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Episode Date: August 1, 2025

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chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. So yesterday we talked about the airlines, Turkish airlines and Cook County Chicago, medical examiners office have lost a body. And it's been two weeks. We don't know where the body is, seriously. We don't know where the body is. What did we

do with that body? Well, today, what is going on with the airlines? Today, we get the news story from a This family is suing Delta Airlines after what they say happened, an employee stole their child's belongings. Now, the couple and their two minor children boarded a flight in Charleston, South Carolina, flying to London. Of course, they had to do a schedule change and change planes at JFK in New York.

So while on the flight, one of the children had an iPad with a pink Peppa Pig case. Isn't that cute? And the family arrived at JFK, de-boarded the plane, and boarded their flight to Heathrow. Once they landed in London, they didn't even realize it was missing until they landed in London. And they, oh my gosh, what happened to the iPad and the Peppa Pig case? We don't know. Must have left it on the flight from Charleston to JFK. So now we know we don't have the iPad.

and she then began receiving random text messages related to the device. And the mother used the find my app and learned the device was in Queens, Jamaica, New York. So allegedly, the thief, not allegedly, I mean the thief actually did. Someone actually logged the mother out of the account and has been taken pictures including selfies with it. Oh, okay. And one of the pictures shows the... this person wearing a Delta Airlines employee uniform with a name badge.

Okay. So now they filed a lawsuit. First they filed the lost and found report for the iPad with Delta. And they began the filing of the report in August of 2023. Wow. So two years ago, officially,

well, almost, August 27th. You're listening live today is August 1st, 2025. So then they didn't get any response from Delta after they did that. The same day, the family says, well, we started getting pornographic videos of the man that popped up on the I-Cloud account. Right. Come over here, Peppa the pig. No, the kids are going to be watching porn on the I-Clyde account with the Peppa.

although, you know, they give me that thing. So now, I guess the guy or the person accessed the family's iTunes account, created his own personal profile, so it wasn't he that was showing up on the porn videos on the ICloud account with Peppa the Pig. Anyway, the created account on the family's Amazon account

and the new profile titled, gay. So the mother and didn't even, the mother didn't even know it. One of the kids was like, hey, mom, is this you? Who's gay? Right. Is that the same guy with Peppa? It is. It is the same guy with Peppa? Turn that off. All right. So the family is requesting compensation now for negligent and inflection of emotional distress, sexual assault, and harassment, and demanding a jury trial. Okay, I don't know that that's ever going to happen.

Yeah, I don't know that it's going to happen. Now, now all of a sudden, Delta has responded and said, you look, we're aware of the complaint. And the accused individual is not a Delta employee, but one of a vendor company that we, you know, that we know about. We have zero tolerance for unlawful behavior of any kind. But we're not going to comment any more than that because this is, you know, pending litigation. Oh, okay. So just remember when you're traveling with your kids or even yourself and you have to have to change planes, take your iPad with you. Okay.

That is a helpful hint. What you want to do is you want to take your iPad with you. don't be gay. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Who doesn't want this new stadium in Nashville built? Raise your hand and just admit it. Okay, I'm not sure what's going on.

It's so weird. So last week, they had the noose incident, which shut down the construction site completely. They were building a new stadium for the Tennessee Titans and for the Nissan Stadium in Nashville. or greater Nashville and they shut it down because someone found a noose

now we learned later that they did find a news hanging on a pipe. Was it really a news? Was it a rope that was lifting up? I don't know. No one knows but we've never seen pictures of it. We just don't know but they shut it all down. They said

workers could get mental health help and you know because I'm sure some of them not only may have seen the news hanging. Some of them may have heard about it on the job site, so we can't have that. Well, now that investigation has been wrapped up. We talked about that. They wrapped it up.

They had a person of interest that really they couldn't prove anything. And so, and the person of interest didn't work there anymore anyway because he was fired for something else. And so we've just wrapped up that case. Nope, we don't have. We got nothing. We got nothing. Let's get everybody back to work. Well, now they shut it down again.

And I don't know that they shut the whole place down, but there was racist graffiti found on the job site. Okay, this is according to the Tennessee Builders Alliance. I've seen no pictures. I've seen the news reports about it. I've seen them tell me that they condemn this act unequivocally. I've seen them say that it's a direct violation. of the values we uphold

and the inclusive, respectful work environment. We're committed to maintaining. Thank you, Tennessee Builders Alliance, by the way. But I've seen no, I don't know what the racist graffiti is that I'm supposed to be so horrified. But the

affected area was secured. An investigation is underway. And we have narrowed the time frame. I say we. The investigators have narrowed the time frame. in which the incident occurred and they are actively working to identify the individual responsible. Is that going to happen? I doubt it very much.

And, I mean, they secured the affected area. So they just, what does that mean? That means they just covered up, just covered up the wall? They repainted over the graffiti. I'm not real sure what that means. And they don't talk about shutting the workplace down. like they did for the news and offering help from, you know, mental health professionals. So it can't be that bad, right? It can't be. And it's not as bad as the news.

But someone doesn't want to, if they stopped work again, someone doesn't want this stadium built. And I don't know why. I don't know what the problem is. I'm not sure. I want to see the picture of the news. and I want to see what the graffiti was that we had to shut down at least secure the area and we're going to try to find out who put it up instead of I thought this was a

I mean I worked in construction before I actually did and I can tell you this don't look at me like that I did and it was actually demolition okay I worked they were knocking down the main structures of this VA medical center we had to keep the main frame of these buildings up and then they built

new walls running, but my job at the time, I used to run a jackhammer every day and knock down walls. It was fun. And so, I worked for a construction company out of Alabama. The guy that ran the company was awesome. I've talked about him before. He was great to me. I had first moved to Florida. I needed

a gig. This guy was awesome to me. And I appreciated everything he did for me. My point is that you'd show up for work at this construction site or demolition site. I'll use this for an example. And we were a business in one building and someone were to see, I don't know,

graffiti on the wall. I don't know. I don't care what it said. Maybe it was a giant penis. Maybe it was a giant vagina. Maybe it said, you know, all penises go to heaven. I don't know. Whatever.

What's a fallace. Yes, thank you. Whatever it said, whatever was drawn there. Would you shut down a construction site because of graffiti? No. No, you wouldn't. We have lost. I mean, if these are the construction workers of America, and they can't work because of a noose or graffiti on the wall, we are doomed. We are more doomed than I thought. Then I see a story that makes me think, well, maybe we're not doomed, because this is actually kind of a smart idea. Companies are struggling. You know, some stores have been closing. They're concerned about how to get traffic flow.

Well, now it's being reported that IKEA, who wants to be bigger in America and have a bigger footprint in America, they've talked about that, are going to do trial small shops in 10 Best Buy locations later this year. So you go into the Best Buy and then you're going to have like the mini IKEA section. That's a smart move. I personally, I think. It's the first time that IKEA products will be sold inside another U.S. retailer. I don't know that they're going to be offering the meatballs at Best Buy. I'm not opposed to it. You know, just fire up some meatballs at Best Buy because of IKEA.

Sure, no problem. But it's going to be a thousand square foot mini store. Okay. Oh, see, it says in this story, no meatballs. They won't have the Swedish meatballs. How am I supposed to judge whether I'll enjoy my 150 inch screen without Swedish meatballs? I don't know. You know how pissed they'd be.

You go over there, you drop some meatballs all over the furniture they're trying to sell you. I got a meatball caught my throat. Sorry. No, I don't want to buy anything. I'm just waiting on the wife. She's picking up some, I don't know, some printing paper or something. I was just checking it out. Sorry.

That's why there's no meatballs at the Best Buy. That's why we can't have nice things. But it's coming. So if you are close to it doesn't list the 10 Best Buy locations. I guess we'll find that out soon enough. But be ready for it. I think it actually, I think it's a smart idea. So be ready for it for to be able to get your IKEA products along with your Best Buy products.

One time, one shop, one deal. I like it. Will it create foot traffic? I don't know. You know, I figure Amazon has their return places like in the coals. So if you have Amazon products that you have to return, they'll tell you, hey, you can return it at this Coles. They've got their special Amazon area in Coles. Does that bring any foot traffic to Coles other than people returning products?

And then they go, ooh, you know what? I do need some new underwear. And they buy some underwear at Coles? I don't know. Maybe. Maybe. Most of the time I'm thinking you're going in there, you're walking, you're feeling, you ask the Coles person, hey, where's the Amazon desk?

It's back over there. And so you go back there and do your Amazon thing. And if you have to stand in line for returns, you're looking at some of the products. Ooh, that blouse is kind of cute. Ah, look at that. And this store, wow, they keep changing the store around a little bit. It's kind of nice. Oh, so they've got the, they've got the men's clothes right over there.

next up okay and then you return your and then you walk out so I don't know if it helps the business or not so they didn't consult me for the mini IKEA but I think I like it I like the idea of the mini IKEA into Best Buy will it will it drag me I don't mind Best Buy I'm forced to go to that store a couple of times a year maybe more and so it's okay will I will I Well, I hope that the best buy that I go to has the mini IKEA in it?

You bet. I will say this. If it shows up in my best buy, I will not go into that store without commenting about the meatballs. That will not happen. I promised you that. The Best Buy people are probably saying, you're not the first one to say that. Well, I'm the first one today. Okay.

But where's my freaking meatballs? I don't recommend doing that at Best Buy, okay? Because now you're in trouble. But I live in Texas right now. So what are you going to do? As long as I'm carried it out my side, I can open carry. So you guys got meatballs?

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Okay. So I will say that I've found this hard to believe. And it's just amazing. Earlier this week, the Baltimore Ravens, you know, everybody's in their spring camps. The Ravens cornerback Marlon Humphrey posted a video on his social media platform featuring his teammates

Ronnie Stanley, Kyle Hamilton, and Charlie Kohler. In the video, he explains that they're looking to reach out to Michael Phelps, the Olympic swimmer, all right? And I mean, Michael Phelps is just an Olympic swimmer.

I think he's got 23 gold medals. And we We've all seen Michael, yes, we have. Dude, you got 23 gold medals. Holy crap. Pass that thing over here. This is pretty good.

I mean, we've all seen Michael, you know, firing up the bong. Anyway, so in this video, he says that one in three players on the team do not know how to swim. That is incredible. to me. It's hard for me to believe. No, don't look at me like that. I don't want to hear your racist comments. What are you painting graffiti on the wall now?

But it will say that sometimes things are true. Anyway, it just is amazing to me that one in three on the team cannot swim. So they were asking Michael if he would come by the training camp and check out the new recovery pool and give them a lesson. Yeah, the team needs to, I mean, the team should be providing that, but it's cool if Michael Phelps would stop by. And Michael replied saying, I got y'all. Let's do this.

And so Phelps, obviously, you know, he is a Baltimore native. He's been involved with the team on several occasions. So he answered the call. And he's been, I guess, on a mission since he was retiring to help others learn how to swim. Yeah, that's a pretty good idea. The Michael Phelps Foundation provides learn to swim classes to help prevent drowning and raise self-esteem and wellness. Yeah, let's do that. And let's stop by the Baltimore Ravens facility and get these guys swimming.

We just talked about it this week on who died today, or during who died today, about how many people have died because of water. So it might be a good thing to know how to swim. incredible. It's just amazing to me that people, adults in the world, don't know how to swim. And I'm not saying that to be mean or I, you know,

I'm not, just anything just surprising to me. That's something that I have learned, you know, I don't even remember. I don't even remember when I actually learned how to swim. I mean, I think somebody threw me in the lake and said, swim back to shore. You figure it out. You figure it out.

You know, your uncle and your dad are on the boat. They're going, I don't think he's going to make it. It wasn't quite that bad. But, I mean, just something that you know how to do, right? And if you take lessons, I remember going to, well, for example, my oldest son, we'll say, we use my oldest son, for example. He grew up, we had a pool at the time when he was very little. So he, I mean, he grew up sitting on the side of the pool. I mean, he grew up swimming.

And we gave him lessons at the one Olympic pool placed there in Florida, close to where we lived, because he wanted to be stronger, a stronger swimmer. So he got lessons, but that wasn't to learn how to swim. That was how to learn to become a stronger swimmer. I mean, it's just so strange to me that people don't know how to swim. I understand it, and I guess you need to grow up around water, but I mean, there's pools everywhere.

And it's just, I don't know, I think this is a really good thing. And I'm glad Michael Phelps is helping out the Baltimore Ravis. Now, maybe, maybe if, you know, we just started, President Trump just signed the new presidential fitness test program thing, executive order. He had all the big superstars there yesterday. He had a tough time

saying Tua Tegela Duvoyah. No, I can't even say this name. You know Tua. A quarterback. A quarterback. Yeah, the quarterback for the Miami Dolphins. He had a tough time. The world has a tough time. Saying his last name. But so we're going to have

some physical fitness put back in school. I'm not sure what physical fitness they're talking about, but they're talking about participants would have to run, do sit-ups, pull-ups, push-ups to compete, demonstrating athletic excellence in previous versions of the test. Okay. So other activities in the test included running, jumping, 50-yard dash, softball throw. Not sure why you need to do a softball throw, maybe a baseball throw. But anyway, you know, that's kind of good. I, look, when we work in little kids in school, that's all we did. I mean, I'm not talking about it. I'm not talking

the specific exercise program, although there was that in our gyms that we had to take with our gym teachers. But I'm just saying that that's all we did was run around and kick balls and throw balls and it's just that's all we did. So I don't think this is a bad thing. I like this and hopefully it's going to create a culture of strength and excellence for years to come. Oh my gosh, that just sounded like Donald Trump there for a second. I need to go to the break room. Holy cow. I need something cold to drink desperately.

Okay, so if you're an author, you're probably aware of the Booker Prize. It's an award given to fiction writing in English and published in the UK in Ireland. And they name some of the previous winners, Samantha Harvey, George, Sanders, Marlon James. The winner receives 50,000 euros, which is about $66,000. And they're going to have a big live stream event in London on November 10th. And the Booker Prize, according to Roddy Doyle, the 2025 Booker Prize chair of judges, said that this year's nominees for the prestigious Booker Prize is a varied lot in terms of style, scope, length, and subject matter.

but they are all alive with great characters and narrative surprises. Probably you can pretty much say that every year. Couldn't you, Roddy? I mean, I'm sure that's why you're the chairman. Just copy and paste that into every statement, okay? So here is the list of the Great Booker Prize finalist nominees. You have Love Forms by Claire Adam. The South by Tash Aw.

Universality by Natasha Brown One Boat by Jonathan Buckley Flashlight by Susan Choi The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Karen Dissay Audition by Katie Kittamura The Rest of Our Lives by Ben Markovitis I bet you that's good

That's a love story The rest of our lives The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller. That sounds cold. Ha ha ha ha. See what I did. Anyway, Endling by Maria Reva. Flesh by David S-Z-A-L-A-Y.

S-Z-A-L-A-Y. A sea scraper by Benjamin Wood and misinterpretation by Lida X-H-O-G-A. Hoga. We'll just take the X-A-R-A. I would just call it Lida. Amorphophalis. I don't think that's how Alida pronounces it,

but it's possible. X-H-O-G-A. So there's are your finalists for the huge Booker Prize authors. So congratulations. Yeah, congratulations to all of them. That's

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Uh, the... The, there's a story here that I find, well, I guess it doesn't surprise me. There's not much that surprises me anymore. That, we'll just start with that. But Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau have been seen out and about. I don't know if they, or I don't know if they've been seen, you know, taking care of any business. But if you're Justin, if you're, what a douche. If you're Justin Trudeau.

and you're and katie perry sits down next to you you're talking to her and that's what's going on i guess they've been they've been uh seen out and about together uh good yeah good for justin that's a good move on his part now i will say i thought he was married i forgot that uh she kicked him to the curb a couple years ago and they were married a long time like 18 years or something well you know quite quite some time and they could not she couldn't take him anymore i know that i'm sure that just i could uh think so i just could i could take her anymore she he was the prime minister of a country you know i mean in twenty 23 i he was still the prime minister in 2023 and that's what they separated she couldn't take him then uh she had enough of him then i just i can't take you anymore

i mean that doesn't happen that usually doesn't happen you've been together for a long time she despised him much. Katie, take some notes. The wife despised him so much as prime minister of a country and that she broke up with him. She couldn't stand him. Don't do it, Katie. No, don't do it. Do go find. You can. I promise you, Katie, I promise you. You can do better. 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 Arthur Hamilton and don't look at me like that don't let me like you don't know who Arthur Hamilton is or was

he has passed away at the age of 98 he was a songwriter and he created Oscar-nominated songs. He created songs for movies. He wrote songs that people recorded. Of course, his favorite, I guess, is one of the standards is Cry Me a River. That was recorded, I think, originally by Julie London.

And his story is he was working as a delivery boy in Los Angeles when he was approached by his former high school friend. And the high school friend said, hey, why don't you come in the house? let me show you something. No, that's not what. That's not what happened. Anyway, and so one of the things that I liked about, I guess his former high school friend was Julie London. All right.

So Julie was married to the guy who was putting music together. And Hamilton, Arthur, was a musician and had been a musician, a piano player for a long time. He, well, great line in here when he was 14. He told his mother, I don't want to play Chopin. I want to play me. So he taught himself cocktail piano and started writing songs. That's awesome.

Awesome. And so, I mean, Peggy Lee did a song from him. Nina Simone has done a song by him. But the big hit, I think the first one, Cry Me a River, 1996, Julie London. and boy I bet you probably I mean you probably know it off the top of your you probably know it off the top of your head

oh yeah don't even don't look at me like you don't know this song this is Julie London cry me a river I do Julie I do you cry the long night through

Julie stop looking to me like that Don't be so mean cry me a river stop I cried a river Over you That's why I'm back, baby That's why I'm back

Okay, I can do this whole bit I could do this, that's a whole bit That's one of my side show bits We just, you know Comment, comment through songs Just wait a minute And rest in peace To Arthur Hamilton dead

At the age of 98 Doesn't say what the man The man died of I mean I know he was 98 but still didn't say what actually killed them.

So rest in peace, Arthur Hamilton, dead at 98. Did you know, I thought, so I guess they had the Ozzy Osbourne funeral or they had the possession in Britain. I expected, I mean, it was a big day. It was an emotional farewell,

they said. Ozzy's fans gathered together and they all, you know, they rolled down. The family was there. there in Birmingham, and they all stopped, and they congregated near Black Sabbath Bridge. And I guess it was upbeat.

Fans were all happy, and this is what they wanted. Okay. I mean, I thought we'd have at least a funeral of, you know, have all the hoity-toits there and rock superstars there. Guess they didn't like Ozzy. Guess they didn't like it. He's too good for you. Ozzy Osbourne, Mr. Reality

TV star. Mr. Yeah, Mr. I'll bite the head off of bat or I'll bite your head off. All right on stage. I'm out here rocking the city, baby. Been rocking forever. And now he's gone. We lost him at the

age of 76. He's already, who already died? Ozzy Osbourne. But I guess we're done. I guess we've moved on. Wrap it up. He's dead. We've wrapped. We've had the concession.

We brought a bunch of people together. And now we're moving. So rest in peace to Ozzy Osbourne, dead at the age of 76. Leave Sharon alone. She'll show her face when she wants. The kids leave them alone. They're living their own life now. They're getting married.

They're off on their own. And the oldest one is just happy he's dead so she doesn't have to deal with him anymore. And so just that's it. We're done with it. The whole thing's over. All right. You got it. Okay.

So I was looking at this study published in the nature neuroscience. And you, I mean, if you haven't seen the latest edition of the nature neuroscience, it is on fire. Anyway, they found in their new study that participants who saw sick-looking faces in virtual reality showed changes in brain activity related to personal space monitoring and threat detection. additionally the activity of certain immune cells in the blood increased so if we look at sick people that means that our immune system goes up and we're like no we can't be sick we don't we don't want to be like you uh we can't do that right now my immune system is strong because uh back off me okay

So the study is unique in demonstrating that people's immune system can be primed just by the visual recognition that someone looks sick or sounds sick Right Holy cow So in the study

248 participants watched human-like faces approached them in virtual reality Some avatars displayed clear signs of sickness You know I could write all kinds of jokes with this bit wearing the avatar glasses

of seeing people come up to you in virtual reality but I'm going to just stick with the study, okay? You write your own jokes this time. So some avatars displayed clear signs of sickness such as coughing or rashes while others appeared fearful or neutral. Those who saw sick-looking avatars appear to enter their personal space

reacted faster to their face being touched, suggesting a state of high alert. Stay the hell away from me, okay? Aha! So brain, yeah, well, it's virtual reality. You're not really, we're not really hurting people, and these people aren't really sick, okay? It's virtual reality, but once you put your mind into it,

so you're like, you're actually there, okay? So brain imaging revealed that regions responsible for monitoring personal space reacted differently to sick faces compared with neutral or fearful ones. The Salius Network, a brain circuit that detects important events in the environment, was also activated.

But the two systems were activated differently by a sick avatar. Okay. So, and then it was different even to a fearful avatar. So there's differences were about infection, not threats in general. Blood tests revealed that participants who saw sick faces

showed increased activity in innate lymphoid cells. Yeah, I mean, you're looking at sick people and your body's going, can't be sick, can't be sick, get away, get away, can't be sick, you don't want none of that. Okay, they're sounding the alarm. So this is a completely new level of immune activation, and the scientists are saying, the immunologists are saying, oh, we wouldn't have expected it.

why that's what humans have been doing forever but i'm at look i'm not a scientist i just play one and i haven't had anything published in uh nature neurosciences but it makes sense that uh when you run across someone who is your alarm system is up like hey that person is really sick and i don't want to have what they have and i want my body to fight any kind of infection that is now wheel it around my head. I mean, that's what happens. That's why they preach to you to be in good shape, take the right vitamins, keep everything healthy

so that when you do run across someone who's and your immune system can then fight it and say, I'm here for you. But people with weak immune systems aren't going to be able to fight as strong as someone with stronger immune systems. Duh. It doesn't take a scientist to figure that out.

We're spending all kinds of study money on this. However, it is interesting that they're actually going to have documentation that proves that. And it changes responses to actual infections. So, I mean, now there's, you know, they'll believe you. They believe you now. When you say, I don't know, man, I saw that girl. I just had to get away from her. I don't want nothing to do with her.

and I'm happy that I'm happy that I didn't get sick. And your body's like, I was right, we got you, dog. And you're going to need your body to be fighting strong because I was just reading where vaccination rates among kindergartners have decreased during the 2024-2020-5 school year. Oh, okay, so I guess the drop comes as U.S. measles cases

reach a 33-year high. Yeah, it is a 33-year high, but it still is not that many. So exemptions from getting one or more vaccines grew in 36 states and D.C. 17 states reported the exemption numbers exceeding 5%. Okay. And Idaho and Utah had the highest percentages of kindergartners exempted from one or more vaccines at 15.4% for Idaho and 10.3% in Utah.

Wow. that's actually you're starting to get into double digits. So be careful. I mean, you're going to need a strong body because all these sick kids are running around that haven't been vaccinated. Hey, you want to get your kid away from me? But if your body is strong, you'll be activated

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So that means it's time for what's being called America's favorite game show. What's the Lime? What's the lie where contestants try to decipher the lie from four. Count them one, two, three, four headline. One of them is not true. Thus, that's where we get. What's the lie? Our contestant today, returning champion, Mark Higginson, if he wins again, not only,

he's not going to be able to come back if he wins again. Four times is the cutoff for What's the Lie? but he will receive another Talking Sense Jeffrey Blue Freshie and for more information you can go to the Talking Sense Facebook group and find the Freshie scented design just for you. If you or someone you love would like to be a contested on What's the Lie you can email chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

Mark the self-proclaimed human lie detector three-time returning champion. Welcome to What's the Lie. How are you, my friend? Hello, Mr. Jeffrey Stephen Fisher. Where does Stephen come from? I thought that was your middle name.

It is not, but you go ahead and go with it. Don't worry about it. I don't believe I've ever said my middle name on the air. The initial is W because my first, I don't know, I was 13 years old. I think I was J.W. Fish on the air. So, you know, yeah, I know. I know. Jeffrey Willoughby Fisher

That's it That's what it is Yep That's what it is So this is it baby All right Mr. Human lie detector This is the fourth time

And we'll see if you can get it right Everybody has emailed me saying You should let the computer read it Let West read it Let other people read it And I just feel like that wouldn't be fair It would be fair I know

I kind of feel like I'm cheating too Because it's I know your tell Okay. All right. That's fine. That's fine. So you ready to play? Yeah, let's do it. All right. Four headlines. What not real? What's the lie? Headline number one. The 10-year fight to save the sexiest bakery in the country. Headline number two. Joey Chestnut wins the banana dog-eating contest during Savannah Bananas game. Headline number three. Reddit and Discord's UK age verification can be defeated by Death Stranding's Photos mode.

Headline number four, the Criminal Enterprise run by monkeys. Those are your four headlines. Headline number one, the 10-year fight to save the sexiest bakery in the country. Headline number two, Joey Chestnut wins the first banana dog-eating contest, during Savannah Bananas game. Headline number three, Reddit and Discord's UK age verification

can be defeated by Death Strandings photo mode. Headline number four, the criminal enterprise run by monkeys. Those are your four headlines. What is the lie? Oh, this one is a little tougher. There's one word that you cannot help

emphasizing. You want to know what that word is? I don't know. I don't know if I do or not. I don't know if I do or not. Anything related to sexy. Jeff Fisher always says sexy.

With an emphasis on the E. Sexy. That's what it is. It's sexiest. That's how you say the word. Well, anyway, that's got to be the one. congratulations yeah

congratulations we have won four in a row man that's awesome that's awesome now that's the limit so you know I know you think you deserve some kind of championship ring or some kind of you know

bring in the role of champions but like a master's tournament yes that's a good idea and you know maybe we'll do that but for right now congratulations you know

Thanks for listening. And thanks for playing. What's the Lie? What's the Lie? As a subsidiary of Chewing the Pet Enterprises, all information is probably accurate at the time of recording. CTF, WTL, MMXXV. So again, congratulations.

And you know, you're the human lie detector. Yeah, well. And if I find out, if I find, I swear, I swear, I will come through this line and I will be too silly. If I find out that you cheated, other than using your own knowledge, I will come through this phone line and microphone line.

We will fight. It's more of a skill. But hey, you're never gonna believe this, Mr. Fisher. I was browsing cameo the other day. You know, William, Daniel, you probably don't, He was the teacher on Boy Meets World. Okay. He was always kind of proper, you know, the voice of reason in Boy Meets World.

He charged... Mr. Beanie or something, right? Yeah, he charges four times. What? Yeah, but does he get any... Is he getting any love from people? Are people actually ordering from him? Thirteen hundred reviews.

How many? 13. 1,300. What? I know. Five stars. Holy cow. The videos are a third the length of yours.

That is on X-Sept. That's what it is. I'm giving too much. Ouch. I'm giving too much. You always give too much, Mr. Jeffrey Willoughby Fisher. See?

I'll just tell you that you're right. But you're not. Oh, darn. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content. com slash podcasts.