Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 576 | How Bout, Ahhh No!

Episode Date: March 11, 2021

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Get no frills delivered. Shop the same in-store prices online and enjoy unlimited delivery with PC Express Pass. Get your first year for $2.50 a month. Learn more at p.c.express.ca. Sad news about Winston Marshall. Not sure who he is? Well, he's the banjo player and lead guitarist of Mumford and Sons. Of course, you know who he is, right?

Yeah. Well, he has stepped away from the band and offered an apology after he faced a little backlash for a now deleted tweet promoting that he read a book. And now he's going to take time away from the band to examine his blind spots. What was the book? You asked? Well, it was Andy to go, his book. And Marshall praised Andy over the weekend, the book Unmasked, of course, which offers a look inside Antifa's radical plan to destroy democracy. And he tweeted, finally had time to read your important book, you're a brave man.

Whoa, I mean, how bad? How much worse can it get? now he was called Marshall Winston Marshall the banjo player was called a Nazi likes fascist propaganda

by a bunch of critics and he deleted the tweet wow they wanted the band to fire him they were calling for him to just go away so he deleted

deleted the tweet and then released a statement saying, I have offended not only a lot of people I don't know, but also those closest to me, including my bandmates, and for that, I am truly sorry. As a result of my actions, I'm taking time away from the band to examine my blind spots. For now, please know that I realize

how my endorsements have the potential to be viewed as approvals of hateful, divisive behavior. I apologize, as this was not my intention. Now, I don't know how the band's going to get by. Holy cow without their banjo player. And, you know, Mumford and Sons is just, you know, number one on my listening list. I know they're a big band.

I know they've got a lot of heads and people love them. But what happened to rock and roll? What happened to music? musicians who say F you. Yeah, I liked it. So he didn't walk away from the band for reading the book. He walked away because he admitted to reading the book. And throughout a, hey, important book, you're a brave man.

Yeah, no kidding. I mean, Andy's been physically assaulted, doxed. had Antifa to visit his home. The guy is on the front lines, on the front lines. And so for anyone to be ashamed of reading the man's book and his account of what's going on is agonizing. And I hope Mr. Banjo player just goes away. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. There is actual sad news.

Lou Ottens, a Dutch engineer, and I would not have known who this man was either yesterday, if asked. But he is credited with the invention of the cassette tape. He just passed away at the age of 94. And his story is incredible. He helped, he invented the cassette tape and he helped invent the CD. amazing. He worked for an electronics of manufacturer Phillips in 1952 and by 1960 was head of product development

and they developed the world's first portable tape recorder. In 63 he introduced the first cassette tape at a Berlin radio show electronics fair which was supposed to supersede the real-to-real systems. Yeah, it kind of did that. they trademarked compact cassette. So he makes a deal with Sony on the design with the standard cassette. And now that's, you know, absolutely standard across the U.S. and the world.

A hundred billion have been sold. And at least 200 billion CDs have been sold since they were made available. in 1982. And he played a key role in the development of that in 1979. Just amazing. And according to this,

the British phonographic industry estimated that 157,000 tapes were sold in the UK by the end of 2020, despite the lockdowns. So, I mean, they're making a, you know, a surge. People are, you know,

going back to retro cassettes and LPs. But, just amazing. I mean, the highest since 2003, this last year was the highest number. And groups are, you know, releasing stuff on cassettes and albums now again. But it's just, you know, sad. The guy's 94. And, I mean, genius, right?

I mean, he invented the cassette and the CD, things that play a part in our everyday lives that we don't even think of. Just amazing. And, you know, rest in peace. Lou Ottens, inventor of the auto-cuit. said it's almost worth a retrospective may have to do that i think i just did really without the this has been retrospective on ctf i'm sure that uh we can find something bad about the guy to throw in the retro the actual retrospective you know like he's a white guy uh so

you know he first throughout the uh you know he first throughout the uh you know you know I know he's a Dutch engineer, but the cassette was first released at the Berlin Radio Show Electronics Fair. We all know what Berlin is famous for. So as a white guy from Europe who released, showed off the cassette for the very first time in Berlin, I think we could find something bad to throw into the retro as well. Oh, just amazing. I mean, the guy plays a part in everyone's lives. for all these years and he could walk anonymously among this.

So one of my favorite sayings has been for a while now, how about, uh, no? Uh, that's, we're able to say that from time to time. And it especially became prominent during this whole, you know, Me Too movement, Black Lives Matter, the whole thing. I mean, it's just sometimes you have to be willing to say, uh, no. Well, I read the story. about this lady who spent

a year saying no to everything. Amazing, right? And I mean, what a great story and today's world. I mean, it's a great book. And I mean, she could post stuff online. But, you know, it's,

she claims Michelle Elman is the person, author, human, that decided that I wanted to say no and I would say no without justifying myself it would be a really

strange experiment for someone to try right a waiter asks if you're enjoying your food and suddenly no seems impossible to say a hairdresser makes his final chop and looks up to ask you if you're happy with the result and the word seems to have disappeared from your vocabulary.

And she's right. You just, yeah, fine. How you doing? Good. Are you happy with this? Yeah, fine. I mean, of course, yes. You say yes.

But she decided that no. So when she said, she claims that she first started saying, no, it was clumsy, messy, and awkward, especially when I didn't follow up with some excuse. So I would justify it a little bit too much.

but with practice, she claims it became easier. I became accustomed to the standard responses. I was more confident in holding the silence and allowing the person to have their reaction, and I didn't feel the need to try and change their opinion of me. So it's just no. And she said no to everything for a year. So I find it fascinating. I would love to talk to her.

get some of the, you know, examples of the hardest, the hardest reactions, the harshest reactions to, no. I just said no to everything. When you learn how to use the word no, your yes has more meaning.

I mean, that's, that's her book. Her book, Michelle Elam, is called The Joy of Being Selfish, and I'm going to try to reach out to her and see if we can talk to her because she was told she talks about in this article how her friends would tell her that she was too nice and you know she was a pushover but she claims that learning how to say no was the first step in a long journey of learning how to set boundaries and she claims now that she checks in with herself before responding. I know when I want to say no and when I want to say yes. I look at my own priorities

and see if I have both the time and the energy to accommodate the request and if I don't, I decline without guilt. So, I mean, that's incredible. Just say no to everything for a year, right? Or however long you decide. Just no. Hey, want to go out to, no. We're going to be doing this. Would you like to know? Wow. And she claims now that people no longer take her presence for granted and appreciate it when I, you know, choose to come along.

And her life, according to her, is no longer being dictated by others. And I choose where to spend my time and energy. Amazing. Amazing to think about how you would say. no to everything. Because there's some stuff you want to say yes to, right? Or you, you, you, I mean, as a kid, you would say, no, you don't want to do something,

and your parents would make you do it, right? And it's, I don't care. It doesn't matter, you're going to do it. And you have a good time after doing it, and you realize, you know, your parents, I told you, you'd like it. That's why I brought you along. It was no way.

And, you know, it happens as adults, too. You don't really want to do something, but you end up doing it and it was worth doing. But would it have been better had you said no? You know, according to Michelle Elman, yeah. I mean, oh, did I say yes? I mean, no, it wouldn't have been. Sure, sure, will you go with sure, not yes?

Sure, it would be better. Just say no. I mean, I don't know if I, I mean, the book is the joy of being selfish. I may have just put the big, uh, no. I mean, that's kind of, I don't, maybe that's the title of my book. How about, uh, no? Because you've already got, I mean, we had the whole just say no campaign, you know, I don't know, gosh, probably been a hundred years ago now, right?

With, uh, who was it, uh, was it, uh, was it Nancy Reagan? right that had the just say no campaign i think it was so you uh you can't go with that and then there was you know yes man remember i mean jim carey made a movie out of it called yes man back i don't know in the 2000s but i remember the book that was a yes man where the guy just said yes to everything and it was you know quite an achievement for his life and obviously he you know wrote the book and uh you know described his his experiences and I know there's several other books out there one was this TV writer that talked about saying yes to everything anyway this so instead of saying yes this

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Okay, amazing. So, let me ask you a question. If you worked for a company and they started asking you to strip down to your underwear in front of everyone and talk about your emotional vulnerabilities under the pretense of a team building exercise, would you do it? I guess How much does a job pay, Jeff? I don't know. I don't know.

But this particular lawsuit filed against Panda Express alleges that these humiliating rituals disguised as team building exercises happened. So there was a cashier, former cashier, since she signed up for the self-improvement seminar, but had to strip down, to her underwear in front of everyone

and talk about her emotional vulnerabilities. She said she didn't expect to be ordered later to hug it out with a similarly stripped down male employee who had broken down in tears during their trust exercise and it was being recorded on people's phones.

There's no way. At that point, you know, we're here for a team building exercise. Okay, everybody's stripped down to your underwear. No. No, it's okay. I'm out. How about no? I mean, I know everybody needs a job. I know that, but it's Panda Express. And at some point, you've got to realize, you know what, I can just go down to McDonald's. I've already got, I'm already a cashier here at Panda Express so I can say I've had the experience. I'm out. So apparently,

The first day of the training, she was forced to sit in a room with blacked-out windows while the seminar supervisor loudly berated her for quite some time. I don't know how long that time is, what quite some time means. But the plaintiff, the girl, the lady, alleges that her manager told her she would be considered for a promotion at the fast food chain only if she signed up for the class and she had to pay for the class herself. So she claims that she borrowed money

hundreds of dollars, according to this story, from relatives to pay the admission fee for this training seminar at Panda Express to get a promotion. How about, uh, no. No, sorry.

Now, do you believe that Panda Express, the corporation, knew that it was going on? I don't know. That's a tough one. Now, they obviously say, woof, man, we were unaware of the experiences that the plaintiff went through. And Panda Express blamed the company it had hired to put the seminar on for what happened. Further, it denied that taking the seminar was required for the promotion.

Well, okay. Now, the suit alleges that Panda Express knew exactly what was happening, given the branded seminar materials at the event, as well as the requirement that participants present their company ID numbers to session leaders. She claims that Panda Express had a closer relationship with the training company than it claims. But if you paid to take the class as a Panday Express employee, they're going to want to make sure that you actually are a Panda Express employee. I don't know.

This is really, really strange. And I don't know if Panda Express is like some of the other. chains, fast food chains, where it is a franchise and not owned by the corporation. So you get, you know,

you're, it's like McDonald's. There's plenty of McDonald's. There's separate companies that own, you know, three McDonald's and a Burger King and the company itself owns the franchise rights. You still have the deal with the company because they, you want

you want to be involved, you want actual Pandy Express cups and plates and forks and spoons and sporks and whatever else they have that specifically are Pandy Express. I've got to be honest, I've never been to a Panda Express. I know, I know. I'm just sitting there thinking, have I ever been to a Panda Express? And I remember watching so many of them over the years at different places I've lived open up, you know, coming soon, the new Panda Express. And the next thing you know, there's a Panda Express. But I've never actually gone there. I haven't gone out of my way to go to a Panda Express.

Now, I think I've seen people with Panda Express stuff. I don't know. I don't know. I just, I've never been to a Panda Express. I apologize. It makes me want to go and check. So, hey, you got people stripped down in the back? Yeah, give me some fried rice and let me have, give me some shrimp fried rice.

And let me have, let me take a look out in the back, see if you, you know, who's get stripped down back there. So good luck. I mean, I hope that, look, this should not happen to anyone. I mean, come on now. Hazing rituals at Panda Express. Stop it. Stop it. I honestly, I don't believe that the corporation knew this was going on, right?

This was management of that particular store and or franchise that was doing this. Now, and then you have, you know, then you've got. got the you know the the company that's doing the sessions are they all part of this be rating and making people strip down and talk about their emotional vulnerabilities i'm a cashier at panda express okay yeah i want to manage i want to manage the drive-through window by next month okay i don't want to i want to make it i want to get up to 15 bucks an hour and work the drive-thru window manage that and sure that the you know the rice is made correctly do I want to you know hug it out in underwear with the guy that makes the fried shrimp not really at least not now of the training the training session

maybe after the store closes you know maybe we go home later that's it though not the training sessions come on now no at some point really I go back to no no how about No, and we are at a place now in the world where they don't want anyone to disagree. We started with the Mumford and Son guy, right? He tweets out that he liked a book and gets called, oh my gosh, it's a horrible thing, and he's going to step back. He quits the band, the banjo player, because he wants to, what was the phrase? stepping away to examine his blind spots.

Agonizing. So I get to that by I'm finding out that, you know, it wasn't just Pierce Morgan who got fired. I'm sorry, stepped away from his position on Good Morning Britain. They claimed that they had 41,000 complaints. Okay, so big deal. They get complaints about stuff all the time, right? and that's what Pierce is on that show for.

But we also found that the head of the Society of Editors, an industry body for the UK press, resigned over its reaction to Harry's comments about the tabloid media. And we find out that Megan filed a complaint, a formal complaint, complaint with ITV. So, and they bowed down to Megan, the former princess now. She submitted a formal complaint to ITV about his remarks. Wow. Now, when asked about it, ITV didn't deny it.

So they're, because the reports were that she issued a formal complaint. And the line was that she, it wasn't about the person. personal attacks on the validity of her racism allegation made against the royal family. Right. Or her claims she was not supported by the institution when experiencing suicidal thoughts, but how Morgan's comments may affect the issue of mental health generally and those attempting to deal with their own problems. Oh my gosh.

That is agonizing. Agonizing. I, that makes me so, if they think they're going to win this, this way, good luck, I guess, good luck. I know Pierce responded saying on Monday, I said I didn't believe Megan Markle in her Oprah interview. I've had time to reflect on this opinion. And I still don't. If you did, okay. He went on to tweet, freedom of speech is a hill I'm happy to die on.

Thanks for all the love and hate. I'm off to spend more time with my opinions. And he, there's a picture of Winston Churchill with the quote, some people's idea of free speeches that they are free to say what they like. But if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. Uh, yeah. No kidding. So, I mean, that's just incredible.

Look, we've started, we're already smack dab into race, uh, playing a, unbelievable role in our lives. And when you thought 12 years ago now, that when, or maybe even 13 now, when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States that the issue of race was over, because America had elected an African American president of the United States, were you so wrong and I was just as wrong with you. I mean, I knew what kind of guy he was and I knew what he had talked about and the way he was raised,

but I really did. I guess I was hoping for the best and that was not what happened at all. And we are now smack dab in the heat of the race battle, man. and it doesn't matter who you are. And look, I don't even know what how, how much African-American blood Megan has. I know she's, you know, mixed race and has always talked about being mixed race.

But she now apparently, you know, I don't know what she doesn't matter what she identifies. She claimed that, you know, talk about the baby. We talked about that here on this show too. So, yeah, people were having that. that talk, does that make you racist? I don't know. I guess so.

I guess if you're white, it does, right? If you're black, it doesn't. But if you're white, it does. So, all right. I know that Sharon Osborne had a big meltdown with her co-host on The Talk as she was sticking up for Pierce Morgan. And she was saying, I think originally she talked about how she didn't agree with Pierce. but he's not a racist and she was wound up at her co-host for claiming that Pierce was a racist

and that she was a racist. Right. So she said his actions, Pierce's actions, were childish but defended his right to his opinion. And Underwood closed out the segment. by noting, well, as they say in my country, a hit dog will holler, look like somebody been hit. And so the next day,

apparently they got some bad feedback, and Osborne restated her belief that while she disagrees with Morgan, he's a longtime friend and colleague and has a right to his opinion, and her belief is that doesn't mean she's racist. I'm not a racist, neither is Pierce a racist.

I hate the fact that even saying, I'm not a racist is a terrible evil word to call anybody without knowledge of that. And then they started talking about pointing out how racism is overt and that Morgan's out-of-hand dismissal of Markel's experiences of racism would constitute racism itself. And that, in this moment, we need people to stand up for anti-racism, that simply not being racist oneself is not enough. And then they went to a commercial break. And then they came back and they were still going at it.

I will ask you again, Cheryl. I've been asking you during the break. I'm asking you again. And don't try and cry. Because if anyone should be crying, it should be me. This is the situation. You tell me where you have heard him say, educate me. Tell me when you have heard him say racist things, educate me.

Tell me. It is not the exact words of racism. It's the implication and the reaction to it, to not want to address that because she is a black woman and to try to dismiss it or to make it seem less than what it is. That's what makes it racist. But right now, I'm talking to a woman who I believe is my friend. And I don't want anybody here to watch this and say that we're attacking you for being racist. And for that, if I articulated anything. I think it's too late.

I think that's already so. But that. Yeah. Hello. Wow. So we'll see it. So remember, it's not the exact words, but the implication and reaction to it. Interesting.

That's an interesting way to put the explanation of racism, isn't it? It's not the exact words, but the implication and reaction to it. Okay. All right. So when Prince William, you know, the Duke of Cambridge and his wife were leaving, they were at some school, the Stratford in East London and they weren't going to take any questions

but of course you know as they're leaving the press is not going to leave them alone and they start hollering out questions have you talked to your family are you a racist? Hey hey Prince are you a racist? Have you talked to your brother after the interview? Hey Prince, Prance! But I guess that's what you got to do

and they got an answer so it worked. Sir, have you spoken to your brother since the interview? No, I've spoken to you out, but I will do. And can you just let me know is that the law probably a racist family, sir? And they walk off. And we're very much not a racist family. So, I mean, you got to believe them, I guess, right? But remember, it's not the exact words. But the, so remember, it's not the exact words. Okay. Just remember that. It's the interpretation and the reaction to it that makes it. A problem. And then we still have, I know, I know. I mean, I got to stop.

I got to stop thinking about these stupid royals in the stupid royals interview. But we also have the controversy over what was in Oprah's boot. You know, they were making fun of whether it was, you know, an ankle bracelet from the law. It does look similar, believe me. But it's probably just a, she said it was something to do with, the COVID-19? I mean, does she have a special, is it some kind of special, like,

keep the mosquitoes away, and that keeps COVID away? Do the billionaires have their own little special thing that they keep in their sock? And it emits up, which we couldn't hear on the interview, by the way. And it just keeps COVID away. I don't know.

I don't know. I was thinking it was more of a, like a mic pack, you know, a microphone pack. So, you know, you're picking up the feed. You know, who knows? I don't necessarily care that much. But what I do care about is now we have what is called, and this is where we're at. Remember, it is not the exact words, but the interpretation and the reaction to it. Okay. We're saying that we're talking about digital blackface. Digital blackface. Digital blackface.

Okay. So if you use a GIF of a black person, African-American person, doing any reaction to anything that, and you're a white person, that's digital black face. Wow. I mean, we are really reaching into the bucket now. I mean, no kidding. So now we're saying that the. memes and all the tweets with Oprah's reactions to Megan and Harry's comments to her questions. They have that people are using and these, these, well, they're excessive.

These images are being used excessively. And because they're being used excessively, that's digital black phase. Oh. Oh, okay. So any, any, any, any meme, any jiff, any kind of little tweet with a reaction from any person who is African American is digital blackface. Thank you. That's good to know. It's good to know.

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Don't have the, I mean, that is ridiculous that that's going to, that they're going to block them. But I know, I know, I understand. It's agonizing, agonizing. but I see where, you know, Facebook has got that antitrust lawsuit, and they're talking about this unprecedented. And it was, this is an attempt to rewrite history. Is it? Is it Facebook?

Okay. All right, no problem. I see where Mike Lendell is launching his own social media company. I could go into the story, but just know that's what the man said. We'll see if it actually happens. Greg Abbott. called out Gab an anti-Semitic platform or anti-Semitic platform? Wow.

Greg, maybe you ought to rethink that. They've got, according to this, Abbott, okay, after he made the comment that Gab was an anti-Semitic platform and says it has no place in Texas, Gab responded saying, your statement probably is not going to sit well with nearly 800,000 Texans who visited Gab in the past 24 hours alone. What's even more strange is that the Texas GOP itself is on GAB with a verified account. So how about we stop going after the social media companies other than to say,

hey, let people post what they want. It's not up to you to decide what's good and what's bad. If someone is technically saying they're going to hurt someone or something, sure. Go ahead. Get rid of that. But just because people are tweeting and gabbing and parlaying their opinions, whatever that opinion is, let that opinion stand. Okay? And we'll decide who we follow, who we like,

what we like, what we don't like, and it'll be almost like a, oh, what would you call it, almost like a free market system. Some people would call it that, you know, freedom of speech and free market system, stuff like that. I know that's old school thinking. I know that's just silly of me to even think about something like that. Yeah, it's just silly. So I wonder if somebody at HBO Max got the axe. So my son has been big on the new Zach Snyder cut that's coming out,

the Justice League coming out, and he's been all fired up about it, and we've been talking about it, and we've been talking to what happened to make Zach Snyder's Justice League available and how he made it, and the reason why he didn't make all the stuff surrounding the, the movie. So, and everybody's anticipating the Zach Snyder cut. Well, on Monday, HBO Max

users who tried to watch Tom and Jerry, the movie, were greeted with the superhero movie. Instead, the streamer uploaded the film 10 days ahead of its March 18th release. Okay. So, according to one guy, he watched an hour, and it's a four-hour movie, before it disappeared. So they realized, oh, heck, did I put Justice League instead of Tom and Jerry up today? Gosh, darn it.

I should have had that extra cup of coffee. What am I doing? And then it just makes it go away. So, you know, like I said, I just wanted to watch Tom and Jerry for background noise while I worked. And then Justice League comes up. So I started watching it. It was an amazing hour. He was all fired up about it.

So it'll be, it's interesting. That's like, now I will say, perhaps it was on purpose just to generate a little bit more around the movie so maybe no one got fired maybe it was a planned mistake oops so we just put it up under tom and jerry we let it stand for you know a couple hours two or three hours until we start seeing social media post about it and as soon as we see social media start posting about it a little bit and we get the people who say you know, hey, I had it up for an hour, and it was an amazing movie, and then they took it down. Then we take it down.

And we just create a little bit more hype around the movie. Oops, did we screw up? Oh, darn. Gosh, darn it. We're sorry. Ah, just saying, just saying it's possible that someone at HBO Max did it on purpose. So, COVID isn't the only anniversary. remembering today. I know that we're, if you're listening live on the 11th of March 2021,

we're smack dab. This week is the celebration. It's not really a celebration, but it's the anniversary of when we were beginning to know that we were going to go into a lockdown. Right. Word was coming out. Things were shutting down. The NBA shut down. People were realizing, you know, we were realizing that things were going to change. And I don't know that anyone foresaw the change, how the change being so dramatic, but it most definitely was. However, 10 years ago today,

the largest earthquake in Japan's history happened, the 9.0 magnitude that we all know as Fukushima. It caused those three reactors to melt down. It was the worst disaster since Chernobyl. more than 22,000 people died or went missing and about 150,000 had to be evacuated and we don't even know how bad it hurt the ocean right I mean we still we used to joke around about

wasn't a joke Jeff I know I know it wasn't about how the fish were affected by Fukushima now the government recently offered incentives to any towns that were willing to study hosting a nuclear waste. And two out of 1700 took them up on it. And the home of the mayor of one of those towns was targeted with a Molotov cocktail, and they were protesting saying no. So look, we know that if something bad happens, you can quote me on this.

If something bad happens, something bad is. happened, right, with a nuclear power plant. But they're safe. I mean, look at how many we haven't. We need more and we haven't built more. And that's really sad. That will hurt us in the long run. I know that they say U.S. and France and the U.K. are more willing to consider it as a zero emissions energy source. Yeah, they might be willing to consider it, but we're not building them. So let's get to it. I know how horrible, you know, Chernobyl was, Fukushima was,

but it is, you know, a great source of energy. And we could do it safely. My gosh, am I working for the nuclear power people now? No, but I should be.

There's no doubt about that. Did you see, speaking to COVID, though, and the anniversary? Oh, yeah, we have, oh my gosh,

if you're listening live, tonight's the night, right? Tonight's the night where, President Biden addresses the nation to let us know how bad things are in the dark winter that we're in. And we'll see how he looks and how he makes it through it. And I know it was being reported as a press conference, but this ain't a press conference.

He's going to show up, medicated up, look good. Put the eye drops in. Say your peace. Happy anniversary. Good luck. God bless. Have a nice night. The UK variant now of the coronavirus.

they say is up to a hundred percent more deadly than the original strains of the virus. Okay. That's good to know. That's good to know. Because I thought originally they talked about how this variant wasn't as deadly. But it is more deadly than the original strains of the virus. Wow. Okay.

So its ability to spread rapidly. makes it a threat to be taken seriously. The variant is more contagious than earlier strains and was the primary reason for the latest lockdowns in Britain. It's already been detected in 50 countries worldwide, including the United States of America. Now, just under 3,300 cases in the UK variant had been reported in the United States,

according to the CDC. but they have now predicted that, and I think they predicted this in January, at least they had talked about it, that it would be the predominant strain, and it's turning out to be the predominant strain. And it claims that the study compared death rates among people infected with the new variant and those infected with other strains. And it claimed that the UK variant meant that more people would have previously been considered low risk were hospitalized. Wow.

62% more deaths linked with the variant compared to previous strains. 30 and 100% more deadly than those that originated in China. Makes you feel good, doesn't it? Makes the anniversary even better that we've got the new variant of the new strains that are out there. Man, makes you feel good. And I never see anything about the vaccine. if the vaccine, they're saying that it's a real concern that other variants will arise with resistance to the vaccines.

Yeah, you think? No kidding. Now, we talked about it yesterday on Pat, on Pat, on Pet's show, Pat Unleashed during, you know, I was there on Wednesdays, Wednesday and Friday, during the Pat on Leash program. And a little chewing the fat on Wednesday, special segment. Love them for that. And then, you know, I stick around for the show and I'm there on Friday as well. but I see where they have talked about, and we talked about it here,

it seems like a while ago, about the drugs that the pills that they are saying will stop COVID in its tracks. So it's a new experimental drug. We'll see if it works. I don't know. I don't know if it will or not, but if they could get this drug on the market

and it's a five-day program, through the system? Yes, please. So Merck failed at their coronavirus vaccine. At least they felt it wasn't good enough.

So they went into collaboration with Ridgeback Biotherapeutics and they have the preliminary results from their phase to a randomized clinic trial that evaluates the safety, tolerability, and efficacy to eliminate the coronavirus in infected patients using the

antiviral drug, Mulnupyrivir. Sure. M-O-L-N-U-P-I-R-A-V-I-R. And it's used to slow down the replication of the virus. It stalls the virus's ability to make more copies of of itself. Patients who got the medication stopped shedding the virus faster. Just let me say, I realize that

we embarked on a plan to just say no at the beginning of the program. But this right here, we want to say yes to. Okay? So you

can say no to everything else. But, But let's hope that Ridgeback biotherapeutics and Merck get their pill program in gear. And let's get it on the market. Malnupiravir. Malnupyrivere. I like that. I think we should name it something else, though.