Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 356 | Fat Pile Friday - Food Plants Shutting Down EDITION

Episode Date: April 24, 2020

Day 43 inside CQB: All the headlines we didn't cover during the week are on today's show and we continue to talk about coronavirus. Food plants are shutting down as workers test positive for COVID-19. Movie theaters plan to start up again late summer and drive-in theaters are hosting virtual graduation for high school seniors. Kroger is trying to release a blueprint for businesses as COVID-19 continues to shut down more businesses. Fortnite is hosting a concert and Jeffy is wondering why aren't more artists are using this platform to connect with the audience. Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

And now a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it. Fat Pile Friday. Yes. And the fat pile is pretty darn fat today. Broadcasting from the CQB, baby, COVID-19 quarantine bunker. Welcome to it. If we're going to stop the lockdown soon, I've got to find my shoes.

I got to start my car. I've got to make sure I have some casual slacks to wear. I mean, not wearing. dress pants, but I got to find some casual slacks to wear. I got to get a haircut. It's just so much to do if we're going to stop the lockdown. So we did have a study coming out of the United Kingdom about the survey. It's a survey of British parents. Reveal six in ten say they're happier with their spouse or partner than ever before. A quarter of the respondents say the time together has improved their sex life.

Now, that, you know, that I believe, is 25% saying that's approved. The six out of ten say they're happier with their spouse or partner than ever before. Okay. Four and five parents say coronavirus locked out has brought the family closer together. Okay. If you say so. I mean, happier with their spouse or partner than ever before? Six and ten?

That seems a little high. Seemed a little high. I feel like maybe I gave you three or four in ten, say they're happier. The rest cannot be happier with their spouse or partner than ever before. I feel like maybe that's their answer. Are you happier with your... Yeah. Yeah.

I'm happier with Bill. I feel that we can... We can use the same idea of you don't have to talk to a mic or camera when it comes up to you to this. Because if someone is asking me, hey, do you feel happier and my wife is sitting next time? I'm not going to be like, well, you know, I thought this is going to be a bad idea. I've been stuck out home for 43 days as of today. And I was right. I hate being home every.

Right. No, you're not going to do that. So they talk in the study that one third of parents allow their kids to watch more TV, and just one quarter of parents say their kids are spending more time on phones, tablets, and video games. Yeah, they are. And I don't care. You may say, you may say, we're only allowing our kids to, we're not letting them watch any more than they normally do. Yes, you are.

yes you are you are and I even heard what's his name it's the guy that does a show on this network Glenn yeah yeah yeah

Glenn Beck forget him sometimes he's talking about how he's locking up the phones and tablets at night well A I don't know that I believe it

I believe maybe they're locking up a couple but you know his isn't locked up there's no way so do as I do not as I say I mean do as I say not as I do right that's the yeah that's a phrase uh in fact I should get we should just call

them up and talk to him right now get him on the phone because I want to know if it's true or not and he won't admit it on the air so now I have to talk to now I can't I can't wait we have to wait till the lockdown's over until I actually see him until I get him cornered because I want to know for I want to know for fact I want to know because I don't believe it

I don't believe that they're locking down. You're locking up the phones and the tablets. Now, I believe it from Tanya. So maybe it's true now that I think about it, now that I talk it out of my head. But you're just locking it up? I mean, okay. So then what, if I'm a kid,

if I'm Glenn's kid, I'm waiting for him to fall asleep and going in and taking his tablet. Make sure you clear the history. Rafe, clear the history. So we've got a ton of headlines to get to today. We'll get to them. No problem.

I mean, the fat pile is fat. But before we do that, I want to talk a little bit about it. You know how we talk about how it feels like time moves faster, time is moving faster, and we talk about it. We always joke around about it doesn't really. I mean, time is time. It doesn't move faster. It doesn't happen that way.

Well, researchers at the Tokyo Skytrees Observatory says that they have proven that time passes faster at a higher altitude. So, depending on how high you are, is how time passes quicker for you. A Japanese team of researchers has shown that time at Tokyo's Skytrees Observatory, 450 meters, we don't really, you know, using the Pac-Gray method, we don't know exactly how how far 450 meters is above sea level, but it passes faster than when they're near the ground. Now, if you'd like to know how much faster,

it passes at the 450 meters above sea level height, time passes four nanoseconds faster per day. So, you can't even catch up to that. You cannot even catch up to that. I mean, when you come down from the sky tree observatory, it's like time is standing still. You were so used to it moving so much faster at the top of the sky tree observatory. Up there, four nanoseconds faster than what you're moving when you come down to Earth. So you can well understand how you feel like time has just stopped when you come down from the observatory.

I mean, it does move faster, right? I got according to them. It is moving faster, but there's no way you even recognize. Four nanoseconds? Okay. Thank you. Appreciate it. What are you?

The Olympic time clock on the racing now? The guy is, the number two guy lost by 0.4 nanoseconds. That actually does happen. And I want to think also, I saw where the official Andrew Gilliol, video was released this week from his hotel in Miami. Remember the big party that he had? Well, we already had all those pictures. Remember, they had the big investigation of how those pictures got leaked, which I don't know that we've ever found out exactly who leaked them, how they got leaked, who got busted, maybe, you know, maybe a couple of police officers got their hand slapped

and is busy working on the beach, arresting people for being on the beach in Miami now. Maybe. but there's nothing new in the video. Not that I watched the entire video to see there's anything new. So he's gone to, remember he went to rehab? I don't know that we've heard from him since rehab. Of course, there were the plastic baggies of crystal meth and empty beer bottles and prescription pills

and the prescription hyperdermic needles. the liquid drug that you use if you have erectile dysfunction so they were busy making sure that nobody had that issue the one guy was overdosing which is why the police showed up and there were you know

the room looked the bedding looked like it was had been used throughout the evening but after you remember he decided that after his uh where's the line It was so good. It's what you hear from them all after they go home and talk to their wives.

I want to apologize to my family and friends, do you? But we're requesting. Oh, you're going to apologize to my family and friends. Of course, that's what they all say. And the people of Florida who supported me, I'm requesting right now that privacy for my family. Okay, it's really, but after conversation with my family and deep reflection. I've made the decision to seek help guidance and enter a rehabilitation facility at this time. Okay, so if we heard from him, how'd it come out?

How'd it happen? Because it's been lockdown. Did he get locked down at the rehab center? He's got, he's been going through some serious withdrawals, man. If he was been doing math and popping pills and shooting stuff and having evening parties with his buddies at the hotels around the state, and now he had to do the whole lockdown without the wife, without the kids, and without any drugs at all, he's going to come out one clean, sober guy,

ready to party. Speaking of partying, stimulus bankrolls, the porn industry, of course. 22% jump in pornography site traffic since people started getting their stimulus checks here in the lockdown. 204% jump in Washington State.

People are ready to go out. and do some stuff. I think you know what I mean by stuff. And once this lockdown gets over with, man, the important industry is like, no, go ahead, keep the lockdown. Fine. Don't worry about it. We're fine.

Everything's fine. Go ahead. Seriously, we're, everything's okay. I mean, okay. Traffic from Washington State. I said 204%. Illinois, 83%. California, 43%. Wow.

Now, if this tells you anything about our officials, our government officials, where have they been? Not in Washington, D.C. Right? They've been home. They have not been back to Washington, D.C. to govern.

Porn site traffic down 30% in Washington, D.C. Oh, but I'm not saying that they that are leading class our rulers are not looking at porn I just say it's a coincidence that it's a coincidence that

porn site traffic is down and Congress is out of town huh it's just a weird weird weird coincidence that's all just do that's all that's all I also see where

movie theaters are saying that they're aiming for late summer to you know crank start cranking back up because I talk about we can't just turn on the popcorn machines because they've let everybody go and they've got to bring people back and plus

they've got to worry about you know cleaning and you've got to get new contracts for the new mask trash cans that I'm going to have invested in and by the way you know what could become the new trash can oh oh

okay here you go, post office. This is why I need to be in charge of the post office. The postal service needs to now take all those empty blue mailboxes and put them around whatever businesses, malls, street corners, wherever there's people, wherever there's going to be people, parks, paint them red or paint them yellow or paint them orange or paint them whatever you want to paint them and those are the new mask disposal sites and so our postal workers can still be delivering mail and we hire some new people that go around and pick up the uh the diseased

masks i mean hello you're you know and then of course you know we have contracts with businesses that are paying us to pick those up and drop them off and if they don't want to pay the contractual arrangement then we'll just dump those free dirty, diseased masks right on top of their businesses. Wow, that sounds a lot like the model. Anyway, the movie theaters are really struggling, and they're going to continue to struggle for a long time. But the drive-in theaters are picking up a little pace.

Now, there's only about, I don't know, two in America left. So those two driving theaters are, they're great. They're in great shape. But they're doing good. One drive-in theater talked about hosting a high school, graduation ceremony, which I thought was kind of cool. But when they talked about doing it, I thought that they were, I kind of felt like they were doing it wrong.

They were talking about, it's in Kansas, and they were talking about having the virtual graduation at the drive-in theater, where you'd have the ceremony, right? So, but wouldn't you just have them come and, uh, You could put up, if you had someone, say you had the high school van or whatever, parked out back, and they show up in their cars, can't they just, couldn't they just Skype or zoom in so you could put their faces up on the screen? Right? They didn't talk about doing that. Project graduation. They were going to have a recognition and have, you know, have some kind of ceremony.

And there wouldn't be any, now this kind of, there's not going to be any concessions or restrooms. Stop it. You can't have some outhouses put in. Something throughout the driving theater. You're going to make everybody use their cups in the cars. There's no concession stand. Okay. But they're just going to put their names up on the screen.

Now, why don't just have them Skype in and you can show them from their car? Here's Billy urinating in his car for his graduation ceremony because there's no restroom. open but congratulations for graduating billy i i just think there would be a thing to do but you know what do i know i know just how do i know so cruises that were still out wandering the ocean looking for a place to dock are now finally docking do wow wow wow so we're When was your crew supposed to be in February, right? No, it was, yes, it was until the beginning of April. Yeah, it was from the 26th to the fourth.

Because these were ones that started, the one that's docking now, departed January 5th. Oh, my God. Four months at sea. Seven hundred and sixty passengers. dude floating around the ocean waiting for a place that

was this ship infected is this a COVID-19 boat so it traveling to the west coast of Africa before venturing across the Atlantic towards Brazil by then reports of the new virus to tell you captain but it wasn't until late February or March that ports began

turning away cruise ships the last time we were allowed to leave the ship was six weeks ago in Wellington, New Zealand, a few hundred passengers. So they're finally, fortunately for the crew and passengers, there are no cases of COVID-19 on the ship, and it docked in France, first part of this week. So it's finally docked that the people were able to get off.

I mean, wow. So there were still a couple more, and I think the last of all of them are finally docked, and then the passengers are able to get off. So, I mean, what they probably just started throwing dead people and sick people off the ship. Does anybody have COVID-19? Nope. Sorry, we got nothing.

The ships turned into China, right? You got any sick people? Nope. What's that? It looked like something was that the birds are flying behind you, getting stuff out of the ocean. Yeah, now we had to throw some trash off. We'll pay the fine. We'll pay the environmental fine.

But we had the pipes broken. We've been out here so long. We had to repair it. It's just broken. We were, something fell off. Ignore the bones, you know, that the shark will be puking in a couple of months. Just ignore those. The sharks following us in the wake.

Don't worry about that. Don't worry about all that. And, you know, sure we started off with 8,000 passengers that were down to two. Sure. That's all this left on the ship. Well, I don't know what happened. When we docked in New Zealand, nobody wanted to leave. And we felt that there would be more safe.

in New Zealand than there were out of ship for another three months I don't know what to do I mean just incredible incredible they're out there just floating around

all that time hostage you know we just felt like you know they had passports the password's still valid for another five years what about in tell no

right wouldn't have crisis right it wasn't in a global pandemic I'm just a captain of a ship I don't know what you're talking about

all I can do is marry people and kind of steer this ship and that's about it. That would be not fun. You can quote me on that. By the way, four months, about four months at sea, that is no longer a vacation.

You might as well tell the captain, hey, I'll take the suite next to me. I'll just knock the wall down and I'll make it into a super sweet. So. In fact, we're moving up to the top. level is what's going on I want to know how much complaints were they oh man and how disgusting are people how were they able to maintain themselves clean you only bring clothes for crews for like what max a week of clothes you yeah but I mean you have people out the ship that are I mean still working taking care of you know

Yes, yes, but dude, a week of clothes. I mean, you know that as well as anyone. Wait, just wait, are you going to continue this? Just because I'm brown, that doesn't mean I know what happens when people do laundry and clean up rooms. I didn't mean it that way, but. You meant it that way. Wow, I could take things so. You take things so.

No, because that is the very, you are asking me a question about laundry. You were going to go on a cruise. You know what it's lying? Yes, I was going to go on a cruise and maybe Juanita and Lorenzo are the guys cleaning my room and doing my laundry, but that doesn't make all brown people, laundry people, and no, no, no. Are you sure? I'm sure. Okay, okay. I know what, you're right.

I know you're right. I'm sorry that you felt that I was taking it that way because I really wasn't. I bet it meant no harm to Juanita or. Lorenzo or Hoseby or who? Lorenzo. Yeah, Lorenzo. Yeah, Lorenzo. I like Lorenzo.

He was a good guy. Couldn't understand a word he was saying. So we've got to get to the headlines. And we'll get to those. But I also want to talk about, I mean, we're going to maybe start struggling for food. And I hope that's not true in the U.S. We certainly are not used to that at all.

But, I mean, we have Tyson Foods, another company, idling a pork plant due to the virus. Employees, now some of the companies, you know, some of the government employees, what was it in what state? Gosh, darn it. What state was it? It was talking the governor was like, no, you're not shutting down. You're too important. just because we've got people in the plant that are it just these people

that governor's doing what I said to do just leave we're not shutting this place down man we don't care Bill Bill are you okay it sounds like you got a little cold or something you know just go home we're going to continue to the plant's going to be open though. We're not going to shut this place down at all. I know, but we've got 10 people that are...

Yeah, there's a little cold, a little virus and a little cold going through. Not a big virus, just a little virus. So get out of here. We're still going to remain open. But I see where the Hill has got a story talking about the five threats to the U.S. food supply chain. And, you know, one of them is the virus outbreaks at food plants, right? Which is, shutting them down incredible you've got agricultural reliance on guest workers uh you know about that chris and uh i'm sorry what do i know the agricultural reliance on guest workers so just because brown people peak food on the fields and you know get you that tomato that lettuce those potatoes just no i thought you had family members that worked in the i do but that doesn't mean i know what

they do? It has absolutely no. Yes. I have family that work on the fields. That's why I thought. That's why I said. You should well understand. I don't know why.

No, I don't understand because I've never my life worked out of field and will never work at a field. It's good that we're not suspending all the guest worker programs with the band. You know, so maybe your family members are fine now. We have supply chain mismatches. What does that mean mismatches? Like, hey, I got a turkey leg here. You're supposed to be next to another turkey leg, not a chicken leg.

So can you find where the other chicken leg is? I can put it with this chicken leg and not the turkey leg. I got a turkey leg. I got a pig body. I don't know what to do. That's a mismatch. No, what they're talking about is that the grocery store aisles are empty, right? They've got the produce departments of stuff are empty.

They can't get the food there. but because of the spoiling. But food banks can't get the food there. But we have all kinds of, we talked about the vegetable crops in Florida. They're just throwing it away or bearing it because it's spoiling because they can't get, they've got way too much and they've got no way to get it.

They give away as much as they can. So, you know, you have the supply chain mismatches, which is going on. I mean, we're right. Milk is, they can't get it. They can't get it. to where people can have it enough of it. And that has already really started.

We have the increased food insecurity. I'm not really sure. We're talking about people being food insecure. Does that mean like do we need to start telling the animals? Like it's going to be okay. You're not going to die from COVID-19? I guess so. Like that's a cool job.

If people are hiring, I could be a good, you know, positivity for a cow. Just give me a cow. Before the pandemic, 37 million people were considered food insecure. That's that can't be. Is this another?

Research manager at feeding America. Is this another food desert? I think it is. I think it is. You know, because I'm in a food desert. 20 million people have applied for unemployment. translates to 50% of my love I said Democrats are supposed to expand nutrition assistance.

With schools closed, they often rely. Well, schools are still giving out food. Whether they're closed and I, you still just show up and they give you food every day. I think it is. I think that is food insecurity. I don't know if I'll get, I'll be able, my refrigerator will stay full or not. That's got to be it. Sad.

All right. I can't read any more from that. That story is going to take me. We've got to get the headlines. We've got to get the headlines. It's all the rest to it. All right. We've got a ton of fat in the fat pile.

We've got a ton of fat period. But let's get to the fat pile. So make sure you subscribe to a chewing-the-fat podcast. Just pick a platform, whatever one warms, little cockles over your heart, and subscribe. And while you're at it, subscribe to the YouTube page, Chewere the Fat, too. It's not a page. It's a channel, I know. Just subscribe.

Okay, I got it. And so let's get to the headlines. Biden, Joe Biden, returns $2,800 donation from Lewis CK. I mean, Lewis CK, the guy didn't even accost anyone like you're being accused of, Joe. He accosted himself. But, okay, if that makes you feel better, go ahead. I love Andrew Cuomo. I know it's headlines, so I'm getting into a little political, but it has to do with the coronavirus and its headlines.

Governor Cuomo to the struggling unemployed. We talked a little bit about it yesterday. Oh, you want to go to work? Go take a job as an essential worker then. If you want to work, go ahead and do that. What a douche. He's proven just why we didn't like him to begin with. Seriously,

I can't take it. And he talked about he also was quoted as talking about the domestic violence being bad, but it's not as bad as death. Oh. Oh. Okay, no problem then. I don't have to worry about it then, right?

Who's not as bad as death? What a douche. We have Disney. We talked about her. Kroger shares, I mean, this is headline, Kroger shares post-coronavirus blueprint for businesses to reopen. Every business should be doing that. I don't know what the deal is with that. No problem. We should have a blueprint for that. And I'm sorry, Kroger is the last person I want to get a blueprint world. We've talked about how Kroger sucks. Yeah, for their delivery process, right?

The pickup process, not delivery. I haven't done delivery yet. Well, they don't have their own delivery, right? They do. Kroger has their own? Yeah. Okay. Through the app, you know, you have to give them like two week notice,

but yeah, they'll deliver whatever you want them to deliver to your home. Right. But they are the last one. I want blueprints of anything because they obviously don't know how to do it on their own store. So no, I will take it from Walmart. Shoot, I'll take it from Target.

Target knows how to do it too. Target, Walmart, and all good people that know how to take care of their customers when it comes for pickup. We have Americans buying more alcohol during the coronavirus pandemic. Duh, but they talk about craft brewers are struggling.

Well, that's because the craft brewers, depending on people coming into the shops. And so, no wonder. I mean, I guess they should be out there banking outdoors, delivering, right? At least, you know, running some kind of ad saying you can still get our beer. We'll deliver it. We've got Millie who will bring it and, you know, pull up her blouse and deliver a six-pack of our craft beer.

And I was done the state of Texas, Governor Abbott has a lot. you now to deliver beer and alcohol. So if you are in Texas, go higher. You couldn't do that before? You couldn't do that before, no. I do not live in America anymore.

Well, before it was... No wonder the crap brewers are struggling. Well, also is you couldn't also, for example, go to Applebee's and tell them, hey, I'll take a martini to go with my to-go order. They're like, no, you can't do that. But now you can.

because of what Governor Abbott has signed. Well, I mean, some of the states were closing down their liquor stores, which is insane. And we talked about Pennsylvania closing down. We talked about Ohio saying they were going to stop taking people with Pennsylvania IDs. I mean, America is over. We're done. I don't know what's called. America is done.

Florida says they have flattened the curve. So, I mean, they've already opened up their beaches. is ready to rock and roll in Florida. So you're good. Dude, Desantis is trying so hard to get back on track. What did you call him? Desantis. What do you call him?

No, that's fine. Whatever. Okay. If you're, you know, that's how you, if that's how you, brown people?

You say it. You brown people? Till you pissing me up for the last two days. You whole brown people thing. Him and Kemp. Him and Kemp are both. trying so hard to open up the South. I know.

They're trying so hard. Even the camp, but he got criticized yesterday. But President Trump, I'm sorry, President Trump. Yes, he played it right where he said, you know, he could do whatever he won. But blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. If I don't like it, blah, blah, blah. No, I'm sorry, no. If the governor seems that their state is good, open up that state.

Fire it up. Put some gasoline on that economy and fire it up. It is seriously. Fisher, Fisher, 43 days. Me and you have been stuck at home for 43 days. I know. I know. And believe me, I have not left this house very often. No, because, okay, fine. And let's say we do leave. Where are we going to go? We can't stop anywhere. And if we do, in the back of my head, I'm like, okay, I'm going to die from coronavirus. virus in the back of my head that's what I'm thinking today I was actually thinking today you know I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna go to the store with my wife I'm gonna go to the store with my okay and what happened I'm gonna pull the trigger I'm gonna go to the store of my way

and then I thought then I thought if I gonna have to have a stupid mask on yep that I'm not going I'm not wearing a stupid mask I'm not doing it I know I've had a mask so for example on Tuesday I went up because the church needed some help because they're also running out of help. You know, they have volunteers and they have the people that they pay at church to do their Sunday service online. So they run out of people because people don't want to come out. So they call me. I went out Fisher. I had a mask on in the car to walk out. I took it off as soon as I walked out of the car. I felt so dumb with a mask on because I'm not sick. I feel I don't know. I just don't like I know.

I don't know. I don't know. All right, let's get to the coronavirus numbers, shall we? As of this recording, we have 2,753,592 total cases worldwide, with 192,3,324 deaths. Here in the U.S. of A, 8902,000. 187,993 total cases. Seems to be really kind of slowing down a lot.

And 50,318 total deaths here in America. The TSA checkpoint numbers yesterday. Through the roof. Through the roof on the day that Chris Cruz traveled to Florida on an airplane and in an airplane, 111,627 people through the TSA checkpoint yesterday. So that's the most since the 5th of April. Wow.

So you're looking at, you know, almost 20 days of under 111,000. A lot of those days are 90,000, some numbers, and the one was 80 some thousand. That's not good, but the numbers, they're picking back up again, right? That's what we want. Right? Isn't that what we want? Yeah. Yeah, it sure is. So we have a CNN boss telling their staff, they will not return to offices until at least September. We'll see if that changes as more and more places open up and starting to get back to the new normal. but we still have, you know, huge amounts of people being laid off.

We're talking about now massive layoffs and pay cuts are likely coming to state and local governments. Okay. We had a bunch of money given back from the restaurant chains. We talked a little bit about that yesterday. We talked a little bit about that before where, you know, the companies are, they took a shaming and a beating for taking the money. or you aren't really small business, so they gave it back. We'll see. We had the report where 43% of small businesses won't make it through this.

Let's hope that's not true. Let's hope that that is not even close to being true. And you have companies like Netflix that are booming, but they also know that in the end, it goes back to kind of where they were before when people start leaving their home. the toilet paper company in Europe that's so huge boasted a huge profit in the first quarter because people are stocking up on toilet paper. Same will be true here in the USA.

But when it's over, they're already prepared for it to be, you know, calm way down. I mean, you have companies, they're talking about like Dove, Lipton Tea, Ben and Jerry's, said their sales in North America grew 4.8% and online sales surged 36%. I mean, that's huge, right? But as the lockdowns start loosening up, those numbers go back to maybe where they were. Right. And so many more people, they're talking about now that all the people are, you know, working from home and lockdown, are buying less shampoo and deodorant.

I mean, it kind of makes sense. It's not that you're not using the shampoo or deodorant, but you're not going to the gym. You're not going out at night. You're not working, you know, getting up. You take a shower, go to work. Come home, take a shower, go out. You know, get out with the same thing.

You go to the gym. And so you might be taking two or three showers a day. You're not doing that anymore, right? And you may get up and then, you know, maybe work out and do your exercises. Some are doing that. And then you take a shower and you put your deodor on. And, you know, that's it for the day.

Right, one time instead of two or three, you're done. Right. So, and they talked about gum and mint sales are down. Well, yeah, people aren't having alcohol lunches and having to come back to work with mints in their mouth. I mean, they're not going to work. You're not stopping at the gas station to get gas and say, you know, I'll take a pack of gum too for the day. and you're not stopping at the coffee shop to get coffee, and then you know you're going to start having coffee breath,

so you're going to have to have some gum with that to get through the day. Of course those numbers are going to go down, but those numbers are going to come back up in the end, right? They have to. They have to come back at the end, right? And plus of the time now, if you're out, most places are starting to make you wear a mask. So you're chewing gum behind the mask?

I mean, I am. I like chewing gum, and I also, you know, still chewing a little nicotine gum from time to time. So I'm there, right? And some restaurants, not restaurants,

grocery stores are not making people wear masks. But there's plenty of cities and municipalities that are telling people to wear masks. They have to. I am really kind of unhappy with having

to wear a mask every time I go out. It's okay. If you think it protects you and you don't want to breathe on people, wear a mask. Or if you're sick, wear a mask. But if I can't or don't want to, this is still America, right? And there's plenty of people out there that can't wear a mask. My wife being one. And when I have to send her out to get things, you can't make her wear a mask.

she'll freak out. She's still got to go get things for me. That's just the way it is. That's just the way it is. So if she doesn't have to wear a mask, I want some kind of special dispensation badge on her or something that says she could be out getting me stuff without a mask. All right. Have a great weekend.

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at the blaze.com slash podcasts. So we still have some headlines to get to. We'll do some entertainment headlines anyway. I know we have Whoopi Goldberg defending the Pelosi ad. The ice cream she's talking about actually comes from a small business. Okay, good.

I know, we know it does. That's not the point, Whoopi. Okay? That's not the point. Did anyone know about the Michael Moore's new movie, the planet of the humans? What if green energy cannot save the planet? We'll be okay. Electricity and coal-fired engine plants will still be running and we'll be fine.

Don't worry about it. It's okay. We'll be fine. And we keep getting news about they are after Ellen DeGeneres, man. I don't know why they, I don't know what the deal is. I'm not sure why was the breaking point for her, but they want to bring her down. And I don't agree. Yesterday, Glenn talked about it a little bit, and I don't agree with what he said that he thinks is because she was seen with George Bush.

With Bush. I don't think is that. I don't think is that. That started before that. Yes, yes. I honestly think that Ellen is getting older. And I feel like, you know, when people get older, start seeing the world differently.

And I feel that Ellen is starting to see the world differently. Especially, dude, especially right now, go on Instagram. If you really want to see how good you have it, go on Instagram and follow all these stupid celebrities you see on

TVs. They are struggling for attention. Jeffie, there's another concert. Do you see there's another concert? I mean, the medicine's running out, right? The drugs are running out. There's another concert. There is a third. concert coming out to raise... This last one failed miserably.

What are you talking about? So we have... So first we had the Elton John... Elton John Presents, a concert. Right. Then we had Lady Gaga presents a concert. There's a third concert as we speak. Oh, Lord.

I just saw it on my Apple TV saying, Hey, don't forget to tune in this weekend for this concert. We're raising money. And all the bands are like old bands that I've never. never heard of. I thought they were dead. But they'd normally be out performing at a bar somewhere, right? They normally be out playing at a small venue, a more intimate setting.

And they're working. I mean, I understand the frustration. Yes. But I also sent you two days ago, I sent you the concert that they're having Fortnite. There's a concert of Friday this weekend. We talked about that too, how Fortnite, how strong they're doing. and why not why doesn't everyone just start performing inside of fortnight so here we go live inside of fortnight for um this started yesterday the 23rd from the 23rd to the 25th the multi-platinum rapper

uh that goes by the stage of astronomical astronomical has a has a musical experience built inside fortnight and by the way if you've been playing fortnight for the last since monday you could see construction work Fisher they brought in a stage they put the stage down then they left and then they say Who's doing the construction work? Yeah, yeah the brown people

This one I'll take credit all brown people We all call brown people to do The construction work And then another day You have the big balloons They got brought in And so now the whole Fortnite has balloons

That's five big head balloons And then they have the stage And then I love that. That's so cool. I mean, I know that I know it's, we're supposed to hate the gaming system. But this is horrible. And we're supposed to lock up our phones and tablets at night.

I got it. But they have the cranes. The cranes are in bringing in, you know, supplies to finish the stage. The stage is finished. And so they have this concert. Now, for those people that can't, you know, they missed yesterday's 7 p.m. Eastern. You could watch it tonight. If you're, oh no, sorry, you can't watch it tonight because that's one of the other people in the other world.

Because they have different concerts. They go like the Americas, the UK, blah, blah, blah. But if you want to stay up. That's incredible. I mean, this game, this game is providing shows around the world in different time zones. That is so freaking cool. So your last chance to watch this is tomorrow the 25th. You could watch it either at 12 a.m. Eastern, 11 a.m. Eastern, or the last show that he's performing is at 6 p.m. Eastern at Fortnite, he's performing.

This is amazing. This is what they should have been doing. All these people that are trying to raise money and do all these stupid concerts, go to Fortnite. They already have the platform. Go to, okay, fine, you might lose a little bit of the money. But guess what? Everybody right now, Fisher. their servers keep crashing at Fortnite headquarters because there's that many people are going there. I mean, as long as we have internet,

I'm willing to bet that Fortnite, and they may already be working on this. I mean, I'm sure that they at least have the plan. If Kroger has a blueprint, I'm sure Fortnite does, that have the Fortnite city. So you can go in and watch different performers, like you go down on a strip. Nobody did that.

Just so you know, that already happened like two years ago. Oh, there you go. Yeah, they've done that. And we talked about it two weeks ago. I know we haven't talked about Quebe in a while. Oh, by the way, Quibi at the airport, the best. Just make sure you download all the episodes before you go to the airport. Okay.

Because it takes, like, you get in it, get in it, and then you're waiting. Boom. Oh, crap. Oh, yeah. I can't watch it. It is good. And I'm happy that Quibi now has. Well, they had it, but I didn't realize.

That's what they made it for in between times. In between times. But I'm so happy that they have the ability to download it and watch it off, you know, when you're not connected internet. So it was perfect for the plane drive. But I wonder, I wonder if I download a show from Quibi, if I go to watch it offline. Mm-hmm. Ooh. Oh, to send it to the TV?

Can I mirror that to the big TV? No, because don't you have to have Wi-Fi? Yeah, you have to mirror. Yeah. So I wonder, but if I'm watching it from the downloaded version, I wonder if I could mirror that. You should try that out because you no longer are attached to the network. So yeah. If I'm watching the downloaded version.

Yeah. It should. I wonder if I could mirror that to the TV. Technically, it should work because you're not grabbing it. I'm trying that today. Okay. You should. And the only reason why about Quibi is because Quibi is because Quibi partner up with.

Fortnite and on the theater arena you can watch the creepy episode right every day yeah every day every day at the top of the hour so we have the platform all these people that are so hungry for attention should be going to fortnight right now and saying okay my name is elton john and i would like to perform here i'm still uh i mean elton you would think that elton would lower himself to a fortnight show but then you see he's doing a show in his drive way in his LA dump and you think Elton what are you doing but do they still have and I it's easy enough to find out to go in there but do they still have the cities I mean they act like the strip where I can go in and pick a bar to go into or pick a yeah you could go and

see different artists or is it just I'm going into you know a place with no performing so right now you only have the Scott Travis performance which is uh astronomical. Before it was where, you know, you go to Lacey Lakes and boom, you watch whoever is there or you go to, right. And then yes, they did have that. That's what happened all throughout the pandemic. Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. I'm trying to look for a number. Oh, here it is. They reported an increase of 70% in Fortin. I'm surprised they haven't because why, I mean, if I'm a performer and I have to cancel my shows. Why wouldn't I want to promote doing a concert tonight at Bill's Bar in Fortnite's Blue City

or Fortnite's Red City or whatever they call it? I've not been inside Fortnite so I don't know what the names of the cities are and how you get there. But why wouldn't I do that? You know, hey, Friday night, I'm performing at Bill's Bar in Fortnite's Red City. See you then. I just make sense. Yeah, and, you know, for example, here's one. So people are trying to get Fortnite to release numbers and they haven't released numbers, which I don't know why they haven't released numbers.

But call duty war zone, which is the newest addition to the series, the first week that was released, six million people play it in the first 24 hours. That's not bad. That is not bad at all. That's not bad at all. That's not bad at all. I would say that's pretty good. That is good. So I, people, I think the only reason why people aren't going to video games, especially

this one where all you do there is kill other people. One is because of the- But you don't have to. No, you don't have to. That's the thing. You don't have to. That's like, it's almost like, it's almost like social media. You don't have to read everything.

True. True. You can use it for your own purposes. I can go to, I can go on Twitter. and I can tweet things, which means I can get my word out there. And then it's up to you whether you want to read it or not. It's funny how that works. I can go into Fortnite and decide I don't want to kill people.

I just want to go to Red City, Bill's Bar, and see Lady Gaga on Friday night. That's all I want to do. Just be advised that while you're trying to go to, where is it where am I going to? If I go to Bill's Bar and Red City. If I'm there, I'm going to shoot you. You might not want to kill me, but I need to kill you so I can keep leveling up. If I get killed on my way, if you're trying to kill me on my way to Bill's Bar and City, am I able to just come back to life and continue to Bill's Bar and Red City,

or do I have to go all the way back to the gate? You have to go all the way back to the gate and start. Yes. So I actually do have to kill people. Yes. You have to. It's like the perch, maybe. Can I put like a, can I wear a hat?

or something that says don't shoot me. So you can, I'll give you that, you can surrender. And when you surrender, that means, hey, I'm not here to fight. I'm just here. And then you could continue. But I can still be killed. But I'll tell you this. If you surrender in front of my son and you say, hey, I surrender, I surrender.

He's going to let you walk away. But as soon as you turn around, he's shooting you in the back. What? So. It's crazy. I told him that's not cool because, you know, that's a, you know, you're trying to build trust in these games, you know. So I told him, it's funny because he's like, Dad, look at this, look at this. So Jeff Fisher, this is amazing.

And you know, Milo. You spend times with Milo. So he tells me, hey, dad, I'm going to go into a fight and then I'm going to surrender. I want to show you that it works. I'm like, it doesn't work. There's no way it works. There's no way at a game of Fortnite where Yomango is to kill other characters and game, levels, there's no way that you can surrender and they just let you walk away.

So we go into this big fight, me and him, go to it. He says, don't shoot, don't shoot that. I'm going to surrender. He surrenders. They stop shooting. Fisher, I kid you not. As soon as those players turn around, my son threw a grenade and killed them all. And he started laughing.

And I was so mad at him that I was like, what are you doing? You just, you can't do that. I know it was funny. But you can't do that. Yeah, yeah. Because, like, he was, you know, he got like a little bit like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm like, no, it's fine. I know what you were trying to do.

You're trying to be funny. But if we, you know, stuff like that, we can't abuse it. I can see you doing it if, you know, if it's you and that person, yeah, I'm sorry, bro, you can't surrender. This is a fight to the death. But if people are walking around, let's not shoot people in the back if they surrender. Yeah, no. That's a bad person.

Yes, exactly. Because. Internet game or not. Yes. Internet game or not. Yes, yes. But it's funny. If you're doing it for money and you have a battle, and like you said, the battle is already, the deal is already too death. Yes. Yes. Absolutely. No surrender. No surrender. But in the middle of that, if I'm walking to Bill's Bar and Red City and I've surrendered and then you still kill me, the next time I see you. Yes. Yes. Yes. Next time I see you, bro. It's on. I'm, bro. Everything.

Everything is on you. I mean, I'm dropping bombs. I'm loading up. Thank you. I'm pulling a U.S. Navy on the Iranian ships. Are you pulling a Trump card? You pulling a Trump card? Yes.

Yes. I'm putting out my surrender maga hat. You're going down. But I feel that the gaming industry right now should be booming and since somehow all these stupid artists wants to be heard go there

way to do it go there and if you want to do that if you want to do that again I think that they should develop a way so that and they've got to be able to why they don't do it is because people are abusing it like your son where if I surrender

and I say hey I'm just going to you know Bill's bar in Red City I'm not going to kill anybody I just want to go to the show. And then I, you let me go. That's great. But if I start killing someone, now I've broken that trust. There's got to be a way for me to not, you know, if I'm, if I'm under the surrender umbrella, I've got to be able to not kill, not be able to kill people and not get killed, right?

So you've got, if you're under the going to Bill's bar and red, in Red City to see Gaga. Once I'm under that umbrella, just let me walk through. I can walk through any bombing escapade, any kill-excapade going on because I'm just going to Bill. What am I doing here?

I was just out my way to Bill's bar in Red City. I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm just wandering around. I should be able to survive that. That would be fun, right? There's another thing. I can go leave early. because Gaga's not performing at Bill's Bar and Red City till 9.

If I leave it, if I go to get to the gate at 6, I could just walk through battle zones under the umbrella. And it'd be fun, right? Just show up in some other battle. Don't mind me. I'm on my way to see Gaga. That would be fun. That would be fun.