Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 359 | Elon Musk: "Free America Now" & The Future of Movies

Episode Date: April 29, 2020

Day 48 inside CQB: Nothing says is time to open America like Elon Musk tweeting about re-opening the country. Is time to go back to work and even Elon Musk agrees with Americans. Stormy Daniels is on the news and it gets weird. When is your day is your day... Maybe we should play the lotto. The Queen has her own cow for beef so she's ready if the world has a food shortage. Do you want to attend a CTF Virtual Happy Hour? We'll submit your name here: CTF VIRTUAL HAPPY HOUR Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We'd love to talk. Business. And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it, chewing the fact. Yes, day 48 from the CQB, the COVID-19 quarantine bunker. Welcome to it. How are you? You look great.

Now, remember when we were all upset at our president of the United States for having his affair with the stripper Stormy Daniels and the wife was pregnant and how could he do such a thing and his lawyer broke her to deal to give her

$130,000 to not say anything and I mean she did anyway and apparently those deals don't matter anymore but now now Stormy Daniels the film star dancer entertainer

says you know what there was no affair that never happened wait what oh no this is sad news

but it's not sad sad news just when you're typing up your book or your letter on Microsoft Word and you press the space bar twice after a period yeah you're not going to be able to do that anymore

without getting the squiggly line something is wrong message on your paper I know right I know it's wrong it's an error you can't press that well you can't and when you you know print it out or keep it and probably the squiggly lines go away. But while you're typing and it shows you that there's an issue with the word spelled wrong, spacing wrong, you shouldn't have put that exclamation point there.

You can't put two spaces after a period now on Microsoft Word. Now, if yours still does that, you haven't done the update yet. According to Microsoft, no, I don't need the sad music. I don't know why you don't I don't need any sad music This is only I'm just telling you don't punch two spaces After here Long past the days of typewriters where typists would space Would put two spaces in after a period to make sure that you know the sentence

The end of the sentence was defined Those days are over And Microsoft Word is telling you that those days are over So okay Just be prepared for the squiggly line after your two space pump after that period. When it's your day, it's your day.

You can quote me on that too, by the way. When it's your day, it's your day. My man, in Pueblo, Colorado, wins two $1 million lottery jackpots out the same day. When it's your day, it's your day. So he said he's been playing the same numbers for 30 years and it finally paid off. So really weird that he played them twice because usually if you play your set of numbers,

you've played them once and then if you're ready to, if you, like I've done, I've bought my regular numbers before. And then, you know, a few days later before the drawing, you go into a place and you have that feeling like, man, I need to get a lottery ticket.

So you buy a ticket. And you get a quick pick or you pick some new numbers because you already know that you've got your numbers in the can, right? are already in the wallet, ready to go, to win. I mean, mine hebers aren't ready to win because they haven't won yet. This guy's been doing it for 30 years, and apparently Joe B bought his ticket at the 7-Eleven, you know, the one over there on Lake Avenue, there in Pueblo. And then he stopped off a couple days later at the Lofid Jug, right there on Lake Avenue, too.

and he bought another ticket. So he gets two million bucks instead of one million. Good for him. And like I said, when it's your day, it's your day. I know. I know. And space is all over the news these days. The end of this month, or I'm sorry, the end of next month.

We're still in April, the end of May. the launch of a SpaceX first crude mission from Florida. It's supposed to be taking off unless, you know, the clouds get too thick and we have to postpone it. But NASA has, and it's their first crude launch. And by crude, I mean people not CRU, CRE, crude launch in nearly a decade. Incredible. But. NASA's asking Elon Musk

Dude What do you say? You and all your people Why don't you just stay home Watch it You don't need to come to NASA To watch the launch What are the odds

What are the odds he stays home What do you think? He shows up I say he flies in I say he flies in It's his launch It's SpaceX He got people going up

He flies in No wonder He is being tweeting like there is no tomorrow for the last 24 hours. Yeah, free America. We must free America. Bravo, Texas, give people their freedom back.

Silicon Valley has become sanctimonious valley too much. The moral arbiter of the world is snowing in Texas. That's exactly why. He is pissed right now. telling me I can't come to my launch. Uh-uh. That's exactly what it is. I do love how he just goes free.

Like I said, when Elon Musk and representative Thomas Massey are singing the same tune and are in sync, imperfectly sync, it's time for like something to crack. Well, he's pissed, you know, like then hollering at him anyway, right? All the stargazers are pissed at him. now because apparently it's the SpaceX Starlink satellites that are disrupting the observations at night in space. There's so many of those up there. I mean, there's what?

I mean, there is a lot of satellites up there. It was like 5,000 or more satellites orbiting the globe, and probably half of them are dead. They're just flying around waiting to crash into Earth. But now the stargazers are like, we can't. our star and it's because of Elon Musk's satellites. Oh, okay. Yeah, he's

the only one that should put satellites up orbiting the globe. Okay, no problem. I'll worry by it. You'd be pissed at him. And also, congratulations are in order, or at least this is an anniversary. The Hubble. The Hubble Space Telescope.

30 years. 30 years of the Hubble. That's incredible. We've been getting some, I mean, we've gotten pictures of things that we never thought we'd ever see from space thanks to the Hubble. And it's been, you know, mentioned in movies and used in all kinds of sci-fi movies for the last 30 years.

We're moving the Hubble. Name that movie. I'll tell you what it is. It's one of my favorite lines from Armaged. We're moving the Hubble. But I love the fact. that is exact. Eli doesn't care about you or me.

All right. That's the deal. He's just pissed at NASA for telling him they don't want him to show up at his launch at the end of the month. Free America. So we talked a little bit about it on Pat Unleashed this morning during my chewing the fat segment on each Wednesday during Pat Unleash. That trolls, the sequel, trolls world tour, raked in 95. million bucks in fees from almost five million digital rentals in just three weeks according to the Wall Street Journal and so that's more than the original made in five months in theaters now uh and they've

been fighting you know we've talked about the theaters and uh the movie companies have been fighting anyway because they don't you know obviously they don't want the theaters don't we can't release movies digitally people won't come to the bar come to the theater yeah that's the point. And you're not, most of you are fighting now about even staying alive after the lockdown. On top of we're saying, hey,

it's pretty soon you can open back up, but you can't open up at full capacity. Oh, no. We're not going to be able to do that. We can't open up, we can't, we can't fire up the popcorn machines at 25% capacity. Okay, well, that's a shame.

We're going to start releasing our movies digitally then. And they, like that anyway because we make more money when we release it digitally than we do for the theaters because you guys have you guys have been digging cash from us for all these years we have a little bit more when we release it digitally and now uh we're there thinking you know that's a pretty good idea we're probably just going to keep that up have they not been listening to this podcast have we not been linking our podcast to to the movie film companies because we need to start doing that. It's very interesting because I did not know that Universal, NBC Universal,

had a 50-50 split with the movie theaters. So it was interesting to see that now that they released this movie is an 80-20 split where the studios keep 80 and then 20% goes to whoever. So it's very interesting to see that the big bad movie people were giving 50% Yeah. I'm sorry. The movie chain mafia, man. They were on it. I made the movie. I expect to keep at least more money. So movie theaters that are crying bankrupt, what did you do wrong? Because...

On top of which, they're getting 50% from the movie and they're making $8 billion on popcorn. Yes, so that's what I'm saying. We're being gouged to get a bucket of soda. So where in the whole, you know, movie industry is their cut? Is it on the movie supplier? Or is it the movie theaters are so stupidly money hungry? Movie theater mafia has been home and their grip on it. This show has really hurt the movie theater mafia.

And I love that they said, AMC said, well, we're just going to stop playing any universal films. Okay. No, don't do that. We don't know what we'll do. So, Jeffrey, you're telling me right now, you tell me right now that if AMC or whatever movie mafia, movie mafia, let's call it movie mafia. The movie theater mafia.

Yeah, the theater mafia. The theater mafia. You're telling me that if the theater mafia. MTM, the movie theater mafia. Hold, let me write that down before, forget. MTF, movie theater mafia. If you tell me that MTF says, hey, NBC Universal, we're not going to carry your movies. So back off.

You're not telling me that Tim Apple is not going to knock at the NBC Universal door and be like, Hello. Hey, so I heard that you lost a contract with movie theater mafia. I'm willing, you know what? I'm willing to take 30%. You know, I don't want to sell 30% of your profits. You keep the rest. We'll do the 1999.

We'll give them that they have 90 days to watch it. Once they start, they have one, you know, 248 hours to watch it. This might be the saving grace for Netflix, right? As everybody pulls out, I mean, you're right with Apple, you know, doing it. They'll work deals with all the platforms. But this might be Netflix saving grace, right? The release of their own movies and the release of other. film companies movies you know and i'm i am i feel that i call myself a big proponent of movie theaters

and that whole experience yeah because every time i every time i go i have to if it's a movie that you know i have to watch it either 3d or full i max and recliners and a bed and a butler and food comes to me and all i have to do is literally pee there's a guy holding a cup and he takes it for me I'm willing to pay I have not seen I have not been to that theater I'm a fan of that that doesn't north Dallas

North Dallas I could not take my kids to that one because my kids already it's like we want to go to a movie okay well it's Saturday

and I don't have the money this weekend we're just gonna go to the regular theater no it's all right that's all right it's all right we just

what we're just we can't go there we have to carry our popcorn into the seat and we have to wait there's not there's not a button

for a but to coming and bring me my my delicious hot pizza and wings and a shake brought to my seat no it's all right my delicious steak mac and cheese with extra bacon oh we're just going to go see the movie no it's all right with the stay here i'll go watch some youtube video that i watch like ten times already i'll stay home with by the way it is a big difference when you go when you go from a studio movie grill to a AMC $5 matinee where the seat you set in it sure does you just broke the seat I'm like okay let me go sit on the other one

oh crap this one broke too I'll just stand in the back I'll stay half of the of the MTM that's really not I mean they've kept the theaters no pretty nice I'll sit in the back I'll stand can I have the stool that you use upstairs so you can watch it from you know the movie room because like Like I sat in three chairs and all three of them just went pl-b-bump. Or the cushion is no longer there. Excuse me, sir. You're handicapped?

Yes. Yes, I am. I'm sitting right here in the middle lane here, okay? Yes, I am. But movie theaters, man, they have to come up with something because... I know. Coronavirus has taught them one thing that... They can make more money without you.

Oh, we'll stop playing the Universal Films. Okay. My name is Tim Apple. The president calls me Tim Apple. Whatever. I'm willing to do a 30% deal. What do you think? Right.

And by the way, that opens up the door. You're telling me right now that isn't a perfect chance for you to start a brand new streaming service that just if you have the right equipment, you're not telling me that you come up with the right equipment, the right pitch. You go to NBC University and say, hey, I could be you distributor to all the households. Well, look. Okay. So let's say, and all these movie companies are going to want to. have their own app right to release their own stuff that you can you know you subscribe to their app and you can watch our movies so really you're right there should be you know movies dot com or you

know i realize there's already movies dot com but is that the guy on the phone that tells me what time you're showing movie phone today at 6 p.m in your local area um you know i whatever what You know, stream new, you know, whatever it is. So that, you know, we carry, we're able to carry all the, all the movies. There has to be, yeah. 30 bucks watch a new movie. I know they were, you know, I don't want to spend 30 bucks. If you work my plan.

It's cheaper. It's cheaper. If you worked my plan to rent a movie online in my living room for a brand new movie for 30 bucks. Mm-hmm. And you get to watch it multiple times, as many times as you want in a 24-hour period. that's even too much for me. I would say if I was a movie company, I say you get to watch it multiple,

you know, as many times as you want within eight hours. You rent it, and when you start watching it, you have eight hours, and you can, you do what you want within that eight hours. You watch it, you don't watch it.

It's funny because the current plan is better than what you're suggesting. I don't like it. You know, I'm trying to help them on. I know, I know. I know. I know. It's 30 days.

If you don't press play, That's ridiculous. Once you press play, you have 48 hours to watch it as many times as you want. Once you have 30, I mean, that's just ridiculous. I don't, I still, I know we're not going to get into it because it'll just be like another, like the other podcast. I just don't get why 30 days is too much for you. I don't understand. That's too long.

Oh, my gosh. I don't understand it. I don't understand it. How? I bet you this is a. percentage of maybe I'll give maybe I'll give you one percent but I bet it's less than that of the amount of people that buy a ticket to see a movie longer than a month away I know that some of the new bigger movies the bigger movies I've done it yeah yeah yeah the Star Wars

and you could still do that buy it out I could rent the movie I could rent you know Bill's toenails is going to be released and I don't know who doesn't want to see Bill's toenails. The new release from Universal. AMC is not carrying it right now. And it's going to be released on July 4th, right? And so I buy a ticket. I buy a stream.

I buy my access to see Bill's toenails on July 4th. But right now, but come July 4th, I have you can't have another 30 days on that to watch that. Oh my gosh. Who's running these companies?

That's just like that's another year. people that are thinking of the customer not just hey i'm thinking of the customer you're not thinking of the customer you on your on your plan customer have to do what you tell it you are literally programming them no you can't do that you can't programs you can't force somebody to do something in eight hours you can't no no i didn't say eight hours okay but not 30 days i said eight hours If you, you know, maybe if you, once you watch, once you start watching it, okay, 12 hours, half a day. Half a day. See, I already got you.

Okay, a day. All right. You know what? See, here we go. See, that's what I'm saying. I already talked to 24 hours. What's another 24 hours on top of that? 24, I'm not giving you two days.

Oh, my God. This is, I mean, the world could change in 24, you need a 24. I pay $1999. I expect two days and 30 days. I don't think I'm asking for too much Well you know what You are sir thanks for calling And you don't get to watch our movie

Thank you You have you get there Once you once you lease it You have And I it hurts me to say you have 15 days Harts me to say you have half a month Okay so you're playing now See I like this plan now

15 days 15 days And one day And once you start Once you push play Uh huh one day 24 hours 24 hours to watch as many times as you want And are you still charging me in 1999?

Oh, no. Oh, no. Wait, you're charging me more for less? New releases? Yes. Bill's, Bill's toes. Bill toenails, one? New releases?

Yes. How much are you charged me? That's at least $2,99. That's at least $30. See, I'm going to go with Tim Apple because he's giving me 30 days, 48 hours for 1999. So you lost my business. Boy, that's a shame. wouldn't want, I don't know how I'll sleep tonight without your business.

All right. I get it. Really, what happened? I'll tell you a little bit. We're going to head over to the break room. I need a Coca-Cola Zero. But off podcast, we just had about a 30-minute conversation. There's no way it could go on the podcast, although it should have. I'm blaming Chris Cruz, the producer of this show for not recording the last 30 minutes. It's his fault. What you do? What you're not going to be able to hear it and it was probably the best stuff ever. It's his fault that we weren't recording. What about this? Since we have a Friday CTF happy hour, what if we have the same conversation we just had with the audience?

A fresh ice cold Coca-Cola zero. Yes, I like that. I like that idea list. We'll give that to our virtual happy hour crowd. Oh my gosh. So we're doing a virtual happy hour this Friday. Time to get one in, right? We've got to get another one in because things are opening up.

I want to see how everybody's holding up and see if you're ready to just explode out of your houses on Saturday. That's because I know, you know, most places that were locked down are opening it up, you know, Thursday at midnight. All right. So it was just over through Thursday. Okay.

But things are going to be open back up. Carrabahs isn't opening up at midnight on Thursday. Okay? They're going to probably be open up, you know, Friday. Yeah, I don't. I know. That's a surprise. I don't know.

If you're Carabas, you should be opening at midnight because. I think that's probably you should be advertising right now. Yep. We're opening back up. The lockdown is over. All I'm saying, you know, Bdubs and Chili's, if you open at midnight, I am there. So this Friday, May 1st, 2020, virtual happy hour, the CTF virtual happy hour on Zoom.

If you joined us last time, I would love to see you again. And it's the same link as it was before. If you didn't have an opportunity to join us, you can just email Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, and we'll send you the link for our CTF virtual happy hour on Zoom this Friday, 6 p.m. Central, 7 p.m. Eastern. Those of you listening now on Blaze Radio Network or whatever other network you're sneaking in, listening to Chewing the Fat on,

and you're not a subscriber, What are you doing with your life? They just want to remain losers for the rest of their life. You can't help those people. Right. Those are the same people, Fisher. Those are the same people that believe that the government started the pandemic. I heard you talk about that.

I heard you talk about that this morning during Pat Greta on Leach, how those are the same people that not only believe that the government started the pandemic. There's the same people that say we never landed on the moon and it was done at a movie, you know, studios in California. So you can't fix stupid. So. But you can't because if Chris is calling you stupid, I am not. I'm going to be clear about that. I'm not calling you stupid. But if you're slow, just subscribe to you.

I'm sorry. I prefer you call me stupid before you call me stupid before you. call me slow. I hope you did not think that stupid is worse than slow. Oh my gosh, it sure is. Oh my gosh. You sure is not. I'm offended by the audience.

You called them slow. So I said if you're, I'm not called them stupid, but if you are not a subscriber, what do you call it them? You know, it's possible that they are slow. Slow. So you call them slow. But if you subscribe to chewing the fat, we can fix that. We can fix slow. Chewing the fat can fix slow. Can I quote you on that?

Yes, you can. Do we need CDC or FDA approval for us to put that on the label of the park? We have not been taken to the judges yet. So it's possible down the road, you know, we may have to get some kind of government approval. But until then, CDF. We can fix slow. Yes. No question.

Okay. Speaking of slow, and I talked a little bit about this on Pat this morning, Mike Tyson planning a comeback. You know, I would like to see Mike back in the ring. He is slow. He is slow. Oh, baby. He's slow, like.

I for sure did not call Mike Tyson slow. I'll tell you that. I'm not calling Mike Tyson slow. slow or stupid. I'm call him slow. I'm not calling him stupid, but I am going to call him slow. I just want to remind you of my favorite quote from Mike Tyson.

Okay. An ordinary person. You consider yourself an ordinary person, yes? I believe so, yes. I mean, of course, you know, we are not slow. Duh. But, you know, we're ordinary. You consider yourself an ordinary person. Yeah, ordinary Chris Cruz.

Mike Tyson. believes that an ordinary person like yourself could take a punch from him if you had a willingness to die. So I'm sorry, what did you call, Mike? Slow. Good luck, God bless, okay? Hey, isn't this a guy that also has pigeons? Yes, it is.

Yeah, he's the pigeon man in Vegas. And he could be our cowboy hat pigeon. That came in my head. And like I said, pigeon. pigeon guy the way he talks wow slow a couple little royal updates congratulations uh the the the duke and duchess of cambridge celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary today uh good for them well remember that's that was remember those days when it was cool to see harry with pippa and pippa became the new rock star

when Kate and William got married. It was just, it's been nine years already. She's just been popping out kids, man. Right? She's got, the kids that she's got, she's got George,

Charlotte, and Lewis, Louis. So this is popping out kids, three kids in nine years. That's not bad. That's not bad. Plus,

I found something else about the queen. We're talking about meat shortages and everything, and obviously the queen, you think would never have to worry about meat shortages. anywhere. Anyway, but I didn't know that she has her own herd of Jersey cows. Good for her. They live at Windsor. She has about 165 Jersey cows. Their descendants from pretty poly bloodline that dates back to 1871.

they were first given to Queen Victoria as a present from the people of Jersey. It was nice of the people of Jersey. Throw a cow on a ship and send it over to Clean Victoria. There you go. As a Jersey cow, they love you, paste a little note on it. Anyway. That's pretty cool. It's kind of cool, right?

Yeah. I mean, I don't know why it's such a big deal that I just didn't. realize the queen. I figured the queen, you know, you'd have her own herd. She's the queen, right?

I mean, Windsor's having her own cattle. The queen is not going to Walmart or sending, or sending, you know, Betsy to, hey, can you get my Walmart pickup?

I just scheduled it for eight o'clock in the morning. You go get it for me? I'm not sure that the queen has a night with a hamburger, but if she does with the ground beef, I mean, the ground beef comes from cow number 164. Yes. we're taking that one down.

And plus, that also makes sense, too, do you really want the queen eating from where everybody else eats? Wow. Wow. I don't want, if I have a queen or a king, I don't want, I feel like it's not, my meat that I eat is not the same worth than the meat that she or he should be eating. You know?

I'll tell you what, queen, sit your ass down at the table and here's a hamburger. that I made. I'm sorry it didn't come from 164, but sit there and you can, don't put, don't move that purse. Don't move that purse. You just sit there at that table and enjoy your burger and don't worry about where it came from. I mean, the queen is not eating that stuff. No, no, no. She may, if she stops by and she's trying to, you know, win you over for something, she's going to eat with you. Other than that, no way. No, you know, that purse, yes, signals the Secret Service to do. You know, that purse. It's whatever, you know, she needs him to do, but it also has a piece of 168 inside, just in case. You know, we all heard.

From her own garden, she's not going to put a tomato on a Walmart burger. I mean, the tomato comes from her garden. Yes, yes, yes, right? Growing from, you know, Millie and Lorenzo out there in the back, in the back 40. Yes. And cow 164 is chopped up and ready to eat with those vegetables. We all know that she cares her own blood. So we all know that she cares her own livestock,

her own veggies, the wine if she drinks. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Okay. No problem. But seriously, Queen,

that's what you're getting tonight. You're at my house. It's what you're eating. I know it's not 164 and Lorenzo's tomatoes from the back 40. But this is what you get. Okay? So sit down. We have to do our coronavirus update, our daily coronavirus update.

But I think it may really, before I give you the numbers, it is time for America to open back up more than it already is. When I went to order a product today from Amazon because I thought, oh, I'll just, I'll order it on Amazon and they can drone it into me. We live in the DFW area. I mean, they have like same day, same hour, same minute delivery. right i mean the only thing we don't have are drones dropping products in my front yard yet which i'm all for by the way but uh so i go to amazon i go to amazon dot com and i say type in what i want order it now eight days eight days for a core a microphone cord because it's non-essential no this is this i mean we are not america anymore we are not america anymore we are

And I have to wait over a week to get a product from a company that I'm paying extra money to, I, this is not the America I recognize anymore. And I'm sorry, that is essential for you. Yes, it is. You're running a podcast, so it is essential. Thank you. And I was willing to give my money to Amazon, more money than what I already do. Oh, so did you do what I did?

What did you do? Go to Best Buy and then have a career pickup? Although I did do that. I have a wife that takes care of that for me. I don't leave. You are still in lockdown. I know you're so scared right now that you barely even look at the window because you don't want to catch coronavirus somehow by just looking at the window. But dude, stop it.

What do you do? Stop it. Go outside. I don't want to. I like, you know what? I'm going to say this out loud. I was thinking about this last night and I probably shouldn't say it out loud

Say it because you already Tuesday That makes no sense I'm okay with the lockdown With being locked in Of course you are Oh my gosh Of course I'm okay

Of course you are I wish the audience New the conversations we had Off the air Because you'd be like There, it's out there. There, it's out there. Jeffrey believes in what?

Yes. Of course Jeffrey believes on the lockdown. Of course. No, I don't believe in the lockdown. I don't believe in the lockdown. And what are you believe in? What I believe in is them forcing me to stay locked down. I'm okay with that.

No, you don't get to go out. You have to stay in. Okay. And that's when America. That's when America lost his values right there. When Jeffrey said that he is okay. him being forced to say at home. I'm okay.

I'm okay with, you know, just being locked down. I don't want to go out into the world anymore. It's scary out there. Well, you're about to make it scary, because you're about to read some numbers. I know. We have a 3,183,985 total cases of coronavirus worldwide,

225,136 total deaths worldwide at the time of this recording. The US of A, the good old US of A, 1,46,426 total cases as of this recording, and 60,112 deaths total in the US of A. Just incredible. Now, China, just so you know, they are still, in the coronavirus world with a 22 new cases

today. Right. Is it 22 or 22 million? 22. No, I don't know. 2200. 22 new cases. Oh, 220,000 or two. Now, they still haven't broken. They've been in 82,000

mark for a long time. Dude. They're at 82,858. I think what they're holding out for is they don't want to get to 83,000, right? So they like yesterday was six in cases when we recorded. Now today is 22 when we're recorded. They're just hanging under that 83,000 mark. I'm sorry, but after finding now and reading stories, those numbers that we've been doing for the last 40-something days are no longer valid. I don't know about that. I mean,

just because China's not reporting. Somebody fudge the numbers here or there. That doesn't make. them wrong. TSA checkpoint travel numbers. You know you're going to upset me because you saw that story about New Jersey or some state had to reassess their case numbers. So do I believe in? And this is why people think that it's a government crap that they made for us, the pandemic. Yes. Well, look, they were told that they were going to get all this money. Yes. for the COVID-19 patients, which is why everybody had COVID-19. It didn't matter what you died of. If you died of any kind of complications, it was complications due to COVID-19, because

that got them more money. I get that. While admitting it, I think you're admitting fraud. Absolutely. You're throwing it out there and you're saying, hey, look at us. We did this. Yeah, we screwed up. you know, dash darn it.

Oh, shucks. Yeah, we screwed up. If I say that to my friends at the IRS, I'm in jail. Yeah, and not just that. Did you see the doctors who were saying that people on ventilators is good for the hospital economy? Yeah. So now it makes sense why we literally made car companies and all these other companies make ventilators. Because it's profit.

And then Governor Abbott is the mean evil guy because he said, let's open up Texas on Friday. He's the evil one. And he will look, he's opening up Texas and we, and he still has the reins on. I mean, he's not saying, uh, go why, that's it. We're done. Yeah. Go to Cooper's Christie and go to the beach.

He's not saying that. Yeah, we're done. Yeah. You know what? You know what? I'm done with it all. People, you can make your own choices. You can do what you want.

It's America. It's Texas. do what you want. Yep. Just like the beautiful... He's not even saying that. Nope. Just like the beautiful South Dakota or North Dakota governor said, you're responsible.

Figure it out. Here's the guidelines. Here's what's going on. Go be a adult. Here's what helps you. What doesn't help you. Here's what works. What doesn't work.

You make your choices, you know, like you've been doing in America. Absolutely. Incredible. Travelers through the TSA checkpoint. 1010,913. So I feel that we're done. We're going down. Oh, we're going down?

I mean, all the way back for a while, we went below 90,000, right? Yeah, we were, yeah. The middle of this month was the low point, 87,000, below 90,000. And then it went back to 90,000, and it hasn't gone below that. Then it hasn't, then it went to 95, then over 100, over 100. and then the last one, two, three, four, five, last six days have been over 110,000. So we're done. That's it. But this yesterday was the lowest point of the last six days.

110,913. So. I think that's, I think we saw the lowest points and now we're just going to stay at the hundred thousands. I mean, I hope so. And so is the airlines. Right. But the airlines are talking about flying what every other day now.

Yeah, spirit. Spirits flying Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sunday. And that's it. Yeah, that's it. That's what's going to happen. They should have been doing that anyway. I mean, they were over there. And they're combining.

You know, for example, if I want to go from DFW to Orlando, I could go nonstop. But from the way back from Orlando to DFW, I have to make a stop in Austin. And they come back to... I'm surprised Spirit doesn't do that anyway. I mean, you're flying for, what, five bucks a seat? Now, yeah. We're going to get you there. We're going to get you there, but we're going to make a couple of stops in between.

That's what happens when you fly Flintstone Air. You're flying Flintstone Air. You get out of the plane, and we're going to get you to your destination, but we've got to make a couple of stops in between. It's just the way it is. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. All right, so we have... I mean, I've got a ton of, you know, fat shots, snapshots from the coronavirus economy.

Fat shots, that's what I'm calling them now. I like that. Fat shots. It's a new name for it. New name for headlines. Fat shots. So there's a, I mean, Spain and France taking measures to ease the lockdown restrictions. The children in Spain weren't even allowed to leave their homes for about six weeks.

I mean, you couldn't even walk a pet fish. in Spain. So now they're using those restrictions like, oh, it's okay, you can leave your house now for a little bit. The NBA sports

trying to allow teams to have open practice facilities. They want to start playing. Good luck, we'll see. I mean, they back that off a little bit. They're not starting that right now for the practice facilities. So, because everybody went,

what? No, that can't be. You can't do that. Okay. Okay. If I have an NBA player, I mean, we just covered this, right? It's America. I decide. If I'm an NBA player and I feel like it's not safe for me to go, I don't go.

And they either cut my pay or they still continue to pay me. Or they say, hey, right, it's America. You get to make the choice. You come to practice and take a shot with the COVID or you don't get paid. Guess what? You're bouncing the ball at the practice facility. I like what you did there. Take a shot with a COVID.

You know, take a shot. I like that. I didn't even get a rim shot or anything with it. I was just a... You did not like my rim shot. You did not like my rim shot. Why even bother bring it up? What do you mean?

I did a rim shot last week or sometime and you did not like it. Why am I getting a rim shot for that? Why are you doing a rim shot? So I'm not going to do it. Well, you have to do it in the right places. Oh! So now you'd get to the side when I do a rim shot or not. No, I don't think that how it works.

Chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Yes. Yes. But chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher doesn't do the sound effects. I swear I will. So maybe chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher can do his own sound effects. More than 200 public companies applied for at least 854. $1.7 million from the government, the government program in particular that was billed as the emergency funding for small businesses without access to other sources of capital.

Okay, great. That also includes $126.4 million for three public companies with the Texas hoteler, Monty Bennett, Ashford Hospitality Trust, They applied for $76 million. They applied for 117 separate loans. These big companies, I mean, I know some of them are getting ashamed now. I forget, and they're giving the money back or they're not taking it. But if you're a company and you have the opportunity, and good for the, you know, if you can make a company feel ashamed and not take the money, good.

But if our government leaders have been hoodwinked and to leave it open, for these companies to get the money. I mean, isn't it their responsibility for their employees and their business to try to get the money? I don't know. I'm touring between that. I really am.

Have you tried the new Facebook messenger rooms yet? Dude. I was supposed to go up against Zoom. Unbelievable. Do you see that Zoom is down 13% after Zuck decided to do this meeting room,

whatever he calls it? Messenger rooms 13% You can only host up to 50 people Right for free? Yes, you can only full Yes, you can And then on

What is them? Two For free? Yeah It's a one No But you can host more But you have a 45 minute

And then you're done So you can only do a 45 minute Yes Gotcha So you can have a We can have a quick Get Together Yes

For free Yes Then you're done But I'm done But I I do, mine is 100, you know, 100 meetings, 100 people per meeting. 14 bucks a month, I want to say. Deep, though, for that.

Yes. And if it's not. That feels, and I know it's feelings, but it feels like that's awful expensive. Yes. If you don't use it as often as you should be using it. Because if you use it, let's say four times a week, then it's worth it. Yeah. Yeah, no question.

Because then you're getting whatever it needs to be done is working. Yes. But, you know, I feel that if we were going to continue CTF happy hour, you know, virtual happy hour, I will unsubscribe from Zoom and then, you know, do it on meeting, meeting room, messenger room, whatever. Messenger rooms, yeah. Because then that makes more sense. Plus, you don't have to create an account.

You already have Facebook member. Oh, you have to do this link it up, blah, blah, blah. but with your permission Jeff Fisher Oh boy If it's okay with you We can Yes you can make me dinner And drop it off at the front of the house

Okay Just I was thinking I want to knock And the doorbell push And then you could You know Okay I was just saying that maybe

You know on Friday We can stream The Zoom meeting on your Facebook page I don't see a problem with that Okay. Why is that? Why would? No, it's just, I just, as soon as you thought about that,

I forgot to tell you that, you know, there's a new update on Zoom where you can live stream it like you will do like a periscope thing straight from the Zoom to whatever platform we want. You have to remind people that if they're watching it on my Facebook page, they need to come on to Zoom, right? Absolutely. So we have to put the link up to the Zoom feed. If they want to participate.

If they just want to. watch, they can just sit there and watch. Sometimes it's better just to watch. And absolutely. In this audience, I bet you 90% of them, they just want to watch. But we're talking about the Zoom CTF virtual happy hour now, right? Or did we move on to something else? We moved on to something else.

Okay. And I'm talking to you, Dawn, with the dog and the horses. I'm talking to you, Don. the great days. Oh no. What happened in Puerto Rico? Okay. No.

Nothing happened in Puerto Rico. Your people are fine, I guess. Apple. Oh no. Oh no. Delaying mass production of his largest flagship iPhones for about another month. Maybe. Good.

That means my phone is going to be. That means there's trouble in River City, my friend. Eh, you know, Apple is. It's upsetting me for the last couple of decisions that Tim Apple has made. You know, first of all, to create a cheap iPhone. I don't get that either. And the cheap iPhone has the same hardware and software than the $3,000 phone. So did you just punish your regulars that have been there since the beginning,

upgrading, you know, buying the $1,000 phone? Okay, it's $1,500. Fine, I'll pay for that. Fine, I'll pay for that. Fine, it's $2,000. Okay, fine. I love Apple. I want the Apple product. I want to be an Apple person.

I want to be an Apple elite. I want to sit with the Queen and eat. I want to sit with the Queen and eat Cal 164. Yep. Yeah. And Lorenzo's tomatoes. Yes. I want all that.

I want Lorenzo's tomatoes. So I feel that Apple, while they're trying to be everybody's phone, and I'm sorry to say this. Tim Apple, you're not going to be everybody's phone. You're not going to be. There's always going to be someone that's going to undercut you for whatever reason. It's always going to be those damn Samsung people. Absolutely.

Thank you for self-identifying there, Jeffrey. Thank you for self-identified. I didn't want to bring it out there. But they're always going to be that. So now that you literally release the iPhone XR as an iPhone SE for $300, What are you doing to me that was being saving, you know, my first born child and then, you know, a little bit of my house. This is why like Elon Musk, because he says, yeah, you know what, I'm going to create you a Tesla that you can afford, Chris Cruz. Are you ready for it?

It's going to cost you $35,000. Can I put you in this car? I'm like, okay, yeah. Does it work like the other cars? Ooh, honey. Oh, you want it to work on the other cars? Well, that's a $9,000 upgrade. upgrade.

And look at that. Do you want tires on that car? What? Okay. So now it's a $15,000 upgrade. And now you just might as well just buy the $80,000 Tesla because the updates that you want, you describe. I'll sell it to you.

I got it here for you. So like that's why I like Elon because he's like, okay, fine. I'll make it to you. But just. Can the cheaper Apple models are now obviously they have the same hardware like you said. but can they do the same things? They can and they can't. Like, for example,

I put you on that. I mean, you're a salesman for the Apple phone. Well, I really wish I could speak ill of the iPhone phone, but I just can't right now because it's just upsetting. But so,

for example, the new iPhone, you could do everything you want, but the camera is not going to be the, you know, the same camera, but it does have the same hardware ship that the new one has.

So it's faster than my phone right now. Wow. And the only reason why I'm still with the iPhone X is because they stop making the iPhone X. So now I have a retro iPhone. You have a retro iPhone, but that's only going to work for about another two months. Exactly. So then when I comes into two months, am I going to go SE or am I going to go XR? XR is $2,000.

S.E. is $300. Now, I don't want to, I don't want to, you know, speak for you, Chris, because I'm, that would just be wrong for me speaking for you but i've noticed in the past that you tend to go for things that are cheaper yes because you and i'm guessing your people are uh you know seem to be cheap yeah that's the word i'm looking for i am cheap but not when it comes to my technology when it comes to my technology i like to push my wallet and make it how I like it. Well, you want it to work so that it services you, right?

Yes. That's why we go out and buy things. So it services us. Trust me. It took me a lot of energy not to buy and participate on the best buy 80% of, you know, TV open box deal that they had. They had a couple of good TVs. But here's what stopped me. The brand was like Jeffie's TV.

I know. Exsignia. I know. I saw. I was real close with you on that. I was really close because here I'm thinking an 85 inch TV for $400. Okay, hold on. And who makes it?

Exignia. Those aren't bad TVs. I've got some insignia. I think this TV right here. Are they good? All I have at the house is I have a Samsung. And then I have a little VZO for the kids room. And then I have a projector.

In fact, we got, in fact, these, this TV here, this is, I think we bought three of these. Whoa, wait, you trailer fits three TVs? Wow. These in Sydney's were on sale. You talk about, am I talking to Jeff Fisher or Tim Apple over there? Who am I talking to? I could be wrong. You could be wrong.

Okay, okay. We bought three, but they were halves. Oh, okay. I still have a half waiting to buy another half. Waiting to buy the other half. Okay. It doesn't work. Wow.

But they were on sale. They were dirt cheap, so we got it. But they're not smart. Yeah. That's a problem. In today's world, in today's, especially if you're a cable cutter.

How can you watch anything if you're... Well, you have to go through Roku. And then that was my next thing. Whatever. You go to either Amazon or you go to... Who does Roku? Is Roku Roku? Yeah.

Okay. Oh, you go to Roku. Now, in my personal opinion, I go Amazon because they already have all my information, so all I have to do is plug in the stick and everything I bought is already there. So I don't have to download anything. Good for you. I mean, what do you want for me? The pet on the back.

I just want you to finish because the audience is going to be like, damn, another hour show about nothing. What do you mean about nothing? about nothing. By the way, did you see the spam and the tuna and the Vienna sausage and the corned beef hatch I got for us? I did see. I want us to do that. I'm not eating those products. I did not say you have to eat it. I said we have to eat those nasty products. Like I said, I don't care. I will starve. That's not really true. But I will starve before I eat those. All I'm saying is that we're going to do some CTF recipes because that water soup my wife my wife was also i mean she'll be she'll be a fan of doing that as well she's had some ideas for doing a another cooking thing you know so she'll be up for we absolutely need to

do that yeah the rationing rationing food or rationing meals yeah maybe we just call it that ctf rationing oh i like that ctf rationing yeah and the malls are going to be open this weekend so be careful out there If you're headed out this weekend, I saw where Simon Properties, the largest mall operator, they're going to be opening them up. They've been closed since the 18th. So they haven't been closed as long as everyone else, but pretty close. Malls are still open? No, these particular malls were closed.

They've been closed since the 18th. So malls are still a thing? I guess. Mall should close a long time ago. This company, the Simon Property Group, that, you know, they are offering, look, if you go to the mall, okay, if I go to the mall this weekend,

I go to a Simon property mall. You're not going. All I, no, but I mean, if I go to a mall this weekend, I'm going to go shopping, you never know. You get out there, you want to pick up something. The day that Jeff Fisher goes to the mall, that is when we all needs to kiss our butt goodbye. You know how long expense it's that been to a mall?

That's what I'm telling you. You're not going to a mall. So they're going to give you. Okay. All you have to do is ask for. it okay all right they're gonna give you a temperature test wait what if you ask for it they're gonna give you a sanitizing packets and they're gonna give you a free mask if you ask for it no no no I mean if that was expecting like a coupon or

like the stores are open like a Simon gift card sales are gonna be rampant throughout the mall here's twenty dollars you can use anywhere in the mall is 20 Simon Bucks. Use them anywhere you want inside this mall. Well, ask. Maybe they will. You're getting your temperature checked and you're getting your sanitizing packets and your free mask. Ask them.

Speaking of that. Walmart is giving you a free... You placed an order of Walmart, didn't you? Yeah, I do order things from them. I'm not that much of an elitist. I ordered this morning And I got this nice little cute bag that they gave me for free.

It's a Walmart reusable bag. And inside it has some pretty cool stuff. Like, you can see it here. It says Walmart, you know, pretty cool. And it has a handle on it, though. It does have a handle. It does. Okay.

It brings me, you know, April's grocery. Plus it came with gifts. Yes. Yes, here's April's grocery Walmart booklet. It has some... It's really blurry when you hold it that close to the camera, but you go ahead and keep holding it close to the camera like that. It has my doll, you know, for the new look and awesome look of my doll.

What is the new my doll? Yeah, they have a new my doll come in. Are you having stomach cramps? Yeah. No, it's just a coupon for new mitals, not actually my doll. There's one model in there. Okay, good. Yes, there's one model.

And then they give you this nice little lens wipe. It's a lens. Lens wipe. Lens wipe. And they give you... Sometimes the material, the fluid that they use on the lens wipes, is different than the lens wipes. But, you know, it's got to be...

They give you chewable claretin for your allergies. Oh, nice. You did that bad this time. The allergies are really affecting people now. Aunt Jemima's pancake to go on a cup? Oh, wait, what? Yes. Pancake to go in a cup.

What is that? Wait a no stop. Back up. What do we just pour in hot water or something? You put... Mix it. Microwave it? Let's see.

Remove the CO. Add water. Stern with a fork. Scraped the side. Markaway for a minute. Three minutes. One minute and ten seconds. Three minutes.

And let cool down. Okay, hold that. There's no cooling down. But there is a tip for an optimal eating experience. for an optimal eating experience, enjoy with a fork. How else are you going to eat it? Spoon? No, but...

I got a little package of a leaf, the new look of a leaf. Nice. Then I got me some milk, hazelnut, wafers, crispy. Ooh. And then a coupon for Nintendo Switch Light. and the new game Animal Crossing, New Horizons. Yeah, that's one of their biggest games now. Yep.

So it's pretty cool. Thank you, Walmart. I like the Antimima pancake and a cup. Okay. I am a fan of that. Just I'll go right now, get in the car, wait for the knock and the doorbell, and you'll have this to eat tomorrow. I'm going to text you a couple other things that you can pick up for me on the way,

and uh just a couple things no no like i said you break it up i can't hear you i'll text you i'll text you i'll text you