Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 517 | Crimes, Racism and Cougars | Guest: Pat Gray

Episode Date: November 25, 2020

Have a Happy Thanksgiving, but don't let anyone unauthorized in the food preparation area... Stop encouraging racism by drinking coffee. Huh? ...The Home Depot is in trouble over a SIX-YEAR-OLD data breach... Subscribe to the Podcast... Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy, Promo code 'jeffy' ...Email to [e-mail] ... The Silent Will Be Heard Dot Com … Forget Bitcoin, you should have bought cocoa futures... Clorox is out to save the world, and they're doing a darn good job ...Matt Walsh is taking on cyclists and Jeffy is on his side... Taking a stand for 'The Godfather: Part III' - A rewrite has become a must-see ...Pat Gray joins the program to discuss the College Football Playoff and his beloved BYU Cougars getting the shaft ...How will the NFL's new mask policies work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

That's annoying. What? You're a muffler. You don't hear it? Oh, I don't even notice it. I usually drown it out with the radio. How's this? Oh, yeah.

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if you're listening to this show, You know, after the 25th of November 2020. It is the, you know, the final show of the Thanksgiving weekend. And I just wanted to let you know that if you're going to look for a chess set, it may be sold out. I know. I know. I know. It's okay.

It'll be okay. According to game analyst, I'm sorry, a toy analyst. Chess sets are sold out everywhere. Apparently, Queen's Gambit on Netflix has got everybody buying chess sets. So, I mean, it was good. I enjoyed Queens Gambit. I wish it would have been a... For some reason, I want chess stories to be real stories.

We talked about this. And I want chess stories to be, you know, based on true life stories, which this wasn't. So, you know, it was still a great show. I enjoyed the heck out of it. But, you know, it wasn't based on a true story. And you still have, by the way, checkers and backgammon, and you may be able to find the games that have the, you know, the all in one, the triple games, right?

Where they have chess, checkers, backgammon, and maybe even, do they still call it Chinese checkers? Oh, I'm sorry, you know, the checkers with the diamonds and the, is that still called Chinese checkers? I don't know. It is in my world. Welcome to chewing the fat. So, so.

So I almost forgot. I mean, I'm recording for the first time in a long time, recording Chewing the Fat, back in the Blaze Studios. Feels, I'm outside of the bunker today, and it's just kind of weird. But it feels good. Feels good to be back in the studio. And for those of you that were, you know, that want to play along, I'll let you behind the curtain a little bit.

I'm going to pull back the curtain just a little bit for you. You know, when I was sitting in during the Pat Unleashed program this morning and all week, we had a lot of fun. And by the way, Pat Gray will join us on Chewing the Fat later on in the show today. He was all wound up about college football. So we got to talk a little bit about that with Pat. We may get to some politics. You never know. I don't know.

I don't know. Probably not. I just want to talk football with Pat. But we had some issues at the very beginning of the show. and there were some issues throughout the show. And then so at the beginning of this broadcast, which isn't really the beginning of this broadcast, since it's a podcast,

and even though I'd say you could be listening live, you really can't be, I know. And so there was an issue with some switchover switches. Technology today, man. Wow, you just can't buy the technology. Anyway, the, we have, you know, there was a mix-up, and we were apparently live on Blaze Radio Network momentarily as we were trying to get the Chewing the Fat podcast started today. And during the recording of it. And there may have been some things said that shouldn't have been.

But just remember, this is the internet. And so it's okay. It's okay. No, Jeffie, I can't live with this. I just can't. Bye. I mean, no, don't, Christian. No, don't.

I'm not advocating anyone for taking care of that. I'm not advocating anyone of doing that. Just over a silly mistake. Anyway, I just want to say welcome. I'm ready for Thanksgiving myself. I'm telling you, my wife has got everything laid out, and I'm willing to follow some of the rules that they've laid out for us

that we're supposed to follow now to celebrate Thanksgiving thanks to the CDC and we've talked a little bit about some of those rules around the country and what they expect from us but one of the things I agree with 100% as you go through here and it's talking about everyone you know

supposed if you let someone into your home that doesn't live in your home make sure you stay socially distance from them at least six feet apart always, you know, everybody's supposed to wash their hands, and supposed to bring extra supplies and extra masks. It's really kind of agonizing.

As you go through this, you're like, but it's Thanksgiving. And we heard from the great Governor Cuomo from New York, and I don't want to play it again because I cannot take the guy's voice. I do not want to hear it again. Don't forget. I mean, we played it yesterday, right?

It's your family. It's your home. It's your table. These are all environments where you feel safe And that is the beauty of Thanksgiving I'm at home with my family I'm in my safe zone Your safe zone is not a safe zone

Your safe zone Is dangerous this year Please Love is sometimes doing what's hard This year If you love someone It is smarter and better to stay away. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, governor. Thank you. Now that's not the thing

that I actually agree with. The thing that I do agree with during the rules and regulations, I'm sorry, the recommendations from the CDC is while you're preparing your Thanksgiving dinner and you're attending the gatherings or whatever you're going to do in your own little world, okay you need to limit the number of people in food preparation areas okay

all right no problem you stay in there and cook me I'll be over here no problem did you know did you know if you drink coffee

you support white supremacy I know I know I know I didn't know that either, but it seems to be true because it's on social media. So according to this, you're being asked, are you an avid coffee drinker? Together we can put Starbucks and 7-Eleven out of business.

Oh, okay. I don't know what I want to do. Well, what is coffee? Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans. The seeds of berries from certain coffee species in the plantay kingdom. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red in color, indicating ripeness, they are picked. Thank you.

They're processed and dried, dried coffee seeds. I mean, we're just taking us through the whole coffee bean process. They're roasted to varying degrees, depending on the desired flavor. Roasted beans are ground and then brewed with near-boiling water to produce the beverage known as coffee. Coffee. Coffee is a world-renowned drink that is more often than not dark, black in color. Yeah, no kidding. I'm still trying to be convinced why it's racist of me to drink. Coffee. Well, racial inequality. As raw coffee is only black in color. This immediately raises red flags.

Really? Okay. How is that? Well, coffee is prepared. by pouring hot water onto coffee beans and then allowing that to brew. Water seeps through the ground coffee, absorbing its consistent chemical compounds, and then passes through a filter into a cup. Ground coffee, also known as brewed coffee, has an extremely potent and bitter taste. This is incredibly problematic, as it wrongfully predisposes coffee drinkers into thinking that the color black is associated with undesirable and unwanted outcomes. How dare you?

This is absolutely incredible. We are ruining what real racism is by doing something like this. This is ridiculous. Furthermore, coffee is typically made bearable to drink by adding unnecessary extras, such as sugar or cream. The fact that both these popular third-party additions to coffee are white in color, uh-huh! and serve a purpose to enhancing the coffee drinking experience is racist. Okay. Let me just say, how about no.

According to this person, they're offended and hurt that the only way to make coffee tasty and drinkable is through the association of white enhancement. This ideology can subliminally brainwish people into believing that desirable and natural preferred outcomes are only attained through the incorporation of white people. But what could I do if there was something I could do to make it? Well, you can stop adding white sugar or cream to your coffee. You can try adding brown sugar to your coffee to support racial diversity and equality. You can add soy sauce, black, or your coffee instead of cream, white. You can protest at local Starbucks to boycott sugar.

Oh, that's a good idea. You can sign petitions. And you can donate to all non-profit racial equality charities. You can do all of that. Or you can think that the whole thing is just BS and continue to drink coffee. That's incredible. I don't know how much traction this is getting. It showed up with a lot of hashtags, including,

Monday, politics, protest, USA, USA 2020, coffee, supremacy, activist, government, act now, America, white, black. Oh, there was more than that. There was a whole bunch more than that. But, so if you're living on hashtags, there's a song in there somewhere for you, just know that some people are trying to make it you to believe that coffee

is now racist. Oh, man. Congratulations, though. Congratulations are in order to Huff Po. The Huff Poe stock deal with BuzzFeed. BuzzFeed is now acquired Huff Post in a stock deal. And, you know, that ends up with being about a $1.7 billion deal. That's kind of, it's not bad.

It's not a bad deal to get into. Congratulations to BuzzFee. and Huff Post. I'm not sure how that's going to work out, but congratulations. Good luck. God bless. You know, they're joined forces and pursuing their ad dollars and whenever two big entities joined forces, nothing but good comes of it. You could quote me on that. Did you want to hear it again? Okay. Whenever two big forces joined forces, no, wait, that wasn't the quote. Whenever two big entities joined forces nothing but good happens yeah i like that all right so this story has been i don't know why it's bugging me but it just is so home depot is going to pay 17.5 million dollars

which doesn't sound like an awful lot of money in today's world from home depot to 45 states and the district of columbia to resolve a multi-state investigation launched in the wake of a breach of the company's point-of-sale information systems, specifically those involving its self-checkout kiosk. Okay. So, apparently they were hacked. It's a data breach. The intruders obtained the names, payment card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes of more than 40 million individuals, okay, who used Home Depot's self-checkout.

It resulted in the compromise of 53 million consumer email addresses and passwords. And Home Depot didn't even discover it until months later. And when I say months later, this happened April through September of 2014.

Ouch. Okay? Now, and you say, okay, well, that's cool. They caught it. and it's been six years and they've addressed all this thing. Well, okay, so due to the investigation, the cyber protection measures

and placed malware enabling the theft of consumer information that consumers entered at store self-checkout kiosk, the settlement includes a host of injunctive terms designed to shore up cybersecurity at Home Depot. And it lists this, list of security thing. And I'm thinking, wait. So this happened in 2014.

It is now, I don't know if you know this, 2020. So it's gone, and I can't let me add the one, carry the two, 18, you know, it's six years, but six years since this happened. So I'm hoping that Home Depot has actually implemented some of these plans, some of these, you know, injunctive terms already.

Because it talks about creating an information security program headed by an executive or officer whose chief role will be to implement the program and advise Home Depot CEO and board of directors on security issues. To provide security awareness and privacy training for all Home Depot personnel whose jobs involve access to and responsibility for the company's network or consumers' personal data. Maintain encryption protocols designed to encrypt personal information stored on laptops or other portable devices or when transmitted across public networks wirelessly. Seek to devalue payment card information through such methods as encrypting that information throughout the course of retail transaction at a Home Depot store. Take steps to scan and map the connections between the cardholder data environment and the rest of Home Depot's company network to determine avenues of traffic and identity potential vulnerabilities. Implement password policies and the use controls designed to manage. access to and use of home depot's individual accounts, service accounts, and vendor accounts, and the policies must require strong and complex passwords and password rotation and prohibit

the use of default group shares. And it goes on and on and on. Thank you. That's what I hear. But why do I hear that? Because why is, I hope, I hope it pray, that they've already done this. But this is part of their deal, part of the settlement. I don't understand has taken six years for Home Depot to implement this?

And if I read this right, this is what they're going to implement. Not what they have. It's just incredible. I hope that they already have. And they were just like, yeah, we'll do that. We'll make that deal. Well, we've already done that. So we're fine.

Don't worry about it. We've already implemented all that. I hope that's true. I hope that's true because it. didn't sound like that. Just saying it doesn't sound like that. It sounds like for six years they've been just kind of dancing around

hoping that it doesn't happen again. And I hope that's not true. It probably isn't really. You know, these large corporations and companies they don't want your information hacked. They want customers, right? They want you to be happy customers. And so I would, they don't want it hack.

Now, with all the different hack stories that we've done, I've, you know, I've made jokes before and it's almost not a joke. Your information is out there. If somebody wants your information and they want to use the information, good, bad, or indifferent, they will. Now there's steps you can take. to slow down that process and pause that process. No question.

But without those steps, if someone wants to use your information, good, bad, or indifferent, they will. And even with those steps, they will, although they'll get blocked. So hopefully it's like the guy that is walking in a parking lot and he's checking to see if cars are unlocked. and so he finally gets to a car that's unlocked and that's the one he steals. So if you're a hacker and you're going through you're going through the parking lot

of information that you have and you're going through to oh one block one block one block, one block, ooh, this one isn't blocked and that's the one they steal. So, I mean, at least try to have one wall up

blocking your information. That's, you know, at least that. would be, you know, probably a smart move. And I'm talking to myself now because why would I have anything? I can't even open up a microphone at the studio and know that it's not live. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink

desperately. Oh my gosh. I don't know if I've ever told you before. But that cold, refreshing drink is good. Congratulations. before we get into the full, you know, breakroom extravaganza that it is.

Congratulations to France. Former French President Nicholas Sarkozy. On trial over allegations of corruption. I know. Right. Get out of here. Now, it's the first time a French president is facing such charges. Yeah, normally they just off with their heads.

prosecutors say Sarkozy bribed a judge with a cushy job in Monaco in exchange for access to confidential info on a separate investigation into him. The case of one of several against the former president who led France from 2007 to 2012. Others include things like legal campaign financing and benefiting from embezzled public funds. Now, Sarkozy hasn't denied all of this. this. So, I mean, there's that. I know. So if you're listening to this show right now and you are not a subscriber to the podcast, you are what's considered a freeloader and nobody likes a freeloader. If you are a subscriber to the podcast, then you become a free loading subscriber and everybody likes you. Okay. So if you're just a freeloader, you need to better yourself and better the

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And that's, you know, I don't make the rules. Actually, I do. But, you know, I just live by them. Okay? So make sure you live by them as well. Okay. Coco futures, all right, posted their biggest weekly gain in 19 years. I know.

Why didn't I invest in cocoa? I should have a long time ago. So I guess the Ivory Coast and Ghana, those two West African countries, which account for 70% of the total global cocoa production, recently instituted a fee to boost cocoa farmers' incomes. And with the COVID lockdowns, sapping demand for chocolate, buyers are looking for cheaper options, like tapping the futures market to skirt the fees.

Duh. So, I mean, it makes, hello, makes all kinds of sense. According to the National Retail Federation, retail sales in November and December could be, Up to 5.2% higher than last year. Could be. We'll see. We'll see.

Oh, you know, one of the things that we talked about this morning on Pat Unleashed is the Clorox. Shipping almost one million packages of wipes to stores every single day. Think of that. A million packages of wipes. to stores every single day. Wow, and those packages, what do we, those packages come in, what? This one that we have here sitting here in this, in this desk here, has 85 wet wipes in them. Okay, so a million of those, you know, they're shipping almost a billion wipes a day.

And that isn't enough. They can't keep up with demand. So they have 10 extra facilities and their own facilities working 24-7, and they cannot keep up with demand. Just incredible times. I mean, we seriously, incredible times. Want to know another thing that's incredible? Why it's incredible times?

88% of small businesses. that have used up all their PPP funding, according to Goldman Sachs study. Wow. Now, that's the paycheck protection program, which is part of the CARES Act to help small businesses stay afloat during the pandemic. Remember I told you about the guy,

the outfit guy that we went to. When I got the George Washington jacket and the wig and stuff, we went to him, he's got a place that's full of of outfits, jackets, hats, and makeup, and the whole kid. He's spending his time applying for these loans and trying to stay afloat. And now, I mean, the business owners are hoping that more aid is on the way, right? I mean, they're still having to remain closed or limited interaction with humans.

I try to try to sell online, right, trying to get things going online and have been. I was just... Did I say it was amazing times? Yep, I did. It is. It is. So apparently, Matt Walsh, who is now a guest on a slight jihad against bicycles. Now, I was brought to my attention from Amy What's Your Face, who at Amy War on Twitter,

I think she's actually been on this podcast before, if I remember correctly. But she at least tweeted, let's do this. And she said I enlisted years ago. And at Jeffrey JFR, let's do this. Yeah. Welcome, Matt Walsh, to the bicycle war, to the jihad against bicyclists on the road. Welcome. I will say and be fair warned

that they do not take criticism lately. I've already been I've been attacked and I was not mutilated but I was attacked against the bicyclists of America when I went against them I made a joke on the air and I immediately said

following the joke, that's just a joke. And I ended up, I had to bend over and kiss their butt. I had them on the air. We had to talk about bicyclists and the safety and how people in cars need to watch out for them. And it is, they do not take kindly to people going against them. That is for sure. So, listen, Matt, welcome.

I see where you would, you know, one of your followers said I'd like to enlist a war on bicycles and Matt quote tweeted that saying the army is growing. I would like to say that I, you know, welcome to the, welcome to the fight. Many of us have been a part of that for quite some time. And I used to have, and this is just, this is a hypothetical, because it would never happen in real life. Never happen in real life. I see where Matt retweeted a story about from Baltimore where a FedEx driver was asked to get out of the bike lane

he was obstructing. And the FedEx driver said, get a car. That is awesome. Hey, bicyclist, why don't you just ride around the FedEx truck that's parked? They're delivering goods and services.

He might, be actually delivering someone's new bicycle, but you'd still have to complain about him being in that bike lane, right? So welcome to the fight, Matt. And you're right, Amy, I'm with you. Let's just continue on. You know, I used to have my kids, especially my oldest son. I mean, I just, we'd be driving along and there'd be one or two bicyclists on the road, slowing traffic down. And again, this is hypothetical because this didn't really happen in real life. I would just, I'd have all my son's friends open the window and we'd have them holler out the window. Get on the sidewalk!

And they'd scream. I mean, bicyclists used to give my kids the finger. They would holler and scream. So, and then I find out, okay, with some of the new rules and regulations around America, bicyclists aren't supposed to be on the sidewalk. They're supposed to be on the road because the sidewalks were meant for pedestrians walking and for people who are handicapped. Oh, okay. So don't, I cannot tell you how frustrating it is when a herd of bicyclists are slowing down traffic.

And I get it. I get it. You got the right to be on the road. But you're hindering. our open roads. And so I just ask, please, stay out of the way. I don't want anything bad to happen to you. I don't want anything, you know,

I don't want people to holler at you or be mad at you. I don't want accidents to happen. I don't want anything. I just want you to move out of the way. I want you to move out of the way. Okay? So anyway, Matt Walsh, welcome. Welcome.

Welcome to the world. Welcome to the world. So I've said to talk about one of my favorite movie compilation, three movies, series is Godfather, right? I mean, over the years. And if you watch, if you subscribe to my YouTube channel, you know, my wife and I have done, we're doing these things called Pillow Talk. And the latest Pillow Talk edition is we went through a bunch of our movies with DVDs and some of the, we actually talk about some of the ones that are digital now. And this first video is we went through the stack that are movies that I really enjoy. And then there's going to be an edition next week of her movies, Amber's movies.

And then the next edition will be our movies, movies that we all enjoy, either as husband and wife or, you know, a family. And anyway, one of the, so subscribe to, you know, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher on YouTube and you'll get, you know, pillow talk with myself and Amber. and don't worry about it. She's much better to look at than I am. So you're good. Diane Keaton has talked about a new recut of Godfather 3. I want to see it. I want to do it, please.

Now, she claims that she was never a big fan of three. And the world really wasn't a big fan of three. I've stuck up for it. I mean, I love one and two is probably my favorite. But three is, you know, is worth it. And it's worth the trilogy of the movies to be part of it. It's a wrap-up. But apparently, Diane Keaton didn't really, like she joined the masses of not liking it.

But Coppola, I guess, got nothing better to do. So, you know, it's the lockdown. It's COVID-19. He's got nothing else going on. So he reshuffled some scenes around, changed the music, put a new beginning and ending to the show, and rechristened it Mario Puzzo's The Godfather Coda, the death of Michael Corleone.

And so he invited Diane and Al Pacino and Talia Shire and George Hamilton to see the finished product at a private screening on the Paramount Lot. And she said it was one of the best moments in her life to watch it. She said, I saw the movie in a completely different. light the one when I did back then and the way Francis has restructured the beginning and the end and I'm telling you it worked so I would like to say Frank I'm sorry Francis Ford Coppola when do we get this out and his answer would be December 8th and It's going to be available on demand and Blu-ray, December 8.

So they're making another God for the Father movie that I have to purchase. Well, at least I have to rent it to watch it and see if it's worth it. But you can't have a Godfather movie that's out without having it part of your collection, right? That would be almost against Godfather law. There's one digital Godfather collection that I don't. have and I think it was just done for TV. I'm going to have to find out now. Now that I'm talking about it, I got

to remember where I saw it. But it's a compilation of all the movies together. I caught some of it one afternoon on one of the networks where they put them all together. Because I remember sitting there going, wait, that's from one. That's from two.

And I don't know if they did it good. I don't know if the whole thing was good because I didn't, I wasn't able to stick around for the entire 18 hours. But if that's available, I might have to put that, get that to it. Because that seemed like a pretty good idea to do that if you could bring them all together. But anyway, I'm looking forward to the Blu-ray or the On Demand, the video copy of Godfather. Is this Godfather 3 and 1 half?

Godfather 4? Or do we just consider it? the godfather coda the death of michael corleone yeah we'll just leave it so we're going to have to get in to at some point talking about the 100 pilot whales that have died

in a mass stranding on one of the remote chatham islands from new zealand um it's an amazing that we're they spent all this money to try to rescue them and i don't know how It's not that I hate pilot whales, but we don't know why they...

It'll make me sad about them. I mean, I want to be simply, we don't know why they do it. Now, here's the... They saved... Some of the animals had to be put down. Had to be put down. Because there were great white sharks in the water. which were brought in by the stranding.

Yeah, they wanted to eat. That's what Mother Nature does. Oh, is there stranding of pilot whales? That sounds like it's dinner time. Maybe they stranded themselves because it's Thanksgiving. And that's Thanksgiving dinner for white sharks. They tell you, you know, it's getting time. You guys got to put yourself up on Mother Nature.

It's going to really like you for good to decay. I don't know. Nobody knows. But these mass traffic is coming. It's, you know, it's okay. I know that. I don't know. You know, remember in 1918?

Maybe it has something to do with pandemics. Because back in 1918, isn't that when we had the pandemic of the Spanish flu? A thousand of them beached on the same beach. So, I don't know. Maybe it had something to do with the pandemic. You know, it's just guessing. I don't know that. I'm just guessing.

And, of course, I wanted to congratulate what you can work on this weekend as you're, you know, hanging out with those non-family members that aren't showing up at your house. Snapchat is giving a million dollars a day to creators with the most viewed videos. Huh? Spotlight. It's Snap's TikTok clone. and okay, good luck, God bless. You know, if you could do it,

it's part of the new spotlight for Snapchat. Maybe if you hit a video that takes off, you get a million bucks. Sweet, I know. Good luck, God bless. All right, so welcome to Chewing the Fat. And for those of you that listen to Pat Unleashed this week, you know that the show was fortunate enough.

to have me participate in the broadcast. Is that what you'd call it? Fortunate? Fortunate for the broadcast. Right. Yeah. For the background least broadcast. Joining me on chewing the fat,

which I'm told. For the first time ever. First. That's not really true. That's not really true. You've been on the broadcast before. No. I might have piqued my head in and yelled something at you.

Like, hey, fatso. You done it in here yet? That kind of thing. That counts in my book. Okay. That counts in my book. But as a particular guest, no. Okay.

But we didn't get an opportunity during the Pat Gray-on-leashed program this week to really talk a little bit about college football. A little in depth. And I wanted to. We could talk politics if you'd like. But I mean, really. Politics sucks. If you had the choice, Pat. If you had the choice, let's say you had the choice of.

Football. Say, football. President. Football. Trump. Okay. President Biden. Right.

Or BYU Cougars winning the national championship. Oh, like I'm the decider. If you decide. Like, I can either pick, okay, Trump wins again and has another four years. Or BYU wins the national championship this year? Oh, my gosh.

Don't do that. That is a tough choice. Okay. Oh, man. I know. That's a tough choice. I know. Because, you know, I could pick, sure, Trump,

and then everything goes better included in the world. Right. But if BYU doesn't win the national championship, does that make me happy? No. No, it does not. No, it does not. So that's a tough decision. That'd be a tough decision.

It sounds like you could make it, though. I think I could make it. I'm going to be when you win in the national championship. Yeah, because it's only the second time in history. So, I mean, we're going to have another presidential election in four years. So, those of you listening to this podcast, chewing the fat live on the 25th of November, 2020, day before Thanksgiving, know that yesterday they came out with the college football

playoff rankings. Oh, geez. What an injustice that was. It turns out that according to Gary Barta, the selection committee chair, it was a challenge. was it? It was a challenge. Yeah. And he revealed the rankings. And you're evaluating teams that have played three games against teams that have played eight or nine games. Yeah, and they did a crappy job of it too.

Well, according to him, they embraced the chaos. Did they? They embraced the, that's according to Gary. Is that what happened? That's according to Gary, yes. So it appears that the BYU Cougars, according to what I'm looking at here, kind of on the outside looking in. behind three and two lost teams.

So it doesn't appear to me as an outsider. I literally thought, okay, so they're ranked eight. BYU's eighth in the AP and eighth in the college or in the coaches poll. Okay, both polls, both major polls, they're ranked eighth. Now, everybody said there's going to be some slippage because there always is with teams like BYU outside the power five. So they'll go three, maybe three notches. I thought they'd be 10th.

I thought they'd go 8 to 10, maybe 11th. That's even a big drop. Certainly no lower than 12, and you have to be in the top 12 to even qualify for consideration. For the, yeah, for the, let alone the big, New Year 6, and for the college football playoff. Right. They're on the outside of all of them.

They're at 14th. I mean, that's despicable. That's embarrassing. You know what that is? That's a religious persecution. But do you know what you need? A devil's advocate. That's what you need.

And I'm going to be it. Okay. All right. Go ahead. Devil's advocate, Christian. All right. Power 5 wins. None.

Well, everybody knows it. But that's all. Hold on devil's advocate. Turn your mic off for a second. Because now I don't want to hear the devil's advocate. Because I've been turned into a BYU fan from you, Pat. Okay. And so I've really kind of ticked myself at this whole thing.

And I don't, I believe. that what they did, and I know that according to Gary, they embraced the chaos. But they embraced it by using the same set of parameters that they used every year. Which you can't do. You can't

do. Right. And if you want to talk strength of schedule, nobody's playing a typical strength of schedule correct. Schedule this correct. Because you've got the SEC playing only the SEC. You've got the Big 12 playing the Big 12. You've got the

Pack 12 playing the Pac-12. But all of those are better than BYU playing traditional BYU teams. What? No. No, they're not. No, they're not. What do you mean? Traditional, BYU YU plays Power 5 schools every year. In fact, they played six of them last year.

Not this year, they're not. Well, yeah, they lost their schedule because of the of the disease. They had Utah, Michigan State, Arizona State, Minnesota, Stanford, and Missouri. And the University of Missouri. That's a loss.

No, that's a big win. We crush Missouri this year. Well, it didn't happen the last time you played Missouri. No, but it would have happened this year. I will say, it would have been a close game against Missouri. No, it would not have been a close game. I don't think it would be either. All joking aside.

Seriously, they're good this year. They're really good. Every pundit is in love with Zach. I'm going to be the Heisman trophy, at least a candidate for sure. I mean, he's in New York, right? If they allow people in New York. And if you listen to Kirk Herb Street this year, he's in love with the Cougars, not just Zach, which he is, but he's in love with the whole team because they're so physical and they're good on the offensive and defensive lines. And they've defeated every game, right, they've won by at least more than 17.

Oh, yeah. The closest, well, they had the seven-point game against UTSA. They played crappy that day. And they only beat University of Texas San Antonio 2720. Everybody else, they've beaten by the only other team that. came within 17 was Houston, who we beat by 17. Every other team, we've beaten by 30 to 40 points or 50. Yes. Embarrassing. And so it's, it's just a shame. It is because they've done what they could against the schedule that they were given. This is all they could do. So it is a

shame. And so now they have to get somebody to play next week in order to try to fill in that gap and get back into the top 12 because obviously a win over San Diego State on the last game is not going to do much for them. I don't think. No, they're not. It's very, I mean being undefeated nine games. Yeah, 9 and

0. Very disappointed. Winning by an average of 33 and a half points a game. And so? And this whole thing with Washington if I might throw this out too. This whole controversy with Washington who says Yeah, we asked him play and they said, no, they docked us. They were waiting for the

college football playoff rankings. No, that's not true. In fact, the coach called everybody, the team was going to go, many of them were going to fly out on Monday and go home for Thanksgiving because we didn't have a game coming up this week. Instead, he said, no, we got a game against Washington. We've got to practice on Monday. So they practiced for Washington Monday by Monday afternoon the game was off. So what happened? It seems like Washington's playing Utah this weekend because the Pact 12 mandates that,

They can drop the other team for a conference game if one becomes available. If one becomes available. And it did. Amazingly. Amazingly. It did. So that's really unfortunate. One would think that that would almost be like Washington and or Utah saying,

hey, why don't you play us? Right. You don't want that a BYU. What would think that that might be a conversation? Yeah. Yeah. And there's no proof of that. No.

There's no proof of that. And I'm not, I'm not an attorney. like Ms. Powell. So I don't have, you know, I'm not just wielding accusations out there on both Washington and Utah. Pretty good guess, though, I'd say. Yeah, I would say so, too. So we'll see. They got an open week next weekend where I'm hoping they'll fit in a Power 5 team of some kind.

Or Cincinnati, if they'll play us. But they probably won't because they're ranked 7th. Right, they're still in it. They're still in it. So if they play BYU. That's a big chance. They're taking a big, big risk. Hey, Pat, you gotta believe in your team.

I want to say one more thing before you guys wrap. I may be the devil's advocate, but I also sympathize with your plight. Because my frogs might be trashed this year, but in 2014, we were not. No, they were good. TCU is ranked third, going into the final week before they select the playoff. They win 52 to 3. They drop three spots out of the playoff. I don't. Wow. Three to six after doing exactly what we needed to do. It's almost like teases with three letters suck. If you're early known by three letters, it's almost like that. Well, unless you're USC, and that's not exactly. So maybe that's not such a good theory after all. Jim Hill. It's just, I was really, I know I'm not as angry as you, but it's very, very disheartening. It really is. This was, this was, this.

This was actually set to be a special year. Now, would they have won those games that didn't happen? Obviously, we don't know. Yeah, we don't know. But I think they would have. I think they would have to. I really do. I think they would have to.

They look like they would have. They honestly do look good. I mean, I think to pretty much any objective, unless you're from the godless animal school, the universe of Utah, any objective person can look at this team and say, yeah, they're pretty sticking good. They're pretty good. Would they beat Alabama?

I don't know. I don't know about that. But I'd sure like a chance to try. Yeah. It would be nice to see. I'd like to see BYU play Alabama, Notre Dame, Clemson. I think we beat Notre Dame. I'm not so sure about Alabama and Clemson, but I'm not sold on Notre Dame.

I think we beat Notre Dame. I'd love the chance to try. I know. Love the chance to try. We're not going to get it. However, I did read that one. Pundit is talking about the possibility of them playing in the New Mexico Bowl, which ends up actually being played this year in Frisco, Texas.

Really? So if that happens... I mean, that's a lower-tier bowl. I know, but it would be an opportunity to go. If they're allowing fans, which they might not. In Frisco, in Texas, they may, though. They might fan. Yeah, limited attention.

It'd be fun to see them. But the New Mexico Bowl, not exactly exciting. No. Not when people are talking. On Christmas Eve? Yeah. On Christmas Eve, too. And they're talking, they're talking about the orange bowl, the Cotton Bowl, or the Fiesta Bowl.

Any of those would be perfectly acceptable. Those are pretty big bowls. Yeah, those are big bowls. Yeah. But at number 14, they're not going to see any of them. So that's why they need a Power 5 opponent next weekend. So you need to get on the phone to a Power 5 team and say you should play them. Yes.

You should play them. That's my challenge. Any Power 5 team listening right now, don't whuss out. And the coach, Sataki? Yeah. I always say it wrong on purpose. Coloni-Satki. Yeah.

He was, I loved some of his comments. We're like, we're ready. We'll play anybody. Let's know. I mean, he talked about this first part of his press conference. conference or his interview kind of was like, you know, sounded like him that we're, you know, we get better and we're, you know, I love our guys. Yeah, the same old cliches.

But then he went on to say, we're not ducking anybody. Right. I think he's a little pissed. I think he should be. He deserves to be. The number 14th thing pissed him off and it should. Absolutely should. All right, Pat Graham unleashed for the first time on chewing the fat.

Thank you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thanks for the invite. You're welcome. Anytime. Anything I could do. So I don't normally go in depth like that, but, you know, Pat, I wanted to get them a little wound up on, you know, it's fun.

And we could talk some more football and we can talk about the new regulations for the NFL. They all have to wear a mask. And we're going to see that on the sidelines. It's going to be great. It's going to be great. I can't wait. And the double gaiters now, now the new thing with. the masking. Get ready because

it's coming and I felt that with the new NFL protocols where players, they have to have the mask on or the double gaiters. So now they want double. Now they want double. Because the coaches were just wearing the shields and you have to have the shield

and the mask on now. It's not just the shield. So be ready for places to say, oh, if you just have a mask on, fine, go ahead. But if you're wearing a gator, is that a double gator? no oh no that doesn't count what are you kidding me we already know it doesn't work really i mean it's to make you feel better it's just amazing and i'll leave you with us since this is a

if you're listening to this um on the thanksgiving weekend i hope that you made it through safely without having your neighbors uh rat you out and let the police and authorities know that you had more people in your home than you were allowed to have by rules and regulations. And if that's the case, if you have neighbors going around your neighborhood looking for cars, how many people are in your house

and trying to report on you, you need a new neighborhood. And you should find one quickly because it's not going to get much better. Wait, I'm supposed to be uplifting, right? It's supposed to be uplifting. It is going to get better and you should go out and talk to them and become friends and let them know that everything's going to be okay There did that sound uplifting? I think it didn't

The studios again feels good though