Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep. 54 | The Over Paid Air Force Band

Episode Date: December 5, 2018

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You're listening to Chewing the Fat on demand. Welcome to it. Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Hey, that's me. Welcome to it. You can remember to subscribe and rate and review the podcast, and you know the rules. You subscribe, and then you rate and review it.

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Thank you. Now, in Tennessee, they have the death penalty still. All right. Now, we have two people. One guy's going to die tomorrow. One guy died last month. who opted for the electric chair. In Tennessee, you get your choice.

Hey, we're giving you the death penalty. You get your choice. You either get lethal injection or you get the electric chair. So the guy last month chose the electric chair. The guy that's going to die tomorrow, electric chair. And now people, you know, the electric chair haters and the death row hateers. are all wound up. We don't need to get into that fight right now.

What I enjoy, though, is their last meals. Now, Edmund Zegorski went down last month. He was the first prisoner to die by that method in the United States since 2013. Edmund, well, I mean, he was convicted of too much. murders in a drug deal. His final words, let's rock. I don't know that that's very good.

But those were his final words. And it was said that he went back and forth. The people that were there watched him, watched him go down and said that he went from grimacing to smiling to just this look of, well, you know what happens when you get electrocuted, the look of death.

But his final words were, let's rock. His final meal? His final meal? Ooh, not good at all. Pickled pig knuckles and pig tails. That was Zegorski's final meal. Not really not good. But hey, you're going down, you're going down.

So tomorrow night in Tennessee, they're going to juice another one. David Earl Miller. He was convicted for murder. He committed in 1981. These guys have been on death row forever. I mean, this guy was in the guy before Zagarski was 1980s. This is 80s. I mean, okay.

Now, it's fascinating to see what happens to them when they go on death row. And when they're on their final days, it's a three-day period up to the juicing. And he's decided to take the chair, remember, not the lethal injection. So when I say juicing, I do mean the electrical juicing. Yes. So there's a three-day period, which is, you know, he's smack dab in the middle of it now. when strict guidelines are implemented to maintain the security of control of the offender and to maintain safe and orderly operations of the prison.

During this period, the offender is placed in a cell adjacent to the execution chamber. That's always good. We're going to move you next to the chair. You got that, David? Go. And I love, he's a murderer, so it's David Earl Miller. He or she is under 24-hour observation. Only those individuals who are on the offender's official visitation list are allowed to visit the offender during the death watch period.

All visits are non-contact until the final day before the execution, at which time the warden decides if the offender can have a contact list. A contact visit. Now, his final meal that he selected, that he will eat tomorrow, way better than the old pickled pig knuckles and pig tails that Zagurski ordered. He wants fried chicken. mashed potatoes, biscuits, and coffee. I mean, I don't know what he wants the coffee for.

Does he need to be awake to get juiced? They get a special. Now, remember, we talked about this before. Some states now you don't get a choice. You get what everybody eats. That's it. You're on death row. We're feeding you what we're going to feed you.

You don't like it tough. Now, some states, and obviously Tennessee is one, you do still get to choose. And he gets an extra 20 bucks toward his. Special meal. So tomorrow in Tennessee, I know you had it happened to you last month, be prepared for it again tomorrow to go dark for a little bit. You'll know when David Earl Miller gets juiced. The lights go out? Oh, no, David. David's dead.

David Earl Miller's dead. That's it. Now, for those of you that watch the... Just be ready. When the lights go out for a few seconds in Tennessee, you know what happened. Now, for those of you that watch and listen to our latest podcast with Andrew Heaton, something's off with Andrew Heaton. You know that he's brought a couple of new clients to the table.

And I wanted to, you know, I'm not going to be outdone by something's off by Andrew Heaton. He's got a couple of new clients. And I thought, well, I'm going to, hello, I can bring some new clients to the table. Hi, fellas, welcome to the death row diner. My name's Bonnie. Can I take your order, please? Uh, yeah, I'm gonna have the, uh, number five, the Ted Bundy. Oh, great choice, the Ted Bundy.

That's steak, eggs, hash browns, and hot coffee. That's one of my favorites. And for you, sweetie pie? Yeah, uh, what's your special for today? Today's special for 999 is the John Wayne Gacy Platter, which is my favorite. It's fried chicken, fried shrimp, french fries, and fresh strawberries. It's really, really good. Well, shoot, Bonnie, that does sound good.

I think I'm going to get me that. Okay. And what can I get for you, honey? Yeah, I'm just going to have me to Gary Gilmore. Okay, Gary Gilmore, one six pack of beer coming up. Get your butt down to the death row diner. We're serving up all your famous last meals of your favorite death row convicts. The death row diner is just two blocks from the state prison east of the trailer park right on electric avenue.

It's fun family dining at the death road diner. Delicious last meals, home cooking style. Obviously, we recorded this, but the diner has not had time to add the, Zagorski, which is the pickled pig knuckles and pig tails, but coming soon to the death row diner, the Zagorsky. All right. So if you haven't heard, George H.W. Bush is dead. Yes, he's dead.

And I know that we've had the days of days and days and days and days of honoring the former president. And how do you, you know, honor someone who's been called a patriot and humble servant, a man for all seasons, you hold a national day of morning. And that's today. That means that bare bones market section, both the New York Stock Exchange and NASDAQ been closed, bond markets to close. Capital Hill, Bush's funeral likely means two-week postponement of the ongoing government shutdown. So everybody else is going to have to go back to work tomorrow, but our lawmakers, we need two weeks off.

That is a little agonizing. The last time markets closed to Mark of President's death was 2007 for the passing of President Gerald Ford. Government funding has been set to expire December 7th. Remember we talked yesterday. Shut it down. I'm all ready for that. Non-essential federal employees will not have to work most mail delivery. You're not getting any mail.

Don't check the mailbox, although you will because you do it out of habit when you get it. home every day. I know. Somebody might have put something in there. You never know. And now the post offices will be closed. So we're watching the extravaganza for the...

We're watching the funeral. We watched the funeral and we saw the great shot of the former presidents, George, Barack, and Bill all in a row. Hillary was there. Hillary and Bill were... They had a little

smile, but they, they were, they were like a second couple down. You know, you had George and you had Laura, then you had Barack, and you had Michelle, and then you had Bill and Hillary. So when George and Laura sat down, he got the little quick shake from Barack, and he got the little quick shake from Michelle, ended up sneaking her a little piece of candy again. It's such a cute little habit they have with each other. and Bill and Hillary got the quick side glance smile. No handshake. George isn't reaching over Barack and Michelle for that.

And plus, Hillary ain't having none of that. And, I mean, it was tough for her to get the side glance half a, Hey, you're here, look. But they all were, you know, they were all cordial doing their thing. And then we watched them leave the church and go to. Joint Base Andrews from the cathedral. Now, I don't believe I've ever seen a procession of cars from a funeral. I don't care if it's a state funeral.

I don't care if it's Grandpa Joe from down the road funeral. That procession was flying. They were going too fast, in my opinion. They were going way too fast. That was more than 30 miles an hour. That was way too fast for a funeral. People were on the side of the road like NASCAR. They weren't doing 200 miles an hour.

But it was like for a funeral procession, it was a NASCAR funeral procession. All the people alongside of the road, boom, boom, boom. They were not waiting, you know, they were not expecting that car to go that fast. Right. And you could tell that they were like, whoa. Right. Because even the cops, they were trying to salute. But they were like, wait, did I miss it?

I know. Was that it? Yeah, it was way too fast. I don't know what the deal was. Did they have like a... Some sort of threat? Departure time to me. because I thought the plane doesn't leave into the body is there.

I'm pretty sure that plane is there until they're ready to go. That's what I'm saying. I'm pretty sure that the body is the one controlling the time. So why do we rush? Maybe they had to get through TSA? Yeah. I don't know. Or maybe, you know what?

Maybe they did have a threat and we don't know that. That's what I thought. And they have to speed up. Because by the way, if you look at that cathedral, the amount of manpower that was in there, the amount of representation and amount of like, top secret white fin, you know, clearance. That was a lot of power in that one section.

Did we see Pence today? He was the designated survivor probably. Pence was there. Oh, then who I wonder who the designated survivor was. That's what I'm saying, because Pence was behind Trump. Joe Biden was there. The Secretary of Transportation was there. We can't lose Joe.

Ryan was there. So everybody was there. So who was the designated survivor? Because I'm sorry, but that was a lot of. lot of people in there. So, I mean, that procession was fast. Wait, I mean, I saw people on the side of the road. You watched a video again.

You see mom goes, oh, here comes a room. Are you sure that was that? We're looking at it. Here comes the former president. Oh, honey, what's? Did you get the picture? Because I don't, I didn't. I did it.

All right, here comes. Snap. That's bad. I don't know what, I don't know what the deal was. So then we get to the airport. Joint base Andrews. I don't know when we started calling it after, after a marijuana a cigarette but we yeah we have so the joint basis came right after i'm gonna get a factual say i just

did it was just a joke oh okay never mind continue sorry go ahead no tell us what the joint base turned so the joint bases came right after obama decided to start merging air force and army bases so what they did was like we'll call these air force we'll call these joint bases and you have two representative where you know air force will oversee at all and then the army will be the deployment unit out of that base. So we started calling military bases after a marijuana cigarette when Obama was in office is what you're telling me. Yes.

Okay. So they go to Joint Base Andrews. And they're, I mean, they've got the procession there. And we've got everybody all with their metals shined up and their belt buckles shining in their shoes looking good. And we've got the band. And we've got the guards at the stairway of Air Force One. And we've got the 800 gun salute from the military.

which was all pretty cool. And as I'm watching it, I'm sitting here with Chris Cruz, who is, you know, recently out of the military. A short period of time ago was in the military. Four years ago. Yeah, it's been a while for me, you know,

since the island of spice. But Chris is, you know, fairly recent retiree from the military. And he is all wound up at these people on the tarmac. I've never seen anyone rant and rave about the band before. I've never seen anyone go, oh, that guy right there. I could have done that.

And I did that for this, and I didn't do this. But the band, I hate every one of those band members. The reason I stopped, see, is that means that I know you're busy in there, doing whatever it is you do. But I thought we were, you know, engaging about your. hatred to the band. No, we are. I just want to make sure that, you know, people know the amount of of hate I gave from you. And it was right there in that little five seconds it was shown. Because that's the same hate you have for me. It's the same hate I have for the Air Force ban.

So as we see the Air Force ban, I started, actually no, further back, the security of the security is done by the Air Force security forces, which that's where I was part of. But then I notice that the people that were guarding the plane were a senior master sergeant. Well, of course. And a chief master sergeant. It's for the former president. And we'll look at the crowd that's on the plane. Yes.

No, the crowd, you know, you had generals, joint chiefs of staff. Whoever says, hey, we're doing this. You know the big boss guys are saying that's me. Yes. And that's our, yes. No, agreed. And like we talked, you know, usually whoever is doing this will go on the EPR, which is our evaluation of the end of the year.

And they put that little bullet right there. This is what ticks him off. And then, you know, a person like me that may be, you know, fed 20 million homeless people with the Red Cross, you know, trying to give back to the community. Here you have a chief master sergeant giving back to the community by guarding a plane that is escorting the president, you know, 41st president of the United States. Now, I get it. No, rank has his privilege. Sure. But here's the problem that I'm having, especially let's hit the ban.

Yeah, the hatred for the band I was a little surprised. I mean, they're playing piccolo's and clarinets. You know what? Fine. But the last time I checked, you joined the military to defend the military.

You don't join the military to be... To defend the military. To defend the country. You know, you don't join the military to play the piccolo or play the flute. But you do, though, right? And these people, they do. Yes, they do.

And you have a different outlook on how they're how they're taking care of the country. No, no. No. No. No, because I get it. Back in the day, we did use the band to rile up the troops and play the drums, and that will give them, hey, go faster.

The drums are going faster. We're going to run, we're going to run. I get it, but we're not doing that right now. Right now, all they are just pumping, pompous, and they go out there. Circumptus. Thank you. They go out there, and they're performed. But they make the military look good.

Okay, fine. But while they're making six figures, Jeffie. No way. Jeffie. A bass? way are you hauling around a tube but for six, I mean, I would. Oh, no, me too. I feel stupid now because I'm not making six figures.

I don't think you're making six figures. I'm a trombone playing Mother Hopper for six figures. Thank you. You got these people here. So they go to the special boot camp. What? Not even the same boot camp that I went to. They go over there and learn how to play the flute, learn how to play the-

band members to a special boot camp? Yes. To learn how to march together and how to, you know, be united. and all this things. Oh my gosh. And then... This happened when we started naming the bases after pot. Probably.

Probably. Probably. Okay. Because then when I graduated boot camp, I got another rank of E3. Right. So, when they graduate their special boot camp, they get a pay grade of E6, the equivalent of a technical sergeant. Right off the bat.

It takes a normal airman without getting in trouble, you know, doing their things. doing their job, it takes them 10 years. 10 years to hit E6. Yeah, but in those 10 years, what are they doing? Are they marching in a band? Are they playing the clarinet? No. Are they doing that?

I'll play the trumpet. But they are defending the nation. Oh, yeah, that's silly. They are deploying. They are in the midst of the people. And while you got a brand new Air Force band recruit that gets E6 automatically as soon as they graduate, just because he learned how to blow on a stupid flute or learn. learn how to freaking do the little, what are those things called?

No, not the tambour. The symbols and the tambourines. Of course, we can't forget the guy in the back with tambourines. And we can't forget the guy we're doing the, you know, what was that with the rainmaker? You know, they just turned on. They look great. They look great. But come on.

Although you don't normally see the rainmaker of the marching bands. Oh, true, true. Maybe they added it. Maybe they did. But it's still. You got the French horn. And by the way, go up. back, go back. And this is, and this is the part where me and Jeff were talking about. Go back

where, you know, President Bush 41, his body was being lifted to the plane. And then the band was pulling the back on. Look at those ranks. Look at those ranks. Chris is like pausing the TV going, look at this. Look at this. Those ranks are, I kid you not, I did not see anybody lower than E6 in that band. So they kicked out everybody in there. They were like, I got this. Oh, yeah. I'm doing this one. So how many band members?

You obviously don't know this number, but I mean, how many band members? Are they across the country, though? Oh, across the country. Oh, I don't know. Each base have their own band. Holy cow. But then you have the Air Force ban, which that's the official one that goes out in place for the president or plays like the Marine Corps ban also has one.

Right. So I don't know how many people they have, but these are the people that will never deploy. These are people that will never see combat. These are people that are just, you know, making six figures. Just chilling. I can't believe they make six figures, though. And if you don't believe me, go in there and look for chief master, because I saw a couple of chief master sergeants in there.

And those are the people that have, you know, three straps on the top. And these guys are making $96 max, so $96,000 max. So they tapped out on that. But, you know, that's not six figures. It's not. But guess what, Jeffrey? when you join something special like, you know, the Air Force Band or the Color Guard, you get special duty pay.

Oh, my gosh. And we searched it. Special duty pay for an Air Force band member is $5,000 a month. Plus they get extra pay? Yep. But they are in there to play in the band. Yes. How are they getting, why are we paying them extra pay?

Because they're extra pay. They're doing their duties to be, you know, a band member, you know? And obviously, $94,000 is not enough for Chief and Sergeant to play the flute. You know, all you're doing is playing the flute. God forbid your lips go, you know, chaps for 20 seconds. And you got to shine up to. By the way, there is a couple documentaries on how to become a Air Force band member, and they do. Don't get me wrong.

They do make them work. Here comes the backup. They do make them work. They do make them work, shining their thing, but it is not worth $96,000 a year. That first day of boot camp, we had to march around carrying our horn for two hours. It was hell. Yeah. I had a friend of mine.

His dad was in the Navy. And he was a great musician. And he talked about when he went into the Navy. He was just a regular recruit like you. Although one of the top guys noticed that he was playing a piano at a bar one night and asked him to come and play at the, you know, the officers club and then the rest of the time he served was just playing the piano at the officer's club that's all he did you're playing the piano now you don't have to worry about anything

else you show up here every night you play till two in the morning you're done that's a good gig yeah and he was and believe me my man jack was like um okay no problem how can you say no to that you can't you can't you can't let's head over to the break room i thirsty we might as well get a drink Been busy walking around marching with the marching with the marching band. He was so angry. It's just angry. Chris, just angry at those bad members.

Anyway, let's go to the break. So I'm watching the Bush funeral. And I'm thinking, that means that Kenny Buckport is empty now, right? I mean, Barbara has passed. George H.W. has now passed. And Kenny Buckport is empty.

So if they, somebody should get a hold of them and let them know that if they're going to try to sell the dump, they need to, and want the most money and sell it the quickest way they can. They need to get a hold of Mercury Real Estate Services and Real Estate Agents I Trust.com. So somebody needs to, you know what, maybe I'll do. just email the Bush Library and let them know, hey, if you're trying to sell Kenny Bunkport, real estate agents, I trust.com. Real estate agents, I trust.com. We've got thousands of agents all over, all over the country, they're doing the right thing,

and they know how to sell in today's market. They can get to the most money, sell it in the shortest amount of time. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Okay, a couple of quick stories. King has now a tremendous promotion, the one-cent wapper. Are you ready for the one-cent wapper? Now, of course, you got to do a little work for it.

You have to order using the new Burger King mobile app, so they're promoting the app, and you have to order your Burger King meal while you're at a McDonald's. That's tremendous. That's a good promotion. from Burger King. So you've got to use the app. You've got to be actually at a McDonald's, and you get the one-cent whopper.

That's pretty good. Now, you know, why? Plus, right? I mean, in most areas in the country, not everywhere, but most areas in the country, there's a Burger King pretty close to a McDonald's. So you're not really traveling too far out of your way

to order from a McDonald's and then go over to the Burger King. So you just use the, UC app at the McDonald's. I mean, I'm sure you're going to have to, there's got to be, there's got to be, they should actually do the part, added to the promotion that you had to tweet a selfie,

you know, hashtag it, one cent wopper from the McDonald's. So also you get the app use, you get the McDonald's locator use, and you get the selfie use with McDonald's or the one set wopper. They didn't throw that in, but you can, you know, you're welcome.

Burger King. Go ahead and use that all you want. And I see where Tom Cruise is now, he was talking about you have to disable something on your TV, and I didn't realize, now I have to go home today and see if mine is actually on, because I don't know if it is or not. He's telling you, and he said,

if you're on your new televisions, where you have the 4K and the smart TVs, they have the motion, smoothing, which is activated, and that makes everything look like a soap opera. In fact, it was originally called the soap opera effect. What Tom is saying, and I think he's probably right, is that you have to disable that,

so you get the actual, the way the movie and the shows are supposed to look, because all the shows aren't supposed to look like a soap opera. And so the Samsung and the LG's, ship their TVs with the motion smoothing on by default. So now I have to go home and I've got to make sure that, well, I mean, I'll make my wife do it. I don't actually do it myself. But I got to make sure that she, you know, gets it right. Disables that motion, disables the motion smoothing.

That just has to happen. And I also, just on a side note, some of the things that kind of early. me. And I don't know why it does. I'm just good. This is just kind of a news story, but it just kind of irked me. You know, the most streamed artist, Drake, earned top billing to the number one album, Scorpion,

and the number one single, God's Plan, based on the stream counts. Spotify saw the same Drake domination. The rapper racked up 8.2 billion streams. that is a lot. You can quote me on that. Arianna Grande was the most streamed female artist globally on Spotify. The app, the app trend of the year per Apple editors, self-care has never been easier,

with mobile apps like calm, shine, fabulous. Top free iPhone apps. Um, YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, Messenger, Facebook. And Fortnite was the top free iPhone game. The most downloaded podcast, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Oh, no. Wait, it says the New York Times, the Daily. What?

That can't be. That's wrong. This story is out of control wrong. The book of the year, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Oh, no, that's, what's wrong? with me. I'm reading everything wrong like that. The top book of the year

Addict. Oh, yeah, addicted to outrage. That's what I said there. Yeah. Yeah. They've got another, I mean, they're calling something, an American marriage or something. You just translate that. It translates into addicted outrage. Duh.

It'll be stupid. And the top business audiobook? Blaze Media. Oh, no, it's called Dare to Lead. So we have those. And then what did I do with the... Oh, these top lovers. We're going to talk about the YouTube

and the highest paid YouTube stars. And we're going to talk about PewDie Pye and his war on most subscribers. Because it was really fun, kind of for me, PewDie Pye went past 73 million, 73 million YouTube subscribers that keep him ahead of the T-Series. Now, T-Series is really a multiple thing. It's really not fair that one guy goes up against this multiple YouTube channel, but that's the way it is.

And so people were making the case to subscribe to PewDie Pye so that he doesn't lose, and it was really funny. And then he produced a video that thanked everybody and was laughing about it. And he was, it was very nice. It was very nice that how he thanked it and what he was talking about. But he's got 73 million subscribers. Do I hate him?

No, just a little bit jealous. Seven-year-old. Seven-year-old. We talked about him last year. I think this is year two for him now. He's the toy YouTube star. Ryan of Ryan Toys Review. Look, if I remember the story, I don't even, I'm not even to read the rest of the story because I remember last year being like, are you kidding me?

So his parents started filming and playing with these toys and toy companies started sending them all the toys. So now they just review all the toys from the toy companies and he made $22 million. My kids are failures. My children are failures. He's got 17.3 million followers, total of 26 billion views. The parents launched his main channel, Ryan Toys Review, in March of 2015. It means an endless stream. Yeah, for him for Ryan, it means the endless stream of toys to play with.

Highest paid YouTube star. million dollars. Now this is the kid speaking, and this is where I just want to, this is where I just want to tell them to shut up. I am entertaining and I'm funny. Okay. You're a little kid.

And your parents got you some toys to play with, and people fell in love with it. Don't, sooner or later, the 22 million is going to go away. So make sure your parents don't spend it all on you. Okay. All of his money, about 21 million comes from pre-roll advertising on his channel. I mean, Scott, this

that's a good gig. I'm jealous of them. Good for them. My kids, I've got to put my kids to work, man. What is going on? Is it my kids that are a failure or is it me? I really didn't expect that I didn't need an answer. I mean, I didn't ask it to get an answer.

I mean, I already know the answer. I already know that answer. You know how you ask a question, you already know the answer? Like if you're an attorney, they tell you never to ask a question you don't know the answer to. I already knew the answer. I didn't need you to answer it for me. I was going to go through the rest of this Liz of Putee buy making $15 million and Jack Septu Kepti making $16 million. Market Pile making $17.5 million. Dude, perfect, $20 million. You know, I can't. All right, so I finally got around last night to watching the Victoria

Secret runway show, fashion show for the year, 2018. You know, I, I DVRed it and I was I was disappointed that I didn't get to see it on Sunday night, but, you know, I had other things, miraculously other things to do rather than TV, like go to bed because I had to fill in for Pat Grey on Pat Unleashed early Monday morning. And they had the worst ratings, I think, ever. They drew 3.3 million viewers. That's like almost 1.7 million fewer than last year. and it was a far cry from its heyday, which was 12 million in 2001.

Now look, this year was a little rough patch for Victoria's Secret. They had trouble with the guy saying, talking about the trans world. And I know that, look, I watched it. All right. I'm a fan. And really, I mean, it's a show, right? It's this fashion show.

And some stuff is there's some things that are actually really cool. There were some shorts in the pink section that I thought they would look great on my wife. She liked them. And some of the stuff you know you're not going to get like some of the big long capes and the wings and stuff that are actually, you know, it's cool. It's fun to watch. And you watch the entertainment. And it was in New York this year. Now, I watched it and Halsey was pretty good.

She was all right, you know, singing her song, whatever. But she was agonizing after the show Sunday saying it was an emotional. It ended up being disappointing because of controversial comments made by Ed Razak, the chief marketing officer. I just was supposed to be the moment of my, you know, the night of my year, but that's not how I'll remember it. Why not? You're on the runway. You're smiling. You're looking good.

Everybody's watching you. You're smack dab in the middle of the final show's pick. with all the models. There you are right in front of the sign. Big smile on your face. Looking all happy. But you're disappointed. Are you, Housie? Are you? Because they were, I simply can't ignore those comments. Really? Really? Okay. I know that you're a big LGBTQIA backer. But get over yourself. The show is about the fantasy. I know that Ed got into trouble.

His original answer, his apology was actually the answer he should have given. His answer, should you have transsexuals in the show? No, no, I don't think so. Well, why not? Because the show is a fantasy. It's a 42-minute entertainment special. That should have never, I mean, those words should not have come out of his mouth, whether you mentored or not.

What he should have said is what his apology was. He said, you know, look, to be clear, we absolutely would cast a transgender model for the show. We've had transgender models come to the castings, and like many others, they didn't make it. It's about their journey to embrace who they really are. And so that should have been his answer instead of the first one, and the first one, you know, threw everybody into a little tizzy. But look, it's Victoria's Secret. I mean, the whole point of their process is not fat models, skinny, you know, the whole point is what they profess to be there, that fantasy of the skinny models walking the runway. Now, just let me say this.

The show itself in New York was not that good. Whoever it was the executive producer and produced that show should not have been doing it. The show last year or the year before in Paris was great. This year in New York, I know I think that I got the feel that they wanted to make it kind of New York gritty or whatever, but it was in a smaller venue. So that, you know, it was, and the production was really not that good. The runway production, I mean, it would have been really cool with some of their dresses, some of the stuff that they were promoting on the runway. It would have been really cool to have black lights on the runway and that kind of look, that kind of vibe. none of that.

The music was okay. You know, it was okay. I like the artists. I mean, they had Baby Rexa. She did the song from the greatest showman,

which, you know, it was a great song. The chain smokers are eh. Halsey was okay. She looked good. She looked bad, but I know she had a very disappointing time. She just couldn't. enjoy yourself. You wouldn't know it from the pictures

and the way she acted on stage and the pictures she took after the show. But after everything is all said and done and she got her money and went away, it was disappointing. Was it? Kelsey Ballerina, Rita Orra was great. Sean Mendez was, you know,

Sean Mendez. And the stretch were really good too. I enjoyed them. And it just, but the overall performance, eh. It was just, eh.

They need, And the models were okay. The models were the usual Victoria Secrets model, and it was good to see their process. You know, I like that behind-the-scenes process of becoming the Victoria Secret model and stuff. But, I mean, they had an array of different people as models. And to think that they're not diverse enough

because they don't have a tranny on the runway, get over it. Howlsey. What needs to happen is they need to be. revisit the production of the show itself. If they need help, I'm here for him. Oh, and by the way, I saw that Chris Cruz tweeted last night that he was nominating me for the job of host of the Oscars of this year. And I accepted. I am ready to do that job for the academy.

I asked them to just, I accepted, and I asked them to, uh, To just DM me. You know, we would talk. But then it wasn't long after that. And I'm guessing they looked and said, ooh, we're down to him. We've got to get Kevin Hart. This is not for the podcast.

It was Kevin Hart, right? And so they did. And they announced that it was Kevin Hart going to be hosting the Oscars. So listen, Kevin, if you get into a bind, I'm here for you, babe. Tomorrow we've got to talk a little bit about what's going on around the world and in this country. every time I turn around, there is some 8 billion-year-old thing being found by people that had no idea that it was there.

We're finding masks. We're finding a different kind of, we're finding tools, and we're finding woolly mammoths. Willie mammoths are being dug up from the freaking ground by a dog I've got my kids in the backyard digging right now they better find something or they are out