Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 620 | Ellen Degeneres: "It Was Always the Plan." Was It?

Episode Date: May 12, 2021

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What is going on in America these days? A Colorado mom, Colorado mom, says she nearly got arrested at Six Flags Amusement Park when a security guard claimed her shorts were too skimpy. What? Are you kidding me? In America, women can wear their shorts as short as short as they want at any theme park they want, damn it. and according to this story, Bailey Breedlove, the mom, says she has autism. So she's disabled and we're kicking her out of Six Flags.

She was there on a family vacation to Frontier City Six Flags in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. And thanks to this body shaming experience, I was terrified. I was about to go to jail over a pair of shorts. So she's on the family. trip and they're walking there in you know six flags and the guard proceeded to follow me and grabbed my shoulder to turn me around and proceeded to tell me my shorts were too short. Really? Yes, I committed no crime and proceeded to walk to my boyfriend as I am autistic and have a hard time talking to officers. She followed me yelling and calling for backup.

then your incompetent manager showed up and began body shaming me. I was told I need to go buy new shorts, which I am not obligated to purchase anything I don't want to. Oh, well, that's true so far. Still in America. Then I was threatened with criminal trespassing when I agreed to buy new shorts so my family could enjoy their vacation. So she gave in.

She gave in. And yet I was then pushed and escorted toward the entrance, accepting this, We were about to leave, and then we were blocked by your female officer from leaving. She pulled out her cuffs and demanded my ID. Oh, no. Oh, and she's got her daughter. You can see her daughter there, was crying.

When asked for probable cause, the answer was because they are the police. That's right. Now, she was released eventually, and she wasn't cuffed or arrested, Although she's been banned from the park for five years. Now, according to Six Flags, in keeping with our family-friendly environment and for safety reasons, six flags enforces a dress code. Proper attire must be worn in the park at all times, including shirts. She had a shirt on.

An appropriate footwear. She had appropriate footwear on. Clothing or tattoos with offensive language or graphic. are not permitted at any time. She didn't have any of that. What she had was shorts that you felt were too short. She's wearing a little Pokemon T-shirt, which, you know, cute little thing. She got some tats on the...

That's a little few tats on. Now, I will say this. Okay, according to Six Flags, she was initially stopped because her shorts exposed a significant portion of her buttocks. but but that's not why she was escorted from the park okay

she was escorted from the park because of her behavior towards the police and our team members and other park guests I noticed they threw in the other park guests in there because oh sorry

I didn't condone and confine my get down on my knees for your park police six flags does not body shame and did not remove this guest from Frontier City because of the length of her shorts. Well, you kind of did. Six Flags conducted an internal revenue of the encounter based on the findings.

Breedlove was given multiple opportunities to change or cover up but refused. So you did. You did kick her out because of her length of her shorts. What is going on in America? Welcome. Welcome, welcome to chewing the fat. I'm going to stick with what is going on with America because I see this story now, a Vietnam veteran,

carjacked by armed criminals, and then he's being told to pay tickets that the carjackers accrued when they had his car. A 73-year-old Vietnam veteran, first victimized by armed carjactors, and now victimized by Washington, D.C. officials who demanded he pay the tickets that the criminals racked up in his stolen car. So, according to this story, Doug had finished his late shift at the U.S. Postal Service

and arrived home just after midnight. But he was accosted by a criminal who put a gun to his head and demanded his car. As I was exiting the vehicle, the guy came up with a pistol and said, give me the car. You know what's happening. Give me the car. Now, Doug and his wife, Nancy, thought their troubles were over when the car was returned. But no, the troubles were not over. They received notice after notice about the fines from traffic violations the carjackers committed in the stolen car. Over $2,000 worth of fines.

$2,000. And they said they would just notify the District of Columbia. infractions were made while the car had been stolen and they would dismiss the charges. That's not what happened. It came back a U.O. They tried to clear up the issue personally at numerous government offices, but they got the bureaucratic runaround, of course. In the meantime, they were not allowed to drive their vehicle that they depended on to get to work and run their daily errands. Wait, why?

this lasted six months this is not how in tears all about the stuff we owe $2,000 for tickets it's not even our fault why would they not be able to drive their car all right it doesn't say now maybe that was just them being legal because I would say that you would still be able to drive your car I don't think they confidence stated

I can't even say the word I don't think they confiscated the car. But now the DMV said, hey, we've been communicated with Mr. Nelson since he began the adjudication process related to the six citations issued. The initial police incident submitted as part of the process was incomplete and failed to establish that the vehicle was stolen when the citations were issued. Now, subsequently, they've received a more complete incident report

with additional details related to the carjazz. incident and as a result we're going to go ahead and dismiss the six tickets as well as the related fines and penalties isn't that special what is going on in america i'll tell you what's going on in america okay norman lloyd died that's what's going on in america okay he was a hundred and six years old norman lloyd and you think wait who is norman lloyd if you're you're You see his picture, his photograph, you'll know who he is. I mean, he's a producer, director, actor. He worked with Orson Wells, Charlie Chaplin.

He worked with all these huge actors and legends in Hollywood for years. And you may remember him from St. Elsewhere, the television show in the 80s. He was in the huge movie for Robin Williams, Dead Poets, He was the head of the school in that movie. You know, look, he worked with Orson Wells at the Mercury Theater in New York, born in 1914 in New Jersey. It talked about how his parents sent him to dancing and acting school and theater and tried to send him to a speech school to get rid of his accent. and he talked about one of his biggest regrets not being in Citizen Kane because he had gone out to California to work with Orson and Alfred Hitchcock

and he was doing all this stuff and then he went back. The one movie got canceled, so he went back to Jersey and that's when they were going to make Citizen Kane and he was like, nah, I don't want to do that. I'm going to go back to Jersey. And he said that was a big regret not being a part of Citizen Kane. He always regretted that. I would say, no.

He thought he thought it was abandoning Orson at the time. But the huge movie Saboteur, I mean, he's the guy that falls off the Statue of Liberty in that movie. Just a great actor and producer, Hollywood guy, 106. And there's a documentary out there. I'm going to have to watch it now from 2007, an actual documentary on his life called Who Is Norman Lloyd? because he's this actor and producer and director that's done all this stuff, and you really, he didn't get the great accolades that, to the masses, right? But to the people in Hollywood, he got the accolades, no question.

So Norman Lloyd, dead at the age of 106 years of age. He would have been an incredible interview. to talk to. And they just took a picture. His birthday was the first of this month. There was a picture of him, you know, at 106. Incredible. So, I mean, the guy is, the guy was just an incredible artist and he passed away yesterday, unfortunately, in Hollywood at the age of 106. Norman Lloyd. Rest in peace. Speaking of resting in peace, Ellen DeGeneres. resting in peace. Today it just broke. If you're listening live on the 12th of May 2021, Ellen DeGeneres ending the show because, well, it's not a challenge anymore.

Oh, is that why, Ellen? Is that why? I told you on this show, it was over. She's done. The show's over. She's milking it to the end of her contract. but it's done. And it was done when she tried to come back

after the big hubbleau with her being just not a nice person. And she, 19 seasons, 3,000 episodes or more actually. And there's been, you know, there was just a flurry of workplace allegations. No question about that. And even the people who were trying to stick up for her,

you know, it was great. That was fine. But she lost the Ellen show edge a long time ago. Now, it talks about her maybe going into movies and stuff, but she's still doing her stupid game show, right? Does that go away too? Is that all part of the Ellen slot? I don't know.

I don't know. It does say it here that it may be filled, her slot may be filled by Kelly Clarkson, which I, you know, we talked about her because I always thought it was going to be, what's her face? Drew Barrymore. But it doesn't appear that Drew's show is hitting it off,

which is kind of surprising because it was more about, you know, Kelly Clarkson show is getting the stars now and she's all about it. So Kelly will, you know, probably go. But I still think that Barrymore has a chance, but probably not so much anymore. Kelly's getting all the press. But it's over. Remember we talked about her living at, she sold her house in Beverly Hills and her. She's staying at somebody else's house.

How's Courtney Cox's house? and, you know, she wasn't, they haven't broken up. Porta came to visit, and, you know, her life is in a shambles right now. I don't know how she's going to survive with the money that she has. But she claimed, you know, that they destroyed her. And she said, I'd be lying if it didn't.

But she went on to say that it was all, you know, she went on to criticize cancel culture. Oh, oh, okay. All right, it's cancel culture. I mean, never mind that you were just, you know, a bad person and treated people badly. But she went on to say, look, you realize that every single encounter means something. Oh, thank you, Ellen.

And if for whatever reason, one day I wasn't dancing when I was in the dry cleaners or I didn't smile at somebody, it's like, oh, did that affect somebody? Was that what they meant? And I don't know. But I know that I'm just a person with a lot of different emotions, and I struggle with depression and with anxiety. So every day, I'm not super smiley. But my intention is never to hurt anyone.

Is that your intention, Ellen, not to hurt anyone? Because the reports we hear of you was that, well, I mean, some of them were silly. There's no. I mean, I know you can't be expected to be. Ellen 24-7. You just can't. But that's why you move to the mountains and you live in a gated community. So you don't have to be Ellen at the castle.

That's why you have the castles, right? So when you leave the castle, you got to be Ellen. That's the way it works. That's what you make the big bucks for, Ellen. And I knew that it was over. The one story, I was just reminded now I'm thinking of the stories that were silly. the one story, remember that they tried to beat her up on because she, during a break, didn't talk. I mean, that is silly.

I was silly then and silly now. You're trying to be pissed at her. During a break, she just sat there and waited to go live again. How dare her? Why wasn't she dancing and being on, why wasn't that happening? I know. I know. It's weird. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because it's over. And she's decided on her own terms that is just not a challenge anymore. So she's giving it up. Uh-huh. Well, we know that $50,000 in lumber and 20,015 would build 14.74 new single-family homes by April of 2020, 50,000.

$2,000 worth of lumber built 10.5 homes. And now in May of 2021, $50,000 in lumber can get you 2.1 homes. That's good, right? That's good news. That's good news. We know that the average price for used cars hits a record of $25,463 amid shortages. Huh. Why would there be a shortage of used?

cars. Wonder why there would be a shortage of used cars. It would just go to say that people, I don't know, can't afford the new ones. And it's part of my economic indicator that more, you see more used, or they're, you know, obviously they're used because they're on the road. They're broken down along the side of the road, which means people are holding back on their routine maintenance because they don't have the money. Now, we know that we have gas. shortages now you've 20% of Metro Atlanta gas stations are out of gas right now as we speak live on the 12th of May 2021 20% of Metro Atlanta gas stations out of gas gas prices are at their highest level since 2014 according to AAA wow so we have the pipeline down right and we

have we there's some things that you know when is it coming back we've talked about the ransomware attack that shut down the gas line. It's a critical gas line, actually, and it's causing the supply crunch. It's not causing a gas shortage. You dummy. Oh, man. It's not a gas shortage, okay?

There's a supply crunch, okay? So it'll be panic buying. Oh, okay, so we don't need to panic by? No. Okay. Would you tell us not to panic buy? that's when people panicked by. It's just incredible.

Now, the ransomware attack, you know, they're saying has highlighted the vulnerability of the country's critical infrastructure. But, you know, it was a hack and a ransomware. But they haven't told us what they asked for. The hack was they took some information and they obviously part of the ransomware attacks is they take information and they say, we're going to release that information if you don't give us something. But we don't know what was asked of colonial pipeline. I mean, that's who operates the main gas artery along the East Coast. And all we know is they shut it down.

So it was something that they didn't want to pay. That's for sure. Now, do they care? Has that information been released that was going to be released? They said that they got hacked. and that they also were hit with a ransomware attack. So what's the information that was taken as part of the double extortion scheme? They're saying they stole about 100 gigabytes of data.

Okay? What was that data? Has that been released? I don't know. I don't know. I just know that I have not seen anything about that. and I haven't seen what the ransom was supposed to be. All I know is that Colonial shut it down.

Now, Colonial Services 7 airports. It operates in 14 states. Its system is the biggest in the U.S., the company says, covering more than 5,500 miles and carrying more than 100 million gallons of fuel per day. Now, a legend on its company, Tanks, featured on its website reads America's Energy Lifeline.

I mean, okay, all right. It said that it worked with shippers to transport about 41 million gallons to delivery points along its pipeline and it's taken about 84 million gallons from refineries as it readies to reopen the pipeline. Now, they talk about the government relaxing rules so that more oil can be driven up the East Coast

in tankers. Okay, well, that's awful. That's awful. Nice of them. Now, they've restarted, and I think we talked about this here on chewing as well. They restarted minor sections

of the system, but they're not going to fully restore the main chunks until this weekend. And get this, even when the pipeline is operational, all right? It's going to take 15 days for gasoline to get

from a Houston refining hub up to New York Harbor where the, you know, those are the airports and they're just they're waiting, man. We're here. This is Fisher Air. Thank you for flying Fisher Air.

We're just going to sit back and wait for the gas to show up. The jet fuel is, we're a little low here in Newark, so we're just waiting. We could probably take off and make it to, oh, I don't know, Newark. But we're just going to wait.

It can circle the airport and land again with the fuel we have. So we're just waiting for the pipeline to come online. We just wait here. And I don't think you're getting off this thing. No, we're not going to let you get back into the airport because then you're going to have to go through security again and everything. So just sit there and be quiet. And don't let me hear you whine about wearing a mask or anything like that.

You just sit there, put your mask on, and zip it, okay, until we fill this thing up. I mean, it's getting ugly. They showed lines with people waiting in lines. I'm telling you, if the gas stations that I frequent and use, and I haven't seen the price go up more than what it has been going up, right? I mean, obviously the gas prices are going up everywhere, but it hasn't gone up dramatically like we're being told is happening, you know, along the East Coast. And there hasn't been, you know, real shortages.

If there's a shortage of gasoline in Texas, where I live in Dallas Fort Worth if there's a shortage of gasoline there's going to be we are more doomed than I thought if that happens I'll tell you that right now I will say

there have been lines but those lines are because Walmart did something oh my gosh we talked about this I went there yesterday and I was so pissed I wanted to I almost went live I almost did a YouTube or an Instagram live And maybe I'm just going to start doing that. I think, email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com if you're up for that, if you think that I should because I almost went and just started doing a YouTube or Instagram live.

I was so pissed. So I go to Sam's Club and there's lines and people rode up to get gas. And I'm so pissed because ever since Walmart allowed the Walmart plus cards to get gasoline. at Sam's Club, there's been lines at the gas station. Why Walmart didn't say to the Walmart plus card members, go to Murphys. That's the company that runs the gas stations outside the Walmarts. Go to Murphy's.

Get your gas there for a limited discount with your Walmart Plus card. But what has to happen now is that if I'm a card-carrying member of Sam's Club, which I am. And I pay their extra fee so I can shop whenever the hell I want. I can go there early, late, whenever the whole hours that they're open, and I have access to their petroleum. I want my own time slot. I want my own Sam's time slot at the gas station.

So I want that if you're a Walmart Plus member and you pull up to the gas tank and it's during the Sam's Club time, you get shot and they just tow your car away. No, of course, I don't want that. Okay, I don't, I know. It's just a joke. I don't want that. But it won't work or you get out. There's signs.

No, this is Sam's Club time. You Walmart plus members take a hike. You come back at three or whenever, but now is Sam's Club time. That better happen because Walmart, I get it. I understand, you know, for your fiduciary responsibilities to your stockholders. and you've got financial investments into people. You probably make more money on the Sam's Club gas than you do at Murphy's. But I'm telling you that as a Sam's Club member, card carrying member, for many years,

I'm pissed. I'm pissed. I'll have to wait extra long because you've allowed Walmart plus card members to come to my Sam's Club gas name. As just me. I know it's a first world problem, but damn it! Fix it! And I'm here to help. I'm here to help, so call me, all right?

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I need a drink of cold, a cold soda down my throat right now. I am ticked. Oh, okay. I don't want to help that makes it better. Did you see where the Golden Globes canceled? For 2022? Yeah, we're just canceling it. Don't worry about it.

After great Hollywood pushback against what they're calling the scandal-plagued Hollywood Foreign Press Association, NBC announced, yeah, you know what, we're just not going to broadcast the award ceremony in 2022. Oh, okay. I mean, they haven't even said where they're going to try to do a Golden Globe ceremony next year.

What's the point? and nobody's going to show up. They're going to do the awards. If there's nowhere to see it, but some of these stars' Instagram accounts, well, maybe they do that. Maybe they do that. Or maybe they do the new,

we'll talk a little bit more about the new YouTube shorts thing that they're trying to promote, which we'll make people a bunch of money. Maybe they do those. Maybe they do it that way. But that's not good for NBC. Maybe that's a slam. That's what they should.

Golden Globe should go up against that. they don't have to pay, but they make their money from NBC. I mean, NBC gives them big money for that because they bring in all the stars. So no way. Anyway, I mean, I just kind of peruse that a little bit of my mind to see how that will work out well for the Golden Globe Awards. I don't know that it does because of the deal with NBC. But, you know, we have TV companies, Netflix, Amazon, Warner Media, all distance themselves from the Globes and the Hollywood foreign press association and the 87 member group made up of critics for overseas media outlets

has been engulfed with these preferential treatment sought by its members with their lack of racial representation in its ranks which included no black members according to the los angeles times investigation huh weird it's really that is kind of weird actually that they haven't done that it's just so weird like they said they okay, we're going to fix it. We're going to resolve problems and it will, you know, we're going to take care of it. Now they said that, you know what, we're just not going to.

NBC said, you know what, we're just going to, you know, we'll see if they can get their problems fixed by 2023. That does not bode well. And if you've cashed the money from NBC, you may want to, you know, maybe not spend it all yet. Because NBC may come knocking for a little bit of their cash back. I don't know. I don't know.

And one of the things that happened. And look, I know that the HFPA, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, is committed, committed to meaningful reform. But we, you know, you need to get it right. Do you? Well, you do if you want the TV money, man. So good luck.

God bless. To the Hollywood Foreign Press Association of the Golden Globes, man, because nobody wants anything to do with you. Okay? And did you see where Tom Cruise sent his Golden Globes back? Here, yeah, you know the one I got for Born

Fourth of July and Jerry McGuire? Yeah, I got here, take them back. I don't even want them. I don't even want anything to do with you people anymore. That's awesome. I mean, I guess we have to go back and see that he was actually there to accept the awards. I'm sure that he probably was. But he just take them back.

I don't even want him anymore. They don't even worth it to me anymore. I mean, when you have Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise, he's giving him back. Here, take him back. I don't even want him anymore. You're in trouble. Right? I mean, Tom could have just said, hey, could have filmed himself, you know, putting him down in the basement.

Hey, I'm going to keep these down here. even want to see him anymore. Okay? He could have done that. He could have done that. But instead he just sent him back here. I don't even want him anymore. I don't even want to deal with you people anymore.

Okay? I'm done with the Golden Globes. That's amazing. Speaking of Tom Cruise, do you see where he actually finally broke his silence over his COVID rant? And he said, yeah, I said what I said. That's the way it is. You know, no freaking worry about it.

I mean, his rant was great. And he said, no apologies. I told it to the people there. I didn't tell that to the whole crew. I was yelling at a select few people. I said what I said. There was a lot at stake at that point. And I had the crew leave the set, and I was just a select people.

And he said, filming was never shut down again. Yeah, no kidding. I mean, we've got the, we're getting the job done. I was thinking about all the people I work with and my industry and for the whole crew to know that we'd start rolling on a movie was just a huge relief. It was very emotional, I got to tell you. And I was behind them 100% on that.

I really was. I know a lot of people weren't and they thought it was just Tom, you know, being Tom and he's not, you know, he's mean. But that was about work. I mean, he may be, you know, this guy that doesn't believe in family value. and all that kind of stuff that I know that, you know, Remy is preaching. You know, I know she is,

she's all about hating Tom and hating Scientology, Lee Remy. I get it. I get it. And it was just a, you know, a publicity stunt. Well, it worked. If it was just a publicity stunt, it worked. And it got the job done. So, you know, if he's an abusive person, okay.

But at that time, I didn't see that as a being abusive person. I saw that as a guy laying down the wire and wanting to get to work and do the work that you're supposed to do. And these are the rules you have to follow to do the work. I know, I know he's a bad guy. I get it, but I just wanted to, you know, stick up for him one other time.

Plus, I'm on his side with sending back the Golden Globes. I just take them. I don't want them. You know what? You people make me sick. Just take them back. I'm not going to throw them in a box and put them up in the attic.

I'm not going to throw them in the trash bin. I just want them to send them back. Okay? You take them. I don't want them. I want nothing. I wipe my hands of you. Okay.

Oh, good news, though. We talked about Ellen and her neighborhood over there in, where is it, Montecito, right? That's Oprah and Harry's neighborhood. That's the gated community where she should go, just to be Ellen. And then when she goes out, she has to be Ellen, the Ellen that's on. That's the way it works.

That's why you make all the money. Just silly. But I see where Prince Harry and Oprah neighbors to Ellen out there in Montecito, their mental health docu series is set to premiere on Apple TV Plus. Oh, yay. Man, I am looking forward to Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey's Mental Health Dacuseries. The title,

The Me, You Can't See. Set to premiere on Apple TV Plus on May 21st. Oh, man. The show will debut two months after the bombshell interview with Harry and Megan. And they're still reeling from that, man. As far as the family, I don't blame. They don't blame the family for that. But the series is going to feature stars like Lady Gaga.

Glenn Close, NBA veterans, and it's going to talk about their struggles with mental health. A mental health advocate and speaker, Zach Williams, Olympic boxer, Virginia Ginny Fuchs, and celebrity chef

Rashad Armstrongstead are also among the people that are going to be featured in the docu series. The me, you can't see. They've partnered with 14 accredited and respected mental health experts and organizations from around the world to help shed light on different pathways

to treatment. It's going to be huge for them. Man, people are going to eat this up. I mean, the series aims to spark a global conversation. Thank you. Thank you, Oprah. But now more than ever, there's an immediate need to replace the shame surrounding mental health with wisdom, compassion, and honesty. Is it, Oprah, is it now more than ever?

Because there's no shame around mental health. Oh, my gosh. It's just ridiculous. Well, we've got to sell the series. So good, we're going to sell the series. though the me you can't see. Oh man, it is going to be so good. And Oprah Winfrey and Prince Harry are executive producers

of the me you can't see. Coming to Apple TV Plus on the 21st of May 2021. I myself can't wait. I thought you didn't have Apple TV Plus. Yeah, I don't. But, I mean, I can't wait for it. I can't wait for the series. I know, but you don't have Apple products or Apple TV Plus.

I know. I know, but, you know, I still can't wait for the me you can't see produced by, executive produced by Oprah and Harry. So back off me, all right? Hey, well, I've got you here. Let me remind you to subscribe to my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat, with Jeff Fisher. And you might as well follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR, Facebook, Instagram, and parlor, Jeff Fisher Radio,

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Okay, thank you. I appreciate it. And I appreciate the emails that I get as well into chewing the fat at the blaze.com. My two favorite, well, actually three and one, I should play this for you. The one I should play. There's a guy sent me a YouTube link

for a quarter. court hearing. And the guy shows up in the Zoom court hearing with the name, but effort 3,000. And I want to play this for you so bad because it's all the judge is like, what's your name? He sees them in the waiting room of the Zoom call for his courtroom. And he sees but F for 3,000. And he says, what's your name? And the guy tells him his name.

It's Nathaniel something. And he goes, why are you coming up his butt F for 3,000? You're stupid, you dumb? And then just before he sends him back into the queue where you can't see him, it changes to the real name. So I think that someone was using this guy's Zoom or he was using someone else's Zoom to call into the court. And the original name was but F for 3,000. And he changed it back to his Zoom. name maybe he did it on purpose he didn't look like he did it on purpose really funny really

funny thanks for that email uh we'll try and uh you know it's it's pretty adult and uh you know it's just funny that's just funny i got uh and i got an email from uh from helen who told me that uh she was referring to ernest angely who had just died we talked about that i believe yesterday uh she told me a story of being uh in Rochester, New York. And it was ridiculous, a snowy weekend, and had nothing to do, no place to go, turn on the TV. And there were only two shows to choose from. And one was bowling for dollars, and the other was Ernest Angley.

And I could still see him slapping some afflicted person on the forehead and exclaiming, heal. And the person would be overcome and fall into the arms of Angeley's henchman. And it was so bad that it was funny. So bad. He was doing the works of the Lord, Helen. I don't know what in the heck you mean by bad. I'll tell you that.

A couple of headlines. The federal judge dismissed the NRA's petition to declare bankruptcy and reorganize in Texas. According to this headline, to escape an investigation by New York's Attorney General. We'll see how that pans out. L. Brands going to spin off Victoria's Secret into a separate company. That's interesting. That's interesting. Is there a number?

Someone could call? I wonder. I mean, Victoria's Secret's been under fire and, you know, lately. So, well, maybe Al Brans is just like, ah, go do your thing over there. We don't want anything to do with your damn good-looking models, you fat shamers. We don't anything to do with that.

eBay is now going to allow NFT sales on its platform. Isn't that interesting? Uber and Lyft are teaming up with the White House to offer free rides to the COVID-19 vaccine sites. Isn't that special? And it's all free. It's all free, except that it's not really free. I mean, you and I are going to be paying for that.

You know that. They're going to announce, they've announced, I believe, and they may have already announced it that they're going to partner with Lyft and Uber to provide free rides for Americans to get vaccinated. And I would venture to say that they're going to provide free rides for any human being, not just Americans. That story needs to be updated with correct verbiage.

The partnership is part of a host of action to achieve the administration's goal of having 70% of adult Americans receive at least one coronavirus vaccine dose by the 4th of July. Ah, that's great. That's great. Uber and Lyft are going to provide rides to and from tens of thousands of vaccination sites through their apps, which will allow customers to select a vaccination site near them, follow the directions to redeem their ride and get a free ride to and from the state. It should say follow directions to redeem their ride and have Uber and Lyft get paid from the

government and not you. Anyway, the feature is expected to launch in the next couple of weeks. He's also announced partnerships with federal retail pharmacies and some community colleges to provide on-site clinics for students and staff, more funding immediately available to states and local governments for community outreach to encourage people to get the vaccines. Oh, good. Oh, good.

What we need is more money out there telling people to get vaccine. What we need is for people like, I don't know, you, President Biden, to say, get the vaccine and get back to living, not get the vaccine and still have to be. be quarantined and wear masks. How about that? How about we do that? You know why you can't do that?

Because you just don't know, do you, Joe? You just don't know. That's what you should be telling the American people. We don't know. We want you to get the vaccine. It will help. We believe that it's going to help. We believe that it's going to help you.

And it's going to help your family. And you could feel safer and secure. But we're not really sure. So we want you to get the vaccine. And then, you know, still continue. with being safe, but quit with the whole virtue of the thing. I just can't. I just can't take it.

Just tell us the truth. Please, just tell us the truth. It's all I want is the truth from you people. We're not going to get it. You know that. So I'll move on. YouTube. Setting up a $100 million fund to lure creators away from other platforms such as TikTok.

I'm guessing. Probably they're just saying, hey, TikTokers, come over here again, please. Remember when we ran you all off? Yeah, we want you back. Instagram. You know, the Instagram lives and stuff. Remember when we ran you? Yeah, we want you back.

And don't forget about that China stuff. So YouTube is going to offer monthly payments to creators with the most engagement while it works on a longer-term monetization plan for the people supplying popular videos. you know what I would guess that maybe some of those creators would come back if you would work out a deal with them just like you've offered all this the same kind of thing they did do original creators

and then they said yeah we're changing the rules and you're not going to make any more okay so I know that we've got Instagram Reels, Snapchat, Spotlight to its own social video platform and they're trying to get to go after TikTok the shorts no question Snapchat

Has Snapchat's Spotlight has handed out a million dollars a day to top creators TikTok recently expanded its fund for U.S. creators to a billion dollars

over three years. Wow. I mean they are fighting for your eyes. It's no wonder Facebook wants to get Insta kids up and running. They need new eyes fresh eyes on all this stuff.

I'm sure it'll be safe. Don't worry about it. It's fine. But I, you know, absolutely. Oh my gosh. There is absolutely nothing to worry about for your young children to be on Instagram and creating content for people.

There's nothing wrong with that at all. My gosh, what are you? What are you crazy? I mean, there's a possibility that your kid could get paid. Well, not yet. And not quite. But, you know, it's possible.

It's possible. But still, get online and take care of it, okay? And, you know, by the way, if you're 12 to 15-year-olds, get the vaccine, too, because we've just okayed that, too. I found it interesting today on Pat Gray. We, you know, I'm there for my chewing the fat segment, midweek chewing the fat segment on Wednesday during Pat Gray unleashed, which you can, you know, I always drop those segments separate on my YouTube channel. I found it interesting that the CEO of Pfizer had not got the vaccine yet. Huh, isn't that interesting?

It is interesting. Now, he, of course, claimed that he didn't want to appear to be jumping the line. Yeah, because people would be pissed. People would be pissed. You mean to tell me that the, head of the company that makes the one of the vaccines, jumped the line and got the vaccine?

How dare he? People, I, stop it. Stop it. It's just an interest, I'm not saying anything's wrong with the vaccine. And I had a long talk with my doc yesterday about many things. And one of the things, he didn't, he didn't hound me about getting the vaccine. He did, we talked about all of them, all the different vaccines and what's different about them. And he's been vaccinated.

he went had moderna and uh he did the way his way of telling me to get the vaccine was looking down his computer going well and it says people are in the window of getting the vaccine it says jeff fisher right there that's his way of saying you know just get the vaccine fat man but uh we talked about the difference between johnson and johnson and i would say that he was really you know for moderna he would say you know get but if you go to some of these places that just do it you just show up and they give you a shot you don't know what you're getting until you get it you can quote me on that uh you don't know what you're getting until you get it now you obviously you know can say no but uh i don't know i was so close i was so close

to go they're getting the johnson and johnson and they paused it and i know it came back that nothing was found about it and it was fine and you know it's still it's still the same old Johnson and Johnson, it just, you know, threw me a little bit. And I was, I mean, I was, I was walking out the door to get the Johnson and Johnson. Not really, but I was close. And, I mean, I was already, I'd already convinced myself, no problem, get the vaccine. Just go get the Johnson and Johnson. There's, I've got an app that tells me, you know, where the different vaccinations are and who's got what in my neck of the woods.

And so I was going to, you know, I was looking at that. I knew where the Johnson & Johnson was, and I was going to go get it. And then they paused it. And then I just put the phone down, put the app down. I was like, all right, just not going to get it. And I know, I know my father-in-law who lives with us, he's been, he's fully vaccinated. He's gotten the Benerna.

You know, I get it. I know, don't look at me like that. I know I need to get it. I just feel like I don't want to, okay? I know I was supposed to, but I just feel like I don't want to. And maybe I hold out until the Pfizer CEO gets his. When I find out that the Pfizer CEO actually got his own vaccine, then I'll say, you know what, I'll get it too.

Maybe I go there as well. I don't know. I'm not rubbing Indian poop all over me. I don't believe in any of that crap. I know that. I don't know. I don't know what the problem is. I just kind of feel like I've taken the flu shot,

multiple times over the years. I just, I don't know. I don't know what I have the hesitation about for the vaccine, but it's there, and I keep putting it off. I keep putting it off. I know. I know. I'm sorry.

So I'll leave you with this, all right? This was sent to me, and I really, I really, it makes you think about it. All right. This is a post from Danzel Washington, who I love. Okay, I mean, I love Danzel. And he makes a great point. You ever wonder, you ever notice that when you get a new car, then you see the same kind of car on the road that you never,

you love your new car. You're like, I'm the only one that, I'm the only one driving this car. And then you get on the road and you realize, oh my gosh, there's a whole bunch of cars like this out there on the road. Well, Danzel's post is, easy to spot a red car when you're always thinking of a red car. Easy to spot opportunity when you're always thinking of opportunity.

easy to spot reasons to be mad when you're always thinking of being mad you become what you constantly think about yourself watch yourself i love that and those are words to live by and it should i've heard it before and you heard it before but you know just take that with you today okay something just a little uplifting from chewing the fat jeff fisher and denzel washington easy to spot a red car when you're always thinking of a red car easy to spot opportunity when you're always thinking of opportunity easy to spot reasons to be mad when you're always thinking of being mad you become what you constantly think about watch yourself

have a great day