Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 276 | Bed Bugs in Walmart?, Most Sick States in The US, & How to Be a Mindful Drinker | Guest: Laura Willoughby

Episode Date: January 7, 2020

As we start the new year you might have some goals and Jeffy wants to help you by introducing you to Club Soda. Laura Willoughby has a new book called "How to Be a Mindful Drinker" and she wants you to live a healthy life without alcohol. Then we get in the stories of the day like bed bugs eating a kid in Walmart (Well that's the CTF conclusion after reading the entire story). And if you live in Florida you might want to lock your doors because the sucking toe bandit is ON THE RUN!   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. All right, a new form of terrorism is now, well, I don't want to say sweeping across the country because it's only one report. But it will be sweeping across the country. So be on the lookout. No, I'm not talking about anthrax. No, not that type of terrorism. What I'm talking about is people are now putting bottles of bedbugs in clothes at Walmart. I mean, do you want bedbugs coming home with you or in clothes that you buy?

No? No. No, the answer is no. I mean, no. The answer is no. I certainly don't. I mean, I told you about my one guy that got me hooked on what to do at hotels. Check into the hotel.

What do you do? You rip all the sheets, all the bedding, all the pillows off the bed. You look for bedbugs. And then you make them come and bring you. Cleaned, all new. But I thought bedbox you couldn't see with your naked eye. No, you can. On the mattresses, the corner mattresses you see.

You can't see them. Yes, they're invisible. No. Like too tiny for you to see. Maybe in Puerto Rico. I don't know. I don't know about Puerto Rico. Speaking of Puerto Rico, do you see the second earthquake?

They hit Puerto Rico yesterday. It was a big one. Over a six. I know. Dude, I think they're done. I think Puerto Rico is no longer there. Oh, no. Oh, no.

Dry your eyes. We lost Puerto Rico. Right? Sad news today. Puerto Rico. Dead. I'm serious about these two in bed bucks. Authorities are on it, though. Behind ketchup police?

No, that's not back on that to this right away. So, they found a pill bottle in a jacket. How do you know it was a pill bottle? This is what the story said. It was a pill bottle. Okay? A bottle that normally houses pills was found in a jacket for a little kid that had full of bedbugs.

How do you capture that? Do you like lay out traps? Like you let rat traps? Yes, you feed them. They come right to you. You can train them. You remember I've been to a bedbug circus? They jump around.

I've been to a flea circus. Yeah, well, it's almost the same thing. Oh, okay. Almost the same thing. So the store phones a pest control company And then Two days after the initial incident A second pill bottle

Containing dead bedbugs Was discovered in men's clothing department Oh no, I forgot to poke holes So like now This is where This is this is where the Heinz Catcher Police May have been better Oh okay

Because authorities believe That the bedbugs were deliberately released into the store seriously you think they just showed up are you sure they did not put themselves in a pill bottle let's go to Walmart they've got a lot of clothes we could

really breathe there thanks officer do they eat the clothes or do they what do they they lay their eggs but what do bed bugs do bed bugs do?

Because we know like ticks and mosquitoes and fleas they're there to like suck you blood or suck whatever their whole is so what is bed bugs bed bugs prefer to eat humans they gobble them all up if you lay out of bed long enough of bed bugs you just nothing gone zip disappeared you never

hear people that see the people that yeah I have it I have it the people that they think that they why you laughing this is some serious matters though the other people that think that they just burned up they got so how they Oh, yeah. They were eaten by bedbugs, actually. That's what really happened. So it's like the same thing that a termite will do to a piece of wood, a bag bug. That's what bedbugs do to the humans.

They bite, they go on animals, dogs, cats, roads, all of it. But they prefer. This is why they breed on the beds. Eating the humans. Yep, right. What happened? Timmy? Maybe that's why they were in the kids section at Walmart because just eating kids.

And they thought it was cloth that was for six. Well, what it was was that they ate the human flesh. It was nothing left. The jacket was there. The jacket was there. The kid was that. Billy's gone. I think we broke something here, Jeffrey.

Called Walmart. Do you have Walmart's front number? Because yesterday you were pretty, you know, you had Oprah's phone number, and you had Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks. And then Jaze, Jizzle. Oh, right. Yeah?

Right. Jis Lane. Jis Lane. What are you? Don't. I know something with jizzle, man. It was not a rapper. She was with Jeffrey Epstein.

You don't know that. You don't know that. She may have rap for Jeffrey Epstein. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. A good jizzle of you. That's what happened. The jacket was not for sale.

It was not a Walmart jacket. It was Timmy's jacket. Yes. Timmy's gone. Timmy's gone. Oh, no. We lost somebody else today, too. It's a sad show already.

Get Walmart. Five minutes in. It was a sad show. It was a sad show. on the phone. We got to let them know. Get to Pennsylvania. It's the authorities. We've got to let them know what actually happened. Do you have your badge? At least we could tell him that it was done

an efficient investigation. I have my picture. Oh, yeah. You have your picture of the badge. Okay. The badge is at the house sitting at the table. What kind of? Plus, how long is we've done now? Oof. Maybe he forgot. Maybe he forgot.

That's the holidays. Yeah. And how long does it take to print something? Like what? Forever. Two weeks, right? Forever. Or three weeks? Maybe. Maybe four weeks. Six, seven, eight. I'm just...

Thank you, but we sent a redesign. We did it. We were told that that redesign would come. Yes, we did. I don't know that we ever put a time frame on that redesign. I guess we just assumed that redesign would be right on top of it.

So let's give them until February 14. That's a long time, man. It's a long time. Well, most of our people that are, listening live right now. Without possible approval. On the 7th of January, 2020. It is the 7th of January.

If you're listening live, I mean, that's, Valentine's Day is a, it's not that far away in relative terms, but it's a long way away in terms of me getting my badge. You need a badge. You redesigned badge. We were told how long ago that we were going to get it. Do you want me to go back to my records?

Because I text it this person. Yes. It's got to be at least. at least four weeks. It was the November 28th. Thank you. I mean, it was almost five. Over five.

So, I mean, maybe they lost power. Yeah, maybe. The printer, you know, the 3D printer was broken. Maybe, you know, they had to celebrate, you know, between. Oh, I know what happened. Oh, no. I know what happened. I'm going through his tweets.

and on December 27, he got his Simplsafe delivered. Oh, sweet. So he's a little distracted of putting the new SimpliSafe system up. I see some glass brake sensors,

a couple of cameras, a couple of sensors, a couple of room sensors. You can't be expected to get that up in a week or so. No, no, no. Forget about what Simplicit says that you can set it up quickly and by yourself.

You know, forget about that. But congratulations to him. Maybe he did get it up quickly, like Simply Safe, you know, said. And now he's just sitting back, you know, watching the cameras and posting videos on Instagram with people delivering stuff to his house, like a lot of other people do. Did you see my latest video, a set of videos?

Did you see my set of videos? So I've given up of them knocking on my door. So what is the next step Chris Cruz has to take? They've got to be able to set it. Oh, no, I did. They're delivered inside your garage now. They deliver inside my garage now. But do they, do you open it when they come up or they have access code, right?

They have access. They have a one-time access code that gets generated. For each delivery. For each delivery. Gotcha. And then they let me know when they're en route. Right. And then the app tells me your garage was open by Amazon and it was closed by Amazon.

So now. So now. My simply safe cameras, I go back and I see Homeboy put the package inside. Or Homegirl. There's been Homeboys all three deliveries. So that's why I said, oh boy, but it could be home girl. It could be. And I saw, you know.

But now I'm forcing them to take an extra step. Only cost me $20, but worth it. 20 bucks for the system to allow them come inside my house. Well, come inside my garage. And Amazon provides that. And Amazon provides that, yeah. I know, I know, I know, jeffy. I know.

I know it's, that'll be fine. It'll be fine. I don't worry about it. The world's oldest person just celebrated her 117th birthday. 170. She lives in Japan. I just started reading a new book, Immortality, Inc. We're going to talk to him.

I started reading it last night. It's fascinating. And we'll see, the first part is, you know, obviously setting it up and how he's figuring out, you know, who thinks they're going to be immortal and the life and how you get your life. But, I mean, we've been, I talked about the guy late last year, the billionaire here in Texas, you know, is doing all this stuff because he has, you know, he's in his late 30s, but that's his chronological age. But his real life age is four. So, I mean, by now, since I last did the story, he's wearing diapers. I mean, he's buying diaper

That's how young he is But I mean everybody wants to live forever But everybody's looking for the fountain of you What the hell is that? Is that your computer? A growing number of people are looking to go to extreme lengths To live forever, that's right, they are Wow, that's scary

That's almost like I was just talking about it And then The computer told you The computer said the same thing back to me it's a good thing I'm not letting Amazon get in my garage I'll tell you that okay Harvey Weinstein

I know don't look at me like that I know I know he's a dirt bag and he's on trial but day two today in the trial and he almost got thrown in jail Guilty! Guilty! Counting! Guilty! Right?

I mean he's threatened with jail from the judge. The judge is pissed Did he forget his ankle bracelet again? No, but I love the ankle bracelet story. That's just, that's a technicality. I love his attorney. You honor. The attorney wrote down a shoe is great, man, with the, with the ankle bracelet. Oh, sure. It was a, you know, it was like a bunch of times. I mean, it was more than I thought. I mean, it was a bunch of times he went out without that thing.

And of course, you can't remember to put it on every time. But she's like, that's a technique. he could be reached. Do we knew where he was all the time? That's just a technical thing. He was with the girls. He forgot to put it on. Stop it. Everybody knew where he was.

Oh, okay. They believed him. They believed him. That's a good attorney. Thank you. You want her, man. She is really good. Donna Rotano.

And she's the one. Kevin Spacey. She believes everybody deserves a lawyer. She says everyone deserves a defense. I think of me why I take these cases. I do believe we can be effective. Well, for him, she's being interviewed about Weinstein. The only reason to not take a case like this is all the things around it.

It's not the case. It's the backlash. And she's not a proponent of the Me Too movement. Good. I'm not a woman who has ever subscribed to it. I believe women are responsible for the choices they make. Oh. What?

Oh. The horror. I would love to talk to them. her. I'm sure she's a little busy right now, but she did give me a phone. No, she did. I ran into her. You did? The last time I was in New York,

because she's there from Chicago. Was that before? She's there from, she's, you know, she normally lives in Chicago. Yeah. But she's in New York now for Harvey. Is that before you got the phone number from jizzling or after? Well, I got the phone numbers from all of them about the same time. Oh, about the same time. Okay. And I said, hey, Donna,

you know, we hooked up. You only talked to me on chewing the fat. And she said, they'd call me any time. She gave me the number. And, I mean, if you want to call it, we can try to, I know, well, she's in, she's in court. She's in court right now. Yeah, she's busy. Well, no, it's lunchtime, though. They've already adjourned. This is about to be 2 o'clock

over there. So, they're done. Oh, through you're listening live to the podcast, 1-7-20-20. It's, you know, you know, as well as I do, that it's 1253 in the afternoon. Central time. Correct. And so they were there out to lunch. The court is on the eastern time. No, I don't. Thank you. The lunch is already done.

The lunch is already done. You don't know that. They go back. Yes, they do. The court goes back at 1 o'clock. Oh, are you running the court now? No, but I worked in the court system in the Eastern time. I swear.

I swear. I'm going to regret asking this question. I know I am. But why would the court system on East Coast time need the help of a guard at the gate? Because I was a certified bailiff. So this is after your gate duty? No, this is during the gate duties.

I certified myself as a bailiff. You know what? If I had to stand at that gate all day, I'd be doing something. I got to do something else, man. Hey, man, bailiffs are cool, man. Baylis are cool. That's a good gig. That's a good gig.

You work for the judge. Yeah. You'll mess around. And you don't mess. Nobody mess with the bailiff. I know. I know. I appreciate that out of the bailiffs, man.

That's a good gig. It's a lot of fun. Because whatever, I mean, the judge is the judge, right? And the judge looks at you. You ready? Okay, I'm ready. All right. Yeah, let's go.

Let's go. Now, you didn't have an opportunity to work with the Orgy judge. No, I did not. No, I did that. That's East Coast time, too. Do you know who I am? Do you know who I am? Oh, that's the other one?

That's another one. That's the New York judge that was screaming. Do you know who I am? Let me end. Yeah, no, but then there was a story about the Orgy judge that was having sex with everybody and the bailiffs. Oh. and the bailiff and a couple of attorneys.

Oh, you know, if you're bringing the bailiff in, I'm not sure bringing the attorneys. Go ahead and bring the attorneys in. Your Honor, can we see you in chambers? Oh, crap, is it that time again? Yes. I guess. Recess.

Yeah, empty the courtroom, bailiff empty the courtroom, and you guys don't need to bring any of your briefcases or anything. Don't worry about it. We're not going to need any of that. Come out back. So, anyway, he got almost thrown in jail because, so Harvey's in the courtroom, right? and they're going through the court cases

and Harvey's texting on his cell phone and then he's on a cell phone and the judge is like what are you doing? There's no cell phones in the courtroom so he turns over his cell phone oh yeah sorry sorry sorry the judge is like

I don't need you to say you're sorry I just need no cell phones in the courtroom okay and you don't want to go to jail right I mean you don't you don't want to and end this right now by just spending, you know, behind bars right now. And so Harvey's like, yeah, okay, so it gives the phone away. He's got another one.

He pulls out another phone. Oh, I thought you just met that phone. Oh, the judge was pissed. So, I mean, it's so fast. And I would love to be in the courtroom. I really wish we were able to view that had this. video of the courtroom in the case. It would be so good.

I would be watching it. I love those cases. But there's always been bad guys. I mean, there's always bad guys around. I was reading a story over the holidays that talked about this guy, Joseph Henry Loveless. So they find these remains in a cave.

Decades old case. these remains in a cave. All right. So in 1979, in these civil defense caves in Iowa, they found a head. And then in 91, they find the rest of his body. And now with DNA, they find out who he was.

They put two, I don't know that this was worth all of this, but it's kind of cool. They put 2,000 hours of genealogical research. And the officials say Loveless, this guy was an outlaw and a murderer. He was born in 1870 in Utah. All right. He murdered the Sarah Jane Scrigan's. His mother was from Massachusetts.

His father was from Indiana. He came to the territory with early pioneers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Mormons. At age 28, he married Harriet. in Salt Lake City they divorced in 1904 but divorce is still going on right you think that as a new thing the world is divorced no happened there too

so the wife files for divorce on grounds of desertion and failure to provide for her and their one daughter all right and they find this out because they you know we're looking at newspaper reports and so a year later he marries another woman

and he has four kids with her and so that he was arrested for bootlegging. He's arrested for bootlegging and he made escapes from jail. One of his escapes from jail sawed through the jail bars.

The newspaper reports say now the man, he changed his name a couple of times and got sent to jail and then broke out of jail. His daughter in one court case said that he's going into jail. Oh yeah. He said Papa never

stayed in jail very long. He'll soon be out. That's, okay, so then his wife, he murdered her with an axe. He's an axe murderer. And they don't even know how his remains ended up in the cave. So, I mean, that's what the Me Too movement wants to done with Harvey Weinstein right there. Just throw him in a cave. They want him killed and thrown in a cave. You know, they want

the fair trial and then have him hung. Wait. Is that the way it works? Yes. You have a fair trial, and then you hang him. I need to go to the break room, man. I am thirsty. I need a drink. Oh, and oh, that's a Coca-Cola, zero sugar.

It's a non-alcoholic drink. Oh, look who's at the break room. So it's the new year, and we are, you know, taking steps. Everyone wants to be better. Feel better about themselves. It's 2020, baby. the world. And so...

It's a new decade. Be bitter. Thank you. Thank you. Out of Airbus network, you're the person that knows that living a healthy life works. No, that's true. That's true.

That's why chewing the fat exists. Thank you. Thank you. And so you know, I noticed over the holidays and I stopped I actually stopped drinking alcohol long, you know, a long time ago. I don't even remember how long ago it's been now since I stopped drinking.

And I didn't stop because I thought I had a problem. I was just tired of being drunk. And every so often I feel like, man, I need a cold beer. And so I have one. And I maybe finish it, maybe not. I just needed that flavor, you know, that ice cold beer hit your throat feeling. That's so good. And then I'm done.

And I moved down. But some people have a difficult time with that. What? Yeah, I know. I was going to come as a surprise. Some people do. So I looked at a new book called How to Be a Mindful Drinker. And I thought, well, I thought I always was a mindful drinker.

You know, I tried to be nice when I was drunk. Are you a love drunk or are you like, get out of my face. I want to punch you. I'm a love drunk on beer. You start drinking whiskey. Yeah. What's your face? Yeah.

What did you just say? All right. I hear you right. So apparently, I'm not, you know, there's people out there that need to cut down, take a break, or quit. And that is where

Laura Willoughby comes in with her How to Be a Mindful Drinker book. Hello, Laura Willby. How are you? I'm great, thank you. So what gave you the idea to try to help people become a mindful drinker? Well, it's really interesting because you talk about the fact that you were bored of being drunk. And I, that was the same for me.

I began to bore myself. I was a bit annoyed with the hangovers I was getting and the sapping away of my energy. I wanted to do a lot more with my life. I knew I was drinking too much, you know, it's not hard to drink too much where in a society was always trying to get us to drink lots so I gave up drinking

and when I did lots of people ask me how and you know you think you're the only one but really everybody secretly wants to know how you cut down or go alcohol free and so I set up Club Sodia as a response to that to support people to do a self-guided journey because most of us don't need face-to-face support

we're a bit of an idiot with drink and what we need is to be with other people get lots of advice, see that, you know, in the future, the sky hasn't fallen in if we don't drink, and to learn the skills and techniques we need to change our drinking. So that's where it all started from, from this lovely place of people sharing their experiences. And the book that you talk about is an amalgamation of all of that experience from our 50,000 members nationwide who have all changed their drinking. And some have cut down, some have taken a break, and lots have gotten alcohol free.

And your group is club soda, is that right? Yeah. And so you have 50,000 now in the group and, you know, growing every day. I was looking through your book and, you know, you start, you know, obviously you start at the beginning. And it really isn't the beginning for many people rock bottom, the rock bottom of just too drunk. Well, it wasn't, it wasn't rock bottom for you, was it? No, it was not. number of things that made you think, you know what, I'm going to knock this on the head.

And for most of us, it's a series of things. We might be, you know, wanting to be more productive. We might want to spend more time with our kids. We might just be tired of feeling tired of being hung over. Most people don't have a rock bottom. And so I want to share with people that you don't have to get to that position anyway, that you can begin to tackle your drinking habits. And this is a learning experience.

I'm really interested in your experience, actually, of, you know, occasionally you will have a drink and you try it and you're like, yeah, whatever. I mean, it isn't, yeah, whatever. It's, look, I, ever so often, I feel like I, I mean, that, an ice cold beer sounds so good. And once I get it, I'm good. I'm fine. I just, I needed that, I needed that, you know, that draft beer with a good head on it and just down it. and just down it, oh my gosh. And I realize there's so many jokes along with what I just said,

and I'm letting them go, Laura, just for you. But that's where I'm at. But I mean, that's where I'm at. I never felt like I was, you know, I had plenty of other addiction problems to deal with. Alcohol wasn't one of them, thankfully. So, you know, for me, yeah, I want to share with people that it is possible to change.

it's possible to moderate or go alcohol-free. But you need to know the types of life you want to lead and who you want to be and where alcohol fits into all of that. So a good period of reflection, thinking about that is really important. So I find if, you know, to get, if I wanted to go to get involved with the group at Club Soda, do I just go to your website? Yeah, go to joinclubsoda.com or find us on social at Join Club Soda. and you'll get information about the book and our podcasts and advice and tips in the community and a blog,

everything you need to change of drinking and be part of our tribe. So the tribe that once I get out of the tribe, I mean, I'm sure that there are plenty of people that are not, you know, as much of an idiot as me. And, you know, they fall off the wagon, and I'll call it a wagon. They want to stop drinking and they try to stop. And then they say, man, you know, a beer sounds good. And so they have a beer. And then the next thing, you know, it's, you know, they're 18 in.

And, you know, so do I need to go, you know, I go back to Club Soda, social or the website. And, you know, I say, hey, I screwed up. You know, just like anything else, you need to be able to take that step again, right? Instead of just falling off. Yeah, and definitely start. The quicker you pick yourself back up, the quicker. you will learn and move on. The more important is that, you know, you may have done a month, you may have done a few

weeks, and you don't have to dismiss that. You've learned a lot in that time. So I never see people slipping up as being a failure, but instead being a really important part of the learning process. Exactly the same as if you're on a diet or you're training for a marathon or any of those things. You know, if you aim for perfection, you'll never get there because I, you know, you're not perfect.

I have to tell you this, but, you know, none of us are perfect. And so it's important that you pick up, dust yourself down, get started again, and do that in the company of other people who totally understand that. What about if you're in, you know, I was pretty fortunate that my wife was not a drinker. You know, so I didn't have to worry about her drinking. But what if you're the one, you know, you're in a setting with husband and wife or boyfriend and girlfriend. and while they're not the enablers, they're still part of your life and your drinking life.

I mean, you really have to be able to set yourself, set your sights on making some pretty dramatic changes if you really want to stop drinking and still have those people around you, right? Yeah, and that can be really challenging. For some of us, our whole relationships are based on getting drunk together. And that's really difficult. if you decide to change your drinking.

But, you know, if somebody really loves you or cares about you as a friend, then actually be able to say to them, look, besides my house, I'm going to change my drinking. Not asking you to change yours, but I would really appreciate it if you could help me by helping me find a new favourite alcohol-free drinks that I can have when we're out together

and for you not to push me to have a drink. And if you've got a health goal, I'd love to help you in return. We like to help each other. And I think if you can put it in that way, where you're really clear what you need from that person in your life who's the closest to you, then that's a really helpful place to start. And, you know, you should be brave.

This is a choice that you're making for you. Nobody else can live your life. And I think it's really important that you take control of that for yourself. And that in itself is a really good process to go through. Laura, whether the author of How to Be a Mindful Drinker, Cut Down, Take a Break or Quit, But what makes the alcohol, how many people in your group that join club soda.com or on the socials of club soda? How many people really are saying, hey, I know you're struggling now, but, you know, look at what happens at the end. I mean, we've got to have some great success stories.

So, I mean, is everyone a success story? No, lots of people are still on the journey and they can be on that journey for quite a while, you know, doing big sprints, alcohol free, then drinking again and working it out and coming back again. It's not a linear journey and I think everyone takes a different lengths of time. So I wouldn't call those people not a success. I'd call them people who are still a work in progress. And, you know, this is difficult to do, right? If it was really easy, loads more people would do it.

You just have to see how many people say on a Saturday morning. and that's it, I'm never drinking again. So, you know, this is a difficult thing to do. Alcohol does affect your brain and it's really difficult to get rid of once you've been drinking quite a bit. So it's really important that people feel that they can stay in cup soda wherever they are in that journey

and learn from other people and know that other people's successes are somewhere that they can be as well. And so, you know, there are so many people who have done really well, but there are so many people still on the journey. and it's about being able to be nice to people without judgment and support them along the way, right? So did you ever think at one point when you decided to stop drinking in, a couple people, you know, asked you, hey, so how did you do it?

Or how you doing? What, man, I wish I could do that. When that first started, did you think that you would get together with Jesse Talvey and Drew Yeager and sit down and actually write a book and start a try? as you called it, the join club soda.com and go to the socials. I mean, how long has it been? How long has it been? So we've been going, we've been going five years now, and I never thought that this would be where we would be. But should I tell you a secret? I've not told anybody else this, right? Which is UC and Drew were my first sober dates. So basically, it's like a

hostage situation. They haven't got rid of me, but they've worked with me on this amazing project. And so we meet all sorts of amazing people along the way. And I've met. amazing people since changing my drinking and look where that's brought us all. I bet they wish I'd never got on a date with me now, right? But, you know, we meet, you know, you will meet great people along the way of changing your drinking and they will be friends for life.

That's fantastic. Laura Willoughby, thank you so much. Club soda, join ClubSoda.com. And you can get the book wherever books are available, how to be a mindful drinker, cut down, take a break or quit. find them on the socials. If you're looking to take that step and find that better you and start living your dream, your world dream, really is the American dream.

And sorry, Laura. And you can do that by getting the book, How to Be a Mindful Drinker. Thank you, Laura Willough. I appreciate you joining us. Thank you so much. So I didn't lie. I went back and I watched the 60 Minutes report on Jeffrey Epstein. Fascinating.

And now, special reporting from Jeffrey. Because when CTF reports, news happens. This is a special report from CTF News. Today, CBS News. That actually reported yes two days ago. Yeah, whatever. They reported it. They did a special thing on Jeffrey Epstein is what they did.

And I finally and I did watch the whole thing. thing because I was watching the Golden Globes. I apologize. I told you, I apologized. I went back and I watched it all. There's some, there's a, there's, I still think, and I love conspiracies more than anyone, and I would love to play along with the Jeffrey Epstein conspiracy just for the fun of it, but it feels like he killed himself.

You're pissing me off. Why? You literally piss him off. He killed himself. Everybody in this network has gone and said he did not kill himself and leave it to the one person that I thought I had already in my side say, no, he killed himself. No, he killed himself. He did.

Can I see your bank account? You know what? Yes. Here, let's hear all the chains fall out of this pocket. Oh, wait, there's none of that either. Yeah. Who paid you off? Seriously.

Who threatened you? I wish. Blink. Blink could be threatened. Okay. Oh, not that much blinking. No, not a wink. It was a blink.

Really? So you're there? You are... Look, I know it's... You know, sure it's possible was murder. There were some inconsistencies. Oh, you bogging me down with facts right now, dude. Is that even worth a segment on this program you call your show? Move on. Give me another show, because you're going to really piss me off. And I bet you're going to piss off 90% of our audience.

Because they came to you. To give them that cosign of Jeffrey Epstein not killing himself. I know. And you're literally about to make them kill themselves right now because you do not agree with them. No, I don't want to do that. Then you have to join the boat. I don't want to do that.

Look, the facts are in. Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. There's no way he killed himself. All right, this is no way. Look, most people hang themselves, maybe one, maybe two bones in the throat get broken, and not three. I mean, even about,

even the investigator, sure he was investigating for Epstein's brother. But he said he's looked at thousands of cases, never three. They took pictures of the cell

after he killed himself. They'd already moved the body, broke protocol. Didn't want you to see the body. They broke protocol. So there was just the cell. There were more than one news. There was a couple of nooses there.

The one news that they reported was the news, news that he hung himself with didn't have any blood on it and you see on his neck they showed the they showed Jeffrey Eppuccine laying there dead in the 60 minutes report really i mean it was i was like holy cow it didn't show i mean yeah i have pictures of him dead the autopsy reports and they show the they show the neck where he was you know strangled to death and it looks like some sort of cord or rope not a sheet but there's no blood on the sheet that's supposed to be the the news. Now, and they also, they said that his medicine was there. There was, he had a bunch of

sheets and, you know, you talk about, I love how he wasn't, he was supposed to have a cellmate and he didn't have a cellmate. Well, he didn't have a cellmate because the day before, the cellmate was released. It wasn't like they moved him out of the cell to make Jeffrey all by himself. He was released. But I digress. because I'm saying that all the evidence now is pointing toward Jeffrey killing himself and he did not kill him. So there's no way he killed himself. Now the one camera wasn't working, the one camera in what they call the shoe at the prison,

the way the floors are set up, shoots the whole cell so you'd be able to see who goes in and out of Epstein cell. And his cell was the first one inside the gate. You go up the stairs through the gate, and his cell is right there. And the guards were right, you know, their viewing station was down from there. Now, the guards were, you know, napping and searching online. We heard from an expert prisoner that that's not unusual, right? I mean, now the guards have all lawyered up.

They can't speak. The whole thing is underwrapped, so nobody can speak. Nobody can talk about the case. there were reports on X, the 60-minute report talked to a former prison head, a prison administrator who said that he would never have okayed to take him off of suicide watch. He said even though he would have gotten the paperwork and it said, hey, he's good enough, he's not going to kill himself. He can be taken off suicide watch because it was such a high-profile case and because, he felt that he needed to be, you know, he would have never, he would have over,

he would have overridden that report and said, no, but he needs to stay on suicide watch. So, you know, there were a number of inconsistency, and now the whole thing is part of, is shut down because everybody's lawyered up and everybody's investigating it. So let's be clear. All right, Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself.

Are you happy? Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself. You happy? I am. Okay. I looked at the pictures. Oof. I followed the sheep.

Baa. He looks bad. I know. He looks really bad. I know. I mean, that's amazing that a sheet will do that to your neck. And there was a cord in there, too. See, I don't think they tested the cord.

They showed like a radio or a heater or something he had in there. So there was an electrical cord. I mean, he had all kinds of ways to kill him. himself. So I'm not saying that that particular cord was used, that the wound around his neck looks like a cord. It's also the way he strangled himself is inconsistent with someone hanging themselves, someone hanging themselves the way he had to hang himself. So he would, you know, you'd put it on the bed and then you'd lead forward. And the sheet would pull up, right? Which is why only one bone usually gets broken.

You see the wound is way down. Way down below the Adams apple there. So there's no way he killed himself. I'm sorry. There, are you happy? Yes. You happy? All right, I went along with the crowd.

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You listening to me right now are a subscriber. You are not a freeloader. Or a loser. So I will not call you a loser. Okay. Hey, did you, if you woke up. Ooh, I like these kind of questions. Go for it.

If you woke up. Okay. And you were laying in your bed. Okay. Sound asleep. Okay. And you kind of wake up and you, oh, what's going on? Mm-hmm.

And there's a band at the end of your bed sucking your toes. Hey there, baby. How about you suck that big toe? Do you want some whipped cream? Whoa, whoa, no, stop, no. Oh, no. What are you talking about? No.

No. So you wake up and you go, hey, I got no money. What are you doing? trying to rob me and the guy says I'm not here to rob you and then continues so what happened in real life is the homeowner punches him in the face

oh come on man he's just trying to suck your toes he's just trying to suck your toes and what crime has been committed he managed to force the guy to get outside called 911 the toe sucker kicked the man's car

broke the windshield smashed a window in the house and then disappeared. We don't know where he is. Oh, you should just let him suck your toes. I just disappeared. Now, I'm not saying this could happen in any state, but pick a state. Let's say the United States of America.

You look at the entire map of the United States. This is the globe. This is the United States right here. And that's Florida right there, big thumb. Yeah. Right. Yes. Right.

Okay, so I don't have, I can put, you know, I can put this finger up here. This is Michigan. This is a little bigger, but. Why is Michigan bigger than the United States? Michigan's the same size as the United States. As a matter of fact, but it's a mitt.

But let's just forget Michigan. Yeah, just forget Michigan. This is the United States. Yes, yes, yes. Pick a state or something like that would happen. Texas. Florida. Thank you.

Wow. You are an idiot. I know. I can give you the right answer. I wanted to pick Texas. I got my hand up. I know he's going to pick Florida because it's such a strange, weird case. It's a Florida guy.

I know it's a Florida guy. So, Texas. Where's the fun of that? If I would have said Florida, don't make me wiggle by, I did wiggle you finger. It's like a hint. Rules stop.

People watching live are like, no, don't give him a hint. I'm like, no, pick this state, idiot. Okay,

thank you. You got it. What's the fun of that? We would have not done this if I would have said Florida. Am I right? So seriously, what would you do?

Because you're not, you don't let people touch your feet. Oh, well, he would never have made it to the... No, he made it. No, stop. He would not have made it to the toe-sucking process because he has to touch to get there, and that's not happening.

I'd wake up out of a... He made it. I would have kicked him in the head. He made it, and he's sucking your toes right now. I'm kicking him in the head. Okay. Yeah, no, I can tell, yeah. Oh, no, that's not happening.

No, no, I was going to say, if you have your toes sucked, but you don't like it. people touch your fees. Still, though, that you don't know the answer to the question. Have you? Question mark? So Macy's is closing 15 locations.

Did you know that they're closing some more stores? And Ikea, this is what IKEA's doing too. They're selling their IKEA stores. You know why IKEA's selling their stores? Because they're freaking humongous. Oh, well, okay. I mean, I'll give you some of that. Yeah, because the settlement for the little kid.

That's right. We talked about it off here yesterday, but we didn't talk about it on air. $46 million goes to the California family of the California toddler who died. Yes. Because, you know, the dresser that they bought at IKEA tipped over and fell on the kid a couple years ago. And, you know, they found out that the dresser was made wrong. That's the way the dressers were made. They were made that they would fall over like that.

Horrible. Horrible story. And, you know, there's no way. I mean, if you're the family and you're the parents of this kid, we can make the jokes about $46 million makes up for, there's no way. There's no way in real life that the amount makes up for the loss of the child. It just doesn't. But that's not the first time.

I mean, in 2016, Ikea paid a similar settlement. to a lawsuit, 50 million was split between three families. So they've been paying off some of these debts. Now, I'm sure, you know, IKEA, you know, the guy, the family and everything, they're all worth, you know, hundreds of millions of dollars. But when you start paying off, you know, $50, $46 million settlements, you start to take a little dent. You tell me that it adds up? It does add up.

It takes from the profits. You know the store at Davenport, Iowa? Let's go ahead and just shut that one down. Yeah, gone. Oh, wait, that store made $3 last year. Exactly. Exactly. Have you been to the one in Frisco or Plano?

No, Plano. No. It's huge. Yeah, they're all really huge. I mean, they're all really large stores. And they take in the circle around. Yeah. It's just, you know, it's the IKEA thing.

I get it. Have you been out to the, have you been a little shopping? big talk. Where to shop at Dallas Ford Worth? The Nebraska furniture mart. It's next door to... Yeah, yeah. That's where the Akeas, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Golf carts.

Yes. Golf carts to drive around that thing. Yes. That's amazing. Those things... It's monstrous. It's a experience. It's not you going there to shop something. You're going to go there experience at least due to the hours. Yeah. Well, we went,

we started at one end, and it was a sunny day and then we got the other end and it was raining and storming and thundering i mean it changed weather it changed yeah there's a whole the whole front changed yeah wow i know that's a good ecosystem well just saying out big how dare you all right before we go i got to get this in i mean we've got to give some people's warning of what's going on um a newly thank you i mean these should have been going off all throughout the entire episode today and I apologize because a newly released report says that Georgia is the sickest in the nation. If you're looking, what's filmed in Georgia? Hmm. Interesting. Is there a number someone could call?

Oh, they're talking about flu. Not. not walking dead stuff. Oh, wait. It's a virus. A report released by the health technology company, Kinsa Health. I mean, who doesn't read all the reports from... Canza Health?

Yeah, oh, man. I don't miss one, except for this one. For this one, I'm going to say... I've moved to a new house. It's probably a forwarding address. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Found that nearly 8% of the state's population.

7.78% has fallen ill, primarily with flu associated symptoms such as cough, fever, and body aches, according to a report, this cancer report cited in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. One county in particular is the sickest. An estimated 8.68% of population in Towns County is ill. residents in DeKalb County and Fulton County which of course is Atlanta are also sick with about 7.76% It'd be interesting to see

how what percentage of people got the actual flu shot in Georgia in Georgia we're talking about it. Okay, I don't know that's fine but now they have a list here of the top 10 of the top 10 states that are the sickest. Did you get your flu shot? That's not what we're talking about here.

I just was talking about Georgia. Yes, but that reminded me that last year, you did not get the flu shot when they came here to the studios to give free flu shots. They're always free. I'm asking you, did you get the flu shot yet? This year? Yes.

I have not gotten in 2020 now. Did you get it last year? I've not gotten it in the 2019. No, I never could bring myself together. You sit there, get poke, and walk out. I know. How many times if that's happened in your life? You just sit there and get poked and walk out.

Same thing, over and over again. It never ends. You just sit there, you get poked, you walk out. And yet, I didn't do it this particular time. I don't know why. I really don't. I just feel like it. I keep putting it off.

I keep putting it off. Did everybody get in your family? Wow. So don't go to the official household. I think my sister-in-law who... Staying with you. Lives with you, actually. Moved in with you.

I think she got it. Well, I don't blame her. The whole damn family didn't get it. What about the old man? Did he get it? I don't think he can. What do you mean? He can.

He can't. He just vaccines are mainly for kids and old people. I don't think he can, though. There's other issues. I don't know. Maybe he did. I don't know. I don't remember.

God, are you taking care of this guy or is he taking care of himself? It's fine. It'll be fine. It'll be fine. And my wife can't. Is she freaking allergic to that? Oh my God.

This woman, she lives by the miracle of God. She's allergic to fruits. She's allergic to literally a third of, no, three thirds. No, that's the whole thing. So she's allergic to everything. Yeah. Dude, your wife.

She's surviving on nothing. actually what's going on. No wonder she's losing weight. I know. I know. Back to the top 10 sickest states in the country. So Georgia number one, of course. Of course, yeah.

We'll go down to number 10. Okay. Oh, Oh, number 10, Virginia. Where's my man? That's 40 acres and a fool. Oh, that's 40 acres and a mule, yeah. Yeah.

Ooh, hey, what? I actually said it right, I think. You did. and he better have that mule named after me oh yeah absolutely I'm gonna be so pissed we gotta check in on him he's been doing a lot of

yeah the second amendment stuff in Virginia he's covered almost we'll have him back next week and give us an update the state I mean almost the entire state is saying hey governor screw you yeah it's freaking Virginia Beach did it last night they voted last night and they said literally

two middle fingers yeah I mean Virginia Beach hey governor maybe you rethink your thoughts a little bit how this guy get elected You cannot get more progressive than Virginia Beach. How did this man get elected in the state of Virginia? Well, blackface.

Oh, that's how. Number nine, New Mexico. Oh, yeah, illegals. Number eight, Tennessee. Yeah, illegals. Number seven, Maryland. Oh, absolutely. Illegals from the north.

Number six, Ohio. Oh, those illegals from the left. right in front. Ohio? Yeah. Those Michiganians. Number five, Washington, D.C.

Oh, that's freaking a swamp right there. You got Ocasio, Talib, us freaking just, just, just too alone. Number four. Those two alone,

just covering the state. Covering the whole state. No. Just out of state. Okay, shut up. Number four, West Virginia. Oh, yeah, definitely.

Oh, yeah. I mean, there's just a catch, just catch, Virginia's blow on. one end of them. Number three, South Carolina. That's Georgia blowing to South Carolina. You had to get the room shut out. Okay, that's fine. Number two, Michigan. Oh, yeah. Ohio and Michigan's blowing in. It's illegal. It's just everywhere right now, dude. Trump is right. You need a damn wall. Head back to number one, the great state of Georgia.

Yeah, South Carolina is blowing it too. So, right? So it's not Georgia's fault. A South Carolina's fault. And if I'm not mistaken, I don't know, you know, geography. I'm not, don't. Even the listeners send me a map.

I'm well aware. Where's my map? I'm well aware. But, uh, well, aware. Well, what is that? South Carolina and Tennessee. Border Georgia.

Oh. So. So Florida's next. So.