Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Dark Patterns… | 6/22/23

Episode Date: June 22, 2023

Another Recall… Lab Grown Meat is a go… Chief cold brew officer… Fake Priest takes confessions?... New Baby for Kris Cruz… Hunter makin deals everywhere… chewingthefat@theblaze.com Depp givi...ng money settlement away… Lily-Rose Depp in The Idol... Amazon FTC lawsuit… BLM not bankrupt… India PM in town… Psychedelic Conference in Denver... OceanGate still not found… Onya tweet-got it… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript
Discussion (0)
Starting point is 00:00:00 Boarding for Flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy. Hey, I won! Boating will begin when passenger Fisher is done celebrating.
Starting point is 00:00:22 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 1866-3-3-1-2-60 or visit comexonterio.ca. Blaze Radio Network And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Every time I turn around, there's another recall. Johnsonville, LLC, out of Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin, is recalling approximately 42,000, 62 pounds of ready-to-eat better with cheddar pork sausagelings.
Starting point is 00:00:56 Why? Well, they may be contaminated with extrinsentiful. materials, specifically very thin strands of black plastic fibers. A yum, a yum. So the links were produced on January 26th of this year, 2023. It's a 14-ounce vacuum-packed packages of the Johnsonville Better with cheddar smoke sausage links made with 100% premium pork. And the best by use date is 7-11, 2023. Code date is printed on the back. The establishment number is
Starting point is 00:01:33 34224. Now the only thing they don't say in this announcement from the food safety and inspection service is that it's being recalled out of an abundance of caution,
Starting point is 00:01:47 but we know that it is. The problem was discovered after someone called the complaint line and said, hey, that's some thin strands of some black plastic fibers in my pork sausage. What are you going to do about it?
Starting point is 00:02:02 There's been no confirmed reports of adverse reactions due to consumption of the product, but if you're concerned about an injury or an illness, you should contact a health care provider. And if you have the product in a refrigerator or freezer, you should throw it out, get rid of it. Of course, you could return it to the place of purchase, which I would recommend.
Starting point is 00:02:24 I would recommend getting your money back, but if you don't care about that, throw it away, don't eat it. So if you or a loving member of your family has some Johnsonville, better with cheddar, pork sausage links that were dated, produced January 26th, 2023,
Starting point is 00:02:46 throw it out, okay? Get rid of it because they may have some thin black fibers in it. And it was sent, by the way, to states in Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, and Texas. So good luck. Good luck. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Well, for the first time, U.S. regulators have approved the sale of chicken made from animal cells. Yay! Allowing two California companies to offer lab groups to offer lab
Starting point is 00:03:30 own meat to the nation's restaurant tables and eventually supermarket shells. The agricultural department gave the green light to upside foods and good meat, firms that had been racing to be the first of the U.S. to sell meat that doesn't come from slaughtered animals. What's now being referred to as cell cultured or cultured meat as it emerges from the laboratory and arrives on dinner plates. I don't want it out my dinner plate, but. But maybe you do. It sounds delicious.
Starting point is 00:04:04 So we have a new era of meat production aimed at eliminating the harm to animals and drastically reducing the environmental impacts of grazing, growing feed for animals, and animal waste. Instead of all that land and all that water that's used to feed all these animals that are slaughtered, we could do it in a different way. Well, thanks Josh, co-founder and chief executive. of eat just, which operates good meat. I'd be careful when looking up good meat online, though. You may get to a site that doesn't have lab-grown meat on its homepage, but I don't know.
Starting point is 00:04:50 I don't know. But nothing says, yum, yum, like sell cultivated or cultured meat. Hey, if you're looking for a new gig And it's really just a kind of a part-time gig It looks like they are not even going to pay any money They're just going to pay you in coffee If you have a peat tea P-E-T
Starting point is 00:05:11 P-E-S coffee in your neck of the woods You could get this You could get this gig The Chief Cold Brew Officer Now it's in California, Colorado, Washington Washington, D.C., Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Oregon Virginia or Washington because to qualify
Starting point is 00:05:30 you're going to have to obviously have a love for the old cold brew but you've got to be living within 15 miles of a Pete's coffee location as you're going to be visiting the location frequently. So the position includes
Starting point is 00:05:48 simply drinking unlimited amounts of cold brew posting about current coffee trends on social media along with photos videos and stories about your cold brew adventures. You'll also get to choose a day on which all Pete's customers can get a buy one, get one free deal, which is, you know, great. That's good for you.
Starting point is 00:06:09 Now, what do you get paid? Well, you don't, okay? Oh, unless you consider having an endless flow of Pete's cold brew iced coffee for free, that's your payment. All right, I guess that consists of $1,400 credited. to the winners of Pete's coffee, Peek-Nick Rewards account. So you'll receive $200 bucks and points per week for a total of seven weeks. So if you apply for the gig, you have to write a 150-word essay,
Starting point is 00:06:41 submit a 15-second video, and you should be willing to drink Pete's cold brew all summer long. Entries will be judged 50% on why you think you deserve the job, 25% on creativity or inspiration, and 25% on the overall quality of the entry as determined by Pete's coffee. Just go to Pete's CCBO.com, and they'll guide you through how you can get the gig for free coffee. You know, have fun. Okay, this is really a strange story about a restaurant in California,
Starting point is 00:07:19 in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen. This restaurant has been ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to employees. After it hired, I guess it was a fake priest. No one admits to being part of a diocese with this priest. And we don't even know who the priest is. So it's just a fake priest. Investigators are calling the most shameless act of corruption an employer has taken against its staff.
Starting point is 00:07:51 So an employee testified that the owner, Che Garibaldi, who operates two locations of Takira Garibaldi in Northern California, hired a fake priest to hear confessions during work hours and get the sins out, including asking them if they had been late for work, stolen money from the restaurant, or had bad intentions toward their employer. Now, if I'm at a workplace and I see a priest, who I assume is a priest, I don't know that he's a priest, and he's coming up to me and saying, you know, I'm a priest and would you like to, you know, confess your sins?
Starting point is 00:08:28 No, I'm good. I'm busy making tacos. You want to say a prayer with me? Fine. No problem. But I'm not going to go ahead and go to confession with you here behind the old taco counter. Okay. So apparently, the restaurant offered supposed priest to hear their workplace sins.
Starting point is 00:08:46 Other employees reported that the manager falsely claimed that immigration issues would be raised by the department's investigation. Okay. The Catholic diocese says we didn't have anything to do about it. We found no evidence or any connection with the fake priest.
Starting point is 00:09:02 And so we don't even know who this priest was or is. Derebaldi, along with three other restaurant owners and operators, were ordered to pay $140,000 in back wages and damages to 35 employees. The restaurant will also pay $5,000
Starting point is 00:09:18 in civil penalties. Now, Giribaldi has not commented at all. Investigators also found that the restaurant denied employees overtime pay. Managers were paid bonuses from the employee tip pool and some employees faced adverse
Starting point is 00:09:35 immigration consequences. You bastards. I told the priest that I was illegal and now I'm out of here. This employee is a despicable attempt to retaliate against employees were intended to silence workers. Silence!
Starting point is 00:09:51 I was struck an investigation. and prevent the recovery of unpaid wages. So good rule of thumb, wherever you work. If the priest shows up and says, hey, I know you guys are working, but I'm here to take your concessions. I'm here for you to get the sins out. No thanks.
Starting point is 00:10:14 If you don't want to say the Lord's prayer, I'm all for it. In the name of the Father or the Son and the Holy Spirit, if you want to do the chest cross signs, we're good, but I'm not giving you any confession, okay? I'm not going to make tacos at the same time I'm saying bless me, Father, for I have sin. Yes, I took money from the restaurant. Yes, I've taken
Starting point is 00:10:40 free food from the restaurant. Yes, I'm illegal. But it's all good now, right? Because between my confessions to a priest is all just between us, right? right okay get joint help dot com slash jeffy
Starting point is 00:11:00 that's the site you need to go to if you're struggling with stiff or aching joints if you're tired of letting this discomfort steal the joy and freedom from your life then I have a natural solution you're going to love it's called joint support by pure health research and this stuff is pretty amazing
Starting point is 00:11:17 it contains seven of mother nature's best superfoods for supporting comfortable, healthy, and flexible joints. It even promotes healthy cartilage growth as well. All it takes is one small capsule of joint support every day to start feeling the positive effects on your joint health. As a listener to this show, Chewing the Fat, you can try joint support risk-free today
Starting point is 00:11:41 and get a free 30-day supply of Omega-3 when you take advantage of the special offer. It can promote healthy joint lubrication, making it easier to move in comfort. You're also going to be getting two free e-books so you can learn more about joint health. So head over to getjointhelp.com slash jeffy and order your joint support and claim your free bottle of omega-3 while supplies last. Getjointhelp.com slash jeffy. All right, let's go to the break room.
Starting point is 00:12:15 I need something cold to drink desperately. and go ahead and get one for yourself too and while you're getting a drink let me tell you that you should follow me on twitter at jeffey jf r you can follow me on facebook and instagram which is jeff fisher radio you can follow me on my youtube channel chewing the fat with jeff fisher you can always email the show chewing the fat at the blaze dot com i appreciate all your emails very much thank you i may not answer all of them but i do see them you can also use that chewing the fat at the blaze dot com if you'd like to become a contestant on what's the lie, the game show that we play every Friday here on Chewing the Fat. And you can also order a cameo from me. That's not free.
Starting point is 00:13:06 But you can go to Cameo and at Jeffey JFR. And they are kind of my pimp. So, you know, you just tell Cameo what you want me to do. Be happy, glad, sad, mad, mean, whatever you want. And I do it for a price. So I'm not, I'm not too proud. I'm not too proud. I think you know that already.
Starting point is 00:13:25 Oh, and I meant to congratulate Chris Cruz. You know Chris. He's been out on this show. He was part of this show for a while, and we've done Royals updates and so on. He and his wife, Autumn, just had a beautiful new baby girl. Congratulations.
Starting point is 00:13:38 Emily Dawn Cruz, Emily Dawn Cruz, a beautiful bouncing baby girl. So congratulations to Chris and Autumn for bringing in another beautiful baby into this world. Speaking of babies and baby mamas, I see where my man. Hunter Biden, you know him, you love him. I just worked out a deal with his baby mama to cut his $20,000 a month child support payments
Starting point is 00:14:02 down to $5,000 a month. Woo! That's got to hurt baby mama. London Roberts got to be like, whoa, I mean, $15,000 a month slashed. That's a lot of money. But, you know, she's still getting $5,000 a month from Hunter. The case is sealed, so those financial terms should never be disclosed. and leaks about details of the settlement,
Starting point is 00:14:26 you know, let's go. We don't want to have any of that, and we'll end up back here in this courtroom right now. That was according to the judge. So, all right, no problem. Anyway, they'll come back into court and finalize the deal. Good for them.
Starting point is 00:14:43 Boy, they do not acknowledge this little girl at all. She's such a beautiful little girl. She's four years old now, and all the pictures of her. She's such a pretty little girl. And the Bidens don't even acknowledge her. I mean, I know that Hunter has said he doesn't even remember having the affair with London. But so what?
Starting point is 00:15:06 The DNA proved that this was your kid. And you'd think you'd want to acknowledge it. You're paying monthly payments and child support. But dad and stepmom and the rest of the family don't even want to have anything to do with it. just incredible, incredible, incredible that they don't want anything to do with it. I mean, Hunter's busy making deals anyway. He's going to plead guilty to misdemeanor counts
Starting point is 00:15:32 of willful failure to pay federal income tax for 2017 and 2018, as well as enter a pretrial diversion on a felony gun possession charge. So he's getting his life together. He's turning things around. That's all. He's turning things around trying to get things back together again.
Starting point is 00:15:49 But maybe part of that would be acknowledging that you have another child and maybe grandpa, if you could get him to remember that he has another you know, another grandchild down in Arkansas, maybe he could mention it once in a while. Probably not going to happen though. I see where Johnny Depp's getting some good press though. He's praised giving all the million dollar settlement that he got from the trial to you know, to charitable donations. Good for him. I mean they're
Starting point is 00:16:19 they're all happy and that he's donating money to make a film foundation and they're all happy and he's given he's given money to well like I said make a film foundation the painted turtle red feather
Starting point is 00:16:34 the Titora Society T E T-E-T-I-A-R-O-A Society I think that's Marlon Brando's thing and Amazonia Fund Alliance I mean okay that's great I guess Amber Hurd's insurance company covered the cost as part of her settlement following the defamation trial and he's out
Starting point is 00:16:54 just giving the money away. He wouldn't want anything to do with it other than, you know, do some good with the money that he got from the trial. So congratulations, good for him. You know, he's, I like Johnny Depp. I, you know, I'm sorry, you know, he's, if he's a bad guy, he's a bad guy. All right, but I like Johnny Depp. And I see, I started watching Idol on Max, which, by the way, I still, I can't get over calling it Max. I don't like it. I wish HBO would call me. We got to work something else out.
Starting point is 00:17:23 I just don't like it, but they did not. They didn't ask me anything. They didn't call me and say, hey, Jeff, what do you think? I'm disappointed. So anyway, I started watching The Idol on Max, and Lily Rose Depp, Johnny's daughter, is one of the big stars, and she is not afraid to show it all.
Starting point is 00:17:44 Which, you know, I'm not a fan. I'm not opposed to her being in the show, and I'm not opposed to a number of other people that are in the show looking really, really hot. But if you are not ready for a big guy show, then a big guy show with, you know, business, do not watch the idol. But that's the show that people were all bummed out about it because it had. That's too much T&A. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:16 I'm definitely watching that. Okay. That's a promo for me to watch your show. And I have started watching it. I don't know. It seemed okay. I haven't gotten into it. Yeah, I think I'm almost done with episode one and then something came up.
Starting point is 00:18:32 And so, you know, I'll continue on. I'm hooked enough to go to episode two after I finish up this episode one. But I don't know that it's, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see. It seems pretty stereotypical. typical of how we view the characters like Britney Spears and other characters like that. So we'll see. We'll see.
Starting point is 00:18:55 Hey, remember when late night television was actually funny? Yeah, I don't necessarily recall that either. Well, Blaze TV is trying to bring late night back, and we're releasing a new show called Normal World. You could join comedians Dave Landau and Quarter Black Garrett. tonight at 10 p.m. Eastern as they reinvent late night using
Starting point is 00:19:19 topical sketches, comedic conversations, the latest political and social news, and even musical guests. So I'm a fan. Blaze TV. Rescuing comedy from the humorless left. Join us tonight, 10 p.m. Eastern. You can head over to
Starting point is 00:19:37 YouTube.com slash at normal world. Look at me like. that that's exactly where you need to go youtube.com slash at insignia normal world and then you know subscribe and then hit the notification bell so you don't miss out on the fun all right so normal world is going to 10 p.m. eastern and let's go ahead and bring a smile to your to your face at night with dave landau and quarter black garrett youtube.com slash at normal world Why are you looking at me like that?
Starting point is 00:20:15 It's really easy. Go to YouTube and go to At Normal World. Gosh. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So the Federal Trade Commission, you know them, you love them. They have sued Amazon, and they've sued the company for allegedly $1,000.
Starting point is 00:20:58 tricking and trapping people into prime memberships. Boy, how long have I said? They've trapped me into my prime membership. Those bastards. So the FTC is accusing Amazon of enrolling millions of customers into automatically renewing subscriptions without their consent and making the cancellation process difficult. Oh, man, you have to go through steps? I mean, you have to do that with everything.
Starting point is 00:21:30 So Amazon says, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Those claims are false. And the facts and the law, we plan to take the case to court. And so, I mean, the agency filed a lawsuit alleging that Amazon violated consumer protection laws by manipulating millions of customers into signing up and staying signed up for its $139 a year prime service. How did they do that? Well, they made it harder for customers to buy products without a prime membership. That's the whole point of being a part of Amazon Prime, you doofuses.
Starting point is 00:22:14 I'm not a member of Prime. I want to buy, use your product. Well, how about you become a member of Prime? That's part of the deal. They utilized dark patterns. You, I mean, right now you've got me. They utilized, I mean, this is our Federal Trade Commission. They're utilizing dark patterns.
Starting point is 00:22:33 It's a design tactic that subtly convinces users to perform a specific action. Okay. All right. I didn't know. I didn't know that that's how I enrolled in Prime without their consent because of the dark patterns. come on now are we honestly this is our government talking about this for amazon prime okay then on top of that they designed a cancellation process that took six clicks which was referred to internally as the iliad flow oh no oh no i mean oh no yeah we want okay so they made it difficult you get pissed when you try to cancel
Starting point is 00:23:26 and this happens to a lot of things where you subscribe to something and you want to unsubscribe and it just takes forever to unsubscribe. It's just a pain. I know a lot of, at the bottom of a lot of emails of things that you've subscribed to, click here to unsubscribe.
Starting point is 00:23:45 But then once you click there, now you have to jump through a few more hoops. And I get that that's frustrating, but that's just, that's after you've been hoodwinked by the dark patterns. Please, someone tell me that's not, I mean, I haven't been hoodwinked by dark patterns that are subtly convincing me to perform a specific action.
Starting point is 00:24:14 Okay. So the lawsuit has accused Amazon leadership of being complicit in the company tricking and trapping customers saying that they slowed or rejected changes that would have made it easier for users to cancel Prime. Oh my gosh. So the bosses at Amazon wanted to do things to keep customers. How dare they? They should have been on the street corner.
Starting point is 00:24:42 Hey, unsubscribe. Please use our product for free. Please. Oh, my gosh. So the rule changes that the FTC has proposed earlier in the year said that They want to require companies to make canceling a subscription as easy as signing up for one. So the days of spending an hour on the phone to cancel that subscription you signed up for impulsively may soon be over. Well, okay.
Starting point is 00:25:09 So you signed up for prime impulsively. You know that it's going to cost you money. And I think you can pay it up front or you can they charge you monthly. I forget how it's been so long. I've had a prime membership for so long. and I like having it because they keep the streaming service in with the Prime service. And I like being able to order things on Prime when I want. So they come to my house.
Starting point is 00:25:37 I get it. If I couldn't afford it, I would cut it. And I'm cutting other things. I get it. People, at times are tough. Believe me, I understand. But Amazon Prime is a pretty good product. And how dare they?
Starting point is 00:25:53 how dare they trick me using dark patterns that can't be real I just can't be it's in the story the lawsuit claiming they use dark patterns which is a design tactic that suddenly convinces users to perform a specific action
Starting point is 00:26:16 to get people to enroll in prime without their consent I must sign up for prime I must sign up for prime Hey what are you doing I must sign up for prime We're already signed up honey, what are you doing I must sign up for prime
Starting point is 00:26:38 I was chopping on prime And all of a sudden I came across me I looked at a dark pattern And now I must sign up for prime And so you sign up for prime and now you're pissed, then it takes you six clicks. Oh, no.
Starting point is 00:26:55 Oh, no, you can't do that. We can't allow people to have to go through six clicks to unsubscribe. I mean, we are turning into, we're just silly. We're just silly. I'll give you some good news, okay?
Starting point is 00:27:10 There was a report that Black Lives Matter was bankrupt. Oh, no. I know. It was a very disturbing report. Remember the tweet or the, the social media post that said BLM is officially bankrupt. And it was, I mean, it had 100,000 of views and thousands of, thousands of retweets and posts.
Starting point is 00:27:34 It was everywhere. Well, here's some good news, all right. BLM is not bankrupt. Okay. A document filed in May by Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation Incorporated, which is a global organization founded in 2013, by the way. shows it raised slightly more than $9 million in his last fiscal year. And so that's far less than the 90 million the group raised amid the wave of social justice
Starting point is 00:28:00 protests in the summer of 2020. But right now we're looking at about $30 million in assets. So they are not bankrupt. That's, oh, there's no evidence that the organization is officially bankrupt. So anybody that says so needs to zip it, okay? I was reading a story about the India Prime Minister who's in town and he's been in there for a state dinner and he's the third world leader to have a state dinner under Joe Biden's presidency and you know that's what a big deal it is for him to be in town. So I know that, you know, of course they talk about the major topic is going to be China and we want to have, you know, both countries want to have some kind of relationship with China. We want to treat them poorly too.
Starting point is 00:28:50 I get it. We want to find out how we can do that. But I was looking at how intertwined we are with India now. So Apple has shifted some iPhone production from China to India. I mean, it says here that CEO Tim Cook was at the nation's first Apple store in April in India. About half of IBM's workforce is located in India. Around 60 Fortune 500 companies are run by CEOs of Indian origin. including Google and Adobe.
Starting point is 00:29:20 Wow. And CEOs from Apple, Microsoft, FedEx, and Marriott were part of the guest list at the gala for the state dinner. So there'll be new deals really, really soon with India. The prime minister met with Elon Musk. Musk said that he pushed for significant investments in India. The Prime Minister wanted something good to happen in his country? No. And also it's been in the works for a while,
Starting point is 00:29:58 but the Biden administration is probably going to officially authorize General Electric to make F414 engines in India, which India wants to be able to manufacture military jet engines, and we're going to let it happen. So we'll see what happens. happens with that. It's just amazing how much is happening between our country and India.
Starting point is 00:30:19 There was no mention about Netflix being at this either. I mean, Netflix has opened up the India market hugely. So I'm surprised that they were not at this state dinner. A little little interesting. They didn't show up for the state dinner. Joe, did you forget to invite them?
Starting point is 00:30:36 Oh, that's right. It was your old boss that got the deal with them, not you. So never mind. Why would you invite them? This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs, with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move.
Starting point is 00:31:12 Lift with confidence, while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus at OnePeloton.ca. Okay, another thing that's happening this week, I didn't realize this was happening. It's dubbed the largest psychedelic conference in history as going on in Denver this week. What? So nearly 300 exhibitors and thousands of attendees from politicians and professional athletes and researchers, authors, advocates, flooding into the Colorado Convention Center from across the world for this year's Psychedelic Science Conference.
Starting point is 00:31:55 The Expo is hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, MAPS, one of the nation's most prominent psychedelic organizations. And when you think of psychedelics, I mean, you think of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, don't you? Which is a major research site in Boulder and Fort Collins. Okay, so they're going to have a guest. Aaron Rogers is going to show up. Former Texas Governor Rick Perry.
Starting point is 00:32:24 Melissa Etheridge is going to. show up. Co-founder of Whole Foods, John Macca is going to show up. The National Institute of Mental Health Director, Joshua Gordon, is going to show up. So this is something,
Starting point is 00:32:36 that's big news. We can all get together and just start doing shrooms, start doing LSD, and just making everything that much better in life. I mean, Denver's been the pioneer. And that's why we wanted to do it.
Starting point is 00:32:51 It's a five-day event. panels that are going to be ponder and everything from the possibility of psychedelics on mental health to do new business opportunities, greater community impacts, and how these substances fit into religion. Well, how do they fit into religion? Yeah, that's down in room C. Okay. Some researchers will announce results from their clinical trials. Okay, I'd like to hopefully we'll get those printed out. I'd like to see those. Concerts, including a fly. Blaming Lips show are now popping up around town.
Starting point is 00:33:28 So people are just stopping in. Yeah, you know what? We'll do a show. It's the Psychedelic Conference for Maps. Hello? So the drugs being discussed in addition to psilocybin mushrooms include MDMA, LSD, DMT, ayahuasca and ketamine. Yeah, they're being discussed this week in Denver.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Why am I not invited to this? Jeff, anybody could go. Oh, okay. That's great. So, I mean, Colorado voters decriminalized mushrooms statewide last year, and that's the second state in the U.S. to do that behind Oregon. So there's a couple states that have decriminalized mushrooms. I don't know, you know, what the whole law is around the MDMA and the LSD and the DMT. The ayahuasca, you've got to go out of country to do the ayahuasca thing usually anyway.
Starting point is 00:34:22 and the ketamine, I'm feeling like you probably can't do that legally. But hey, what does the law have to do with anything when you're talking about a psychedelic conference? Right? Nothing. That's what it has to do with it. Nothing, especially when it's hosted by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. And I hope we get some good news from MAPS this week in Denver. And I think we will.
Starting point is 00:34:50 I think we will. You know, Aaron Rogers is everywhere these days. Man, he's good. You know, he's a New York jet now from Green Bay. He's made a lot of money, and he's showing his face around all of New York, to try to adhere himself to the New York market, which I believe he is doing. It's going to fall apart if he doesn't win. I'll guarantee you that.
Starting point is 00:35:11 So he better, he better capitalized now. I know there was a story about him starting a crowdfunding business, and it wasn't that great of a story because they're talking about he's worth over $300 million. and he's going to launch a crowdfunding campaign? Yeah, that's the way it works. So he's launching a crowdfunding campaign to raise, I don't know, a little over a million bucks.
Starting point is 00:35:32 So that's why he, you know, he's working with Ryan Rodman as his partner for this crowdfunding. And he wants to create a one-stop community for sports fans that will have an, you know, you know IMDB. he uses this example IMDB, the internet movie database. Well, he wants to do this for the sports market. I thought we had that already.
Starting point is 00:36:01 Sportsreference.com, maybe it's not as good. I don't know. But, you know, I don't know. So they're trying to get that together and raise some money for that. He used the example of the Green Bay Packers, you know, how the fans had loyalty to the team and the community and a passion for the team because they were all owners. Yeah, well, they were not actually.
Starting point is 00:36:21 owners. When you own stock and the Packers, you really don't get any dividends and you don't have any voting rights. You just are a proud person who says that you own part of the Green Bay Packers. So maybe that's why Aaron likes to deal, because everything can still be his, but he can pretend that you're part of the deal. But we'll see. We'll see. Good for Aaron. I mean, good for him. He's out in Denver talking about ayahuasca now at the psychedelic conference in Denver. So it'll be fun, fun, fun. for that. Okay, so the Ocean Gate has not been found as of this recording. If you're listening live, it is the 22nd of June, 2023, and we have not found the Ocean Gate submarine tourists that they're calling them. So I'm not putting them in the Who Died Today segment, although it's possible.
Starting point is 00:37:17 Rest their souls. I would not want to be a part of that. I'm so sorry. We played yesterday the banging of the subs sound from the movie Hunter Killer. But we actually did get audio of what they claimed or what they thought was Ocean Gate. The Coast Guard released the audio of the banging noises that were heard in the search area. And so we were just assuming that this was them. so that was you know that was yesterday and so we haven't found them yet and of course the government wants to get involved with regulations about this and i would say no to that everyone knew what they were in for and while it's horrific and no one wishes it to happen i wish it didn't happen and we can all make our own little jokes and talk about you know come up with our titanic jokes and all of that but it doesn't need the government
Starting point is 00:38:40 involved. Okay. They knew what they were in for and no one thought that they were going to die. No one thought this was going to happen. And we all sign things all the time that we end up realizing that, well, it really could happen. How many surgeries have you had where you signed the waiver? Yep, you could die. And when people do, they were pissed. Why wasn't enough done? Well, enough was done. And we told you. So, I mean, that's really, really sad. And I hope that we find them just for closure for the families. You know, and it's possible. It's possible.
Starting point is 00:39:19 I was talking about this with Brad Staggs this morning on Mojo 5-0. As I did my Chewing the Fat hit with him this morning. What if it's, what if they were, you know, abducted by aliens down there, the old Ticktackers? And they show up a month from now, like nothing happened. Okay. I mean, I hope that. I actually do. that happens rather than finding the sub with with them in it. That does not a pretty not a pretty
Starting point is 00:39:49 sight thought or smell. I know they're saying now that maybe they miscalculated on how much oxygen they had maybe one person or two people have passed away so they use less oxygen so one or two are still alive maybe that's true. I don't know let's hope that they all make it and come out with a new a new outlook on the world but it probably is not going to be that so I'm not going to say rest in peace yet
Starting point is 00:40:25 but you thought I was going to say it didn't you? No I'm not going to I said I wasn't going to and by the way all the people that are tagging me in the Carl Mark's tweet about with his sister I got it okay I got it's funny enough. All right.
Starting point is 00:40:43 I know it's not real. The picture of Carl and his sister. His sister's name is Anya. O-N-Y-A. And the tweet is
Starting point is 00:40:57 most people have heard of Carl Marks, but few know his sister, Anya, an Olympic runner. Her name is still mentioned at the start of every race. That's funny And I got it
Starting point is 00:41:16 Now I got it On your marks Get set and go I got it Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha You can stop sending it to me now Please, okay I got it
Starting point is 00:41:32 I got it On your mark Stream and subscribe to more Blaze media content At the blaze.com Slash podcasts

There aren't comments yet for this episode. Click on any sentence in the transcript to leave a comment.