Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - On The Brink… | 2/14/24

Episode Date: February 14, 2024

Recalls / listeria UN study on animals threatened with extinction… PETA going after Carousels… John Cleese responds to Idle… A look at Lotto… Jazzwares and Build a Bear lawsuit… Paramount Global lays off people… Uber, Lyft, DoorDash strike reminder... Royals chat with Kris Cruz… Who Died Today: William ‘Bill’ Post 96… CDC changing up the Covid rules… Joke of the Day… Big Guy… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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For those of you that eat salad, I know, I don't have to worry about it. A dull fresh vegetables incorporated has announced a voluntary recall of the dull branded and private label salad kits due to potential cross-contamination with cheeses recalled for possible listeria contamination. The company recall notice posted on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration website, and of course the Doles Company website, states that the salad kits were recalled because they were processed on the same line as a cheese product from the Rizzo Lopez Foods,

which has been recalled. Last week, the CDC and FDA had the Rizzo Lopez Foods recalled because of potential source of illness in an ongoing nationwide Listeria outbreak. I know. Now, according to CDC, they claimed that 26 people had been infected with the outbreak strain of Listeria

from seven states with another 23 people hospitalized and two deaths in California and Texas. They've been tracking infections with this particular strain of Listeria, Listeria for years prior to the Rizzo Lopez Foods recall. It's been tied to a number of other recalls from other food manufacturers. Huh. Isn't that interesting?

Huh. There's a huge list of recalled product information from the Rizzo Lopez Foods. So throw them away. If you have any products that are recalled, throw them away or take them back, get your money back. And remember that if you're feeling sick, I mean, it could be Listeria. It can cause severe illness. Bacteria spread beyond the gut to other parts of the body after a person consumes contaminated food. If you're pregnant, those age 65 are older or anyone who has a weakened immune system, you know,

Listeria can cause serious issues if you're pregnant. pregnancy loss, premature birth, life-threatening infection in their newborn, and sometimes, well, death. So, diarrhea, fever, if you have those issues,

Listeria could be the cause. And I'm not saying that it could belong to the dull salad recall or the Rizzo Lopez Foods recall, but who am I? Welcome! Welcome to chewing the fat.

So according to the United Nations, and if you listen to this show, you know that no one supports zoos more than chewing the fat and or me, Jeff Fisher. Sadly, though, elephants and whales and apes. are among the 44% of migratory species with declining populations. This is according to the United Nations report. One fifth of the 1,200 migratory species monitored by the UN are threatened with extinction. Oh, no.

And what would we do if an animal goes extinct? Well, I don't know what would happen. I mean, the earth may just crumble and blow away in dust. Some conservation efforts like wildlife crossings and poaching regulations are helping species relocate safely. Experts say those initiatives need to be strengthened. Now, the report follows a 2019 UN assessment that found that 1 million of the Earth's 8 million species are at risk of extinction due to overconsumption, pollution and other human activities

what they don't mention is that we find new animals, bugs and plants that nobody knew existed every day but okay one thing I think that would help and PETA wants this to stop and they reached out they want

the company chance rides to stop designing Horses and other animals for the merry-go-round. Yeah, that's going to help because that unintentionally celebrates the exploitation of animals that are thinking, feeling, affectionate, playful, and social beings. I know.

That does. Animals are thinking, feeling, affectionate, playful, and social beings, except the animals on the merry-go-round aren't real. So, according to PETA, and, you know, I'm a huge fan of PETA. Uh-huh. By eliminating animal-themed amusement rides, it would be a blow against industries that still use real animals for entertainment

like camel rides and dolphin shows. Uh-huh. The camel rides, I mean, the Bedouins use the camels to make money and survive and live. And so, I mean, I actually rode on a Bedouin camel. And the camel did not want me to ride on it. And the Bedouin who owned it was not having any of it. That man wanted my money.

and if I was going to pay to be on that camel, then damn it, I'm going to be on that camel. So I helped a species survive, the human species survive, by riding on that camel. Anyway, PETA suggested that Aaron Landrum, the CEO and president of Chance rides, that his company only use objects like cars,

unicycles, rockets, or other designs like shooting stuff. and stop using animals because, well, as I said, it unintentionally celebrates the exploitation of animals. So, yeah, you want to stop putting animal-themed carousals out there. That is going to save the planet and save the animals. Wow, Peter, you guys are really making a stretch these days, aren't you? I mean, we need to remember humans first, right?

I mean, that's the motto, one of the strong models of this show, humans first. Now, do we need animals in our life? You betcha. You bet you. Let's say, like, what animals do we need in our life? Oh, I know, goats. And why do we need goats in our lives? Because they make goat soap from goats milk.

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Yesterday we talked a little bit about how Eric Idle had said he was broke he didn't have any money, had to sell his house you know Eric Idol from Monty Python well John Cleese fellow cohort from Monty Python had to you know respond of course and he had to respond because

what they got out of Eric's comments was that the management team was not doing a good job with Monty Python's business affairs. And Cleese is like, that's Holly Gillum. I've worked with Holly for the last 10 years, and I find her very efficient, clear-minded, hard-working, and pleasant to have dealings with. And I was asked to make it very clear that Michael Palin shares this opinion, and Terry Gillum is also in agreement with this. Well, isn't that special?

We all agree, except for Eric, that she's doing a fine job. And then he went on to say that we always loathed that despised each other, but it's only recently that the truth has begun to emerge. And then he said several of expressed concern about my finances. Well, I have an FT stage show, Life of Brian's Stage Show, a Wanda musical, an original Hollywood comedy lookalikes, an adaptation of George of Fidua Fars, Bang, Bang, a U.S. version of F.T.

and then he went on to talk about the 2024 stage tours, the one-hour T-Y sketch shows, a Canadian film cut the painter, a 90-minute TV documentary about F-T, so not to worry. And Camilla Cleese is involved in seven of these. So he's also got the wife or the daughter, whoever Camilla is.

I guess that's the wife. Not that Camilla, but his Camilla. is involved in so they're making money. So just be clear that Eric Idol is an outlier. He's a crazy guy. We don't know why he doesn't have any money. And, you know, it's very possible. Eric said he's 80.

He still has to work, and he has to work at 80 because of finances. That's what he said. So maybe Eric could hit the lotto. I don't know. We'll see. You know, I see where no one won the mega millions last. night so it rolls over again. $457 million jackpot,

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to drink desperately. Are you familiar with the little plush toys, the squish mallows toys? Well, there's a big lawsuit going on now. I know. With jazz wares, the owner of the popular

squish mallow toys, are now suing build a bear and build a bear is now suing back so okay apparently well uh squish mallow toys jazz wares sued buildabare claiming that uh scooshers stuffed creatures and i've got a few schoes in my home are a knockoff of its flagship product builda bear sued saying whoa whoa whoa it's not against a lot of slap a tiny face on a pillow. So Squish Millows, I mean, they've been, they exploded in the last couple years, right? I mean, over TikTok, everybody had their squish millows.

And my house was not immune to that. And so Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway got hold of Squishmallows, purchased jazz wares for $12 billion. $12 billion. The Squishmallow's offering was the most popular toy of that year, made $100 million units were sold. I think they were, I mean, they were, I don't know, like $1.7 billion last year.

Just incredible. Just incredible. So last month Bill DeBare said, you know, we ought to just start putting faces on our pillows too our own line of huggable round stuffed animals with small smiles Jazz wears is like

whoa that's that's too much like ours don't be doing that so the fight is on the fight is on so if you want to get an original Jazzware skusers

Squishmillow toy, switch mallow toy. Get them now. And if you want to get an original build the bear huggable round stuffed animal with small smiles, get those now because they might go away. So we'll see how this lawsuit

pans out. Until the lawsuit pans out, I think they're still both selling their products. So everybody's making a bunch of money. And isn't that what it's all about? Isn't it though? So if I decide

to slap a smiley face Oh, not a smiley face. I mean just a face, eyes and a mouth. I can't use a smiley face, that's trademark. On a pillow and sell it. Then that's fine, right? Can call it the fat mellow or the chew mellow,

the Jeffyware, whatever. You won't come after me? Right. Ooh, I see where a pair of, Global, you know, Paramount Plus, CBS, they cut 800 jobs yesterday. Yeah, sure we had, you know, look, we had those record ratings on the Super Bowl,

and we made all that money selling those commercials, but, man, we're going to have to let you go. Sorry, times are tough. I know, I know. Look, we care about you, and you're important to us, but the times and the marketplace are just, well, they're not. They're not ready for you right now.

So we're just going to have to let you go. Okay? I mean, it's not pretty out there. And I mean, hopefully these people, I don't want people to lose their jobs. Hopefully they can put a smiley face on a pillow and sell it and make some money. I don't know. But, geez, I mean, so many of these platforms are laying off people now. and it's not pretty, not pretty at all.

So I know, it's tough because if you have a job, you want to hang on to it. But if they're not treating you fairly, you want to strike. I mean, did we talk about that yesterday? Where Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are all striking today? Yeah, they're striking today. Well, well, look, they're striking between 11 and 1,

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because Dad said he had cancer and he had to jet. No, not that said. to the UK. Dad did not say he got cancer. Yeah. The doctor said, hey, you have cancer. Yeah, and then he let the family know. And then Harry had to rush to his side.

You're saying it like, oh, I have cancer. Come see me. No, that's not. I think that's what happened. Dad said, I've got cancer. You need to come and see me. And he did. He jetted the United Kingdom to see Dad.

I wonder how much that costs. And he spent, no, who cares? Did he go private? There's no. Harry doesn't fly. No, he hopped on the red eye from southwest. No way. I'm going to do some research on this.

It's not a chance that he flew commercial. Where does he get in the money? Everybody quit on him. That's fine. The jets are there waiting for me. He's Prince Harry. Okay. So he goes to see Dad for an hour.

Right? And I asked, what happened to Harry? 45 minutes. So because he went in to see him at the house. Mm-hmm. And then Dad and Camilla leave. They get out. Forty-five minutes.

day. That's how long they were there together. And so then Harry, I wondered what happened to him. Well, he went back to the hotel. He didn't go see Bill. Yes. I'm sorry, William. He didn't go see Kate. None of it. And Kate still recuperated. I was going to say, you know, she got her guts removed.

Yeah. We already, we covered why she got her guts removed. But we find out, we find out that the reason that they left so early, because they want, you know, he wanted to, I thought at least we spent a little bit of time with Dad, right? He's got cancer.

Okay, so we find out that he wouldn't even be in the same room with Camilla. Wouldn't it be the same room? He called her and I quote, villain. Yeah, he does not like her at all. No. Why? Is it because we dropped a consort and I would say queen and he's been destructive to grandma? Well, that may add to the hatred, but really she cheated with dad.

the whole time that he was married with mom. He still hasn't gone over that. It's like 30 years. Don't worry about it. Look, did mom cheat on him? No. Don't even worry about that. But dad was up back of the horse barn with Camilla the whole time.

She's getting tired. I know it is that the more you mention her, she like so slow to respond. There are all these world leaders are so old. What are you going to do? But going back to this. is because we have first sighting of the king, right? Right. And I love this headline.

This headline is one of my favorite headlines because in the time, you know, the Big C, cancer is, it's a sad, you know. You don't want no one to get cancer. No, you don't. But this headline goes, King Charles spotted going to church for the first time since starting cancer treatment. Well, like, okay. Like, chill.

Like, chill. Thank you. I'm with you on that. Like, we. He's never been to church before ever. He has been to the church. He is the church. Yeah.

Hello. Yeah. But. He's out and about. Yes. He's out and about. And he said his comments, his first comments were, your kind thoughts are the greatest comfort. You know, that's how he was making.

Is that real? I don't know. That's a good headline. That is a good headline if it's true. I don't know that that's true. I don't think. He would have made it a big deal. This is a quick little Royals update, pause.

This is why we can't have TV. I know. The television says Taylor Swift kicked Kanye out of the Super Bowl. Now we'll know the history behind it. The history behind it, right? Oh, yeah. Because at the award show. A war show. Yeah.

But if that's true. Okay, Taylor, calm the hell down. I know, I know. He paved the way for you. Respect your elders. Agreed. Okay, so back to the Royals. But it's very interesting that this whole thing was, the whole villain was brought out to the, you know, to the world because of a long time pal.

Why are you blabbering your mouth? I know. I know. And look, Harry, look, it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Okay. So he's been a real douche to the family and the whole thing, but because of Megan. So, you know, it's coming back around now. Look, they moved to Hollywood

so that they could be with the A-listers and do what A-listers do. They didn't even go to the Super Bowl. Okay, so what about that? So he jets back from the UK. Well, yeah, he spent, he had a hotel room because he wouldn't stay at any of the dumpy places

that his dad would have shipped him off to in the United Kingdom. So he stayed at a hotel. And he just drove back after he saw dad for an hour. 45 minutes. And he wouldn't see Camilla. You're right, she is getting old.

And so then he goes back to the hotel and he hangs out and he jet back to the United States to do the NFL honors awards. He was there Thursday night for the NFL honors awards. So you'd think since he was part of the awards thing that they were going to the Super Bowl. Nope. No Super Bowl. I mean, the A-listers didn't even want him at the Super Bowl. I mean, maybe Taylor kicked her out. Maybe Taylor. And by the way, you know, I want to correct myself, it wasn't a pen pal of Harry.

It was a pen pal of the queen consort. Oh. She said. Oh, so she leaked it actually. She leaked it to the telegraph. And of course, Buckingham Palace has not. But, but. Oh, she leaked because she wants Harry to look bad.

Yes. Because if I remember the memoir, spare. I do. That's where he branded her as dangerous as the villain. But also, story says, that Harry said, I have complex feelings about gaining a step-parent who I thought had recently sacrificed me on her personal PR altar. Oh, thank you. It continues.

He never refers her to, he never refers her as, and I can, as a guy. that has a divorce in his belt. I can see this. He refers to her as the other woman. Oh, yeah, okay. He calls her... He calls her... He calls her an injection.

Oh. And then says, oh, this is just... This just gets fascinating. He says, close your eyes and you won't even feel it. That's how she got into it. Oh, okay. So, like, there is some...

bad blood between and I get it, you know, she is the other woman. Oh, yeah. Your mom is dead and this is a replacement. Charles has been in love with her forever, right? I mean, he all even, I mean, he wanted to marry her early on. And mom was like, oh, no, no, we are not letting you marry Camilla. You're right now. She's almost napping now.

You can't even hardly wake her up. Got to kick her. And this is, we don't support violence towards forces. No, we do not. No, or old people. Thank you. I mean, Camilla is 76 now. So that's old.

I know. It's older than not. So anyway, I mean, the battle still continues with the royal family. And with Megan and Harry, those days are numbered. That call has been, has been made. And I'm telling you it's going to happen. They go to their Invictus games this week. So they'll be all partying there.

We'll see, I can't wait to see the photos of them. Because when I see them together, I'll know how close we are to Harry going back to the UK. 100%. And even the experts, I'm reading this, I miss this headline. But even the experts. Other experts. Other experts. Well, yeah, I'm talking about the UK experts.

We're the American experts. the UK experts are saying that Harry Megan are quote not welcome back oh um I think Harry volunteered to come and this is different perspective fish because we were saying that that he came because dad said I got cancer I want to see you right this is this gives me a different perspective and it makes me believe this one more than that because I want to give the the benefit of that he's being a good son I want to be there for my father but let's listen to this. I want to spend a whole one hour. Forty-five minutes. Tell me that this is not more conniving and more Megan-esque than what we're thinking. Okay. I think Harry volunteered to come to the

UK because he didn't want to appear in Las Vegas not having visited his father. Okay. I buy that. I buy that. That's a mega move. I mean, that's a good, that's a good move. It's a good PR move. I still care about these old farts. I had to go see my dad. I buy that. I mean, that's a good, that's a good move. It's a good. It's a good PR move. I had to go see my He had cancer. But let me do the stupid awards thing. And then I'm coming back to do the awards thing. And then I'll go to Canada. And I've already seen my dad.

We're good. Can we go back to the not invited? Because I saw a video. Everyone was invited to the Super Bowl. Okay. So I saw this video. Everyone. I don't know if you know, that's why it's finding it hard to believe that Taylor had

Kanye kicked out of the Super Bowl. No way. No way. I saw all these people, right? It was important person, important person. Chef Ramsey Important person Important person Carrot Top

Yes So Carrot Top Did a whole bit The week before the Super Bowl Complaining that he didn't have tickets to the game Why wasn't he Why wasn't he invited to the game I'm Carrot Top

I am Vegas Vegas's first Super Bowl I'm Carrot Top Why am I not invited to the game And he got one They invited him in Carrot Top

got an invitation. I know. And you tell me, Megan and Harry did not get one. No way. I 100% agree that not even Hollywood can stand. They're done. They're done. Very sad.

And this is all? They turned it. I mean, obviously, they didn't get the invite. They decided that. Oh, we're not going to go because we're going to Invictus games. And we didn't want to go to the Super Bowl. Uh-huh. Right.

But before we leave, before we leave, because. Yeah, this is just a quick. This is just a quick, you know. like three minutes. Did you see the story of Katie Perry recalling running straight into King Charles and Queen Consort Camille?

Oh no, nice. Now you know, news broke today. She's leaving American Idol. Six years. I know. What's it going on? Okay. I have a theory on this. My theory on the Katie Perry leaving on this. Okay.

So we know that her dad was a preacher. Okay. Right? And She hates the whole Christian church, blah, blah, blah, blah. Right. I was doing a story for Pat Gray on Leashed about Satanism and how China, the actress, China McLean, has exposed. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, right? One of those names. I don't really appreciate you mentioning, you know, Pat Gray on Leashed on my program, but go ahead.

Anyways. But one of the names that was mentioned about pushing Satanism and Satan in the entertainment industry. Oh, okay. She was one of them. Yes. Now, I have, this is. Yeah, that all started because of ice spice at the Super Bowl. Ice.

Doing her, doing her hands signals. The hands signal the cross. Taylor was doing her, Taylor was playing her own drinking game. Can we, can we, can we, I know this is supposed to be something quick. And we're so far off topic. But the drinking, the Taylor Swift drinking. She was playing her own drinking game. That's right.

No, no, that's fine. She saw herself up on the Jetrotter. She was drinking with what's her. face. Can I, can I ask you the question? I know this is your show, but did that, and I don't know where you hold Taylor Swift in your, oh, I, man, me and Taylor Swift, man. I am a swifty. I try to, I try to be serious, but then as the words are coming out of my mouth, is it even worth going through this whole thing? Absolutely not. So if you were wondering what the hell I was going to ask, That I was gonna ask that.

Okay, so Katie, I'm a Swifty. No, no, no, because we, why was, what's the deal with Katie and the Royals? You said she ran into Chuck and Camilla. She's so slow right now. It's a cup of tea. So she, she came into it. Okay, she says everybody was running. And by the way, how do you just, because she went to the coronation, right?

She was one of the invited. She was one of the invited person, which. you know, if you're looking at the camera, you know, like, that's, that's modest, right? It's a good look. But she was talking about, oh, where did you go? She wore the purple hat. Yeah. She said, she rocked it.

She said, okay, Fisher, this is the coronation of the king. Right. She said, I think this is her defense where she was not supposed to be at. Okay. She says, yes, she was sitting in the wrong seat. She said, there's no assigned seating. is this just like general admission? No, Katie.

No, it's not. Were the people, were the people you sat in front of happy because of the hat, blah, blah, blah, blah. But that was her excuse. The reason why she ran into this awkward moment with the queen consort and the king was because she didn't get a sign C,

so she just decided to sit anywhere. Yeah, because wasn't she, she was like just right behind the area. Yes. Yes. She was just there. Yeah. I remember talking about that at the time.

Like, I guess Katie Perry got the seating arrangement. But she just sat down. She just walked in and sat down. I love that. That makes me a fan of her. 100%. All right. We got to get out of here.

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Who died today? Who died today? William Bill Post is dead. He was the man who created Pop-Tarts. I know. The man who created Pop-Tarts, William Bill Post. dead at the age of 96. He is from Michigan,

a son of immigrants who worked his way up from a truck washer to a senior vice president, and he's the reason that Pop Tarts are on the grocery shelves today. He was raised in Grand Rapids, which is right here all of my hand, Grand Rapids, seven children of Dutch immigrants. He married his high school sweetheart, and he served in the Army Corps,

in occupied Japan. And at the age of 16, he got a part-time gig washing trucks at the Heckman Biscuit Company, which would eventually become Keebler. Amazing. So five years later, he rose to a full-time position. So at 21, he's a personal,

he was a full-time position of the personal manager, assisted with sales, production, or anything else he could learn. Wow. Some 20 years, later, as a plant manager of Heckman, he welcomed executives from Kellogg's who asked Heckman Keebler to develop a product they had in mind. The product would become a Pop-Tard. And so he did all, he retired at the age of 56. Guys done nothing for years. I mean, he retired,

retired at 56. All he did was he was like a, he was like a spokesperson for Pop-Tarts. He'd go round make speeches about Pop-Tarts. That's a good gig. That's a really good gig. I mean, that's all he did was do interviews and go to schools and travel around and be a spokesperson for

Pop-Tarts. Everywhere he went, he brought everybody Pop-Tarts. Why did not Bill Post, I'm sorry, William Bill Post, come to these studios with Pop-Tarts. I'm trying to remember if I've ever met him, because I remember a time when we had a bunch of Pop-Tarts.

at the studio. And I don't know if it was from him or some other Dingleberry from Pop-Tarts. I don't remember meeting Bill. So it probably was someone else. Anyway, he retired to Glen Arbor, Michigan right there in the hand. And he was a consultant for like 20 years.

Tell he did. It was move around and tell people about how great Pop-Tarts was. So his wife died in 2020. Very sad. They were married for like 72 years. Surprised he last. lasted this long, actually, after his wife died. He's got, you know, a bunch of grandchildren,

great-grandchildren. And they, of course, according to the obituary, were the lights of his life. Were they? Were they, though? Yeah, well, that's what they said. Okay. And there's a, the new movie from Seinfeld is coming out

about the Pop-Tart story. So it's going to be about William Bill Post and his Pop-Tart story, who is now dead at the... age of 96. There was no cause of death listed. So, could be that.

Could be. They would have said it. They would have said it if that would have been the case. So, all right, all right, whatever. For sure we know that William

Bill Post is dead at the age of 96. Speaking of that, I see where the CDC is reportedly considering dropping its five-day COVID isolation recommendation. So starting in April, the agency will instead advise Americans that they no longer need to stay home if they are fever-free for at least 24 hours without the help of medication and their other symptoms are improving. Huh. So these guidelines are under consideration, which would mark the CDC's first change to COVID isolation protocol since 2021. Most Americans have some immunity to the virus from the vaccination or prior infection. Oh, really?

And the decision would align with COVID guidelines with those for flu and RSTV. Yeah, and I would say this to you. This is just, this is just from me to you. and you do with it what you want. Okay? If you feel like you're getting sick, don't test for COVID. Just be sick.

It's okay. Don't do the COVID test. But it won't matter now. If they move it to where you just have to, you know, stay home. And if you've been fever-free for 24 hours, you're fine. You could go out. It won't matter. But the whole five-day thing, man, no.

If I'm feeling better If I'm fever free Then I'm gonna go I'm gonna be out and about and I Just don't test for COVID Do you have COVID? I don't know I'm just sick Because once you have

Once you test positive Then Well you tested positive You can quote me on that Once you test positive You're positive All right so the joke of the day Was sent to me

Email Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com You can email me Anytime Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com com. You can reach out on social media at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Instagram and the Facebook. You can follow me on my YouTube channel, Chewing

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do that later today. But that's at at Jeffey JFR on the Camio. So the joke of the day comes from Gary And he said he already prefaces the joke A little long but funny And it does take quite a while to get to the well But it's a big guy joke So you know

I'm just I'm just warning you now It's a big guy joke okay A penguin was driving across the desert When his car broke down It was towed to a shop and the mechanic said Hey give me 30 minutes I'll figure out what's wrong So the penguin said, okay, and walked around for a while. And then he ran into an ice cream shop, and he was all happy and excited,

and he entered the shop and ordered vanilla ice cream and devoured it. And then after the ice cream, he walked back to the shop and asked the mechanic, hey, did you figure out the problem? And the mechanic said, ooh, looks like you blew a seal. The penguin immediately started wiping his face off with his flippers and started saying, no, no, no, that's vanilla ice cream. that's from Gary, not me. I don't know what you're, I don't know.

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