Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 322 | Stop Wearing Trash Bags & Start Selling Hand Sanitizer! | Guest: Erik Finman

Episode Date: March 10, 2020

Jeffy illustrates how NOT to respond to a racist customer in your establishment. Olive Garden, what're you doing??!! Also, what's killing thousands of birds in southeast Missouri? Then, Jeffy talks to Erik "The Bitcoin Kid" Finman about some newly proposed rules regarding cryptocurrency. And brace yourself for another coronavirus update. Be warned: some people have taken their precautionary measures a LITTLE too far... Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it, Chewing the Fat, with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Quote of the day, time and patience and being able to handle a S-word, crap ton of negative feedback. That's a quote from the winner of Mullet Fest 2020 on a year of self-hair. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. All right, so I want to give everybody a little helpful. I like, we're helpful here on chewing the fat. Helpful and that's what we do here is help people.

So I want to give you a little hint. If you, let's say, make it to work late, and everybody's looking at you like, what are you doing? You're late. I mean, how come you're late? I have a way out. Simple, easy. All you have to do is go,

foof, yeah, then to change a flat tire on the way to work. And everyone automatically goes, yeah, that sucks. Do you have to call AAA? No, I did it myself. I did it myself. I got here, though. I got here, though.

Good to go. You're good to go. You're good to go. And in today's world, really, in today's world, if you're late, you can almost, you can almost fall back to I don't really feeling that well ooh

maybe you need to go back home no I'm all right I'll power through I don't have a fever or anything I'm okay I just I just wasn't feeling good I could slow to get around and one thing led to another

and the next thing you know I'm late and I got hung up in traffic there was an accident I mean look on your look on your app you could do what Democrats do all the time this is not a this is not I don't need to political music

but I'm just saying you can just do what Democrats do all the time Just double down. There's an app. I mean, I had, there was an accident and was all backed up. Check the app. Check the traffic app. You can go back and take a look.

Just double down. Because nobody is going to look at the traffic app and go away. There was no accident on the road. What are you talking about? Nobody knows. Nobody knows. So it's your way out. You're welcome.

You're welcome. The flat tire, though, works every time. Every time. And just so you know, you don't have to actually. have a flat tire. Okay? You just have to say it. That's it. Just say it.

Yeah. Whew. Change a flat tire. Everybody automatically. Oh, man, that stinks. I hate that when that happens. I know, right?

And you're good. So in today's world, how does something like this happens? An Olive Garden employee made headlines last week when a customer singled her out in an incident of what's being called racial discrimination. And now she's decided to sue the restaurant. And you think, well, how is that the restaurant's fault? Well, she decided to quit her position at the restaurant because of what she said has become

a hostile work environment. She spoke up saying that she was discriminated against by an Olive Garden customer. She'd been harassed and retaliated against by her coworkers, superiors. She said that her superiors about the harassment and retaliation by a co-workers and Olive Garden, just the manager, who has since been fired, didn't do anything about it, or at least didn't do enough about it. But she said she overheard a co-worker say, Black people will do anything for money.

I don't like her. I mean, right. It's guilty. You don't need to play the guilty, guilt, guilt, guilty. they're guilty. But I'm confusing how it all started because apparently at this Olive Garden in Evansville, Indiana,

which I'm sure is a fine restaurant. I mean, I love Olive Garden, but I'm sure there are different locations that tend to be better than others. But a customer requested a, white server instead of the server

they already had. The manager of the restaurant instead of saying I can appreciate your racism, you racist person, but these are our servers and this is what you're

going to get here at Olive Garden. Or you can leave. Have a nice day. That didn't happen. The manager went ahead and granted the customer's request. Let me go find my white server. What did I do with my white server? Oh, there he is.

Oh, there she is. I bring her over here. Wow. Now, the company is saying that the manager, you know, has already got the boot and the whole thing. And now we have a, you know, of course, Olive Garden is a zero tolerance for discrimination. Of course, every company in America has a zero tolerance for that kind of thing.

But I really am bogged down on A. Wow. How, I mean, then after it happens, you get the jokes. I'm trying. I don't know that I hear she claims, I'm not calling her a liar, but she claims that she overheard, you know, co-workers say black people will do anything for money and I don't like her. That's going to be tough to prove.

unless the person actually admits that, yeah, I said it. Oh, I don't care. And maybe the, you know, the worker admits to saying, I don't like her, but not admit to the black people will do anything for money. But you can find it believable when you get to the point of, a customer asking for the white server, and then being granted from the manager. Wow. You just, what is going on in America? What is going on in America? Kind of a weird, scary moment in Sykeston, Missouri. More than a thousand dead birds were found last week in the southeastern Missouri town of Sykston, Missouri, fine town.

they released a statement about what happened but I mean they found carcasses of red-winged blackbirds brown-headed cowbirds, grackles and European starlings just dead just dead now that coming across that

that's a little strange that's a little strange and a little freaky especially with our history with birds, you know, the birds. But if you have not seen the movie, the birds, go back and take a watch. It's not going to be up to today's horror standards, but it does give you the idea of what I'm talking about. I mean, it does not even come close to today's, today's horror standards, you're watching the birds going, So, where's Elon's flame thrower? Just get rid of them all.

But when the movie was made. You're done. Have an end. The Admiral Credit. The bird. So a natural history biologist for the Missouri Department of Conservation responded to Wakefield Road. It's out there.

It's out there. Just west of Sykston. You know where it is. Just west of Sykston, Missouri out there. to investigate reports of large number of dead birds in the general area. North and west of the power plant, you know, those evil people that give you light, air conditioning, heat. I hate the power people. So, carcasses of the red-wing blackbirds, brown-headed cowbirds, grackles, European starloids, were observed

in the fields all along Wakefield Road. He also observed many birds showing signs of physical injury. So in areas of vegetated covered near the roadway, there were still a bunch that were, you know, limping along. I got to get back to my nest. I got to get back to my nest. But they were just, you know, they weren't dead. They were injured.

Think of that. Crawling over dead birds. I got to get back to my nest. So they canvas the neighborhood. Got more birds, realized that there were, you know, at least a thousand of them dead. And he estimated that the previous evening there was a big thunderstorm. And one resident reported hearing birds hitting the ground near their home during the storm. I confirmed with the National Weather Station in Paducah.

That's Paducah, Kentucky, for those of you that don't know that. That's a big old long brood. Anyway, from Paducah, Kentucky, right on and up. Anyway, if you never been to Paducah, Kentucky, it's beautiful, beautiful this time of year. It's actually not that bad a place. I'm just messing with you. But there's a huge, I don't know what the name of that bridge is. It doesn't matter.

It's a big old long bridge, though, out of Paduca. So they believe that the birds got caught up in the high winds. They got spooked. They got caught up in the high winds and the lightning and some of the hay. and then it was just over right there in the middle of the storm and boom it's done so some of the birds you know some of the limping ones i got to get back to my nest they just got dinged by some hail maybe got some you know maybe maybe maybe they were the 10th bird in line from a lightning strike so they still lived he's got a little bird got a wing burn and uh so it's reasonable to conclude that

the flock was spooked during the weather event and became injured ah okay he even says in his post it's rare that birds fall victim to volatile weather conditions uh no kidding birds are pretty smart but I will say that when it's going to storm

the birds all flock together if you see in and close to where I live in Oklahoma or Fort Worth Texas uh it's almost Oklahoma it's way the hell out there every time there's one there's one main road and there's all these blackbirds and they're they're always flying around and going here and you know try to steal people's food as they're leaving fast food restaurants and other restaurants they're out there and whenever it's going to storm they all come together man it is kind of scary kind of freaky because they're all rowed up on the lines they're all rode up in the trees they're all rowed up around all these restaurants and you're i mean i can remember going to you I've

Driven through the drive-thru a couple times, and all the birds are looking at you, like, I could send the word, and we would have these thousands of birds just attack your car right now, and you'd be dead. And we'd take your hamburger and fries, and that would be it. Got it?

But why do they need to attack your car? I mean, they can watch you suffer as they poop on it, and it's far less destructive. No, but they want the food. Well, I mean... I mean, if I'm at the fast food place, I'm not opening the window I say oh we'll go around

come back inside the drive-thru is closed right now because you open up that window man that bird could now and maybe you know you wouldn't be able to get it closed in time there'd be birds inside the that's a Wendy's that I remember

sitting in the drive-thru no cover by the way over the drive-thru window which is very disappointing to me and you look out and I mean to tell you birds on top of birds on top of birds all rode up man they are ready to attack so i can well understand if they're hovering together and then a giant storm comes out ow ow it's over it's over thousands of birds of baduca kuducky or it's something else something more sinister you decide

Another weird story that is either just weird or sinister, you decide. In Louisiana, the Sladelleyl Police Department pulled over a man. Got a license plate on his car from 1997. Now, he said, ah, it's just been too busy. Sir, it's been 23 years. I know. The one thing I didn't do another, I just never got to it.

And, you know, what are you going to do? Tell you what? I'll take care of it as soon as I get home. Now, it doesn't say in this story whether they let him go home, which is really weird. and said they didn't respond to request for more information. So he probably got a summons that said, change it,

or you're going to get a ticket and a warrant will be put out for your arrest. I'm not saying that I've ever had tickets like that, but, okay, I have. Get it fixed. I never forget I had a tail light out once. I was so mad. I got pulled over and the guy, I'm missing the taillight

The tail lights out And I was like No it's not I just look I mean I just saw it back in You know I'm out of the driveway I backed into the driveway

And I checked You know As I'm pulling out I see the lights working Naps out And so I get out of the car No way I get out of the car

I turn on the lines And tap the brake I even had the cops It said tap the brake I mean the cop To even tap the brake for me I tapped the break No way

And he taps That's out So that had to just go out I get it fixed. He writes me a summons. I was so bad. And, you know, I mean, no one supports the police department more than this show, chewing the fat. No one.

But there was no need to write me a summits. And the summit said that I had to get it changed and that I had to have it okayed by another police officer that it was fixed. Ouch. I was so pissed. So I get it fixed. I get it. I'm not going to drive around with it out for too long. I'm not going to go for it.

Well, this wasn't 1997. It wasn't 23 years later. And so then I pull up and there's two police officers at this location and they're there. The cars are there. They were working on something, but they were outside of their cars. And I pull up and I walk up to him and I'm like, hey, I want you guys to sign off on this, please. I showed him a summons. And I said, I got it fixed.

I just got the lights, and the guy goes, who the hell wrote you this? And he looks at the name, and he just shakes his head. He doesn't say anything to me, he just shakes his head, like, you know, even the police officers were like, what a douche. What are you making me do this for? So, I mean, I'm guessing this is what happened to this man in Louisiana. Been busy, he's 23 years, you forgot to renew your tags.

You could well understand how someone could forget something like that. you just hey you just don't do it still driving my car and think of that he's been driving around for 23 years I don't know how often he runs to the store you know been driving around but he's driving around for 23 years

not getting caught I mean Guilty! Guilty! Counting! Yeah, it's time to it's time to it's time to butcher up a little bit. Get the new tags. Let's go. And something to look forward to as well.

As you're concerned, we'll get into a coronavirus update today too. I've got some, I've got some, well, I hate to call coronavirus stories great, but there's some really great coronavirus stories today and some great audio as well. But I wanted to give you something to look forward to if you ever, if you're thinking, I probably should self-quarantine. If you think you have it, you want to self-quarantine, and we want to keep the spread down. I would say,

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Oh, you don't have no idea. Oh my gosh. It's so good. And hey, look who's in the break room. Eric Finman. Eric, how in the world are you? Hey, nice to hear from you too. So, Eric, big news yesterday in the Bitcoin world.

And for those of you that don't remember Eric Finman for history purposes, he's remembered as the youngest Bitcoin millionaire, someone I can be mad at for being smarter than he needed to be as a young teenager. And he's been fighting for some cryptocurrency rules, right? Isn't that right, Eric? yeah absolutely so yesterday um we introduced with uh congressman gozhar from arizona the cryptocurrency act of 2020 which is kind of meant to be a really like a a really big bill for basically this whole multi-hundred billion dollar industry to really clear up the rules clear up the regulations the

the u.s is one of the worst in the world for regulations on this stuff even like europe is better Europe actually, the UK's version, the UK government actually said the U.S. government was too regulatory on this. So it's kind of like flipped. It's crazy. Really? So with this new bill that is now the, and it is the cryptocurrency bill, is that right? It doesn't have a special HR-85B hashtag bash dash back forward slash number? No, yeah, it has the name, which is the Cryptocurrency Act of 2020, and the number for it is 61.54. 61.54. Well, it does get a number. Good. I didn't want it to go without a number. So what do you hope, let's see, this bill goes through, and what does that do for me, the average guy?

Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, we talk about the industrial revolution. I think there was the Internet revolution. And I think there's going to be the blockchain revolution, the Bitcoin revolution. And I think, and honestly, right now, I think the reason why you haven't seen it as much, I mean, it's had tremendous success. But the reason you haven't seen it at the same as the industrial revolution, the Internet revolution, is just because of these laws are so terrible. It's like, imagine if you applied old newspaper laws and rules to the Internet when that came out. I mean, it really hurts us.

And that's why, you know, the rest of the world, even our enemies, our competitors, Russia, China, they're doing way better on this stuff in the U.S. The EU started a big blockchain fund and all that. So, I mean, I think you're really going to notice it from an economic perspective. I think you're going to use it from, you know, if you're a business, I think you're, I think, you know, just as every company became an internet company in some way, like even a restaurant in the middle of nowhere has to get on Yelp, I think every company will be a blockchain company or have to take maybe cryptocurrency

and all this stuff. So, you know, and one, if you want to start a business, right, now you can not it's really hard you need at least a million dollars to really start a a crypto businesses a crypto business because you have to apply for a license and each of the 50 states to operate because they apply all these rules imagine if you had in order to start a restaurant you had to have a minimum a million dollars or more um to really get going you know you would only have McDonald's because those would be the only people that could afford it you wouldn't have that you know that that that homie place down the street and that's a

same case. You don't have Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, out of a garage because they can't afford a million dollars in lawyers. I'm fortunate. I made a lot of money in Bitcoin. I run a crypto company. I can spend that money. But I feel like that's what's going to affect. I think it's going to issue in a crypto renaissance. I think it's going to issue in an economic renaissance, just like as all the internet companies, when they launch, Google, Amazon, that increased GDP, created hundreds of thousands of jobs. I mean, I think that's what's going to happen. So I think it's a really big deal. So what's the progression of this bill? What next?

Now, I mean, we have the bill. What next for you? I mean, we're continuing to fight. I mean, it certainly isn't law yet. Yeah. We haven't passed it yet. I mean, we had the, I think it was a lot of work to get introduced yesterday. So I feel like we got to the moon, and now we just got to work the landing.

And that is, and that is the hardest part. So it has to go through Maxine Waters. committee and all that stuff. So that's been usually tough for people to get through for crypto stuff. I think we'll be able to get through. No problem. And then after it goes to committee financial services, kind of like a, that's two dozen people or whatever.

Right. Then it goes to agricultural committee and they can either vote on it themselves. It's about two dozen people or take, you know, whatever financial services did. And then they go to the floor. So that's Nancy Pelosi and then Kevin McCart. and then decide kind of when it goes to the floor, and then it goes to the Senate, and that would go to a banking committee.

So it's like they have all these little mini-committees before it goes to vote by everybody. So that's actually I'm from Idaho. Mike Crapo runs that committee. So, you know, he's from Idaho. So I don't know, maybe that'll be helpful. Yeah, what's the, what's the astrology? What's the stars looking like?

Do you feel like this is going to actually happen? Yeah, I really think it's going to happen. I wouldn't be in it if I weren't to win it. I think it has good bipartisan support. I mean, I think like someone we had to speak yesterday, I mean, she told this really beautiful story of, you know, she was from Africa and, and, you know, how she was able, her son was really sick and she couldn't afford medicine. And she couldn't, she tried taking jobs online because she's in Botswana. There's really no opportunity. and all that. She took jobs online, but they wouldn't pay in Botswanan currency. So, but she was able to use Bitcoin. And that's borderless, you know, get paid instantly and taking all these jobs and her son was sick and all that. And, you know, was able to buy health care. So, you know, we showed a ton of stories from, I'm from rural Idaho, you know, very red state, you know, and all that. And, and, you know, we showed those stories as well. So I think this has very much bipartisan appeal. You know, it's good for business, good for the economy. And it's good at an

individual levels, like with stories like that. So, uh, and your story, of course, is, uh, you know, Mr. Showoff, uh, Eric, Eric Finman, Mr. Showoff, Mr. Uh, Mr. uh, the youngest, uh, Bitcoin millionaire ever. Is that still true? Uh, yeah, as of now, yeah, youngest person to become a Bitcoin millionaire, and I think still at present, the youngest Bitcoin millionaire, but I get a year older every year. Yeah, well, welcome to the crowd. Yeah. So we have, uh, a lot of the country to mention. So we have, uh, a lot of Along with this bill, I mean, you're talking about, you know, the crypto securities and the cryptocurrencies and the crypto commodities.

Is that where, you know, the Proton Association comes in with trying to put all these together? Yeah, absolutely. So I think Facebook made a big mistake. They went in and tried to launch their own cryptocurrency and was something called the Libra Association. And that failed bombastically in D.C. You know, I guess better or for worse. But it's, you know, so we want to.

We actually want to work alongside on government. So, you know, like they started like Whitehouse.gov back in the day. They had all these internet pilot programs that really got, you know, opened the government, getting, government people getting educated about the internet and using the internet back in the 90s when that came out. And was or getting more popular. And we want to do that. So rather than like working kind of, you know, just trying to, just trying to, you know, ignore. I think it's kind of impossible to ignore these people.

So I think working with them and doing kind of, you know, blockchain equivalent whitehouse.gov type things and all that. And then, and then, yeah, I mean, I think I think it's going to, I think it's going to be good. I think it's going to be popular. So the Cryptocurrency Act of 2020, H.R. 6154 has made it. What can we do to help? I mean, I think just go in, go on Twitter. say I support the Cryptocurrency Act of 2020. You know, tweet at Gosar or call Gosar, Congressman Paul Gosar in Arizona,

saying I really like what you're doing. And that's basically it. Just go on Twitter, Facebook, talk about the Cryptocurrency Act of 2020, and call Congressman or tweet at Congressman Gosar if you so desire. Eric Finman, how can people get in touch with you if they want to learn more about to cryptocurrency. Are you giving any classes? You're making any speeches? What are you doing? Yes. I did a class back in the day and all that stuff. I since closed that, but my Twitter is at Eric Finman on Twitter. So I really, I really use Twitter a lot. My Facebook page is also

my name, E-R-I-K, F-N-M-A-N, just like Aquaman, but with a Finn, Finman. So that's just how you get in contact. Eric Finman, thank you very much. I appreciate it. The Cryptocurrency Act of 2020, H.R. Bill 6154. Thank you. I appreciate it, sir. Good luck. Thank you so much. All right, a friendly reminder to subscribe to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Now, you can subscribe on any platform you like. It doesn't matter? Well, it does kind of. You can pick any platform that warms the little innards of your heart. But Hashtag not SoundCloud.

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All right, so let's do our daily coronavirus update. I know. Chris Cruz still missing again in action. I don't know. I don't want to talk about it. I don't want to talk about it because I don't think Chris has but I'm not a doctor I just play one on the radio

so as of this recording today the 10th of March 2020 for those of you watching and listening live Corona cases worldwide 117,9 959 4,264 deaths

65,000 40 recovered. Okay, there's your numbers. Those are the daily updated numbers. Now there are some stories surrounding the coronavirus, COVID-19, that are strange. And one of them today is, well, there's more than one of them today, is almost the dumbing down of America. But you, it's just people being scared, really, is what it is. I know it's the dumbing down of America, and I can't help, but watch. There's a report coming out of Kentucky, I think.

I think it is Kentucky. I'm sorry, Tennessee. I get a mixed up. You got Tennessee, if you look at a map, you look at it, you know, you got, you got, if you turn the map up down, you got Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky. They're quick states to drive through. When you're coming north to south, Kentucky.

No, it is not. If you're dry, you know how many times I've driven north from Florida through Tennessee and Kentucky and south through Kentucky and Tennessee? Because you drive through on the opposite sides of those states, you have Georgia and the south and Ohio to the north. Ohio is a huge long state. Georgia is a huge long state. If you're coming from Florida, Florida takes forever to drive through.

So you drive to get to, oh, we're finally at Georgia. And then it takes Georgia, you drive through forever. And then Tennessee and Kentucky, boom, boom, you're through. Because of that. You come from, when you're coming from Michigan, you drive through, you finally get to Ohio. Oh, thank God, I'm finally in Ohio. Ohio takes forever to get through. And then by the time you get to the end of Ohio, there's Kentucky.

Boom, boom. You're through Kentucky in Tennessee. You're at Georgia. and then Georgia takes forever. I'm telling you I've done it a thousand times. Okay, so I apologize. All right, I already apologized. Wow, leave me alone, right?

So in Shelby County schools in Memphis, Tennessee, they have a problem because an employee that worked at an elementary school and a middle school there is on a 14-day quarantine and has not displayed any symptoms but is in a quarantine just to be safe and they're talking about the cases

in their area what's going on people who have contacted the contract of the disease we hear from the county health department director but of course our favorite thing here on chewing the fat is a man on the street

or a woman on the street reporting and you can't do a local news story without talking to someone on the streets. I mean, how many times have we talked about it, we've aired it, it's shocking to me. When you put a camera and a microphone in front of somebody's face, they have to talk. And I say that with cameras and microphones in front of me.

I get it. I know how difficult it is. I understand, but you don't have to respond. Hey, got a minute, like to talk about this. No, thank you. And move on. You don't have to prove you don't know what you're talking about. But this story, they talk to a mom.

And they also show a picture, which you will not see, obviously, unless you're watching live. But they show a guy spraying his son with Lysol. And they show a lady walking up. Now, she does have a mascot. She does have what seems to be a metal. made mask surrounded by a plastic bag over her head. You look like an idiot. Plastic bag over her hands.

Plastic bag over her shoes. Except that one of the plastic bags over the one shoe is now broken because she was walking. She looks down and you're going to hear her explain. And as she explains, she realizes that she explains, oh, I lost that. But when you listen to it, I'm going to play it for you. And then, after you're done shaking your head, I'll explain it to you. And don't know about it won't their child to be sick.

And don't know about it want to take their virus to their house. Parents with children at Treadwell, middle, and elementary schools are not playing around. They show her, pause this first second. And some even sprayed them with disinfectant. Okay, so they showed her after that. They show her wiping down her child's backpack with a disinfected wipe. And then you also, that's what she comments that she shows the guy disinfecting his son.

Oh, it's just horrible. Go on with the next one. And spray as they took them home Monday. I wiped my shoes and backpack down when I got them out of school. Sure did. It got them out. She did. Parents are doing this after they found out an employee who works at Treadwell Middle

and elementary came in contact with a person who tested positive for the coronavirus in Memphis. Some took more extreme measures. Two garbage bags. My shoes and came in loose. Two sacks. No sec. We need to the Shelby County Health Department say this is not necessary because it's a very low risk situation for students. And we're good.

We're good. Now, you see it. And I want to thank the people on Twitter that said it to me. Send it to me. I'm sure there are CTF influencers in Tennessee watching the news reports from Fox 13. Man on the street with the coronavirus. They've got time to fill. They've got to do a man on the street reports.

I get it. And they're telling you, it's not necessary. And you want to laugh and you want to say, oh, my gosh, what are you people thinking? They're just scared. They're just scared parents trying to figure out. They don't know what to do. So they feel like they have to do something. Sometimes.

Sometimes. It's best. not to do anything. Ain't nobody got time for that? Thank you. We also have human lab rats needed, is the headline. Would you get infected with coronavirus for $4,500? Is that enough?

Is that enough for you? No. I might be in for $4,500. Nope, nope, nope, no, no, no. I might be in. Got to be five figures at least. Queen Mary Bio Enterprises Innovation Center in London looking for 24 volunteers to inject with the dreaded coronavirus

and participate in their flu camp You're going to be paid $4,588 for your troubles. I don't know, that seems like It doesn't say how we've got to figure out how long this is going to be though because you're going to receive a battery of tests you're going to be given two of the virus's weaker strains, the OC-43 of the 229E, duh. I mean, that goes without saying,

which should cause mild respiratory symptoms. They will be given due and existing vaccines. So they'll give you these two mild strains, then you're going to get the vaccine. We'll see what happens to you once you get the virus. Then we're going to give you vaccines to see, what happens to you once you're given the vaccines? All the doctors, you know,

going to wear the protective clothing, they're going to analyze the patients. Okay, drug companies get a very good idea within a few months of starting a vaccine study whether it's working or not. Go ahead. UK medicine's health care doesn't say, aside from the actual downside of being sick,

participants must stay in quarantine. for two weeks eat a restricted diet and avoid human contact and exercise. I can do that in two weeks. $4,500 for two weeks? I think I might be in. Now, of course, this is in the United Kingdom,

so I'm going to be charged a fortune just to fly there, if you could fly there. But you know they're lining up around the block for this. And good for them. Let's get this thing rolling. Let's find the vaccines that

work and let's get people better, period. So we don't have to worry about... Download and subscribe to more content at theblease.com slash podcasts. I mean, there's so much coronavirus information out there now. And all I want to talk about, I mean, I'll tweet this out at Jeffrey JFR. I may even put this out my Facebook and Instagram pages, Jeff Fisher Radio. But this past weekend, aside from watching the new Amazon series, Zerr.

Which isn't bad. If you like, they follow a drug shipment from the first part of the deal to the end of the deal. And I figured my first thought was that the end is they're all dead. Zero, zero, zero. That's what it means. Zero, zero, zero. They're all dead. We're going to go through, I think it's eight episodes, and they're all dead.

you watch you tell me what happens that's just what i thought going in that's how the series is going to end eight episodes zero zero zero they end everybody's dead so i'm at home and i'm like oh you know we haven't watched in a while and we're we're we're having dinner on saturday night i'm like you know what we have let's go into the living room and finish our dinner and watch dawn of the planet of the apes i haven't watched dawn in a while i wanted to watch dawn on the planet of the apes i like that movie it's the second one of the series there was rise there's dawn there's war and I enjoyed them all

I liked Dawn the most number two the second one in the series the best out of the new Planet of the Apes series so we put it on and I want the first the opening scene

montage two minutes is incredible incredible and it's all about the news coverage of the worldwide simian flu pandemic no i don't want to play it because i don't know that we can i don't know if we're getting trouble for playing it so i'm just going to post it i'll i'll share it on social media i'll post it i'll see if i can tag my youtube channel uh with it so you can you know subscribe to my youtube channel even though this particular clip isn't on my YouTube channel.

But you should subscribe to me, The Fat with Jeff Fisher's a YouTube channel. But this two minutes is incredible. And I know it's just a movie. I got it. But it's the opening sequence from Dawn to the Planet of the Apes. And it is something. I want to play it for you.

If we were actually shooting video and audio live. I'd turn my screen around and let you watch it. That wouldn't get us in too much trouble, would it? Oh, yes, it would. I know. I know, I got it. Now, there's all kinds of postponements going on,

thanks to the coronavirus. I mean, you have Coachella now postponed. We have Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade canceled. They're not even, well, I mean, they're not saying postponed because it's, it's, every year. So it's just this particular year is canceled. We still have the Dallas St. Patrick's Day Parade.

The Mavs put it on every year here in Dallas. That has not been postponed. That's supposed to happen this weekend, I think. So good luck. I don't know. We'll see if that still takes place or not. Because the NBA is a big pusher of perhaps we should start thinking about keeping people kind of away from other people.

So we've got that going on. I mean, Italy, and we may even mention it yesterday, I mean, Italy is quarantined the entire country. They've shut it down. It's incredible. They're talking about, I mean, think of the economic pain that's going to cause to the country. It's just incredible what could become of this

if we don't find a vaccine to this. And, you know, if you pray for anything, if you have deep thoughts for anything, pray for a vaccine for this to come out and be done now. Even if it's someone saying, you know, we believe that this could be the vaccine. This is what our tests are showing now. And that's what they're doing in the UK, right?

That's why they need human lab rats. Okay, good. I mean, I know that the CDC has, or I'm not the CDC, the World Health Organization. Who? Yes. Has released their recipe to make your own hand sanitizer. But you also have the state of New York saying they're going to make their own hand sanitizer thanks to prison labor.

It's nice of the governor. It's nice of the governor to do that. We have Larry Flint at the Hustler Club. he's done a PSA that you can watch because they are hosing down the hustler clubs every night to keep you corona free it's nice to Larry

nice of Larry who knew Larry was still alive wait a second is he still I got to find how old is Larry Flynn 77 years old he'll be 78 this year wow still plugging strong bless his heart bless

his heart. Now we have we had a little kid in Austin. I mean, selling hand sanitizer by the side of the road. That's capitalism. Right.

Thank you. I mean, the kid's figures, why not? Sets up out on the old curb with the hand sanitizer? What's he selling it for? Hold on. We might be saying, kid, dude, knocked down the price of little bit bro. All right. So Miles Barker is selling three bucks a bottle and he calls it

Corona gel. I love this kid. Krono gel. He started to make it and we thought, how about we sell it? It's sold out everywhere. And we sell it to make a little bit of money. I mean, he makes it with Aliva, essential oils and alcohol. It meets the 60% alcohol standard recommended by the CDC. Business is booming. His goal was to make a hundred bucks

and this story broke a couple of days ago, three or four days ago, so he's already made that. If you're in the neighborhood, you're buying one of those for three bucks. Right? Yeah. You're buying, driving by miles and you're dropping the three bucks to the kid.

You may even just drop a ten spot. Take three of them off the kids' head and give them an extra buck. I mean, that's the kind of guy I am. So there's also other scams, other scams going on. I mean, the United States Secret Service has issued a coronavirus fishing alert. In fact, they're saying that, you know, criminals are opportunists. Yes, they are. That is the quote of the day. Criminals are opportunists because, yes, they It's a prime opportunity for enterprising criminals because it plays on one of the basic human conditions fear. So if you're getting fishing emails, emails about coronavirus, please don't click on them. And if you have someone that gets emails that you think might be a person who would click on something like that,

How about you don't click on it? And you just let them go. And there's, I still am waiting to hear how I'm going to get ripped off with letting these companies put ads on my Facebook page. I get emails every day, every day, about, hey, we'll put ads on your Facebook page. And I want to say yes, because it's pretty good money

for just putting ads on my Facebook page, hell yeah, go ahead. Yes. But there's, I know I'm going to get, I know, I know it's too good to be true. And say, well, if it's too good to be true, it probably is. And most of the time it's not probably is. If it's too good to be true, it is. And now there, we have to just, people tell us that this may come, was a surprise to me so I want you to sit down.

I want you to sit down, okay? Coronavirus cannot be cured by drinking bleach or snorting cocaine. I know, but according to a quick glance over the socials, garlic, bleach,

cocaine, and even pleasureing yourself are not cures for the coronavirus I mean wow maybe I go back to I was feeling sorry for the people

in Tennessee because they just didn't know what to do but this could be given to you as the dumbing down of America man if at any time

someone says to you bleach is cure. It's probably not. It's probably not. It's just me. And I know that we're starting to get a little people are starting to get a little freaked out. And I can understand it because we don't know what to do. We don't know what to do. I mean, really the only thing to do is to wash your hands. make sure if you go to the grocery store you hose down the shopping cart when you're walking in

you know what I mean? I know that it's you know when you're done shopping wash your hands it's what you have to do and those are everyday precautions that you really should be doing anyway and sometimes you know

you think about it and I catch myself too okay so we know that the shopping carts are dirty right so we go in and we I didn't wipe it down so there's already two late. You've already, you've already, you've already touched the car and have one. So you just go shopping. Now you've touched all the goods on the shelf. You don't know who's touched those goods before, put them back, whatever, who put them on the shelf, where they came from. So then you throw them up

on the conveyor belt at the store. If you haven't, even if you're not checking, if you're checking yourself out, you're just setting it on the ledge there. But you can put it up on the conveyor belt at the self-checkout as well sometimes. How often is that being disinfected? So now you're, now you're touching it again. You're putting it in the bad. You get put it in the back of your car. You get in the car and you go, oh, I'll wash my hands when I get home. Now you've touched the steering wheel,

and you've touched your face another thousand times. I get it. I get the frustration and how hard it is. Ouch. Ouch. It's a continuous, it's a cycle of ouches. I know. I got it.

You just do the best you can't. He do the best you can. And it's going to come. I've told you before, and I'll tell you again. All right. And I want you to quote me on this. We're still here in the U.S., where it looks like, you know, China's getting better now. It looks like they're at least making a concerted effort to let everyone know that it's getting better.

I know the press was out and about taking pictures. So they're, you know, on the bend. And at least that's what they want us to believe. And other countries that were initially, you know, the numbers splashed because of the tests are now starting to, you know, see those numbers come back a little. Yeah, because people were tested. They had it.

Now they're better. It will get worse here in the United States. numbers-wise before it gets better. And you can quote me on that. Now, do we need to go all-out panic? I mean, is it the... I'll go back to another movie, another documentary. Because I talked about the documentary,

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Another documentary, it was called Monsters Inc. Where they show the news report and the guy says, now is the time to appendix. And so, I mean, I think, I hope we're not there. I hope we're not there.

Please. Please tell me we're not there. You're not telling me we're not there. Oh, thank you. That's what I thought.