Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 346 | Fat Pile Friday - Quibi Day EDITION

Episode Date: April 10, 2020

Day 29 inside CQB: Looks like Channel did a diversity hire, but is not good enough. Easter weekend is here and churches are holding online services. Placido Domingo is back on the news and this time Jeffy has another prediction. Today is Quibi day where Jeffy does a review of the Quibi app and things go sour. China reclassify dogs as pets and this hurts the livestock. Oregon is trying to tell you how to have safe sex during COVID-19 and we have a condom shortage. Do you want to attend a CTF Virtual Happy Hour? We'll submit your name here: CTF VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Yes, it's Fat Pile Friday. Still live from the COVID-19 quarantine bunker, the CQB. Easter weekend. If you're listening live on the 10th of April, 2020, it's good Friday. Good news. I want to start with some good news today.

Well, I don't know that it's actually good news. It's good news that a company like Chanel is finally hiring someone to lead their initiative on diversity. It's important all over the world as companies, universities, even just people who work out of their homes during the quarantine, need someone to lead the initiative on diversity and inclusion. of course now Chanel is getting hammered because

the person that they hired to lead the initiative on diversity of inclusion is white I mean that's where we're at right hello welcome how you doing? Good to see you thanks for coming along for the ride today I mean that's where we're at

she is I mean it is a she so she's kind of on the diversity wheel, but no, not good enough. Not good enough. Those positions, I believe, and I could be wrong, those positions were created for the actual hiring of people that aren't what. I'm just saying that. And so when you break that mold and say, well, we've got the position, we open the position, but it's a white person.

That's not good enough. It is not good enough. So how you doing? You ready for Easter? You ready to go? I mean, Easter Sunday, you're going to have streaming services from all the great master streaming churches

around the world. All the great artists are going to be performing from home on the internet to celebrate Easter. Does it really matter? I don't know. I mean, I kind of feel like if you're going to celebrate and you want to celebrate Easter and you want to be a part of it and say your prayers and read your Bibles,

don't know that it really matters if you're doing it from the house or the front yard or the sunrise service in your backyard, you know, for it. it's just just be different that's all right the new normal the new normal one of my favorite stories about easter sunday was uh andrea bocelli is going to do uh you know an easter sunday historic performance uh online at a church and it's going to be great It's going to be wonderful. But inside the story, because he is, you know, the operatic guru, he's not Placito Domingo. And, of course, when he asked, or when he was asked about Placito Domingo.

And by the way, why am I even saying the name of Placito Domingo? Why am I not? I might not hear you. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Plathido Domingo. Thank you. I thought something was missing on Fat Pile Friday. Now I feel better.

When asked. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Plattido Domingo. When asked about it, he said... Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placido Domingo. But the thing is that Andrea didn't say... Andrea didn't say that.

Hello, is that Andreya Bocelli? Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placito Domingo. Oh, okay, sorry. Oh, man, I got you guys confused. Sorry, I've messed up. He was asked about it and thought that he called it absurd. I said opera houses have canceled the stars,

performances over sexual harassment allegations before they are fully investigated. Hey! We've kind of delved into that. a little bit deeper. I feel like perhaps we have investigated it enough to know that he didn't really attack

anyone. Although one girl said he did wrap his arms around her, right? With the robot. But he did make many females feel uncomfortable. So you can't have him perform after that. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placito

Domingo. He said I'm still appalled at what happened to this incredible artist. I don't understand this. Tomorrow, a lady could just come up and say Andrea Bocchelli molested me 10 years ago, and from that day on no one wants to sing with me anymore. The opera houses won't call me anymore. This is absurd.

Holy cow. Now that I've read that, he's just covering his own butt. There's going to be something come out about Andrea Boceli. Guaranteed. He's covered it. So he's got to stick up for his main man.

Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placito Domingo. And then he can cover himself. That's where he's at. So be prepared for that new story. Guaranteed that's coming. Now, what is, oh my gosh. How can I forget?

It's Quibi weekend. Squibby Day. Here, I'm chewing the fat. You've, I have the video. If you're listening to this, well, if you're listening to it just on the podcast form. You missed it live. But if you're listening to it on the podcast form, the YouTube video has been released of my quick review of Quibi.

Which, by the way, your review is way too long. If you were trying to submit that to Quibi, they said denied. Wrong. It's under 10 minutes, bra. Yeah, but did you watch the episodes? None of them passed 7 minutes. Can't help that. The contract says between 5 and 10.

Yeah. So denied. Chewing the fat needs to trim it. Wrong. It's under 10 minutes. Nees to trim more fat and make it between 6 and 7. It's under 10. So I know I made it quibby length. I'm telling you, it's under quibby. Like that's ridiculous. We are fighting that. Okay. Now I feel like my main man. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Flacito Domingo. I am being,

I'm being harassed. By whom? All the allegations have been fully investigated. So. Okay. I didn't watch it. I just saw that it was nine minutes long. Yeah.

I bet you, I bet you when I watch it, I can do a review about you reviewing the Quevy app. Okay. Well, I'll just say this. I'll say this to you. I downloaded it, put it on my phone.

I don't want to say you were incorrect in your original review. What, did it say, did it let you send that? But you were incorrect? Were you able to watch an episode on the TV? You know what? Watch the video. I did. You know what?

I was lying. I did watch the video. And I said you send it to the TV, but you never hit play. We were watching the app on the TV, my friend. But did you click on the episode? Oh my gosh. We were watching. It didn't matter.

You're watching the app on the TV. I can do that too. I can absolutely do that. I can send that to the TV. But as soon as I hit play, the TV goes black and it plays on my phone. It doesn't play on the TV. That is what you were supposed to catch. No.

Yes, that's what. If you go back and listen to the podcast where I yell at my wife, she said, yeah, I can see it. And then when I press play, she said, oh, it went black. Oh, my. gosh, I want to stop recording this podcast now and go down into my room and do that right now. That was your task when you were supposed to fully review the podcast. So can you please put the audience on hold, go downstairs and see if it works? Yes, I'll be right back.

All right, so I ran. I broke my own rule. I broke my own rule. I ran all the way downstairs to read you're not supposed to run to the microphone we had we even had like exclusive video of Elton John your hero run into a microphone and you saw what it did to him first of all if you honestly believe that I would ever run you're sadly mistaken I wish I was recording when you told me when you're going to go downstairs because you're like it's going to take me five minutes I'm like I'll be back at five

Where that hell are you going to work and back? I'm not, I got to go down the stairs. You got to walk all the way into the bedroom. You're going to turn the TV on. You got to turn, okay, get it synced up. And what's the verdict? I'm sitting on the edge of my seat because I want to know the verdict of the true experiment you're supposed to do. I know I forgot about that part.

I'm going to update the video. Oh, you are. For those of you're listening to the podcast, so there's an update. You're going to know now that the video will be updated with the new information. Oh, no. So I'm guessing... Can you release it here or are you going to update the video? I mean, I don't know if I want to or not.

I think you should because, you know, the podcast listeners are our primary listeners. Those are the OGs. Those are the influencers. We have a little bit of ambassadorships in there. So I feel that we're going to hear. hurt our podcast influencers I'll remind you that

Quibi launched this past Monday it's a service begins with three episodes each of the first 50 titles right so it's going to roll out 25 episodes and it says three hours of fresh original premium content every

weekday afterward so it's planning to release 175 original shows in his first year and I will say that I scroll as I'm scrolling through what they're highlighting on the video for YouTube, I thought, those really don't do anything for me. No, they don't. I say on the video it looks fun, and it does.

It does look fun, and I'm okay with that. But the shows themselves that they highlight, they really don't do that much for me. Yeah. Yeah, the only one show, well, no, the only two shows are really, I am waiting for the next episode. is Fierce Queens, which is a documentary with the animals, and Reese Witherspoon. And I'll tell you the other one that looked good,

and I think you mentioned it the other day was the flipped. Murder flipped? Were they flipped? That's the one. Yeah, flip. Yeah, flip. Sorry, that's the murder something else. That's another one that I like, but I really.

Where they, the house belonged to the drug dealers? Yeah. Yeah, I'm looking, yeah, that looked good. That looks awesome. And if this stays with, I haven't watched the latest episode because the latest episode just dropped. If it stays with the show arc, it's going to be funny. Yeah. It's going to be really good because both of the main actors, they're great.

They're good comedians. The, it's really funny. The drug lord is a friend of mine, Arturo. And I was like, oh, my God. He's a friend. Yes. Is he a friend as in, I've, taking a picture with him before?

No, he's a friend that I've actually got to work with. Or he's a friend that you could call now and we could talk to him. No, I can't call him. I never gave me his real number. He gave me his agent number. He gave. No, everybody's a friend of mine. It's just a fake friend.

Go ahead. I'm sorry. No, I'm done. I'm done. Are you going to release the news? I'm just saying. I was just asking a question as all. You release what your findings were?

Because I believe everybody right now has pulled over or they're sitting on the edge of their seats waiting for to see who is right and who is wrong. Okay. So the deal is, is that when you mirror it to the TV, it came up on the TV. Yes. And we were looking at the highlights. And you can see on the video that we're scrolling through the shows. And it goes up on the TV, no problem. It doesn't, you can see on the video, it doesn't go horizontal.

It just stays vertical. You can make it, you can turn the phone horizontal. It doesn't do anything and it doesn't do, it doesn't do anything on the TV. When you click to watch a show on this particular TV, and I didn't try it on my Samsung. Oh, you son of a bitch. I got to try it on my Samsung TV because it's a, you know, it's a Samsung. phone, but I tried and I used the television downstairs

that I used in the video that is Roku enabled. The Roku when you hit play on the show disables the video. Oh! Oh! Oh!

Oh! What? So I've got a good doing on the Samsung TV to see if it's actually true. Okay. Okay. That ticks me off so bad. Oh, I'm so happy. That makes me so angry.

Good. And not because, not because you were right. Seriously, why won't they let me watch it on the TV? Because that's not the point. No, I know. If they're paying you money right now, I want you to send them back the money because you're pissing me off. I should be able to do, that ticks me out.

I know it's, you know, it's therefore the in-between times. I get it. And they want me to watch it on my phone. But part of the enjoyment of me watching things on my phone is being able to throw it to the TV. And even if I can leave it vertical and it still stays small, won't go full screen, I'm still technically watching it on the phone. Nope. And that is, today is something Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman. That ticks me off. That ticks me off. It's a happy day today just to let you know.

It's a happy, happy day. I'm going to update the video, okay? Just so you know. Okay. You're pissing me off so bad. right now. So I talked about this a little bit on Pat this morning, but China has drawn up new guidelines to reclassify dogs as pets rather than livestock, which is pretty incredible. Now, again, this is just a guideline and it's a draft. So I don't really, they're saying that they were going to make it permanent, but I, you know, how much you'd trust? China. So are you saying that the president Winnie the Pooh listens to these podcasts?

You know, it's possible because you know we did an entire I want to say an entire half a podcast telling them to stop eating live dogs. I know. I know so that now they've guideline and I looked man I looked to find the the entire list. Wait. And I couldn't find it. Huh? You read Chinese? No, that's the problem. Oh, okay, okay.

I was looking for someone. I was like, wow, Jeffrey has some skills that he's been keeping, you know, a secret. I speak Mandarin out of the side and I work, you know, for the United Nations. Oh, you know, that makes sense. You know, it makes sense. Well, you could, you know, afford the way you live. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I mean, that's why I have a porch that wraps around the trailer. Yeah. Exactly. Yes. So the draft guidelines 18 species as livestock. Okay. And in the stories, they all say, which includes cattle, pigs, poultry, and camels.

All right. Well, that leaves us 14 more, and I haven't seen those listed anywhere. By the way. I want to know what those are. That's another reason why President Winnie the Pooh listens to this podcast, because how many animals are classified? 18. Thank you. I know.

I know. So they also added another 13 special species that would be exempt from wildlife trading. And again, in the stories, and I, I mean, I looked for quite some time. I tried to find these. Did you try to do a CTF exclusive, you know, reporting? Yes. Reindeer. Alpaca,

pheasants, ostriches, foxes. That still leaves us eight missing species. I want to know what they are. Again, another reason why President Winnie DePoo

listens to this podcast. You know, he's like 8, 18. And by the way, did you see how many dogs they eat in one year? Well, it's estimated. Yeah.

You may decide estimated at 10 million. Oh my gosh. Gosh. No. Now, that's because it was, it was, they were still designated as livestock. Yes. Yes. So when they, when they designate livestock, it means animals can be bred for food, milk, fur, fiber, medicine.

They can be used in sports or military activity. That's what the designation means. So, and again, the Humane Society said that they estimate around 10 million dogs that are killed. Well, one city has made it illegal now. Just one city in China. That's it. Good job. And you don't want to hang out in Shenzhen.

Oh, no, no, no, because you don't get to eat. Shenzhen. Fluffy. Right. You can't have that. But I was looking at it. In my research, looking for this list of people last night, I was looking at this vast amount of pictures of all these animal markets. It is incredible.

And by the way, they also hold a yearly dog festival. Yeah, the city of Yulin. That is gross. Yeah, it gets in June every year. What are you talking about? You say that like you didn't know that the city of Yulin has the annual dog meat festivals. Not just the dog festival, the dog meat festival. But when you see the dogs just laid up on the table at the market,

they all look the same. They're the same dogs. So they've all just been bred to be like cattle. They're just laying there. They're the same looking dog, only there's a hundred of them instead of one. And that makes it okay? I think it does. I think it does.

Now, do I want to eat that particular dog? Fluffy. And they want you to make you feel bad. It's definitely a humane society story, one of them, because they show the stack of livestock bread dogs laying on the table at the market. And the picture is from the eyes of a guy. on a bike with fluffy in the basket. Stop it.

All right. Even though we're, you know, I'm not really hungry for a dog, I am thirsty for Coca-Cola zero sugar. So we'll just take a drink in the break room. So good. So, so good. Remember to subscribe to chewing the fat. You can subscribe to the podcast.

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Thank you. Appreciate it. So I've had the story in the fat pile all week. and I've been, I just, for whatever reason, I keep skipping over it, and I have to get to it. The family of Prince, the singer Prince, entertainer, Prince, my main man, Prince, who I loved, they have been asked to stop asking for money. Stop asking for money from the estate. So according to court documents, Camerica Bank, who is the,

personal representative of Prince's estate is responding to their, to the heirs please, saying, hey, we haven't not seen a penny from the estate since he died. But he's been dead since 2016.

They haven't seen a penny? What's going on? What is going on? Now, they claim that the heirs are fully aware of the issues with the IRS including the IRS believing the estate is being undervalued on paper. So they haven't worked it out in four years? What are they doing?

Now, according to the family, the attorneys are still getting their money. And I'm sure the bank is still getting their cut, but not the family. Then I see an updated story where the judge has told the family, uh, you guys just back off. I'll give you a little mediator to work in between for you guys. And,

but the more you complain and the more you hold it up, that's the slow, you're slowing the process down. So quit your whining. What? I mean, because Prince left it to his siblings to work out. Right? He left it to the siblings to work out.

Now, you know, I guess you have the bank, uh, the attorneys, everybody's getting, cut. If I'm a family member and I've been getting, you know, living off the back and sweating tears of Prince for the past 20 years and now I've got nothing, I'd be knocking on the door

of that bank too. Where is my money? What is happening with my money? If I want to be like Chris Cruz, I could say Prince was a friend of mine. I saw him perform. I was backstage for two shows the 1999 tour and the controversy tour Controversy Tour was great Man Morris Day on the time Vanity Fair Prince they were it was such a good was a great show What made it controversial?

That's the name of the album Controversy Tour Okay The Controversy Tour And I was backstage and I shook his hand I shook his hand when he came out of the dressing room Did you work for him?

Yeah, so he and I are friends Did you work for him? No Okay, then you can't call him. He's about two feet tall. Really? He's that tiny? He's really little, yeah. He was that tiny? Yeah, he used to wear heels all the time.

That's why he had a bad back. He used to wear all those heels on the stage. Don't be messing with my man, Prince. But he had all the bodyguards were like eight feet tall. Eight feet tall, eight feet tall, 800 pounds. So, you know, just to get in to say, hey, Prince and shake his hand was a pretty good move on my part. It's funny.

So you're saying that they'd be having this five because I haven't seen any money from Prince Estate, right? Yeah. So does that mean like people can just play his stuff without pain? No, I don't think so. I think he's still paying the estate, right? They're still cranking out the money. Okay.

And some of the family members have talked about how they've sold off some of their percentages of the estate to be able to pay their bills. Oh, baby. You don't do that. some of the there's some rich people out there that are saying uh yeah i'll help you you can't pay your bills no problem uh pay me let me have a 20% of your 20% right and uh i'll give you this much money because once that gets freed up you know if you're able to if you're able to have that money and just let it sit and not worry about it once that estate gets freed up you're living large and the

family knows that as well right i mean they've been living off the Why the prince is back for all these years? And now he's gone and the safe is now locked. By the way, he looks so emotional in this song. Is it an emotional song? Everything Prince did is emotional, man. One way or the other. Oh, okay, okay, okay.

I'll make it seem like you don't understand Prince. I don't. I thought he was a girl. Was he trying to be feminine or was he a masculine man? We are done talking. Speaking of Prince and his death, overdose, that was a mistaken overdose, by the way. I mean, he didn't realize he had taken so much.

Methadone is going to be handed out without a prescription during the COVID-19 crisis. And I thought, oh, my gosh, how it's kind of great. Where do I go? Now, it's not here in America. It's in the United Kingdom. But pharmacists are going to be allowed to hand out a range of supermarkets. strength medicines, including methadone, without a prescription during the COVID-19 cases under emergency measures,

the official drug policy advisors have warned could trigger a spike in drug misuse. What? No, that can't be. How could you possibly think by giving it away it could spike a drug misuse? In the long run, though, you'd hope that it wouldn't, right, that it would be better. But, you know, that's just, just me. Now we have a global condom shortage looking like it's going to be hurting us very soon after the world's biggest producer shuts down. We've already had the shortage, and now the biggest producer shut down during the virus? Okay. So Malaysia's Carrick's BHD makes one in every five condoms globally.

And they haven't produced a single condom in its three Malaysian factories over the past 10 days because of a lockdown by the government. Wow. Okay. So there may be even more. COVID-19 babies then anticipated if we can't have that. There's also a company giving out thousands of free vibrators. I think that's how you pronounce the word, V-I-B-R-A-T-O-R-S.

Vibrators? Yeah. So there's a company that's giving free vibrators out and I'm saying okay, good luck. They're giving them out here in America and they're not shipping them out. They've got extra. Good for them.

All kinds of stories talking about how the pandemic is making people get ready for business. Oh, yeah. And they're saying people are reaching high levels of business time. Oh yeah.

COVID-19 business. but according to many states we talked about the New York sex guidelines in Oregon they've also put out their guidelines from the Oregon Health Authority and Community Initiative and I love I'm a big fan to the what was it again the Oregon Health Authority and Community Initiative yes who does not subscribe to me like

right of course it's silly to me to think that you wouldn't No. They gave out their tips. Oh, sex in the time of COVID-19. They did. They did. They did give out their tips.

Absolutely. Practice. They want people to practice these tips for sexual health to keep you safe during COVID-19. You are your safest sex partner. No. So are you saying that what that guy was complaining about on Amazon of saying, those adult toys are not essential they should not be selling them i tell them that not organ saying they're essential uh well in a roundabout way okay in a roundabout way i mean do you need a non

essential vibrator to uh to assist you i'm pretty sure that's how you pronounce the word yes you're right i'm sorry that's what i don't mean to to to interrupt I just did the story about the thousands of free Vibetors that are giving away. And so, I mean, there's the B-E-L-L-E-S-E-S. No, that's, oh, yeah, B-L-L-E-S-E-S-E. They're giving out free Vibetters. Vibeters, got it. During the outbreak.

By the way, I failed to fill out my paperwork for that, too, so I got to make that happen. So anyway, Oregon is saying that, you are your safest sex partner. So in a roundabout way, yeah, they're saying that Vimiters are essential, taking away from the Amazon guy. But do you actually need it? Yes. Okay. Well, there it is.

It's an essential. It's an essential item. By the way, do you remind you how to... Do you have the picture in front of you? Yes. Okay. Next to the vibrator and next to the flashlight. I love the middle.

Okay. The middle. I love it. It makes me giggle. You've got, they show a bottle of what appears to be some sort of fluid. Yes. Like, ocean or. They show, they show what appears to be a vibrator.

Uh-huh. They show a phone ready to be played. they show I guess that is a flashlight, right? That's what you call a flashlight, yes. I don't know, I'm not quite sure I understand what the flashlight would do other than being a potential vibrator.

It is a potential vibrator, but what they did is they call it a flashlight. Instead of flashlight, there's an E, not the A, and that's what it's called. And then there's two fingers. There's what?

There's your two fingers. Two fingers. I don't know why that's... I mean, you are your safest sex partner. I just love the two fingers. It talks about selective kissing. Kissing can be easily past COVID-19. Avoid kissing anyone who is not part of your small circle of close contacts.

That's not a good helpful hint. Even if there's no COVID-19, I would say. But I digress. And they also tell you to use condoms. Maybe they didn't hear the story I just did about the global condom shortage. There's no. There is none. There is none.

We're done. I know. I know. They're telling you to wash your hands, of course. Oh, man. Wash up before and after sex. It's more important than ever. No kidding.

And it says here, according to the Oregon Health Authority and Community Initiative, you should wash up before and after sex, wash hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. I would say 20 seconds before, maybe you want to expand that to 40 after. It's just a thought. By the way, might as well, just shower. Just shower afterwards. And use soap. Don't just rinse off.

No, no, no, you have to use. I don't know. Okay. We can't get too much in here. I was asking you to press pause on a few things that you might do with your mouth. Like? Just me, do you imagine? Some of the things that you might do with your mouth other than kissing.

Like. Because we've already told you kissing, you know, avoid kissing anyone who is not part of your small circle of close contacts. So if you're involved with someone in your small circle of close contact, you want to maybe push a little pause on places, other places, where you would put your lips. Okay. It's all I'm saying. It's all I'm saying.

And it also says that you should probably maintain a self-distance, a good safe distance. You know, use the phone. use the web chat platforms and connect socially that way because you don't want to exchange fluids and you can use those platforms and still make yourself happy and not spread fluids around. So that would be another thing that you would press pause on that you would do with your mouth during this time of the pandemic to lessen the spread. flatten the curve as it were.

So we may as well look at some of the coronavirus numbers as we head into this Easter weekend. We have 1,632,577 cases worldwide as we record this podcast. We have 97,583 deaths. You know, that appears to be, we'll make over 100,000 deaths, right? through the weekend. Wow. That will not look good.

Here in the U.S., we have 475,237 total cases and 17,055 deaths as we record this podcast. And the TSA checkpoints yesterday, well, I mean, two days ago, remember, we had 94,931, go through the TSA checkpoint. Yesterday we had 104,090 people go through the TSA checkpoints. That's only down 96% from a year ago. So, no, it's actually 96% from 2019. Because last year, we had 2,486%. 7,398.

It doesn't matter. We've only got 100,000 people going through the TSA checkpoint. That is incredible. So we've got to get the, we've got to fire up this engine desperately. People are still trying to do great things. I know. I know we're trying to get through this. We're all trying to figure out a way to get through it.

But one of the ways it appears is not to do the lockdown. Right? I mean, even the people who were driving through neighborhoods to try to still comply with the lockdown in Ohio and sing happy birthday and honk the horns to people that were having, we would have been having some kind of get-togethers and parties and now aren't. They're being told by the authorities that that's illegal. No. That cannot be. That cannot be.

At some point, we either have to start slugly. slowly putting the brakes on this closing down everything and restarting the economy. Or the sheep will turn on the wolves. They will turn on the wolves. I don't want it to happen. I'm not wishing or praying for it to happen, but it will happen. Because it's been 30 days already. Day 30, if you started on Friday the 13th.

And if you just started that first Monday, the 16th, you're looking at, you know, day 27. And it seems like it's been a lot longer than that. A lot longer. I know. I know. So we've got a lot more to get to. We've got headlines to get to. And we'll do that on the podcast.

So stick around. If you're not a subscriber, subscribe to chewing the fat. and we'll let you know exactly what's going on around the world with our headlines. I'll leave you with one

sad but possible good story. The headline is Joy Behar reportedly floats leaving the view by 2022. Joy. Joy. Joy. If you want to leave the view, don't let anybody talk you out of it.

You go. you just go away you've already tried to do it once and they pulled you back in I know she's going to be 80 years old in 2022 joy

just go away just go download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts so let's talk about our Zoom get together as long as we're

you know meeting this way on the podcast. We've responded to those of you that have emailed chewing the fat at the blaze.com that want to be part of our Zoom brunch, luncheon. Virtual happy hour. That's what everybody's calling it, right? That's the point so that we can go trending when we upload this to YouTube. Fine.

Join us for our virtual happy hour. There you go. You have to bring your own drinks, though. You have to bring your own drinks. We cannot provide drinks for everybody. So you have to bring you on drinks. You have to bring your own food. Caterers are not willing to cater this event.

I don't know why. But. Well, I'll tell you about what the problem is. What's the problem is? Before we get to head, when we get into headlines and some of the other stories I have for today before we get out of here, holy cow. We know why the caterers are in trouble. but side note so our virtual

happy hour will be when do we want to have it as long as we're working about you want to have it out you want to have our virtual happy hour on hump day how about on a Friday oh come on how about on a Friday

how about no okay then Wednesday it is we'll see if people can do it on Wednesday people are working are they they're supposed to be It certainly doesn't look like it. They're supposed to be working. They're supposed to be working from home.

Uh-huh. Tell that to the millions that are applying for unemployment benefits. Tell that to all the companies that are sending postcards to their employees. Sorry, you're fired. I don't know. Plus Fridays, Friday's party night or date night. Virtual happy hour. So you're telling me, hold on.

You tell me that people are not working, but they're having date night on Friday. Yes, that's right. They might as well just change this to a CTF date night and make it on a Friday night. But it won't be the same as virtual happy hour. No, it won't. That's fine. That's fine. It's fun with the virtual happy hour it is.

You know what, pick a day. No, no, no, Friday we'll have it on Friday. Whatever you want. it. I just whatever you want, Chris, you know what? We're here for you.

It is my account. So, huh? Never mind then. You know what? I don't want to use your account. I don't want to use it. So you're going to pay for it?

You're going to pay for it? Upday virtual hours canceled. No. No, that's fine. We won't have one. If you want to show up, show up.

I'll have one without you then. Have fun. Have fun. You can email chewing the fat of The Blaze.com. Or you can click once you download, because if you're listening now, you are a podcast subscriber.

At the bottom of the description, just click on the CTF virtual happy hour link and just sign up. Yeah, you could do that. I don't know why you're upset at me right now because I feel that I've come up with a great idea and you just poo in it. Like you do every little thing you do. No, you're right. No, you're right. It's great idea.

Thank you. I don't know what you're talking about. That's all I'm asking for. Some recognition. Don't you have some headlines to do? Is that it? Yeah. That's all you're asking for?

All I'm asking for is recognition. Are you? And appreciation. Sorry, let me add another one in there. Oh, so now it's growing. Recognition. That's all I'm asking for. And the list grows.

Recognition and appreciation. I don't think that, I don't think I'm asking too much. But obviously, in your world, I'm asking for the first child. You're not asking too much when you said all I'm asking for is the one thing. Then you added another one. Now you're asking for too much. I feel that. Recognition and appreciation.

Recognition is the first one. Yeah. You got recognition. No problem. Wait, I call you first all the time. Do I have recognition? All the freaking time. What do you want for me?

What's the other one? I want recognition and appreciation. Yeah, that's not happening. The second one's not happening. That is not happening. Okay. But hey, Chris Cruz. What? I was just recognizing you. That's all.

The Google plan to wipe out mosquitoes, you're welcome. Appears to be working. I don't know that that's a good plan. Dude, have you seen the mosquitoes? They're like this big now. That's what I mean. Mosquitoes not look like spiders. The ones surviving are like the size of airplanes.

That one surviving mosquito looks like a stupid spider This spot is like Wait Are you a new breed of spiders What the hell is out of the backyard Did someone just land a drone in our backyard? No I'll take it back

I'll take it back you're right It looks like a drone This is like a mini drone just dropped off Wait is that Amazon delivery my package Oh no Oh that's a mosquito Run For the surviving mosquitoes that Google didn't kill

that's what's going to happen. That's what's going to happen. You can count out that. Now we talked about we can't provide food or brunch at the virtual happy hour. Yeah, why is that? Why is that? Because think of this. I just was reading a story.

Florida, mountains of unsold vegetables rot in the sun. Oh, wow. I mean, people are buying them up at the grocery stores, but there's no restaurants open. Thousands of acres of fruits and vegetables grown in Florida, just being plowed over or left Iraq because they can't sell them to restaurants, theme parks, or schools. Wow. I mean, that industry is being decimated along with the dairy farmers who have to dump their

surplus milk. Yeah, okay. Thank you for bringing that up. I don't think we talked about it and I don't think I question you about it. Why are we dumping all that milk? They can't sell it. Oh, okay. So that's not spoiled.

It's just like milk that was not sold because the demand is not there. So now we just have to flush it. Okay. Okay. Yes. And that's what's happening, right? They can't sell it. And because they can't sell it, there's restaurants, schools, theme parks, all of that stuff.

And since the demand is let the prices drop, I mean, they can't, nobody's making what they sell. They're not making any money. And they can't sell it all because nobody's buying. There's no place to sell it. All of those industries are just decimated. And they're giving, farmers are saying, hey, we're donating as much as we can to the food back. So every place we can go. But 80% of their contracts, most of their, like the tomato industry in Florida, 80% of the tomatoes grown in Florida are sold to restaurants and theme parks.

Ooh. I mean, there's only so many tomatoes you can give to Gatorland. And if you're not giving tomatoes to Gatorland, what are you doing with your life? I know they love hot dogs and all that stuff, but they'll eat tomatoes. they're gators. They'll get over it. Trust me. Any animals that are starving, they'll get over.

Give it to zoos. Give your damn vegetables to the zoo. Let the animals have some food. What are you doing? Anything, any kind of food that's being thrown away, before you throw it away, give it to a zoo. No one supports zoos more than this program. No one. That's clear.

I was going through the headlines. And, you know, I'm reading, you know, a Georgia bar owner removes $3,714 worth of bills stapled to the walls to give to her unemployed staff. Okay, well, that's a nice gesture. I appreciate it. You know, you go to that, but the reason that you went to that bar in the first place was because you got to staple the bills on the wall, right? You staple the dollar bill on the wall, and you go there and you say, oh, there's the dollar bill.

I staple to the wall. Now there's no dollar bill stapled to the wall. Why do I want to go to that bar? We could start again. Okay, I guess. Tyler Perry, giving away goes on a good deed spree. The guy does this. He's doing it again.

He was the one who started it in Christmas time. For Christmas, yeah, the Walmart good away. Good for Tyler, man. I've got to remember this year to lay away stuff at Walmart. I've got to remember to lay away stuff at Walmart. You're not in need, babe. If you lose your job, maybe, but you're not in need. We just covered this.

I didn't say I was in need. I'm just saying that I've got to remember to lay away stuff at Walmart this holiday season. We just cover this. You're swimming in money right now. I am? Yes, we just covered this with a story. I don't know what was a story, but you're working for somebody. Who are you working for?

I forgot. Rewind the podcast and you can listen to what I forgot. Because your definition of swimming in money. money and mine are two different things. But listen, I just want to say you, Chris Cruz, your definition is different. I just want to give you your recognition. So anyway, as I'm going through the headlines, I see a story and I want to strangle a police officer. And I want to strangle a police department. And no one supports police officers more than this. Thank you. I was going to say, can you please send that disclaimer because

you just say you want to strangle a police officer and then you say you want to strangle a police department? The entire department. Greenville, Mississippi. Okay, that's around the corner. Greenville, Mississippi issued $500 tickets. Oh, no. Nope.

Stop. To Christians who gathered in a church parking lot to worship. So the preacher is having. I get together. Church. In the cars. He's broadcasting on the radio. You're pulling the parking lot.

You turn into the radio. And there you go. You stay in your cars. Your windows are up. But you're at church. They're serving and praying together. The police department shows up. Says they're breaking the rules.

$500 tickets. A, how are the police officers? They're justifying to them. Yeah. And then I'm sorry, Mississippi. How is it that your police officers are supporting that rule? I know. I'm sorry, but no, no.

You don't mercy. Do you know who you're missing with right now? You're missing with church people. I know. You do not mess with church people. It's parked in a parking lot with their windows closed? Yes, yes. I calm down.

That's the same as Ohio, Sam. We can't drive by honk our horns and holler happy birthday, right? Okay, calm down, Ohio. Oh my God. I just saw a story that I thought you were going to cover it. And it bothered me to the core because... What story is that, Chris Cruz? I'm trying to find it.

I'll give you recognition as you're looking for the story. You know what? No, I don't want that kind of recognition. No, I just... Okay, here it is. Michigan Democratic Governor Whitmer Bans travel. between household statewide.

They are pushing Americans to the tipping point. If I lived in Michigan, the neighbor kids that came to my front door yesterday and knocked on the door and said, hey, our volleyball is in your backyard.

Yeah. Arrested, thrown in jail. I mean, I would have if I lived in Michigan, I would have just called the police right then. absolutely absurd that what I know

seriously when you start talking and I tweeted from my Twitter account at Jeffrey JFR and if you're a subscriber to the podcast you are because you're listening to this part of the show you already follow me on

Twitter but I'm telling you that Ohio story pissed me off oh yeah oh yeah you know no I'm I'm serious man if that continues to happen, those are the type of stories that are going to have the sheep turn on the wolves. Yeah. And that's what you do.

If you want that to happen, keep doing it. Keep pushing. By the way, we talked about it yesterday. The sexy governor of South Dakota said it perfectly. You are personally responsible. Wait, personal, personal responsibility. Oh yeah, personal responsibility. That's right.

You have personal responsibility. If you feel that you got to go to work, go to work. But guess what? You're a personal responsible for your own safety. Don't look at me. I got nothing. Like, dude, that's such a great way of living. That's a very libertarian way of living.

You're responsible for yourself. Not libertarian. That's a great, I don't know. Constitutional. Yeah, like I said, libertarian. to be responsible for yourself. Yeah, I don't understand it. I don't understand it.

And we talked about it at the beginning of the pandemic. You know, we are on day 29, day 29, right now. We're day 30, right? Day 30. 30? Oh, no. I think it's the day 30. No, today's, okay, hold on.

For all you all listening at home, make sure you look at the bottom of this podcast, and you're going to yell, hey, Fisher, it's day 29. No way. It's day 28. Stay 30. No, day 29. Day 30. Day 30.

What was yesterday then? Let's look. I'll tell you what? Let's look at the calendar, shall we? Let's look. I literally have a ticker on your stupid podcast. You start, and you're saying we started on Friday the 13th. correct yes right all right so there's seven there's 14 there's 21 22 23 24 25 27 27 28 29 day 29 like I

said so we're 30 days so 29 right day 29 but 30 days like I said yeah like I said because I've been keeping track on your stupid podcast and everybody's screaming the little heart out it's 29 Fisher, calm down. I'm sorry. You're right, Chris Cruz. Just want to give you your recognition. Thank you. I appreciate that. But, you know, and Fisher, if you are correct about this, that we're still in lockdown by July 4.

I don't want to be right on that. Because every day now that goes by. But it's looking like it. It's looking that you will be right. Because the dad that got arrested, I know we talked about it. Shut up. We're going to bring it up again. The dad that got arrested.

and will not, you know, no, you're not going to apologize for me. Good. Do not take an apology. And by the way, remember, he was detained. He wasn't technically arrested. They just handcuffed him and threw him in the back of the car. That's a right. Let's sit there for a little while. That's an arrest.

That's an arrest. Okay. It's just detained. Okay. As a, as someone who supports the police department. Okay. That's just a detained. Fine. A technicality. He was detained.

So you better not accept that apology. Then you have the story that you just talked about. the story I talked about, then you have the, dude. There's plenty. There's a lot of, they're starting to add up. We talked about it too, the pastors that got arrested in Florida. Yeah, they're starting to add up. The little ones are starting to add up.

And really, and I'm not joking. I'm not sure what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but it's going, I feel like every day the back is getting heavier and heavier. It is getting heavy. It is getting heavy. So when you say, when you look at, take a look at July 4th, it seems like a billion years away. Yeah. Because Connecticut's already said that everything is done until May 20th already.

Right? So, I mean, that's another month and a half. Yep. Ooh. And now you're not even, you're not even into June or July yet. and companies are, people are literally dying, people are broke and not because of COVID-19. No.

Because of our reactions to COVID-19. Yep. I don't know that we make it to July 4. I don't know. Dude, it's a Friday. We're not supposed to do this on a Friday. I know. I know.

We got way too deep on this conversation. Can you bring us back? I'm sorry, Chris. Cruz. Don't recognize me right now. No, I just want to recognize make sure you get recognized because you know, it's important to you.

That's one of the things that you do. It is important to me, but right now you want it out of spite. I'm sorry? It's a pity. Petty recognition. Pity. Is this pity?

Oh, but you didn't say, I want recognition that's not pitiful. It's not pity. You said you want a recognition? I'm giving you recognition. All right. Are you done?

What's the other thing you want? recognition you can't say why do you have to say them together because you can't remember it by itself recognition and appreciation that's how important it is to you yes oh appreciation

appreciation yeah appreciation yeah that's right it's one of the things you wanted you know there's an old song oh there is what's a stupid old song yeah there's an old song okay I'm trying to remember the words to it but it's something like you can't, you can't.

You can't get, you can't always get what you want. Oh, look, there you go, you're singing. Can't always get. That's a good son. By the way, that song always reminds me of house, because they always play that song on that TV show. You can't always get what you want. That's a good song.

Oh, thank you. You brought me back. You're welcome. No problem. You're welcome, Chris Cruz.