Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 537 | No, I want the job! No, I do!

Episode Date: January 13, 2021

Lotto Jackpot goes up… 4-10 Americans have an extra $1000 bucks… Homelessness is on a dramatic rise… Crypto wallets, know your passwords… Horrific sign on chalkboard in Maryland… Florida couple charged with child neglect… CNN Airport Network going away… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy Promo code jeffy… Subscribe to the Podcast… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Email to [e-mail] CES 2021 going on GM showing off electric vehicles CES 2021 has Coldsnap / ice cream pods… Jeopardy guest hosts getting announced… Cat fight for who’s going to play Lucille Ball… Canada lockdown and wife walks hubby as a dog… FBI warns of possible armed protests at state capitol buildings… National Guard protecting DC with 15,000 troops… Things could get worse. Twitter blocking Students for Trump will be the least of our worries… Bruce Willis asked to leave Rite Aid because no mask… Email update from Nick / he really wasn’t paying attention… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

All right. So I haven't looked at my numbers yet, but it's possible that I won a million dollars last night. It's possible. No one won the jackpot of the mega millions drawing. So it goes to $750 million, probably more than that by the time. The drawing takes place on Friday night, the 15th of January, 2021. But there were nine winners in, the, you know, in the lower drawings of the mega millions. And one of the $1 million winners was from Texas. So I'm afraid to look at my numbers to see if I was one of them. But it's possible. Now, I could use a million, as I'm sure you could. No problem. Now, tonight, the Powerball drawing, for those of you listening live on the 13th of January,

2021 is worth $550 million for the jackpot. So, I still have that. You know, I still got these two to hope for, right? We still have hope. As long as we have the lottery, there's hope left in America. You know I'm right.

Welcome to chewing the fat. Speaking of hope, though, this story, fewer than four in 10 Americans have enough money set aside to cover an unexpected $1,000 expense. Wow. So the nationwide poll conducted in December by bank rate that was released this week illustrates which sure does the widespread economic insecurity following the coronavirus pandemic,

which, you know, has magnified. the rise in inequality. The provider of financial advice for consumers found that 39% of respondents could handle a surprise bill for $4,000, while 38% would have to borrow the money through credit cards, family, and other means. So, I mean, that is not a good place to be. the emergency savings has been further set back by the pandemic and if it's a big unplanned expense for a thousand dollars or more

you'd have to borrow to cover it wow that is not a good place to be but it does hold up my without the lottery we have lost all hope Right? Right. Of course it has. And then we have this story out of Los Angeles, which I believe is just a domino effect around the country, really? A new economic forecast is pointing toward an increase in homelessness across the state of California. Now, they are specifically talking about Los Angeles County, but they're talking about data from, a 2008 recession to predict how bad the pandemic-induced recession will affect the homeless population.

And it looks like the impacts could be twice as bad as they were in 2008. So the recession is particularly bad because it's hitting vulnerable workers harder than the last recession. That's what Dan Fleming, president of the Economic Roundtable, said. He believed most alarming is the predicted jump in chronic homelessness, which, refers to people who live on the street for extended periods of time. In L.A. County alone, roughly 15,000 chronically homeless individuals. And over the next four years, that forecast calls for that number to double. Double!

That means that the forecast would go up 86%. Wow. that would be unheard of and now you can quote me on this not a good thing I know I know

it's just incredible again I go back to without the lottery though we've lost all hope well and then there's Bitcoin of course I don't know if you have any Bitcoin at all

it's uh you know been soaring through the roof price-wise. But you had the one story this week that, you know, has been making the rounds about the programmer in San Francisco who has 7,000 to Bitcoin that would be worth 220 million or some, which is pretty good. I'd be happy. I don't know about you, but 220 million would mean a lot to me. now he has it in his crypto wallet which he doesn't have access to because it has to have a password and it only gives you 10 chances to get into the wallet before you get locked out which is a weird thing but okay uh you know i guess that's for our safety but it never works out to our safety anyway

Uh, he's tried eight times. He has two left. And he has not gotten in. So apparently, I guess he wrote the password down on a napkin. And then, you know, obviously there's, I'm sure he's torn the house inside out, looking for this napkin with the password on it. And they cannot find it. So if you have a crypto wallet, make sure you,

you write your password and your information down on something that you know where it's going to be. No matter what it is. It could be your password to Twitter, to Facebook, but most importantly to your bank accounts and your cryptocurrencies. Wow. If you don't know where that password is and you have an opportunity to get locked out from that crypto wallet. And you're going to end up like this guy knowing you've got a couple hundred million dollars worth of Bitcoin in this wallet?

A new, thank you. You've got to put that somewhere where you know where it is. I don't know where that is for you. I know where it is for me. And it needs to go there. The list of all names, passwords, emails, all of it needs to be where you can get at it at any time. time. Otherwise, you're left with hoping you hit the lottery. You know, we talked about the NASCAR driver who apologized, and I guess it kind of saved

her gig, because she's going to have to go to, you know, her sensitivity training before she can race again. We talked about the sports guy that apologized and it didn't do any good. Most of the stories, the overwhelming amount of stories where people do something that the The woke crowd gets their panties in a wad. The apology doesn't work. And we've joked around forever, never bend the knee. And for sure, that is a fact. Never bend the knee to the rage mob.

Because it doesn't do any good. Period. It never does any good. It just, it's amazing to me, and everyone thinks that it's going to. They don't care. if they're coming after you, they're coming after you. Period. Your apology will go on deaf ears.

But we have another one. The owner of a restaurant in Maryland, Salisbury, Maryland, has issued a public apology for a sign that appeared outside his eatery. Now, he's taking the heat for it, but apparently he had somebody that he had hired that takes care of the sign out in front of the store. And that person, of course, is no longer employed with the bar. Okay? All right.

That person is gone. And the restaurant owner on his Facebook page issued an apology saying he was sorry for the extremely insensitive and derogatory sign. He also assured patrons that nothing of the sort would ever happen again. I, the owner of Market Street Inn, am sorry for the disson. tasteful sign that was written in front of a place of business. A public business is not a platform for political or personal feelings or opinions and is ultimately the responsibility of the person responsible for that organization. Recovering from the incident will be a process of learning.

It's a whole new thing and it was a big mistake. It was hurtful. Hopefully over time the community will take that I'm sincere about it and that the sincerity we build on and move forward and correct our problems, and that's all you can really ask. He said that the employee in question is no longer employed at the restaurant. Well, that's good. That's good. But I'm in contact with the Salisbury P-flag.

The branch has offered to provide a restaurant with training and education about the LGBTQ plus. people. Now, P-Flag has 400 chapters across the country, and it provides confidential support, peer support, education, and advocacy to the LGBTQ plus people. It's the largest organization uniting parents, families, and allies with people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. P-flag National is the national organization, which provides support to the P-flag network of local chapters. Now, well, you say, what was the sign, Jeff? I mean, it must have been horrific.

Well, I'm going to read it to you, and it was horrific. And I know the incident has done handled internally. We've gotten rid of the employee that wrote it. I understand we're in a pandemic. Restaurants and bars and inns are really struggling. but this sign it can't it just can't stand and it hasn't and i'm thankful that it's gone i'm going to read it to you now but just know that this was the sign that is now gone from in front of the market street in on the chalkboard that's out in front of the store so it changes daily or it's supposed to right

i mean that's why you have somebody in charge of it just put up new signs specials whatever you want to say out in front of your store this particular um chalkboard said this you know i mean this is what was written on it in chalk so if a male can identify as a female can a bar identify as a grocery store i know i know the horror i you could well understand how this was just unacceptable in uh in our times. I mean, according to Caitlin Wright, I'm sorry, Caitlin White in this story,

W-I-G-H-T, who grew up in Salisbury, said this particular incident is not the first of its kind. Oh my gosh. Were there other written things on chalkboards? She claimed, and I don't know what Caitlin identifies as,

if you're not transgender, you don't get to decide what is or isn't a joke or what you should or shouldn't be sensitive about. Yeah, you kind of do. You kind of do, Caitlin, but you know, whatever.

UNP flag, take care of yourselves. But, no more little joking. There's no comedy. There's no jokes. There's no idea that, you know, every place has to close except for the grocery store. So maybe that was the question

from the person who was losing. and all kinds of money at the Market Street Inn, was fortunate to still be able to have a job and put up whatever specials were on the of the day and decided to make a little joke. Now, I'm going to say it again, what was so horrific just one more time so you know how horrific it was,

and that's why I'm saying it, so you know how horrific this was in front of the Market Inn in Salisbury, Maryland, up on the chalkboard. So if you're male, no, I'm sorry, that's not right. So if a male can identify as a female, can a bar identify as a grocery store?

I, you know what? I was going to apologize, but I'm not going to apologize because I should never apologize for something. I don't know what to do now. I don't know what to do. Because I didn't, I mean, It's so stupid. It's so stupid.

It's funny. It's funny. And it's just a stupid little reminder of how this pandemic has made these things so ridiculous. And of course, you can identify as a grocery store. That's the world we live in. It's the world we live in. You can identify as whatever you want. Right? I thought that was the case.

The answer to this should be yes. But not the P-Fleg. All right, so a Florida couple in big trouble, they are charged with child neglect. The sheriff's office did not say in their press release how they first received information about these crimes. Okay? So this couple in Florida, Pinellas County,

Florida, Palm Harbor, Florida, Florida. I mean, it's all the stopping grounds. I love it there. Pinellas County, 727 baby. So stupid. The area code. I got you. So according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, Adam Thayer, 38, who is the dean of students, not anymore, by the way, at Pinellas Academy for math and science, and his wife, Misty Mitchell Thayer, 37. Now, in this story, he gets arrested, and he's been charged with child neglect. She is out of town. I wonder if she will continue to be out of town.

But she'll be charged when she comes back, if when she comes back. So anyway, they're facing child neglect charges. Now, apparently they discovered police, discovered that they've been providing their children's teenage babysitter and her underage friends with alcohol and marijuana

while she was at their home watching their children. Apparently they left alcohol and marijuana for the babysitter 30 to 40 times over the last two years while they went out and partied themselves at local bars.

Detectives learned that the Thayers wouldn't return home until after midnight. I mean, I'm not sure why that's a big deal if you're out with your wife and you have a babysitter. but okay. They wouldn't return home until after midnight, and on some occasions,

on some of these occasions, would continue to drink and smoke with the underage female babysitter, who is now 17 years of age. They also permitted the juvenile to invite friends over and knowingly allowed them to drive home impaired. So I guess, you know,

this teenager has been babysitting the kids for a couple of years, uh, said, would often get pretty drunk to the point of experiencing slurred speech and blurred vision. She also admitted to detectives that in the event of an emergency, due to her intoxication, she would not have been able to care for the children. They were five and seven when she began a couple years ago.

And in October of 2020, which is right in the pandemic, right? But it is in Florida. So maybe they were still going out to bars. Misty, the wife, told the baby, her in a text message, get drunk, and pass the F out. If you want to smoke, Adam has weed there. Okay. The teen also told detectives that the one time the couple even poured her a glass of whiskey

before leaving the house. Okay. I want to know if this is actually a true story or not. I mean, I want to know if this is actually what happened, or if the teen is out to get this couple because they didn't pay her or something. It's really, really strange, but they are being charged with two counts of child neglect in Pinellas County, Florida. What I liked about a couple things. When they went to the school, News Channel 8, the local NBC affiliate, was reporting the story in the story that I got, my man, Keith Kate, and the reporter Chip Osowski, I don't know Chip, but I know Keith, Keith's been around for a long time.

He's a good man. Anyway, they were reporting on this. And Chip goes to the front door of the Thayer's house. This person who answered the door, got to be a chewing the fat listener. Love him. I don't know who answered. This is just a, you know, a young male entered the door,

and Chip says, is there anyone in the Thayer family that wants to comment on this? And he says, no, and closes the door. Awesome. Chip just turns around and says, oh, there's no comment from the family. No kidding. that's how you handle it.

Just because a microphone and a camera show up at your door, you don't have to comment. And then he talked about that he went to the school and said, hey, does he the administrator here or the dean of students here at this math school? Yes, he is. And upon finding out that he was arrested, he's been fired. Oh, okay. Well, that's nice of him to give the guy a chance. you know the whole allegedly doesn't mean anything right right

let's go to the break room i need something cold to drink and we've got some really good oh my gosh stories for the break room too oh so good so good news if you are one of the fortunate ones or unfortunate ones that are still flying in the airports. Jeff Zucker, head of CNN, notified the CNN staff that CNN Airport Network, yep, we're going to end that operation on March 31st. Really? Isn't that interesting?

No more CNN at every airport in America. The steep decline in airport traffic because of COVID-19, coupled with all the new ways that people are consuming content on their personal devices, has lessened the need. So I wonder how it would go if it was the Blaze. Was there an airport in America that would take the Blaze? I mean, right now is the time to do it. Just go to blazTV.com slash Jeffie and get you $30 off for a year. You can put that up at your airport.

No problem. BlazTV.com slash Jeffie. Put the network up on your at the airport. What do you say? make that deal. In fact, and I don't know this, and I don't want to, I don't want to throw it out there, you know, just higgily-pigily. But if you're an airport and you want to carry the Blaze,

you know, call me. And we'll see if we can work something. We'll see if, you know, I'll give you a 30 bucks off a year right now. Just go to the blaz-tivy.com slash Jeffie, blaz-tivy. J-E-F-F-F-Y, getting you $30 off for a year. What do you say?

Huh? Whatever airport, you're good to go. I like it. Put the Blaze TV up at your airport. Is there an airport in America that has the gut to do that? I doubt it very, very much.

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So, subscribe to chewing the fat and make your life that much better. Okay? Okay. That's what I like to hear. So Consumer Electronics Show is going on. And we know that they pulled out all the plugs to show the GM launching their Operation Beat Tesla. Their electric delivery and logistics arm bright drop. They showed the electric palette

that lugs packages from warehouses to delivery vans and delivery vans to your doorstep. The electric delivery van with 250-mile range. First vehicle should be delivered by the end of this year with 500 destined for a FedEx route near you.

Bright Drop is also going to offer delivery software and services including location tracking, remote lock, predictive maintenance. So shares with GM you know, they're still up. So good for them. I know that they're doing their, you know,

billion dollar pivot to electric vehicles. So we'll see how their 30 new models are going to be unveiled and how people like them by 2025. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. They're talking about having a Cadillac

branded electric air taxi. So we'll see. I don't know. I don't know. And at CES, they also have a ice cream machine. I know. I like it.

It's called cold snap. I want one. Frozen treats in a snap. So it's like pods. It's like the little carings. And they have the little pods and you make ice cream. Now, I will say this. All right.

It doesn't look like it makes that much. I'd like to have the pods make more soft serve ice cream. But, I mean, to have that machine in the house. So you just pop the pod. in and you've got a bowl full of ice cream, it'd be kind of sweet. But, this is a side note. Now, you could, according to this,

Cold Snap has pod coffee, pod juices, pod lipstick, pod weed, pod cocktails, pod cookies, and pod tortillas, along with the pod ice cream. So, okay, it's, you know, it's still out there. They're looking at,

it's making the healthy shakes and frozen smoothies, and you can have frozen yoke. instead of ice cream. I gotcha. So, you know, they're out there. They're being at the computer electronic show. Now, here's the deal. I looked at how much those pods are.

And for an ice cream pod, I didn't look at the others, but for an ice cream pod, they claim, according to this story, that it's $2.99 when it launches the $2.99 for the ice cream pods. Okay. They're saying all the pods are going to be somewhere around $2.99. If I have as small a bowl as they show in this picture for ice cream,

it better be cheaper than $2.99 because you can get, I mean, for three bucks, I can, for double the money, I could get a gallon of Bluebell ice cream. And for three bucks, I could get almost a half gallon of any other ice cream I want. And that's a lot more

than the old soft serve pod machine is making. It doesn't change the fact that I still want one in the house, though. Just so that I could, you know, have some ready-made, cold, soft-serve ice cream at the drop of a pod. I just didn't add for them. Holy cow, they should be a sponsor of chewing the fat.

So since the passing of the... Alex Trebek and Jeopardy. Everybody wants to be the host of Jeopardy. So Ken Jennings is obviously not going to be the everyday host, but he is the main fill-in host, and he is their ambassador and has been for a while. He's like the winningest guy forever, 74-game winning streak, $2.52 million in earnings.

He's the first to take over as a guest host. and then they're having fill-ins. Now, I read originally, right, we talked about how it was going to be, I guess they were going to do a week at a time, and I don't know how long Ken's going to do it here at the beginning, and then they're going to have guest hosts fill in. And I thought we had talked about it being a week at a time,

and then they were going to, you know, make a decision on who was going to be the official replacement. It was going to be one of these people. So I know they have Katie Couric lined up, And they have the Big Bang Theory, Amy Farah Fowler. Oh, that was her name on Big Bang Theory. What's her silly name? She's on Call Me Cat now.

Mayam Bellick, right? I don't know how to, I remember her on Big Bang Theory. M-A-Y-I-M-B-I-A-L-K, and I know she's a big star from Big Bang Theory, and you're all going to be saying, you'll be able to pronounce her name. I don't care. Okay. She actually might be able to pull it off.

Maybe. You know, we'll see. I know that they're talking about Mike Richards. He's one of the executive producers. Okay. I guess he hosted a game show before. Good luck. And that's what it's going to be, right?

That it's going to be someone like this guy, this Mike Richards, who's not a super famous guy from somewhere else, but is able to pull off the host of Jeopardy. Anderson Cooper, I guess, is going to give it a shot for a week or so. Stop it, Anderson. Jordan Stephanopoulos wants the gig. And, you know, I know that we have,

there's plenty, and there's also a list of Aaron Rogers was going to do it. They want Aaron to step in for one of those. what? I mean, people want the gig. It's a good gig. And I wouldn't mind doing it. We talked about it because I would love it. I mean, it'd be a good gig. It'd be fun. But guys like Aaron Rogers and Stephanopoulos and, oh my gosh, Katie Couric, they, you know, they're going to be able to do an okay job because they're superstars in previous lives. But they're not going to be able to pull off Jeopardy. Nobody's going to want to deal with their agon organizing selves for Jeopardy. We want to be able, that's what made Alex so great all those years is that the show was never about Alex Trebek.

It was about this guy who everyone thought was the smartest guy in the world and knew all these answers and talked to the host, but it was about the players. And, you know, he worked real hard at that and making it be about the contestants

and not about him. He would just be, you know, this guy who had all the answers. It was just, you know, it's going to be someone that, you know, we don't know. Or someone, you know, like myself, who would say yes to the job and, you know, no problem. Right. Now, Ken Jennings, I had forgotten about all the trouble he got into over some of his past tweets. Remember, we talked about it at the end of the year where he talked about,

I just wanted to own up to the fact that over the years on Twitter, I've definitely tweeted some unartful and insensitive things. Sometimes they worked as jokes in my head, and I was dismayed to see how they read on screen. So he bet the knee to the crowd. Right? They were after him. They were after him for his tweets.

And the one that got everybody all wound up. He had two or three tweets that were, you know, really funny and they were you know whatever but my favorite tweet from Ken Jennings was is probably I have become a fan of Ken Jennings just because of this tweet from 2014 okay and I just want you to know that he tweeted it as a joke and it's funny but they believe that it's deeply offensive. And he claims he refused to take the tweets down because he felt like taking him down

was the wrong thing to do. They should remain there. I kind of agree with that. When you take it down, it brings, it's like you're, I don't know, whatever, it doesn't matter, whatever. If you tweet something, you don't want to have it up there. Go ahead, take it down.

But his tweet that faced huge backlash was from 2014. I'm going to say it. I'm not going to laugh. because I just want you to know that it is not funny, okay? And I'm laughing because of all the things going on around me right now. But I'm not laughing at this tweet that people thought was offensive. The tweet read,

Nothing sadder than a hot person in a wheelchair. I know. I know. The horror. More catfighting on TV. more cat fighting, cat fight, cat fight. Not only are we fighting to take over Alex Trebek's role on Jeopardy and that's a good gig, man. That's a good role to take over, so

good luck to whoever really has an opportunity for that job. But Nicole Kidman apparently has been I don't know tapped on the shoulder by the Kings that be to play Lucille ball

in a in a biopic that is going to be called Being the Ricardos or at least that's what they're titling it right now

and it's supposed to follow Ball and Desi Arnaz during a week of producing I Love Lucy. That's what it's being reported as and Aaron Sorkin is writing and directing the movie

Javier Bartum has been tapped to play Desi Arnaz and people are upset that Nicole Kidman is going to be playing Lucille Ball. Now, I kind of agree. Nicole is one of those, you know, I never really cared for her, but most of the stuff that she's in, I like.

So I guess I like her. You know, she's just one of those people that I don't think I would hang out with in real life. But whatever, whatever. So she's, you know, she's a superstar and she's been tapped to play Lucille Ball. Well, people are all wound up. Deborah Messing should have gotten the gig. And, you know, she played Lucy in one of, one of the Will & Grace shows. She's funny.

She actually would have been a perfect choice. And I bet that it wouldn't surprise me if Nicole says, you know what, I'm too busy. I've got another movie. I'm shooting. I can't do it. And they tapped Deborah Messing to do it. I don't know. Maybe we'll see. But we've got a cat fight going on. I know Valerie

Bertonelli has tweeted that Deborah Messing was robbed. People have been tweeting and quote tweeting that with Deborah is Lucy reincarnated all the way. So they're fighting for Deborah Messing

to be Lucy. Maybe she doesn't even want it. I mean, I don't know, Deborah hasn't come out and, I don't think she's come out and said, well, yeah, I'd like to do that job, and Nicole Kidman can kiss my ass. I don't think Deborah Messing has said that, although now I want her to. So we know about the UK going into lockdown. Other countries started to go into lockdown over the COVID-19 pandemic. And I love the story.

Ontario is going to enter in a state of emergency on Thursday, issuing stay-at-home or. orders to residents. It goes into effect and it will last at least 28 days. Everyone must stay home and only go out for essential trips to pick up groceries or go to medical appointments. Adding that walking pets or exercising is still permitted. That's funny because, and that's talking about Ontario, but a Quebec couple. under their order where it says you can only walk your dog close to home. There's a nightly curfew between 8 and 5 a.m.

People, of course, like I said, are admitted, you know, able to walk their dog close to home. And so one husband and wife went out for a walk, but the wife put a leash on her husband. And when the police pulled her over, she said, yeah, well, I'm just out walking my dog. So, you know, we're following the rules. And, you know, the rule are so that I can walk my pets, and I'm out walking my pet now.

Okay? So that's where we're going. We're close to home. So they got a ticket. Still, the police didn't let them go. Of course. Even the police couldn't think, oh, that's a pretty good one. Go ahead and get out of here.

Don't let me catch you again. It's not fun. Whatever. Nope, wrote him a ticket. And they were, the police, of course, well, we're just following the rules set forth by Premier Francis LaGalle. Oh, yeah, okay. Thank you, Mr. Policeman.

Thank you. They were fined the ticket for breaking the curfew is about $3,000. Now, according to the police department, a spokesperson said the couple did not cooperate with the police. Well, okay. By saying did not cooperate. Does that mean that they said, you know, we didn't just run home with our tail,

get it with our tail between our legs and apologize and bow down and tell them, we're just out for, we just want to be outside together as a couple, you know, walking in fresh air that's supposed to be good? Anyway, uh, they got a ticket.

And according to this, they issued Quebec, the entire province, issued seven, 750 tickets for violations over the weekend. Wow. That's a lot. That's a lot.

So even in the great lockdown of Canada, people are having enough. And they want to actually get out and be outside. And I don't know, walk with their husband or walk with their wife. It's just incredible. We are going into a deep dark time. A deep dark time. And I know this is Canada, but look around in this country and tell me what you see.

I know. I know. I mean, we're already talking about the FBI warning law enforcement agencies nationwide of possible armed protests at all 50 state capital buildings. Wow. And they could start, you know, we're going to have National Guard all around Capitol Hill. And they're talking about the FBI planning to, you know, up their coverage around the state capitals. Please, please, please. Don't do this.

Don't go to the Capitol buildings armed. You're just creating a problem that is going. going to make everything worse than it is already. And you think to yourself, well, it can't get worse than it is already. You know the answer to that. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Look, they're talking about having up to 15,000 a National Guard ready for President elect Joe Biden's inauguration next week.

U.S. Army Secretary Ryan McCarthy said that D.C. was expecting about 6,200 Guard members over the weekend, and that they're going to remain in the region for at least 30 days. And don't forget President Trump, you know, declared an emergency in the district already.

You know, and like I said, they're talking about, you know, armed protest at all 50 state capital buildings. Please don't. Please don't. I know, you know, who am I? I get it. And I haven't talked much about it because I try to stay away from it here on chewing the fat. But things are, and you could quote me on this, not real stable right now around the country because of what happened last week at the Capitol building.

And I know that, you know, our Speaker of the House called it this armed insurrection. then the picture they show are all these people inside the Capitol building. Nobody had a weapon that I'm aware of, but maybe they did. I get it. You know, whatever. Whatever. The point is that during the inauguration, it has got to go off without a hitch. And if there's any kind of hitch at all, you know who's going to be blamed for it, don't you?

Yeah, that's right. Donald Trump and his supporters. And it won't be pretty. It won't be pretty at all. You think it's bad now that Twitter is, you know, taking followers away from you? You think it's not bad now that their Facebook and Twitter is just blocking people? And they've already dropped the hammer on students for Trump account,

which is no violations, no warnings, nothing. He's just blocked until at least after inauguration day is what he was told. So, okay. just anything to do with Trump, shut it down. And that's what's happening. And if something bad happens during the inauguration, you can count on things getting a lot worse. A lot worse.

You're going to be wishing for the days of arguing with people over whether you're wearing a mask or not. You saw the Bruce Willis story where he was asked to leave the right aid on Monday after refusing to wear a mask? You know, I guess people inside the store became upset with Willis who wasn't wearing a mask. Although he had a bandana on tied around his neck. There was a picture of this evil man. I guess.

And, you know, of course, you know, rep for Willis didn't return the calls. But he was at the store and they made such a big deal about him putting a mask on. He was there getting whenever he was going to get. Stop it. What are you talking about? You know what? I mean, we talked a little bit about, I told you about the doctor's office.

And yesterday, that story with the nurse. And, you know, I'm usually pretty good about, you know, I get it if I have to go out somewhere and they want me to wear a mask, I wear a mask. But really, I don't care if you don't wear a mask. I don't care. If you want to wear a mask, great. If you don't want to wear a mask, don't.

Whatever, fine. But we're getting to the point now where we're past the Karen's and the Ken's. We're now into the regular people who have, you know, they've been forced to wear a mask now. And so if they see you out without a mask, not only are they mad at you for not wearing a mask because they think that you could, you know, be making people sick. But they're mad at you because you're doing what they wanted to do to begin with. And that's not wear a mask. But they caved in.

So they now want you to cave in. And that's a, that's not a good place. Did I say that we were in a bad place? Yeah. Yeah, that's not a good place. So, I mean, I don't know what Bruce was doing. I know he, man, he's been quarantined with Demi and the kids, the older kids, out at their Idaho ranch forever. And I know that the wife now, his wife now with their new baby, apparently got caught in L.A.

because of some sickness or one of the kids, the kid, the kid, was sick or something happened so she had to stay in L.A. And Bruce was out in Idaho. So for a while, they weren't even together. Bruce was with Demi, the ex, and his grown children. And the new wife and the new baby is in L.A. by themselves. So, I mean, obviously he's back in L.A. now with the new wife and the baby. But I'm not sure what he was, you know, what he was really thinking about?

Just put a mask on. Bruce. What are you doing? You got your bandana on. Although he's probably thinking, look, I'm in the store. I'm shopping already. What are you doing? I just want to get my stuff and get out of here. And by the way, I'm Bruce Freakin Willis. You don't know who I am?

I get to go wherever I want to go. And if I want to wear a mask, I will. And if I don't, I don't. And yeah, I've got my bandana on. But because you're telling me to put a mask on, I'm not doing it. Instead, I'm just going to leave. And any money that I was going to spend at your stupid pharmacy, right aid, I'm not going to spend it there.

Okay? So have a nice freaking day. And the other reason it became a big deal is because somebody snapped a picture of him in the right date. Other than that, it would have been just, you know, him walking out and not making a purchase. And one last update from Nick in Pennsylvania at the, you know, emailing, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. So we've heard about Nick. and I talked about his issues with his wife and the kids at the library. And then I talked about how, you know, he wanted to get it right and it wasn't because of this.

It was because of that. And then I've got one last, apparently Nick doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. According to Nick, his wife, call, said he was an effing idiot. And if you've been married for any length of time, you may have been called that by your spouse at one time or another. Who among us? So apparently he got the story backwards. There was still an issue with the library and the two-year-old not wearing a mask,

but it was with another special thing. And so that's why there was money spent because it was a special thing outside of the actual library. So they can't be a part of that either. So anyway, the whole point. point of this is to remind you that as a couple from time to time, you may find yourself with one of your, either your husband or your wife telling you a story that what happened during the day and what's going on and you really not listening. And then you go to tell someone else the story and you realize in the end when the spouse

who actually told you the story, here's what you said, realizes that you weren't listening to that spouse at all. And it has no idea the actual, you know the gist of the story. And that's all you really need, right? You just need the gist of the story. Overall, in life,

you just need the gist of the story. You really don't need to start bogging people down with facts. Right? Right.