Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - What can you eat?... | 8/12/24

Episode Date: August 12, 2024

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who was hired by the village, Dulton, board to investigate Henyard's handling of village finances. And she released preliminary findings that the village is not only in significant debt, but that the credit card spending is out of control. She hasn't responded to requests for comment. Henyard hasn't. In fact, we don't know where she is.

She is just missing. She wasn't in her office, and they didn't know when she was going to return. Maybe she'll show up today. I doubt it, though. So according to the preliminary investigation from deep, deep investigations from former mayor, Lori Lightfoot.

They found that the village, the general fund, has a negative balance of $3.65 million. Really? That's it, though. Yeah, that's it. So they received a bank statement in September, and they were $7 million in debt at that time. So they've made up a little ground since September. And the credit card spending is out of control, according to the report. One report shows that $40,000 was spent on Amazon purchases in one day.

Hey, if it was Amazon Prime Day, you're getting deals. You're getting deals. So why not take them when you can? Another question was lingering is that all kinds of police overtime was being spent. In fact, one officer made $108,000 in overtime. One made $114,000 in overtime. and the deputy chief who only made $96,000 in overtime, well, he was fired last week.

So the mayor of Dulton, Tiffany Henyard, is missing. She was the supervisor of Thornton Township as well. I think she still is, actually. I think she still holds the mayorship and the supervisor job, which is, you know, not bad. So not only is she bilking the city for all kinds of money, she's bilking the county as well. But we don't know where she is.

She's missing. So if you know where she is or have any idea what she's doing, let me know, because they want to know in Dulton, Illinois, for sure. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Over this past weekend, I was down for the count. I believe I have dog flu. Yes, there's bird flu going on out there. Yes, there's a monkey pox making a resurgence, but I believe that I have dog flu.

The dog that I said we'd never have was sick for a couple of days. And then my daughter got really, really sick. And then I got really, really sick. And now my son and my wife are really, really sick. And so I believe we have caught dog flu. Now, they believe that it must be some kind of... My daughter thinks that it's some kind of salmonella or something because the dog caught a turtle.

in the backyard. And my son picked the turtle up, and then I think I held the turtle, and then we set the turtle in a thing of water out front, and then it disappeared. But ever since then, everybody's been sick. So it's either turtle flu or dog flu or something, but it was bad. It was bad this weekend. I am just now coming around. So anyway, as I'm, you know, not feeling well,

I'm scrolling through some of the social media accounts, and I'm watching a little bit of the Olympics between passing out and sleeping and making my presence known in the room that holds the toilet. And I see a post that says you found a bag that was filled a quarter full of money. What do you do?

And I believe I've talked about this before, but the post is you grab the wrong bag from the airport, what's your next move? And I was asked in one of the comments, we need to ask chewing the fat, Jeff Fisher. Well, like I said, I think I've covered this before. But if you grab the wrong bag at the airport and it's full of cash, the first thing you do is take a stack of cash out of there. I don't care how much, at least maybe half.

Make sure you don't have any trackers in the cash. And then you take the bag back to the airport and say, hey, I got the wrong bag. This is not my bag. Here you go. And you turn it in. And there you go. You're good to go. So you've turned the bag back in.

It has cash in it. And so you didn't take any of the money. or at least they presume that you didn't take any of the money, and you're good because you've turned it back in. Now, the rest of that extra cash is all yours. And just put it in the closet, and don't be putting it in your bank account, don't buy a bunch of new stuff,

just use it to pay everyday bills like grocery shopping or a new pair of shoes, or when you get your gas, you pay with cash. And so the checking account still is the same. And you're still using the same amount of money for stuff, but actually you're using less, because you're using cash to buy some of the other good stuff. And that's what the money can be used for.

Just don't get greedy and put it in bank accounts. Because then people will say, hey, where did you get all this money from? And then whatever cartel that money was supposed to go to knows that, oh, the person that turned it in may have the extra cash. Really isn't that big of a decision for me, but maybe it is for you. And if you want to be a good person and turn it all in,

you go right ahead and be that person. But I can guarantee you that that would not happen with me. And remember, you didn't look inside the bag. You're just returning it because it's the wrong bag. I got all the way out to my car. And then I realized, oh, crap, this isn't even my suitcase. So I brought it back. Sure, I waited about five minutes, you know,

as long as it took me to take some cash out of this thing. But you don't have to tell them that. And you just walk it right back to the airport and say, I got out to my car and I realized, crap, this isn't even my suitcase. So I wanted to return it. All good. Thank you.

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29th and it's still ongoing through September 15th. IHop has its beloved All You Can Eat Pancake deal. Yes, I know. I feel like I've completely missed this. For $5, you can enjoy a full stack of five buttermilk pancakes with extra pancakes served two at a time. Yes, please. Alternative purchase any breakfast combo like steak and eggs or a breakfast sample.

and get a short stack of unlimited pancakes for free. That's a limited to buttermilk pancakes. I mean, oh, well, those are the IHop tremendous buttermilk pancakes. Now, they also have the pancake of the month program, which, you know, they have the fresh red, white, and blueberry pancake. That was in July. I guess now we have the lemon Oreo pancake with cheesecake mousse for this month. Oh, okay.

And it doesn't say what the, uh, pancake of the month is for September, but I'm a fan. But I'm more of a fan of the all-you-can-eat-buttermilk pancakes. For five bucks, all-you-can-eat-can-eat-pank-kakes. Yes, please. And again, if you don't, if you want a little something more than pancakes, you can order their breakfast sampler, steak and eggs, and get a short stack for free. And they just keep the pancakes coming.

So steak and eggs with unlimited pancakes. Yes, please. That is going, that is on the list for Jeff Fisher to be stopping at. Now it goes against what Caleb Williams is doing. Caleb Williams, number one draft pick in the NFL, playing for the Chicago Bears. It was reported that he's now working with Tom Brady and Tom's TB12 diet. Now Tom is, you know, he's a stickler. And I know that he says he cheats.

Uh-huh. He cheats by what? He has avocado ice cream a couple times a month. And so, I mean, honestly, I don't know what he eats to cheat with. But now Caleb is part of the TB12 diet. And according to the TB12 diet, you can no longer eat. Dairy, milk, cheese, yogurt, or ice cream. No beers, wine, or any alcoholic beverages.

Bacon, sausages, deli meats, red meat should also be avoided. Bread, pasta, cereal, bake goods. Pre-packaged, snacks, chips, cookies. White sugar, high fruit toast corn syrup, refined sugars, cakes, bakeries, candies, wheat, rye, barley, tomatoes, eggsplants, peppers, potatoes, beans, lentils, chickpeas, soy products, canola oil, soybean oil, refined vegetable oils, trans fats and hydrogenated oils, coffee, caffeinated teas, energy drinks, packaged fruit juices, and certain fruits, table salt, MSG. What are you eating if you're not eating any of that stuff?

I guess you're having a couple of eggs and some fruit that's okayed through the TB12 diet and some I don't know what else. I don't know what else. I don't know what is on the list. I have not seen the TB12, hey, you can eat this diet because I unfortunately don't have the TB12 diet in front of me. I just know that it's reported what Caleb can no longer eat. So have fun. I will say that that is not the all-you-can-eat pancakes from IHop. Pretty sure we won't see Caleb or Tom at the I-Hop with the unlimited buttermilk pancake deal.

Pretty sure that's a 100% given. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Be sure to follow me on my social. media accounts at jeffey jfr on x jeff fisher radio on instagram and facebook you can follow me on my youtube channel chewing the fat with jeff fisher you can order a cameo from me any time at jeffy jfr on cameo that of course is not free but uh that's the way that works at jeffy jfr on cameo i believe it's just jeff fisher on the cameo website and you can always email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze

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So you can subscribe to chewing the fat. fat on the platform that you enjoy and you know you get it for free but don't don't be free load nobody likes a freeloader okay all right i think we all know that all right so um i did watch during the lost weekend the instigators on apple this weekend with matt damon and k c a flick eh it was okay it was okay i did not get to the theater uh so i haven't seen deadpool and wolverine yet that's a billion dollars now at the global box office wow They're saying that it's going to soon top the Joker as the highest grossing R-rated film of all time. And of course, good for Ryan because Blake, the wife, has got a movie out.

It ends with us. And it pulled in 50 million this weekend as well. So the husband and wife duo were the top two movies this weekend. And then Twisters hanging in there at number three with another 15.4 million, 22 million domestic total. So far, borderlands, 8.8 million. I'm not sure what that is. It's a major flop for the $15 million budgeted video game adapt. Oh, okay.

There you go. That's why it's doing so crappy. It's number four, but it's still crappy, despicable me, four. Still hanging in there at fifth. Trap, number six, inside out. Hanging in there at seventh. Wow, what are they got? They got $1.6 billion globally.

Highest gross is grossing animated film ever. Wow. Harold and the Purple Cran was number eight this weekend at the box office. Cuckoo was $3 million, a domestic opening, and Longleg still hanging in there at a grant $2 million this weekend with a 71.3 million domestic total. So Nicholas Cage is still hanging in there in the top 10. And something I did not think would happen, but it definitely looks like it's going to happen. Avatar 3 was announced.

They say that it's going to be called Fire and Ash. Avatar, Fire and Ash. And it's going to be released in theaters December 19th, 2025. So will there ever be the four and five Avatar movies that they claimed? I didn't think so. But I didn't think Three would happen either. And it's going to, it looks like. Oh, we haven't seen any of the clips from it.

So I don't know what Cameron is doing. I guess he had some concept art that he showed, but there was no clips from what he's been filming. So we'll have to be surprised, I guess, for Avatar, Fire, and Ash. And then we got lucky enough to find out that Whoopi Goldberg, you know where you love her, is going to be on Broadway, the theater at Madison Square Gardens. For five weeks only, December 4th through January 5th,

Whoopi Goldberg as Miss Hannigan in Annie. Boy, that sounds like something I want to get to. I don't know about you, but it makes me want to go to New York City and see Whoopi in Annie as Miss Hannigan. Huh? Yeah, me too. And I see where our Cartoon Network shut down the old website, have a nice day, take care. You're looking for your favorite Cartoon Network shows. You can see what's available to stream on Max if you want.

But that's a paid subscription. So good luck finding all that. So all the character network stuff is over. He said the company is focusing on the shows and social media where we find consumers are the most engaged and there is a meaningful potential for growth. Yeah, all you people that wanted to go to the website and look at all that old stuff.

Yeah, not going to happen anymore. There's a bunch of new stuff happening at Disney, though. I mean, they announced a Villainsland that's going to be built at Magic Kingdom in Florida. It's the largest expansion in the park's 53-year history. The land will be home to the villains that you know and those that you loathe, which means happily ever after. I guess it may feel like a distant dream,

according to all their spokespeople, but it is going to happen. They've got all kinds of expansion plans that they talked about at this D-23 fan club. I'm not part of the D-23 fan club But if I was, I would have been happy to be there Anyway, in developments of Monster Inc. Land at Disney Hollywood Studios

The Villains area is going to be a fearless new vision For what Disney experience can be And they give a long list of what they're doing And then it goes on to talk about all these expansions that are happening It talks about how these projects are in the works. The dirt is moving. It's going to happen.

We pledged to spend $60 billion over 10 years on attractions worldwide. Industry watchers have speculated about moves at Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando's expansion. Epic Universe theme park. Slated to open in 2025. They've predicted a fifth theme park for Disney World. So they announced that Disney Cruise Line

will add four more ships beyond what they had previously been announced. So they're going to have 13 between 2027 and 2031. The Millennium Falcon, the Millennium Falcon, smugglers run, a ride at Star Wars, Galaxy's Edge will get a new story tied to the actual release of the Mandalorian and Grogu in 2006. Revised version of the test track will debut at Epcot next year. A spaceship Earth lounge is planned for Epcot for next year. They announced a pirate theme Tavern for Magic Kingdom, also in 2025. The Zootopia Better Together show in the Tree of Life Theater at Animal Kingdom will arrive in the winter of 2025.

At Disneyland, the Walt Disney A Magical Life Show will feature an animatronic version of Walt Disney. It will rotate with great moments with Mr. Lincoln. And this is just some of the stuff that's happening at Disney. Plans are drawn. Dirt is moving. I want to be clear about that, said, Josh Diomaro, chairperson of Disney experiences. And there was so much more in this story about all the stuff that they're doing.

Really incredible. If you're a Disney fan, I mean, they are making some pretty big moves to win you back, to coming back to Disney. Good luck. 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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Yeah, like I said, Susan Wajiske. Dead at the age of 56 with her two-year battle with non-small cell lung cancer. Huh. Now, it's very sad that Susan has passed away. It couldn't have been because of that, though, because if it was that that brought out the cancer, they would have said that, right? Right. So she passed away over the weekend.

Very sad. Former YouTube CEO, Susan Wojitzki, dead at the age of 56. Then we have legendary professional wrestler Kevin Sullivan, Kevin Sullivan, dead at the age of 74. He was a huge wrestler. W.W.E. has confirmed and offered condolences to the family and friends. The cause of death has not yet

been revealed. So it wasn't that because if it was that, they would have said something, I'm sure. So rest in peace, professional wrestler, Kevin Sullivan, dead at the age of 74.

Then we have Bob Tishler. Bob Tishler, the writer and producer known for his work on Saturday Night Live, also a National Lampoon producer, dead at the age of 78. He passed away. The cause of his death was pancreatic cancer. Very, very sad. He passed away at his home in Bodega Bay, California. Bob Tischler, rest in peace, dead at the age of 78. Then we have the iconic sandstone double arch rock formation above Lake Powell in southern Utah collapsing. Collapsed late last week, according to the National Park Service.

It was also known as the hole in the roof and the toilet bowl. The site is distinct from the similarly named Double Arch in Arch's National Park farther north. No injuries were reported. According to this, it's 190 million-year-old, light-colored rock from the Navajo sandstone formation. You see videos of people walking across it all the time and diving off of it and riding their flotation devices underneath it. It's very fortunate that no one was injured for it.

I mean, it just collapsed and now it's no more. Now, of course, the structure likely fell, not because it was 190 million years old and it finally said, okay, I've had enough of people walking on me. I'm a sandstone formation, and I just had to have had enough. No, it could be that. It had to be because of rapid changes in water levels since the canyon was first flooded in the 1960s as part of the construction of the Glen Canyon Dam.

And, of course, I mean, climate change. You can't just, you can't avoid that. So rest in peace to the double arch rock formation above Lake Powell in southern Utah dead at the age of I guess, 190 million years. Then we had this plane crash in Brazil that killed 62. And it just looked, I mean, you see the video of it just falling out of the sky. It's incredible.

The investigators worked to determine what caused the passenger plane carrying 62 people to crash in Brazil. Killed everyone on board. I mean, we saw that you can see the footage. It's out there of the aftermath. There's no way that anyone could survive. that. It said that it was a ATR 72 twin-engine turbo prop carried 57 passengers and four crew. On Saturday, they confirmed another unaccounted passenger was on the flight, so that increased the number of casualties to 62. They're still investigating what happened. We don't know.

They're speculating that because of the motion, it had ice build up on the plane. Uh-huh. And or, or it had experienced engine failure. Uh-huh. You think? Maybe the engine failed. It just dropped out of the sky? Yeah, no kidding. So we'll see what they, uh, what they say, uh, actually caused the plane crash, but it was horrific and very sad. And there were a bunch of doctors on it. I guess a cancer doctors, the, uh, we're having all kinds of, uh, conspiracy theories. I don't know all of them, but I know that there were cancer, cancer doctors on board. we're supposed to be going or coming from this cancer gathering cancer doc gathering and some of the bunch of cancer doctors got on an earlier flight so i don't know we'll see him it's very sad rest in peace to

62 souls who died in this plane crash in brazil over the weekend it looks like we have a monkey pox resurgent i know they're saying that cases are surging in the congo the world health organization convened an emergency meeting to discuss the monkey i'm sorry the mpox outbreak was called to determine whether the spread of this potentially deadly virus constitutes a global health concern. Of course, you know it does. So just beware that, you know, you have to be out there and be ready to address and manage the outbreak of monkeypox. I'm sorry, of M-pox. And we are a couple weeks away from Burning Man, 2024, and it's looking like it's being reported that Burning Man has lost its aura.

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and aren't finding any buyers. And the nonprofit behind the festival is pushing last minute ticket sales on demand, something it's never had to do before. So one time, one long time, burner, which I'm a fan of. I always wanted to go to Burning Man. Don't ask me why. I just wanted to go.

Which has increasingly become a big tweet up for Silicon Valley Techies has gone a little past its peak cultural relevance and that the pseudo-mainstreaming of it is making it less cool. Yeah, don't forget, last year, it was last year, right? When they all got stuck in the mud and couldn't get out of there, that could be an issue. Maybe people are thinking, you know, I'd love to go to Burning Man and have some fun out in the desert and, you know, maybe chew some shrooms and maybe do some other things that

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I love the Boeing Starliner astronauts stuck in space. I love the story. It shows great incompetence on Boeing and NASA's part. I made the joke early on that Elon was going to have to go up and rescue them. And now it looks like that's what's going to happen. They've postponed the SpaceX launch in August to go in September. Instead of with four astronauts, it's going up with two. So I don't think that they've actually officially announced that this was going

to be a rescue plan, but it is. And they also mean that they're going up there in September, but they're not coming back until February. So the two astronauts who are stuck there with from the Boeing Starliner are there for eight months. And they're all supposed to be up there for like, I don't know, eight days. So that's going on. However, this weekend, I learned.

And the point was is that they would go up and they would, they would rescue them. But Boeing would just, you know, take the starliner and disconnect it from the IS. and bring it back to Earth. And if it exploded or didn't make it, then, oh, well, we're terrible. We suck. But no lives were lost. Well, and, you know, we're good to go. However, this weekend, I find out that one of the, first of all, they don't have any,

they say that they weren't stuck there. And we're on a data gathering mission. Uh-huh. And they just keep finding more and more things wrong with it. It was they were fortunate to be able to get it up there. and dock, and now they are actually stuck there. Well, come to find out now, Boeing installed software on the Starliner that does not provide for automated undocking.

So they need a human inside the Starliner to undock. But here's the deal. Once the human gets into the Starliner to undock it, they can't get back to the ISS. So now you've lost, now you've got to hope that one astronaut actually makes it back to Earth, or it's just a lost mission and he's giving up his life or her, Sonny Williams is one of the other astronauts. I guess they could draw straws or flip a coin to see who was going to go in. Really what needs to happen is they just need to kick it loose and have a nice day and let it just burn up in space, right? but they're not going to do that.

And I don't know if they can install the software now into the Starliner from either the ISS or NASA here on Earth so that it would undock on it by itself. And what do you do? Do you just find a way to kick it off the structure and let it float away? I don't know that they can do that. And so what, here's what I think is going to happen now.

All right. And who knows? I mean, really, who knows? They're not going to put an astronaut's life in jeopardy. So in this next SpaceX launch in September, they'll go up and they'll send an optimist robot, one of Elon's optimist robots that will, you know, crawl into the Boeing Starliner, and handle all the disconnect. and then if it comes back to Earth,

you've got all the information stored on Optimus, and it'll take you through it all. And if it doesn't, well, so be it. We lost a Boeing Starliner, and we lost an Optimus robot. Give Elon another few billion dollars, and he'll be fine. But it's incredible to me

how unbelievably, I don't know what's the word, incompetence that Boeing and NASA has gone through with this starliner launch. I mean, just embarrassing. Just embarrassing. Now, in the past, NASA's done some wonderful things. I mean, they just retired their asteroid hunting infrared telescope, Neo-Wise, after 15 years in orbit.

The telescope is expected to safely burn up in the atmosphere by the end of this year. Uh-huh. And they also marked a 25-year anniversary of its X-ray observatory Chandra. It published a 25 previously unseen cosmic images the telescope has collected since its inception. Okay. So this X-ray Observatory Chandra was named after an Indian American Nobel laureate, astrophysius, Subramanamanian Chandra Saker. Yeah, that's exactly what I said.

Subramanian Chandra Saker. Yeah, Subramanin Chandra Saker. Chandra. He's a renowned Nobel laureate and astrophysicist. Subramanian Chandra Saker. Yes. And it was the most powerful X-ray observatory in operation. All right.

X-rays originate when matter is heated to millions of degrees, commonly in high-energy regions, with extreme magnetic and gravitational forces. The telescope has helped reveal the nature of supernovas and galaxy clusters and has detected X-rays from what within 55 miles of a black holes event horizon, among other discoveries. It's a 65-foot structure.

It orbits the Earth in an elliptical shape every 64 hours, swinging close to Earth before hurling far beyond the Van Allen radiation belts, dense rings of magnetized solar particles around Earth. From there, it can capture X-ray data unobstructed for 55 hours every orbit. Pretty cool. So they've done some amazing things. And yet now we're stuck with thinking of them as just failures with this starliner debacle. Yes, the Olympics are finally over.

Congratulations to the United States of America with 126 total medals and 40 total gold. We tied with China at 40 total gold, which is very disheartening to me. I wanted to be victorious in the gold medal rankings. But what are you going to do? We tied. Plus, we may end up having to give back one of our bronze medals because remember they had such a big deal out of the first all-black podium for the first time Olympic gymnastics because the one girl who was supposed to be on it,

they took it away and gave it to Jordan Giles from the American floor exercise. Well, now they're saying, hey, you know what? We were wrong to do that. And now we're going to take it back from Jordan. So all the hoopla around the first all-black podium is probably nothing. It didn't mean anything because it doesn't count. Some of the other countries that listened to chewing the fat, by the way. So I got to give you a little bit of love.

Canada, you had nine golds with 27 total medals. The United Kingdom or Great Britain, you had 65 total medals with 14 golds, and you were in third place behind China and the United States. Australia had 18 golds with a total of 53 medals. Japan had 20 golds with a total of 45 medals. And Italy had 12 golds with a total of 40. And the Netherlands, another country that listens to chewing the fat, 15 golds and 12 total medals.

congratulations. Germany is on this list. Twelve golds with a total of 33 medals. So congratulations to all the countries that listen to Chewing the Fat for their accomplishments in the Olympics. And don't forget, we still have other Olympics going on or coming up. We have the Paralympic Games coming up in Paris, the 28th of this month through September 8th. So we have the Paralympics to look forward to.

And then we have the astronomy Olympics going on for the next couple of days in Africa. It started off the 6th of this month and it runs through the 13th, I believe. So today, if you're listening live, is the 12th of August 2024, the 15th, because it started the 6th, and it goes for nine days. So we got that going on. I know it's a huge thing. Nobody's talking about the 32nd. General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union.

And, man, how bad do you want to be in Cape Town, South Africa, for the Astronomy Olympics? I mean, four of the big questions is the James Webb Telescope, the incoming king of radio astronomy, a neutral hydrogen. I have the gravitational waves, and our star, the sun, and its massive counterparts. Man, does that sound like fun? And there's going to be some side meetings, too,

that the Event Horizon Telescope. Maybe they can work with Boeing and NASA and figure out how to get that damn styler back. Maybe we could do that at the Astronomy Olympics. Oh, wait, that's not what they do? Oh, okay, well, never mind then. But it is the first time that they're all getting together on the continent of Africa.

And so congratulations to them. I know that they're all excited about this Mirkat telescope, which they claim is already making huge contributions to both South African and international science. Additional sky dishes will be located in eight other African countries, Ghana, Zambia, Madagascar, Botswana, Nambia, Kenya, Mauritis, and Mozambique. So we have that to look forward to looking at the skies through the eyes of Africa. Does Africa actually have eyes? just looking through the eyes of the people of Africa. That never mind. Don't bug me down with facts.

That's too much. I didn't even mention Tom Cruise did the closing thing with the closing ceremony of the Olympics. Yes, he dove in from the top of the stadium and then rode his motorcycle through the crowd and then ended up getting on an airplane and then dropping off in California and put up the big Olympic rings on the Hollywood sign.

And we had Snoop Dogg back from Paris performing it with our red hot chili peppers and What's Her Face was there too. You know, Billy Elish. Yeah, she sang a tune. It's all just one big happy family bringing the Olympics to Los Angeles in 2028. All right, I'll leave you with the joke of the day. This is the joke of the day I was going to use on Saturday. You know, I usually do the Saturday morning live with Brad Stags every Saturday.

And apparently he went and did the show without me, which, you know, fine, whatever. I'm sick. I'm dying. I feel like I'm dying at home, but he can go on with the show. I'm all good with that. And so this is the joke of the day I'll use today that I was going to use on Saturday. Two guys are sitting at drinking a cup of coffee, and the one guy says, I think John is having an affair with my wife.

What makes you think that? He's so miserable lately. See what he's saying is that you got it. You understand. more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.