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Episode Date: March 3, 2025

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Shigalosis. Yeah, that's what I said. Okay. It can spread through the exposure of infected feces, contaminated food or water, or sexual contact with person to person the most common form of the transmission. That's according to our friends at the CDC,

the Centers for Disease Control. and prevention. This hypercontagious bacterial disease have surged in Oregon in a county that goes by the name of Multanoma, M-U-L-T-N-O-M-A-H County. Moloma. Okay, the T is silent. Mulnoma. I got it.

Okay, I got it. Malnoma County. And they are reporting 40 cases of the sickness in January, which is the last we reporting month, according to the Mulnoma County Health Department. Yay! Officials said 56% of the most recent cluster are believed to be among the homeless, with other cases linked to methamphetamine or opiate usage. So when you don't have housing, it's harder to prevent infectious disease and harder to access care to treat disease compared to if you are housed.

Oh, okay. So we have that going for us. The rise of Shigella cases over recent years is concerning, you think? So they're investing in public health and they're monitoring and trying to slow the spread of the disease. So apparently there's a game called the Oregon Trail game that you can get dysentery in. So it's not a game anymore. And I just want to be clear, you don't want to be clear. You don't want it. You don't want to get dysentery.

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Welcome to Chewing the Fat. It may be time for this program, Chewing the Fat, or myself, Jeff Fisher, to get a checking account from Citigroup. Apparently, they mistakenly credited a customer's account with $81 trillion. Now, no one noticed it for about an hour and a half and the person whose account it went into didn't notice it. Apparently, he had deposited $280 into his account, and they credited his account with $81 trillion. Now, obviously, trillions of dollars. Just not real.

I get it. But it took hours to reverse the transaction, which the bank calls a near miss. Oh, okay. So it occurred back in April, and it missed by a payments employee and a second official assigned to check the transaction before it cleared to be processed the next day, citing an internal account and two people familiar with the event. the third employee caught the error one and a half hours later and said the payment was processed and then the transaction, hey, we probably need to reverse this. No funds left city, which disclosed the near miss when the bank processes the wrong amount but is able to recover the fund.

Okay, so nobody knew it was there. No funds were missed and of course they didn't transfer $81 trillion. Now, obviously that money is not real. If your account had $2 million extra in it or a couple hundred thousand dollars extra in it, you might consider, hey, that's mine. It isn't. I know that. I got it.

But I think if I looked in my bank account and it was $2 million credited to my account, I may move it to another account. I won't spend it because sooner or later they're going to come looking for it. And you can say, I just moved it. I knew it wasn't mine. There you go. you can have it back and whatever interest you made on that money in that other account, hopefully is just yours, which, you know, good luck.

They'll try to take that as well. But apparently there were 10 near misses of a billion dollars or more at city last year. That's why I said, it's time maybe for me to open up a Citigroup account. Now, they had 13 the year before. So it's down. They're taking care of it. They're working on it. So they've been fined before.

So they've been fined $136 million for insufficient progress in tackling those issues. And in 2020, they were fined $400 million for some risk and data failures. Okay. So according to the CFO, they saw the need to invest more in the transformation on data technology, on improving the quality of information coming out of our regulatory reporting. Oh, okay. So I don't know how I'd feel if I looked at my bank account and saw $81 trillion, because that just doesn't happen.

But if it was a lower number, I don't know what the line is. It's not $80 trillion, but maybe $1 trillion. If it was just $1 trillion, then I would think, hey, that's mine, and I'm going to go ahead and spend some of it. But, you know, you can't, sadly. But let's say you notice it. And you say, oh, my gosh, I've got $81 trillion in my bank account. What would you do with it?

Well, you may buy Skype because Microsoft announced that it's going to retire the once popular video calling app Skype in May. So you may call Microsoft and say, hey, I have $81 trillion. And I'm willing to buy Skype. Look, I know that you bought Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011. So I'll tell you what, I'll give you $5 billion right now. I give you $5 billion cash right now. And I'll take Skype off your hands. And Microsoft might say, okay, it's all yours.

So then by the time the bank catches up with your $81 trillion, which is now, you know, $16 trillion, you can say, hey, I bought Skype with it. What do you want from me? I know, dry your eyes. No more Skype. It's a sad day. I was interested in the timeline of Skype. So it was founded in 2003 by a group of Nordic engineers.

So they reached 10 million users very fast. And two years later, eBay acquired it for $2.6 billion. Then in 2009, a consortium of of investors, including Andresen Horowitz, bought a 65% stake in Skype for $1.9 billion. And they valued the business at that time at $3 billion. Then Microsoft bought it, as I said in 2011, for $8.5 billion. Wow. At its peak, it had 300 million monthly users.

But now, as of 2023, apparently it dropped to roughly 36,000. million. That's still a lot of people, but it's not enough for Microsoft. So the name Skype originates from sky peer to peer, which was shortened to Skype and then further shortened to Skype because the domain name, Skype, S-K-Y-P-E-R dot com, had already been taken. So they didn't want to pay the money for Skype. You know what? We're now Skype and we're not paying anybody for the domain name. That's how they came up with Skype. Anyway, you have until May to use your Skype account, your video calling Skype account.

And I use Skype. Not often anymore, but I do use it. And it works fantastic. I just, I don't know why Microsoft is unhappy with it. I know we have FaceTime and Slack and Zoom and all, everybody else. You know, you can have video conferencing. But I just, you know, Skype is there and we use it for interview. and such. So it's kind of weird that it's going to go away. But have a nice day to Skype,

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a Lifetime Achievement Award that includes a $100,000 unrestricted grant, professional support, and performance opportunities. That's kind of cool. They do the story specifically on this one jazz pianist, Bertha Hope, and her life, she's 88 now, and she is part of the program's inaugural class of 20 fellows, and she was obviously very humbled and thankful to win this or to be awarded this. And she's had a huge career, but she's 88 now. And of course, they talk about there's no retirement. plan for the jazz musicians and apparently there's inadequate health care coverage for so many and so they just want to make life easier however they can. Pretty cool. I will say this. So the 2025 Jazz Legacy Fellows are George Cables 80 pianist. Love him. Valerie Capers, 89 pianist, George Coleman 89, saxophonist, Akua Dixon 76, cellist, Mante Ellis, 92, guitarist Billy Hart 84, drummer Tom

Harold 78, trumpeter, Bertha Hope, 88, who we mentioned, Roger Humphreys 88, a drummer, Carmen Lundy, 70, vocalist Amina Claudine Myers, 82, pianist, Rast Roscoe Mitchell, 84, Johnny O'Neill, no, Roscoe Mitchell, 84 is a multi-readist, Johnny O'Neill, 68 is a pianist, Shannon Powell, 62, a drummer, Julian, no, she just, Shannon Powell just made the line. Shannon is probably a man, not a female, but you never know. Julian Pryster, 89, trombonist, Dizzy Reese, 94 a trumpeter, Hurlin Riley, 64, a drummer, Michelle Rose Woman, 71, a pianist, Dom Salvador, 86, a pianist, and Reggie O'Warkman, 87, a bassist.

All pulling in that $100,000, unrestricted grant, along with professional support and performance opportunities. congratulations to all of them. And that's kind of cool that Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Jazz Foundation of America is doing this. Seems to be doing this without government money.

Huh, that's how that works, huh? Just citizens and foundations helping other citizens and foundation without you said money. Huh, weird. Be sure to follow me on my social media is at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio is Facebook and Instagram.

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You could spend some of that money going to steak and shake if you wanted to. Now, when's the last time you've been to steak and shake? I will say that I have, I used to go to steak and shake quite a bit. I know this comes as a huge surprise. But at one point in my life, I loved steak and shake. I loved the chili. I love the cheese burgers. I love the fries and their chocolate shakes were out of this world.

Now, I had been there in a while. And in fact, the one steak and shake that was close to where I used to live, closed down two of them, in fact, that were in, you know, reasonable distance from where I live, shut down. There was another one that remained open that was close to where the studios are, where Mercury Studios are in Irving, Texas. And I hadn't been there in a long time. And so I did get some steak and shake, I don't know, it was probably three months ago now. don't remember. It was in the recent past. And it was not the same. I'm sorry. No, it was not the same. I was very, very disappointed. There was an issue with the fries. They weren't the same kind of fries. The shake was not as delicious as I remember. The burgers were just like every other burger. It didn't feel like the steak and shake of the past.

Well, now, according to the CEO of Steak and Shake, I'm sorry, the C-O-O-O-of-Stake and Shake, they are changing up a little bit of what they do. He says that as of March, so starting now, I guess, since if you're listening live, today is the 3rd of March 2025, steak and shake locations will cook their fries in beef tallow instead of vegetable oil. Oh, okay. Apparently, this comes as a change because of the new Trump administration's health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

That's what they claim. We've actually been thinking about this for a while, said the C.O. Have you? Our owner, my boss, is a man named Sardar Bigelar. love him, the owner of Steak and Shake, Sardar Big Lari. He called me one time and said, you know, why should Europeans have better fries than Americans? And he explained that Big Lari's love for beef tallow fries started when he visited Belgium as a child, where he had what he called the best fries of his life.

And that memory stuck with him. And for years, he wanted steak and shake to capture that same taste. and so now we have a supplier that's capable of meeting our beef tallow needs. And so if you're a beef tallow supplier, now's your time. You're in. No problem. RFK has got you covered. So he's been,

RFK has been a vocal advocate of using beef tallow and cooking. So maybe steak and shake is going to get back to the steak and shake of old. I don't know. But for sure, they're going to be having fries cooked in beef. Tallow, which, according to them, is crispier, it's golden brown, it's absolutely delicious. Okay. You're not going to want us to go back to the old way. No, well, I kind of do at least want you to go back to the old way of being, what's the

word I'm looking for? Good, because it wasn't the last time I had it. So whatever you need to do to get back to the old steak and shake of old, their C-O-O-Daniel Edwards, go ahead and do it. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. All right, so how about those Oscars, huh? How about those Academy Awards?

So I was watching the last part of the red carpet on streaming ABC live streaming, wherever it was streaming at YouTube or ABC Live or whatever it was. And then that was time to go to the Academy Awards. And they drove me over to the Oscars. They said, we're wrapping up here on the show. red carpet, go on over and watch the Academy Awards. And I went to my Hulu app and it was down. And I logged me out, so I tried to log back in and I couldn't.

And apparently, I wasn't the only one. Hulu face planted big time. Thousands of people unable to access the live stream within the broadcast first hour. Yeah, I pretty much gave up. I wasn't going to go back to it until my wife finally logged back in into the living room television since I was relegated to the bedroom. And so I ended up watching the whole darn thing after that. I didn't watch the entire thing since I couldn't, thanks to Hulu. Okay.

So I get it. You were all happy that the Oscars live stream on Hulu was there except that, well, it wasn't, was it? No, no, it wasn't. They sold out all their ad inventory. I think if I had commercials in the first hour of the Oscars, I would have, I'd ask for some of my money back for sure. So that's just me, though. That's just me.

I don't have any control over any of that. So now the Academy has reportedly begun, and not because of this, but it certainly doesn't hurt that they're doing this. They've begun shopping for its next TV home with Netflix and Amherst. Amazon in the mix as potential suitors seeking global rights. Yeah, well, at least if it was on Netflix and or Amazon, you could just be there. They could be the red carpet and then you'd go to the award show.

And I wouldn't have to log in and out and be logged in and out. I could actually watch it. So anyway, it was agonizing to get to it. Thank you, Hulu for that. I appreciate it. And Disney. But then let's get to the Oscar. I mean, the only thing that kind of surprised me was they gave the best actress to Mickey, Mickey Madison, Mikey Madison for Enora instead of Demi Moore for the substance.

I think everyone thought Demi was going to get it too. But Anora was the big winner for this year's Oscars. You know, it was about the strip show club in New York or wherever the hell it was. I have not seen Anora, so I'm not, you know, not real. familiar with what is it about. I just know what I was told that it was about. So congratulations. I love Mikey Madison. I told you that on Friday.

She was awesome in the television show, Better Things. She was awesome. She played the daughter. Anyway, and so, you know, I'm not unhappy that she won. Good for her. I love her work. But everyone thought it was going to go to Demi Moore and probably should have gone to Dimmy Moore. And then, of course, the actor in a leading role was Adrian Brody,

actor in a supporting role went to Karen Culkin, which is, you know, pretty much called for, and actress in a supporting role went to Zoe Saldana. So they were all as predicted except for the actress in a leading role. They kicked a demi to the curb. That's nice of them. I know. I know. It's nice of them.

I will say this. I was reading an article. Gosh, darn it. What was it from? Might have been a variety. I'm not sure. I don't remember. Let's just say that it was variety since I read a lot of their

a lot of their stuff on Hollywood and one of the writers in the story that I was reading talked about how it's disappointing that the supporting actors are really co-leads

they're not supporting actors they're support their co-act the co-leads that carried the film you know if you don't win it wasn't meant to be so but they they make them as supporting so that they win an Oscar, when really they should be a co-lead and be under the lead actors category,

which I don't necessarily disagree with. You know, Karen Culkin and Zoe Eldana, those were co-leads, right? They weren't supporting actors in the movies. But anyway, it's, you know, I know, I got it. I got it. That's the way the Oscars are. and that's the way it is. I was reading a story about

how Jagger, you know, Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones, was at a pre-Oscar party, and he brought the wife, Melanie Hamrick, with him, and I thought, oh, that's interesting. He must be doing some side of, he's not just showing up at an Oscar party.

So he must be part of the Oscars. And he was, and he was awesome when he came out. It was awesome to see Mick. He's 81 now. Now, the wife is 37. This wife is 37. and they were, you know, they were at this party and they were, you know, glad-hanting with everyone. And I saw some of the selfies that people were taking with Mick at the party.

And the one picture has got Adrian Brody who ended up winning the best actor and Jagger and Coleman Domingo. And Coleman is leaning in with his, you know, cheek to cheek with Mick. And Mick is smiling. But inside, Mick is saying, get off me. I know you want a picture with me, but get off me. Okay? So let's just not have that. I am in love with Jagger, like his girlfriend or wife.

I guess, I guess is she just a girlfriend? I don't think they're married. Anyway, he met her in Tokyo in 2014. She was just, she got tickets to the show as an American ballet theater dancer. And Mick said, hi. you doing, I'm Mick Jagger. So his then-girlfriend, fashion designer Elron Scott,

died by suicide. And so that's when Jagger said, hey, Hamrick, come here, baby. So he has kids, I mean, all his children, man. Holy cow. And he has children with Hamrick as well. He has eight children.

Daughter Carus, 54. Actress Marissa Hunt, Jade, 53. His ex-wife, Bianca Jagger, sons James 39, Gabriel 27, and daughters Elizabeth 41 in Georgia, May 33. With ex-wife Jerry Hall and son Lucas 25 and Lucinia Gimaz Morad. I don't think that's her name. So then now he's got kids with this one as well. And this one, I think, is 9, 10 years old,

something like that. Oh, yeah, that's right. He was born in 2016. Okay, yeah. So Devereux was born in 2016. So bless Mick Jagger's heart. Bless his heart. And there was no Harrison Ford at the Oscars.

He was supposed to show up, but he pulled the plug. Couldn't present at the Oscars because he has shingles. And he said, no, I got shingles diagnosis. and it's a non-life-threatening incurable viral infection that causes a painful rash. And he said, I can't.

And I can't be there at the Oscars with suffering from shingles right now. So if you were bummed that, you know, Harrison couldn't be there. That's why. I know. And Conan was the host. He was fine. He was fine. I got a problem with Conan.

It was fun. And I did see a quick fact that is interesting about the movies. This comes from Sean Fennacy, who is co-host of The Big Picture Podcast. Can't tear me away from that podcast. Reported that from 1997 to 2004, every best picture winner grossed at least $100 million at the domestic box office. Okay. So every best picture from 1997 to 2004, was a $100 million domestic box office.

In the 20 years since then, only five films have made that much. Anora, that won, you know, last night, won big last night, earned 15.6 million domestically. Wow. On a budget of $6 million. Yeah, they made a big deal about it being indie films. And what's his face, Sean Baker,

the best who won the director and he won a bunch of other awards for Anora, you know, made the battle. for saving movie theaters and continue to make films for the big screen and this is how you do it. We made this film on a budget and you can do this. And so, okay, all right. We'll see. You know, if that's the way to do it, that seems to be the way of that's been happening.

We always have some big budget films that do great, but there's a lot of movies that companies will say, hey, here's $6 million, or here's $5 million. and go make a movie. Isn't that what the, what's their name? That's one of there's a company out there. I mean, that's their game plan. You come to them, give them an idea. If they love the idea, think it's worth the movie,

they're going to give you $5 million or $6 million or whatever the amount is. And they're going to say, go, make the movie and bring it back to us. So, I mean, it's pretty an acceptable way to be making movies. Oh, and speaking of Harrison Ford, two episodes into 1923, season two on Paramount Plus. Man, is it good? The first season was really good. This second season, the first two episodes have been really, really good.

I mean, I'm all bought in on all the characters. We go from the ranch to Harrison and the city. We have the big city douchebag. I'm all in on the Indian chick and the crazy marshal with the city. priest hunting her down. I'm all in on the wife. I'm all in on the guy who is now in Galveston working with the mobsters. I'm in. Done very, very well. And 1923, well worth the watch on Paramount Plus. It better not go downhill because the first two episodes have been really, really good. I just wish they would just drop the whole season so I could, you know, binge it. It'd be done with it.

but I'll just wait each week until it drops. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with David Johansson.

David Johansson, very sad, huge fan of David. he has passed away at the age of 75. You may know him as Buster Point Dexter. He was awesome. He passed away with his family, surrounded by his family. They say he died of natural causes after nearly a decade of illnesses. Wow. Very, very sad.

David Johansen slash Buster Point Dexter. You remember David with the New York Dowles back in the 70s and 80s? I mean, he was such a force to be reckoned with in those times. I remember he talked about that we didn't consider ourselves glitter rock. We were just rock and roll. This is a quote from him in the book, Please Kill Me, an oral history of punk music. And we thought that's the way you were supposed to be.

If you were in rock and roll, if you were in a rock and roll band, be flamboyant. Yeah. I mean, that's, and he was. He was awesome on stage and he was a force to be reckoned with. And apparently he had been really sick the last few years, which I don't know that I knew that. Maybe we talked about David being sick. I mean, you remember Buster Point Dexter from Saturday Night Live

and he had the big song Hot, Hot, Hot, the cover tune. He said in an interview, that was the Bain. of my life. Oh, the song he hated. Yep, that's the hit. Okay, we're good. And, I mean, he just has a bunch of albums. Love the Blues.

And I guess he had serious health challenges for the last five years anyway, including a brain tumor. He kept the news private and he kept working. He was hosting his gig as weekly serious XM radio show, Mansion of Fun. He performed in London. He did other celebrations in Greenwich Village. So he had his documentary out on him,

personality crisis one night only, which is, you know, a chronicle of his life, which is pretty cool. Anyway, very sad. David Johansen, dead at the age of 75. Then we have Angie Stone. Angie Stone has passed away at the age of 63. Angie is a singer who rose to fame in the hip-hop trio,

The Sequence, and later became a prominent soul singer on her own. She died at the age of 63. She died in a car crash. So sad. She was on her way from Montgomery, Alabama to Atlanta. And I guess she was coming back from a performance with their band members. And she was struck by an 18-wheeler, flipped three times.

She was the only person who died in the... accident. Very, very sad. And the children are just distraught, and I don't blame them. They were quoted as saying, never in a million years. Did we ever expect to get this horrible news? Yeah, no kidding. Mom, we'll be back. And now, that's what you're, that's what you're always thinking. But she had a huge career, uh, making albums singing soul. She was inducted into the women's songwriters Hall of Fame. Uh, she's been, uh, she was on VH of one celebrity fit club and R&B divas out of Atlanta. She was in the movie The Hot Chick and the fighting the fighting temptations.

It says here that she survived. Okay, and I'm not quite sure I understand this. She's survived by her diamond, Michael, and her grandchildren. So does that mean that Michael is her diamond? Or is that she survived by her diamond? And then there's Michael and her grandchildren. Not quite sure. I'm pretty sure that Michael is the diamond.

but I don't know that. Rest in peace. Angie Stone, dead at the age of 63. And then we have the Gene Hackman case and his wife. He did get really nice in memoriam at the Oscars last night. And of course, what's his face? Morgan Freeman, who was the presenter for the In Memorium, he came out and paid his respects to Gene Hackman.

And I lost a deal. friend, Jane Hackman. Pleasure of working alongside Gene on two films, unforgiven and under suspicion. And like everyone who ever shared a scene with him, I learned he was a generous performer and a man whose gifts elevated everyone's work. He received two Oscars,

But more importantly, they won the hearts of film lovers all over the world. No kidding. Not the fact. Gene always said, I don't think about legacy. I just hope people remember me as someone who tried to do good work.

So I think I speak for us all when I say, Gene, you'll be remembered for that. And so much more. And for so much more. Yeah, no doubt. Rest and peace to Gene Hackman. And they put him also in the memoriam montage as well.

But there's new information about the death of Gene and his wife and the dog in New Mexico. But we still don't know anything really about what happened. We know that she was found on the bathroom floor, space heater, open bottle of prescription medication, pills scattered on the countertop. And so the medications. We're an unspecified thyroid medication. The painkiller Tylenol. Tylenol is a painkiller.

Okay. And the blood pressure medication, Diltaiism. I'm not quite sure what that medication is. Deltiasm. Yeah, I pronounced it correctly. I just didn't know what it was. It's a blood pressure medicine.

I guess it's just a blood pressure medicine that makes it easier for your heart to pump blood. That's what blood pressure medicine does. Deltiasm. I got it. Thank you. So anyway, is that what killed the dog in the bathroom? Who knows? We really don't know.

We have, I guess they have a monthly planner. They have a couple of cell phones. Of course, all of it is important to the investigation. They were dead at least 10 days before they were found. Very sad. The whole thing is very sad. And the investigation is still ongoing. Will we ever know?

They still claim that it doesn't look like foul play. So this 95-year-old man and his 64-year-old wife or 65-year-old wife both died at the same time, along with a dog, and there was two other dogs on the property still alive? Just really, really, really strange. And so will we ever know? That's the question, isn't it? 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.

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You can quote beyond that. And we got news that Elon Musk has had another child. Well, I mean, one of his women had another child. he's fathered another child. Now, the headlines are all Elon has his 14th child, but technically this is only the 13th, because he hasn't recognized the kid from Ashley St. Clair yet. Is it his?

Probably. But he has not recognized that, and she's still suing him. Requesting sole custody, requesting that they had the child together. And she, you know, of course, wanted to keep the baby and he was quiet, but didn't.

Uh-huh. And she alleges that Elon has seen the baby boy only three times. Uh, is he embarrassed? It doesn't, that's kind of unlike Elon to be embarrassed about something like that. But, uh,

he hasn't acknowledged that, uh, these, this baby from Ashley is his. So he may still be questioning, uh, the validity of this baby being his. But,

so technically he has 13. But we all believe that he has 14. He, broke the news, Chivon Zillis, with whom he's already has three children with made the announce. She said that discuss with Elon and in light of beautiful

Arcadia's birthday, we felt it was better to also just share directly about our wonderful and incredible son Selden, likeurgis, built like a juggernaut with a solid heart of gold, love him so much and they didn't reveal when the baby was born or any other details.

There is a picture of Elon and Zillis, and he's wearing a shirt that I really like. I love this T-shirt made on earth by humans. Love that shirt. I want that, actually. I would love to have that shirt.

Elon, if you're not doing anything, I know you're not doing much these days. Send me a shirt. You can send it to Jeff Fisher and care of chewing the fat or to chewing the fat and care of Jeff Fisher, however you want to do it. And I'd like a 2x or a 3X.

You know what? You can make it a 4x. if you want made out of earth by humans okay yeah i don't want to get it myself but you can send it to me i mean elan's cranking them out man he is doing his best to crank him out and uh you gotta you gotta love him for that don't you no really you do all right uh let's get out of here i give you with the joke of the day uh joke of the day a man said to his wife one day i don't know how you can be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. First of all, I mean, someone should never say this to their wife.

In your head, you can call her stupid, but not out loud. Anyway, the joke is a man said to his wife, I don't know how you could be so stupid and so beautiful all at the same time. And, of course, the wife responded. Allow me to explain, God made me beautiful so you would be attracted to me. God made me stupid, so I would be attracted to you. I mean, that's tough to argue with. It's almost not a joke.

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