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Episode Date: February 6, 2023

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With Amex Platinum, you have access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide. So your experience before takeoff is a taste of what's to come. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Blaze Radio Network. And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. So it has happened again, and this particular person took the Chewing the Fat rules above and beyond. A TikTok user at Duky Do-Boy shared a video detailing his trip to a McDonald's drive-thru in Elkhart, Indiana.

Now, according to Dokey Doe Boy, he went through the drive-thru and ordered a sausage McMuffin. Now, he explained that when he looked inside the bag that the worker had handed him, he found money. now he claimed he found their deposit i'm guessing that's what they what they put their deposit money in for whatever reason and it was inadvertently given to him now he returned the bag and he starts the this is where he went above and beyond you know the chewing the fat rule when you find money and the best thing to do is to turn some of it back in you keep you know half of it or whatever but you turn some of it back in so you're good you're just i found it and it was given to me inadvertently or I found it and here's your money back but you still

get the deep pocket some of it and you get the good vibes for turning it back in well he also put it on video the turning back in so he is golden above and beyond he turned his video on in the parking lot and said now I have to return it I'm a good person putting the money back in the bag he said you know how good that how good the how good you know do this to me. I need, you know how badly I want this money and then it shows him walking back into the McDonald's and say, you know, hey, you guys laundering money around here and they're like, oh my gosh, thank you. And they wanted to give him a hug. And they were so happy that he returned the money. And then he came back on and said that he gets free McDonald's for a month now. And they gave

him a $200 reward. And he said that, you know, he believes this to be, you know, the moral victory, do good people, return $5,000, got $200 of free McDonald's for a month, and he claims that it was a good trade value. Okay. I mean, the TikTok video went viral as well. Now, the reason that I know that he went above and beyond and deep pocketed some of the money is that a representative for McDonald's did not immediately respond to NBC for a, you know, a request for a comment.

NBC said, hey, would you like to comment? No, they did not do a comment. So that means that there was supposed to be more than $5,000 in that bag. At least that's what I read from the story. So there's no way, and they can't do anything about it because it became such a viral thing on TikTok that this guy gave them their money back, that they inadvertently put through the drive-through. How could these employees do such a duh thing?

thing and he returned it. So what a wonderful story. Not so fast though, because there's no way to prove that there was more than $5,000 in that bag. So the McDonald's is like, ah, we're not going to comment on that above and beyond. So now, I mean, the chewing the fat plan still works, but making a video of it, genius, genius. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So British Columbia becomes the first province in Canada to decriminalize heroin, fentanyl, cocaine, and other hard drugs. Oh, okay. So residents with less than 2.5 grams of hard drugs will not be charged or arrested. All right.

If you're older than 18, you're going to be allowed to carry two and a half grams of drugs, no matter what it is. is meth, fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, morphine, whatever it is. And they're going to, it's fine, get out of here. Get out of here. So it's going to happen for three years. Now, the drugs are still illegal, but if you have it on your body, so what? They're not going to be charged and you're not going to be confiscated. You're going to be offered information on health and social services.

Isn't that special? Hey, we know you're really high. But, okay, you need some, here's a pamphlet. Oh, okay, now will it work? I don't know. I mean, if I'm stoned on math is a pamphlet on health and social services, something I'm going to read, I don't think so. It's the first province in Canada, though, so that's fine. Don't worry about it.

Everything will be fine. What could go wrong? I'm sure that we're going to get stories out of British Columbia, like the one out of Des Moines, Iowa, where a man who was naked started running around the hotel at the downtown Marriott in Des Moines with his toilet plunger. So police say at Treveon Hill approached a victim on the 18th floor stairwell

at the Des Moines Marriott downtown. with a toilet plunger. He yelled, I'm going to expletive get you. And he continued to chase the victim with the toilet plunger in his hands. Now, first of all, let's stop for just a second, okay? He was also found on the 22nd floor of the Marriott.

Who knew that, you know, downtown Des Moines had a, you know, plus 20-story Marriott. Now, I went to look at a picture of the Des Moines Marriott downtown. There's a larger building next to it. It looks like a fine looking hotel.

It's fine. And it's got a lot of amenities. 24-hour health club, indoor pool, concierge services, gift shops, just like every other hotel. But, you know, it looks like it's a pretty good-sized hotel for downtown Des Moines.

Anyway, I, you know, I'm trying to think if I've ever been in Des Moines, Iowa, and I want to apologize to all Iowans for thinking, man, that's a big hotel for Iowa. Iowa has a plus 20-story hotel. What for? But I don't know that I've ever been to Des Moines, Iowa.

I think I would have remembered. Anyway, he continued running around on multiple floors, swinging the toilet plunger, I guess, until he was restrained by the Des Moines firefighters. So they brought in the firefighters, I guess. The police were busy. So he's charged now with assault while displaying a dangerous weapon. Yeah, you could have men.

You do not want to face somebody with a plunger. And first degree criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. Now, it doesn't say anything about him being on any kind of drugs. However, I would believe that he was. Apparently, he was running through the hotel, accosting people naked, pulling fire alarms, which is why the fire department was there. Okay, so the fire alarms were going off.

So there was a reason. that the fire department was there and they were pissed. Don't start doing it. You could not want to mess with that. Forget the plunger. You don't want to call in the plumbing police. You want to call in the fire department

because he was pulling fire alarms. And that's scared people in the hotel. It's a big hotel. It's got over 20 floors. I don't know how many floors. It doesn't say if he's on the 22nd, I'm looking at the picture of the hotel. It looks like it's at least 30 stories of hotel.

They say it's got over 400, 413 guest rooms in this hotel. So it doesn't say how many floors are there. I guess I could call them if I really cared. But then it's got the, you know, the big lower portion of the hotel as well, where I'm sure all their conference rooms and restaurants, convention rooms. That's what I mean, who doesn't want to go to Des Moines for a convention? But anyway, so I'm sure that the naked man was under the influence of something. And we're sure to get stories out of British Columbia soon because it's not going to go over well that we're just allowing people.

And do I think that these people are big criminals? No, addiction is a big time problem, right? And that's their big argument. Addiction is not a crime. but it kind of is or it has been over the years so now we're just going to go after the big people and where do they get the drugs

is what we really want to know. That's where we want to stop the pipeline, right? And so if we do that, then we don't have to worry about the man or woman or person or a place or thing on the street. I don't care what you identify as, holding the drugs. So go ahead, get out of here.

We're not going to stop you. But take a pamphlet. Okay? Now, I'm sure if you're on the streets of British Columbia and you're armed with a plunger, then you're getting arrested. Okay, we can't have that. You are displaying a dangerous weapon and criminal mischief, disorderly conduct,

we cannot have that. But if you're just walking around with a couple of grams of meth, fentanyl, cocaine, heroin, you're fine. Take a pamphlet, move on. All right, for those of you listening live, today is the 6th of February 2020.

And no one won the big powerball drawing over the weekend. So the new next drawing tonight on the 6th of February is $747 million. Good luck. And no one won the mega millions over the weekend, which was at a paltry $20 million. And it's still a paltry $31 million, but you have a drawing tomorrow the 7th of February for $31 million. I don't know what you can do with the paltry $31 million. You can give it a shot and see if you can maybe buy an extra plunger for you and the kids or something. All right, let's go to the break room.

I don't know why you would buy an extra plunger, but, you know, maybe you will. Actually, I'll let you. Plungers are one of my favorite housewarming gifts because every house needs a plunger. And if you get invited to, I tell you a little Jeff Fisher's secret, this is something. I usually don't talk about this because I like to be the only one that does it. but usually if we were invited over the years to housewarming parties we of course come with a gift and I always came with a plunger I wrap it up and I put a little bow on the top

but I always come with a plunger because every house needs a plunger and if you're just moving into a house you probably don't have one but you will need one and you will thank me when you need one so this is a little little tip if you want to invite me to a housewarming party you're going to get a plunger it's just the way it is all right let's go to the break girl I need something cold to drink desperately. If you, like me, want to extend your lifespan and feel younger,

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I won't, you don't worry about what I'm going to tell you here. Because, well, you may have missed some if you got up and ran to the bathroom. So I'll tell you, what a night for the Grammys. I didn't raise my hand either. So I didn't get an opportunity to watch the Grammys. So I would have watched some of it for you. So I had other, I was gone all weekend. I was down in Austin.

I live in DFW area. And then I came back and we had another event that I had to go to last night. So I just didn't have time. to get to the Grammys. I'm sorry. But I will say, congratulations to Vaila Davis, who won her Grammy, and now she's an EGOT member.

She is the 18th member of the EGOT crowd. She is the third black woman in history to achieve the honor. And this was her first Grammy for her performance of the audiobook, her memoir, Finding Me. And she said it's been such a journey. I just got. She didn't even say I just got. She said, I just egot.

Bless you. So anyway, she's won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for her role as housewife Rose Maxon in Fences. She won an Emmy in 2015 for her role as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder, which was great. making her the first black woman to win a lead drama actress award. Wow. And she has won two Tony Awards for King Headley, the second and Broadway production of Fences. So congratulations to Vio.

I mean, some of her work has been amazing. I'm sorry, all of her work has been just amazing. I know it's a big deal that she's a, you know, African-American black woman, but it's not,

to me, she's just such a great actress and she's done a lot of good work. I mean, I don't, it's just, I, I wish we didn't have to go down the line of, uh, he's a third black woman in history to achieve the honor. I mean, I guess they have to do it at the Grammys to try to prove themselves a little bit, but okay. And she's the fourth black person. Wait, I just said the third. Oh, the third woman.

The fourth black person. Okay. Wuby Goldberg. John Legend. Jennifer Hudson Oh yeah Okay

All right I got you Third woman Fourth black All right All right Fine congratulations Congratulations

Congratulations Then we had Beyonce Who Congratulations to Beyonce She has broken the record For the most

Grammy wins Of all time With 32 The Queen The Queen B is I mean She's

She's it She's the Grammy Queen now And on top of Everything Now, the first award that she won last night during the ceremony, she wasn't there. She was stuck in traffic getting to the Grammys.

Wait, what? Yeah. She couldn't accept the Grammy Award for the best R&B song. Cuff it because she was stuck in traffic. So the producer, the dream and songwriter Nala Rogers, who worked on the song, accepted on her behalf. So she was unable to take, Trevor Noah, of course, was the host who does a, wonderful job. And I'm sure he did a great job last night as well.

He was on a, he said, Beyonce's not able to take the stage and give her speech because she hadn't arrived at the crypto.com arena yet, but she is on her way. Why, uh, why did they not put her up on a, of post? Did she not call in on Instagram or YouTube or, you know, FaceTime and just put her up on the screen and say, I'm stuck in traffic. Ah, thank you. I'm on my way.

I'll see you all a little bit. Wouldn't that have been fun? Something? I mean, we live in 2023. Does the queen not have a cell phone? Someone in her entourage and the Queen B posse has to have a cell phone.

They could have called somebody at the event and said, hey, we're stuck in traffic. They knew she was stuck in traffic. So she talked to someone. She definitely talked to someone because they knew she was stuck in traffic. So we couldn't pull her up? I mean, what are we doing?

Who's producing? this dump. But anyway, congratulations to Beyonce for becoming the becoming the most

Grammy wins of all time. 32. Incredible. Also, we had Jill Biden was at the Grammy's man was she great.

I don't even, don't even start with me. She was wonderful. And all the reports about her being at the Grammys say the same thing

of just how great she really was. She presented two awards. She presented the first was being Best Song for Social Change. Ugh. It's the first time an award has been given in that category. A song can unite,

inspire, and ultimately change the world, said First Lady Dr. Jill Biden, who I recorded I'm going to have to go back and watch because I'm sure it was just inspiring. And it went to the Iran-based singer.

Chervain Hajipu for his song Mare. Then she gave away the song of the year, which, I mean, that's one of the top songs of the evening. Everybody thought it should go to Beyonce, but it went to Bonnie Rae. I mean, Lizzo, Harry Styles, Beyonce, and Adele. We're up for that award, but it went to Bonnie Rae. And that, you know, caused a firestorm as well,

because a lot of young people don't even know who Bonnie is. She's got, I mean, she's got, I think, 14 Grammys. She's, you know, an awesome performer in herself. A lot of people questioned why Dr. Jill Biden was even there. Which is a darn good question. She seems, she seems to be doing a lot of things to keep away from her husband, Joe Biden, as of late.

she's been to some football playoff games she's running around doing award shows she's we've already know that she's going to show up at the super bowl how great is that it's going to be wonderful we've got the super bowl coming up this sunday so man am i looking forward to that i whoof i cannot wait to see her there she seems to me to be doing a lot of things just to stay away

from hubby and i kind of don't blame her And then we had Ben Affleck making the news because he's there, of course, with J-Lo. And they kept going back to him at the table. This actually makes it worth watching the broadcast. And he just looked miserable. And they kept going back to him. They kept showing him because it's Ben Affleck and J-Lo. Hello.

That's a big Grammy night. So every time they went back to the table, apparently he wasn't cracking a smile. He looked pain. He looked miserable. Everyone was saying, hey, don't worry. He just needs a smoke and a Dunkin. And he wanted to thank people were thanking the camera people for going back to Ben so much because he just looked miserable. Awesome stuff.

Awesome stuff at the Grammys last night. Just a few things that happened. You know, really? That's all you need to know. Don't go back. If you recorded it, don't worry about it. because I just told you the best stuff from it. I'm sure Trevor Noah had some really funny jokes that will,

well, that will just be sad that we didn't hear them. Okay, we'll be sad together. All right. We'll just, we'll be sad, and we'll thank Trevor for the jokes. Trevor, thank you so much. But, man, we are sad that we missed them. Oh, I should mention a couple other things that happened at the Grammys. A reminder that Harry Stiles won album of the year,

Harry's House, beating out Beyonce Adele, and bad bunny. And we celebrated the 50th anniversary of hip hop with, so congratulations of that. And we also, Dr. Dre has a Dr. Dre global impact award that was given out at the Grammys, the 65th annual Grammy Awards. And he went ahead and won the Dr. Dre Global Impact Award. So they went ahead and gave it to Dr. Dr. That's pretty sweet.

You know what? I'm going to name an award after me. And you go ahead, just give it to me. Okay? All right, good. And there's no word yet. I haven't seen what the numbers were, what the overnight numbers were, which means they were not very good. Now, last year, they just beat out being the lowest ever.

So we'll see if they beat out $9.59 million. That's what they had last year. and I feel like, this is just me, I just kind of feel like the numbers will prove, well, not good, not good. But we'll see. I mean, they had Madonna on too. I forgot to mention Madonna's appearance.

I mean, I don't talk about Madonna much, especially I should because of her three cuts to clown face. I do follow her on Instagram. So, I mean, I've seen the transformation of the great Madonna. And it is, well, that's a little, It's a little strange. But she was on and people question Madonna and her appearance and definitely three cuts to clown face and why she was there. And so it was the overall performance of the Grammys, I'm sure, will give you the numbers that will not be good.

I mean, who knows? The Rock was there. Jay Z showed up and he did a performance at the end of the show. So who knows? Maybe, maybe the numbers will be. good. But as of the time of this recording, I don't have the numbers, but I'm guaranteeing you. Yes, I'm giving you a chewing the fat guarantee. They will not. And you can quote me on this. Be good.

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I may not reply to them all. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. All right. We know that coming up toward the end of this month, the preliminary hearings for the trial of Mr. Baldwin and Guterres Reed in the shooting on the Rust set, the, you know, the accidental death of Helena Hutchins and the Rust producer, Joel Sousa, or director, Joel Sousa.

Now, apparently, Joel Sousa is now set to testify for the prosecution against, Alex and I was still doing that? Okay. All right. When this story first started with the shooting on the Russ set, I mentioned his name and you got a gunshot. And then we made the deal where if I mentioned his first name, you get the gun cocking. If I mention his full name, you get the gun shot. If I say Mr. Baldwin, then you're fine.

You don't get anything. It's kind of a way around. hearing the gunshot and the gun cocking all the time. But is that still on? We're still doing that? I mean, I guess we have to until it's over with. I tell you what, here's the deal. We have to do it up at least until the trial.

Because I'm going to talk about the trial. And I don't know that I want the gunshots firing through trial coverage. So let me know. Email chewing the fat at the blaze.com. And let me know if, you know, you want it to continue during trial coverage, or maybe we give it a rest so that we can. can talk about trial coverage without having the gunshot go off every time I mention Alec Baldwin. But for now, up until the beginning of the trial, which is the end of this month, it's still, I mean, the rule stands in place.

Okay. So anyway, Joel Sousa is supposed to testify against him and armorer Hannah Guterres Reed in connection with the death of Helena Hutchins. I mean, they both have been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter, the first charge carrying a maximum 18 months in prison. Second charge that has a firearm enhancement and requires prosecutors to prove guilt beyond criminal negligence carries a maximum of five years in prison.

Prosecutors say they're giving a future jury an option to decide which count they wish to focus on in deliberations. This whole thing is a nightmare. Plus, you know what really ticks me off too is the one guy, first assistant, David Hulls, who was the guy, the guy, who gave the gun to Alec Baldwin and said, hey, this is a cold gun,

meaning that it wasn't loaded with live rounds. He's already struck a plea deal with the prosecutors to avoid further charges. And those, that deal has been sealed. So I, just this whole thing is, I mean, I don't want to be on the side of Mr. Baldwin, but I, I am. I mean, Hanneux,

Terras Reid? Very questionable. She's the armor. That needs to, there should be some, uh, should be some consequences there. But for Alec, no, you know, I know we're going to have FBI forensics experts. Um, we're going to have the script supervisor who was present when Hutchins and

Sousa were shot. Uh, Sarah Zachary, the production's prop master, Seth Kenny, the armor of many, mentor who recommended Katera's Reed to be the armorer for Rust, and who supplied firearms for the production. Also, on the witness list, is this Lane Looper, a first camera assistant on the production, who among other several crew members, resigned in protest the day before Hutchins' death in an email to Rust producers of which I believe Mr. Baldwin was, almost had me there for a second, Mr. Baldwin was a part of the producer list. Maybe he wasn't on the email chain.

They resigned saying that lacks of safety measures during the shooting, saying there had been three accidental firearm discharges. Okay. Maybe in the trial we'll find out that he, being Mr. Baldwin, was guilty of more than just this particular event. But if we're sticking just to this event, I feel like it's not his fault. Man, I hate being on his side.

Because I love so much of his work. I've enjoyed his work over the years and so many things. But personally, he's just such a douche. And the thing that really kind of ticks me off. And I think this is a bad move. Maybe not. Maybe his elitist duchness, he doesn't think it is. But at least in the beginning of the preliminary hearings,

I don't know if this is going to happen during the trial. But at the preliminary hearings, Guterres Reed and Alec Baldwin, are expected to appear via video conferencing. I think that's a bad move. I think that if he, Mr. Baldwin, wants to prove his innocence, he should be there for all of that. And maybe he will be there for the trial, and he's just thinking I'm not going to be there for all the preliminary

hearings, but he should be there, man, because let people see you. And maybe he doesn't want to. Maybe his attorney's like, look, we know you're a douche. So maybe you ought to just stay away. That's possible as well. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ.

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Our president, Joseph Robinette Biden and Man, the state of the state of the state of the the Union is in eyes tremendous good times good times so i mean we i can't wait for president biden to let us know how he believes the state of the union is because we already know that it's tremendous and there's never it's never been better but is it has it do we anyone you want any of the above uh you know who else is in trouble have you heard any buzz at all about nicky haley i mean I know that she's supposed to be announcing and kind of technically has already announced that she's wanting for president and going to be another Republican challenger for president of the United States against Donald Trump. And I guess she's supposed to make this big announcement on the 15th of this month. Whoa.

We heard a lot of news about that? No, we have not. So that might be concerning for Nikki Haley. And especially we, you know, the balloon debacle here in the United States of. America, you know, got more oppressed than ever. I don't know what's happening with the balloon. We shot it down. I mean, I do know what's happening. We knew it was

coming. We let it cross the United States and then we shot it down and completely destroyed it over the Atlantic Ocean. Why we would do that? I don't know. President Biden, when asked on the tarmac about it on Saturday, had this

to say. Briefed on the balloon. Order the Pentagon to shoot it down on Wednesday. as soon as possible. They decided without doing damage to anyone on the ground. They decided that the best time to do that was it got over water

outside within our within 12 mile limit. It successfully took it down and I want to compliment our aviators. Yeah, it was tough to shoot down that bullet. It's a little later. Thank you. Wait, wait, wait, wait. That's president. You were saying the recommendation

from your, was from your, was from your I told them to shoot it down. On Wednesday. On Wednesday. They said to me, let's wait until the safest place to do it. Okay, and then we stormed off. So I told them, shoot it down, shoot it down. And they questioned the president of the United States and said, hey, we're not going to do that.

It's over, it's over land. So, I mean, why wasn't he briefed before? We knew it was coming. We saw it. We saw it coming. It's been reported that it's, it's, it's, stalled, I will call it stalling, for a 30-minute time period at one point. So it wasn't just moving along with the airstream.

I was being controlled somehow. And then once it finished crossing the U.S., it was shot down. There's so many questions about this balloon, what it was doing, what it was there for, why we destroyed it, why we destroyed it, when we destroyed it, all of that. It's just such a strange, strange thing. We have reports of another balloon over South America, and we're told the military was taking heat for destroying the balloon, and so was Joe Biden. They came out, and of course, because I trust the military, and they haven't been political at all. Oh, wait, they have.

Said that this happened a couple of times during Donald Trump's administration. I don't recall that. Donald Trump doesn't recall that. And if it did happen, why weren't we alerted, and they just let it happen? They were just monitoring it. sure. Really strange thing around this whole balloon thing. And then we find out

that perhaps the balloon was an American made balloon. I don't know. Honestly, I don't know. I just know that it, we knew it was coming when it was crossing over onto United States territory and we did nothing. And our military

advised not to shoot it down over Montana where nobody lives. I have more people living in my neighborhood than people living in Montana, and we let it cross the entire country before we destroyed it over the Atlantic Ocean without trying to at least bring it down and see what this particular balloon and equipment attached to it was doing. No, we can't do that. We're just going to destroy it. Okay. All right. Good. We'll see if he mentions that during his State of the Union tomorrow. Also, be prepared for the news

that's going to surround these earthquakes and tremors that are taking place in terms. We'll see. I mean, they were felt as far away as Greenland, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, toppled buildings. They're saying now that more than 2,300 people have been killed or injured, and I'm sure that number will rise because there are mounds of rubble and buildings have fallen over. I don't know if they claim that Turkey doesn't have the best buildings.

Wait, what? I won't hear of it. And so Turkey and Syria had a lot of damage. A 7.8 earthquake? That's, you can quote me on this. That's a lot. That's a strong earthquake, man. I've talked about it before, maybe not too long ago.

I felt a 3.5, I think it was, here in Irving, Texas, at the Mercury Studios. And I was just sitting in my closet that I call an office. And you feel the building starts. shaking and every and it's 3.5 and you're wondering what the heck is going on and you're ready for the i mean the walls are shaken i feel like i need to start singing the acdc song but 7.8 is doing some serious damage and depending on the length of the earthquake i mean it's always about the length isn't it whether it's the earthquake or it's the well you know all right just stop then they claim that there was a seven after the 7.8 a little time later,

a short time later, there was a 7.5 quake that struck about 60 miles north of the first quake. Then you've got the aftershocks. So, I mean, incredible. And don't forget that, you know, people forget, they think this is just a, you know, one-time thing. Back in 1999, way back in 1999, they had 7.4 magnitude that at that time was the deadliest, strongest magnitude earthquake. More than 17,000 people died in that one, including about a thousand in Istanbul.

So, I mean, between the two, the 7.8 and the 7.5, there's been some serious damage in this neck of the woods. So if you're so inclined, you may throw a prayer up for the people of Turkey and Syria and the surrounding areas that were hurt and or damaged from this earthquake. All right, now you can go back to, you know, singing your ACDC, John Mellencamp, or a band called The Call. Or you can go ahead and write your own length jokes. Go ahead. Make me laugh. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you.

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