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We'd love to talk. Business. Blaze Radio Network And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Way back in 2018, a scientist and his colleagues found that swearing was linked with an improvement in participant in strength, and it also helped people ease their pain. So in addition to pain tolerance, swearing has been linked to bolstered, social bonds, improved memory, and even an alleviation of the social pain of exclusion or rejection.

Neurologically, the pathways for physical pain and emotional pain are the same, according to these scientists. So when you have heartbreak, it's the same neural structures. It's the same biological blueprint, and that's why it feels so visceral because it literally is. More recently, swearing has been shown to be linked with an increase in strength. So they're looking at the impacts of swearing on strength. Yeah. When it happens, they have increased heart rate similar to what happens during a fight or flight stress response where your body releases a surge of adrenaline and blood is diverted to your muscles to prepare for action.

But when you swear, it helps everything. Yeah. and they tested people and it goes through this long list of how they tested people but they were testing people with the use of and other words that weren't out that word.

That's what I've said all along. That word is the best word ever created. You can do it when you're happy. You can say it when you're sad. You can say it when you're mad. And now you can say it when you're scared, when you're in pain, all of it.

And it works. It helps. But that's also the only word that everyone says, but we're supposed to pretend on all broadcast entities that it's a word that we don't say. It's incredible how that word just makes people freak out when you say it on the air. But in real life, if you're happy,

fuck yeah. And you're sad? Oh, fuck. When you're mad. What the fuck? When you're glad? I mean, it's a great, it's the most versatile word we have in the world. I love the word.

But again, we're supposed to pretend that we can't say that word on broadcast. So, I mean, then that's where you get to, what the fuck? Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So I didn't know that we were supposed to be celebrating another week of, fun, but it was the National Invasive Species Awareness

Week. And gosh darn it, I'm sorry that I wasn't celebrating National Invasive Species Awareness Week, but the U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife Services released their top five invasive species that can safely be caught, captured, and cooked. The Nutria,

which I thought was one of those capybara's. And our man Chris Cruz, the CTF reporter, man on the street. I'm glad I'm going to have to go anywhere. Do you not raise these capybarras? I raise capy baras, yes. Okay.

So when they talk about the nutria. That's a cousin of the capabara. But it's not the capabara. It is not a copper bearer, no. Okay. Because they're saying that they're starting to overtake some areas in the south. And it's, you know, it looks more. more like a rat than I think the nutria looks more like a rat than the capabara's right

they're different okay yes because the the capabara just looks like a oversized guinea pig right not a rat not a rat because when I first read this story I thought okay well they want me to eat it now but they're saying that we should eat the nutria okay I'm okay with that there's it's about eight to 20 pounds in adult size so and they've got a book of out there now from a chef in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Of course it's Louisiana that wants to eat rat. Can't beat them, eat them. I like it.

I like it, except I don't want to eat cooked up rat. Nutrient even if they go and tell you this is cooked up nutrient. I don't want to do that. throwing the gotlet down. What? Yes. And before we get to that story, I need to rewind just a little bit. I was listening live to this podcast.

Yes. And I know that your favorite word is. If... Okay. Well, I have a favorite word, and it's not that... And it's the word that we have to pretend that we don't say on the air. Yes. But everyone says it.

Yes. Everyone uses it. And you can use it in any situation and everyone understands exactly what the meaning is. And I know I'm going to tell you guys a story about how Glenn Beck killed my capyberra. But I want to share with you my favorite word because my favorite word is the same word as Nancy Pelosi. Okay. So Madam Speaker, please take over. They ask me all the time, what is your favorite this?

What is your favorite that? What is your favorite that? And one time, what is your favorite word? And I said, my favorite word, that is really easy. My favorite word is the word. Amen. Amen. First, I don't know how long ago that was, but she sounds a lot younger there.

She sounds 25. No kidding. Compared to what she sounds like now, that's a whippersnapper. Nancy Pelosi right there, man. Wow. So your favorite word is the word? My favorite word is the word. Right, back to the Glenbeck Kill and my caper barrow.

Yeah. This is breaking news, actually. I had a caper bar that I was raising back at home here in the Fort Worth area. Raised them to eat. Raise it here. Are you going to eat them? No, we're not going to eat them. We're just going to have it, you know, as a dog.

Basically, as a dog. And I brought it to the studios because Glenn Beck wanted to see a capoebaer. He's never seen a capoeira. So we bring the capabara to the studios. Because you don't want him coming to the house. And he, I know, right? I could have brought it to the house. Yeah, no.

He doesn't want you at his house and you don't want him at your house. That's fair. That's fair. So I bring the, and he says, because it was about to return back to, to the because we were done with it. And Glenn says, just leave it one more day, bring it to the studios. Okay. By brought it to the studios.

Everybody got to play with the capoeba, blah, blah, blah. Dead next morning. Oh, that's a problem. So, Glenn Beck. Did you pay you for the capyberra? I'm still working. So I feel like he is giving me some leeway. I can screw up and I can just, hey, you kill my capabara.

You killed my... I'm good. Yeah. But that's my story that Glambeck killed my capoebera. Wow. That's... Don't tell anyone. Oh, no.

And if you're here in the Fort Worth area, and you go to the Fort Worth Zoo, and I think is the, what's the water, aquatic something? Okay. Those are our capabaras. Really? Yes, sir.

Does it have your name on the little plaque at the zoo? No, they don't. Oh, you just don't. We just anonymously gave it to them. That's nice. Hey, no one supports zoos more than this show and our reporters. That's a fact. That's for sure.

I did see that it says here that in Louisiana, they are now having rodeos with the neutrias around hunting and cooking them. And they also, some contestants show up with entire truckloads of nutria carcasses ready for preparation. the corpses are even used for cornhole toss. They're tossing dead nutrious back and forth. They're pretty tiny, so I can see that. That's hilarious.

But I'm not eating a rat. I don't want to eat a rat. I'm sorry. Okay, fine. How about a nutria? No. I don't want, I don't want Nutrius stew. I don't want a Nutrius stay.

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And I was interested in what the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service had on their list for the five invasive species that you can hunt, catch, and cook. So Nutria, of course, is number one that we talked about. It's just a different version of, I don't know, a rat. Then we have the northern snakehead, the Chana Argus, native to east, Asia. No thank you. That does not. That's a nasty looking fish.

The green iguana. You're going to eat an iguana? Invasive carp. Big Head, silver, black carp and grass carp species. Okay. Feral hogs or wild boar. Those are the top five that you can eat.

Now, you know, I'm sure if you're hungry enough, you're going to going to eat these. But until I'm hungry enough, no, thank you. Hog is delicious, bro. Okay. I do like hog. I do like pig.

I got it. But here's the thing right now. Are you willing to eat zebra? I don't know. I mean, I'm willing to try it. Do we want to do this on Wednesday? Because I have zebra right now in my fridge. I don't know if this is legal now.

Have you eaten it? No. I've been waiting for the perfect chance. Does it look good? Is it a sausage or does it? One of them is a sausage and another one other one is, I guess, like a flank steak, whatever you want to call. Okay. Yeah, I try the flank steak with a little hinds ketchup.

There will be no ketchup. Yes, there will not be. Then I'm not going to give it. That's ridiculous. I mean, I'll take the first bite without ketchup on it. That's a fucking ridiculous. That's what that is. See, there's another example of how good that word actually is.

You know, remember back in, Jim. January. I mean, it seems like another lifetime ago already. If you're listening live, today is the 7th of March, 2025. January, that seems like an ancient history. When they had the plane crash in Philadelphia, killed seven people. Okay. And so the NTSB released their preliminary report. I'm guessing, and it said more than it went up and then it came down. And they found the plane's cockpit voice recorder. Okay. And so the medical plane was operated by jet rescue air ambulance and carried the pilot, a co-pilot, a physician, a paramedic, the patient, and the patient's mother. It was also equipped with medical equipment. All six passengers on the plane and a motorist near the crash site were killed. The crash also injured several others, including a 10-year-old boy. Yeah, on the ground, but they didn't lose their life. So they laid out a timeline for the plane, took off from runway 24 at 9.5.

Northeast Philadelphia Airport. Its destination was Branson, Springfield Branson National Airport in Missouri, and then it was going to continue on to Tijuana, Mexico. The flight lasted one minute, according to the flight tracking data, and the plane crashed onto a concrete sidewalk about three miles from the airport. The airplane impacted a commercial sign during its descent, and the calculated descent angle based on the height of the observed damage to the sign was about 22 degrees. The wreckage was highly fragmented,

wreckage and debris penetrated numerous homes, commercial buildings, and vehicles in the area resulting in extensive fire and impact damage. Uh, yeah. The plane's crew was in communication with the air traffic control tower at the time of the accident. There was no distress calls were made by the crew prior to the crash. Then the plane's black box that they found, Yeah, I didn't have any audio. It didn't record anything.

In fact, they said, you know what? It looked like it probably hadn't been recording for years. Come on now. Are you kidding me? After extensive repair and cleaning the 30-minute long tape-based recording medium was auditioned and determined its contents. Yeah, there was nothing on there. So it looked like they hadn't been recording anything for years. Oh, okay.

And the jet was also equipped with an enhanced ground proximity warning system. Love those. EGPWS, which can provide more information on the crash. We're evaluating that still. We don't have the complete information from the enhanced ground proximity warning system. Why do we even have this stuff if we don't use it? Yeah, we've got a black box. It hasn't been recording for years.

Just don't worry about it. Yeah, we've got this enhanced ground proximity warning system. We don't be very hard to get information from Oh Okay because yeah It may contain the memory But we just don't know We shipped it back to the manufacturer

We're trying to get the flight data from it That's incredible I don't understand Honestly I don't know I don't live legitimately I don't understand How with all the regulations And rules that come with flying

And the airlines How a black box could not be working. It would seem to me, again, it's just me, that that would be something that you would check every now and again to see if it's actually recording data

just in case. Oh, and speaking of crashes, we lost another SpaceX Starship Mega Rocket yesterday. Wow, during another test flight. So we lost one back in January. and then we launched one yesterday, and that one crashed too. Now, the booster rocket came back and got caught in the arms again, so they're happy with that outcome,

but the 400-foot-tall Starship system that, you know, rocketed off the launch pad at SpaceX Starbase site in Texas last night or early yesterday evening, I was only in the air about eight minutes, and roughly about the same time as the last one. Several engines appeared to cut off as the upper stage starship vehicle was still accelerating into space. Live videos showed the craft spinning before all communication was lost. Prior to the end of the ascent burn, an energetic event in the aft portion of the starship

resulted in the loss of several raptor engines. This in turn led to the loss of attitude control and ultimately the loss of communications with starship. The company said final contact with Starship was approximately nine minutes and 30 seconds after liftoff. I mean, the guy, the SpaceX communication manager said on the live webcast, I think it's pretty obvious we're not going to continue the rest of the mission today. Yeah, no kidding. And then, you know, we saw footage all over from all kinds of social media accounts of the rocket ship, you know, coming back into the atmosphere.

just like the last one did. The Federal Aviation administration issued a debris response area and so they shut down airports across Florida because of space launched debris including Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport at Miami International Airport and at that time it prevented planes

from entering the areas where space vehicle debris was falling and then after a little bit they said yeah no it's fine. And Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico. Yeah, we got it. Okay, and the territory of Puerto Rico.

They also were told to, hey, be careful. They re-routed three flights. Count them, one, two, three. There were that many people flying in and out of Puerto Rico? Flying in. So you know women in business, because we are. Water, big water, ocean water. So, yes, Puerto Rico.

I apologize. This story. Don't talk down to us. This story did not mention the territory of Puerto Rico, so I apologize. I'm apologizing. Because you're right, we need to mention that. Puerto Rico.

You know who else had a problem yesterday, too? And this was the moon, which, you know, the moon flies around the earth that has Puerto Rico on it. So, I mean, we're, we're still fine. We're still fine there. It's getting crowded up on the moon.

Man, we had the lunar lander from Firefly Aerospace. Why can't I say that? Aerospace. Firefly aerospace. It's another startup out of Texas here. And that landed on the moon a couple days ago.

That became the first private company to get to Lunar Lander. It was on the moon. That's what they said. Are you sure? Because we learned from... I didn't know until I was 40 years old that the sun and the moon were not the same thing. I mean, she's just stupid. She's just butt stupid.

So is that why they can't land? Is that why they can't land because they keep landing on the sun? Maybe it's possible. And they're landing. It's possible. Okay. I just want to make sure that you knew that, you know. But intuitive machines now.

Okay. So enough giving them money. Oh, we're done. Come on. We've given you hundreds of millions of dollars and maybe more than hundreds of millions to get this lunar lander business taken care of. Everything else is working fine. I mean, they even said, you know, the craft performed perfectly, excellently, you know,

when it was launched from Earth to go to the moon and when it was, you know, making its descent to the moon. That whole landing thing, though. It doesn't work right. Yeah, it's tricky. It's hard to land on the moon. Here's a problem I have. I know we talked about it today in the pack grade, but not in the accent, is back in the day, right?

Well, it was it the 70s when we landed in the moon? And the 60s. 60s, 70s. The technology we had was far lesser than the technology we have now. One would believe that. and there we landed not just a aircraft we landed count them one two people the first time and then we came back how many more times four three whatever how many are we said whatever we got bored with it we got bored yes we got bored yes and is our moon first of all there's no

doubt about that that's 100% so back into 60 we landed one aircraft with two humans inside and Now we can't land one aircraft with no humans and the camera is always pain facing to the rock. Yes. Okay. That's exactly right. Got it. And we don't know. Look, it's on the one side.

The sun hits it a little bit for the solar power. We're trying to get it to power up. I mean, this one up there, they were supposed to have a build a 4G wireless system, Wi-Fi system on the moon. They can't even land the stupid thing. So you're telling me that the moon people have no Wi-Fi still. Correct. Are they like the Lombie tribe?

Can we get a blue ribbon committee? I mean, I would say that we need to get Elon and have just Starlink, just orbit the moon and make that happen. Elon's got some other issues. Maybe he needs to back off on the Doge a little bit and spend some time down at Starbase. That seems to be an issue. Austin, please. Yeah, that needs to be a little bit of an issue.

But you're right. I mean, it's just unless I don't understand. I do understand this. Intuitive machines. You get no more government money. We're dogeing you right now. Ooh, I like that. All right.

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And you can email me with your submissions for joke of the day at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. So yesterday we talked about the cuts in jobs at ABC Disney that were akin to a massacre, is what one producer for GMA3 called the cuts. And pretty incredible. They cut like a couple hundred jobs across ABC and Disney

with many of them coming from ABC. specifically. And then today, we find out that Stephen A. Smith just signed a new deal for $100 million with ESPN. What company is ESPN under again? Oh, that's right. ABC Disney, Disney, ABC. Yeah, isn't it interesting how that works out? We're cutting jobs over at GMA3, but Stephen A. Smith gets $100 million deal over five years. Now, you know what? If he's bringing bringing in more money than the 200 people that they got rid of on ABC GMA3, then more power to them. I don't know that that is the case.

But I guess ABC, Disney, Disney, ABC, ESPN, believe that to be true because they paid the contract or they'll be paying the contract. $100 million over five years. So I should say, you know, hey, congratulations to Stephen A. Smith because you got the deal. And it's a good deal for you. 100 million? Five years?

I mean, I could get by on 20 million a year. Could you? No? Well, I guess it's just me then. So I'm bringing this story about Gen Z. That's how the story is based. Already facing more economic challenges than previous generations. Are they?

Well, according to this New York Times, report. Many young concert goers are going into debt to see their favorite musicians. Well, that's on them. Here's the idea. You could be able to say what's the word I'm thinking of? Oh yeah. No. But according to

concert trade publication, Polestar, love them. The average cost of a concert ticket for a top 100 tour in 1996 was $25.81 or $52 when you adjust for inflation. Okay. Last year,

The average ticket price for the top 100 tours was $135.92. And I got to tell you, I think that's low. I think that's low. I think for 135.92, you may be in, you know, the back of the parking lot watching a television screen of the live concert inside the stadium that you're parked at. They call this dynamic pricing. This is what really kind of really ticks me off, is the dynamic pricing. thing where ticket

sellers try to maximize the revenue. And this dynamic pricing thing, that's really just price gouging. You know, my wife and my daughter wanted to go to this event in northern Texas in coming up in a couple of months.

And she went to, you know, they were going to stay overnight, so they were going to book a hotel room. And the hotel room was like, I don't know, $100 bucks a night, something like that. It was, for the sake of this conversation, will say it was $100 a night. But then when they plugged in the dates of the, that they needed the hotel room,

the hotel price went up four times what it originally was. What's that? That's dynamic pricing. That's price gouging. I am sorry. And I'm okay with it? I'm not saying it's a bad thing,

but I'm just saying that we should be more aware of it. And when you hear people during storms and whatever else talk about pricing, scouting and how terrible it is. It really isn't. You know, just don't pay for it. Well, you need it. If I need water and they are trying to charge me an

all lot of money for water, I can't get it. Well, okay. But if you, you know, if you were to roll up there on any other given day and they said, hey, the water is this price, you could make that decision whether you wanted it or not.

You could be angry and say that there's too much money, but the way to affect that is to say no and then when people can't sell it at a certain price then they'll drop the price of the product I know yeah that's that's the way it works so apparently according to the BBC overhead costs in some cases have increased 35 to 40

percent leaving promoters trying to recoup the cost of with priceier tickets okay they're still blaming things on COVID lockdowns high service fees and if you believe the Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation Ticket Master, an alleged monopoly

controlling most ticket sales. So, you know, maybe your ticket prices will get lower in price because of this. I doubt it. But just be prepared for dynamic pricing on everything.

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Who died today? Well, we will begin with jazz funk innovator and vibraphone master Roy Ayers, dead at the age of 84. Very sad. Roy was awesome. I mean, he was a pioneer, a vibraphonist, known. for, I mean, everybody loves sunshine as the one that he gets remembered for, but he played with so many artists throughout the years. Just incredible.

He's just dead at the age of 84. It doesn't say what he died from, but it does say that he died after a long illness. I mean, we do know that he canceled a bunch of shows in 2023 due to health complications from COVID. But was that what killed him? They did not say. They did not say.

So rest in peace to Roy Ayers dead at the age of, I'm sorry, Roy Ayers, the vibraphone master dead at the age of 84. Then we have Pamela Bach. Pamela Bach, the ex-wife to David Hasselhoff, died at 62. Pamela Bach. I mean, you remember Pamela Bach. Seriously, when you see her, you go, oh, yeah, her. The Los Angeles Medical Examiner's Office reports that she died Wednesday

and determined her death was suicide. Also known as Pamela Hasselhoff, Bach appeared on the Young and the Restless. Yeah, yeah, yeah. She met him during Knight Rider. Bach and Hasselhoff were married in 1989, two daughters. They divorced in 2006. The former couple had a contentious split with Bob. accusing him of domestic abused, the video of Hasselhoff.

Remember the video of Hasselhoff drunkenly eating a burger? I mean, that cost him visitation privileges to his daughters. He was so drunk and eating his burger. That was incredible. Anyway, it did she, now, and I heard rumors through the rumor mill. Was it suicide? Okay. You know, we'll see.

Did David have anything to do with it? I'm not accusing anyone of anything. I'm just saying what I heard through the grapevine. So rest in peace to Pamela Bach, dead at the age of 62. If you or someone you love need help, you can call 988, dial 988, and that is the Lifeline, and that is free and that's available to you for 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Lifeline provides you judgment-free care and just talk to someone. Believe me,

suicide effects more than just you and you have to know that. Okay, so if you are struggling, be sure to get help. Then, you know what? We remember the story back in, oh, shoot, was that during football season? It was during football season,

but was, I don't remember, I think it was last year, right, in 2024. It wasn't this season. It was 2024. In Missouri, when they found the four guys dead in a house after they were together watching a football game, they all got together to watch the Kansas City Chiefs in a playoff game, and then three of them died.

And they thought it was overdoses, and nobody knew what happened. And they were found a couple days later, frozen. One of them was in the backyard. and so the case, you know, became, you know, a mysterious case. But now they have just charged two people, booked them into the county jail on charges of, I guess, providing the drugs, because they said they all died from a lethal mix of cocaine and fentanyl.

And he claims that this Willis and Carson, these two guys, provided the cocaine and fentanyl for the party. Now, Carson has already been booked into county jail. The other one there, anticipating that this Willis will turn himself in. So good luck with that. Both men are facing significant prison time, if convicted, of the felonies. So providing drugs that caused people's death. Okay.

All right. Incredible. but they did finally arrest someone for the death of these three men who overdosed on cocaine and fentanyl at their Kansas City Chief Party. Then we have, well, not dead yet, but we kind of realized that something has died. It looks like, I mean, it looks like that the Michelle Obama, Barack Obama marriage is on the rocks. We'll see. I mean, maybe they're just living apart from each other and they're okay with it and they're going to remain married. but Obama showed up at the basketball game in LA,

had dinner with his daughters, and Michelle was nowhere to be found. Oh, okay. I mean, he got announced at the Intuit dome, and he waved to the crowd, and they gave him a standing ovation, and, uh, okay. If you, you know, if you,

Michelle has not been seen in public with Barack, in quite some time. Now, there was that picture for her birthday or their anniversary or whatever, but I don't know that that was a recent picture. It was just a picture that he posted on his social media, wishing her a happy anniversary or happy birthday or whatever it was. So I'm, you know, the couple is definitely living apart.

Is that a good thing? Maybe. Maybe that keeps the marriage alive, I guess. Sure. And then we have the Pope, the Daily Pope update. Just so you know, we heard an audio recording of the Pope yesterday, and the oxygen machine is going off. I mean, he's still breathing with the oxygen machine. You can hear it during the audio.

He enters his fourth week in the hospital. His recovery remains unclear. The 88-year-old Pano's doctors seem to be hoping for more stability in his condition before giving the public another update. Oh, okay. So I guess we figured the lack of bulletins from the Vatican means that he's not improving or he's not improving as fast as they would like. And because it was clear that it was difficult for him to do this recording yesterday, he will not be giving any kind of prayers this Sunday.

I mean, he's still getting oxygen through the nose. and they said here that while he's not running down the halls, he apparently is able to move. Additionally, Vatican sources say the Pope is eating solid food, and does not need assisted feeding. Uh-huh. Okay. All right.

You got it. You got it. I believe you. And for now, the Pope rolls on. All right. So I'm going to give you the joke of the day. And then we'll get into what's the... the lie because, I mean, it is Friday, so we have to have what's of the lie.

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. It's Friday. So that means it's time for what's being called America's favorite game show. What's the Lie? What's the Lie? Where contestants try to decipher the lie from four. Count them one, two, three, four headlines.

One of them is not true. That's where we get. What's the Lie? Our contestant today, Matthew Johnson. If he wins, not only will he get to come back for another round, he will win a Talking Sense Jeffie Blue Freshie. And for more information, you can go to the Talking Sense Facebook group and find the Freshie scent and design just for you.

If you are someone you love would like to be a contestant on What's the Lie, you can email Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. Matthew, I'm sorry. Matt Johnson, welcome to What's the Lie. How are you, MySair? Doing great. All right, Jeffie. Awesome.

So, Matt, you email chewing the fat at the blaze.com saying that you were prepared to be a contestant on what's the lie. Have you been practicing? Oh, yeah. I've been listening to all sorts of obscure news. Okay, good. So you ready to give it a shot? Let's do it. All right. Four headlines, one not real. What's the lie? Headline number one. Bill Murray says this golf book is helping him lower his handicap. Headline number two. Why was Red Sox outfielder Rob Reif Snyder name dropped on Prime TV's Reacher?

He's even confused. Headline number three. The tofu industry is trying to get in on competitive eating. One man stands in their way. Headline number four. Police say Florida jewelry thief swallows $770,000 worth of Tiffany earrings just before the arrest. Those are your four headlines.

Headline number one, Bill Murray says this golf book is helping him lower his handicap. Headline number two, why was Red Sox outfielder Rob Ruff Snyder name dropped on Prime TV's Reacher? Even he's confused. Headline number three, the tofu industry is trying to get in on competitive eating. One man stands in their way. Headline number four, police say Florida jewelry thief swallows $770,000 worth of Tiffany earrings just before arrest. Matt, those are your four headlines. What is the lie?

I'm not caught up yet on Jack Reacher, but I'm thinking it's got to be number one. Number one. Oh, no. Matt, I wanted you to win so bad, too. I felt like this was... False. Ah, see, we don't need to rub it in.

We don't need to rub it in. But, hey, thanks for playing, and thanks for listening. to What's the Lie? And thank you for listening to What's the Lie. What's the Lie is a subsidiary of chewing the Pat Enterprises. All information is probably accurate at the time of recording. CTF, WTL, MMXXV. So, do you want to take another shot?

I could see number three, the tofu being true. So let's go with number four. so you want to take another shot that answer is false all right uh jack reacher number two so you want to take another shot dude you worse than me

wow return to loser yeah there's no there's no there's no tofu competitive eating as of yeah every week and I feel at your contestant ever yet that was awesome

well Matthew serious Thank you. I appreciate it. Where are you listening at? What are you doing? Boise, Idaho. I love Boise, Idaho. Last time I was there, I remember. I think I just talked about it not long ago.

The last time I was in Boise, I was like, I could live here. It was beautiful. I was in that way of that. Have you ever been to the bird zoo there next to the stadium? Where they have the giant condors and everything? It was awesome. Yeah, no. Check that out.

It might be closed down now. Who knows? but we enjoyed it when we were there so that's just the way it goes you haven't even been to the zoo in your town now that hurts what kind of listener are you? Right!

I know what? That hurts. I'm happy you lost. Not really. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you

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