Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Who Cares & What’s The Use!?... | 5/20/24
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And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher.
Well, a couple of sad things happened over the past couple of days.
First, the city in Texas named Kyle
attempted to set the Guinness World Record for the most Kyle's in one place.
I feel like we've talked about this before,
but they did not break the record.
Very sad.
Only 706 Kyle's gathered on Saturday.
well short of the record set in Bosnia in 2017.
Now, what this was, Bosnia didn't have Kyle's show up.
Bosnia had Ivan's show up,
and so it was the record for the most people who share the same name.
And I know Kyle, Texas, called it Gathering of the Kyle's.
Last year, they brought together 1,490 people.
year half of that.
Either we're losing Kyle's
or just wasn't enough
Kyle's wanting to go to Kyle, Texas
to set the record.
So the gathering
of the most people with the
same name still belongs
to Bosnia as they
gathered Ivan's.
Very sad that the city of
Texas, Kyle, Texas could not
break the record of
the most same
name people
in one city.
I'm all four
setting world records, but it's
very, very sad that Kyle
couldn't do that. And
the other sad news is we are
not going to have a triple
crown winner in
the horse racing
trifecta this year.
I know, dry your eyes.
Seize the Gray
won the Preakness Stakes
this weekend in Baltimore.
which meant that Mystic Dan who won the Kentucky Derby
didn't win a second race onto the third race.
So we still have only 13 horses that have won the Triple Crown.
And there hasn't been a Triple Crown winner since Justify in 2018.
So a couple of sad things that happened over the weekend.
I know, I know, as I said earlier, dry your eyes.
Welcome.
Welcome to Chewing the Fat.
So they teach you eyes on the road, both hands on the steering wheel at all times.
Nobody thinks they are going to get it in an accident.
And they should say, well, maybe you should stay fully clothed while driving as well.
So a Florida couple were driving along and having oral sex.
And they weren't completely naked, but they did have some minor disrobing going on.
And so then their car hit a FedEx truck.
Now, it said in the story, they sustained minor injuries.
I don't know what they consider mining, minor injuries, but that is not one of them.
If she was, and I'm assuming that she was giving the oral sex to the male while driving.
So when they got into the accident and they hit the fat X.
truck head on that hopefully she did not bite down completely. It didn't look that way.
When you looked at the pictures of them laying along the side of the road, he may have gotten,
I guess it was minor, unless it was completely removed as Manpart. Then it was a minor injury.
So it's just a good rule of thumb, you know, to keep both hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.
And if, you know, fully clothed. I know, people,
think that they're not going to get into an accident and they get excited and you know you want to get
we've heard about the mile high club forever well we don't talk often about road head that's what they
call it uh we don't often talk about that it does happen uh from time to time and people you know
also uh i don't know i guess get busted and cause accidents while pleasuring themselves just don't do
it in your vehicle. Driving
safely is more important
than that.
Except when you're, you know,
in the heat of the battle. You're in the heat
of the battle, you don't think you're going to get an accident
and you can't say no.
Can you? No, you can't.
The other thing that you're not supposed to do
while driving is be on your phone.
Right? I mean, we all, we've heard
one of my Trucker Tuesday shows.
We talked about one of their biggest
complaint was people need to
get off of their phones while
driving. And so I'm reading the story about this guy who claims he was in a McDonald's drive-thru,
and he was opening up the McDonald's app to get his discount and was given a ticket. It's a $580
ticket in Canada from the Royal Mounted Canadian Police. And he said, I'm barely even moving. I
pull up my app and I look at my rearview mirror and there's a motorcycle cop behind me. So he told,
hey, I'm just opening my app.
I'm trying to get my deal here as we go through the drive-thru,
and they still gave him a ticket.
So I guess that's according to him.
I'm in a catch-22.
I know I'm not supposed to be on my phone.
We'll drive on my car, but I'm in the drive-thru lane.
And, you know, I'm trying to open my app.
We've all been there.
No question.
However, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
and they have disputed his version of the event.
Huh.
I would like to see if there's actually traffic
police cam footage from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
Hopefully he had it turned on.
I'm sure so many times in these cases,
oh, did I forget to turn it on?
Gosh darn.
You just have to take my word for it.
Because the Royal Canadian Mounted Police say that he was on the road,
looking at his phone,
they went to pull him over,
he turned into McDonald's,
and then claimed that he was opening his McDonald's app
in the drive-thru of McDonald's.
but he was actually on his phone prior to pulling into the McDonald's.
So just be careful out there.
And don't be using your phone while driving.
That's a hard thing, man.
That is a really hard thing.
I catch myself all the time.
And, you know, those split seconds of looking down at your phone
or looking at your phone is definitely the difference between an accident and a non-accident
many, many times.
and I've come close a couple of times.
I admit it.
I admit it.
I've come close a couple of times
where you're like, oh, crap.
But I do my very best.
I do my very best not to be looking at my phone while driving.
Is that good enough?
Well, that will have to be for today.
You know, if you follow me on my Instagram account,
you know that I post a license plates of the day.
Does it count if I'm taking pictures with my phone while driving?
Does that mean that I'm actually using my phone?
while driving. I don't think it counts.
Because I'm actually paying attention
to my driving, but I just
have my phone in my hand that I'm taking pictures
of license plates. I've become
very good at
driving at fast speeds
and being able to take pictures with my phone
of the license plates. So does that still
count? I don't want to know from a police
officer. I just want to
know in my mind, it doesn't count.
I mean, it's impossible to take
a picture of a license plate from my phone while driving without me holding the phone.
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let's say you win the powerball drawing tonight for $88 million, $41.4 million cash payout,
tonight being the 20th of May, 2024.
Or you win the Mega Millions drawing, which is tomorrow night, May 21st, 20204, 421 million
jackpot, a $195.9 million cash payout.
What would you do with that money?
Would you buy, let's say, $121, $421,000?
A painting, a painting by a Lancashire born artist,
just sold for $22 million.
Well, actually, it was $22 million.
Euros, $28.5 million.
She is now the most valuable British-born female artist.
That's, at least that's something.
We all have to break down.
Congratulations to Leonora Carrington,
and her painting,
Les Distractions de Dagobert sold at auction,
and that made her the most valuable British-born female artist at auction.
Congratulations.
I was looking at the painting, and it's beautiful.
I mean, it's a fine painting.
I don't have a problem with it.
I mean, I enjoy that painting as much as I enjoy my daughter's paintings.
And if someone wants to give my daughter 28,
million dollars. Yes, please. That would be fine. And I believe that my daughter's paintings are worth that
much, but they're not up for auction right now, disappointingly. And actually, they are. And if she has any
paintings at all, they'd like to commission a painting from my daughter for $28 million or less.
You can contact me, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. So I know she was, she lived in Mexico
alongside some other big artists throughout the years.
17 and I mean she died
2011 at the age of 94
so you know she now is
well dead and the painting that she painted
is worth 28.5 million dollars so
congratulations to her I also see would you spend money
on that if you won the lottery or would you
pay money for JFK Doodles
I saw where the
The JFK Doodles, written clearly on, in pencil at the Rice Hotel Stationery, sold for $34,504.
Boy, that seems cheap for doodles from John F. Kennedy.
That's for sure.
Now, he was staying, Kennedy was staying at the hotel in Fort Worth in Texas for the events.
Oh yeah, so this is like before he went over and was assassinated.
That's what Fort Worth saying.
He was fine when he left here.
So you can clearly see the doodles on the piece of paper.
It's pretty incredible.
I don't know.
Is it worth more than $34,000?
Obviously, no, because no one paid for that.
But you can see, you know, 1963.
He's talking on the phone and he's just doodling and little things that you try to remember
when you're talking on the phones, notes like,
10,000 tons and 1145 is the name.
It's just Smith was written down a couple of times.
So, I mean, it'd be nice to have.
I'm surprised this is not part of the Mercury One collection.
We may have actually purchased it.
I don't know that at all.
Because they also included Kennedy's inaugural address book,
which was presented to the chief of White House police.
That sold for 26,575,000.
and a presidential seal flag that Kennedy signed and presented to the commander of the USS Joseph P. Kennedy Jr.
That's sold for 16,643. Wow, that's pretty incredible. I feel like those should be worth more than that.
And they also sold, this might actually be part of Mercury One's collection. And I don't know this to be true.
But George Washington's signed handwritten ledger went for.
for $46,279.
So would you spend money on that kind of stuff
if you won the lotto this week?
Eh, I don't know.
I don't know that I would.
I may donate the money to a charity
who would then use the money to buy things like this,
but I don't know that I would buy that.
But you gotta have investments, right?
So maybe, maybe you would.
I would rather buy the historical documents
rather than the painting
who was done by now
the most valuable British-born
female artist at auction
Leonardo Carrington
so I'd rather have the doodles, I think,
than Leonardo Carrington's painting
but that's just me.
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I see where TikTok is testing a 60-minute video plan.
Wow, some users in select markets can now upload 60-minute TikToks.
Yeah, the 30-second TikToks are not enough.
The test marks a massive shift from the platform's original setup of 15-second videos
and puts its status as a short-form video app into question.
well, I mean, yeah, it wants to fight YouTube and no question about that and even, you know,
some other accounts.
TikTok has slowly been allowing longer and longer videos.
Yeah, they want to compete with TikTok.
No kidding.
The new 60 minute could also allow for more full episodes of TV shows to appear in your
TikTok feeds.
Okay, so there you have it.
If you have a TikTok, which I do not, some members in my family have a TikTok.
I keep meeting to get a TikTok
and I just never do.
In the beginning, I fought against it
because of, you know, China
and all the information going back to China,
but I'm, you know, I'm almost,
I'm just like giving up now.
I've just given up.
So I may have to get a TikTok soon.
I know, I know, I'm just, I've given up.
All the information that goes here,
goes there, and goes back to China,
and goes back to whatever country.
And they all have our information.
It's all, we've all been,
Every company has been hacked.
So what does it matter?
What does it matter?
And to quote my, well, my grandfather used to say it,
but I believe he is quoting one of my cousins who were,
was at the breakfast table.
Who cares and what's the use?
So I know what?
This is my line now.
Who cares and what's the use?
Okay, so they had the big cans.
It's not cans.
It's cane, right?
It's con.
It's can.
Can.
We learned last week what it is.
C-A-N-N-E-S in France.
What is it again?
Can.
Yeah, like I said.
So they had the big celebration at Can.
Over the weekend.
And I see where Kevin Costner's three-hour film,
the first of a four-part series, Horizon,
releasing Chapter 1 in theaters June 28th.
I am looking forward to it.
He said,
at Cannes, that there were three more, three more chapters coming.
So four chapters of Horizon.
He got a standing ovation of 11 minutes.
And I thought, okay, well, that's really cool, right?
And then I start reading about what else was going on at Can.
Was that right?
Can.
Yeah, that's what I said.
And the 11 minutes was not the winner.
sorry about it Kevin
I see
where
what's your face
Demi Moore
who was there
made her
a can debut
with a movie
called The Substance
a blood spattered
horror thriller
she got 13 minutes
so that's the winner
so far
Kevin only got 11
Demi got 13
and then the other
film
Amelia
Perez, a musical crime comedy by Jacques Odead, about an escaped Mexican cartel leader undergoing gender-affirming surgery.
So I mentioned that one.
Well, he got nine minutes.
They got nine minutes ovation after that movie, because it sounds great.
the movie is
Amelia Perez
that's a musical crime
comedy
about an escaped
Mexican cartel leader
undergoing
gender affirming surgery
man do I want to see that
I cannot wait
until that hits the theaters
that's going to knock
whatever the number one movie is
off the top
you can bet on that
that's for sure
so if
Paramount's family comedy debuted with $35 million,
number one at the box office this weekend.
That's pretty strange.
I thought Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes would stay number one,
but it's still number two with $26 million on its second weekend.
I don't know if my, I went on, when did I go?
On Wednesday?
Yeah, so I guess that counts for this weekend.
I gave them the 26 doesn't count to week one.
And then strangers, the fall guy.
Challengers
Back to Black
Toro, Godzilla and Kong
The New Empire
Still hanging in there
In the top 10
Number 8
Wow
194.
994.4 million
Domestic
Blue Angels
Number 9
I would like to see that
That's at IMAX
It's an IMAX
exclusive release
I know it's going to be
It's going to be out on Prime
Next week
But I really would like to see it
at an IMAX theater
because it's
follows the Blue Angels.
It would be really cool to see on an IMAX screen.
But, you know, if not, I'll watch it on Prime.
And Unsung Hero is number 10 on the top 10 list this week at the theaters.
Then next weekend, which is Memorial Day weekend already.
Wow.
We have the Mad Max saga, which is going to debut on Friday.
So that's the prequel to the 2015's Mad Max Fury Road.
starring Anna Taylor Joy and Chris Hemsworth.
I saw the previews at the theater.
It looks okay.
It's got rave reviews, so we'll see how it works out.
I mean, we have, if it's Memorial Day weekend, wow.
I mean, holy cow, we got to see that.
We've got the Indianapolis 500.
We've got the Monaco Grand Prix.
We've got the French Open.
I mean, it's a, that's going to be a busy weekend.
Not to mention that Memorial Day, where we, you know, will have parades.
to honor our fallen soldiers, right?
I mean, that's what it is.
Is it still, is it just Memorial Day,
holiday, is it decoration day?
Is it, it's not happy Memorial Day, right?
I mean, even though people believe that it probably is,
it's just Memorial Day, where we honor the fallen soldiers.
And I think for years it was called Decoration Day,
where we, you know, because we were decorating the graves of our fallen soldiers,
and we paid respects to them.
So I guess we have,
parades with our military to show our respect for the soldiers who lost their lives for us.
So anyway, it'll be a Memorial Day and you can show your respect by decorating a gravesite
of a fallen soldier.
And nothing says a happy Memorial Day like that.
Am I right?
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and then there was another open house sign
with balloons hanging off the top
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Look, there are those who lead
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And when it's time for you to buy or sell a house,
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You know, a number of years,
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Okay.
Who died today?
Who died today?
Let's begin.
with Dabney Coleman.
Dabney Coleman, the
actor. Very sad.
I loved his work.
Dead at the age of
92.
You remember Dabney.
He was in 9 to 5,
the classic with, you know,
Jane Fond, Deli Tomlin,
Daly Parton.
He did several, I mean,
TV shows huge. And he was just in
Yellowstone as well. He played John
Dutton Sr. in Yellowstone.
so, you know, very sad.
He was in, I mean, Tutsi on Golden Pond,
war games, the Beverly Hillbillies,
where the heart is.
The guy is, it was awesome.
And one of his lines that I really liked
was that he said,
I like to say things funny,
not say funny things.
And he loved being the curmudgeon.
He said it's a lot of fun.
And he can always,
it's so much fun because you can't do that in real life.
At least you can't get away with it.
And he had an amazing life.
He started, he was born in Austin, Texas,
and he talked about how, you know, he was in the military.
Then he went to study law school.
And that's, then he got a divorce.
And I read between the lines that he got a divorce
and then remarried and went to Hollywood.
So the first wife was like, no, what do you?
What are you?
You're not going to become an actor.
Oh, yeah, I expected you to become a lawyer.
Nope, I'm out.
I'm going to be an actor.
Have a nice day.
And he did.
So, rest in peace to Dabney Coleman, dead at the age of 92.
He died at his home.
No cause of death was given, although, you know, according to his family, he died peacefully and exquisitely at his home.
So rest in peace.
to be that or they would have said something, right?
Right.
Damny Coleman, rest in peace, dead at the age of 92.
Then we have CNN political commentator Alice Stewart.
She dropped dead at the age of 58.
Very sad.
I'm not laughing, okay?
It's just funny to me because all these people just died suddenly.
Yeah, she's 58.
She died suddenly.
Yeah, they just dropped over.
Oh, okay.
Law enforcement officials believed that she died from a medical emergency.
No foul play was expected.
Yes, she was on a Saturday morning walk or run,
and she had a medical emergency and dropped over dead.
Just died suddenly.
Huh.
Interesting.
Isn't it?
Interesting.
Then we had a Bank of America broker.
at the age of
25 just
dropped dead
he was out playing soccer
with his work buddies
and he just had a cardiac arrest
and dropped dead
oh wow yeah rest in peace
to Adnan Dumbick
dead at the age of 25
now they claim that he was under a lot of stress
at work and they're not
saying that that's what caused
caused his death. I mean, he was working 11, 12 hours a day. So, oh, you didn't have time to get coffee.
Yeah, I'm sure that he had time to get coffee, but you're still working, uh, you know, a serious,
stressful job. But does that mean that you just drop over at a soccer match with your buddies
on the weekend? Uh, I don't know. I don't believe it. But, you know, he died, uh, you know,
of some sort of cardiac arrest. And not long ago, another Bank of America employed.
died of acute coronary artery thrombosis.
Oh, really?
Somebody else?
Yeah, Leo Lucanis, the third.
Just dropped over dead.
Wow.
Rest in peace to both these guys
and I feel sorry for their families
and all of it, but incredible
that all these people around the globe,
these young people around the globe
are just dropping over of cardiac arrests,
medical emergencies, wonder what could be causing that.
I'm sure.
Now, look at me.
Don't look at me because I'm sure that if it was that,
they would actually tell you, right?
Right.
Then we had a horrific helicopter crash in Iran.
Four people died, or at least multiple, more than four,
because they had the helicopter pilots and the crew
have passed away. Nobody cares about them, though. What they care about is the Iranian president.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs, a representative of the Supreme Leader in the East Azerbaijan province
and governor of East Azerbaijan province. That's what they care about. So we had the Iranian president,
Abraham Horasi, 63, who was dead in the crash. And I mean, he was known as the butcher,
So it's real sad, very, very sad that he died in a helicopter crash.
And they're trying to, I guess it was some, you know, historic fog that came out of nowhere.
So you make your own judgment on what caused the fog.
Was it the weather machine?
Yeah, I'm sure that's what they will say.
But some changes coming in Iran.
And we'll see if it's for the best.
best with these changes.
That's kind of doubtful.
Oh, and a big surprise
in the Scotty Sheffler
arrest on
Friday, the police
officer, oh darn it, he forgot
to turn on his body cam footage.
What? Yeah, he
forgot. So that
you know,
the second degree assault of a police
officer, criminal mischief,
reckless driving,
disregarding signals from an officer directing
traffic. You know, he allegedly drove past a police officer who was directing traffic and failed
to stop when directed. He forgot to turn on his body cam. Gosh darn it. Wouldn't you know it?
Now, he claims that he, Sheffler accelerated and dragged him causing injuries to his left wrist
and his knee. No way. I do not believe it. That was not reported from the very beginning.
from Jeff Darlington.
And I believe, personally,
that it was a misunderstanding
and he just wanted to get into the golf course.
And everything that was reported up to his arrest
is exactly what happened.
Then after they arrested him,
the officer realized who he was
and what was going to happen,
the press that was going to happen.
So he wrote in his police report
about his pants being ruined
and then he went to the hospital,
saying that he had injuries to his left wrist and his knee.
So I find that very, very hard to believe.
And we'd know whether it was true or not
if he had activated his body cam video.
But gosh darn it.
No, he forgot.
So I guess we go before the judge on Tuesday
and we'll see what happens.
I mean, Schaeffler has called it a big misunderstanding
in a chaotic situation.
So his arraignment is scheduled 4.4.
tomorrow morning or it was and I don't know if he has to be there or not but it'll be interesting to
see what comes of this particular case.
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So just when you thought Jeff Bezos and Blue Origin were done
and closing up shop, nope.
They did a launch this weekend.
They successfully launched six tourists,
including the first black man to train as an astronaut
to the edge of space.
He also sets the record now away from our man William Shatner,
who took off in 2021.
So he is the oldest man to go to space, I believe, at the age of 90.
He was there with five other space tourists,
venture capitalist Mason Angel,
French entrepreneur Sylvan Chiron,
a software engineer and entrepreneur Kenneth L. Hess,
and a retired accountant, I guess,
I don't know how the retired accountant got money for this,
but, you know, maybe she deep-pocketed some extra cash as an accountant,
Carol Schuller and aviator Gopai Flakatura, or thought Kura, yeah, that's right.
And so they went off.
Now, he and Dwight, the NASA's first black astronaut candidate in the 60s,
never made the trip to space.
And he had his dreams come true by going to space by reaching the Carmeline this weekend.
But amazing that they launched it, launched for us.
you know the where Bezos has his rocket launching there in the desert of Texas it marked the
first time Blue Origin launched in a couple of years so I don't know what's happening I don't know
what brought this on but it did it didn't get much press it's just amazing that we still
you know have it going on now of course we wanted to do it with Ed Dwight because he was the first
you know, African-American black astronaut,
and he faced, you know,
he claimed racism from his colleagues,
including the First Commandment of the school
Chuck Yeager.
He said that they were all instructed
to give him the cold shoulder.
And so, you know, we have to believe
what the man said,
but he did obviously never go to space.
And so he thought his career was finished,
but no, he got to go to space
on Blue Origin by
going to the or going past
Carmen Lime
I mean we did that
and we're still waiting for the
Boeing spaceship to launch
It was back on the
Launch pad last week
And we went ahead
Yeah we're gonna you know go ahead to cancel this
We've got another leak
Helium leak so we're gonna go ahead
And postpone this
Oh when are we gonna
You know make the launch?
I don't know we'll try
We'll try sometime
in a week or so
as soon as we can get this thing together.
So we're looking at maybe the 25th of this month.
Maybe.
Today is the 20th.
So maybe another five days.
Huh.
The Boeing Starliner,
which is supposed to send NASA astronauts,
Barry Butch Wilmore,
and Sanita Sunni Williams
to the International Space Station.
Yeah.
We'll see.
What happens?
I was originally canceled on the sixth of
this month because, yeah, we've got a faulty oxygen tank.
And this time we've got a helium link.
So we're going to have to cancel this.
Well, we're not going to cancel.
We're going to postpone.
And we're going to try to get this thing together before the end of the month.
Okay.
So I guess the astronauts are quarantined in Houston and they'll fly back to Kennedy Space Center
sometime and we get closer to the launch when we decide that the Boeing Starliner
will be able to launch.
So we'll see if that thing ever leaves the ground and take these people to the ISS.
I mean, SpaceX is launching left and right, and satellites are being launched all over.
We got Blue Origin taking former astronauts past the carbon line, but the Boeing Starliner launch.
Yeah, we're going to go ahead and have to postpone this.
We can't launch right now.
We've got some leaks.
Incredible.
All right.
let's do the joke of the day and get out of here for a for a chewing the fat Monday.
Today's math problem.
It's kind of a helpful math problem.
Makes one makes you think a little bit.
Uh, today's math problem.
If George is 68 and his girlfriend is 22, how much money does George have?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You can do your own math.
You know, you can figure that out yourself.
I loved the first comment underneath this math problem joke was a question.
Can a woman make a man a millionaire?
Answer.
Yes, she can, provided he was a billionaire prior to meeting her.
It's just a joke.
Calm down.
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