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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.
A Kentucky woman, Stephanie Carlquist.
Stephanie Carlquist.
31.
You may have become familiar with Stephanie if you're on social media.
She has a big smiling mug shot that's made the rounds across the world on social media as of late.
She is accused of causing more than $12,000.
worth of damage to a vehicle after
she got into an argument
with her boyfriend.
The
Richmond Police Department
says she poured salt into the
engine, glitter in
the AC vent, slashed
a tire, cracked the windshield,
cracked the rearview
mirror, and shattered the
car's radio screen.
Ouch. So that is a big time out.
She is what's known. We used to be,
we used to call them Joni Tony's.
okay
Joni
you love her
she's great
she's wonderful
then
she becomes Tony
and you don't want to mess
with Tony
ha ha ha
ha ha ha
uh
the tow company came
took the car
and uh
took it to the dealership
and uh
they said
ooh you've got
$12,464
and 96 cents worth of damage
well I'll just go ahead
and total this bad boy
okay
and now she
here's the thing
uh
that is so important for Stephanie
Carl Quist
31. I don't even think she's a Karen
really, I mean, because Karen's
are just whacked out of their mind,
but Joni Tony's man.
That's dangerous going on there.
But I will say
that the thing is
she apologized.
So, what's your problem?
Yeah, she apologized, okay?
She also, she said,
that, look, I apologize,
and I was stressed out,
and claimed that she's pregnant,
and look, he was overdue
for an oil change anyway.
So, I didn't do all that stuff.
Oh, okay.
So we have a felony criminal mischief charge
against her,
and she's being held on a $12,000 bond.
Now, the boyfriend, his car,
I'm sorry, the ex-boyfriend,
is he still going to be ex
if she is actually pregnant?
I would venture to say that she's probably not pregnant
because that's a great thing
to hold over someone's head as a Joni-Toney
telling you that they're pregnant and then they're not.
And then they miraculously lose the baby.
Not that I've ever lived anything through that
with any Joni-Tonies,
but I'm just telling you it's possible in my world
where this particular female Stephanie Carl Quist 31
would tell her ex-boyfriend that she's pregnant
so that he's no longer her ex-boyfriend to keep him on the hook.
I'm sure that's not.
I'm sure that didn't happen, and that's not going to happen.
But she is being held on $12,000 bond.
Yeah, you hope that she doesn't get that paid
because once she comes out, she is back to being Tony.
Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat.
Okay, I guess a deal has been reached.
Apparently the Air Canada strike is over.
Flights resumed.
I know, they finally worked out a deal.
At least I think they did.
They said the flights resumed,
but I thought they still had to take it back to the union to be voted on.
So we'll see. I mean, I'm sure it will be ratified by the union. But I mean, 3,000 flights were canceled.
10,500 flight attendants walked off the job last week. They claim that, look, we've been trying to talk for months and it's been unsuccessful.
So we're just going to strike. And they didn't divulge the details of the agreement, which is interesting.
But they did say, yeah, because the union said we had to take it back to the union.
So they're saying we're back to work.
But if the union doesn't ratify the contract, they're going to walk again.
Now previously, remember we talked about them saying that they had turned down pay increases worth 38% over four years.
The union said that doesn't count for inflation.
It was actually worth like 17.2%.
Oh, okay.
And it also said that the airline offered 50% pay for some duties on the government.
ground, the union said, no, we want full hourly pay for these. And so, okay, we'll see.
We'll see what happens. But as of now, the strike is over and Air Canada is back up and running.
Now, they did say that it may take us a couple days to get everything back up and, you know,
running on time again because we have thousands of people stranded at airports trying to get other
flights. But we'll get it back. Don't you worry about it. We've got some airplanes that don't
belong where they're at.
And we've got some people that need to be, you know, moved over here to work.
But we'll get to it.
So everything is fine.
And we're all back to work.
Okay.
Good.
Good.
I'm glad.
I hope they all,
I hope everybody got what they wanted.
That's what I hope for all the sky waitresses and all the workers at Air Canada.
You know, speaking to airports, too.
I see where, we talked a little bit about this one time.
I remember the Clear Plus program, you know, where you don't have to, you, it's $209 a year to go through this security process at the airport.
So you don't have to deal, now you don't have to deal with the TSA before, you know, you scan your stuff at select airports.
And they want to be in more airports.
So the company seeks to expedite the security process, which debuted a time-saving facial recognition gate.
up and running at Atlanta,
and in D.C.
And in Seattle.
So you're also getting the biometric gates later this month.
They plan to bring at least,
they plan to open them up at least 30 airports.
Yeah, we did talk about this because they were trying to get this up and running in 30 airports.
So they want to get this ahead of the World Cup
because people are traveling all over the country
and they want people to be able to spend their,
you know, spend their money on clear pass.
I'm sorry, Clear Plus, and you don't have to deal with the TSA.
Right?
Okay, now I will say this.
The gate verifies that the traveler's face matches their ID and boarding pass,
which Clear CEO says takes less than six seconds before they proceed to security.
Clear says TSA still controls the gate and that the company doesn't have access to watch lists
or the ability to override TSA gate decisions.
So if the TSA says anything at all,
they have to abide by it, that's got to change.
That's got to change.
If I have Clear Plus, I don't want to have to deal with the TSA.
All right.
If Clear Plus has got to go ahead from the airlines and the government,
I don't want the TSA involved.
I want, no, thank you.
Oh, the TSA is doing that?
That's great. I'm going through Clear Plus. Have a nice day.
That's what I'm paying for.
That's the whole point.
I mean, they want to use this biometric scanning,
which you know, you may have a problem with, actually.
But if you're traveling a lot, you certainly don't.
So it's up and running at 15 U.S. airports,
and now we're going to get, well, of course,
you can use that with the TSA pre-check
when you're flying
on American Delta, Alaska, or United.
Yeah, they don't mention Spirit on here.
Spirit is almost going on a business.
But we'll see.
I mean, I love this.
They're talking about they've expanded their services
to the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.
So all these people that are spending money on Clear Plus,
they don't want to have to deal with the TSA
when they're coming to the USA to go to soccer games.
And as long as it's a secure process, I'm all for it.
Because the whole point is to not have to deal with the TSA.
And even after that, after you avoided the TSA and you have the clear plus,
then you have to get on the plane.
You have to board the plane.
You have to deal with the air sky waitresses.
And you have to deal with the pilots.
And if the pilot decides, you know what, I'm not flying,
guess what?
You don't fly.
There was just a, there was a report from a United Flight,
flying from San Francisco to Mexico.
Now, apparently the flight was delayed a little bit
because of paperwork.
Okay, whatever.
Fine.
It was delayed a little while.
And so people, you know, were just kind of getting a little rowdy
and they were reading their books
and they were, you know, playing their music
and just like, let's go.
And one guy gets up and goes to the bathroom
and he smokes in the bathroom.
First of all, that's all hell breaks loose.
There's no smoking out of plane.
Thing is,
Uh, the thing is, if you're, you know, if you're, if you're in the air, I mean, there's not much they can do really.
They just holler at you and I'm pretty sure that you get a fine, but that's about it.
You know, if you do end up smoking on, on the, in the, in the laboratory.
This guy, however, you're still on the ground.
You're flying to Mexico and it wasn't a cigarette.
It was one of those funny cigarettes.
Uh, smoking a little, a little duby in the men's bathroom.
and so now all of a sudden everybody's all wound up
and they got to drag him out of the bathroom
and they don't know what to do
now now all of a sudden people are like
oh Christ here we go
here we go we got this guy smoking
in the bathroom and he's smoking potts
I was like potted here
and so he was not bonging
he was not bonging it up although
I mean
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
that would be awesome
uh did it just throw a joint don't you have like a one hitter or something that you can use
just to pocket that bad boy is something yeah there's edibles anything you're firing it up
but he did uh they say it was a they say it was a joint uh was but it wasn't a bomb
yeah you can't get that on the airport even with clear plus you're not getting the bong on
anyway uh so now all of a sudden they call security and they haul them on
off the plane and we're, you know, we're ready to go.
And now all of a sudden we get the captain saying,
ah, yeah, we're not going to be taken off here.
I've, uh, I got a 30 year career going on here.
And, uh, yeah, they randomly drug test us.
So if I get secondhand smoke from this guy smoking dope in my bathroom,
I'll get tested positive.
I'm not going to take that chance.
So, uh, we're not flying this plane today.
Wait, what?
Wait, what?
A secondhand smoke from the bathroom affected you?
up in the cockpit?
I thought you guys were hermetically
steeled up there.
I guess not.
So apparently,
uh,
apparently we just went ahead.
We just want to shut it down.
Apparently he was been drug tested twice.
Uh,
you know,
so I,
he doesn't want to,
he wants to air on the side of caution.
Well,
him airing on the side of caution means that,
I have to sit here in San Francisco and not go to Mexico is what that means.
But good.
I'm happy for you.
that, you know, that you feel better about yourself.
Now, apparently, passengers were asked to deplane.
United provided a $15 meal voucher.
Oh, that's so nice.
I appreciate that.
And they brought a snack cart to the gate while the travelers,
they waited for a new crew.
So they were just had to wait for a new crew.
So it was just delayed until another crew showed up.
But, I mean, second had smoke.
It was still in the plane.
I hope they hose that thing.
and aired it out because now you're talking about,
does it still smell like pot in here?
Does it smell like a pot in here?
I'll be out in a second.
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So how much do you like your job?
Do you really like it or you're just hugging it, holding on to it?
Apparently, the so-called resign generation is now the great stay generation,
or at least, you know, workers.
They aren't, apparently, workers are not just staying at their jobs.
They are job hugging.
Job hugging is the act of holding onto a job for dear life,
according to consultants at Corn Ferry.
And, man, I love Corrin Ferry and their organizational consulting firm
in the consulting firms of organizations that they do.
Anyway, they said the rate at which workers are voluntarily leaving their jobs,
known as the quit rate,
are hovering around 2% since the start of the year.
So according to data from the U.S. Labor Department's job openings
and labor turnover survey,
and I believe I've read every sentence in the U.S. Labor Department's job openings
and labor turnover survey.
outside of the initial days of the COVID-19 pandemic,
levels have not been consistently low,
that consistently low since 2016.
So the quits rate is a barometer of workers,
perceptions of broader labor market, okay.
So, you know, look, jobs are, you know,
tough to come by these days.
It seems like, you know,
they always say that everybody's hiring,
but I think those are mystery jobs.
We've talked about this before.
You know, companies are,
They put that they're hiring, but they're not really hiring.
It's kind of like a ghost job.
It's there, but it isn't.
You know, it's right there.
It's not there.
I can't reach it.
But now if you have it, you are a job-hugging, baby.
You are doing everything you can to keep that job.
And, you know, I go, okay.
I know there's uncertainty in the world, you know, economic, political, global.
And when there's, you have uncertainty, people tend to, you know, go into a holding
pattern. And so that's, I know, they let that, don't look at me. That's what the people at
Corn Ferry said, okay? It's, all right. So, um, yeah, look, I believe that people are just hanging
out to their jobs. You can call it whatever you want, job hugging. If you're actually doing the
hugging at work, you're probably going to get in trouble. Uh, yeah. Yeah. What, don't look at
me. I thought we were job hugging together. Come on over here.
I'll meet in a copy room, shall we?
Anyway, yeah, you're in trouble.
Yeah, you're meeting in the HR department after that.
If you're actually job-hugging someone else.
I mean, it's a good excuse, but I don't think it's going to work.
So if you're job-hugging, then you're probably not going to move out of town,
but you may want to move in town to a newer home,
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Real estate agents I trust.com. So ever so often we get a story about how someone has returned a library book after, you know, many years.
There's a new one, of course, out, that now a San Antonio Library, the San Antonio Public Library, has had a book return to them after 82 years.
The book is Your Child, His Family, and Friends by Marriage and Family Counselor Francis Bruce Strain.
It was checked out in July of 1943 and returned in person, from a person in Oregon.
Okay.
So I guess they, this person's father died.
And he was going through some books and they found the library book.
Now, I guess the mother had died prior to this.
And so the dad had these books in storage.
But the mother apparently checked the book out and then moved to Mexico City.
And then, you know, one thing led to another.
And, you know, next thing, you know,
you can't return the library book.
So as they were going through it,
they, and it talks about why she,
why, I wonder why she would get that book.
Who cares?
And it's a book she wanted to read at the time.
And it's about your child, his family, and friends.
Duh, figure it out yourself.
Anyway, it was 82 years.
But the note that came with the book to the library that said,
hey, I hope there's no late fee.
grandma won't be able to pay for it anymore.
Now they're going to show it off, obviously.
You don't make a big deal about it.
And so they're not going to, I mean,
they're not charging anybody any money for it.
And when you reach a certain point of a crime,
it becomes legal.
And they just move on.
So it's fine.
But in this story, in this story,
they talk about how they try to break down how much it would be.
It says in the book.
It's three cents a day late fee.
And then we have to consider inflation.
Stop it.
You're not going to charge them.
But in this story that I don't think I was aware of,
that it is the longest borrowed book, all right, from a library.
288 years.
Someone checked out a book in Sydney, Sussex College University of Cambridge, England,
and they returned it in 1956, okay?
It was borrowed in 1668.
1668.
Wow.
I mean, that was a long time ago.
They claim no fine was extracted.
Yeah, no kidding.
No kidding.
Then you got, I get, I mean,
the first question out of my head is,
what's book was bought?
borrowed in 1668 and returned 288 years later.
And then it was borrowed by Colonel Robert Walpole.
He's father of Sir Robert Walpole regarded as the first prime minister of Great Britain.
I don't care who he is.
Return the damn book.
Okay.
What's the problem?
And since there's no surviving records of loans from that time,
what they did, digitize everything?
to the exact date he borrowed it is uncertain.
So, and therefore it was at least 287 years overdue.
But when you say to yourself, what was the book?
Well, it is Scripdores Rerum.
Scriptoris Rerum, Germanicrim, Septantrio, Nallium, Vissanarum, Populorum Deversi.
Duh.
That's the book that you check out in 1668.
So it sounds like some great reading.
I mean, it sounds like some great reading, something you'd want to just dive into.
Now, if it's all Latin, you probably took some time to get through it.
Well, yeah, 287 years to get through it.
But, man, it sounds like that is some good reading.
Scriptoris rareum Germanicrim septentri, onalium, vicenarum, popularum diversi.
Man, nothing.
You see that on the shelf at Costco?
You're getting it.
Let's go to the break room.
I need something cold to drink desperately.
So Walmart has recalled some frozen shrimp.
And usually, you know, unless it's a big batch, I don't necessarily.
I mean, I like to talk about recalls, but unless there's something horrible with it,
I don't think twice about it.
But they have recalled this frozen shrimp after the Food and Drug Administration warned that the seafood items
sold under the Great Value label
are at risk of
radioactive contamination
and shouldn't be consumed.
Yeah.
I will say that I have eaten
Great Value shrimp, frozen shrimp,
in my household.
So I don't know that it was radioactive
because I don't think
after we got done eating anyone in the house.
I don't recall.
So the company added
that consumers who bought the shrimp should need it and to just throw it out.
Customers can contact the store where they purchase the product for a full refund.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
I bought like a thousand bags.
Yeah, I don't have a receipt.
I bought like a thousand bags.
We don't sell that here.
Oh, okay.
Never mind.
Then it wasn't you.
So the shrimp should be contaminated.
Could be.
Could be.
Not should be.
Oh, my gosh.
could be, contaminated with radioactive isotope called Sessium 137.
Now, the FDA said that no product as of yet have tested positive for it.
Okay.
So they found the tested positive in the shipping containers that were sent to, I think,
three different ports here in the U.S. from Indonesia.
That's where the company that this P.T. Bahari Makmur Sejate,
that's their shipping, fishing company.
And I love them, man.
They're top of the world.
So apparently that is what tested,
they detected Cessium 137 in a single shipment of frozen shrimp.
Okay.
All right.
They detected 68 BQKG.
And of course, everyone knows that that's Becaro,
of the
measuring for the radiation.
Yeah, no, it's not that, though.
That's not that, no, it's messaging for
radioactivity.
Anyway, they said it was below the threshold.
Normally, it's 1,200 BQKG.
Is it BQ or BG?
It's BQ, yeah.
Let me make sure I have that right.
Oh, my God, it's labeled BQ, BQ, it's not BK,
whatever, it's BQ, BQ, BQ,
and they usually
the threshold is 1200 BQG.
The levels, and that's
where they consider it to be concerning,
and the levels on the imported
shrimp was 68 BQG, which is
well below that threshold of
concern. And it said
the shipment did not enter
U.S. commerce. Yet
the recall is, I guess, out of an abundance of caution
from the same lot
of the shrimp,
so,
I guess, yeah, I guess
some stream could get secondhand
radiation. Shouldn't have flown.
Should have done what the pilot did.
Anyway, they said
that, you know, obviously Walmart is
you know, health and safety of customers
was always their top priority.
Uh-huh. And they issued a sales
restriction and removed this product from
our impacted stores and we're working
with the supplier to investigate.
Are you, though? Yes, we are, Jeff.
Oh, okay. All right. So the FDA
also noted that repeated load
dose exposure to Sessium
137 carries an elevated
risk of cancer resulting
in damage to DNA within living
cells of the body
right
so maybe you don't eat it
maybe you don't eat it but that's
that's if you have the you know something that's
over the concerning levels
I don't know how much a strip
at 68 BQKG you'd have to eat
to get to concerning levels
but I don't
necessarily want to find out
So, no, the company is based in Indonesia.
We don't know where exactly the shrimp came from.
We don't know if it's the company that, you know,
hose down the shipping container in Sessium 137,
dipped the shrimp in Sessium 137.
We don't know any of that.
But I'm sure that as soon as we find out,
as soon as they find out, we'll find out.
Right.
See where a Neckstar is buying tech.
I think that's how you pronounce it, T-A-G-N-A.
So now they are going to become the biggest player in local U.S. TV stations.
And now they're even getting bigger.
They've agreed to purchase rival Tegna for $6.2 billion.
So the deal would give Nextar control of 265 stations across 44 states and Washington, D.C.
Wow.
obviously the CEO is like,
oh, we have to compete against the tech giants.
Yeah, you absolutely have to compete against the tech giants.
And you know what else would be great on Next Star?
You know, maybe a Jeff Fisher show.
You know, pick us up.
Let's hear on Next Star.
You know what else would be great?
And I mean this in serious business now.
I would love, I'm happy to do it during the Fat.
On Next Star, I'm happy to do it.
But really what you should do is pick up the Pat Gray-onleased program with Pat Gray-onleashed and myself to be on Next Hour and run our morning shows across your 265 stations and 44 states and Washington, D.C.
From a 7 to 9 a.m. Eastern time.
That's what needs to happen.
so I will say CEO Perry Suk.
I believe you that is necessary for you to compete with tech giants.
Another way for you to compete with tech giants would be to carry that program.
And we could make that happen, okay?
We could make that happen right now.
Now, I'd be happy to throw Saturday morning live on for you.
No problem.
I got no problem doing a chewing the fat, you know, maybe a nighttime show after dark.
on Next Star, but what needs to happen
is that Next Star needs to air
Pat Grand Leashed with Jeff Fisher every morning.
Yeah, I know, I know.
Chris will be part of the show, probably Keith too.
The rest of them will all be here too.
But most importantly, Pat and I will be here.
Most importantly, Pat and I'll be there.
I'm sorry, was that on the air or was it just in my ear?
I could be there.
Yeah.
I got, man, I wish your microphone worked.
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Now, what this yesterday, when I talked to you about this,
I did so high.
You can't get over it.
It's so low you can't get under it.
It's so wide you can't get around it.
Help me somebody.
And what that is from is from a David Byrne-Bryanino album, 150 years ago,
1981, and my life in the Bush of Ghost.
What a great album, My Life in the Bush of Ghost.
My grandfather played it for me when I was a little kid.
And I just, I love it.
But their particular song titled Help Me, Duh.
And Brian Ino and David Byrne both, I mean, just geniuses, no question.
But I was asked on social media if I was going to host the Revival Sundays.
They had not contacted me for that.
And the only reason they probably have not contacted me for that is because I would have to start a revival Sunday with David Byrne and Brian Ino.
You're going to get your man in hell.
He's there.
He's everywhere.
Amen.
Amen.
So Revival Sunday on Blaze TV.
Not sure you're going to hear that on Revival Sunday, though.
Who died today?
Who died today?
Well, let's begin with Chuck Gerard.
Chuck Gerard, it ties in with Revival Sunday.
He became one of the pioneers of Christian Rock.
as in the
1970s, okay, as a member of
the Hondels in the
60s, he has passed away at the
age of 81.
So a rest in peace to Chuck
Gerard.
Pioneer of Christian Rock
as love songs dead
at the age of
81.
Then we have this story.
This person died a while
ago. So her
husband, T.J.
I know, yeah, who died a while ago.
But the story is about, not about him.
Well, it is about him dying, but it is really about him dying.
Okay.
So rest in peace to TJ, who passed away earlier this year, you know, sorry about it.
But the wife, now the people are giving her a hard time because she has taken the tattoo that he loved on his arm.
And she's got it framed.
They had her scraped
They had some guy come in
and scraped the tattoo off
No, no, they weren't caught
Well, maybe the dust.
I don't know, I don't know.
So she didn't want a traditional keepsake
So she wanted her husband's skin, damn it, okay?
And T.J. rest in peace at the age of 55.
I'm taking the tattoo.
And apparently they talked about it.
I mean, he's not around to say no.
But, uh, yeah, he's not around for that.
And guess what?
He can't feel it, so it isn't out, okay?
It's just out to people.
people who are alive going, ooh, he.
So he had more than 70 tats.
All right.
So the guy was pretty inked up.
And the one that they wanted to preserve was his Pittsburgh Steelers helmet design.
Complete with skull imagery and finished off in his beloved team's black and gold colors.
It was his very first sleeve tattoo and a favorite of his and his sons.
So Preston was the one who ultimately made the final call.
This is Dad, he told his mother, and he was happy,
and they've got Dad's tattoo skin framed hanging up.
I don't know if they carted around with them,
but, you know, they didn't want an outline of the tattoo.
They wanted to preserve that damn right arm and get the tattoo,
and they did.
So the process took around 90 days.
The company returned the first.
frame tattoo encased in glass and set in a dark wooden frame.
Wow.
So it's a special preservation kit provided by Ohio-based company Save My Ink Forever.
And they did.
They did.
That's kind of cool, actually.
It's kind of cool.
Except, you know, now I'm picturing, you know, grandma's tramp stamp, you know, in a frame.
No, you wouldn't do that?
Okay, well, then never mind.
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Okay, so I didn't check my powerball ticket yet.
All right.
So nobody won.
And the next drawing is tonight.
If you're listening live today is the 20th of August 2025.
So the next drawing for a possible $643 million,
$290.6 million cash payout is tonight.
And when you open up the homepage,
it says no winner on Monday for the jackpot.
winner for the $2 million winner.
There was two winners of the
million dollars, Arizona and Texas.
It could be me.
So I don't want to know.
I lived with the possibility
of me winning that million dollars
all day yesterday.
Now, today, when I stopped to get
the gasoline,
some petroleum in my vehicle,
I'll go in
and I'll go ahead and get
another powerball ticket
with the power play.
And I'll say, and I'll go up to the little machine there
with the tickets that I have from this last drawing
and wait for it to come up.
One million dollar winner.
But odds are what's going to come up is,
there's no music, but what happens is it comes up on the screen,
not a winner.
I always, whenever, you know, my favorite line,
you can use this if you want, my favorite line
when you go in and check your lottery ticket to it.
No, you know,
Bop.
Not a winner.
This is like it's broken.
It never works right.
What do you mean?
It says not a winner.
Oh, it's real funny.
Ah,
so I just letting you know that I could possibly,
just remind you.
I did.
I know I reminded you yesterday,
but just remind you again that
I could have won a million bucks out on the Powerball.
I think I did.
In fact, I'm just living with that in my head.
Did you realize,
I was looking at this,
you realized that there's an,
estimated
nine people alive today.
Just nine.
Just nine people alive today
who have lived
over a million hours.
Okay, so that translates to roughly
114 years,
56 days.
So that means right now
there is only nine
an estimated. There might be 10.
Who knows? There may be
seven. By the time I've done
telling you this story,
could be flatlined.
Yeah, there could be 105.
You don't know.
I mean, when you're 114 and 56 days, you know, you're there.
But that means that you've lived more than a million hours.
Pretty incredible.
Pretty incredible.
Yeah, those are good jackpot numbers.
Not really, though.
All right.
So I also saw where we talked about her not too long ago.
she was still in jail
and she was holding out
she wasn't going to make a deal
and she finally did
the ketamine queen
finally made a deal
she agreed to plead guilty
and she was charged
with selling Matthew Perry
the ketamine that killed him
and so she was still in jail
all this time but she was not
making a plea deal
all the other people involved
have been sentenced, made plead deals
gotten their
doctor's license revoked
got their drug dealer
license revoked on the street corner
all of them but
Jassivine Senga
becomes the fifth and final defendant
charged in the overdose death of
the Friends Star so
she the plea agreement with federal
prosecutors avoiding a trial
that I mean they were going to trial
next month yeah because that's what
we talked about she was the only one
because they were still holding out they finally
they finally strong armed her in depleted
guilty she agreed in a
signed statement filed in court
to plead guilty to five federal criminal charges,
including providing the ketamine that led to Matthew Perry's death.
In a brief statement, her lawyer said she's taking responsibility for her actions.
Oh, okay.
Prosecutors had cast Sangra, a 42-year-old citizen of the U.S. and the UK,
as a prolific drug dealer who was known for her customers as the ketamine queen.
And what makes me, I'm thankful that this story hopefully is going away now.
Because every time I read the story about ketamine queen.
I know, it's a can't help it.
Think about it.
Oh, she did know everybody's number of name.
She pled guilty to one count of maintaining a drug-involved premises,
three counts of distribution of ketamine.
And one count of distribution of ketamine resulting in the death or serious bodily injury.
Oh, man.
Wow.
He's saying ketamine.
What I hear.
There is no more love on the run for Matthew Perry because his heart is not beating.
I could almost play the whole song, really, in honor of ketamine queen, you know, making a plea deal.
Because she's going down, damn it.
All right, I'm just going to let it go.
I'll tell you the joke of the day with Kedman Queen playing, okay?
No, bring it up, bring it up.
I'm not there yet.
We're going to mix it up, baby.
You know, the joke of the day today.
It's from Denny, who's been working hard at writing jokes for joke of the day.
So I'll give him another one today.
Maybe chuckle.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Think about it.
He's definitely not running.
He's in fact,
that's a very dead.
What are you going to do?
Yeah, I know.
Tell me about it, Billy.
All right, so this is Denny's joke of the day.
Don't make it all go completely away.
I started a business selling trampolines,
disguised as prayer mats.
Prophets are going through the roof.
Bring up a little bit, Billy Ocean,
let's wrap this thing up.
Yeah, we might as well just.
the whole thing. Just let it.
It's the extended dance version.
Lights are blanking.
You know you worked up a little bit of sweat.
Your girl, your girl looks hot.
You're ready to do another rail,
which you got to wait for the song, Dan.
So let's just finish up this dance, baby.
You know what I'm talking about.
Billy.
Come on, man.
Oh, man, she never looked better.
What she looks like right now.
This is almost a...
I mean, this is Billy Ocean.
Barry whitish.
I like it.
This is the extended.
version, is it?
This is the deep album cut of Billy Ocean Caribbean Queen.
I like it.
I mean, I'm getting a little bored, though.
I've got to be honest.
It's a dance cut.
It's a 12-inch single dance cut.
I love it.
WWS 3 soul.
Extended dance.
I'm sorry.
Cat of the Queen.
Think about it.
Think about it.
All right, we're out of here.
I've had it.
I can't take it anymore.
Billy, calm down, okay?
I got to go to the bathroom.
I got to finish up doing it.
little business with my girl here. Tired, okay? The extended dance mix is getting me down here
tonight, all right? I'm out of here, right? I am. I'm really sweaty. I got to take care of some
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