Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 400 | Is Bubba Wallace the New Jussie Smollett?

Episode Date: June 23, 2020

Even in 2020 we are still lying on both sides and it needs to stop. Is Bubba Wallace from NASCAR the new Jussie Smollett? Let's hope not because things could get ugly. Golden Globes put on hold, but don't worry they are on top of things. Jeffy is looking at his Pinterest for gym outfits and he's upset. AOC is now saying that Latinos are black? Jeffy and Kris Cruz are ready to rebuttal that claim. This Week Sponsor: Get your life back with Relief Factor and its 3-Week Quick Start for only $19.95. If you are in pain, what have you got to lose? Go to https://www.relieffactor.com Subscribe on YouTube Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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And now, a Blaze Media podcast. So welcome to June of that. Now, I'll begin today with, you know, it's sad news, but it's not sad news. All right. The Golden Globes has been postponed. Now, you think to yourself, well, but are they going to do it at all? Well, they say yes. They've taken over the date that the Oscars were going to originally be on February 28th.

So it's supposed to still happen, just not the first part of January. And I know, I know that you were so looking forward to the first Sunday in January, kicking off the awards season with the Golden Globes. You're just going to have to wait for, you know, a couple of months until the award season gets kicked off. and I know, I know, I know, I know, dry your eyes. But just know that Tina Faye and what's her name, Amy Poehler, both are hilarious, are going to be the hosts of the show. So you know, it's going to be funny. Music ended?

I'm sorry. going through my my Pinterest account looking at new gym outfits under the ideas of gym outfits heading it most of what I'm seeing so far as I scroll through yeah they don't look like the fit so maybe I have to go to the special fat guy section in Pinterest to find some gym my offense, but very disappointing. I'll just click out of Pinterest and just

get by that. For my daughter today, just know that July 3rd is the release date on Disney Plus for Hamilton. I know Lynn

Manuel Miranda, Miranda, Mr. Hamilton, has tweeted, may you always be satisfied. And if, I mean, my daughter has been running around this house singing from the musical Hamilton

for the past month, month and a half. And I mean, all I've heard is Hamilton and the history of, and all the characters and all the songs. So,

I'm just waiting for it to get out of her system. It's waiting for it to get out of her system. It's waiting for it to get out of her system. Perhaps once the Disney Plus show gets released, it'll be out of her system and I won't have to spend $8 billion to take her to see the actual Hamilton Broadway show. Could happen. It could happen. I know. I know. Now, there's also other good news today that I need to tell you about. And it's a product that's going to bring you some pain relief. And what is that product?

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But China has now suspended poultry imports from Tyson Foods after an Arkansas plant had some coronavirus cases. So China is suspending poultry imports from Tyson foods. Okay. All right. And this comes about the same time that remember we talked about the U.S. European trade talks stalled over unsafe American food. Oh, okay, no problem. No problem, no problem, now I will say. I know that, you know, Aldi and HV or HV or wherever the hell that store is and Julesco,

you know, they are recalling their garden salad mix. And I mean, I know. I know. They've got some clylosforia, what is it, cyclosporium, infect. I just would have the computer voice. Sorry, I don't have that computer voice for you. So it's C-Y-C-L-O-R-A infections, potentially linked to certain store brands of garden salad mix. Now, I will say that when I saw that, I said to myself, huh, well, I don't have to worry about that.

I was trying to remember the last time I actually purchased a garden salad mix. And I can't recall the last time I purchased a garden salad mix. But if you can, keep an eye out. Okay. And the FDA is now asking consumers to stop using hand sanitizers manufactured by a company from Mexico that could contain a potentially toxic substance. Oh. Okay. That's advisory on nine.

sanitizers from Mexico, the all-clean hand sanitizer, the S-Biochem hand sanitizer, clean care, no germ advanced hand sanitizer, the LeVar 70 gel hand sanitizer, the good gel antibacterial gel hand sanitizer, the clean care, no germ advanced hand sanitizer, the clean care, no germ advanced hand sanitizer with 75% alcohol and not 80% alcohol, the clean care, no germ advanced hand sanitizer with 80% alcohol, but it has the number of 74589-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-3-0-1. Not the 7458-8-9-0-505-0-0-3. I know. I know.

And, of course, not to not mention all of them, the sanaderm advanced hand sanitizer. So keep an eye on. I mean, it's, do we use, do we mask? Do we not mask? Do we see? I saw a story. In fact, I saw the story where they're saying the guys have said that the sun now kills the germs of coronavirus with a new study. I guarantee they'll back off of that.

They'll back off of that very soon. Now, two retired U.S. Army and Food and Drug Administration guys, scientists, they, I guess, examined how well the UVB in sunlight was in destroying, the virus and they claim that the stay-at-home orders actually, you know, may have been more harmful than good. Huh. Really? Weird. So we could have made the choice like we were already making before the lockdown and would

have done just as good. Interesting. I thought for sure yesterday, here in Texas, that the governor was going to go. go back to a lockdown. Man, he was saying the numbers are going up. It's unacceptable. He's allowing all these counties and municipalities

to do their mask rules, not laws, by the way, just their rules of if you're out in public and you can't be within social distance, six feet of everybody, you have to wear a mask. And that doesn't matter.

I mean, out in public, And inside. Doesn't matter. Okay. Well, isn't that special? And I saw, did you see, did you see the stupid video of the guy trying to go into a Walmart in Orlando? And he's not wearing a mask.

And of course, Orlando, where he lives in his area has, you know, the mask Nazis. That, you know, everyone has to wear a mask no matter where you're at when you're out in public. Now, I thought, like the person. at Walmart was a real, I mean, headcase on kicking this guy out of the store and not allowing him in the store. I mean, why didn't he just say he was there to protest? They would have let him right in. He didn't need a mascot if he was there to protest. I would say that Walmart needs to apologize for that. I know that they're going to say, well, they were just following the rules of the county or the city that they were in. but I mean, I don't know that the greeter at Walmart is the official rule guy for the county and the city of the Walmart store. I mean, at some point, I mean, the guy followed him down the aisle.

He fell down at one point at the beginning when he was just walking into the store, walked into the aisle, And, you know, he chases him down an aisle because he wasn't wearing a mask. I mean, it's just amazing. Now, I guess the guy did leave and, you know, eventually leave and come back with a mask. I would not have. There's no way. I would not have done it. It was just, I can't believe that the greeter at Walmart is chasing people down to kick somebody

out of the store, that can't stand. It cannot stand. Walmart can't have that. I mean, I believe that they have people saying, you know, you're supposed to wear a mask. And that's the new, you know, our county rule, our county law, our county mandate. It's not a law. Okay. It's just a ruling a mandate.

But I can't believe that they're going to let that stand. We're going to have the greeter chase people down. No, thank you. No, thank you. that's not going to happen. And I would hope that Walmart does something about that. That just can't stand. I'm sorry, it just can't.

We're chasing to have people, the greeter chasing down customers and his mask is falling down his face. And then it shows two other Walmart employees coming up to help with the removal of this possible customer. that's this horrible person that's killing everyone because he's not wearing a mask. His mask is falling down. And there was one Walmart employee coming up that didn't have a mask on. So, okay, what's going on? I just, I just can't. We need to go back to being able to, you make the decision.

And I know, I know, we've been over it. And it just seems like, it just seems like we're beating a dead horse. well maybe the horse should have worn a mask so did you see in england at the uh premier league game uh between manchester city and burnley uh where and i'm surprised this plane did not get shot out of the air so they opened the game and i guess everyone was taking a knee in support of the black lives matter movement which i mean why wouldn't you do that in a soccer game in England. But then over the stadium flies a little plane pulling a banner that says white lives matter burn like, I can't believe it didn't get shot out of the air.

Just bring it down. Just shoot it out. That's what's going to, they're going to put weapons at the top of all stadiums now. So if a banner plane flies over with a banner that's not Black Lives Matter, it gets shot out of the air. That's what's going to happen. So the police are now looking whether to establish a criminal offense or not. Okay, guaranteed it will be. They will find a way.

There's no doubt about that. Now, according to the team and some of the local supporters that the people who did it is a social media group, what they're calling it, you know, is that they support the team. the team, which obviously the team, I mean, the team distance themselves as much as possible. We had nothing to do with it. We didn't even know it was going to happen. And we're, you know, we're obviously sorry. So it's the website and the airport said we're not going to have any planes fly out of here anymore that can fly banners. We're sorry.

We don't know what happened. So more businesses go down. down. No more banner flying, at least out of that airport, until we have an okay on the banner. So, okay. All right, good. And what is going on with the Bubba Wallace thing on NASCAR? Now that I'm thinking about it. Holy cow. Was there a news? Was there not a news? I saw pictures today that showed the garage door rope that they open and close the garage doors. You'd think it would be, you know, control but you know it wasn't that is uh is a rope that's on the garage door that's tied into a you know a a news and that's what was the news i i don't know was there a news left there we haven't

seen any pictures of it there are other people that have showed pictures of the garage there's no actual footage because that area i guess doesn't have cameras but it's a pretty secure area for the NASCAR drivers. I mean, that's where they work on their cars and stuff. You don't just, you know, Billy Bob isn't just walking in to the garage area. I hope that it's not

a Jesse Smollett thing. I hope it's not. I hope it was, I hope it was something that was misidentified as a news, where it was just a rope and someone said, oh, look at that. looks just like a noose i bet it is he looks kind of like a juicy smolette though what's that he looks like juicy he does he has that that that look of of juicy you know light brown not fully black

hair have they ever been pictured together oh that's a good one i don't know i don't know if they have or not i mean is bubba wallace just And then I see a story where his mom says that she was talking to some show on Sirius and says not the first time that her son has had hate directed his way. Really? If he gets into it with another driver, they're quick to bring out the N-word. Really? Really? I mean, do you honestly believe that?

Do you honestly believe that if he gets into it with other drivers over whatever they're getting into it about? And they start bringing out the N-word? By the way, if you want to talk about, you know, juicy and the possibility of Baba Wallace, did you remember the poisoning of the cops on Shea-Chack? remember that? Yes. It didn't happen. Well, they said that there was no,

their original comment was a weird comment and I don't have it in front of me, but their original comment was that it wasn't. It tasted funny. It tasted weird. And they didn't. No, no, but I'm talking about what the, what the investigation right away. I mean, it was like the next day.

It might even have been the same day that the police said that it wasn't, malicious from Shake Shack. It was really weird that made it seem like it was, you know, it was almost like it was the cops' fault. I got to find it now. Anyway, what, is there a new report on it now? Yeah, because the shakes already pre-made. Right.

So the cops say that they didn't taste or, they didn't taste or smell right. So they threw the drinks in the trash. and I alerted the manager who apologized to initial them vouchers for free food, which they accepted according to sources. So now they're saying like it really wasn't. But they're blaming the sergeant and the lieutenant because they're the ones who blew out of proportion stating that they start to throw up after drinking of beverages they got from Chase Shack on 200 Broadway. Right.

I see where they're saying that they were falsely claimed, where they falsely claimed they'd be poisoned. But that, the original report, uh, finds no wrongdoing by Shake Shack employees. And that, of course, says after the officers got sick from milkshakes, was they're saying now they did not, right? Yeah. Yeah. Because according to the lieutenant, he threw an email out to the union reps saying that six cop have been, getting sick after they ate at Chechak at 200 Broadway. Right. I mean, I've been personally, and I know this is going to come as to surprise,

I've been to that particular shake shack, shek, numerous times. I love that shake shack. Can we stop? Our studios in New York wore a block away. So, you know, you run into the studio. Not that we would have people go down there and stand in line during the week, but like when I would go into the city, the summer that I lived in Weehawken,

right there just outside of Manhattan. I would come into the city on Saturdays just to, you know, work and hang out at the studios and putts around. And we, you know, Glenn and I would go out. Anyway, it, I would always, because if you go in at the right time, it's pre-standing in a long line. So you get what you.

you want to get out of there. Take it up to the studios. Oh, awesome. But can we stop with the fake allegations? Yes. And this is what this was the original statement was, uh, that there was no criminality by employees. That's a weird statement. I'm sorry. I just, I, that's why I didn't buy it from the very beginning. I just didn't. I mean, that was like right then. They had launched their investigation because they claimed that they had these officers getting sick. sick, right? Or they were, you know, poisoned. It's called food poisoning.

Yeah. And that the officers had fallen ill. And then they determined that there was no criminality by employees. So that was, you know, it was a mistake that these officers got sick. They drank something they weren't supposed to drink. Or it was just made up. It was just a weird statement to me from the very beginning. Yeah.

And of course. It's getting to the point where, like, All these allegations are just, they're damaging, they're damaging both sides. Oh, no question. And one of the things that we need to, you know, this also highlights the fact that maybe we need to wait for the investigations. No, no, we burn it down now. Oh, oh, I'm sorry. We burn it down and then we find out what happens or we don't care.

No, we just burn it down and find the next person to burn. whatever we thought that's what happened doesn't matter just burn it okay alright if that's what you want to do that's fine no that's not what i want to do that's what you just said though that's what america wants to do now not but you aren't you an american no i'm porto rican in fact mr portarican uh i saw where a o c is saying what we've been saying here on chewing the fat all along. To subscribe to Spotify?

I know. Yes. She said that in her interview with Telemundo. I don't even know the show that she was on. I was looking for the stupid Telemundo show. Who knows? It was a riveting show with both on their laptops, both doing the interview. It was great. I did see it on a quibby new show. I don't even know where it was from.

But she talked about how she feels that you, Chris Cruz, are one of the brothers. Nope. That's what she said. Nope. Well, I mean, her quote was something else. And, you know, we don't play AOC enough on this show. I think you were just saying that yesterday. And I thought...

And now that you talk about race, what do you think the Latinx community should do? To stop racism. By the way, it's not Latinx because I don't work in the porn industry. It's Latino. Oh, Latina. No, it's Latinx. We tell a voicemondial interview, it's Latinx. Okay.

Them and among other races. The music with this too. The first thing that's so important is for us to talk about racism within our community and how we fit both, how we are both impacted by racism in the United States and across the world, but also how it exists within our own community. And, you know, a lot of times I'll hear people say, okay, this is about Black Lives Matter. What about Latinos? And I always say...

I thought it was Latinx. Latinos. What about Latinos? I thought was Latinx. Okay. All right, got it. Latinos are black. We are Afilatina.

Right. Hold on. I got to rewind that. Right. Get the full statement because I paused it and we may have, we may have. we may have missed something else that she says so hold on what did you say oh see latinos are black latinos are i'm sorry honey i need you to repeat one more time speak into the microphone that's that what and i always say latinos are black we are we are afloatina and um we we are afro latina what the

bleeping crap is that. That is awesome. I am not black. I am not black. No, you're in. In a good day, maybe the sun is out

and I've been out all day, maybe I turn a little bit darker, but I am not black. Nothing against of being black, but like... Now, you sounded like you had something against it. Nothing against black, but like,

are we erasing brown people? Is that what we're doing now? let's erase the whites and then the browns and by the way stupid latinia stupid afro latina you say you say you are puerto rican right so like you are not even a latino she is porto rican yeah she's porto rican yeah yeah okay she is one one of you that's what i'm saying so that you don't even qualify under the umbrella of like Latino maybe a Maybe I'll give you Hispanic. Maybe, but no, you're freaking what she was born in New York.

So you give her Hispanic. But you're not going to give her Latinos. No. Or Latinx or Afro-Latina. Even with sexy music plan? No. No. This is disgusting, dude.

Like, dude. I always say Latinos are black. Why? We're not. We're different. She is, she is, she is. I'm sorry, what did you say again, AOC? Latinos are black.

We are Afro-Latina and we run in. She's so dumb. I can't let you finish a segment like this. So I'm going to call this segment the... Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placido Domingo. Did you see... Man, I hate...

Now, I got to tell you. You kind of piss me off now, man. Don't be putting my boy in with Aeros. Oh, no, no, no. I'm transitioning. It's a transition. It's a brand new segment. Okay.

A brand new segment. And I'm going to call it the... Allow me to introduce myself. I am Flacido Domingo. Now, it has nothing to do with the opera, opera, you know, sex scandals out there. But did you see what happened at the Grand Teatro? del lucio opera house in barcelona spain oh no you didn't see what happened okay i'm gonna i'm gonna play a little bit okay i want you close your eyes okay i've closed my eyes close your eyes and i'm gonna i'm gonna play a little bit for you

all right and this is where this is at the grand teatro house in barcelona spain they'd be careful calling me that again but go ahead they still have to have my eyes closed yes Okay. Okay, I'm playing you that, Jeffrey, because it's like amazing. I still have my eyes closed. Oh, you can open your eyes. Sorry, sorry. And for those of you're driving, please open your eyes because you're about to hit the guard rear.

The Grand Teatro House in Barcelona, Spain. Yes. Open his door for the first time in three months to hold a concert for an audience of nearly 2,300. 2,300 Fisher. Awesome. Brand new, you know, this is Spain. I mean, this is Barcelona, Spain. You know, right next to Italy, 2,300 houseplants.

No, wait, 2300 houseplants. So, at each, at the, Fisher, you're going to have to tweet a picture of this. On each seat, there's a house plant. Well, we all know. It's been recognized for years. Yes. Not that Latinos are black, but that plants react to conversation and to music. To positive thinking.

You could say, you stupid plant, and it boom. Yeah, you should do that. You should never do that. They die. No. Hey, honey. Oh, my God. You're looking so good today.

Look at that. Look at that blooming. You look blooming like a beautiful plant. And they go, ooh, hello. Hi. I know. In fact, a lot of those plants were counting. on hearing.

And no, you got to say it's a very stressful day for all those plants because my goodness, being locked up in a home for three months in order for them to come out. And now they're out. You know, they're able to get out. I wonder, did they, I mean, if you just, I don't know if you, if you know, if you have plants in your home, but if you have, you know, been around plants and know about, you know, raising plants, you know, that if you water them and they haven't been watered in a while, you know, they leak unless you have a, you know, a catch-all bottom.

So I hope that they had a catch-all bottom so that the seats weren't getting. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Placido Domingo. I mean, I hope he showed up. I hope he showed up too. And yes. And so like, ooh, ooh, placido, here. You can have my cash all tray. allow me to introduce myself. I am Placido Domingo. That is awesome.

Or stupid. Whatever way you're looking at it. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm saying. It's awesome. Or stupid. Thank you for coming along for the ride today, chewing the fat.

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And you can quote me on that. Chewing the fat, worth a couple of honks. There's no, there's never going to be an argument about that. Never. Chewing the fat is worth a couple of honks. I want to congratulate Richard Geer, who just has, a new baby

born a beautiful little baby Richard is now 70 years of age his wife is I think she's 36 so she's getting a little long in a tooth to have babies they get a little longer on the tooth for Richard too

but she's just darned they're just a happy couple and they've got a new baby and they're just as happy as could be. Gosh darn I'm just happy for him. Right? I'm just happy for them. I hope they're living on their ranch

up in New York. They're just a happy couple. They both already have children from previous marriages, of course. Duh. I mean, that goes without saying, really. But they're just a happy couple on the ranch.

There's nothing like those. They're all. Look. she's the one raising the kid with the nannies. You know, Richard is not doing that. We've already been over this with some other stars that are having babies at an advanced age. And I can understand as a person that's along the lines of advanced. I can understand the feeling that you end up with someone who's, you know, you have that age gap between the person that you are married to.

And, you know, the person that you're married to is like, I understand the kid. I can still have kids and you want all right, fine. All right, fine. But I know, I get to, I'll take a couple pictures with them, but that's it. I'm not going to do anything. The kids all yours.

Anyway, congratulations. Congratulations. Did you realize this has happened in the state of Texas and it really concerns me? So now the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, the TABC, did an under-coxed, cover sting on local bars

here in the Metroplex where we live under their special operations safe open and they inspected 200 bars all right and they suspended permits

of 17 bars because they were not they were not operating under the safe open program thanks to COVID-19. So they weren't following protocols. So they have been suspended and can't be open.

I mean, okay. All right. You have your undercover sting operations here in Texas with the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission. That's coming to an area near you probably right now as we speak. Already happening. your local alcoholic beverage commission is doing their undercover stings as places open up. And we found out on our,

my wife and I's a little Zoom call, meet and greet last night, and thank you for joining, those of you that participated, that some places are opening up like this weekend. And some places we had one, one, shoot, what's her name, was talking about her city who is kind of in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania has been one of the toughest lockdown areas, and her city is like, yeah, we're just going to do what we want. You can wear a mask or not wear a mask, and you decide. And that's the way it is. Huh. So at least there are some places that still think this is America. How many of you, quickly, how many of you have got a room or a size? part of your garage or attic full of stuffed animals that you've purchased over the years.

And you thought you didn't know what to do with them. Maybe you'll sell them in a yard sale. Does anybody you want these old stuffed animals? You pull them out maybe a couple of times a year and look at them and maybe wash a couple of the old ones. And you look at you set them up and you go, my gosh, they're so cute. And then they collect dust and they're great for everybody's allergies. So you bag them up and put them away.

Well, we need to send them to this post. Techett woman. The 86-year-old woman has created this, what she's calling a zoo in her front yard, and she's got all stuffed animals. And some of the animals are statues, but most of them are stuffed animals in her yard. Now, I will say, perhaps maybe somebody needs to stop by and help her with a little bit of yard work prior to opening up a zoo. But it is a zoo, so, you know, zoos aren't necessarily there for, you know, yard work trimmings.

but I say we send all our stuffed animals to this lady. She's saying, bring them by. She's saying, I built the zoo in my front yard. I used my COVID-19 stimulus money. I bought giant stuffed animals. And I have them in the front yard and people just come by. There's a little sign, handmade sign on the gate that says, Welcome to the zoo.

And she's got them on the front. She wants people to come by and look at the animals and wave to her. have a good time. But she just wants people to just a smile. And she asked, you know, if you'd like to donate, she'd be happy to put them in their zoo. So I say we mail all of them. Now, maybe she'll give them out to someone else after.

But I say out of the kindness of our hearts, I say that we help the PawTech Women out and send her all. of our stuffed animals so that she in fact can have a stuffed animal zoo even if it's just piled up stuffed animals in the front yard which would actually be a really funny zoo download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts so did you catch perry mason on hbo max on on sunday night and it was pretty good it was a different take on perry mason but uh you know i enjoyed It's one of those shows set back in the 30s and the 40s, and it's just, you know, everybody smokes.

And it's so, I mean, it's becoming more and more difficult for me not to smoke. And so I'm blaming it on television shows. But I will say that it's another reason why, like, this is a weekly show. And a Yellowstone, which is a weekly show on Paramount started Sunday. So, you know, I watched them both. I almost don't want to watch them. I want to wait. so that I could just

binge him because it's so much better to me to just binge the show. I want to see just let me sit down and watch four or five, six episodes in a row. I mean, we've become so spoiled or at least I have.

This waiting is like we're cavemen again, waiting for the show to come back on. But it is an example. The Perry Mason, and, you know, it's a, and I, well, I'll talk to you a little bit about the original Perry Mason, too. But right now, the show on HBO Max is a little bit different take. You know, Perry is not an attorney.

He's a, uh, uh, uh, Snoop, you know, private detective. And, um, but the opening show checked off all the boxes, right? TVMA, adult content, adult language, new. strong sexual content, violence. I'm in. I'm in. So don't forget, that's how they hook you, though, right? We've talked about that before.

As we get along into the season, you can bet it's going to be adult content, adult language, mild violence. That'll be it. The nudity will be gone. The strong sexual content will be gone. I mean, it's just, that's how they get you. I mean, that's how they get me.

You know, they get me in the first couple of episodes with the, uh, every box checked. Adult content, adult language, nudity, strong sexual content, violence. Okay, I'm in. You got me. No problem. And you just keep waiting for all of those boxes to get checked again. And it doesn't come. And it doesn't happen.

So you can wait on that. I read a great story on the guy who wrote Perry Mason or, Stanley Gardner. A great story on him this weekend. And it talked about his life. And you want to talk about a guy that lived his American dream and created an icon at the same time. It was just incredible. Now, get this.

At the time of his life, at the time of his death, all right? he had cited sales of more than 170 million books in the U.S. alone. Okay? He had sold, the publisher said that Earl Stanley Gardner in the mid-60s sold 2,000 books an hour, eight hours a day, 365 days a year. There is nobody. No one coming close to that, my friends, in today's world. No way.

He said that he wrote 100,000 words a month for about 50 years. Just amazing writer. And he obviously wrote the Perry Mason series. But it talked about his life and being born in 1889 in Massachusetts and being raised in California and loved to be out on the open road. out in nature. So he used to get campers and go out in the middle of nowhere and write. He would take his secretary and just go out in the middle of nowhere and write for, you know, days on end and just be wanting to be left alone outside writing, which is, you know, incredible. You find

your, you find your way, right? It talked about how he grew up, and when he was young, he used to fight in illegal fights. And in fact, he got kicked out of school for slugging a professor. And so he then worked in a law office after he got kicked out of school in 1911 and then passed the state bar exam without ever attending law school. All right. That's how smart this guy was, Earl Stanley Gardner. And for the next 20 years, he just litigated stuff before he even started writing books. And he did one of his great, he said he loved to, you know, fight for underdogs. which is, of course, the beginning of the thoughts of Perry Mason.

But one of his big cases that they talk about was 20 Chinese men accused of running an illegal lottery. So what Gardner did as an attorney had all the men switch places at their various businesses. And when the police arrived to arrest them and book them, they were misidentified. And at the trial, Gardner's like, if the cops couldn't tell their suspects apart, the eyewitnesses are unreliable as well. So the case was dismissed. Take care. Get out of here. You're not, my people are not guilty.

That is awesome. And it talked about how he got, how he picked Raymond Burr to play Perry Mason. He was there. He had creative control of the television series. And Raymond. was there auditioning for the role of Hamilton Berger, the district attorney. And when he came on set, Earl Stanley Gardner said, that's Perry Mason. That's him.

He gets the role. He's the guy. He's Perry Mason. That's him. Rubbers done. Done deal. And that's how Raymond Burr became Perry Mason. And, you know, there was obviously a television icon.

but he had 80 Perry Mason novels. He was writing stuff in magazines and cowboy stories and science fiction stories and travelogs and mystery series. I mean, the guy was incredible, right? I mean, he's writing 100,000 words a month for 50 years. You're doing some writing and you're doing some creating. Just amazing guy, amazing guy. And I was just fast. fascinated by Earl Stanley Gardner.

And I thought, I'm going to tell you about him.