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Episode Date: October 16, 2024

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and I am such a fan of nature human behavior They have now researched human sniffs Last between one and three seconds And during that time chemicals enter the nose And allow us to perceive the smells around us

Duh I mean you smelt it, you dealt it, we know, okay? But whether humans can perceive odor changes shorter than the length of one sniff has been an open question. Has it though? I mean, I think researchers are just coming up with, you know what? We need to figure out how long it takes people to smell stuff.

So, they did. The researcher Wentzou, a psychology researcher at the Chinese. these Academy of Sciences in Beijing. We may detect an odor, and that odor feels like a hole without discernible temporal structure. Oh, okay. So 200 participants were exposed to the sequences

of two chemical odors in a single sniff. The scientists controlled the time between the odor release with millisecond precision. Some of the odors smelled like apples or flowers, why others smelled like onions or lemon, or your aunt or your uncle. Participants reported which order the odors came in and in the sniff sequence they perceived. Test subjects were able to discern different sequences with above-chance accuracy,

even when the odors were delivered only 60 milliseconds apart. The results suggest that our sense of smell has a speed similar to that of color perception. Well, no kidding, Professor Zhao from Beijing. Thank you. what about how the brain processes this information? Yeah, we don't know. We don't know how that happens. So we have to work on that.

You know, we need some more study money on that. Oh, okay. And then we can look forward to hopefully a new report in nature, human behavior. How does your brain discern the smells that come into your nose? Good luck. Good luck finding that out. All I know is, I do not want to smell that from you again. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat.

Who died up there? Somebody die in you? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. I don't want to smell that anymore. I already welcomed you to the show. Speaking of smelling stuff and smelling stuff that's, well, good and bad. I see where Al Roker, you know him, you love him, you poop. your pants, I poop my pants. Yes, that Al Roker,

is just put out a new cookbook. And of course he has. Of course he has. And he did it with his daughter, Courtney. Of course. You got to get the family involved. We can all make a little money from the book. No problem.

And he talks about a family tradition. Now, we all have had sweet potato casserole before, right? And that's where you bake the sweet potatoes with whatever mix you put in with the sweet potatoes and then you put, when those are baked,

you put the marshmallows on top and you kind of broil those or you bake them in and you have the marshmallows on top, which I'm a fan of. No problem. But Al calls this dish the sweet potato poon. The sweet potato

poon. Now I don't know if Al knows this and he doesn't know where the title came from and why the family named the dish the sweet potato poon. And he talked about how much fun they had when their grandma was making it and how they used to tease her and she would burn it. Oh, it was so much fun in the old roger family when grandma was making her sweet potato poon.

But I... We all know what Poon is, right? I mean, we do. And no, I'm not talking about... You know, I guess it's a... It's an Australian term for a simple or foolish person. Okay. But I'm talking about the urban dictionary use of the word that we all know. Poon is short for, well, that part of the female anatomy that men love.

And not the breasts. Okay. And not the rear end. And not the back. And not the hair. Well, not the hair. on top of the skull. And, you know, not the feet, not the knees, not the thighs, not the calves, that part.

That's what Poon is. I mean, I'm pretty sure that in Southeast Asia, Poon means getting some. Taking care of a little bit. Is a little Poon tang going on there for you? I believe that. So, Al, I don't know why you would let us know about your sweet potato Poon from your family. but I'm guessing, and this is just a guess from me, Al, that maybe at the time that your grandmother or your great-grandmother

made the sweet potato casserole with the marshmallows on it, and, you know, maybe your grandfather or great-grandfather went, oh, this stuff is just as sweet as your poon. Yeah, that's right. I could eat this sweet potato poon. day long. Just as much as I could I love me some of

some of grandma's poon too. Okay. Now stop. I can't even, I don't want to think about grandma's poon. Anyway, Al, you know what it came from. I mean, I guess it's a good sales pitch for your book because, man, do I want to know more about Al's family and what

they're titling their food dishes? Oh yeah. That's your Grandma's, no, don't tell me what Grandpa named it. Never mind. Just stick with the sweet potato poon. I don't know where I was. I don't know what I was doing.

I don't know what was going on. But all of a sudden I see that Victoria's Secret Fashion Show is trending on my ex account last night. And I'm like, wait, we're having a fashion show. I love the Victoria Secret Fashion Show. I mean, I have my angel wings stored away. I love it. I love it.

So there was a Vxonement. Victoria's Secret Fashion Show last night. aired on Prime. I've got it. My wife turned it on. I said, we're having a Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. I've got to go get my wings. I've got to find out what we're doing. And so she were looking for it.

It's on Prime. I don't remember being promoted anywhere. I guess it was. I guess what's her face? Tyra Banks promoted it on her Instagram and TikTok because she was back. I saw her. So we finally got to it. It was close to the end.

Share was singing. they had 78 year old share there don't don't wrinkle your nose at share okay don't do it let's share you know how much you know I love share and she is a 78 so she's

she was there and she sang a couple of songs and they were you know walking down the runway and that's when the tyrant came out and then the big finale where they all walk out share walk down you know walk down the main runway with all the

with all the stars and I guess this was the first ever all women's lineup entertainers at the fashion show, which was in New York, on Prime, South African singer Tila. Man, I'm sorry, I missed Tyler. Lisa from the K-pop group Black Pink. Again, sorry, I'm going to go back and watch it tonight on Prime. And the Australian guitarist, Oranti. Man, I am definitely going back to see.

I noticed they didn't have a lot of Z. close-ups this year. So it was kind of like we're producing it, but she's on the stage on the runway, and we've got the girls walking down the runway and Cher's there, and we've got the shot of Cher. Like this picture I see of Cher right now

promoting her being on the event, partying during the event, I think that was the closest the camera was going to get on her because you get those close-up shots of Cher, man. I mean, cuts to clown face are there. And that clown face is already there. But she's 78, she's still singing

strong was awesome she's saying a couple of uh couple of her hits um what she's saying i heard her sing believe and the end of believe and then apparently she's saying strong enough before that and so she's saying a couple of big songs and i saw that they had all the big stars there Bella had and Adriana lema they all look tremendous and they also had uh you know a few uh well you know models there for Victoria's Secret they're trying to get away from that. Remember they said? They said, we're not, we're going to go back to our roots. But they still, you know,

I'm okay because they didn't have any secret models, but they just had a few you know, like Ashley Graham. Like Ashley Graham is a and she's not and so I'm just saying it. I'm just saying. And those people wear Victoria Secrets too. No, no, no, no, no.

No, no. They wear them too. And I, and that makes, I'm sure, Housewives across America are very happy to see what it looks like on those models because that's what they look like. And that's fine. I mean it, it's fine. Don't look at me.

If you want to wear your Victoria's secrets, whether you're thin or fine. Go ahead. I'm a fan. I'm a fan, okay? Just be clear. But I didn't even know it was on. I was disappointed.

I didn't have to watch the whole Victoria. secret fashion show in New York on Prime. So, just a little disappointed. I was a little bummed. And I didn't get my wings out in time. I know. I know. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits

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the breaking news sounder here on Chewing the Fat, and that means that our CTF man on the street, Chris Cruz, is going to give us a breaking news stories. I am in Michigan today. The great state of Michigan. I love it. Where on the hand are you? I was just going to ask you, can you show the audience where Bear Creek is? I think it's called Bear Creek.

Bear Creek, Michigan, yeah, it's right there. It's a Bear Creek. Let me make sure I'm looking at the street corner. No, sorry. You know where you're at. It's Battle Creek, Michigan. Battle Creek, Michigan. That's where I'm at.

I'm right here in front of Kellogg headquarters. I don't know if you realize this. That's in Battle Creek. Okay. Yeah, that's right here. I'm right here. Oh, okay, right there. Got it.

So this is here. I'm Kellogg's headquarters because Fisher. Yes. It's sad to say. Oh, no. Did Tony the Tiger die? I wish. You know what?

That would have been less. Oh, no. Okay. Pringles cans are no more. What? That's their iconic thing. The tall ones or the short ones? Like the, you know.

Pringle cans are no more. Pringles have decided to ditch the Pringle can. What? And they're joining the bag industry. Oh, that's a huge mistake. What are we doing? Pringles has... What are they saying the cost of the product isn't worth it?

Are you going to let me read this or do you just want to guess? No, go ahead. Okay. You're doing the breaking news story. I think I am too. You're the man on the street. I'm right here at Battle Creek Kellogg's headquarters. Which, by the way, I did not know that Kellogg's made Pringles.

I thought it was like lace or something. One of their products. Yeah, okay. Pringles decided to remove the iconic saddle-shaped ships. What? They're changing the chip too? Are you kidding me? This is not America.

I've lived in anymore. They have released their first bag snacks in more than 15 years. the new chips, fringle mingles, are not only packaged in a bag, but also shape as a bow tie. Oh my gosh. This is just stupid. What are we,

who's running the joint? And are air puffed, which is going to give him a different texture and taste than you beloved. They're changing it all, the whole thing. It's been making a new chip. I believe, I believe this Pringles mingles are the new Coke version of Pringles.

They have to be. They have to be. Have you got a comment from anyone there at the Kellogg's headquarters? Do I have a comment? Let me see. I mean, you know if you talk to something. Well, they're telling me, one person just walked in. No, I got comments from people.

I went out of the street and started asking to people, hey, well, how do you feel about this? I got one comment from a person that says, it's not Pringles if you don't come out of a can. Thank you. And another person, this is a homeless person I talked to. He said, once you. Once you don't pop, you can't stop. We're not judging anyone here on CTF. If you're out the street,

this is the crazy lady in the corner. She says, oh, hell no, I need the tube. Once you pop the top, y'all don't stop. Thank you. That should be their ad campaign, by the way. Thank you.

So, and then this last person I talked to said, why my Pringle's mingling? Thank you. Because their new name is. Pringles mingles mingles. Yeah, Pringles mingles. You said that earlier in your report. Well,

I just want to make sure that you were paying attention to. But the... That is breaking news. And that... What you want to talk about... I'm sorry, go ahead. Each by-size puff comes with... Or mingles.

Comes with three blended flavors. Cheddar and sour cream. Sharp white cheddar and ranch. And this is a nasty one. Dill pickle and ranch. Oh, yeah, nasty. But if they were still... If they could do that as a pringle, you know, whatever.

You could do whatever you want. Just line it up on your shelf space. They must be having... a hard time creating shelf space at the stores for the Pringle cans. So they're going to go to bags, which is very disappointing. And they're changing the whole thing up. I mean, that's what makes Pringles Pringles. Got to be the new Coke thing, right?

I think, I think. We're going to try this, and then it's not going to work, and we're going to go back to Pringle's cans, and we'll get all the promotion. Or it could be, you know, remember, they did the whole thing with Mr. Peanut, right? We killed Mr. Peanut, then we had baby peanut, then we had teenager peanut, and then Mr. peanut came back. Yeah. But that was an all well thought out campaign.

Yeah, it was. Is this a well thought out campaign? I can't believe we're getting rid of Pringles. I mean, Pringles is a, that's an American staple now. The can is. Yeah, the Pringles can't, yes. Yes. That's you, and then you put, and you can get stuck.

And you get the personal packs. Yes. The personal Pringle packs that you get with the, with the chips. That's Pringles. And the reason why I haven't given you, and thank you for not, keep asking me, hey, what about comments from somebody at Pringos? You're there. That's what I'm asking.

Pingo's decided not to comment yet. Now, it could be. So you've been trying. I've been trying. Yeah, you've been trying. Yeah. It's just, I mean, you did go out the street and get a homeless person and a crazy lady on the back.

Yeah. Well, she was in the corner and she's like, no can't. I need a tube. And oh, hell now. Once you pop it. Once you pop it. You can't stop it. Yeah, I got it.

For all of you. I don't know. I'm not going to say go full on, you know, COVID mode and start buying all the cans. Oh, yeah. Or go full on Bethbath and Body Works where you could grab the candle. I can tell you right now we have, I have a, I know I at least have one Pringle's can in our pantry as I speak. I mean, my family is a fan of Pringles. Oh, hold up.

Okay. Oh, no. Oh, no. Okay. Did you run into one of the bosses coming out of the building? No, but chips a hoi. it's actually doing the same thing. What?

Chips Aho is bringing the chewy... I like Chips Ahoie. Chips A Ho is going away from the crunchy chipsahoe and bringing a big chewy. Oh, just the chewy? The big chewy, yeah, they still have. That's not new, but they're just getting rid of? They're saying they're pushing ahead with the big chewy.

And it would be the closest in flavor to the original chips. So they're getting rid of the original chips of Hoy? Who is running? The world is go upside down. The world is upside down as we speak. Each flavor will come out of just one cookie. And each package and features the chocolate chips.

Oh my gosh. Four times the size of the OG smaller cookie. So we're just getting rid of the smaller cookie and giving you a big cookie. Yeah, but the original chips of Hoy, I mean, that's what made them. That'll make them who they are. Yes. I don't know. This is a sad day in America.

I don't reckon, you know, Glenn keeps talking about. I would not recognize my country. Yes. Without pringle cans and chips of Hoy Cooke. We're doomed. We're doomed. We're doomed. We are doomed. I'm sorry.

I'm glad you traveled to Michigan and give us a live report. Which one is? It's Battle. It's Battle Creek. That was Chris Cruz reporting live from Battle Creek, Michigan, home of Kellogg's with some news that, very disconcerning news. And we're going to delve into this a little bit more in few. future chewing the fat episodes. I guarantee you that. All right, let's go to the break room.

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for that discount on your order. J-A-S-E-D-C-C-O-C-M. So we talked about the Walgreens, speaking of medications, and, you know, emergencies and not being able to get medications, we talked about how Walgreens are going to close 1,200 U.S. stores,

and by 2027, and they're going to shutter 500 by the end of next year. And they said that the CEO said that we're turning around our plan. We need to turn this around. And yeah, no kidding. And so, right aid said they're going to close 800 stores as part

of their Chapter 11 bankruptcy. CBS announced earlier this month that they were going to cut 2,900 jobs on top of 5,000 it cut last year. I didn't mention I don't know how many pharmacies they're going to close. I'm sorry, how many retail locations they're going to close.

So they, according to this, with all these closures, widespread closures could put, could push even more rural and minority communities into pharmacy deserts. Okay, so roughly 46% of U.S. counties had a pharmacy desert or a populated area 10 plus miles from a retail pharmacy. Boy, that's hard to believe. That's hard to believe because so many locations have pharmacies now. You know, your Walmarts, your Sam clubs, your Costco's. They all have pharmacies on top of your online pharmacies that you can use. But I guess if you live in a pharmacy desert, you're not able to figure out how to get online. So that's what they told me.

That's what they told me. So I guess I have to believe it. One of the things, speaking of Walgreens, that I did not know. And I am bummed. I want to see this in person. So Walgreens is based out of the boots, whatever their stupid name is, their corporate name is,

boots on the ground or something. Yeah, Walgreens Boots Alliance. Okay, that's fine, whatever. Whatever you want to call yourself. But they're based out of Chicago. And one of the stores in Chicago, and I don't know if this is their main branch or the corporate headquarters

are in the same building or whatever, but one of the Walgreens, is an old bank, and it is really cool. And their vitamins, the vitamin section in this bank Walgreens is the vault. I want to see. The pictures are really cool. And it's one of the old, you know, big city banks with the high ceilings and the, and the, it looks so cool.

And I hope they don't close that, Walgreens. They're never going to close that, right? I mean, that's the corporate headquarters of Walgreens. That one stays open. open forever, right? No way they vaulted up. And it'd just be cool to be able to go into the vault and get your vitamins.

It's really cool. The pictures of it, I mean, it's not like you crawled through a little hole. You can quote me on that. It's a huge, it's a bank vault. I just didn't know that it actually existed and now I want to go there.

So we are coming up on the, I mean, we are smack dab in the fall season of network television and all the new shows are up and running this week and next. They're all happening. We talked about Lincoln Lawyer yesterday dropping on Netflix this weekend. I'm excited. Plus, with all the college football and all the NFL games, I mean, it's an exciting time to be part of sitting on yourself and watching television at home.

Exciting time is what that is. Yeah, it's going to be nice outside. It's starting to cool down, actually. At least here in the great state of Texas, where this show originates from, a little nippy this morning. A little nippy. I thought to myself, man, I should have broke out a jacket or something. But I think today is going to be what Jack Harris, the voice of Tampa Bay, said a long time ago to me,

and I believe he's right. It's a two-jacket day. You wear a jacket into work, and then you forget it going home because it's so nice, and then you go out in the evening and you need another jacket because it's nippy in the evening. I believe we're in the two-jacket day days as we speak. So I see where ABC is saying, ooh, you know what? We need to maybe cancel a couple of shows here.

Really? Yeah, well, you know what? Let's not call it canceling. Let's just say we're going to postpone the production of these shows. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. Scamanda, the Scamanda docuseries. And who doesn't love Scamanda docuseries? And Pressure Luck have all been delayed to 2025.

And you're saying, well, you're just delaying us? What, what for? Well, we've decided we're going to simulcastle of NFL games. We've decided we want to put something on the air that people will watch, and we're going to do that. And so you can calm down with your old Pressure Luck game show and your Celebrity Wheel of Fortune and your Scam Dema docu series. No, it's not Scam DacuCimma.

It's a Scamanda docu series. But we're going to, we want people to watch our network. And we're going to do that by simulcasting NFL games. That is awesome. So the Disney ecosystem is saying, you know, we'd like to make a little money on the network. And it doesn't cost us anything more to simulcast these games that are on ESPN and ESPN plus. Yeah, we're going to put them on ABC because we all need.

that network too. Okay. So, sorry about it. Celebrity Wheel of Fortune. And we love, I mean, and that's what, I think celebrity is going to be the last one with what's his face, right? He was coming back for that, I think. It wasn't going to be, it wasn't going to be, uh, Dingleberry. Yeah, not Seacrest. He wasn't, he wasn't doing celebrity. What's his face was coming back was for celebrity. Yeah, Sejack was coming back for the final celebrity, I think.

If I remember that right. So they're still going to drag that out. So they'll record that. Obviously, it will be in the tank. They're just postponing. Because Sejack was like, no, I'm going to be in Hawaii doing my play, and I'm retired.

So I'm just going to do this and fulfill my contractual obligation. And you can air it whenever you want. And that's what's, I'm sure that's what will happen. But don't worry about it, you Scamanda docuseries fans. because it'll be back maybe in 2025, but we're going to air football first. Because the numbers for football are through the roof, NFL numbers are through the roof,

NFL numbers for college football are through the roof. I mean, more people are watching those games. There's been some huge games being played on the weekend with college football. The viewing numbers for those are through the roof. We have Major League Baseball coming down to the wire. We have the four teams battling for the two teams to go to the World Series, the Mets and the Dodgers and the Guardians and the New York Yankees. And so it could be a subway series.

Yankees and the Mets. Or it could be coast to coast. The Yankees and the Dodgers. You know, maybe since I know the Guardians are in it, I guess we can say that, yeah, Cleveland might win it. Oh, oh, I kill me. I kill me. I think the Guardians are going to beat the Yankees.

Oh, that's rich right there. And then we have, I don't know, the WNBA is still going on. Once Caitlin lost and the fever were out of it, nobody cares. The numbers are way down. But I'm sure that's not her fault. It's not because of her.

That's because of just the overall thing. Uh-huh. Okay, sure. And we have NHL starting up. I mean, sports is everywhere. We did get new, I mean, there's some big trades in the NFL and we could get in depth and all that stuff. If you'd like, no?

Okay, never mind. But I will say that we did get news about Tom Brady, which I was surprised that they okayed this. He could now be part owner of the Las Vegas Raiders. The NFL rubber stamped it and said, okay, good for you. No problem. I think he gets 5% of the Raiders.

So, yeah, 5% stake in the team. team and of course he's happy and so he's going to be and it's still I mean he's as a fox broadcaster that's why I was questioning whether they were going to let him have an ownership stake in a team because he's supposed to be you know non-biased as a fox broadcaster broadcasting the games he's gotten much better this year too as we've got along uh got along into the season as the color commentator of course you knew he would like I said he's Tom Brady but now he's going to be uh I mean 5% stake in an NFL team, that's a lot of money.

These teams are worth a whole bunch of money. So Tom is, not only does he own, I don't know, he's got some racing team, and he's got some soccer team. He's invested in the WNBA team, but now he's in the league. So whenever he's done with his little $350 million contract

with Fox and they, you know, decides that he has want to broadcast anymore unless they pay him, I don't know, a billion dollars. He could just sit down and be a co-owner of an NFL team. Pretty sweet. Pretty sweet. Yeah, he's going to need a bigger sounding cash register than that. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here.

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Hong Kong's oldest zoo is seeking answers in a monkey medical mystery. Nine animals have died in two days. The monkeys are dropping like flies. So what's going on? Including three members of a critically endangered species. Oh my. So part of Hong Kong Zoo, geological and botanical gardens.

Oh man, do I love the Hong Kong? Well, no one supports zoos and botanical gardens more than this show, chewing the fat. They've been sealed off and disinfected. And the experts have been called in to conduct necropsyes and toxicological

I can't even say the word. Toxicological. No, it's not right either. Toxicological tests. It's not toxicology. It's toxicology. toxicological tests. Stop looking at me like that, okay?

It was just a stupid word. Hong Kong leader John Lee said in his weekly press briefing Tuesday, we're doing what we can. We're calling all these people in. Eight monkeys were found dead on Sunday. Another died Monday after displaying unusual behavior. The deceased animals are the DeBrasas monkey, a common squirrel monkey,

four white-faced sockies and three cotton-toped tamarins, a species listed as critically endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature. And when we have news, Lee said we'll let you know. So back off me, all right? We'll let you know what we find out. We're just telling you now that the monkeys are dead. So on Monday, the Secretary of Culture, Sports, and Tourism, that's a good gig, Kevin Yang

held an urgent interdepartmental meeting about the deaths with the leisure and cultural Services Department and Agricultural Fisheries and Conservation Department and the Department of Health. Wow. I mean, that's just, we're getting deep in the woods now in Hong Kong, a Hong Kong government. It said in a statement that another DeBrasa's monkey's behavior and appetite were found to be unusual requiring further observation. Oh, no, another was going to drop soon. This is the Hong Kong. I did not know this.

The Hong Kong zoological and botanical gardens are the oldest park in the former British colony. It fully opened to the public in 1871. It is a rare urban oasis in downtown central district of the financial hub. All right. Got to love the Hong Kong Zoo and botanical gardens. So what's killing the monkeys in Hong Kong? Do we have any idea? Were they vaxed?

I don't know. I don't know. I'm just asking a question. That's possible. They were vaxing a lot of animals. Is there poison flying around? Are we, you know, something bad coming to Hong Kong from China? I'm just asking questions because I have absolutely no way of knowing.

But rest in peace to all the nine dead monkeys soon to be 10, maybe more. So Diddy is still in jail. He's still in jail. He hasn't gotten bail yet. And now the more allegations are coming out of the woodwork against Diddy and his white parties and a whole bunch of them. And now you've got the offshoots, the brushes with Diddy. Because now Ye is being sued.

And they're claiming that they were sexually assaulted at a Diddy studio session. So, okay. Lauren Piscata, Piscata, Piscuita, she's an ex-assistant to West. I thought she sued him earlier. She claims she was drugged and sexually assaulted during a studio session co-hosted by Diddy. She worked for West. Yeah, she worked for West in 2021 and 2022. and she alleges in an amended complaint.

So she amended the complaint now that it's out about Diddy. You know what? That happened to me too. Okay. That her employer committed sexual battery after serving her a laced drink. Well, we know Diddy wouldn't do that. Diddy's not serving your lace drinks. He's rubbing drugged baby oil all over you.

That's what Diddy did. Hello. And so, let's see, not accused combs of, she has not accused combs of wrongdoing in her amended suit against West. No, it just happened when she was there. Okay. A lawyer for West did not immediately respond. No kidding.

Her previous wrongful termination lawsuit against EA, in which she claimed that she was subjected to explicit texts, pornographic photos, videos, and phone calls from him before being fired. Previously, the legal representative for West called her wrongful. termination suit baseless, said that she pursued West sexually to coerce employment and other material benefits, then engaged

in blackmail and extortion when her advances were rejected, which could be true. And now that she's got Diddy on the ropes, and remember when I was there with Diddy when Ye and they were together, that's something bad happened to me there then, too.

Okay. So some of these cases they're going to be tough to, well, they're going to be tough to prove, they're going to be tough to believe. Man, everyone's going to believe them because you have to believe everyone, right? I know that

my man, yay, is in trouble as it is. And now I'm hearing, you might get divorced. I thought he was in love with this chick. She's running around naked everywhere they go. He's having sex with her and little dungal boats in the Europe. They're getting kicked off of, but, you know, that

doesn't mention that in the story. It talks about but his other former employee to Donda Academy and Yeezy Fashion Brand filed a lawsuit against him of racism, homophobia, anti-Semitism, and harassment against both the school students and the employees. The plaintiff Trevor Phillips alleged that he was sexually harassed by West, repeatedly abused and humiliated in front of other employees and staff. It was never paid termination or severance after Donda Academy shut down. He was always so mean to me. And then he just shut down and that was over.

I was just like supposed to be done. That was it. I didn't receive any extra pay or anything. And they didn't tell me. It just closed it down. I have no idea whether or not that sounds like him or not. But it's just what he sounds like in my head for the complaint. When I got a great deal on a great gift at Winners, I started wondering,

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The first mention of it is at some memoir in 1821. So you take a chestnut, you know, the seed that's inside the chestnut wrapping of the, you know the chestnut wrapping looks like a porcupine. And then the chestnut in the middle is the seed. All right. That is a seed. So you take that and you put a string in it. And then you smash them against each other and the one that breaks loses.

Okay. Now we used to have chestnut wars when I was a kid. And I mean wars. We had chestnut trees in our neighborhood everywhere. So when it was chestnut breeding time, those things would fall from the trees and he had to pick them up. We just put them in boxes and throw them in each other. I mean, we had wars.

And the good ones were the porcupine skins that were still intact. So you could throw those. And man, you get those stuck in your face? Stuck in your arm. They freaking hurt, bro. Okay, I was telling you, they hurt. Now, then you get the big chestnuts themselves.

They could do some damage too, man. You're doing some... We'd all be a jubes. in today's world. No question. But we had some serious chestnut wars. So anyway, Conkers, we weren't tying strings to our chestnuts.

I'll tell you that. We were rifle them at each other, okay? We're firing out of each other. So the Conkers, the game is played by two players, and then they thread the piece of string through the chestnut, and they swing them, and, you know, one takes a turn, and you swing them,

and the one that cracks loses, okay? So we had a big controversy in the Conquer's world championships. They're investigating allegations of cheating after this year's men's winner was found to have a steel chestnut in his pocket. You bastard. You cheating, son of a... All right, so more than 200 enthusiasts of the traditional game entered the annual competition on Sunday in Southwick in Central England. And so the veteran player, Dave Jenkins, 82, not Jenkins, J-A-K-I-N-S, 82. won the tournament. But

organizers said that we've launched an investigation. There were claims that that bastard Dave Jenkins had a steel chestnut. Okay? That's what he was using. Now, the allegation were raised by Alistair Johnson Ferguson, who lost. So, you know, the loser is crying. Say there's no way my chestnut

could have broken. He had to be using a fake chestnut. And just disintegrated on one hit. There's no way that could have happened unless he was cheating. Well, organizers have confirmed now that there was a steel conquer in Jakin's pocket. He did have a steel conquer.

So, okay. Now they believe that there was no way he could have cheated, though, because the way the game is played, the way the judges are there, that he was not, it was very unlikely, they say, very unlikely that he was able to cheat.

under the scrutiny of judges. And he has denied the allegations. Well, then you have to believe him. He was very closely watched by four judges. It looks like it was absolutely impossible for him to cheat, said John Burkett, the chair of the event. And I'm sure he's a proud chairman of the Conquer's event. The title of World Conquer Champion went to,

oh, wow. So went to Kelsey Bensonbach. an American as Queen Conquer for the female who have men's and women's and the Conquer Tournament What are you going to do?

Don't look at me. I'm with you. Should they be competing against each other? Sure. Can a man swing a conquer harder than a female? You tell me. They say they can.

They say there's a difference. And so she's the first American to win the title since the World Conquer Championships began in 1965. So congratulations. Congratulations to Kelsey for... No, I don't want to...

We're not that much of a... No, Kelsey, I love you and everything, but no. Congratulations. I'm not giving you applause from the audience. Okay. And so I guess my man, Dave Jenkins, still gets the championship, but under that cloud of controversy,

he should... Next year, man, if he makes it the 83 and comes back for the Conquer tournament they need to pat him down man so that there's absolutely no chance of him cheating with his steel

conquer we cannot have that seriously we can't have that I don't think there was cheating going on with Travis Geinger from Anoka Minnesota he is the 51st world champion of the pumpkin way off in Half Moon Bay

south of San Francisco. The Minnesota horticultural teacher remained the reigning champion of the annual pumpkin weighing contest in Northern California, where his gourd has won top prize four years in a row. My man Travis has been growing giant gourds

and he went winning at the Half Moon Bay contest in four years in a row. This year, the winning gourd weighed 2,000, 4471 pounds. But not quite. The world record was set last year with his pumpkin of 2,749 pounds. So he was 8 pounds shy or 9 pounds shy of the record. But he still won the championship.

It just couldn't beat his own record. Then after that, they threw the pumpkin in the old back of the pickup truck, the 24, the 24171. pound pumpkin and they were driving down to southern california where a team of 3d carvers were going to carve it out for Halloween isn't that special he drove now they're from minnesota so they drive every year the last four years that's like 35 hour drive with their giant pumpkin to win the half moon bay championship and the reason that he drives from Minnesota to Half Moon Bay is because the winner, I'm told, gets $9 a pound if they break the

world record. Oh, wait. So he only got paid. He got $9 a pound last year because he broke the record. He set the record. So let's see. Does he get anything else? Do they even throw him a bone or anything if he doesn't break the record?

So it looks like maybe he gets the $9 per pound anyway. but it's said that he gets $9 a pound if he breaks the record, which he did not do. So then they have a grand champion growers jacket that he gets. Now you're living large. He gets two nights at the Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay. Okay? Two nights with him and the wife taking care of a little business.

They used to the old pumpkin. And I'm not quite sure if he gets the money or not, because he didn't set the record. Last year he did. So did you get the $30,000 or whatever it was $9 a pound then? If he wins, I guess if he sets the record that year, you can win? I don't know. But for sure, because he said one of his quotes was,

I'm just trying to get my jacket. Are you? Are you? Okay. Thanks, Travis. That's why I want to, you know, he wants to name. He names his gourds every year. This year was Rudy.

And so, yeah, that's what it is. It's the masters of pumpkin growing. So it is, you get the jack. It's called the grand champion growers jacket. So why don't you just back off, okay? To back off me. He spent his off-time growing giant pumpkins. Good for Travis and congratulations.

Travis for doing that. Because I saw a story of these people in Ohio that were growing and they won the contest in their city in Ohio. But they were, I mean, he was like at least 100 pounds under, Rudy, the Travis's pumpkin. So, I mean, they were a losers. All right, let's get out of here. I see kind of a joke of the day.

I was reading something, and it had a joke in it that I thought was kind of funny, and the joke was, so, in the air tonight by Phil Collins came on a few minutes ago at work, and I was the only person who did the air drum solo. I don't want to work here anymore. I don't need this kind of negativity.

my life. So, and I actually kind of, well, I LOL. I did OLL at my, sitting at my, at my table because I thought, yeah, I mean, who doesn't do the drum solo when you, when Phil Collins in the air tonight comes on? I mean, you almost have to, don't you? Yeah. You know you did it. You know you did it. And if you didn't, you did it on purpose. Just tick me on. and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.