Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - There’s More To It… | 5/21/25

Episode Date: May 21, 2025

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Good news coming from Flint, Michigan, which is right here on the Michigan map's right there, Flint, Saginaw, Bay City, Midland. You know where it's at. Just north of Detroit there. So anyway, really good news coming from Flint. Your water is now safe, and you can drink all the water you want. It is now safe. After nearly a decade-long fight for safe drinking water. in Flint, it's good. I know. Congratulations. Yes. So the EPA issued the order in January of 2016

and it was a Safe Drinking Water Act Emergency Order and so we're celebrating now that that has been lifted. Since the order was implemented, the city has replaced more than 97% of all its old lead pipes and the

water system has tested well below the acceptable limit since July of 2016. So almost 10 years it's been testing fine. There may be some issues when people still lingering, but according to this, no, there's not. You're still fine. They've given $100 million in taxpayer-funded grants to fix the water system in Flint. And it all started really, I mean, the issue would have raised its ugly head sooner or later.

but Flint decided, you know, the way we're getting water really doesn't work for us. It's too expensive. We're going to not do that. And we're going to get our water, you know, to the Flint, from the Flint River. Bad move. Shouldn't have done. That's exactly what was happening. So you had corroded lead pipes and then contamination and then the public health emergency.

But no longer. No longer. So if you're living in Flint or driving through Flint or flying into Flint Airport, you can feel rest assured that the water you drink there is all good now. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Okay, so, you know, I talked about the air traffic controllers that took 45 days of trauma leave. And I was like, okay, that seems a bit much.

You know, I know it's a tough job and all, but it was 90 seconds of communication outage. And that was so bad that five air traffic control personnel took 45 days of trauma leave because they couldn't handle it anymore. Well, I'm reading this story about another air traffic controller person at Newark, International Airport. and the system went dark again for 90 seconds. What is, first of all, we need to get that fixed in every airport in America. I don't want that happening to any airport in America. But Newark, now that's happened multiple times where we just, I would just have a blackout. Oh, okay.

So this particular air traffic controller was there all alone, late shift. And the air traffic controller said, yeah, I was a little tired. that was my last shift. And then all frequencies cut out. My radar scope went dark. I could no longer see the dozens of planes that had dotted my screen seconds earlier. I had no way of tracking

where any of the four aircraft I had been speaking to were and I had no means to reach them. And I thought, no, she didn't think that, or he didn't think that. I don't think that. She just thought, I keep thinking it's a she. it could be it's probably a he I don't know that

it thought it's happening again and is so it was due to a feces thrown all over the walls the floor the ceiling in a stunk so bad it could have been

that could have been afterward it could have an afterward no question so she was the only other person not duty according to this person why do I keep calling her the she she's just a she I don't care of it to he or not today for this purpose

of this story, it's a she. So the only other person on duty was her supervisor. But he wasn't actually working air traffic. His job is essentially to react if anything goes wrong. Yeah, it's not his job. Is you guys okay? Yeah, I'm going to be down to my office, sip and coffee, okay? So that includes making calls and other air traffic facilities.

Yeah, that's not doing the actual air traffic controlling job. And then all of a sudden, she said, All of a sudden I found a radar scope that miraculously still seemed to be working. So it hadn't really gone 100% dark, had it. So everything that you were using went dark, but you still had this other scope over here that you just realized, oh, I could use that one. Oh, okay.

So, I mean, I realized how scary it could be, you know, obviously it drops out, but she found this scope that actually worked. And she managed to reconnect with the departing plane that she'd been speaking to. seconds before the dropout. After 90 seconds, all the frequencies came back. I recovered contact with all four planes, but we have no idea if the communications were going to be

lost again. And another blackout occurred another two days later. And so she said now she was so shaken, she too needed to take some time off for some psychological evaluation. And I haven't returned to work since.

And it's been like 10 or 11 days now. I know. I know. So I would say don't fly into Newark. Do not fly into Newark, and we need to get this problem fixed. Also, it doesn't say this in the story, but if the air traffic controller room was full of doo-doo and feces and it stunk so bad, then you can well understand if she was going to end up.

Yeah, that definitely happened. So we can rest easy now. They have caught five of the fugitives. So there's only five left. So they're 50% there. They're halfway there. They caught number five last night. They may, by the time you listen to this podcast today, chewing the fat,

if you're, you know, they may have caught another one or more than one. But I found it fascinating. I mean, we talked about yesterday how I read earlier that you could get $7,000 for turning them in. Then yesterday we saw the paper that said $5,000. Well, this morning I see where the FBI is offering $10,000 per inmate for information leading to an arrest. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms, and Explosives, you know them as the ATF, is offering $5,000 per inmate. and Crime Stoppers is offering another 5,000 per in Maine. But I honestly, I don't know.

Please someone email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Do you have to contact all three to get the money? So if I call the FBI, do I just get the $10,000? And ATF and Crime Stoppers says, you didn't call us. If I call 911 and I say, hey, there's a guy, one of the fugitives from the New Orleans,

Orleans jail break, sitting on a bench over here, you need to send somebody over and arrest him. Who pays me? Do I get money or do I get nothing? Because I didn't call specifically the FBI, specifically the ATF, specifically crime stoppers, and the police just say, well, we got a 911 call that we don't need to give out the money for that.

I just want to know. I want to know what I have to do to get the money. Now, we don't know where these other five fugitives are, so, I mean, there's actually a man-hunt. on the way, on the, you know, ongoing. And so be careful, specifically in the greater New Orleans area, but the entire southeast. And, you know, really the U.S.

I could be anywhere by now. It's been six days, something like that. So, it's not safe. These guys are some dangerous men. So be careful. And I be sure to call, there's numbers out there, you know, call the FBI. I would have the FBI number.

The ATF number and the crime stoppers number with me if I lived in that area. Because I would call all three. You guys can fight over who gets the arrest. But I want my $20,000. Okay? I want the $20,000. And if you're afraid to call, what I was thinking of is, well, I tell you what you do. You could just email me chewing the fed up to blaze.com and I'll call on your behalf.

And then I promise I'll share the money. now the sheriff is under fire for the whole all of this and the sheriff is what a cluster this whole thing has become for New Orleans and everybody you know was laughing at the lady who was the spokesperson for the sheriff's department this weekend we played it on Saturday morning live she's got the big glasses and I know Pat played it

on Pat Unleash and she looks she's gave the wrong phone number she gave the wrong time it's just kind of bad and then but that she's just a spokesperson for the sheriff's department. The sheriff is an older female black lady. The sheriff of, or the police chief of New Orleans is an older white lady who I think she was the one that got fired from either Oakland or San Francisco before she came to New Orleans.

So it's just turned into a complete nightmare. They've been paid a lot of money from the state of the government and it doesn't look like anything has really helped with their jail situation. as far as employees, as far as the upkeep of the jail. If you notice, you know, they show the escape cell where they moved the sink out of the way, and they arrested one of the janitors for help with him because he shut the water off

so that when they moved the sink and pulled that away from the wall, water wouldn't fill up. He's been arrested for that. He claimed he was being threatened from the inmates that they were going to shank him. Do I believe that? I guess, maybe, but he could have gone to the bosses and said, you know, these guys are threatening my life to help them with an escape plan,

but you didn't do that. That's a problem. Maybe you don't work out of jail. Maybe you don't work out of jail. And the lady, you know, we talked about the three employees, I think, that have been suspended until further investigations. I'm sure one of them is the lady that was working. And that's lunchtime.

I'm going to lunch. They're fine. Nobody's there watching the prisoners. I don't care. It's my lunchtime. So it's just a bit a nightmare through the whole thing. Just be careful, though, because there's still five of these bad men, for lack of a better term, for these fugitives on the run.

And they are accused and or have been found guilty of some very violent crimes. So be careful. And maybe they do. Maybe they do need to call my man, Karen Cannon. Cannon. Cannon. Yeah, starring William Gunrad.

Starring William Conrad. Tonight's episode. Oh. Clue Gulliger. Diane Farsi. Yeah, I love Diane. John Van Arnd. She made volleyball appearances.

Tonight's episode, Country Blues. Think about it. Tonight's episode, New Orleans Blues. Ooh, I like that. I like that. Tonight's episode, Jail Cell Blues. Fugitives.

Yeah, tonight's episode, fugitives. So, you know, let's say you see one, two, three, four, five, all five of these fugitives and you report them and you get the money

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Poppy represents a compelling strategic fit within our short and long-term vision for the future of beverages. Yeah, you better say that, or I'm a crookershant, no doubt about it. Poppy, a regular fast-growing soda brand, of course, I don't have to tell you that, with prebiotics, fruit juice, apple cider vinegar, was founded by a husband and wife duo in Austin, Texas. Stephen and Allison Ellsworth. The brand is on a mission to modernize soda and made its mark first on Shark Tank,

coupled with a strong social media presence, viral TikTok campaigns, and influencer partnerships, have been cultivated the loyal community. Yeah, that's for sure it definitely has. So their partnership and resources will be instrumental as we scale to our next phase. It doesn't say how much they're going to be involved, but I'm sure that they're still going to be involved with this first round of growing. But if you're all of a sudden have $1.6.5 billion in your bank account, do you guys care what we do?

Nah. Now, right now I'm by the pool side And I'm okay, so I mean, I'll get back to you as soon as I finish this cigarette, okay? Yeah, I don't know, maybe even, oh man, yeah, Austin. Hello, they're in Austin, Texas. Pepsi's out the line. Okay, tub, hold on.

Hello? Yeah, go ahead, it's fine. You do what you need to do. Yeah, it might not be aligned with what we believed in before, but yeah, go ahead, it's fine, because, I don't really want to think about that again anymore right now, okay? All right, thanks for calling.

$1.65 billion. I feel pretty good, and that ain't the weed talking, man. I tell you that. Honey, you know, speaking of making somebody, I did the story on chewing the fat segment on Pat Grand Leash today, which I do every Wednesday. and it's just a fascinating story to me.

This guy goes into Waterburger, and it's Waterburger, Waterburger, whatever you want to call it. I'm not a huge fan of Waterburger, and I know I'm in Texas, so I'm supposed to love Waterburger, but I don't. So this guy, this Demery Ardell Wilson, from the Great State of Texas, filed a lawsuit against Waterberger

for an order dispute that took place in 2024. and almost July of 2024. So according to the lawsuit, Wilson ordered a burger and specifically requested onions to be removed. And I will say, you expect it to be done. You do expect that to happen.

That's the way you ordered it. Now, isn't it your responsibility to check and see if they took the onions off? But, okay. So I mean, the standard burger at most of the fast food chain restaurants, you got what, beef,

tomato lettuce, pickles, diced onions, and mustard and a bun, right? Maybe some ketchup. So that should be just ketchup, but that's another story. Then when the man bit into his burger, he ended up having an allergic reaction.

That was him. That was him, the actual audio of him. Because the onions weren't removed. So, now what a burger is saying, oh, we're going to need some proof over your claims. Yeah. So he's filed his court papers seeking monetary relief over $250,000, but less than $1 million.

Okay. The company further said that it didn't know that any product Wilson purchased was in a defective or unreasonably dangerous condition at the time. Okay, I want to stop here for a second. If he actually is allergic to onions, then it is. It is unreasonably dangerous a condition at the time. That's why he asked to take the onions off. Just incredible. And I don't know if he told, you know, he said take the onions off, right?

He didn't say, I'm allergic. He probably just said, I don't want any onions on it. And so if he had an allergic reaction, that would be documented, right? Documented somewhere, whether it's on video, and that's what needs to happen, right? And the thing that makes you question, well, maybe he's looking for a fight. He is also suing Sonic right now for the same thing. And so Sonic is saying, yeah, we're going to need proof. And we're going to need to see that it actually happened.

So, I mean, and maybe it did happen from both of these places. And they should, if true, if true, I'm on his side. If true. But it doesn't sound like it's true. It sounds like don't put onions on it. I've been into it, it had onions in it, now I'm going to sue. And yeah, that's, but if it was actually that, it might be worth something.

Now, he's going to get $250,000 from either Whataburger or Sonic. I would guess that these companies are going to pay him, what, $50,000 to go away? and yeah he's going to how much is he paying the attorney so he's not he's going to have to get at least 100 grand just to make a little cash

right because the attorney's probably taking a 50% cut 50 50 you win I take 50 and so he's going to need to get as as much as possible so anytime anybody comes around even looking like an onion man

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So if I asked you a question, what is bear beating? B-A-I-I-I-R-beating is, but B-A-R-E-B-E-Beding. What is that? What is bear-beating? beating. I don't know, Jeff.

What is bear beating? Yeah, it's not the joke of the day. And it's not the what's the lie. So we know what raw dogging is, right? We know what bear backing is. But I was wondering, I don't know that I knew the term bear beating. Now, I know what bear beating they say it means, but I don't know that I knew that it was called that.

So if you have heard people playing music or videos out loud without using headphones, all right? They are calling that bear beating. So one bear beaters' transgression encouraged the next, and it's a growing scourge on public transportation all over the world. It is annoying, I will say. It is annoying. I did not know that it's called bear beating, though. Weird. Okay.

Just know that if you're listening to your videos and listening to your music and without headphones and you're trying to share it with everyone else and you are bare beating, that's what it's called. It's called bear beating. Do we have breaking news or something happening? We don't have breaking news. We just come in here. I don't have the sounder.

You were talking about that store. Yeah, bear beating. Bear beating. Yeah, B-A-R-E-B-D-E-E-B-E-D. And usually me and you see I-2-I when it comes to events of the world. Okay. And this came up, I just saw it on the news.

The Navy Seals are investigating racist memes. Oh, no. Share by Navy Seals. Oh, no. It's Fleet Week in New York happening right now, too. They're all going to be sharing stuff all. Yes, they are. So this incident...

The dating apps better be ready to have, you know... The grinder. Let's go. I mean... Oh, wait, wait, whoa. Both of them. All of them. All of them.

All of them. Okay. So this incident started and I want you to just... I'm going to give you the facts and then you tell me what you think this is. Okay. So this is the team four. Two enlisted members are in trouble because they created racist memes. Okay.

Targeting a black set. A specific sailor. Okay. A specific sailor. That they are, that they are sealed, that they do seal business with? They seal together? They sealed together. They sealed together.

They started back in 2022. Here's the thing. The black sailor lost his Navy seal credentials. Oh. Now he's saying, wait, That's because of racism. Hold up. Hold up. I could not focus on my Navy SEAL training.

Oh, shut up. Because I've been targeted since 2022 by these two other sailors. Now, according to report, I've been, trust me, I've been Googling my fingers are to the bone trying to find these stupid racist memes that these two sailors created and shared on the Signal app. So once again, oh, we're back to the Signal app. We're back to the Single app. I love that. I love that. I got to get a Signal app. Saylor's lawyer.

Can you get a Signal app separate or do I have to have it? According to the Sailor's lawyer, this is very shocking and it's explicit. Oh, shut up. And repeated racist memes directed at the client, platoon wide. Okay. So there's also shared in a group chat in Signal. How about the platoon? A thousand?

Oh, no. I don't know what a pool. We'll call it like 10. It's the whole everybody. It doesn't matter. We're getting lost in the sauce. I don't think we are because it's only like four or five people did, right? A platoon is not a thousand.

It's only like just the group. Let me see. Just the group. Let's check this. How many Navy SEALs in a platoon? And 16. Oh, wow. So a whole 16 people.

All right. Now this was created according to the report. by the leader, the team leader. Okay. And one of the minions. Okay. Okay. So he lost, so back to the story.

Right. The black sailor lost his credentials. He said, he could not be a seal that kicked him out. He's back to be just a regular Navy guy showing up in Fleet Week, sweeping right out grinder. He said, wait, wait, wait, I've been targeted. What's going on? Here's where I call foul play.

Okay. because they gave him the seal back. Oh. And back pay. Oh, wait. So how long was he? How long was he? The story won't tell me that.

How long he was not CEO? Yeah, what's the time? Yeah. But I have a problem because. So if you're a seal, you're getting, what, another $200, $200, $300 a month, something like that, whatever it is. Yeah, okay. How much extra pay is when you become?

a Navy seal. Oh, from $25,000 to $150,000 more. Wow. On the rank. Okay. That's a significant amount of money. I'll give you that.

But the problem I'm having with the story is, according to him, he talked to officials, nobody care, blah, blah, blah, blah. But I wonder if... Then he pulls the racist out. He pulled the race... And I don't want to think that. I don't want to think that.

And of course, his story blames Trump. And we don't know what the memes are. I don't know what the memes are. Because that would be interesting to know what the memes are. I'd like to see how distraught he was over these particular memes. And we all can agree that Navy SEALs are the top of the line. Supposed to be toughest. Toughest.

Take it all. Yes. Everybody breaks under pressure, but these guys will break the least amount of time. Unless you share a racist meme. A racist meme. Then I can't. Then I can't focus. Can't focus.

So did we just gave the playbook to the whole world to how to stop the next Navy seal? Yeah. So our man, Mr. Top Military guy. I kind of think of a stupid name now. Pete has said? Yeah, he has said. Well, he just mentioned here. Because this is his fault.

Oh. Because the Trump administration and Defense Department leadership have made it a priority to end diversity, equity, inclusion programs across the military. and the whole government. And Jeffrey, did you know? And we'll end here because if not, we'll spend the whole freaking show about it. Because this story, I will follow

because I'm calling foul play. Yeah. I'm calling foul play because now you're making even a bigger deal when you lose your Navy SEAL status and you call, oh, I couldn't focus. Now, I'm paraphrasing his, let me see if I can find his actual quote. I want to make sure I give him the proper credit

because it's kind of, kind of BS. It is. This is what the WNBA is doing now around Caitlin Clark. They have a little scuffle. People get upset and now the next thing you know, oh, there was a racist comment. Okay.

But no, there wasn't. So Fisher, have you given the warning that we may offend people in this podcast? Oh, no. Because I was able to, I forgot that I could read you the meme. So I want to. Oh, okay.

But we don't know what. We don't know the memes. I'm going to picture a picture. Okay. So this is the warning. If you're a black person, I am sorry. I did not create this.

Yeah, we don't want to, we don't want you to be, so I want you to. If you've been kicked out of the seals, we don't want you to use this as an excuse to get back in. Yeah. Because we're just telling you, this has already been done, first of all. And this is why.

Find yourself a new excuse. So this is what the pictures were. They modified the face of the sailor into photos to make him look like a monkey and portray him as a chain slave on a slave ship among others. I mean, it's not very nice. It's not very nice.

It's not very nice. But I would do. In today's world, you don't do that. Right. Everybody's wrong in this scenario. I think so too. The other thing, though, okay, so if they were friends. And you think they will be because that is a 16, right?

Six in platoon. They were busy making fun of all of them, right? Right. And we just had that experience here in the room, right? We just had not racist, but we had that experience. When you come into a room that is guy heavy. And there's nothing is sacred. And the standard is sacred.

And the standard has been set. Yes. Right? A verbal standard has been set, especially in the military and in this room, you know that jokes are going to happen. Nothing is sacred. It's sacred. And then nothing is personal. Right. Right. Nothing is personal. And me and you Fisher were veterans, so we know in those circles, nothing is personal. Right. But, and this is where I call foul play, because the story not only ends with, this is Trump's administration's fault. This is the Defense Department fault. In March of 2021, they did a survey, and out of all the seals, right, 95% are white.

2% are black. Okay. And the other whatever is, you know, others. So? Why is that part of this story? So? I mean, that's, uh, so is the country. What was a big deal?

The country is a lot of whites, some blacks, a lot of others. That's the way the country is built. They're just trying to do it's more division BS. But. And Trump hating. I say, both parties.

are at fault. Yes. But I'm a little bit. But no way he gets his. No, no way. Wouldn't that make you focus more? Want to beat them wrong.

If, if you were upset about the meme. Then I want to show them that I'm not a, I want to show them that my face does not belong in a monkey's body. And I don't have chains. That's not even funny. It's not even Get out

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Who died today? Well we'll begin with George Went. George went. I know. Norm Peterson from Cheers. Really sad. What? Dead at the age of 76. Very sad. I love George. I watched an 18-minute montage of all his entrances. It was presented as every Norm entrance during the show.

I don't know if it was everyone. I didn't go back. and look so I'm just taking their word for it and it was just fascinating George I didn't know it was just really awesome norm norm that was really fun so he was 76 family sources said that he passed away peacefully in his sleep at his home you know his family obviously talked about him being a doting family man and well loved and he had surgery I think that was in 2012. He had a heart surgery. And so that he stopped, he couldn't, was doing the odd couple.

He had to, he had to withdraw from that. And then following the 2012 surgery, he had faced mobility challenges. Coria, you know, with some weight gain, had difficulty walking for being, because of his weight. And then apparently they, he was seen in 2024. or frail and using a wheelchair during a public appearance. And in January of 2025, he relied on a cane to exit a car. Does that, I mean, who among us has not used a cane? And, you know, difficult to move because you're so fat.

I mean, I get it. I get it. So anyway, rest in peace. Very sad, George went. Good afternoon, everybody? No! Norman? How are you doing, Norm?

What do you know? Oh, yeah, that's an older one. Okay, so stop. Therefore, the longest time when What's Your Face was on there, you always hear her last. He comes in and everybody says, hey, No! No! Have you noon, everybody, no, no! And then you hear What's her face, Shelly, I don't know what her name is.

Norman? Norman. Good. Good morning. Norman. Have a noon everybody. Hey, Norman. Rest in peace to George went.

And now we have a 50-year-old man. Akeel Fekar Eldin. He died at the age of 50. Now, his cause of death was given. He was eaten by a pet lion days after he purchased it. Now, he purchased the lion to, tame it. Apparently, he did not know what he was doing

and the lion devoured him. Ouch. A big time, big time out. Ouch. Now, they claim that the lion lunged at Al Din as he approached the enclosure, biting in the neck and chest.

The screams alerted a neighbor who rushed to his aid with a rifle. Despite the lion's ferocity of the neighbor managed to kill it after fire seven shots. No, he's not down yet. He's still biting.

He's still biting. Oh, he's still biting! He's still biting! I think that was about seven. Anyway, I just give an extra one just to be for a good measure. He finally dropped over. The lion is now dead.

Okay, so the man's team alerted in seven shots. So, now they claim there's footage on social media showing the lion's lifeless body. I did not see the footage. so if I see it I'll let you know how it looked I did not see the footage so rest in peace to

Akeel The lion too they didn't even give a lion He didn't have a name nothing I didn't know how old it was It was just a lion that this guy And He's dead now the lion was put down Now it says here

The lion was put down by authorities Okay, which is it? Did you get put down by the neighbor with the seven shots or did the authorities take him down? And it doesn't say, right, they're both flatlined. No question. It doesn't say how old the lion was or anything. So rest in peace to Akil Fakaril did.

Amorpha fallis. Dead at the age of 50. And rest in peace to the lion, however old you were. I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard someone say the lion's name was bullet. I don't know if that's true or not but who knows rest in peace to bullet

the lion so take care there's another one just for good measure neither authorities or the neighbor we don't know who but we had to put the line I don't blame them for putting the lion down

at all but it didn't save the man it was too late so I mean I guess you had to put them down anyway it doesn't matter you don't want him killing another human and so it was good to go anyway

you know what we really need what we really need now in times of trouble there's a song there somewhere is something bold something thought-provoking and something rooted in truth

yep that's what strange encounters is streaming now on Blaze TV and YouTube it isn't about ghost or Bigfoot or Bullet the lion it's about the real spiritual battles we face every day Rick dives into the unseen world through biblical lens, equipping you with truth and courage for the fight.

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pharmaceuticals is buying 23 and me. 23 and me. They're taking control of it for $256 million. And they're just going to take it over and they'll have access to all the total health and research services, the bio bank and genetic data. And it's more than 15 million customers. So any of you that are trying to raise privacy concerns. Oh, don't be silly. It'll be fine.

It will be fine. 23 and Me's genetic testing services is going to continue on interrupted. And the deal is expected to close at the end of this year in 2025, maybe before the end of this year, sometime this summer. It's what Regeneron said. And so we pledged to remain compliant with 23s and Me consumer privacy rules and vowed to work with a court appointed ombudsman who will investigate the matter. so everything is fine. We're buying this company out of the goodness of our heart. We don't expect anything from it.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, that is cute, isn't it? It is, yeah. But, hey, regenerate on pharmaceuticals, $256 million, taking control of 23 and me. So we can all feel better. So I guess Kevin Spacey is back. Kevin is back.

He delivered, he went to, he was at Cannes, and he's in a new movie, and he's all happy about being in this movie. He showed up at Cannes because he was speaking at a gala held by the Better World Fund, where he was presented with an engagement award given to him by the organization's president,

Manuel Colas de la Roche, who said the actor embodied, the powerful interaction between art and influence. And he accepted the honor and then he spoke for about 10 minutes because he can't get him to shut up.

And he talked about how a blacklisting of Dalton Trambo and he praised his best friend Evan Lowenstein. He said he was happy to be back at work. And he also quoted Elton John. In fact, we have a clip of him at Cannes. I think it was last night, maybe the night before.

Honoring someone who has been exonerated in every single courtroom he's ever walked into would be thought of as a brave idea. Think about it. Yeah, yeah. But that's where we're at. That's right.

I send you all the most positive vibes. And as my friend Elton John once said, the reason that this means so much to me because I'm still standing. Yeah. Oh, oh yeah. Yeah, I'm still standing. No, I don't do any more.

stupid BBC report. I got it. Thank you very much. At Desjardin, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice, and we can talk your ear-off about transferring your business when the time comes. Because at Desjardin business, we speak the same language you do. Business. So join the more than 400,000 Canadian entrepreneurs who already count on us, and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk. Business. All right, we're going to have a, I'm not going to have time for the long murder story of the day, so I'll just say, give you some good news.

French police have recovered, by chance, the lost bust of Jim Morrison that once adorned his grave in the Paris Cemetery. So the sculpture has been missing since 1988. All right. Now, it was found during the search to, tied to a fraud case. And they were searching this other person's house, and they said, hey, isn't that the statue, the Jim Morrison statue? It sure is.

So it's been missing, like I said, since for 37 years. And now it's, you can see it, it's still, when it was first made, it had a nose and a mouth of stuff. Now, a couple years later, after they first put it up on the gravestone, somehow the nose broke off

and it looked like someone tipped it over and it was sitting there without the nose and without these markings but this Croatian artist Maladn Milken carved the statue from a white marble to mark the 10th anniversary of the singer's death disappeared in 88 as I said

seven years after the bus was placed on the site and the picture released by the French police shows the statue's mouth and nose missing because that went missing before it went missing. And now they're not sure if they're going to give it back to the grave site or what's going to happen.

The people in the cemetery said, we don't know. No one's contacted us. Yeah, it goes back to the cemetery. They've already upped security at the gravesite because the grave site has Oscar Wilde there. It's in the one Paris cemetery that they call like the tomb. of the poets, tombs of the poet's, I think a Poets Corner. The Poets Corner is what it's called, yeah,

in this Pierre-Elachet Cemetery. And so just put it back. Put the Jim Morrison statue back. We finally got it back. It was in the basement of some douchebag who was defrauding people, and now you found it, let's put it back. Shall we?

Let's make that happen. Yes, please. All right, let's get out of here. Let's do the joke of the day, and I'll get out here. Since it's meme day, we'll go with memes. It's meme day, thanks to the Chris Cruz story, people getting bent out of shape with memes.

This was actually a meme that I saw. And the meme is a picture of a guy holding a monster can. And you see the picture of his hand with the monster can, the monster drink can in his hand, and his wife on the other side of the can, or who you assume to be his wife, is a female on the other side of the monster can with her arms crossed and an unhappy look on her face.

And the caption is, my wife asked me to get one of those drinks with their name on it. And I bought her a can of monster. That's how the fight started. See, because she thought, no, you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.