Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 195 | National Toy Hall of Fame Finalists Announced & Ms. Monopoly is HERE | Guest: Christopher Bensch

Episode Date: September 11, 2019

It's that time of the year again... The National Toy Hall of Fame finalists were just announced and Chief Curator Christopher Bensch joins Jeffy to discuss who are the finalists and how you can vote. Jeffy needs your help with a story so please HELP him lol. Then we discuss your monthly bill when it comes to tv subscription.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now a Blaze Media podcast. You know, some days you hear things in life and you think to yourself, what? There are some days you hear things and you go, I can't believe that. And yet it's right there in front of you, staring you in the face. And you say to yourself, yep, it's true. And you realize that everything you know about a single person is a lie. You just, it's a lie. It's a lie.

you realize, you know what? I don't like that person anyway. What we normally do is that when I point you at that one. I get done with the music starts to the open show. So point in what happens? I don't like that person anyway. It helps if I turn up the button. I fired it.

Apple had their big little two-dog get together. Hey, we're Apple. We're huge. of ourselves. That's a little get-together. It's like WWDDDC. This is a little get-together. So they announced their new streaming service.

All right, here we go. All right. So the Apple TV Plus is their new streaming service. Okay, before you do that, stop. Okay. I want to go before we go, because I believe you're going to give me with prices and stuff like that. I want to calculate all this stuff, okay?

So tell me what are you subscribed to currently? Right. Tell me, and I want to write it down. So you got cable, yeah, regular cable TV with, you know, whatever that costs. Whatever that costs. And I say that because my wife pays the bills not because I don't care about it. She ever so often she says, I can't believe cable is this much. And that's when I say, cut it.

Pull it. Cancel. You have Netflix. And that's the, and I've got the biggest package on Netflix. I have the biggest package at home, too, by the way. Thank you. And that's not really true either way. But so I got Netflix.

You got Hulu and HBO. Prime? Amazon Prime. That's a prime membership. That's all worked into one. But still, though, you're still paying for that. That's how they get you, though. I know.

That's how they get you. I just did it. I got a story I've been meaning to get to. It's in the stack. It's in the fat pile about how much money Amazon is going to make because of the one-day delivery when they change that. I've got to see if I still have it in the stack here. Continue with the story.

Unbelievable. So you got cable, Netflix, Hulu, HBO Prime. Yeah. No showtime, no epics, no cinemas. Because I can get in. Through the app. Yeah, I can. I steal some of that through the app and what I can.

And some of it you give, I give you the password for what I can't. I just, you know, I live without. It's pretty time. AMC. Are you paying for AMC? No. No. No.

Well, I came close to that. I know because I remember you talking about that. Because you didn't want to wait until three in the morning. I remember that. No, but that's when I didn't have cable. If they would have had that when I didn't have cable, it would have saved me the cable company breaking back into my house, putting it in again. So that's why I'm close to yanking the cord on cable altogether again.

Now, my question to you is, does Internet become part of this package? Well, yeah. That's part of the cable deal, right? That's part of cable deal, right? But you have to add internet costs in there. When we pulled the plug on cable, the only, when we pulled the plug on cable, everything went out of the house except for one box, basic cable. And actually, I think they took all the boxes.

We just, we kept basic cable. Like, I don't know how many channels you get. You get the 10 channel cable. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You get the local and a little bit of national. And they throw in a couple of other channels. But we kept it because we kept for the internet. Right, part in so that we could keep their internet package.

And so, yeah, it's going to have to, right? I mean, so technically we never, I guess technically, we never did really pull the plug 100% because we need the internet. Exactly. So that's the way I see it. Okay, cool. All right, now go to your thing. So you have Tim Cook from Apple, who, I was going to say something about Tim Cook.

I saw an interview with him the other day. And I'm going to leave that alone. He announced at their meeting yesterday that. that Apple TV Plus is going to be $4.99 a month. And the world went crazy. They all Netflix stock went down. Everybody's stock went down. The whole thing tumbled weed because it was, you know, hey, it's a, it's a world that Apple is now the streaming showstopper.

That's a good price, though. Okay. Yes, it is. But a good price. For what? What content am I getting from Apple TV Plus? I mean, are we just looking at Apple TV Plus for new content from them? Because remember they have come up with a couple of predictions of what they're going to have.

They've got the morning show, right, with Steve Corral and Jennifer Anderson and Reese Witherspoon, which I'm told is pretty good. Yeah, the trailer looks fantastic. You've got the C with Jason Mamoa. So I mean, I guess, you know, do they just do, they just have their own content and maybe purchase what they can on the outside for you? Is that worth $4.99 a month? I don't know. I don't think so.

Because what I'm going to probably, what they're going to do is going to be the same deal that you get with Apple Music. Will you pay $999 a month or $100 something? something a year and you get to stream whatever. If it's on their library, you get to do whatever you want. So I feel like they're going to head down that road, but I don't think it'll be $4.99 by the time we'll get to that road. But it'll be $4.99, but did you want to have that bundled into where you actually could watch it on your phone?

Yeah, yeah, I want to watch it on my phone. Oh, well, you know what? That's another dollar. But whatever I want to watch on my phone and iPad, like two different devices. Oh, sir. That's another, that's another dollar. So now we're at $6.99. What if I want to watch it on my iPhone, my iPad,

and maybe on my IMac? Yes, sir. That's absolutely available, $8.99. And does that $899 include the Apple TV? No, sir. It does not. Sorry. I wish we've talked about that and I think that's coming.

If you stay with us for a little bit longer, I'm pretty sure that's going to come. So it's going to go $9.99? But for right now, now it's $9.99. So now I'm a $999. And in fact, Did you want the, I mean. I don't want no commercials.

You've already got 1099. And in fact, did you want to be able to go from your phone to your iPad, your TV, maybe from your TV to the iPad back to your phone again? Yeah, that's $11.99 a month. So now I'm just like a normal Netflix subscription. All right, Jeff, I calculated the price is here. Right now, average at your house, monthly, you're spending about $400. when it comes to

subscription. That includes your internet, your cable, your Netflix, your Hulu, your HBO, your PROM. I didn't even give you a price for cable. What do you get 400 bucks from?

I go here and I look, put your zip code in and I put the average price for a cable that includes, you know, HBO. What if I don't live in that zip code? You do live in that zip code.

So I gave you 150 a month for cable. Ooh, I think I might be happy with 150. I know. That's what I'm saying. I'm giving you an average because that's what the computer said. So right now, you're at $3.95 a month.

Oh, something's got to give here. That's way too much. That's what I'm saying. That's way too much. So the high ticket items and... Something's got to give. And the only reason... And it might go down because Prime is $119.19.

If you pay the yearly, it's $119 and you don't pay for it. So, you know, the one month would be $3.95. Tough to do without Prime, too, because that's all rolled together, right? I mean, it's all rolled together. Exactly. You want the other Amazon services. You do. Yeah.

So like we have $4.99 right now, right? And then we have Disney that is, what was it, 11 something or $16? Well, I think Disney was like $6.99, right? It was like $7 for just the Disney plus was just $7.99. It's $7 a month or $70 for the year. Oh, see, that's, there you go. So $70, I'm going to do the $70. You got to do the $70.

Because then I'm done with it. And it's cheaper. And it's cheaper. And you're saving money. So let's say we do the seven a month. All right. What do you pick? What do you add to that thing?

Do you go to $4.9 or do you go to $7 a month? What do you mean? Like if you have to pick between the Apple TV and the Disney, what did you go? Do you go for $4.99? Personally, I go to Disney. Me too. And not because of the price. It's because it's Disney.

And I know I'm going to get everything. I'm not going to get anything Apple personally anyway. Exactly. So this doesn't, I mean, I don't care. Right now I don't. but it's possible in the future that maybe someone in my household wants an iPhone. But you kids have iPods, right? Yeah. So that's kind of an iPhone.

Yeah. Yeah. And they, you know, never mind. But I'm sorry, $400 a month? Something has to give. I know, dear. Let's sit down and talk about it over dinner, okay? I know.

We have to work out some sort of budget. I know. and I really want to talk to you about it too after you get done making dinner okay like I said one day shipping from Amazon they figure it's going to generate

$24 billion in additional revenue you know what as long as it's at my door I don't care good for them good for them Jeff I love you

keep up the money you're still number one the wife is hanging out down the beach with hopefully your boyfriend and I soon hope it. And now if my wife is listening, just turn the volume down for a little bit real quick. And count to 10. And count to 10, ready? Turn the volume down.

I just want to say if the ex-Jepbizos' wife wants to give me a call. I'm here for you. See, it was just a joke I wanted to tell, honey, and you know, don't worry about it. That's fine. So, 24 billion more dollars a year by just saying, hey, we'll get it to you in a day. How do they predict that? Is that like people, like new business are coming?

How do you be able to predict that? They encourage consumers to buy more convenience items. Got it. Yeah. That makes sense. Because they can get it tomorrow. Yeah. And so.

Have you done the one day delivery yet? Yeah. I mean, I guess. Yeah. Some of my items have come, like, it says he'll be there on Tuesday and is there on Monday. Yeah, so, I mean, I will say, like, we ordered something. What the heck did we order?

And it came like, I felt like we were in caveman days, and it took like three or four days. Wow, you need to pay for it. And I was like, what? Amazon Prime Prime. Yeah, well, it wasn't, it wasn't through Amazon. Oh, okay. It was that company.

Oh, okay. I was like, what? Are you kidding me? man, just go to Amazon. Shoot. So, I mean, some other companies are going to have to pick up the pace, man. And I think we've gone to the point where, and are you going to hate this because you sit at the governor's desk,

where Amazon could take USPS on. Oh, yes, they should. Really what needs to happen is that USPS needs to sit down at the table with Amazon and be part of the last mile delivery for them. and like say Amazon and Amazon might say we don't need you have a nice day, good luck, God bless. But instead of spending

all that money on Mercedes-Benz vans delivering goods in my neighborhood. I love those Mercedes-Benz fans. They look great. Yes, they do. Better than the Super USBs. We could still use the Mercedes-Benz vans for products that have to be there

within two or three days. But the one-day deliveries on the convenience items could be delivered from USBs. I'm just, you know, just a thought to, you know, upgrade USBs. You know what?

You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. You're welcome. But who's going to do my passport application? Millie and Walgreens. We'll get that for you.

Oh, Walgreens will take that. They need the business. They already do the photos. Correct. So might as well just do the passport. I like that. I mean, what? Am I?

Yes, you have to. Yes, Jeffrey. You have to come up with all the good ideas. All right. That's what I'm here for. All right, I need your help. I need your help. Yesterday I talked about the lady that won the $43 million at the slot machines

and then was told that she didn't win. That's a couple years old story. All right. The story that I read yesterday morning didn't have a date on it. But then I started looking at it because I want to find out what's happened to the case. where you know where we're at in the case it's like a couple year old story and they still I haven't seen any kind of resolve

I've looked for what happened or what's going on in the lawsuit nothing I don't know if my girl is still swimming with the fishes she might be it's possible

little Brooke is missing I know it's and it's it's book one yeah yeah like I said little little Brooke is missing and she's on the Hudson River. It's possible. That's been over two years. And I haven't seen any kind of resolve.

And it's not good news either because I started reading other stories where casinos have pulled this. You know, oh, hey. The glitch excuse. Something wrong with the machine. Sorry. Did the announcer came out in the confetti? Yes. And they still said it was a glitch?

Like the one casino hotel in, uh, in, uh, in, Chicago. A lady, an old woman, 90-year-old woman, won $41 million. And so she sued because they said, right, congratulations. Yes. 90-year-old woman, come on down. You've won $41 million. Congratulations. No, no trip on the balloons. Get over here. That walker will be able to walk right through those. Come on up here. Somebody help her up to the stage. Congratulations. Ah, you know, the machine was

screwed up. You didn't win. No, you lost. Then move on. So then she sues and the court says the game's rules cap the jackpots at only $10,000. So that's all you get. Oh, hold on. But she did get something. She got better than steak dinner from Little Brooke.

Yes, she did. Little Brooke just got a steak dinner. It's a little Katrina Bookman did. Yeah, Little Brooke. Like I said. Yeah. But I have not, I cannot find what happened to. She said the Hudson River. So, but I guess that just went away?

Right. I mean, she just, yeah. If she's swimming with the fishes, then the case just goes away, right? Yeah. And I was thinking about calling the casino. Oh, definitely should call the casino. I think I should. I mean, I feel like, I feel like I really want to call the Resorts World Casino.

If you want to consider yourself as part of, you know, the whole, I think we need to just launch a, you know, CTF. Katrina Bookwood Missing. Along with her $43 million that never happened. We here tonight are looking behind the scenes

at the Svick Slot Machine Resorts World Casino in Queens, New York. Okay. I don't call. I'll call it. Because I'm sure that they're going to push me right through to the boss. Right?

Push me right through. Mr. Fisher, please hold for CEO of casino. Yes. Hello, hey, Jeff, how are you doing? What do you need to know? Yeah, I was wondering about the Katrina Bookman, you know, the slot machine, 45 minutes.

Oh, here, let me tell you all about that, Jeff. Did you mind if I record you? No, go ahead. No, go ahead. No problem. Because I want to run this on the show and stuff and talk about it. Fine.

I'll worry about it. Sure, that's what's going to. Absolutely positive. That's what's going to happen. Or I'm just going to get, Hello? Must have a bad connection. So I was on Pat on leashed today with my Chewing the Fat segment,

and I talked about this story, Ms. Monopoly, hitting the shelves. And it's fascinating to me because it's phenomenal. I love Monopoly. I've played Monopoly for a thousand years. And I, you know, I'm an old school Monopoly player. I mean, I've got a regular old school Monopoly board. I love the, my favorite piece is the guy on the horse. You know, it's so good.

Everybody likes the little car, the little thimble. I like the guy on the horse. You know, the horses ride so cool. I like the dog. That figures. But anyway, the, it's like a little yorky or whatever, a little crappy dog. Yeah, I said. Yeah.

Is that? Oh, right, Jack Russell. Like a little yorky or something, like I said. Yeah, like a Jack Russell. And exactly, like a yorky. And a little wheelbarrow. I don't like the wheelbarrow. Nobody wants to do it.

The iron? The iron. I don't like the iron. Well, the iron. Well, the iron is okay. Because at least you got something to grab onto. Oh, yeah. That's why I like the horse, because the horse stands up.

Top hat. The stance, but you still got to reach down and kind of, it's tough to handle. Stuff to give you that. Maybe, I don't know, lose your fat. Or on the hands? No, if you want to grab something to make the point. Oh, you want to do the clicking. Yeah.

But anyway, I love Monopoly. So they bring out Ms. Monopoly. Fine, you want to bring out Ms. Monopoly. Fine. We've got, we've got, I probably got three or four Monopoly games in my house, different games. different versions you know the of course we have the transformers one well duh you have to yeah and the regular old school monopoly and then I think I have a what's the other one we have that

was given to me but I don't know why we don't have a walking dead a monopoly game yet well does I come up with the ideas for everything you do yeah you kind of do amc what are you doing I mean you guys are going broke over me not walking dead you don't even know what you're doing and I don't know how to make any money. I'm here for you, okay? There really should be a walking dead monopoly. Maybe there is. Maybe I just don't know that.

Anyway, I'll probably get a thousand calls on the CTF hotline at 214, 7359356, which is powered by Patriot Mobile. They already have it, idiot. So, okay, so maybe they do. But Ms. Monopoly is out. So it's all about women, and it's all about, forget about, you know, top hat wearing man, uh, you know,

our own little Mr. rich uncle penny bags. Uh, now we have a Miz Monopoly who looks like a young executive. Okay. And she invests in business women, female inventors and entrepreneurs.

But this really kind of ticks me off in the story. It talks about Ms. Monopoly is also the first game where women are paid more than men. And then in parentheses, unlike reality. up. Shut up. When female player passes Go, they get to collect $240.

Male players passing Go collect $200. Oh my God, $40 more in a fictional game. That's a lot, though. That could save you. I could save you at time. And by the way, they do. You ever played Monopoly? They do have a walking dead monopoly.

Yeah, that's what I figure. And it's a zombie head, the hat from that guy, the sword, six shooter. Oh, yeah, they have the sword. Because I do have that. That's where I thought. I was trying to think of the game because we have the sword from the Walking Dead Monopoly. So that's one of them we have. The bat and then.

I forgot all about that. Maximus is like, I bought that game for you, you idiot. He's yelling at you right now. We bought that. That was a present. We bought for you. You don't even remember we have it? No, sorry, I don't.

But that's why we do because I remember all the little stupid pieces now. But so then I didn't know this. I didn't know this about Monopoly, which is kind of. of question because I don't know if it's true or not. It's in the USA Today story, the CNET story, so maybe it's true. But this lady, Elizabeth Maggie, invented a game called the Landlords game in 1903 as a protest against big money corruption during the Gilded Age. It was a square board with a go-to jailbox in the corner, and she even patented it in 1904.

All right? So then Charles Darrow comes along and makes his own version of a game and calls it Monopoly and gets it, you know, gets it patented in 1935, sold it to Parker, or gets it patented and then in 1935 he sells it to Parker Brothers. I mean, was it the same game? I don't think so. It wasn't close, I guess. Did the man outdo the woman again?

Yes? So, so, sorry. I know what they should have, the housewife monopoly game. Thank you, I know. I'm ready for the housewife monopoly game. We talked a little bit about that, do I want that? Like the oven mitts, could be a game piece,

dish soap, maybe a toilet bowl cleaner. You know, stuff like that. All right, I need to go to the break room, man. Shoot, I need a Coca-Cola zero after that. Just a joke, remember. Is that someone in the break room already? So when I say to you, Alphabet blocks, Atari 2,600 game system, baby doll, ball, Barbie, bicycle, big wheel, blanket, bubbles,

Candyland, Cardboard Box, Checkers, Chess, Clue, Crayola Crayola Crayons, Dollhouse, Domino's, Dunkin'Yo, Dungeons and Dragons, Easy Bake Oven, Erecter Set, Fischer Price Little People, Frisbee, G.I.I. Joe, the Game of Life, Hot Wheels, Hula Hoob, Jack in the Box, Jacks, Jigsaw puzzle, jump rope, kite, Lego, Lincoln logs, Lionel trains, Little Green Armymen, magic eight ball, marbles, bonopoly, Mr. Potatohead, Nintendo Game Boy, Paper, Airplane, Pinball, Play-Doh, Play-Doh, Playing Cards, Puppet, Radio Flyer Wagon, Raggedy Ann and Andy, rocking horse, roller skates, rubber duck, Rubik's Cube, Scrabble, Silly, Scyteor Action Figures, Stick, Super Soaker, Sphin, Teddy Bear, Tinker Toy, Tinker Tewmaster, and Wiffle Ball.

When I say those names to you, other than, aren't those all an alphabetical order? What do they mean to you? I'll tell you what they mean to you. Those are the 68 toys that have already been inducted into the Toy Hall of Fame. And that's the National Toy Hall of Fame. Now, today marks the beginning of you having your voice part of the National Toy Hall of Fame finalists. Christopher Betts, Chris Betch, Vice President of Collections for the National. National Toy Hall of Fame. Join us here on Chewing the Fat. How are you, Chris?

I am great. So today marks the day. What do I have to do to be a part of the National Toy Hall of Fame votes right now? It is so easy. You go to toy hallof fame.org and you can vote for one of the lucky 12 finalists and register your fandom. Okay, so I went to the website and I did I did vote once already because it's once you can you can vote multiple times but it's just once a day right that's right this is better than other elections once a day okay so now uh uh said careful uh i don't know that that's a fact anymore uh so we have 12 items now the 12 items this year are what well since you did that lovely alphabetical list i'll do the same thing probably not as fast care bears coloring

Fisher Price corn popper, Jenga, Magic the Gathering, Masters of the Universe toys, matchbox cars, My Little Pony, Nerf Blaster, Risk, smartphone, and top. Okay, so now those are the ones that are the nominees for 2019 National Toy Hall of Fame.

They are the 12 finalists which have a chance. Right. How many are going to be victorious? I am guessing if I were a betting man that three of those would be in. So you're, but three get in, could it be four?

It has occasionally historically been four, but I, I'm hard pressed to think whether that has occurred. So two or three, two is a guarantee. Three is probably the reality. Wow. So two guaranteed and three and four is on the outs. That's pretty impressive. And I don't know that anything on this list, you know, Care Bears is pretty strong. the coloring book.

The smartphone is pretty strong. I know that they have this. You mentioned the smartphone on there. Are we still too close to when the smartphone was invented for that to be on the list? It does not fit our usual sense that a toy has to have been on the market for 20 years, but we've got our Get Out of Jail Free Card in our criteria. You must be playing Miz Monopoly instead of the regular. Monopoly.

This is that a toy is an innovator. So, for instance, G.I. Joe got in, he had all the other qualities, but he was the first action figure and started an entire genre. Yeah, I mean, G.I. Joe is the man. You can't, you can't not have him there.

There's no question. So, I think, like, we have the Fisher Price corn popper. That should already be in. Well, I mean, that's come on. Every year, there are the sort of dope slap toys that, what? It's not already Right, I know. Jen is pretty strong.

That's been out longer than 20 years already. It has. It has. How old do you feel? You're getting old, Chris. Not me. You are. Holy cow.

Magic of the Gathering. I don't know that I, I know what that is. Wizards of the Coast, Magic of the Gathering. Oh my God. You're just embarrassing yourself. Chris. Chris, please save Jeff Fisher that he does not know what magic of every nerd that listens to the show is literally calling the voicemail right now.

The game continues to evolve and produce two sets of cars. I know my son is like that. Your son is going to smack you in the face when you get home tonight. As he should. Hey, wait a minute. My Little Pony, again, my Little Pony, that should already be in there, right? I mean, my Little Pony is just huge. My Little Pony is the toy on this list that has been in this rodeo more times than any other

of this year's finalist. Five-time finalist hasn't made it out of the corral into the winner's circle. Maybe this is My Little Pony's lucky year. Wow, this is injustice to the My Little Pony's, man. There's some kind of happening behind the scenes to, yeah, maybe big horses involved, keeping out My Little Pony or something.

Nerf blaster, huge. I mean, all the Nerf stuff. What do we have, I read the list, but it doesn't mean I paid attention to what I said. Do we have anything Nerf in the Hall of Fame? Already? We don't. In fact, Nerf as an entire universe of nerfiness was a finalist a few years back, but did not make it in.

Wow, because that's so huge. Just blasters. Right. They didn't want to give the whole thing away, which kind of makes sense. But the, I mean, the whole Nerf universe is pretty huge. I mean, that's, that's got some serious products in it. No question. Absolutely.

So I can go from, uh, how long? do I have to vote? I can go from today until when? The 18th is when voting wraps up, so a week. So, all right, I have a week to cast my vote and I can vote every day if I want, right? But you only get one vote

a day. Right, but your social media friends can be enlisted to get a groundswell grassroots movement going and really boost whatever you are advocating. I'll see if I'm torn. And I'm curious, Jeffrey, because you said you already

You voted. I did vote once today. And I haven't voted yet. I'm still kind of, you know, I'm on the, on the, undecided. Who did you vote for? It's my private vote until I, you know, launched on social media. No, and I bet you if I tell Chris to log into the mainframe and check at 10 Central, that one vote that came from Dallas, Texas, I will need to know.

I mean, clearly, you know I voted for Masters of the Universe. Duh. Oh, okay. I mean, clearly. Yeah, I figured. I voted for the Fisher Prize. Oh, because he has your name on it. Because he has your name on it.

No, that's not why. Jeff Fisher. Of course you're going to vote for that. That has your name. That's confos of interest right there. You cannot vote for something that has your name on it. I have no, trust me, I have no Fisher price money in my pocket. Zero.

But the corn popper, man, it should already be here. That thing is huge, man. Every kid in America had one of those stupid things. They still show up. You walk into people's houses, the corn popper. I'm surprised my house probably still has one, stash in a corner somewhere that will show up. There's no question about that.

The next time we move, oh, look, here's the corn popper. Count on it. So the National Toy Hall of Fame, where are you guys located at? We are in Rochester, New York, an hour and a half from Niagara Falls. So you can come here and see two wonders of the world. We are inside the Strong Museum, which is the biggest museum of toys, dolls, games, and video games in the world. So cool.

Every year, we draw more than 600,000 people. So we have room for you. I'm so excited. Well, you don't know how big I am, but I know that's a fat joke. I got it. But the, I really want to go there. I mean, I'm so fascinated, and I apologize for not having been already. This is something, I mean, we are coming as a family to the National Toy Hall of Fame.

This is going to be something we do. I want to be there. So we're going to do some kind of event with you guys, chewing the fat. we're going to do something because I really want to be a part of the Hall of Fame experience. It sounds so much fun. We talked to you last year. So after we vote, now how much of a, how does my vote count? Like I'm voting for these toys, whichever ones, you know, I think are worthy of the Hall of Fame.

You know, does my vote worth as much as everybody else's or am I less than others? It is. We have actual human beings on our national selection advisory committee. They are people who have various sorts of expertise and background in the world of toys and child development and creativity. I mean, you're speaking my game. Why am I not on the part of the committee? So the public, the people's choice voting winds up being the 23rd judge essentially. in what toys get into the Hall of Fame.

So every judge gets to pick their top three, and the people's choice is one of those judges. Gotcha. And so when do we find out when we have the winners? November 7th, Thursday, at 10.30 in the morning, Eastern time. We must talk to you on that day. We must talk to you on that day, so that we are, you know, first and foremost,

on the front lines of the National Toy Hall of Fame because these are some of the toys that maybe, you know, you buy for, you know, even if you're not getting the original, which, you know, you might be able to find on eBay, know that the price goes up after it goes into the Hall of Fame. So, you know, if you've got some of these toys at the house, maybe those are the ones you want to vote for

because if they get in, the price goes up on eBay, man. No, no, see, this is why I'm just thinking off the top of my head. This is why I agree with Chris that you should not be part of the committee. Because I see this somehow from every, From the day one that you become a committee member, all the toys are inducted. Like, why is this toy inducted? It's because Fisher has a whole truckload.

He's about to sell them on eBay. So I agree with Chris. The integrity of the comedian is to stay sacred and far from the Fisher household. That hurts. That hurts. So the 2019 National Toy Hall of Fame, the finalists are up.

I'll post it on my social media. You can go there and vote at Toy Hall of Fame. at toy hall of fame.org. And Christopher Bench, vice president for collections, thank you so much for joining us on Chewing the Fat. I really appreciate your time, and I love the Toy Hall of Fame.

You guys have been, you guys are great, and I'm looking forward to finding out who goes in this year. And the one thing, in the Strong Museum, like, when I go there, I can play with all the toys and stuff, right?

I mean, the museum has stuff where I can actually sit down to a hands-on museum, if I remember, right? That's right. And it's better than hands-on. We have supersized versions of things. So not just your standard crayola crayons. They are four-foot-tall crayons. There's another fat joke from Christopher. I appreciate it. I know you don't. Anytime. I love the fat jokes. Yes. Give them coming. Give them coming. I love it. Christopher, thank you so much. I really appreciate it.

Okay. We're going to get you here soon. I look forward to it. I cannot wait. All right. Bye. Thanks, Chris. So, I guess, since it's 9-11 today, we have to talk about 9-11. It's still a mandatory thing to talk about, I think? I don't know. Is it?

I'm asking. I'm not asking you, Chris Cruz. I'm not asking you. I'm just asking the audience. I'm not even an American, so you should not be asking me. That's why I said. Yeah, I'm not even. I even talk.

Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize. So, you know, I guess we have to still talk about it. It's been 18 years. I mean, we're not going to forget. It's horrible. I know. But look how much we've given up in the past 18 years because of it.

It's just amazing. And what we've had to put up with, I mean, just an example of what we had to put up with today, the New York Times, which, by the way, I believe, is deleted now. But the New York Times, they tweeted this morning because I went to look at it. for it after I read about it and it wasn't there. So but they tweeted this morning 18 years have passed since airplanes took aim and brought down the World Trade Center. Wait.

Airplanes took aim? Yeah. Was airplanes used to hit the towers? Uh, yes. Yeah. So what? The terrorist flew airplanes into the building. That's secondary Jeff Fisher.

But airplanes took down the. Today families will once again gather and grieve at the site where more than two. 2,000 people died. So they don't even care about the other people that died. We're only talking about New York. We're only talking about the World Trade Center. And those damn planes. Those damn planes that took aim on the buildings.

And at the World Trade Center, and then the Pentagon and the Pennsylvania. I mean, Pennsylvania plane. Those guys are heroes, man. Heroes. That's 94, right? Or 93. Heroes, Flight 93.

I mean. I love the movie. The movie was awesome. Beamer. That guy is, They're all heroes, man. Every one of them. Every stink of them.

But, look, if you were alive on September 11th, 2001, you remember. You will never forget. There's no question about that. And you should aim

to make your children or those who were not alive at the time, which we have a whole generation now, that we're not alive, you know, during that time, know about it. Now, I know you're the same crew that doesn't want, you know, gun billboards around the school zone for a safe zone.

So you might not want to show your kids the footage from 9-11, but it's not a bad thing to show them the footage. Because you can, some of that footage I watched today, I brought back so many memories and goosebumps and tears and just, I was just amazing to watch it again. And I don't want to watch it again, but there it is. And so, you know, all, everything comes rushing back. So for someone that wasn't a part of it, you can't expect them to have those memories,

but you can't expect them to know about it and know what America was at the time and not just what it is now. It's just, that's another example of what it is now. I don't think we ever talked about the Southwest Airlines. I mean, the American Airlines mechanic in Miami that was charged for sabotaging the navigation system of a flight bound for the Bahamas, you know, before the storm there. He said that he did it because of the, he did it because of the maintenance workers' contract has been, you know, hasn't been negotiated. so he wanted more overtime hours. So he tried to, you know,

put stuff into the plane that would make it not fly. And had they taken off or the pilots not recognized there was a problem, it would have crashed. Now, of course, it was just because of the contract dispute with the union. And if you don't believe me, you can go ahead and ask, Majid Maruf Ahmed Alani again. One more time. What's his name?

Majid Maruf Ahmad Alani. Right. M-A-J-E-E-D, M-A-R-O-U-F, M-A-R-U-F, Ahmed, A-H-M-E-D, Al-A-L-A-N-I. You can ask him again, because I'm sure, I'm sure that it was just about the union contractual dispute. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.

If you did something other than murder 25 years ago, are you still responsible for it? I mean, I guess you're still responsible for it. But is it, does it matter? Don't shake your head, yes. There's no way it matters. No way. So the acting police commissioner in Philadelphia is speaking at some

hearing on racist Facebook posts the horror of that alone is just too much to comprehend. How dare someone post something on Facebook that I have to actually scroll past and not read? But I digress. She apologized. She apologized. for a shirt she wore 25 years ago

that some believe was a reference to a 1991 beating of Rodney King by LAPD officers. Not everyone even believes that. Some people believe that. That is agonizing. I just want to go on record. is saying whatever I did in the past.

Am I sorry for it? You bet. I'm sorry for it every day of my life. Every day of my life. We're done. I'm not going to say it was horrific. I'm not saying it's all. There you.

I apologize for it. We're all good. Thank you. We're good now. It's the day Chappelle's special over again. It's absolutely agonizing. I can. can't take it. I can't. Can't take it. She wore a t-shirt 25 years ago. She's

apologizing for her. So 25 years ago, 25 years ago, what was I doing 25 years ago? What was, what year is 25 years ago? Do the math. Do the math. It's 2019. So it'll be 2000, so 1996? 94. 1994. 1996? Like I said? Yeah, 94. No, 25 years? No, that's 96. Jeff Fisher. I have, 2019. minus 25 is 1994 1994

1994 is 25 that I said 25 years duh what I said so 1994

I was working at I was working in another stupid radio station shocker 1994 I was working at I was working at oh

I think I was working at WSUN entertaining talk radio for the 90s. Yeah. Doing afternoons. Oof. Have you made that? No.

No, this is pre-Glen? No, I didn't meet Glenn until 99, 2000. Right around there? Well, you don't get those days back, huh? Days before Glenn back. I know you told me that once you start doing time stuff like that, I need to snap you out of it. Good time.

Yeah. So I just want to say, first, you need to subscribe to the two or the fat. What are you doing? I know you're listening to the podcast right now since this is the dessert section. Back fat. This is back fat. Fat bomb. Grisle.

Grizzle. Dessert, whatever you want to call it. We have a couple more in the voicemails. I know we do in the voicemails that people have left at 214, 7359-356, powered by Patriot Mobile. You know what I found out, too, speaking of Patriot Mobile, just as a side note here, for a moment. Their new ad talks about how Patreon Mobile won't make you a hamburger. I kind of pisses me out.

Get them on the phone. See if they'll make me a hamburger. They won't make you a hamburger? It says in the ads, but they won't make a hamburger. What is the whole hamburger? I don't know. I just want a hamburger all day. I've wanted a hamburger all day. But you can't get a Patreon mobile though.

Apparently not. That seems like, apparently not. I need to call Mori. Thank you. As I said, get them on the line. I'm busy and I would like you to tell the audience what I've been trying to tell you to tell. Yeah, I know. That's what I was getting to, but I got sidetracked by Patriot mobile and a hamburger.

Yeah, and the hamburger. So apparently they're doing some reset on the podcast here at the Blaze Podcast Network. And is it true that people can get to our podcast by going to theblaze.com slash podcast? Yes. And you can go to, I mean, you could watch the show. on Blaze TV. By going to a blaze.com slash podcast.

BlazTV.com slash Jeffie. Oh no. That'll get you a discount. They'll get you right into the show. That gets you three times a price to watch the show. So if I go to blazTV. Dot com.

Slash Jeffie. slash Jeffie. Mm-hmm. Virus. We got to fix that. It's not on us. Get them on the phone. I'm not going to do that again.

Get somebody on the phone. It's a long number. It's a very long number for me to talk to the IT department. So I'm sorry to distract you. I know you're busy. They're working on them. When I say they, I mean Chris,

is working on. They know that. It's working on some podcast reworks that we have posted. Apparently they're re-reach, they're changing the way they're listed. Yeah. It was all announced yesterday. And once again, Apple...

Of course it was because we had the great announcement yesterday that we announced. No, no, no. Apple made their announcement and they're changing their platform again. So we have to be compliant to them. So we have to change a couple of things. And then that's what we're doing today. So does that mean that we get a cheaper price for Apple TV Plus? Yes.

Instead of $4.99? It would be $4.95. Tell Ted back there, don't worry about the show that's going on. Just keep talking. just go hey guys don't worry about the show going on you just guys keep talking about whatever you need to talk about in there

it's fine seriously don't pay a second thought about the show going on really now you've like got them all now they're going to talk even more so right now your episodes

are jumbled up and it'll take about 24 hours for your episode to go back in order okay so the wonkiness that you're going to have yes today it's just a emperor

it's an anomaly It's an anomaly. Oh, I like that word. Anomily. It's just an anomaly. So let it ride. You'll be fine. All right.

So if you, if I, I don't want to hear, hey, something's wrong with my podcast. You guys, the numbers are screwed up. Something is wrong. It's winky. I don't want to hear it. I'm going to hear it. Chris does, though. So.

What do you mean I want to hear? You know, if somebody's having a problem, you always want to be helpful. So they're going to call. Is there a number, I've been? Is there a number? There is a number? right in front of you. Oh, I'm so sorry.