Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Within Normal Limits… | 7/23/25

Episode Date: July 23, 2025

Billions lost in fake returns… AI Phone Agents 24/7… Defense contracts for AI systems… Delta AI and Tariffs... Tariff sidestepping & questionable practices… Public Bathroom Crisis?... Chewin...gTheFat@theblaze.com Microsoft SharePoint hack details… Angelina and Salma flying domestic…Hunter and life around Euphoric Recall… Who Died Today: Retrospective / Ozzy Osbourne 76… Trump chronic venous insufficiency / Compression socks?... It’s Redskins or new stadium in Washington… Are workers back at Nashville’s new stadium yet?... Joke of The Day… Walter Matthau on Tonight Show... www.blazetv.com/jeffyPromo code Jeffy… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:47 They found that $685 billion of merchandise was returned in the United States last year. But 15% of that. $685 billion of merchandise that was returned or about $103 billion was fraudulent, meeting a lot of empty boxes or used items went back to retailers. So they're keeping track. When I say I need a refund and I need a new product, they're keeping track when I send back the empty box.
Starting point is 00:01:22 Bad returns are much more common in the return of e-commerce than in traditional source. That's why most of the time they tell you just to keep. it. When there's a problem that it was delivered from Amazon, and that's usually Amazon, that I've ever had a problem with from time to time, they just say keep it. Now, I have returned a product at one of the Amazon return centers. So that happens. And I think that was their way of kind of combating this process. But customers buying apparel, wearing it once, and sending it back for a refund. I mean, that doesn't say.
Starting point is 00:02:00 seems so far-fetched, but people claiming packages never arrived, that kind of thing. That's why they take pictures of the packages when they deliver them. And you can just say, I don't care, I got a picture you got. I never got it. Maybe somebody stole it. There were porch pirates. I don't know. I mean, you could try it.
Starting point is 00:02:19 Now, no data was provided in this oppressed retail and Deloitte report that I saw for the economic impact of the opposite phenomenon, generally requesting a return label, but then never finding the right size box to send the item back. Right. So if they received a, hey, I need to return this, and they write up the return label, but it never happens. So that's just, I guess that still counts as just a sale. Although it wasn't in the report. And I, man, I combed through every single page of this oppris retail and deloitte report so just know that uh they're watching okay they are watching welcome welcome to chewing the fat you know and when i say they are watching i mean uh i i i mean the world is uh moving fast to a i yesterday we talked about the four-day work week and
Starting point is 00:03:39 And we, you know, of course, sure, sure. The job only entails four days a week, but we don't have any openings right now because we have robots that are doing your job. Well, then we talked about how Delta Airline is using AI to tell you how much you have to pay for your ticket. Oh, okay. We're just going to use that to determine how much each customer is willing to pay. All right.
Starting point is 00:04:04 And I'm sure. I'm sure that it will be lower. one of the things I like that I've been reading about as well is how companies are trying to avoid tariffs and Delta is right in there which that's what it got me to Delta Airlines. They have adopted this tactic to avoid shelling out for tariffs. So they recently confirmed that it was removing engines from its Airbus A32 One Neoplanes in Europe and sending them stateside to be installed on. ground aircraft because shipping only the engines which happened to be made in the U.S.
Starting point is 00:04:45 instead of entire Airbus planes allows Delta to avoid the 10% tariff on European planes. Nice. That's a pretty smart move I thought. So good for them. Then it talks about how companies have been, I mean, companies have been trying to
Starting point is 00:05:02 you know sidestep the tariffs for forever. ever since there's been tariffs. Like now since Trump has got into office and we're dealing with tariffs all over from every country, we're revisiting
Starting point is 00:05:18 our tariff percentages with all countries. The practice of avoiding tariffs is kind of an overdrive. So companies are shifting the assembly of their U.S.-bound products from China to tariff countries like Vietnam,
Starting point is 00:05:34 still relying on the Chinese components and tech expertise, but then it's coming from another country. So, I mean, they're smartening up, or they're, you know, obviously, you know, opening up plants and product here in the United States. But Ford was just fined last year, 365 million. Seems a little bit low, but okay, we'll fine.
Starting point is 00:05:55 They were fine for $365 million, Ford, for misclassifying products or underreporting their value. So Ford was installing temporary seats in its cargo vans to import them as lower tariff passenger cars. That is awesome. Now, I know it's questionable. Some would say the Department of Justice that it's illegal. But I like it. I like it.
Starting point is 00:06:34 It makes me smile. That's all. Just makes me smile. And what I say, everything is, you know, moving to AI. Did I mention that the Defense Department just awarded contracts up to 200 million to Google Anthropic XAI and Open AI to develop AI systems for unspecified national security applications? Sure. All right. Good.
Starting point is 00:06:56 I mean, they claim that they have crossed over the uncanny valley. Okay. I guess this new bland AI is the world's most realistic AI phone calling agent they claim that you may have already spoken to it without even noticing. I think I noticed. But it understands emotions, responds
Starting point is 00:07:21 in any voice or language, and already handles a million phone calls simultaneously 24-7. Wow. So for enterprises, it's been a financial game changer. Because they're not having to pay humans for sales, customer support. It's the perfect employee.
Starting point is 00:07:43 So except for major shifts in international and U.S. jobs, it's the perfect employee. Bland AI. So you can go and check it out. They give you access to go check it out and see if they have more advanced versions and stuff. Now, I've heard, I know that I've heard a system through a system. through a drive-through. But that was learning. As I remember, we talked about it.
Starting point is 00:08:08 I remember because I drove through and I remember I said I needed a couple of something. And then the person on the other side of the drive-thru lane said
Starting point is 00:08:21 by a couple, what do you mean? Two, human? Two. Humans know that a couple is two. but it's learning, it's learning. And it's already here, man.
Starting point is 00:08:40 Kind of scary. I mean, I guess we could all get jobs cleaning public bathrooms, right? I mean, sure, absolutely we could do that. Ain't nobody got time for that? But you're going to have time for that because those are going to be the jobs that are available. Now, the headline, I talked about this today on Pat Graham Leashed when I did the Fat 5, the headline. The headline that caught my eye was that I did not know we actually had a problem. But according to this headline, the smart restrooms that can solve America's public bathroom crisis.
Starting point is 00:09:20 I did not know. I apologize to you, the audience of chewing the fat, that I did not know we had a public bathroom crisis. Apparently we do. and this company Throne Labs is betting that they are going to have this new system
Starting point is 00:09:39 that will lead to a more enduring system. Oh, okay. So according to this, when it comes to the prevalence of public toilets, I guess this is the crisis, one analysis suggests that the U.S. ranks
Starting point is 00:09:55 30th in the world tied with Botswana. I first of all I don't believe it but I've never been to Botswana so sure if you tell me that then that's what it is okay so obviously everyone says we'll just build more of them oh we can't do that because we've all seen the you know when you go to the park and you have the public bathrooms and nobody's been in there for a while yeah well that's we need robots cleaning those right we got it all right so but this company, Throne,
Starting point is 00:10:32 actually, it's kind of cool. And they claim that the unhoused people are patrolling the throne
Starting point is 00:10:47 bathrooms, public restrooms, to keep them clean so they don't go away. So that they keep them. Because that's the deal. So their solution, it's gating access to their facilities. Okay.
Starting point is 00:11:02 Users are associated with the unique, that you have a unique identifier via an app or text message. So dumb phones work too. And if you don't have a phone, you can get a key card. If you mess up the bathroom, you're given a warning. And if you're a repeat offender, you're not getting in. Okay. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:11:24 Yeah. Does guns just come down? Yeah. So that's according to Throne Labs' chief executive Fletcher Wilson. I'm a huge fan of Fletcher Wilson and Throne Labs chief executive. Actually, I should probably talk to Thretcher on the show. Fletcher on the show. That might be fun.
Starting point is 00:11:45 Throne bathrooms also have smoke sensors to detect if someone smokes in them. Occupancy sensors. They limit any given session to 10 minutes. After a warning, the doors will pop open. everyone has asked upon entry to rate the cleanliness of the bathroom if a bathroom needs cleaning a throne employee is dispatched for the cleanup there was due to a feces thrown all over the walls the floor the ceiling in a stunk so bad that's when a throne employee would be dispatched to the restroom and i'm guessing that whoever caused that would not be would not be allowed back
Starting point is 00:12:21 into the throne. So apparently the experience has been positive. Okay, he oversees, the cities are putting the thrones in. Pretty expensive though, but according to throne, it's cheaper to do this than to have the city upkeep public restrooms, right? Okay. So in
Starting point is 00:12:43 Ann Arbor, Michigan, it's right here, by the way, in the state of Michigan, Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan, they have been testing the thrones they have 10 put in for a year program that included 100,000 uses and ended up signing a five-year deal. Okay, to keep eight of them. So throne put in a couple extra. We're not taking those two. Get those out of here. In Los Angeles, the region's metro system has deployed 20 throne bathrooms and has plans to add 44 more.
Starting point is 00:13:18 in anticipation of events such as the World Cup and the Olympics. Yeah, they'll need them. One of the first deployments was at the metro station in MacArthur Park, which is a densely populated area, according to this, ravaged by the opioid epidemic. Community policing, as I talked about, has been very, very good because the unhoused people who rely on it for a clean and dignified place, to deal with life's necessities
Starting point is 00:13:50 took pains to make sure no one messed it up. Yeah, they'll be messing it up. We want to leave it here. So I get it. I get it. And if it could be cheaper for our municipalities to put these up and have them available, great.
Starting point is 00:14:06 Each prefabbed bathroom has running water from a built-in supply, solar power on the roof, flush toilets that empty into a built-in storage tank. Okay. The bathrooms must be refilled and emptied regularly, but the company can monitor use and adjust the service frequency. They can be serviced less often than the conventional bathrooms, which are attended on set schedules, and more often if a big event is happening.
Starting point is 00:14:35 Alternatives to Throne also leverage smart tech, but they go the route of traditional infrastructure, right, with plumbing. This is getting you away from the plumbing. These can go anywhere. So after each use, the toilet is clean, dried, preset intervals, cascading, uh-huh. Oh, he sees how it sprays the water on the floors. Well, maybe now's cool. It's really, it's really kind of cool. It's kind of a self-cleaning kind of thing.
Starting point is 00:15:01 All right, and I guess they use these in Paris. All right. So in the, I kind of like city planners, have contracts with Throne. They have, this is Throne speaking now. of course it's going to be glowing, but city planners using them is less costly than building and maintaining new bathrooms. You know, but you've got to make the point and you have to prove that it can work. So in the LA Metro system has contracted thrown for 30 locations.
Starting point is 00:15:32 $2.71 million for all of 2025 or a cost of about $90,000 per year per location. Is that cheaper than a public restroom? I mean, are you spending $90,000 on a public restroom? Okay, with maintenance, I guess maintenance and everything else. All right, I mean, I know we had the big couple million dollar public restroom in San Francisco that everybody was complaining about a few years ago, right? The city, of course, I mean, the government is spending way too much money on all that. But we'll see.
Starting point is 00:16:10 I mean, Throne has deployed, I guess, more than a hundred of itself contained. comfort stations across the U.S. to date and plans to continue enhancing them. A smell sensor, for instance, could dial up the ventilation system. It won't be tied to individual users, so it won't be like this person blew up the toilet.
Starting point is 00:16:35 I think it will be. Because I think that if you walked in there and saw, there was due to feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, in a stunk so bad. Yeah, I think we'd want to know who the individual user was
Starting point is 00:16:53 because we don't want them to have access to the app or the key card any longer. So look for them. Look for them in your hometown. Throne. I want to make sure I give them their proper credit. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining
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Starting point is 00:20:07 We got to talk about that. So, and you can order a cameo from me at any time at Jeffrey JFR on the cameo app. It is, it's not free, but it is worth every dog gone Penny, okay, at Jeffrey JFR on the Cameo app. So I was talking about the SharePoint hack. I thought, you know, we talked about yesterday about it being hacked, and I thought it had something to do with the Alaska Air shut down, and it is possible.
Starting point is 00:20:36 They obviously did not admit that. You know, Alaska Air said that it was a hardware-related electrical outage. Okay. I mean, it only happened on the exact date of when they... They had the crowdsource issues with Microsoft a year ago. But okay. No problem. But the issue, the alert that was issued by Microsoft,
Starting point is 00:21:02 they said that the vulnerabilities apply only to SharePoint servers used within organizations. It said the SharePoint Online in Microsoft 360. That's in the cloud. That was not hit by the attacks. Okay. Sure. And I don't remember if we talked about how they were coordinating closely with the C-I. S.A., the DOD Cyber Defense Command, and key cybersecurity partners globally throughout our response.
Starting point is 00:21:27 Yeah, because the SharePoint, they only are used by hundreds of thousands of businesses and government agencies. That's it. So these hacks were exploited to a flaw that launched a targeted attack here in the U.S. and international agencies and businesses. Now, they said it was called a zero-day attack. Okay. because I know. And I'm not talking about that stupid Robert Duch Niro
Starting point is 00:21:55 show on Netflix. I'd say they called it a zero-day attack because it targeted a previously unknown vulnerability. Okay. And this vulnerability allows an authorized attacker to perform spoofing over a network. Okay. In a spoofing attack,
Starting point is 00:22:15 an actor can manipulate financial markets or agencies by hiding the actor's identity and appearing to be a trusted person, organization, or website. Okay, that's it, though. Now, Microsoft said, we're working on updates to the 2016 and the 2019 versions of SharePoint.
Starting point is 00:22:32 Don't worry about it. Listen, if customers can't enable recommended malware protection, they should go ahead and disconnect their servers from the internet. Yeah, listen, if you can't, if you can't, if you can't enable those
Starting point is 00:22:49 recommended malware productions here's what you do disconnect from the internet because why not until you get that security update from us go ahead and just pull the plug on the internet
Starting point is 00:23:07 oh okay you got it you got it do I call your bland AI answering service and, or though I'm sure Microsoft has their own, I apologize. They're not using blend AI.
Starting point is 00:23:22 But they, you know, do I call them and say, hey, I'm calling because we disconnected my company from the internet. That's it, though. That's all you have to do. If you can't, if you can't get the recommended malware production.
Starting point is 00:23:42 So it's all good, right? Right. Okay, all right, you got it. You got it. We'll just disconnect from the internet. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Wait, what?
Starting point is 00:24:07 Angelina Jolie and Selma Hayek were traveling on a commercial flight. With the unwashed masses, I won't have it. What is happening? So apparently they were flying. They were caught. Here's footage of them. Holy cow. So they were flying from Mexico City, Mexico City, on their way to Veracruz.
Starting point is 00:24:41 And they're on the jet walk on the way to the plane. There's pictures of them. People ask them for pictures, and they politely declined. And they continued to yap. They were just talking amongst themselves on the Jet Bridge from Mexico City to Veracuse. Has, have things gone that badly for Selma Hayek and Angelina Jolie? Holy. Brad Pitt has, with the divorce being final, Angelina Jolie has now got a flight commercial?
Starting point is 00:25:15 I won't hear of it. All right, I demand that this does not happen. I am sorry, no. Selma Hyac and Angelina Jolie do not need to be flying domestic with the unwashed masses from Mexico City to Veracruz. Maybe it was just a quick way to get there.
Starting point is 00:25:34 They decided, apparently they were eating and chatting and yapping it up throughout the terminal. And I guess they did let some people take some pictures in the terminal. But when they were walking up to the, when they were walking the jetway to get, take their seats, you know, get on the plane, board the plane.
Starting point is 00:25:52 They weren't letting people take pictures with them. So I know they've been friends, and they're busy chatting it up, and apparently somebody did ask, why don't they have a private jet? Yeah, why don't they? But apparently they were just talking about, look, they got the new, they were in the show, the Eternals, and they've known each other forever, and they're big, I mean, hello, Angelina Joe Lee and Selma Hayek,
Starting point is 00:26:20 Holy cow. And they're flying domestic? Maybe just because they were in Mexico. So they're down to Mexico City and they want to go to Veracruz. I don't know. Is Veracruz, is that the fancy smancy shopping district in Mexico? Or is it the... How far away from that?
Starting point is 00:26:39 How far away is Veracruz from Mexico City? Let's see, shall we? Now, maybe, maybe we'll say that their private plane was too big. You fly to Mexico City to Veracruz, which is on the ocean. So they've probably, you know, they've got a nice place, you know, gated community
Starting point is 00:27:04 to stay there in Veracruz. And it's like an hour flight. So you just hop whatever nasty, unwashed masses domestic flight is taking you from Mexico City to Veracruz. But wow. I mean, I did not know that Brad had taken all the money
Starting point is 00:27:22 from Angelina and I thought Selma had some cash too but they're both flying domestic to Veracruz that's disappointing they're taking all my hope away taking my hope away when I see when I see those two flying domestic no that's unacceptable
Starting point is 00:27:38 so yesterday we played the Hunter Biden clip where he is talking about his he didn't want to have the euphoric recall remember convenience store and just get anyway i don't want to tell people how to make how to make crack cocaine but it literally you know it's easy a manage jar cocaine and baking soda how different is the experience oh vastly vastly different and forget about it for real i i i feel really reluctant to
Starting point is 00:28:07 kind of have some euphoric discussion i know you're not asking me to do that but have some euphoric discussion about crack cocaine no it's exactly this might be kind of the opposite no it's exactly the exact opposite i know i know i'm saying i don't want to have the experience of some euphoric recall. Okay, pause for just a second. That's how powerful, crack, okay. And he goes on, and we may end it, you know, listening to more Hunter Babylon about crack.
Starting point is 00:28:32 But he doesn't want to have the euphoric recall. Okay, so the whole point of remembering, let's say, smoking, when I put a fake cigarette in my hand and I, that's a euphoric recall. Okay. And he talks about it. It's the cigarette. It's the lighter.
Starting point is 00:28:57 It's the, all the accoach, everything. It's the whole thing. It's the hand to mouth. It's all thing. That euphoric recall. It's so powerful for him. He doesn't even want to think about it because he will go back to cooking that crack
Starting point is 00:29:10 that's so good, probably better for you than ever. Forever. He'll go back there in a heartbeat. That's how powerful it is. I mean, the whole thing. I mean, I, like, do I want to watch Scarface with El Pacino any longer. I don't. I don't want to watch it anymore.
Starting point is 00:29:30 At one point of my life, I had to stop watching it because it gave me euphoric recalls, and all I wanted to do was cocaine after I was watching the show during the show. So I understand euphoric recall. I got it. You know, on this show, a lot of times I may reference smoking a bong, for instance. That is euphoric recall. Okay. I'm just saying, I know what you're talking about, Hunter.
Starting point is 00:30:12 This stuff is pretty good. Now, it's not the same sodium bicarbonate that you made the crack with, but it's pretty good, man. Did you know that a lot of the pot today, some of the fresher marijuana, is being laced with fentanyl? I heard that this morning. Interesting. I didn't know that.
Starting point is 00:30:28 Anyway, that's right. That's euphoric recall. Okay. Now, I know there's many a time is when I see people smoking, I have euphoric recall and I want a cigarette desperately. Haven't had one. And it's been, wow, five years now. Five years? Five years? I'm like that. It's been a long time since I've had a cigarette. I know. Thanks. I appreciate it. Don't be doing that. I don't want to have a euphoric recall. All right. Because that's what you have. But that's why you talk about it to me. That's why I talk about it. because if I wasn't talking about it, I'd be doing it. So, I mean, Hunter, come on, man.
Starting point is 00:31:09 I know you're in rehab and everything's okay. But, you know, if you've got your wife, I know. I don't know, your sister-in-law probably blows you off now. You know, so I know you're bummed. Your dad's not present anymore. You don't have a way to make that extra cash. But that's all you have, really, is euphoric recall. That's all we have.
Starting point is 00:31:31 So, you know, go ahead on her. Go ahead. Break the bowl, baby. Break the mold. Crack cocaine is. Does crack cocaine make you act any differently? No. Now, of course not. Is it safer than alcohol? Probably. Probably. People think of crack as being dirty. It's the exact opposite. Oh, come on. It's not dirty at all. What you're doing is you're burning off all the impurities so that it combined with the sodium bicarbonate, which makes it smokeable.
Starting point is 00:31:56 That's all. You know, all of these actors and, you know, people in the past, that talked about the problem with cocaine. So stupid. Free basing. They were smoking crack. So straw on the stove is the same thing. Well, that really. But close to it.
Starting point is 00:32:11 But it's a little bit different. But anyway, he started. My point about it. He wants to talk. I don't want to. I can't talk anymore about Hunter. Stop it. I can't talk.
Starting point is 00:32:20 I can't listen to Hunter anymore. I can't. The guy is so messed up, man. But he would be fun to party with. He would be fun to party with. And so. Hunter, if you're really struggling with your euphoric recalls and you need help, I'm here for you. It's too bad that someone like Ozzy Osbourne.
Starting point is 00:32:45 I know, we lost him. My gosh, we'll talk about him who died today, I promise. But we lost him. But if he were still alive, I mean, at some point yesterday he was alive. He could have helped Hunter out with his. euphoric recalls. I can give me a CD, you know what I mean?
Starting point is 00:33:05 You have to eat other things in order to get that, you know what I mean? I do. I do know what to mean, Ozzy, because I think that was a euphoric recall, actually. This episode is brought to you by Peloton.
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Starting point is 00:34:22 Ozzy Osbourne, dead at the age of 76. I just I read so much I knew a lot about Ozzy before he died I think I was a legend and we just we've been talking about him so much because he had his big show
Starting point is 00:34:37 and he was seemed to be like he was we talked to I remember talking about how he's been living on borrowed time and you know he's been dying for years and you know everything and for it to actually come true is unbelievable but it has
Starting point is 00:34:55 But I was told, and I was reading so much about his life. This guy had just had an incredible life. But I was told by a follower on my ex account, Jude Watts, that, listen here, fat man. You better be a retrospective. You better be a retrospective for Ozzie. That was what was typed. Listen here, fat man.
Starting point is 00:35:22 You better be a retrospective for Ozzy. So I would say this, he was angry because otherwise he would have typed it correctly saying that I better do a retrospective for Ozzy. But Ozzy absolutely deserves a retro. Now, I don't have the retro music, so I don't even just pretend like there's retro music, okay? And I'll give Ozzy his due retrospective.
Starting point is 00:35:49 All right. All right. This is retrospective on CTF. Today, death of a legend. Born John Michael Osborne, December 3rd,
Starting point is 00:36:04 1948, in Marston Green, Warwickshire, England, called Ozzy as a child. He was a singer, songwriter, media personality, nicknamed Prince of Darkness, which he claimed
Starting point is 00:36:20 started as a joke. A founding member of the band Black Sabbath in 1968. Fired from that band in 1979, due to problems with alcohol and drugs. Began his solo career one year later with Blizzard of Oz.
Starting point is 00:36:42 In 1982, in Des Moines, Iowa, he bit the head off a live bat that was dead. He became a household name in 2002 with the MTV reality. television series The Osbournes, along with his wife and manager Sharon, who he married in 1982, and two of their children, Kelly and Jack. He claimed he was stoned during the entire filming of the show. Ozzie is sold over 100 million albums and counting between his solo
Starting point is 00:37:16 work and the Black Sabbath releases. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Black Sabbath in 2006, and as a solo artist in 2024, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, riddled with pain from previous injuries and suffering from Parkinson's disease. On July 5th, 2025, Ozzie performed his final show. Back to the beginning at Villa Park, Aston Birmingham, England. Ozzy Osborne. Dead. at the age of 76. This has been retrospective on Chewing the Fat.
Starting point is 00:38:01 This has been a Chewing the Fat podcast production. We can spend the rest of the day listening to Ozzy. Rest in peace. Ozzy, man, definitely, definitely lost the legend. Oh, man. Who's next now? Think of that.
Starting point is 00:38:46 Think of that. I mean, I was almost in tears thinking about who's next. Right? What are we talking about? I mean, you got Jagger? You got Phil Collins? Phil Collins is probably next.
Starting point is 00:38:58 Keith Richards. Yeah. Holy cow. McCartney and Ringo are pretty good shape, right? Stephen Tyler's still in good shape. Neil Young? Neil Young, maybe. Yeah, I know.
Starting point is 00:39:14 I know. All right, back to Ozzy. You can go listen to the rest of this. It's Ozzy Osbourne. I don't want to stop off his Black Rain album. Okay? Yeah, I'm not going to play the whole thing for you. But we could do some deep cuts into Ozzy.
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Starting point is 00:40:29 You gift the good stuff. You know, so I don't know if we even mentioned the president, Donald Trump, who's 79 now. Wow. Last week, he went under that comprehensive examination, including a diagnostic vascular studies. and he was told that he has a chronic venous insufficiency. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Exactly. I think the doctor did actually say that, but I'm not positive. They just didn't report it. It's a benign and common condition, particularly in individuals over the age of 70. So it's a mild swelling in his lower legs. I mean, he's been flying a lot. And so I bet he doesn't wear those stupid socks that the compression socks.
Starting point is 00:41:22 So he's got to do that. He's probably got to wear those when he flies. That's one of my favorite lines from the television show Sixth Session. When the old man dies, I don't know if you haven't seen it yet, I'm going to give you a spoiler alert, but he dies on an airplane. And his, I think it's his son. shoot, was it his son? Or the son-in-law.
Starting point is 00:41:46 I don't remember which one. But they talk about him not wanting to wear his compression socks on the plane because he didn't want to look, he wanted to look sharp for his new girlfriend. So I hope Don, you know, is slipping on the compression socks.
Starting point is 00:42:08 He's not supposed to have a girlfriend. Okay, that's not supposed to happen. So, and, Maybe, I mean, nobody's talking about it, but isn't he faxed? That seems to me that could be a side effect of the vaxed. But, okay, we'll fine. That's fine. It's all good.
Starting point is 00:42:22 It's all good. About 150,000 people are diagnosed with it each year. The risk goes up with age, swelling in the lower legs and ankles, aching or cramping in legs, varicose veins, pain or skin. I know. Treatment may involve medication or in later stages medical procedures. Yeah, we're going to have to take that leg off. No, no, you can't cough.
Starting point is 00:42:48 Don't cough because it'll hurt your legs. Don't do that. Sorry, Dad. You can't be like that. So I guess he's fine. Everything's fine. Don't even worry about it, all right? He's fine.
Starting point is 00:42:57 All right, good. I mean, he's busy. The man is one of the busiest. I mean, the guy never sleeps, right? I mean, so that's probably an issue. You know, maybe you get a little more rest, Mr. President. But I know he's working for me. He's working at the Congress.
Starting point is 00:43:12 working for Congress. Yeah, don't hook him up with Hunter. Whatever you do, don't hook him up with Hunter. I have great confidence that that will not happen. And according to Trump, according to our president, with his, you know,
Starting point is 00:43:26 vain, vascular problems in the legs and all, he has threatened to block the Washington commander's new stadium deal unless the team changes back to the former name, the Washington Redskins. Is he going to make that? happen? Can Donald Trump
Starting point is 00:43:44 make that happen? I don't think so. But then again, maybe he can. He's Donald Trump. So, I mean, they went from the Washington football team to the Washington commanders. Now, nobody really was crazy. Obviously, the Washington football team was stupid. First of all, getting rid of the Washington Redskins was stupid, but let's, I digress. So then they called themselves the
Starting point is 00:44:11 Washington football team. Then they went to the Washington Commanders, which nobody really loved, but now that Jay Daniels is there and they've had some success, it seems like the commanders is a good name. Now, my, if they were to ask me, if they were to bring me in and sit me down at the table, which they should, I'm here. Just email me chewing the fat of the blaze.com. Reach out to me, let me know. You can call me. I'm sure you can get my phone number, Mr. President.
Starting point is 00:44:41 I'll sit down. My idea would be this. They continue to be the Washington commanders because the NFL doesn't want to, you know, offend any Native Americans. And they use the original Washington Redskin logo on their uniform, either on their helmet or, you know, on their jersey,
Starting point is 00:45:06 or on the hip of their pants, something like that. So because when they, so they'd be the commanders still, but they have the Redskin still involved in their name. Because when you see them play around the league, you don't see commanders uniforms. You do kind of now because of Jaden Daniels. But all the old school fans are Redskins.
Starting point is 00:45:30 If I've got Redskins merchandise, I mean, that's the fans telling the NFL, you shouldn't have changed it. But they did. So Donald Trump wants them to move back to the Washington Redskins. I would say that a good way to work it out would be to do, still be the commanders and use the Washington Redskin logo somewhere as part of the team so that it never dies and it's still there.
Starting point is 00:45:57 And you're welcome. You're welcome. You can use that. And, you know, when that happens, you know what, Don, I'm sure you can get my phone number. But really what you need to do is just drop. a little bit of cash into my PayPal at Jeffrey CTF at my PayPal account. It'll just say, you know, just from Trump.
Starting point is 00:46:17 And I'll know what it's from. I'll know that the deal is done for the new Washington Stadium. Okay. Have we started construction? The construction workers come back in at the Tennessee Titans News Stadium. I mean, they shut that down because of the,
Starting point is 00:46:30 somebody saw a news. So we started construction back up. Have everyone gone through counseling? Are they okay? I don't know. I haven't heard a report. So good luck to all the people in Nashville and Tennessee. I didn't know construction workers were that freaking weak,
Starting point is 00:46:46 but apparently they are. All right, let's get out of here. I get out of the joke of the day. I would tell you this joke of the day. I saw a clip the other day from the Johnny Carson Tonight Show. Okay. And it had, and Jack Lemon was on. Walter Mathau came out.
Starting point is 00:47:02 That's Walter Mathau and Jack Lemon. And the main shot is Ed McMahon. is Ed McMahon, Jack Lemon, Walter Mathau, Johnny Carson. All dead. Very sad when you think about it that way. So I'm just pointing it out for you.
Starting point is 00:47:20 Anyway, so Walter comes out and he starts, he says, ah, my wife told me not to do any bathroom jokes. So I'll try to clean this one up for you. Okay? And he tells the bathroom jokes, he's not trying to clean it up for you. And he talks about how, there's three guys. You know what?
Starting point is 00:47:40 I should just let you hear the clip. I'm not even going to tell you the joke of the day. I'll let Walter Math out. Walter, can you do this bit for me? You know, you're sitting on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson and I know Jack sitting there right. And I loved you two together, you know, whatever all those movies you did together.
Starting point is 00:47:56 Grumpy old man, grumpy old man, odd couple, whatever it was. And just have a beer, sit down, take it easy. You relax over there. Johnny, go ahead and tap your, your double eraser pencil and have another cigarette.
Starting point is 00:48:11 So, I'll let Walter tell you. Go ahead, Walter. I said, don't tell any toilet jokes. I know I already said that, Walter. You still remember,
Starting point is 00:48:18 don't tell any toilet jokes on the Johnny Carson show. And the guy came out, one of the cops came over. He just told me your toilet jokes. Don't do it. I'm going to try and tell it. See if I clean it up a little.
Starting point is 00:48:27 All right. All right, go ahead. Three old guys sitting around convalescent home. One guy says, if I could just do number one, I mean, if I could do like a strong number one, like... Right.
Starting point is 00:48:42 You know, Walter, we got it. You know, not in dribs and drabs, you know. The second guy says, if I could do a good number two... That would be... I mean, a solid one, you know... Big look, yeah, a solid. If... We got it, Walter, we got it.
Starting point is 00:49:04 This... Louise and I comes out terrible right third guy says I do wonderful number one
Starting point is 00:49:14 like torrential range and pango pango right what about number two the Mississippi rivers he says that's at 730 every morning
Starting point is 00:49:26 and 735 in the morning I have a wonderful number two he says like mounts St. Helens who says
Starting point is 00:49:39 erupting he's cleaned it up. That's at 7.35 in the morning. So the other guy says, he says, so what are you complaining about? He says, well, I don't get out of bed till nine. You see
Starting point is 00:49:54 you see because what happened, no, you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Thank you.

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