Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 407 | More Voices Are Better

Episode Date: July 1, 2020

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If you're listening live July 1st, 2020, welcome. How are you? Hello. Some may say the year is half over. Some may say half left. But others may say, you know, the IRS confirmed it's not going to extend the tax filing deadline past July 15th. So there's that. Oh, and just a passing note that I failed to mention yesterday.

Carl Reiner. Genius. Television, movies, actor, writer, producer. He passed away. And he was 98 years old. And he lived a great life, at least from my eyes. You know, he could have been the most depressed man in the world, I guess. But it certainly didn't seem that way.

And I know that he was, you know, his good friend, Mel Brooks, four years. years. Well, they've been friends for 70 years. Called him a giant. Unmatched in his contributions to entertainment. He created comedy gems like Dick Van Dyke's show The Jerk, Where's Papa? I met him in 1950 when he joined Sid Caesar on your show of shows, and we've been best friends ever since. I loved him when we were doing the 2000-year-old man. Together, there was no better straight man in the world. So whether he wrote or performed or he was, he was, he wrote or performed, or he was just your best friend. Nobody could do it better.

He'll be greatly missed. A tired cliche in times like this. But in Carl Reiner's case, it's absolutely true. He will be greatly missed. So rest in peace, Carl. Sad to see him go. I just got them watching a special. I don't even remember what it was,

but it was Mel and him together in their living room. And it was hilarious. So, you know, It's sad to see him go. 98, though. Heck of a life. Some may say, but he created Rob Reiner. I know.

I know. Meathead is his real life son, but I cut him a break for that. And just as a, you know, a note from a story we did yesterday about the Fox Network's soul app, airing Lewis Farrakhan

on the 4th. of July. And that was been canceled. Uh, yeah, they decided that, uh, maybe we shouldn't have, uh, Louis Farrakhan, uh, talking about, uh, you know, talking on the 4th of July, about, uh, some of his beliefs, uh, since, uh, many of his beliefs are, uh, you know, not good ones. Uh, so, uh, yeah, the Criterion, the Honorable Minister, Lewis Farrakhan, uh, will not be speaking live, at least on the Fox Soul app. I guess maybe he could be doing it live on his, what is it, N-O-I.org, but I haven't seen an announcement on that,

although I don't follow Minister Lewis Farrakhan. So that's been canceled, I know. Now, I kind of find it weird that Fox app says, well, you know what, we're going to replace it. We're going to replace it with a special program hosted by Dr. Sean, featuring a compilation of the most powerful speeches from the greatest black leaders and thinkers about racial relations and civil rights in America. This powerful and inspirational program replaces the previously scheduled nation of Islam leader

Louis Farrakhan's message to America. I find that hard to believe. The Louis Farrakhan was supposed to be live at 11 a.m. Eastern on the Fox Soul app or Fox Soul TV but this particular show is going to be airing at 7 p.m. Eastern so I kind of feel like this show was going to happen anyway and they just decided to say it was going to replace the great Reverend Lewis Farrakhan but you know what do I know that's what they said so we'll just take them at their word. So yesterday I'm looking through social media,

as I do, from time to time. And in fact, tomorrow, maybe we, I might even just do it, I don't know, I want to do a show where I just go through what I've liked on Twitter and Facebook, because I see stuff all the time that makes me laugh, makes me mad,

and I just like it. So because I want to be able to go back and look at it, and sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. And I just feel like maybe we just go through it. And, you know, remember, remembering what I've liked on Twitter. Maybe we make that a show tomorrow. But one of the things that I liked yesterday was a question from Charlie Warzel, who, I love Charlie. And he's been on the show before.

It's been a while. He is now working for the New York Times opinion. He's cover stuff all the time. And I'm sure he's doing his own podcast thing and everything. I'd love to talk to him. and I reached out to him, and I might have him on the podcast, and for the YouTube channel as well. I love to talk to him. And I'd like to talk to him in particular about his feelings about the question that he asked last night.

Odd question, but what are your most far-fetched utopian ideas for fixing social media platforms? The stuff that's likely never going to happen. Now, he got a huge response. He replied to me last night saying he didn't expect that. and it really truly was a throwaway question, and he didn't expect the huge response that he got. So I'm hoping to maybe get him on and talk to him. He's probably going to write his own article about it

and just blow off chewing the fat. But I'm here for him. And I like Charlie, and so, you know, I would be happy to talk to him. But some of the responses are, I started going through him last night, and then, you know, then I passed out. I woke this morning. My phone's on my phone. on my chest.

It's 3 o'clock of the morning. I've got to get up. I'm going to go do Pat. And, you know, there's the Twitter still open with Charlie's responses to his tweet on here.

But I cannot believe that so many responses are just cancel stuff. Cancel stuff. Cancel stuff. Cancel people. Cancel groups. They want them all gone. Are you kidding me?

We want to, to cancel stuff. We just want them gone. Some of the things make a little sense. A lot of people asking for no anonymity. Okay. Some people, I think, need that anonymity, but,

you know, for sure. I understand the thought process there. A lot of banning Nazis. Banning, a lot of banning Nazis. Wow. Really incredible on, no Nazis allowed. Um, run them not for profit for the public good.

White men cannot be more than 49% of executive leadership. Okay. All right. Uh, each time you tweet at someone, it comes with a disclaimer that that person could randomly show up at your house for dinner. That's really funny. And look, and some of this, you know, is tongue and cheek. I get it.

It really, um, really weird how so many people want to just start banning things. And I have a feeling that, you know, that banning culture, that cancel culture, maybe that wouldn't be there, but it would be less. I mean, obviously, you know, we're smack dab in the middle of tearing everything down. So everybody wants to ban everything and tear it all down. Burn it down. Start again. burn it to the ground.

But why not? This is just a crazy thought. I know that I may have mentioned this before about social media. But here's a thought. How about when I follow somebody

I get to see what they put on social media without having to go directly to their page? How about that? How about we explain to people that if you don't like something, like if somebody that I follow, since I wouldn't follow a Nazi, I wouldn't see what the Nazis were saying,

so it wouldn't affect me. But let's say one of the people that I follow retweets something or repost something on Facebook or parley's something on parlor or, you know, copies the gram post. And I see it. And I think to myself, wow, that person retweeted this without, isn't this person crazy?

Or saying, this person is wonderful. I like this person now. And you think, wow, I didn't think that person was a Nazi lover, but I guess so. I guess I won't follow them anymore. And then you move on. So I don't have to see it anymore. If I search the overall social media platform and I say, I wonder what's out there. Let's take a look.

Then I see people that are saying dumb things that are posting stupid this and stupid that and hate this and hate that. I don't follow them. And I move on. Or, you know, I save it and we talk about it here on chewing the fat. But either way, we've got to retrain our thoughts a little on how it affects us, right? What we're, you know, the old sticks and stones may break your bones, but words will never hurt you. But we've got to kind of go back to that, I think, a little bit more than, you know, definitely a little bit more than where we're at. And I see where I think this is the person of the someone, someone.

from parlor, I'm guessing, at John is Mr. Parlor. It's too much work for me to actually go and see since I'm talking to you right now. I could go, you know what, I'll tell you what, take a break, and you don't need to, but I will. And for those of you listening live, just chill. And we're going to find out if at John

is, you know, Mr. Parlor. It's only been, you know, a couple hours. And I found out that, yes, John M-M-A-T-Z-E, or Matt's M-A-T-Z-E, is the CEO of Parlor. And he has parlayed something that, yesterday, that, you know, makes a little bit of a sense. To the people complaining on Twitter about being banned on parlor, please pay heed. Here are very few basic rules we need you to follow on parlor. If these are not to your liking, we apologize, but we will enforce.

When you disagree with someone, posting pictures of your fecal matter in the comment section will not be tolerated. Your username cannot be obscene. Like, his example, come dumb, No pornography. Doesn't matter who, what, where, when, or what realm. We will not allow you to spam other people trying to speak with unrelated comments like F you in every comment. He typed out the entire word. It's stupid, it's pointless, grow up.

You cannot threaten to kill anyone in the comment section. Sorry, never ever going to be a little. Okay. So John at John on Parlor, he brings up a good thing. He apologizes for what you will be banned for, but he also says we will enforce it. Now, those aren't bad rules, really, and they're pretty straightforward. It's tough sometimes to find out why people are getting, you know, banned. or blocked or muted on some of the other social media accounts. I think that's another thing that, you know, if you're going to be a platform, be a platform. We should all be able to say what the hell we want.

And you get to decide what you want to do and who you want to see and we're done. If you want to be a publisher, then be a publisher, but, you know, you're going to have to, you know, Play by the publisher rules. And they've had their cake and they've been eating it too. And, you know, it's time to make a decision. I hope, I don't think we need to break them up.

I don't think we need to regulate them more from the government. I think it's time to just say, hey, okay, here's the deal. If you're a platform, this has to happen. If you're a publisher, then you can go be a publisher like everybody else over here, but you know the rule. you don't get to be over here on the platform side. You got to be over here on the publisher side. You decide what you want to be.

And then we go from there. I mean, I know that's crazy talk. I get it. But that's what I would like to see. Another thing that I'd like to see that is probably, you know, coming sooner and I want credit. Okay? So I read yesterday about a Japanese startup company.

that has developed this connected face mask. All right? So this company, Donut Robotics, who can't get behind that? I'm a fan already. Donut Robotics. They've developed an internet-connected smart mask that can transmit messages,

translate from Japanese into eight other languages. It's a white plastic C mask, fits over a standard face mask, connects via Bluetooth to a smartphone and tablet application that can transcribe speech into text messages, make calls, or amplify the mask wearer's voice. Okay. So, congratulations to donut robotics.

However, it's just a mask, right? Why haven't we taken my helmet idea? and made it happen, especially during this time. I guess, you know what, chewing the fat robotics should have already developed it. I guess that's it. I guess I'm the one at fault. So never mind, I'm not complaining. I apologize.

I'm the one at fault for not creating my mask helmet idea from chewing the fat robotics. I'm just going to have to work harder. There, I'm done. because look the helmet the helmet is the deal now right we put the helmet on the face mask

you can open it up if you want you know fresh air and you want to breathe you know out there in the world but you put the helmet on just like the motor just like a motorcycle helmet only better

close the mask you can see through it but your computer screen is there as well and you had to interactive. So you can make calls. You can see them when they come in. It's a, it's an interactive. It's as you have internet. You have cell coverage. You have it all. And it's, you're covering your face. So, uh, you're welcome is my thing. I mean, I've been saying it for how long now that it's coming and it should have already been here. So again, I want to apologize for

not having it developed during this pandemic, this economic downturn, this protest season. But as we plant the seeds for the riot trees and they are blooming as we speak, I apologize that chewing the fat robotics has not developed the smart helmet.

There. I apologize. leave me alone. All right, I want a little... We've got to come up with some new music for... Sex crimes. We're going to come up, or is it sex crimes? Or is it...

Tonight? Sex crimes. Across the globe. Something for sex crimes. So, I'll pause for music for the effect of... Sex crimes across the globe. So Adam Savage from Mythbusters, tonight on sex crimes. Adam Savage from Mythbusters.

Allegedly sexually abused his younger sister for years while calling himself the raping blob during the late 70s. Now, that's what this woman claims, all right, his sister. She said between seven and ten years old, when the siblings lived in sleepy hollow New York this happened now she's 51 now I mean I have a question

that this complaint is but apparently it has come up before because as we go on she talks about other forms of sexual abuse according to her lawsuit now the suit says Savage was between 9 and 12 years old

at the time which I don't even know what do you do with that? Even if it's true, what do you do with it? I mean, I don't know. I don't have an answer for that. But she said that, you know, this happened. And now he claims, and she also said that when I disclosed it to the family, that my brother had abused me as a child, I thought the whole world would change. I assumed my family members would share my desire to examine what had gone wrong in our home and pursue a path toward healing together. I was sadly mistaken.

In fact, their behaviors left me feeling as though the abuse didn't really matter. Yes, they believe me. Sure, they believe me. She even says so. So sure, they believe me. But, you know, it didn't matter. Family members still seem determined to brush my trauma under the rug. I came to realize they viewed me as the problem.

for focusing on the abuse, not the brother who had abused me. Okay, well, my comment right now, before I even go any farther in the story, is, uh, yeah, I think it's time. I think it's time. As, you know, it's been 40 years, I think it's time. We all know about it. Do what you got to do to get over it.

Whatever that is. Stop whining about it. Now, that's just me. I know. Don't, don't look at me like that. I understand. I do, truly, I understand. Okay.

Now, the lawsuit has been filed under the New York Childs Victim Act, which opened up a one-year look-back period for victims to bring claims that had already exceeded the statute of limitations. Now, the original deadline, which was said in August, has now been extended five months due to coronavirus. Incredible. So, you know, they say that this is, they've done damage to a client, she'll live the rest of her life with it. Today is the first step in the direction of healing and justice. I would say that when she told her family and they agreed to it and believed her that that was the first step to healing, maybe not justice, but to healing, but she apparently doesn't believe that.

Now, our man Adam Savage has denied his sister's allegations in a statement through his attorney, which I'm sure is probably the best way to go about it. While I hope my sister gets the help she needs to find peace, this needs to end. For many years, she has relentlessly and falsely attacked me and other members of my family to anyone who will listen by spreading numerous untrue stories about us in pursuit of a financial bonanza. She has tortured our entire family

and estranged herself from all of us. I will fight this groundless and offensive lawsuit and work to put this to rest once and for all. And the other simileads and mother came to Adam's, defense. So, you know, maybe we have a little, you know, a little issue with sis. Now, they claim that her comments are a possible hippo violation. So because she has mental health issues. So if she's got mental health issues and has a

hippo violation, then how are we bringing this lawsuit? How is that able to Happened. That's incredible to me. It's just incredible. So, I mean, I hope, I mean, I got no, I got no dog in the race. Speaking of dogs, Adam, you dog. I mean, did I, you know, I remember watching Myth Busters for the first couple years or whatever. That's fine. Guys are fine. It was enjoyable. I got no problem. Look, if he's a dirt bag, he's a dirt back. but this happened 40 years ago well the apple doesn't fall far from the tree Jeff if he was doing this as a kid what's been happening the last 40 years

I don't know has there been any anybody bringing assault charges I don't know but apparently not since we're only hearing about the sister so if that's the case and the sister is you know

whacked out of her brain then I hope that she gets the help that she needs everybody to be happy. I just want everybody be happy. And still in the sex crimes tonight segment, an agreement has been reached to settle for nearly

$19 million, two sexual misconduct lawsuits on behalf of multiple women against imprisoned former Hollywood mogul, Harvey Weinstein. Lawyers representing six of the women who have made accusations against Weinstein called the proposal deal a complete sellout.

that did not require the 68-year-old former film producer to accept responsibility or pay out of his own pocket. So, okay, well, he has accepted responsibility for other crimes. He's in prison for those. We still have the L.A. stuff to go on. We still have these other people are whining that it's not good enough. I mean, I would say that if I were now at this point, if you can get money get it

it's not all about the money Jeff it's about making your case okay all right good I hope that's the case I hope you want to do that and get your justice but if you want to try to actually you know maybe have some money in the end because of a dirtbag Harvey

now might be the time we all know he's a dirtbag he's been found guilty in a court of law serving 23 years in prison will probably die in prison. If there's anywhere that there is any money left to get from this guy, now's the time to get it. Because sooner or later, that well's going to dry up.

And you can sue him till the cows come home. But when there's no money left, all you got is the proud day of justice. If that's what you want, good. But if you're looking for a little cash in the end, too, now might be the time. Thanks for joining us. Sex Crimes Tonight.

Alright, let's go to the break room. I need a drink of ice cold water. I know. I know. You can figure out yourself why it's water. I think you might know if you think about it just a little. Why it's not what it used to be. But figure it out.

me, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. See if you get it right. I'll let you know. Now, be sure to subscribe to Chewing the Fat. It's available on almost all platforms for free. All you have to do is go to that platform. I mean, it's not really for free because you've got to pay for the phone and you have to pay for the internet connection and you have to pay for the cell service and you have to pay for the connectivity. But the actual podcast itself is free. So if you go to, you know, whatever platform you want, Spotify, iTunes, and you subscribe to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Of course, you can, you know, subscribe to Blaze TV as well, uh, which is, you know, good deal. Just go to, uh, get. That is the thing you ought to go to now.

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So they give me the top 13. New York City is the 13th with 140 hours. If you're living in New York City, there's absolutely, I mean, hello, you should be a subscriber to chewing the facts. but if you if you live number one city number one city for congestion a bogatah columbia one hundred and ninety one hours wow you people should be subscribers to chewing the fat if you live in bogota if you live in uh rio de janaro brazil you're coming in just under bogatah at a hundred and ninety 80 hours. There's absolutely no excuse for you. Not listening to chewing the fat. You should be a subscriber. You have plenty of time to listen in your, during your commute. Rome, 166 hours. There's no excuse. Paris, Mexico City, Istanbul, South Paulo, St. Petersburg, Russia, but really St. Petersburg, Florida. And Jakarta, London, Chicago. Oh, Chicago comes in with 145 hours. New York City only has.

has 140. So still not in the top 10, though. Top 13, though. They're number 11, Chicago. Ecuador, what is that? Cuito. Quito, quito, quito, in Ecuador? I mean, I have family blood in Ecuador.

My mother-in-law, born and raised in Ecuador. New York City, so, you know, the wife. New York City. So any of these cities, you should be subscribers to chewing the fat. There's just no question. There's no excuse. you have plenty of time. There is good news if you're, you know, looking for a job.

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Congratulations. Congratulations. I know maybe some people over at Airbus is looking for a gig because they announced to cut 15,000 jobs as part of. of a restructuring program. Okay. All right. That's great. No problem.

Good news, again, for, for you people who have YouTube TV, or maybe it's not good news. They just jacked up their subscription price. I just saw this. This just ticks me off. I didn't get an email. I didn't see an email from YouTube TV.

I'll tell you that. they're bumping it up to 6499. It was in the 50s. I don't even remember what it. It was still in the 50s and I was thinking about pulling the plug on them. Now they're going to jump it up to 65 bucks a month. It's going to be close to YouTube TV getting the plug at the Fisher household. I'll tell you that.

Or I should say getting the plug pulled at the Fisher household. I'll tell you that. We'll see. we shall see if i can watch a couple of main shows that was the reason that i got youtube tv because they carried a couple of networks on shows that i wanted to watch if i can end up just getting the apps for those networks cheaper than 6499 a month which i do believe off the top of my head, I can do. Uh, bye.

Have a nice day. I know you can record shows. Great. I know you've got access to all this stuff. Great. But the reason that we pulled the plug out of the cable is so that we didn't have the big bills. And now I've got, I've got internet prices. Look, I know.

Listen, you're, you're out there going, cry me a river, Jeff. What have we been saying? Okay, that's been the whole deal. I know. I know. But I'm there with you now. All right, I'm ready to tear it down with you. I'm here.

Let's throw red paint on it. Let's tear it down. And a quick update on Seattle. And, well, it's not Seattle. I'm sorry. Of the occupied territory, jazz or chop. Capitol Hill occupied protest zone. That is over.

a done now look that can they close down the occupied protest zone sure can they tear down our mindset of chop no no they cannot so apparently uh it's funny how they say there were no immediate signs of clashes between the police uh many dressed in ride gear but uh they say they moved into chop about 5 a.m. A loud bang was heard about 615 and police had made about 10 arrests. So, okay. But they came in and tore down tents. They brought their bicycles. You know, because they're wanting to look like we've defunded the police. They don't longer have cars. They just ride bikes. And they, uh, They carried out the executive order from the mayor to evacuate the order.

It's over. Now, I'm sure, and this is just me, I'm sure. I know that there were news reports that some protesters ended up in front of the mayor's house, the Seattle mayor's house, and I'm positive that that had nothing to do with her executive order saying, that chop is over. It's time to close it down. I thought it was going to be a summer of love, even with tongue-in-cheek fun from the mayor.

I thought it was just, you know, tongue-in-cheek and fun, and it was going to be a beautiful thing, but apparently not. When the chickens come home to roost, then it turns into something else, doesn't it? Yeah. But look, I know that's what I'm saying,

is that there didn't have anything to do with protesters showing up at the mayor's house in the mayor's neighborhood. It didn't have anything to do with that. This is just, it was just time. It was just time for chop to be over, to be chopped up. It was just time. So, okay.

we'll see what happens shall we yeah I know they arrested and it says here now they've arrested at least 31 so they've even they've gone more arrests okay then this more I mean they're just they're just going through there's riding those damn police bikes

through here I thought we wanted to defund now apparently they they were arresting people for failure to disperse, obstruction, resisting arrest, and assault. That resisting arrest,

though, that's the kind of stuff that could go away. Look, I don't want to go. This is, I'm in the chop zone. And so since I don't want to go, you're going to tell me you're going to arrest me. Now I'm pissed that you're going to arrest me. And now you're telling me that I'm resisting arrest.

Well, yeah, I'm resisting arrest. I didn't want to get arrested in the first place. So anyway, there's a, the official executive order you have 48 hours to vacate the area so okay

there's Mayor Durkin you shouldn't have gone to her neighborhood you should have kept her on your side for a little while longer but if you remain in the area or return to the area

and you don't belong there you are going to be subject to arrest and don't make us send in more bicycle police officers because if we have to send the bicyclists in you are going to be in big trouble choppers

download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts I should have talked about this a little bit when I was talking about the Japanese startup donut robotics that is now you know they've got their smart mask, right?

But also the smart glasses Google just bought North the smart glasses startup. And as really a

startup? I mean, it started, they began as a human interface hardware startup in 2012 called Thalmic Labs and now they're north.

So is it really is still a startup? But I guess so. Anyway, no No comment on how much they paid for it, but they will help in Google's existing work in building ambient computing, you know, computing that fades into the background of a user's life

as the strategic reasoning behind the acquisition. Oh, okay. So I guess any plans to ship North's generation of smart glasses 2.0, Focles 2.0 is off the table. I love the I love the comments from the co-founders of North. The deal makes sense

because it will help significantly advance our shared vision, which is our shared vision is, they paid us a whole bunch of money and we took it. So here you go, Google. Have fun developing hardware and ambient computing future.

Good luck. Okay, so, you know, look. But this actually means that they're working on my helmet, on my space helmet, on my spaceman's one-eye helmet. And that's just, you know, plus, I mean, ambient computing. That means everything, right? It's just, everything is smart. And you can just, I can, you know, make my toast and my coffee and my refrigerator.

and food will be delivered to my home automatically because I need it. You have a quarter of gallon of milk. The new fresh gallon of milk was delivered just 10 minutes ago. Get it under refrigeration. Everything, all right, is going to be as great in the ambient computing world. But I want that ambient computing world to be with my helmet. Just want to put the helmet on. I want everything there.

I just live my life through my helmet. Plus, that's another example of why they're not a monopoly. In the way that monopolies are structured, they're not really a monopoly. But companies like, oh, Amazon, oh, Google, oh, Walmart. Just the top, the three just off the top of my head, let's say, that when new things come along, that could go up against products that they're already working on or businesses that they are already are doing, but they're not as far along as the startup is,

they can come along and just buy it out. I mean, if they want to throw, you know, Focles 2.0 in the bottom drawer and walk away and forget about that, any of the information to do with that, they can. and Stephen Lake and Matthew Bailey and Aaron Grant, the co-founders of North,

will be over here saying, wait, I thought you were going to use us to significantly advance our shared vision. Yeah, we did. We gave you a check. So that's our shared vision right now. We'll get back to it later. Okay.

So, I mean, that's why people get so angry at, you know, Google and Amazon and Walmart. I mean, if I'm a startup, And I have something that's really cool. Yes, I want to be able to use it. Yes, I want to get it out to the marketplace. But if, you know, Mr. Bezos, Mr. Amazon, Mr. Google, Mr. Walmart.

Hello? Anybody home? Yeah, I'm right here. I'm really tired. Oh, man, I've been working on this stuff for the past year. It's really tired. I'm trying to get this out to the market. We'd like to give you $8.

A trillion bazillion dollars. by the way, that's an actual sum, whatever I said. I would say, is this going to significantly advance our shared vision? Yes, Mr. Fisher, it is. Okay, no problem. Here's all the paperwork. Here's all the stuff. Where's my check?

So, am I a sellout? You betcha. You bet you. Gotcha. Just as long as, you know, we're talking about companies that can buy stuff out, Facebook does the same thing. I know. And their busy silencing voices, again, it was announced that they removed accounts associated with the anti-government boogaloo movement, saying that that particular movement, the boogaloo movement, promoted violence. So they removed those accounts. Silencing voices. silencing voices is never good. I hate it. I hate it. I just cannot believe that we are all for silencing voices. I just can't. I just can't believe it.

It's just incredible to me that that's all we want to do is silence voices. More voices are better. More voices are better. That's my chant. I'm out on the streets right now. More voices are better. more voices are better I don't know what rhymes with that off the top of my head

more voices are better let's go home and listen while we eat cheddar more voices are better let's go home and listen while we eat cheddar okay something you know it doesn't really work but I like it so I mean it's just

just incredible just incredible and I didn't do any coronavirus today so just a note that the FDA has said that they have said that they wanted to have guidelines for approving the COVID-19 vaccine, so they released their final guidance.

Now, I want to read out, today I'm going to dive into the final guidance guidelines, but in this story, they talk about how it would, if they had enough data, on the safety of the vaccine, they would issue an EUA, which is an emergency use authorization for the vaccine.

And that's what Trump will, you know, he'll try to force them into. EA, EUA, EUA, EUA, get it out there. Let's go. People need it. But they want the clinical trials to be done and they want, they want the candidate to be at least 50% more effective

than a placebo. And there's got to be, you know, more things that they wanted in there. So they said that they would issue an EUA if it feels like there's enough data on the safety and the FSA, but good luck. And we've got, I mean, look,

we've got so many companies now pushing through on that vaccine. And we've talked about it before, right? I mean, they've got a lot invested in coming through. with a vaccine. And so they're going to want to, they're going to want to make sure that it works,

which is a little concerning on my end. You know, I want it to work too, but I don't want it to work so bad that I want it on the market. I want it to work really bad, and then I want it on the market. A lot of these companies are already setting up production lines for when it gets the rubber-stamped okay. That's a little concerning.

to me. Just a little concerning to me. And as long as we're on a little coronavirus, the WHO the World Health Organization, the head, the chief, the man. He has said

that the worst is yet to come. So, we've got that to look forward to. Thanks a lot Tedros at Haynum Gebraces Yeah so I'm not really looking forward to

Independence Day this year and we're going to celebrate together apart and we'll talk a little bit more about that tomorrow because we should know about if we're in another huge lockdown or not

hopefully they're not talking to Tedros at Hayam Gebracis because he is going to want us locked down indefinitely. So that the worst

won't be won't arrive? Yeah, the worst won't arrive. But he still believes that right now the worst is yet to come.

Thanks there. Tedros. What's your name again? Tedros at Haynum Gabrasis. Yeah. Thank you. Appreciate it.

Take care.