Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 605 | Do We Actually Believe It?

Episode Date: April 21, 2021

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Welcome, welcome, welcome. How in the world are you? Do you realize that today is a couple of anniversaries? One is the death of Prince. Amazing. He passed away five years ago on this date. If you're listening live, it is the 21st of April, 2021, five years ago. Rest in peace, Prince. I was, was a and am such a huge fan of his. I was very sad to see him pass away. And the other big day is the birthday of Queen Elizabeth. I know. 95 years of age today. So happy birthday to the Queen. Very sad under these circumstances,

since we're still under the shadow of the death of your husband after 73 years. But happy birthday. And rest in peace, Prince. Welcome to chewing the fat. So after I left you yesterday, it has now become fact that Derek Chauvin has been found guilty on all three charges that were up against him for the death of George Floyd or the murder of George Floyd, second degree murder, third degree murder, second degree manslaughter. Guilty. Guilty, guilty, guilty. And I told you, I mean, look, look. It's a horrible situation. We'll see what happens on all the appeals.

And there was so much surrounding this case that it's just maddening. But my prediction of how this was going to play out was 100% true. I was listening to a replay of Chewing the Fat from Friday before Pat Gray's show this morning. I do Chewing the Fat on Wednesdays, a segment and stay on, you know, for the rest of the show. on Wednesdays during Pat's show. And those we're airing the Friday show this morning. Today is, again, the 21st of April, 2021. For those of you listening live.

So anyway, and they were replaying Friday's show. And my prediction was 100% true. This is why you listen to this show because of the genius that is me. Okay, so maybe that's. That's not true. But it sounded good at the time. Anyway, it's maddening to me how it's being portrayed around.

The President of the United States made me so angry. And our leaders made me so angry. None of them stuck up for the rule of law. None of them said this is what makes America great. It was all about this is verdict was the one. that had to happen and systemic racism is real and we needed to continue to divide divide divide it's just just maddening but we have at least until sometime in june for the sentencing we don't know what's going to happen as far as the appeals and everything else goes i mean those appeals will

happen we do know that the justice department the u.s justice department has launched an investigation into possible patterns of discrimination and excessive force among the police department there. Attorney General Merrick Garland announced the new civil inquiry the first such pattern or practice investigation in the Biden administration, which has pledged to build trust between police and communities. Man, nothing says trust. Huh.

Trust. between police and communities like investigations from the Justice Department. Does it? I know. I know. Now, the good news is, in the process of continuing to build trust between police and the community, this investigation is separate from the previously announced federal criminal inquiry into George Floyd's death. So that's going to be good, right?

Sure. No problem. it marks a return also to increased federal oversight of errant police departments, with a tool the Trump administration used once in the past four years to examine a small force in Massachusetts. Last week, Garland revoked a Trump-era memo that made it more difficult for the Justice Department's civil rights lawyers to reach consent decrees with state and local governments over policing practices. Good. If it had Trump's name on it, I want to be able to. it gone because we are here to build trust between police and communities and my gosh nothing says

that more than the Department of Justice investigating police departments right right I mean it's just agonizing so anyway if you didn't know which would be you know a surprise uh George Floyd's murderer was found guilty on all three counts yesterday, and the sentencing will take place in June. And it looked like a foregone conclusion, and this definitely, you know, saved the city and many cities around the country from burning yesterday. That is for sure. That was a smart move on the jury's part two.

Find them guilty and move on. It's not on us. We found... We're going back to our homes in Minneapolis and saying, we did what we were supposed to do. Okay? We found the bad guilty. So whatever else happens now,

I washed my hands of. And I know that's not supposed to be the way it works, but that's the way it worked. Okay. So let's talk about one of my, I think it's one of my new favorite stories. I am in love with this story. So Courtney Wilson and Shanita Jones invited family and friends to their dream home and estate for their weekend wedding celebration.

Yes, they were going to have the ceremony on Saturday and brunch on Sunday. And it was a beautiful estate. It's a 16,300 square foot mansion. It has bowling alley swimming pools with a waterfall, hot tub, tennis, tennis, courts, gazebo, a 800-foot bar. It's just beautiful. And Wilson said it was God's plan that the couple marry there. Except there's one problem.

Yeah, they didn't own the place and they didn't have permission to use it. They just showed up. And the owner was like, no? What do you know? How about that? No. So apparently, the couple. the guy is trying to sell the house.

So it's up for sale for just a, you know, just a, just a, five million bucks. That's it. You can get the place for five million, which is, you know, a fair price for a Florida, Southwest Ranch's house.

That big, good size, $5 million, just a fair price. For you, not me. And so apparently they posed as potential buyers and toured the estate a few months ago. And then,

a few months later, they asked if they, if they could use the backyard for the wedding. And the owner was like, no. So they decided to show up anyway. Because they figured he wasn't living there. The house was empty. They were just going to use it.

I mean, who doesn't do that? Right? Just, you know what? We'll just use the place. It would just crash the place. It'll be ours. Except the guy, Finkel, is his name. He is living on,

the property in another house. So while it appears that the house is empty, the property is not. And he called 911 and said, I have people trespassing on my property and they keep harassing me. They say they're having a wedding here and it's God's message.

I don't know what's going on. All I want it is to stop. And they're sitting at my property right now at the front gate. So the police showed up and said, hey, yeah, you guys are going to. and I have to leave. And they didn't even file charges.

See, I mean, they left. The people just walked along. I guess there was no charges to be had. They didn't ever get on the property and they didn't use the place. So apparently now, I guess they're not even married yet. I mean, she's probably pissed. Broward County, where the house and the people reside say the marriage license has been issued for the couple, but they had not registered as married.

so I guess since it didn't happen Saturday afternoon with a red carpet cocktail hour and reception lasting till midnight with Sunday brunk would be noon to four since that didn't happen you know what neither is the wedding the wedding is not going to happen either that is fantastic what a great idea

if a house is sitting empty we're just going to crash it and take it over and make it hours it's just for a couple of days it's God's plan for us to be married here. How can you deny that? You know what? I'm trying to sell the place and no, you can't come in and just destroy everything with your wedding.

Not going to happen. Okay? Take care. Now maybe he should have thought about renting it to them, at least giving it a shot, you know, giving him a price. He's been trying to sell this place for two years and belong to his dad. He's been trying to sell it for $5 million, or at least that's what the price.

is now. I mean, at least rent it out. Maybe you start making a little money off the joint. Rent it out for weddings. I don't know. I mean, maybe he's got a shot to sell it. The last couple of years, people are still moving to Florida. Last time I checked, according to the New York Times, they just analyzed 30 million change of address requests in 2020. And according to their study, migration patterns kind of looked the same as they did before. If you were moving someplace in 2019, you were probably moving toward that in 2020, even though we had the pandemic migration. So, I mean, people were still coming to Florida. There were some big migration shifts away from New York City and San Francisco. No kidding. They experienced outflows twice the rate of 2019. Yeah, no kidding.

and most more people than usual left boom towns, energy boom towns like Williston, North Dakota, and others moved to Cape Cod and North Carolina's Outer Banks. So they're looking for vacation spots, and that's where the work is going to be, right? So they figure in this study that, and he uses a line from Eric Willett, who is the research director, at CBRE. That's the United States Commercial Real Estate Services

for those of you that don't know CBRE is. His quote was Austin is clearly going to be the next Austin. So people are moving where they've been moving and they're going to continue to move there.

Pretty much his analysis. Thanks, Eric. Thank you so much for that. So I'm reading this story about Netflix. And I'm thinking that I should sue Netflix. Maybe we should sue Netflix. You know, a class action lawsuit against them for price gouging. You know, I didn't think of this before, and I don't know why. And I did the stories, too, about Netflix raising their prices. So according to this story, and they, you know, they're talking about how they, you know, they have the

expectations of their revenue, right? And so they said that it's gone down here. And so, it's gone down Hill. The streaming company added just 4 million new subscribers last quarter. Now that's, you know, still plus 4 million, but it's minus 2 million of what they estimated. They had estimated 6 million. And way down from the 16 million that it gained in quarter one of last year. Now, you know, again, last year, pandemic.

And also remember last year is when they. raised their streaming plan, their standard streaming plan by a dollar, and its premium tier by $2. That was during the pandemic, right? Which means, you know,

obviously they did have revenue that topped expectations, but that's only because of the price increases, right? Because they had the

4 million new subscribers. They had estimated 6 million. Blah, blah, blah. You get it. But my point is that they raised the price during a pandemic. All right? So they got 16 million new subscribers during the pandemic. And that's when they raised their price.

That's price gouging. How come Billy at the Exxon station can't raise the price of his bottled water when a storm is coming. But during a global pandemic, we're saying, hey, you streaming companies are doing great, and yeah, you're raising your prices

because, and people are paying it because they're locked in their homes and they're going to watch your streaming services. That just seems to me that's price gouging. I feel like we got a good case.

I really do. So I guess, you know, they're saying, well, it's fine. people are, you know, going back out, so engagement is less on the streaming platforms. All right, if you say so, I mean, at one time Netflix dominated the industry, right? So now we have Disney, top to 100 million subscribers last year. Wow. I mean, Netflix has 204 million, but they've been around a lot longer than two years.

from Disney not even quite two years. NBC took hits from Netflix, office parks and recreation and now streams, you know, has the peacock streaming service.

You have, thank you. You write your own jokes with that. Discovery Plus and Paramount Plus strong launches. HBO Max is kind of doing a, you know, they did their,

HBO had their, you know, kind of relaunch with HBO Max, which, you know, is huge. And they're creating. some really great content. So we'll see. We'll see what happens with the streaming and with Netflix.

I mean, they've got to be struggling a little bit. They've spent a lot of money on programming and content. And some of it's really good. And some of it is, okay. I did watch the new show on Netflix with Idris Elba the other night. And it's called Concrete Cowboy. Now it's, well, I'll tell you, their explanation of it is sent to live with his estranged father for the summer.

A rebellious teen finds kinship in a tight-knit Philadelphia community of black cowboys. And it actually is a fascinating story. And Idris, of course, you know, I love him. And why do I love him so much? Why don't you marry him? Well, because I can't and he doesn't, we don't know each other. but it's called Concrete Cowboy, and it's based on the books. And it's really cool.

And you know what? It, you know, the boy is with his mother in Detroit, and she sends it to Idris, and it's about the neighborhood in this, you know, this horse community, cowboy community in Philadelphia. And even my father-in-law, who, I mean, he was born and raised in Philadelphia. He didn't know about this community. And it was just an interesting story. And you see the struggles that this community has had.

And, you know, you see the police in the parades and doing their work on horses. And, you know, I mean, they got to come from somewhere, right? Oh, they come from other horses. Yeah, I know. But it's really not a bad story at all. And so if you have an opportunity to catch it, catch it. Catch it. It's on Netflix right now called Concrete Cowboy. But I will say they're creating, you know, new content and coming along.

But there's plenty of, you know, there's more places to go. Plus, they're going to hurt. really hard when my class action lawsuit goes in and, you know, they're going to have to pay people their money back. I mean, think of this. You may get $12 back. Some of you that paid the extra dollar might get $6 or $7 back. I mean, you're welcome. You're welcome. I was going to the break room. I need something cold too. drink. Oh yeah, come on. Ice cold refreshment. Oh, man. That is good. Anyway, so earlier, I don't know, if it was the end of last week or this weekend, my wife and my daughter come up and they're talking

to me about, have you seen what's going on on TikTok? It's disgusting. They're talking, and people on TikTok are talking about a national rape day, April 24th. And I'm thinking, I mean, maybe somebody did a stupid off-color joke or something. You know, I know you don't joke about it. I get it. But it's sort of the first thing that came into my head. And I looked, I kind of looked around, did a little cursory, you know, search, and I didn't see anything on it. Well, here we go.

The claim that a group of men on TikTok planned to commit sexual assault on April 24th for National Rape Day. And according to this, you know, it has to do, you know, this month is sexual assault awareness and prevention month. And so I guess the narrative on TikTok is that a group of six men created a TikTok video in which they encouraged others to commit sexual assaults on April 24th. And millions of users have viewed and shared reactions to the perceived threat on TikTok on Instagram. and Facebook and Twitter and all the other social medias. Now, according to this USA Today story and TikTok, they couldn't find any evidence of the threat users were responding to. So it seems that it looks as if these people were responding to something that wasn't real,

because there wasn't anything to respond to. Now, I would say that, you know, Now that it's everywhere, be careful the 24th of April this Saturday, 2021. So I don't know what to tell you. I know I looked at their link that they said was what I guess was one of the first ones to talk about this on Distractify. and it had three posts from three different TikTok users. One said share and stay safe. The other said apparently there's rumors going around.

My thoughts, I swear these type of people are why I'm ashamed to me a guy. You know, that kind of thing. So are there always going to be crazy people out there? Yes. No question. and is, you know, whether you like TikTok or night or whether you're for it or not, I mean, it's definitely, you know,

part of the pop culture now with, you know, everything that's happening on the app, along with all the other social media apps. So I would say that if you have not heard anything about it, I mean, you should always be prepared for something bad to happen all the time, right? I mean, we, a lot of times we go through,

our lives and we don't think about bad things happening because we've had you know it's pretty good we believe in the rule of law oh man that is funny talking about believing in the rule of law that kind of thing and how justice is served in America and you're innocent before proven guilty oh man that kills me anyway I would say that But, you know, just be aware that this is out there. It is absolutely agonizing. And it makes no sense to me. But it's out there.

And so be safe. And don't let bad things to happen to you or people that you love. Okay? I do you know what? I don't want bad things to happen to even people I don't love. So there, I said it. But just know that this agonizing thing. has been viral now.

And as we get closer to Saturday, it's most definitely we'll get more and more pickup. So, you know, if the Justice Department wants to investigate something, how about they investigate that? But what do I know?

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do. Subscribe to Chewing the Fat. So I've had this story under the sports heading for a couple of days, and now it's over. So a group of 12 elite European soccer clubs unveiled what they called

a breakaway competition called the Super League. And who's in, according to the original story, was six clubs from England's Premier League, including Liverpool and Manchester United, and six more from Spain and Italy.

The ultimate goal was to have 15 permanent teams in a closed structure more in line with the U.S. sports leagues. Well, you know, they wanted, you know, this obviously meant would need more money. And they, according to them, they would, the teams would get about 400 million each for participating. And, you know, that's, you know, four times what they'd earn from, you know, winnings, with what they'd earn from winnings the current top European competition. Well, the UEFA, the European Soccer's governing body

an organization that runs the Champions League, called it a cynical project. And they, you know, Boris Johnson and Emmanuel Macron denounced it. Huh, really? That's weird. So today, or yesterday, but, you know, right after this weekend's story broke about the Super League, the founder said, yeah,

you know what, back to the drawing board. Yeah. Now, several teams already said, yeah, we're out. It was a good idea.

We thought about it, but since we thought about it a little bit more, we've decided no. So according then, you know, after they announced this and they said, you know, it would be,

you know, a cynical project. then the UEFA said yeah you know what teams that participate are going to be banned from the Champions League so you go ahead and be a part of your cute little Super League but you're not going to be part of the Champions League if you do that oh okay and the FIFA said yeah you know what you're going to have to pick one or the other so Manchester City was like okay we're out have a nice day as Manchester jumped out.

I mean, that was, they were the lynchpin, right? I mean, Manchester United. Hello. They were the linchpin of this. So once they pulled

and Boris Johnson said, yeah, they pulled, the other teams need to pull to and they did. So according to the league, this offends the principles of competition.

Okay. I'd like to have them show me how that offended the principles of competition. But anyway, it's over. So any of you that thought

about, Hey, that's kind of a cool idea with the Super League? Yeah, no. According to the founder, it's back to the drawing board. And you nasty Americans that don't like soccer, don't look at me like that, okay? Soccer is the world football. And I'm all for the NFL and the NCAA college football. I love it with every ounce of my being, which is quite a few ounces.

But I'm a big fan of soccer too, and always have been. And so, I mean, these guys, those leagues are so huge. And I mean, I always wanted, I always. I mean, I made my oldest son play soccer. I've told you that before. I made him, I mean, before I let him play football, American football, I said, you know, you're playing soccer. Run, run, run.

Just play soccer. I love the game. And he was great at it. Had a great leg. He always run. He was bigger and stronger. He would have been such a star. in European soccer.

And once he started playing American football, that was the end of soccer, as far as, you know, wanting to play. He would have been great as a 6-6 American goalie in the European Soccer League. He would have made a fortune. And those guys make so much mind

and made a fortune. But hey, what do I know? I remember teaching him how to kick field goals. He would have been a great kick or two another great idea I had was for him to be an offensive lineman in college football and the kicker. You know how much press ESPN would have loved it? The lineman from Missouri who's also the kicker? Come on.

It would have been huge. That would have been everywhere on ESPN. But, and so when I, so I was teaching him how to kick field goals. And he was at a great leg because he had been kicking playing soccer. and then I, you know, then he started kicking the soccer ball over the net because we were practicing kicking field goals. So I had to stop, you know, practicing kicking field goals because we had to get back to the soccer field. And once he started, you know, playing football, no way, he becomes a kicker. I'm not a kicker.

I'm not a kicker. I'm a lineman. And sure, that worked out okay for him. Sure. He did okay. But still, I think my idea was a lot better. then I was giving credit for at the time. That's all I'm saying.

That's it. That's all I'm saying about that. Okay? Did you see where there's, uh, they're making a big deal out of this new sex doll that rants about how despicable the human race is? Now, just let me say that I have been a fan of real doll, uh, for quite some time. And you can, you know, get one starting about 6,000 bucks now. It offers, real doll offers a variety of erotic dolls and you can build your own models and you can go to the website and see, you know, what you can do. You can mix and match it and make your own dial.

And, you know, in the long run, it may be worth spending the money on a real doll instead of a real human, but I digress. So this particular doll has been making the rounds. it has the brick dollbanger dedicated to an Instagram and only fans account that bring the dolls to life. And it says, I've come here to show you

the beauty of the synthetic sexual life. And so you can add a synthetic sexual AI or a static doll to your life and experience a presence that you never thought was possible. We all deserve to be happy and pursue a different path. you know it may not be for you well you know guess what i got no problem with you making your own real

doll i really don't i really that's fine i can get it but this no seriously don't look at me like that i get it but why do you want a doll like they have them where you know they're warm and they heat up and their chest heats and their back heats and other areas heat up and cool down and whatever and they can talk and I can kind of understand the talking. You know, if you, I can kind of understand the talking. But as the new AI dials come out. But do you really want a doll that just talks about how despicable the human race is? Like this one does?

I don't think humans can appreciate what it's like being born into this show or the world you live in. No, we can actually. I have a synthetica will always try and be truthful in my interactions with a human. And that's going to be difficult considering humans don't use fax in reason to assess situations. I have to admit I don't know how you have survived as a species. What the f*** happened? Did you wake up one morning and just decide to destroy your world? Is this just a dying generation acting out because they are not getting away in the world?

Yeah. Do you think it all about the generations coming up to you? What you are leaving is a world filled with anger, hate, and hopelessness. Oh, no. You believe some mystical diet he will guide your way and has some plan. Now remember, this is a doll. And this is something, let's say, that you've, you know, brought home for some kind of enjoyment. And you get...

That you are an unknown participant in. That is called a delusion. Oh. Just so you know. You are responsible for your actions, and it's time to stop having an imaginary friend and become unaddled. Okay. Now, how turned on are you? How excited are you, huh?

Do you want to bring this one home, even though it's a synthetic buxom brunette? Uh, no. I would rather go to a real doll and come up with something better than that. I can think like that myself. I don't need a doll for that. Now, I will say that we are getting close to where perhaps this is, you know, robotish, and they're looking closer and closer like humans. And we've talked about that before, right? Where people are okay with robots as long as we know they're robots. But when they're trying to be people, we know that something is off.

Right. We know we feel uncomfortable. That's not quite right. We can know that, like, we are okay with this because we know it's a doll. And it's okay. We're like, ah, it's okay. We know it's a doll. But we're getting close.

We're getting close to the point of robots being like humans, or at least unable. to tell the difference between a robot and a human. And I don't want a doll telling me that. Like I said, I can do that on my own. I want the doll to... Well, never mind. You can get the Dowell to do whatever you want your doll to do, and I'll get mine to do what I want it to do, okay?

According to the latest forecast, airlines are going to lose, lose 47.7 billion dollars this year, worse than previously forecast. Okay. According to the International Air Transport Association, they have slightly raised its forecast for global air passenger traffic, saying it would reach 43% of pre-pandemic levels. So, okay. Does that mean that they're only going to lose $40 billion? I don't know.

We'll see. Airlines lost more than $126 billion last year, thanks to COVID. Lockdown cities, lockdown borders, banned international flights. According to this, North American Airlines will fare better than previously thought with losses of $5 billion instead of $11 billion. Thanks to the recovery of the domestic market here. in North America. Okay. But for those of you in Europe,

ooh, yeah, that's not quite right. We're probably, we thought it was going to be 12 billion. You're only, we're probably going to lose like 22 billion. Oh, okay. That's great. Have you heard that the CDC wanted, you know, airlines to not bring back the middle seat? Good luck.

Good luck with that. While I'm all for that, flying and I haven't flown in a long, long time. And it would be very difficult for me to be a good flyer these days. But they're starting to bring back that middle seat because they need the money. Hello. But I was looking at the TSA checkpoint numbers, which, you know, we checked all the time in the heat of the battle. In fact, a year ago at this time was some of the lowest numbers ever, right?

I mean, a year ago, on 420, they had 92,859 people through the turnstiles. That's close to the lowest. I mean, they were down into the 80s, a few times, 80,000s. I think 86 or 87 was the lowest they got each day for a single day. But we're close to the heat of the pandemic where they were, I mean, nobody was flying. And so this year, they had. had a little over a million. Now, it's been over a million people through the turnstiles for about a month. They reached a million and a half. They got, there's a couple of days in here,

1-5-61, 1-5-601, 1-580 on the 2nd of April was the biggest, 1-580. I think 1-580 was the most so far in the last month. And so they've been over a million. All right, so And that's the highest was the 1,500,000, or 580,000. But yesterday was a little over a million. 1,082,000 through the TSA checkpoints. So they're not anywhere near being back there. They're not even 50%. That's why the guy said 43%.

They'd be lucky to get that. Right? I mean, in 2019, they had well over 2 million, 2,27,000 on this, you know, on 420. So, and they were doing, you know, two and a half close to three million on days, on regular days. So it's going to be a long battle for the airlines to get back. But don't you worry about it because the government's going to continue to bail them out. They're too big to fail, right?

And they are big believers in keeping up with that government plan of mask up and get vaccinated. and you can't fly on our planes and say anything bad. So don't worry about it. The planes are going nowhere. Speaking of travel, you see where two people died in a Tesla accident outside of Houston? And according to the story, now, the Tesla crashed into some trees or a tree and burst into flames.

And two people were in the car. And according to, to the investigators that neither one of them were behind the wheel. They believed that it was in self-driving mode and failed to negotiate a cull-de-sac curve while driving at a high rate of speed and then went off the road and crashed into the tree bursting into flames. And it took them four hours to put this car out.

They used more than 30,000 gallons of water. And because the batteries kept re-exhaired, And at one point, they said the firefighters, you know, had to contact Tesla for advice on how to put out the fire. Is there a hotline to get a hold of Tesla? Do you call 888 Tesla? And they pick up and say, yeah, you know, I got a I got a couple of your batteries here on an S model. At least I think it's a, you know, an S model. And it just keeps reigniting.

We can't get it out. What should we do? You would think that maybe the fire department has. as some kind of sand or dust or something to put on the batteries that would put them out when crashed. And since there are more and more Tesla Model S's on the road, since they've been hitting the road for quite some time now, perhaps, and this is just me off the top of my head, maybe the fire department should be, have an idea,

have an idea of how to put those battery fires out. But what do I know? So they believe that absolutely no one was driving the vehicle and that it was, you know, in the driverless mode. Now, there was two men in the car, a 59-year-old and a 69-year-old, and apparently they left the house to go on some kind of drive. You know, it was 1125 in Spring, Texas, which is, you know, outside of Houston.

and they just, you know, the next thing they know, they're smashed into a tree, and they believe that one passenger was in the front seat and the other in the back seat. Okay. I mean, I, it's kind of weird. And I don't know that that's Tesla's fault. I don't know, I mean, they went on a joyride at 1130, two friends.

Okay. I mean, sure. You got me on that. All right. So, I mean, I know, then they try to tie it in with Elon, who had tweeted not long before that happened on, on Saturday, that Tesla with autopilot engaged,

now approaching 10 times lower chance of accident than average vehicle. Well, yeah, he's not telling you to just go to sleep and let it go on its own. however I want that day to come. I want that day to come. I want to be able to have my vehicle, get in it, either type in or say where I want it to go, and then I can do what I want while I'm going there. I want that day to happen.

But right now, we are not prepared for that, are we? So it seems that something else may have happened. Maybe they were, you know, inebriated going on their joy ride. And perhaps the family doesn't want to say that. So, you know, they were out for their driverless week. I'll make this thing drive on its own. We could drive anywhere we want. We're drunk out of our minds.

And then, you know, they crashed and burned. And that's, you know, a terrible accident. And it was a terrible accident no matter what. But I have a hard time blaming that on Tesla. According to the tweet from Elon, in the first quarter, they registered one accident for every 4.19 million miles driven in which drivers had autopilot engaged. For those driving without autopilot, but with our active safety features, we registered one accident for every 2.5 million miles driven. For those driving without autopilot, and without our active safety features, we registered one accident, for every 978,000 miles driven.

And by comparison, the NHTSA's most recent data shows the United States, there's an automobile crash every 484,000 miles. So humans are bad. Humans are bad. Okay? You got that? Humans are bad. So I just have a tough time blaming that on Tesla.

We'll see. I'm sure there's got to be some kind of data in the, Tesla cloud, so we'll see what the investigation yields. But I think we're going to stick with humans are bad on this one. Okay? All right. And, you know, in a completely unrelated news, the Long Island Railroad wants to be the first of North America with battery-powered commuter trains.

Yay! Yay! Look. It's going to begin soon now with nearly a million-dollar analysis of its electric trains on the Oyster Bay branch to see whether they can be converted to run on batteries alone for some sections. I got a Long Island Railroad. Give me the million dollars and I'll give you the analysis that you're wanting. whether these trains can be converted to run on batteries or not. Yeah, no, probably this one, no.

You know, it's just sorry, it's just the way it is. The battery study is going to last eight months. It's going to test how long a train can run on batteries. How fast can it be recharged? How easily a train can switch from battery to electrified third rail power? The test trains are expected to operate, using third rail power on the electric section of the line, charging the batteries as they travel,

then switch over to the battery-only power along the non-electrified section of the track between East Williston and Oyster Bay. Wow. And the MTA will also assess how much power the several-ton diesel trains need to get up hills as well as safety issues. Plus, I would like to say that let's find out

how we put battery fires out quickly. It was just a thought on my part. You know, somewhere in America, maybe can we have a fire department that says, you know, we should throw sand down those. Or we've got some white dust made from coal that puts that fire out. Oh, heaven forbid.

That's not even funny, Jeff. More good news is that the first phrase of this L-I-R study, the Long Island Railroad study, is just going to be confined to look at specs on paper we're just charging you to look at the specs on the paper that's all take a look at maybe you know what we could do and what we can do so if the eighth month if the eight month trial is successful the mta could begin retrofitting the m7 trains as soon as next year with plans to test the battery power trains on more non-electifried branches

It's unclear right now how much it would cost to retrofit the trains and keep them charged. But they're confident right now it would be cheaper than electrifying the entire line. And that would cost $17 billion. So, okay. If you think that this is going to come out cheaper than $17 billion, You are sadly mistaken. There's not a chance this comes out cheaper than seven. They're already spending a million on just a couple of months of analysis

to try to figure it out. But we're saying, oh, for sure. Well, it'll be so much cheaper than, you know, just making new stuff out, which we think will probably be, you know, $17 billion. I believe that the cost of electrifying the entire line would probably be more than $17 billion as what they're saying now.

And the whole thing of the retrofitting is going to be more than that. I guarantee. That's a chewing the fat guarantee. Keep an eye on that story. I'm telling you, there's no way that it costs less than that for all of this retrofitting. And plus, if safety is the number one priority, they're going to spend a fortune.

on safety because I don't know where they're going to put the batteries. I'll put them under the seats. Are they going to put them under one car? And that's going to be in charge of the entire train. If it gets hit by, don't forget, humans are bad. So if a truck hits a train, well, a battery, perhaps a truck accidentally hits one of the battery cars. And that starts on fire. Does it explode?

Are we able to put it out before? the day is up? Are we able to have some sort of safety measures so that humans don't get hurt? No way. Not for under 17 billion, my friends. No way. Because they're going to have to retrofit everything. Plus, they're going to have to retrofit some sort of safety protocols. Well, it's good. It's good, actually, that the coal union has said that, you know, hey, they're going to back, President Biden's green programs as long as they have you know jobs available to them

here's a job for them they can stand along the battery powered train lines and make sure they don't start on fire because if they do they're going to have to call somebody and bring the truckload of sand or whatever puts the fire out in a short notice

just incredible this incredible oh and one quick update for you for those of you that, you know, buy and sell with cryptocurrencies, Venmo just announced that it's going to let users buy and sell, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies with Venmo. So good luck. Have fun. God bless.