Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 550 | Fat Pile Friday - MeToo-Ed the Other Way EDITION

Episode Date: January 29, 2021

Mark and Tim are fighting again… Subway says it’s 100% Tuna… Receipts and lawsuits at Costcos and Sams Smart grocery carts are comin… Instacart cutting jobs… Kris Jenner #MeToo the other way… Denzel speaks up for police and soldiers… A little Denzel movie history… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy Promo code jeffy… Subscribe to the Podcast… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Email to [e-mail] Second Capitol police officer commits suicide… Poland abortion protests… Kamala stepdaughter gets modeling deal… Language interpreter in trouble… Renters behind by months… Airlines in trouble… Human Dummy on TikTok asks legitimate questions… Bday jokes for a smile… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Eligibility restrictions apply. See Golden Nuggett Casino.com for details. responsibly. Uh-oh. Uh-oh. Mark and Tim are fighting. Even more now. So on a earnings call on Wednesday, Zuckerberg, Mark, warned investors that Apple's maneuvering posed a risk to Facebook's bottom line. Remember, last June, Apple announced a tweak to the iOS that would bar apps from collecting ad targeting info. And unless users, you know, gave them the go ahead. And that change could present major headaches for ad-based apps like Facebook.

And, you know, there were plenty of other apps that were a little wound up about that, too. I mean, Facebook launched a big campaign blasting Apple about this, saying that it would hamsprings small businesses. And Apple uses the iOS to favor its own products. You think? So that's why Zuckerberg was warning investors that, you know, would risk Facebook's bottom line. Well, Tim heard about it. And so yesterday, Cook responded, if a business is built on misleading users on data exploitation, then it does not deserve our praise.

It deserves reform. Uh-oh. Marky and Timmy are fighting. Could be trouble. on the magic app wars. Could be, look out, be careful. Marky and Timmy,

back up a little bit. Take a breath. So, could get fun actually watching these two big shots fight each other. We'll see. And we'll be the ones probably paying the price anyway. Welcome to Chewing the Fat.

So much great stuff. Today. It is definitely Fat Pile Friday. We have got to plow through the fat today. Yeah, sure, let's call it that. Let's plow through the fat. Well, and for those of you listening live, I know, I know.

For those of you listening live on the 29th of January, 2021, yes, it's my birthday. Now, I don't, you know, the family celebrates it and everybody wants to, you know, happy birthday. I'm not a big fan. birthdays and although I love to talk about other people's age I'm not a big fan of worrying about my age so let's just thank you for all the birthday wishes bless your hearts I appreciate it no I'm not going to tell you my age so subway uh is in trouble although I don't know if they are or not it seems like the headline wants subway to be in trouble but it doesn't you know then when you read the story

It doesn't look like they're in trouble. So two California women claim that Subway's tuna sandwich contains zero tuna. They're suet subway for $5 million. All right. So they say they ordered tuna from Subway and was near their home. And according to the lawsuit, they had an independent test done. and it affirmed that the products are made from anything but tuna. No scintilla of tuna at all.

In fact, Subway's tuna is made from a mixture of various concoctions that do not constitute tuna, yet have been blended together to imitate the appearance of tuna. That's what the court documents claim. Now, so you think to yourself, well, that's possible, I guess. Sure, why? I mean, the companies might do that. But then they couldn't really advertise that it's tuna, right? Well, they claim that they've done this blended non-tuna product to save money.

Well, yeah, that's what you would do it for, right? But, and she said that customers need to be made aware of it because they are misleading claims, right? There are people are buying tuna and it's not really tuna. Well, that's true, if that's the case. But, you know, and that's true, people wouldn't have bought the tuna sandwich if it was tuna, right? It was like, hey, do you want this fake tuna, tuna sandwich? Sure. Yeah, let's bring it on.

You might order it, but probably not. So Subway has said these claims are baseless and frivolous and are being pursued without adequate investigation. There's simply no truth to the allegations in the complaint. All right. And they go on to say, Subway delivers 100% cooked tuna to its restaurants, which is mixed with mayonnaise and used in freshly made sandwiches, wraps and salads that are served and enjoyed by our guests.

Okay. I mean, you got to kind of believe Subway right now. Right? I mean, in today's world, you don't want to. You want to say, those bastards, they're serving us fake tuna. But Subway says, no, it's not fake tuna. It's real tuna. So we'll see what happens. We'll see if it's a frivolous lawsuit or not.

You know, for Subway's sake, I hope it's not frivolous. I hope we don't find out that, well, it's 100% tuna minus 80% tuna. So 100% of the 20% is tuna. I hope that's not the case. Because if it is, that hurts. That hurts. Speaking of lawsuits, I'm reading an article about Costco and the receipts. And the headline is, you know, Costco checks your receipt. It's not because they think you're stealing. Okay. And I thought, well what is it just employee theft yeah and that's what they're talking about that it's uh it's errors in receipts whether you have uh you know 10 pieces of butter and you paid for eight or whether you have eight pieces of butter and you paid for 10 one or the other i mean that's what they're

hoping to fix you know right so it's a you know an inventory control kind of thing i get it and part of your membership is you know sam's club and Costco that's what you do and i was you know, I just wanted to make sure that I was right on that. And so, which is why I was reading the story. But at the end, it talks about a lawsuit where a Oregon man got into a fight with a Costco employee after trying to leave the store without showing his receipt. Now, this story says sneak out of the store. I don't know how you sneak out of a Costco or a Sam's Club without showing them your receipt

without just, you know, hoping you kind of scroll by without them checking it. but he ended up breaking his leg trying to sneak out of the Costco without showing him his receipt. All right. So he sued Costco for $610,000. And I thought, okay, did he really get some money? Because in today's world, I'm thinking, no problem. he you know the jury awarded him you know 100 grand or something for you know pain and suffering or something the jury awarded him nothing take that take that so the next time you think about

you know running out of the Costco or a sams club without showing him you resteeed you may want to think twice i mean for the most part at well i have a Sam's, I don't have a Costco card anymore, but for the most part, when you have a smart app from Sam's and or Costco, you go in, you get your merchandise and you scan it on your smart app, and you don't have to go through the checkout line, you just have to go up to the checkout person at the door to check your phone, and they scan it, make sure you have how many of our items, and they do whatever they got to do, and you go. So, I mean, it's a pretty simple painting, process. And if you belong to one of those, you know, stores, Sam's or Costco, you know the deal.

You got it. So just, you know, get over it. But I see where there's a new startup company called Kaper, who is creating, they are creating a new grocery cart, this smart cart, so that you can skip traditional checkout lanes. So, I mean, if the stores have their own apps, we need to a card for. I mean, maybe to help you out or whatever. I mean, Amazon Go at the stores where they used cameras and QR codes to let people, you know, grab and go, although I'm not real sure how that is working out for them. They have dash carts, which is a shopping cart designed to replicate the Amazon Go experience.

So I guess Kroger is taking on the smart grocery carts. with CAPER and they're doing a pilot program where they're using these smart carts, right? I don't know why they just wouldn't use the app. It doesn't, I mean, are people not using the app to scan it themselves? They're just going to scan it in the cart? I mean, if you could put it in the cart

so you didn't have to personally scan it and then use an app to pay so you didn't have to go through it, checkout line. Now you're talking. And I mean, that's good for those grocery stores because then I don't have to pay people to check you out. Right? That's what they're getting down to right there, man. So the cart has a large touchscreen at the front, which connects customers to the platform's shopping list. Oh, they'll give you recommendations and promos. Oh, God. They're going to make me sit through stuff just to buy products with their cart. No, thank you. The cart's built in scale and camera with

computer vision, scan and weigh and tally up your items. I mean, how much of these cards cost? Shopping carts are expensive and you see them, you know, the homeless guys pushing the cards. That's why they don't want them ever to leave the parking lot. Shopping cards are expensive. I mean, I wasn't, I don't know if I ever told you this or not, but I was in the grocery business for quite some time. And shopping cards are expensive.

And you get those new, nice, shiny shopping carts, man. You didn't get those for free. All right. And now they're talking about smart cards with touchscreens and scales and cameras. Okay. All right. Good luck. God bless.

So tobacco, liquor, gift cards, pharmacy items are not part of the program. Wow. You need to use debit or credit card to pay. Cash is not accepted, of course. We don't don't talk to me about dirty cash. Now you're just now you're silly. Now what are you living in the caveman days? And we're not talking about cash.

So they're making these smart carts with all this technology. So I mean, there's no way you get out of the store with one of these carts. Right. I mean, you're going to have to, you're going to have to come in with your own shopping bags. Put those in the cart so that the scales zero out. and the cameras know that you have product in there that's your product reset go shopping put your stuff in the bag punch on the probably the touchscreen probably tells you oh i just bought this click i just bought this click so it's double checking what you're clicking on and what the camera shows that's going to be a nightmare

i don't know that the smart card is going to work but good luck to caper they didn't ask me to be on the board so if i'm on the board i am in love with the Crow Go Caper cart. But since I'm not on the board, ooh, that doesn't seem like that's going to work. And as long as we're talking about grocery stores, I see where Instacart is a fight in the unions, man. They're cutting more than 1,800 jobs.

And not really because they're doing so bad, but employees who worked as store shoppers in Illinois voted to unionize. Yay! A year later. Yeah, we're going to go ahead and cut your jobs. Sure, you're still in the union, but there's not going to be any jobs for you,

so good luck, God bless. So they informed the union that represents the Instacart. Yeah, no, man, we are, yeah, we're cutting the jobs. Positions are cut. That's the way it goes. I mean, that's incredible. So I guess the partner pick model is winding down, and the stores are still, I guess, going to have a deal with Instacart,

but they're going to use their own employees instead of the gig Instacart economy employee. Wow. The union is not happy. They are going. They're telling them to stop this right now. We need to renegotiate. This is ridiculous.

We can't have this. Okay. I mean, maybe that's what you get, right? Maybe you should have just stuck with the gig economy. Oh, no. Now the union people are after me. I know. I know.

I get it. I get it. The union is there to protect the horrible employer who is bad crushing the employee. I get it. Yeah, they're bad crushing them. I know. I get it. But really, if I'm.

Millie who needs a part-time job. And my part-time job is working for Instacart at a particular Kroger. And now you're telling me I can't work there because I wanted to be part of a union instead of just getting paid. I don't know. Seems a little much. And now you're looking at minimum wage being raised. I mean, it's not a surprise. These gig jobs are going to go away.

I mean, it's not a good thing. Not a good thing. So, the mother of Courtney Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Chloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kendall Jenner, and Rob Kardashian, the mother, Chris Jenner, is facing her own Me Too claim.

know. So she's 65 years old. She's already been accused of coming on to her bodyguard, her one in this story called handsome bodyguard, 20 years her junior, grabbing his butt, touching his man part, and exposing herself to him. Now she's going to be soon facing allegations, more allegations against her. Mark McWilliams, a one-time rapper, turned Kardashian Family Security Guard, who worked for the Kardashians, worked for Chris and worked for Chris Jenner, and I think worked for Kylie as well, or Courtney, worked for Courtney for a little while. He brought a lawsuit claiming sexual harassment, racial discrimination, and other outrages. and despicable acts.

Yeah, because Courtney is named in this lawsuit, but she, you know, she's just part of the deal, right? She was there and he worked for her, but it was a pattern of unwanted, unwelcome sexual advances and otherwise harassing misconduct. Now, of course,

this is completely denied by Chris. There's no doubt about that. And nobody knows anything. And they're amending the case. They went before the judge, and now the judge gives them until, I think they're supposed to amend the case this week.

And then they have a new hearing on March 23rd. So we'll see, you know, what actually happened. Now, he claims that her inappropriate and sexually suggestive behavior, massaging his neck, shoulders, arms, and back. without his consent, causing her hand to rest on his thigh and man area, causing her pelvis to rub up against his back or rear end without his consent or approval, causing her hands to come into contact with his rear end without his consent or approval, exposing portions of her body to him in a lewd or suggestive manner. It's not funny. It's not funny if this is true. It's just not funny at all.

It's horrific. Now, McWilliams, of course, that's not enough. Of course, that is not enough when you're an African-American male in America. Just saying that you were sexually harassed is not enough. You, of course, have to allege racial discrimination, including pervasive and cruel mockery, harassment, belittling, and otherwise humiliating mistreatment by defileging, by defendants due to his race.

It couldn't be just because he's the guy. It had to be because of his race, right? Now he's also suing his former company, the David Shield Security and Armor Protection Services. They fired him, okay? After he stopped working for, he worked for Chris, stopped working for her, continued to work for Courtney.

Then he was fired in September of 2018. claimed that after his firing, he endured harassment, intimidation, and otherwise threatening misconduct in an effort to dissuade or prevent him from bringing any form of action against defendants for their unlawful misconduct. I'm sure why isn't that a race thing in there as well for that? So we'll see what happens. Fascinating. Fascinating story. Now, are you, it's just another Me Too crime story.

No question. I mean, look, Chris is the big wig. She's the mama Jeremiah. She's right. She built this industry of the Kardashians, man. She's the one that started at all. And if you're a security guard for Chris, are you pissed that she's grabbing you because you didn't get any money from her?

Because apparently, apparently he did say stop and she didn't do it. so is that what is outrageous and despicable? Or is it that, ooh, Chris, you're 60 years old. Maybe you ought to back off me a little bit, okay? I don't want nothing to do with you. That hurts. Because she definitely believes that she is wanting some security card business. You know that.

You know it's true. She can deny it all she wants. And maybe it's not true that. You know, she was grabbing him and touching him and doing all that stuff. Maybe that's not true. But you know. You know that she is ready and always willing for some security card business. And my man, my main man, Mr. McWilliams did not want anything to do.

with Chris Jenner Bidness. So he shut her down. That must have made her very, very angry. And if you can't do security for Chris, you can't work for us. So now he's pissed at the company, too. Be fascinating to see how this plays out. All right, let's go to the break room.

I need to drink, man, desperately. Oh, my gosh. Oh, and guess what? It is so good. You know what else is going to be so good? At least, I hope so, is the new Denzel Washington movie, the little things? I know. I know.

Today, those of you listening live, the 29th of January 2021, available in theaters and on HBO Max. I am looking forward to the movie. Danzel, Rami Malick, Jared Lido. That's going to be the little things. It's going to be good. And he was being interviewed for Yahoo Entertainment. You know, he's got to promote the movie. That's what he does.

And I should have reached out. I would love to talk to Danzel. I am such a fan. But he could be in trouble. Oh, no. Now, this is where if you're Danzel, you're not in trouble at all. You're Danzel, Washington. Nobody's going to say anything to you, right?

But he was talking about law enforcement. He plays another, he plays a law enforcement officer in this movie, or at least he plays a disgraced Los Angeles County Sheriff's Detective. Huh? I know. I'm in. I'm in. Disgrimal cop

Serial killer I'm in So he goes after You know he believes a serial killer That he was hunting Before is now on another murder spree And you know This is his chance at redemption

So good I'm in I'm in I'm in But he talked about How he has the utmost respect For a policeman men, and military men.

Oh my gosh. What? He said I have the utmost respect for what they do, for what our soldiers do, that sacrifice their lives. I just don't care for people who put those kind of people down. If it weren't for them,

we would not have the freedom to complain about what they do. A? man, Danzel Washington. Amen. And he talked about going out on a call. He said, I went on a call with a sergeant. We got a call of a man outside his house with a rifle that was distraught.

He pulled up, did a U-turned past the house, came up short of the house. He told me to sit in the car. Danzell said, which I was going to do. I wasn't getting out. He got out. And as he got out, another car came screaming up, and two young people jumped out. screaming and he said as it turned out it was their grandfather and the policeman defused the entire

situation by just remaining calm and he he danzel goes on to say it showed me in an instant how they can lose their life he didn't overreact he could have pulled his gun out and shot the people that came up driving real fast he could have shot the old man that was distraught and a bit confused who danzel thinks was suffering from uh dementia but in an instant it taught me I never forget it, what our law enforcement people have to deal with moment to moment, second to second. Amen. Amen, Danzel.

If I didn't love you before, really, I did. I love you now. You are an awesome. No, is Danza Washington. Are you saying something to Danzel? Are you? Are you? Are you saying something to Danzel like, hey, who do you think you are?

I'll tell you I think I have. I have Danzel Washington, so you want to back on down from me, okay? I mean, I was looking through his movies yesterday. I mean, I just love him. There's so many of them. I know he's been, I mean, you go down this list of movies,

let alone, I mean, Steve, back in 1982 to 88, six years of Saint Elsewhere, the TV show. That was just a monster TV show. And then, You go on to, let's just go up to 1992.

Malcolm X. Great. I mean, 1991, ricochet. 93, Pelican Brief. 93, Philadelphia. 95 Crimson Tide. I just watched that again. What a great movie.

Wow. And then you just start the Bone Collector in 99. Remember the Titans. Training Day. Holy cow. Man on Fire. One of my favorite all-time movies. I love Man on Fire.

Manchurian, Inside Man, great movie, American Gangster. Hello, Book of Eli, hello. The Equalizer series, hello. I mean, the guy is awesome. And so when he starts talking good about police and soldiers and the military, are you saying something to Danzel other than, Thank you, Mr. Washington. We really appreciate your time.

And we're going to look forward to seeing your new movie. And we hope it does well for you. Take care. We'll see you later, Danzel. I mean, it's awesome. It's just a, I just, it makes me have a little hope in America. It makes me have a little hope in America

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Really, I saw the headline of a police officer committing suicide yesterday, I think, sometime this week. And it was the second time. Now, they make it seem like it was, you know, he was, you know, he died and he was part of the siege and he was part of the big deal. But because they, he was the third officer to die after the siege. and the hateful Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol building. Well, okay.

All right, that's, I understand that. But it seems weird, right? I mean, they have one officer who committed suicide within days of the response. And I mean, it's been days since the response to this particular officer committed suicide. Really sad, really sad. And so, I mean, suicide is. seemingly becoming more and more prevalent. Who knows what, you know, is it the pandemic?

Obviously, he has a job, a very tough job. You know, police officers are a difficult job, especially these days. But, you know, just if you know someone who may or may be struggling that you feel needs help, don't be afraid to speak up. Get him help. Because for someone who wants to be. wants to commit suicide, maybe we should get, I should get something to talk about it, maybe, and just get a better idea of it.

But for someone who wants to commit suicide, that's the only way out. There's no, they need help seeing another way out. And you can justify that way out all you want. Because that's what you do to reach that point. and I mean all of us I'm guessing many of us

have had suicide touch our lives and it's never a good thing it's never what I think the suicide person thought it would be and anyway just if you know someone that needs help get them help speak up

don't don't think yeah they'll be fine just get them help Okay. It's a fatball Friday. We've got to get through some stories here for you that I've been meeting to get to. In Poland, they have a near total abortion ban taking effect and they are protesting in the streets. I know, they're mad. They're mad. They are mad. The atmosphere is tense and people are pissed. I don't know. Women mostly are pissed that it's almost, uh, it's almost, uh, complete ban on abortions.

According to one woman, her banner held up said, I wanted to have more children. You killed this desire. So I wanted to have more children, but since I can't kill babies, you know, I'm not going to have any. Okay, good. Another one said that if they are denied the right to terminate pregnancies, In cases of badly deformed fetuses, they would not try to have children at all.

I would say, okay, good. So that's the deal. They were letting these women, if they had badly deformed fetuses, they could have an abortion. Yay! And, you know, nobody, now, now all this is, is a draconian new law. that is not letting these women kill their babies. So the only remaining legal justification for abortion is if a woman's life or health is at risk, or if a pregnancy results from rape or incest.

According to this, to date, 98% of all legal abortions in the country, of which, according to this in 2019, were 1,110, were performed on the grounds of fetal malformations. So, I mean, are this many women having babies that are fetal misformations? Or I'm sorry, malformations? I don't know. Deformed fetuses. I don't know.

It seems a little strange. It seems it's almost if doctors were saying, the only way we can give you an abortion if we say your fetus is malformed so your fetus is malformed it sounds like that's happening anyway these people are all wound up because they cannot kill babies and boy am i bummed out for them not really congratulations to uh ella mhoff the 21 year old stepdaughter of vice president kamala harris and daughter of of Doug Emhoff, of course, the husband of Kamala. She just signed on with IMG models.

I'm sure it's just a coincidence. She's joining the ranks of IMG, and it's not really about shape, size, or gender anymore, says the president of IMG models. She, Ella, communicates this moment in time, and there's a cheekiness and a cheekiness, and a joy she exudes. Look, I saw her, this is Ivan Bart, the president of IMG models.

I saw Ella wearing a sparkly mu-mew coat at the swearing-in of her stepmother and President Biden last week. And I thought, wow, she's communicating fashion. And who doesn't communicate fashion when they're wearing a mu-mew coat? Right? Okay, then. So I'm sure it's just a coincidence that she's the daughter of the vice president. I'm sorry, stepdaughter of the vice president. So anyway, congratulations.

Congratulations to her and her new deal with IMG models. Ella Emhoff. Congratulations. Bad news for the White House language interpreter. Apparently, she has ties with the far right. I know, right? So, I know. So I know that they were all happy that, you know, American Sign Language, the ASL interpreters,

would now be president in all the White House news briefings and many deaf and hard-of-hearing Americans celebrated this historic first. But, ooh, bad news. The first American Sign Language interpreter. chosen was not much change from the previous administration after all. Heather Musha, who Jen introduced on Monday as today's interpreter, also appears to manage a group of ASL interpreters who provide sign language accompaniments to right-wing videos. How dare she and they?

How dare they? Some of these videos have featured vaccine misinformation, conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, and the January 6th riots at the Capitol, and false claims about Michelle Obama being transgender. How dare the American Sign Language interpreters do work for videos. that could, you know, put false information out there. I mean, look, they're doing it for free, which I find incredible. I don't know that they're doing it for free for everyone, but she said, Mirsel's group, which is originally known as Right Side ASL,

had pages on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and far right app parlor. Oh my gosh. They had a parlor. Oh, my gosh.

They were parlaying. They changed its name to Hands of Liberty after a previous Facebook page was deleted in November. Oh no. According to this, their Facebook page,

right-side ASL backup, has been flagged for violating community standards and will be taken down at any time. it's up to Facebook to decide not us read a post on hands of liberty ASL page wow that was all the way back in November

oh my gosh and so they're in trouble so I don't know if you're the wrong if you are interpreting for the wrong type of videos you're in big trouble and you won't be able to interpret anymore or I mean sure you can interpret

you just won't have videos to interpret for free I know Oh, I know. And one last thing to let you know what horrible sign language interpreter people they are. They, the group, also interprets comments made, according to this story, by right-wing personality, Candice Owens. I know. So now you know what horrible people these sign language people are.

Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. You know what? I'm going to stop talking about them because how dare they? How dare they give their time to interpret what other people are saying on screen so people who are hard of hearing or whatever is wrong with them? They need the interpreter. And they also do videos for everyone. Weird.

I know. That cannot take that can't happen. That cannot happen. That has to stop. I mean, we are in trouble, ladies and gentlemen. We are in trouble. Another way we're in trouble? About 18% of renters, roughly 10 million people in the U.S.

are behind on their monthly payments as of early January. According to an Urban Institute analysis. Wow, 18% of U.S. renters were behind on payments. and they're talking about lawmakers need to act fast. So the average delinquent renter is four months behind on payments and owes $5,600. Wow. That is amazing. More than 19% of renters were behind on their payments in 13 states, including California, New York, Pennsylvania, Nevada, Georgia, Illinois, Tennessee, and Louisiana.

according to the analysis in total delinquent U.S. renters owe about $57 billion to landlords. And it's only going to get better. It's only going to get better. So I don't know what I'm telling you this for. If you're a renter and you're behind, you know. You know how hard it is. Especially when, I don't know, you don't have a freaking job because the government shut everything down. And they expect now they're talking about evictions.

Okay. I mean, and the thing that's tough. And I don't know. Okay, so you don't get evicted, but they still expect you to owe the money, right? And I get it. You still owe the money. But if, in the end, you're four or five months behind

and the non-eviction order happens where the landlords can evict you and go through whatever process the particular state has for eviction process, you're still out in the cold. Did I say it was only going to get better? Yeah, it's only going to get better. It is. And look, the airlines, they're fine. There's more companies.

They're fine. American and Southwest Airlines posted record annual losses. Boeing posted its largest annual loss on record. That's it, though. Don't worry about it. KLM is cutting more than a thousand jobs. Talking about mandatory COVID-19 testing will ground planes. Wow.

They are cutting jobs now. And they're talking about government plans to require all passengers and crew to pass COVID-19 tests before flying to the Netherlands would ground its long haul flights. And they're talking about doing that here in the U.S. United States of America as well. I mean, we talked about it yesterday. You're going to have to have your papers with you. And it's not going to be pretty. But it is only going to get better.

So let's just, uh, it is. It's only going to get better. Now, some people, other than myself, have questions to,

to what our government is doing for them. There is a TikTok video from a named Punished Wurzel Route at Punished Worsal Route. And it's called From All-American, but the TikTok address is at Punished Worsal Route. and the video is of a white male asking questions of our government. And he has some questions. And I wanted you to, you know, I'm just going to leave you with his questions for the weekend, okay? Hey, so I got a little question. And I want to preface this by saying, I'm a dummy.

Don't have a millionaire parents, don't have a trust fund. I'm not as smart as Joe Biden and Mitch McConnell, Kamala Harris, Marco Rubio. So explain, why is it that when I pay taxes to the U.S. government? Taxes which are supposed to be helping me and my community, which are supposed to be for the betterment of the American citizen. Why are we sending it to Egypt, to Pakistan, to Thailand, to Nigeria, $4 billion to Central America. I thought these people needed help. They live in bad countries, they need charity. Well, I'd donate to charity, wouldn't I? Are things really so great in America we have money to burn?

We couldn't find money for the wall. Can't find money for our crumbling infrastructure. Can't find money for rehab facilities for opioid crisis. People starve in America every day. Can't find money for the education system. we can't even find $2,000 for people who lost their entire lives to coronavirus. Well, we're looking for it. $26 trillion in debt.

$120 trillion in unfunded liabilities due to Social Security. You'll represent me. You represent my interests. So since I'm so dumb and you're so smart, could you explain how that's in my interest? Help me out, big guy, because I don't get it. Just a few questions that he had to ask that seem to be very relevant questions. Don't they?

Now, I know, I know, I know, I know. I'm not supposed to get political. I'm sorry. I apologize. I just had to get those questions asked. So I'll leave you with, you know, it is my birthday today. So we'll do a couple of birthday jokes just to take you home today. Okay?

A whack, whack. What sort of birthday cake do ghosts prefer? I scream cake. Get it? What goes up and never comes down? Your age. Oh, why do you put candles on the top of birthday cakes? Because it's too hard to put them on the bottom.

Duh. And here's another question. You know what? I'll leave you with a question. I know I wasn't going to do it. I'm going to leave you with a question, okay? Does a pink candle burn, longer than a blue one.

No, they both burn shorter. You know, they don't burn longer. They burn shorter. What do you always get on your birthday? Another year older.