Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Brainless? Nope, Dumb... | 7/11/24

Episode Date: July 11, 2024

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You still don't know what to make of it. Now, they're saying that, listen, this saves plastic being wasted in America. So that's what we're doing. And we're happy to do that for plastic waste. They're going to save 17 million pounds of plastic every year. So? So? We like the plastic container.

Well, now you have another thing to be mad about because they've announced today that they're going to raise their membership fees. Oh, that's special. Yep. Their regular membership fee is going to go up another five bucks in the U.S. and Canada as of September 1st. $65 bucks for the annual memberships. And if you want to get their executive membership or already are an executive membership member, that's going to go up $130. And it's going to go up to $130. That would be a lot if it actually went up to $130.

Costco said the fee increases would affect about 52 million memberships. Huh. Another five bucks from 52 million members? Yeah. And yet they still want to check my ID at the checkout because, hey, we've stepped up enforcement because we don't want shoppers using other members' cards. Yeah, I wouldn't want that. No, we can't have that.

So, anyway, that's news from Costco. You can still get the buck 50 hot dog and drink, but the chicken is no longer in the plastic container. It's in a plastic bag. And we're going to charge you more for your membership. And don't even think about sending somebody in to pick something up for you with your card because we will shut that down in a house.

heartbeat. Welcome. In fact, we may start shooting people dead. We may just shoot you dead right there. Oh, you try to use somebody's card? Yeah, shoot you right then. But for now, they're not shooting anybody. We're just telling you you have to go to the front desk. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So the city of New York, we've all seen the video by now of when Mayor Adams wheeled out the trash can and they thought it was so silly that the mayor would just wheel out a trash can making such a big deal about it's a trash can. Well, the reason he did that is that they paid a company millions of dollars to conduct a feasibility study on whether trash cans are better than leaving garbage on the street. I don't know. What do you think? So,

They've got a whole slide program that they created called The Future of Trash. Now, $4 million, I'm willing to do that for a city anywhere in America. You can email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I'm happy to do that for you anytime. I will write you a whole page, maybe two, on the feasibility of the future of trash. So some of the highlights from this feasibility study, the official term is containerization. Yeah, that would be called the trash can, which is the storage of waste in sealed, rodent-proofed receptacles rather than in plastic bags placed directly on the curb. Now, of course, there are things, you know, you have to think about when doing that.

but you know, you have the individual bins for low-density locales and shared containers for the high-density. New York City needs to clean up about 24 million pounds of garbage a day. Wow. Containerization has only become the norm worldwide in major cities in the past 15 years. I've had trash cans for a lot longer than 15 years. Again, though, I've not, I didn't. I didn't write the study.

A team from McKinsey's wrote this. Key considerations for container viability. Population density. New York has 30,000 residents per square mile, more dense than comparable big cities. Built in a few places to hide containers due to history of infrastructure development. Well, I don't know that you need to hide them. Right?

If you are putting them out on the street, you're using the container instead of, just the pile of trash thrown out there at the curb. And we've all, it's no fun walking through Manhattan trash day. Just a pile of garbage in front of every building. It smells great and it's wonderful. And don't worry about the rodents. Don't even worry about that.

Just look the other way. Snow creates challenges for mechanized collection. Okay. I wouldn't want to hire a man to jump off the time. truck and throw it in the back. Oh wait, they did that years ago. That's can't do that anymore. Uh, curbspace, mostly taken up by bus stops, bike lanes, outdoor dining and fire hydrants. Well, I can tell you right now, the perfect place for them would be the bike lane. But what do I know? Uh, the collection frequency, NYC needs to double frequency to pick up for estimated speed of

trash that bins would accumulate. Yeah. So I mean, that there's so much of it. Uh, a new garbage truck will be have to be designed to collect rolling bins at scale these are all good gigs man if you create if you're a garbage truck company start making them now if you're a garbage containerization making company now is the time get on it um there is a slide called why containerization matters and the three reasons are i don't know rats uh pedestrian obstruct and dirty streets. Wow. Okay.

It's a fascinating study on containerization. I can't believe that they talk the city into paying them $4 million for this project. Oh, we need to see if we need garbage cans. Well, let's pay. How much would you charge us? Well, we can probably get it to you in a week or two. Hey, you know, we're going to need more than that. We're going to need at least a month.

And we're going to need to do some studies throughout the city. So we can probably get it done for what do you think, Bill? Four million? Yeah, yeah, four million be fine. Okay, go ahead and do that. Wow. I just want New York City or any city in America to know. I will be happy to do a future of trash study in your municipality for less than $4 million.

I know. I know. You're welcome. You know, some other cities that probably need a The Future of Trash study would be, oh, I don't know, Memphis, Tennessee, St. Louis, Missouri, Detroit, Michigan, Birmingham, Alabama, Little Rock, Arkansas, New Orleans, Louisiana, Cleveland, Ohio, Kansas, Kansas City, Missouri. Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Mertal Beach, South Carolina. Yeah, they need that, no doubt. And Denver, Colorado.

Those 10 cities definitely need a future of trash study because those 10 cities are the most dangerous places in the U.S. So crime rate is one of the deciding factors where families settled down, you think. and base do you thank you and that was that you they're definitely hearing that in those cities although i was a little surprised like all the other ones i you know kind of kind of got i'm not quite sure i knew about myrtle beach south carolina as being a a dangerous spot uh in america because you think of myrtle beach i mean it's the beach that's golfing it's south carolina that's what's happening people are walking along the beach and then all of a sudden they're getting shot.

That's right. I did not know about Myrtle Beach. So, man, if you're living in Myrtle Beach, keep your head down. It's the matcha or the three ensemble Cadocephora of the fates that I just been to denishy who energize so much? It's the ensemble. The form of standard and mini-regrouped. Hello, Ben.

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in the Santa Fe New Mexico yesterday. And it was tedious and boring and they're

setting the groundwork but I felt like I needed to watch and I'll watch some more today it's going to get better they did their and obviously I'm talking about the Alec Baldwin trial

and as long as this trial's going on I mean if I say his name you're going to hear the gunshot and if I say his first name Alec you're going to hear that that's just the rules of the show

that's a must so you know he had the wife there and they showed when he was getting coming out to the trial the wife was there with him of course to show support but they brought the baby with them i don't know if they brought the i don't know if they're a or b and a place there in santa fe brought the whole family uh if they're filming the reality show so the family's got to be there i don't know i just know that i watched her get out of the car the SUV carrying the

baby and then it was like give me a little kiss hand the baby back to the nanny then we're going back into court. Why would you bring the kid with you if you're just giving it back to the nanny to drive it back to the Airbnb or the hotel room? I mean, it was definitely a show. So it's very possible that

they were filming. Although I didn't see the extra cameraman around for the reality show, but they definitely could have been there. Stephen was there, his brother. It was pretty boring. They were trying to lay the groundwork and trying to show how Alec

was so restless, reckless on the set. But really, they've got the police officer there. One of the first police officers on the scene has got him sitting down. And they're trying to make it seem like Alec is not, ooh, a little slow on the trigger, was disregarding orders from the police, which wasn't the case at all. I didn't get that at all.

The officer was like, hey, do you want to sit at my car? car. Do you want to sit here? Alec is like, I'll sit here. Just be here. Don't talk to anybody about anything. I want you to hear. Okay, fine. He wasn't under arrest. The cop, the other people

that he was talking with were talking to him about cigarettes and everything else. I don't know if they discussed anything else. But the police officer was right there and didn't say anything. He even said on the stand, well, in hindsight, I probably should have, you know, done more to keep him from

talking to the other people, but I didn't. I mean, it was just agonizing. This whole thing is ridiculous. I... Okay, so here's the deal. You know how I feel about Alec Baldwin. However, let me say this, that I've been against this trial

and him being tried for this. We've already tried the armorer. She got 18 months. We've settled some insurance claims. you know, that's fine. We've done, we've finished filming the movie, although I don't know that movie will ever air anywhere, but they finished filming it anyway.

Not in New Mexico. I think they took it up to Wyoming or whatever, it finished it there. But I'm now kind of reassessing whether I want him to go to jail or not because of the reality show. Because they said that the reality show is, you know, they're all in.

And they're planning on him, going to jail and then they'll have the wife and the kids and everybody will be you know it'll be it'll be all hell breaking loose at the baldwin house so it might be fun and well worth the watch if he were to be found guilty and sentenced to jail but i don't really want that to happen because this is ridiculous and i know they're laying the groundwork but if i'm part of the jury with what i saw you yesterday. There's time for me to go home. And we need to find Alec Baldwin not guilty.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Well, looks like CNN is cutting some more jobs. Another 100 jobs or so, according to CEO Mark Thompson. He unveiled their new. digital strategy for the company amid declining TV viewership and revenue. A memo to the staff, Thompson outlined his plan to release a video-heavy subscription product this year through CNN.com.

I thought that was CNN Plus, as well as paywalled lifestyle content. That's not going to work. Good luck. But the announcement comes, I mean, they pulled the plug on CNN Plus a couple years ago now after the first month, pretty much. Last year the company released CNN Max, a live news stream platform. I did not know that. A live news streaming platform available through the parent company Warner Brothers Max. I don't remember if we talked about it, I certainly haven't watched it.

Wow. I'm going to have to search that out and see if it's worth anything. Never mind. So, I mean, they're worried about the decline in viewership. And apparently profit last year fell below $1 billion for the first time in years as advertising revenue in early 23. I hate it. I hate it when you can't even have a profit of a billion dollars. Okay, come on.

they're still making a lot of money. They're just not making as much as they were come to. They're not living the lifestyle they've become accustomed to. So let's see, a majority of Americans, according to my man, get at least some of their news through a digital production. Yeah, well, yes, they do. And I don't know that a paywalled lifestyle content or a video-heavy subscription product,

you can get that a lot of places. Oh, I know, there's a place called The Blaze. TheblazTV.com, of which this show is under for the Blaze Podcast Network. So I would much rather have you do that. Go to blazTV.com. You can go to blazTV.com slash Jeffie and get a discount on your subscription.

but I think I think that if you just went to blazedTV.com right now and used Glenn 30 trial Glenn 30 trial I think you're going to save 30 bucks on a year's subscription and you're going to get seven days free so you can try it out and you don't have to

if you don't like it after seven days, get rid of it. I mean, that's what helps make this show free. And I know we're starting a new, what the heck is it? I got it. I got to sit over here. Oh, yeah, the new Blaze News Tonight show premieres tonight for those of you listening Live 7-11, 2024.

Slurpy Day! I said it out loud, man. When I say it out loud, then I remember. That's what dates do to me. I have to say it out loud, then I remember things. But you have Blaze News tonight premiering tonight, and you can subscribe to the YouTube channel. It's not miss an episode, or you can just go to Galan30 Trial, blazedtv.com,

get you the $30. I just said that. Why is it in the ad? I just said it. They're like, they're listening to me. That's the deal. And so you can check that out. We've got that going on.

I would much rather you do that than even try to look for CNN Macs or look for their new subscription product with video heavy. Okay. Good luck. God bless. Plus, I feel like the place to go is X now. You can follow me on X at. Jeffrey JFR on X, but I was just looking at some numbers that X posted from at X data. They say that every day around 361.9 billion seconds are spent on X.

That's up plus 8% over the same time last year. there are 570 million people coming to X every month that's up 6% year over year and as far as video is concerned there were 8.2 billion daily video views in quarter two which is up 45% year over year which makes sense because we're watching more and more video on X so there's that. And I know I saw that Zuckerberg was promoting that, you know, Threads has 175 million monthly users one year after its launch. Does it, Mark? Does it? Because I know that you pretty much forced us into signing up for it from Instagram.

And then, like, I signed up for threads. I have a Threads account. To be honest, I think it's at Jeffrey JFR on that. threads. I really, I don't remember because I signed up for it, got it happen, and then I changed phones. So all of my apps, I had to re, I had to put in passwords back in to get them up and running again, and I never did threads. So the only thread that I see, the actual thread from threads that I see, is the ones that they highlight in my Instagram feed. So I don't know if I still count as a user or not

because I mean I actually still have an account but I haven't opened up that app in quite some time I see where Spotify now is adding comment sections to its podcast episode pages see how long that lasts. They want to say that they want to compete with YouTube and let people give their comments to their podcast. We'll see.

We shall see if that lasts long. What they're, you know, they say they're adding the comment section, so have at it. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice, yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no, but chicken tenders, yes, because those are groceries, and we deliver those too. Along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials.

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And we've talked to him about... crypto and he's a blah blah blah bestselling author with his demystifying cryptocurrencies and he's got a new book coming out soon and you can all you know you can always go to chuck palm dot com and figure it all out and he does a little cigar thing every once in a while too you can check out but what i want to know about well welcome chuck how are you jeffy the illustrious ever freaking jeffy whatever okay so you're a text you're a text to me yesterday was I'd love to talk to you about

AI hallucinations now I will say I will say I don't recall anything about AI hallucinations before now I had I know that I know we've just they just announced the AI beauty contest winner winners oh yes yes and

some of them were you know I could guess could give somebody hallucinations or dreams, but what are you talking about when you say AI hallucinations? I got to point out probably my favorite of all time was if you Google the phrase, put glue on pizza,

you're going to see that AI now believes that humans eat pizza with Elmer's glue. And it has been all over, over on X and Facebook and these people that are Googling this phrase, I guess it's, you know, like we used to say in the 80s or 90s, garbage in, garbage out. Right. I'm sure that it must have found an article about how photographers use Elmer's glue

to make cheese look stringy when they're, you know, shooting commercials or whatever. So maybe that's the origin of this. Okay, so it's not hallucination. It's just AI BS. Well, I delved into it a little further. I was intrigued. So I did a little homework. And apparently the Statue of Liberty is in California.

And the Golden Gate Bridge has been transported several times over the ocean and different locations. And it's a really notable thing. In fact, it was one of Dictionary.com's words of the year last year because large language model computers, all they do is really search the websites for all the data that they can afford. Yeah, I mean, 24-7. That's what they do. Right.

That's their job, right? Yeah. Well, I mean, look at AI as like a four-year-old child with 50 years of experience crammed into its head. Right. It's not going to understand a whole lot of that context. Right. And there is now an actual technical term called AI hallucinating.

AI hallucinating. Okay. They come back with just made up stuff. Apparently, if AI doesn't know the answer, it will create its own. Well, sure, because then it attempts, then it will find out after it gives you an answer whether it's wrong or not so it's learning. Well, that's not the way it's supposed to work. Why not? Well, you know, for the same reason that we don't always trust.

It's going to kill us, Jeff. it's going to kill us. Well, I'm glad you jumped there first. That was my expected response. It's out there trying to find a way to confuse us so it can kill us easier. Right. Right. They figured out how to put skin on robots.

They're going to kill us. I mean, seriously, no, the AI is supposed to be learning, right? We're putting skin on robots. I know, I love that. The University of Tokyo did that. I know. I love it. I'm all for it.

No problem. For the most part, you know, we've, the most studies show that humans are okay with robots as long as the robots are robots. That we know that they're robots. Yeah. You look at it and you can tell it's a robot.

Correct. We're okay with it. Right. We're okay with it. Especially if it's interacting with us. We want the robot to be able to interact with us only be a robot. And so, you know,

up with skin. I'm pretty sure that's going to become an issue. But I'm okay with it as long as it's going to do it. All I want is to be able to say, hey, do this and have it do it. That's all I want. And I want to clean my bathrooms. It can do my dishes. Right, right. Sweep. I don't care. Just that when I, I don't want to have to control it with a tablet. I don't want to have to keep monitoring it with my do boy doby app on my phone. I just want to, I want Dewey to be standing there. at the ready to do what I wanted to do when I wanted to do. I like Dewey as a name for a robot. I think Dewey is a great name.

Thank you. That's why I call it Dewey. He's my do-boy. The whole idea that the robot is hallucinating or will make stuff up, it's actually now a legal issue. There's a lawyer who tried to present his case using a chat GPT prompt that he found information about case law that was referenced. earlier and none of it was true and the judge had to throw it out. Oh, wow. Now when you're getting robots to lie for you, that's a whole other matter.

Yeah, no kidding. No kidding. So, but that, I mean, well, I mean, that would be something that is easily found out again, so that the robot would learn, right? It can't lie about, for now. It can't lie about law. Yeah, how often are we going to wait and find out that, you know, all these lies are being saved to the internet where it's,

just been let loose and gone free to roam the wild and come back with whatever crazy stories that we put out there. I mean, that's kind of where it ended up with the Constitution. The founders, the signers of the original declaration were, you know, Puerto Rican and Mexicans and, I mean, I really would have loved to have seen Hernandez signed in big letters at the bottom of that. There's just no accounting for making these things. say true things. And so now they're talking about, you know, guide rails and programs that keep it and verify it. And I've actually, I'm working with a guy that's developing a pretty cool piece of software that uses another AI to verify AI. And I think that's going to be the

future is that we're just going to have to double check things. Well, yeah. I mean, but at, at some point, we're going to just be that, well, the robot, I mean, AI said it. So it's good. we're tired of checking it because it's always right now. At some point, we're going to reach where, you know, I'm tired of checking it because he's always right. Just whatever he says, do it. It's like a teacher going home and grading, you know, papers from the grade school class.

It's just whatever, be, you know, C minus. Well, no, no, no. No, no, no. But, I mean, if AI, if we're entrusting AI to do, things like, you know, do guilty, not guilty, whatever, whatever you expect out of your AI screen. Yeah. If it continued, if I say to my AI screen, uh, two plus two is four for, for 10 years.

After 10 years, I already know it knows two plus two is four. So even if it were to say, I'm done checking it. So at that point, that's when AI could say, two plus. two is five. And I'm fooling it now, aren't I? We have a problem. Right. Exactly. Right.

So that's been the issue because so many of the things have gone out there that are unchecked. And they've, honestly, they're really too early to be making business decisions. And one of the best examples of that was they had an airline refund policy in Canada. Air Canada had some dispute about refunding one of their companies. customers. And the AI came back with a policy that was in favor of the customer that was not part of their policy. And the Canadian courts made them enforce that. Yeah, because they were using the AI. Heck, yeah, they used it. So it didn't matter whether it was part of their program or not.

Yeah, but I mean, it's dangerous if you're the owner of the company, right? You're going to start refunding people just because of, well, they're responsible for not putting the guidelines. end. So true. And I'm trying to warn people now that AI is not dangerous. It's just dumb. We need to train it up a little more. And, you know, if the really smart AI start coming out, and we're talking about general AI in the future, they are going to be trained the same way we train humans. You're going to have to put them through school and give them the data that you want them to learn. And how do we trust that data? Well, we're the ones that put it in there. So we're ultimately. responsible. But I think every company is going to have to adopt their own set of rules and guidelines

so it doesn't tell you to put Elmer's glue on your pizza. That's also a little scary. I mean, who's going to guideline that? Anyway, I got it. I know. But ultimately, a quote from the expert, Chuck Palm, AI, is dumb. So, Chuck, I appreciate you coming on, chewing the fat. I know you do your... I might not to leave the world with anything that be the phrase of the day. You do your, uh, you do your tech corresponding for America in the morning on Westwood One, correct? Yes, sir. I do. Thank you. The tech minute is the, uh, at the 10 minutes before the hour and it's my show to just give you the latest and greatest. So yeah, that's- just go to Westwood One in the morning show. I don't need to, I would just listen to the whole show.

I mean, I don't, I don't, I, to be honest, I, you know what, no, no, no what, don't do that. only listen at 10 minutes before the hour listen to Chuck. The rest of the show I don't want you to listen to. So that's what I need to happen. I love it if you would listen to the whole hour. Nope, not anymore. Nope, just 10 minutes to the hour

when the Tech Minute airs and then leave. That's it. Can I listen to the Tech Minute on Chuck Palm.com? Most days you can. I'm also on Twitter at Chuck Palm and all the other socials. Somehow you'll find me as Chuck Palm. So I could listen to the Tech Minute.

Uh, at chuck palm.com, I wouldn't have to go to stupid Westwood One programming. Well, I, I suggest you do because that's, you know, in the bill. And I would love it. You would give them that, yeah. But you can always go to chuck palm.com and find my latest shows and, uh, including, uh, sidebars like, uh, you mentioned the cigar talk show. And that's a fun one. Awesome.

And then you're hawking your, uh, cryptocurrency books, right? Yep. Uh, first one is still a best seller. I am blessed and honored that two years running. I'm still at the top. Oh, wait a minute. Okay, we have to stop for just a second. I was going to cut you loose,

but I just remembered I was pissed about something. Okay. How is it possible that I am not on American who's who of 2024? And you Chuck Paul are. And you Chuck Brown. How did you get on America who's who list? What the hell is that? Well, they contacted me because apparently they've been doing this for about 110 years

and they find people, I don't know if it's, you know, individual fields. Like I know the tech books that I've written have gotten some attention, but they did an interview and then they called me back and say, hey, congratulations. Yeah, you're going to be in this year's edition and we're going to send you a nice little. So do you get like a little plaque and stuff? That's coming. Yeah, it should be in the mail. And so you're on the list of America's Who's Who Forever now, although this is your premier year, right?

Could you be on it again? I don't know. That's a good question. Maybe I'll write a different sci-fi novel or something. Because I've got to tell you, I'm really pissed. I mean, did I say that out loud? I meant congratulations. I mean, congratulations.

And I'm so happy for you. It means so much to me that you're on the freaking list. Yeah, yeah, yeah, right. Chuck, thanks. I'll talk to you later. Thank you, brother. Take care. 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?

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He was the former elf child star. He did a bunch of other things on television as well. Benji Gregory, but he also suffered from some other mental issues. And he was found inside his car, along with his deceased service dog, inside a parking lot at a Chase Bank in Arizona. Apparently, the mother said that, you know, it's there. We don't know what happened, but they could have been he suffered a fatal heat stroke. Okay. And he also apparently accidentally fell asleep while sitting inside his car, Arizona summer heat.

Okay. Whatever you say, you got it. No problem. But very sad. And I know that he had a history, as I said, of some mental health problems. So does that mean you get a heat stroke in the car? whatever, whatever you say, whatever you say. Benji Gregory, rest in peace, dead at the age of 46.

Then we have Shelly Duvall. Shelly DeVall dead at the age of 75. I know. We were just talking about her too. I don't remember why. Well, I just know we were just talking about. I think you and I were talking about her. And now, no, sorry, no more.

She died at her home in Blanco, Texas, which is right here. I mean, it's right over, well, you know Blanco. It's right there. Anyway, you remember Shelly? I mean, she was in Nashville and, of course, you know, the shining hello. But apparently she was really, really sick with complications from diabetes, according to her partner, Dan Gilroy. so very sad Gilroy said

my dear sweet wonderful life partner and friend left us too much suffering lately now she's free fly away beautiful Shelley I mean rest and peace

Shelly Deval dead at the age of 75 Okay Samsung Samsung is now saying Hey, well, look at us. Look at us.

We do stuff for people's health, too. And I'm a Samsung fan. I have a Samsung phone. As we speak, I'm looking at a Samsung phone. So they are releasing their smart ring. They released it yesterday in Paris at the big prototype tech event. The Galaxy Ring is going to cost $400 and track users' health data, sleep, heart rate, skin, temp. Women's menstrual cycles.

Galaxy is the first smart ring from one of the world's big hardware tech companies following efforts from smaller firms to develop a snazzy piece of jewelry that knows everything about you. The ring could position the company to better compete with Apple. I thought Apple had their products did all that as well. Okay, well, good luck. I mean, it's for your health and your safety. So you'd be sure to get yourself one of those rings so that it, knows everything about you. Hopefully it just uploads to the cloud

and nobody else will ever see it ever. And you never have to worry about it. And you just have the app and you're able to look at all your, all of your, you know, your heart rate and skin temp. How many times you get through the day and you say, man, I wonder what my skin temp is.

Now you'll know, thanks to the Samsung ring. So that is fantastic. good for Samson. Then I see where the NBA, the National Basketball Association, just signed an 11-year, $76 billion TV contract rights deal with ABC, ESPN, NBC, and Amazon.

So, congratulations to the NBA. I mean, I told you, Silver was up there at the at the hoity-toe ranch I'm sorry Hoytoy camp up there

begging for money and he got it he got it 76 billion 11 year TV rights deal ABC ABC ESPN NBC and NBC

and Amazon so good for the NBA and that's I mean wow so much so much more money coming in for them

that's good for them good for them great deal I will say this. That will help. Hopefully, I don't know how much the WNBA gets from that, but they need some new deals, some help at the WNBA.

I'm willing to help if you want. You can direct message me on X at Jeffrey JFR, Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram, my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can follow me on Cameo at Jeffie JFR. You can even order a cameo. That's not free, but you can order a cameo,

but you can follow me on cameo as well. And either way, you can get a hold of me, and I'm willing to help the WNBA. Because right now, they are, I mean, they're two hottest rookies playing at 11 a.m. yesterday. What are we even doing? Stop it.

I don't even want to hear about the, here, whoever had the idea, whatever excuse they've done in the past, dumb. dumb. So I just get old man. I'll help you out. All right, let's get out of here. I've had it enough. I did Pat Gray on leash today. I helped Phil did it for the Glenbeck radio. And now I'm doing two in the fat. I give and I give and I give. I'm working this tongue to the bone today just for you. So I'll leave you with the joke of the day. It's actually a joke yesterday. The guy sent me the jokes for the dad jokes and he said that I could use them for free,

which I appreciate. And thank you very much. But as I got done yesterday and I realized I missed one. So I felt bad. I felt bad all day. All day I felt bad because I missed this joke. So I'm going to leave it for you today. All right.

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