goes both ways. No one has gone both ways since what's his face from the University of Michigan. Charles Woodson, who was awesome. And so Travis is going to win and did win. And of course he did. Hello.

And there's no way. I mean, Prime was there. Now Prime did not win the Heisman, but he was a nominee for the Heisman. and there was just no way that Travis was not going to win the Heisman trophy. So congratulations to Travis Hunter for winning the 2004 Heisman Trophy Award for being the best college football player in 2025. And he probably would be the first round overall draft pick in 2025. So things are going well for Travis Hunter from Colorado.

So they play a BYU and a bowl game coming up shortly. And that'll be fun. That will be fun. I see where, if you'd like to know, here's the question, not where I see where. The question is, how terrible is the WNBA? How about why is the WNBA so terrible? One of those questions. One of those two is the question that we should have.

Well, example, the Washington Mystics co-owner, Sheila Johnson, took issue with Time Magazine's naming Caitlin Clark, athlete of the year, asking why the whole women's basketball league wasn't given similar treatment. She also suggested that Clark is only popular in the league because she is white. Now, again, I ask, why do you think the WNBA is terrible? How can the WNBA become more terrible? This is why. They continue to lose money.

They continue to be subsidized by the NBA. And when they have a player that is helping them lose that vision and maybe become an entity amongst themselves, they shoot themselves in the foot because they hate the person that's doing it for them. It's just incredible to me. And I know Caitlin said some stuff about my truths and, you know, everything. I get it. Look, that's her age. That's what she grew up with.

That's what she's being force-fed in high school and in college. So, you know, you go ahead and hate on Caitlin all you want. But she is awesome and she's fun to watch. And I don't give a crap what color she is. But the WNBA certainly does. And that's a problem. And I hope Caitlin, in her truth, finally sees that. All right, let's get out of here.

I'm going to leave you with the joke of the day today. I'll give you two jokes today. We're coming up in the Christmas holidays, chewing the fat, I think I'm going to do the show through Thursday of this week, and then we'll be off until after the first of the year for the Christmas holiday. And I want you to be celebrating with your family as well. But until then, we'll end with a couple of Christmas jokes today here on Chewing the Fat. Both emailed to me from my email at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com.

They didn't leave their name, so I'm guessing that they didn't write these. They just sent them along as Christmas jokes, which I'm appreciative of. But, you know, that's fine. They work. These two Christmas jokes, why did Santa go to the butiatrist? I don't know. Why did Santa go to the butiatrist? He had mistletoes.

Oh, so bad. All right, one more. Why did, no, not why, what? What? We know why Adam was talking to Eve. because he was wanting a little business. But what did Adam say on the day before Christmas? I don't know.

What did Adam say the day before Christmas? It's Christmas, Eve. See, because it was the day before. And so that made it Christmas Eve. You understand. You stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. You know,