Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 476 | Voice and Choice With Guidelines of Course

Episode Date: October 1, 2020

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A month with two full moons. Both, I guess, are blue moons. We have one that's going on right now, for those of you listening live at the first two or three days of October 2020. And then we have one that's going to be at the end of the month, the 31st, the Halloween blue moon. And, okay, I guess it's the third of four full moons in a single season. It's the harvest moon,

the travel, dying grass moon, the sanguine or blood moon, the Chinese mid-autom moon, moon cake, or reunion festival moon, the Chusiac moon, the Tsukimi or moon viewing festival, the potato harvest moon, the Imo Migitsu, the Pavarana, the Bunsanghu, or the Boat Rasing Festival moon, the vape poya, and the moon associated with the start of Soketh. S-U-K-K-O-T-H. So have fun. Get ready to party. It's Blue Moon Squared, October 2020. Yay!

Now get out there and harvest those fields with the extra light you get from the moon. Okay? Welcome to chewing the fat. Remember way back in 2016 when Brian Cranston, Samuel L. Jackson, Miley Cyrus, among others, said they would consider fleeing the country if Trump became president? Are they gone yet? Because EGOT member, John Legend, just said in an interview with Cosmopolitan UK, that Americans might have to start thinking about going some.

somewhere else if President Trump wins re-election. He goes on to say, if you have to think about going somewhere that is a true democracy that has respect for the rule of law in human rights, where would that be, John? I just, I would like to know. He wasn't asked that in the interview,

but I'd like to know where that would be. I truly don't know if we would be a democracy when we were done if we went another four years. Here's an idea for you, John. We're not a democracy now. I feel like Pat Gray. We are not a democracy. So let's get over that right now.

So let's say that you and Chrissy, pack up the house. I know you just bought that new joint for about 20 million in Beverly Hills. So, you know, good luck, God bless. Pack up you and the kids and get out. Bye.

Now, I will say they did get some sad news, and I really do mean this. It's sad news. I saw that Chrissy posted that she lost the baby that she was pregnant with. That's very sad news and that's sad news for anyone. And if you've been through it, I have. It's something that doesn't ever go away.

So I'm very sad to hear that. I think they should still move, but I'm very sad to hear that they lost the baby. I don't wish that pain and sadness on anyone. Now, let's get that. back to people thinking they're going to leave the United States because of an election. According to Google, searches for move to Canada spike after presidential debate. Now, while the debate was agonizing, I didn't ever once think, oh my gosh, I need to move

to Canada. So Google searches for moving to Canada spiked, according to the United. The story queries of how to apply for Canadian citizenship skyrocketed about an hour into the yelling match. Okay. The search was most popular in the state of Massachusetts, Ohio, and Michigan. You're almost there anyway. But you still aren't. You still aren't.

Okay? How to move to Canada and move to Canada also experienced a surge in searches. during the uh during the debate okay so let's talk about that a little bit why would you want to move to canada justin trudeau the trudeau the leader believes that the world is in crisis and things are about to get much worse he's going to put a tax on extreme wealth in a his his fund for coven's spending plan is to put a tax on extreme wealth in equity oh okay that's good He believes that white supremacy is behind climate change. So Canada sounded better and better, right?

Man, do you want to go there? I know. So then I look and I say, well, how do you get out of the U.S.? So I guess there's a surge in Americans searching for info on moving overseas. I mean, let alone Canada. At least these people are looking to stay on the same continent. According to this graph, we have people looking to move to Belize, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico, Spain. The traffic increased between May 26th and September 1st of this year.

Wow. So there were information Belize, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Uruguay. Good luck. God bless. Take care. Now, they give you lists of what you need to do if you want to move overseas. Now, the basic list starts with getting the right documents. And I don't know that this is a basic list, more of a, here's your checklist if you want to make it happen.

So adoption papers, birth certificates, child custody papers, divorce papers, divorce papers. driver's license, marriage certificates, passports, social security cards, no claim bonus NCB record, medical and dental records, including insurance cards and prescriptions, school records, university papers, other insurance policies and legal documents, financial records, and of course, other travel documents. You're going to need to verify all of your immunization records, health certificates, get a pet carrier, and you're going to have to have a timeline. And they also talk about you know, why you'd want to move there. What level of spending are you comfortable with?

What can you afford to pay for rent, health care, and living expenses? Now, I'm guessing that John Legend, Mr. Egot and Christy Teigen are not concerned with most of this on the list. That's just me guessing that. I'm pretty sure they're financially set. But for the rest of the people, say in Michigan, you may want to start looking down the checklist if you're thinking about moving because it isn't quite as pretty as

you think. I really would like to know, I know that we have people listening all over the world. I don't know that there's a better place than the U.S. I mean, we have people still trying to sneak into this country illegally every single day.

Now, it's possible that someone is trying to sneak into Canada, but I'm guessing they may have a criminal record. I don't understand. I get going there. It's fine, but to say you live there, you know, whatever. And then as I'm looking through these lists, I see, you know, 10 good reasons to retire overseas. Okay, let's take a look at those. For a better quality of life to live happier, healthier, and with less stress. You can't find a place in the U.S. for that? To find the perfect

weather where you never again have to shovel snow, scrape ice from your windows, Or heat your house. Huh. Yeah, maybe some of those countries you're not able to heat or cool down your house. You know, I'm just a thought. To escape the 9 to 5 drudgery of a day job and work for yourself to completely reinvent yourself or not work at all. That's what you choose. I thought that was what you were choosing.

You were choosing to retire overseas. Why are you thinking about getting a day job or work for yourself? And you're escaping if you're retiring. if you're retiring, you're escaping that drudgery even here in the U.S. Now, you can reinvent yourself, you could move to, I don't know, Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, and just a thought. Find time to spend with your family to pen that book you've always thought about writing, or to spend your mornings fishing or snorkeling.

Yeah, there's no place in the U.S. you could do that. To live more luxuriously than you ever could at home for a fraction of the cost. Okay. I'd like some of that pointed out to me, please. Because it seems to be that the people clamoring to say they're going to move out of the country. And obviously they didn't mention anybody who was searching in Michigan, Massachusetts, or Ohio. But most of the people we hear clamoring about it are pretty financially stable. So just saying. And it says here, access to access to.

national health care plans and high quality private health care at a fraction of what the price of the U.S. Hmm. Okay. I would like to know, you know, where that is because it seems to me we hear stories all the time of world leaders and people from other countries coming to this country to get their health care. That's because it sucks so bad, right?

Right. And I do remember my dad, my, well, he's my stepdad, but he's my stepdad. He was, you know, anyway, I remember him telling me, and he's traveled all over the world. He was in the military. Traveled all over the world for work, worked for General Motors for years. And I always remember him telling me that until, why would you want to leave the most beautiful country in the world to go to these other countries? Until you've gone every place you can go to in the U.S. Don't even think about going to another country because they're not as nice as the United States.

from someone who's traveled the world. Huh. Huh. Isn't that interesting? But hey, if you want to leave, bye. So they finally arrested, and I say finally, it's been a couple of weeks,

so it's pretty fast. They arrested and found the man who ambushed the two Los Angeles sheriff deputies. Remember, they were parked and the video showed the person walking right up to the open window and shooting both deputies, uh, they have caught this man.

Deante Lee Murray. I kind of thought it was a girl. When you look at the video, I kind of thought it was a girl, but in the story, the police had a pretty good idea who it was. And they were, you know, unleashing all of their power to find this man. And apparently they knew who he was and they were talking to, uh, people who also knew.

who he was. It was just a matter of finding him. Now, he had been arrested and was out because of an armed carjacking separate incident not long before this incident. I just, I mean, just a bad guy. Just, just a really, really bad guy. Now, the sheriff department, Captain Kent Wegener said that when asked if he knew a moment, he knew a moment. motive, his answer was other than the fact that he hates, the suspect hates, hates, the suspect hates policemen and wants them dead, not specifically. A pretty good answer. Pretty good answer.

And then I see where L.A. County District Attorney Jackie Lacey stepped to the microphone and had this to say. First, I would like to send my best wishes to the two deputies whose lives have been changed forever by these cowardly acts. They became victims of a violent crime for one reason. They were doing their job and they were wearing the badge. These two people have committed their lives to protecting our community. And for their service and sacrifice, I want to thank them and their families. Now it's our turn to seek justice on their behalf. This morning my office filed attempted murder charges against Deontay Lee Murray in the shooting of these two deputies.

As you know, the deputies were seated in their patrol car outside a Compton train station when they were ambushed and shot at close range. What you may not know is that deputy district attorneys assigned to the Crimes Against Peace Officers Division rolled out to the scene that night. Since that time, we have been working alongside detectives from the sheriff's department to identify the perpetrator and file these criminal charges. We believe the evidence in this case is strong and supports our filing decision. We've all seen the shocking surveillance video of the shooting and the heroic actions of the wounded female deputy as she drags her partner to safety. That video plus other compelling forensic evidence are the basis for this prosecution.

Today, my office charged Deonte Murray with two felony counts of willful, deliberate, and premeditated attempted murder of a peace officer. Murray was arrested two weeks ago and charged in connection with a carjacking of a man driving a Mercedes-Benz in Compton, and he was charged with also shooting the driver of that Mercedes. He faces attempted murder, carjacking, robbery, and assault charges in that incident. I mean, look, he's a bad guy, and he's definitely going down for this. They've got their man. He's a convicted felon with criminal history affiliated with a number of gangs, and so, you know, he's going down. It was fascinating how they got him. They were in a shootout, and he threw the gun

out a window and the gun that shot the police officers you know they witnessed it and saw him throw the gun out so I mean this guy is done right the only way out of this is if you look at it from a TV point of view a television show point of view

as wasn't really him that threw the gun out the window and they just picked their guy and that's who they're getting so they could get someone but that's a TV show in real life uh my man Deante Lee Murray is going down for shooting these two police officers and good. Good.

Also, a court approved a settlement totaling $800 million from casino company MGM Resorts International and its insurers for more than 4,400 relatives and victims of the Las Vegas strip shooting that was the deadliest in U.S. history, or for sure in recent U.S. history alone. It's a final deal settling dozens of lawsuits on the eve of the third anniversary of the shooting. I mean, they killed 58 people, injured more than 850 at the concert. It was a near unanimous participation in the settlement among the potential claimants. Well, yeah, I mean, they're not. Nobody's walking away from that.

There's all kinds of weird things happening around that shooting, but, you know, you can't, you can't deny that. So the hotel and the concert venue acknowledged no liability, and it will pay $49 million. Its insurance companies will pay $751 million. Wow. The anniversary, three years ago, today, for those of you listening live, to Chewing the Fat, October 1st, 2020 is the date today, October 1st, 2017, was the date of the shooting. Wow, it was really, really horrific footage from all of that. Wow, two stories that had horrific footage in today's world,

and they're both, you know, wrapping up, although the LA case isn't 100% wrapped up, but he's going down for it. And now these people will hopefully get some, get some needed reprieve and help to ease a little bit of their pain. Obviously, we always joke around that money helps everything. I realize that money can't solve everything. But it helps. And Sue Burgess of Hernando County, Florida, wishes she had her money that would help her out.

For Sue, it was only $1,000. And I say only $1,000. She said that she was elated winning the $1,000 from the Florida lottery. It was like winning a million dollars to her. So she couldn't claim her winnings at any of the local lottery offices since they were closed due to the pandemic. I'd like to go back and look at some of the rules because I thought if it was like a thousand bucks,

the store could pay it out. I'm going to look that up right now. Please hold. Your listenership is very important to us. We are in the process of finding an answer to the question that you've asked. Thank you for holding. Your listenership is very important to us here in the Fed, and we appreciate your holding.

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thank you for holding okay so in the Florida lottery prizes thanks for holding by the way prizes less than $600 can be claimed at the retailer and you know she won a thousand bucks so she's prizes of

$600 to $250,000 can be mailed to your nearest Florida Lottery District Office or Florida Lottery headquarters, prizes above $250,000 can be mailed to Florida Lottery headquarters. If you want more than 250 grand with the Florida Lottery, I would say, hello, Florida Lottery, I'm here. I would be waiting at the front door.

I would not be mailing my ticket in. Now, she won $1,000. She couldn't go to the office. Obviously, they were closed. Coronavirus pandemic. So she followed their instructions, went to the post office, and she mailed it off. Now, she mailed it certified mail. She didn't have to.

She figured it'll have a tracking number. We'll be good. Now, the ticket never made it to the lottery office. And it has to be made within a week's time. I didn't see any dates on this update for the Florida lottery, but if they say it has to be in a week time, okay, fine, it's got to be a weekday. Now, they say the tracking information from the post office

says it's in transit on August 12th at a time, Tallahassee Post Office. Still as it showed up. Lottery says, hey, we haven't received a ticket. No ticket, no prize. Wait. What?

But I have the proof that I mailed the ticket. Well, anybody could mail the ticket. So, now they're working with the post office. They, USPS, apologize that it's working with the state lottery to help her, you know, cash out her prize. We apologize to this specific customer for any inconvenience. They may have experienced. And the lottery office confirmed receipt of the mail piece.

And they said, we're not responsible for the mistakes made by the postal service. Although they did say, thank you. They're going to make an exception in this lady's case and pay out a prize if the package shows up. Postmarked by the original deadline. She's got the receipt. She's got the receipt that is postmarked. It's certified mail. Come on now.

So if the ticket shows up, I kind of get not giving her the money without the actual ticket. But I don't know. It's really questionable. Now, you want to beat up the USPS on that? You go ahead. However, I will say this.

As a non-paid spokesperson for the United States Postal Service. I would say that out of, I don't have any real numbers in front of me, but I would say that out of the millions of certified mail that gets mailed, you know, very few. I would say it's a low percentage of that mail that gets lost. That's just me. I know I'm an unpaid spokesperson for the USPS,

and I've always vied for a job either on the board of governors or the, Postmaster General, although I'd rather be on the board of governors. And I believe, you know, they're taking a big hit now over mail-in ballots and what's going to happen. DeJoy is talking about if they wanted to put the machines back that he took out. He's saying he can't put the machines back because he took the machines out to use, to cannibalize to fix the other machines to try to save some money for parts as just an amazing time at the post office, which is why. Which is why.

No one is a bigger spokesperson and believer and backer of the Postal Service than this program chewing the fat. Now, I'm happy to accept a seat on the board of governors where I'm willing to sit down and talk about becoming the Postmaster General, although I'd prefer just to be on the board of governors. So good luck. I mean, I hope they better start to be using their resources to find this late. lottery ticket certified mail.

I don't care if it's stuck in a machine. I don't care if Joey from Hernando County or Tallahassee dropped it on the floor and kicked it underneath one of the machines in the back room. If it's underneath a mailbox in the back room of the

Tallahassee Post Office, I don't care where it is. They better freaking find it. And I know it's only a thousand bucks, but to this lady, she already said it felt like a million dollars. And she lives in Hernandez County. You know, I mean, And Brooksville, I worked in Hernando County for a while. Hernandez, that's right.

I worked right at downtown Brooksville, baby, 1450 J.B. Country. That's not a country station anymore. But I worked in Hernando County for quite some time. I spent a lot of time in Hernando County. I love Hernando County. Big fan. Never mind those sinkholes and those gopher turtles. Ah, that's fine.

Don't lose my $1,000 ticket. And technically, they haven't lost. the ticket. It's only misplaced. So... Let's go to the break room. I need an ice cold so desperately, man. Oh my gosh. It was so freaking good. You know what else is good? A subscription to this podcast? Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher.

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so much better about yourself. It's just, I want you to feel good about yourself. The only way that you could do that, or at least one of the more positive ways you can do that, is subscribe to the things I've asked you to subscribe to. I see where Apple has previewed their new emojis. So according to the headlines, we've had the non-bionary Santa. So I look, I'm trying to look at the pictures here at the, at the new emojis. And, And the non-binary Santa. Yeah, it looks like a, what could be a female with glasses and a Santa hat. Ooh.

You know, if we have the regular Santa, you know, can we have that one too? And we finally have a, looks like a ninja. But it's someone covering their face. It's just someone covering their face with two eyes showing. We have a smiley face or happy face with a. tear. I guess they've never had that before. We have a what looks to be a female

in a tuxedo. Whoa! The horror of that. We do have some what looks like male and females holding a little baby. Okay. We have a needle and thread.

These ones that they've never had before like a screwdriver and a saw? I'm out, okay. Good for you. These guys are making billions of dollars, and they're coming up with these. We've just come out with the new emojis.

We've never had a plunger before. Well, why not? Why not? We've got buffalo and elephants. And actually, I remember looking for an elephant not long ago and not being able to find it. I think, was it an elephant? I was looking for something in the emoji section of my,

and I know I got it, I got it, it's not an Apple product, Samsung. I know, I know, I know. But I couldn't find the one emoji I was looking for. Really strange. Anyway, and they've got three blueberries. They've never had three blueberries before? I don't know that. I don't know that.

One flip-flop. Ooh, that one smart, huh? Good. We've never had a flip-flop. You know these guys are developing these emojis. Now, we got all this stuff that we can make emojis for. Don't release them all now. We'll be out of the job.

Okay. We got to just put them off to the side. Next year, we're going to release two flip-flops. Not just one. Okay? Yeah, I know. I know. I know.

But we just released an olive and a pepper and blueberries. I know. I know. Next year, a cucumber. Okay. Next year, a green bean. Oh, okay. Next year, corn on the cob.

Ooh, now we're talking. So anyway, I should probably give them ideas. So congratulations to Apple for releasing those new emojis. They look great. I really, I really mean that. They look great. Facebook issued their internal rules. They're tightening up their rules.

Look, according to Facebook and their memo from Zuck, the chief executive officer, Mark Zuckerberg, we deeply value expression, open discussion, and a company culture built on respect and inclusivity. Oh, this isn't even from Zuck. This is from their spokeswoman. I mean, I'm sure Zuck made sure that she's releasing what he wants. But this is from her, Pamela Austin.

This isn't even from Zuck. Maybe that's his out. What we have heard from our employees is that they want the option to join debates on social and political issues rather than see them unexpectedly in their work feed. Yeah, I wouldn't want you to look at your feed. Oh, hey, there's something I didn't expect. I can't have that. I didn't expect Bill from the toiletry services to have an idea about the election unexpectedly in my feed.

Give me a break. So they're updating the policies and work tools to make sure our people have both voice and choice. Isn't that nice? That's a good line from Facebook. I know. I know. It's important that people have both voice and choice. Except the choice we want to give you is the choice that we've decided for you.

We don't want you to actually pick the choice. Just incredible. Plus, they made these changes that employees, they're required to use a photo of themselves or their initials as their profile pictures. So there's no political candidates or causes specific to whatever you believe in as your profile pick. Huh. More voice and choice, I believe was the quote, right?

We believe people have both voice and choice. Not more of it, but they should have both voice and choice. Now, you also, there's new guidelines from Facebook as well. There's a whole new list of guidelines for Facebook. So they're taking care of things. They want their employees to have both voice and choice. So that's good. Look, Facebook employees, like much of the country, according to Pamela,

have engaged in heated internal debates at times this year over current events. including Black Lives Matter protests. Uh-huh. I bet they've had heated internal debates. Boy, we agree with Black Lives Matter, don't we? We sure do. I may not believe in them 100%, but 99%. Whoa, what's wrong with you?

That's a heated debate. Anyway, after Facebook executives refused to remove controversial posts from President Donald Trump, that was their heated debate. Why are we letting Donald Trump post what he wants to on his feed. But hey, we believe in both voice

and choice. Do you? Some employees say it's a virtual walkout. Many change their profile photos to an all black image or black and white fist. Those type of profile photos are against the new policies.

Got it? Now, you can still use the company created photo filters like those created for holidays, or social movements like Pride Month, but we won't have any of those blackouts or black and white fists. But we believe in both voice and choice.

Why won't you ban people on Facebook because they said things we don't like and it popped up in my feet unexpectedly? Well, we believe all of you people should have both voice. and choice just it's just agonizing I'm not sure who to be more upset with the Facebook employees or the Facebook executives we want you to have both voice and choice but here's some restrictions wait what employees yeah we believe that everybody should say exactly what they want, but why can't we ban people? And we don't want anything to pop up in our feeds unexpectedly.

Wait, what? It's just, you know what? The whole damn thing. I'm agonized with. You can quote me on that. So nothing sacred anymore. Evangelist, Rabbi Zagorias, remember him? He just passed away.

in May of this year. And I feel like I've met him at least once. I mean, I don't know him, but I mean, I met him at least once. And he was a nice man. But now he's got three women coming out saying that there was, they were sexually harassed from rabbi. So they must want some money from the, from the, from the, from the leaders cash cow.

It doesn't say in the story that they're suing for, that, although he did settle a case in 2017, where another woman claimed that he had enticed her to send unwanted offensive sexually explicit language and photographs. Now, he denied the claims, but he settled the case. So I would like to know how you entice someone to send unwanted offensive sex. explicit language and photographs. According to this, now the three women that are

saying stuff about him say that he would okay, this I'm going to use a big guy word, you know, he would do to himself what people do to themselves. See, I'm keeping a kid friendly.

Keeping a kid friendly. He would do things to himself and expose himself. And he did those things in front of one lady more than 50 times according to her and asked her for explicit photos.

And he asked to have sex with her twice. Doesn't say whether she did. It does say I felt ashamed. I felt embarrassed. You have this world-renowned evangelist who's being inappropriate and I had no idea what to do. You had no idea what to do? Come on now.

This is what kills me with these cases. You have no idea what to do? he wasn't just the head of the company he wasn't just a CEO he was a Christian leader and he would often tell the women that he needed to do this to himself because the stresses of the ministry which kept him on an almost constant speaking to her well he would say he needed it so much and it was good therapy okay so but you didn't know what to do you didn't know what to do you say hey rabbi how about no i mean i don't get it i seriously i don't get it or you say okay hey rabbi have at it i mean if if according to this he did it more than 50 times

in front of this one lady at one point if you didn't want it to happen don't just say hey rhabi how about no why don't you put that thing away i don't i'm sorry i don't understand how you just you don't know what to do i get that you felt embarrassed and you felt ashamed i get it and i get that he's this world-renowned evangelist i know i understand that but at the some point at some point don't you have to claim a little personal responsibility. Don't you have to claim a little saying like, you want me to send what kind of photos? Nah. It's okay. You want me to have sex? Nah. Get out of here. Hey, Rav, why don't you put that thing away? The last 20 or 30 times is enough. Okay? I've seen that thing enough. Go

go get a massage down the hall. I guess most of this took place at the spa in Georgia that he co-owned. At some point, don't we all have to have just a little personal responsibility? Download and subscribe to more

content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. All I can think of is Monsters Inc. It reminds me, you the Rave's story. Put that thing back where it came from or so help me. I mean, at some point, don't you say that? Really?

Maybe you just play that clip. He just, hey, Rob, come here for a second. I want you to see something. I'll put that thing back where it came from or so help me. You understand what I'm saying, Rob? Let's put that thing back where it came from. That just drives me in crazy. Okay, so Fat Bear Week still on.

Still happening right now as we speak. And yesterday, we got the matchup winner 151. And I voted for 151. And matchup winner 812. Remember, I think the fix is in on 812. But 151 Walker is a strong candidate. And I wouldn't be surprised to see 151 Walker go up against Holly last year's winner.

But we'll see. We'll see what happens. So today's voting is taking place. And as we record, the first bracket is, up for today. A bear 32 and bear 719. Wow, 719 has really changed. But 32 is a big winner as far as I'm concerned.

719 needed to a little bit more practice getting some salmon out of the river, I would say. But we definitely, we're voting for bear. Why doesn't it come up? I don't understand why it's not coming up. My email should be coming right up and it's not. What is going on? Oh, maybe I voted on the other computer last time. That's possible.

All right. Email address. Chewing the fat at the blaze. All right, so 32. I vote. We'll see you. In 32. How was 32 doing?

Do I get to see the votes or what? Yeah, okay. Let's see the results. I want to see what's going on. You can make your own brackets. And I don't know what I'm going to do this weekend. I may just do a YouTube live every day, Saturday and Sunday as a fat bear week.

What do you think? Let me know. Email me at chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Maybe I do a daily YouTube live or an Instagram, IGTV, live every day. Give you a quick fat bear week, chewing the fat update each day as the brackets go on. So you let me.

me know. You want a YouTube live or a Instagram live? And it's up to, you know what? I'll let you. You make the call, all right? For this weekend, chewing the fat, we'll update you either on YouTube or Instagram. Maybe we do both. We do both.

And we just send the links out either way. But if you need to know, the links are up. I posted about my social media account. You could vote for Fat Bear Week. or you could just go to explore.org, E-X-P-L-R-E-D-R-E-D-R-E-S-W slash fat-bear-d-W-W It's just that simple.

Explore.org slash fat-dash-bear-dash week. Or you could just, you know, go to the social media accounts and you're good to go. So, remember, why is this a story now? I'm really confused at what the deal is, why this is coming out now, because it's an older story. Remember when McDonald's, there was a study that talked about the McDonald's fries. They helped in hair growth.

And it was a joke for a lot of the bald people who said, doesn't work for me. And I remember Ari Fleischer, one of the White House press secretaries, you know, said, bald, it doesn't work. And I guess he must have said something. He suggested that

it was the fast food of McDonald's French fries that keeps his trademark hair. So he's just stoking the fires a little bit. You guys, man, you guys run, he runs circles around the press, man. It's a story.

It's incredible. Remember a scientist from Japan said a chemical McDonald's added to their fries in order to keep the cooking oil from frothing up was found to regrow hair in mice and so trump yeah that's me that's me remember he even said a hundred years ago that his secret was head and shoulders i don't really like the head and shoulders but it's kind of old old school but he's just running circles around you guys yep it's McDonald's fries that keeps my hair going strong.

Okay. Do your stories. All right, kind of like a Fat Pile Friday on the, you know, a fat pile Thursday. Or a fat pile news highlights. The space. Let's talk a little bit of space. We talked earlier on Tom Cruise going into space to film the first movie filmed in space. Elon's flying him up

and they're going to go to the ISS with his director and yay And then we have the headline here Where the World Space agencies are on a quest To deflect a harmless asteroid You know, they want to deflect the asteroid So they learn how to do it I don't know, maybe every time I see headlines like this

All I can think of is the documentary Armageddon You don't deflect You don't deflect Asteroids You blow them up from the inside and that's what happens and that's what happened in the documentary Armageddon.

Now they're also talking about finding liquid on Mars. I hope that's true. Let's fly it back. Let's liquid water buried under ice and the red planet. Okay. Let's go to Mars and let's get that liquid and bring her back. So we've got some extra

water here on Earth. I'm all good with that. Okay? That's right. That's right. And we're getting ready to look. launch again the end of this month. Four astronauts going up. Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Associate Nogachi

are headed up to the space station on SpaceX crewed dragon spacecraft and the Falcon 9 rocket. That's going up at the end of the month. October 31st from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

Let's hope that actually happens. And we're going to start using the Starlink satellite service. the Starlink Internet satellite service, which SpaceX is developing. It's been used. They're going to start using in the field in Washington State before emergency responders

and be able to have the internet. So emergency response division began using the Starlink terminals in early August, and they're using it more and more. And so they're using the Starlink program up there. Nice. I like to see it. The picture they have is kind of cool. It's this kind of a walking dead picture behind a fence.

And on the outside of the fence is a, you know, cardboard and says phone. And there's an old style phone there. And then it says Wi-Fi. And then a charging AC plug there. People can walk up and use it. And then behind the fence, you see a trailer or a van with, you know, a satellite dish there. And then the building behind it is an enclosed building. Looks like a story and a half, two stories.

Vent to the outside from the inside. But it doesn't look like it's too welcoming. Everything about that place says go away. So it's kind of walking deadish. Oh, we got Walking Dead coming up this weekend, too. Speaking of Space. Look forward to that. Finally, we get the final episode of season 10,

which isn't really the final episode of season 10. And if you listen to the show in the past, you know why that is. And then we have the new show, the world beyond. And so I'm hoping to have Talking Walking Dead back up and running with Jason Buttrill and my son Maximus because, I mean, we're back starting this Sunday. So looking forward to that as well. But one of the things that was sent to me, what got me thinking about these space stories was I had a listener email me with a space related email. and it had a old YouTube clip of NASA playing a Robin Williams wake-up call to Discovery.

Now, obviously, Robin Williams has been dead for, wow, six years now. Very sad. And this was in 1988, I believe, because we had the Challenger in 86. And then so Discovery, and he was, you know, Robin back then was good morning. morning Vietnam and they do a great rendition of remember the green acres theme the green acres TV show theme green acres is the place to be farm living is the life for me and uh they do a a version of that for the astronauts and it was great it was great so i'm going to leave you with that today and just enjoy it

and you'll be singing the Greenacre song the rest of the day. You're welcome. Rise and shine, boys. Time to start doing that shuttle shuffle. You know what I mean? Hey, here's a little song coming from the billions of us to the five of you.

Rick, start them off, baby. The hawkster to you. It's awesome. You go, NASA announcer, stepping on the astronauts, replying back with the good morning. Good job. You could wait for the reply?

Duh. Now, I look to see who did that, and I can't find who did it. I don't know. You know, Robin looks like, seems like he throws it to Rick Hulkster. If you know who that is, let me know. I mean, it's a great parody version of Green Acres. And, you know, credit. I'd love to give credit to the person to know who it is, but I don't.

And I looked at a couple of, I would look through some records talking about the wake-up calls at NASA, and there's no record of that who did the song. So if you know who did it, let me know, email me at chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I'm pretty sure that it's not Weird Al Yankovic doing his parody of Green Acres. Pretty sure. Although, you know,

if Weird Al calls me or emails me and says, hey, dude, that's me. I'll give him credit. But I'm pretty sure it's not him.