Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 631 | Libby & Sunday: "It was Traumatic!." Was It!?

Episode Date: May 27, 2021

Emma Thompson / no underwear… Russell Brand / is he laying the groundwork??... Fired for action at the zoo… McDonalds giving hiring bonuses. Kelly Clarkson to replace Ellen… Juan out at The Five… Dershowitz sues Netflix… Clay and Buck for Rush… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Email to [e-mail] Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy Promo code jeffy… Kevin Spacey brother does like him… Stealing from churches… Busted for a picture… Prison time for false accusations… Stop complimenting on weight loss and looks… Diversity officer is a good gig… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

So Emma Thompson, the actress, plays the Baroness Von Hellman in Cruella, the new Disney film that is going to be released very soon. And she's 62 years of age. She had an interview on Lorraine, which is, I guess, a TV show in the United Kingdom. It's weekdays at 9 a.m. on ITV and STV. I'm sure it's a great. great show. But she had an interview along with Emma Stone, and they were virtually being interviewed because, heaven forbid, you do an interview in studio anymore. But she claimed that her costume was, well, not just the costume, but the underwear was not good. And she also said something that I thought

was very interesting. I don't like underwear full stop. I mean, I stopped wearing underwear a long time ago. It's not my scene. I don't like comfortable underwear. I find comfortable underwear uncomfortable. So, you know, the underwear that was

required to turn me into that shape was what can only be described as industrial. So it was like the fourth bridge, you know, and just just getting me into it but as i was saying earlier it's like squeezing a tube of toothpaste in the middle if you

squeeze it hard enough then things will come up and go down and and make the shapes but it's like you're dealing with a plasticine person you know if you put mr blobby into that corset he would look good amen amen Emma Thompson I mean I mean I know when you're you know doing a part and you have to wear whatever outfit they want you to wear you have to do it you're getting paid for the job and that's what you do but when you find out in real life like emma thompson i don't like underwear full stop i mean i stopped wearing a long time ago it's not my scene i don't like comfortable underwear i find comfortable underwear Uncomfortable.

Amen. And really, who among us? Who among us doesn't live like Emma Thompson? You don't need to answer that. Welcome, welcome to chewing the fat. So I'm reading a story about Russell Brand. And he's, you know, he's as pretty much. liberal as you come at least from Hollywood but he claims he's not hmm that is interesting now he

said in his podcast and who knew that Russell Brand had a podcast maybe you did I apologize for not knowing that he had a podcast it was titled under the skin and he was interviewing Glenn Greenwald about the post's Hunter Biden story story, as well as Greenwald's own reporting on Joe Biden's connections to Chinese business entrance, which led Greenwald to being fired by the media company. He found it interesting how that happened, isn't it? He talked about it being censored and banned from social media, and he talked about being not pro-Republican person.

He said, I don't see myself in that way. I don't see myself as conservative. Really, Russell, because we don't either. That's just the way it is. But he went on to say that it seems worth asking what reason is Hunter Biden sitting on the board of an energy company in Ukraine? What reason is James Biden sitting on the board or receiving payments from an energy company in China?

Those are interesting questions that don't seem to be being asked. At least they're not being asked by, you know, the main. stream media and it's funny how brand talked about big tech inspiring to kill the hunter Biden story you know before the election funny how that worked out but my only thought was as this was happening was that he is laying groundwork to play hunter in the hunter Biden movie now I this is just a theory on my part I have a zero information I mean I know know that my son hunter movie.com is a sponsor of the show.

I am a huge fan. We've talked to Phelam Mackler before on the show about the fundraising, or crowdfunding to get this movie made, My Son Hunter. And I'm a fan, and I want this movie made. And if they could, if there was an overweight hunter, I would apply for the job. I would love to be, you know, the overweight Hunter Biden. And I don't think I have time to live.

lose four or five hundred pounds to become hunter biden although it might be worth it anyway uh no it wouldn't be that's way too much work losing four or five hundred pounds to play a role i mean who am i russell crow so anyway uh i just have a theory that he is laying the groundwork here to play hunter in that movie now i'm going to reach out to phelan mackler maybe we'll have him on next week see if that's the case. See if that is the case. So it's just a theory. Chewing the fat theory

that Russell Brand is laying the groundwork so that he can play Hunter and my son Hunter. It's just a thought. It's just so strange that he's out there now throwing this out there

about how big tech conspired to kill the Hunter Biden story from a Russell brand. Interesting. Just. an interesting, you know, story, and it got me thinking that it's possible that he's laying the groundwork to play Hunter in My Son Hunter movie.com.

Now, those of you that have listened to this show from the beginning or for a while know that no show, no show supports zoos more than this show. I mean, chewing the fat is a huge supporter of zoos. No doubt about it. So when I see a story that leads me to believe harm came to animals at a zoo because of a customer, another human being at the zoo, I think to myself, hey, let's, we need to that person is a bad person. And so we hear a story of a lady who jumped into a monkey enclosure and was feeding the monkeys hot Cheetos. I mean, the zoo was, the way the zoo reacted was, you know, I will, so she posted the video on Instagram. It was posted on Instagram.

Lucy Ray was her name, R-A-E. Now, the zoo said that her actions were dangerous to herself and the two monkeys. And the monkeys are on a specialized diet and exposure. to new foods could make them sick okay i'll give you that the woman also could have put the animals at risk of catching covid-19 okay come on now we're we're pushing it now and i will say what if she just tossed the i mean people toss food into those enclosures all the time does that screw up their specialized diet so also the zookeeper uh said the interaction could harm the trust the monkeys have built with the zoo staff.

She did nothing. The monkeys loved her. She went in, she walked through the little water. She gave them a few. What is, what is we're saying is Cheetos, you know,

on fire Cheetos. You know, the hot Cheetos. And they loved her. They played along, came up, and then she walked out. She did nothing other than get in there

and get as close as she could, gave them some Cheetos. And, you know, laugh, chuckled, and moved on. It takes years, according to the zookeeper, to build trust with these animals. And for someone to come in there for five minutes, for a video on Instagram or whatever,

just ruins years of work. Really? Really? What she did ruins years of work? I find that hard to believe. But, okay, you know, like I said, I support zoos. I'm a... No one supports zoos more than chewing the fat.

I just find that hard to believe. But, you know, if you say so, you're the zookeeper. So the El Paso police indicate that the zoo is filed a complaint, and the case remains under investigation. They won't identify the woman. Well, I mean, certainly Instagram and the news stories has identified the woman. And because of that identification, the company that she works for has fired her.

They came out to say, we absolutely do not condone this irresponsible and reckless behavior. We support the El Paso Zoo. I mean, really, who doesn't? And our thoughts go out to the spider monkeys. Okay. Come on now. And we hope that they will recover from this very traumatic experience.

Are you kidding? me this traumatic are we seriously saying that her jumping into this monkey enclosure and walking across the water embankment and giving them a couple of hot chitos and doing nothing else just giving them some cheetos and getting close to them and then walking back out of the enclosure has have these monkeys now have traumatic experience i will say the video did not look like these monkeys were traumatized. Do I think that the hot monkeys are probably not a good part of the spider monkey diet? Sure, I'll give you that.

Should she have gotten into the enclosure? Absolutely not. And if harm would have come to her and or the monkeys, then that is just horrific. And she should be slapped on the hand and, you know, find and told, you know, bad girls. We don't allow people into the enclosures. We have professionals that take care of our animals, and you are not one. You're here to observe them.

Okay, I get that. But to tell me that these monkeys were traumatized, and it ruins years of, if that particular thing, her getting in there and tossing a couple of hot Cheetos at these monkeys and then walking back out, has ruined years of work. You're doing it wrong.

I'm sorry. I would like to talk to the zookeeper at the El Paso Zoo, and maybe just a zookeeper, maybe any zookeeper. I mean, Big Zoo is going to be on the side of the zookeeper. You can't go against Big Zoo. You can't do it. Don't do it. So maybe, you know, if I'm mistaken, I'm mistaken.

But I find that if a minute to, The two minutes of a human being interacting with a couple of spider monkeys and giving them hot Cheetos has ruined years of work from the zookeeper. I think your work is way over your head. Okay. I think that perhaps your training isn't quite as good as you think it is. You know, maybe that's just me. and then the loser job over it? Wow.

Now we are, now we're talking some reckless behavior, aren't we? I mean, yeah, we're talking about irresponsible and reckless behavior. Should it cost you your job? I don't. This whole thing is weird. But, you know, maybe I just stick with Big Zoo and say that, look, this has ruined years of training and we don't know what to do. They were on a special diet.

And the minute that she was in that enclosure has ruined years of work with these spider monkeys. And she absolutely should be terminated from her job. And she should be fined. She should be arrested. I don't want her on the property anymore. I want a trespass warrant. In fact, I don't want her within a mile of any zoo in America forever. That's how horrible this person is.

Come on now. Come on. I mean, I don't even know if McDonald's will hire her now. I know there's a nationwide labor shortage, and I know we saw McDonald's in Illinois saying they're going to give you an iPhone if you come work for us. I'm not sure you have to work there for six months, and you have to follow a few other rules. You know, I'm sorry, you have to follow employment criteria.

But if you meet the criteria and work for it for six months, we'll give you a free iPhone. Okay, you know, I guess that's some sort of hiring bonus. But they're looking. People are needing employees all over the country. And so they're trying to find ways to lure people back to work. in America. And a McDonald's spokesperson even said,

hey, franchises around the country are offering various incentives around hiring, but this is not a corporate-backed initiative. Well, okay, no problem. Big deal. It's part of the franchises. Most McDonald's, I would say, are franchises of McDonald's.

And then you have bigger companies that own multiple fast food restaurants along with many McDonald's. So, you know, while they're franchises, you're working for another corporation. So if they want to give you bonuses, great. No problem. And I know people were making fun of it, you know, saying, hey, why don't you just pay a living wage? Well, you're working at McDonald's.

That's not supposed to be your life goal. If it is, great. Work hard. Meet the criteria. Get your free iPhone. Become a manager. Become a full-time employee for McDonald's or for that. corporation that is, you know, in charge of these franchises. And, you know, no problem.

Right? Okay. I mean, look, Chipotle and Taco Bell are a bunch of, and many other companies have announced, you know, perks and raises and they're looking for employees. I mean, McDonald's itself has announced a massive hiring effort across the country. They're trying to hire just 25,000 people here in Texas. Now, I know many of you say, well, don't they just, you know, pay people a living wage and raise the hourly wage up. Okay. Are we supposed to pay them what? $20 an hour?

What's a good wage, working at McDonald's giving me my quarter pounder with cheese? $15 bucks an hour? Okay. No problem. I know that, you know, many people are saying that this is just a ruse. We're not falling for it. They should just give people, yeah, it's a ruse.

They're trying to get people to work. I know the government has been paying people extra money for quite some time to stay home. So maybe it's time to get back to work. Let's America is back open and running. Let's go. Prices are going through the roof. People need to get back to work

and start creating some, what would you say having jobs would do? Creating money that they can go out and purchase. goods, which would mean the company that makes the goods are able to make more goods, and it would increase production, and then that would help the economy. Weird how that works, isn't that? Somebody might not want to wake up the president and explain to him how that works.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. I won't be sharing this with any spider monkeys, to all, you know, to big zoo. not going to share it with spider monkeys. All right, I promise. As long as we're in the break room, we can talk a little bit about Ellen DeGeneres. Her show is canceled. It's not canceled.

I'm sorry. She's ending it on her own terms. But I really thought that Drew Barrymore would do better in her talk show endeavor. But Kelly Clarkson has knocked it out of the park. And apparently she's it. She's the one that's taken. the slot that Ellen is going to leave open. So congratulations to Kelly Clarkson show.

Apparently, the show has, you know, earned its dominance in daytime by hitting all the benchmarks and the, you know, she's a Grammy award-winning artist and she's part of, you know, American Idol. And she's got, she's doing good things through the communities. It airs in 100% of the country across 200 stations. It's positioned to headline daytime in leading time periods in the fall of 2022. Good for her. Don't screw it up, Kelly.

Don't screw it up. It's easy to do. So, you know, her ratings have been up. Good for her. I really thought Drew Barrymore would do better. Drew, if you want to do better and, you know, start picking up the pace a little bit and taking some of that, taking some of that audience from Kelly, call me. You know, we'll get it right for you.

I'm here for you. I have faith in you. I just think you're doing it a little bit wrong. Okay? That's all. We just need to sit down and revisit that whole afternoon talk show thing. Juan Williams leaving Fox News. Goodbye.

See you later, Juan. Take care. They gave him glowing reports, though. They say it's on his terms. But don't look. He said he's still going to, you know, be one of their, you know, contributors at Fox, but he's not going to be part of the five once they move back into the studios. Okay, no problem, Juan.

Take care. Just letting you know the five. That show, The Five, man, I will say this. This is just a side note to the five. They talked about how it, uh, this show has been, uh, wow, 10 years now. Just incredible 10 years. And it, we, when at first, started, we thought, well, you know, I don't know how good it will do, but I will say this,

that the guy that runs the network that this show originates from, you know, The Blaze, Glenn Beck, was the one who made it possible for that 5 p.m. slot Eastern to work. Nobody thought. It was like throwing Glenn a bone, man. We'll just give him the 5 p.m. slot. And, you know, it's fine. Nobody watches then anyway. Well, that's when they started to watch. So all you people that are having success at the five, good for you. Keep up the good work.

But how about a little credit work? Credit is due, my friends. The man Glenn Beck laid the groundwork for that 5 p.m. hour to be watchable in America. Just a thought. Just a thought. Alan Dershowitz suing Netflix for 80. million bucks over the Epstein documentary. He said that the film maliciously portrayed sexual misconduct claims against him,

and he is not having any of it. The filthy rich documentary made false accusations of sexual misconduct against him, Dershowitz, and that was because he represented Epstein in the late 2000s. So he's asking for 80 million bucks. So what do you think? You think Netflix will work out a deal?

Here's 40 million. Go away, Alan. Take care. We're sorry. And a quick congratulations to Buck Sexton and Clay Travis. It looks like they're going to be working for Premiere Radio networks in the noon

to three Eastern slot, which is the three-hour slot of Rush Limbaugh. Good for them. Buck was already working for Premier. He did a nighttime show for them. Who's going to replace that time slot? Anyway, and Clay Travis has been, you know,

he's been with Outkick and probably going to keep that up, although that's tough. If you're going to do three hours a day on Premiere at noon to three with Buck and still keep up the Outkick, but you possibly could, and Buck's got Bucksexson.com as well. Anyway, congratulations, and I know that they will do a good job. They'll do a great job.

So good for Buck. I love Buck. A friend, I like Buck Sexton. I've known Buck for quite a long time now. And, you know, heck, he worked for us at the Blaze. And then, you know, went to work for Premier. And he's done a bunch of other stuff, so good for him. And I do not know Clay.

but working together might be a good thing. Might be a good thing. And of course, you know, we're not going to replace Rush Limbaugh. We're going to have an evolution of the show with fresh voices. That from Julie Talbot, president of IHeartMedia Inc.'s premier networks. All right, there you have it. Congratulations. And good luck to Clay Travis and Buck Sexton.

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So Kevin Spacey has a brother. Did you know that? I did not. But apparently he is not happy about his brother working again, saying he has no conscience after signing up for pedophile. movie in wake of abuse allegations well the role the man who drew god the new film uh he plays he doesn't play the guy right i think he plays a police officer or he's supposed to play a police officer but that doesn't matter uh he's working again and he's going to put his face on film and we don't like

it so his brother uh who has he looks like roger he looks like roger Stuart. He looks like he's trying to be Rod Stewart. He's really, it looks, really, uh, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Not weird. Not, uh, crazy. Not, uh, out of his mind.

Um, he's got that Rod Stewart kind of, uh, what's the word I'm looking for? Dapper. Dashing. Dashing. Uh, sharp.

stylish, swell. Yeah, something like that. I'll just leave it at that. And what's really weird is the way he looks does not, if you look at the picture of him, and here I'll hold up, for those of you, you know, listening and watching live here on the 27th of May,

2021, let me hold up his picture. And you can see, you can see his brother, Randy, from Idaho. There's no way that you would guess that he's from Idaho. But he claims for him to come out and do a movie about pedophiles,

I just can't understand where his head is at. And, of course, he's saying that he's doing it. He needs the attention. And, you know, he can't stand to be without the attention. Well, yeah, I'm guessing that's true. But, all right, he finds it disturbing that they've given him a part in this movie. Well, I mean, the guy kind of has a right to work, doesn't I? I know they're giving, you know, signing bonuses for a new iPhone after six months and following other employee criteria.

But, you know, I don't think Kevin is going to be working at the drive-thru at McDonald's. Okay. Now, I will say that it is interesting that the brother who is now, you know, doing an interview and outspoken about how he doesn't like his brother and they haven't spoken in years since their mother. funeral and how much he loves the paparazzi and he loves the attention and he clearly misses the award shows Randy from Idaho does remind us about his autobiography a moment in time living in the shadows where I guess their dad was a sexual abuser and abused him from the age of six and assaulted him at the age of 14 and he said my life, I thought I had protected Kevin from my father, and it turns out that he's worse than my father. But be sure to read my autobiography and purchase it a moment in time living in the shadows.

Oh, and, you know, you know what? I've got a screenplay that I'm trying to sell. It's out there. You know, I just want, wish somebody would take a look at my screenplay that I probably could, you know, bring up to my brother unless he wasn't such a pedophile and wasn't such an abuser himself i mean i haven't really talked to him since our mother died and uh you know i'm a little little crazy myself so you know i really would like to have my screenplay looked at so i just find that uh i find it interesting Interesting that the brother, Randy, from Idaho, would find this time to come out and badmouth his brother. But, oh, hey, by the way, don't forget about my book.

And, hey, take a look at this screenplay. I'm trying to hawk as well. Huh. Interesting. How we're still trying to ride the coattails of our famous brother, who we don't like. I mean, he is a bad guy, right? speaking to bad people how about

four or five people from Romania who were stealing donations out of church mailboxes I mean it was a good plan I was a smart idea apparently they snag like $740,000

worth of donations holy cow I know okay don't look at me like that I mean any kind of crime is you know wrong Right. But stealing from a church, whoof, that's, uh, that's just a tad.

Oh, what's the word I'm looking for? I don't know. Sacrilegious. But who am I to judge? You know, I am not one. So this was in Florida. And they drove around to the church mailboxes and they took more than 1,500 checks from 636 churches, 3156.

in Florida alone. The six people operated out of Orlando traveled throughout the state and elsewhere, sometimes hitting as many as 85 churches in a day. Let's do it some driving. Let's do it some driving. And how evil they were, they hid some churches multiple times, those pastors.

So they used aliases to deposit the donation checks into bank accounts. I really, it's kind of, I'd like to see how that one worked out. And then they would withdraw the money at ATMs before the banks caught on. So apparently, and this is how evil criminals they were, they used the money for themselves. I know. Now, I guess they wired some money back home, but they've got a couple that are in custody.

And there's a few, a couple that are still at large, that they're looking for. Conspiracy to commit racketeering, grand theft, and money laundering. I mean, why not mail fraud, too? I mean, if you're taking mail, it's got to be part of the Postal Service. Let's bring the Postal Service in, too.

Don't leave them out. They were stealing stuff from the Postal Service, man. That's a federal crime, too. I mean, you get a little greedy. I mean, I don't know how you. you realize at some point maybe somebody's going to catch on to your plan as you're taking all this the donation envelopes from the churches and i don't know about today's world but i wonder how much of that was actual cash i mean were they if they if you take uh you know a stack of mail from the

church, I'm guessing some of that has got to be cash money, right? I mean, that's not reported. So if they're reportedly stolen 740,000 worth of donations, you got to figure there's got to be more that was just cash, right, that they just deep pocketed and there's no way to know. That's not a good deal at all, but that's a lot of money from churches. So you churches out there, be on the lookout you hear me be on the lookout and the other bad guy that got busted uh in the united kingdom because he posted a picture holding a hunk of cheese i know i know he posted himself holding a hunk of cheese that showed his fingers and the police got his fingerprints from the picture after his palm and fingerprints were analyzed and established they belonged to this guy

who they wanted for these crimes so he's jailed for 13 years and six months after he now has admitted in court that he uh conspired to supply heroin cocaine ketamine and mdma really uh oh and he also got uh sentence for transferring criminal property good we want to throw that in So he posted the photo on what was supposed to be an encrypted messaging service called EncroChat, which I guess has now been cracked by police. And that's kind of disturbing in and of itself. But I mean, I guess I'm supposed to be happy that they got a bad guy off the street. But I don't know that I like the idea of,

I'd like to know how they cracked the encrypted messaging service. service, but they posted it, said his love of Stilton cheese, and who doesn't love Stilton cheese, with his fingerprint and palm print in the photo, and they got that information from the encrypted messaging service. So just when you think you're safe, you're not. I mean, I'm speaking about criminals now, but, you know, that could hold true for almost anyone. I will say that it finally happened and it's i would say this is good news a woman has been sentenced to almost two years in prison after she falsely accused someone of rape and attempted to extort the victim i mean that's good news so finally finally we're some there's some justice involved in being accused you know

just because someone is accused we talk about it all the time just because someone is accused, it doesn't make them guilty. I know. I know. I know that's crazy talk. But that's just the way it is. And finally, we have someone who accused a man of sexual assault and trying to extort money from him. And she's been sentenced to 21 months in prison. So she falsely accused this man of sexually assaulting her on the Wind River Indian Reservation. And, you know, that's a federal offense. The FBI was a involved because it's on an Indian reservation. So when her story started to crumble, they still, she still, she still, still said that he

assaulted her. But no, no, that is not true. And we, she said that, uh, we don't want to belittle the crime of sexual assault and those who are true victims. Yeah, no kidding. So maybe, maybe we'll start getting a little bit of, uh, a little bit of a little bit justice for those who have been falsely accused of something horrible instead of yeah well you know he was innocent but so no we need there needs to be some kind of payment for that maybe now people will

realize you just can't go around accusing people of crimes without some sort of retribution so i want to give you a heads up it is not okay to complicate anyone who you think has lost weight. Do not do it. Okay? I just read a story from Demi Levato who said, complimenting someone on their weight loss can be as harmful as complimenting someone on their weight gain.

Now, she's, you know, of course, recovering from an eating disorder. So she, you know, knows. So even if your intention is pure, according to Demi, your comments could, could have someone awake at 2 a.m. overthinking. You don't know someone's history with food. So don't comment on their body. Because even if your intention is pure, it's just, uh, it's just wrong. Okay. It's not a good thing to compliment people. You don't know. Maybe they're sick. So I got me thinking, you know, I get it. So when you see someone who you think is pregnant,

do you think twice before saying, hey, so when are you due? Because if they're not due, and they've just put on a few LBs, that's a little embarrassing. Just a little embarrassing. And you don't want to embarrass them, but you don't want to embarrass yourself.

So then I see a story which has got, I mean, it's just absolutely tied in with them. in her story. You shouldn't compliment someone's weight loss. Here's what to say instead. Oh. So their experiment is, you know, if someone has lost weight, should you say, oh my gosh, did you lose weight?

You look amazing. Ooh, yeah, don't do that. Man, that is not good. Okay, you might think you're being thoughtful by acknowledging someone's weight loss. but it may, it might have unintended, unforeseen consequences. Oh yeah, even Demi said that. You don't want to, it could leave you up at 2 a.m. wondering if there's a problem.

So body image related remark, no matter how flattering, it's meant to be, could do a lot of harm. And you don't want to do people harm by complimenting how they look. So here you go. All right. What happens is when you compliment a person, you enforce the thin ideal, right? We do not want to enforce the thin ideal. Don't do it.

I don't want to hear it. We've wired to please people and engage in behaviors that will lead us to be socially accepted, like losing weight that's positively reinforced. Don't do it. It also encourages disordered behaviors, does it? So if you say someone looks great after they've lost weight or you look great, you're so thin, it could trigger some serious disordered eating. Oh, okay.

What may be an ideal size or weight for you may not be for someone else or their culture. okay so don't do it and and get this the weight loss might not be intentional so they might be sick you don't know you don't know what happened so when you say hey you look great look like he's lost some weight i mean the comment could be yeah i've lost a lot of weight i don't know i'm dying i'm really sick you don't know you don't know so you could really throw someone into depression or another you know the big thing is according to this story you're throwing people into eating disorders all right you're also here's the deal all right when you say uh well meaning hey you look great it looks like you've lost some weight you're implying that the person looked bad

or worse before so we don't want that we do not what's a vicious cycle where we equate our worth with appearance especially thinness we don't want that that. We do not want that at all. Okay, don't do it. Now, what do you say instead? Do you say, hey, I know you're 800 pounds. You look great. I'm all for that, by the way. I'm for the, wow, you're 800 pounds. Ah, you're fine. Don't worry about it. So you should, you know, questions like, how are you? How's life? How are you keeping up with everything? Welcome the person to share whatever it is they feel comfortable disclosing. So, hey, how's life?

Oh, great, I've lost some weight. I'm feeling pretty good. Oh, no, you can't be. You're too thin. I don't want to promote thinness in your life. So you need to express that you're happy to see them. You need to compliment their vibe. Focus on non-appearance-related praise.

Wait, I want to know what non-appearance-related phrase is. Celebrate others for their core values and not for how they look or their clothing size. Take a moment, even before you meet or greet someone to reflect mindfully on what is internally beautiful about them. And then tell them, the more we focus on the interior, the less we equate our worth with weight. So if I meet someone and I'm supposed to reflect mindfully on what is eternally beautiful about them. Hey! And so instead of, hey, you look like you put on a few pounds,

am I supposed to say, hey, it looks like you're suffering because you're pounding down a bunch of food when nobody's looking. No, I can't say that. No, that's not it. You've got to focus on internally beautiful. What's eternally beautiful? about them. What if, I mean, I guess it's, that even takes away from the old adage.

If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all, right? Because you think something nice is, hey, look great. Look like you've lost some weight. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no, no. Now you're just promoting thinness. We have lost our minds.

We've lost our minds. We've lost our minds on what we can say. Now, no one, I'm going to try to, no, you know what, I'm not going to. I was going to try to, you know, make up and say that I kind of understand it. Just be nice to people. Can we just be nice? Can we be nice? People don't mean harm when they say, hey, you look great.

Looks like you've lost the weight. Hey, you look great. Looks like you've put on a few pounds. That's not a bad thing. They're trying to make conversation. So I think maybe if we do just stick with, if you can't say something nice, don't say it. Isn't that what your mom always said? If she didn't, what's wrong with your mother?

So just remember that you don't want to imply that the person looked bad or worse before. You don't know what kind of anxiety you're going to bring on them at two in the morning. You just don't. So you want to ask. inviting questions. How are you? How's life? How are you keeping up with everything? Boy, you don't look sick. Oh, man, we are in deep, deep doo-doo, man. Deep, deep-d-dud-do. You know, and I'll tell you of a racket to get into, speaking of being in deep, deep-d-dudu, A racket to get into is a diversity trainer.

More companies are hiring diversity training. I mean, who's doing that? Who's the professional diversity trainer? It's a good question. I heard it asked the other day about diversity training. Who was doing it? That's a good question. That's a good racket.

Do I just get to say I'm a diversity professional? I understand diversity. Hi, how are you? I ask inviting questions. Do I get to do that? I mean, we know that, I mean, companies are hiring diversity officers left and right. I mean, the average, according to this, the average compensation for a chief diversity officer, 600 grand a year.

That's pretty good. That's a pretty good. Now, I know that we've been going through them according to this because, you know, people are, you know, walking away from those jobs. I don't know why. Maybe it's harder than you think. But in the last year, I mean, that job has gone through the roof. Companies are, because they don't know what to do. So they're just hiring diversity officers so they can say they've got a diversity officer.

So last year, some of the big companies have tied compensation to diversity targets, including Chippole, Starbucks, McDonald's, Nike, Apple, all hired, you know, chief diversity officers. So I don't know what their strategy is. They don't know what their strategy is. They don't know what they have to do. I mean, universities have their diversity. trainers and it's the head of diversity and you know that's a good gig man if you can convince people that you are a professional diversity trainer good luck and that's a good you're making some money you're going to make some money so i know the big companies i and i said the average is 600 grand a year

that's for the big blue chip companies but you walk into uh we walk into any of these companies and say, I am a professional diversity trainer, and I believe that this company, you need to have some diversity training. And so you need a diversity officer, and I'm here for you. So hire me. I could do the job for a couple hundred thousand a year.

I mean, okay. Or if you really want to milk the system, you become the training company, because now you're trying to, charging for everything. You're charging to come in and do the training. And in today's world, I don't even think you have to show up. You can do it over Zoom. That's a good gig, man. We're going to charge you for diversity training, and we're going to make sure all your executives go through it, and then we're going to make all your employees go through it, and then your executives will

be able to show how diverse they are in their company, and you hopefully won't get sued. If you do, that's not my fault. I mean, I'm trying to teach you how to be diverse and not be a racist bastard that you are right now. So you should hire me. And let me get to work at being your chief diversity officer. And I know, I know that they're going to tell you that, yeah, you probably need some kind of degree. But if you look at who's doing it and who the professionals who have worked in it for a long time, they'll even tell you a PhD or a PhD.

or psychology, sociology, counseling, education, some related area. Unnecessary. Yeah, it's likely going to increase your overall problem solving and assessment skills, but it's likely unnecessary. Oh, okay. So I just need to attend some courses and a few workshops and maybe a couple of seminars.

And then I can just kind of say I'm a, Professional, right? No? I think, I think so. I think so.