Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 349 | Naked News From Around the World & Do We Have a Homeless Problem in the U.S.? | Guest: Michael Fischer

Episode Date: April 15, 2020

Day 34 inside CQB: Nothing says CTF more like naked news from around the world and a little homeless talk with homelessness expert Michael Fischer. Chelsea Handler is posing naked on her social media and showing the world what is she reading as she is also stuck in quarantine. Coronavirus UPDATED numbers and TSA travel numbers take a deep cut. Hows the retail business doing? Well March numbers are out and it doesn't look good for the economy. 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

And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it, chewing the fat, with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Still live from the COVID-19 quarantine bunker, the CQB. I don't see an end of that. I'm hoping that there is actually Chris Cruz light at the end of the tunnel for that, but I don't necessarily see it yet. Good news coming from Los Angeles County, though. The sheriff has released 4.5.

2,276 nonviolent inmates from the county jail. Oh, I mean, that's only 25% of the inmates. Now, the reason that he did that was to

prevent the spread of COVID-19. He's got 11 inmates infected, but now the thing that he's concerned about is there might be a crime wave that may have surged in crime you think

and for me you would hope that a county sheriff would say to himself man we've got to let some people go we got to get them out of here otherwise there's going to be a run on COVID-19 in our jails and we don't want that I don't want my deputies getting COVID-19

We're going to be struggling with the whole coronavirus thing here in the jails. Man, we should probably let some of these guys go. Well, you know, Sheriff, if we let them go, don't you think there'll be a crime wave? Nah, don't worry about it, you know, until after they're gone. Now we have that going on in Los Angeles County. We have an inmate released. over the coronavirus fear, but he was just arrested for murder

a few hours after he got out of jail. We have a New York City man released right. Okay, he can get out. Go ahead, you're out. He got out of, we have a New York City man released from jail. I'm just seeing on a table beat the hell out

an old man, disabled with him in broad daylight. Right, well, we can't have him coughing like that. However, at the same time, at the same time we have all of that going on, we have police threatening to arrest North Carolina protesters, and it's probably going to happen in Michigan and Kentucky as well, that are demanding America to reopen. We're going to arrest those protesters. So, I mean, it's good times.

Good, good times. How are you? Thanks for coming along. It's good to see you. I mean that. I mean If you're not in a good mood today Then I don't know what can put you in a good mood

I just don't I just don't gosh darn it Now you remember the old saying Show me a good looking Well for males it's show me a good looking woman And for women I'm sure it's show me a good looking man But the joke Allow me to introduce myself

I am Placito Domingo You show me a good looking woman And Placito is a proud of example of this. You show me a good looking woman. I'll show you a guy that's tired of being with her. So nothing could hold that line more true than the Thai king that had his harem in lockdown. Remember, he quarantined himself in a German hotel by taking the entire hotel and had his harem there of 20 women. And I mean, that's got it. That's tough. That's tough quarantine work right there.

And actually, when you think about it, it kind of is. 20 women, but you've got a whole hotel, so it's fine. Anyway, he's finally had enough. King Maha, Vajira Lankan. King Maha, we've got to have this on a computer. You have to have this pronounced on computer.

King Maha, V-A-J-I-R-A-E-R-A-E-A-E-A-R-A. L-O-N-G-K-O-R-N. Vajar Lunkorn. Like I said, Kig Maha. Vajar Lung-Korn. 67. He's 67. He's still herring him up with 20 women? Bless his heart.

He finally had enough of the 20 and has headed back home. And he finally, what got him to go was maybe, I don't know if it was the 20 women, or he wanted to get back in time to celebrate Shakra Day. It's a national holiday And you want to get back home to celebrate Shakra Day Maybe even my man is going to perform I mean that'd be nice to have the king show up

King Maha Vajar Lunkorn To be there to introduce the star And performer of National Shakra Day Vajar Lungorn I mean he's just going to show up and announce Allow me to introduce myself I am Placido Domingo

Now that's a way to celebrate Chakra Day right there. You have the king coming back from the heron and he's ready to show up and show up with the queen. The queen, now I wasn't even with him in the lockdown. He was just there with the harum. And so he's got to go back home to celebrate National Chakra Day and introduce... Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placido Domingo. No, but I just introduced you.

I don't know why you have to keep saying. Allow me to introduce myself. on corn. I mean, times are tough. Times are tough for everybody. You can't even, you can't even, he's only there for a month with the 20 and a hair. Times are tough for everybody.

Foof. Sorry, King. I had to get back home to the wife. And now, naked news. News. News. New. Naked news.

And no, I'm not naked. Although, you know, those of you are watching live don't worry about it I'm not naked those of you not watching live I'm naked right now so that's why it's naked news okay

what's the name of the segment I'm sorry what's the name of the segment naked news yeah okay I'm okay with the side you know we might have to work on the naked news So we have a report of a woman who's hopping on a cop car after leaving court in Spain, and she did that naked.

We have sunbathing nudists ordered to wear masks. Wait, they're on the beach. Naked. Oh, yeah. That's what a good news on a good. Now, that's a man. Make a new sound of naked. So, who did?

I got a woman naked hopping on a cup car. She's been doing. That's something bathing tutus on the beach. I told them wear a mask. Hey, big pick. Put a pass on. A woman traveling in New Orleans wants to go through TSA. Naked.

That happens from time to time anyway. People think they're funny. They keep telling me. I have to go through and take everything off. I'm just going to go to the airport naked. Yeah, they frowned upon that. Not me. Have you tried it?

Not me. No, I have not. I have not tried it. Then how you know it doesn't work? Because every time it gets reported, they get arrested. Now, I think if you just walked up, see, I think what they're doing is they're doing it wrong. If they walked up with their clothes. And didn't get naked?

Just get their arm. They were just naked and just walked up. Oh, oh, you mean like, here's my clothes. clothes on my right arm. I'm fully ready to get scanned. Oh wait, you don't have to scan me because you can see me. I'm already naked. And then put on the clothes.

Yeah, when you get on the other side, you get dressed. Or you just keep walking to the plane naked and carry your clothes. I don't know. I'm about to travel in a week. So I might try. Are you? I'm about to travel in a week. So I'll let you know if it works.

Are you? I don't understand. I'm telling you I will be out of Texas in Florida next week. So. Keep your distance from me. You are not. I mean, seriously, keep your social distancing from me. Don't even, don't even, no, don't lead into the mic.

No, I want to, not even now you're in Texas. You're invading my space. But I haven't left. Seriously, you travel to Florida. Oh, yeah. You're going to be quarantined for like 14 days. I know what they said. I know what they told you.

That's going to be a lie. Okay. That's going to be a lie. You know, for someone that Volunt told me yesterday to go break Joe Exotic, you don't think this is good for you that I go and see if I could get in. That's here in Fort Worth, Texas. And you volunteered for that, by the way. I don't be clear about that.

No, you volunteered. No, my friend, you volunteer. But I'm just saying this is, you're talking about another state. Different air, different people, different breathing stuff. You don't want none of that, bro. Seriously, don't. I got it all planned out, though. It's going to work.

I got it all planned out. Do you? I do, I do, I do. It's all planned out. And what kind of bubble are you traveling in? Thank you. I do. I got it all planned out.

I'm going to go. I'm going to double layer. I'm going to have shorts and then sweatpants. and then everything will be long sleeve. I got my masks. I got my gloves. Then when I get on the plane, I'm not going to touch anything in my face and stuff like that.

Then when I get off the plane, before I even get into the rental, I take off the outer layer, put that in the trunk inside the bags that we're going to bring. Then once we get to the house, disinfect that clothes, then we're good. We're still in naked news.

So we also have Chelsea Hamler posing nude. Wow, she covered herself up with three books in her bathtub. By the way, those three books are not working. I will say it wasn't that bad of a shot. Okay, I'll give you that. I will give you that. It was a good shot of her in the bathtub without any clothes on. everybody in Hollywood that I would like to see naked

Chelsea Handler is not even under the top 100 No but I mean you're still looking Well of course you're looking But I could have used the not looking Like is that something like yeah it's not something like I needed to look I got looked of course You have to look you have to It's a law

It's a law you have to look Somebody's naked you have to look That is a lot. But I really wasn't like, it didn't give me enjoyment. It just made me say like, okay, she's naked. Please grab two more books and cover yourself more. And by the way, hold on. I got to go back and look and see what the stupid books are

because it was her reading. Let's see. Untamed by Lenny Doyle. Henry Kissinger diplomacy. Boy, I bet you that's good. the Henry Kissinger book, Diplomacy, and I can't make out what the other one is. It's called,

what is the other one? Zoom in, make it bigger. You have an iPad. I don't know how to do that. Pinch out. Pinch out. Yeah, I don't know how to do that. Not pinch in, pinch out.

Yeah, I can't do. Oh my gosh. It's not getting any bigger. Story of my life. So I've had this story of the pile for a couple of days, and I didn't know how to get. to it really because I wasn't quite sure if it was worthy. I'm going to hear from truckers all over America.

No one supports truckers more than this program chewing the fat anywhere in America. But the headline is truckers warn supply chain in jeopardy. And I thought, what? The supply chain in jeopardy? Apparently America's supply chain could be in jeopardy if the government doesn't act swiftly enough to help protect the country's truckers. some of the industry officials and drivers are warning this. So I say whatever help they need, let's get it to them.

But that story coupled with, I don't know if you listen to the guy that does a show on this network. His name is Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck. Yeah, Glenn Beck. He did a story today. and did an interview about the our meat industry and how it's we're going to start having shortages but he also flipped that with don't panic we don't need to run on meats we don't need to do this but the interview was well it's going to be a shortage so get what you want get them in the

freezers now and start using meat as a side dish not a main course okay but you don't want us to go out and start having a run on meat, but there's going to be a shortage. And now we're going to have a supply chain delivery system in jeopardy. Holy cow. That can't happen. That can't happen. But I'll be right back because I've got to go to the store. So we'll definitely get into trying to come back from the lockdown. I've got several stories today about coming back from this lockdown, restarting the economy for other countries and for the United States, for states, for the U.S. government, for CDC and FEMA, I've released some plans to kickstart the economy and restart it, get it back going again. But we have social distancing still going to go on.

Life as we knew it really is not going to be that way for, I don't know if ever, but for a long time. I mean, they're talking about social distancing for at least another year in plenty of states, maybe the whole country. They're talking about they have 70 coronavirus vaccines in the works right now. Well, I mean, again, the world is waiting for America to solve it. We'll get there. We'll get there, no problem. But during all of this, we still are in a lockdown. We're still trying to struggle through with supply chains and people getting sick.

And I told you, if you worked for a Coca-Cola plant that delivers Coca-Cola zeros to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area, and you start... Don't say anything to anybody. Just go home. I do not want that plant shut down. Uh, no. No, I'm going to stop you there. If you are sick and you are... Go home.

Go home, but... Yeah, go home. You have to tell people. No, no, you don't. You have to... I do not want that cocagoal of zero plan. You have to tell people because you touch something and that's something to something.

When the time it gets to you, you're fine. Okay. By the time it gets... Don't call me. When it gets out of that plant and onto a pallet and then onto the back of a truck and then that truck takes it to another place and it gets offloaded to another place

and then taken off the pallet, put on the shelf and come to my home. It's fine. Don't call me when you are... No, I won't. I just go home because I don't want to stop the supply chain. Don't call me because you're like I told you so. I don't think no Coca-Cola or no beverage is worth you coming home.

Man, that is a tough call. That is a tough call. I'm trying to weigh the... What are the zero? or... Cougicola zero or... That's a tough call. I don't know, Chris. I don't know that I can...

We'll see. Let me think about it a little bit longer. Okay, I'll try to figure it out. But as we have that going on, we also now, and we still have the... You know, we're in the influenza season. We still have people getting sick with that. And now we're getting reports.

Ebola. Back in the mix. Spreading throughout the DRC. Okay. Fun, fun, fun. I feel like we need to be reminded. Keep away from eyes that bleed. Don't lick vomit.

off the street and I know you don't want to die so slowly back away from that infected guy Stay an Ebola free Stay an Ebola free Don't eat that raw meat and see we'll all be Ebola free Keep away from those sweaty sheets Keep away from discharge that secrete sand If you want to call me your fear Put down that glass of diarrhea

Stay an Ebola free Stay an Ebola free Don't touch others poop and pee and will be Ebola free Just wash your head, You will see We can be Ebola-free You know what? I've thought about it.

Coca-Cola zero Or Fine tell somebody As long as no As long as no one has actually Complained or said they were sick, we're still able to drink

our ice cold Coca-Cola Zero products. So let's go to the break room and have one, shall we? I will say that I almost spit up what I just drink. Listen to the cough. Don't bring me down. Don't bring me down with the cough, okay? Be sure to subscribe

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Plus, we have our CTF. We'll get together on Friday. Friday, 6 p.m. Central, it's 6 p.m. Central, 6 a.m. Central, 6 a.m. Time for our CTF zooming. So if you're in Cambodia, it's 6 a.m. I'm sorry. You have to get up early.

You have to get up early. And I think it's worth it, though. Oh, it will be worth it. I think is it's worth it. And by the way, it's called CTF happy hour, virtual happy hour. Yeah, the CTF Zoom thing get together. And by the way, spots are, so we only have 100 spots because that's how many Zoom people who can fit in there.

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And we're going to get together Friday night. Just have a little chat. Just join us to see how everybody's doing, hanging out. Here's a couple of stories. If you've got a couple of good stories, I don't want to go through 8,000 emails. I don't want to go. What you need to do is put it on like a piece of paper

and hold it up to your camera during the happy hour. So when I ask, who's got a good little story they want to tell? You hold up your little thing. I don't care if it's a thumbs up or if it's another finger. I hope it's not that finger that you just gave me because you better not be giving me the middle finger for no reason. If somebody gives you the middle finger, I may have to choose you. And by the way, this is recorded and will air on Chewing the Fat YouTube.

So, be warned. Clothing optional. Always closing optional. I did a story on Pat this morning about a judge that was all mad at the attorneys showing up for the cases on Zoom in swimsuits and without shirts on. And one late one he said one attorney was in bed. What else do you want him to go? You're going to put a suit. The judge is pissed.

The judge says get dressed. So all I'm saying is the CTF virtual happy hour, whatever the hell it is we're calling it on Friday night. Clothing optional. So even if we have clothing optional in the break room, we don't have clothing optional. Well, I guess maybe it is with the homeless people, but it's not really. clothing optional because most of them have extra clothes. Anyway, I wanted to talk to Michael Fisher for the last couple of days. And Michael joins us in the break room today. He is Central Park South Civic Association president, also a homeless expert, which, you know, that's kind of a cool title. I kind of feel like I want to be a homeless expert as well. Because we broke the story here on Chewing the Fat about homeless being at the airport. We have other stories around the country now. where they're concerned about homeless at the airports. It's more and more difficult for us to get into airports if we want to fly and travel,

but the homeless can end up at the airports on this side of the TSA checkpoints. Just incredible. And Michael Fisher joins us on Chewing the Fat. Hello, Mike. How you doing, man? I'm doing great. How are you doing? I'm doing as well as well as could be expected during.

the lockdown. Now, you, are you in, you're in New York proper? Yes, I am. How are things in New York, aside from the homeless, and I definitely want to talk to you about the homeless, obviously, that's because why we had you on, but how was everything else? New York is a ghost town. I mean, let's just put it another way. If I was a racetrack driver, I could go down Fifth Avenue, 100 miles an hour without any other car. Never seen this before in my life. No kidding. I mean, I worked in Manhattan for a few years, and I can't even imagine it. It's incredible. It's pretty scary.

It really is. I mean, you don't see many people on the streets. I mean, most of the people you see on the streets, sadly enough, are homeless people. And that leads me into exactly what I was going to talk to you about. How are we handling that at all? I mean, are we handling at all, or are we just letting them go? Well, I mean, unfortunately, I have to tell you that I've just been very, very disappointed by the mayor and the governor on how they've handled the homeless crisis overall. It's been a disaster.

Now that we have the coronavirus, I mean, it's even worse a disaster. I mean, they just have not really been handling it. It's terrible. So not only in New York, do you feel like we've kind of not handled it well all over the country? We don't handle it well anywhere in the country. I mean, if you look at San Francisco and Los Angeles, for example, I mean, it's a complete mess there. You have tents all over the place. You have people going into the bathroom all. all over the streets and needles all over the place. It's really just very reckless. And the politicians have completely dropped the ball on it.

You know, it's more optics for them. They just feel more comfortable about abandoning them and leaving them on the streets if that's where they want to stay as opposed to actually trying to get them, trying to create modern rehabilitation facilities. It actually helps them in getting them off the streets into these programs that they should be creating because they feel like if they remove them from the streets and they don't want to be removed from the streets that they're being cruel to them. I honestly think that's just an excuse.

I think the politicians are lazy. They don't want to deal with the problem. It's complex, so they just walk away from it. So it's got to be about more than just throwing money at what is the perceived problem. We talked not long ago about a guy in Los Angeles that wants to build a project area, but it was supposed to be for the homeless. I don't know that that works either. I know in New York they talked about building new buildings to say, okay, that's just for the homeless.

You guys can go there. Well, that doesn't really solve anything. Well, in New York City, what the mayor did in his second term was he created this program, which he calls Turn the Tide Program, which is basically he's rewarding all of these guys that own these buildings in the richest areas of the. the city by renting them out and trying to create shelters in these buildings. And, you know, these are slumlords that own these buildings. So slumlords who contribute to the, to the mayor's campaign, and then the mayor turns around, rewards them and rents out these buildings are going to cost

a billion dollars and really aren't going to address the problems on the streets. And most of the people on the streets don't want to go into these shelters. And even if you go into these shelters, there's no rehabilitation. They go in. They have a meal. Then they leave. There's nothing there I really help these people. And he's spending a billion dollars on that. And he's spending over $3 billion a year to do that. I mean, between the East Coast and the West Coast, I mean, what's what I find disappointing is that there's so many less expensive ways to address the problem. I mean, you have, for example, military bases that aren't military bases anymore. They're now, you know, they're empty. So you could use those facilities to house, you know, homeless people in more modern type of

environment to rehabilitate them potentially help them to get jobs and get into affordable housing. You have hotels that aren't in business. You have those buildings. You have hospitals that are out of business. And it's a lot less expensive. And they could definitely create programs to help them. And we need to get them off the streets. They shouldn't be on the streets.

It's not good for them. And it's not good for people that live in those communities. What do you say to the people who make the argument of we've all seen the stories? of the, and they're prevalent in the, you know, the homeless stories around America, where Bill, the homeless guy, got all this help, and we got him into a home, and then a year and a half later, he's homeless again. He's back on the streets because he just couldn't live in the home. Is that more of we're not giving, we're giving them a place and not getting them the other mental,

help that they need with these struggles? There is no mental help. I mean, when I say rehabilitation, there's no mental help for these people. I mean, they go into these shelters and they don't get any mental help whatsoever and they go back on the streets. Most of the people that are mentally ill

don't go into these shelters. They stay on the streets. They refuse to go in. And the policies by the West Coast Governor, East Coast Governor, or Midwest, everywhere you go, the policies are if they don't want to go into a shelter, they can stay on the streets.

And it's very, very dangerous. I mean, you think about it for a second that, you know, you're getting more and more people living on the streets. You see what's happening. You see how it looks with the garbage on the streets, the needles on the streets, defecating on the streets, urinating on the streets. We're waltzing, we're potentially welcoming in our next virus. And that's very, very scary. Boy, no kidding. We're talking to Michael Fisher, a homeless expert in New York, Central Park South Civic Association president.

Just as a side note, when I say your title, Michael, as the Central Park South Civic Association. Association president. The, is the Central Park North person, are you scared of that person? Do you guys ever fight out, out or anything? Okay. Well, if you look at our website, we took the South, we took the South off.

So it's now called Central Park Civic Association. So you won. You just took it over. We shook hands, the North and the South. Now we're friends. So we're all working together. That's good. I'm glad to hear that.

That's great. When did, what happens, are you aware of the homeless people moving into the airports now. Are you aware of that? I haven't really been focusing too much on that because I've been focusing more on the fact that they're moving into our subways permanently. Right.

You know, I mean, the only thing you need in the subways now are showers and cots. And then, you know, it's a, it's a, it's a sleeping train. When I worked in Manhattan coming in and out of the city every day, I mean, I lived in Pennsylvania, so, you know, I came into Penn Station every day. but there were plenty of people. I have my favorite couple of homeless people out of the street corners that would get, you know, they'd get mad at you because you didn't say anything to them. And you didn't, you know, you didn't drop a quarter and they're busy hollering at you

until you, you know, until you reach the corner. And so all of those have now moved underground, especially now that the travel is so light. I mean, that's the place you've got to be in the winter, right? Absolutely. They're underground. They're in the subways. I mean, right now, if you go into the subways, I mean, they're, basically all homeless people.

What's dangerous about it and what's been very dangerous about it for the last couple of months is homeless people are twice as likely to catch the virus. And so when they're in the subway cars, coughing, sneezing, you know, touching the seeds, touching the handles, everything, you know, I would be willing to bet that a lot of people have caught the virus from the homeless in the subway cars. And the city doesn't do anything about it. The city needs drop in centers. They need places for where the homeless people can go, like you rope off an area in Grand Central Station,

you rope off an area in Penn Station, maybe in some of the subway areas. You build a tent. You give them food. You give them water. You test them to see if they have the virus. You put some cots there. And you help them. But they haven't done that.

They failed the homeless. They failed the city. And it's very sad. Okay. So you do that. And then what? Let's say that happens, Michael. That happens.

What you just said actually happened, then what? Well, it should have been happening for the last couple of months. I mean, what you want to do is what we should have been doing was checking to see how the homeless were, if they're ill, if they have the virus, separating them from the general population. I remember a couple months ago, you know, a lot of the homeless probably caught the virus. Now, they're going into McDonald's. They're going into Starbucks. They're in Grand Central Station where you have a lot of people, Penn Station, and they're spreading the virus. Are those places still even open?

Well, I mean, yeah. You know what? They're open. Transportation systems are open, which they should have shut down the transportation systems, all the subways, which they didn't do. Grand Central is open. Penn Station's open. I mean, you have mostly homeless now in these facilities, but for the last couple of

months, they were pretty much spreading the virus throughout. And, you know, if you look at the numbers, I mean, right now you have 203,000 people that have the virus in New York. you've got 11,000 people that died. I mean, compare that to California, 25,000 people that have the virus, 790 people that have died. What does it tell you?

It tells you that, and I'm not a, listen, I'm not a huge fan of the governor in California, but kudos to him. At least he's partnering with the president. You know, whereas our politicians, all they do is criticize the president, and they waited until the last minute to start partnering with him, and, you know, a lot of people died because of it.

I hold them accountable for it. Michael Fisher, uh, ruler now of, Central Park Civic Association as he's taking it over from the east, west, and north. Dictator. He is the dictator of the Central Park Association. Thank you so much for your time. I know I want

to have you back and talk about some other things that we can do to kind of ease the homeless problem and see if there's other things that you know, we can really do because it's becoming, we have you know, what, five or six hundred thousand

or more? You know, those are the headcounts that we have that are actually homeless in the country. It's a national crisis. There's one thing I want to say, if you don't mind. I want to get the president and all the major states together for a summit with experts and sit down and come up with some solutions. And if we do that, I think we can decrease the number of homeless people on the streets. I'm all for it.

Let's knock it out of the part. Look, you took over the Civic Association, take over this. It's all yours, Michael. That's what I like to do. Thanks, Michael. I appreciate you joining us today. Take care. My pleasure.

Take care. So, let's take a look at the coronavirus numbers. We have 2,000,107 coronavirus cases worldwide. We have 129,187 deaths worldwide. Here in the U.S., we have 616,000. 2458 total cases and we have Wow 26,213 deaths As of this recording with coronavirus the TSA checkpoint

How many people going through TSA yesterday? We told you that it looked like we were on the comeback on the comeback trail. We're fighting back that broke a hundred thousand yesterday We had 102,000 184 people through the TSA checkpoint. That, however, it looked like it's an anomaly now because yesterday we had 87,534. Oh, wow. I know.

I know that's the first time it's dipped below 90,000. So yesterday was 100,000 today. Yeah, the day before yesterday, these are all previous days. So the day before yesterday was, It was 102,000. So that's on Monday. 184. Yeah.

On Tuesday. Yesterday was 87,000. Wow. And again, I'm looking at these numbers on this list. Uh-huh. And, you know, they all, obviously, we told you a year ago, everything was, you know, a little over 2 million or 2.5 million. But it's the first time that the numbers have dipped below 90,000. I'm curious to see.

how low will it go well that too but I'm also curious to see compared to the history of America flying where does that number fall in American history well from day one there was one so that's day one there was one guy flying

so you started out with one I am so done with you so it's more than that I am so done with you. It's more of them. I am so done with you, dude. You know what I mean.

You exactly know. So I'm thinking here like, you know, like back in 1958, that's when we had 80,000 people traveling in the airports. But no, you just got to go be a jerk about it and try to be a smart ass about it. And the next time it was the right brothers. so you had two. And you're good there. You're dumb being... Still a little bit more.

Okay. Don't being a joke over there. Let's talk about restarting the economy. Yes, I've done. That would be interesting to see the difference in numbers as well. And since, I mean, I've got nothing, you've got nothing but time on your hands during the court. I got no time.

Break that down. Break those numbers down for me and let's have that list tomorrow. restarting the economy. What is that going to take? So Israel has their big plan. They're already, you know, releasing their plan. Phase one is tech and finance plus slices of trade-oriented industries. And then commerce and retail stores is phase two.

Phase three is restaurants and hotels. Phase four is recreational sectors like sports, air travel, and entertainment. Now, according to Israel, each phase will have a two. week buffer to review whether the next can proceed. All of the public health guidelines we've been subject to social distancing face masks, etc. is going to be required for reopening industry. So those are not going away. And none of these phases applies to people over 60 and other at-risk populations. So it looks like you're staying home for a while. If I live in Israel, but since I don't. If it's happening over there, it's going to happen

here? So California has released its kind of beginning kickstart the economy again. The ability to prevent infection and people who are at risk for more severe COVID-19, the ability of the hospital and health care system to handle the surges. They want to monitor and protect our communities through testing, tracing, isolating.

Okay, I get all that. I mean, that's, those are the ability to determine when to reinstate certain measures. Yeah, well, that's part of the deal, California. You've got to get on that. CDC and FEMA have released some of their essential plans for their instructions for a phased reopening of institutions. And all the states are going to be coming out with theirs as well, right?

Texas is ready to. Abbott will have ours out in Texas here pretty soon. Florida. And really, the social distancing is still going to happen. You're not going to, they're going to tell you you can't be around other people. So you're talking about opening up here in the U.S. What's that? That's fine with me.

See, now that, again, on the surface, that sounds good. You don't want to be around other people, but you don't want to be around other people as your choice. As your choice. I don't know. I don't know what you think this is. This is not America. So I don't know what you're talking about, like, choice. I no longer have a choice.

I'm just going to do whatever they tell me to do. So if they tell me I must stay home for 34 days, like I've been staying home for 34 days, I'm going to be a good little sheep and listen and stay home. Sadly, that's what we're doing. So according to the CDC and FEMA, they're talking about if I want to reopen communities, and they're talking about starting reopening on May 1st. Wow. That's 15 days from now.

low mitigation communities where significant spread has never observed or they can reopen soon the moderate mitigation

former hotspots entering controlled recovery limited mitigation communities observing increased but contained transmission significant mitigation current or emerging

hot spots those you know you're not going to open those up wow but May 1st so you're talking about the low mitigation communities are they're going to try to

reopen the 1st of May. Okay. I'm going to move to one of those. Do you still think, now after you talk about that and seeing Donald Trump defund, who and all that crap that is happening right now, do you still stand by you, 4th of July? By 4th? Yeah, overall.

Overall. Are you saying that I'm going to celebrate 4th of July in my house, or I'm going to go celebrate 4th of in the new America. Oh, you are going to be rubbing elbows and sitting on blankets and you're going to be sitting there watching fireworks and people are going to be. And you are not going to worry about it at all. You are, hey, happy Fourth of July. It's Independence Day.

I love you too. Dude, have another beer. and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. So really, you know, think about it. They're talking about prolonged or intermittent social distancing through 2022. I would say maybe even longer than that. They're talking about the strategy is an 18-month strategy. I mean, there's just no way.

be locked down for 18 months. There's got to be some things open back up. It's very interesting that the number is 18 before you move on because I feel like you were just about to move on and just blow past that. But it's very interesting that the number is 18 months. It's a strong number. It's a very powerful number. It's one of the best numbers. Can I quote you on that? Yes. And they have to look at the look at the numbers. We looked at the... But we don't have anything to... See, that's the thing that upsets me.

Everybody's like, look at the numbers. Look at the numbers. Look at the... We don't have nothing to compare to. All I'm seeing is numbers. And everything that they predicted was wrong. We don't have, you know, millions of people dead in the United States. If you are going to play the yet card,

they might as well, you shut off the podcast and not talk about it ever again. Because I can play the yet. car too all I could think of when I was on Pat today he showed people showing up at the forum for the for the free food for the food bank and I mean cars were rode up for miles to show and get their pool and I was thinking wow all those people are lining up for that food how terrible it is and then I thought well I wonder if they actually need it or if they're showing up like, well, we've got nothing else to do. We're not working and they're giving away free food at the forum.

We might as well drive up there and get it. So, you know, maybe three quarters of those cars are people just... Oh, I might as well just go take a drive up there and get our free food and come back home. I'll give you that. I'll give you that. You know, I get free food for the foster kids from the school. And that line is pretty deep. That is pretty deep line.

Right. And they just, we've talked a lot about this off the air. Yeah. But they just started looking at people's identification. Yeah, before it was you pulled up, you given them a number, the lunch lady came out. And they gave you the food. And they gave the food. Now they check your ID and check, make sure that the kid is registered.

in the system, in the school system. Right. And then now I literally just went, the reason why I'm late to record the podcast is because they just released all these computers, these Google Chrome computers for all the students in the ISD district that we are. And that line was Deep Fisher.

Oh, I wish I'd have known that. I was going to show up. We've got a couple free computers. That line is deep. They need an ID for that or were they just giving them out? They checked my name and they made sure that the kid was, they asked for the kid's name. So I don't know if they went to their back and okay, you know, this is.

Right. So I wonder if I could have showed up and given them your kids' names and drove off with a couple of computers. Oh, absolutely. I will tell you that right now that you could because it was, I didn't register the kids. I just said it. I was like, I didn't say my name.

They're in the system, though. Yeah, all I said, and that's the thing, though. I don't know if they, because the guy wrote it on a sticky pad, I said, Bill Nye, and he's like, who? Bill Nye. And he goes to the back and came back with a computer and a charger and says, right. The instructions are inside the computer and then left. So I don't know if later they're going to, you know, log everything in, but if they are going to log everything in, they don't know who picked it up because. Right.

Bill Nye has a computer. We don't have them in the system. how am I supposed to so I don't know how they're checking things out well they have it chipped turn it on I'll give it is a Google Chrome and it is a Google computer because golly man that computer is you can't be no more Google than the Google sign on the top of the computer right so you turn that thing out and you don't belong to the school system hello Google police we need our computer No, not Google Police here. No, no, no, no.

Several households throughout the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex today were taken over by Google Police. Dude, Google Police. I like that. I don't like the idea of that. I don't like the idea of that, but I like that. Did you see, we talked about drones. Did you see the story of actual the Google drones delivering food in certain states in the United States? I mean It's up It's up and running And they only Starting with Local restaurants

Because they need our help Yeah Yeah yeah We talked a little bit about that But I didn't know It was actually Like happened It was executed

Like the first one The first one I saw Was in Maine And I'm like Who the hell Is ordering food in Maine Go shoot you meal Go to the food deserts

That's where you need that drone Golly Well, they're doing that because there's nobody there, right? That's what they want to practice. Yes. But that's what I was saying is that 80,000 people are going through TSA. Now's the time to practice our drone deliveries. Absolutely.

And I just said the FTA, no, not the FTA. The FAA cleared Google to fly their drones. It was like a blanket release of like, Oh, of course they did. Here's the thing. Blah, blah, blah. And I'm going to bother. Holy Spirit.

Amen. Go fly. You see the picture where Google police had a gun to the gun to the the FAA all their heads. Of course they cleared them. Are you kidding me? And I'm sorry. I do not like this.

I know Google, I don't care. I got nothing to hide. We're really kind of plating. If we think it's a good idea to have Google, you know, flying their drones in the Metroplex.

Boom. Hey, what happened on my computer? My computer just shut down. I'm not sure what happened. Oh, there's a, what,

something just came up on the screen. That's a Google. If we can't fly our drones, you'll never get your computer system back. GP. You know, come to think of it. We're really liking the idea of Google delivering with drones throughout the Metroplex. Hello. Oh, the computer's back on.

You got, man. I mean, we're there. We are. And then you have now the Google wing of tracking coronavirus. people and then you have the drone. Then I have a computer for my foster kid that has Google all over it. In your home. Inside my home.

So now I'm registered. Yep. I am officially registered in Google mainframe right now as we speak. They're listening to this conversation. And if you hear, you better keep the tape rolling because I'm going to scream bloody murder. Oh, they're just going to stop it and make sure everything's okay. Oh, okay. They'll be fine.

They'll be fine. Don't worry about it. We're just here to make sure everything's okay. Where's our computer? We know it's in the building. You do not have your son. It's not Bill Nye. Get up against the wall.

So you want to talk about sales. I was looking at the, you say, you know, there's no, there's no charts, but you're talking about percent change from February to March. total sales is only down about 9%. But if you look at some of these miscellaneous retailers, which I'm interested to see, maybe that's just retailers.

I don't know why. Electronics and appliances, gasoline stations. Gasoline stations. They're down 17%. Well, duh. Well, yeah, no one is driving. Sporting goods, hobby.

I mean, that's all down 23, 25%. Motor vehicle and parts. Yeah, nobody's driving. Food service is a drink. places are down 26.5%. That's amazing to me that it's only down 26 to 5%. 26.5%. Food services and drinking places are only down 26.5% in a month.

That's not down. That's up. That's incredible. Are you looking at the right chart? Because in my chart says food and beverages up 25.6%, not down. No, food and beverage sales are up. Oh, okay. Oh, places.

Okay, places. Okay, sorry. Food services and drinking. Places are down. See, you're looking at the same chart? I'm looking at here. No, I wasn't. It's a business charge.

See, here's the thing. I focus on the positive, not on the negative because that negative is pretty deep. Oh. And by the way, no. Clothing and accessories are down 50%. I got to believe it's more than that. Oh, it has to be more than that. I know we're focusing on the positive.

It has to be more than that. Also, motor vehicle and parts that's down in a 25%. No wonder I keep getting emails. Jeffie, kid you not. Every other day, if it's not AutoZone, is Valvanine, whatever you call that, or GFI-Lube. We're open. We open. I'm literally expecting for...

Yeah, this is GFI-LU representative. We're open. If you want, I could just drive your vehicle. just give me the credit card number I'll drive the vehicle I'll change your oil please come please sir

please sir come dude what Jifuille needs to do is partner with Google I can just show up shut up hey we're partnering with Google now and we would like to fix your car

we can do it right here we notice that your vehicle is 3,000 miles over the recommended oil change that affects the environment and Google told us that we have to change your oil. By the way, you don't have a choice.

We're changing. I mean, that's like driving. I used to drive by. I used to make the joke about driving by car dealerships like World War II or repair services, like Firestone or whatever, and they automatically deduct money from my account, just for good measure. You drive by and you can hear the bank. Just take the money out. Just in case, because the next time he's going to stop by here, it's going to be $18 billion.

dollars but that's not happening now right because i'm not driving past the firestone no so i do uh it's amazing you say that because i do see the emails coming through promotional emails every day from firestone we're open we're open dude if you were a girlfriend i'll be dumping you like you don't be so thirsty bro well they have they can't help it i know i know and i'm also curious I don't like this list, and I know we're supposed to say positive, but I'm very curious to see that sporting goods, hobby, and musical is down. This is the perfect chance for you to at least pick up a hobby or musical instrument. Well, and you say that, but in the beginning and until it changes, it's not essential, right? So a lot of these places close down. Oh, yeah, it's closing down.

Yeah. Oh, because it says retail store. Yeah, because they're closed. Well, it looks like you have to go online. I just, I feel that for, like, electronics and appliances, that should be up. Because everybody's buying a new computer. Everybody's maxing out of their credit cards, buying a new computer. Yeah.

Yeah. For example, for this show, I had to buy a couple of things that I did not have, and I was just pushing it, pushing it, boom, I bought me a computer adapter. I bought me a couple of mics. And so I got. Yeah, I actually need to do that as well. So like this is a perfect chance for, and all I, I follow a bunch of reporters. And all they have is new laptops, new tablets, new cameras.

And I'm like, how is it possible that that business is down? Well, it is only down 15%. So it's not super down. No, no, it's not. But I feel like it should be at least down 10% or equal. Best buy Fisher, you're going to love this You love TVs

I love TVs Best buy Send that an email We're open We're open We're open And we have to sell The TVs

That are just chilling here And 50% off If you just buy the TVs Wow If you just buy the TVs They're on display You know If the box is open

50% off But please We're open We're open We're open Oh man I know I know

I am 50% off. I am itching. Do not tell my wife that because we'll have a new wall-sized theater TV in the bedroom. And that's the TV I'm waiting for. I'm waiting for that TV. But the also thing, too, is like, I need to call Best Buy to, I can't go in the store. So how do I know that that's a open box TV?

Or are you just going to slice the TV box open and sell me the old TV? So, like, I don't care. As long as I get a 50% off. TV and it's 99 inches and I'm only paying 300 bucks or 500 bucks I'll take it. Yeah. But I feel like this numbers and food not food up building materials and garden equipment up 1%. I'm sorry.

No. Everybody right now should be a landscaper. Everybody right now should be landscaping business. Landscaping business should be up. Well, and you know, I was thinking, when I went out yesterday, out into the scary world. Again? I was out in the scary world. Yeah.

Yeah, I went twice yesterday. Oh, dude. You're not taking this seriously. You're not taking this seriously. So there's construction crew working. Yeah, I saw them. They're still building a house and stuff. Yeah.

How are you doing it? Dude, that, um, what's up? I'm not taking this serious. You guys are, we're out there working a, we're going to build in a house and hacking and spitting up on each other. Hey, pass me. I need some, I need the two by fours over here. What's the, what's the highway by the airport that goes up to that stupid, um, shopping center and the Buckees? 175 there.

Yeah. Did you see that? Yeah. Well, 170. And then there's, there's three, 35. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Did you see?

I don't know if you went if you went that far, you know, to the... No, I did. No, it's too scary to go that far. Okay. Um, I did to pick up the computer for my foster kid and a brand new apartment complex is being built right across from the highway. They haven't stopped. They haven't stopped. I haven't seen that.

Last time I went, that route was two weeks ago. I passed it today. All the wooden stuff is, all the structure. structure is built already. I'm like... I saw our girl from the News of the Light Matter, Sarah Gonzalez, posted on her Instagram account that her house, you know, she's having a house built.

Good for her. Must be nice. But still building a house now? I mean, that's a COVID-19 house. Man, I am not, do not, I'm telling you, do not, you're going to, she's going to open that house up for a big Christmas party. Guaranteed. Gonna have the Sarah Gonzalez Christmas party this year.

And it's going to be, Get together, have fun. And it's going to be, we wish you a Merry Christmas. We wish you a Merry Christmas. Was, are you okay, Sarah? No, that wasn't me. That was the outside wall of the house. By the way, Sarah Gonzalez is not the only one.

Hillary is having her house remodeled as we speak. What? And I called her out on it on Instagram. I was like, what the hell are you doing, woman? We are not taking this serious. Nobody's taking this series. I have to worry about the Sarah Gonzalez COVID-19 house. I have to worry about the Hillary.

Yes. And to close this segment into like, I know we're supposed to focus in good things. She's paying full price. What do you mean? That's impossible. I told, what do you mean by full price?

I asked her, I was like, so are you? I mean, she's paying, she may as a deal and it's a discounted price. So I asked her, I asked her, so are you? It's a full discounted price? I asked her, I was like, so are you getting a discount because, you know, it's COVID-19 and people just want to work? She's like, oh, crap, I forgot about that.

No, she did. That was a joke. I hope it is. I hope it's. Now, I thought, well, you know what? Maybe not. I would think that these people are smarter than that. But then what they're doing is they're building things onto their home from other people doing it.

And you know what's going to happen, man? What's that sound? I was going to be easy to do. I'll be tearing it down soon. I was going to be knocking it down soon and all of this. It's going to be just demolished. You know, that's what's going to happen. We're going to have COVID-19 demolitions all over America.

Buy that website. Stop right now and buy that website. You're welcome, by the way. You're welcome.