Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Any New Ideas?... | 7/23/24

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

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And what brings us that happiness? Well, more money brings us that happiness. We have several studies that prove more money means a happier person. Duh. One study of who they're calling ultra-rich millionaires, a net worth of at least $8 million, found that those who earned their wealth through work and effort got more of a happiness boost from their money than those who inherited it. So, you know, they tell you in this study, hey, keep dreaming

as long as you're not sacrificing your actual well-being in that pursuit. Now, sure, there's studies of, you know, I don't know, the Mayan people that say, oh, it's not about money. It's about the non-material things. Yeah. Okay. Well, move to America. Then, uh, we know that money makes us happier. That's just the way it is. Now, they, they believe that according to a study in 2021, over one million of over one million participants, uh, they found that there's no such thing as an inflection point where more money doesn't equal more happiness. Uh-huh. Uh, in this study, participants' well-being was measured in more detail, instead of asking, uh, if you remember how well you felt,

the past week, month, or year. They were asked how they felt right now. And based on this real-time assessment, very high earners were feeling great. Uh, yeah. So more money is linked to increased happiness. Duh. And it also says that money in and of itself cannot buy happiness.

But it can provide a means to the things we value in, life. Yes. And because we have now acquired the things that we value in life, we're happier. Welcome. Good luck on that, by the way. They even, one study talked about winning the lotto, which we talk about a lot on this program. And even those people are happier than non-winners because they have more spare time. And this is the thing that makes everyone envious because you have more time. And when you have more time to do the things that you enjoy, you're happier. I don't know why we need studies from these major universities to tell us this. It seems pretty basic.

And I know that money isn't everything, but it is a lot. And yes, you should be. living your life the way you want to live it every day. That's the answer to the question, right? What would you do if you found out that you were going to die a week from now? What would you do different? And the answer should be nothing. You're doing everything right now the way you want it to be done.

However, that is a difficult task for many people. What helps in that is money. Maybe it's just me. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Okay, this just landed in my timeline. I don't know who it is. I'm not sure of her, it is them, they name.

And it's a video probably doesn't say it's a TikTok, but it is a video on some live event. And it was posted by Dr. Jebara Foshae on X. And it's under the heading. It's music like this that will all, Ultimately, United us. And boy, if this doesn't bring the country together, I don't know what will.

Some daddies have a mohawk. Some mommies have shaved heads. Yeah. Some parents have tattoos or might smoke cigarettes. You know it. Some have a lot of piercings or other things we may find odd. But it's not our job to judge them. We must leave that up to God.

Amen. Amen. We'll treat them just the same as we treat with dignity and kindness, just like we'd like for ourselves. Right. And we won't push what we believe we'll have this song to sing. Yeah. Oh, babies have a month. Some mommies have shaved heads. Everybody.

Some parents have tattoos. Oh, my milk cigarettes. Ooh, nothing about odd. Some have a lot of piercings or other things. Oh, I missed the verse. But it's not our job to judge them. We must leave them up to God. Amen.

That will you. unite the country. That's that's the new anthem to unite the country. No, I mean that. I mean, it is better than the chance from all the protesters around the globe. So there's that. Okay. So over half of Americans say the best sex of their life was on vacation. Okay. Two in five Americans are looking for a summer fling. Oh yeah. 41% according to new research, a survey of 2,000 sexually active adults found that while 74% of single respondents are dreaming of a meat cute ahead of vacation, they're not the only ones looking for excitement. Oh yeah. Despite 95% of the respondents in relationships saying they will stay with their partner this summer.

So 95% are going to stay with their partners during vacation, which is, you know, special. But a quarter are also interested in a summer fling. Oh, yeah. So I'm going to stay with my relationship, but I'm looking for a little business on the side. Americans are looking to get frisky out of town with 26% saying they will try to have a romantic encounter with someone while on vacation, including 17% of those in a relationship. yet doesn't matter. You're out there looking for business. So if you're on vacation,

you know, you're out there looking for a little business. Eight of ten Americans in relationships are looking to bring that excitement to their partner, sharing that a vacation would reinvigorate their sex life. So people are looking to get steamy on vacation. And many, whether they're in a relationship or not, are looking for a little extra business. So let's say you're on vacation and you are looking for a little business and something happens where you need some antibiotics.

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followed by ABC with 2.3, CBS 1.7. CNN average 1.5 and MSNBC average 1.1. The convention hit its highest viewership on the final night, averaging 25.4 million viewers across networks. Viewership peaked at 28.4 million from 1045 to 11 p.m. That was the early part of the 90-minute speech that Trump made. And with the previous nights of the convention, Fox News Channel coverage was the most watched

and in fact set a record for the most watched cable news convention coverage in history. I mean, they just keep breaking down these records. I love it. It was the most watch cable news convention coverage in history during the 1030 to 11 p.m. window, the channel average 10.9 million viewers on its own. And all the other networks, NBC, ABC, and CBS had 11.7 million viewers. So Fox almost beat all the other networks with viewers for the, Fox for the final night viewing. So congratulations.

And this was after. the former President Trump was almost assassinated in Pennsylvania. Well, now we know that we just have today, we found out that Kim Chito, the head of the Secret Service, is residing. I mean, it took her 10 days to resign. She went before Congress yesterday with no information, period. It was an ongoing investigation. I don't have that.

Check with the FBI, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. One of the things that I detest about these congressional hearings is that people show up without a laptop, without their phones, and they don't have the information you need. Okay, we'll wait. Go ahead. Get the information. You're the head of the entire Secret Service. Give us the information.

I can't right now at this time. I can get back to you on that, but I just don't have that full information. It's really agonizing. It drives me crazy. Then, at the same time, all of this is going on, we have the timeline of where in the world is our president? Joseph Robinette Biden. We believe he's in Delaware. We believe that he is recovering from COVID.

Right. We know that where there's reports that he was really sick and had a medical emergency in Las Vegas, which is why they flew him back to Delaware when he was in Vegas. They canceled a speech in Vegas, and that's when they said he had COVID. We watched him get out of the plane. He did not look good. We watched him get off the plane. and try to climb and did climb into a car poorly with help.

He did not look good at all, and we have not seen him since then. So he did call, and I use quotation marks around call. Kamala's speech yesterday, as she was accepting the nomination to be the Democratic nominee for president. And so we haven't heard from him. I mean, we haven't seen him. So we believe that that was him calling. Okay. Do we believe it was live?

I guess. At one point, it sounded like Kamala Harris said, we know we hear you on the call. So it sounded like she was getting ready to say recording, but she didn't. So there's no way to actually prove that. And we'll see. I guess there's reports now that he is supposed to speak tomorrow.

We'll see if that actually happens. He's canceled meetings, nine meetings in advance. already. Benjamin Netanyahu from the country of Israel landed yesterday with no one there to greet him except, I guess, you know, his driver. I know there were some people there. There wasn't anyone there from our head of state, the president, the vice president, secretary of state. No, not even the head of Congress was there. It was just incredible. And so we'll see what happens. But we are living in incredible times. And we are being told things that are not true. we have been being told things that are not true for quite some time.

And it seems that it's coming to a head. But right now, we are in trouble as a country. And do I believe that we can get out of it? 100% we can get out of it because this is the United States of America. And I truly believe that. But we need to get on it quickly because other countries are looking on thinking, isn't that interesting? Huh.

isn't that interesting. And all the conspiracy theories about our president, about the assassination attempt, about what's going on behind the scenes in our government, all those conspiracy theories are really proving out to be true. I mean, many of what we're seeing and reading probably isn't true, but until somebody steps up and tells us the truth, we have to believe that these conspiracy theories are not

conspiracy theories. They are just telling us the theories of what actually happened. I know. I know. I know. I try not to talk politics too much, but this is driving me insane. And we need to remember that no matter what country you're living in right now, I realize that the United States of America has been the beacon of hope for the world. And I get it. And I want to continue that. I want to continue us being the beacon for the world. But we can't do that if we don't have legitimacy in our own representation. And right now, it appears that we don't. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Desperately. Please follow me on my social media accounts at Jeffrey JFR on X. Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and

Instagram, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher on YouTube. You can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can order a cameo from me at Jeffrey JFR on Cameo. That, of course, is not free. So I don't understand we question all the time. Doesn't Hollywood have any new ideas? Apparently not. And now that Twisters, you know, got 80 million this past weekend on opening weekend.

And I'm told that it didn't even mention climate change, which I love. That's awesome. I'm sure Hollywood is not happy about that. But we've had Top Gun and Roadhouse. and so we all just love these old movies, according to Hollywood. So now I guess there's a ghost in the works with Channing Tatum, taking Patrick Swayze's spot, Barbarella with Sidney suiting up for the sci-fi, the running man at Glenn Powell's on his marks, an officer and a gentleman with Miles Teller, that's Richard Gears show,

and The War of the Roses, the divorce drama, which was awesome, with Michael Douglas, and yet it's going to be a new 2020 style. So Hollywood does not have any new ideas, and they're still going to be going back to the same old spinning wheel. And this was for movies, right? So, I mean, this is why Taylor Sheridan has been so huge is because he's got all these new shows and new ideas, and we love them on TV.

So maybe Taylor just needs to take over the movie industry, too. I mean, the theater companies are still struggling. We talked the other day about regal restructuring and, you know, remodeling and trying to keep up with the Joneses. AMC struck a deal to restructure up to $2.45 billion of its debt to win the theater chain. Okay. So good luck. Good luck. God bless.

So my girl, Priscilla Presley. I mean, she was married to the king. Hello. It's just the way it is. And she is now suing her former business partners over allegations of elder abuse and fraud, accusing them of meticulously planned scheme to drain Elvis Presley's ex-wife of every last penny she had. She filed a complaint in Los Angeles court that accuse Brigitte Cruz, Kevin Flisley. Philco, the Hay Sizzlin, and Lynn Walker Wright of fraudulently convincing her to give them power over nearly every aspect of her life, and then abusing that control to steal her money.

She is 79 now, and I will say. I saw, you know, the last shot of her was, I don't know, back in January of this year at the Primetime Emmy Awards. Oh, Priscilla. Easy on the clown face cuts, okay? I love you. I love you, baby. Easy on the cuts. Anyway, her attorney now claims that this was an abhorrent scheme by the defendants to prey on an older woman by gaining her trust,

isolating her from the most important people in her life, duping her into believing that she would take care of her, that they would take care of her personally and financially, while their real goal was to drain her of every last penny she had. So I will see This attorney Martin Singer Who now represents Priscilla Is calling all the people

Con artists and pathological liars And they say that They took more than a million dollars From Presley I convinced her to sign a deal That would give them 80% Of her future income

And so Singer says Look, she is a victim Of elder abuse And fraud period. We'll see. We'll see. Now, not long ago, the defendants, Sisslin and Cruz, and maybe all of them, filed a case against Priscilla in Florida, where they claimed that she illegally turned her back on them after they had helped her dig herself out of impending financial

ruin, including negotiating a deal that led to last year's Bricillowell's Bias. bio-pick. But her attorney says, ah, that was just BS, and they're just trying to cover up for all the other misled deeds that was going on. So it's going to be interesting to see what happens. Do not mess with the king, man. You saw what happened when somebody tried to take Graceland away. They were shut down. They were shut down hard because you don't be messing with the king of rock and roll. Okay, Elvis Presley. You don't try to take the family's property. You don't try to mess with the ex-wife, Priscilla, the wife, the one true love. of Elvis. You just don't do it. This is America and you don't mess with the Presleys. Okay. A few other lawsuits going on. Logan Paul and KSI's Prime Energy drink, which apparently

contains roughly two times as much caffeine per can as Red Bull. It's being sued by the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee for trademark infringement. We'll see how that case goes. Skechers, or Skeechers, as I like to call them, is suing L.L.B. Bean for allegedly stealing two of its design patents. You bastards. And I see where Macy's ended talks about a buyout with an investment firm Arkhouse Management and Brigade Capital Management. I mean, after months, they were, I thought that deal was a done deal.

Nope. The deal, which would have been valued Macy's Enterprise at $9 billion was squashed after Macy's board had concerns about the financing for the. the proposed deal. They didn't feel that that deal was. You guys don't have the whole $9 billion, and we don't want to miss that deal. So we said goodbye, have a nice date.

And they are going to just continue on their merry way by themselves. So Macy's execs are signaling that they're going to forge ahead with their turnaround planned that people are saying, ooh, good luck, God bless, because J.C. Penny and Sears kind of tried that a little bit and where are they now? so they you know inflation-wary consumers are showing signs of weakness yes they are the strategy is focused on doubling down on its top 50 outlets closing underperforming stores and adding new blumen dales and blue mercury locations yeah we talked about that plus they're preparing to celebrate their centenary their hundred years of thanksgiving day parade this year so they're looking forward to the next hundred years which may not happen unless they work out some kind of good deal i guess they, they did okay after COVID. And then the last 12 months, they reported $13 million in net income, which is a figure

that was routinely over a billion dollars in prior years. So still making a little money. Not much, though. And if you're used to making a billion and you cut it down to $13 million, the lifestyle from which you become accustomed to isn't the lifestyle you can live. And that's what Macy's is finding out. we speak. So maybe we cut back on the old Thanksgiving Day parade.

Ha, it's not going to happen. That won't stand in America. Or would it? I mean, I don't know. Is there another company that could promote and be the mainstay for the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York? What company is that that we would be okay with? I guess any company would be okay with it.

It's now, it's not the Macy's Day Parade. It would always be, or, you know, formerly the Macy's Day Parade. and now it's KSI and Logan Paul's Prime Energy drink Thanksgiving Day parade. That could happen. The Red Bull Thanksgiving Day parade. That could actually happen now that I think about it. So Macy's, you better get your act together. It's the matcha or the three ensemble Cado Cephora of the fact that I just

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magazine? Who died today? Who died today? Abdul Duke Fakhir. Abdul Duke Fokierre.

I guess that's how you say his last name. F. I are. He's the last surviving original member of the Motown group, The Four Tops. Yes, you remember the Four Tops. Reach out and I'll be there standing in the shadows of love. Duke is dead at the age of 88. He died of heart failure at his home in Detroit, according to a family spokesperson with his wife and other loved ones by his side. Motown founder Barry Gordy said in a statement. Fakir helped embody embody. the tops showmanship, class, and artistry. Barry Gordy, he's still alive? Hold on.

We got to find out how old Barry Gordy is. Come on, he's got to be a thousand, too, right? Barry Gordy, he's 94. Okay, so Barry Gordy is 94. Yeah, I mean, very Gordy might not be... Never know. He's the founder of Motown. He's still alive.

That's awesome. I don't think I knew that Barry Gordy was still alive. Anyway, Duke was the first. tenor, smooth, suave, and always sharp, Gordy said. For 70 years, he kept the four tops a remarkable legacy intact. The four tops were among Motown's most popular and enduring acts peaking in the 60s. Yeah, I mean, between 64 and 67, they had 11 top 20 hits and two number ones. I can't help myself, sugar by Honeybunch, and reach out and I'll be there.

Wow. They had some big hits. So the four tops, all of them now, are gone. We lost them all four tops. And we lost them, all of them now, thanks to the death of Abdul Duke Fakhir dead at the age of 88. Rest in peace. Then we have a 24-year-old binge-eating live streamer who died while broadcasting a 10-hour food binge on cake, chicken fingers, and seafood. thousands of her followers who apparently tried to do help her out. I don't know how you do that.

You just say, hey, hey, are you all right? So Pan X, I A-O-T-I-N-G. Shat-T-I-N-G. Yeah, that's what I said. Pan Shateng from China died from a suspected stomach tear while groping in 22 pounds. food, including what appeared to be chocolate cake. Autopsy results revealed that her stomach had become severely deformed and filled with undigested food, suggesting that her stomach could have burst, duh, causing stomach acid and food to leak into her abdomen. Oh, man. Now, they claim, and this is going to come as a surprise to you, that Chalotene was morbidly obese.

All right. No kidding. I mean, this is the big deal now, right, is watching people just shove a bunch of food in their face. I might have to start my own food shoving contest into my house. There's hungry fat chick and candy Godiva. There's a few others, too, out there that they're making money. People are watching them shove massive amounts of food into their body. Now, the one story talks about this one guy. who's like 350 pounds. What is he? Two feet tall? I mean, 350 pounds, man. I could do 350 standing on my hands. Please stop me. Just remember that eating a massive amount of food can also lead the stomach to expand and become distended,

which can compress surrounding blood vessels as well as put pressure on your heart, raising the risk for a cardiac arrest, okay? And you get that whole electrolyte imbalance, and that could cause severe cardiac events. So I'm sure that our girl paned Shallating Would think again maybe eating that last piece of cake But maybe not She was in love with it

That was her deal to binge eat on a live stream And just pounded down as much as she could And have people give her money while she was doing it So rest in peace Pan Shalating Dead at the age of 24 Yesterday we gave you the list of the USA Today's Reader's Choice Awards for Best Fast Food Restaurants in the United States.

And the number one restaurant for the first time was Del Taco. And congratulations to them. It was kind of strange. We did have people questioned the fact they emailed me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Why was McDonald's? Burger King and Wendy's not on the list. Hey, it's the people's choice awards. You have to go with what the people are choosing.

And some people would say that, well, that answers itself. But, I mean, for sure, McDonald's and Wendy's and Burger King are part of the fast food world, right in their top around the world. And I see where there's a report saying that about 93% of McDonald's locations voted to extend to the burger chain's $5 meal deal promotion. which was scheduled to end this month. Huh, weird. People really do kind of like spending less money for things.

Ha. So the chain said that customers are loving it, and it's getting them back into the restaurants after many stopped craving mcdgets following price hikes. So the day after the fast food giant debuted the deal, which is the 25th of June, was Mickey D's biggest Tuesday of the year, with 8% more visitors than the average

and visits remained above average for at least the rest of the week. So you can expect Burger King and Wendy's and many of the other fast food places to follow along. Ha, weird, how people want lower prices. And with inflation and, you know, minimum wage costs and costs of doing business, it's very difficult these days. Hopefully that will change if we were, you know, to get a new administration in our government. But, you know, you don't know. You don't know for sure?

Yeah, you do, Jeff. No, I mean, you don't know for sure. And so you just have to hope and pray that that's actually the case. But it does turn out that people do actually like to get things at a lower price. Ha, weird. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. It's just $39.99.

How could I resist? This luxurious wool throw for my sister. This gold watch for my partner? A wooden puzzle for my niece? Leather gloves for my boss? Ooh, European chocolate for the crossing guard? At these prices, could I find something for everyone at winners? Stop wondering. Start gifting.

Winners find fabulous for less. So if you're listening live today, it is the 23rd of July 2024. So we are just three days away from the beginning of the Summer Olympics in France. And we find out that LeBron James has been tapped to be Team USA's male flag bearer at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony coming on Friday afternoon. The female flag bearer is due to be announced sometime today. We have not had that announcement yet as of this recording. We also know that the world's longest rowing boat is to carry the Olympic torch down the Poop River. I mean the Seine River there in Paris.

So 24-seater rowing boat, which will be part of the Paris-2020-Olympic torch relay on Sunday. Just days before the start of the Olympic Games, the impressive shell will take 23 rowers and an Olympic torchbearer down the section of the river just east of Paris. It will now be part of the official competition. Rowers are only allowed to compete alone or in teams of two, four or eight in the Olympic Games. okay thank you the boat especially made by Swiss manufacturers stamp fly racing boats for big occasions

so we have that that already happened then there was we already we already do that because I feel like we're having the opening ceremonies on Saturday and it talked about the torch relay on Sunday so we have the opening ceremonies isn't that when they do the torch what am I missing I feel like I'm

I feel like I'm missing something of this thing. So maybe it started on the relay on Sunday and then it's going to be there on Friday, catch up with all the Olympians by Friday to light the torch for the opening ceremonies. So maybe that's where we're at. I don't know. I just feel like I'm missing something.

And so I'm kind of half looking forward to the Olympics. I'll watch a few of the games and I like them. but I don't know. I feel really ambivalent this year about the Olympics. And I feel bad about it, but I just, that's the way I feel. And I don't know why. I don't know why I do. That's because they dicked your girl, Caitlin Clark, on being the team.

That might be it. That may be it. Maybe it is. It's ridiculous because the rest of them are all going to get gold medals, and Caitlin is not. And it just doesn't seem fair on that note. But even if she were in the Olympics, would I care about a lot of the Olympics? Would I care about a lot of the other events?

I don't know. I feel bad about not feeling good about the Olympics. So maybe it'll change when it gets started. And, you know, I'll watch some of the opening ceremonies and I'll feel different. But I don't know. I just something isn't sitting right with me and I don't know what it is.

So another study that I just was reading about that I thought, I thought we already knew this. So a new study in the journal current biology. And man, do I love journal current biology? You can't tear me away from it when it gets delivered, especially the swimsuit edition. Oh, the Christmas edition. Oh, my gosh, it's beautiful.

So apparently, researchers have collected the largest ever data set of chimpanzee conversations. They have found that many communicate back and forth using gestures following the same rapid fire pattern. Have we not been to the zoo? Do we not see chimpanzees speaking to one another? Using gestures back and forth for conversations? I just don't understand why we need this special study where it's just government study money.

So according to this, Catherine Hobater at the University of St. Andrews, UK, was an open question. whether this was uniquely human. Was it, Catherine? Was it? Human languages are incredibly diverse. A hallmark we all share is that our conversations are structured with fast-paced turns of just 200 milliseconds on average.

Okay. We found that the timing of chimpanzee gestures and human conversational turn taking is similar and very fast, which suggests that similar evolutionary mechanisms are driving these social, communicative interactions. Oh, well, isn't that special? Yeah, no kidding. I mean, we already knew this. Why are we spending money on these studies like that when we already know that this is taking place? So all together, they collected data on more than 8,500 gestures for 252 individuals.

They measure the timing of turn-taking and conversational patterns. They found that 14% of communicative interactions included an exchange of gestures between two interacting individuals. Most of the exchanges included a two-part exchange, but some included up to seven parts. Oh, man. Wow. They were actually having a conversation. That's why, it's just unbelievable to me. Of course they're having conversations. They're still not human. Humans first, we rule the planet, period.

Hello. Sure, they have conversations. Good. They can have conversations in the zoos. Don't tell me. Look at all the macaque monkeys that are attacking people. They're communicating. Yes, we know.

We know they are. And we cannot have that. that period we have to put them down that's the way it is so good for good for the new study for the journal current biology for telling us things we already knew speaking of animals i see where uh they announced uh kirk herb street is going to start doing interviews calling it walks with ben ben is his dog and he's been going on him going with him to uh events i mean for Sure, all last year he was posting stuff all during football season of Ben being with him on trips. Herb Street, I gosh, he's working in NFL and college football during football season.

He's a busy man. And apparently they're going to start doing it. There's no word whether it's going to be on ESPN or it's going to be on social media. But he's going to be doing special interviews. He said that during a number of games he covered last year, yeah. And he said that head coach Billy Napier, of the University of Florida. And he said,

that's what my life has become, traveling with Ben. Yeah. And so now he's just going to do walks with Ben as a interview tactic. I think that is awesome. That's a really good idea.

And I hope that it's his deal, not through ABC, Amazon, ESPN, whatever rights, he probably has to give them the rights because that's where he's making his contracts with doing deals

to do his, is announcing, so I'm sure walks with Ben are a part of that deal as well. But it's a good idea, and I hope it works out for him. I like Kirk. And I miss college football. I do miss football season, no question, but I really miss college football. And I am looking forward to this season. I'm not looking forward to dealing with X.

I'm having an issue. I wanted to upgrade my subscription to Premium Plus on X. and since I did it on my phone, it won't let me update on my laptop. It says that you got a, you know, you've got the subscription through your Android phone, so you've got to take care of everything through your Android phone.

However, the Android phone won't let me upgrade or downgrade. And so my, my anniversary is coming up here at the end of this month of paying for my original subscription to get my checkmark back, Elon. And it's, so now, I'm going to have to cancel my subscription,

and then I'm going to have to re-up my subscription at the end of the month to a premium, and I better not take my checkmark away. I'll be pissed if it does. I've reached out. I don't know what's just ticking me off. See, when I signed up, I did actually begin to sign up. You don't want to know, but I'm going to tell you anyway. I tried to sign up on my main computer, and the things got bogged down,

and it wouldn't accept the payment. I found out later why it wouldn't accept the payment, but because it wouldn't accept the payment, I got frustrated and went ahead and did it on my cell phone, and it went right through. They accepted the payment. So I just didn't think anything of it until now. And now I'm pissed that it won't let me do anything on Android.

So you can upgrade through Apple, through iOS, and you can upgrade on my regular laptop computer, but I can't upgrade or downgrade on. my on my Android. Very, very frustrating. And it's just frustrating to me. I know. I don't want to pay.

I don't want to do it. I want my blue check mark back. And I want to just be left alone and be able to play around on X anyway I want. But I can't because that's the new world we live in. So I might as well, my thinking is I might as well get the subscription so that I can have all the benefits that come with having a premium plus subscription to X. Am I going to make any money from it? I don't know.

We'll see. Maybe I'll just start doing separate shows on X, which I do. On Saturday, we post our Saturday morning live show goes live up on X every Saturday with Brad Stags and myself. So, you know,

maybe we'll just do more of that. We'll do chewing the fat, this show, of course, and maybe we'll do more of the X shows as well. I will say, and I'm not alone, that when Elon said he was moving X and moving SpaceX to California,

I thought in my head, you know, about the George Strait song. All my exes live in Texas. Hello. Shouldn't that have been a headline? And then I see on social media, it makes the rounds. Excuse me. And no one, journalists, went with the headline. All my exes live in Texas.

I know. It seemed kind of weird. Maybe they don't know the George Strait song. I don't know. It's a classic. All my exes live in Texas. And then he does a whole story. And that's why he hangs his hat in Tennessee.

Maybe that's why they don't. They didn't use it because, oh, it doesn't say it says his exes live in Texas, Jeff, but he lives in Tennessee, so it doesn't really work, does it? Because Elon still works in Texas and lives in Texas. I know. But the point was, is, all my exes live in Texas. That was the point. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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