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Episode Date: September 10, 2025

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Well, for those of you in Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro Has said that Christmas will come early again this year and he decreed that the annual holiday, which is typically celebrated in late December, you know, around the world, will begin October 1st in Venezuela. So you've got a few days to prepare,

get the tree up, get the lights up, for those of you in Venezuela, but Christmas will come early again. Sure, he's, you know, increased the troop deployment around the country's borders, you know, against the escalation. military standoff with the Trump administration. And sure, we say that he's a leader of a cartel and smuggling drugs into the U.S.

Sure, we've bombed some drug boat out of the ocean. But don't worry about it because Christmas is coming early to Venezuela. Now, he did this last year. Yeah, absolutely we can applaud that, especially if he's standing right here. You're definitely going to applaud if you want to survive. He did this last year, you know, after he won the... the disputed election. So it worked so well for him this time.

He's going to do it again. He did his weekly TV program, Con Maduro Plus, which, I mean, you're tuning into that because it's on every network, that he wants to defend the right to happiness of Venezuelans amid an escalating standoff with the United States and President Trump. So once again, this year, Christmas is going to. to start on October 1st with joy, commerce, activity,

culture, carols, dancing and traditional foods. And so that is it. So get ready in Venezuela. Bonzai! Bonzai! Bonzai! I don't think they say that in Venezuela.

That is not a Venezuelan turn. But if you want to cheer it and celebrate Christmas, you do it the way that you do it, or the way that Nicholas Maduro tell you. you to do it. But Merry Christmas, beginning on October 1st. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So how many times have you gone on a cruise and you've decided to just gamble and then you end up owing a bunch of money? And what do you do on a cruise if you don't have the money to pay up your debt? Well, you jump off the cruise ship. So Jay Gonzalez-Diaz set sail on the Rhapsody of the Seas.

which is tremendous cruise ship for a week-long holiday in which he threw caution to the wind and he gambled his heart out but he lost and so when the completed voyage pulled up to the port of San Juan

as it was returning to port Gonzales Diaz said ooh I'm going to go ahead and jump into the water here and get out of here before I have to leave the ship because I can't pay him any money so he just jumped off the, it actually jumped off the ship. And fortunately for him, and I don't know, they don't say in the story if this was, you know, a friend of his that he called up and said, hey, meet me in the water on the port side of the ship with you, jet ski, because we got to get out of here.

But a jet ski picked him up and took him to shore. Pretty sweet timing there. I'm sure it was just a coincidence, though. I'm sure the guy was just out running his jet ski around the ship because he wanted to get a good look at the rhapsody of the seas. And oh my gosh, did that guy just jump? I'll save him and I'll take him in, which happened. So then the police tracked him down.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers near the Puerto Rico Capitol tracked him down. He was apprehended. was carrying two phones, five IDs, and $14,600 in cash. It's a little short of the $16,710 that he owed the ship for gambling debt. But it is still, he might have been able to work out a deal. I'll give you a 14. We'll call it even. What do you think?

Maybe. I don't know if they do that or not. But I would give it a shot. And, you know, maybe they say no. What happens? I'd like to know what happens if you go? to the captain or, you know, the financial advisor there of the Rhapsody of the Seas and say, yeah, you know, I owe you $16,000, but, uh, whew, I can't pay. I can't pay.

And, uh, all I've got is $14,000. So I would say they probably just charge your credit card, right? I mean, that's what they do. That's people have complained about cruise ships just charging their credit cards, uh, automatically anyway, so I'm sure that's probably what they do. But if he's got different IDs and different credit cards, perhaps he doesn't have one that works properly or that is actually his. So now he's in federal custody in Puerto Rico,

and we'll see if that actually happens to him. We'll see he is in federal custody and is accused of attempting to avoid monetary reporting requirements when traveling into the U.S. and could face a fine of 250,000. He can't pay the 16 grand. He's not going to pay the 250,000. And a maximum five-year sentence. But he does not wish he jumped off that ship.

That is for sure. Although it's funny that when he was taken into custody, he claimed that the federal custody link was for his brother's detention. And when they pressed him, the officers, he said, if you guys were good at your job, you would already know that. Now I will say this, good news for Mr. Diaz, he was released on bail.

So are we ever going to see him again? That man is long gone. But then he becomes a fugitive, and then he's in worse trouble than he already is. So maybe he does show up. Who knows? He's not going to show up. He's long gone.

He's got, he's already under a new identity right now. All right. So good luck. Good luck. Jay Gonzalez Diaz or whatever your name is now. All right. So this actually, I think, makes me angry.

So not too long ago, we had a story out of Cedar Point theme park where one of their roller coasters broke down and people were having to walk down the roller skating or the, uh, through the track, it came down through the track because it was stuck. And I thought,

ooh, that would not be good. And they were coming. It's a long walk down. So then it just happened again at Hershey's Park in Pennsylvania. Uh, their oldest roller coaster, uh,

the ride train stopped to the tracks. And they made these people, holy cow. They made these people walk all the way down to get off the ride. They shut down in the middle of the ride. Now, the thing is, it didn't break, okay? They said that it was stopped in its tracks due to an off-ride guest issue. An off-ride guest issue.

Did someone fall and crack their head open on the track? Did someone push someone onto the track as they were trying to walk on so they couldn't, you know, they had to shut the roller coaster down so it didn't run over anyone? It didn't say. It's just saying that it's an off-ride guest issue. Our protocols, our team safely escorted guests off the coaster and back into the station without issue. Uh-huh. And then the ride was reopened.

so I'm in the middle of this ride and you stop it and now I've got to walk all the way down these tracks which is not fun or easy very carefully and then once I get down there you start up the ride again

what the hell I'd be I would not be very happy yeah I like how the it's the ride stopped moving during one of its friends ascents. So it made for a relatively easy hike back down the slope. Uh-huh. Sure. That's exactly what it did. It dove. It was good thing they weren't upside down. And, uh, yeah, no kidding. I mean, it's a 75-year-old

coaster there at Hershey Park. I just want to know what constitutes the off-ride guest issue that makes you completely stop the roller coaster. Somebody has sickness at the beginning of the roller coaster ride or the end, and they're going to shut the roller coaster down. I don't think so. But again, again, who knows? Maybe, you know, standing there in line waiting for the coaster. The coaster just took off.

And it just takes off. And somebody was next in line to get out on the coaster right next to the guy who pushed the start button. and she goes, shut it down, shut it down, shut it down, shut it down. You know what? It's just, it is possible. It is possible.

Never mind. I will say, the more that I think about it, someone could have actually barfed on the tracks that were next, you know, they're standing in line, getting ready to go on the coaster and they don't make it because it said that it had just taken off.

So someone could have barfed. Some kid, somebody could have thrown a diaper on the chair, tracks. So who know? So that the protocol is they got to clean the tracks before the coaster carts come back through again, right? So the protocol, the young kid working at Hershey Park or the retired old man that didn't get the greeter at Walmart job and he's working the coaster at Hershey Park. And he's, company policies are like, got to shut it down. So he shuts it down

and they make the people walk, get off, because that's protocol. I wouldn't want to start it up again because that's protocol. And we've got to clean the tracks and get them down. So So once they all get down, then they can start the ride up again, right? Because they've got the tracks clean, they've got the puke or the poop or whatever is messed up on the tracks. There's doo-do feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad. And they had it cleaned up by the time all the people walked back from the ride and they were able to start it again. That makes sense. It does. I don't like it, but it makes sense. Still want to know exactly what it was, though.

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I listened to Miles for a long time, man. And I think I was trying to remember what album I was really, I just listened to all the time. I think it was kind of blue. That's what the name of the album was. Maybe I was kind of blue at the time, too. but that was, I just, I went back to look and it was kind of blue because I remember the album cover.

That was recorded in 1959. 1959 that album was recorded. Holy cow, two sessions in New York. John Coltrane's on it. Julian Canterbury's on it. Bill Evans is on piano. Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb. I mean, it's an incredible album.

I'm a huge fan of Miles, and I know that he didn't like white people and he hated white people, and I get all that. But that's okay. I let that go when I, you know, just put out, listen to a little Miles Davis. It's okay. But now I'm thinking, why is Miles Davis in my algorithm? What the heck is going on?

Because I haven't thought or listened to Miles in a long time. Well, somehow they know. My algorithm knows that at one point in my life, I was really hooked on Miles Davis. So they had to tell me about Miles Davis news. And a publishing catalog, his whole publishing catalog, which is a lot, was acquired by Reservoir Media ahead of the 2026 events celebrating the 100th anniversary of Miles' birth.

He would have been 100 next year. Wow. So Reservoir also owns catalogs for Snoop Dog, Joni Mitchell, De LaSalle, and, of course, many others. But so anyway, congratulations to Reservoir Media for buying the Miles Davis catalog. And that means that we're going to

be hearing a lot more. I'm going to be having a lot more Miles Davis in my algorithm because they're going to be celebrating his 100th birthday next year and re-releasing all this. Maybe we have some new sound. Maybe we, uh, yeah, there's new Miles Davis out there that you haven't heard. We just released and we just found it. The lost tapes from

1958. Nobody never heard this before. This is a live recording from a small bar outside of, uh, outside of Manhattan. He was played there all the time with no white people, but it was recorded. It was just for you. And that's what, that's what, that's so I'll be looking we can all look forward to that can't we

did you order your new iPhone yet uh i mean it's out that they they just unveiled the thinnest phone ever yesterday at its annual product launch in silicon valley at uh 0.22 inches and uh 5.8 ounces the iPhone 17 i thought we were going to i thought this was iphone 2025 or iPhone 25 but i know this is the 17th iteration or whatever but I thought they were going to just call it iPhone 25.

Never mind. Tim. Tim, you can get a whole. Tim Cook, you can call me, email me, whatever. Let me know what's going on. So the iPhone 17 Air is almost 30% slimmer and roughly 0.2 ounces lighter than the iPhone 16, while offering nearly half an inch more in display. Okay.

The Air and its two sibling models, the more powerful iPhone 17 Pro, and the more affordable iPhone 17 are all powered by Apple's latest A-19 chips. Okay, so that's great. I mean, I thought the Apple AI thing wasn't working good. But, you know, whatever. They unveiled L.C.,

the tech channel also announced upgrades to the Apple Watch, the AirPods, with an emphasis on health tracking. Okay, the series 11, watches rate sleep quality, detects sleep apnea, and use machine learning to monitor blood pressure. Meanwhile, the latest AirPod's pro tracks wearer's heart rate and up to 50 workout types. The earbuds also use Apple Intelligence to facilitate real-time language translations. Okay, so, but I thought the Apple AI, or Apple Intelligence, was lagging, was that's what was lagging behind the world.

But do I know? Nothing. Just get your new iPhone and shut up, okay? I do not own an iPhone. I prefer an Android. And I was told the other day that my Samsung, whichever one I have now, one of the one, I don't think it's the latest now. I think I'm one behind the latest.

But this one is the one to have. So there, okay? There, take that. Which one do I have? I have the Galaxy S-23 Ultra. All right. So, yeah, once you, yeah, okay, try to beat that Apple, okay? But I will say I didn't think I was going to own Apple,

but my daughter just, I think my daughter just got an Apple iPhone, got an iPhone yesterday. And it wasn't the 17, I don't think. I think it was the, she bought that lowly 16, I think. Because she wanted it to go, she wanted an iPhone so that would pair up with her iPad that she uses for her artwork. work and everything and I was whatever, fine,

whatever, fine, go ahead. Yeah, no, I don't think it, I don't think it it was a free upgrade, so it only costs like a hundred bucks. No, really, it's a free upgrade. All we have to do is, you know, find a phone that nobody's

using, we could turn that back in, and then it's only $100, but it's a free upgrade. Oh, okay, well, go ahead then and i was looking yesterday i think it they start uh you know if you're going to pay out of pocket uh cash money on the barrel on the barrel head i think it was they began at uh 1,099 and i think i read where it said the from 1,00099 so that tells me that uh when it's from 1,000 99 that's like the free upgrade that cost you 100 bucks it's you're not you're paying a little bit more. You're paying a little bit more.

Okay. Yeah, that 1,000. Oh, you wanted to turn on? That's going to be $1,49. You need access. You want all the apps to show up on your phone? Yeah, that's another $100, too. We've got to have that. Oh, oh, you wanted a charge cord longer than a foot? Okay, that's going to cost you more, too. Yeah, but what comes with it is right there. It's pretty basic. And it won't turn on for $1,099. But, hey, how about that free upgrade?

though, huh? All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Desperately. So I see where Roseanne Barr, who is 72 now, by the way, wow, is moving to Texas. She's coming to, she's picking up everything and she's moving to Texas. She's sold or is selling her 46-acre Hawaiian ranch. And she said she loves Hawaii and she says it's,

just, you know, I can't take care of it all anymore. And so she's selling it in partnership with Paul Stukin of Deep Blue Hawaii for $1.95 million. Boy, that 46 acres in Hawaii for under $2 million, that seems pretty cheap. What does she live in on the dump side of the island or something? I can't get that. What's going on? I don't know where that is. That seems like that's really cheap.

So I'm not sure why. Maybe she can't keep it up. It never has. And it's just property now. Because 46 acres in Hawaii, property with dwellings on it, that seems awful cheap. Anyway, that's what she's got it up for sale.

And she's selling and she's moving to Texas and doggone it. She's the house on the property. Okay, here we go. The house on the property has 2,716 square feet. It's kind of small. Four bedrooms, four and a half bathrooms, swimming pool, water slide, adjacent pool house.

In addition to features, breathtakingly beautiful views and a coastline and surrounding orchards. Yeah, it's got to be on the dump side of the island then for under two million. Because, I mean, a 2,700 square foot home, that's nothing. And four bedrooms, you're cramped in.

Four and a half bath. I mean, you're cramped in that place. and then the swimming pool and you have the additional said it has a pool house so I don't know if that turns into a guest house as well and she's moving to Texas anyway she's coming to Texas, she's had enough of Hawaii.

I don't know if who she's using for her real estate brokerage is affiliated with real estate agents I trust.com but if she needs some help buying a place here in Texas or you know

selling the dump in Hawaii maybe I hope if she ends up not doing well in the deal, she should have listened to us and use real estate agents.com. Glenn founded real estate agents I trust because he knew firsthand how stressful buying and selling a home could be. I mean, he'd been burned by bad experiences with agents who didn't communicate, didn't negotiate well,

didn't put the client's needs first, and he's done enough moving back and forth around the United States to have a lot of those bad experiences. Now, Roseanne was just here. not long ago. So maybe she said, hey, you know, I'm thinking about selling my dump in Hawaii and coming to Texas.

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from day one. Real estate agents I trust.com. Real estate agents I trust. Dot com. And we found out yesterday that Cracker Barrel has bent the knee. They put on their website, they post this stuff on social media

with the link to their website. And on the website, they put under your old country store is here to stay. You've shared your voices in recent weeks not just on our logo, but also. so our restaurants.

We're continuing to listen. Today, we're suspending our remodels. If your restaurant hasn't been remodeled, you don't need to worry. It won't be. We heard clearly that the modern remodeled design. That kind of irks me a little bit there because it didn't say,

sure, we're going to dust it and clean it and bring you new furniture and bring you new stuff. It's just like, it won't be. We're just going to leave it as a dump, okay? We're going to let it run down to all hell. It doesn't say that, but that's what I read. We heard clearly that the modern remodel design does not reflect what you love about Cracker Barrel.

We had tested this design in only four out of our 660 locations, and we don't continue with it. We won't continue with it. Of course, we will continue to invest in our restaurants to make sure they are in good shape and meet your expectations. Okay, so there you go. They got to what I was concerned about. I apologize, okay? I just, what I should do is just read their statement, okay? the vintage Americana you love will always be here

the rocking chairs on the porch are fireplaces and peg games unique treasures in our gift shop and antiques pulled straight from our warehouse in Lebanon, Tennessee we want to have our warm I don't think they're actually antiques by the way they're kind of fake antiques they're fake antiques

okay they're made to look like antiques that aren't but that's okay because it's still enjoyable I got it okay but they're straight from the warehouse in Lebanon, Tennessee? That I believe. We want you to have a warm, welcoming space for friends and family to gather and enjoy our cravable food and country hospitality. See, that's the problem. It hasn't been craveable food for a while. So that's why I said from the very beginning that they needed

to work on that. That's what the people were concerned about. It continues. With our recent announcement that our old-timer logo will remain, yeah, we even found out We found out the name, Herschel. We know that it's Herschel now. Our bigger focus is going to be on the kitchen and your plate. Yeah, that's what I said from the very beginning. We hope that today's step reinforces that we hear you. Oh, it does.

We hear you. I remember an HR director. That's another long story I could tell. We ran her off. But she was having her big meeting with us and at Clear Channel. I hear you. I understand that we ran. her off.

But not putting up with that any longer. Thank you for your passion and love for Cracker Barrel. Our 70,000 hardworking team members look forward to welcoming you for breakfast, lunch, or dinner soon. I mean, good. That's great. And I hope that they actually do focus on the kitchen and our plate and make sure that the kitchens have new equipment, that they're making sure that they're cooks and chefs. and wait staff and office staff have what they need to make Cracker Barrel

better. I mean, there are 660 locations that are across America. And so everybody, you expect something when you go to Cracker Barrel, it's there. And now that they're in the news, they need to make sure that we've up our game, now up yours. And that needs to happen.

That needs to happen for sure. I'm really surprised that the CEO still has a job. I'm really surprised that the CEO still has a job, but I don't want to, I don't, you know, I know the places that she was affiliated with, right? She worked for Taco Bell before she came to Cracker Barrel. I see Taco Bell is just getting, bringing back their 2000s with decades Y2K menu.

They're going to lean into the Y2K. Okay, fine. With iconic fan favorites. You get the cool ranch Doritos. Los Tacos, Carmel, Apple, empanata, actually not bad. Seven-layer burrito, double-decker taco, and chili cheese burrito, all under $3.

So that's Taco Bell. So they're in the news, bringing back stuff. That's after she left, though. They're leaning into this, this big deal. And it's interesting that the one person who was, you know, bad-mouthing her and, or at least bad-mouthing the things that she wanted to do at Cracker Barrel is the guy who owns steak and shake.

And I would say to him, and I think I have reminded him, he needs to focus on the steak and shake as well. They've lost a lot of restaurants. COVID shut a lot of those restaurants down. And the last time I was there, it was not the same steak and shake as history would have it.

And so we need to get that back as well. So how about you, finish your board meeting with Cracker Barrel, come back home to Steak and Shake, and take care of a little business. Because you guys are fighting places like Shake Shack, which I love. I've been a fan of.

I used to stand in line on Saturdays. We'd send an intern during the week. I'd said to stand in line on Saturdays at Shake Shack in Manhattan. Awesome. I mean, it was just so good. But they say now that Shakeshack is going to launch into this French onion soup items to lean into premium promotions. Okay.

We're building off our recent success with the $10 Dubai chocolate pistachio shake. Here's the thing about Shake Shack, all right? Great burgers, great fives, crappy shakes. The name is Shake Shack. I want good shakes, okay? If I just, it's incredible to me that we kind of, it's kind of like your aunt's favorite dish that you don't really like. you say oh yeah it's fine it's good but you don't really like it

and that's what the shake shakes are um you know the burgers out of this world the french fries tremendous and you settle for the shake that needs to change but they again they did uh maybe CEO CEO Rob Lynch

he needs to you know he needs to go ahead reach out to me can just email me chewing the fat at the blaze dot com I mean he calls it the democratization of fine dining. That's kind of funny.

But it's, so Tuesday is going, they're going to have a French onion soup burger. French onion soup burger. No thank. No, thank you. Yeah, I'm good. I'll just take the regular burger. You can put some cheese on that bad boy and give me,

yeah, it's the fries, yeah. And I might as well just take a chocolate shake too. And fine, we'll settle for the chocolate shake. But, yeah, no, we think. need to no did you just give me the french onion soup burger i'll be right back 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 built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans real-time insights and endless ways to move lift with confidence while peloton iq counts reps corrects form and tracks your

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Things are falling apart. And normally I don't care about Nepal. And I kind of don't care right now, really, to be honest with you. But it's fascinating to me. I saw a video of them taking down the communist flag, the protesters, the rioters, the insurrectionists in Nepal. They're actually being insurrectionists. The military began deploying troops after protests escalated.

Despite the prime minister, he resigned. They reversed a social media ban. This is what triggered the unrest was that they had a social media ban. And the young people in Nepal were like, no, that's not going to happen. So they protested that. Four cabinet ministers also resists. resigned, leaving the government without clear leadership. Okay, so Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Ali resigned.

And so did four other cabinet members. So at least 22 people were killed when security forces opened fire on demonstrators. So many of them, they had defy, well, yeah, that's what the military was doing. These damn demonstrators defied curfews across the capital and other cities. The protests erupted. They've been going on for over a week now because of this banned social media platform that the prime minister wanted to do. No, we're not doing that. Okay. So yesterday they sent the parliament building on fire, the Supreme Court and several other lawmakers' homes on fire. A wife of a former officially was critically burned. That's kind of sad. Kind of. and as the anger spread over corruption, restricted freedoms, and unmet demands for reform. Yeah.

So the protesters say, and we are protesting and we are in the streets until Parliament is dissolved. New elections are called. And that's it. So that the former Prime Minister, Ali, a communist, I think that's how you pronounce it, O-L-I. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce it. my girl has the day off. She was here yesterday and now she's off again. What is happening? Is she... Oh, she's protesting Nepal? Okay, never mind.

Let her go. So, uh, we'll see. We don't know who's going to replace them. What's going to happen? But they want it burned down and they want to start again and don't be messing with the social media. That's what's happening in Nepal because they definitely are already burning it down for sure. Uh, then we have France. Uh, good news in France because, uh, they just appointed a new prime minister. And that's, uh, what's his face?

I mean, their government is collapsing. I don't know what Emmanuel Macron, I think he's the president, right? And he appoints the prime minister. And I think they've gone through three or four prime ministers in quite a short period of time. So this last prime minister, Frances Barron, lost confidence and vote in parliament,

which means Macron has got to find a new prime minister. Yeah, this is the third. guy in a year. So I think he just appointed Sebastian Le Cornell. Sebastian was the outgoing defense minister. I mean, does anybody want the job now? Hey, guess what? It's you now. Go ahead. Because now they're protesting in the streets as well. They've got the the block everything movement the blockoos to B-L-O-Q-U-O-N-S

T-O-U-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T-O-T. No, that's not what they're calling it. But they want to ouster everybody again. So big countries are starting to burn, big time. Big time. And the UK is about ready to burn. And sometimes it feels like the U.S. is on that way, too. But I don't think we're a ways away.

We're a long ways away. We're not as close as the UK. We're not as close as France because they're actually doing it in France. And they're actually doing it in Nepal as well. So good times. Good times. Good times. Good times to be alive. But I want to be able to post online. And if I can't have my social media, we're going to burn this place down. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. At just $39.99, how could I resist? This luxurious wool throw for my sister

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So this story fascinates me Oliver North You remember him from the Iran Contra 100 years ago And his wife I mean, Ali North is 81 now. Holy cow. So his wife just died not too long ago, sadly.

He was with her for 56 years. And so at the funeral, his old secretary that was part of the Iran-Contra thing. She actually got in trouble. She helped smuggle stuff out. I don't want to get into the whole Iran-Contra thing because that's a whole thing was a nightmare. I mean, he ended up getting the case overturned and, you know, he's found guilty.

And then he ended up, you know, doing shows on Fox and he's got his credibility back. But, okay, so the secretary was part of smuggling stuff out. I mean, she testified to that. And so that was the deal, Fawn Hall. Now, I don't know at the time. I don't remember. I was a long time ago.

And I guess I could go back and find out, but I don't care that much. much except that I just kind of surmise that they were, you know, taking care of a little bit on the side. Yeah, I think that was happening. Could you smuggle some stuff out for me, Fawn? Oh, yeah. And as long as you're here, you're dropping off some smuggling stuff.

Let's go ahead and snuggle smuggle, okay? Or smuggle, smuggle, whatever you want to call it. Anyway, so I think that happened, okay? But amazingly, and I don't know, they make it seem like they didn't have an affair throughout all this time, been a long time, years, 55 years, 56 years, maybe longer.

And so at the funeral of, I think that they could have been seeing each other the whole time, to be honest with you. It's very possible they were seeing each other the whole time. So, they were just married again. They were just married officially.

North is 81, Fawn is now 65. They've been together for a long time, man. So it says in the story, they reconnected at the funeral. So Fonch shows up at the funeral. Thank God that bitch is dead. I didn't think she would ever die. You're marrying me, okay? I think that's what happened.

You told me that you would marry me after she died. You didn't want a divorce her. You needed the life that you wanted. And you had to see me whenever you could. But now that she's dead, ah, you're marrying me because her husband died in 2005. So she's just been wandering around, waiting for Ollie's wife to die.

And it finally happened. That's the way I read it. I mean, obviously, the story could be absolutely wrong. I know that. It could be just a chance meeting at the funeral. She was paying respects to her old friend's wife dying. and something just happened and the spark went off. You know what I'm saying?

Yeah. It was just a low-key wedding and my gosh. None of North four children attended. So that's for sure the deal. Okay, they had the wedding. No family members were there because the kids were like, you cheatin bastard. Mom knew you were going out with Fawn for years

And now, now we all know. Because as soon as mom dies, ding, dong, Fawn's at the door. Yeah, you know that absolutely happened. So good, hey, good for Ollie. Good for Fawn. I'm glad that they're finally together. And I hope that, I hope that, I mean, I hope that Betsy was finally okay with it. Well, she had to be because she was dead.

So Fawn. And Fawn was married to Sugarman. what's his name Sugarman from the Doors? That's pretty incredible. She was married to him for a long time as well. So, I mean, I'm sure that they were just waiting for each other to be able to hook up again. But they met, you know, oh my gosh, it's so funny to run into you here at the funeral. So congratulations to Alley North and Fawn Hall for rekindling their friendship.

and affair that's been going on for a long, long time. Congratulations. All right, let's get out of here. I'll give it a joke of the day. This joke come from Scott. He emailed Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com and kind of fits a little bit with tying in with Ali North. It's a love affair.

The old widow and widower met, and it was love at first sight, just like Ollie and Fawn. After a whirlwind courtship, they married, and even though they knew very little about each other's past. their honeymoon. They were lying out by the pool. The old man got up and walked over to the diving board and put on quite a show doing all these fancy dives. And when he returned to his

lounge chair, the old woman said, wow, where did you learn to do that? And he said, well, when I was a young man, I was in the U.S. Olympic diving team. And I just wanted to show you that I could still take care of a few dives. And a little while later, the old woman jumps in the pool and starts swimming laps. And this goes out for a long time, quite a quite a long time. and she finally returns to her seat, and she's not even winded. And the old man asked, where did you learn to swim like that?

Ah, she said when I was a young woman, I was a hooker in Venice and had to work both sides of the canal. I mean, that's a long way of the well for that joke, Scott. Seriously, long way to the well. And if there wasn't an Alley North story, I probably wouldn't have done it.

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