Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 566 | Is It the New Normal?

Episode Date: February 25, 2021

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We'd love to talk. Business. Okay, I have to start off today with sad news. I usually try to start off with a little uplifting news, but this is too big to not start with this sad news. Derry Queen is canceling its free cone day. I know. I know.

For those of you looking forward to free cone day on, usually it's on March 19th every year that it's not going to happen. Look, according to them, we all look forward to Free Cone Day. It's an event that attracts long lines at our restaurants. And given the state of COVID-19, we've made the difficult decision to cancel this year's event with your safety and safety of our crew members in mind. We look forward to bringing back free cone. day in 2022 and celebrating our fans in a sweet way.

From all of us at DQ, thank you for understanding. Well, what if I say, I don't understand? What if I say, you canceled last year too? This is two years in a row without free cone day. What if I say, I'm not happy? What if I say, hey, the closest dairy queen to my house closed? So I have to find a dairy queen quite a ways away to get a free cone on March 19th. That's not going to happen.

What if I say that? Dairy queen would say tough. Thank you for understanding. So no free cone on March 19th. Welcome to chewing the fat. So Europe is going to be struggling for their cocaine. use and cocaine purchases and cocaine sales for a little while, German officials discovered 16 tons in five shipping containers that had arrived in the port

of Hamburg from Paraguay earlier this month. Police in the Netherlands were notified and a further 7.2 tons of cocaine was seized at the Belgium port. They said the cocaine had a street value of billions of euros. So apparently a 28-year-old man suspected of involvement in the trafficking of the drugs has been arrested in the Netherlands. The two raids took place earlier this month resulted in the bust. So they were hidden in containers filled with wooden blocks from Panama.

Now they were concealed in tins of wall filler that had entered, you know, Europe through Paraguay. Custom officials apparently decided to take a closer look at the Paraguayan containers after noticing clear irregularities with some of the contents. Tin cans that were meant to be filled with putty. Huh. Beyond a layer of genuine goods packed just behind the container door. Numerous tin cans were, in fact, filled with other goods. Yeah, numerous. No kidding.

They found 1,700 tins. Wow. It's the largest amount of cocaine ever seized in Europe and one of the largest single seizures worldwide. We're estimated the street value between 1.5 and 3.5 billion euros. For the 16 tons. Wow. Apparently Paraguay has been a key transit country for drugs, you think?

So there's drug trafficking gangs from Brazil, such as First Capital Command, have expanded across the border into Paraguay and are running many of the smuggling operations there. Yes. so you don't want to mess with First Capital Command. No way. So now in October, they found 11.5 tons of cocaine hidden in scrap metal containers that had arrived in Antwerp from South America. And then officials in 2019 at the port of Hamburg seized 4.5 tons of cocaine

from a shipment that was listed as soy beans. Wow. So there is some big, big bus going on. And with tens, it was reminded me of, and I'm going to go back to the show,

0-0-0. Now, it's on Amazon. And it's about the shipment. This one big shipment of cocaine in, it's with just one container that they follow from the very beginning around to the destination in Italy and it's shipped in the shipping container

inside the shipping container is chili peppers it's mixed in with these cans of chili peppers and it's fascinating and this is a lot like what that show shows you if you watch that show you'll find how it works and how they get to the destinations now you know

holy cow that's a huge huge amount of cocaine. And someone, someone is paying the price. There is no doubt about that, man. Someone is paying the price. And it's going to be, you know, you and me on the streets, well, you on the streets. I haven't purchased any in a long, long time that I'll admit to. And speaking of shipping drugs, I was reading a story this weekend that locked. me into kind of a rabbit hole that I never really finished. They found cocaine soaked cereal disguised as frosted corn flakes, but they found the shipping container in Cincinnati, which I found fascinating.

So U.S. Customs Drug Dog alerted authorities to a shipment of breakfast cereal that was frosted with cocaine instead of sugar. So they confiscated 44 pounds, which is nothing compared to what's going on in Europe with the tonnage of cocaine. But it's still, you know, quite a bit. So apparently the sugar on the corn flakes was actual cocaine. They figured the street value was 2.8 million. But what got me was the shipment originated in Peru was in route to a private route. to a private residence in Hong Kong,

but it was seized at the Cincinnati port. So I'm just a roundabout way, right to get to Hong Kong. It just the shipping from Peru to Hong Kong through Cincinnati Addie was just really strange to me. That's all. I just, I mean, I get coming from, I guess, Paraguay to Hamburg. If you were coming from Peru to Hamburg to Hamburg or Peru to Hong Kong, but going from, it doesn't say the shipment, the European one says it arrived at the port of

from Paraguay. So if the frosted flakes were busted in Hong Kong, would it say that it arrived from Peru and doesn't say, you know, which way it's going through? Because, you know, the Cincinnati port, you know,

is huge, I'm told, and I started reading about. But if we have shipments of drugs coming from Peru through Cincinnati to Hong Kong, or wherever it's going, if a shipment comes from, let's use a hypothetical country,

you know like Peru, and it is going to Hong Kong, and it's at the Cincinnati port, one would think, maybe I should check that out as a customs official. Maybe I should check that out. Now, maybe not. Maybe that's just a regular,

maybe that's the cheap route. Maybe I have a shipment of something from Peru that I want to end up in Hong Kong. but if I send it directly to Hong Kong, it costs me more money. So if I send it on a little route that takes me through Cincinnati and then takes me up into New York or Philadelphia or Boston and then takes me to Hong Kong with a couple of stops in between and it's a whole lot cheaper and I make a lot more money at the end,

maybe that's the route I take. I don't know. But it does, that's a heck of a job, separating flakes and the cocaine, from the cereal, although, you know, I mean, because the packets of the wall filler, of the cans of the wall filler, there were separate packets of the cocaine inside the wall filler, just like in the show 0-000. While you were in, the packets were put inside the chili peppers, you were still able to open up the chili peppers and, you know, just get rid of the chili peppers.

You didn't have to separate them. so separating the cocaine flakes from the cereal flakes that doesn't sound like a fun job and for sure we live in a you know we live in a a strange world a difficult world a weird world and we hear stories all the time that we go wait what well remember the story where the lady

sued because the tire shop didn't tighten her lug nuts when she got her tires rotated. And she sued and won. She sued and won. The mechanic admitted that he had forgotten to tighten the lug nuts. And then the couple sued for the damages for their vehicle. And one of the points that their attorney made was in reference to the Motor Vehicle Service and Repair Act. and the law protects them. Well, no, it doesn't really protect them now. It turns out that they don't have to do that according to the case. It was appealed.

So if you go into a shop for a tire rotation, you know, whether they move the wheels from the front to the back or the left to the right or they X them, however you have to rotate them. It doesn't matter because the case now the court originally found the dealership and the mechanic guilty and find them. The jury made the dealership cover the court fees, which totaled $70,000 and awarded the couple $40,000. That seems fair. You know, that seems fair for whatever car it was.

well, the dealership appealed the decision and stated they did not violate the motor vehicle services and repair act. They didn't charge for repairs that are in fact not performed. So the court decided to take another look at the case and determined that rotating the tires did not include tightening of the lug nuts. I would disagree with that. And I know this sounds crazy, and I'm disagreeing with the court and judges,

but, you know, I do. We conclude, according to the court, under the plain language of the MCL 257.1.137A, and who doesn't love the language of the MCL 257.1307A, that defendants performed a, tire rotation, all by negligently. There's no support for the trial court's determination that a tire rotation is not performed if a service person fails to sufficiently tighten the lug nuts on one tire.

Wow. So job completion as part of the tire rotation doesn't count. Really what they're saying is it doesn't count as part. of this motor vehicle services and repair act because it's a separate thing, which is agonizing. Agonizing. So be careful out there, especially in Michigan. Wow.

Be careful. If you got your tires rotated or are going to get your tires rotated before you even check it out, make sure the lug nuts were tightened. And A, you're probably getting charged more money for it now, right? that's an extra service, which is ridiculous. Unless, you know, your repair shop or a, you know, tire shop and you're saying, hey, we report, we will do your entire rotation and make sure the lug nuts are tight. Yes, it's all one job.

Stop here. So, I mean, good luck. Make sure those lug nuts are tight. You can quote me on that. Make sure your lug nuts are tight. As long as we're in Michigan. I may as well tell you that the University of Michigan shut down the library after they found venomous spiders in several of the buildings. No, thanks.

Do you want to go to the library? No, I'm good. So they shut down the library after these venomous spiders were found in the basements and remote areas of multiple buildings on campus. Don't worry about it. They're down in the basement. You know, nobody goes, well, people go down there? Yeah, and the spiders, they could move. I don't know about the, if you know things about spiders,

they move around. And I know I get it. The world needs spiders. That's why there's, there's millions of spiders to have billions of spiders. The globe would fall apart if there wasn't spiders. Okay. All right, if you say so. So the venomous Mediterranean recluse spiders found in the non-public basement area of Shapiro Library

and late January we're finding out about it now. Can I go to the library? Now we're closed. Why is the library closed? No reason. Just keep moving. Don't ask any questions. Just keep moving.

We'll tell people later what happened, okay? Yeah. It's back open now. So they've treated the buildings and the library for the spiders, and it's back open. And according to the University of Michigan, they believe that, you know what, we probably shouldn't have closed it. We should have just treated it. And it was a misunderstanding.

And we shouldn't have closed it for two days. Yeah, you should have. Pest management, inspected all the areas where the spiders were found. And, of course, treated it with those bastard chemicals. And the recluse spider is a cousin of the brown recluse spider, but is even more reclusive than the brown. recluse and bites are extremely rare. Okay, well, that's great.

I really don't want to be one of the extremely rare bitten people. That'd be, you know, I just don't want it. Look, they prefer basement spaces, tunnels, and other hideaways, where there's a decrease in foot traffic. Oh, okay. Users browsing the library stacks would be very unlikely to encounter a stray spider or re-bitten. Oh, okay. If I'm going to those libraries, I am on the lookout, baby. I am on the look out.

Now, according to this, the spider is distinguished from the brown recluse by genitalia. And who doesn't, you know, if I see a spider in the library, I'm looking at the genitalia. I'm like, oh, is that a brown reclose or a Mediterranean? Here, let me check the genitalia. And, of course, bites can cause different reactions. including, you know, a little minor irritation. I had some tissue death. Don't worry about.

Reports of death from spider bites are often overreported. People aren't in any kind of danger unless they're in close contact with the spider. That's why they were in close contact. They were in the building. I do not like spiders. I do not like spiders. I can't take it. So they're clamming.

just walking around, don't worry about it. I would be on the serious lookout, whether it's a Mediterranean recluse or it's a brown recluse. I don't want anything to do with spiders. You can quote me on that too. I don't want anything to do with spiders. And I don't want to have to worry about,

ooh, is that a brown recluse or a Mediterranean recluse? Let's take a look at the genitalia. Well, that may be fun. and it may be fun for others more than me, I'm not going to do that. If I'm looking at, let's say I'm in the library to study, and I dig out my, of course, the University of Michigan, you know, I dig out my algebra book or my Carl Mark's book,

and I say, ooh, is that a spider? It sure is. It's no longer a spider. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Oh. Oh my God. That is so good.

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And you can always email me, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. I did receive an email to Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. And the email is from Mike, who said, I listened to you to talk about the idea of space cleanup. Well, I don't know if you know about a show in the late 70s called Space Salvage. But it starred Andy Griffith about a junk dealer going to space to space to get salvage. He claims you never saw the show. And Mike says, take care, God bless. Well, thank you, Mike.

I do remember hearing about the show before. It had like, I don't know, if I remember right, it was, I don't know, now I have to look it up. But I'm pretty sure, as I'm talking to you right now, I'm going to look it up. I think it had like 30 shows,

something like that. Yeah, it had like 20 episodes. And it starred Andy Griffith. And, you know, it was, I don't remember ever seeing it. I know you could probably find it somewhere or someplace. Yeah, that's right. You could probably find it somewhere someplace. But, yeah, I mean, there's absolutely,

that that show would have been ahead of its time, right? Space salvage. There wasn't even really space salvage going on. But I did look into space debris removal, salvage and use. And I found a place called the National Space Society who has written papers and talked about space debris removal. And I reached out to them. I'm hoping that someone gets back to me because I desperately, I would love to talk to someone about their position and what the deal is with space salvage. Because I'm telling you, that is a great idea.

You want to become part of the space garbage mafia. You want to be that problem. I'm telling you, I'm ahead of the space. the curve on this and actually I'm not ahead of the curve since there's people actually talking about it and there was a TV show back in the 70s but I'm ahead of the curve on this all right right here on chewing the fat nobody nobody's ever thought of this before okay you got it you happy all right but I really do want to talk to someone at the national space society so if you know of someone or are part of the national space society hook me up let's

Go. I want to talk to one of your professionals about space, debris, removal, and salvage. Okay? All right. I want to talk about the laws and rules that are now going into place or have been put in place and see if we can get the space garbage mafia going. All right. All right. Thank you. And thank you, Mike. So the world, I believe, has found their new Jeopardy host. I know. And it's not, we knew it wasn't going to be Ken Jennings. We knew it wasn't going to be Anderson Cooper or Savannah Guthrie or Aaron Rogers or what's her face. Katie Couric. You knew it wasn't going to be her. But they had a fill-in because of COVID and they used their executive producer this Mike Richards and the world fell in love with Mike Richards.

And that's who it's got to be. Right, it's got to be someone that's all that's not a star already, but is liked and can do the show. And he knows the show. He was executive producer, new Alex. He said, I'm hosting today and for the next two weeks to keep the greatest quiz show in the world going. We have some amazing guest host coming that I can't wait for you to see. But with the COVID outbreak here in L.A., folks were understandably a little reticent to shoot. So as a producer, my job is to quite literally live the mantra.

The show must go on. So let's do what Alex did 8,244 times. Wow. Let's play Jeopardy and prove that nothing can stop this show. And the fans loved it. They just said, stop looking. Mike Richards is your guy. He's a good-looking man.

He's smart. He's an executive producer. He knows the show. That's who's going to get it. All right. They'll just give it to him. And you might as well call. Aaron Rogers and Anderson Cooper and Savannah Guthrie.

Call those people. And if they haven't recorded their shows yet, you're not even going to use them. And in fact, you don't need to really use them now. You can use them over the holidays when Mike needs a break. Mike's taking a week off. All right, we'll do the Aaron Rogers week. Mike's taking a week off. Yeah, we'll do the, you know, the Anderson Cooper week.

There you go. And we'll be good to go. But it's over. It's over. It is over. Goodbye. Have a nice day. And I see where everybody is all happy now because, you know, the great Governor Cuomo,

who's trying to fight all this bad information coming about him, has now said, deemed it from on high that the movie theaters can open back up and the new NYC movie theaters can reopen. Yay! Certain chains in the New York City can reopen if they followed COVID-19 safety restrictions. Oh, thank you, Governor Cuomo. And guess what? That doesn't make me like you any better. Okay?

It doesn't. It just doesn't. But, I mean, the stock prices went up for AMC. People are fired up. They want to, you know, they're excited. It's going to open up on March 5th, including the largest cinema in the country, AMC Empire 25 in New York City. So AMC CEO Adam Aaron said that. New York City locations are going to be opening on March 5th,

and including the AMC Empire 25, the largest cinema in the country. And he said that this is an important step towards restoring the health of the movie theater industry and our company. Aaron reassured moviegoers that its locations will be opening with the highest devotion to the health and safety of our guests and associates through our AMC, safe and clean policies and protocols, which were developed in consultation with Clorox and with current and former faculty

at the prestigious Harvard University of Public Health. The AMC Safe and Clean Program includes reducing the maximum tickets available, seat blocking and reserve seating, improved cleaning procedures, and nightly disinfecting using HEPA vacuums and upgraded air filtration. Guest will also be required to wear a mask.

Yay! I mean, good luck. Good luck. I don't know that, I mean, while it's cool that they're opening up the theaters and they should be open, absolutely. And if you want to go to the theater, you go to the freaking theater. Good for you. But to have all this restrictions, I don't know. Good luck.

I want the movie theater industry to come back, but I don't think they will. And I think times they are at. changing. And those times are going to be minus movie theaters. Sure, there's going to be movie theaters, just not like there was pre-COVID. But that's just me. That's just... So like I said, Cuomo opening up the theaters in New York and New York City comes at a time when he's under fire again. Not only for he, this guy, it's got to go away, right? There's no question that he's got to go away. Now he's going to go down swinging because that's the kind of guy he is.

But a former aide to the governor who previously accused him of sexual harassment has come forward with details of the harassment that she allegedly experienced. Lindsay Boylan, formerly the Deputy Secretary for Economic Development and Special Advisor to the Cuomo administration. from 2015 to 2018, March 2015, October 2018. And she said that she accused Governor Cuomo of sexual harassment and bullying. Today, I'm telling my story. I never plan to share the details of my experience working in the Cuomo administration,

but I'm doing so now in the hopes that it may make it easier for others to speak their own. truth and there'll be more coming out. Him bullying people and yelling at people and overwhelming him. That's more than people come out all the time. I mean, that douchebag mayor of New York, DeBlasio even said, that's just classic Andrew. That's classic Cuomo. I mean, they all know.

They all know. Okay. According to her, Governor Cuomo created a culture within his administration where sexual harassment and bullying is so pervasive that it is not. not only condoned but expected. His inappropriate behavior toward women was an affirmation that he liked you, that you must be doing something right. He used intimidation to silence his critics.

Duh. And if you dared to speak up, you would face the consequences. Yeah. So according to her, Cuomo asking his aides to play strip poker with him, Does that mean that they were actually playing strip poker? I mean, some of this stuff in here seems like just a doucheback trying to be funny. But in today's world, I guess you can't. I mean, obviously, we know that.

No way can you make that happen, right? No way. So the accuser, Boylan, said that Cuomo made reference to President Bill Clinton and the affair with Monica Lewinsky. Valentine's Day, deliveries of rights. roses to Boylan and other female staffers. Well, he's the governor and you're a female. It's Valentine's Day.

That does seem appropriate. He's supposed to, I guess in today's world, everybody gets roses or nobody gets roses, right? Inappropriate physical touching. I'd like to know what that is. Is that walking by and touching them on the shoulder? Is that touching them in the back? Is that patting them on the ass?

I'd like to know what that inappropriate physical touch. is considered by Boylan. And I sound like I'm sticking up for him and I'm not. I'm not because this guy is complete douchebag. And it couldn't happen to a nicer guy. But I'm interested to think, to know what they consider. Because if getting roses on Valentine's Day is considered inappropriate, that's a problem to me.

but physical touching you know that's a problem to everybody and well most people and a non-consensual kiss on the lips was that for uh and again I'd like to know the circumstances around that I know he's a douchebag

I get it I know I know he's created this culture and he's just this I just hate him but I want to know what is considered wrong okay so the non-consensual kiss on the lips. I guess it doesn't matter what it is, right?

Is there any, you know, you're not supposed to kiss anyone on the lips other than your wife ever, right? Right? Right. So she, uh, went public with these accusations last December, but didn't give any more details, right? So we all blew it off. We said, yeah, yeah, it's just another. Just somebody else complaining. And now she's coming out. So, um, I got to tell you, there's going to be more of this. right there's going to be more of this and it's going to be interesting i really do i want to see uh like made references to president bill clinton and the affair with monica lonesky what how did how were the references phrased um i'd be really i'd be interested to uh and i want to know

the circumstances around every one of these claims man do i want i want to know i want to know the circumstances so make that happen Make that happen, Lindsay Boylan. In fact, call me. Call me on chewing the fat. I am happy to break down the entire, the entire thing. And let's get Governor Cuomo. Let's put him back in the fire.

And let's let this guy get out of office for New York and might actually help the state of New York if I cared about New York. I mean, I love New York. I worked in the city. I lived. I lived outside of the city. I lived just outside of the city in Weehawk in New Jersey. And then I lived in Philadelphia, took the train in and out of the city.

I love New York. I love the northeast. Philadelphia, New York, I love those cities. But do I care a lot about it now? Not so much. Not so much. All right, let's go to the art world. You know me, Mr. Art.

I am fashion, but again, I am Mr. Art too. Today, the 25th of February, 2021, for those of you listening live, digital artist Mike Winkleman, aka Beeple, will join the ranks of the best artist to have a piece auctioned by Christie's. But it's no ordinary piece. It's going to be the first fully digital NTF-based artwork ever sold at a major auction house. and the first to accept cryptocurrency as a payment option. And it's a digital collage of the first 5,000 otherworldly images from Beeple's Everyday series in which he created a new piece of digital art every day for over 10 years.

I don't have to tell you about Beeple because he created that new digital art every day for 10 years. but I was wondering what NTF art is. So it's non-fungable token. NFT, non-fungable token. I know. NFTs are not new. They've been around for years, but Christie's upcoming sales decidedly, you know,

put it into the mainstream. So what NFT is is a way to approve ownership of the digital art and collectibles. So whatever image or video that the NFT owner owns doesn't live on the blockchain. Instead, the token refers to a file that sits it somewhere else on the web. So there you have it. It's the first. Beeple is the first NFT's artwork to be auctioned off at Christie.

So congratulations to Beeple. And we'll find out how much it goes for because I bet it goes for a pretty penny. And it'll be interesting to see how much that pretty penny is. Speaking of artwork, did you happen to see the new USPS sleek-looking mail trucks? They were unveiled Tuesday. And it's a modern replacement for the Grumman mail truck that you see out there on the streets still today. They're going to get between 50 and 165,000 new trucks over the next 10 years, replacing the older vehicles. And the Ashgosh Design, Ashgosh Defense has been contracted to build them.

Ashkosh's design is not completely finalized, but the initial order. order of trucks is costing $482 million in the first vehicles to hit the roads in 2023. Now the first depiction of these new mail trucks, everyone has, I mean, it looks a little silly. I mean, it looks like it's a workable vehicle, though. So that's what you need. While it looks funny and it looks like vehicles that we all drew in elementary school

or as little children, it looks like it's a workable. vehicle. So we'll see. And by mail vehicle, I mean M-A-I-L, not M-A-L-E for you haters out there, okay? And I want to be clear that I was not consulted, which is very, very disappointing. And I know that Postmaster General Louis DeJoy said that the Postal Service is in a death spiral and needed financial help during his testimony on Capitol Hill the other day. He also apologized for delays in service. Stop apologizing. Stop it. That's why I need the job. That's why I need the job. Okay? I need that job. I always

wanted to be Postmaster General and then I decided, you know what, I need to be on the board of governors because they are the overlords of the Postmaster General. But I need to be, have my hands in the postal service because I can help turn this thing around. A, we're going to stop apologizing. Okay. Number one. Number one,

we're going to stop apologizing. Number two, we're going to re-look at the Ashgosh vehicle design. Take a, you know, maybe just take another, another drawing at it. And then there's some other things that, that we've got to do to create some, turn this ship around. So, Jeff Fisher, Board of Governors and or Postmaster General. call me call me okay oh yeah the other more sad news too uh the electronics chain fries uh they're out in california really west coast uh west coast company they a family run uh it's been a fixture

in silicon valley you know forever uh it had 31 stores across nine states closing up have a nice day we're closing the stores fries electronics closing down so uh you know apparently they were unable to uh you know head to the old e-commerce so uh you know with the amazon and best buy so i guess fries dot com didn't work out people went to fries and wanted actual fries they didn't want electronics so anyway uh another company bites the dust man another company bites the dust So we talked about the new Barack Obama Bruce Springsteen podcast and, you know, how they're promoting it and it's a big deal and it's just wonderful. And, you know, it's all great, Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama and they're together in their podcast. It's part of the Obama team is producing it.

And it's called Renegades born in the USA. Well, apparently, in this podcast, Barack Obama says that he popped a friend in the face and broke his nose. Now, according to the former president, this person called him a racial slur. He says that when I was in school, I had a friend. We played basketball together. And he, at one time, we got into a fight. he called me and this is Barack Obama's words

not mine Barack Obama's in the story and one time we got in a fight and he called me a coon now first of all ain't no coons in Hawaii right that's a quote

from Barack Obama okay I want to say that if that's true good good I'm glad that he punched him in the face right he's got We've got all the right in the world to pop this kid in the face for being called that to his face.

No question about it. I don't believe it's true. I think it's a made-up story. Why haven't we heard this story before? We've heard all of these stories. We've heard stuff in his books. I don't remember hearing about this. If it's in one of his books, I apologize.

I will say I'm sorry if it's in one of his books. But this is a story that we haven't heard before that he pulled out for the podcast. with Bruce Springsteen, and we haven't heard this before in all the race talks and books that Barack Obama has done? No, no, I don't believe it. I mean, if it happened, good. And I'm glad that he punched this kid in the face. But I doubt.

I have my personal doubts that it actually happened. It's just me, though. I know. I know. All right. So we found out that the FDA have endorsed the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use. So they're going to be up and running. We'll have the Johnson-and-Johnson-and-Johnson vaccine.

A single-shot COVID vaccine is going to be available. They say that it's got a 66% effectiveness overall. in their studies, 72% of the U.S., 66% in Latin America, 57% in South Africa. So the B-1-3-351 variant is rapidly spreading. So they're saying that it's good for that, too. The company said the vaccine prevented 100% of hospitalizations and death. So be on the lookout for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. So now we've got the Pfizer and Moderna's two-dose vaccines

and the Johnson and Johnson single dose application. And they are out to get you vaccinated. So good luck. If you want to get vaccinated, you get vaccinated. And do it, you know, as soon as you can. So that we can reach that herd immunity. Please, that would be great. We also got news that a lung transplant recipient is said to have contracted COVID-19 from new lungs and later died.

So they're saying that it was the lung transplant that gave this person COVID-19. It's the, according to this, is the first proven case of transmission of COVID-19 via organ transplantation. Wow. So the woman who became ill just days after the lung transplant Eventually passed away from COVID-19 Had reportedly gotten coronavirus From the organ donors infected lungs Wow

First proven case I mean it's the first case that they know of I mean I'm pretty sure they keep pretty good records on the transplants Unless you're doing black market transplants The legal transplant If you're getting a lung from, let's say, I don't know, the University of Michigan, they're keeping good track, okay? If you're getting a lung from Bill in the lung barn just outside of Waco,

he probably isn't keeping as good of records. Well, that's just me. That's just me saying that he probably isn't keeping that good of records. But a test of fluid obtained from the donor's lungs amid the procurement was positive. These lungs were infected. Wow. And they had COVID in them before they got into the recipient. Wow.

How does that happen though? Do they think? How do they let that happen? I don't know. I don't know. But they did. And we talked about AMC opening their theaters back up, well, at least in New York.

I mean, they were allowed to be in New York. New York and Andrew Como was trying to, you know, ease the pain of getting beaten up. So he decided, oh, I'll open theaters. I'll open theaters. But six flags. One more COVID story. And then we'll get out of here for today. Six flags back in business.

They said the Texas-based theme park operator announced that this is going to open all 26 locations for the 2021 season, including five locations that stayed closed in 2020 due to continued, obviously, coronavirus. restrictions. So they're going to hire thousands of team members with online hiring events. So if you need a gig, Six Flags is going to be hiring soon. They're ready for fun and signature. Six Flag Thrills in 2021. They set the standard, according to President of Park Operations Bonnie Weber.

They set the standards for operating our parks safely and entertain millions of guests. in adherence to government and CDC health guidelines at 21 of our 26 parks. Remember, they had five that didn't even open. So they're not, there's no firm date on reopening parks in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Mexico City, and Canada. But they're working on it. Okay. So they're going to follow. Man, there's local and state guidelines and federal guidelines for all these parks.

It's got to be a nightmare for them. But they're opening. And so keep your eyes open. There's no more cash. Wow. What a way to get rid of cash. Online reservation system prior to a booking a visit, limited capacity at all parks, credit card or mobile payments only, no cash.

They want to minimize contact between guests and vendors. And guests are going to wear a mask and they are to evaluate at their own risk. Wow. So, okay, they're ready to embrace the new normal. Yay! And the new normal will be very different, but we believe these additional measures are appropriate in the current environment. All right. Keep an eye out. If you're looking for a gig, Six Flags is hiring, and we're ready and willing. Well, I don't know about willing. We're ready.

I don't even know about ready. To be a part of the new normal. Yes, we are. The new normal. We're.