Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 262 | Candle In The Wind, Prince Andrew | Guest: Bruce Steele

Episode Date: December 5, 2019

Today is a very special day since Jeffy has come back and re-written "Candle in the Wind" so that Prince Andrew doesn't feel as bad since he's the Royal punching bag. Does your job have perks? Jeffy goes down the list of the weird/cool job perks in todays workforce. Bruce Steele a journalist and Disney fan joins Jeffy to talk about his latest book "One Day at Disney: Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe".  Discover what it's like to report to work every day for The Walt Disney Company.  Step behind the scenes to immerse yourself in one "ordinary" day at Disney.  One Day at Disney is an ambitious and bold global event that showcases unique stories capturing a typical day of magic makers around the world. The project features authentic, unplanned moments and cast members that bring just as much joy and “magic” to Disney’s guests as their content and experiences do. It’s a fascinating look at what happens across The Walt Disney Company worldwide, all within one day, and published in conjunction with the Disney+ two-hour feature documentary of the same name and featured on Good Morning America (host Robin Roberts is featured in it). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. So when that goes off, that's when you're supposed to talk? Yes. Amazing thing. I thought I was actually doing an all-request lunch hour. Recorded live, we'll take the third caller. A.9-3WHNN, you could rip me off for an hourby's in Jamokin' and a free loop from Harry's Auto. And then coming up at 1230, all-request lunch.

Right? No, it's not it. All right. So I told you yesterday, no way does, um, well, Welcome to chewing the fat, by the way. No, don't, don't look at me. Like, you don't know what's going on because I'm just, I'm sitting here today.

All I can think about, I got into a conversation before we started recording about stuff. Because, you know, we moved into the new house, and I've got stuff. And aren't you, you're supposed to get rid of stuff? But we haven't. And I feel like I'm in this, this horrid. window. I look at it and go, yeah, well, we're going to need that. But really, the answer is no,

I'm not going to need that. So I've got to find a way to sell it all, to sell it all, just to sell it all. It's become a minimalist. That's my goal to become a minimalist. So you can wish me luck, okay? Doing the fat. All right, so yesterday we talked a little bit about Prince Andrew and you know, why he's one of the only few that's being attacked for this Jeffrey Epstein deal. But we also reached a point where we figured Elton is not going to be singing

at Prince Andrew's funeral. He's not going to be doing a special Prince Andrew Candle. It's not the right song. It's just an Elton Johnson. Again, no, it's not those are not the right song. We're talking about Candle in the Wind. And he did the original.

he did one for Princess Diana, but there's no way that he's going to do one for Prince Andrew. So I said I would come up with a Prince Andrew candle in the wind song, and I have. I wrote it last night for you. Now, I haven't produced it yet. I haven't produced the candle in the wind version

from chewing the fat yet, but I will give you the lyrics. And then at some point here on the near future, we will give you a produced version from chewing the fat. But goodbye, Andrew the prince, though I never knew you at all You had the grace to hide yourself When those around you posed They crawled out of the airplane

And they whispered into your brain Andrew she's just 17 But you don't have to say And it seems to me you lived your life Like a candle in the wind Never knowing who to cling to When the plane came in And I would have liked to known you

But I wasn't dating kids Your candle burned out long before Epstein sold you out Royal Life was tough toughest role you ever played. Queen Liz made you royalty, and pain was the price you paid. And even though you're still alive,

oh, the press they're hounding you, all the papers have to say is that Andrew was seen in the nude. And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind, never knowing who to cling to when the plane came in. And I would have liked to known you,

but I wasn't dating kids. Your candle burned out long before. Epstein sold you out. Goodbye, Andrew the Prince. Though I never knew you at all, you had the grace to hide yourself when those around you posed. Goodbye Andrew the Prince, from the young man way across the pond, who sees you more than sexual, more than just the Prince in Jis Lane's book. You'll make me do this live? Come on, you have to be a key.

I don't have the karaoke screen in front of me, though. I mean. I do. I'm looking at it. Oh, do you? Yeah. Okay. goodbye I'm not going to do it

I don't know that I can't pull it off Not live not live yet It's not ready for performance worthy yet And I don't want to let the audience down This is the special version I know This is for Princess Diana bring tears to be honest He just did an interview about this

Talking about how he had put How he put the words on a screen Down to the left of the piano Oh nice So he wouldn't forget them because he said the country would never forgive him. Oh, yeah. You missed up her freaking funeral. Because he and,

he and Bernie had written the words like a couple of days, you know, the last two days, and he had only practiced it a couple of times. So he didn't want to screw it up. And because he was trying, they were saying, didn't you have the words on a screen down the left of the piano?

Yes, I did. So what? I wasn't going to screw it up. So what? I know. I know. Oh, I know. I prefer that.

over him lip-syncing the song. Elton's still on tour too, and I've been seeing pictures where he's been throwing fits, he's a little cranky. Well, you know, his little cranky's been throwing stuff off. What's the mother-in-law died?

Yes, remember we talked. And then, we talked about how he had to go back. Boy, toy called him back. Yeah, made him stop the tour. Yeah. And so now he's on, he's still back on tour.

He's doing Australia, but he's throwing a couple of fits. What's wrong with him? I don't know. He hollered at security guards. Oh, baby. What are you doing? At one show,

because they were, they were hauling some lady out of the... Oh, you don't touch Elton's fan. Elton was wound up at them for touching a woman. He hollered at the security, told him to get the woman back into the crowd, leave her alone.

And then he apologized. Two. I said, I'm sorry. I just don't like people. Well, I can understand that. My fans are being thrown by security guard. And then he, uh, and then there's a picture of him throwing stuff off of one of his planes as he

was landing. He was so mad. He was coming off the plane. So he's a little cranky. Well, you know, hubby made him stop. It looked great. So he's off his mojo. So bad. So bad. All right.

So I'm looking through this list of job perks. And the headline is, there's a couple of the headlines. One is 20 of the best job perks and benefits millennials have that their parents didn't. But if you work for these places. No boomer is working there. Oh, sorry. You don't have to be a. to work at these places.

Absolutely, you do. No, you do not. Yes, you do, Jeff Fisher. If you go down the list by these jobs, those are millennial tech companies. And then they have the weirdest job perks you've never heard of until now, which some of them are actually, I have heard of them.

Then again, you're a thousand. So. I'm just Jen. So they have fraternity leave. Foraternity leave. So you're telling us. me that only millennials work for M-particle, brew dog, and Nina Hale.

Absolutely. You're not going to find no boomer in there. So they give a. And there's no boomer asking for fraternity. If you lose a pet, you need a bereavement time. Do you? Yeah, you do. Go four-day.

Four-day work weeks? Oh, we do that here. Four-day work weeks? I mean, at some companies, the 40-hour work week is a relic of the past. really what is, it's not necessarily a four-day work week. What it is is that you have a job to do. And if your job gets done, in whatever time your job gets done,

that's when it gets done. That's radio. Actually, that's old school radio. You have a shift. You come in, you do your shift, you do a couple of, you just record a couple of commercials, you record a couple of promos, I'm out.

What was the last time you clocked in? I couldn't. Back when I, I don't know if you know this or not. Wait, what? No, I was, I worked at a grocery store. What? Yeah, I was in a grocery business.

Like, as an employee? Yeah, no, I worked in Florida. Uh-huh. I lived in Florida. I worked for Win Dixie. What? The chain? Not a moment.

Yeah, yeah, no, not a mom in Potschow? No, it was family-owned at the time. It was family-owned at the time, yes. And I clocked in there. That's the last time. I clocked in a hundred years ago. McDonald's, that was my last clocking job. That's where I learned how to manipulate the time clock, though.

Yes, you've talked to. about that you've talked about it. You can manipulate the time clock. So you punch in three minutes before you start. And you punch out eight minutes after you're supposed to leave. So that's a total of 11 minutes, which is a quarter of an hour. So by the end of the week, at that time, you could only work 40 hours a week. All right.

So Wednesday was, it was Thursday through Wednesday was your work week. Don't, I was. Dude, you remember that. That is legit. That was Wednesday's work week. And Wednesday, you worked until your 40 was up, and then you're out. Okay. And so you always wanted to snag those extra quarter hours during the week.

So you could get as close as you can. So Wednesday, Wednesday was less time before you hit the 40. And then you're out. And then you're out, got to go. No problem. And so, I mean, that was the last time I clocked in, though. I don't even, and then after that, every other job was just work until the job is done. completed.

Which, I don't know if you know this, but working for the blaze and working for a guy by the name of a, there's a radio show here. What's his name?

Stu? No, Pat. Oh, good Lord. I'm not working for either one of those two people ever. Keith? Goalant. Working for Glenn Beck. Oh, Glenn.

Golland. You really don't. He has a national. Times don't really. No way. You're not done working ever. Wait, are you sure? There's three o'clock, you know, three in the morning emails.

Yeah. Is that when you start working? Yeah. And the sad thing is that a lot of times you get those emails and then you're up, so you might as well just reply. True. Yeah. And you just started a conversation.

Right. I got you. Oh, you're up too. Yeah. Okay. Not really. I mean, I just happened to we have to go on the bathroom when I heard the email come through and just figured I'd reply.

I'm not really. Now I'm awake. Thanks. Appreciate it. My day started. So some companies give you nap time. We get this year. I kind of like that.

Yeah. Any company where you work until the job is done, you get nap time. You do. I mean, if there's a time. The ones that they're talking about is where they build nap little cubicles. That is the coolest thing in the world. Well, those are almost the cry rooms, sad. We could cry in there too, but you could do other things because it's completely enclosed,

but they're meant to be for napping. It's when you go in their nap. Wait, you could do other things in there? You could do other things in there, yes. Huh. Weird. And it's usually one per pod. Okay.

I don't know if they have special fat guy pods, though. Oh, they do? They're pretty big. They're pretty big. They are? Yes. They're not in a pod? So a company at NASA, Samsung, Google, Huffington Post, all have nap pods.

You tell me all the millennials work for those companies? Yes. Yes. Student loan repayment programs. That's pretty cool, though. I think that's like Starbucks. That's pretty cool. First Republic Bank, Penguin Random House, Peloton.

Peloton. Under fire. Don't talk about that. Honeywell, they all want to help their employees pay off their student debt. Reproductive egg freezing. That is really interesting. I didn't know that was a thing. Apple, Uber, Alphabet, Yahoo, and Microsoft.

Oh, I'm sorry, Jiffie. I forgot. Those are a boomer company. Cover at least some of the cost for employees who choose to freeze their reproductive eggs. I feel that's sexist because what if I want to freeze my eggs? Oh, wait, I don't have eggs. So where's my money? Facebook was the first company to start covering egg freezing.

Of course, yeah. They're trying to control the world. And do you own those? Right. Do you own those eggs? Or does Facebook or own them? If Facebook is paying for that, do you own them? No way.

I don't think so. Alphabet owns those. Absolutely. Paid fraternity leave? That's old school, really. That is old school, yeah. Although a lot of people will give you the time off, but they don't pay you for it. True, true.

You're the one that wanted to have the kid. Absolutely. And I'm sorry, why am I paying for that? And now they're letting fathers get it off. Yes. That was never the case with Jeff Fisher. I'll guarantee you that. I worked.

Well, you were there while your wife was still giving birth. Yeah, I was there for the kids to be born, and then I went to work. You went to work, yeah. What am I supposed to do, hang? out? Yes. No. Oh, really?

She just pushed a baby out of her saying. She thought that too, but no. I think if I remember the story correctly, everybody in the Raiders studio thought that you had to go back and be with your wife that push a kid out of her hoo-ha. They were a bit surprised that I showed up.

They were surprised. Remember, you tell me the story. I did, yeah. Yeah, it was funny. It was funny, at least to them. not for the wife It was actually funny Expanded parental programs

Including money toward adoption I like that That's a pretty cool idea Now who owns a kid Does the company own the kid? Estee Lauder began an expansion of his family related benefit package 20 weeks of paid parental leave

Regardless of sex, gender or sexual orientation Ugh Seek $10,000 toward the product Oh stop it SDALot gives you 20 grand for fertility treatments? Wow.

In-home backup child care and elder care. Oh, wait. I like that. A paid gender reassignment surgery. That one pisses me off. Oh, you're okay with adoption. But they can't pay for gender reassignment. No.

If I go to work for IBM, Goldman Stack, Starbucks, they'll give me a, they'll give me a hundred thousand. Cover. They offer to cover. Employee gender reassignment surgery. I mean, you might think twice about it, right? If I go to work for Starbucks and I think, I want to be a girl.

That's going to cost me $125,000. Can I have that money, please? Yes. And then you're going to go to cruise surgery. And we're going to make your girl. I forgot to go to the surgery. I forgot. But I just took the cash.

Free food. Major company. Yeah, I know, Facebook, Twitter, Dropbox. There's like a snacks thing over there. There's, like, always free food in there. I just grab a potato chips when I come in and a sneakers when I leave. I don't think those are supposed to be free, though. Oh.

There's a paid, there's a little computer there you're supposed to pay for it. Oh, I thought that was like, if you want to watch TV while you're eating your snack, you can just put your Disney Plus, you know, login and then you can just watch. That's expected to do that. We actually... You tried or did you? Yeah, they did it here for a while. Oh, yeah, you did.

Yeah. And now it's not free. I don't know if you know that or not. Apparently you don't. There's a cook in the building and he cooks. He does. So it does cook. Extended bereavement leave.

What is that? Someone passed away. I have to take time off. Eh. I can see that being useful. 20. I said but. 20 days to greet the death of an immediate family member.

10 days for extended family members. So that's anybody. So my neighbor died. Anyone. My neighbor died. Actually, my neighbor is my great aunt. I need 10 days off. I mean, come on.

I can see people milking that. My neighbor died. No. My neighbor died. I'm so sorry. We were so close. He used to mow my lawn. Now he's gone.

We're all brothers. We're sad. In Christ. So. What? Stop it. I went to church last night. Fitness at work.

Oh, they do have that here. Yeah, I know. They have that here. They give you money back, right, with the insurance. If you go to the gym. Or you can just go upstairs and do the little. Oh, yeah, they have the thing. The thing.

The thing. Yeah. It gives you, like, puts you in a circle and then you go around. I did it. When they first brought it in, I did it when the guys were here. Yeah, then you kept going, right? Of course. But I'm doing it.

You can tell. Absolutely. You can tell. That's six-pack here. I mean, right now I'm looking. more like a keg, but I'm working up to a six-pack or down, whatever, how that's supposed to go. But personal care on site, I'm a fan of that.

I like that. I'm a fan of that. I want a sous. I want haircuts. I want a foot rub. I want a henny. Just get a girlfriend for your nap pod. See, but the nap pot is only for one person at a time.

See, I think if you think that the food here is free, you're guessing that the nap pot isn't for one person. I'm a fan of the personal care on site, though. It's a good idea. That's a good idea. At least I'm a sous. Free housing? Wait a second.

Full-time employees. Facebook offers a housing or monthly housing stipend to its interns. Well, that's just because no one can afford to live there. And they're not paying those interns. So if they say, hey, we'll throw you a dorm. We'll give you a stipend and you're going to have to live, I don't know, in Oregon and then drive into the Facebook complex here in Congress. We'll give you a pod.

We'll give you a Tesla car. It drives you back and forth. College tuition reimbursement. A lot of companies do that. Remote work. A lot of companies do that. I mean, today's world. Today's world, everybody's working from home.

Game breaks. Hello. We do that here. I was playing bricks and balls just now. No, but what they're talking about is having games. Like we've got the, we've got the game here. Yeah. But they have basketball courts, rock walls, shuffleboard, ping pong, foosball.

I should bring my ping pong. table just so that there's a ping pong table here. We used to have, what's that thing, Cornhole? We used to have cornhole here, remember that? Yeah, yeah. Two years ago? Yeah, the big one. Yeah.

You used to make this big Latin noise in the hallway. Dunk. Didn't we have the big bowling, the human bowling too? That was for, we had the bowling people here. That was for Glenn's special that he made. Oh. When he recorded his TV special, they had the big bowling thing on as part of the show. So we had the pins and the bowling ball.

So people would be people in the pins. And then there was a person in the giant ball, and you would roll it and try to knock over the pins. No. Like the nap pods, the ball is not necessarily made for extra large fitting. So it was a tight squeeze. Tight squeeze to get in the ball.

I attempted it, though. sleek office spaces. I mean, okay, so well, you got a great place, look out the window. Compliment Disney gives you

complimentary admission to the parks if you work there. Any Disney employee gets that. And Disney is a huge company. I mean, they own more than just the parks. I'll tell you that, which we're going to find out about

a little bit later because I'm going to talk to the guy that created the one day at Disney, which is part of the Disney Plus. Just probably Disney Plus. You got some Disney Plus insideer? I do. I got a Disney Plus insider

to chewing the fat. I know. I know. You're moving up in the world. Well, I'm so happy for you. They were pissed that I don't have it yet. Wait,

I'm a founder. Hold on a founder circle member and I don't have this insider coming to me. All I know is they were pissed. I didn't have it. So they wanted to send me somebody to talk about how good it would be. And I said, just to piss Chris Cruz off as his little founder's circle member,

yes, I will interview that person. One Day at Disney. You think to yourself, one day at Disney, what does that mean? $10,000. No, cheaper than that. You could do a day at Disney for cheaper than $10,000. And especially you can do it cheaper with the new book,

Meet the People Who Make the Magic Across the Globe One Day at Disney. Brought to you by Bruce Steele. Bruce, a day at Disney, one of the things that I wanted to discuss with you is that it talks about it ended 40 hours later. So Disney's now stretching 24 hours into 40. I like that. That's some of the Disney magic. Well, yeah.

If you start the day as we did at Tokyo Disneyland, when it's still the day before in the United States, you can go all the way around the world, and we ended the day in Hawaii about 40 hours later. I love that. I love that very much. Before we get into what the book is bringing you, what gave you the idea for this?

Well, Disney brought the idea to me. They'd been working on it for three years before I got involved. Wow. And as you can imagine, the logistics of trying to make all of this happen, especially to have 76 photo shoots on one day in places all around the world. It took a team of dozens of people to put this together. That's fascinating that you did. it all in one day.

Actually, you talk about it took teams all over the world. How many people did it take? Well, if you look in the back of the book, there are credits to all the people who contributed and there's more than 100 listed, and I'm sure not everyone who contributed is listed. So I can't even imagine. My rough ballpark estimate would be two or three hundred. I mean, that's just amazing.

You know, my nephew works for Disney, and I was looking through. I don't think he participated in here one day at Disney. I'm a little disappointed. But he gives VIP tours for the theme parks. And it says, you know, as it talks about how cast members will tell you at Disney job is less a destination than a limitless journey. He believes that wholeheartedly. I mean, he just, he loves working for Disney. Now, you started out, I love the chapters.

You know, you did the timeline around the globe for Disney. You know, a lot of people think Disney is parks and the mouse, right? I mean, you think that's what Disney is. But really, Disney is so much more in today's world. You know, you're looking at, you know, films, television, sports. I mean, it's an amazing day at Disney. It was. I mean, because it's not just the theme parks.

We watch every theme park. And, you know, there are theme parks in Tokyo and Shanghai and Hong Kong and Paris and, of course, the United States. But also we're talking about all the people. Pixar and Marvel and Lucasfilm and ABC and ESPN and Disney books and Disney on Broadway and Disney Adventures by Disney. So yeah, Disney is everywhere and all on. It is a Disney world. Bruce Steele, author of One Day at Disney, is joining us here on Chewing the Fat. Bruce, one of the things that as you go through this, you're meeting all these different people,

that participate in a day-to-day survival at Disney. And you talk about people who working on the Disneyland Railroad, people who are construction workers and who've worked there for 50 years, and people have worked there for a year, and yet they're still part of the Disney world. As you edited all this and put this all together, did you find anyone that you thought, wow, that represents Disney the most?

I don't think one person can represent Disney the most. then there wasn't a tiger or the security guard. I don't think that's possible. I think in terms of the spirit of Disney, I like to go back to a story of a young actress who's working in the Finding Nemo the musical, which is a live stage show at Animal Kingdom in Florida. And she had this most amazing experience

that I can't even recount to you because I will break down into tears with her mother, who was back. battling cancer at the time when Katie, the actress, was a teenager, and they went to Disney, I think they went to Disney World, and they had just this most amazing experience, and it made Katie want to work for Disney so bad, and she's an actress, and she's worked on the cruise ships, and she's worked on stage, and now she does this show with the Finding Nemo puppets. Right.

And it sort of encapsulates everything about Disney, the sense of family, the sense of magic that you can't quite explain the storytelling, the performance, it's all there in her story. I mean, you get that from, it's funny, you say that because I was, I joked about the, the construction worker and the, you know, the plaster layer, but there's a story in there there about George Montana that, you know, he started working there in 1968, right? It's been 50 years, and he just, he started working there. He was asked to work there for three to six months, remembered going to Disney as a child, thought, yes, I want to be a part of it, and he just never left.

He's the only person that I talked to in the book who went to Disneyland in its second week of operation. He was there when the paint was barely dry on the castle, and now his most recent project was helping to refurbish the castle. He is in his name is Georgia Montana, as you mentioned. He was brought to Disney by his father and his brother worked there for a while. Yeah. And that is beloved of everyone who works at the Disney. parks because he is the best sculptor of rocks. He is a rock sculptor master, as well as being a master plasterer.

If you've ever been to the Disneyland theme park and been outside of Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and you look up and you see these amazing chimneys above Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, he designed and handcrafted each one of those chimneys. Nice. That's fantastic. Now, I will say that as much as I enjoy, you know, the plaster man, really the candy maker. Francesco Roman is probably my favorite person who works at Disney. So, yeah, I just want to break down and just let you know this is the candy maker. I'm a fan of. Oh, she was, she was so

tweet. I got to go visit her and see her on the job. And she was just, she's so honored to be in this book. And you would, you would think that she had just started at Disney yesterday. She's so enthusiastic about her job. And yet she's, she's been there for several years. And you talk about how people find their journey. She did not intend to be a candy maker when she started at Disney, but she worked in the gift shop next to the candy shop at the cash register, and she just watched these candy makers all day long and thought to herself, I can do that, and now she does it. Wow, I mean, that's amazing. So we have the book, one day at Disney, you know, meet the people who make the magic across the globe, but not only

do we have that, which is, I mean, a Christmas gift in and of itself, you've created short stories with each of these people and also a huge full-length documentary that is going on on Disney Plus, correct? That's right. You can turn on your Disney Plus streaming service today and watch a one-hour documentary called the same as the book One Day at Disney that includes 10 different as we call them cast members in that

originally in that first one-hour installment. And then what we're going to do is We're going to have five to eight-minute individual short documentaries on one on each cast member in the book for the next 52 weeks. I mean, that's fascinating. I'm sure that that was a lot of fun to put together. You know, it talks a little bit about just to take a side trip away from Disney for just a little bit. You know, it talks about you living in one of my favorite cities in America, Asheville, North Carolina. And how you, one of your pieces that you worked on was the chefs at the Biltmore. Are you still friends?

I mean, be able to stop in at the Biltmore whenever you want and dive in, or you have to, you know, make an appointment? Well, I have my ways. Yeah. I tend to drop by Biltmore with some frequency. I was just there recently to look at their Downton Abbey exhibit, which is amazing. Oh, yeah. I love that place.

I mean, I lived in Los Angeles. I had the silver pass because my husband was the animator for Disney, and we went to Disneyland all the time. So now we live in Asheville, North Carolina. So you've got to have the season pass to the Biltmore estate, which is essentially the Disneyland of Asheville, North Carolina. So what's next? What's next?

You've worked on this project had to, you know, took some time, and you're out promoting it now. What's the secret project you're working on right now? Well, if I told you, it wouldn't be a secret, would it? That's just between you and me, Bruce. Don't worry about it. No, I'm talking to various people about various. projects and none of them are at to the point where I can talk about them with you.

That hurts, Bruce. That hurts. Bruce Steele, author of One Day at Disney, and of course you can get the book anywhere. Books are available. And Disney Plus is airing the full-length documentary, and they're also airing signal shorts, releasing them on Disney Plus. One Day at Disney, Bruce Steele, thank you very much for joining us on Chewing the Fat. I appreciate it very much.

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It's not. Look at your stupid face right now. What do you mean? I got... Yeah. I'm just thinking about job perks. I still. Yeah, I know.

We started off with the, with the best job perks that millennials have. Yeah, because no one's hot boomers. But then I got into the weirdest job perks. And I was thinking, well, I've heard of these too. I'm not sure what the best or the weird or the,

I think the weird are better than the best. I believe again, you're right. I mean you have a cryo preservation Disney I'm a fan yeah I mean a lot of people think Hitler and Disney are part of that

and Jeffrey you have egg freezing which we talked about yeah everybody likes the egg freezing see that's not sexist yeah egg freezing why do you want to what I want that we don't have is not even and I don't think it's on this list

either careful why you're looking at me like that we just talk about egg freezing and then that gave you a segue to say a Jeffie I and I'm scared, but hey, it's your show. Let's see if it's on the list. Okay, all right.

Let's see about it on the list. Okay. Vacation roulette. That is upsetting. Okay, so one company, what they do is do you bring the employees one day a week, everybody brings luggage to work. That is so sad, dude. And then they choose four to go on a weekend of Vegas.

And what happened to the rest of them? You just take your luggage back home. Right. That is so sad, dude. I think you just have a ready bag. at the office, right? Go to bag, yeah. And you're not bringing a suitcase.

Sorry, just to carry it. Hold on, wait a minute. It depends. If I'm the boss, I want to see everybody's face be ugly with suitcase and, oh, you did not get picked today. I feel sorry. I haven't been picked since I've worked here. Just sit down and shut up.

It's called roulette for a reason. No kidding. Luck of the draw. They just happen to be the best employees that we have here this week and always. It will suck if it's like. you. Right. It will definitely suck.

I hope they take names out of the people that already went. See? No, they can't, right? No way. They can. It's roulette. You just have to. Everybody brings their luggage in and you get picked to get picked.

Oh, you have to do this bribe purpose. That would stink. The wheel of Vegas, baby. Spint the wheel. Jenny, your fourth time this year. Yes. Wasn't it you in my office yesterday? Funny how that happened.

Go ahead. Human guinea pigs. Human guinea pigs is a weird job book. Human giving pigs. Well, many companies let employees use services to buy products free of the discount. Amazon going above and beyond. Secret and special projects in the work.

Amazon employees get to act as guinea pigs and try them out before the general public. It's a good perk. That's a good perk. Amazon's Go store, which has no lines or cashiers. open to employees or several months not much like Amazon's new fresh pickup locations. That's a good perk. So they're doing some testing on you.

Well, you get to try new stuff. Which is amazing. You know, because the new stuff's probably like bougie sauce and all that kind of weird stuff that nobody likes. It's not food. Yeah. You're going to the store. That's what it is.

The Go store. Yay days. I mean, I hate you today and yesterday. Really? That's a shame. If you love the outdoors, you probably like working for RRII. Oh, my wife would like to do this.

Arii, she's an RIA fan, man. What is RRII? Is it photography or tattooing? Or the spandex that she's pushing now? Sporting. Outdoors. Outdoors. Recreation.

Oh, so the voice cats of America. Naked Fridays. That, I'm a fan. Naked Fridays. Imagine this office right now. We have one, two. three, four, five. It's a morale boosting concept.

Oh, yes, it is. Susie? How do you come to Friday? And who's naked? I'll tell you that. Well, you don't want to see Marge. Uh, in accounting. Well, I do want to see Susie.

You want to see Marge once, right? True. True. But I do want to see Susie at, you know, over there at sales. So, uh, it's designed, of course, to strip away inhibitions and talk to each other more openly and honestly. And have to take my clothes off for that? Right.

Right. Oh, yeah. Working out this new show. And so what do you think? Wait, what? Chuck is just me and you here. Why are you naked? It's naked Friday.

No, it's Thursday. It's only Thursday today. Oh, oh, damn. I thought it was Friday. No, put your clothes back on. Put your clothes back on. I mean, no. No, that's not a good one.

That's not a good perk. Again, it also depends what company you're working for. Like, if I'm working for Victoria's Secret, naked Friday sounds great. No, because the models aren't wandering around the Victoria's Secret's office. That's a common misconception. No, no, no, Jesse. No, they still have Marge in accounting.

Yes, they do. Yes, they do. Don't bug me that with facts, okay? I got to see the Walmart employees naked on Friday. That's not something I want to go see I think I do Okay maybe one and then that's it Not every Friday

I do This Friday This Friday the Fort Worth Walmart Naked Friday Next week Armadillo Walmart Naked Friday Just all of Texas

Oh nice Rotate Naked roulette Naked roulette for Walmart Look at you combining all this perks Right Thank you What a great place to work

Walmart When you could get picked To be naked And serve your customers On a Friday Tell me you wouldn't shop there. Absolutely. Go ahead and tell me.

Absolutely. Yeah, you would. And you're right. We'd like to see March at least once. Yes. They have a company beer. Big deal. Parades.

Get paid to walk. Parades. Why do you want? What would you do with the parade? They're a parade for the employees. The company has costume parties. We have those. Today's,

uh, in today's uh oh no face paint world yeah we can't do that no do what costume just don't come as black face don't do that you can't come as a black face you can't come as indian oh yeah red man yeah i mean what what are you coming as a whitey that's why you just have naked friday no back to naked friday just naked yes costume it's not a costume birthday costume you show up naked yeah yeah uh number 10 are the riding bikes to work walk to work. They're trying to get me to exercise.

I don't think that's what they're trying to do. They're trying to save the planet. That one is all they're doing. That's all they're doing. It's all they're doing. What are you doing? Carbon footprint, baby. No, they're trying to give me an exercise.

Okay, all right. Number 10, orgies. Yeah. Is that the same company that's naked Fridays? Oh, yeah. One of the things we like to do here at CTF. This German insurance company.

What do the Germans always have fun? Seriously. Don't they have like the Relight District 2 and the prostitute robots and like, what the hell? Company rewarded its employees with an orgy at a thermal bathhouse. Oh, yeah. A thermal bass house in Budapest. Ah, hello. A hundred guests, 20 prostitutes.

Wait, hold on. That's not an orgy. I just want to be clear about that. That is. Look at the numbers. 120, I mean 120, and the 20 is less than 100, so everybody has to share more than one girl.

And guests were encouraged to disappear with the women and do whatever they like. Oh, yeah. That's not an orgy. That's false advertising. That's just providing prostitutes for employees, big deal. Again, like I said, there's 100 people, employees. That's not an orgy.

20 prostitute. So you tell me that one person... Look up the definition of an orgy. Look it up right now. Educational Thursday on chewing the fat. The meaning of orgy. O-R-G-I-E. Plural S.

Or it's O-R-G-Y. I got it. A social gathering on restrained, indulgence, especially sexual activity, and drinking. A social gathering unrestrained indulgence. Unrestrained indulgence. Especially sexual activity.

Especially sexual activity of drinking, yeah. Okay. So that was a what, Jeffrey? It's not. Let me just tell me, I'll say this to you. 100 guests and 20 prostitutes. Am I going to the German insurance company party in Budapest? Yes.

Do I consider? consider that an orgy? No. So, we have a difference of opinion on what an orgy is. Plus, in today's world, nope,

not gonna say that. Nope. Download and subscribe to more content. I forgot to tell you what I wanted. At the bleas.com slash podcast. Darned it. Oh, it's the show's over.

Darn it. Okay, so what I really want. As a perk. So tell me what you really want. I'll tell you what you really want. I'll tell you what. I want to really want. I want to what.

I want to what? Spice Girls, baby. best move in the world. Is, I want to have a barrack chamber. I want an oxygen therapy. I think we talk about this off air. I want a tank. I do.

I want a barrack chamber. I want one bad. Is that the one that guy from Texas has? And he says he's going to live up to like 2,000 years old. Yeah, he has one of those. He has one of those. Okay. That's what we talked about it.

Yeah. But I, yeah, I want one. What is it supposed to do to your body? Helps you heal, makes you stronger. That's what your father-in-law did, right? Yes. Okay. But he's in the bigger one.

Yeah. I just want a personal one. The one that's not supposed to be, you know, for one person. People just come and go and use it as they needed. You just want to be selfish and just have one for yourself. Correct. Yes. That's what I want.

I don't want. I want to stick around with Fred and Joe who have a wound to heal up? No? So is that all supposed to be heal you? wounds and works and it works for him seriously works great that's the only health benefits from it heal you wounds no he's out jogging 10 miles a day now and feeling pretty good got a new girlfriend she's 18 hello yeah you know he does have the hair oxygen therapy's working out great man he does have the hair for for him to pull at 18

your girl that's what I'm saying so another perk no this is not a perk this is a sad story actually because we have sad music duck has been traumatized. Yes. Stop crying. Hold it tears. It's upsetting. Dave, the owner of the duck.

Can anyone really own a duck? I don't think so. That's the last question right there. But we'll say that this for now the case, Dave, who owned the duck, couldn't put up with him anymore because he was an infomaniac duck. What? Yeah, I know. You don't need sad music for that.

Yeah. You need... Oh, yeah. Dora, Edith and Freda. You three ducks. Proto. Get over here. I'm going to have sex with you five to ten times a day, even when it's not mating season.

Because my whole mating season clock is off. I don't know what's going on, but I just want to have duck sex. And so, I mean, he just went crazy, right? He was just out of his mind. And his... Well, do you know, is that something that you qualify as being out of your mind? Yes, especially when you get to the point where you're traumatizing your part. Your organ.

Ouch. You ain't lying. Ouch. It ain't lying. Now, look. In humans... I don't want to go there. No.

I saw it coming, but no. No. Just skip it. Keep on the story. Unfortunately. for the male duck he paid the ultimate price and it was

so traumatized that it had to be removed. Ouch. The duck was the duck is now quacking his ass off. Mad because he finally it's over. So now he's just running around

like a dog. Hump in the air. I'm crying. I'm crying for the poor duck. Really I am. That's sad. I love the pictures that they put for the duck. That duck did not look like he was having sex five to ten times a day.

What does the duck supposed to look like? Daffy Duck. What is the duck supposed to look like? What does the duck do to make himself look like he's having sex ten times a day? Missing some feathers, some scratches, some twitchiness. Maybe the people that he's, maybe the other ducks that he's having sex with, the other three, what are their names again? Maria Pinta, Santa Maria. Dora, Edith, and Frieda.

Oh, okay, sorry. Now this duck, his name was, and this is a genius. Oh, is it? Yeah. Dave. I'm sorry? Dave. But what was the owner's name? Dave the duck.

Stop it. Dave the duck. No wonder, he's like, please. He's going to go until they kill me. Right, please. Somebody, if I just keep doing it. somebody's going to put a bullet in my head and end. Oh, that backfire quickly.

He just remove his penis now. Right? Can't somebody put a bullet in me? Please. No, not that. No, the bullet. The bullet is what I want. The bullet.

That's what the duck is asking for as a bullet. And yet, Josh Watson, Dave's owner, is not ending it. As a human, wouldn't you ask to be? PETA. Where's PETA? Where's PETA? I have a feeling that

Pete is going to be for this. Oh, really? Yeah, because Dave is still alive. Oh, yeah, they do want the animal alive. Never mind. Where's feet? Now, I realize that they're, you know, they would fight to keep the duck genitalia. Where in the freaking jar?

It's dead. They would just try to medicate Dave down a little bit. Calm him down. Which, by the way, Chris, the city next to you, he pointed out a very interesting fact about the ducks. They've got a weird dong. Have you seen a... All right. Thanks for listening.

chewing the fat today. We're not going into zoo talk and animal talk. You know, seriously, all animals have, you know, I'm not going to, I don't want to go there either. No, come on, just saying, I don't want to go there. He's good. I will say that there were times.

Aren't you a zoologist? I am. Okay. I am. There were, there are times during my, during my studies to become a zoologist. Okay. That you notice the difference in animals, stuff.

You don't be great for this. 40 acres and a fool. He'll be great for this. Woody? Yes, he has ducks, sheep's. And he's closer to the zoologist than you are.

Do you have animals in your backyard? Yes. Not your kids or your wife. Yes. Oh, you do? Yeah. I'll take it back. Yeah.

Yeah, what else you got? Okay, sure, there's they're squirrels and they come and go as they please, but there's animals in my back there. squirrels? They are. There's a couple squirrels.

There's one squirrel. Climbs on the top of the fence that I have. That squirrel, nobody's messed with that squirrel for years. That fence is like 20 feet high. That's legit. I love your fence. Have you taken a picture of your fence? That's legit.

You should take a picture of fence because that's like Donald Trump fence. I think that's the fence that Trump wants. And that's why the squirrel is up on top of it's got the squirrel. He's like 800 pounds. He's up there smoking cigarettes going, nobody's messing with me. I don't even have to worry about burying my nuts. Okay, okay. I'll tell you what.

Since we don't have a way, I'm not going to go into the professional studio yet to record Candle in the Wind. I mean, that's coming. We've booked the time. No, I'm just kidding. We really haven't, but we booked the time. I'm going to give it to you.

All right. I'll give you my practice run through of my production of Candle in the Wind on behalf of Prince Andrew. From me to you. Goodbye, Andrew, the prince. Though I never knew you at all.

You have the grace to hide. yourself when those around you posed. They crawled out of the airplane and they whispered into your brain. Andrew, she's just 17, but you don't have to say. And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind. Never knowing who to cling to when the plane came in. I would have liked to know you, but I wasn't dating. kids your candle burned out long before Epstein sold you out life was tough tough as role you ever played

queen Liz made you royalty pain was the price you paid and even though you're still alive or the press they're hounding you all the papers have to say is that Andrew was seen in the new and it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind never knowing who to cling to when the plane came in and I would have liked to know you but I wasn't dating kids your candle burned out long before Epstein sold you out Goodbye Andrew the Prince, though I never knew you at all you had the grace to hide yourself When those around your pose

Her goodbye and drew the prince from the young man way across the pond Who sees you more than sexual more than just the Prince and Jus Lane's book And it seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind never knowing who to cling to when the plane came in and I would have liked

to know you but I wasn't dating kids your candle burned out long before Epstein sold you out your candle burned out long before Epstein sold you out

Maybe we'll do it again. I don't know. That sounded all right.