Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 413 | Death Row, Twitter Is Hiring, & Bed Bath & Beyond Closing Stores

Episode Date: July 9, 2020

Dunkin ( donuts ) to close 450 stores by the end 2020. Irregardless of what you think it’s a word. Oklahoma Crime and beyond just got worse or better if you’re an American Indian Death Row line is now moving again after 15 years at Federal prisons The Dutch have a criminal underworld, who knew? Possible new show coming, ‘Dutch’ Head found while jogging in St Petersburg Florida Ghislaine getting her attorneys in a row trying to get bail while on “suicide” watch Depp is still on the stand Couple charged with hate crime for vandalizing Black Lives Matter mural. Become a volunteer for Covid-19 study Twitter is hiring Shep gets a new gig at CNBC Tina Weymouth from the Talking Heads has an interesting story Subscribe to Chewing The Fat Podcast and Youtube Subscribe to Blaze TV Share your story with me at [e-mail] Saying good bye to WHO Businesses are closing some or all stores trying to stay alive Bed Bath & Beyond closing stores. They need to be re-imagined. Airlines are cutting way back There’s a new busiest airport in the country NBA meeting up today in their bubble plan Who’s watching? NFL? WNBA had an announcement, sooooo who’s gonna watch? 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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We'd love to talk. Business. And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Hello, and welcome to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Hey, that's me. Welcome to it. How in the world are you today? I must admit, I got a little, oh, nervous when I woke up this morning and I saw the headline,

Duncan Donuts to permanently close 450 stores by the end of 2020. I started thinking, oh, no, they're not going to start closing Duncan stores, are they? They're going to permanently close 450 locations by the end of this year. And then I opened up the story and I realized that it's only at the Speedway gas station convenience stores. And those are owned and operated along the East Coast. So I feel a little bit better now. Now, sure, Duncan has 11,300 stores worldwide. Sure, they have 8,500 restaurants in 41 states,

across the USA. Sure, they have 3,200 international restaurants across 36 countries, but, I mean, I don't want to see any Duncan clothes because it's, you know, lessening the availability of donuts. We cannot have that.

This is, after all, still America. So, irregardless of what you think, think. It is a word. Start a little controversy. Miriam Webster said that regardless of what you think, irregardless is a word. And I know that there's, you know, a lot of grammarians out there getting all wound up because there's no point in it.

It's redundant. Okay. Well, according to Miriam. Miriam and, and Webster, both of them together. According to them, it's an intensifier, irregardless. So sure, the prefix usually functions to indicate negation, but in this case, it's function as an intensifier. So people have said it long enough that, you know what,

it's a word, and we're moving on with our life, okay? Now, that having been said, maybe we can just, I don't know, pronounce some words right. One of the things that drives me crazy is the word illegal. I can't tell you how many times news reports say illegal. And experts say illegal. It's not illegal. It's illegal. Please.

Please. And then we have news reports. and actual websites that continue to use could care less instead of couldn't care less. In fact, I read a story today, today about meth. I mean, I'm reading stories about meth, of course. You know, they find it in northern Ohio and it looks like candy and they're all wound up about it. but in the story itself, it's written from Fox 2. Where is Fox 2, by the way?

Fox 2. Oakland County, Detroit. They wrote this, who wrote this article? Crime and Public Safety, Fox 2, Detroit. Nobody taking credit for it. It said, the cartels could care less who you are as long as they have your money. It couldn't. Please, please, for the love of all that's holy.

Just, even if you say it wrong, at least you can do, is write it correctly. You know, whatever. And look, we're all not perfect. I know that. We're all not perfect. Some of us, like over 50 million of us, are going to miss work due to pain. Did you know that? 50 million people in America miss work due to pain.

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for sure, the part of the Muskogee Creek Nation in Oklahoma, you're feeling pretty good right now. The Supreme Court ruled that a large chunk of eastern Oklahoma remains an American Indian reservation. So a lot of officials said it would throw the state of Oklahoma into chaos. I don't know about that. I mean, the argument of, I was going to pay taxes and we're just going to have to let people out of prisons. The deal was is that the guy who is a dirtbag, or at least he was convicted of being a dirtbag for, like,

I heard today a thousand years, for, you know, a horrific crime of raping a kid. But he's, the Supreme Court is saying that, as an American Indian and part of the Muskogee Creek Nation, that the Oklahoma prosecutors have no jurisdiction. And so they have to let them out.

It doesn't mean that everybody in prison that was convicted of a crime gets out. I mean, I guess you make the argument that since it's on Indian land, if it's an Indian reservation, then you know, you didn't have proper authority. to try me, but if you're not an American Indian or specifically here, part of the Creek Nation, I don't know. Do you think you have a right to that?

That's doubtful. It's very doubtful. You know, the Creek Nation will say, you know, will say no, you know, the American government has jurisdiction on you white, folks, they don't have jurisdiction on us. And, you know, while I'm okay with it, I mean, that's part of the deal, you know, it's tough. It's tough when you think it happened because of a dirtbag, right?

But that's the way things work in America. When you follow the law, it's an amazing thing with you, when you follow the law. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Speaking of the law and the feds, they're going to start resuming executions next week. For the first time in like, I don't know, a dozen years, 15 years, something like that.

Three executions are going to take place next week at an Indiana prison by lethal injection. Beginning Monday. Family members of the death row inmates will be allowed to observe the proceedings despite an overall ban on visitors in the prison. Those visiting have to go through all the COVID-19 checks and everything. But this is the first time since 2003 that prisoners will be executed on federal death row. Wow. Okay.

Activists argue that the decision highlights the Trump's administration's unwillingness to address racial inequity when it comes to the death penalty. I mean, doesn't everything address racial inequality? and in today's world, doesn't everything. So they're kicking it back up. Good luck, God bless. If you're on death row, you are, you're back in line. The line is now moving. And as long as we're talking about bad guys,

bad guys happen all over the world. And, you know, we talk a lot about them here, chewing the fat, no question. But one story that I'd be. mean, it's not funny at all. It's not funny at all. It's a, the Dutch police have, uh, arrested six men after discovering sea containers, those shipping containers, had been converted into a makeshift prison and soundproofed torture chamber, complete with a dentist chair, tools. They included pliers and scalples and handcuffs.

I mean, the picture, if it, you know, it looks like, uh, the actual picture in the story, uh, looks a little frightening. You do not want to be in that chair. Okay? You don't want to make that happen. Now, the reason that they busted these guys was last month, officers investigating leads generated by data from encrypted phones used by the criminals. The communications network was cracked by the French police. So detectives in Britain and the Netherlands have already arrested like hundreds of suspects based on these encrypted messages.

What struck me funny, and it's not funny. It's just struck me funny because I'm me, is that in the story it talks about, The announcement gave a chilling insight into the increasingly violent Dutch criminal underworld. Who knew? I mean, when you think of criminal underworld, do you think of the Dutch? I mean, maybe that's their, maybe that's the shining moment, that they've been in hiding all this year nobody thinks of the dutch as the increasingly violent dutch criminal underworld but that's where we're at now so when you think of criminal underworld uh and the large scale production of trafficking drugs think of the dutch mafia yeah the dutch

I mean, Sounds like a new Netflix show to me I'm ready to I'm ready, let's get together sit out and write it You know, we'll just call it Dutch And the head of the criminal empire

Could be Dutch and whatever Netherland last name you want to give him But the world calls him Dutch And he can actually be Dutch So

you know, technically it's Dutch from Dutch. Netflix call me. I'm here for you. I mean, maybe we use what happened in St. Petersburg, Florida as, you know, the opening scene of Dutch on Netflix.

A lady was out jogging the other morning. And she saw, a head off in the brush on a road. Hey, you know, a lot of people might have thought it was just an animal, but really looked like human to me. I mean, if you find a head, I don't know.

Do you have to say something, right? But it's, I mean, you're involved now. So she's out jogging and she said, I passed by here on Sunday I didn't see a head and then I didn't come jogging on Monday and I was jogging this morning and I looked and there

was a head. So if you have any information I mean this you know in my show this gets tied back to Dutch but in the real world we don't know right it was

it was pretty decomposed. So, I mean, they weren't even able to tell the person's gender or race, according to the police spokesman. So, ick. And he's out for a jog. So when you're out for a jog or a walk in the morning

in any city, but in particular, St. Petersburg, yeah, being from Florida and St. Petersburg, and not far from that neck of the woods, 38th Avenue North, and, you know, 275, Interstate and 31st Street South. I mean, that's a thoroughfare area. Still neighborhoods, but that road has turned into, you know, busy roads.

Anyway, you know, a lot of people pass by there. So, I mean, how long do you keep ahead before you throw it away? I don't know. And, uh, not so many, you know what? Write your own jokes. When you're done writing your own jokes, then we can move on to, uh, Juslane Maxwell. Well, she's still in the news. I know.

I know. She's a bad person. I get it. But she has, she's got a great attorney team. So we can break it down for you. And, you know, maybe we'll get into, you know, her case and break down the attorneys and what they're going to be doing for.

I mean, first and foremost, I've got to try to get her out of jail right on bail. Good luck. God bless with that. Sure. She may get out. for a pretty penny and have to surrender all her passports. Does that mean she still couldn't leave the country? I don't know.

That's a pretty good argument. You know, if you're just laying, do you hop on a plane with or without a passport and just get out? You might. You might. Now, it's said that she's on suicide watch. Duh. Even if she wasn't thinking about committing suicide. and those of you watching live on the 9th of July 2020,

you see me putting suicide in parentheses on suicide watch. Man, they don't want anything to happen to her. I mean nothing, right? I mean, we talked about that. I mean, she gets a hang nail. We're going to be sending in the physician team to take care of her. We don't want anything bad to happen to her. So we'll see.

We'll see if she gets out on. well, see if she's going to cut a deal. That's going to be the most fascinating thing. That's why, I mean, wow. If she has anything, and we, you know, I know, we've talked about it before, but, and we'll find out as the days progress, but if she has anything at all that can tie different high profile people to Jeffrey Epstein and her, man,

she needs to be protected. She needs to go somewhere far away. Far away. So good luck, Jis Lane. And we still have the Johnny Depp trial going on. I'll talk a little bit more, you know, maybe about that tomorrow or, you know, the first of next week,

because new stuff comes out from that trial every day. It's incredible. That lawsuit against the sun. And he's been on the stand. I don't know how long he's going to be on the stand. Hell, they might keep him on the stand until next year. But some fascinating stuff coming out of that. The last testimony that I started reading was when he was kicking his drug and alcohol habit.

And they went to a rehab island who doesn't do that. And they're saying that he hit Amber and just amazing. And some of his text to her family and her. I mean, wow. Wow. just I keep using the word incredible in it there's got to be a better word irregardless I think that it's

you know it's amazing times that we live in and we have the couple who are getting you know or at least now charged with a hate crime for vandalizing a Black Lives Matter mural on a road that was you know had a permit and it was supposed to be there it is a pretty

oh my gosh I almost said it again incredible story irregardless of anything else you know the the argument that well we can tear down statues

and that doesn't mean anything well if we try someone and actually charge someone with those statues being torn down then you know they would be charged with a hate crime

but we can't charge them because we don't know who they are, down the luck. And we know who this couple is who were, you know, painting over a Black Lives Matter mural, and they were doing it with anger. And you know that. That means that it's a hate crime,

automatically. And so if you do anything out of anger, hate crime. All right, let's go to the break room. I need a drink of, Ice cold water. So good. So if you're looking for a gig,

there's a couple new gigs you can apply for. You can be part of the coronavirus clinical study program. From the Coronavirus Prevention Network.org. Mission is to conduct a phase three vaccine and monoclonal antibody efficacy studies for prevention of COVID-19. Conduct a Phase 3 vaccine and monoclonal antibody FSC studies for the prevention of COVID-19.

What to expect when you volunteer? Let's see. Are you going to get paid? Probably not, since they're using the word volunteer. When you contact one of the participating research sites, they'll tell you about a research we're doing. All right. During the study, requiring the reason to 10 or more visits for one to two, one to two years? Wow. If you become infected with SARS or COVID-2 and become ill with COVID-19, the study staff will work with you to make sure you get the care that you need.

That's nice of them. We may ask that we contact you again on the study. If you're interested in a volunteer for the study, you just have to click on the link. doesn't look like you're getting any cash for this bad boy so it's all under the volunteer aspect

let's see clinically must be 18 years or older to participate participation involves completing a short online survey that includes some personal questions your participation

is voluntary so go to coronavirus prevention network dot org if you're looking for that gig and you know look

is it an important thing to be a volunteer for that? You bet you. You know, I'd like a couple of bugs, but, you know, they're not going to pay you. They're not going to pay you. There's a due job at Twitter, though. I mean, they have a new listing up for at Twitter. Apparently, they're looking for a subscription platform. So they're looking for a contract engineer to rebuild some of the services to produce a subscription management platform? Okay. But then they went out and they decided, oh, wait, that's not right. It's not a forthcoming subscription service. No, my gosh, that's, that can't be. Nope. We changed it

to just seeing looking for a senior full stack software engineer. And then they decided, nope, we're going to change it again. And we're going to restore the whole subscription, uh, So if you want to go to work for Twitter, you may or may not be looking at a gig for creating a subscription service with video. They already have video through its platform by way of Periscope. Who knows? But if you want to go to work for Twitter, I would apply. Good luck. God bless working for Twitter.

Shepard Smith, remember him from Fox News for years. He's got a new gig. So if you're going to apply for the evening news gig on CNBC, you can't have it. Shep has already got it. All right. He's going, according to Shep, he's honored to continue to pursue the truth, both for CNBC's loyal viewers and for those who have been following my reporting for decades in good times and in bad. So he's got a new gig.

Good for him. According to Brian Stelter, and may you just love Brian Stelter, he, he tweeted quite a bit about Shep Smith. Brian's got a little thing for him. I've got three tweets here from Brian about Shep. This will be a time slot homecoming for Shep, who helmed the 7 p.m. hour on Fox News until Roger Ailes demoted him in 2013 to make room for Megan Kelly. No word on an exact launch date yet. Isn't that cute, Brian? Thank you for updating us on that.

CNBC is giving Shep some big titles. CNBC's chief general news anchor and chief breaking general news anchor, as well as executive editor of the news with Shepard Smith. I don't know that that's true, but if it is, it doesn't surprise me. And Shep says CNBC boss Mark Hoffman presented me with the CNBC's vision for fact-based, hour-long evening news program with the mission to cut through the static to deliver facts. in context and with perspective. I know I found a great home for my newscast.

I bet. And it's very important to be able to have that perspective when you're giving us the truth. Isn't it, Shep? Yes. You want to be sure that you're able to give us that perspective. I know you've had extensive experience and a deep passion for breaking news.

and deep, in-depth storytelling, incisive interviews. It's going to serve as a perfect bridge between CNBC's daytime investor-focused news programming and the network's aspirational business-oriented entertainment programs in prime time. So they're all about it. No report on what Shep's getting paid. But I bet you it's a pretty penny.

It's a pretty pretty pretty. penny and you know i read an article earlier today about uh tina waymouth uh bass player for the talking heads and the article was you know really nice uh a couple years ago a couple years ago now by uh carrie kirrigan for uh paper mag dot com and the headline is 40 years later talking heads most valuable member is still its most under recognized and it talks about her you know her joining the band and how she became part of talking heads. Look, I mean, I mean, according, even this article says without, you know, her baseline, I mean, psycho killer burning down the house once in a lifetime.

I mean, those are because of her. You know those. And, you know, they've, you know, Jay-Z has been, uh, Selena, Jay-Z and Selena Gomez has, you know, been, you know, discussing her role and she's a female and, you know, in the world of music and you know she was you know part of an iconic band and she's almost 70 now and she talked about how you know she was always a feminist but you know it was just she didn't want to talk about it because you know that's all they want to talk about really all they kept asking her about was David and how she became a part of the group uh you know they were looking for a bass player

couldn't find one she went out and bought a bass and she by the time they started tour she'd only been playing bass for about five months. And she spent many times just being David Burns whipping boy or whipping girl. And how she was recording labor. She talked about being in the shadow of David. She talked about how she wanted to just be, you know, part of the group and how they started and were living in a, you know, a crappy apartment. Anyways, just a fascinating article on the stuff you don't think about a lot of times. But, I mean, part of an iconic band touring the world.

And she's, you know, the only female. And burned, apparently, it only sounds. I'm going to go back and do a little research. It sounds on this article that David treated her like crap. Really made her trial for the band two or three times. Nobody else had to do that. And she said whenever something was wrong or wasn't quite right, David would just blame her.

And in an interview at one point, David talked about how women, you know, how he didn't think women should be out in the world because it was a dangerous place. I'm really, really strange. Look, David Burns is a weird cat. Anyway, no question about that. So it wouldn't surprise me that any of that took place.

But one of the things that I was looking for in the article and I missed it where it said that Tina is a subscriber to chewing the fat. I know, right? You'd think that would be in the article. It's not. I don't know why. But you should be a subscriber to chewing the fat. No question.

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But remember, life is what happens, right, when you're waiting for something else to happen. So, you know, just tell me a quick happiest moment. your life story and we'll share it and let people realize that they can be happy with just the little things in life. A few other things happening, you know, around the world and here in the U.S. We have, and I say we, as of the United States of America and President Donald Trump, have formally begun the process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Bye bye. Have a nice day.

All I ask for is that the United Nations is next. And we don't have to withdraw from the United Nations, to be honest with you. Although I don't want to be really a part of it, but they need to find a new home. I don't care where. Just somewhere outside of the United States of America. Goodbye. Have a nice day. Take care.

I would give, you know, two bucks. Two bucks. I'd give two whole dollars. In fact, I'd get the newest, crispiest $2 I could find, and I'd give that to someone who would pull U-Haul trucks up in front of the U.N. with a deadline saying, you've got to get out. We're not saying you have to go home, but you can't stay here. Anyway, that's...

And a business that generated $991 million in sales last year. Brooks Brothers. Temporary store closures. Your revenue is in the tank. They are really struggling. I mean, the Brooks Brothers is, you know, huge. You know, presidents, school. You know, you wear a Brooks Brothers suit.

That's part of the deal. deal. They are really struggling, and they're looking, they filed for bankruptcy, and they're looking for a buyer, and we'll see what happens. We'll see. I know. You know, they've, they've restructured in the past with the new CEO, the Del Vecchio, and he turned them around.

Maybe he can turn them around again, too. I mean, they began manufacturing some of its products here in the U.S. in Massachusetts, North Carolina, New York. I mean, this is an American company. 202-year-old company. You know, presidents of Warren Brooks Brothers suits.

So, I mean, I hate to see this company go. But we all change. Everything changes. And bed, bath, and beyond. Dry your eyes. Okay. They're closing 200 stores over two years

as sales fall almost 50% during the pandemic. Wow. That really is, that's incredible. People did not want to get products from bed, bath, and beyond.

They were getting, and they should have hooked up. Are they hooked up with Amazon? So it said it's net loss narrowed to 302.2.29 million. Sales fell 49%. Wow.

The company said it plans to permanently close roughly 200 of its namesake stores over the next two years. That's pretty significant. As of May 30th, it operated 1,478 stores

including 955 Bedbeth and Beyond shops. Wait, so also owns Chains Bye Bye Baby, Christmas Tree Shops and Harmon Faye.

values. These actions generate annual cost savings between $250,000, $350 million, one-time cause. So they're trying to stay alive. Why doesn't Bed Bath & Beyond make such a big thing about them just buy us online? That would be kind of nice, right? Right? I mean, maybe they do. I'm not a big Bed Bath and Beyond guy, although I've purchased things.

I've shopped at Bed Bath and Beyond. But when I think of things, there's only a couple of things. I'm trying to, when I think of things that I need that they sell at Bed Bath and Beyond, do I think of Bed Bath and Beyond as the first stop to get that product?

That's the way they need to rebrand their position. I mean, Bed Bath and Beyond, you've got a, you know, when you need a plunger, think of us. Would you need a scale? Think of us. I don't need a scale. I don't want one.

But if you need one, you know, think of Bed Bath and Beyond. Would you need towels? Think of Bed Bath and Beyond. That was the first place. Bed Bath and Beyond was the first place that I realized that all the towels that they had on the shelf weren't a full towel. You know, they have them rolled up. You know, you see the roll of the towels? they're stacked on top of each other and I thought that's a good stack job I like that and how many

times in your life have you said to yourself that's a good stack job and uh I thought wow that's incredible so I noticed one time I was able to I was able to you know reach up and grab it and it's just a piece of cardboard uh you know it's just a just like a small towel a display towel or a washcloth but it's not a full big towel stack it's a piece of cardboard that looks like that it just a stupid thing. I was just what I remember pulling that out going, wow, that's pretty amazing how they do that. No wonder it looks so perfect.

Anyway, Bed Bath and Beyond. Call me. I'm here for you. We'll help you out a little bit with your marketing campaign. You need to re-imagine. In fact, I mean, I've already written it for you. Reimagined Bed Bath and Beyond. When you need home improvement, start here.

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36,000 people could be furloughed starting the first of October. I mean, and that's because, right, I mean, we talked about the TSA checkpoint numbers. The airlines are hurt. I mean yesterday, 600,000 people through the turnstiles. A year ago, almost 2.5 million. Incredible. They called the plan the last resort. Flight attendants would be the hardest hit,

followed by customer service and gate agents, maintenance workers, then pilots. See, I would move the pilots to number before the end and maintenance workers last. that's just me. But, you know, they do what they want. I'm thinking the maintenance workers, and, you know, while it takes, you know, big time to fly it,

it takes big time to keep them going. Anyway, that's just me. Maybe the pilots can help with the maintenance work, so maybe the maintenance workers under this plan come before the pilots. I mean, they even say, right? I mean, the president of the Association of Flight of Transportation, said it's a gut punch, but it's the most honest assessment we've seen on the state of the industry. Yeah.

No kidding. According to this, despite the influx of funds from the government, United Airlines, this is just United Airlines, is burning through 40 million a day. Wow. I mean, their hub in Newark recorded 16% net booking compared to last year that's got to be minus 16%.

There's no way that could be. Anyway, that can be right. But because of the coronavirus and the TSA, nobody wanting to fly and everybody driving, that has made room for a new sheriff in town. There's a new busiest airport in the country.

Okay? Yeah. Ha ha. Yeah. You heard me. Number one got kicked off. Got kicked off the hill. Okay?

So, congratulations to DFW Airport for being the number one busiest airport in the country. Leaping ahead. of O'Hare, who's number two, leaping ahead of them. We had 12,132 flights in May. Chicago only had 8,596 flights. Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

And then you say, hey, what about Atlanta? Yeah, well, Atlanta, which is United. Boom. That made DFW. number one. Okay. I mean, so thank you. That's all I'm saying.

DFW is number one. I love a DFW airport. Not really. Although it's gotten a lot better. At first, it really kind of agonized me and we've made fun of the homeless people in, you know, in the terminal A. But they've made it easier to get around.

And I realized it was under construction. One of the things that really ticks me off about DFW is you can't get on the property without paying. I should be able to drop someone off at a terminal without having to pay to get into airport property. I just should. I know. I guess that's maybe old school thinking, but I should. and I don't like it. I don't like that I can't just go and drop someone off

and not pay. It should be a straight line to the terminals in and out without having to pay. But no, you can't do that. And I like the fact, just as a side note of liking the fact that it's big. Man, DFW Airport is big.

In fact, one of the cool things, And I talked about this in a stand-up routine I did a few years ago, that it's bigger than the island of Manhattan. The entire property of DFW Airport is bigger than the island of Manhattan. So take that. New York. We're talking about Texas. Talking about big.

I remember why I did the stupid airport. Oh, I know. It was because I was talking about the difference between Dallas. and Fort Worth. And I was talking about the difference in taxiing. I mean, you can land at DFW and you're going, you know, by the time you get back to the terminal, you've gone through a couple of counties.

But it was the stupid Kennedy joke. I talked about, you know, the... Kennedy had breakfast in Fort Worth the day that he was assassinated. And then, you know, obviously went into Dallas and was killed. and, you know, that's the old joke about the assassination. Fort Worth is like, he was fine when he left here. Thank you for coming tonight.

Appreciate it. Oh, I wanted to thank. Hold on. I wanted to thank the couple that sent me the mask. I thanked them on Pat, chewing the fat on Pat unleashed the other day. but I wanted to thank them. They sent me a chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher mask. McKenzie and Mitch, thank you so much.

They sent me a nice letter. They were making masks for the family. They thought of me and how I wasn't coming into the studios for a while. And they made me chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher mask. And if you watch the Chewing the Fat segment on Blaze Television during Pat Unleashed, the Wednesday the eighth program you'll see that I put it on

and I thank them on that show but I wanted to be sure that I thank them here on the podcast as well so thank you very much for the mask I really appreciate it and you know

it was very kind of you I mean there's only one I have a family but you know whatever no no no thank Thank you.

I do appreciate it. It was very kind. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. I was just saying that I have a family and it's, you know, be nice to have more than one. It'd be nice to have more than one is all. You know, am I greedy? Probably.

So, never mind. Never mind. We'll worry about it. I guess we'll get an idea if sports is going to be alive and well during the coronavirus days. The NBA started up today. Their practices in Orlando in their bubble that they created. Every single player has to test negative on two separate coronavirus tests in the first 36 to 48 hours upon arrival before they're allowed to practice this. teams. The players are offered the rings to monitor their health. The teams are staying at the

Disney hotel properties. They were assigned hotels based on their position in the standings. I don't know what that means. They were assigned hotels. If you were the number five team, you had to, you get, you get the Motel 6 down the road. Sorry, you guys suck. So you're not staying on the Disney property. They all, I know what it means. And apparently they, you know, get their meals and you know we'll see if the bubble program works for the NBA and I do have a legitimate question about the NBA are you watching raise your hand I tell you what raise your hand is you're watching gonna watch if you're planning on watching the NBA this year no don't be afraid to raise your hands go ahead and raise them no seriously if you're going to watch them

raise your hands don't don't just sit there with your hands you know folded in your lap raise your hands if you're going to watch the NBA and I no I no I I'm asking, raise your hands. Let me know if you're going to watch. I know. I think that's where we're at. Good luck. Good luck.

Who's going to watch past maybe the first game or two? Tune in just to see what it looks like with everybody with their sayings on the back of the jerseys and the Black Lives Matter on the court. You know, get a look. And by the way, this will be a sign of what's going to happen in the sports world, right? how they're going to run it, if they're going to run it, what happens when multiple players contract COVID-19? Do we shut the whole thing down? It's going to be a fascinating watch.

Instead of you get COVID, you're out. We're still going to play. I don't know that that's going to happen. And then we've got, I mean, we've got baseball and football college. you on NFL to think about. And, you know, those of you that, those of you that look like you were going to raise your hands. How many of you are going to be watching the NFL?

No, you can raise your hands. Don't just sit there with your hands in your lap or under your legs like that. Raise your hands if you're going to be watching the NFL. My gosh. Don't, don't be embarrassed. Raise your hands if you're going to watch the NFL. I mean, they've given you no reason not to watch.

watch. All right. Here's another question. I'll tell you, you can put your hands back down. Those of you that were thinking about raising your hands, put your hands back down. The WNBA,

who has less of an audience than any, than NFL or NBA. Earlier this week, and I missed their announcement, and I apologize, they announced it's going to dedicate this 2020 season to social justice reform.

Now, players are going to wear shirts during warm-ups, not during the game, but during warm-ups, that say Black Lives Matter on the front and say, and say her name on the back, a move honoring Brianna Taylor and other victims of police brutality and racial violence. So that's good, right? I mean, so, wow, and the amount of people that were going to raise their hands for the NFL and the NBA,

how many of those people are going to raise your hands to watch the WN? B.A. Go ahead. You don't have to be afraid. You can you can raise your hands. My gosh. Don't be afraid not to raise your hand. Go ahead and raise them. Don't just sit there with your hands in your lap. Wow. That's incredible. There's an awful lot of you that look like you want to raise your hands.