Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 260 | Amazon Influencer?, Toys for Tots, & Potato Shortage in The U.S. | Guest: Lt. General Pete Osman, USMC (Ret)

Episode Date: December 3, 2019

There are currently more than 15 million U.S. children living below the federal poverty line. Moreover, 1 out of every 3 children lives in a family where neither parent has full-time, year-round employment. Given that many of these parents struggle to provide the basic essentials of food and shelter for their little ones, millions of children risk disappointment on Christmas morning, with no toys under the tree. With demand for assistance remaining high, we are reaching out to your listeners to purchase toys to donate to Toys for Tots – which will go directly to children in need in your community.   Fortunately, parents can turn to the Marine Toys for Tots Program during this time of the year. Our Corporate Partners, and most importantly, the American public, have been very supportive during these tough economic times as the demand for toys remains high. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. I'm just saying. I just looked up at the television. You're going to bring it up? This is a fair topic. Why do you need to bring it up? Because I looked up on television. I'd be ready for House.

Is he the judiciary? He's the intelligence head. Jerry Nadler from New York, who, you know, he's a strange-looking bird. Oh, he was like the penguin. from Batman. He does. But they were showing some different shots of him on one of the networks. And the latest shot of it looks like he's lost a little weight. Uh, the side shot, he wasn't waddling as bad. Look like he did. Look like the belt had a few extra holes put in it.

So he's getting ready. You know about that. You know about that. Right? Is that what you're saying that? I'm just saying he's getting ready for the TV deal. Jerry's looking good. Wait, there's a TV deal. Coming up after, oh yeah. Contributor. Oh yeah. CNN or MS. And it's NBC. Yes. Yes. All in people. impeachment 24-7. And here's your host, Jerry Nadler. Is he going to be like Al Sharpton? And not that good.

He's not as good as Al. Is he going to read the teleprompter? Yes. But he's not as good as Al. Oh, no one, though. No. Or Al Rorpe. So those of you living in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, can breathe easier.

It just feels so much safer. coming off of the big holiday weekend. Undercover detectives in Baton Rouge used Black Friday to conduct a street-level prostitution operation. Okay? So, right, right. And they did this on Black Friday.

All right. They arrested one person. That's it? So what do you mean that's it? I mean, they're making the streets of Baton Rouge safe. Are you kidding me? I do a whole Black Friday sting. And you just get one person?

You get one lady? Oh, not even a... Well, she identified. Yeah, yeah. She said... So we didn't get the dude? The police officers were posing as Johns. Okay.

They're posing as Johns, okay? They're posing as Johns, okay? They do that, yeah. They spotted Tammy Lynn Shepard, who looks... Wait, don't add her out. Oh, what's in the story? No. I don't want you to...

prostitute shame. What's her name? They spotted T.L. There we go better. TLS. Sure for Tammy Limb Shepard. No. Oh, sorry.

No, no. No prostitution shame in here. She was walking along the highway. They called her over. And she said, once they called her over, she offered sex in exchange for money. That quickly? So, and that's when she got arrested.

Poop, whoop. But I mean, you should feel safe in Batchez, Louisiana because of that. Well, I'll tell you that. I mean, hey, Tammy. Yes. Why don't you come on over to the car for a second? Oh, hello. Hey, I know you're probably thinking to yourself, what could I do for some rock?

Hey, what can I do for some rock? I knew you were thinking that. What are you willing to do? Anything for you, baby. Like what? Sex stuff. Woo, woo!

I mean, come on. Swarm, swarm, swarm. We've got one. We've got one. The rest of it. To bring her down. I mean, I'm sure there's footage that are being tackled outside the car right there.

At least we're for it to do the business. Wow. I just, I'm Baton Rouge. You should be ashamed of yourself. Absolutely. I was just feeling like at least 15 prostitutes and three pimps. Right?

Come on. Ashamed of yourself. Ashamed. So I'm reading a story about a lady who is purchasing items on Amazon for money. What's wrong with that? And I'm thinking, why is my wife not doing this? Isn't that called an influencer? No.

Now, it should be, but it's not. It should be, but it's not. So I'm reading the whole story. It's a long story. Oh, that's what you were reading. I was wondering. It's a long story. You've been highlighting for like the last 15 minutes.

And there's a lot of stuff in here that's just Phil stuff for the story, right? I've got to write 18,000 word story. I'm BuzzFeed News reporter. Nicole Nijin. So there's Phil stuff. Hey, BuzzFee, you know the New York Times, okay. Nicole believes that she's ready for it, though. Oh, so this is her.

She is the BuzzFeed News reporter. Okay, got it. She is. I'm not saying. Good luck for her. It's a good story. It's a good story. Yes, absolutely.

And she talks about Jessica, not her real name. We could sell out prostitutes, but we can't sell out the chick buying stuff on Amazon. Okay, it's fine. So she's, according to the story, she's spent over $15,000 on Amazon this year alone. All right? And she buys, she's bought Halloween decorations, inflated-well mattresses. She's purchased over 700 products. In the story, it talks about vacuum cleaners, desk chairs, 26 pairs of e-es,

earbuds. Most of the products, according to this story, are cheaply made. Oh, so like the knockoff version. Yeah. So you're buying AirPods. You're buying AirPods. Well, they're earbuds. Oh, she calls them earbuds.

Earbuds. Oh, okay. It's earbuds. That make it seem like you're listening to air. So she buys them on Amazon. Right. And then the company reimburses her. for the review, for the product and the review.

So like an influencer. Right. I mean, that's really what she is. Yeah. All right. So she's, you know, she's not, she's trying to help brands grow their business. Yeah. Amazon's massive marketplace.

I'm just a pawn in their marketing scheme. Says, Jessica, not her real name. So she's complaining. No, she's just saying. Oh, okay. She's just saying that she's not a, you know, she writes reviews. and really what they've done is they've figured out kind of the Amazon algorithm of the way it works and brings up products when you search for products

and who's got the best reviews, most purchases. If I want to buy a pillow, they make her buy that pillow, put a nice review. Right. And then that pillow goes to the top and beats my pillow. Right. Got it. And it's been purchased. It hasn't been purchased by the business.

been purchased by an outside person. Which makes it a verified purchase. And that goes right on top of the reviews because I don't those. Yes. Yes. It's a verified purchase. So she has an Amazon charge card which gives her bonus points. So she's making points on that.

So she's making double end here. She's getting a product plus money plus points. Right. Nice. I know. So what's the point of this story? They're trying to say how bad it is. How bad this deal is and how she's racking the system.

for these companies. What's the name of this person that wrote this New York Times article at the BuzzFeed News? Nicole Nijit. She needs to quit because she's definitely jealous of Jessica.

I think so. I think so. Now, she makes purchases from her own Amazon credit, right? Okay. Which you said, you know, of course it's a verified purchase, right? She gives them most five-star reviews.

She's reviewed a couple of things that aren't five stars because she says in the story that won like a purse broke. But most of them are five-star reviews. Isn't that what everybody's doing, like the whole opening the box, unboxing things?

Yes. Now, all these companies have said, hey, we figured it out. Let's hire all these consultants around the country. And I'm not saying that they're lying. And they're not fake. They're trying to say that this is a fake review. Okay.

If she'd given like four stars review, how can that be fake? I know. Now, there's plenty of, Amazon says that they've caught like 13 million attempts to post inauthentic

reviews. So what she does is she doesn't review it like right, like if you buy a product and then review it. Yeah, exactly. She's probably using them. Well, she opens the product. She takes pictures of the product. Which is unboxing. Everybody does this now.

She opens a box, and remove the product from their packaging, assembles them, takes photographs. Later she writes reviews while she and her boyfriend watch TV. The boyfriend who doesn't like her doing this. Oh. Shut up. Break with him. As he brings the products in from the porch.

Shut up. She reviews, each review receives five stars. All right. Now, so she has the deal. Now, she can't, she has to wait a few days, right, to make it legitimate. Okay. To beat the algorithm, right? So if you purchase it and then write the review,

Amazon says, hey. You haven't gotten to you, honey. Right. Yeah. There's no, what's you doing? So you got to wait from the amount of time, let's say, a week. A day. And I think it says in here she waits for three to four, three to five days.

Okay, makes sense. Three to five days. And again, right. BuzzFeed is saying that this is wrong. Oh, this whole article is. She's constantly brokering deals with sellers and occasionally hounding them for payment. You mean like any business? Oh, yeah.

Through email, WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger. Many sellers tell her the exact keywords to search for on Amazon to more closely simulate an actual Amazon purchase. Okay, well, it is an Amazon purchase. I realize that she's like I'm coming to her and say, hey, buy a chewing the fat mug and give me a five-star review. Yeah. I get that.

But she is purchasing it with her own card. So you're saying that chewing the fat is messing the algorithm? films for iTunes. We are. We do now. When you tell them, best podcast ever, 20 stars. I have Jessica, not her real name. Reviewing all this accounts. Yeah. Huh. Yeah, and now believe me, I'm one of the

people on WhatsApp and Facebook app that she's hawking for money because I ain't paying for it, but I just wanted to do it. Is there a website that we can fund all these people to hire? Because I feel like this is a business idea. Thank you. It's like consulting. Now, it's kind of weird. The interesting part of the story, and it goes on and she

talks about how the majority of sellers she messages with are Chinese. Makes sense. They respond to messages only between 9 and 6 a.m. Eastern time, which are working hours, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Beijing time. During Golden Week, a Chinese holiday, the administrators of multiple Facebook pages noted that refunds would not be issued and representatives would not be available to respond to inquiries while they observe the national days of rest. Those bastards.

So now it's a Chinese fault. Facebook is technically blocked in China. This is what I find interesting. In the story, it talks about how Facebook is technically blocked in China. So sellers access the site using a virtual private network. Yeah, VPNs. Occasionally, sellers will go dark for a few days because of issues with the VPN. That would be called the bullet from the Chinese government.

Excuse me, you owe me money. Are you having issues with your VPN? I need a new person to bill. okay there's no company you're not dealing with you're not dealing with Juan anymore

it's just ridiculous it's China Juan is Spanish oh no but it's no but I don't know if you ever notice this but what's your name Juan oh wait wait you're from China though

I thought you were calling from India I am but I'm Juan oh I hate that I had to do with that over that Black Friday week and I'm like my name is Jennifer you sure about that

So they go on to talk about how she's rewarded for, you know, the company's blind spots. Oh, gosh. And yeah, that's what it is. I mean, it's not a blind spot. She's purchasing the product. She's using what the company has created. All right. So it's up to you if you're looking for earbuds.

And are you really purchasing something? Are you reading reviews to purchase something, Jeffrey? My wife does. Oh, okay. Amber does. I'm a, well, no, I buy, a lot of things. No, no, no, I got it. But I don't look for reviews. My wife does. My wife

will look for whatever product that she's looking for and the reviews will be part of the decision. Not not all. Not priority. No, not priority. Like if there's something, you know, obviously if I wanted a product and there were 80,000 bad

reviews, I might go weird because all the people I've talked to about it. It's good. Say it's good. Yeah. So, you know, I don't know that that would still affect my... And you always have those people that had that one bad experience. That's kind of where I'm at with the bad reviews. Like when I did the, when I started, you know, posing online about me going to Tesla

Solar, this one guy had a block because on all my post, he's like, Texas is evil. They owe me money. I'm like, dude, I get it. We got it. No, I get it. We got it. But don't be commenting on every single picture. Right.

A bad review. I had to block him. I'm like, dude. And that's probably not a dude. Yes. Yes. That's solar company. Juan A from China.

That's that solar panel in Texas trying to market. And they're like, they suck. It's the Chinese T-E-Z-L-A Tesla company. Oh, Tesla. Yeah. Tesla sucks. You should buy Tesla. It's very possible that that's the case.

Absolutely. And that would be where you're getting into the bots. Exactly. Hello. Now, she claims here. Who is she? Jessica, not her real thing. I really don't think I'm making money on it at all.

I'm pretty sure I'm losing money. Sweetie, you know you could sell that stuff, right? I'm pretty sure I'm at a 10% loss, but I'm okay with it because I've gotten a bunch of whole, a bunch of new stuff. Well, sell that stuff. Yeah. She says in the story that she has sold some of the stuff,

but she uses a lot of it for gifts and birthday presents. So you are saving money. So you are making money. Those AirPods, I mean, those earbuds. The vacuum cleaner that you gave to Aunt Millie for her birthday or for Christmas. Or more. Right. So you are saving money.

Yes. And I'm sorry, you do not need 10 pairs of shoes. So do a garage sale and start selling those shoes. That's a bad example. Okay. You don't need 10 vacuum cleaners. No, you only need five. Okay, so still the rest of them.

You got to have one for carpets downstairs, one for carpets upstairs. One for carpets upstairs. And the other three? Floors downstairs. Floors upstairs. That's four. And maybe you have one like an outdoor one. Yeah, that door one.

Okay. Okay, no matter of. So you stole the rest of five. Right. Yeah. After that. Profit. It's all profit.

But you're getting points. Didn't you say she's getting points on her Amazon card? Right. So she's getting points on her Amazon card. Right. So what she's getting paid off because she's getting paid because she's using another card. One at China. They're paying.

Right. They're paying her on another card. Mm-hmm. Right. So Amazon doesn't say, hey. What are you doing? What are you doing? Right.

So she's scamming the system. I wonder what Amazon has to say about this. Do we have a comment on this story? Amazon is like, look, we try to, we try to, you know, we don't want bad people reviewing. We want, we want legitimate reviews. Which that is a legitimate review. That's where I'm at with it. This is not a, this is a legitimate review.

She purchased. Now the company is purchasing. the product for her and purchasing her review. If you think about the person's in the product back. But I want to say influencer. Yeah, that's an influencer. I mean, what decision between her and an influencer? I don't see what?

Yes, an influencer gets it for free, right? Maybe. Maybe. Yeah, we don't know. Maybe. We do know. I mean, I can tell you right now that my wife is an influencer for the helio company. Yeah. The helio, the helio tights and stuff.

company and uh she has to pay for her stuff that's correct but she gets a discount if people purchase the product through her account she gets some of it which is fine i mean yeah that's an influencer hello yeah that's what you're doing so what's the issue between that and the company saying hey i don't see it i don't see the difference i don't either and ems i should not be stopping this and as long as it's done this way they're they're they're going by the rules of the algorithm and by amazon rules of you know she's not purchasing the product. And then reviewing it. And then reviewing it and then getting money back onto the card from other people.

She's paying it off through a separate account. I mean, those are the rules. There's literally no difference between it because it's all coming from the company. Thank you. Even like that or how we know the influencers work. So Jessica, not her real name, if she isn't making money, there's a problem. And maybe that's why hubby's pissed. I mean, boyfriend.

I know I'm going to hear from everybody talking about the Amazon influencer, as we're calling Jessica, not her real name. Because it's third-party selling, and the reviews actually help it and move it up. And I know they've quoted, I mean, Bezos has also talked about third-party selling how they're kicking their first-party sellers. But, I mean, the products are being used. Amazingly, while first-party means that Jeff Bezos is making more money, money, he's still making pretty good money with the third party money. Because if I remember correctly, richest man in the world, who is that again, the richest guy on the world? Mackenzie Bezos.

She should have been. She got robbed with her $40 billion or whatever she got. Anyway, I know I'd be fascinating to talk to some of these. There's a couple of people quoted in this article who are form. Amazon employees that talk about how this ranking and purchasing products from a seller like Jessica, not her real name, how that affects the sales. Amazon is saying that those reviews don't necessarily affect the sales of products. And they have some stats to back up how they actually do affect the sales of products.

I got to tell you, we talked about it earlier. really while it does is a part of my decision making, I don't use the reviews as 100% of my decision making. Maybe it's more than I think because when you search for a product, because of those reviews, the top 10 are influencer reviews, which make those the top 10, so you might not go to page 2 to find those products. I say If Amazon has a way of doing business

And you've found a way To jump the game a little bit Jump the game, baby And that's what Jessica, not her real name, is doing I am so thirsty That I need a drink of ice cold Coca-Cola Zero

No sugar Oh my gosh So good I don't know if I ever told you this before or not, but Coca-Cola Zero is probably one of the best drinks in the world. Ice cold like that? Tremendous. Oh, my gosh.

We're in the break room. Look who's here. It is that time of year. Yes, it is, when we try to help people that are less fortunate. And, you know, we should do it all year, but it's most importantly brought to the forefront during the high. holidays, and this year is the 72nd year of Toys for Tots. Amazing.

Amazing that it's been 72 years. Lieutenant General Pete Osmond, President, Chief Executive Officer for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, join us again here on Chewing the Fat. How are you, sir? I'm doing good, Jeff. Great to be back with you and your listeners again this year. Nice to have you back. I appreciate all the work you guys are doing.

So 72 years celebrating this year. And you've got, last year you had 800 communities covering all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands. He delivered 18 and a half million toys to about 7 million less fortunate children. Are you going to outdo yourself this year again? Well, you know, what would be great, Jeff, would be as if they didn't need us anymore, you know, that things got so good that there was no poverty. There were no more natural disasters, that those kind of bad things went away.

Well, I think you and I are pragmatic enough to know that's not going to happen. I know. And unfortunately, yes, the demand is still there. Census Bureau tells me we've got about 13 million children that live in poverty, some of them from an economic standpoint, some of them are a function of the natural disasters. But regardless, we've got children out there whose Christmas is going to be determined on whether or not, someone will be willing to buy a toy, drop it in a barrel, or make an online donation where we can go out and purchase toys to help those children. So yes, unfortunately, there's going to continue

to be a need. So if I want to make an online donation, I could just do that at the website, Toysfortots.org. Exactly. In a lot of ways you can do that. And the good thing about it is, and some people worry about this sometime, and they should, is how much of my dollar is going to go to buy toys and how much it's going to go to pay somebody's salary. Well, I can tell you that if you donate to Marine Toys for Tots, the money you donate goes to buy toys and books. 97 cents out of every dollar goes to the program, 3% for overhead, and that overhead is fundraising costs. Not one dime that anybody donates goes to pay anybody's salary. So, will they make a donation online, it goes for toys and books.

So will there ever be anyone coming to my door asking for donations? Absolutely not. We don't do that. We don't make phone calls. We do send out literature. We do things like this. We try to make sure that we bring the program to the public's attention. And then we leave it up to the public to make a decision on whether they want to support the program or not.

And fortunately, the American people, you're at. after year continue to rally around the Toys for Tots program and make it work because they realize that a child's Christmas really is based on whether or not they take the time to buy that toy or make that donation. Yeah, I mean, we all, we all really, if you have any kind of heart in your body at all, don't want a child to be left behind for Christmas. That's just a fact. How do you decide where the toys go? Well, it's pretty simple because toys that are donated locally stay local. And then that local coordinator, when he collects those toys or collects donations and purchases toys,

they usually go to social agencies in the community to determine which families really are in need. And from that, they can build a list of potential folks who may not. need assistance. If someone wants assistance, they can go to the website and put their name on the list. We pretty much check and make sure that the individual is in need. And then we take care of it. So it's not that difficult at all. And, you know, 90% of the time, you know, people are very upfront about that. If they need help, though, which you know. And so we take care of those who are ready. President and Chief Executive Officer for the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation, Lieutenant General Pete Osmond joining us here on Chewing the Fat.

I know that you have plenty of national sponsors helping you out or partners. You know, Hasbro, UPS, Disney, build a bear. Do I go to those places and try to help out or do I just drop a toy off

at a designated area? What's best? Maybe both. Just drop. Yeah, both. But really the easiest thing for the donor is just to purchase the toy, drop it in a barrel, and that's the best way to work,

it work. Those corporate sponsors, they pretty much work directly with our national headquarters, either in, you know, collecting, helping to collect donations, sending us large quantities of gifting kind, which we farm out to the local campaigns. So for the individual donor, either buying that toy or going to the website is the best way to make an impact on your community. I know you have, you know, your different campaigns for literacy and helping the young younger kids, you know, become better educated. Do you prefer a toy or do you want a book or a learning device that's, you know, more educational than just a truck?

We'd love to have both. I think for, you know, a young child, you know, say it was six or seven years old, you know, to receive just books really wouldn't be fun. It's fun for them to get the fire truck or to get the teddy bear. or whatever it is. You should have talked to my aunt. Include with it a book. Yeah.

But to include with it a book. You know, there's something special. I mean, if the kids gets a couple of really neat toys and then gets a book to go along with it, that's kind of special, too. So that's what we try to do is try to balance it out. And that seems to work. You know, for those children that are living in poverty, and usually the family is kind of hard up, Not a lot of reading material in the house for the youngster.

So if you can provide that youngster with a book or two, it can make a huge difference. Yeah. So if I want to find out where to drop off my toys other than some of your partners, the easiest thing to do is just go to Toysfortots.org? That's exactly right. You click on your state, your county, and it will tell you where the collection sites are in that particular county. Very simple. Lieutenant General Pete Osmond, I can't tell you how much it is.

I enjoy talking to you, but at the same time, again, I think I'm on your side when I say, I don't want to talk to you anymore. I want this to stop. Yeah. Wouldn't that be great? But, you know, again, as I said, you know, being pragmatic, we know that for one reason or another, there's always going to be some folks out there that need help. There's always going to be natural disasters, which are going to cause families to literally

have to start from scratch. So, you know, if we can help them out, then there's no question that there's a need and a place for a program like Marine Toys for Tots to help those out who might not be able to help themselves at this particular point in time or at this particular time of year. Well, you guys are doing great work. I know you, as I said earlier, you delivered more than, you know, almost 19 million toys last year to 7 million kids. And I'm sure that there's going to be a lot more children and a lot more toys this year. as needed. And so for more information, just go to Toysfor Tots.org. Lieutenant General Pete Osmond, thank you very much, sir.

I appreciate it. Toysfor Tots.org. Jeff, thanks so much. Appreciate it being with you again this year. Merry Christmas, my friend. Thank you, sir. Right back at you. So what's the one thing if you're running for President of the United States

that you don't do it? Don't play. Don't start reaching for the ICU. Start reaching for your little sounder. Don't do it. Don't do it. Because this is, this is, this is, this is helping. I'm helping people. Okay, so what was the question?

It's not political. It's the one thing you don't do if you're running for president of the United States. Invite the intern to your office. When there's cameras around, sure, I'll give you that. I mean, you've got to still work. The boy is supposed to do it, not work. Talk about your hairy legs and how little kids like to touch them. What is that guy?

doing, man. I didn't talk about it yesterday. But holy cow. He, that guy, Joe Biden, if you have not seen his, just the original comments. His original comments of, I know about roaches and kids would come and rub my legs and watch the hairs stand up. And I mean, and I love kids jumping on my lap.

And okay, okay, Grandpa Joe, thank you. Something you want to say in 2019. Holy cow. And there's an animated piece that someone put together that's really funny. And are we going to, okay, here we go. Joe Biden. And by the way, you know, I sit on the stand and it get hot. I got a lot of, I got hairy legs that turned, that, that, that, that turned, blonde and the sun.

And the sun. And the kids used to come up and reach in the pool and rub my leg down. So it was trade and then watch the hair come back up again. They look at it. So I learned about roaches. I learned about kids jumping on my lap. And I've loved kids jumping on my lap. Okay, pull them off.

Take them to the bus. It's over. Shut it down. By the way, he's saying this while surrounded by African-American little kids. I know. I know. Is there anyone? In the sound of my.

voice that's going to be surrounded by African-American kids and mention roaches and not get not be hammered by the world hammered by the world let alone little kids talking about swimming rubbing his legs with his blonde hair coming up are you kidding me somewhere in there there's an innuendo that we don't know do you talk about dog whistle that's dog whistle. I, I, I, Michael Jackson right now is turning on his grave because he's like, that was a great idea. I could just have them touch my legs and see my hairs go up?

Bill Cosby's pissed. No, don't start throwing Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby's pissed. No. Bill Cosby. Harvey Weinstein is like, dude. And don't bring Harvey Weinstein into this either. Louis C.K.'s like, no. Come on. Not Louis C.K. No. No.

No. No. Kevin Spacey's like, bro. Maybe Kevin Spacey. Maybe. Maybe. Matt louder, it's like, no, no, no.

No. No. No. They are not, those guys. Arkelly. I'm only, maybe Arkelly and Kevin Spacey are in that window. The rest of them, no. They were, they were dealing with adults, not kids.

Maybe Mr. Rogers is like, hello, my neighbors. No, it's our bad. We don't know anything about Mr. Rogers being any kind of freakoid other than your normal freakoid. That's it. Okay. But he was, don't start bringing these guys into this window of perverteness? They're over here in this pervertedness.

Okay. They're not here with the kids. If you think about it, Joe Biden has gone from sniffing ladies to having little kids. Well, he's always little kids. Remember the little girls that would come on? swore in for the senators. And when they were, you know, he'd meet all the new senators.

Yeah, the new senators. And they brought their families. The one little girl kept trying to get away from him when he was, ooh. So is there a case in there? There has to be a case, right?

Jeffie. In 2019, we've gone less. They tried to, they tried to. Kavanaugh was put them freaking in front of Congress with less. Well, but Kavanaugh was still a kid at that time, right? He wasn't, he wasn't an adult with the kid.

The only person close to this is maybe you're right. Michael Jackson, Art Kelly. And Kevin Spacey. And those are. I know. I know. The only other one, and the only other one, again, is maybe Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein.

Oh, I forgot about it. Right. I mean, maybe. Prince Andrew? You know. He's not having a birthday this year. He doesn't have a birthday. He doesn't have an office.

He doesn't have a house. He doesn't have a family. They took the rank. They took it all the way. Prince Charles, did you see the big story about Prince Charles when he becomes king, which dear Lord is not going to happen and he knows it.

Let's be honest. Okay, we ask about Charles. When I become king, there's going to be some changes. We're going to have less family members being ranked as royals around here. There's going to be less work. King Royals. No, I was in the middle of a speech. So where's the press? I want to tell them when I become king. Hello? Hello? Gosh, darn it. Camilla, every time I just want to say something when I become king, nobody listens to me. Nobody listens to me. I know. I'm so happy you're here

and you'll listen to me. Darn it. I love you too. I know. I mean, come on. He's just trying to be relevant, I get it. But he's talking about he is. I mean, look, when the queen... Technically he is right. He is next in line. Yes, he is. And when the queen passes away, he will be king. He's king. And he's said that now that there will be less working royals. So he's pulling the plug on

all the extra royals running around pretending that we aren't having any of that. And then when Prince William takes over, they're back. Bill's taking They're all back There's plenty of working royals Everybody's running around

Except for Harry Who? Except for we thank you Thank you You know my brother That lives in Hollywood With his wife Oh

Oh him He could still pretend He's a royal Because he really isn't I don't It's fine He's a celebrity royal Yes

He'll survive from celebrity Just don't listen to the wife Just don't listen to What Megan says Megan gets For Harry for sure But not for Not Williams

Like oh no I'm king I'm king. So, I mean, we still, I want to continue to talk about there's Harvey Weinstein news in the news. There's Bill Cosby stuff in the news. It's so good that happened over this past weekend.

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at the blaze.com slash podcasts okay so a rapper by the name of Big Yota No name Oh that bitch Says she

Whoa whoa She pissed me off yesterday She's done touring Okay She's done She's done touring And she's no longer Gonna perform

Tell me that's not racism She's sick of performing In front of predominantly white crowd Jeffie Tell me that's not racism It absolutely is But I will say But tell me no

But I will say this. Don't balk me that more fact because that is racist. And just because she's black, she don't get to go out there and say, oh, no, we're performing with white people or no. And I'm Hispanic, so I'm brown. So I'm allowed to say that. A, first of all, how many no-name shows you've been to? Two.

And how can she be with no-name? I can't find her on the yellow pages or the white pages. Do you remember what two shows you went to? Absolutely. It's the one in Orlando. She was at the Amway Arena. And then she was here in Dallas at the American Airlines Center.

I guarantee you she's not filling up those venues. There's no way she was at those venues. It's a nice try, though. It was a nice try. And I love you for it. But there's not a chance. She may have been at the American Airlines Center as the fourth act.

The annex. Yes. Oh, that's it. Anyway, I will say this for it, though. I'm not bogging you down with facts. I'm just saying she's honest and she's backing up what she says.

I'm not saying, sure, it's racist. Absolutely it is. What do you mean but she's backing up what she says? I'm not going to tour. The other, I feel like the other rappers have and will say they're tired of performing in front of mostly white audiences.

They're not tired of cash in the checks. They're still performing. They're still out there. They're still out there pretending. doing the same thing that they claim that white people do by not saying anything. Yeah. I just, you know, but they're still,

they're happy to take that money. Capitalism will take care of her. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, now I'm not bad. She's kind of backing up what she believes it. I guess she's racist. Okay.

Okay. But we need to start calling her racist. Okay. Because people are like, oh, she's so brave in this new world. No, she's not. Because if the roles were reversed Oh Oh my gosh

Come on Jeffie Death Jeffie If we get I don't know Justin Timberlake And say I'm not performing anymore

Because I'm having too many black people Come to my performances He is no long He'll be the leader From social media He's no longer Justin Timberland I remember one of my favorite

Blues shows I went to Years ago I don't know I probably told the story Before because I've You know He's supposed to say country blues This was not a country blues.

This was just a blues show. Tonight's episode, Blues. And I remember myself and this other guy from Wisconsin were there. And I would say that the majority of the audience were blackened. And we were probably the only two little pimples in the crowd on the floor. And the performer in the middle of song, stopped and pointed to us and said, look, you know times are getting bad. White people coming to blues shows.

Come on, man. And it was funny. And everybody loved it. And it made us part of the show and part of the crowd. So. And it make you feel welcome. Yes. And it also made if there were any people in the crowd that were saying, you know,

against Whitey being there. Not anymore. Not anymore. You got the approval from the... We're part of the crowd. We're just there for the show, which we were. Right. How old were you in this?

How long ago was it? This was a couple thousand years ago. Yeah, exactly. A couple thousand years. Well, no, you're a KKK member. You tried to... Yeah, we were just out. We were getting ready to burn crosses at this blue show in the middle of the show.

Yeah, that's all we were doing. No, not blue shows. I don't like that. We were getting ready to burn crosses at the blues show. There you go. A blues episode. Tonight's episode. Burning crosses.

By the way, I did go back and watch a couple of those episodes. They have him on YouTube, whatever you were talking about. Canon. Tonight's episode, Country Blue. See, okay, I can't find that one. They still want me to pay $1.99 to download that one episode. My main man, Cannon. You know, he actually, William Conrad, William Conrad, as Canon.

His first deal was playing a radio actor. You know, he did the voice work for Marshall Dillon in Gunsmoke for, I don't know how many years on radio, man. He was William Conrad. Gunsmoke was on radio first? Oh, yeah. Oh, how do you know that? I know my grandfather-in-law watches it 24-7.

Jeffie, this is way before my time. Do not expect me. You do not expect me to know that guns... Weird out. That's just history. It's just history. It's all. It's history, things that, you know,

maybe you'd think someone would know. So I'm not. Okay. Well, also sad news, though, today. And I, this is seriously sad news, man. I'm not joking around. You can play that music, man. I'm serious.

This broke yesterday. And I, I'm just going to read you the headline. The U.S. may face French fry shortage due to poor potato crop. I'm a sad music sirens. I want it all. What are we doing in America when we cannot grow potatoes? Do Idaho is like scared that we're going to run out. Poor potato crop by cold weather and wet weather, climate change.

See, so this one of us listening to podcasts about this, they're not blaming climate. They never said climate change at all. But you said the cold weather, which I was surprised. Cold and wet weather. weather. Yeah, affected the potatoes. So what is going to happen? So I know chickfully is okay because they have waffle fries and they use different fries for that. Um, Sonics is okay because they use tater tots. Um, in and out it's okay because they use a skinny fries. McDonald's is the one in trouble and Burger King and Wednesdays. Yeah, they're done. Yeah. Yeah.

Would you like fry? I mean, carrots with that? Five guys, they'll stop doing those. But they have, they do have the sweet potato fries. So five guys still in business.

Now, I'm not sure if you know this, and I've just, you know, I'm just throwing out this. Because I appreciate your run down who's in trouble and who's not. But,

you know, the waffle fries and potato tots. Those are still from, potatoes. No, no, don't balk me that way, thanks. Just so you know. All I'm saying, McDonald's, Berkin and Wendy's are done. Sonic's good. In and out. It's good

because they have the skinny fries. Five guys, though. They're done, too. Five guys are done. Yeah, they're done. Not having bags of potatoes sitting out in front in the lobby anymore. They're not done because they'll just be like, we've got sweet potato fries. Which, they're not bad. No, I like the sweet potato fries. They're good. Yeah. Seriously, they're good. But they're still

part of the potato family potato family but they didn't talk about sweet potatoes they talked about potatoes oh well it might be so i don't think sweet potatoes umbrella of potatoes i don't think sweet potatoes comes from idaho i know the main potatoes the big long potatoes was as we're talking about this again i didn't even going to talk about this this morning because i was like all in listen to this podcast about the potatoes and they're the one who mentioned so what what other podcast is talking about The potato shortage. Snacks Daily. It's a money podcast, financial podcast.

And so they... And one of the serves was up because that's going to hit the market pretty soon. I know. The market's going to respond to it. I know. So they were talking about, you know, what companies are going to be suffering the most.

And the most are the people that serve those long French fries like... I mean, hell of the joke is you want fries with that. I mean, this is America. Yeah, exactly. Everything else are French fries. Yes. Just because it's French on it doesn't mean the French invented it. Right?

French are not from France, right? No. Okay, good. No. I just threw that out there without fat checking myself. See, that's why you need to just stop talking sometimes. I mean, it's devastating, right? Seriously, it is scary.

And when you think about it, you think about, let's say, when you go to the drive-thru now, I mean, you go to McDonald's now, you're not, it's not going to McDonald's to save a couple of bucks for a quick meal. Not anymore. Holy cow. We had this conversation not fair. Holy cow. I mean, you're, you're, you're, you're, you're going to McDonald's and you're dropping

with the family. $80. You're dropping. Well, if you drop in $80, you're ordering too many nuggets. Well, that's the Fisher family. I was given the Fisher family example. Okay, $76. There you go.

But I've just, you drive through, just drive through a quick, quick run to McDonald's $20. Yeah. I mean, just a quick, I'm kind of hungry. I'll get you some nuggets. Get you some nuggets and some fries and a, and a, and a, and a, shake and then I'll get I'll get a fries and a shake.

No, no, no, no. And while I'm waiting, just give me an ice cream code. That's 20 bucks. This is what, no wonder is 20 bucks. Just order the number 10, which is just 10 nuggets with a shake and then you'll be minimum $8. Still, though, two people

you're looking at, you're looking at almost 20. Yes, you are. I'm telling you. You're not just driving through it. So, my point is potato shortage will there be fries at all and if they are there'll be $800 for an order of fries

Now you think that number 10 is going to be $699 with a large order of fries It's going to be $699 Is potato going to be the new currency? Oh So should we be stocking up on potato? No, you can because of that

Oh yeah? Okay Just keep him in a cool dark cooler man So when do you start buying potatoes? Oh, like, right. No, you can't because that's going to go away. No, I've put them in the cellar, man. Oh, okay.

Get the cellar. Okay, sure. Even the ones that have now start having the sprouts coming out of them. Oh, those are you're good. Just cut them off. Just cut them. Just plant them. You just plant them.

Or you just eat them. Oh, absolutely. Oh, you just eat it. So are potato chips in danger? But you do. Yes. Hmm. All of that, I mean, that's a huge,

think of the. products. I mean, in all seriousness. I know, I have a joke to rob, fries, but think of the products.

No, potato soup is fine. Oh, that's not made with food. A potato salad. All of it. Oh, no.

All the chips, all the fries, all the frozen food products. Dude does love. Let alone in the fast food. I mean, holy cow. What about my pizza?

Can I get so? Get so good my pizza? Do you get potatoes on your pizza? Sometimes if the mood hits it. Is that an island thing? You know, we have all the things and potatoes, right? We got yucca. Yucca is delicious.

It's a potato kind of cousin. Maybe we could start, you know, looking for new potatoes. There's an idea. You know, I used to work in a grocery store. Wait. I know. What? And I ran a produce department and stuff about that.

No. I know. Is this a mayor chain or, like, like a mom and pop. No, it was a chain. In Florida. What? In New York.

Oh, man. Did they have potatoes there? We did. And we had yuccas too. You guys. It's not yucas. Because they're yucca. Okay.

You just offended you five listeners in Puerto Rico. I'm sorry. Those influencers that you have in Puerto Rico are pissed at you right now. It was a joke. Calm down. It was a joke. There still doesn't make them good. I'll tell you that.

Now that I pissed them off, and might as well just add them. I got more stories. Nah, go ahead. That was it. Nah, go ahead.