Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 60 | Making Old People Dreams Come True

Episode Date: March 27, 2019

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Welcome to it. You know, as I was sitting down here digging through the fat pile today, I look up at my computer screen and I see breaking news. Breaking. UK Prime Minister says she will resign if Brexit deal is passed. Get out. Go. Buy.

They should be burning the streets of London. I'm not calling for that. by no means. I'm not calling for any type of violence on the streets of London at all. It's not a surprise that the deal hasn't been made yet. Is it? Teresa.

No, because you wanted to say, well, what we'll do is we'll say that it's Brexit on top of the paper, but really inside, when we read everything, it really isn't Brexit. We're still part of the union. No, that's what the people voted for. To get out of the union.

European Union. I, she's got to go. Welcome to chewing the fat. All right, so yesterday, we told you a little bit about the historic all-female spacewalk

from NASA that had to be canceled coming up on Friday of this week, which would be the 29th of March, 2019. And we made the jokes. I talked about it.

even on Pat Gray on leash, Pat on lease this morning when I did my chew in the fat segment. We joked around about the historic NASA flight. And when you read this story, you know what happened. It wasn't women fighting over wearing the same outfit. In fact, it was one woman. It wasn't one woman saying, I can't wear that. It makes me look fat, although that's what I think it was, actually. Because she, the one astronaut was wearing a medium size.

And the other astronaut was. had practiced in a larger size. When they got to space, she realized that the larger size made her look fat. And she didn't want to do it. So they only had one medium size ready to go. And it wasn't possible to get the other medium size up and ready to go for the spacewalk in time for that.

I got it. But still, you're canceling it because of two females, not wanting to wear the same outfit. the jokes will be there, okay? Boy, NASA cannot take a joke, and neither can the astronauts. Two big tweets from NASA today.

One, we've seen your tweets about spacesuit availability for Friday Spacewalk. To clarify, we have more than one medium-sized spacesuit torso aboard, but to stay on schedule with space station upgrades, it's safer and faster to change spacewalker assignments than reconfigure space suits. We got it. We read the story. Second tweet as they try to calm everyone's jokes about NASA and spacesuits.

The decision. And this was Astro Animal Ann McClay, one of the space walkers or possible spacewalkers. The decision was based on my recommendation. Leaders must make tough calls, and I am fortunate to work with a team who trusts my judgment. We must never accept a risk that can instead be mitigated. Safety of the crew and execution of the mission comes first.

We got it! And it makes me want to joke about the suit, making you look fat even more. That's a big story today. You know, I'm a big fan of study money and grant money, but you got to be able to do it. And this is hard for me to say, actually. You got to be able to do it legally. Oh, man, I just choked on something.

Oh, huh. So Duke University has got to pay $112.5 million to settle a scientific misconduct lawsuit. Apparently, they falsified data to obtain 200 million in federal research grants. So they don't have to pay back 112 for 12 and a half.

Amazing. So a lawsuit was filed by former lab analyst Joseph Thomas. Now Joseph, Joseph alleged that from 2006 to 2013 research assistant, Aaron Pottskant,

fabricated data that Duke used to get research funding from the National Institutes of Health and the Environmental Protection Agency. He also alleged of the lawsuit filed under the Fault's Claims Act that Duke covered up the fraud. Whoa, whoa, whoa, what? The university said, oh, no, do do, do, do, do, do, do, no, Joseph, what are you talking about? Someone pissed him off at the university. Right, okay? So the university said, whoa, whoa, Joseph, no, no, no.

We discovered the possible fraud only in 2013. And this was after Potts Katt was fired for embezzlement because she was we fired her and then we realized, oh, look at this. She was defrauding. So the university did not initially understand the extent of her research misconduct. Say it with me. Right. Okay.

Right. I will say that, you know, they, you know, they, this is, this hurts them. Now, that's a lot of freaking money, man. I mean, Duke's got it. And, you know, they obviously will get more grants and more study money. But that hurts. And it hurts a lot of the other people who are filing for that because, uh, you're not, you can't lie.

You can't lie anymore. That's hard. But Vincent E. Price. Who? Vincent E. E. Price, Duke's president. I thought he died. Vincent Price died. Anyway, he said in a statement that the university was

taking steps to improve research integrity. Are they? Are they? They just upset that they got caught. Right. Now, I will say, the move by Joseph Thomas, a former lab analyst. Who pissed him off? This was a good move for him to file this suit. Great move.

So Duke has to get a pay $112.5 million, right? That's a good, that's a hefty check. How many tuition is that? It's a hefty check. A settlement includes reimbursement of 30 grants received as a result of falsified data as well as associated penalties.

Thomas, how much do you figure he gets out of that? A quarter. Top of your head. Quarter. 33 million. 33 million. Pretty close.

Yeah. Pretty close. I mean, that is... Good job. That's a good payoff. Who pissed him off? That is a good payoff. You should have not...

I bet you can't did. Right? The one that got the original... The original person... That falsified all the data. He went to her and said, you know, what are you doing? That's not true.

Oh, we've got to get the grants. Don't worry. It's fine. Nobody checks anything. Are you getting any extra out of this? Yeah, well, I want some extra. No. Okay.

We all seen the movies. All right. You're going down. You're going down. Once he saw that you were getting some money that he wasn't, I can't handle this. And do you blame him? No, I do not. No, I do not.

Now, I also was looking at, it's fascinating. I hadn't heard about this. Now, Duke, in 2019, which the story we just told you is 112,500,000. a big check in 2015 the University of Florida had to pay back 19 million

875,000 who pissed off that snitch Northwestern University in 2013 had to pay just under 3 million back Northwestern ooh Northwestern in 2013 and

2015 had to pay 2,000 or 2 million 900,000 and 2 million 700,000 back on somebody falsifying data from the

Western, you better get a handle on that, man. So you know that this settlement has put fear into these universities, man. Between this and the falsified documents to get the students

to college. Their scholarships. Amazing. Right? And we just had the story where Dr. Dre was trying to pump up his daughter saying, got it on our own.

He tweeted out, going, got it on her own. and then people were quick to point out, hey doc, she got it on her own, but you donated a building. I'll go ahead and delete that tweet. Don't worry about it. People don't need to see that.

Which is what we said in the beginning. Why didn't they just build it? Right. What's the difference between donating a building and giving a check for that amount of money? One's fraud and one isn't. That's just dumb. Well, yeah.

No, but I'm saying that's what they say the difference is. What is? Stop it. Drey was playing the game. the way it's supposed to do legally. Yeah, I'll build a building. Here you go. You want to go to that school?

All right. Put up the... Here's two buildings. Yeah, put up two buildings. We'll call them the Drey headphone buildings. Okay, you can go to school there now. Here's $70 million. Love you.

Bye. Which people are okay with that because they should be happening. They sure are okay with it. But if the daughter would have falsified scholarship documents and said she was on the rowing team, Dre's going to jail. Chris made it makes a great. point. As we were talking,

we talk sometimes and you can't hear us. I know, weird. But, uh, wait what? I know. But, uh, talking about they should just, with the grant money, with the universities, uh,

when they falsified documents and lie to the government to get this, to get this money that if once you do that, you don't get any more grant money. You can't apply for it. You're done. I mean, those universities, that would shut down a lot of them. That's a lot of money. Yeah, and I will say like, you know, take, you know, like I say Columbia, make them an example.

There's no way. There's no way you do that. Because those universities, they're not the only ones, but, you know, Duke and Columbia and Harvard and Yale. And they certainly are not the only ones that have, you know, offices set up to create the documents to get the grant money. And I told you when I, the one time when I used to joke around in the air all the time in Florida about grant money and study money. and we had one of our congressmen on the air one morning and I've got him on hold

and I'm talking to him and I said, hey, you know, I've got some really cool ideas. How do I get, you know, I'd like to get some grant money for my ideas and he was, and he was, and serious. Jeff just call my office.

And he gave me the secretary's name. And he said, just call my office and we'll get the paperwork started. No problem. What do you need? I mean, and, you know, because I'm this smart.

Wait what? I didn't do it. I mean, why would you fill out paperwork just to get money? That's just dumb, right? So stores are closing, baby. Stores are closing and it's a sign of the times. Another report, J.C. Penny, planning on closing 27 more stores this year. Great.

I apologize. I didn't make it, I submitted it almost upbeat. I apologize for that. Oh, J.C. Penny. Plenty on closing 27 stores this year. 18 full-time department stores and nine home and furniture stores. J.C. Penny. J.C. Penny.

27 more stores this year. Dead 18 full-line department stores. Nine home and furniture stores. 13 states. California, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York. According to employees, they were not given any notice. 27 stores. dead this has been retrospective on ctn sad sad is what it is really sad now good can come out of it right we had the store

we have the story uh how they closed the big samms club some of the sams clubs that are closing uh have now become uh the walmart e commerce centers so the stores are closed and there's no you know sam's club signs and there's no walmart signs and there's no walmart signs but they use the stores for their e-commerce centers. So they're packing and shipping for that. That's their fight against Amazon. That's great. I mean, why not?

You have the structure and you have the property. Use it to your advantage. I mean, that's a good move. Now, Walmart is closing some stores too. It's sad. Sadness. Walmart. Quietly closing stores and costing people their livelihood.

Nine stores in the U.S. One Walmart Super Center in Louisiana. Seven neighborhood market stores. Arizona, California, Kansas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Washington. In fact, most neighborhood market stores. in America today. Dead. Supercenter's not so much, though.

Weird to see those go. People in Lafayette, Louisiana. What are you doing? This is not funny. I don't know why you're laughing. Oh, Walmart. Closing at least nine U.S. stores across eight states. This year alone.

Supercenters, neighborhood stores, and lending handicapped greeters go they're not dead but the stores are dead it's kind of been retrospective of CTF okay so I was reading about Walmart getting a backlash

actually for when they said about they were letting the greeters go and they tried to spin it that they weren't letting greeters go what they were doing is they were reestablishing that position right they had to be you had to be able to pick up a bucket and move around. So there were some greeters that may not

have been able to do that. It's not funny. No, I'm not laughing. I'm not laughing. Why you're laughing? This is not funny. People lost their jobs. Well, we'll be losing their jobs.

Right. Why are you laughing? That's what I said. I'm not. It's a sad moment. I know that. Flash would be a half staff. But they're not going to lose their jobs.

because the flag should be at half-mast, really? Yes. For real, that's what you think? Yes. Okay. A sad day in America. Everybody should wear a black ribbon. Walmart struggling, right?

They're a new CEO. Greg Forre and he's trying to be Mr. Walmart. And he goes out, he says every week he goes out to stores. You mean Greg? Well, that must be fun. What's that? You mean Greg Walmart? Yeah, Greg Walmart.

Yeah, I'm sorry. I forgot that his last name was Walmart. Working at a Walmart, Supercenter neighborhood store or whatever And you get the call The CEOs coming in Oh man You you are you are doing some cleaning up

And I worked in the grocery business I know it's a surprise I may not have mentioned it before But I've worked in the grocery business And when the When the You know when when the The bosses come in from the warehouse And the big company execs

And they all come in and they want to walk the store with you That's always fun always fun because you or they are looking for everything that's wrong or checking the store I mean it's especially like even this Greg I'm sorry Greg Walbart

the CEO is talking about going into the stores and he's talking about how it makes him grumpy he goes half the time I'm happy the other half I'm grumpy because we need to do better I'm putting pressure on the store managers

for the operations because they're letting us down and he talks about the produce not being as fresh as it should be and not being rotated and things aren't being rotated that's produce the company well no no no but that has that's a tough department to run I was a produce manager that's what I'm saying it's hard I used to run and uh I know how to run a produce department I can I can run a produce department now and uh it does take some business and you need to learn the store to each store is different which is what you know you have to you have to kind of count on your managers for because each store is different and yet Walmart

is buying merchandise for, you know, thousands of stores. So it's, you know, it's a tough thing to handle. They have 4,700 store managers, 10,000 co-managers, 60,000 assistant managers, 120,000 department managers. Now, let's be honest. The department managers and the assistant managers, those are just titles. They're just working.

Yeah, you're an assistant manager. Go hang the freaking shirt up. All right. You still get that blue vass, baby. I don't think so. Well, everybody wears the blue vass. Or if you're the cart guy, you've got to wear the yellow jacket.

That sucks. I wouldn't want to wear it. Store managers don't wear the blue vass. No. The store managers don't. They're just regular, regular stuff? Yeah, they look like business, like, you know, long-slee or suits and stuff. But yeah, they're not wearing the blue vests.

Ooh, move up, I don't have to wear the vest. Nice. That's the goal, not to wear the blue vest. Right. Because I showed a picture of Greg CEO, Greg Walmart. Stop changing his name. It's Greg Walmart. Not Greg CEO.

When he's walking the store, he's got his little, he's got his little, just the, the billionaire look, you know, with... Embroited Walmart. A billionaire look with the jacket that's sleeveless. You know, the cap and he's got his little Walmart tag hanging around his neck, you know, his access card. Shut up. Stop it.

But it would not be fun walking the store with him. It would not be fun because, you know, nothing is ever good enough. Or getting the call that you fired. He's not going to fire you, though. He will, he will, unless you do something. Unless he's like, get out, right? Unless something is so bad. I mean, you got to be screwed up bad when the CEO comes in and he says, okay, you're done.

Boy, he said he put him pressure on the store. I will say, I will say that's probably the only guy that could do it. Right. The rest of the people would have to go through a process. He comes in and says, you're gone. Leave now. No. Take your little tag off.

Take your little Walmart pin off. I don't want to see. No, anything that was in the office will. mail it to you, but get out now. I don't want you affiliated with Walmart anymore. He's the only guy that could get away with that. Right? I mean, Greg Walmart stamps the firing paper.

You're done. But this all started with him saying that it got such a backlash with the greeters because they tried to spin it as being, you know, change the job description. But really what it was doing is getting rid of the handicapped of the old people. That's all it was doing. Right? They created a new job description that you had to do different things.

of the handicapped people and the old people couldn't do that. And they were pissed. The people and, you know, all the other employees and other customers. We're like, what are you doing? I mean, we like to have the... Hello, welcome to Walmart. Is there a union? They like to have those people up front.

Oh, I won't go any farther. Because it's not funny. I don't know why Chris is making fun of them like that. And we're stopping it right now. This story has been in the fat pile for a couple of days now, and I don't want to wait until Fat Pile Friday to get to it because it's too important. Yes, it's too important. In Rome, an infant boy has died as a result of a circumcision performed by his parents at home.

What are you thinking? All right, so the media reports on this past Sunday talks about the five-month-old baby was brought it to the hospital by helicopter and cardiac all right we've got a boy of

got his neck off parents screwed up but we can't joke about this we can do it no

that's funny well he was transported via helicopter no problem uh I don't think

it's circumcise it will uh the police have got they got we're gonna get this

get clearly that he are. No, we can't joke about this. That's not funny. That's not funny. He lost his life. He died. Not funny at all.

You know that's what the parents wanted. I mean, if you want your child circumcised, that's completely up to you. Maybe, uh, I don't know, let a professional do it.

I just thought. Isn't there like a boyle that does that? They call them whatever you want. I learned it from Seinfeld. It's a boil or moil. I think it's a boil. That's for the Jewish people, yes.

The Jewish people aren't the only people that get circumcised in the world, though. Now, some docs do it differently than other docs, and, you know, if you do it wrong, then there's extra skin. We can get into the technicalities of circumcision if you'd like. Can we call Steve Days? Why? He talks about circumcision every Thursday. He does? Yes.

Circumcision Thursday? Oh, it's a religious Thursday or theology Thursday, but he brings up the circumcision. Is he a fan? Is he? Read the Bible, he says. He is a fan? Yeah, he's a fan of circumcision. I guess, you know, because you're not circumcised.

I mean, you want to have this conversation. We can have it, but just, yeah, somebody get him on the line. Yeah, get Steve. Get Steve online because this is interesting. And I want to, we're talking to the big stories here today. Is there a number we could call to get Steve on the line? You call 888-90-33-93. Get Steve on the line.

Steve, if you're listening, call in. Because I want to, let's talk a little circumcision. I mean, apparently the cost is too high. According to this story, apparently some hospital costs are too high. some attached hospitals doctors refuse to perform the circumcision until the boys have reached the age of four. Ooh.

No, baby. You want to do that. If you're going to cut the thing of the boy, let's do it when they can't remember it anymore. Thank you. When you hear the kids scream and he hollers and he thinks because you just cut his thing,

kids are resilient and they don't remember that stuff. A few years from now, he doesn't even even know. It's like, you know, but at four, at four, he's going to remember. That's some serious pain. You're going to remember some damage there. PTSD right there. Yes. Yes. And it might not stand for what you think it stands for, but it's definitely PTSD. You can come up with your own words. Let's go to the break room. I need a Coca-Cola zero and some water, thirsty, a little parched. Got some good stuff in the break room.

including this Coca-Cola zero. Let's do some water too, though. Wash that Coke Zero down a little bit. Oh, so good. And by the way, just as a side note, I saw you, Chris Cruz, tweet your little or Instagram, your little, or social media,

your little picture of the Coca-Cola Zero Sugar canned at your house on the window ledge. No, I do not leave. soda cans on window ledges in other humans homes. I never said you did. I didn't even want to hear about it. I never said you did. Stop.

That's what it's what, that's what, that's what, that's what, that's what, that's what, that's you alluded to. Absolutely not. You want me to read you the tweet? Are you, with the picture of the Coca-Cola Zero on the window ledge. Yeah. That's what you alluded to. And I would not do that ever.

So you may have said it there for the picture shoot, but that wasn't me. Here's what I said. I don't get it. Da, da, da. Why does Jeffie like this soda so much? Period. Alluding to the fact

with the picture that I left it on the window, it does not. That's what it did to me. Oh, no, that's what it did to your wife because she was the one that brought it up. That's what it did to me. What do you mean?

Your wife goes, Jeffie, did you seriously leave your can at Chris's house and not throw it away? and I get flak for not knocking the second time. Oh yeah, we should just walked in. Just walk in and. So, um...

She did first of all, and, uh, my kid was the one that knocked on the first time when I hollered at him. Just walk in. We were walking up to the house and... Dude, you have code for everything in my house. Like, you have code for my simply safe. You have code for my door. You have code for every password.

Like, why? did your son even knock? Because he's, he's too nice. That's why. He's too nice. One of the days I expect wake up and see you in the couch.

You know something I don't? Is my wife kicking me out? I want this one that I just expect you just be there. Waking up and hey, I made myself breakfast and I'm watching some TV. How you doing? Yeah, I'm not going upstairs.

Hey, you're out of milk. You're one. You ought to run to the store real quick. There isn't one real close either, is there? That's a good idea. You should open a, that's a good, that's a good idea. Yeah, maybe a, you know, a morning, a morning milk market open up in there in the park.

A little morning milk truck down the corner. Did you deliver to? What's that? Do I deliver there? No, they just come. You just open up. You just stop it by the park down there. That's a million dollar idea right there.

That'd be a good living. I could just for a couple hours every morning. Like maybe four hours every morning from, from 6 a.m. to 10. And it would take. take probably about three or four weeks for people to realize that you were there, right? You can put flyers out and remind them that you're going to be there. Hey, out of something for your morning breakfast. I've got it here.

And you just, you know, you get eggs and milk and orange juice and maybe some fruit and some yogurt. And then they just come to you instead of having to run out of the neighborhood for their breakfast stuff. You're welcome, by the way. These ideas, man. I mean, there is, there is no off switch. genius. Do you have any stories for the break room? Like, can you get on the bedroom?

Well, yeah, I was just trying to help you out. Trying to make you some money, but whatever. No, first of all, you started this by yelling at me saying that I said you left a coke can. Yeah, you did. You alluded to me just leaving an empty coat can at your house on the window. That was full because I just opened it and I tasted it and I was like, ugh. And that's when I tweeted it out. Oh, so now it comes out.

So you just open it and you just set it on the window ledge like that. So it made it look like I did. Okay. Isn't that interesting? Isn't that interesting? All right, another way that you can make some money is watch all the Marvel movies in a row, 40 hours of viewing. 40 hours of viewing.

No sleep till end game. It's quite a ways. How much? You might be able to catch, you know, catch some Zs in the middle of a few of them. You know, just in the middle of it. Oh, okay. Back up. Back up.

So you catch a little bit. a zionaire. Wait, Armand is dead? When did that happen? So if you do that, you get a thousand dollars and every umcule film on Bluray including a couple

of the box sets. I don't know. And you get a pile of Marvel gear. Captain America Popcorn Popper Thanos Infinity Stone Mug. What else? $100 Grohub gift card. What else? Iron Man Snuggie.

What else? And I mentioned you get $1,000 in every film on Blu-ray. What else? I mean. Any more. I got you're greedy. It does seem a little cheap. To sit through 40 hours of Marvel movies?

Can you bring me an actor to sit with? Right. Right. Producer, a writer, someone from the Marvel universe? So to apply for this, you have to be a U.S. citizen. You bastards. You haters. 18 years of old.

18 years of age. You also have to have, oh, you have to write a 200 words on why you're the person for the job. I'm going to write 200 words why I want to sit through your stupid 40 hours of movies for a thousand bucks on a freaking popcorn popper? I thank you.

I get my own Grubhub gift card. Well, it's 100 bucks. Maybe I'll win it's worth 100. I'll take that. That's it. Of course you know it will be. Then no, I'm out. You get a thousand.

You're going to have to, you're going to have to claim the movies too. You have to claim the stuff. Those are winnings. You got to claim the winnings. Absolutely. And the $100 gift card? It's all winnings.

And the Iron Man Snuggie, all of it. The popcorn? Yes. The mug, all of it. Can I claim the non-sleep 40 hours? That's like work hours? I would. Yes.

But don't take my word over it with the old IRS thing. Don't do that, whatever you do. Ouch. You ain't lying, out. Big time. Ouch. Ouch. Where is Ouch, by the way?

Off the top of my head, just. So I had a story sent to me today that said, we used to talk to Chris about this. And I don't know why they said it to me to talk to you about, but I'm happy to do it. Just I'm here for the audience. Apparently earlier, of course. Earlier this month,

Puerto Rican media reported that the Islands Department of Consumer Affairs fined Pan American grain $10,000 for deceiving consumers by claiming a place of origin on 20-pound bags of medium grain rice sold under various brands was the United States when the origin actually was China. So would you like to comment on that, Mr. Cruz? I'm sorry? Would you like to comment on that?

No. I mean, this is, you're not aware of this. This is Puerto Rico. It happened to Puerto Rico. You're lying to people. You're saying the rice was from the U.S. when it's made in China. You're going to go to Puerto Rico.

You're not going to get shady stuff. What's that now? You're going to get shady stuff. And, you know, wow. We're lazy. So you're lucky you even got the grain of rice. How many people, hey, in Puerto Rico. Now, I may be wrong about this.

I'm just asking a question now. How many people are buying the 20-pound bag of medium grain rice. And they're only, and they're buying it because it's from the United States, not China. I would say not very many.

That's my number. Not very many. That's a good number. And as I said, not too. Not very many. So, I mean, I get the lying. That's made in China. I'm China. It's not the United States. You're lucky. You're on the island.

You wanted the 20 pound bag of rice. Do you care? that it came from the U.S. or China? Really? Is that the critical sales point? From China? Of the 20-pound bag of rice? Now, maybe.

Maybe the Puerto Ricans, you know, would buy the rice if it was from China. Who would you trust with the rice? America or China? I'm not answering that. And we'll just move on. In Florida, they've got a big fight over naming of an airport, which is so strange to me.

All right. So in Orlando, you have the Orlando International Airport, and you have the Orlando Melbourne International Airport on Florida's Space Coast. Now, the lawsuit, big lawsuit, was just filed in federal court saying that the Melbourne International Airport has to stop using Orlando. I don't really blame them. That is a little misleading. Now it's 70 miles difference. So, you know, if you, there may be a time when you would fly in, you know,

you might be able to get a flight cheaper to Orlando Melbourne. And then drive, you know, take a rent-a-car and drive into Orlando proper to stay there if you're going to the parks or Gatorland, which is in Kissimmee proper, but it's actually in Orlando. So that's the reason. I mean, Gatorland is your main stop at Disney. Everybody knows that when you're going to Orlando. Disney, please, Gaterland.

Anyway, the, so we'll see what happens. I love the spokesperson for the Space Coast Airport. It says we can't comment on pending litigation. Are you this spokesperson? You have a comment for us? We can't comment on pending litigation. Thank you for coming. You all look great today as we want to comment on,

so take some questions over the airport squabble. Go ahead, sir. I can't comment on pending litigation. Any more questions? Yeah, I was wondering you guys have to talk about it. I can't comment on pending litigation. We're done. That all the questions?

Okay, thank you. Goodbye. Have a nice day. Yeah. No, that's all. That's all I could do. That's all I could do. What?

What do you need? All right, one more question. No, we're done. I mean, it does seem, it would be, if you weren't familiar enough, if you were just saying, let's see we're going to fly to Orlando and you fly to, and you say Orlando, Melbourne, or Orlando, unless you really know, does seem a little misleading. Now for people like Obviously I don't know if you know this or not But I lived in Florida for a few years

Wait what? I know I lived in Florida for a few years Is that before or after you worked at Win Dixie? Well I actually moved to Florida And then worked for Win Dixie So it was you know I was actually living in Florida Prior to Win Dixie but

That's where you became a produce manager I was at one time a produce manager Yes I was at one time a dairy manager It was at one time I've You know, seafood training, meat training, deli training. I never went through pharmacy trading.

They did not want me by the pharmacy for some reason. Do you blame him? I tried, man. You have no idea how I tried. I went through the floral training. I went through all the training. Did not do the pharmacy training. It pisses me off now that I think about it.

The, uh... And I wore a blue vest. I got to wear the Wind Dixie Blue Vest. Think about it, man. That's good stuff there. Plus, you get the, when you start wearing the blue vest, you get the, you get the name tags that aren't the pins. You know, you have the cheap name tags that are the pins that you pin on where you type the names on them. Or you get the good ones that slide over the pocket.

That's what you want. The printed ones that slide over the pocket. Now you're in business, those name tags. So I kind of get it, but it seems like a. stupid fight, right? It seems like Orlando Melbourne should say, I mean, they're getting a business from it. Orlando International is

is actually making a great point here. I hate to side with them just because I don't think they like Gatorland. But Orlando, Melbourne, I mean, do you want to drive? If you fly into Melbourne, you go, oh, we're in Orlando. No, not really. No, you're not. That's a good little drive. You have to rent a car or ride in the van, another

70 miles into Orlando proper? I would not be happy at all. One of the board operators that works here, Ron, he runs the board for Steve Days in the morning afternoon.

And he's worked here for a while. He's run a couple of different shows. He sends me a story last week. All excited. Did you see the story about the grandmother? 104 crossing off on her bucket list and it was so funny because she wanted to be arrested. That was her bucket list. She had never been arrested and she wanted to be arrested.

She was 104. When asked what she wanted for her birthday, she was, I've never been arrested. Now, A, for those of us that have been arrested, it's no big deal. Boop, yeah. Oh, not again. But so I thought, well, okay, did she go out and, you know, commit a crime to get arrested? She's 104. You go before the judge.

You're not going to do any jail time. The judge is going to say, get out of here. I just want to be arrested, Your Honor. All right, get out of here. You're 104. Get out of here. No. That's not the case at all.

All right. Apparently, they have this old people make a wish program. So it's called the wishing washing line charity. That's a stupid name. Okay. Well, it has to happen first that that needs to change. But it's like the old people make a wish foundation. So they ask the old people in the homes what they want to do

and they get to write out the letters. And even the old people that are like the 104-year-old grandmother here in the story has a little problem with. And so she was asked, you know, I just want to be arrested. I've never been arrested. So they send the email to this executive of the wishing. washing line people. And they show up

and they arrest her. Now, and they put her in the back of the car. And they drive her on the block and then they bring her back home. I mean, I guess it's kind of cute. But to say that the 104-year-old grandma had her wish come true

for being arrested as technically true. but I don't know that I like the whole idea of the wishing washing line scheme of just we just show up and arrest the old lady put some handcuffs on her drag her out to the car drive her around the block and throw her back into the home the wishing washing line scheme that does not let us sound like a good cheer Hey, I just want to correct you on your, I don't want to say mistake. You want to correct me?

Yeah, I want to correct you. Not on a mistake is, I know wish and washing line is difficult to understand. Oh, is it? Yes. Oh, it's difficult to understand, is it? Yes, it's difficult to understand. Well, I'm sorry, go ahead. The charity is not called Wish and Washing Line.

It's called Fans, F-A-N-S, and stands for friends and neighbors. Not according to this story in front of me. Okay, well, Friends and Neighbors, it's a very nice charity that focuses on old people and make sure that they have the right care on homes and make the wish come true. Okay. So what happens? And what is the wishing washing line scheme? Okay, so let's take this into like something that more of our artists will understand. Glenn owns Mercury One, right?

Charity. Well, they doesn't own it, but he started it. He started Mercury 1, right? So fans. I named it just a passing point, but it's okay, go ahead. Fans is Mercury 1. Wish and Washing Line is a branch of that. So like Glenn created the Nazarene Fun.

So fans created Wish and Washing Line. It's a creation and it's a simple but very effective way of joining the community with their local care homes, enabling them to become good fans, aka Fancy Neighborhoods. I just want to be clear here for just a second. Okay, I know you're correcting me, but I'm right. I'm still right.

The stupid thing is called wishing washing line. But that's not the charity. You said the charity's name is wishing washing line and how stupid you are for create your charity name wishing waterline. Yes, I still believe that 100%. No, their charity is fans. So it's fansnetwork.org. You can donate there if you want.

And it's just pretty cool because residents of the care homes, but a simple wish. I know that's what I said. Did you listen to the story at all? I did. It's just highly upsetting that you're just making fun. of the wishing washing line because it's supposed to be like a wash line

where you hang on clothes. Yeah, of course, you know, your people on the island would know that. Yeah, exactly. What a clothes line is. Yeah, close line, yeah. So you just put there and you put your wish there. If you wish comes true, you just take it out of there.

It's pretty cool. Like, for example, is it? Wilfred 91 says he will love to go to a dance class. Or Walker 75 says, we'd like to go to a pub and have a pint. These are some sad, sad old people. Frank 92 says, and by that I mean a Frank 92 year old, says someone. That's not his handle.

That's not his handle. That's not his handle. He says someone to sing all the old songs with. Oh, isn't that special? Kenneth 88. So Fan puts this up on the wishing washing line. Yes. And in hopes that they will say, oh, that's cute and take care of at Frank.

Frank 92. Yes. And Kenneth 88 says, we'll love to enjoy someone to talk about. Okay, you can stop with the sales bitch with the fan. But hold on. I got. Hector 81 says, I would love, we'll love someone to chat with about Raff. R-A-F. Well, you know, you know what fan needs is you to work for him? Because you've just sold me even more. Oh, Vera and Stella. They're both 60. They will love to go see Elvis. You know that this is where the wishing, washing line comes in and says, Elvis is dead. But you know they brought it. But we want to see Elvis. What's that? They want to see Elvis. Yeah, Elvis is dead.

So we don't want to kill you. So you're not going to see them for a while yet until you die. But I bet you they brought in, they probably loved that. I bet you wishy washing line, probably that's something that they would love and bring in some Elvis impersonator. Guaranteed they did this. Guaranteed. I bet a lot of money that happened. Pat and Magrott will love someone to play Scrabble with.

They're in a home, that's all they do. Somebody stealing the Scrabble blocks. They can't play. Or John 87 says, we'll like a weekly game of bridge. Isn't that special? I can come by and play gin. We can do a little gin if you'd like. Or Ron, he would like to go work out.

That's actually what we should be doing with our stuff. as going by some facilities and sharing some of our time and our energy with people who aren't as fortunate right now who are a little older and are shut in and they need somebody to come by and play scrabble, play gin. I'm not playing bridge. I don't like bridge, but I don't care if you like it or not old man, Ed Frank 92. I'm not playing bridge, okay? We'll play some gin or we'll play something else.

but we'll play some cribbages. Play some cribbage. Let me play a little poker. You've got some money left in that 401K. We're not playing for free. We don't care how crazy you are. All right, well, thank you very much for setting me straight. Boy, did I screw that one up, huh?

All right, so one last story about how really doing good. You know, we had the... I'm not done fancy still doing a lot of work. You know, I moved on from that. I moved down because that's another story that talks about people trying to do good. You corrected me. I thought I was doing it. You said it wrong.

It's not the clothes line. No, like Doreen 88, she would like to have an owl on her hand. Oh, my God. You know. Like. We're going to go down the whole list of old people of what they wanted because I've got to, I'm going to tell you another story about why you don't do good things, good deeds. Why do you go to Hilga?

91 years old where she would like just to go to a knitting club. Well, then go to a ditty. She can't. She's stuck in her home. Well, the nurse could take her or something. That's part of the deal. We were in there. So a Verizon worker saw a cat stuck on a telephone pole in a neighborhood.

Now, most people, like me, would say, oh, well, let the cat be stuck on top of the telephone pole. but apparently had been there for 12 hours. And the people were crying and after it had been up there for a long time. Right, I know. And so now he's not supposed to take his truck with the bucket into this neighborhood, lift up, rescue the cat, bring it down. Who does he think he is? The car man?

Right. He's not supposed to do that. But let me guess. did he take the not supposed to go truck with a bucket inside this neighborhood and tried to rescue the cat? And did. And rescue the cat? And did.

And failed. No accident happened. Nothing. Everything was fine. Everything was fine. That's upsetting. I mean, that's good for the cat and him. Everything was fine except Verizon said,

since it made such a big social media presence. You're fired. No. But they told him that he was a, spend it for three weeks without pay. Yes. Three weeks. Look, this is their statement.

This is their statement. We take no joy when our employees face consequences related to their job duties. They took joy. We are, however, fully committed and responsible for keeping our employees and customers safe. All of our field technicians go through extensive training that is focused on workplace safety. Our goal is to keep our employees and our customers out of harm's way. for safety reasons. Our trucks and related equipment are not intended to be used

in the area in which he was operating. You're fired. Specifically around electrical wires. Our actions may not be popular. Oh, they're popular in Disney Network. He potentially put his life and those around him in jeopardy. Oh, yes, he did. To show our support for animal rescue efforts, however,

we're going to make a donation to the Pennsylvania SPCA. No! So Verizon, you know, they understand. We're grateful to his heroic act, but he has to be suspended for two. So he doesn't get any money, but the money that he was going to get, we're going to give to the SPCA. You were so close, Ryson. You are so close. Since he was such a hero, though, there were a couple of GoFundMe set up, and he ended up making more money than he would have had he just worked.

All right, Jeffrey. What are the rules that we have to break in this network so that we could get suspended? and get a go phone with your page running. Oh, that's a good idea. Split it between you and me. Maybe if we just, can we,

can we rescue a cat? Because I don't know that's something I don't want to do. Glenn loves cat. So. He would thank us, right? Yeah.

He's a great job. That's what I'm saying. And it's us. He wouldn't even put us on the show. We'd just talk about it. Yeah. Yeah.

And it's us. And it's great. So like, it's more like, Jeff and Chris and look what they're doing. Another day here. But if we use the thing in the,

not the bucket, but we've got the, We do get the lift. Yeah. We get the lift. We're not supposed to use the lift or anything like that. Wait, we're not supposed to use that? We're not supposed to use it.

And if we use it without the special vest and you got it supposed to lock yourself in on it. Shut up. I will say that I have used it without that. Oh, there we go. I'm not wearing the stupid thing. There we go. Do you wear the vest? No.

And the helmet? No. And you didn't clip on? No. Oh, we got this. We got it. We got it. We're in.

Don't tell anybody.