Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 460 | End of Dead and a Vaccine Trial on Hold

Episode Date: September 9, 2020

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And now, a Blaze Media podcast. Welcome to it. Chewing the fat is what it is. Thank you for coming along for the ride today. Might as well start with a little good news. The poisoned Russian opposition leader, Alexei Nelvani. Right? Nelvonais.

Nevales. Alexei Nelaniz. His condition has improved. He's been taken off of the induced coma, and the hospital is busy treating him with that. Now, he was the Russian president, Vladimir Putin's high-profile critic. Hmm.

I wonder why he was poisoned. The German chemical weapons expert, we've talked about it before, says that the 44-year-old was poisoned with a Soviet-era nerve agent. That's a German government then demanded Russia investigate the case. Oh, okay. Sure. No problem. Let's investigate. Nope. Wasn't us. Sorry. I mean, he's been in a coma since the 22nd of August, and now he's coming out of it. There's no nose on the long-lasting effects of the poisoning, but he's coming out of it,

and he's alive and should be back to his fighting weight sometime in the near future, which is good news for him, Alexei, but not really good news for Vladimir Putin. And if you're Alexa, you may want to never drink anything that didn't come from yourself ever again.

Welcome to chewing the fat. Okay, plenty of entertainment news today. We have the Kardashians saying, this is their last year of keeping up with the Kardashians. Been more than a decade of this show. Wow. So they are doing this season,

and then their final season is next year. Right? So they are doing their new season, which starts mid-month, September 17th, and then the final season airs next year, 2021. So congratulations to the keeping up with the Kardashians. Right. Now, in a weird coincidence, the following day, so this was announced yesterday, then today we get the announcement that the Walking Dead to conclude with an expanded

two-year 11th season as the Walking Dead universe continues to expand. All right. So the flagship show, The Walking Dead, is going to end next year. Their final season. Wow. Just incredible. Sad to see that go. So there's 30 remaining episodes of the Walking Dead that will run through 2022.

So it's almost like a farewell rock tour. We're going to retire, but we're going to tour the world. like eight times before we actually end. So you get six extra season 10 episodes, which is which they've announced. And then they're going to have 24 episodes of the 11th season. So it runs through late 2022. Now, they also have a new series that's going to be,

that's following that with Daryl and Carol, which is Norman Rees and Melissa. The Big Bride, which starts the following year, 2023. And then this year, you have the season 10 finale, which is October 4th, which really isn't a finale since they've been going to add six more shows to the season 10 shows. But anyway, it's the season 10 finale that we've been waiting for that they couldn't do because of the start of the lockdown, which if you listen to the separate podcast Talking Walking Dead that I do with Jason Butchrell and my son Maximus,

we discussed that at length. They're going to air the final season 10 show on October 4th. And then it's going to be followed by the new Walking Dead show called The Walking Dead World Beyond. And then Fear the Walking Dead will begin airing it's sixth season the following Sunday, October 11th. Just incredible.

Just incredible. Then, and also in the Walking Dead Universe, ran by Scott Gimple, and Angela Kang is, you know, I guess she's more than just a showrunner now. She's part of the Walking Dead universe. They're developing with Gimple Tales of the Walking Dead series, which is a new episodic anthology focused on new and existing characters,

backstories and standalone experiences, among other planned extensions of the universe. This article does not mention the movies, which is really, really weird, because that is something that they've really pushed in the last few years with Rick coming back to life in the movies. And they're talking about this whole Walking Dead universe and they don't mention the movies. That is interesting. I wonder why that is.

and their excuse may be that they were just talking about the series and the spinoffs and the extended versions of the series but the movies were supposed to be part of the universe the walking dead universe wow that is really strange I'd be very interested to read and hear what they're thinking on those. Wow. So, that's, you know, entertainment news.

Then you have the Oscars who are just incredibly woke. Yeah, they're incredibly woke. That's what I'm calling it. I mean, they're just eating themselves. You can quote me on that. Yes, Oscar is eating himself. Look, they've now said, that the

94th and 95th Oscar ceremony scheduled for 2022 and 2023, a film will submit a confidential Academy Inclusion Standards form to be

considered for Best Picture. Now, beginning in 2024, a film submitting for Best Picture will need to meet the inclusion thresholds by meeting two of the four standards, and they give give the four standards, which is just, if you're a white man in a movie, making a movie,

cameraman, you're going to be looking for work. Now, the good thing is that, look, this is for the Oscars, right? I mean, they're just eating themselves because the movies that are still going to be made, but you're just not going to be a ward. movies and people are going to say, well, so we don't need the awards anyway. And they're kind of there now, really. But right now, the Oscars are still holding on to the past, which means how important they are, right? So if you need two of the four standards, right?

And so you need as on-screen representation, themes and narratives, you need to achieve standard A. The film must meet one of the following criteria. you've got to have a lead or significant supporting actors. At least one of the actors or significant supporting actors is from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, Asian, Hispanic, Latinx, Black African American, indigenous Native American, Alaska, Native, Middle Eastern, North African,

Native Hawaiian, or other Pacific Islanders, other underrepresented race or ethnicity. A2, a general ensemble cast, at least 30% of all actors in secondary and more minor roles are from at least two of the following underrepresented groups. Women, racial or ethnic group, LGBTQ plus, people with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing. A3, remember you have two of these. Right, this is the standard must meet one of the following. All right, to achieve standard A, the film must meet one of these. Wow.

Or you need to have a main storyline, theme, or narrative of the film centered on an underrepresented group. Women, racial, or ethnic group, LGBT Plus, people with cognitive physical disabilities, or a never hard of hearing. Okay, so you can meet one of those three. And then the standard be, the creative leadership and project team. You've got to be either, at least two of the following of these. you have to have women, racial, or ethnic group, other BD Plus. People are there's one of those businesses must belong to the following underrepresented racial group, Asian, Hispanic, and so on as the list goes on.

And then other key roles, at least six crew team and technical positions, including production assistants, are from an underrepresented racial or ethnic group, which, you know, include, but not limited to first AD, gaffer, script supervisor, etc., Overall crew composition, 30% of the film's crew, is from the following underrepresented groups. Industry access and opportunities, paid apprenticeship and internship opportunities, women, racial, ethnic group, LGBTQ plus, people with cognitive or physical disabilities, or who are deaf or hard of hearing. Training opportunities and skills, development crew. Same list, women, racial, ethnic group, LGBT plus, people with cognitive physical disabilities who are deaf. or hard of hearing.

Standard audience development. Wow. And they go on and it's women. Okay, so the studio or film company has multiple in-house senior executives from among the following underrepresented groups. They must include individuals from underrepresented racial or ethnic groups on their marketing, publicity, and or distribution teams. Women, racial or ethnic group, Asian, Hispanic, Latin, American,

indigenous Native American, Latin American. So these, this right. is just for the best picture. You have to have this to be considered for best picture. And it talks about the other individual awards that they give out that will continue with the other categories, keep up their current eligibility requirements, and for other categories such as animated feature, documentary, international feature, they will be addressed separately.

Oh, so they're going to have their own set of rules, which is probably going to be as close or worse than what this is. Now, you know, good for them. Good for them. If you're a white guy, good luck. If you're a white woman, you've got a better chance, but you're still on the list of probably not, right? But, you know, good for them.

So, you know, I guess they're, you know, I guess they're going to have special people sneak out of the sets and make sure that, you know, your grip and gaffer are, you're in the 30% range, I guess. Or, you know, they take your word for it. I, you know, but that's not going to stop all these other films from being made. That's just going to stop them from being considered for an Oscar. And, you know, does that, is that okay? I think it is.

And it will also mean that there will be other awards too, right? If you, you know, you'll have, you'll have other awards that will become more important than the Oscars. And, you know, do you get, do you get boycotted? You know, maybe. Maybe you do. Maybe you don't. But this is just incredible. That's the road that we're walking down.

But, you know, I still think that will mean that there will be other movies. made, there already are. So the big studios will, you know, either follow this or they'll say, nope, you know what? We're making this movie. And we don't care if it's considered for the Oscars. In fact, we'll make a big deal about it not being considered for the Oscars. We're going to hire the best people for the job for this movie.

And then we're going to make a movie that people are going to go and see. Sorry. Have a nice day, Oscars. So good luck. Now, I've told you, it's continuing out in the entertainment world. I've already told you here on chewing the fact that Ellen is done, right? Well, you know, every day there's a new story coming out that bashes her every day. The latest was yesterday she ran out the household like a boot camp, tormenting workers over missed-placed salt shakers, taking

pleasure in firings and laying traps like matchsticks to test employees. So what one ex-staffer claims. So she would place little matches around to see if the staff cleaned there. Right? See if they actually cleaned behind this clothes basket or in this cupboard or this sofa a cushion was pulled out and cleaned. So, you know, is it true? I don't know.

Maybe she did. Maybe she didn't. Guess what? You work for her. And, you know, maybe she's not the nicest person ever. Okay. But they're not stopping. They're not stopping.

It's still Ellen is over, right? Okay, but she announced yesterday that her show, we've got a premier date for the new season, season 18 on Monday, September 21st. All right? So as previously announced. So it is coming back on September 21st.

She announced some guests. She said, and yes, we're going to talk about it. Okay. All right. Good deal. Now, her guest that she announced

that she would be having for this premiere week includes Carrie Washington, Alec Baldwin. Oh man, that'll be fun. Have you seen his Instagram stuff? If you haven't been following Alec and his IGTV posts, he is, wow. Great is the word I'm looking for.

Just great. The last one that I watched, he's in his golf cart somewhere on his property. Life is hard. So it's either. either at the house with the kids or it's, you know, out in the yard on the property closer to the highway. So you hear the traffic. He's just, the guy is incredible.

Anyway, at Chrissy Teigen? Oh, man, do you want to hear from Chrissy? And then guests throughout the month, Chris Rock, Amy Schumer. Ooh, and Amy Schumer who just announced that she's got, I guess she's got Lyme disease and we're supposed to feel sorry for her. So there you go. Feel sorry for Amy. Adam Sandler, Orlando Bloom. So they're coming on the show, right?

They've announced it's already a done deal. But on the same day, weird how it happens is that the person who I believe is going to be filling the shoes of the Ellen show. Because I don't think this show's not going to last. It's just not going to last. They're not the syndication of Ellen is going to be over. They're going to be taking other shows like this one, the Drew Barrymore show. Drew Barrymore, and her show starts premiere, premiere show, premiere week, a week earlier, September 14th.

She's going to start with the Charlie's Angels reunion. She's got Adam Sandler, Reese Witherspoon. She's going to do this, the 17th, she's going to do with Charlize Theron and Tyra Banks. They're going to participate in the share, the mic now, campaign, which is, I guess, you know, too many white people have access to too many people, so they're going to let the black people use their platform to speak what they want to speak. I guess. I don't know. I don't know.

Billy Porter, I mean, she's got a knockout lineup, so I really do believe Drew Marymore is going to take over for Ellen. Not like that. I mean, the syndication is just not going to happen, right? Ellen could, Ellen could do a show. Anybody can put it. show on but you got to have somebody to buy it right which is what they've been doing for ellen her syndication team man it's worth the money right you pay whatever you pay for the show and you people watch it and you sell ads for it and that's how everybody makes their cut right so uh you make the cut from the network show commercials you make the cut from the uh syndication rights you make the cut from the the commercials that the affiliates are selling.

I mean, everybody gets their cut. A lot of money. A lot of money. Believe me. Ellen isn't living the way she lives because she's not making a lot of cash. And she was producing great content. But she was producing great content on the premise that she was a nice person. Ha! Ha! Ha!

Well, we found out that to be a lie. So I'm telling you, Drew Marybor is going to start getting these syndication deals. and Ellen's just going to go off in the wind. Have a nice day. Yay. Oh, let's go to the break room. I need to get something cold to drink as it is. Oh my gosh. Oh, so good. As long as we're in the break room,

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subscribe and you know click the little notification bell uh because john is uh you know a fascinating guy and i worked with him for a long time at the blaze and he's uh he doesn't work with us directly anymore but he uh is giving a kidney away to a man in need and a family in need of this man and he talks about the reasoning behind doing it and what brought it on and it's a you know it's an story and you can listen to him and if you have it in your heart to help him out help him out and if you listen to the interview and you go man i wish i could help but i can't so be it but you've already subscribed to the youtube channel and you are able to say a nice thought and or prayer for john and his family and ken the family that he's giving the well he's not giving the entire family

the kidney, but he is, in a sense, since Ken is head of the family. Anyway, you get it. You get it. So we talked about before one other time on Chew of the Fat about how, you know, obviously California and now Oregon is on fire. It is fire season.

It happens every year. But we also talked about how they had prisoners to help fight the wildfires. And they let out a bunch of those prisoners thanks to COVID-19. So, and I was thinking how they're going to do that. Well, we find out that there are going to use some prisoners that they have left.

All right. So they've used the prisoners to fight wildfires since the 1940s. So they've already burned a record, 2 million acres. The fires have killed eight people already. They've destroyed 3,300 buildings. And that since this right, I mean, as you're writing a story like this, you're already losing more acreage and other buildings are being destroyed.

It's just, I mean, they're evacuating people in California and Oregon. Now, the fires are just out of, I mean, it's just incredibly dangerous. So now, hundreds of inmates have been called in to a, guess what? We let a bunch of you go,

but those of you that are still in there, yeah, we're coming to you too. Okay, so, don't worry about it. So, they're saying that because of somebody were infected, they were forced to quarantine, they cut the number in about half of the people that they normally use

to help fight the fires. And I mean, while that stinks, that's still good that we have some people to use. And of course, there's complaints about it because the inmates get minimal to no payment. We're talking three to five dollars a day for those helping. with things like clearing brush,

an extra dollar an hour for those in the front lines to fight the front flames, and despite, despite risking their lives to save others and learning the art of the trade, these inmates typically can't become firefighters after they serve their sentences because of their criminal records. Oh my gosh.

I can't tell you. That is kind of ridiculous, actually. if they, depending on what they're in prison for, I'm sure many of them are in prison for things that, you know, we may question the viability of them becoming firefighters. No, I'm sorry. We're not going to let you be a firefighter. We barely want to let you out of jail.

On your way now. So anyway, as California will do, do. The state legislator has passed a bill to give nonviolent offenders who helped fight fires as inmates the opportunity to have their records expunged so they can become firefighters. The California Assembly woman who introduced the bill said those that have served on the fire lines deserve a second chance. And now the bill heads to the governor's desk for his signature. Well, you know he's going to sign it. I mean, I don't think there's, any doubt about that.

And I really don't have a problem with the nonviolent ex-cons. You know, if they've served their time and they've done it, they want to become firefighters. And this work while in prison made them, gave them the knowledge to become and help this. Good for them. Let them go. That's fine.

But I hope that we're not expanding the meaning of non- violent offenders which I believe is very possible that we're going to expand the definition of non-violent offenders and I think

it was not now that I say it out loud you know that's going to happen speaking to prison though I see where James James Altruc right A-L-T-U-C-H-E-R-U no James. I mean, he's a big-time entrepreneur, a podcaster, and, you know, thinker, and he posted on his

Twitter account, and I'm sure he posted this on his, you know, daily emails that he sends out, and whatever, he talks about, do you really think people hate remote work? Do you want to work in a cubicle? I'd rather go to prison. And then he has an outline of work versus prison. And remember, James, he's in a battle against Jerry Seinfeld now, right? right? Because he said New York is dead. And Seinfeld said, no, it's coming back. It is not dead, James. And so, you know, he's in that battle as well.

But his work versus prison guideline is pretty convincing. Prison, you spent the majority of time in a 10 by 10 cell. Work, you spent the majority of time in an 8x8 cubicle. Prison, you get time off for good behavior. work. You get more work for good behavior. The guards lock and unlock doors for you. You must carry security card and open the doors yourself. You pay for your own meal at work.

You get three meals a day in prison. You can watch TV and play games in prison. You can get fired for watching TV at work. In prison, you get your own toilet. At work, you share your toilet with everyone. He makes a pretty compelling case that people kind of like to work from home or remotely. And so if they have the possibility to do their job and not have to actually go to a particular place and do it remotely, they will choose remotely.

So it's less like prison. Pretty tough to argue with. All right, a couple of business headlines. You know, just, that says an FYI. Northrop, getting a $13.3 billion contract to develop a new ICBM. That's just 13.3 billion. Don't worry about it.

I could develop a new ICB. for that peloton expanding its lineup to include a cheaper treadmill only 22,495 almost 2,500 and a more expensive stationary bike almost $2,500 and it's going to drop the price of its current bike to $1,895 now I guess it's trying to appeal to a wider base Uh, okay. Uh, good luck. Good luck. Uber promised that every vehicle in its network will be electric by 2040.

Wow. It said it's going to spend $800 million in the next five years to help drivers make the switch. I mean, I want an electric car. If I just say, I'm a, sure. let me be a Uber driver Please, Mr. or Mrs. Uber Will you buy me an electric car, please?

I mean, I'll drive an electric car For Uber for, you know, a little while And then, you know, not do it after that Just to, you know, get the car. Apple ramped up its legal fight With Epic Games By revealing plans to seek damages Against the Fortnite Maker.

Fortnite and Apple are going at each other's throats as it is. So anything, that fight is ongoing and won't stop for a long time. Now, Apple obviously has more money, but Fortnite's got a lot of money too. And they got a lot of people that don't like Apple. So that fight's going to go on for quite a while. And General Motors announced a two, say it with me, two billion dollar investment in Nixon. You first heard about Nicola on this very program.

They're making the electric truck, right? And they've got trucks sold. They haven't even made a truck yet. So GM's going to develop and manufacture Nicola's new models in exchange for 11% stake in the company. And a seat on the board. Okay. I mean, it certainly helped the stocks. GM went up, you know, 8% and Nicola jumped 40%.

If you had Nicola stock, you were happy about this deal. No question about it. Yeah, anytime you get an influx of cash. Plus, why not? I wonder what these trucks are going to be like. I mean, if you get the four-door Nikola electric truck, you make the deal with Uber to get another, I don't know what, quarter of a billion in trucks to give and or sell, make a deal.

with Uber drivers be driving the Nikola I mean that would be a great deal for Uber right? The Nikola trucks are Uber I mean I can see it coming

I could see it coming that's it's going to be in fact I should make that deal happen Nikola Uber call me we'll make this deal will make this deal happen

and Japanese company's billionaire, Yossako Amazawa, who on Sunday admitted to losing $41 million via day trading. I don't know about you, but man, do I hate days when I lose

$40, $50 million in a day? Now, the Yassaku Omasuo, who only lost 41 million day trading said this was a quote from the Japanese billionaire there's no end to this regret yeah no kidding well that end will be when he makes it back because you don't become a billionaire

like yesaku mazal to be able to lose 41 million and not be able to figure out how you're to make it back. So while right now, maybe that first day, there was no end to this regret. When he makes back another $100 million, that will be the end to his regret of losing $41 million. And in the coronavirus world, I don't know, this story I think makes me feel good, but I don't know if it should. AstraZeneca said that they are pausing their coronavirus vaccine trial. after an unexplained illness in a volunteer. Okay, so it paused the global trials because one of their volunteers got sick. And as part of the ongoing, you know, controlled global trials of the Oxford coronavirus vaccine,

one of the participants got sick. And so they've, whenever that happens, they say it's not at all unprecedented, on president, they just put a pause on it because of that because they have to check out everything around it. I guess that makes me feel good because I was feeling like these companies, I mean, there's some, look,

I know that it's not a race to whoever gets the vaccine first. Uh-huh. Yeah, okay, I believe you. Yeah, yeah. But maybe it's not, right? I mean, they said it's routine action, and it's,

they're ensuring that they maintain the integrity of the trials, which is great. I mean, this particular trial is called the Oxford vaccine because it was developed with Oxford, Britain's university, in the United States, as well as the UK, Latin America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. So it's called the Oxford vaccine. So I know that they've said that it's not a race

to see who gets the vaccine first. Oh, sorry. That's funny. Anyway, and I didn't necessarily believe them. But now I guess I kind of do, right? You kind of think, okay, well, maybe they, it isn't. Maybe it is. They actually want a creative vaccine that works.

And it doesn't matter who's first. I almost broke out laughing again, thinking about that. Because whoever gets it first is going to be, the, I don't know, billions, hundreds of billions of dollars. So it makes me feel better because we thought about that, right? It doesn't matter. They just want to be first, and that was the whole deal, right? It was just a rush to get that vaccine.

And so this way, it kind of makes me think that maybe, the AstraZeneca Oxford vaccine will be the one to get if they don't cancel it if they step back and say, oh yeah, we've checked it out and we maintained the integrity of the trials

and it's no problem. You know, in a large trial like this, people get sick and look, we're, we promise that we're going to seek premature government approval and we're keeping that promise for you. And now we've got a vaccine here that's, we believe, is the one that works and is good and you need to take it. And sure, you need to get, you know, two or three shots.

And sure it's going to cost you some money or your insurance company. But you don't have to worry about it because we're going to get billions from insurance companies and governments. So take it. And it kind of makes me feel good. And I'll leave you today. uh in this portion of chewing the fat um the pre-podcast portion of chewing the fat remember if you're a free-loading subscriber you'll be around for the next portion if you're not sorry this is all you get i'm going to leave you with a story that another story that i don't believe is real every so often

these stories make the rounds and i don't believe they're real all right so here's a story of a lady from dagestan russia it's in southern russia all right she reportedly fell asleep in her garden and a snake crawled into her throat and she goes to the hospital and she was put to sleep and then there's supposedly there's these pictures that show what appears to be something being pulled out of her mouth and then there's other pictures that said there's a video which never shows there's no it just rolls there's actually no video. that I've seen. It says it's there, but it's not. And then it's a picture of another medical person holding what appears to be a four-foot-long snake that was pulled out of her throat in her stomach, according to this story. And in the story, it talks about, well, these reports like this are unusual. Really? But, you know, we advise you not to sleep outside, just in case the snake slithers into your mouth.

Oh! And others think, well, it was just a parasite or a giant worm. Now, the Ministry of Health in Dagestan has not commented. The woman has not been identified. The type of snake has not been identified. So I believe, another story that's not real. So the next time, I'm telling you, we're going to keep an eye out here on chewing the fat now. because ever so often

we get stories of these types of things where they're pulling snakes out of people's different orifices and there's only, you know, a blurry picture and it happens, but, you know, we talk to some people in the neighborhood and it's not unusual, but don't fall asleep in the garden. But anybody within the medical community

hasn't commented yet. And we don't even know the lady's name or where she's from. We know she's from there. That's what they're. told us. So would you hear the headline of the lady with the four-foot snake down her throat as she slept in the garden? It's not real. Download and subscribe to more content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. So apparently there's an alarming rise of techno-sexuals. I know. I know. I wasn't quite

sure the techno-sexuals were. We're getting more of them, but apparently we are. 14% of a web vibe, which is the sex toy company, revealed that 14% of men admitted to being aroused by their smart speaker, Alexa. Okay. Which according to this means that, you know, we're in another kind of epidemic of loneliness and fear of intimacy. So apparently, this psychotherapist has been calling people whose primary source of arousal is interacting with their tech, techno-sexuals. Okay.

All right. What was the Dingleberry movie with Joaquin Phoenix? Oh yeah, her. Her. You know, in love with her.

So maybe was he the epitome of the techno-sexual? I guess. I guess pinging of a message, swiping right, authoritative tones of the cloud

based voice service fulfills the happiness hormone so that turns you into a techno sexual i mean all of us are kind of that right so i guess if you're taking your love of the ping of getting a new message uh to a new level then that makes you into the techno-sexual. So I want to help you out today on chewing the fat. I'm going to tease you and give you your own little techno-sexual fun. I found a video where Alexa is talking to Google Home, and I thought maybe, well, you know, hey, let's play it and see if you're a technosexual, you're welcome.

Hey, Google, how are you today? Great, thanks. What can I do for you? Please tell me the current time. The time is 12.14 p.m. All right. Oh, it's already 1240? Hey, Google, please translate. It's already late into German.

Oh, that's really exciting. Wow, cool. By the way, today is my birthday. Hey, homie, could you sing happy birthday? for me? What the f-f- Hey Google, sing happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Happy birthday to you.

Happy birthday to the person whose birthday it is. Happy birthday to you. Thank you so much. Hey Google, repeat after me. Echo, you are great. Echo, you are great. you really think so thank you nice so uh i apologize or maybe you know what you're a techno sexual you're welcome okay you're welcome so now i see where uh we have a man who live streamed his own

death on facebook he's got everybody all wound up because apparently he live streamed it you know last month and then Facebook claims they got rid of it, but now it's making the rounds on TikTok. So they're trying to remove the clip that's being reshared. Okay, so this guy, apparently Ronnie McNutt, 33, killed himself at home while he sat in front of a desk, broadcasting it on Facebook. And, you know, that's really sad. And, you know, another day of,

suicide. So just let me remind you, okay, that the suicide prevention lifeline is 1-800-273-8-255. Okay? That's the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, 1-800-273-8-255. If you have any kind of feelings that you are going to commit suicide,

call that number and get help. Okay? it's not going to make things better, period. This guy now knows that. Okay. So others are now sharing it, and people are wound up that they're sharing it, that, you know, TikTok hasn't gotten rid of it fast enough.

And so, I mean, he is, this man was, you know, in a bad place and needed to get some help. And I sure wish he would have. Apparently, you can get, they have, let's see, I want to see this on TikTok. If anyone in our community is struggling with thoughts of suicide or concerned about someone who is, we encourage them to seek support. And we provide access to hotlines directly from our app. and in our safety center.

Okay. That's great. So, but, and, you know, TikTok is, you know, trying to get rid of it. No problem. Like I said, Facebook, they believe, look, the video was taken down the day it was streamed. And it's been shared on TikTok. Facebook did what they're supposed to do, right? They took it down.

So, you know, I guess if you run across it by accident, it's horrifying. you know, don't be searching for guy who committed suicide. But it does bring to mind one of my million-dollar ideas that I thought would, you know, be a good idea. And this was, you know, a number of years ago. And now might be the time to bring it back. It was my suicide cam app. I don't know.

I guess I've talked about it before. If I haven't, oops, oops. Because I thought that, you know, where people were jumping off bridges and stuff, you would have a camera there. Whenever somebody stepped up on the ledge to jump off, you would get an alert if you were a subscriber to the app. And that alert, you know,

then you would just click on the alert, and it would open up the camera from wherever bridge that person was standing on. And you could watch them either get talked down or jump. That's the beauty of the suicide cam, right? I mean, you can pray and hope that the person doesn't jump. But if they do, you get to watch it.

I mean, that's what you're paying the monthly subscription rate for. It was just an idea. Don't look at me like that. Like I was, you know, like a, it was just an idea that I had. And I thought, and I still do. I believe that it would be a viable idea. I should probably shouldn't have said it. although I guess I could delete it off the podcast if I had to

but why so if you do it I want my cut okay there that's what I'm talking about if you do it give me a cut okay all right I see where the TSA numbers are you know pretty steady now right I mean they've had one two three four five

six days in a row uh over six hundred thousand and a few of them i mean they got 5178 87 968 664 689 935 704 uh those are you know hundreds of thousands of people uh going through the tsa turnstile not even close i mean a year ago yesterday they had just under two million people going through the turnstiles so i mean they are a long ways off and all the airlines are busy warning employees that they're going to get

you know furloughed in the coming months so it's not a good time to be part of the airlines but I see where one flight attendant not a stewardess she's a flight attendant did a video of her top hacks when checking into a hotel room and I kind of I like them I like them you got to follow through on them though remember I told you the one bug guy always told me

looking for bedbugs go in and take off all the sheets and all the blankets and all the comforters and tell them to bring you clean ones because that's the only way you get clean ones is to take them all off and say you want clean stuff when you check in. And that's, that, you know, that's a great idea. But a lot of times, you know,

one guy or one girl is working if you check in at night, late. So you may not get them for quite a while. And, you know, just whatever. I mean, I understand the premise and it's a good idea for you to do that. But it does. seem a bit, you know, I don't know, a bit. I won't use that word. It does just seem a bit

that type of person. But she talks about, she goes, I was never reveal your room number out loud when you check into the hotel. Not a bad idea in case, you know, frecos are out there. Check around you before entering in your room. You want anybody, you know, checking you out in the hallways. What do you do if somebody's there, though? Just stand there by somebody else's door? Yeah, I'm going in here. I just can't find my key. Go ahead.

We'll talk to you later. I go to this room, whatever number this is, but your room is actually the room, you know, down the hall. I guess you can do that. Then once you get in the room, check if there's anyone in the room. That's probably a good idea. You want to check behind the curtains under the bed. She's a flight attendant, so, I mean, I don't blame her for that.

Lock the doors? make sure you lock the doors and always be sure to lock the top lock when you go in make sure it stays locked i like that then check check for bedbugs and that's uh that's her big deal check the corners of the mattresses okay always check for bedbugs i mean that's a that's a big deal remove any decorative pillows uh and uh take them any top comforters off because you know like i said they never wash those Those, well, they do, but especially in today's world. I mean, you've got COVID-19 coronavirus cleaning going on, right? Each room gets deep cleaned every day.

Okay. Be careful where you put your bag. Don't put your bag on the bed. She said, no, it's been through the airport. It's disgusting. Don't put it on the bed. Okay. If you don't have a fridge in your room, no problem.

Claims you can use your ice bucket as a refrigeration. put whatever food or whatever you want into your ice bucket that will be like your mini fridge that doesn't have electricity but you can go ahead and use it as your refrigerator and she talked about thinking about the remote control and this is a good one i mean i i have often uh you know wiped off the remote control for a long time wiped it off but she actually has a pretty good idea and that's using the ice bucket plastic wrap bag as a wrap around the remote. So you just put the remote in the plastic bag.

And then you use the remote through the plastic bag. That's a good idea. I like that idea a lot. So if you're back traveling again, now that, you know, the lockdowns are opening up or you're not going to fly, but you're going to drive places and still stay in hotels, there's a couple of ideas to get you,

through and maybe keep you less sick. Because look, we still got the flu shots coming up. I was just reminded by someone that, you know, it's your flu shot. You know, it's flu season coming up. I mean, I'm not even thinking about the flu season. And yet, we should. So just a reminder. Just a reminder.

Might be time to get the old flu shot.