Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 493 | I Knew They Were Listening

Episode Date: October 22, 2020

Quibi Holdings LLC shutting down… Million Dollar Idea…You’re Welcome! Electric autos / animal free diary / climate friendly food… Keith Olbermann still has a platform? Subscribe to the Podca...st… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Subscribe to www.BlazeTV.com/jeffy Promo code jeffy Email to Chewingthefat@theblaze.com The Silent Will Be Heard Dot Com Un boxing … Debate / World Series… Carole Baskin comes out, sort of… AOC on Twitch… Podcasts and movie ideas… Business news from Purdue Pharma / P&G / Reckitt Benckiser… Coronavirus / Blood tests / Vaccines & Quarantines… New Organ found in human throat… A little global unrest / Nigeria – Thailand – China – U.S. Hunter Biden – No one really cares… Ghislaine Deposition releashed… Tree ( s ) in Japan called Daisugi… Name a tree in Colorado. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, where should we get started today? I don't know. There is a plethora of fat, a flethora of fat, a pile of fat to get through today. And then fat pile Friday tomorrow. I mean, I may even just take the fat. The fat may just roll over into the weekend. But we might as well start with saying goodbye to Quibi. Yes, Quibi Holdings LLC.
Starting point is 00:00:30 shutting down. I know. I know. I was a fan. I wanted to be a huge fan of Quibi. And yet from the very beginning, they kind of let us down. They had served up the shows that, you know,
Starting point is 00:00:48 were five or ten minute chapters, which I liked and some of the shows were really good. But the bulk of shows on the platform were not that good. And of course they're blaming it, you know, mostly on COVID-19. It was designed, you know, they were, the selling point was to be on the go in between moments, at a moment in time which no one had in between moments. It was all just moments at home. And really strange.
Starting point is 00:01:22 And of course, it was the way they promoted it and the way it started out was all wrong. And look, they only got started out with, you know, $1.7 billion. I know it's reported, you know, $2 billion, but it's really, I think the $1.75 billion was the amount that they started out with. They now have only $350 million in the bank, and they're, you know, looking to wrap it up and return as much as they can. to the investors, you know, if you invested, uh, you know, a hundred million, are you happy to get two million back? I guess. Maybe. You know, you're getting something back. And, uh, they know, they're big deal. I got employees that are, you know, probably making really good money. And of course, they want to find a, you know, a good landing for those employees.
Starting point is 00:02:25 And I know that they will help them get a, you know, new gig. Good luck. Good luck. So I know that they, you know, want to talk about what a great journey it was, but man, I wish they would have just, they should just give it to me. Just give me quibby. I know they tried to sell it. They tried to raise more capital. They tried to do everything. And it, they claim that they tried to do everything they could to keep it alive. But their main focus at the beginning was all wrong. But that's a moot point now because it's over. They're shutting down.
Starting point is 00:03:09 What happens now with all that content? I don't know. A lot of it's kind of cool. It'd be, you know, it'd be cool to see, you know, Netflix or Hulu. Someone pick up the shows and just put them together. So you'd have an hour, hour and a half show. show to watch and you know the the quibby compilation but we'll see what happens it'll be it'll be interesting to follow welcome to chewing the fat all right i have a million dollar idea for you but you won't be
Starting point is 00:03:49 able to do it if you're in pain so let me help you getting out of pain and then you can go for and then do. My way of helping you, you know, get out of pain is to tell you about a product that can actually get you out of pain. Relief factor. The other day, my daughter is sitting there and she says, Dad, did you know that our brains don't remember pain accurately? And I was like, yeah, uh, hello, it's kind of a biological defense mechanism that allows us to, uh, I don't know, live better. So we don't remember when we fell out of the tree and smashed our head. against the car, that kind of thing. It helps when mothers have babies and they scream,
Starting point is 00:04:33 I'll never have another child again, you did this to me. And, you know, the next day, it's like, oh, we have to have another child. Yeah, I know. But the thing is, the best thing, you know, about pain, aside from learning from it, is when it goes away. And for some of us, it doesn't ever go away.
Starting point is 00:04:54 But relief factor can help you dismiss that pain. That's right. Over 50 million people in America are going to miss work due to pain. That's an incredible number. For some of us, a pain is a daily thing. Hello, 66% of us expect to live the rest of our life with some pain. I'm definitely in that percentage points. But relief factor targets the underlying problem areas from four different
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Starting point is 00:05:54 I mean, the question is, what price would you put on making that pain go away? You could send me the low low price of, well, I mean, there's no amount that you could give me that would really do it. So your best bet is 1995 to Relief Factor. 1995 will get you a three-week quick start to Relief Factor. Just go to ReliefFactor.com, 1995 for a three-week quick start. Look, of the people that order Relief Factor, 70% of the people go on to order more. It's designed by doctors, and it's not a drug. It helps you get your life back.
Starting point is 00:06:34 Relieffactor.com. Go to Relieffactor.com or call 800,5803.83.84. 800,500, 8,834, or go to Relieffactor. All right, million dollar idea. So, and I know some of you are going to say, it's already out there, Jeff. What are you an idiot? Maybe I am. Maybe I am.
Starting point is 00:07:04 So I'm sitting there last night watching my, my wife in the kitchen, you know, cooking. And she's got her headphones on and she's listening to whatever she listens to. And I'm sure it's this podcast. right but uh so my daughter comes in and she wants to hear what my wife is listening to and so they put it on their Bluetooth speaker so it's in the kitchen and I'm thinking well why doesn't the headphones just connect because these headphones you know connect to the Bluetooth but not multiple headphones so here's a million dollar idea for you Make it so multiple headphones can connect to the same Bluetooth phone computer.
Starting point is 00:08:02 So you're all listening to the same thing. Jeff, that already is available. If it is, email me, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. If it isn't, go forth and create. And I'll just take my cut. You can mail me whatever it is that you. sell your app for okay all right thank you you're welcome by the way okay so never mind that the planet is in turmoil uh we'll go around the globe a little bit and talk a little bit about that turmoil uh in a little bit
Starting point is 00:08:42 but we are doing better things to save the planet i mean electric cars animal free dairy climate friendly I'm sorry, not just animal-free dairy, but climate-friendly food. So, I mean, you have GM unveiling the new electric Hummer. Features, you know, you get 350 miles. It has a crab mode for diagonal off-road movement, driver-assist software. It's got their digital cockpit system that they designed with the creator of Fortnite. under the GMC brand GM's going to pump these out at its Detroit ham tramock plant which has been named I'm sorry it's not the hamtri blanket it's the factory zero okay so
Starting point is 00:09:36 I guess factory zero is now the cornerstone of GM's zero emission zero crash zero congestion Roadmap. Oh, man, does that sound good, right? Right. By 2023, GM plans to unveil 20 electric vehicles. Wow. They've set aside 4.5 billion upgrade factories. Oh, wow. They've got 2.2 billion for factory zero, which will produce the electric cruise origin. Two billion to reconfigure a Tennessee plant to produce the new Cadillac. They've got three. 300 million for a plant in another plant in Orient Township, Michigan. Wow. So you've got the new Hummer, the new GM's electric collection, you know, the head of their electric collection. It gives Tesla Cyber Truck, the electric Ford, F-150 hitting the streets. So good times, good times for electric vehicles. Then we have news from Bob Eiger, you know, former head of,
Starting point is 00:10:45 Disney. He put out the news, I think yesterday, but at least within the last couple days. You know, since he stepped down from Disney, he joined the board of animal-free dairy startup. Perfect Day. Oh, that's good. That's good. Now, look, what does he know about animal-free dairy? well, his expertise will open doors and add knowledge of operational excellence, you know, from his Disney and Apple days. They raised $360 million, including from a Singapore investor, only has one commercially available product right now, a non-dairy ice cream. You know, we're planning on doing more, though, but ice cream first. Say, okay, got it? So they use this fungi fermentation tanks.
Starting point is 00:11:46 They copied cow DNA. They make this animal free ice cream. I have not tried this this perfect day. I'm going to have to try to see if I can get a taste of the perfect day ice cream. So we have that. You have impossible foods rolling out more. We talked about this before. all the new plant-based foods.
Starting point is 00:12:13 So Impossible Foods is going to go into, you know, their animal-free steak, bacon, fish, and their own milk, dairy, non-dairy, fake dairy product. And because they pledge to make a no cow milk that cooks, heats, and even mixes with coffee like cow milk. Isn't that what perfect day is, trying to do okay we'll see uh there are so the fight is on the non-dairy milk war is on okay so the first
Starting point is 00:12:50 company that could make that no cow milk milk that cooks heats and even mixes with coffee like cow milk will be the winner yay and then we have you know the headline of panera bread but there's plenty of restaurants now that are trying to, you know, label their menu with items that are climate-friendly. You know, because of the 2019 report from the United Nations found that the global food system accounts for 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Yeah, we don't have to worry about that. We don't want to worry about feeding the people on the planet. We want to worry about global gas emissions. coming from the food on your plate.
Starting point is 00:13:38 All right, whatever. Panera Bread, remember, they were like, they were the first national restaurant chain to put calorie counts on the menus, and they are now labeling items as climate friendly. Okay, thank you. So the salads and the sandwiches and the soups, we want to, you know, have that footprint as low as possible.
Starting point is 00:14:04 and we want to have, they have one entree called Cool Food Meal. So that's what it's called because of the World Resources Institute. Oh, isn't that nice? That's nice. So Panera worked with the Environmental Think Tank
Starting point is 00:14:22 World Resources Institute to calculate the carbon footprint of the menu. Wow. Menu items with the distinction of, earning the badge of cool food I mean broccoli cheddar soup Mediterranean bowl I mean
Starting point is 00:14:42 doesn't that just sound good yes yes it does I know that they are you know they're really looking for people to make that informed decision grains fruits vegetables and we know that dairy products and meat are at the higher end of course
Starting point is 00:15:00 yeah I mean we don't want to have any dairy products or meat Duh. So just salad, which has locations across six states, implemented carbon labeling. Oh, that's good, because we want that carbolating.
Starting point is 00:15:16 Now, this is going to come as a surprise to you. Just, and this is just a, I hate to throw this in there, but I have never been to just salad. So, I don't know. I cannot tell. you what a great place it is and how important the buffalo Caesar salad for example that has 0.77 kilograms of carbon dioxide is good or not but it's part of
Starting point is 00:15:51 the cool food meal badge of good housekeeping seal so it's got to be good right right got to be good I mean I know it's just me probably probably, but when I see a menu that has calories on it, I don't even, I mean, I chuckle to myself about that because I'm ordering food that I like and I want to eat and it's available. I don't care about that. I don't care about the calories. I don't care if it's, you know, helping, if it's perceived to help the planet survive. I just don't care.
Starting point is 00:16:31 You know, I want the steak. I want the potatoes. the salad yeah you know somebody around here will eat it you know so bring it it's part of the deal but you don't have to rush that whole salad delivery i just don't care i just don't i mean i know i hate the planet but i that's the way it is i have a question for you um i guess i should go to the break room but it's yeah let's go to the break room let's get a drink get something our throat something cold refreshing and then i have a question for you oh my gosh that's so good so good okay all right i need one more drink so good so good so good so my question is how does keith overman
Starting point is 00:17:47 still have a platform to reach the dingleberries that he's reaching now I don't want him to be canceled. I want him to have a platform. More voices. More voices. More voices. More voices. But my question is, if Alex Jones doesn't have a platform, how does Keith Oberman still have a platform?
Starting point is 00:18:10 That's just my question. That's just my question. If we're going to hate and keep people off of platforms, how are we not hating and keeping a person like Keith Oberman off of those same platforms? I think you know the answer. I was just, you know, thinking off the top of my head. Now, I mean it when I say more voices. Subscribe to this podcast.
Starting point is 00:18:34 If you're listening to this show right now and you're not a subscriber to this podcast, you. I don't want to say you're part of the problem, but, you know, some people might say that. So if you're listening to this and you're not a subscriber, you need to become a subscriber. So subscribe to chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. You can choose whatever platform warms the little cockles of your heart. There's a plethora of them to choose from like iTunes, Iheart Radio, Stitcher, Spotify. Oh, we're going to talk. I got to tell you the story about Spotify and podcasts and movies.
Starting point is 00:19:14 And I know, I mean, I'm, I wasn't listed in the story, but I'm sure I'm sure, you know, you know, one of the high. that it shows. So we'll just, we'll get to that. I'm positive of that. So subscribe to chewing the fat. And when I say more voices, now is the time to actually,
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Starting point is 00:20:20 And it also means that you believe in more. voices, not less. There shouldn't be people getting axed from platforms. We should be able to listen and watch what we want when we want. And that's why it's important to keep things like Blaze alive. So BlazeTV.com slash Jeffie, promo code, Jeffie. And, you know, look, you're already subscribing. You're subscribing to a podcast and now you're subscribed to Blaze TV.
Starting point is 00:20:53 you might as well subscribe to my YouTube channel. Same name as the podcast, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. And, you know, we'll just make that happen. Okay. All right. That's a good deal. Can't wait. A huge, you know, if you're listening live today, the 22nd of October 2020,
Starting point is 00:21:12 we know that we have the debate tonight, the last debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. If you could make it. You know, it might be worth a watch. I don't know. Maybe you just listen to the highlights. Maybe I'll just tell you some highlights tomorrow or not. I'm sure there's going to be some low lights to go through.
Starting point is 00:21:36 So we'll see. I don't know. We'll see. Did you, and we got the World Series. You know, of Rays and the Dodgers. We got night off tonight for those of you, again, listening live. They're not the World Series, not up against the debate. and it's one in one.
Starting point is 00:21:54 Dodgers won the first game. Ray's won the second last night. They looked good. They looked strong. It was a fun game to watch. So, you know, got that going on as well. Also, one of the things that happened was, remember Carol Baskin from Tiger King? And, you know, the head of her Big Cat Sanctuary in Tampa Bay.
Starting point is 00:22:19 she the headline is a carol baskin comes out as a bisexual what now she says that i've always considered myself to be bisexual oh really yeah i've always considered myself to be bisexual now i have never had a wife but i could just as easily have a wife as a husband oh well uh she's said she started exploring her sexuality in the 80s when she engaged to a psychologist who was working with parents in the LGBTQ community who had been affected by the HIV crisis. She was engaged to this psychologist. I was always very male oriented in the things I did. I never had any mothering instincts or anything, you know. I never played with dolls.
Starting point is 00:23:15 And so I always thought that there was something off there. And I couldn't quite put my finger on it, although I think she probably did put her finger on it. And maybe that was the problem. Anyway, she realized then that discovered through the dealings with the LGBT community that I just had feelings for women, as I did for men. And as far as the way they feel about us, I think we're all one. And I just don't see us as being different genders or different colors or anything. Oh, well, that's special. Or you're married, right?
Starting point is 00:23:51 You're married to a man, or at least I think he identifies as a man. And you were married to a person who identified as a man who has been, you know, dead in parentheses, quotation marks. I say them both now just to tick off some of the podcast listeners. And who emailed me at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com to remind me at was a parenthesis. It was going to say, I got it. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:24:21 So, you know what? I'm coming out as gay as well. Yeah, I've always considered myself that. And I've never acted on it. You know, I never had a husband. But, you know, hey, it could have just happened. So, you know, could have. It didn't.
Starting point is 00:24:40 It didn't, but it could have. So, Carol, I'm with you. I'm with you. No problem. I understand. For the first time of my life, I'm on the same side as Carol Baskin. Not as a,
Starting point is 00:24:54 as a lesbian, but as a coming out as bisexual. Right? So if she's bisexual, then it doesn't make her a lesbian, that just makes her buy. So, you know what?
Starting point is 00:25:05 I'm, I'm coming out as bye. Yeah, me too. Never acted on it. But I'm with you, Carol, 100%. Cease. So,
Starting point is 00:25:15 I want everybody to like, me. I don't want to say bad things about anybody. Give money to my Big Cat Rescue, please. Okay. All right. Thank you. Did you see Twitch had a gaming night with AOC and Ilan Omar? They logged in to play the game Among Us. The third most viewed single Twitch stream in history. at one point they had 439,000 people simultaneously logged down to Twitch to watch AOC play the video game. I guess she was pretty good. I didn't log in. I wasn't one of the 439,000 people.
Starting point is 00:26:03 I know. But apparently she was having fun and good. And boy, I bet you she was great and just riveting to watch along with Alain Omar. Oh, man. Wow. did I, I'm bummed that I missed it. I really am. I'm bummed that I, that I missed it. I really am.
Starting point is 00:26:22 Oh, I was talking about podcast and movies and Spotify. So I see this story and I'm, it's reading about how Hollywood has mind podcasts for story ideas since the early 2000s. But now it's gone to the next level. right film and TV production companies are using podcasts as their you know content incubators testing out ideas on the medium and where they should make you know where they should produce something onto the big screen so there's this uh charon entertainment c h er n internet entertainment uh u.s production company and they've produced you know movies Planet of the Apes and Ford v Ferrari I mean those are two you know, two movies were huge. Ford Friri was actually so much better than I thought it was going to be. Anyway, they just inked a deal with Spotify to adapt the streaming music giants growing library of podcasts into films and TV series. Under the partnership, Sharon and Spotify will, you know, rub each other's backs or scratch or massage each other.
Starting point is 00:27:41 Sharon gets to go through Spotify's original audio shows for movie ideas, while Spotify could sift through Sharon's heap of unadapted intellectual property for concepts that might make more sense as podcasts. I'm, hello, you can, this program, while not exclusively on Spotify, I believe I've said before on this show, I'm willing to sit down. and talk to Spotify about that. And I'm telling you, uh,
Starting point is 00:28:14 Sharon, you, I know, I know, you've listened to this podcast and mind some ideas. There's been multiple times when I say,
Starting point is 00:28:24 uh, hello, they had to have been listening to the show. Now we know they were. One, one last little note on the debate. Um, it's the final U.S.
Starting point is 00:28:36 presidential debate. I'll just give you some facts so you know, so that we know what we're going to not, have to talk about. I guess they're covering six topics. Fighting COVID-19. American families, race in America, of course, climate change, oh God,
Starting point is 00:28:53 national security and leadership. I'm just saying it out loud, makes it agonizing. NBC's Christian Welker is the moderator. It's going to be in Nashville. And don't forget the mics are going to be muted. Now, according to this, the mics are muted. when they're not supposed to be talking or if they talk too much.
Starting point is 00:29:16 I thought it was just in their opening statements. So if Christian or, you know, Bill in the back has access to the mute button, it's going to be awesome. Remember we talked about that? It's going to be awesome when all of a sudden, I just want to make sure you're going to be having people scream off mic. It'll be great. I hope we want Biden and Trump to be screaming things off mic.
Starting point is 00:29:41 That's one good thing to look for as a low light from the debate. All right, no more. I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't, I can't. We could talk a little business news, big business news, big companies. We talked about GM and some of the other companies. We talked about the automobile industry. We've talked about the food industry. So we might as well talk about the drug industry.
Starting point is 00:30:20 DoFarma has agreed to plead guilty to federal criminal charges as part of the U.S. opioid crisis. According to this, Purdue's role in the opioid crisis is well established. It pleaded guilty to violating kickback laws when it paid doctors to write more opioid prescriptions. I hate that when businesses want people to promote their product. But hey, I know, I know, I know. Don't look at me like that. the company said it's going to pay more than $8 billion, some of which will go to opioid treatment and abatement programs.
Starting point is 00:31:00 Now, the only problem is I could have said that as well. Yeah, you know what? I'll pay you $8 billion because they don't have $8 billion. Now they have an opportunity to make $8 billion. I, on the other hand, do not have the Purdue company backing me. but the government is going to now reshape Purdue into a public benefit company. Boy, doesn't that sound good. Oh, yeah, that's what we want.
Starting point is 00:31:33 A public benefit company. Wow. That's just the new company is still going to produce OxyContin. Well, yeah, I know the critics, no, let's just stop making it. let's stop making drugs that help people. I know it killed some. I just, I can't. I can't.
Starting point is 00:31:54 So, look, the big pharma, $8 billion, they have $2 trillion in states wanting money. So these states, these settlements, and lawsuits all across the country, yeah, we'll pay you. We'll pay you. Well, we don't have any money to pay you. Sure.
Starting point is 00:32:16 We'll make a deal. deal. So, you know, we'll see what happens. But they're going to have to continue to make drugs, to make money. That's how it works. You make the product that you're known for, and then you continue to make money. It's just so funny how that works, right? P&G, the maker of Tide, reported it, this is going to come as a surprise, reported its biggest global sales increase in 15. 15 years last quarter. Wow. Yeah, no kidding with the lockdown.
Starting point is 00:32:51 And Reckett Ben Kaiser, which is, you know, a rival to P&G. They make Lysol also revealed that it had a great quarter. And it said that sales of condoms, they sell Durex, rebounded in a big way after the lockdowns. So people are out meeting each other. Yeah, you don't just buy, oh, you know what, honey, when you run to the store, let's pick up some condoms. So you're going to have, we're going to have a plethora of COVID babies in a few months, which definitely will happen. But we're also, people are back out taking care of a little business.
Starting point is 00:33:39 And as long as you're out taking care of a little bit, you need some products from. Dorex. All right, well, we might as well do a little COVID-19 update. Just, you know, let you in on a few stories. Australia. COVID-19 quarantine blood testing. There's a little issue. They're telling hundreds of people now,
Starting point is 00:34:02 hey, you know, we might want to have you take the old HIV test. That's it, though. Well, a couple hundred former residents of a quarantine facility in Australia are being urged to take. the test for any kind of blood transmitted diseases, including HIV. After they admitted, you know, we use some of the same devices to test the blood on multiple guests. That's it, though.
Starting point is 00:34:32 That's it. Don't worry about it. Although one of the weird things that I found in this story is talking about the quarantine facilities. So they closed the borders in Australia to all nine. citizens and residents in March. And if you return to Australia, you've got to pay $3,000 Australian money.
Starting point is 00:34:57 It's only $2,110 in American money. And you get to spend two weeks in a state quarantine facility. I mean, that's just dumb. Anyway, in the month since, you know, they have the travelers that have come through and stayed at the, quarantine hotels.
Starting point is 00:35:18 Some of those quarantine hotels required blood tests, and they were using the glucose-level testing kids. And, you know, they were testing diabetes and people, women that were pregnant and older people. And yeah, sure, we used, you know, the devices on multiple residents. You know, we've cleaned them and used them again. So don't worry about it. Just get your blood tested.
Starting point is 00:35:44 But I find that really strange. They were, they, the quarantine facility, you had to stay in with, if we thought you could possibly be sick, even if you weren't, we're going to put you all together. It's just, uh, seems, uh, New Yorkish. Ha ha ha ha. Yeah, let's just put all the sick people together. They'll be fine. Don't worry about it.
Starting point is 00:36:08 We have the Brazilian doctor who died, uh, after volunteering for the AstraZeneca, uh, vaccine trial and he was part of the, you know, experimental group. Now, so it's being reported that he died from complications from the virus, but according to other reports, he was getting the placebo, not the test vaccine. So it wasn't the vaccine. In fact, the vaccine may have actually legitimately helped this guy if he wasn't taking the placebo. So that was in Brazil.
Starting point is 00:36:47 In the United Kingdom, researchers are preparing for the human challenge study for the vaccine, and they want to infect healthy young people with the virus as part of the trial. What could possibly go wrong? But, I mean, do we have to do it, I guess? Sure. A new study has also found that a third of excess deaths in the United States, during the pandemic could not be directly attributed to the coronavirus. Oh, I thought it was all the government's fault and all of Trump's fault.
Starting point is 00:37:27 But no, U.S. death counts are, you know, pretty consistent year to year. They increased 20% during March through July of 2020, and COVID-19, of course, was documented cause for only 67% of these excess deaths. So, all right, I know, you know, absolutely some states had greater difficulty than others containing the spread, but, uh, that's, that's kind of cool. Although I still see we have plenty of lockouts. My gosh, New York. New York, they're still doing huge travel restrictions.
Starting point is 00:38:12 So 43 states and states. territories now meet criteria to quarantine for two weeks if you go to the state of New York. Connecticut and New Jersey has the same kind of advisory for mandatory quarantines. If you go into their states from 43 states or territories, why do they even, why isn't just every state? I don't know, I don't understand what. They're trying to make it look like they, they're actually looking into it. it? No. Just make it happen. Every state. If you come into our state, you have to quarantine for two weeks, and that's the law. So there you go. Live with it. I's just. Many have said that Governor Cuomo
Starting point is 00:39:01 of New York is, you know, a bad person. I agree. I do not like that man. Sam, I am. It is, a guy is, That's a real problem. That's a real, real problem. Yeah, that's right. You could quote me on that. No problem. In the next segment, we're going to talk a little Hunter Biden. We're going to talk a little bit of Jeffrey Epstein and Jelaine Maxwell.
Starting point is 00:39:31 She had a deposition released. We'll get into that. And we'll also talk about one of the coolest things that I didn't know existed. I saw it yesterday. It's from Japan. It really is really, really cool. And it has to do with, well, trees. And I didn't know it existed.
Starting point is 00:39:52 We'll talk about that and a whole lot more in the next segment. Here I'm chewing the fat. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. So there's a headline that talks about a new gland. Well, I'll just read you the headline. possible new organ in the human throat. You can write your own jokes. I've already written a dozen in my head.
Starting point is 00:40:31 But according to Dutch scientists, they do have a possible new organ in the human throat. So, I mean, is it possible? I guess. People are kind of skeptical. Now they apparently it's part of the salivary glands, but they're not sure if it's part of the deal or if it's new.
Starting point is 00:40:57 I know that they're looking, you know, they don't know if it's part of the tubular glands. It's a new, you know, anatomical functional entity. We're not sure. They were, they found it that's a new, it's a new study published in the Journal of Radiotherapy and Oncology. because that's how it was discovered with a new scan that they use.
Starting point is 00:41:22 And so we'll see if it's actually a new what or not. Because the study concentrated on a small number of patients who were mostly male and they used specific rather than standard tests. So they're looking to do a bigger test with women and healthier patients to see if it's there. to see if it's actually a new gland or if it was a it's a gland that's just part of the deal that shows up different when you're sick or when you're not sick. But I think we just stick with the joke that's a new organ in the throat.
Starting point is 00:42:05 Anyway, global unrest. I talked a little bit about that earlier. I wanted to talk just a little bit about that. We talked about what's going on in Nigeria. with the SARS protest, the end SARS protest, the hashtag end SARS. Now they're saying that 56 people have, you know, been killed during the protest, during these peaceful protests. You know, are they peaceful? I don't know. I haven't been to Nigeria in a long, long time.
Starting point is 00:42:39 In fact, I don't remember being in Nigeria. But, you know, so it's been a peaceful. It's been a long, long, long time. But it's all about police brutality, and this SARS, the special anti-robbery squad, sounds, you can quote me on this, bad. So, you know, now they still have, you know, people are pissed. And the government is imposed a 24-hour curfew.
Starting point is 00:43:04 And, you know, the Army has dismissed reports of the shootings as fake news. Do you believe it? I don't know. I mean, that SARS program. was not a good thing. They were driving around with, you know, no uniform or no specific uniforms and no specific automobiles
Starting point is 00:43:23 and they were just, you know, doing what they wanted to do, you know, for safety purposes. Uh-huh. Now, they've disbanded the SARS unit. Protesters, you know, now want more changes after the years of police brutality. I don't really
Starting point is 00:43:39 blame them. But the president has called for understanding. and calm. We'll see if that actually happens or not. And we go to Thailand. Protesters are defying government banned on gatherings in Bangkok.
Starting point is 00:43:57 They pushed back against helmeted police, so they're not happy with that. The police have got batons and riots shields, so we've got more demonstrators holding umbrellas against the water. It's, you know, is that going to happen again? I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:44:13 you know, who knows? It looked good to the world, though, when it was happening, so it wouldn't surprise me if they'd bring that back. We've got China being called out on their mistreatment, their genocide going on to Muslims and Christians, by the way, but, you know, who cares about the Christians, right? We just care about the Muslims. I know, I know.
Starting point is 00:44:39 And don't forget the Chinese president, Winnie, the Pooh, talked about, you know, telling his military to prepare for war. Don't do anything else is have your mind ready to prepare for war. Oh, all right. No problem.
Starting point is 00:44:56 Isn't that what the army is supposed to do anyway, but, you know, hearing it from the president like that makes it sound more ominous. We have Hunter Biden stuff with the laptop and the text messages and the photos and the nobody cares. I mean, you can go back and listen to the Hunter Biden story podcast that I did,
Starting point is 00:45:18 episode 227 of Chewing the Fat, who's Hunter Biden? And it goes through, you know, documents quite a bit of his life. And, you know, he's just, he's the kid that dad didn't love, really. I mean, Bo is the guy, and he's the kid that dad didn't really love. Bo Hunter was just the other kid. And, you know, now he's, you know, he's just been doing drugs to try to get by it. And he's off, you know, partying and, and taking care of, you know, business with and without durexes because, you know, he's got his baby down south there from the stripper. So, you know, it is his laptop for real, probably.
Starting point is 00:46:03 I mean, they've been doing business in Ukraine and China and making millions of dollars. And now we're seeing, you know, emails and. tax having to cut dad half the money if we can make that trail if you can make you've got to make the connection between hunter and joe biden i don't know how much of a wall is there is there enough of a wall to keep joe biden alive i don't know is there enough of a wall to keep him alive to get elected president and then get rid of him that's very possible uh but we'll see Nobody, you know, if you start just, if you just talk about Hunter, eh, nobody cares.
Starting point is 00:46:40 He's just, he's an adult who's had problems. And, you know, he's doing drugs and he's doing strippers and doing hookers. And he's just, you know, it's like, okay, so. I don't know. Just nobody really cares. And then we have Jelaine Maxwell with Jeffrey Epstein. I mean, her deal. That deposition was released.
Starting point is 00:47:02 Incredible. And I've been going through it. And it's 465 pages. So I haven't gone through every page yet. I know. Don't look at me like that. I'm sorry. All right.
Starting point is 00:47:16 But it goes through in the first, you know, the first 25 pages are all, you know, the attorney is saying, hey, don't answer that. Whatever. So then they break it down. When you get to, you know, page like, say, 32, you know, she talks about it's just another one of Virginia because this is, because of the Virginia Giffrey, right? Her or Giffree case against Jelaine and Jeffrey Epstein. And she talks about, were you in charge of hiring individuals
Starting point is 00:47:51 to provide massages for Jeffrey Epstein? My job included hiring many people. There were six homes. As I sit here, I hired assistants. I hired architects. I hired decorators. I hired cooks. I hired cleaners.
Starting point is 00:48:05 I hired gardeners. I hired pool people. I hired pilots. I hired all sorts of people. In the course of a very small part of my job was from time to time to time to find adult professional massage therapist for Jeffrey. And we make sure that we clear that up adult. Because they're making a big case over bringing in underage people. Were there any underage?
Starting point is 00:48:32 And she says, no. Well, we'll get back into this. I mean, by the time we get into the deeper pages of this, we'll see. The attorney keeps objecting to the form and foundation, and they're going back and forth and what's private and what's not. I mean, it's a deposition. If you've ever been part of a deposition, it's agonizing. But, you know, it would be fascinating to read this,
Starting point is 00:49:01 and we'll see, you know, as long as it's released. I mean, we might as well go ahead and read it, right, and see what's in it. I mean, I don't want to just not read it, duh. So I was telling you about these trees. All right, so I had never seen these before
Starting point is 00:49:20 and I, that I recall. And I mean, I've seen a lot of weird stuff on the planet. I mean, I go out of my way to look for weird stuff on the planet. And this is, both weird and beautiful. I just, I, I, I, I, I really was, I was fascinated by it.
Starting point is 00:49:39 And I want it to be. I want it to be here. I want it to have it on my property. It's called Daisuki, or Daisukei, DAI-S-U-G-I. It's a Japanese forestry technique for creating a tree platform for other trees. So it was created back in the 15th century, according to this story
Starting point is 00:50:05 and Daisuki and they have trees growing on top of other trees and it is really cool looking and they're creating forestry I mean that's more extra lumber
Starting point is 00:50:19 and that's how they build things I guess and that's how they were doing small areas of you know creating more lumber right you cut down you have a platform of trees and you grow trees on top of that platform.
Starting point is 00:50:35 It's beautiful. I was looking at a couple of pictures from the forests and people's homes. It is really cool looking. So you have a tree that either cut down or it's kind of dying
Starting point is 00:50:47 and you plant other trees on top of that. So these trees grow on top of those. They'll look at me like, yeah, I got it, Jeff. So we got it a tree on top of a tree.
Starting point is 00:51:02 what's so big deal about it? I don't know. It's just pretty. And I'd never seen it before. Daisogi. And I just thought it was beautiful. Kind of like the bonsai. I like the bonsai.
Starting point is 00:51:15 So we got the bonsai. You got the daisuki. Daisagi. Yeah, that's what I said. And so now I see where, speaking of trees, that you can buy a tree from this project in Colorado called Rooted Future. And for 30s,
Starting point is 00:51:32 I mean, it's kind of like buying a plot of land down the moon, only this way you can, you know, you see it. So for 35 bucks, you get a tree, you get to name it, they tag it with a QR code, and you can find out exactly where your tree is. You can go and hug it if you want. They'll plant it for you. You can name it. You'll know exactly where it is. And you can go and hug your tree anytime you want to. And you can name it.
Starting point is 00:51:57 And what they want you to name it is, you know, something appropriate, like Catanus Evergreen. or spruce Wayne. It's so funny. It's so cute. Or you could name your tree after someone you love, a loved one that has passed on. You could do it in memory of that person. And it's just a wonderful thing.
Starting point is 00:52:23 That's kind of cool. You know, you buy a tree, you plant a tree. Now, you could purchase the tree on your own and maybe plant it, I don't know, where you live. or you could give 35 bucks to rooted future and let them plant it wherever they wanted to and then send you a code where, hey, we planted your tree here. If you want to come and visit, come to Colorado
Starting point is 00:52:42 and here's where your tree is. You can GPS yourself right to the tree. Either way. Either way. You plant the tree in your backyard. You plant it in Colorado. You plant a tree. Maybe that's, you know, a new campaign we should start.
Starting point is 00:52:57 Well, it's not a new campaign. Maybe that's a campaign we should get behind here on chewing the fad. plant a tree or plant a that's hugging I'm up for that

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