Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 334 | Prince Charles Has Coronavirus, Waffle House is Closing, & Walking Dead is DEAD! | Guest: Gene Yuen Lang

Episode Date: March 25, 2020

Day 13 inside the CQB and NOTHING is stopping Jeffy from giving you the real news, the news that matter. Glove company is closing it's doors and it makes no sense. KFC is cancelling the "finger licking good" campaign because it can promote COVID-19. The Obama's want you to know that they are just like you hurting as the coronavirus pandemic hits the US. A very special guest joins us during the break room, MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, cartoonist and graphic novelist aka. Gene Yuen Lang. To talk about Dragon Hoops, his first non-fiction graphic memoir, about the 2014-2015 basketball team at the high school where he teaches that he followed for a season.  Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now a Blaze Media podcast. Recording. Find a good pair. How many times have you been told that in your life? Welcome to chewing the fat with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride today. Broadcasting live from the COVID-19 quarantine bunker, the CQB. You know, I was thinking this morning, I'm actually, I've been part of the CQB now

for the Trump 15-day plan. 13 days. I mean, I started, I'm sorry? This is 13. No, but, oh, my gosh, stop talking for a moment. I'm saying that I started at the beginning of Trump's 15-day plan. He started on the 16th. That's when I started being quarantined.

Yes. Right, that was my day. So, and the same thing, it started midday. We're still counting it as a full day. And that's the same with me. Started midday. We're counting it. is a full day. So I'm riding along with the Trump quarantine ride. But we are excited. But we are

day 13 in the bunker. Okay. Fine. We're day 13 in the bunker. But that wasn't the point. Just play the open. All right. So we could do have. I mean, I know I've been, we've been just inundated with. news that seems bad, but it isn't really bad in today's world, but it is bad news in today's world. You could quote me up that. It isn't really bad news in today's world, but it is bad news in today's world. Okay, so Waffle House, Waffle House is closing down. 365 locations across the United States. This is not the America, I know. This is not a the America I love when the waffle houses are closing down.

We have a waffle house in there. Hurricanes. Well, that's what the FEMA and all these people is called the Waffle House index. Waffle House lets us know if we could go aside after a hurricane or not. Yes. If Waffle House is closing, what the hell? I know. That's what I mean, hashtag reopen Waffle House.

I mean, let's go. That hurts America. We have U.S. Airlines preparing to virtually shut down domestic service. Key medical glove factories, this cannot be. This cannot be medical glove factories cutting 50% of its staff. Keep the gloves coming. What are you doing? If that is true, you're doing it wrong.

Right. If that is true, you shouldn't. Those should be right now either making stuff or sending stuff. And hiring. Yes. And hiring. Yes. Yes.

There's no way you have met, demand, and supply. No way. Looking on this actual link here. We're going to find out what the hell is going on at the glove factory. All right. This is in Malaysia too, by the way, so I don't care. Oh, so yeah, they could close down. Close down.

No matter. Oh, they're closed. Okay. No problem. That's what you get. That's why you have to go buy American. So Malaysia, America is ready to send you some gloves. just look at the price, send us the money, and three to five business agencies should be there at your door.

So Malaysia is by far the world's largest medical glove supplier. Not anymore. Producing as many as three out of four gloves on the market. No, we're done. We're done. Like I said, we're shutting it down. America just became the number one glove provider of the world. I know we need to ramp up the paste them. man. If we're three out of four come from Malaysia

and they're cutting their workload down in half. Which by the way, they should teach all these capitalists that live here that we need to start making our own crap. We need to start making our own crap

because I believe if we're making our own crap like gloves mask, whatever we need, ventilator, respirators, tillulators, all of that little other stuff, we're not being decedularators. We're making tillilators now. It's a new line of

ventilators. Okay. Yeah. If it saves one life. Right? We've learned that. I'm all for it. If it saves one life. So now we find out also, and I'm not as upset over this as I am Waffle House, but Peeps

stopping production. Shutting down. Wait, keeps.com, the one that is telling you not to lose your hair? Peeps. Oh, peeps. P-E-E-E-P-S, not keeps. No, keeps to still, they want you to keep the hair growing with P. Okay, because I was going to say, I just placed an order because I ran out of my keeps. So, like, I want my keeps to be here.

So if we open some of the country or all of the country back up by Easter that Donald Trump has said, uh-huh. What says Easter more than Pips? Why are they shutting down? Peeps is, what do they know? Peep should have closed down a long time ago. Once we lost Twinkies, peep should have been gone too. Disagree.

Peeps are disgusting. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, yeah. You did the Peep Challenge in Pat and Stu Show. I started a peep challenge. Like I said, just to see how many I can eat. Like I said, you did the peeps challenge. I don't know why you get an old pissy.

Why are you getting all pissy at me? I'm telling you that I remember you doing the peeps challenge. at Pattis 2. Yeah, by the end, you get kind of tired of them. What was it? I think it was 70 or 80, something like that.

Can we see a Peep's Challenge this year from the CQB? I don't know. I think, no, like I said, I feel that you're going to do a Peeps challenge on your YouTube page. So start buying, start buying peeps,

bring them all in, and just start. are eating them and we'll see. They're shutting down production though. Oh, you can't get them. Oh, no, I bet you right now if you go to Kroger and you go to the Easter Isle, they're all still there from two years ago. Just remember that the Peebs Challenge, which I started to be a challenge.

Yeah, like I said, because you did it on Pat and Stu Show, yeah. That was, uh, that was, uh, pre-goblatter. So, so it's a globe. It's a goal. So I tell me that the goal. and the gobladder was the one helping you digest your peeps? Shut up. I want a doctor to email us and let it us know if that's true or that.

You talked to a doctor about it. Oh, you did? You did? And KFC, yes. And KFC is falling down on the job as well. KFC, suspending the finger-licking good campaign. Why? They say they're doing it, you know, amid the coronavirus fears.

Well, I don't want to even think about your chicken having coronavirus. And if I'm eating your fried chicken, I'm going to, I can't lick my fingers now. Oh, yeah, you can still lick it. You just, we don't want to promote it. Yeah, but I think that's secondary to your chicken, though. I don't think people on as that's somebody trying to capitalize on a catastrophe to maintain their business relevant. I don't think people I don't think people were saying, oh, that KFC, you know, they're promoting coronavirus by still maintaining their finger-licking good campaign. Right.

But I like the idea of, you know, we need to stay in the news. Yeah. Absolutely. So we just, you know what? We're going to suspend our finger-looking good campaign of the coronavirus fears. Wait, and is that, it was that a temporary campaign?

Because I feel like every since Chick-fil-A was created, it was a finger-lake-looking good. I mean, sorry. Wow. See? They need to do more on their marketing because I was thinking, chicken, chick-fil-y.

Wow. That's a little embarrassing. Just a tad embarrassing. Okay, so we have to go back to Waffle House for just a little bit. They're closing 365 locations, but they're still going to have locations. So, right? I was looking at the Waffle House map. It looks like the coronavirus map of just nothing but Waffle Houses, and I'm a fan.

I'm more of a fan. now than ever. So they're closing 365 waffle houses, but they still have, take a shot. Over under, price is right, how many waffle houses are remaining open? How many other closing? 365.

14,000 open. How many? 14,000. Wow. I mean, they probably wish they had 14,000 waffle houses, and you've gone over. over and you lose thanks for playing the game you don't even get a copy of the home just get off the stage they're gonna remain over 1,627 yeah like I say 600 yeah

like I said you were close I was close yeah you were close it feels like I mean there's more Waffle house than that that's all you need man what do you know they have almost 2,000 right now yeah they've got about 2,000 stores total and you know 365, that means, ooh, those were non-essential waffle houses. Yeah, I wonder why they're closing those. Is it because I wouldn't have manpower? Are they not in good areas? Is that highly infected areas like California, New York?

Yeah, I bet I bet you it's highly, it's just highly contagious areas, right? Yeah, so we still have the Waffle House index. It's just that where the pandemic is a little bit strong. longer, the index means we're shutting it down. Yeah, index is, don't go outside. But actually, you should go outside. I say bring on the heat, man. There's more reports that the heat is killing the virus.

Bring it on. I know. The sun is to wake up or something. Like, I don't know what the sun think is doing. Makes me. But it is awake. If you want to just go outside, be in the sun. That'll be the end of the world.

If you go outside. How many times have you gone outside in the last? 13 days? Couple. Out of those couple, how many hours in total in the last 13 days? How many hours in totals have you been outside? I mean, minutes? Okay, how many minutes in the last 13 days have you been outside from 13 days? How many? Let me ask you a question. Okay. Let me your question now if does being in the car there's being in an automobile constitute being outside because if that's the case then you are looking at you know i'm looking at you know a couple hours no no because you're still inside something you know so outside yeah outside so you will count for

example the trip from your door to the car door right yeah or even if you if you even if you For instance, like yesterday, I went out the back door and stood on the back porch. Okay, yes. And I did that for about a minute. And then I went back in because I had any shoes on. Now, my other question is, if you were smoking, would those numbers be higher? Yes. Yeah, they'd be a lot higher because we've smoked outside.

During this pandemic, would you smoking be a lot more or a lot less? Ooh, a lot, bro. I mean, well, of course, less, because I would have quit because you don't want to be the smoker during the pandemic, except I'd be in the backyard going, this is ridiculous.

They can't tell me I can't go anywhere. Bastards, if I want to take my kids somewhere, I can take them. We need another pack of cigarettes. We'll drive up to Oklahoma or the Indian Reservation didn't get them. They're cheaper.

Yeah, you smoke more. You definitely smoke more. No question. So it's time. Maybe I need to join the other people in the neighborhood. You said 30 years. Walk around. You said 30 years.

You can't smoke this yet. You're not there yet. Because people, no, I know. No, I don't talk about smoking. I don't know. I just joke around. I'm not going to start smoking again. Maybe.

But there's plenty of, like up here in the, in the CQB, I have the blinds open. And, you know, the neighborhood, everybody's home. So there's families out walking. their kids. Yeah, everybody's walking. I can't go out. There's social distancing. You know who'll be proud right now? Michelle Obama with her go outside and play movement. She'll be so proud right now because

everybody's outside right now. I know. I just saw a story about them too. What the heck was a story about the Obama's talking about? They're just, the Obamas are just like us. Are they? Are they? Jeffie? Just like us. Don't you have a house in Martha Viener, or Stuart Viener, whatever that is? Don't you have a house over there?

And don't you have like a contract with Netflix to produce content? Right. This is Michelle. Everyone's here. The girls are back since colleges are online. So they're off in their respective rooms, doing their online classes. Are they?

I think Barack is, I don't know where he is. He's on the phone on a conference call. I just got finished. with a conference call. We're just trying to keep the routine going, but we've also got a little Netflix and chilling happening. Shut up.

No, I'm sorry. No, no. The Obamas are not Netflix and chilling. I'm sorry. No. Just like us. In fact, I don't know. I've been sitting out here in the guest house

for the past week because I cannot take the girls. It's just too busy in the main house. And so I'm just like you. I'm just hanging out. here on the guesthouse and I don't even know where Barack is I mean he he might be out by the water or you know I just I just don't know but just like you the more and more of this pandemic comes into the United States the only thing keeping me alive not just the light at the end of the tunnel is what you said a couple days ago three weeks from now people's real hair color is

going to show you can count out and I am so excited to see eyebrows, eyelashes, hair, nails, breasts, implants, Botox, injections. I just want to see freaking everybody's true color. It's coming, my friend. Oh, man. Oh, it's going to be so delicious to see all these people. That's why Trump wants everything done by you.

Easter. He's got to get the tan gone. He's got to get the injections. Because, you know, there were the world who first said, cancel all non-essential medical procedures. We need all the PPs for combating this. I don't think Joe Schlaab is doing any injections at his practice. No, not legally. No, because right now we have a country that is selling to snitch on each other. I know. Dude. And I just talked to a local police officer,

Fort Worth police officer, earlier today, as a matter of fact. And they were told late last night. Okay, so you've got the limiting of four people, right? Three or four people or whatever, four in Tarrant County, which is where the county that Fort Worth is in, city of Fort Worth.

and they were, you know, the police officers were obviously concerned about what are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to, you know, drive through a crowd of people in the road and tell them to go home? Do we break them up? Do you get pulled over? If I'm driving on the road, are they pulling you over? Is that constitute a reason to check and see if you're an essential person? If they have their essential person badge and paper? Well, I do.

And I do as well. I'm not using it. And I thought, this is what you tell the police when they pull you over when I'm driving on the road. You. That's what you tell them. But you can't. You can't tell them that. You can't tell them that.

Fisher, Fisher. Yes? We're not going to do that. We're not? No. Okay. Because as soon as you say that, I'm right then you're in trouble.

That's what I said. You can't do it. That's what I want to. This is America. I was just driving on the road. But you can't right now. It's only until April 7. It's only into April 7.

Stop it. After April 7 comes up, Easter's there, and the country's back on place. I don't know if you know this or not, but Easter comes after April 7. No, like I said, like I said, it's April 7, Easter comes, and we're done. So anyway, according to my source. Oh, wait. Hold on. Hold on.

So that this became from a police officer. Now this is your source? Well, that escalated very quickly. That's why police officer's source. Okay. Okay. All right. According to my source, they, they can't just pull you over.

No. No. For if you're, you know, to see if you're essential. But if you're and even if you're causing problems right now, it's still questionable whether they're going to, you know, it's at their discretion. Yeah, it's a great area. Yeah. It's a great area. Yeah. I'm guessing if I did say, I want to say it's so bad.

Go for it. If I did say, I need your license and read a step. Fuck you. I'm guessing if I said that, that may heighten their discretion to arrest me. Swarm, swarm, swarm, swarm, swarm. Right, right. But for right now, you know, you're okay. You're okay.

To be able to, you know, go out and drive in America all by yourself and your car or with maybe the whole family. What? There's four people in the car. Get down. Get down. Get down. There's a police officer. There can only be three of us out.

So let's take a walk over to the break room. I need a drink of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar desperately. All right. So good. Oh my God. There you go. Gene, Yuenlang.

Hello. Welcome to chewing the fats break room. How are you, sir? Thank you. Thank you so much, Jeff. Thanks for having me. As I was going down your list of accomplishments and awards and, you know, they rightly MacArthur, Genius Grant recipient, National Ambassador of Young People's Literature,

cartoonist, graphic novelist, just a regular old silly author. I mean, have you decided what you're going to do with your life yet? According to my immigrant parents, no, not yet, actually. they're still waiting for me to go to med school. So speaking of that, American-born Chinese, how are you holding up? You're all right? Everything okay? Well, you know, I've been at home most of the time, and I also, I live in the Bay Area.

It's a pretty diverse area. I think I read about terrible things more than I experience them, absolutely. Good. And I'm lucky that way. It's not to you, and I hope that it's not very many bad things happening. silly that they are. So I was the reason that we're having you on today, though, is you have a brand new book out.

I do. And Gene, I mean, people who have seen you on YouTube when you see Gene U.N. Lang and you see that he's doing his march math madness between Instagram and Twitter, you think to yourself, wow, he must be a basketball player. I mean, that's what you think. Maybe it's just me. Either a basketball player or a pro wrestler. One or the other, right? Yeah, one or the other, yeah. And so when I saw that you had a new book, Dragon Hoops, I thought, well, that's interesting.

I wonder what the heck that is. And what brought that up? Well, as you could tell, if you actually look at me, I am not an athlete at all. I did not grow up playing sports. The basketball court was this arena of humiliation for me, and I try to avoid it at all costs. I never thought I would have spent five years of my life doing a book about basketball. But it really comes down to a relationship.

I became friends with this guy named Coach Lou Richie. We both taught at Bishop O'Dout High School. He's the head coach of the varsity men's basketball team, and he told me these crazy stories about what was happening on the basketball court and from his own life. and I ended up having to put it down on paper as a book. So you took five years of your life for this? Yeah, I was not expecting to do that at all.

But I was expecting it to take about two to three years and it ended up taking five. And so is it all, did you do all the illustrations and everything throughout the book? I did. I didn't do the coloring. I worked with a colorist named Lark Pia. Wow. Are you lazy? Wow.

I'm terrible at colors. I can't even pick up. out clothes for myself. I have to have my wife too bad. Welcome. Welcome to that world. I am well aware of that world. So the book is available now. I was looking at through some of the

some of the reasons I apologize. I don't have a copy in front of me and I certainly wish I did, but I have a little bit of the previews from online and it looks fantastic. And when you were going through it and my gosh, five years, I mean,

you had to do a How often did you set it aside and say, I just can't do it anymore? You know, I felt like quitting a lot. I'll be honest. Five years was a long haul. But in the end, I just felt really lucky to be a part of that season. It was a really crazy epic season. You know, I followed Lou and his team for several months.

And anytime I felt tired or exhausted about drawing, being over my drawing table. I thought back to that season. And I just, I really wanted to take that excitement and stick it on the page. So has the school become a, a basketball powerhouse now? Or was this a magical season?

It always kind of was a basketball powerhouse. But it was a basketball powerhouse that could not get it done in the final game. Right. So Coach Lew had been to five California State championships. once as a player because he's an alum of the school and four times as a coach he lost all of those times he lost all those times and the reason why I followed him

for the 2014-15 season was because I wanted to see if he could finally get it done you know we're from Northern California it's an Oakland team and and for Northern California yeah I don't want to bring up an old bad saying or anything but coach Louvreed to get that monkey off his back Yeah, yeah. It's every time, every time we, like, he went up against a Southern California team.

He just, they had his number. He couldn't get it done. He was in his head too, though. I mean, he had to get over that itself. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I mean, what the, the thing that made me go, oh, I need to do this as a book, was his story. So he was a point guard on that team when he was a junior in high school.

They went to the California State Championship. They played in what was now, what is now called the, Oracle Arena. Biggest game of his life. His team is down by one. Seven seconds left. He gets the ball in his hand. He puts it up at the buzzer.

It goes through. They win by one. And then the refs invalidate that call. What? It's a crazy thing. The rest of the call. They said that the center of his team had his hand on the rim as the ball was going through. Right?

So the biggest shot of his life gets invalidated. Oh, my God. And it's still honk. He gave me the tape. He's like a 40-something year old dude. He gave me the tape. He says, gang, you go home and you watch this. You tell me if that kid's hand was on the rim.

I have to tell you, on the tape, it is really hard to tell. In other news, every referee from that game is dead. I don't know what happened to him. I don't know what happened to them. They just went missing. I don't know they were missing. I'm sorry. Did I say they were dead?

They're missing. I don't know what happened to them. I mean, that is an interesting. incredible story. Yeah. Yeah. So he's been trying to go after that California State Championship ever since he was 17 years old. You know, and I wanted to see if he could finally do it.

That's what this book is about. And speaking of the refs, the crazy thing is some of those reps are still working. Oh. And he still sees him. Like I was following him during the season. He'd be like one of those reps, he's roughing this game. So you watch out for how he calls this game. That's the guy.

Oh, no, I wouldn't, I would make the league now. They would have to pull. They would have to go other games. That's incredible. That's a great story. So, Gene Luen Yang joining us on two of the fat here in the break room, talking about his latest book, Dragon Hoops. And, I mean, that story about Coach Liu alone is, you know, worth the price of admission.

So what's next? What are you doing with yourself? I mean, you've got, I saw that you, how did March Math Madness go? still ongoing, right? Have you crowned a champion? Yeah. Not yet. Not yet. We're still in the middle of it right now. We're probably going to end in early April, just like real March Madness would have. We did an online book tour, a cartoon book tour, because my actual book tour got canceled. And then I'm also working on a book for DC Comics called Superman Smashes the Clan about Superman going up

against the Ku Klux Klan. Wow. That's interesting. I would be fascinating. I mean, Superman's going to win, right? I don't want to break the end of the story or ruin it for anyone, but Superman is going to win. That's right. That's the big difference between superhero stories and sports. And superhero stories, you're guaranteed to know who's going to win. So were you a big sports guy all through school?

I'm fascinated still. I'm going to go back to the same. I'm fascinated still kind of at what got you. what got you fascinated in a sports story. I mean, it's a great story, and obviously, you know, it'll go on forever. Everyone who's ever played sports has stories of good and bad that they keep reliving throughout their life. But if you've never done that, it doesn't mean anything to you, right? Yeah, exactly.

For most of my life, sports did not mean anything to me until I started working on this book. You know, and it really was this. I'm a comic book guy. I also teach writing, and I tell my students, choose the story idea that scares you the most. So this was the story idea that scared me the most. And I felt like I had to follow my own advice. That's really, like, one of the things that really impressed me about following this high school team was I saw these kids.

The youngest kid on that varsity team was a 14 year old kid, you know? And some of those games were televised, which I would be terrified of if I was 14. He stepped out on that court and he took a shot over a kid that was a foot taller than him and he made it. And when I saw that, I was like, you know, there's a. there's a certain courage there that you've got to have as a young athlete. And I felt like as a middle-aged cartoonist, I got to have the same thing. So I ought to do this book about this thing that I know nothing about because it's just a way of developing my own courage. That's fantastic.

Gene Yuen Lang, Dragon Hoops is the new book. And of course, you can follow him on Twitter and Instagram at Gene Luangangang. Thank you very much. I appreciate it very much. Fascinating. I can't wait to read it. Seriously, I'm looking forward to getting it. I love the Coach Lew story.

I appreciate it. And look, if you figure out what you're going to do with your life, come back and let us know. So we all know, oh my gosh, she's decided. I will. I will. As soon as I figured it out, I'm coming back to tell you. Thank you so much, Jeff.

Thanks, Dean. I appreciate it. All right, we have got to, I've got some emails from listeners that are eye-opening. we've got coronavirus news I mean in America right now today as we're recording if you're listening or watching live March 25th 2020 the USA has 60,653 total cases of coronavirus

819 deaths so now I Italy that's almost I mean that's like what 10% right there's 74,000 cases, 7,500, almost 75,000 cases, almost an over 7,500 deaths. I mean, that is huge. If our numbers start to go like that, then we need to be self-quarantined and we need to shut down our cities like we're doing. But right now, it doesn't look like, well, it looks like we're winning the battle, which is good. I just don't know how long we're going to do that battle. And I keep asking that question,

and I know nobody has the answers, and if you do have the answer, email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I'm happy to read your answers to see if it works. I know that we can't say F you to everything. I get it. I know if it only saves one life, well, we have. We've already saved lives by doing what we're doing. Wait, we have? So how long?

Yes. Oh, we absolutely have. No question. If we have, what did I say, we have 60,000 cases and only, And I say only 819 deaths. I mean, they're preparing. Hospitals are preparing for, you know, genocide deaths from this. They're talking about, you know, people rolling up in New York,

where they have the military setting up tents in front of hospitals in New York. I mean, they're preparing for, you know, the end of time. So, okay. Okay. Now, this might be a stupid question, but do you feel that it's okay to overreact like this, then to underreact? Yes, but no with no end date. We've talked about it at length on the podcast, but with no end date, I do not think it's

right to overreact because what's going to happen is what always happens when we overreact, A storm is coming, a storm is coming, and then the storm doesn't come. True. So someday a storm will come and you're left going, I wasn't warned. Well, yeah, you were. You just didn't listen anymore because you got tired of hearing people tell you that the storm was coming. So that's why we hear about every freaking storm that could possibly. It's possible.

It's possible millions could die. Well, millions never die. so do I want nobody wants millions to die but no one wants to get stuck in their house for six months either and we're shutting down the economy of this country

lives are I mean really lives are being affected by shutting down the economy more than COVID-19 right now and Americans will stand for it because yeah we don't want people to die it's all good I got you

I don't want people to die. You know, well, it's not bad. I'm all right. I get to hang out here. I can watch the neighbors walk by and I can do my show. It's okay. But, you know, for how long? For how much longer?

And I know that President Trump knows that as well. I mean, that's why he's trying to give us that end date, right? The end date of Easter. I'd like to have everything done by Easter. Well, you know, come good Friday. Well, I know I said I wanted Easter, but. Did I say, I said Easter 2020?

I'm in Easter 2021. Oh, I'm sorry. You thought I'm at Easter this year. No, I'm so sorry. Okay, I can see what you misunderstood. Yes, Easter, 2021. I'm so sorry. You know, this one is on me, guys.

They're not fake news. This one is on me. It's on me. I messed up on the. Dude, that's scary, though. That's scary. But, Fisher,

we still have a light at the end of the tunnel. Easter. That's the light. That is the light. And you're not going to do anything. That is the light. You're not going to say or do anything

to make me stop believing that April and that's it. Okay, well, I mean, that is a light at the end of the tunnel. Whether it's real or not is another story. I doubt that that's a real light. I think that that's a real light.

I think that's a, oh, did I close my eyes too hard and too long, and I opened them up and it looks like a light is on, but it's not really a light? Yeah, that's what I think we're at. There's no way it's Easter. No way. No way. Hey, this is my pick. You ready? Okay.

I was thinking about this morning. I maybe even said it on when I was doing chewing on Pat Unleashed this morning, July 4th. I say July 4th. Wow. So, hold on. So what happens in July 4? That means like... I think we, that's what, three months?

Yeah, so the economy is back up and running. So you're saying the economy... We might gradually in that window start letting some businesses open back up. Okay. But, you know, we're not going to... It's still going to be, if you can stay home, stay home. Okay. And if you're not, you know what I mean, unless you get special dispensation from on high, you're staying home.

And we're still self-distancing or personal space issues or whatever you want to call it. And but by July, then on July 4th, I think, you know, like July 1st, we say, President Trump says, okay, we can, we're back. And we'll just take it easy. But happy Independence Day. and schools can open back up in September or whatever. So take the summer. And saying it out loud makes me think it's going to be that that's not even true. It's going to be longer than that.

And it can't be. The country can't do it. Did you just talk yourself out of your own idea? I think I did. I think you did that whole thing go wrong, dude. You just literally, it sounded so good. And as you were digesting it, you were like, nah, bra, nah, bra. Dude, you just not bra yourself?

I'm looking at the screen here. It was in a matter of a minute and a half. You had hope, you had a future, denied. I did. No, you know. That's why I think Prince William, he's going to be king now, right? He's at the end. Prince Charles has got coronavirus. Fisher, who called that? Who called that?

I tested positive, man. He's got it. And Prince William, we don't even, he doesn't have to worry about Prince Charles. Charles is going to pass away, and I don't want him to pass away. No, no, no, no. I don't want him to be sick. But maybe he gets so sick that he can't be king. He can't take power, yeah. So we just jump over to Bill. Bill's king. And right now, in all seriousness, the queen, man, what is she thinking?

You know, she had a meeting with Prince Charles on March 12. That was the last time they saw each other. And then he went on tour. And now he's stuck in like either Scotland or Ireland, one of those. So he's not even in England right now. So, and I don't think the queen wants him here in England either. Oh, no, no, you're good right there. Yes.

And by the way, say hello to Megan. But mom, I'm fine. You know, I know. No, baby. No. No, you're still over there. No. You left the castle and you're at the special house.

I'd like to be there with you. Look at the time. Hello, Mom. Right, it's over. And it's funny about this. No, it's not funny. It was interesting about this whole thing was that Prince Charles was at a red carpet event because the world of family has not locked down.

all now they're in lockdown yeah they were queen had though yes yes yeah well the queen was like ooh no the queen only comes out once you know every three weeks once the blood transfusion is done she comes out yes blood transfers we hose down the room yeah yeah and then there's a timer on the queen oh come on let's go let's go let's go let's go back inside but they haven't stopped doing any events bye good to see everybody yeah they haven't done they haven't done they haven't stopped doing any events and it was funny about this whole thing was that during a red carpet event prince charles went out and tried to shake another person's hand and then the other person was

trying to be so nice that he was like namazda remember we're not supposed to be touching idiots like what are you doing dude and so you know that william is home going oh my social distancing social distancing don't touch anyone oh yeah the kids away from me we're fine we're fine we're fine oh yeah I mean, he's got the crown. That's the crown as he was now. That crowd, once I saw that this morning, and that broke like early, early our time. It was already like afternoon. Yeah, yeah.

As soon as I saw that, Prince William is like, all right, start moving into stuff. Start moving everything in. Call you all. Call everybody. We're moving in. Honey, you're going to be queen. Just matter of time right now. It's a matter of time right now.

Text Harry. Tell him, I told you so, douche. Right. Take care. Oh. Give the wife and Archie a little hug for me, okay? Otherwise, love Bill. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.

We have so much to get to. And I want to be clear, too, just one quick side note on Prince Charles. I am not wishing anything bad on him at all. No, I think that was clear. Mild symptoms. And I want him to be, you know, I want him to be. you know, I want him to be fine. But I'm just, you know, looking ahead and guessing that it's possible that something bad could happen.

And, you know, William is already planning it. So you just know that. But there's a lot of cool things still happening in the world. Pornhub, premium is now free for everyone for the next month. What? Bless their hearts. Pornhub premium. I'm still on the basic.

I'm still on the basic. I'm still on the basic. Oh, well, step up, bro. You got 30 days of free. We have CBS All Access, giving you access for the next, I don't know how long, so you'll be able to see all of Picard. The latest Picard of Season 1 drops Thursday. So you can sign up for CBS All Access, and he's giving you a gift with one month free trial, and then you'll be able to watch All Picard. I'm in.

I'm in. I'm in, too. I'm in. I'm doing that this. I'm doing that. I'm doing that this weekend. I'm going to do that on Friday because the thing is, though, I might have to do it on Monday because this weekend I got Ozark.

So. Okay, but here's the thing. You're paying for Ozark. And how long is this new promo is going to be? I know, but Picard's only going to be there. Get Picard, then get Ozark because no matter what happens, Osark will be there waiting because you already pay for that. So get this stuff that you can.

Who's talking? On Monday, what are you talking about more? Ozark or Picard? Picard. That's what I said, Ozark. So I'm going to watch Ozark. Which, I'm sorry. Speaking of Monday, how are you doing over there?

Hi, thank you. Why? Big news came out last night. And I thought that was going to be the biggest story that you're going to spend, I don't know, 20 minutes talking about that story. You got hit hard over there. You got hit hard. What happened?

Walking Dad What happened Oh I know I thought we covered it Didn't we covered it? I actually I just let it go Because I got caught up with

Waffle House Oh okay Waffle House threw me Because like We talked about I know I haven't written down I think it was Monday We talked about all the shows

Being closed And I asked you I personally asked you I was like hey Are you guys done Is everything filmed and everything You're like yeah yeah

They're all done So what happened? Then we're not done? So one of the things that can happen is whatever little tone you have in your voice can go away. I don't know. I don't appreciate it. I'm not sure what that is, but that needs to stop like right now. What happened?

Okay, here's the deal. They announced that their season finale, and thank you for reminding me because I was so bummed. Their season finale, which is three shows away, three weeks, all right? three weeks, has been postponed until later this year, whatever. We'll give you the season finale, whenever. I don't matter. So their deal is.

Okay, and so then I start reading then their main guy, Quintero, or that's not his name, what's a stupid name? Nicotero. Greg Nicotero, not Quintaro or Greg Nicotero. He had replied to the tweet or Instagram or Facebook post, the first one from AMC on Walking Dead, that hey, this is, hey, guys,

the first I'm hearing about it too. Post production usually takes place three weeks out from the airing of the show. And so that's where we're at. Well, wait, you're telling me that AMC did not see this coming. They most definitely saw it coming because last week, remember, we talked about them canceling the new show.

Yeah, the other show. World Beyond. which makes sense because it was three weeks out. They were busy post-producing the episode one, which you'd think they already have done, right? I mean, just off the top of your head, you think, oh, yeah, that's already done. Apparently not.

So when they did that, they didn't say to themselves, okay, you people that are working on World Beyond, for this week, you're going to do the finale of Walking Dead so that that show done. comes to a conclusion. What are you? A stupid producer? What are you?

I mean, that is just dumb. I cannot believe a network has run like that. I can't believe it. So the filming is done. We just stuck on post-production. Correct. Well, that is dumb. I'm sorry.

I thought, I didn't read the story because I figured you were going to talk about it. But when I saw that last night, I was like, oh, man, so they were not done filming. But I'm sorry. So you're telling me that right now, inside a warehouse, there is the timeline that just needs to be edited, color corrected, audio mastered, put a couple of things.

No, no. I know. Get you ass back to work, finish that show. Because that's at my check. You can do the remastering of it. Then the other person comes in, wipes the computer, does the audio. The other person comes in, wipes the computer, and does the color correcting. The other guy comes in, wipe, like, I'm sorry, I don't think.

And then here we go. We send it to whoever watches it and says, yep, that episode's good to go. And last time I checked, most of this stuff is digitally sent. So you're telling me that Bob over there, AMC can't hit. Oh, no, it's too much. We're in quarantine. We got to go. I'm sorry. I thought they were still filming.

If this show is stuck at a computer, someone going there, freaking master it, color corrected, audio master, sent it to AMC, boom, you're done. I don't disagree. It was just really, really, really. And I'm not even a fan of the show. I just getting tired because now everybody's going to use this as an excuse. Oh, we can't finish the show. They already are.

There was a bunch of shows, but some of those shows weren't filmed, right? Well, that's what I'm saying. If you haven't filmed, okay, fine. I'll give you maybe. Okay, don't film it. But if your show is filmed and all it is, it's stuck in post-production, you set up a room, a clean room, and then you just host everything down every time the last person left.

Or I don't know. Here's an idea, like two weeks ago, when you postponed a week and a half ago, when you postponed the world beyond for the post-production. Seriously, I can't get past this. You knew that there were issues with the post-production, yet your number one show still needed to have

the final show post-produced. And you drop the ball on that? I'm sorry. And especially like you're right. That is your prophet puppy. That is the show that is keeping you. network alive because I believe you told me that they have at one point they showed a commercial within a commercial yeah so yeah I'm sorry no no that is no excuse for you to drop the ball

on the biggest show and their cash cow show the show that follows walking dead which I'm just amazed at how many times they push that back to promote another show So, like, they'll air Walking Dead on Sunday nights for AMC, and then they want to promote another show. So instead of putting Talking Dead on right after Walking Dead, they push that back an hour and air the show that they want to promote right after Walking Dead and then bring on Talking Dead. Talking Dead is a cash cow, right? I mean, that costs nothing to produce. Yeah. That's all AMC.

They sit down, they bring in a couple of guests, and they recap. Walking Dead. It costs nothing to all it does is bring in money and and and they took a week off and then they brought everybody you know they gave everybody their Skype cameras and or their or their AMC cameras at the house and they produced a show because that is a cat's that's money so that's an easy that's easy money for the network when you say guess are those the actors from the show back sometimes sometimes sometimes okay sometimes you know they have sometimes as they bring in an actor or if a particular actor got killed that week, they usually have that actor on. Wait, they bring it back to live?

What's that? They bring the actor back to live? This particular show makes the show so good. That's why you didn't want that show to end because people die. Yeah. Unless that show is on, people die. It's just the way that. And it's funny because do they ask this question, how do you feel after you died?

Of course. That is so cool. That is so cool. And they all kiss the show's ass, which is they should. Well, yeah, of course. Yes, yes. Well, my point is that that's a cash cow, and they figured it out. They realized, ooh, we need to do this.

So you didn't realize that Bill, working post-production, Bill Fred and June, working post-production, needed to get the work done. And we didn't provide them with the tools they needed. Somebody should be fired. Yeah, that's that you could you could probably go down in history of the TV show history and say that was the biggest fall for a network. We'll see. We'll see because, I mean, the season finale, season 10, episode 16. I was there that later down somewhere now. Now, do you think there's a hidden agenda behind that?

You know what? You know, I was reading some of the, uh, some of the threads, uh, last night where there, there were a couple of threads that brought up, well, they're changing it. They're changing it. They, they weren't happy with how the ending was and now they're going to change it. I don't know. I mean, there's no way, there's no way to know. Does this show have a, a thread of bad endings? And I know this is not talking walking this. I'm so sorry if this is way too much. but I'm just curious because I want to give AMC the, you know, a fair play here.

I want to give them a fair play because there's no way you drop the ball this hard. I think they dropped the ball. I think they dropped the ball. I think they dropped the ball. I think that that's part of, you know, that's their everyday workload. Okay. With Nicotero posted, you know, that post-production is really, do it three weeks out from a show. You know, that's their normal scheduling.

And I think they just dropped the ball. Instead of thinking ahead, instead of thinking ahead, seeing it coming, they just, you know, dropped the ball. Oh, crap. Now we've got to shut everything down. Oh, well. Oh, well.

You know, we're not going to be able to do the season finale now, right? Wait, that's not done. No, that's what? What? Okay, I can see. Now that you work out like that, I could definitely see that happening. Yeah.

Yeah. Exactly what happened. And the guy who dropped the ball, I mean, I don't, I never want people to get fired ever. But there's exceptions to every rule.