Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Unscheduled Disassembly… | 5/28/25

Episode Date: May 28, 2025

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Wow, why do they do them? I mean they tell you but you still ask the question Why? I guess congratulations are in order to a British South African

endurance athlete who crossed the finish line of his 62-mile multi-day swim around Martha's Vineyard Okay, well, he wrapped it up on Memorial Day. Congratulations. He becomes the first person.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Congratulations to Lewis Pugh. He becomes the first person to swim all the way around the island. So, Lewis Pugh, as I said, is 55 now. And he began swimming multiple hours a day in the 47 degree water on the 15th of May. Now, he did this because he wanted to raise awareness about the plight of sharks. because we know, man, sharks have been vilified ever since that damn Jaws movie 50 years ago, and he wants to change the public perception and encourage protections for the at-risk animals,

which he said the film maligned as villains and cold-blooded killers. Well, I mean, they kind of are, but especially that one in Jaws. So he said, we've been fighting sharks for 50 years. After he completed the last 1.2 miles of the swim before exiting the ocean at the Egertown Harbor Lighthouse, and I, man, do I love the Edgar Town Harbor Lighthouse. That's exactly close to where Jaws was filmed, by the way, just a side note. We need to make peace with them, said Lewis. In total, he swam for 24 hours over 12 days. He said this was among his most difficult endurance swims in an almost 40-year career,

which says a lot he has swum near glaciers, volcanoes, swam on hippos, crocodiles, polar bears. Okay, calm down, Lewis. He's the first athlete to swim across the North Pole and to complete a long-distance swim in every one of the world's oceans. I mean, good for him. It's kind of cool. and he's got that on his record. That's really cool. This particular swim, there were no shark sightings.

He saw sunfish, seals, and turns, but no sharks. As a precaution, though, he was accompanied on his team by a safety personnel in a boat and a kayak. No, they did not have weapons. They had a paddler,

and this paddler was using a thing called shark shield, which is a device to create, create low-intensity electric field in the water to deter sharks without harming them. I don't know if he had hippo shield and crocodile shield and polar bear shield or volcano shield when he was swimming by those animals and by those particular glaciers. But he did have the shark shield, this last swimmer on Martha's Vineyard. Pugh also has been named a United Nations patron.

of the oceans and often swims to raise awareness for environmental causes said no swims without risk and that drastic measures are needed to get his message across. There are about 274,000 sharks that are killed globally each day. I find that hard to believe. So we're killing 274,000 sharks a day. No, no, we are not. No, no, we are not. A rate of nearly 100 million every day or every year. We're not killing 100 million sharks a year. No.

That means, so we're killing 100 million sharks a year, we have hundreds of millions of sharks? I know, no, that is not, no, that number is not true. But thanks, Lewis, I appreciate it. Lewis also called the decimation of sharks An Ecoside Now I believe him If if

If we were killing 274,000 sharks A day And if we were killing 100 million every year Yeah you know what That is an eco side But there's no way that's possible

Just is not possible I am sorry Lewis I know you like to spew that at the United States nation's dinners, but no, that is not true. And, you know, congratulations for surviving the swim around Martha's Vineyard without being fitted for those concrete chef boots. I know you're getting hit over the head with the paddle oars like that happened with, who was, oh, yeah, that's right, the Obama chef who drowned it Martha's Vineyard.

But hey, I know, it's an eco side of sharks. Welcome. We've got to do something. has to be done about the eco side of sharks. Welcome to chewing the fat. Okay, so not only do we have the two fugitives still at large from the New Orleans jailbreak. We're still looking for them. They're out there.

We're still arresting people who have helped them, who helped them before and after their jail break. I think we're up to like 13 people that they've arrested for helping. the fugitives. So there's still two, the 33-year-old Anton Massy and 27-year-old Derek Groves, on the run. But we do have a brand-new fugitive on the run that broke out of prison Sunday. He's a former police chief in a small town of Gateway near the Arkansas, Missouri border. He was serving his time for murder and rape. When he killed him, he was. He was serving his time for murder and rape. when he killed them he was called the devil in the Ozarks

so he escaped Sunday from the North Central Unit which is a medium security prison known as the Calico Rock Prison and there's video footage of him just walking out of prison he was he was dressed as just a worker guy we just opened the gate and we let him out prison officer said yeah go ahead good see it. Take care. Have a nice day. They do not know. Maybe that's what

the security guy was doing. Yeah, go ahead. I got... Go ahead. Get out of here. Take your stuff. I got more important stuff to do. Yeah, nothing happening here. It's Sunday Memorial Day weekend. Go ahead. Get out of here. No. So,

he's on the run. Holy cow. Now, the family members of the person that he killed. They're a little worried because they were all witnesses to him. So good luck. I know they're using canines and drones and helicopters.

Oh my! That they're searching that northern Arkansas terrain. But he's gone. I mean, it's been hours, days now that he's long gone. He didn't even realize that he was gone for quite some time. Like for he left around 255 in the afternoon. and then about 5 p.m. and a couple hours later,

they were like, hey, I don't think he's here anymore. I think he escaped. So be on the lookout. Be on the lookout for Rand. No, that's the champion. That's, I don't care about him. He don't want the actual,

Grant Hardin, former police chief, fugitive, on the loose in Arkansas, Missouri somewhere. And yeah, just maybe if you see Bigfoot out there at the Ozarks in Arkansas, Missouri, maybe

it's not Bigfoot. Maybe it's Grant Harden on the run from the law. Oh, you know, and I don't know what to make of this. And I'm kind of torn because I wanted to see the gold in Fort Knox. I wanted to see the gold in Fort Knox. I wanted to see the videos of people going in. I wanted to see

the gold. We heard from my Brad Meltzer that they keep all kinds of other trinkets. They're in Fort Knox. Just some of the, you know, the history, historical documents, stuff like that, trinkets. But I wanted to see the gold bars. And Trump, our president, made a big deal about going to Fort Knox. Elon Musk talked about going to Fort Knox and seeing the gold. And people were like, oh, no.

You know, they don't allow people into Fort Knox. They don't allow people in because the gold isn't. The gold isn't there, so they don't want people to know that the gold isn't there. And, you know, the argument was from Trump was that, you know, I'm going to go and make sure and see the gold is there and tell people, here it is. Gold's here, you're good to go. And so now they're saying that's not going to happen. I mean, we've talked, he talked about it when he was with Macron. He talked about it on Air Force One.

He talked about it when he was talking to the governors. And, you know, apparently it started because Zero Hedge had pulled. posted something about gold not being at Fort Knox and had tagged Elon on X. And so that's what started the, you know, the hunt for gold at Fort Knox. Okay. So now we believe that we're just not going to see it at all. Mr. Trump has, President Trump has no plans on going to Fort Knox. No Elon, no Elon, no nothing.

It's just we're not going to do it. So we're going to have to believe that the, gold is there and we're have to believe that you know i know that they have their um audit of gold every year and we're to believe that that audit is believable okay because i was this i was reading the story about it this morning and there's this guy eric thorson i'm sure he's a fine man uh may i don't know if he's a man i don't know what he identifies as eric thorson the person said that if Trump really believed that the gold was gone, he'd be down there in a second.

This Eric Thorson is a retired Treasury Department Inspector General and one of the few people to have personally audited the gold statute of Fort Knox. That doesn't mean he saw it, though. That means that they do an audit every year and nobody goes there and they just rubber stamp it. So according to Eric, he knows damn well it's there. So he'd look stupid coming out of there and saying, yeah, I guess I was wrong.

It's all there. So the best way to do this is to just drop it. No? No. Ain't nobody got time to have time for that. We do have time for that. We need to open the doors. up the doors to Fort Knox and have our gold not be there, people would be pissed.

People would be pissed. And I know that Trump has moved a bunch of gold trinkets into the oval. And it looks like maybe he moved Fort Knox in there, but no, he did not. So I really find it hard to believe that this makes it more believable that there's gold in Fort Knox if he doesn't go. It makes it more believable that there's not gold in Fort Knox. So, according to this story, there's, what, 147.4 million ounces of gold stored in Fort Knox? Uh-huh. Right.

Okay. All right. Just keep telling me, because he's not going, that means that there's gold there. Because no one believes that. Sorry about it. At Desjardin, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice,

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so you can get that. That's a separate show underneath the chewing the fat umbrella, talking, walking dead. Did you realize, and then you may want to join the other crowd, that apparently we're starting up around the world, digital detox clubs. Now, I'm, you know,

I'm all four shutting off your phone once in a while. You know, I don't know that I actually do it. but I'm all for it man if you want to go ahead I left we went to run around the other day and I was back in the driveway and I realized I didn't have my phone with me

and now I could have stopped and said to the other people in the car hey run in grab my phone it's right there on the table on the way out the back door I could have just kept going and you know went on about where we were going without my phone

or I could have just not said anything and just not had my phone. I stopped and made him run back in and get the phone because I got my hello. What if it was an emergency? You got to have your phone with you. Hello. So apparently, according to this now,

this new survey from the British Standards Institution, love them, BSI. They claim that 46% of teenage respondents to this survey and 68% of the respondents, wait, so let's see, 46% say that they pine for the days without cell phones, but what about social media? Would you erase social media from the history books if you could? 46% say, I guess yes. and 68% said they felt worse when they spent too much time on their socials.

Okay, well, don't spend so much time on your socials. You don't need me to tell you that. Oh, so they have this offline club now where you can get together. This is a Dutch, this is not in the UK, this is a Dutch social movement. That's great. you find out on I don't know Instagram

but once you're there you shut it off don't worry why you can just shut it right down they have like 500,000 followers on Instagram so it's good you let everybody know it's time to digital detox okay so this movement

is to create screen-free public spaces and events in cafes to revive the time before phones when board games, a social interaction, and reading were the activities observed in public. I will say most of the time, if I'm by myself in a public space

and I'm looking at my phone, I am reading something, and it isn't just social media apps. You know, I'm reading stories or a book or I perhaps could be listening to, you know, a murder podcast. But that's still not digital detoxing, Jeff. They also host digital detox retreats.

Boy, you want to talk about a money-making scheme. I mean, the caring, the caring money-making scheme. These digital detox retreats, I need to have a chewing-the-fat, digital detox retreat, where participants unplug from not only their smartphones, but computers, and experience life before the Internet. Yes, it was beautiful, wasn't it? It was.

I guess they've got a big club in Milan. They've got a big club in the Netherlands. I don't know if that's separate from the Dutch, maybe, probably. So the BSI's research showed that out of 1,290 individuals aged 16 to 21, 47% said they would prefer to be young in a world without the Internet, and 50% also saying a social media curfew, would improve their lives. Well, then shut it off.

What are we, we've lost personal responsibility? Yes, Jeff, we have. Oh, okay, all right, never mind. In some countries, they are considering age restrictions on social media accounts, we're banning phones at schools. So the offline club is now taking advantage of these rising cross-cultural awareness

and helps its followers replace screen time with real time. Their founders envision world where time spent in public is present and offline. So there you go. There you go. If you want to, you can do it here in the U.S. They're talking about, they have club chapters.

And you can, you know, again, you can check them out on Instagram. They have club chapters in Milan, Berlin, Paris, London, Barcelona, Brussels, Antwerp, Dubai, Copenhagen, and Lisbon. I mean, this is, this show originates from DFW. Why do we not have a chewing the fat? Offline Club All right, right here in DFW. I want my list.

I want my name on the list. So are you okay? I mean, you've shut your phone off for five minutes. Yeah, I know. It's okay, baby. We'll turn it back on in a few minutes. Right now this is just part of our digital detox here at the chewing, the fat detox center.

Yeah, it's okay. Okay, okay. All right. Let's go to the break room and get you something to drink. Okay, easy. Okay, sure, we've got the NBA, you know, fight, run to the championships. Sure, we've got the NHL, run to the championships, the final four teams in both the NHL and the NBA.

Pretty exciting, actually. Looks like it's going to be the Indiana Pacers taking on the Oklahoma City Thunder. And it's going to be the Florida Panthers taking on the Edmonton Orlers, again, a repeat of last year in the NHL. Looks like that way. It could change. Could change at any time, but it's possible. However, what really is happening is the 2025 Scripps National Spelling Bee is smack dab in the heart of it right now. It kicked off yesterday at National Harbor, Maryland, outside of Washington, D.C.

it's the 100th anniversary I think we talk I think I mentioned it yesterday it's the 100th anniversary but it's not the 100th spelling bee because it was canceled during World War

one or two and then it was canceled during COVID and so this is the 97th spelling bee and there have been 110 winners in total because of ties and there were eight kids yeah we did

because I talked about the eight kid tie in 2019 well round one 42 of the 243 spellers were eliminated yesterday, and 18 and round two of the 183 spellers left were eliminated. So 183 moved down to the quarterfinals, which is taking place as we speak right now,

and then we're going to have the semifinals today as well. If you're listening live, today is the 28th of May 2025. So then we have the finals tomorrow. So we'll know who the champion is of the Scripps Spelling Bee 2025 on Friday. And the winner of the Spelling Bee will earn $52,500 cash prize. Second place gets $25,000. Third will take home $15,000 and fourth earns $10,000. All the finalists will receive $1,000.

And then I was reading a little bit more about last year's champion, Brubhot Soma, who was from Tampa, Florida. he did get this okay so this is this is the second straight champion from the Tampa Bay area and his victory last year meant that 29 of the last 35 spelling champs have been Indian American I know don't look at me I mean that's impressive so the runner up last year is back in it again this year he's from DFW this Faizan Zaki he's from DFW. Now he's back in it again. I don't think Bruhot is back in it. I saw a quick interview with the local news station

in Tampa and he's talking, he's giving advice to people doing it. And I think that he won it and now he's like, I'm done. I'm, you know, yeah, no, I'm good. I don't have to do it again. He can still do it because I think as long as you're under 15 before August of last year or something,

you're still in it. I was looking at some of the rules. I was trying. Why is Bruhat not in it? Okay? I mean, I want him back in it, but he's not.

So, well, guess we have to vote for Faizan Zaki because Faizan, this is like, if he's in it this year, it'll be like the third time. The first time he was in it,

he, I don't know, he didn't do very well. I mean, he ended up with, I mean, like 20th. 20th in the country.

What a loser. Anyway, I forget what he was. And then last year, he's a runner up. So now this year, I mean, he's got to do it this year, right? He's got to win. Hello, Fuzon.

It's on your shoulders, babe. Got to do it. Because last year, remember, he just missed when they had the spell off. And I was watching Bruhot's spelling to win the championship. It's awesome. Your first word is Bruett. B-R-O-U-E-T-E. Come on, Br-Haut.

Let's go. A-D-L-A-N-A-E. He knew that. That's them near his name. Hyperkey. H-Y-Y-P-O-R-C-E-E-E-Y-C-L-I-U-M. McT-E-R-C-E-M. Like about it.

E-N-D-E-C-H-E-A. C-R-C-I-N-E-R-C-I-N-E-Y. N-E-T-A-L-I-C-A-O-P-A-A-A-O-P-A-A-E-A-O-E-A-O-C-U-A-O-A-U. Sibel. C-E-B-E-L. He-A-O-T-O-P-A-J-N-Y. Quazoku. K-W-A-Z-O-K-U-K-U-E.

Panetier P-A-N-E-T-I-E Sagai S-A-G-A-E Nach-H-S-Lago N-C-H-H-E-E Okay, calm down. You know these words just as well as I do, right?

X-O-R-H-A-S-1. Porphyrio. O-R-P-H-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-A-N-A-A-A-N-A-A-A-N-A-A-A-N-A-A-N-A-A-N-A-A-N-U-S. Oh, what'd you call me? Shint-L-A-N-T-I-N-L-A-N-E. Mirab-R-A-B-A-N-U-S. S-C-I-N-N-H-S-C-N-H-H. Vousswar

V-O-U-S-O-I-R-C-I-N-H-J Ramanur R-A-M-O-N-E-U-R-A-M-E-O-N-E-Y O-E-E-E-E-E-S. Oh, you got a Ramanor. S-I-O-P-E-S-I-S. Ab-S-E-E-I-L. Passology.

That's it. That's time. They got to do it. Knock out the word. Now, they might not all be right. Okay, so he's just spelling him and moving on. The button means he moves on. So then Fazine takes over.

I was going to jump ahead to when he won, but just stay right there. And let's hear Fazine battle it out because he's awesome. He's from D-F-W. He does a great job, too. Only, well, not as great as my man, Bruha. B-R-O-U-E-T-E. Adelon Tato. A-D-E-L-A-N-T-A-O.

Hyper-E-H-Y-P-E-R-C-H-E-E-E-R-C-E-E-M-E-E-E-R-C-E-E-M-E-E-E-R-C-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-E-E-E-R-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-A. Yeah, he's nervous. Saracen. He was pissed about the rapid fire. Nyctylobia. NYC-T-A-L-P-I-A. Ascom. ASC-H-A-M.

Venzel. W-E-N-Z-E-L. Sebel. Yeah, he doesn't sure. He autophony. He was pissed about the rapid fire, too. Quazzo. I was reading about the behind the scenes

at the spelling B. Panetier. P-A-N-N-E-T-I-R. Rohat's over there smoking a cigarette going. I got this man. Let me worry about it. Go ahead, Pazine. Continue. I got it. N-A-C-H-L-A-G-E.

Exor-A-R-A-E. X-O-R-H-A-S-O-N. Oh, I see, he's pissed. Forfe-F-R-E. He's already done. G-C-C-C-L-E. R-H-L-H-W-E. He knows it.

Ash-H-W-A-G-A-N-D-H-H-W-A-N-D-H-R-T-A. P-U-S-C-R-C-T-A. P-U-S-R-R-C-T-U-M. The whole Florida. Asa R-O-T-U-M. Sheen-T-L-A-N-T-E. M-R-O-B-L-A-N-T-E. M-R-O-B-A-N-U-S.

S-E-I-N-I-P-H. V-S-W-S-W-S- That's it. Okay, all right. All right. All right. So then, I mean, he knows. He knows right then he's done.

He'll just let it go, because then we go to the end where he announces the championship. I know. Well, the parents are like, look, we worked all this time for you to be a loser. And now I know every word.

We had a coach. We had everything. That's serious business, man. I mean, serious business is just like these are athletes, only their brain athletes. So it's the same kind of thing, man, these parents. But go ahead to want to hear the finish up.

The spelloff results are in. Bruhot. During the spell off, you correctly spelled a total of 29 words. Nice. Phazon, you correctly spelled a total of 20 words. Loser! That means that Bruhat Soma, you are the 24. Yeah!

Think about it. All right, that's enough. All right, so Bruchat, I mean, Down hard, man. So Fazzine, baby, this is your year. This is your year. You got to do it. 2025.

Fizzina, we're behind you, man. We want DFW. If it's not going to be Tampa Bay, got to be DFW. So, I mean, Tampa Bay is really my, you know, home and my heart. It's right here on the map.

You know, Florida, it's right there on the West Coast. You know, Florida's sun-drenched west coast. It's the East Coast of the West Coast. Well, it's actually the West Coast of the East Coast of North America. But, uh, I mean, if it's not going to be there, it's got to be Fizzine, man, we've got to go on.

We'll find out. We'll find out tomorrow night. Who's the champion is? Better be Fizine, man. Better be Fizene. You know what? This is your year too. This is your year to subscribe to Blaze TV

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Edgar Winner. You remember Edgar Winner. All right. Okay. So Edgar Winner, dead or alive? I know. I thought he was dead too. But no, he's still alive.

Edgar Winter, age 78, still alive. Born in Beaumont, Texas. Edgar Winter. I mean, amazing. I just wasn't the reason I'm thinking about Edgar Winter because who died today? Rick Derringer just, just passed away at the age of 77. Derringer's long-time friend and caretaker

shared the news and said he was surrounded by his wife, Genda. I need a long-time friend and caretaker is what I need. So his wife, Genda and Wilson, wait, who's surrounded by his wife, Genda and Wilson. Okay, when he passed in Ormond Beach, Florida. Okay, so rest in peace to Rick Derringer. I mean, just I remember him back in the day with Edgar Winter.

I was thinking about that white trash album that he and Edgar Winter did and was Edgar Winter's white trash with Rick Jarringer. Boy, I remember that just being a monster for them. Now, no cause of death was given to Rick, but apparently he had detailed several health issues in recent months, including an ankle bypass. So I'm not quite sure what an ankle bypass is, but he had it and you don't want it because apparently it causes death. So I have to find out.

Okay, so the femoral tibial bypass is called an ankle bypass surgery is performed to bypass diseased blood vessels in the lower leg or foot. This surgery is done to help with severe pain or to heal foot sores, by poor blood circulation. A graft is used to bypass the blocked area of the blood vessel. Okay, again, like I said, you don't want that. Okay? You don't want that at all. Big time outage.

And that's what he had. Now, it's not necessarily what I thought of when I originally thought of ankle bypass, but you don't want it. You don't want it. So, I mean, Derenj, man, this guy was a star since he was like 17 guitar player. He was a monster, man, just a monster. And I was thinking about that stupid rock and roll hoochie. Koo from Agderwinner

and Rick Derringer. Yeah, baby. Andrew Winter, the white trash. Rick Derringer. Rock and roll. Yeah, okay, that's enough. A rest in peace to Rick Derringer dead at the age of 77.

Then we have a TikTok influencer, Anna Grace Phelan. You remember Anna Grace Phelan. I mean, I'm sure you subscribe to her. her Instagram accounts. She had cancer and apparently she was in some kind of recovery. And then she said, no, it's going to take a miracle. And the miracle was that she's gone to God, I guess,

because she is not with us anymore here on the planet Earth. Very sad. So Anna Grace Phelan, influencer, TikToker, dead at the age of 19. Very sad. Then I see where we talked about this story, I think when it first happened, when they first made the arrests about the Harvard Medical School morgue manager

that was selling body parts and bones and everything from the donated body parts to Harvard Medical School. And so he is pled guilty. to interstate transport of stolen human remains. Okay. The maximum penalty under federal law, 10 years in prison?

Okay. So don't you don't do that. So Cedric Lodge, 57. Interstate transport of stolen human remains. You're going to maximum penalty of 10 years in jail. He's got to be guilty of other stuff too, right? The sentence follows a finding of guilt as imposed by the judge after consideration.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Official said Lodge admitted that in 2018 he participated in the sale of interstate transport of human remains. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's what he admitted to. They removed human remains from the Harvard Medical School morgue, including organs, brains, skin, hands, faces, dissected heads and other parts

from donated cadavers after they had been used for research and teaching purposes. But before they could be disposed of, according to the anatomical gift donation agreement between the donor and the school. So they were just going to get disposed of.

They were just trash. He was, he was helping. He was helping. And he was making a little money on the side. He was helping to sell some body parts. They were going to get thrown away anyway. Nobody was going to do anything with them.

Why shouldn't I have them? And of course, he took him to New Hampshire. And so then he could, that means he crossed state lines. Okay. And so he's guilty. He said when he expressed deep compassion to all those affected. Several defendants.

What are they affected? If I donated, if I donated a loved one's body to science. And I said, here, go do what you got to do, do whatever you can do to help, whoever you can help with this body. Do whatever you got to do. And when you're all done with it, burn it. And let me know when you burn it. Okay.

so if I get a letter from Harvard Medical that says grandma mack grandma milly was burned and we thank you for her service and we used many of her body parts and we're hoping to advance some kind of health care issue does it matter to me

if grandma's brain is in some guy's basement in New Hampshire and the, you know, the bone dust is being used for, yeah, the bone dust is being used to make Cush out of Sierra Leone. I mean, is it matter to me? No, it doesn't really. Maybe that's just me.

That's just me. So it matters to you and it matters to these people. And that's why he's guilty in going to jail. So good riddons. 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.

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they said that the mission was aimed to deploy eight Starlegs simulator satellites and test the vehicle's re-entry system with a hundred removed heat shield tiles so it ended

quite frankly after a lift-up but they said that despite the successful launch the initial ascent then it reached when it reached peak it began spinning out of control due to a fuel system leak

rendering the heat shield test unfeasible. Okay. It made it to the scheduled ship engine cutoff, so big improvement over the last flight. Also, no significant loss

of heat shield tiles during ascent. Okay. We got a spin. That's a good spin. We'll see the remaining parts of the ship that didn't disintegrate. We're going to land

in the Indian Ocean. it's another setback for the Starship program but I mean they're going to continue on I read I don't think it's in this story but I read where they talked about they're going to up their timeline we've up ours now up yours for launching and testing these flights

I did love the initial SpaceX flight though SpaceX post about the about the rocket blowing up as if the flight test was not exciting enough Starship experienced a rapid unscheduled disassembly

yeah that's what that was yeah was it unscheduled disassembly team we're going to continue to review the data and work toward our next flight test with a test like this success comes from what we learn and today's test will help us improve Starships future yeah no kidding

And so they're going to continue on this plane. I mean, Elon is big on multi-planetary. He wants to keep that up. And that's what they're doing. So good. That's excellent. I know there's a picture of Elon, you know, sitting back on his Tesla to watch the rocket launch.

And then I'm sure after the unscheduled disassembly, he's busy getting out the spin on that. So, I mean, okay, that's good. I mean, that's a difficult thing. I know, and it's got to be worked on. But my gosh, it just seems like when something like this happens, when you have the unscheduled disassembly. Amorphophalus.

Yeah, they didn't call it that. But when you have that, it seems to put you farther and farther behind. I know that we're learning and, I mean, I don't know how much money these things are costing, and it's easy enough to find out. But, I mean, it's costing them, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars. And I know where it's a learning curve, but at some point, the learning curve, somebody better learn something real quick. And I sure maybe that's what Elon is telling them in private.

Somebody better learn something real quick. Okay. I get it that we're learning about, you know, we've reached our peak point and we've got some tiles that didn't fall off. But somebody, somebody better be learning something real quick around here. Because there might be an. unscheduled disassembly of a job very, very soon. Also, did you see where the WNBA, you know him, you love them.

You know, they had the big fight a couple weeks ago, I think now. I don't remember exactly the date. But when Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese got into it, it was the big flagrant foul and Caitlin pushed Angel, but really Angel had started it by pushing one of the fever players. So it was just a basketball. whole debacle and that's what happens. They tried to make it into just a Caitlin Angel thing,

but really it was more than that. And Angel thought it was, you know, she started trying to come after Caitlin because she hates Caitlin. And the, Caitlin got a flagrant fowl. And then I think Angel and Alia Boston for the fever got offsetting technical fouls.

And then they got, they started investigating someone complained saying there were racist comments being shouted from the fans at this game. Okay. So that was during, you know, after this debacle. Now, of course, that's Angel, you know, it didn't say where it came from. It just said that they had hateful comments made by fans at the Gamerichfield house.

There was due to feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad. And so now they have concluded. their investigation into the report of racist fan behavior during this Indiana fever Chicago Sky game. And it's going to come as a surprise to you. The league said it could not substantiate claims that hateful comments were made by fans at the field house during the flagrant foul committed by Caitlin Clark and Angel Reese.

No kidding, because it didn't happen. It never happens. It just drives me insane. I don't know who said, you know, who made the actual complaint, but it's, I hope, since the WNBA and the Indiana Pacers and the Gainbridge Fieldhouse are committed to providing the best possible basketball experience for players and fans where hate speech has absolutely no place, I hope that we're reaching out to whoever filed the complaint and telling us.

them you didn't hear crap and stop spreading your racist BS. I hope that's happening. I bet it isn't. I would venture to say it isn't because it has no place. No place in anything that we do. Well, apparently it does have a place because the complaints keep getting filed and investigations keep happening and yet nothing ever happens because it wasn't true. It's just maddening.

just absolutely absolutely maddening all right let's get out of here with the joke of the day I don't want to be mad anymore those of you that send your applications to joke of the day to chewing the fat at the blaze.com I want to thank JC

for sending me this joke of the day now I don't know if you are the JC I doubt it since you know your your address is JC 73550 I'm guessing that if you were the actual

J.C. It would be the real J.C. Or just J.C. One. Either way. I'm not reading your joke live. I'm not reading your joke on the air.

It's really funny. I laughed. Personally, I laughed very hard. I will tell you, if you run into me on the street, and I have lost my facial blindness, and I recognize you, and you say, hey, what's that joke that J.C. sent, I'll tell you. Personally, I'll tell you the joke. Where there's going to be

audio recorded for future history? Not a chance. Not a chance. I say this joke out loud. But it's funny. And it made me laugh and it reminded me of a joke that I did while I was in Israel after we toured the Holocaust memorial. And I mean, you want to talk about, I mean, that place is just remarkable. And it's so overwhelming and it's so sad and it's so uplifting. And it's so, I mean, it's just remarkable. And your feelings get pulled in all different directions. when you visit the memorial.

Not the museum. The museums are different than the memorial. This memorial in Israel is, wow. So, and, you know, I made a joke in the parking lot after.

And while it's funny, you don't make those jokes, you know, in real people, you know, around people that actually, actually would get, you know, kind of hurt.

So I'm not telling you that joke. I will tell you, the joke that was sent about it's George Floyd I'll give you a George Floyd brook I will go this far with the George Floyd joke now it's not from me it's from Seth

okay Seth emailed me to chewing the fat at the blaze.com they just started this is from the joke of the day you can take it with you okay they just started the new cup of soup flavor for George Floyd it's so hot you can't breathe

that's not funny No, do not laugh. Do not laugh at that. Stop it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.