Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 330 | Fat Pile Friday - CQB Headquarter EDITION | Guest: James O'Keefe

Episode Date: March 20, 2020

We made it! Today is our first week inside the CQB Headquarters and Jeffy is bringing you all the stories you missed during the week. Don't worry the coronavirus topic is not that long, but we do have to talk about it because that's our new normal. Be safe and remember to wash your hands. Also in the break room we find James O'Keefe and he has things to say. Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it. Fat Pile headline Friday from the COVID-19 quarantine bunker, the CQB headquarters. I mean, oh, the headline's getting longer and longer. Welcome to the show, Chewing the Fat, with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Just remember, with all that's going on and the world in turmoil, perhaps your person, life is in turmoil and things seem to be spinning out of control.

Just no. You thought I was going to go to a commercial, didn't you? Nope. I just wanted to tell you that it's the first weekend of spring. And just get outside and celebrate spring with you and your family and just smile. No, no, no. No, it's spring. It would be the exact.

the opposite of that dumb okay so we've gone through the whole week and it's I mean the stories just keep compiling and compiling and compiling and we're going to fatter and fatter oh hell no uh-uh no no

I do not want to get fatter I'm seeing pictures of day one quarantine day 30 in quarantine and people look like upa lupas short little chubby No, that's not going to happen, Fisher. No.

Oh, yeah. Don't you wish that upon our audience. That's just wrong. No, but I was just talking about the stories, really. I wasn't necessarily, I wasn't talking about actual weight. Oh, never mind that. See, I'm a little testy when it comes to that. I'm so scared right now.

It's okay. I'm so scared about getting fat doing this quarantine. Are you concerned about you getting fat or are you concerned about the wife putting on some LBs? Oh, no, me. She lost three passes. in quarantine. I don't know what is going on with her. Yeah. She's like, oh my gosh. I'm losing weight. Shut up. She's one of those people that she goes. She goes and ease. I never get fat. I don't know what the problem is. Shut up. She comes to me says, uh-oh. I'm like, oh, I'm like, oh,

I'm 107 again. I haven't been dead since high school. I'm like, shut up. I have 107 on my left thigh. I wish I was 107. I was like second grade maybe. Maybe second grade might have been kindergarten. 107. Again, shut up. So anyway, we're going to plow through.

I'm serious, we're going to plow through the fat pile today and just let you know the other stories and coronavirus. I mean, most news stories now are just wrapped around COVID-19 and coronavirus anyway. Oh, because that's our life. That's our life.

Cities are shutting down. States are shutting down. I mean, here in Texas, we can't gather with more than 10 people now. And we're okay with it. We can't visit nursing homes, retirement communities. We're limiting bars and rent. We're limiting businesses.

Dude, it was crazy yesterday because all that goes into effect tonight. All right, right. Tonight. And. In Texas. In Texas, yes. And most of the places, you know, L.A. There's a bunch of stuff going on.

San Francisco. There's things going on all over the country. So we don't. We don't need to necessarily be specific to areas because, or L.A. was the first. Yeah, well, that's just because they were for one. Yeah. They're a communist state, so who cares?

Yeah. But here in Texas, man, this is going to effect until April 3rd. No. Yes, baby. I thought it was like midnight tonight. No, it's from tonight until April 3rd. Oh, oh, I see. Right, right, right, right.

I got you. Right. Oh, well, and it's going to be longer than that. up. They're putting end dates on it to make people feel good, but I'm sorry, my friend. Why? You can plan on being longer. Again, who are you? I don't understand you. Why are you doing this? I'm trying to look at the light at the end of the tunnel and boom, you just punch me and knocked out the light. Listen, there is no light at the end of the tunnel. There is a light in the end of the tunnel. Okay. All right. All right. You know what? I'll give you that. There is light at the end of the

tunnel. We just can't see the end of the tunnel. Okay. No problem. You're right. There's light at the end of the tunnel. But if there's no, you can't see it with a telescope. Man, NASA can't find the light at the end of the tunnel. NASA can't even tell us when an asteroid might hit us. That's the story we did yesterday.

The asteroid might come by the earth soon. Oh. Oh, okay, soon. So we'll just, we'll just kind of, you know, is it soon, is it soon yet? Is it here? Oh, no, okay. And we don't even know if it's going to hit us. It'll probably be okay.

It's just going to give us, it's just going to give us air bursts, air bubbles. So farce? We're going to get asteroid farts. Yeah, we're going to get asteroid farts. But soon, we don't know when. I mean, it's ridiculous. And now we're proposing laws that will make it illegal to return items hordered for coronavirus. Now, I don't know how.

you prove that it was an item purchased for hoarding. And I don't like, the hoarding thing kind of ticks me off. Yeah, that's not hoarding. I'm buying items in case I need them. All right. I'm buying items in case I need them. It's called preparedness. If I don't need them, you're going to tell me I can't bring them back now.

Oh, I'm shooting you. I'm shooting you. I'm shooting. For bringing back my, but my cans of soup yeah I'm shooting you how dare you you bought that you eat that I bought a couple extra cans I'd like to return them

nope dead but I don't want to die I just want to return my cans of soup A can of Campbell soup That tomato basil Eat it next in line No I'm good I don't know what I'm doing in this line I was I'm sorry but uh I think we need to start learning from China

Wow. We need to start her from China. You're working for government now? And it goes, that's what we're doing. You know, I don't care anymore. I think that's what it is. I don't care. I don't care.

I don't care. And by not caring. And I don't think you're necessarily alone if you're going where I think you're going, but by not caring what don't you care about? Everything. It's just bring it on. I don't care what the news says. because I know it's going to be long

and I'm getting tired of like oh April 3rd oh no look at the time it's going to be March I mean it's going to be May 3rd oh look at the time it's going to be August I just don't care I'm just going to go out get what I need come back it's not like I well you have to

you know you can't all you can do is when you're allowed to go out you can go out and get if it's available you can get what you need and come back on last time I checked this is America if someone stops me I'm like what I don't care I don't care well seriously time to fight back okay

it's all right so there that's let's let's go there let's go there we talked a little bit a little bit about this this morning on Pat Gray and we didn't go you know too far into it because it's really easy to get there but we can get there of this on chewing the fat I mean when do we push back okay so we We're the sheep. Okay. We're the sheep and we're being pushed now to the ledge, right? Or to what appears to be a ledge.

Now, do we fall off the ledge? I think some people do. Some people will. Yes. But when do, you know, does half the herd turn around? Is it sheep herding? Yeah. Heard.

We have to herd turn around and go, uh, how about no? How about no? I'm not going to go any farther. The straw that could break the camel's back is. No, but I was talking about sheep. I don't know why you bring up camels. The, I don't know what the sheep's at.

The cotton that breaks the sheep's back is if I see any usage of the military or the police department as a blockade. Okay. Well, I mean, L.A. is saying that, I mean, they're saying that they're going to deputize city employees. to make sure people are following the new guidelines. Okay. So we got the crossing guard deputized telling me, what are you doing here? Where do you live?

What's your address? Do you have identification? Are you allowed to be out here? Or do you go back to your neighborhood? Well, I mean, they're not, I mean, are we going to give them weapons? Are we going to give them any kind of authority other than you should really go back to your home? No.

What happens when a Chris Cruz comes up to the crossing guard and says, F you, get out of my way? Not going to say F you, because then they have probable cause there to do something else to me. I'm like, I'm sorry, no, I'm not, no. Oh, but I'm sorry, no isn't probable cause. No, because I didn't curse at him. I'm just being very nice. No, if that happened, let's say, because right now, Taryn County is pissing me off. Tarrant County is the only county that is still functioning at a 100% and nothing.

I know. Cour hearings are still happenings. Visitations are sure happening. You could like get to see a judge anytime. Everybody else is like shut down and stuff for Taryn County. Come on. I think we need to call the sheriff and be like, dude, what the hell you're doing? So you want it shut down?

I want it shut down. Yes. Why? Because what are they doing? I literally went outside and there's people walking around with masks. That really pissed me off. In my neighborhood with masks. An entire family.

Mom, dad, and kid. The only one that was on wearing a mask was the dog. I was like, well, good thing the dog can't, you know, take the coronavirus. That we know of. We were being told that we're saying by the dog, right? You know, we're being told by who that dogs can't. carry it. So like, who?

Yeah, who? Okay. It's, I don't know. It's, if, if someone tells me, get back to your house, they better have a damn good reason. Well, the reason is going to be that they've been deputized. No, but no. From the local community. Other than that.

And they're making sure that you are following the new guidelines. Okay, fine. I'm not sick. I might be fat, but I'm not 10 people. I can go outside and do whatever the hell I want. You can't just don't go past your yard Oh hell no See

Don't go past your yard You are that guy that's gonna really piss me off Don't go past your yard And I'm just gonna like punch It's just gonna be No I'm not that guy Look at there's going to be those guys out there That's my point and that's my problem

That's my I mean I really do I don't know at what point You know I went out yesterday Uh I went out once the day before Once yesterday And yesterday I stayed in my car, but I didn't go through a drive-through. And the day before I went out and went to a doctor's office, which was a strange place.

I mean, really kind of weird going into the doctor's office. But I took my father-in-law to the doctor appointment. And, you know, they're temp-read. And you don't get to go. Only the patient goes back to the doctor. And the nurses are all wearing masks. and it's just weird. But we're still doing business.

We're still out and about. People are kind of social distancing. They're staying away. Everybody's kind of staying away from each other. They're still being nice. Everybody's been really, really nice. Yeah, yeah. Everybody's talking and trying to share.

And, boy, I know it's really weird kind of place. Everybody knows we're in this weird place. But it feels, and I know, I know my feelings, but it feels like this is because we all believe that we're, that we have that end date coming. Yes. The end of the tunnel is there. If we, if, if it is April 3rd, right?

I mean, the governor said April 3rd. These are in effect until April 3rd. That's why they put the end date on them, right? Because we see, oh, okay, it's only until April 3rd. Fine, we're fine. But it's not going to be April 3rd. It's going to be April 1st is going to come. Yep.

And it's not going to be an April Fool's Day. joke when he says, well, we're going to extend it until May 1st now. Yeah. And the thing that a lot of people are not understanding through their heads, because I'm not, is why are schools shut down? I don't get it. What do you mean? That's because so many people get together. They're trying not to spread the disease. Schools should be open. That is the open. Oh, no. No. I think that's the thing that makes people even more angry right now is that the schools are not open. But that's where people, that's the largest gathering of people a lot of times. Of course they're going to be closed.

Don't block me down with facts, okay? All I'm saying is schools. Largest gathering of children, largest gathering of adults, a lot of gathering of spreaders of disease together in one building in buildings all across the country. Of course they're going to be closed. That's one thing I don't understand. And I have a feeling that school is canceled until the end of the year. Oh, it's done.

But again, they're putting dates out of these so that we feel better. I don't feel better. We see that we believe that that date is the light at the end of the tunnel. No. I can reach it. Hold on. It's right there. April 30 is coming.

It's right there. Don't worry about it. It's the end. We're good with it. We only have to do it until this long. You only have to do it until this long and then it's over. Well, yeah, the first day. for us was March 27.

So that's seven days from now. March 27th for what? For kids going back to school. They were supposed to go back to school for March 27. Hang that up. And then last night, well, yesterday, that's when Governor Abbott signed that new executive order and extend that March 27 to April 3rd.

In reality, if schools do open up, it's not going to be in April 3rd because April 3rd is a Friday. It's going to be April 6th that Monday. Look who's adding days together. You are. I have the calendar right in front of me. But, you know, one thing I just... Look, it's not going to happen.

Because right now, and we knew it was going to happen, and it's in our face right now, the tests are becoming available. And we said from the very beginning, when the tests become available, the numbers are going to, are going to start growing. They're not,

hopefully we've done enough social distancing. Yep. And enough, you know, uh, shelter in place, uh, orders that it's going to flatten that curve,

which is what we're all about now. We want to flatten the curve, right? But the numbers are still climbing, what appears to be through the roof. We're saying it's, you know, it's over 14,000.

There's, you know, 600 new cases already today. We've got 27,000. deaths already total today. But really those numbers are nothing. Yeah. Yeah.

I was looking at the numbers about just the common flu. Oh, yeah. 22,000 people. We don't care about that. We don't care about that. And here in Texas, I believe it's on Monday.

It's when those home kits will be delivered in Texas. Governor Abbott just said it on his Twitter. So we'll see what happens in Texas. I believe in Texas, the highest of people infected is Austin. And yesterday, Houston opened up their first coronavirus drive-through. There's one in Austin. There's one in Houston.

I'm waiting for the one in Dallas and Fort Worth. You know, but I don't know, man. Like, if you think about fishing, it's only been a week here at CQB. Yeah. And I feel that, you know, behind you, I don't see anything. I need you to start personalizing your space because we're going to be here for a while. Hollered at me about it too. My wife has been after me to do it and I'm like, I need you to turn that into the studio that you're supposed to be turning that into because we're going to be here at CQB.

I say into the beginning of the summer. Okay. So, but see, you're still believing there's light at the end of the time. I'm punching you. If you take this damn last light I have. If you take this hope I have, I'm going to come through this video screen and punch you. Just saying there's no light. It's in.

I don't know. Reminder, for those of you listening to this broadcast right now, it is called Chewing the Fat. It is hosted by myself, Jeff Fisher, produced and yapped on to by Chris Cruz. every day, Monday through Friday, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Now, we also release a podcast, an extra podcast on Monday, where we break down the Walking Dead series called Talking Walking Dead. And on Saturdays, I usually release an interview, either living the American dream or just a, you know, a special kind of sit-down interview. and this week is no different.

Wait. I'm sorry? Wait. You're making me coming to work on Saturday? Well, yes, I'm making you come up to your room. On Saturday. Upstairs. So wait, wait, wait.

So even though we're quarantined here at CQB, I still have to... My eye am in the CQB. I don't know why you keep trying to milk like you're part of it. I'm not in the... I'm upstairs in my second floor. Sorry. I wanted to join in on the joke, but I guess I'm not allowed. You're racist, white supremacist.

You're not good enough. You're not white enough. You can't come into a CQB anyways. I didn't say I never, I never have said that you are not. Well, that might not be true either. Never mind. Go ahead. Okay.

I have to come in tomorrow to do an interview. Well, to record an interview because I'm not really allowed to participate during those interviews. So after you sit here. So tomorrow, we're going to release an interview with Nikki Boyer. Who's that? From the Dying for Sex podcast, which is fantastic. I mean, I listen to it's a mini-series podcast, six episodes. And it is about dying for sex.

And it's really fascinating. She's really nice. And I can't wait to talk to her. So that'll be a special podcast. released this weekend on Saturday. Today, those of you listening to this broadcast that aren't subscribers to the podcast, and by the way, if you're not a subscriber to the podcast, what are you doing? You're a loser.

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Like mine are held in my wife's purse. Okay, okay. So I know they're still around. I'm told they're still around. Okay. I'm told they're still around. I don't know that. Okay.

I like to pretend they're still around. Because I don't know I had cockles. So it must be a white people thing because I didn't know I had one. Does every people have one or is it just like white people? It's just a white people thing. But I'm a doctor now? I mean, I don't know. if you have it or not.

Okay. I mean, I know I do. It could be, it could be just taken for granted because my, you know, I get that white. Privilege? The white privilege. I love that you admit it. I love that you admit it that you have white privilege. Sitting over there, you see QB.

Yeah, that's what, that's what it is. It's white privilege. you know, with white privilege, it just happens. It just happens. You automatically have it. You can't, you can't deny that it exists because it's just there. Okay. Got it. Got it. Anyway, today I, uh, we're going to sit down with James O'Keefe from Project Veritas. Oh, that's awesome. I like him.

I know. I had a chance to sit down with James and he's actually a fascinating guy and it was nice to, uh, nice to sit down and talk to him. So a few minutes with James O'Keefe today on the podcast. So subscribe to chewing the fat and give it a listen. And you'll have, you know what, we're going to break down coronavirus every day because that's the world we live in, no question. And we'll talk about stories that affect your life. But there's other things going on. But today is Fat Pile Friday. So I want to, you know, at least give you some headlines that are happening and things that you want to know that are going on around the world. I know that one of the things that I'm excited about,

and if you think that this show is going to make any money at all, I think you're sadly mistaken. Rosie O'Donnell, the Rosie O'Donnell, is going to do a one-night-only episode to try to raise money for the actors fund. I'm sorry, hold on. I thought, I was writing here, I literally wrote,

Rosio Dono raising money for coronavirus. So I have to delete that. I have to delete that. She's raising money for who? The actors fund. What does this actors fund do? The program is going to stream live on YouTube and Broadway.com and you can't get me out.

Fisher. I'm so upset that broadway.com stop streaming because there's no Broadway shows. And they just have all broadways on repeat. Like, what is going on? So I'm glad that Rosie was able to talk to them to give him like an hour. Hey, can I have an hour? Everybody who knows me, said Rosie, that Broadway has been one of the brightest lights in my life since the time I was a little girl.

It has also been the lifeblood of New York City for a generation after generation, after generation, after generation. No, I added a couple. Oh, okay. I was going to say, did she go see now? Did she go Joe Biden on us? Broadway has given to the world now in this time of tremendous need weight No Broadway has not given to the world now they shut down I was gonna ask you have you ever been on a Broadway like have you sat on Broadway and watched a play

Yes I've seen plays before No but in Broadway then Like if you actually went to Broadway and saw a play Yes what did you see You know what? Don't worry about what I saw. Okay. Did you see Wicked?

You did see Wicked. Can we get back to Rosie? Okay, sorry. I'm not going to let this come right in this scene because I feel that you watch something embarrassing and you don't want it to get out. There's no better way to support this community. And we're talking about the Broadway community. Of course she is. Then the actors fund.

And she has dared us not to do. tune in. I promise. I'll take that dare. I will take that dare. So I thought she was doing this for the coronavirus. Nope. The actors fund. Well, it is for the coronavirus kind of technically because right, the actors fund, they aren't working. So. Oh my gosh. The actors that have money. I am so, see, this is your people. The actors fund provides, no, listen, they provide services and support people in the entertainment business including housing services, addiction recovery.

Well, yeah, definitely they need addiction recovery. And can we add a new fun for the Me Too recovery? You know, because Harvey touched everybody in Hollywood, according to that. That is fantastic. Dude, that is

literally why people don't like Hollywood right now. Wow, Rosie's got a Tony. She does? Let's see. She has appeared on we have a number of times and earn a Tony Award for her dedication to arts education. Oh, it was, they gave her a, a special award to Rosie O'Donnell for her dedication to arts education.

It's like when they give those honorary doctorate at universities for special guests. Wow. I wish I had one of those, actually. Don't you have like something from a university, like a priesthood? Like a what? A priesthood? a priesthood. I am a preacher. I'm not a priest.

Oh, okay. I'm a reverend, a preacher man. So you do have something like that. I do, but it's not a... Okay, there you go. So I don't have one. It's kind of agonizing. So, for the actor's fun. They're not going to I'm sorry. No actor about these people. No actor out there

is going to be homeless because of the coronavirus. All he has to do is call buddy Robert De Niro Be like hey can I stay one of your houses? Sure Fine Okay

Who is this So Another person that's upset During this This coronavirus Battle is a Lizzo Lizzo's upset Oh she's gonna lose weight

Like there's no tomorrow So But she's mad right now Why she's mad Fisher She is mad Because she believes that TikTok, the streaming platform, China-owned platform, by the way, is censoring her bathing suit twerking videos.

Oh, baby, no wants to see a fat blob twerking. That's why. Do you know why they're censoring it? Why? Because she's fat. Absolutely. Absolutely. And I support TikTok's decision of not feeding me.

me fat-ass Lizzo on a baiting suit. I am self-censoring from Lizzo's fat. No, but wants to see that. And by the way, that... Well, nobody wants to see it more than once. No. I'll go out on the limb all the way out. Nobody wants to see it more than once.

So there's that. Seriously, this is the person that... Oh, she's so in love with her fatness, that when she literally forces people, Look at me. I'm fat. Yum, num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num num.

That's a... Hello, that's the new TikTok video. Look at me. I'm fat. Num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, num, it's like Kirby. Kirby is her. It's just that she's black, not pink.

So every time you look... I can't take. Anyway, I just, I don't... I don't like Lizzo. Um, I don't... I don't know that her fat, has anything to do with it, what has to do with it is that

I'm being forced to like her because of her fatness. Yes. Like if she was a good actress, I would not get... I love fat actresses. Because they know they have to... Yeah, you could quote you on that. They have to

compensate. For example, I'm fat. So guess what? I have to work on my talent a little bit more so I could get some money. How's that coming? I just want to answer the question. How's that? It's coming. Okay.

All right. Just asking a question. It works. It's asking a question. It's all I'm doing. All right. Let's get to some coronavirus headlines. So you don't have to, I can't tell you how I am sick of hearing about talking heads.

Tell me about the coronavirus. My father-in-law, obviously, you know, he lives with us. and he has the, you know, he has a television out all the time in a living here when I walk by, and it's just, it's never ending. It's never ending. Well, it is ending if he would change the channel, but he doesn't, he changes the channel to the different news stations. Oh, so he goes news surfing.

He is news surfing, yes. Does he look at all of them, or is he just particular, like Fox? He stays on Fox the longest. Okay. And then he'll hit some MSNBC. And he'll hit some CNN, and then he'll get pissed at them and move on. And then there's a couple of other, there's a couple other networks that have some news stations on. I can't remember the one is really, is actually not bad.

I can't remember who it is now. It's a separate little thing. Gosh, darn it, what is it? It's like the CBN news or CSAC. I can't remember what it is, but it's a separate little network news thing that he watches. That's not too bad. He hangs out there for a little while too. But I love the CNN time.

I'll be working at the down to your table and I'll hear, I'm just stupid. I can't believe these people. He gets up and he starts walking around complaining that these people are so dumb. So that's kind of fun, actually. So I have like, anyway, I want to give you the headlines. So you have some kind of idea of just what's going on around the world with coronavirus. And then you can move on.

They just move on. Like, you know, I mean, we're all being locked down, right? I mean, countries, including the U.S. now, are being locked down. Stay home. And, I mean, I realize that lockdown seems a bit severe, but it's pretty close. It's pretty close to that. They're telling you to stay home and do not gather in groups. They're breaking people up if you're in any kind of crowd.

And they're telling you that, uh, um, You can go out if you have reason to be out. If they deem it okay, you can go out. And if you have to go to the store, the grocery store, you have to go to a pharmacy, or you have to go to a medical facility, or you have a, you are a person whose job is worthy and you are going to that place. That's it. Other than that, stay home.

Just incredible. Just incredible. And that's why everybody's making fun of all the people at the beaches down in Florida, you know, and the governor saying, hey, I'm not going to close the beaches. Those are up to the local municipalities, which, you know, some are doing. But really, those are the people fighting back. Yeah. Those are the people saying, this is America.

Yeah. I know we're supposed. I know, why do you want people to die with the coronavirus? Why do you want people? I don't. I don't, but I still want to be able to go to the beach. I still want to be able to do what I wanted to do. Yeah.

I mean, if you want to call me a super spreader, okay, then I'm a super spreader from the beach. But okay, I still want to be able to go places. It's just, this amazing to me, and we talked about it earlier in the podcast. I don't know where the line is, but the line is coming in the U.S. where people are going to say, oh, wait, no, that's not what we're supposed to happen here. And we're not going to do it anymore. All I say is Fisher, I need to jump on the phone call and call God again. Make sure he's done with the Pope.

Because I don't think the Pope is going to be interceding for America. So I think we need to call ourselves because if that does happen, it's going to be scary. I think it's going to be really scary. If what? If God talks to me? Well, yeah, that too. No, what's going to be scary is that people pushing back. I know. Yes, yes.

I'm sorry. I didn't mean, I'm not making light of people pushing back because it very well will be scary. It will be. And it'll be portrayed in the scariest way possible. Absolutely. It won't be portrayed as people fighting for Americans, the Constitution, and people saying that this America and we want to live it'll be portrayed as these people are hating on you and want you to die of coronavirus and they're breaking the law.

Yep. Okay. Okay. I mean, we're talking about shutting down airports. We're talking about shutting down, which means travel. And it's all going to be for our safety, right? I mean, we've shut down towers in Chicago already because an air traffic controller tested positive. so I mean when we start when we start saying well we have to stop travel and it's not because we want to stop travel it's because the people are sick and we don't want to spread the virus well I know but I want to go somewhere yeah no sorry I that's all I know I'm sorry and I apologize because I've got that's all I really am thinking about you know curse keeps dragging me back into that's all

All I'm really thinking about is, I don't know. I've been at home for a week now, and I'm okay with being at home. It's not a bad thing for me. Are you seriously? Are you being okay being out home? Yeah, it's not a bad thing for me. I've been okay. I leave the house a couple times. You know, I go out.

I social distance myself. How did you leave the house? You're not supposed to leave the house. No, I can't leave. See, that's the thing. I can. That's the thing. I can't leave the house.

It's part of the American deal. I get to leave my house. I'm not being told I have to stay here. but yesterday I left and I didn't leave my car though right yesterday I left I talked about it earlier I went to I went to pick something up in a drive-thru and came back home oh okay that was it right

so now the people inside the building where I picked was at the drive-thru they all had masks on and everything it was just just a surreal experience really really surreal and we have I mean, they're shutting down, telling businesses they can't open. We're telling businesses in America.

Nope, can't open. We're shutting you down. No? No. I mean, some of the largest cities and states have told restaurants You're closing. You can maybe do takeout delivery from, you know,

nine in the morning until three in the afternoon. But other than that, you're closed. Oh. Okay. I mean, according to this story, year to year, this open table bookings, which who doesn't, you know, read and use open table bookings. I do. I'm sorry?

I do use open table. Like I said, who doesn't use open table bookings? I don't know why you're saying, I use it. I know that's what I know. Because when you say that, you're like, oh, I don't know.

I do. Nobody uses open table. Yes, they do. Yeah. It works the best. If you want to go to a Brazilian steakhouse, you go to open table booking.

Yeah. Well, don't go there now because bookings are down 70% in Boston. Ooh. I mean, they're down almost 70% in Boston, Seattle and New York City, those three cities.

Okay. and you're right, you would use those in the major cities, the major metropolitan area. Which we live in, DFW, a major metropolitan area. You use that because you want to be able to book your table or go to these restaurants because I don't know if you know this. Places were pretty busy. The economy was pretty good. People were all working.

We were doing okay. Now it is shut down. America is shut down except for truckers. I mean, they don't want you going anywhere. And when they start shutting down cities and states and telling people to shelter and home, I mean, I want the truckers to continue to deliver goods. And yes, you can quote me on that. I want to truck to continue to deliver goods.

I tweeted, look at my Twitter account at Jeffrey JFR last night. when I, the one time that I went out, I went by the, there's a warehouse in this neck of the woods for Kroger, the grocery store chain. Oh, yeah, I can see that. Yeah. They were in there, bro. They were rode up with deliveries at this warehouse, man.

Rode up. It was tremendous to see. I almost got out and went and shook all the truck driver's hands. And then I thought, oh, no, I can't do that. We can't touch anyone. By the way, our favorite chain, Publix is shutting down for one hour, only elderly can go in. So if you're in Florida, you could go check out Publix and visit them.

And if you're elderly. What time is that like the first time? The first hour. Like 8 o'clock. Yep. Yeah. By the time old people are already having a second breakfast, that's when they can come in. Because you know, these old people, they wake up at 4 o'clock in the morning.

And by 7, they're like, I, what's my lunch? I'm like, bro, you just woke up. Like, we just woke up. Like, go back to sleep. I had an op. I don't feel at five. It's time for a lot. Yes.

Exactly. All right. Many of many places are doing that now. You know, many, many, many. I know Target and Dollar General were the first two that said, you know what? We're just going to open up for the, for the old folks in the first couple. So good for them. I mean, that's nice.

I get, I don't know. Okay. I don't know. Does it give you how old you have to be? It says elderly. You're not, well, okay, I know, but there's still age limits to being elderly. No, you, if you're asking, that's you. How old do you have to be? That's you. No, it's 65 and older. I'm pretty sure that's exactly the answer you get to. Are you asking? Yes. Okay, go on it.

Yeah. So according to this, public stores and pharmacies, in the area will be opening at 7 for 65 and older. And this will be for an hour. And then they're asking everyone to please show respect and allow these citizens. Oh, shut up. Shut up. You know what?

I'm pissed now. You know what? Now I'm going to go to public at 7. Shut up. Allow these citizens to shop and make sure you give them space and let them go. Okay. And I'm sorry. For someone that is 65 and older, an hour is not enough.

Yeah And now it's not enough I can't move that fast What are you talking about And by the way Make sure you have those Roli cards All charge is up

Because they're all going to use them If at 7 in the morning You're having all these old people Come You're going to have a fight No that's my car I'm pushing it Bebebe

Bebebe Bebe Did we have another one go in Yeah she's stuck in aisle 5 The battery died So I don't know you're going to have to bring in extra workers oh no we've got two down one in five one in

eleven oh one at five learn eleven i heard you talk about uh betting sport betting with pat this war yeah that is a good sport bet inside the public's during the security cams which one is going to rates for his bet which batter is going to die first well old person's going to grab the first Dude. Good one. Yeah, that is a really good. Another million dollar idea for the sports betters. You are welcome.

This podcast gives and gives and gives. And how do we get paid back? Just subscribe to two of the fat. Duh. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. Well, I go into the break room and I see James O'Keefe in the break. break room. So I harangued them in here, not in today's protocols for COVID-19. I did not physically harangue him in here. I just kind of stayed my six feet distance and then stayed away.

James, how are you? Oh, it's great to be here in Dallas. Appreciate you being here. It's good to see you. So how's it going? What in the world are you doing in Dallas, first of all? What's happening? I mean, are you breaking some special news story in Dallas? What are we not doing in Dallas? I mean, if people say, what, what, what, what, what, what, What topics are you choosing? What topics don't we choose is the appropriate question. But no, we're doing some secret things. Oh, boy.

We're always investigating. We got, we got multiple reporters now pretty much in almost every state. So, Project Veritas. How, you've been working on that now for nine, ten years? Oh, 11 years. Oh, 11 now, yeah. I mean, I started in my dad's garage with nothing. I know.

Jeff Bezos, I got you, man. Don't worry about it. Close? How many, how close are you to Jeff? Billions-wise. I mean, we're in, we're a charity. nonprofit. So in that sense, he could squash me with his thumb. I mean, but we're a charity. We're a 5-1c3, you know, nonprofit, but we have over 50 employees now. And that's great.

And 20 of these full-time reporters and many more whistleblowers. So speaking of that, let's talk a little bit about the process of a project Veritas investigation. Okay. A, we pick the whatever, whatever business or human we're going to see if we can find something bad on, right? Well, go ahead now. No, no. It's essentially, I think investigative reporting, this is gone from kind of a gonzo. Remember the acorn pimping hoe and some of the even some of the green job stuff I was just talking about with Jackie here today.

It's become very, very serious and it's become investigative reporting but in a visual way. So the muckrakers of the 1970s and 60s, which I've read about a lot in writing that book, American Provda, the Chicago Sun Times when Pulitzer Prizes for being an ambulance driver or going into the Chicago hospital and pretending to be a janitor and assisting with surgery or famously the Mirage in 1977, they purchased a bar and they secretly took photographs of city inspectors committing bribes. But it's different in the digital era because you have the Twitter, you have YouTube. and you can disseminate things instantly. So nobody does this curiously. The network stopped doing it in the 1990s because of the liability associated with it, because it was expensive to defend oneself against litigation because, let's face it, investigative reporting hurts people.

You catch people, they get fired, and then what do those people do? They sue. So nobody, no one who has, not to sound like a Marxist here, but no one who has a commercial imperative or runs a, billion dollar company or even a hundred million dollar company is going to do the sorts of things that are going to subject themselves to liability so project veritas chooses to go places and exposing unions exposing the Hillary Clinton campaign catching people in the act and to answer your question how do we choose how do we do it the subjects the sources find us I can't tell you what the story is but I know

that there is a story somewhere on ballot harvesting I know there is a story somewhere inside the Hillary campaign. So the process is to get the people close enough to get the people to volunteer for the campaigns, to get the people to get into the teachers union offices and, oh, there's a document on the desk and it shows an eight year, this is in Michigan, teachers union, an eight year old girl was sexually assaulted and they paid the teacher $50,000 to cover it up. I couldn't have told you that what the story was. Right. I had to get the undercover in there, she took a photograph of the document. That's how it works. It's kind of who we are and no one else is doing it. So how do you go about getting the undercover agents?

I mean, are you, do you show up at the, at the job fairs at universities next door to the CIA and say, hey, they don't want you, but I want you. It's a big, it's a very, it's a very complicated answer. It's, we basically have this big funnel and we encourage everyone to apply to be an undercover, to be a journalist reporter. And you have to have a very unique set of skills. In other words, you have to be kind of. moderate in all these different parts of your psychology.

If you're too entrepreneurial, it won't work. If you're not entrepreneurial, it won't work. If you're too good with people, it won't work, but you have to be just good enough. Just enough. And you've got to be just enough. I noticed in some of the videos that, in some of the undercover videos that,

I mean, you're just repeating the same thing. You're telling them the same thing over and over again. It's like sooner or later you would think that someone would go, dude, why do you keep telling me the same thing? I'm just fascinated by that. Yes, and most people don't have the chops. I would say one out of 50, one of a hundred people that apply get the job. Because you have to have a strange brew of characteristics.

It's like a Venn diagram. You have to be all of these things. And you have to be brave. And you have to be creative enough going into something thinking you know what the story is. And the story is something else entirely. So most people just don't have the ability to do. it. So that's the first way we report the information. And the second, and I think more important way, like in this ABC Jeffrey Epstein tape, that was a source who recorded it themselves.

Right. And this is as old as the Pentagon papers or any source. The difference is the New York Times and the Washington Post use on background sources. They use anonymous sources. We don't report anything unless you can see the tape of the thing. First hand observation, self-evident information is Project Veritas's litmus test. So we think this is, I don't publish anything if it's, oh, can you imagine if I said, yeah, anonymous source told me an ACORN employee was encouraging 13 underage Al-Salvatore and sex late. You would say, O'Keefe, get real.

Right. But somehow the New York Times gets away with it. Why? We've let them get away with it. Exactly. We've let them get, we've let them and others get away with it now for a number of years. Once they stopped doing the investigative reporting, they went to that. And we went, oh, okay.

That's fine. It'll take their word for it. Yeah, that's fine. We believe them. They're fine. They have no reason to lie to us. Right. It's just incredible.

So, and I thought about, you know, you could show up at the inside actor studio, too. Get some people from there. Just, you know, helpful when you're at the job fairs. So you have breakthrough. Our guerrilla war to expose a fraud and save the democracy. And you have American Provide. I don't know if you know this or not, but American is spelled with letters back. words yes uh on the cover as like you know it's like the americans the tv show the the people from russia

with uh american pravda are the are the latest books from from you now so you have how many irons in the fire have you got cooking now how many what who's going down it's classified you don't have yeah you don't have to you don't just just me uh just you just between me and we have there's so there's it's it's like it's like triage on the battlefield there's so many things to do and And I think that the answer is there are areas of life, like there's education, there's elections. Yeah. What reaches your level of what we need?

You talk about the corruption. I mean, we know that America was built on corruption. Yes. Right? So clearly, I mean, Americans love watching how America was built on corruption. We love shows about corruption. I mean, you reference the soprano being like sitting with the sopranos as you're Boston people because that's a TV show.

we love about corruption. And so what reaches that level of, you know what, that will catch somebody's eye instead of, you know, Mary taking an envelope of, you know, $2,000 to let her brother get the dump truck job in, in Porto-Ide-A Idaho. Very good question. Very good question. What reaches a level? I mean, it was much easier five years ago, even a decade ago, to cause, like the Ida Tarbell,

this is 100 years ago, Muckraker, she coined a term called Righteous Indignation, which is also the title of Andrew Breitbart's book. And we try to summon this righteous indignation. It's like the standard is you look at something. It was, oh my God, it literally makes you react. The problem is, especially in the era of Trump and the year 2020, is very, people are so tribal and they're so religious towards whatever they believe in that it's harder and harder to get people who don't agree with you

to summon their righteous indignation. But I still believe, and this is the premise upon which Project Veritas is built, that if you can see it, if you can see the images, if you can really hear it, even then we'll sometimes convince people who disagree with us. So the standard has to be, is it enough to make someone who does not, like a liberal person,

a person who votes Democrat? Like we did all these stories in 20, in the election. We caught Beto O'Rourke here in Texas. For example, we caught Beto O'Rourke staffer saying, we're going to break federal election law and we're going to spend our own campaign funds on the migrant caravan. And Beto was forced to condemn that. So that's the answer. The answer is, I'm not preaching to the choir. I want to get the New York Times and the Washington Post to report upon it, or I'm not going to publish it. So you are, you know, I talk a lot about living your American dream on chewing the fat.

And right now, I mean, you're living your American dream. Did you see, you said I've been doing it for 11 years now. 15 years ago. Hell no. Was your American dream of Project Veritas? I was arrested and a book in front of you, breakthrough tells an amazing story. It's a true crime thriller.

It reads like a John Grisham novel. I mean, it would take me 15 minutes to tell the story, and that's why they pinch you because it's impossible to, to explain it. Cut it down to seven. How about two through three minutes? I walked into a federal building with an iPhone camera, showed my real driver's license to ask Senator Landrieu a question in New Orleans.

I was arrested by the FBI because it was a federal building, although anyone can go into a federal building legally with their real ID. I thought so. And they said, are you the boys that did the A-Cone story? And I said, that's exactly. That's right. I make videos.

I ask questions. And the FBI agents from local New Orleans said, we're going to have to keep you overnight, boy. they charged me with a felony. Is that an actual translation? More or less exactly what they said. And then they charged me with a felony for intentionally trying to destroy government property,

put me in a federal jumpsuit, arraigned me, and I was on pretrial release for a few months before my lawyers advised me, you have to plead guilty to a class B misdemeanor. So eventually they cleared me on the felony. I spent three years on federal probation. I was broke and unemployed, and it was probably the best thing

ever happened to me because by restricting my travel, I started sending these little cameras around. I was stuck in my parents' bedroom because the federal judge said, you must live with your parents. It's self an unbelievable verdict. By the way, this is all a true story. I wrote a whole book about it. And you asked the question, am I living the American dream? You would have to be a masochist to want to do this because you were ambitious and you wanted to be something. I never wanted to be something. I just was so passionate about wanting to do. do something about the problems in the world, in society. I was in college.

I was frustrated. I was angry at my professors who were telling me how great Joseph Stalin was. And I wasn't a history buff or a political science person. I just felt compelled to do something about it. And along the way, after the acorn story, which I worked with Glenn Beck on 10 years ago, they came after me hard. They said the videos were doctored, which wasn't true. They arrested me in charge me in the crime I didn't commit.

They've sued me dozens of times. This past Sunday, I don't if you saw this, the New York Times did a front page hit piece on us. You've had a number of those, by the way. I think like a dozen. Yeah. And after a while, I'm making a long story short, after a while, that was the deal.

You begin to realize that most people just don't want to do this because they don't want to, they don't, they want to be liked by the New York Times. They want to be liked by all these powerful people who have the power to brand you a certain way. And if you're going to do this, the way that we do it at Project Virotas, if you're going to catch them in the act and force them to resign, people are going to hate you for it. They're not going to like you.

It's an amazing thing. They're not going to like you for it. Especially if you're the tip of the spear. Because in the TV business, and no one is immune to this, especially on cable news, nobody wants to be the cause and effect. People report on what already happens, but they don't want to create the news. So that's what I've learned in my life. And I never thought I'd be where I am.

I never thought I'd have this big organization. I just kept doing the stories, and this is where we are. So James O'Keefe is who we're speaking with here on Chewing the Fat in the Break Room. Earlier I heard you tell a story about a run-in with one of our favorite stories ongoing is Harvey Weinstein. Yes. Who was, you know, just essentially got a life sentence the other day. Yes, for 23 years in prison. Speaking of someone who everyone wanted to be liked by,

to help their career and help their world make it better in their life, whether he was a dirt bag or not. What was the Harvey Weinstein run in? Yeah, that was a, we were at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. We had this undercover tape of a, we posed as a Saudi oil. tycoon and his agent and met with Hollywood environmentalist. That's why you were there, right?

It's why we were there. And we had this. Harvey asked you to the hotel room. That's what I'm saying? Harvey asked me though. So, that was, I was in an elevator in this hotel in can, France, about to screen my little documentary I had produced.

And in the elevator was Harvey Weinstein and would appear to be a very young woman. And I thought to myself, well, that's kind of odd. This is before the Me Too movement. I didn't know anything of it. And I said, that's a young girl, and they're in an elevator and they're going upstairs. Oh, I never thought of anything of it. And then five years later, some guy named Ronan Farrow did some stuff on Harvey Weinstein. And I said, man, I wish I had my camera.

I wish I had my hidden camera. I wish I elicited some information out of that thing. So how can we believe that this story is actually true? You can't. That's why I don't report anything. I just broke my rule on the radio here. I just broke my own rule. I don't have the evidence.

and so I never published anything on it. So if I am out and about looking for a gig, thinking to myself, you know, I'd like to go undercover. How do I get a hold of it? It's very simple. Projectveritas.com slash brave. Projectveritas.com, black slash, backslash brave.

You can apply to be a reporter for us. You can. Oh, I'm sorry. Yes, not undercover. You're a reporter. Reporter who goes most of the time, you'd go undercover. And if you're a whistleblower,

if you're, for example, if you work for Google or the New York Times. I actually made a pitch the other day because the New York Times had to print two retractions after that front page article. And I said, if you work for the New York Times and you're disillusioned and you're angry at your executive editor for printing a sloppy

hit job on Project Veritas. Please contact me. This is what you have to do. You can't bow down like Mitt Romney and kiss these people and love them. You have to just, you just got to be proud. And listen, everyone says, Oh, yeah, I understand.

No, no, it's harder than you think to stand on principles. So you can apply at project veritas.com slash brave and we'll have your back. And by the way, another thing, we don't settle lawsuits at Project Veritas. That's one of the things I wanted to get into. Sure. A little bit. A couple more things before I let you go. I know you're busy man, but we're in the break room and I got nothing better to do.

Let's talk about lawsuits and attorneys, and you said you don't settle. your attorneys have got to be thankful that you're alive and outdoing what you do. You've got to be, I mean, are you paying them or you just tell them, you know, here's a check. They're all pay. I've never met an attorney who works for free. I don't know where these, if they are,

I'm going to capture them, put them in a lab, in a laboratory, and study them. Everyone's like, why don't you get pro bono attorney? I'm like, what lawyer do you? If they're pro bono, they're getting paid by a non-profit. Sub-war. So, no, no, no. We pay fair market.

market value, maybe 10, 20% off. But our legal bills are expensive. In many cases, they're as much as a quarter of our budget. Do you feel like now, and I'm sorry to cut you up, but do you feel like now that you're at a point that you're past the thought of I can sue them and put them out of business? Shut this thing down. You mean me go on offense? No.

No, they're going on offense. If I sue you, I would say, you know, five years ago, I would think. I would think I can sue him and we'll just shut him down in the courts and he'll go out of business and we'll be done with it. Are you past that? You're never past it. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. I'm never I'm never, I'm never indemnified. I'm always at war with these bad people.

But to answer your question, we've won eight straight lawsuits, including in jury trial, including on summary judgment, for those of you who aren't attuned to the law, summary judgment is that motion right before you go to. trial the judge dismisses it the problem is you have to go through the discovery process you have to be deposed in a room under oath by the adversaries who are digging through your emails we've gone through that process eight times one every single time including in an extraordinary extraordinary case in north carolina when the hillary clinton people's uh bob creamer shirley teeter sued us for defamation for quoting someone accurately and somehow it got all the way to a jury trial We were wondering, how the heck does it get to a trial? There may be an investigative report on that alone.

There you go. And the federal judge, Article III appointed federal judge in federal court, literally goes, and I'm going to quote him here, paraphrase him, he goes, if Mike Wallace, he said, I realize Mike Wallace is dead, CBS News, but if Mike Wallace got sued for this, for what they're suing James O'Keefore for quoting someone, everyone would laugh. And he takes his gavel. And this is right before the jury comes. out into the box to issue the verdict.

This is after the plaintiff rests their case. We've already been through all this. The judge, this never happens in federal courts called a directed verdict. Judge gavels the case and goes case dismissed on a rule 50 directed verdict motion. And they, this Shirley Teeter woman who sued me, she had like half a dozen attorneys. By the way, who pays their bills? I got, I got one or two attorneys. Case dismissed.

And I bet. I put Project Veritas on the line. I bet the whole company on this thing. Because if I lose, it's catastrophic. That's my point, right? They're coming out. If we do this, we're going to shut you down. And some arbitrator puts me in the room and goes,

well, you just pay the lady $50,000 and be done with it. I said, so help me, God, I will not settle this lawsuit. So what's happened is we've won eight straight lawsuits and now people are not suing me. They're not suing me because they realize we don't have a case. and also we're going to go through a to a trial. So I think we're doing well. We have to be very careful not to, we don't break the law. We don't, you know, we don't do the sorts of things that would get us in trouble.

But these are extraordinary things. And if we were fighting the NRA or, you know, Halliburton, we'd probably be winning Pulitzer prizes and there'd be movies made and so forth and so on. But we're fighting the sacred cows. Right. So what's your favorite one? And I know I have a feeling I know your answer. That's the one I'm working on. No.

But all the pieces that you've done, I know. Yeah. The James O'Keefe entourage is like, yep, that's right. That's right. But your favorite piece that we've done in the 11 years, Project Veritas, James O'Keefe, topped the bottom. I'm coming in at number one. I'm actually looking into the eyes of my entourage to kind of see if they're thinking what I'm thinking. Coming in at number one.

We go around the room. I'll see if you're right. I don't think he wants to. to be on the radio, but maybe she does. I think if I had to choose, if I had to choose, it's definitely the Democracy Partner story in 2016 inside the Hillary Clinton campaign. This is a story that was an unbelievable piece of reporting.

We had six different reporters inside Hillary's campaign and her subcontractors, building relationships all the way up the chain of command into the office of Bob Kramer, married to Congresswoman Jan Jukowski, and Bob Kramer says on the tape, He actually says this. You can see it on YouTube.

It's got like 10 million views. He says it was all Hillary's idea. Hillary came up with the idea to put these ducks on the ground to do this shit. Excuse me for saying that. That's what he said. And he says these words on the tape and his own colleague is also on the tape saying we take the money from Hillary. We take the money from the DNC. We take that money and put it into democracy partners.

And then I go incite the violence on the ground using mentally ill people. He says all these things. Incredible. creamer loses his contract with donna brazil and the dnc scott fowvel is terminated from americans united for change president trump mentions all the tapes in the presidential debate with hillary clinton in front of 80 million people it makes cnn nerson cooper fox msnbc all the prime time networks and it makes the and it makes the head at top of the new york times and we get sued it's like if this was done on the other side forget the Pulitzer prizes

I think it's safe to say we win a Nobel Peace Prize yeah and and it's like the undercover reporters who did this story they were so intrepid they were so brave they were working full-time for Project Veritas that when Anderson Cooper put it on the screen playing the tapes the reporter Allison was her name Allison Moss she was literally crying tears of joy to see the work that she had done on CNN. And you don't, and your audience is listening to this. None of you know this. Like this happened.

I wrote a book about it, but it gets lost. It gets buried. It's not on our Wikipedia page. All you know is that we got sued. It's like there's a different world. And, you know, we do all this great work, but we don't get the recognition for doing. We don't get the applause.

But there is an army of patriots out there. who believe in it. And what we're trying to do is just do more of it. Because we believe that the arc of the moral universe bends towards justice, as Martin Luther King would say, in the media landscape. If we just keep doing more of these stories, let me tell you something. They have been attacking me for a decade.

And in 2016, we believe that that had a huge impact on the election. And Trump talked about it in the debate. So a lot of things contributed to that election. A lot of things made an impact. But Hillary Clinton firing those people, the DNC firing those people, my opinion was the biggest investigation we have ever done. James O'Keefe, Project Veritas, one book, American Pravda, number two book, breakthrough, get them, go to the website, become an undercover. I'm sorry, a reporter for Project Veritas. Thank you, James.

I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for listening to Chewing the Fat. And James O'Keefe, I told you. It was a fascinating guy. I really appreciated having him stop by. But I want to leave you with the weekend with a little, and I'll put a smile on your face, a little joke.

All right, for you and the family, a little ha, ha, ha, to get you through. And don't forget tomorrow, we're going to be releasing a special interview with Nikki Boyer for her dying for sex podcast. And she is, that, if you have not listened to that, is incredible, an incredible mini-series podcast, six episodes.

And look, what do you, your shelter? You're supposed to stay home. So listen to the podcast. Listen to this podcast. Listen to her podcast. But here's a joke for the weekend. All right. The weekend joke for you.

From at John Flipside on Twitter. My wife called me at work and asked, do you ever get a shooting pain across your body like someone's got a voodoo doll and they're stabbing it? and I was kind of concerned and I was like, no. She responded, how about now? I mean, how about now? Not a rim shot? I get nothing for that.

Oh, we're at the CQB, so there's no rim shot. Have a good weekend.