Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 660 | Just Cancel Them…

Episode Date: July 8, 2021

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More than three months After the Ever Given You remember her The ship that got stuck in the Suez Canal The 1300 foot container Yes that ship It's been released from boat jail Yay

So it was stuck For six days Back in March Wrecked up almost a billion dollars in delays and rescue costs. So as soon as they got the ship refloated, Egyptian officials seized it and said, hey, somebody owes this place some money.

So the Suez Canal Authority said, you know what, you owe us the money. And the ship's owners, their lawyers, obviously, argued that, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. You should not have even left the ship into the canal to begin with, because you knew there was a, sandstorm are coming and you shouldn't have let us in. Well, not so fast. Evergiven's owner and insurers have now paid the Suez Canal Authority. There was no amount given in the actual

release, but there's reports from Egyptian media that it was $550 million. So maybe they got $550 million, a little pat on the back saying we're sorry, and now it's free. that can go on its merry little way up to the netherlands and deliver the goods that nobody wants anymore like maybe i mean i guess they want them but anyway it's free yay it's good news right right that's what i thought welcome welcome to chewing the fat oh oh hey what's going on stop it it's not funny i know so the Haitian president uh Jovenel Joveniles

Yes, that Jovenel Maui's, that's the president Former, former, former, former President of Haiti. He was assassinated. His wife was wounded and is in critical condition and moved to the United States. She's in Miami.

Funny how that health care system here in the U.S. is so bad that people from all over the world come here to save themselves. Anyway, she was, you know, it's a horrible situation. So they, not real sure exactly what happened. Authorities know that they've killed four suspects. They've arrested two others.

They believed to be well-trained killers who allegedly impersonated DEA agents to enter the home. Now the interim prime minister, Claude Joseph, has taken over the government. And he declared a state of siege. which allows, you know, things like putting the military and the police in charge of security, closing borders, banning gatherings, and calling for justice and peace. Oh, okay, no, no problem. Yeah, I know. So, a really, really strange things happening in Haiti. Look, Haiti is a, you know, kind of a weird place anyway.

you know, it's still suffering from natural disasters, and according to, you know, all these natural disasters, that's what devastated the economy. Certainly wasn't anybody, you know, certainly wasn't the corruption with the government officials that devastated the economy. But it certainly plunged the country into a humanitarian crisis, no question. And now the president's assassination,

bringing all this political unrest, does not make Haiti a nice destination to go to. Now, I know, Javenel Maurice took office in 2017 and he's been ruling by decree for over a year and refused to hold elections.

Which, you know, they're saying, well, now you're a dictator. Oh, no, no, no. No, it's just things are tough and we can't have an election right now. Okay. Haitians have been protesting in the streets over corruption and his attempt to hold onto power and not having an election, and they accused him of mishandling the economy. Okay.

All right. I mean, they had the 2010 earthquake, which, I mean, they were billions of dollars sent to that country then. They still haven't recovered from that, which is really, I know, strange. I mean, I realize it was such a horrible thing, but we sent billions. millions of dollars down there and help and yet they're still have 60% right now of Haiti's 11 million citizens live below the poverty line wow it is not a good time not a good time in Haiti and I know that everybody is you know saying that we're we're going to go ahead this is we're going to denounce this this is awful and we're condemning it

and something has got to be done. Okay. How about let them take care of themselves? Don't start talking about, well, you know, those troops coming home from Afghanistan, what are they got to do? Let's just send them down to Haiti and get that country back together again.

No, I don't want to do that. How about we just let the troops come home? How about we do that? Okay? And this is exactly why, if you, way back during this earthquake and after the earthquake, and then there was, you know, there were some storms that went through there and didn't help any.

But that's why I said that Port-au-Prince should be the home of either an NFL franchise or it should become the New Vegas. And that's what we try, you know, that's what we attempted to do to Cuba. At one point, we should do it to Haiti and just turn it into a destination. Then, now you're talking about work, you're talking about economic recovery, You're talking about income. You're talking about millions of dollars every year pouring into the country. And it would create this great destination for people around the world to come to Haiti.

Now what do you got? You got, hey, there's where the president was assassinated. Right there. Wow, look at that. Okay, you still, and I don't know if you can pick up any of the shells or not in the front yard. They had one lady who, you know, I guess wanted to remain anonymous. I don't know why you'd want to do that in Haiti. She said it sounded like an earthquake, did it?

Okay. Well, if you say so, if you think that all those bullets were going off for an earthquake, okay, all right, you got it. But listen, we need every single one in the country to move forward. Okay, thank you, new interim prime minister. Thank you. I believe the military are in control, and we got it under control. So just leave us alone, and I'll take care of it because I'm in charge now.

Oh, all right. No problem. It's a state of siege, and I'm taking control. So good times. Good times in hate. Okay, this is a place where we're at now, and it's really just kind of irks me a little, so I just, we're going to talk about it a little bit. The story is, in fact, I'll just read you the headline, and it's from the blaze.com. Uh, uncle of teenager who filmed the death of George Floyd is killed during police chase of unrelated robbery suspect.

Okay. So I'm sorry that this person died. I'm sorry that it was during a police. chase of an unrelated robbery. Yeah, okay, because it had nothing to do with George Floyd, but because it's a brush with greatness, we're going to throw George Floyd in there, so it's a racist thing.

The uncle of the teenager who filmed the death of George Floyd has now been killed by police. After he was involved in a car accident, during the car chase of an unrelated suspect. So what are we supposed to make of that? I just don't know what we're supposed to make of that. Minneapolis police killed my uncle. Another black man lost his life in the hands of the police.

He was killed in an automobile accident. One of the cars happened to be a Minneapolis police department squad car who was chasing a robbery suspect and then you know he got into this into this accident the officer in the accident suffered serious but non-lethal injuries while Fraser died of his injuries the canine dog was also in the squad car but suffered no injuries the robbery suspect fled the scene and escaped capture a Frazier said he was driving, they said he was driving his girlfriend's, driving to his girlfriend's home when he was killed,

and he was only one block away when he was struck. Okay, well, I'm very sorry about that, but that really isn't the police's fault. It was an accident. And he really, I realized that he's another human being on the planet, and especially a special human being, because he is a black man in Minneapolis. I get it.

I get it. I get it. But he's the uncle of the teenager who filmed the death of George Floyd. So that makes it worse? I don't know. I just this really weird place. I guess we have to make these connections. But I'm very sorry that he died and I don't want anybody to die ever.

I don't. I don't want anybody. I want billions of people wandering this planet. Not dead. But it was an accident, and it's not the police fault. I guess it's their fault

because they were chasing another criminal. So if they weren't chasing this criminal, then it wouldn't have happened. So we have to get rid of the police. being able to chase suspects and then this something like this will never happen so that way we can't have ever anyone die who is an uncle to someone who filmed someone else having something bad happened to them all right all right hey let's talk let's just i'm sorry i just really was just bugging me a little bit

with that story. I can't. I can't take some of these stories. So let's talk a little Tampa Bay Lightning, who are the Stanley Cup champions again for the second year in a row. Congratulations. Go Bulls. It was nice having that victory and seeing that victory.

I thought for sure, I was looking for my lightning jersey. I don't know what happened to my lightning jersey. It's kind of upsetting to me. I found my Tampa Bay Lightning Stanley Cup coins that I had given to me from the team back in 2004. And their winning of their first Stanley Cup,

but I can't find my jersey, and I don't like it. I don't know what happened to it, but I don't like it. So congratulations to the Tampa Bay Lightning for that. We have a lot going on in sports. You've got Wimbledon going on, if you care. We have the NBA finals going on, if you care.

There's another story. I win the NBA. Holy cow. Rachel Nichols from ESPN is removed from the NBA sidelines for coverage. Okay, after comments from her leaked. I'm trying to figure out what was wrong with her comments. Okay?

So there's audio that was released of her talking about another reporter getting a gig on working for the MBA, right? So she even apologized on her other show, The Jump, saying, I also don't want to let this moment pass without saying how deeply, deeply sorry I am for disappointing those I heard. particularly Maria Taylor. Oh, okay. So Nichols gets the boot from the NBA sidelines during the finals. Now, do I care if Rachel Nichols is reporting the NBA finals from the sidelines? No, I don't.

But this audio that was released has her talking, Nichols, who is white, by the way. Did I mention that? Yeah, okay. She criticized ESPN last year for choosing Maria Taylor, who is black, to report on the sidelines of the NBA finals over her. So no matter what, now, you can't say anything disparaging about an African-American or black person you work with

because it's automatically racist. Well, I'd like to know what's racist. This is her comment. If you need to give her more things to do because you're feeling pressure about your crappy long time record on diversity, which by the way, I myself know personally, like, go for it.

Just find it somewhere else. So she doesn't even say anything bad about Maria. She's just saying, hey, don't bring someone else another female onto the sidelines. That's my gig. You're taking my mind. gig away okay and if you're doing it because of your long time record on diversity find another place to

make up for it just not on my gig so holy cow and i see where actually the NBA commissioner who you know like i give a crap about him uh adam silver but he actually uh apparently defended rachel nichols as well because he knows that's just dumb it's just just dumb all racial hatred is dumb, huh, Jeff? It had nothing. I mean, it was just, she wasn't even saying anything bad about the job that this Maria was doing. It's just silly. Just completely silly.

And we have the Olympics coming up. You know, we talked about Shah Carrie Richardson getting the boot for smoking pot. And she got the boot now completely. She's going to miss the Olympics. I didn't give her the gig because the race that she won, she got disqualified. from, which then dropped her down in points, and the team was like, no, you can't come to Tokyo. It doesn't matter. She's okay with it.

She's not blaming any racism stuff. It was her decision. She knew it was wrong. She's living with it, okay? The Olympics probably aren't even going to happen now. I told you. I told you. I was so surprised that they were going to let it happen.

And I bet you, NBC and the Olympic Committee are sweating bullets right now because Japan's prime minister announced the state of emergency that's going to result in a ban of fans at the Olympics as they claim the virus infections are spreading across Tokyo. So the International Olympic Committee, the president, and has arrived in Tokyo. And we'll see. And I bet you, I mean, I would not be surprised if NBC is there as part of the meeting deal. They've got to be. They've got billions invested in this competition.

So, I mean, it's close to being shut down again because of COVID. I would not be surprised, man, if they just pull the plug altogether. Because Japan doesn't want to have it. And the people are starting to say, hey, we're going to go into this lockdown. You're going to let all these people into the country and see this and have all these athletes wandering around and there's a pandemic. So it's close, man. It is close. I think we're like 20 days away.

So we'll see. after they get done with their meetings today, and NBC and the Olympic Committee president go down and get down on their knees in front of Japan's prime minister and say, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please, let the Olympics happen. Okay, no people can come, sure, we'll just kick out all the people,

share, we'll just do it, just do, it's okay, it's okay, NBC is going to broadcast everything. We'll broadcast everything. We'll keep everything. We'll all wear masks, everything will all wear masks. Everything will be fine. We'll be socially distanced. Please, please, please, please, please.

We've got 7,000 hours of Olympics already planned on all of our platforms. We've got people that are looking at all of this stuff, so just we're going to let it happen. So good luck. Good luck, because I'm telling you right now, this is a chewing the fat prediction, and I'm willing to be wrong on this prediction,

but I was very surprised that they were letting it go on last month. It was continuing on. That's where I did the whole condom story and the sex stories in the Olympics and everything, I was really surprised that it was going on. And now we're coming down to the wire, and Japan's going to pull the plug. They should have pulled it earlier.

But I'm telling you, they're going to pull the plug. Another big sports thing going on is the spelling bee. I know. Don't look at me like that. Do not even look at me like that. Like, you didn't know. You didn't know that the spelling bee,

the Scripps National Spelling Bee, was going to happen tonight. If you're listening to this show live, the 8th of July 2021, the Scripps National Spelling Bee returns. I know. I know. It's going to be huge. It's been going on now since June for a little over, almost a month. And they've been doing these virtual spelling rounds for competition.

I've been catching them all. You can't tear me away from the street. streaming spelling bees. You can't. You can't. I've been all over it. I've been all over the scribbs spelling bee. Anyway, so the finalist,

Avani Jassy, 13 from Illinois. Zali Avantgardi, 14, from Louisiana. Vinvisha Vedru, 11, from TCU, from Fort Worth. DeVroule Barita,

12, from Dallas. Texas. We have Roy Siggelman 12 from the Bahamas. We have Bahavana Madini from New York. We have Strythan Gharula from Charlotte, North Carolina. We have

Asrida Kandre from Leesburg, Virginia. And I think that's it, right? I think we're at the end of I think that's it, Valis Sibil from Waco, Texas. Ashin Kamini, from Austin, Texas. And

Chaitra Thabala from San Francisco, California. So I think that's it, right? We have, you know, those are the finalists for the spelling B, the scripts, and I say this confused because I'm just trying to fool you, because I, of course, have watched this from the very beginning, and I know that these kids are the finalists. They're fantastic. Oh, man, I love the scripted spelling B.

I do, man. It's going to be a battle. Battle Royale tonight. So, there you go. So 10 to 12 spellers will join in-person finals tonight at the ESPN Wide World Sports Complex at the Walt Disney World Resort. So that's great. And now I'll be sure to let you know who the,

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one more quick sports story just as part of the Wimbledon, another big event going on that I quickly mentioned a couple

of minutes ago. Boris Becker, huge tennis star, is part of the announcing team of Wimbledon and his broadcasting partner, John Inverdive, said during one of the matches that the Wimbledon

player on the court, his wife, if you're a tennis player, always good to have a partner called, Annette. Ah, I get it? But Becker responded, they do have the most beautiful women in Hungary. I wouldn't know that, but she's certainly very pretty.

And the feminists are out of the woodwork. How dare you? How dare you think that some woman is beautiful in national television. during a national event. How dare you? The charity women in sport has worked for decades to change sporting culture,

including the end of objectification of women. How about he's just being nice to the guy's wife? How about that? On top of which, Boris should be quoting, he should have said,

you know, they say they have the most beautiful women in Hungary, like Jeff Fisher from chewing the fat who's always said that Eastern Bloc women are the most beautiful. But hey, hey, hey, hey, hey,

beat up on Boris Becker, don't beat up on me. It's incredible. We are in such a strange place. You can't even compliment someone on how good they look. Just amazing. So yesterday we talked about Britney Spears

and her manager quitting. Now we know that her, attorney is resigning from from her and the conservatorship so things are starting to fall apart around brittany and that may be actually a good thing uh i haven't you know i haven't delved too much deeper into the brittany story after i realized that she hasn't actually applied to get rid of the conservatorship and you know i just know her dad's a crazy crazy guy and uh has been treating her like crap all the stories around this say that and report that.

So I hope that Brittany can at least get some help for that. Maybe stay on the conservatorship, but find somebody who is not her dad. And really, that's what she was asking for, and the judge wouldn't do it. So I don't know. That's a tough spot. And I know, I feel bad for Brittany,

because, you know, she was, you know, struggling on the beaches of Hawaii. I know. Life is tough. So, you know, look, everybody has a tough. tough time and we all have our you know our dark corners we go to and and i know brittany does too and i've said all along if she wants to burn her money out of her butt i don't care i hope she puts it on instagram so i can watch but i don't care i mean that's her money and to have her to have it held up like that under this you know the guise of conservatorship is really kind of annoying and uh

speaks volumes about America, that's for sure. I see, you know, wow, talking about other stars, Kate Beckinsale. I saw her new trailer for the new movie coming out on Netflix, what is it, Jolt, coming out at the end of this month. A little action movie from Kate Beckett'sale, some big stars in it too. So we'll see, we'll see. With the trailer, it looks like a lot of them are just kind. of going through the motions.

Stanley Tucci is in it. Susan Sarandon is in it. David Bradley, when you see him, you'll remember him from Game of Thrones. He was, I believe, the king, the Iron King, Ironborn King. But

we'll see. It looks like just a saw-in-wood action movie and we'll let Kate be the badass. And so am I going to watch it? You bet. You bet. And I see where we got the premiere or, you know, the update on the premiere of Yellowstone.

They released a season four trailer for season four of Yellowstone. So it looks like that's going to be coming out soon. I don't think there was an exact date set on that. It's usually out and playing by now. So Yellowstone fans are all like, hey, where you at? What's going on? You left us hanging. at the end, a bunch of people got shot up, people got blew up, who's going to live?

And so we're getting, that gives us a little hints. Some interviews have given us hints on who is going to survive and who isn't. But season four of Yellowstone is just around the corner. And there's a show that I feel like I don't want to watch week to week because I love binging it. I would rather they just release it. I'm so spoiled. I just want to be able to watch them. And this whole thing of releasing shows once a week,

stop it. HBO, at least HBO Max has started doing, at least they did with hacks. They released two a week, which I, you know, it's like throwing you a little bone. Here you go, here's just something. I know, we're not going to do it all. You're not going to be able to binge it all,

but we'll give you a couple of shows every time we release them. So, you know, come on. Can we stop? Can we stop? We need to make it a law. Can we stop making shows where they're just released once a week? I'm sorry? No, you have to drop them a season at a time.

And we're going to say that a season is at least six to ten episodes. If it's more than 10, fine. If it's less than six, forget it. It doesn't even count as a season. You better add a couple more shows on. So between six and at least 10 episodes are a season, and they get released all at once. It's just a two-in-the-fat rule in law, and that has to happen. It has to happen.

It has to happen, you know, like right now. Oh, another thing that's going on in the streaming world, I read a big article on Netflix and how they may have to start having commercials and dropping down the pay. subscribership so it's cheaper but you're going to get commercials like you know like Hulu does and Paramount and NBC and they all have their they all have their tears and their different levels of subscribership Netflix has always said they would never do it but they're trying to find new ways to generate some income because their subscriber

growth is not what they were hoping or at least not what they were hoping or at least not they projected and we want to get more and especially here in the United States, you know, there's streaming wars going on. So everybody's, you know, everybody's trying to find their ground. And they're talking about maybe embracing live sports or some kind of shows, other live shows to, you know, have that alternative strategy. That's what Amazon was hoping for with the, you know, NFL Thursday night football. I would say that perhaps if Netflix gets a.

involved in anything. Maybe they do work a deal. Okay, so here's what's chewing the fat plan for Netflix. Okay, just off the top of my head. Now, I haven't thought this through. But, you know,

let Amazon have the NFL. Thursday night, big deal. Netflix takes college football. Now, they all have their own league rights. You know, SEC, Big 10 or Big 12, whatever they're calling themselves now. Pack 10, Pack 12. You know, whatever they call

themselves, it doesn't matter. But you take each one of those and you do a separate deal with each one with Netflix and Netflix just airs them all. He just air them all. Yeah, I log in to my pay Netflix for rights to my SEC broadcasts. You could do that, Jeff, with each league. I know. But, you know, maybe, maybe I do at all.

Right. So if I, okay, so instead of separately, instead of separately, I could go to Netflix college football and I can watch whatever the hell game I want. I can watch whatever game I want when I want to watch it. So I could go back and forth all weekend long on Netflix going from this game up in Maryland to this game over here in Colorado. Huh? Yes, Netflix, make that happen. Make that happen. Any game that's broadcast, I could go to my Netflix college football

subscribership page, and I can watch whatever game I want. I can just log in, and I can watch whatever game I want. I go to the SEC. I can watch the SEC games. I go to the Big 12, the Pack 12. I can go to every little Dingleberry

NCAA College League I want. If there's a camera there, Netflix can hook you. into it, and that's what I can watch. That's what I want to have happen. I tell you, Netflix, you're welcome. Black Friday is here at IKEA, and the clock is ticking on savings you won't want to miss. Join IKEA family for free today and unlock deals on everything from holiday must-haves to cozy at-home essentials, all the little and big things you need to make this season shine. But don't wait. Like leftovers at midnight, our Black Friday offers won't last.

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And it is gone. Because originally, they said, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. The horror! I couldn't take it. The last time I was there,

I couldn't take it. Now, according to this tweet, showcase of wishes, they have a back-to-back of the announcement in 2020 and what it sounds like now in 2021. think you'll agree with me that it sounds so much better. All right, 2020.

Gentlemen, boys and girls, dreamers of all ages. In just a few minutes, Magic Kingdom invites you to enjoy our nighttime spectacular, happily ever after. Okay. All right, I think we can agree how horrible that was. Now, let's go to 2021. Huh? Yeah. There we go. That's what I'm talking about so much better. You cannot say ladies and gentlemen and boys and girls.

Not in today's world. No, sir. Earlier in the show, we talked about how you cannot say someone's wife is beautiful. Well, if she's a female, you can't say that she's beautiful. And we don't want announcements at Disney World to say ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Wow. Wow. Wow.

Wow. Now you can say, all right, so what? What's the big deal? All it is is just another step taken to ensure the experiences that parks are inclusive to all. Duh. Why the hate? Why the hate? What does it matter if it simply states, good evening, dreamers of all ages. rather than ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. Because even if you're trans or demisexual or pansexual, you still are a lady or a gentleman or a boy or a girl, right? I mean, I guess you're, that doesn't make, you could be, you could still be they, them, she, he, it, whatever. as the pronoun, but

ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, covers everyone. But no, no, we would rather say dreamers of all ages. Okay. All right. I will say that

you know, does it really bother me? I don't know. It's just some more that we're, some more changes that we're just supposed to be okay with. But, Walt Disney. The days of Walt Disney and Disneyland, long gone.

And I will say, I got to see if some of my relatives, you know, on my wife's side, won some lottery money. So the five winners, who claimed the $516 million mega millions jackpot, sold at a 7-Eleven in Bucks County in Pennsylvania. That's family, that's family land up there. I mean, that's where we, that's where we lived when I lived in Pennsylvania. And there's plenty of, I mean, I've actually, you know, I've shopped at that 7-Eleven in Levittown, Pennsylvania.

So the winning ticket was a quick pick. And the winners have opted to claim the jackpot prize as a cash lump sum payment. Good moon. They created a peace of mind trust, a five-member group. They're going to receive the prize of $348,600,000. The after-tax prize amount is $254 million. Wow, that's amazing. So they won $516 million, you know, technically in the lotto.

They take the cash pay out, you get $348,600,000. after taxes, you only end up with $254,233,980. Only $254,233,980. Oh, my gosh, I can't even say it anymore. It's such a low price. $254,23,980. So that's pretty good. That's pretty good.

Set up in a trust. That's 50 million apiece, right? It's not bad. So this is the third and largest mega millions jackpot won in Pennsylvania since 2010. And the winning ticket was sold at the 7-Eleven on Trenton Road in Levittown. I mean, that is old stomping grounds of where I lived and where we lived when we lived in Pennsylvania. So, man, if that's, you know, a family member, hello, how you doing? Love you too.

subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. All right, we've got some headlines that we got to break through here real quick. Bolt bus shutting down operations. So I don't know if you ever wrote on the Bolt Bus if you're in the Northeast. I mean, they were around in different areas around the country, but where they really are used is in the Northeast. But apparently the ridership has been low, especially during the pandemic. And you had the Wi-Fi of the dollar seats. you know, pretty through.

They still charged, you know, if you didn't win the dollar seat, you still have to pay extra money more than that. But Greyhound bought it out a while ago, and they suspended their service during the pandemic, and then, oh, bye, have a nice day. We're not coming back. So Greyhound operates the largest inner city bus fleet in North America.

They teamed up with Peter Pan bus lines in 2008 to start Bolt Bus. companies wanted to offer an affordable ride to people put off by the grubbier alternatives on the market. And at least one seat on every bolt bus ride sold for a dollar plus a booking fee. And, you know, they had Wi-Fi and individual power outlets and legroom. And the company shuttled riders among cities in the Northeast and the Pacific Northwest. And Greyhound took sole ownership of Bolt Bus in 2017. and now Greyhunt announced that it's shutting its remaining Canadian operations down.

So, you know, who knows? There's other inner city bus operators still running Flicks bus, Peter Pan, Mega Bus. I mean, I never was a big, I've taken buses numerous times in my life. And I just want to say that I am still not a fan. But I mean, I appreciate the transportation provided by these buses. companies, but I tried to avoid them as much as I can. I've taken a, I didn't take, it was the trailways before they combined when they were separate 100 years ago. I took a trailways

from Michigan to Florida. Boy, that was a fun ride. That's a whole story in and of itself. I've taken, I feel like I've taken the Bolt Bus before when I was living in the Northeast. Maybe I just wanted to. I used to walk. There was one area where the, You know, because I took the bus. I took the regular buses because I would take the one bus from Weehawk in New Jersey into Manhattan. Because I lived right by the last stop of the regular bus line, whatever it's called. And in New Jersey, and then it takes you through the tunnel and into the city and you do the bus station in Manhattan. And you're good to go.

But it's just, it's, that's not Bolt Bus or Greyhound, but it's, I don't. I used to take that. I took that for a while. And what a pain, that kind of was. It was worth, you know, again, I appreciate the transportation. It doesn't mean that I like necessarily the ride. Anyway, Bolt Bus, gone. Have a nice day.

Nintendo gave everyone a sneak peek of its new Switch model, but all the rumored upgrades didn't come through. So it's just, hey, here's a new Switch, and hope you like, you know, it being, knew but there's nothing new about it melinda gates this story is incredible okay so we talked about bill and malinda gates at sub-length when the divorce was still you know in the beginning stages and you know how they were going to still try to work together at the foundation and then if we found out some other stuff about bill and they weren't you know it's been he's just uh you know he's

He's been really down and quiet, which is a good move on his part. So now we're getting reports that Melinda will resign, will resign from the foundation that she and ex-Bill founded if they find they can't work together successfully over the next two years. Okay. So they claim at the beginning, yeah, we'll still work together. We're fine. Our offices are going to be, you know, down the hall. We'll never see each other.

it'll be fine, but the foundation CEO, Mark Sisman, is saying, no, Melinda said that she'll resign if she can't work with Bill. Because that's Bill's baby. Or at least we thought it was Bill's baby. Maybe it's Melinda's baby. And Bill is just saying, no, I don't want to give it up. Maybe that's the deal. But she claims now, look, I'll resign from the foundation if we can't work together.

So I would say that's going to happen. That's going to happen sooner than. the two years. That's a two in the fat guarantee right there. I see where Google was hit by an antitrust lawsuit from dozens of states targeting its Google Play Store. So that'll be fun. I mean, we have that going on and we have former President Trump suing the social media

companies. So that's going to be fun. That's really going to, it's going to be a big deal. I mean, Trump is suing the big tech CEOs, right? So he's suing class action lawsuit against Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and Sundar Pekai, from Facebook, Twitter, and Google. We'll see where it goes. I don't know.

You know, his battle over free speech and censorship, and he's banned from, you know, Twitter and Facebook, and it's a good argument, and he's banned. and he's bad. Does he need to be back on Facebook? No. I mean, he really should just beat them up and say, I don't need to be back there, but we'll see. I don't know. I know that he had, you know,

he's got the American First Policy Institute there, which is a new legal entity called the Constitutional Litigation Partnership. He's got the AFPI's president and CEO, Brooke Rawlins, and the board chair Linda McMahon were both there during his announcement. So he's going to sue him. And of course, Facebook and Twitter declined to comment. So we'll see what happens with that. It'll be interesting to see if anything actually does come of that.

I mean, what's the best outcome of that is that he gets back on Facebook, gets back on Twitter, and they say, oh, you just have, Don't we, you were just following our rules. You broke them. We, and we canceled you. And now we're putting you back up. So that's it. That's our, that's the only thing we say is our fault.

And Google says, well, if you are back and you have a new platform, we won't block the platform. So that gets him, you know, a new platform possibly through Google. Doesn't do anything with Apple, though. So he's leaving Apple alone, which is kind of strange, because they usually, pick a fight with Apple too. We'll see. We'll see. Maybe he's hoping that if he gets Google then Apple will fall into

place, but I don't know about that either. Oh, and one last thing before I go away. I've had this on the pile for a couple of days now, and I want to get to it so that you know that it's out there. Matt Walsh. I follow him on Twitter, and you can follow me

on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR, but Matt Walsh is there. and he's with The Daily Wire and he does his podcast and he used to work for us here at the Blaze and I like Matt he's a good guy but he had an idea the other day

on Twitter and now it's a big story and it's making the rounds and I thought what a great idea and why it hasn't happened I don't know and that's putting cameras in school classrooms

for the parents to monitor the classrooms now he's saying you know to monitor teachers well yeah that's what we need to do but it's also for the the safety of the children, the security of the school. If my kids go to a certain school, why is it?

I can't log in at any particular time and see the classroom that they're in. I have their schedule. I know where they're going to be. I log into the school's website. And then I'm able to click on whatever room. And I get to see my child and the teacher and the other students in the class and what's going on and what's being taught. I love that idea.

And why that hasn't happened? I don't know. Every school should have cameras in the hallways, and they should be monitored by the parents at any time. As long as you're there, you're able to do it. And I'm telling you that's a good idea, which is probably why it never will. But it's a good idea.

And I'm telling you, Matt Walsh, the guy that I saw originally, say it. Maybe there was somebody else out there talking about it. I don't know why it hasn't been done yet, but it needs to happen. So if you have any particular pull in your schools around your local, your local area, that's a good thing to do, man. Be on the forefront of that and make everyone accountable. Maybe it's just me. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you from festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrance Sets.

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