Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ripple Effect… | 7/31/24

Episode Date: July 31, 2024

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So, now how good to you feel? Huh? I know. All I need is $4,210 to my name, and I'm wealthier than half of the global population. To be in the top 10% worldwide, you need a net worth of $93,170, while joining the global 1%

requires $871,320. Now, those numbers may have fluctuated some since 2018, but that makes me happy. Because, you know, I want to be richer than, I don't know, India. I want to be richer than, I don't know, Southeast Asians. Yeah, come on now. $4,210. Okay.

Yay. Yeah, look at me. I'm better than the Somalians. I mean, you are, and that's good, and you should be thankful for it. But on the other hand, for those of us living in, you know, countries that aren't Somalia, maybe you want more than $4,210. Maybe. But yeah, I mean, you're hearing that sound, if you have that much.

You are 50%. You're in the 50%er. Nice, a 50% of that's living large right there. That is living large. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. The people have been heard. Sometimes you think your voice doesn't matter.

Well, it does. those of you that sounded off the alarm on the new Lulu Lemon breezed through leggings line that you were upset about because they just released them. They were like $98 the breeze through

leggings line. They went ahead and pulled them. So they're not available anymore. Because there were complaints about the V-shaped back seam which rises up from the seat of the pants all the way up to the lower back. And people were unhappy about that back line. They gave people the thought of having a whale tail or a long butt.

And you do not know. That music was not playing. No, I mean, you'd think that. You see some of the people wearing Lulu Lemons and you're like, oh, yeah, I, I'm okay with those leggings on you. But not the new ones. No, no, no, no, no. You are not saying, oh, yeah, whale butt. No, that's not happening.

That's not what Lulu Lemon wants. So apparently, women did not want the arrow pointing. to the butt crack and having the whale tail or the long butt look. Maybe some did. Sure, some did. Said, take a look at this. But no, most people were not. And Lulu Lemon said, okay, we're pulling them.

We're not going to do it. Sorry, you're right. You're right. Our newly released Breaved through Leggings line, we're pulling it from the website and the app. and your complaints were heard and we thought we tried the V-shaped back seam and it just

wasn't right. Now we're talking about the back seam here. There was no talk about any camel toes. So I don't know if they liked that or if the Lulu Lemons avoid that. I don't know because I know what I see at Walmart

and I don't know if the Walmarters are wearing the Lululemon's I doubt it. I doubt it. They're doing, they're probably wearing the Lulu Lemon make-believe leggings. Yeah, they're wearing the Lulu Limes. Is that the Walmart line?

The Lulu Limes. That's hilarious. Now Lulu Lemon would not allow that. No, they're suing for that. But just know that your voice was heard by Lulu Lemon. And I don't know if it was just. because of the long butt or whale tail but Lutu Lemon is really struggling

now their stock prices way down and they are not making a lot of money and I see, guess what, they're not alone. Starbucks are saying that yeah, we see declines in our same store sales for the second straight quarter.

So even Starbucks is starting to really struggle and they had an issue this earlier this week with their mobile ordering system going down. Huh. Weird.

I don't think they were hacked or anything. I think it just went down. I mean, sure that happens all the time. Their mobile ordering system just went down. And so that cost them big time. And then I see where Microsoft had another series of outages to its app and services, which appeared to be smaller and unrelated to the massive crowd strike outage. Uh-huh.

Right. So then later out of the story, it talks about, well, you know what? Yeah, we're currently investigating access issues and degraded performance with multiple Microsoft 365 services and features. You know, the whole crowd strike thing did have a ripple effect across several major industries. Yeah. And it's still plaguing some office. programs and some sweet issues. So I'm just saying, perhaps that this whole crowd strike thing was created an issue still

ongoing. Remember they said, that's what we gave a number of how many, how many it affected. And it wasn't even close. I couldn't believe. They said, well, it was like, I only affected like 8 million people. No, that may have affected, you know, 8 million of your customers, your actual crowd. to strike customers. But the programs that it affected were hundreds of millions, if not at least tens of millions

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and I never did get to the story it's a fantastic story so the 72 year old man he was now in the hospital after he shot and killed a grizzly bear then attacked him while he was picking huckleberries alone in the Montana forest

because I mean he always go huckleberry picking out of the Montana forest alone so apparently he's out picking huckleberries and the adult female grisly charged him. Okay. Now, I guess, according to the Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks Agency, and I love the Montana

Fish Wildlife and Parks Agency, they said that that was a surprise defensive encounter. Yeah, no kidding. So this bear, this female grizzly attacks this guy. He suffered significant injuries before he killed the bear. With a handgun. Yeah, only I'm sure it took more than one shot. Now, the end, easy, easy, okay? We're not just shooting wildly at the bear, okay?

The incident occurred in the Flathead National Forest, about two miles north of Columbia Falls, which is, you know, like, I don't know, a city of 5,000 people, 6,000 people. It's northwest of Helena, Montana, mean streets. So I guess the workers are now looking

for the presence of cubs because they don't know why she attacked this guy. And if they find cubs, they would be rehomed, I guess, because

you don't want bears just living on their own out in the woods. I couldn't survive, Jeff. Want to bet? I bet these baby grizzlies could survive. No kidding. Grizzly bears have protected status in the lower 48 states. Yeah.

Well, not if they're attacking you. They don't have protected status. Sorry. So now they said that they're increasingly roaming into areas that have not been occupied for decades. That's because they've got classified status. I'm sorry. Protected status. That's good.

Nobody leaves them alone. They think they can go. anywhere they want. What are we doing? Come on. That's the new American Express card. That's what it is. It's the Grizzly.

American Express, you're welcome. All right. From me to you, you can start using the new American Express. Not the black card. Nobody wants it anymore. They want the grizzly. You can do it anywhere you want.

So that's why people have been dealing with them. And they tell you, they tell you, if you, if you see a grizzly bear, playing dead is the best strategy. Uh, no? I lay flat on your stomach with your hands clasped behind your neck. Spread your legs to make it harder for the bear to turn you over. Remain still until the bear leaves the area.

How about, hey, that's a grizzly, and he's coming toward me. And you can go ahead. If you feel bad about shooting the bear, feel bad about shooting the bear. Here he comes. He's coming toward you. Go ahead and give him a gun cock. Does he stop?

No. Fighting back usually increases the intensity of an attack. If the bear persists, fight back vigorously. Yeah, no kidding. Whatever you have at hand to hit the bear in the face. If you're attacked by a black bear, instead of playing dead, try to escape by moving slowly,

Sideways, if an escape is not possible, fight the bear by focusing on its face and muzzle. Okay. So if I can't move slowly sideways, I guess the bear can't see me moving slowly sideways, then I should fight the bear focusing on its face and muzzle. So this guy, this 72-year-old guy, has a grizzly bear attacking him.

And he's hospitaled. He had some serious damage done to him, as you would, as you can imagine what would happen to you as a human fighting a grizzly bear. But fortunately, he was able to, it doesn't say how many times he shot the bear. I would be interested in knowing how many times, how much it took to bring that bear down. Because, man, I doubt that one handgun bullet is going to bring down that grizzly. Right? He's still fighting. He's just going to make him mad.

One shot. You've got one bullet? I just going to make him mad. The Grizzly's going to go, hey, what do you think you're doing to me? I'm going to attack and kill you now. You're going to have to start firing multiple times. He's still coming. Okay, you're going down. That's it. We're putting you down. So it's this incredible story. Good for this guy.

And maybe we ought to rethink the protected status of these Grizzles. Bears. Now, I'm not saying go out and just wipe all the bears out, but I am saying they need to know their place. Humans first. That's a rule of this show. It's a rule of mine. Humans first. And if that takes a couple of... So be it. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So now that he's graduated high school and he's been introduced at rallies from his dad, Baron Trump, is open territory to bash. And now we're getting reports that Baron Trump would reportedly never eat the cafeteria food at his high school during lunch.

Instead, opting to eat later at home. He never specifically said why, just that he would wait until he got home to eat. a friend said It was a little unusual Okay So was it First of all Was it

A lot of kids Don't want to eat that nasty school food And they don't want to haul Lunch back and forth Okay, I'll give you that Second Maybe Baron thought I don't want to worry about

Be giving poisoned Because of my dad Because my friends I think it's unusual Or maybe the steak at home was better than the steak at school. Maybe

Melania was cooking up better food at the Obar Lago than the school cafeteria. Now, look, I know Barron is not going to you know, Brown Elementary. Why was it brown? Okay, white elementary.

I'm sure he wasn't going to, you know, the everyday elementary school. I got it. But cafeterias, unless you're having, you know, chef tell they're firing up lunch every day for specific orders. You're getting a pretty basic cafeteria food. So I don't blame him.

Plus, the kid is what, eight feet tall now? And he's really thin, and so he probably doesn't eat much anyway. And even if he did, I know he's a growing boy. Nobody wants to mess with that cafeteria food. You know, he doesn't want to spend the rest of the day in the bathroom. Okay? no plus I honestly believe for real

not necessarily the poisoning but the food better why eat at cafeteria when I can go home and have a chef cook me whatever the hell I want I'm sure Melania isn't firing up the grilled cheese and tomato soup but I'm sure the chef at Mar-a-Lago is cooking barren whatever the kid wants okay so why

why not do that I'm sure his friend would realize that and realize it wasn't that unusual. It's just he's open game now. So welcome to it, Baron. So now that we've come to realize that our phone is always listening, right? We have our device with us and we know that it's always listening to us. Oh, you can shut that feature off, Jeff.

Okay. No one does that. And I don't think that you actually can. But whatever. So there's a new concept now. this guy has developed it. It's not for sale yet. It's coming to a body near you soon.

It's called friend. I'm sorry, the friend. It's called the friend. And it's, he put on a display at the offices of Wired the other day. So this story, you know, comes from Wired. And he named his friend Emily. That's cute. That's cute.

You named your little friend, Emily. That's cute. So this guy, Schiffman, Avi Schiffman, I believe is his name, is a developer, and he developed this. Now, it hangs around, it's like a little pendant that hangs around your neck. Okay. And it's powered by Anthropics AI model, Claude 3.5. It's designed in partnership with a company behind the Nest Smart Thermostat. It's capable of lasting up to 15 hours on a lot.

a single battery charge. It's available in a range of colors. It will be available in a range of colors because it's not available yet. And we make a big point of, and you know, the phones kind of try to hide it that they don't listen to you because they do. And I see it happen every day with stories that I talk about on this show end up in my timeline again that day because, hey, he was talking about this. He wants to know about this.

I already do. but it shows up ads for whatever products, all of this. So the friend is now advertised as always listening. The device includes a microphone that's always turned on and analyzes every conversation to provide comments in response to what it hears. It's your digital companion. And you can get one, pre-order it for 99 bucks. so we're just telling you now just hang this thing around your neck and we're listening to you all the time

and AI will tell you what to think about what those people are saying to you. That's nice. I appreciate it very much. That's great. All I want is a robot to clean my house. It's all I want. That's all I want. That's all I want.

I don't care if my phone listens. I don't care if you make me carry or wear a. pendant around my neck, whatever. I just want my Dewey, the robot, my do-boy, to be able to wash the dishes, to be able to clean the bathrooms, to be able to sweep the house, and oh yeah, take out the trash. And I don't want to have to run it from my tablet. I don't want to have to sit there on my sofa and actually run it. I want to be able to sit on my sofa and do something else. While the robot is doing what the robot is supposed to do. That's all I want. That's all

I want. And I don't care. I don't care if it's a female. I don't care if it's a male. I just want it. I just want Dewey to do the work. Now, I know, you know, for years we all wanted

Rosie from the Jetsons. No. I don't care. You know what? I don't care. Rosie would bring me food? Fine. fine Rosie put the food in her body and then bring it to you and shoot it out at you

fine because it was hollow no I know I got it but I just want it that's all I just want that to happen so if I have to wear a pendant I gotta put a chip in me I gotta put something

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A once soap opera writer whose Sweet Valley High novels and ongoing adventures of twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield and other teens captivated millions of young readers. I was trying to remember if I knew about the Sweet Valley High

and because it's incredible, she sold like 200 million copies around the world. She's writing these Sweetville Valley spin-offs. She told us People magazine that it's that moment before reality hits when you really do believe in the romantic values, sacrifice,

love, loyalty, friendship before you get jaded. It slip into adulthood. Right. And she, I mean, that's awesome. That's awesome. And it did not give a cause of death. So, don't even think about

what you're thinking about. Okay, she was 92. Couldn't have anything to do with that. Otherwise, they would have said it. So rest in peace to Francine Pascal. debt at the age of 92. Then we have at least 123 people

killed, hundreds more injured, after a heavy overnight rain caused landslide in India's southwestern state of Kerala. Now this is India, so I mean, you're probably richer than half of these people, right? You got $4,000. You're richer than half of these people. Probably all these people

that got swept away on these landslide. slides. Hundreds of disaster relief workers and military personnel are conducting rescue efforts amid continued downpours. Over 3,000 people have been evacuated to safety. So if it's not a giant train crash, if they're not on some trek to the Mecca and fall off a cliff, now they've got landslides to worry about in India. So at least three separate landslides have occurred on slopes in the tourist district of Awaitan. W. W.A. Y. A-N-A-D. I'm sure you're familiar with it

because it's beautiful this time of year. Hundreds of tea and cardamam farmers were asleep in their homes. Raines washed out their villages, roads and bridges near the towns of Muddakak. And Karolababala, making access to rescuers difficult.

Prime Minister Modi announced grants of roughly $2,400 to victims' families. That's half of... I mean, they're almost to the rich people's side with 2400. bucks. 22 inches, they figure 22 inches of rain fell over two days, roughly 10% of the average annual rainfall.

Heavy downpours are common during the region's monsoon season. Thank you. In 2014, over 400 people were killed in similar floods in the state. So they didn't learn a thing. I didn't learn a thing. They just rebuilt and said it'll never happen again. Oh, yep. Look, there it is.

Happened again. darn the luck. You know, speaking of natural disasters, and this really, really isn't a natural disaster because it was started by a dufus that pushed his car down a ravine on fire and started at the park fire in California. So yesterday they were at like 12% containment. Today we are looking at 389, the time of this recording, the 31st of July, 2024. 389,791 acres. And they have 18% contained.

Only 18%. Wow. Hop to it. What do you guys think you're doing? I mean, I thought that we had cooler weather. We had some drier weather. I thought we were going to get this thing contained, throw some sand down, throw some water down,

you know, maybe divert the fire in a direction to get it contained. I mean, I can pretend to be a fireman. So, you know, I know what I'm talking about. But then they were saying that they expected thunderstorms strong winds and it was just this going to be it's going to be a real nightmare and it all started from uh that i almost said a bad word uh from the guy who pushed his car down uh into the ravine on fire uh he's you know been arrested and i hope he hangs by his toenails in town square no i don't be i know i don't want to shoot him no that's just mean i said he's not a grisly bear just hang him

in town square by his toenails he should not he should not be shot she being shot is mean That's just mean. I want to put him in town square and hang him by his toenails. Yeah. And then maybe if he's almost close to dying, you give him a blood transfuse and you bring him back to life so he can take a few more stones. That kind of thing. They just do that.

So, I mean, wildfires are burning all over the place now. We've got hundreds of wildfires going on all over the country and in Canada. So just be prepared. And if you're anywhere that, you know, you're going to be affected by the smoke from these wildfires, make sure that you, you know, you're prepared, you stay inside or you wear your masks or your oxygen tank or whatever you need to do because it's going to be, it can become overwhelming quickly. And, you know, we want less people dead from the park fires and any of the wildfires than have to be. So just good luck.

God bless. But keep your eye out. And don't be throwing your cigarette butts out. I tell you this every time I do the wildfire story. But don't do it. Because it could happen right here in Texas or in Florida, anywhere across the southwest. You're driving along and you don't think anything of it.

And you're smoking your cigarette and you're comfy and you're listening to your little music on Spotify. You just flick the butt out the window. You don't think about it. And that along the interstate, that grass in the middle is so dry. you can start the fire right there. And it happens. And it happens. So we'll just put it out in your soda can and shut up.

Okay, so we're losing people to landslides in India. We're losing people. And I don't know that any deaths have been reported to this park fire yet. So that's good. We're getting people out of the way, out of harm's way. We've lost a bunch of structures. But I don't think we've lost any life yet due to the park fire. There's some other lives lost in the wildfires, but not to this particular park fire, which is huge.

I mean, you know, you've burned almost 400,000 acres, and they've only got it 18% contained. That's not good. And I know that they're doing the best that they can. I'm not making light of what the firefighters are doing, but it's still a, you know, a dangerous job. So we haven't lost any life. But we also have howler monkeys dropping to their death in Mexico. I know because of the heat, it's terrible. That's terrible.

And we now believe the number is 157 howler monkeys have dropped to their death in Mexico because of the heat. I know, I know. There's a few recovering. So I guess they dropped it. Didn't die? I don't know if we walked by and went, hey, that one's still alive. We've got to take care of that one. Dick, think that one.

So the heat dome, which is this area of strong high pressure centered over the southern Gulf of Mexico and northern central America, has blocked clouds from forming and caused extensive sunshine and hot temperatures all across Mexico. You mean like it does every summer? Yeah, that heat dome. Oh, okay. All right. Yeah, that one. All right.

So environmentalists had reported that 138 of, of the mid-sized primates known for their roaring vocal calls had been found dead. Wait. This is, oh, okay, one, 517. Last week was 138. We're still counting. That was in the Gulf State of,

one of the Gulf States in Mexico. I'm not pronouncing that word. And almost two-thirds of the country are expected to see more highs of 113. Now the Environmental Department is saying that it's at 157. So we've lost 157 of these howler monkeys.

Now the department said the deaths were occurring in both Tabasco and neighboring state of Chibas. And the 13 monkeys were under treatment and seven had been treated and released back into their habitat.

So you're not even keeping them in? You're finding them on the ground. They're almost dead from this heat dome. You're taking them in, throwing some water on their face and then saying, go ahead, get out of here, get back out there.

I'm okay with that, but I'm surprised that the environmentalists are okay with that. Plus, I mean, if the monkey is really struggling with from this heat dome, I mean, maybe we just I know. No, that's too mean.

That's too mean? No, we'd rather just have them fall out of a tree dead? Okay. All right, fine. Dear Attorney General of the state of Texas, just reach out to me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com is fired, or you could message me on X or Facebook.

Because a meta has just agreed to a $1.4 billion settlement with Texas in a privacy lawsuit over allegations that the tech giant used biometric data of users without their permission. Yeah, I mean, we're all aware of that. So this is the largest secured by a single state. Never mind that $650 million settlement with Illinois. We're all happy that this is an historic settlement and the biggest technology companies

and holding them accountable. Thank you. Appreciate it. Meta said they're pleased to resolve this matter. Look forward to exploring future opportunities. Uh-huh. Because we've got AI building. to build in Texas.

Okay, we've got data centers to build in Texas. So here's 1.4 billion. And we're just, I mean, they spit on 1.4 billion. All right. So the Texas lawsuit said that Mehta was in violation of a state law that prohibits capturing or selling a resident's biometric information, such as their face or fingerprint, without their consent. Okay.

So Mehta has now paid $2 billion in settlements for biometric privacy claims. spit on $2 billion. They said a few years ago that it was going to shut down its face recognition system. That's cute. That's cute that people believe them. Oh, and they were going to delete the faceprints of more than a billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and it's misused by government. Uh-huh.

So at the time, more than a third of Facebook's daily active users had opted in to have their faces recognized by the social network system. Yeah, because you wanted to be able to use the system. So anyway, I mean, the meta made, what, over $12 billion last year in the first three months? No, that was, I apologize. I apologize. $12.37 billion in the first three months of this year.

Its revenue was $36.46 billion from a year earlier. So that's an increase. Anyway, they'll be okay. They will be okay. But I was just wondering, when do I get my cut of the $1.4 billion since I, you know, a resident of Texas now. The show originates from Texas now. And I'm right here.

I'm right here in DFW. So I know you guys are down there in Austin. I've got a son who lives just outside Austin. You could drop that check off to him. I gave you the address. No problem. Just get a hold to me. Let me know if I get it, what I get for that.

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We're still in first place for the most bronze medals. We're still in first place for the most silver metals. But we are not close to being in first place for the gold. Well, we're close, I guess. China has eight there in first place. We have four. Four. What?

France has six. Great Britain has six. Japan has seven Australia has six Wow So Australia Great Britain and France Are tied with sixth

Where Japan has Seven UK Oh UK has six too So it's It's Holy cow It's China

Japan And then There's a bunch of In third place Tied with six We're in fourth place and really were in fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh place. Nope.

Not being up the pace. Let's go. Let's go. We need those gold medals. Let's go. I know we picked up a gold with Simone Miles and the Olympic gold medal went to her getting her. She got her eighth gold medal. I'm glad she stuck it out for the whole Olympics this time.

Good for her. Then I see where there's a couple things. a couple things, okay? The women's basketball team. Now, I know that they have been victorious. I mean, I don't think they've lost a game since, I don't know, 1992. I think that actually is the date that they haven't lost a game. 1992.

I mean, they've won forever. They're great. I saw where a fan at the USA Japan Olympic game had the sign a about Caitlin in the crowd. He was at the game, and his sign read, you need Caitlin Clark, okay? And the other players were like,

oh, yeah, right, we don't need Caitlin. Because the Japan fan was like, you need Caitlin Clark to beat us. It's funny. That's a fan. That's a guy, that's a kid with a fan of his team. And he's saying, hey, you need Caitlin Clark to meet us.

Now, they didn't. They crushed Japan. And another fan was like, bro, made a huge mistake. It's quite hilarious. And the women have six titles back to back. Well, okay. So here's my point to this.

Okay. I know that you don't need Caitlin Clark to win the games. Okay, you guys are all, you're the best basketball players in the world. The female basketball, best female basketball players. in the world if you believe that they're all female.

Anyway, and that's another story. But I get that you're going to win those games. The point being that you don't have Caitlin Clark on your team, and she should be there. The world was waiting to see Caitlin Clark, the phenom. The world is waiting to see Caitlin Clark, and you didn't have it in your stomach to bring her on your team. and Don Staley, the coach,

you can give your little excuses all you want. I saw your interviews. Agonizing. Agonizing. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Well, if we evict her now, but back then she wasn't playing that good. No, she was only selling out arenas.

She was only drawing crowds that no one had ever seen before, but you couldn't take it. You couldn't take it, and so you didn't let her on the team. It's really kind of BS. Caitlin deserves this gold. And the All-Star team, beat your Olympic team with Caitlin on it. Dawn.

So spare me your excuses. And the point really to me wasn't that they needed Caitlin to beat Japan because that's funny. That's a fan of Japan. He's there at the game rooting on his team and saying you don't have Caitlin Clark, you need her to beat us.

But for the other fans and the players to say, oh yeah, no, we didn't. We didn't need Caitlin. See, that was. wasn't the point. The point was is that she needed to be there. And it's sad for me that she isn't. I know.

You know, she's relaxing and she'll live the best life she's got. And there'll be other Olympics that she can win. Maybe. What if she gets injured? What happens? What if the phenom dies down? And the Caitlin Clark phenom

isn't going to happen. I doubt it. I don't think that's going to happen. But what if it does? Now was the time. to capitalize on it for the WNBA and women's basketball in the United States and around the world. And you couldn't do it because of your petty jealousy and hatred of the white girl. And it's just maddening to me. Just maddening. Now, another thing that I found out that I didn't know, and I'm babbling on about the Olympics, I know. There's all kinds of stories. There's all kinds of stories. And we'll get to them as the week goes on, as the Olympics go on. But I told you that I

kept waiting for the opening ceremony to get better. And then they finally, it took forever to light the, light the cauldron. And they took the torch all over the city. But the cauldron was way the hell over on the other side of the town. And they went over there. And then this big hot air balloon goes up so you can see it in the city. Well, okay, so that daytime it goes down. So if you want to see the Olympic flame and the balloon and stuff, you can go over to that part of the city during the day.

But every night, the caldron gets, the balloon goes up in the air again so you can see it all over the city. Kind of cool. Kind of cool. But, guess what? It's not real fire. It's the first cauldron for the Olympics that is not real fire. Because it goes up there saying, well, it looks like a ring of fire. But it's a balloon.

It's a hot air balloon. And, you know, it isn't actually burning. It's an illusion made up of clouds, of mist, and beams of living. Oh, so we don't even have a real Olympic flame. That's kind of disappointing to me. I kind of like it. I mean, it's a cool thing because they're saying that the first hot air balloon carrying a human flu in Paris in 1783. And in fact, the first hydrogen balloon flight, first manned hydrogen balloon flight took off from the very place that this cauldron is today.

So it's history. Okay, great. Maybe, I don't know, put some sticks down and start a fire so that Snoop can light another joint while he's over there. Okay, a real fire. Snoop's not lighten any of his joints off of that fake fire. What are we doing? Right.

Thank you. He's not doing that with the cauldron. He's got to go someplace else. Let's help Snoop out. I mean, holy cow. All right, so let's get out here. I know babbled on about the stupid Olympics. So I'll give you the joke of the day.

He sent to me. from Aaron to The Fat of the Blaze.com, and his email is, since it's Olympic season, I thought I'd send you an Olympic joke. Oh, see, that's special. That's not appreciated. He knows I'm giving you some Olympic stories during the show. That's very nice.

So here's the joke from Aaron. What's better than winning a gold medal at the Special Olympics? I don't know, Jeff. What's better than winning a gold medal? a gold medal at the Special Olympics. Not being special. Aaron, that's just mean. No, no, that's just mean.

That's just mean. And that's a joke from Aaron, not me. I would make a joke like that. Because see what he's saying is that it's better to not be part of the special people than be the special people. and that's, well, it's just downright mean. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.