Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 321 | Hey Criminals, It MIGHT Be Time For A Career Change

Episode Date: March 9, 2020

The coronavirus has people panicking across the globe, but Jeffy isn’t here to fearmonger, he’s here to tell you about a mystery box that could make you big money, Harvey Weinstein’s new accommodations in a New York prison, and a police department dedicated to… completing your late-night food deliveries? Plus, Jeffy demonstrates that he is a mathematical genius… compared to the guy on MSNBC... and makes fun of the criminals getting caught because they can’t stay off social media. Lastly, Jeffy shares his secret for having the ultimate night out at Red Robin, and Christian gets on his soapbox about Landry’s Seafood… Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now a Blaze Media podcast. That it is, and welcome to it, chewing the fat, with yours truly. Jeff Fisher, thank you so much for coming along for the ride today. If you like me are time change weekend tired, still looking for that lost hour, you'll find it a few months from now. It'll show up again as the clock falls backwards. So I'm sorry, springs ahead, falls backwards, whatever. You'll find it sooner or later. But I was struggling all day yesterday after I saw a tweet from Emery Wells retweeted from Phil Cook.

Einstein carried his luggage. Freud carried his luggage. Edison carried his luggage. All these geniuses carried their luggage and not once did it occur to anyone to put a wheel on it and pull it. there are inventions sitting in front of us just waiting to be invented i had a tough time sleeping after that coronavirus and the uh covid-19 fears striking the globe which is uh you know we'll get to uh we'll get to some of those reports uh as the podcast progresses but i feel like uh i feel like we could almost turn the show into like a crime blotter of what's going on around

the world as well. So I'll try. I know. I'm going to try and before we turn it into the crime blotter though, I'll let you know that for those of you that were all excited that the Republican

mega donor, I'm not political, I don't want to hear the political music. I'm just saying he's called the Republican mega donor who bought a stake in Twitter and you were all happy because they were going to oust Jack Dorsey as the head of Twitter.

was announced today that Twitter strikes a deal and Jack Dorsey stays in his CEO. So the deal's fine. He gets a board seat and he gets a bunch of stock and he gets a, I think they're throwing in another board seat as well. But Jack has worked his magic and he still stays in his CEO.

So don't get your hopes up too much. Jack is still there and he'll be taking care of business at Twitter as the foreseeable future. Twitter is still the wonderful world that it is. I still use it. I still love it. You know, I get it. I get it. I get the Twitter deal, but Dorsey's still in. So that's the way it goes.

Now, I do have some stories today that I had saved specifically for a former man, Chris Cruz, which we'll get to, I'm hoping tomorrow, because as I was traveling in today, I get the phone call and I see that it's Chris. Hello? Okay, okay, stay home. Stay home, no problem. So I don't know. I don't know what's going to happen.

So we'll have a couple of specific Chris Cruz stories once he returns from. I'll get to that. I see the story where this company was going to pay you $1,000 to not open their mystery box. I you know you could get the box it's $100 it's a mystery box for $100 and it could be anything inside the box ranging from zero to $7,000 in worth it's pretty good pretty funsy you know it's the lottery box you know it's the selling of the storage containers

you're hoping for something that's a big in there could be a Louis Vuitton bag and Nintendo Switch 25 years of Popeye's chicken sandwiches or it might be a chewed piece of gum, a pair of socks, or some paper clips. So you spend a hundred bucks, you get the box,

and you take your shot, you open it up, all right? So now they're saying, look, you give us 100 bucks, you buy the box, all right? You keep it for 30 days, and you send it back to us. It's actually 100 days.

30 days, I don't know. I guess they thought was doable. 100 days would be pretty tough. And then if you send it back to them on open, they'll send you $1,000. That's a pretty good investment. I got boxes in my garage. I haven't opened up in a lot longer than 100 days.

I couldn't tell you what's in them. I've moved a couple times, and I remember opening them at some point going, oh, yeah, just tape it up. And it's still in the garage, still sitting there. If I could send it back to them and get $1,000, bucks, I'd be well ahead of the curve. So it may be worth, it may be worth it.

Right now, though, they're sold out. And good luck, God bless. It'd be tough, though. It'd be tough knowing that, you know, you've got something in there that could be worth a couple thousand, more than the thousand you're getting back. And that's their deal, right? Even if everyone sends them back the box. They're still good because they still put the merchandise in the boxes.

And, you know, they're still up. But it'd be tough to be tough not to open it for some of you. For me, I'm putting it in the garage. Don't worry about it. It's over. No problem. And I know that we are, you know, again, you know, being bombarded and with coronavirus news. Again, which, you know, I've got some headlines for you coming up on that.

but there's still people out there suffering from, you know, your everyday disasters. That's all. Like in Nashville and in Tennessee, the tornadoes, people are still suffering from that. And if you'd like to help, that would be wonderful. You can go to mercury one.org and help. We've got people on the ground right now assisting people. And I see where Gibson guitars is, giving musicians who lost their instruments, you know, new guitars.

I seem to remember when a tornado struck my house a few months ago. It's been like six months ago. Yeah, you know, that never went off in my neighborhood. So there's that. But, boy, that guitar that we lost in that storm, I'm pretty sure it was a Gibson. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty sure it was a Gibson. So I guess maybe I send a letter and say,

yo, Gibson, what up? Okay, all right, I won't do it, I promise. And, you know, we have the everyday horror of, you know, the chocolate factory, the Mars chocolate factory in England suffering from, you know, everyday disasters. even as we worry about shortages the Mars chocolate factory

in England they've got a mechanical glitch and so they're struggling to keep up with the pace on the chocolate bars this will not stand as shortages of Coke Zero become a possibility we cannot have shortages of Mars chocolate bars either now for right now

the shortages in the United Kingdom but but no glitches in chocolate factories here in America All right, this will not stand. I will not have it. We can do a quick crime blotter. You know, it never ceases to amaze me the crime that happens.

Most of it is pretty dumb. It's pretty dumb. I would say that for most criminals, perhaps you need to find a new gig. Because it's not working out for you. But as you know, no one, no one supports the police. more than we do here on chewing the fat. No one. And this story is a prime example of why we support the police around the country.

This particular story from Laguna Beach Police Department, they posted on their Facebook page at 103 a.m. this morning, a Laguna Beach Police Department officer made a traffic stop and contacted the driver who was delivering a Del Taco DoorDash order to someone in Laguna Beach. unfortunately, the driver was arrested for an outstanding warrant. We at the Laguna Beach Police Department are no stranger to the midnight munchies. Due to our caring and empathetic nature, the officer felt obligated to deliver the meal to the thankful recipient.

If your food delivery ambassador is stopped and has outstanding warrants, we'll get you your food in 30 minutes or... Well, I don't know. We're a police department after all. Yeah, I'm guessing that that food was not warm. I don't know what the bag is that the driver had, but it was nice of the police department to deliver the food. Right, that's why we support it. That's just another example of why no one supports the police department more than we do here on chewing the fat. Now, if you want to talk about some stupid crime stuff,

we certainly can. Like the Checkers employee customer came in, got angry that it was the wrong order. Through the food at the employee, the employee pulled out his weapon

and shot the guy. He didn't kill him. Just winged him. And he winged another guy. Now, just so you know, he's not working for Checkers anymore. more. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. No question. No question about that. And perhaps it would give

some pause to not complain about having the wrong order. Now, I would say it would only give you pause to not throw it back at the employee. You can absolutely complain politely. Like, hey, douchebag, you got the order wrong. I'm standing right here at the counter and you still screwed up my order. How about you get? Oh, sorry. Sorry, sorry, sorry. You know what? This order is fine. Don't worry about it. No problem. I mean, that's just craziness, right? I mean, it's just completely craziness. Plus, it's been a long time so I've had checkers. Checkers sounds pretty good, man. They're fries. And at one point, they had a mushroom Swiss burger that was awesome. And then they used to do, I don't know if you know this or not.

I lived in Florida for a while in Tampa Bay. And so on game days, on game Sundays, they would have like the 10 burgers for 10 bucks or something like that. Hello. Yes. We are doing that watching the football game. No problem. Ten checker burgers for 10 bucks? Yes, I am in.

No problem. And then you have, we get these stories from time. to time and it's really strange to be that people really do become institutionalized. You know, we talk to people who have been to prison and who are now out of prison and are trying to better their life, better their other people's lives, better other prisoners' lives, like our man David J. Casey, who has, um, You know, was in prison, spent years in prison, who I'm going to do a special series podcast with David and talk about his life and his life choices. And I've had him on the podcast before and it's just fascinating.

And I really do want to talk to him about his life and maybe do a short, limited series on him. God forgives Outlaws don't I mean that's his tattoo That was his That was the story of his life for many many years But this man An 82 year old man spent most of his adult life in prison

And At 82 he got left out And apparently he couldn't adjust well To the outside world So he went and did another armed robbery And his excuse was that he wanted to go back to jail. He couldn't live his life outside of prison anymore. He served 30 years, a little bit more than 30 years.

And after that, he, well, actually he spent, and then he spent another 17 years. So he spent almost 50 years in prison. All right, he served 30, 30 plus 17 is 15. 47. Duh. I know that, you know, I'm not math. I digress for a little bit. I know that I'm not good at math. We don't have to play the audio, but I was in love with the Brian Williams MSNBC thing. And don't start playing political music. I'm just, I'm using this as a math analogy when they interviewed, the lady that had tweeted out if Michael Bloomberg gave everyone in America a million dollars, how much better life would be because it was just wasted money. He spent $500 million on his campaign.

If he gave, there's 372 million people in America. If he gave everybody a million dollars, it would be great. And there's a lot of people that would live their lives a lot better with a check for a million dollars. And no one on MSNBC says, that's not true. Maybe you should rethink your math a little bit. If he gave a million dollars to 372 people, that maybe would work. But there's 372 million people. Ouch.

Yeah, you aren't lying. Ouch. Even Mr. 60 billion doesn't have enough to cover that. It's just incredible that no one. I mean, it falls through the cracks all the way to the interview of we're going to do you as a guest to making it. to one-on-one at the desk with Brian Williams, to full-screen tweet, to still covering with the host saying,

and you think he's going to get to it. For those of you head on the math, don't worry. And you think he's going to say, yeah, well, no, that doesn't work out well, and you know you realize that your math is wrong. I mean, it's a nice thought. You can still even let her off the hook. It's a nice thought.

everybody gets some money and he doesn't waste it but it really doesn't work because it's not 372 people it's 372 million people so he never gets to it that's incredible incredible even mr no math like myself it's just it's incredible it's funny to say it is cute to think about, but it's incredible, incredible that you would just not just let that go as a real thing. And then we have the story from police departments all over the country that are saying that they're catching criminals left and right because the criminals, I keep posting clues on their Facebook pages.

Drug traffickers, extortionists, bank robbers, they keep posting all their clues on their Facebook. they're doing live feeds from they're on the way to doing their crime they've busted people left and right and it's very difficult for

today's criminals not to be posting let's do a Facebook live we'll show these bastards how cool it is I'm getting ready to walk into this bank and we're going to rob this bank all right let's go and no you probably shouldn't be doing that you probably shouldn't

be doing that at all in 2012, 2012 law enforcement official said they used social media to solve crimes nearly seven out of ten times. It helped them close the cases faster. That's eight years ago. Amazing. Facebook received nearly 130,000 data requests from governments around the world during the first. during the first six months of last year,

according to the latest figures. People are posting stuff online all the time about their criminal activity. So perhaps, as I stated before, it's time. If you're a criminal in today's world, you may want to find a new gig, or at least, you know, maybe work smarter, not harder.

Speaking to criminals, too, I see where, you know, we had our man Harvey Weinstein go to Rikers. Guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. They found him guilty, guilty, guilty, too. But he went to Rikers. He got out of the hospital. They shipped him off to Rikers, and he's going to be there. He has his sentencing date coming up.

But right now, he has the whole floor. is all him. Just Harvey. He's hanging out. He's got the whole floor to himself. Now, probably a good idea. I know it keeps him safe,

you know, from other inmates. It has the 24-hour security system in place to monitor Harvey's every move. He has a doctor at the ready. It doesn't let him think about harming himself or others harming him

while he's there. But he's got, and also I love the story talks about, he's got heart-healthy options for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. He can also request junk food from the commissary and all alone. Now, they do shut him down at night. They send him to a cell at night with another prisoner. And then, you know, sleeps. Everybody sleeps.

I guess that's okay. I guess maybe the other two prisoners have been fully vetted as prisoners that aren't going to hurt Harvey. And so then once the morning gets going, all right, Harvey, back to the dorm floor. Floor 30, floor 30 at Rikers, all yours in the dorm. Just hang out, take care of yourself. You need a new magazine? Okay, no problem. I mean, okay, good for him.

Now, I guess his sentencing is scheduled to come up this week on Wednesday, so we'll find out what happens. I know that they are really trying to hit him hard, but they want to hit him hard for his lifetime of abuse, and I get it. Harvey's a dirtbag. I've already said this. We all, we all agree, right? You, me, you? Yep. That answer is true. He's all is a dirtbag. However, however, however. he was convicted on two sex crimes he was not convicted on his what the prosecutors are calling lifetime of abuse so they want to sentence him because of his lifetime of abuse um no that's not the way

It's supposed to work? And especially, you know, I know that he's, nah, never mind. I'm not going to get into that. Just, I know he's a dirtbag. We all agreed. But he's supposed to be sentenced on the crimes he was convicted on. Not his so-called lifetime of abuse.

And speaking of lifetime of abuse, I know Hunter Biden's in trouble. He was supposed to show up and have his reports in Arkansas. Uh, no. He missed his deadlines to submit the paperwork. And now he's going to have to show, I mean, Hunter, what are you doing? What are you doing? Just get this over with your dad struggling enough out there on the campaign trail. I mean, your dad is, you need your help. You need your help out there. In fact, he needs your help so bad he's reminding people to vote for Donald Trump out of the campaign.

trail. He needs your help desperately. And yet you're screwing it all up because you don't want to pay your stripper baby mama some cash. And you don't want to shower your income. And I know that you're unemployed right now. And yes, I used quotation marks for those of you watching live on the 9th of March 2020, listening and watching live to the podcast of Chewing the Fat. But just get it done. Get it over with Hunter.

Set it up. What are you doing? Now, I mean, you're in big trouble. And the judge in Arkansas is not happy. So we'll see. He was supposed to submit his paperwork by March 1st. Didn't happen. Now he's supposed to have a deposition coming up on March 11th.

And a pretrial hearing on March 13th. And according to, according to this report unless his hair is on fire, he needs to be in Arkansas and he needs to be in a deposition. Hunter, is that you? It is. Oh, I got, look, look at this.

Look at this. I'm on fire. Man, if I wasn't, though, I'd be in Arkansas. But I can't because my hair is literally on fire. All right, let's go to the break room. I need a drink of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar desperately. And a shortage of that will not be tolerated, just so that we're clear. Be sure you subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

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You can't even make it to the show today. Apparently he's got some kind of. Whatever. The comment is I did make spaghetti a couple of nights ago while your show was playing and I made homemade meatballs. It was much easier than I thought it would be. The meal was a hit.

Last night I ordered Red Robin to go. Also a hit. Boy, I haven't eaten it Red Robin in a while. Kind of tough to get the unlimited fries at home when you order takeout, but I don't know if Red Robin does that. You know, the trick at Red Robin with the unlimited fries is you get the fries and then as soon as they deliver to you, table you order another order right then you don't want to wait around don't wait around for your

fries to run out and then order because then you have to wait and you have to continue eating other things which kind of fill you up till the other order of fries comes that's their little trick but i'm telling you the inside trick soon as your order comes order the next order of fries for your unlimited fries so that by the time you're almost done with that first order the second order comes And then if you feel like you're ordering a third, yeah, order it then too. But I mean, keep them coming. But ordered a Red Robin to go. So I don't know if they do that on the takeout.

You tell the driver, you're coming back in 10 with the extra order of fries. Probably not going to happen. Everyone gets their own plastic box with the burger and fries. Cleanup is a breeze. Podcast is 10 out of 10. Vicky B. Thank you in the great state of Ohio. I use the great state of Ohio lately.

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There, I've worked it out for you. You happy? one more crime I can't get enough of the crime stories but you'll be happy because the 24 year old guy we don't need the break we're in the break room

we don't need the crime remember the kid that licked the tub of bluebell ice cream and then set it back in the in the freezer and it was a YouTube stint and it was all live and it was you know

went viral everywhere I mean the world was talking about it he was sentenced 30 days in jail. Guilty, guilty, guilty. Guilty, guilty. Guilty, guilty. De Adrian L. Quinn Anderson of Port Arthur, Texas. He was given an additional 180 days probation over two years,

ordered to pay $1,000 fine, and $1,565 in restitution to Bluebell Cremeries. He could have been sentenced for a year, fined up to $4,000, for misdemeanor criminal mischief. Uh, even though he licked it, put it back in the freezer, video does show him going back and taking it out and purchasing it, but that's not enough. It's not enough because it didn't show it on the video, which that was his mistake, right? If he had done it on the video, it probably wouldn't have gone as viral as it did. And, uh, it set off a chain of events of other idiots doing it.

So while it was kind of funny. No, look at me like that. You know, you chuckled a little. Thought, oh, could you do that? You chuckled a little. Oh, that's kind of funny. But you can't set off the chain of events like that. And they came in and took off all the ice cream out of the freezers.

And, you know, people were doing other videos were being posted of it. And I'm sure that all those other videos didn't go and purchase the product before they did it. Maybe some of them did. I actually, when it first happened, I thought I'm going to do that. only I'll go to, don't look at me like that. I thought it's kind of funny. It's kind of funny.

I'm going to go do that. I'm going to go to the store. That's before I knew he actually went, he paid for it and went back and took it off. I thought to myself, I'll just go to the store and I'll say, hey, I'm going to buy it. I'll buy it right now,

but I'm going to pretend that I put it back in the freezer. And then you realize when you say it out loud like that, see, you hear me out. That's why I'm saying. You could look at me weird, but just hear me out. When you say it out loud like that, you realize what's going to happen. because people don't think about you purchasing it and taking it out of there and just doing it for fun.

They think, oh, you're just doing it. And now we don't know what's been licked, what hasn't been licked. You got to pull them all out. Costs a lot of money. You know, that's what he got in trouble for. So, you know, good for him. 30 days, pay restitution, get rid of it. And you should sometimes think just a lot.

Maybe you just say it out loud like I did. You say it out loud and you realize you get to the point where it's not going to work. It's not going to work the way you planned. It's going to be funny, but it's not really funny. And it's going to be treated like it's not funny. And you're going to end up with at least 30 days of jail. And you're going to end up having to do 180 days of community service. And you're going to have to pay $1,000 restitution and $1,500 restitution and $1,000 fine.

So maybe we just don't do it. Maybe that's what we do. Maybe we just don't do it. And where are my people from PETA? Where are my people from PETA? This is why you wait to post stuff like this. My man in Texas last May. We're just now seeing the picture.

So this happened in May. All right. So you don't. The people who get in trouble like the ice cream guy. They post it right away. And they're in trouble. My man posts a picture of him and his seven. foot 363 pound boar that he shot and killed at his Texas ranch.

Now, he was all happy that he spotted the boar with his Fleur thermal scope and his 6.5 Grenadal AR-15 rifle just on the edge of his field. I presume he was looking for sows to breed. I made a short stalk and got to within nearly 80 to 100 yards before shooting three times before the boar fell. It didn't realize that how big it was until he got up to it.

I mean, seven foot, 365, 365 pound boar, that's a big old boy. And so a lot of people think a couple things. If you have a ranch in Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and they start

taking hold, they, as in the boars, you can't have that. Man, they tear up everything. So you've got to put them down. You have to. And they bring up. breed like pigs. No, I said, then they breathe like pigs.

Thank you. But so, and you think, hey, that's some good eating, right? Bacon forever. No. According to my man Mitchell, they get that big. They're too tough. They're too tough. So he just dropped it off.

He gave it to the coyotes and the birds. You just leave it out in the middle of the field. old little have at it, let them eat it. So, I mean, he gave it back to the ecosystem, right? So we'll see if PETA does anything with it. It's pretty tough to do that. I mean, you can be mad and say, all animals deserve life. Yeah, except for the 7 foot 363 pound boar.

No, they don't. The animals eating that boar, they deserve life. All right, just a little coronavirus update, COVID-19. Oh, I don't have to walkie. Well, speaking, you know what? I'm glad you played that because that reminds me to promote talking walking dead. It's a Monday podcast that I post with Jason Butchrell and my son Maximus each week. On Mondays, we post the review and the look ahead for Walking Dead.

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the 9th of March, mid-afternoon, you're looking at 113,981 cases. This is, you know, worldwide. 4,000 deaths, 62,832 recovered. It's worldwide. There's plenty of things being canceled. South by Southwest was finally canceled over the weekend. We did have an attendee at the CPAC conference diagnosed with coronavirus.

So we know that the attendee did not go to any events in the main hall where the president had delivered his speech and where you know many people that we know delivered speeches but there's been a couple of people including ted cruz who has given himself uh you know he's going to stay at home his self-quarantine uh for a week just to make sure i mean it's only prudent we have a disneyland in paris maintenance worker tested positive for coronavirus. Some of these big places, Italy has been one of the places

hit hardest right now. They've closed schools and they've shut down provinces and they're talking about sporting events for at least a month they're going to prohibit spectators. I know that they're talking about prohibiting spectators.

I haven't done it yet, but prohibiting spectators at some professional sports events. And we had LeBron James quoted as saying that I'm not playing without fans in the arenas. We shall see.

LeBron. We'll see how that goes for you. I'm guessing, and this is just a thought from me, I'm guessing if China says play, LeBron would play. After all, they're just part of the investment crew of the NBA these days, right?

It would be fascinating to see it interesting if they start doing that where you're playing events without the fans. It sets a bad press. though, man. People watching those games staying home. Wow. Kind of scary. Really scary. There's been plenty of things that break out that you think, wow, that's just really, you know, the breakdown of what could be happening and what is happening and what could happen in the very near future is,

that's a little scary when you think about it. And maybe the best thing is not to think about it. I don't know. I don't know what to tell you. I just, I watch the news. I'm just telling you what's going on around the world. I know we had the, I saw an interview with Tillman Fertita. He's on CNBC.

He's a, you know, big time billionaire, chairman and CEO of Landry's which owns. I mean, that owns more than 600 restaurants around the world. Subpar restaurants, mind you. Whatever. I mean, he's a billionaire. His average loss is a billion a day. right now. Well, hey, that does not bother me.

One iota. It bothers him. I was not a fan of their gumbo. It doesn't matter. And it matters. It matters to the people who work there. Ever. Ever, I tell you.

He talked about, they opened a restaurant back in China where they were able to relocate in Beijing, their steakhouse. And he said that something had happened for the first time in his roughly 40 years in restaurant business. We opened the restaurant. Sales, now this is in Beijing, remind you. Sales for day one were zero. Nice. No, that is not funny. Not funny at all. But he's talking, you know, he says that, you know, the, the restaurant revenue in suburban locations has remained okay. For now, the regional casinos have been less impacted than the ones in Las Vegas.

So, I mean, we're still going out. We're still getting things, but things are, you know, slowing down. And it could, you know, slow down even more if it keeps going in the direction it appears to be going. Facebook said it's going to ban ads for medical face masks because they want to prevent people from, exploiting the platform to incite coronavirus hysteria. That's good. Do we need to be in hysteria? No.

You know, we have cruise ships trying to find places to dock. They finally gave in and you'll probably see it on the news as they show the Grand Princess. They said, yeah, you can dock it at the port of Oakland. But they're already, they've fenced off the areas and they're going to, you know, you let the people off the ship and they're going to guide them into quarantine areas. But, I mean, I don't want to be the one making those decisions of whether a ship should be able to dock or not.

Of course, you want them to. But, you know, it's scary they were on the cruise. You know, should they have been on the cruise? I guess. They talk about, they now told the health officials have said coronavirus, you know, older people, should be distancing themselves. We shouldn't be going to nursing homes.

The nursing homes should kind of be self-quarantining. A D.C. priest was just announced to have coronavirus, and he offered communion this past Sunday. All worshippers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown. They're asking to self-quarantine. And church this week has been canceled for the first time since the 1800. hundreds. Is that hysteria?

I don't know. Is it prudent? I guess. You know, we're having shortages right now. Shortages right now. I'm just not on the shelf. I mean, it's not on the shelf. We have, you know,

toilet paper and hand sanitizer and shit people going crazy. We've had stories of, since we can't find masks, And we can't find gloves. People are buying condoms. And the report is they're buying condoms to put on their fingers to touch things. I would say they're buying condoms because if you're going to be self-quarantined in your home, you might as well, you don't, you know, you might as well, you know, right.

Thank you. Oh, yeah. I know we're quarantined, baby, but how about a little COVID-19, business. Oh yeah. And then you're going to hear, sure, okay. You know what? Let's just go watch a Netflix movie. Download and subscribe to more content at theblease.com slash podcasts. So for those of you looking forward to reading Woody Allen's new book, biography, apropos of nothing. Remember that

the family was all wound up. Rona and the daughter and they were all mad at the book group for wanting to publish the autobiography. They were pissed that that wasn't, they didn't talk to us about it.

And so the autobiography is back on hold. They canceled the deal. said, you know what? No. So good luck, Woody. Good luck.

There were reports that it was still going to get published in France. So maybe it gets published in France and then, you know, you pick up a... I don't know if you've heard this thing. It's called the... What is it called again? Oh, yeah, the Internet. And so you'd be able to order it. I'm sure Amazon just click on the little appropos of nothing link.

and send it to you no problem. Good luck, though. Good luck. I know. I know. Looks not, you know, whatever. But heaven forbid that we let someone like Woody Allen write a book. There might be some lies in it. Oh, no. Here you go. Write one yourself that goes against that book. Sell a few copies. Figure it out. But whatever. It also came to our attention that over the weekend that back in the 70s, the Legos, which I, you know, I always like Legos. I always like Legos. My wife has a thing for them. She doesn't like them. So they've been kind of, you know, absent in our household. But for years, with my, with my oldest son, I mean, we were, it was a Lego world, man. And he has, I mean, he's just a OCD freak. He

has been ever since he was a little kid. We had to have them all in Tupperwares and the same. We built castles and walls. I mean, we built the world with these things. We had all the, you know, we kept all, you had to keep all the directions for all the little cars and all the buildings. You keep those separate, and then you keep those pieces,

the pieces that you need, all the same, all the like pieces in separate Tupperware so that when you're building things and you need a piece, there it is. And, you know, I had a thing.

But anyway, I digress. apparently they found a letter to parents from Lego from back in the 70s and people are all happy about it because it says to parents the urge to create is equally strong in all children boys and girls it's imagination that counts not skill you build whatever comes into your head the way you want it a bed or a truck A dollhouse or a spaceship.

A lot of boys like dollhouses. They're more human than spaceships. A lot of girls prefer spaceships. They're more exciting than dollhouses. The most important thing is to put the right material in their hands and let them create whatever appeals to them. Now, if that's true, first of all, the statement itself is true. Did it come from Lego?

I find that questionable. I find that questionable. it's a letter held up to, you know, the camera. And, you know, behind, you can see the Legos spread out, blurry behind the letter. But the letter doesn't have any Lego heading or anything. It's just, I don't think, I don't buy it. I don't buy it.

I mean, good for that. Maybe, you know, Lego tried to, you know, make some money and start selling Legos again. Maybe sales are a little low these days. I get it. I get it. but I don't know that I buy it. It's a cute little thing, but I don't know that I buy it. And before I leave you today, I just want to let you know.

I know that you were a little concerned. And you know, look, I was too. For a while I was concerned about Tony Romo. He worked it out. Got the $100 million deal. So then I had to move my worries to Dak Prescott, quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys. I thought, oh no, how's that going to live?

I mean, I don't know what kind of deal he has assigned a new contract yet. Apparently they've come to the table now with a new deal for DAC. At least $33 million a year. That's going to be tough to take. Now, he said no to that. He said no to the original $33 million.

You don't want to know why? Because Russell Wilson, quarterback for Seattle, makes $35 million a year. Ben Roslisberger for the Steelers at about $34 million a year. Aaron Rogers for the Packers and Jared Gough for the Rams are about $33.5 million a year. I don't know how they...

Are about $33.5 million a year. I don't know how they get by and I could well understand why DAC would say no to $33 million a year because it's a slap in his face. And it just... It's a slap in everybody's face. And I don't know how they'd be able to put food on the table.

So, Dak, hold the... Hold out, baby. You need to be at least 36. I want you number one. I want you number one. I don't want Russell, Ben, Aaron, Jared. I don't want any of them over you. All right.

And then you can be able to put food on the table. Sad. I just feel like your bias is showing because doesn't your wife cheer for the Eagles? Yes, she does. Yes. So I'm not so sure that chewing the fat is the best source for information on Dak Prescott. I'm rooting for him. Do you kidding me?

I want him to make the money. 33 million is not enough. But still, if your house bleeds green, I mean... The house doesn't. Maybe you... The wife... I know, yeah, my father-in-law. Yeah, they're all from Philly, so...

Yeah, they root for... You're right. Kind of bleeds. And she's kind of rubbed off on the kids. Kind of agonizing, actually. Now that I think about it. And look, when you start making that big kind of money, like Steve Jobs' widow,

who's worth $27.5 billion. It's wrong for individuals to accumulate massive amounts of wealth. Remember that DAC as you're looking to sign that new contract. Remember what the former Mrs. Jobs, Lauren Powell Jobs, had to say about accumulating massive amounts of wealth. It's wrong. Makes me sick.

Leave it to the kids. Oh, good.