Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - We Shall See… | 12/3/24

Episode Date: December 3, 2024

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and after they stop working for Apple. Those requirements are part of a long list of Apple employment policies that the suit contends violate California law. Okay, I mean, if you signed on for it, I'm really torn on this. The plaintiff in the case, Amar Abakta, has worked in advertising technology for Apple since 2020. According to the suit, Apple used its privacy policies to harm his employment prospects.

For instance, it forbade Bhaktha from participating in public speaking about digital advertising and forced him to remove information from his LinkedIn page about his job at Apple. For Apple employees, the Apple ecosystem is not a walled garden, it's a prison yard. You're subject to Apple's all-seeing eye. Now, of course, Apple strongly disagrees with the claims in the lawsuit. Every employee has the right to discuss their wages, hours, and work, conditions and this is part of our business conduct policy, which all employees are trained on

annual. You can talk to us about it. We're going to tell you, tough, take a hike, but you can talk to us about it any time you want. Just know you can't be talking to other people about it, okay? So the lawsuit against Apple says the iPhone makers policies push employees to meld their work and home lives digitally in a way that gives Apple knowledge of what they are up to beyond their jobs. Yeah, I mean, if you signed up to work for Apple, that's what you kind of get. That's where I'm torn as. I know, I know there's a difference you did if you punch the clock and then when you when you punch the clock out, that's your time. But if you're working for Apple, do you ever punch the clock out? You know, apparently, well, Bacta believes that he does and Apple believes

that you don't. So we'll see what happens. But when you start thinking about how you're a place of employment uses their email checklist on you and updates your computer system. Just know, you could work for Apple and it probably would be worse. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. As a parent, I'm not sure why you would do this to your kid, but James Brolin did. The star hubby to Barbara Streisand, father of Josh Brolin. a big time actor.

He was on a podcast in-depth with Graham Ben Singer. Man, do I love In-Depth with Graham Ben Singer. And apparently James told Graham about the time that he had Josh eat one of his pigs. I don't know why. He still thinks it's a good, it's a big deal. I mean, James is what now? in his 80s and Josh is in his 50s and so the story is still part of their

traumatic childhood fatherhood event and he did it and still talks about it and I'm not quite sure why he would talk about it and why he did it but the story is Josh said was that he was raising pigs and even Josh says it's a horrible story I don't know why he would mention it

it makes him look so bad and he's right. So he said, I helped raise these pigs and they, you know, these pigs that he named oink and snort. He already had names for them. And he said they were eating dinner one night. And the father said, guess what you're eating? James is like, guess what you're eating? And Josh said, what? He said, well, it's either oink or snort and holy cow. I mean, he'd already eaten some of the pork I don't have a problem with eating oink or snort, but I just feel like, why would you do that to your kid? If you're going to raise them,

you've got to point out to the kid that, hey, we're going to eat these someday. And if you name them, it's going to be very difficult to eat them because they're going to be part of the family, and we don't want that. So I'm not real sure why he would do that. And there was no ending to this story. Like James didn't say, well, I did it because I wanted to teach him a lesson.

I was sick of oink and snort. And I wanted to teach this kid that everything has a reason to be on the planet. And these pigs were on the planet for us to eat. No, none of that. It was just that, you know, I'm just going to kill one of the pigs, one of my kids' pet pigs. And we're going to tell him, hey, here's this more having him for dinner. And one of them is, you know, one of the pigs that you've been raising.

You notice you only had one outside? Yeah, because the other one we killed, and that's the one we ate. Just incredible. I don't know why. Why he would do that? I want to know why. I want James Burlin to reach out.

He can email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. He can direct message me on X at Jeffrey JFR. If he wants to use Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio, that's fine. He can message me there. But I want James Brolin, father of Josh, husband to Barbara, to let me know what his motive was

for actually killing either oink or snort. And then doubling down, telling Josh, hey, enjoying your dinner? Yeah, well, it's one of the pigs you've been raising. So I just want to let you know we're eating one of those. Just that's a weird story. And today could be the day where we get the final verdict in the Daniel Penny trial.

It goes to the jury. for those of you listening live today is the 3rd of December 24 you know the defense lawyer said you know put yourself in the frightened subway rider's shoes and uh with the choking of an irate homeless man to death by Daniel penny and so you know he was too forceful and reckless in his responding oh okay so he has uh we get the verdict it goes to the jury he was charged with choking the irish homeless man to death after the outburst on the New York subway. He is charged with manslaughter

and criminally negligent homicide. So hopefully by the time this show posts today, the jury will be back and find Daniel Penny not guilty. It should not last longer than a day. But we shall see. You know, another thing that we shall see is what happens with Elon Musk, a delft. A delft. A delft Delaware judge upheld an earlier decision requiring Tesla to cancel Elon Musk's multi-billion dollar compensation package. And I know it's hard to feel sorry for Elon, the richest man on the planet, but the shareholders of Tesla voted for him to receive his $56 billion salary as CEO of Tesla. And this Delaware Chancellor Kathleen St. Jude McCormick said, yeah, we're dismissing this motion from Musk and Tesla's board members to overturn my previous mandate

that rescinded Musk's lucrative deal. I'm going to deny the request for legal fees from the plaintiff's attorneys. And, yeah, you're going to receive $340 million instead, not valued over $5 billion with the stock. Wait, what? Yeah. So we're just going to see if the shareholders can't vote their CEO salary according to Kathleen St. Jude McCormick, the Delaware Chancellor Judge. The 103-page decision noted that a shareholder vote alone cannot legitimize the transaction

marred by conflicts of interest. She further stated that even if such a vote could ratify the deal, it would still be invalid here due to numerous substantial inaccuracies in the proxy statement. Oh, okay. So she remarked that the $5.6 billion legal fee proposed by the ship, shareholders' lawyers once as high as $7 billion was ambitious, and she emphasized the Delaware Supreme Court has highlighted the need to avoid overly generous legal fees, particularly in cases of excess compensation. So you get $345 million. That's what I talked about earlier. And you're

going to live with that. So that's the way it goes. Just amazing that she overruled the super majority of shareholder votes favoring Musk's compensation. So we shall see if this actually, you know, ends up being where this judge can rule what a CEO can make and override what the shareholders of a company decide. That cannot be good. You can quote me on that. That cannot be good if held up. I mean, of course, it's going to be appealed.

Tesla said that this ruling, if not overturned, means that the judges and plaintiffs, lawyers, run Delaware companies rather than their rightful owners, the shareholders. Yeah. So we'll see. We shall see. We shall see.

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ain't what it used to be the old gray mule ain't what she used to be but neither is a million dollars so America today according to this a 2024 Northwestern Mutual Research Study believes that having a million dollars in the bank, yeah, that's,

man, people just do not consider themselves wealthy with that. 70%. That's what's been a surprising self-perception. It turns out that it's not just about how much money they have, but how they measure up in the world where the definition of wealthy keeps shifting. That million dollars once felt like a lot, untouchable milestone, but not anymore. According to Charles Swab, there's a survey from Chuck.

Americans believe it takes $2.5 million, $2.5 million in net worth to be considered wealthy, up from $2.2 million just two years ago. Even financial security feels out of reach for some with the average person saying they'd need $778,000 just to feel comfortable. I mean, the more you make, the more you spend, right? So, you, you're... You still have to pay the bills and put your kids in private school. Cost of living is still high. So you still have to, you know, the more you make, the more you spend. I know that is absolutely true.

That is 100% true. So, I mean, you've got to have bigger homes and private schools, financial planners. According to Investopedia, even if you're making $50,000 or $500,000, expenses are still there and you can still, you know, struggle because you're spending more with the more money that you have coming in. So just know if you have that million dollars and you thought, man, I am probably the only one that thinks a million dollars ain't what it used to be. Nope, you're not alone. Now, if you're one of the people that think, well, you know what, a million dollars ain't what you used to be, but $541 million.

as the mega millions powerball, not the powerball jackpot, it's the mega millions jackpot is worth $541 million. And that drawing is today, the 3rd of December, 2024. And if you win, you could get a cash pay out of $257.6 million.

And Powerball is tomorrow with $240 million jackpot, which would be $113.6 million. Now, you still wouldn't be able to live in Jeff Bezos neighborhood. But it'd be nice. It'd be pretty sweet to be able to deposit $113.6 million into your bank account. That'd be pretty sweet.

And I would be willing to do that myself, to be honest with you. I'd be okay with that. And I'm okay with you doing it, but I'd prefer that, you know, I do it. I was just reading an article about Bezos neighborhood that he has homes in in Seattle. and the neighbors are pissed because they all get together and do their little neighborhood planting trees and pulling weeds and picking up trash around the neighborhood. Wait, what? This Hunt's Point in Seattle? I can see maybe planting trees and pulling some weeds maybe, but trash?

Who's throwing trash around Hunt's point? Anyway, these neighbors are pissed because they all get together. and Bezos does not show up. There's reporting, oh, our trash on cleanup day. I've never seen Jeff Bezos there. Yeah, I don't blame them. I'm not doing that either. Sorry.

I know there are less than 400 people live in your Hunt Point neighborhood. And there's other billionaires apparently that live in the neighborhood. Steve Balmer and the Costco Wholesale Corporation co-founder and a few other billionaires. live there but uh and they can go out and clean to their little heart consent if they want to no problem but if you're jeff bezos uh no i'm not going to do that now apparently he's got more than one home in this neighborhood so he has a couple houses for the do people security and uh people who take care of the servants and they have a security uh guards that live close to the entrance of the neighborhood and they're friendly and uh they're you know seen

taking stuff around the neighborhood and the other house had, you know, the maids and the chef live there. And the chef takes the food, you know, in a golf cart. Well, yeah, what's he supposed to do? It's just easier to get in the golf cart and run it down the road. But apparently he doesn't come out. And the gate is usually closed. Yeah, that's why he moved in there. So he doesn't have to do that. If his due people want to help you plant your trees and pull some weeds, that's a fine on their time off. I don't blame Jeff for that at all. Now, I thought he was moving to Miami. He was saying that his parents live down there. He wants to live in Miami. So I don't know if he's going to keep his places up in Seattle. I would assume so. That's his motherland,

where they all, you know, everything got started. So I'm guessing he stays there. But that's a, that's a big expense, man. Three or four homes in this elite neighborhood. And plus you got to, you know, pay all the due people. And it's a big deal. So, you know, I don't know if Hunt's point will be, still have homes there that Jeff lives in. But you guys are going to have to plant your trees and pull your weeds on your own, okay? All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So don't start calling YM.

MCA by the village people, the gay anthem. Okay, you could start facing legal action coming next month. I know. I know. Now, the writer of the song said that he was not offended that gay people have embraced the song, but warned people not to make assumptions. News outlets who do label it a gay anthem could start facing legal action. Okay, you got it.

He rejected claims that the 19th. 70s disco song was intended as a gay anthem and said he wrote it about what he knew about, the YMCA at the time. And when I say hang out with all the boys, that is simply a 1970s black slang for black guys hanging out together for sports, gambling, or whatever. There's nothing gay about that. A songwriter said that the song's reputation as a gay anthem could have been sparked by the fact that multiple members of the band were gay. wait what and that the group's first album was about the gay lifestyle wait what and it's at a big resurgence because Trump was playing it at his rallies and so he said that he asked Trump to not play it anymore after he got all kinds of people bashing him for allowing Trump to play it

his rallies. He said that Trump obtained a political use license for the song, which gives him the legal right to play it, and I have decided not to pull the license. He also noted that, you know, funny, there's been an increase in sales of the music since Trump started playing it, so it means a little bit more money in my pocket. So, you know, that's darn the luck on that, huh? Yeah, I know. So it's stuck at number two on the billboard chart prior to the president-elects use. Then it hit number one on the billboard chart after 45 years. And so, you know, he's kind of happy about that. Believe me, that it's actually, people are singing his song again, and it's making him money. But don't you dare. Don't you dare. Make assumptions that this is a gay anthem, okay? Because

it's not. It is not a gay anthem. It is just a song about the YMCA. Sure, that that. that, you know, the band's album was about gay lifestyle. Sure, members of the band were gay. Some members of the band were gay. But that doesn't make this song a gay anthem. And don't you call it that? I want you to know that it is everything, everything that I have in my body today.

And my body is not well today. I don't feel very good. I've got some kind of plague going on. You might be able to hear it in my voice. I don't know what it is. at some kind of plague. But it is everything in my plague-ridden body today. Not to play this song.

I want to play YMCA so bad. But then, on the other hand, I don't because I can do this story and not get it in my head. But if I play the song, holy cow. I mean, I don't even have to play the song. If I start saying the lyrics, young man, there's no need to feel down. I said young man, pick yourself up off the ground. Yeah, I might be singing at the rest of the day.

So I don't want to do that. But just know that it's fun. It's fun to stay at the YMCA. And they have everything for young men to enjoy. You can hang out with all the boys. Those are just lyrics from a 1970s black slang. It is not a gay anthem. Will there ever actually be lawsuits filed against people?

I don't know. You know, we shall see. That's in fact, that should be the title of the show today. We shall see. So are you keeping up with some of the newer TV shows? Because I've been watching Landman, which is really good. And I know I've heard from some of you that don't like the mother-daughter situation in Land-Man, but it's part of the story.

And, you know, I like it. Billy Bob Thornton is awesome. And we haven't seen much of John Ham. He's the big boss, but I feel like that's coming up soon with John and Demi Moore as his wife. And then we have Yellowstone, which I have not seen the numbers for Yellowstone. I mean, we knew the season premiere was like the biggest ratings ever for it. But I have not seen any big stories about how the numbers are for these latest episodes. They've been really good.

I'm all caught up, and they've been really, really good, and I've been enjoying the episodes very much, even without Kevin Kossner. Now, granted, it's all, you know, surrounding the death of Kevin, and, you know, the, we're close, the whole thing is about the slow death of Yellowstone. So it's kind of sad, but I've been enjoying it very much.

And then, you know, there's several other shows that, you know, NCIS and NCIS origins, which I really like, If you like NCIS or you like NCIS, and you're not crazy about it now, but you're hanging out because it's still part of Gibbs. NCIS Origins is the beginning of Gibbs. And it's really good. I've been enjoying that very much. And of course, we're coming down to the end of Blue Bloods. That's the last season of Blue Bloods.

Hello. Have a nice day. It's going to wrap up and be the end. In fact, they're done filming now. So you've got to catch the final episodes of Blue Bloods. Don't you? Of course you do. Be sure to follow me on my ex.

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Well, aside from my voice, dying. We want to say, rest in peace to Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson. Debbie Nelson has passed away at the age of 69. She had been battling advanced lung cancer. Very sad. Rest in peace to Eminem's mother, Debbie Nelson, dead at the age of 69. Then we have Bob Breyer, Bob Breyer dead at the age of 44. He is the longest, my chemical romance drummer that they've ever had. He was the chemical, my chemical romance drummer from 2004 to 2014. He has passed away.

Now, he's been dead for a while. He was found, he was last seen alive, November 4th. And then he was found dead in his Tennessee home. No cause of death has been determined yet, or at least, reported. There was no foul play suspected. We were told that all his weapons and music equipment in the home were left untouched. Animal control came to the house after the body, which we're told was badly decomposed. This is a TMZ article. And it took two dogs away, the medical examiner investigating the cause and manner of his death. So possibly a drug overdose? Suicide? Don't know.

but rest in peace to Bob Breyer, the longest My Chemical Romance drummer, dead at the age of 44. Then we have William Rothschild. Will Rothschild, yes, from the Rothschild's family, the billionaire's family, the elite Rothschilds, dead in a house fire in Hollywood Hills just before Thanksgiving. Cruz responded to the 8,500 block of Lookout,

mountain around 4.40 p.m., total of 45 firefighters took 33 minutes to put out the fire, and they found a man dead inside. They have not released the man's name at this time, but LA, they knew the neighbors were like, yeah, that was Will Wachell's place. And we don't know if it was the, uh, the, uh, Waussell. And I was looking at the stories about the, about who owned it. And Will was in his 70s. So there's paperwork that they looked at. debt that say that there's a 87-year-old man, William A. D. Rothschild, that resided in the house. And then another database shows a 77-year-old man with a similar name owning the property. Okay. So we don't know if the fire is what killed the old man or not.

It also, you think of a Hollywood Hills home, you know, pretty good size. It talks about this house here that they have. you know, badly damaged and the fire. But the house itself, I mean, the picture of it does not look like what they say it is. They claim that it's a million dollar home and it is an 825

square foot two-bedroom property. 825 square feet, that's a trailer. Hollywood Hills House for a million bucks got to be bigger than that. I mean, the 825 feet two bedroom, it looks way bigger than that, unless it's just the high ceilings and a bunch of windows for a bunch of light. But anyway, rest in peace to William Rothschild, dead at 77 or 87. Okay, then we have Jose Matthias Correa Silva,

Jose Matthias Correa Silva, a bodybuilder and, you know, content. provider. He has passed away at the age of 28. He suffered a cardiac arrest at the gym. Huh. Weird how that happens in today's world, right? He's got a wife, parents, siblings, and they were going to be burying him in Brazil, his home country. He was in the gym. I guess it was his gym. He owned a gym or gyms. And he was coaching athletes. and creating social media content and running a supplement chain and nutrition line.

Okay. He wasn't competing any longer in the bodybuilding world, but they wanted to thank all the people who tried to resuscitate him and they tried to bring him back to life. There was a fire station close to the gym and they did everything they could

and it was, according to the story, well, we know that it is since he's dead, but the attempts were futile. And so rest in peace to 28-year-old Jose Mateus Correa Silva. I don't forget. I mean, he died suddenly in cardiac arrest. We also had 19-year-old Matthias Palvik

died of an apparent heart attack during the summer. And bodybuilding influencer Joe Lindner died of aneurysm at the age of 30 this year. So just in the past few months, we've had that issue of, you know, young people just dying suddenly. I'm not sure.

Look, if it was anything to do with that, they would have said something. So, since they didn't, it wouldn't have. So stop thinking that. Then I guess, rest in peace, I'm torn because this illegal immigrant accused of shooting a Jewish man near a Chicago synagogue in October has died of an apparent suicide hanging while in custody

in the Cook County Sheriff's Office. Citi Mohammed Abdallahaha, A-B-D-A-L-H-I, found hanging in his cell during a routine check. The sheriff's office said he was not concerned, considered a risk for suicide. And there were no signs of foul play. And we're going to go ahead and conduct an autopsy to confirm the cause of death. Now, he approached a 39-year-old Jewish man, I guess allegedly, from behind and fired several rounds, striking him in the shoulder.

And then the victim was an Orthodox Jew on his way to a nearby synagogue. Then officer showed up and he shot at them. He shot at paramedics. and then he was he faced multiple charges including terrorism, hate crimes, six counts of attempted first degree murder,

seven counts of aggravated discharge of a firearm, had a police officer or a firefighter down the luck. He was found hanging in his cell in Cook County. He's 22 years old. Rest in peace, I guess.

And I find that strange. Normally, people who do such a crime don't kill themselves, but, well, this one did. And then we have something that, well, not dead yet, but they're close. Catalogs, holiday season catalogs are getting way smaller. And I noticed some of the ones that we have mailed to the house are smaller. And yes, I am not alone in noticing that. many millions of catalogs

getting sent to U.S. homes are scaled down to save on postage, paper, print size additions for lands and Duluth trading hammockers are among gift purveyors

among smaller additions. So some retailers apparently are just sending postcards. Ah ha! Ha ha! Yeah, you can come to the store to see what we've got for sale. but yeah we're not we're not going to put it in a magazine is too expensive so we have we have catalogs from American companies looking for you to buy stuff

I guess from any company not necessarily American companies but they want they want you to buy their stuff and you can order it online or come into their stores but they're a lot smaller and a lot less words and if you want to see more I guess you can go to the website or that's I mean, that's what you need to do, really. He's just sent the postcard and saying, hey, we've still got a really cool stuff. Go to our website.

Here's the link. And good luck. And if you put a QR code on the postcard, that's probably getting more expensive too. Never mind. Just leave the website and tell them to shop there. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here.

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the Falcon 9 set a new monthly record. So far this year, they've been 119 launches well above the previous record of 92. The Falcon 9 went on its 400th mission, recovered its 375th booster. Wow. I mean, they launched the rocket 15 times this month. That would equal the number of all NASA shuttle missions

over the course of three decades. Incredible. They want to shave, more than a week off of the previous 21-day booster turnaround time. It appears that SpaceX is only poised to launch its versatile rocket more quickly and efficiently than ever, than ever. So, I mean, we just keep going. The low-cost approach of space exploration is also allowed for many more missions

that NASA could muster, even with its federal budget. Yeah. So we've got that going on. Now, we still have the astronauts at the ISS that are going to come back in February. They're still there. amazingly they're still there now the SpaceX

is there and they're going to bring them back in February I don't know Boeing didn't want to bring them back on their Starliner and I don't blame them although it did make it back to Earth without exploding so probably could have done that

but I was just reading a story about the astronauts Butch and Sonny Butch Wilmore and Sonny Sunita Williams Sonny Williams. They've been stranded in space since June. They were supposed to go up for eight days.

And then, uh, you're still going to be up there. We're not bringing you back until February. Uh, SpaceX is going to send a rescue mission, but you're not coming back until February. Oh, okay. Uh, yeah, you're, yeah, the, the, Boeing starlight on us too dangerous.

So you just kind of have to be up there and live with what happens. Okay. So, uh, well, there should be plenty of food for everybody, right? Ooh. No. They said there was going to be plenty of food, but now we're learning that, no, that has really strained food supplies.

You thought that the SpaceX rocket would have brought some more food up with it, but, okay. Apparently, they started with fresh fruits, vegetables, pizza, fried chicken, shrimp cocktails, and now their diet mainly consists of breakfast cereals with powdered milk, dehydrated casseroles, yum,

and freeze-dried soups. Now, the freeze-dried soups, I guess that sounds good, How do you rehydrate the freeze-dried soups? Well, you use water from the station's 530-gallon reservoir. Well, what? Where does that water come from? Well, it's the water purification system.

It's highly advanced. And we go ahead and convert urine and other waste into drinkable water. Yum! Man, does that sound good? Am I happy? I'm stuck in space. There's nothing like I want P.E.C. If not P-E-A-soup, but P-E-E-Soup.

I'm sure it's fine, and it's recycled, and everything is fine. You just can't really think about it, right? Because you're using a recycled water for drinking and prepping food, and, you know, that's what you have. That's what you're eating. You just don't think about what it's recycling from, from your pee and other waste. And so that recycling system,

of course it meets safety and purity standards of course it does and listen the NASA doctors are monitoring the astronauts nutrition do ensure they consume enough calories and remain healthy during their prolonged mission

the astronauts look like they've lost a little weight that could be just the angle of the camera you know space that's just the way you look at space you don't know and you know I guess sunny did not look, she looks a little ragged,

as I'm just saying. She looks a little fatigued in her last appearance that we saw on the old microgravity diet, but we'll see. We shall see, because there's nothing that keeps you healthier than pea soup.

Yum, yum. Now, we don't know if pea soup causes brain rot, but we do know that the Oxford word of the year for 2024 is brain rot. I don't know. you know this, but it's two words. But okay, that's fine.

We'll just go with the Oxford word of 2024, brain rot. Now, I've read this entire story about brain rot, and it was selected by thousands of online voters, and, you know, for sure, it was talked about in Thoreau in 1854, and who doesn't know about the philosopher Henry David Thoreau, who was, you know, born a couple hundred years ago, and, you know, talked about brain rot. But anyway, I digress.

And so they talked about what brain rot reflects today, and that's a worry that consuming the Internet's endless waves of memes and video clips, especially on social media, might numb one's nagging, you think? Walden, in Walden Thoreau used the term as he railed against oversimplification. He asked why level downward. to our dullest perception always and praise that as common sense. Well, yeah, I mean, that's brain rot to throw

in his, in his Walden book. Whatever. Now, according to the experts, the, you know, TikTok, I guess the frequency of the terms use grew by 230%. Okay. So, brain rot, I guess, you know,

they're saying, and this is what they're saying. That is the endless waves of memes and video clips, especially on social media, you know, is numbing one's not good. Yeah, that's true. And that's what we're using brain rot for. However, the last four years,

but for sure this last previous year, it was used a lot around our president and some of the other people that we have in office for the United States Senate and Congresswomen. And so we talked a lot about brain rot with these people. You know, like, I don't know, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi, and the turtle Mitch McConnell.

But for sure, we didn't mention that in this story. So just know that the 2024 Oxford Word of the Year, brain rot. All right, let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day. Quick, quick joke of the day sent from, Jordan to chewing the fat at the blaze.com and I realize this is just a you know a sad dad joke from Jordan but I appreciate you sending sending me the email why should you wear glasses in math class I don't know why should you wear glasses in math class so that it would help with division see because it's going to You got it.

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