Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 663 | Almost Dead Pool

Episode Date: July 13, 2021

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Traveling towards Earth at roughly 1,120,000 miles per hour, a solar wind. Yes, that solar wind launched from the sun towards the planet Earth is due to strike the Earth today. For those of you listening live, it is the 13th of July 2021. If you're listening to this after 713, 2021, we survived the, solar wind, that is, to strike the planet today. The Earth magnetic field is supposed to deflect most of the energy from the high-speed stream, perhaps triggering a display of the Aurora at the northern latitudes. While there could be radio communication, satellite and GPS issues, a significant geomagnetic storm is not expected with this solar blast. However, solar flare

are these massive explosions on the surface of the sun that release energy light and high-speed particles into space and this one is blasting toward Earth. Now according to NASA, the biggest flares are known as X-class flares. Now, there are the smallest ones fall under A-class, followed by B, C, and M-class. The X class that's likely to hit Earth's magnetic field today is this particular one, the X class. So let's keep our fingers crossed and keep our eyes to the northern latitudes for those brilliant auroras that we're supposed to see. And hope that our radio communications, satellite and GPS issues don't happen. But if they do, well, you may be listening to Chewing the Fat a little bit later on past the geomagnetic storm. Welcome!

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Yesterday I talked about Virgin Galactic and Richard Branson flying into, you know, little space and is it really space and the fight between Bezos. and I know it really isn't a fight, but it is. And, you know, Bezos got his, you know, panties in a wad because Richard went up first, and it looked as though he did it on purpose, and the world, I think, believed that he did. And then I mentioned about a poll, a Gallup poll,

that talked about how 59.2% of Americans say they are thriving. And additionally, 73% of Americans said they experienced enjoyment for a lot of the previous day. and the 73% of Americans that said they experienced enjoyment for a lot of the previous day is the highest rating Gallup has ever recorded on the measure, dating back to when it first was taken more than 13 years ago. And the Gallup poll that, I mean, the ranking of 59.2% of Americans in this Gallup poll that said they are thriving is the highest since the coronavirus pandemic began. And so we're not back to pre-pandemic levels, but it is climbing. And I was just kind of thinking to myself, you know, I wonder if that has something to do with the space race. And I started thinking about how exciting it is that we're going to space.

And it's so cool. And then I see a tweet from Elon Musk, who is on trial. We mentioned the trial that he's on. And there's other news that happened during that trial testimony yesterday. And he's supposed to testify again today. but his tweet was those who attack space, maybe don't realize that space represents hope for so many people. And I thought, there it is.

I was on that same train of thought. Now, Elon is just taking a beating with the thread from this particular tweet about billionaires and space is great, inspiring, awesome. Maybe it's the billionaire. seeming so tone-deaf to the amount that might be the issue. One comment was taxing billionaires. 95% represents more hope for many more people. Not really.

Not really. Because when you start taxing the rich by a significant amount more than they're already being taxed, you stop the drive of people to become rich. So in the long run, you're hurting yourself. And the thread continues about feeding people. And you can give people hope right here on earth by giving them food and shelter and a living wage. Well, Elon does that. Right.

I mean, and I know that, you know, Branson at least puts on the show of doing that. And so does Jeff Bezos. And I realize that it's, you know, it's the right. thing to do to hate billionaires. I get it. But it is a good thing that we have people who are willing to work hard, create jobs, and create a living wage, and then in turn help feed people around the world and here in the United States. And we know that the United States gives more than any other country in the world, although there are plenty of people out there that want us to give a lot more. But I was thinking that the space race, anyway, back to that,

is that the space race is really something that is making people feel good about this planet because we realize, and I know it's a weird kind of thing, but we're feeling good about this planet because we're able to think about getting off of it and going into space and traveling and spreading and spreading humans throughout the solar system. That's just kind of a, you know, a cool thing. And I, and that's my, that's my thought on that. I just, I believe that the space race. And we know originally from the first time that we, you know,

we're going to travel to the moon and we were going to go to space. And then once we did that, it was like, ah, yeah, well, now we're sending shuttles up. And we've got a, we've got a place where humans go to live that orbit the globe every day. That big deal. But now we have more and more countries traveling to space. We have one of our biggest opposition countries, China, doing more, or what it appears to be, more in space than we are. And that could be in trouble in the long run. So we need to continue and up our space game.

So I'm just excited that the space race is going on. And I think that that really helps in the optimism. of people here on this planet and in this country. And I think that really does represent hope for a lot of people. And plus, there's also hope for just the everyday person to go to space. Because I know that it's costing a couple hundred thousand or more to hop on the ride with Richard Branson or Jeff Bezos with their space rides that they're providing.

But Virgin Galactic is a lot of. offering two free tickets to space in a partnership with a charity fundraising platform omaz. Oh my gosh, you mean a charity is helping put people into space and raising money to help other people? Amazing. They're going to give away tickets on the flight slated to launch in 2022. I know. So Virgin Galactic usually charges $250,000. Now, hopefully that price will go down. we hope and we believe that it will in the future. But the OMAS sweepstakes is going to support space for humanity. It's a non-profit seeking to democratize space

and send citizen astronauts of diverse, racial, economic, and disciplinary backgrounds to space. Participants can enter for the chance to win a once-in-a-lifetime galactic journey. Two tickets to experience microgravity at the edge of space aboard Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity, the same spacecraft that carried Sir Richard Branson to space and back this past weekend. And on Sunday, we know that Branson became the first human to enter space on his own vehicle, in his own vehicle. So to enter, to go to space, you just have to go to

the website, and it claims that the experience, the experience, is estimated to take place in early 2022. You have until September 1st, 2021 to enter. A winner will be announced around September 29th. So, okay. I'm not sure why it's going to be around September 29th, but that's when the winter will be, the winner will be announced. Now, you can support the humanity space for humanity today and enter for your chance

to win. If you donate $5, you get 50 entries. If you donate $10, you get 100 entries. If you donate $25, you get 250 entries. And according to this website, that's the most popular one. The donation of $50 gets you 1,000 entries. And the donation of $100 gets you 2,000 entries. And then there's a link to enter without contributing.

Now, according to their rules, no person. purchase payment or donation of any kind is necessary to enter or win. A purchase payment or a donation will not increase the chances of winning. Okay. If you say so, you have one Grand Prize winner and the winner gets one guest if you win. The experience has already begun or begun and you can enter until the time ends October 30. 21st, 2021 at 1159 p.m. So good luck.

I will definitely tweet out a link to this at Jeffrey JFR, and I'll put it on Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. And I wish you good luck. I hope you win. You don't have to donate any money. But remember that if you win, you get to choose a guest. You get to choose a guest. I don't know if they have, you know,

special fat guy seating on the unity but i mean we can hope and perhaps if you were to you know choose the correct guest uh you could find out if they have special fat guy seating i didn't see any special fat guy suits either i wonder if i get to keep that it doesn't say anything in the rules if i get the special suit if i get to keep that or if i have to turn it back in or they I may have to, if they give it to me, I would probably get to keep it because, you know, it's a special size. It's not necessarily a one-size-fits-all kind of suit, but I would be all for it and it would be really cool. So anyway, you got a chance to go to space. But again, that's what helps American optimism, traveling in space, getting into space, building new horizons.

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when she called her husband early in the morning of the collapse. Remember we talked about that story, her husband, Mike and family thanked everyone who prayed for Casey. Remember she called her husband and was speaking to him frantically about the condo building, shaking. She told him she saw a sinkhole where the pool was out her window, you know, they used to be. And then the line went dead. And then we have now found her and identified her from the rubble.

They also said that they've determined that 238 people are accounted for and as many as, like I said, 14 are potentially unaccounted for. And they're going to up security around the site as of right now. We also have a story from a lady who was in the one tower. And her story is incredible. Zuliatab used to live in the Champlain Tower's South condo in Surfside. And she tells how she survived the collapse. It's just amazing.

And she's sitting on a sofa, I guess, with her son could be her husband. could be her husband, could be a friend, but he's kind of consoling her as she is telling the story. And this is Zulia Tau. It was about 1.30 in the morning, and I finished my prayers, and I was starting to read the magazine, which I do every night.

And I heard the noise, and to me it was like a thunder. Yeah, no kidding. I went to the window to see what happened. when I opened the balcony window, it was a lot of dust. Then I realized it was not raining. I closed the door and when I was coming in, I heard a tremendous noise

and the apartment moved violently. So I went to the bedroom, pick up a flashlight in the way out. I had my purse in the table next to the door and I just grabbed my purse. I just grabbed my purse and I went out when I opened the door all the whole way was full of dust and was nobody there anymore. I went to the corner because I have a neighbor that live in the corner. But I went there, I realized that she was not there anymore.

So then I proceed to the stairway and I went down. I heard noises. I had people screaming. Yeah, holy cow. I went downstairs and because I say with in the garage I can escape. But when I got there was people and the garage was full of water. And I walked in the water for a while, but all the walls were crummeled down and was no way to get out. Then I say I have to keep my calm because if I am not calm, I won't be able to get out of here.

So what I did, I went back to the stairs. They went upstairs to the third floor. Then I met some of the neighbors. Wow. And I say the best way, because when I opened the door, I saw that part of the building, was not there anymore. And that was unbelievable experience. No kidding. Then I walked to the balcony, and I said, we have to go to the balconies,

because in coral, in the street, that's how you get out. It could be help. Yeah. And right there where the fire department was coming in, it was rescued. And in a little while, we start telling, please. We're here.

Get us out of here. And they did. They came up with the ladder truck and the basket and up to the balcony there where they were standing and helped her and the other people escape. Just an incredible story. And, you know, just, I'm sure there are plenty more. I don't know that other people actually want to, you know, discuss their particular horror story on that night. But I'm sure that the Miami Herald will be covering it when they do.

Now, the thing is, what we talked about is, what happens now? I mean, where does she live? Where does she go? Everything she had is in this apartment. And I see this weekend where now they just kicked everybody out of another set of towers. And they said, oh, you know what? We've got to evacuate this building. And you've got 15 minutes to retrieve any of your belongings.

Wait, what? Yeah, it's a 10-story 156 unit called Crest View Towers. And we've just decided that, you know, you people have to leave here now. the building isn't safe, we've decided that for you, and you get out, and that's the way it goes. Wait, what? Yeah, that's it. You're gone. North Miami Beach Police Chief told the people that they have more than 110 families there.

And between 10 and 4 p.m., we're going to escort 12 families to their apartments, and we're going to help them get whatever they can in 15 minutes and get out of there. Oh, okay. So now what? I mean, I'm just, it's incredible. What do you do? This one lady talked about how her husband's medication and some clothes she got and now, you know, that's all they have. She was paying $1,600 a month, and she had three bedrooms in a bath, and now nothing. So, okay.

Who pays for all that? And what happens to all the stuff that these people have accumulated? I just am just amazed at this particular predicament that Florida is in and that many places around the country will soon be in. Trust me, that's going to be going on all over the country. And it's just an incredible, an incredible set of events that are going to be putting people out of their homes. and out of places to live and without all their stuff, and who is going to pay for it all, and who owes the money for the stuff that they were still paying on?

Just amazing. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I see where Scarlett Johansson and her black widow raked in 80 million at the domestic box office this past weekend, still, I guess, shy of the expectations. But, you know, she got 80 million, which is, you know, pretty good. Pandemic box office times still in order, kind of.

But the big news, really, was that Disney announced how much they made on the movie. They said that they generated $60 million on Disney Plus. Now, I don't recall them doing that before. So that means they're pretty darn happy with that $60 million. And I would say that that's a little nerve-wracking for the theaters. Because we've said all along this program anyway that the theaters are lucky to still be around. And they are. And, you know, do we still enjoy going to the theater?

Yeah, I guess. I mean, I don't. But I guess, you know, some people do. And I get the big screen and all of that. But I'd rather just watch it in my living room. really i'd rather just watch it in my living room i'd rather sit in my comfortable chair and be able to watch it in my home and so that's what people are figuring out you know we can do that and it's a lot better now they just you know the theaters have made those deals with some of the

some of the production houses and good for them but i don't think that's going to last very long because the new world order has come and good luck god bless to those movie theaters They better start making things darn good for people to come. And I'm not talking about charging $100 for popcorn and having a tilt-back chair and having some young teenage girl bring me a pizza and a shake that I ordered. I'm talking about having some kind of deal that brings me into the theater worth my time because I can have my shake and a pizza in my home. and watch the movies.

So I better get me getting some free popcorn and maybe buy one, get one movie, something. You know, call me. We'll work some kind of deal out, okay? No problem. Good news for Netflix, too. At least for Michelle and Barack Obama and their deal

because they've just got their deal with Netflix and they have this blackout anthology. coming to Netflix from the Obama's higher ground and Temple Hill. Man, there's a picture here of Barack Obama and Michelle Obama, and I just, oh, man, seeing them both with that look is just agonizing. But Netflix has ordered their six-part anthology blackout to be produced by the Obama's Higher Ground banner and Temple here,

and it's in Temple Hill. And the product is designed, and it's kind of a cool idea, I must say, I kind of like it. But the story is of black teenagers who find love during a power outage in New York City. And each installment will be penned by a different writer, and it's going to reveal how they,

these people get together and hook up or not hook up during a blackout. So I kind of like to. the idea. I really do. We have the one story of two boys trapped on a subway, come face to face with their feelings, of course, and a pair of best friends stuck in the New York Public Library, surrounded by love stories, figure out if there's one in their future. So we'll see. You know, I kind of like the premise. I love the premise of it, so we'll see if it comes together and works out. Also, I see what I see. where the Black Widow star, or at least the co-star and Stranger Thing star, David Harbour,

he plays the Soviet superhero in the film, and he believed that, I don't know that there's anyone who could disagree with social, I can't even say it, it makes me so angry, I don't know that there's anyone who would disagree with socialist ideology. Oh, wait. What? Yeah, they asked him about how his personal political views dovetails with Red Guardians. That's the name of his anti-Soviet superhero character in the movie. And he said that if you work at Starbucks and you make the coffee, then you should own it. You're the one making the coffee. Is that right, Dave? Okay.

Thanks. Appreciate that. You know, it's funny that the big star of Hollywood condemns hoarding and greed, and yet his personal net worth is estimated at about $6 million, and he's earned a reported $350,000 an episode for the third season of Stranger Things, and his wife is estimated, worth about $20 million. So even if she's not worth $20 million and he's not worth $6 million, they're still worth

millions. And boy, life is sure a good thing when you're worth millions of dollars, right? The idea of a kindergarten-type society where we share things is my ideal society. Is it, Dave? As opposed to this world where we're hunting and killing and destroying for our own personal hoarding or our own personal greed. So you've given up everything that you've earned, right? Dave? No? Oh, okay, it's different for you because you're you. Man, that ticks me off. But hey, that's what makes America, right? You have Dean Kane, who is being slammed now because he said that I love the concept of Captain

America, but I'm so tired of this wokeness and anti-Americanism. I believe the penalty. I believe the pendulum will swing back to openly appreciating American values, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. He was asked about the recent issue of Captain America, which talks about the American dream, not being real. Here's the thing. This is what the comic book said. Here's the thing about the dream, though. A dream isn't real. When we wake up, it goes away. And we're left with this yearning inside. Like something was taken from us. Lately spending my days in this country as the years marched by, and I'm starting to think America actually has two dreams and one lie.

The first American dream is the one that isn't real. It's the one some people expect us to just be handed to them. And then they get angry when it disappears. When the truth is, it never really existed in the first place. This is the white picket fence fallacy that, if we're not careful, becomes nationalism. Jingoism. That dream isn't real. It never was. Because that dream doesn't get along nicely with reality. Other cultures, immigrants, the poor, the suffering, people easily come to be seen as different or on American. The white picket fence becomes a gate to keep others out. We're at our best

when we keep no one out. And that's where Dean really slammed at the Captain America and said that the pendulum is going to swing back openly, where we appreciate American values, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. I hope, Dean Kane, that you are right. But, man, he's taken a beating for even saying that, for even saying that.

So we'll see how it goes for Dean. And America. Because there's still people knocking down that white picket fence gate that you say is closed, and they're coming here for the American dream, because they can, still see it. It's still part of their vision. There's people in other countries. Holy cow, other countries are on fire now for freedom. And we are, you know, we're going the other direction.

Just amazing. I know what our president, President Biden said that he supports the anti-government protests in Cuba. And he urged Cuban leaders to hear their people. The communist country is facing, you know, an economic crisis that has been fueled by the coronavirus pandemic. Yeah, it really was fueled by, I don't know, communism for the last 50 years. But that's okay. I mean, no problem. Don't worry about it. It's been longer than that, Jeff.

Okay, no problem. You tell me when it happened. I mean, thousands of Cubans took to the streets protesting the high prices, food, medicine shortages, government's mishandling of the pandemic. But the Cuban president is saying, that's a U.S.'s fault. That's the, oh, really? Yeah, it's your fault on the sanctions and we can't get that stuff. Oh, okay, it's not your poor handling of the government and the people.

No. Oh, okay. No problem. The police are now patrolling the Capitol, you know, just to shut the protesters up. And many have been detained and probably shot and killed. But that's just Cuba. Nothing else is happening around the world. Well, maybe there is a few things going on around the world, other than just Cuba.

We have South Africa. They've been deploying the army to contain the unrest, and now that's over the arrest of a former president. So we'll see how that fares out. We have the UN Human Rights Chief said the, they released a report saying that all countries need to fight systemic racism. Really? Yeah. Look, it found at least 190 black people have died at the hands of law enforcement in the past decade, mostly in the U.S., and that racism is still a universal problem. Now the U.N. says it needs to be addressed ASAP, and suggest things like reparations, restitution, apologies, memorialization, and guarantees that black citizens will no longer face injustice because of the color of their. skin. That's just it, though. Now, we do have a little racial thing going on in United Kingdom after

their soccer match, and they lost, and apparently some of the penalty kicks were missed by players who were black, and so now people took off after them, which is, you know, these offensive and racist comments, which is just ridiculous. Twitter removed a thousand posts, and permanently suspended several accounts. Facebook is deleting all kinds of posts. Vandals defaced one of the murals of one of the black players. It's just agonizing. So I know the sport has reportedly been racist and sexist over the years.

But, you know, in this story it talks about the national soccer team didn't have a black player until 1978. Okay, well. 1978 was how long ago and the United States was well past that by 1978 so anyway there's just some you know some stuff going on there and let's not forget about Haiti you know they had their leader I don't know assassinated

now they arrested a Haitian doctor Christian Emmanuel Senan in connection with the assassination they claim they've arrested 18 Colombians and three Haitian Americans among them was this doctor who was living in Florida, and he has accused the Haitian leaders of corruption, well, no kidding. And he apparently hired a private security form to recruit the gunman

and reportedly had plans to take over as Haiti's president. The police are still looking into five suspects, and the U.S. is analyzing whether to send U.S. troops to help. the country. Yeah, that'd be great. And some of the suspects in the assassination told police, oh, we were planning on arresting him, not killing him. Right. Okay. Okay. All right. Yeah. I believe that. We still have the hypocrisy of many of our rich leaders. I know we had the, uh, the big Sun Valley Conference that ended this past weekend hosted by the private investment bank, Allen and company. And I know that it was postponed or canceled last year, but it's been

ongoing since 1983. And all the rich guys show up and they listen to each other and, you know, glad hand each other. And of course, we get the Bill Gates speech on climate, you know, his climate change. and they all fly in on their Gulf streams. So, you know, we get to listen to Bill Gates tell us how horrible the Earth is going to be and we're all going to die from climate change. But I've got to get out to the airport because the planes are backed up.

There's only, you know, a few hundred of the private planes waiting. In fact, there were so many planes coming to Sun Valley, Idaho for this conference that the FAA told, Fox News that it had briefly held up planes on the ground at their departure airports because there was so much congestion in the airspace around Sun Valley. So, hey, that climate change thing, though, it's a big deal, right? The hypocrisy is just incredible. And they all have it.

They all, you know, let's not forget about Prince Harry and Megan Markle, who received an environmental award from the United Kingdom-based charity. population matters because Harry and Megan said, oh, two children, Max, that's it. And this was their enlightened decision. Yeah,

they're really helping the earth and the planet with their enlightened decision of only two children. Never mind that, you know, that 18,000 square foot house you live in, you know, and flying across the ocean

a couple of times, at least a couple of times a year in the private jet and the house with the library and the gym and the wet and dry sanas and the game room and the theater and the arcade, I'm sure that your carbon footprint is fine.

Don't worry about it because you've only got two children because it was such an enlightened decision. The hypocrisy is just incredible, especially since this was going on and all their private jets flying around the air. And out west, I don't know, where they were at,

is dealing with the huge heat wave. California's Death Valley, 130 degrees this past weekend. Saturday, Las Vegas hit 117 degrees, as did St. George, Utah. All-time highs. 30 million people are under excessive heat alerts, including Arizona, Utah, Oregon, and Idaho. Oh my gosh, that's where they were at. And then wildfires in the West continue to rage in the region. We've got 80,000 acres already

burned. Strong winds are driving the flames and dozens of buildings have already been destroyed. evacuations are ongoing in California, Nevada, and Oregon. We've already lost two firefighters in Arizona. And we know that Lake Mead is, well, I mean, it isn't almost dry, but it sure sounds like it's almost dry. And yet they say that it's not. I mean, you can see the waterline and it does not look good, man. And you can quote me on that. It does not look good.

Whether at their lowest point ever since they built the dam, the Hoover Dam? Okay. This decline is incredible. All right. It dipped past 171.71.6 feet, a record set in 2016. But they believed that then they had inflows to push the water levels back up. But right now they're saying that, the watershed is so parched and depleted that meat is protected to continue dropping into

2023. Wow. Right now, it's 36% full capacity. 36% of full capacity. That's not good. Again, you can quote me on that. And according to officials, they are saying that major cuts in water allotment for Arizona, Nevada, and Mexico need to happen now. They're saying that it's urgency on all fronts. Doing business as usual need to be over, and we need to accelerate everything we can to use less water. But there's just that. So don't worry about it. You know what they're worried about in Minnesota?

They're worried about huge goldfish taking over. I used to go to a restaurant in Florida, and there was a little pond around the entire restaurant, and you'd stand on a dock and wait to get in, or when you were done with dinner, you'd stand on the dock and, you know, smoke your cigarette and relax because you were so full. But in the pond were these giant goldfish,

and they were huge, and you were thinking, wow, I wonder if those actually, started in, you know, the little fish bowl at home. Well, according to this, people who brought their little goldfish to the, to their little goldfish bowl at home and then got rid of it, dumped it in the lake. And now, uh, they're eating everything and they're just, we don't like it. They don't want people to release your goldfish into ponds and lake. Okay.

Get over it. Don't do it. they're bad for the lakes. They grow bigger and they contribute to poor water quality and they muck up the bottom sediments and they uproot plants and then the whole thing goes to hell. And that's why we now have football-sized goldfish swimming in these lakes in Minnesota and probably all over the country. So don't be throwing your goldfish in the lakes, okay? That's bad for the lakes. Okay? Okay, then.

Okay, one more story before I get out of here that is just amazing to me. And I keep saying these stories are amazing and they shouldn't be because it's 2021. But two families are suing Universal Studios after claiming a character at the resort made a racist hand gesture while posing for photos with their daughters. Really? Yeah, the lawsuit alleges that an actor, dressed as grew from Dispicable Me, flashed the OK symbol while taking photos with the girls who were five and six years old when the photos were taken. The OK hand gesture, while typically innocuous, is used by some individuals as a symbol for white power. This according to the Anti-Defamation League, I have never heard of that. Now, I know that we're hearing it on social media, and we're hearing about it here,

and we've been hearing about it for the last couple years, maybe, maybe, maybe a last year or so. I have never heard that in my life. Now, maybe I'm not on the inside of the white supremacy world, but I never have heard that. that. Now, according to the families that are suing Universal Orlando, these are separate incidents during which the actor, playing the character, made the racist hand gesture while posing for photos and video with biracial children. So I guess, you know, if you, if everyone who has a picture with Gru that isn't a biracial kid and Gru is putting the OK symbol up, then it isn't. I don't know. We'll see. They attended the breakfast at Universal's Royal Pacific

Resort. It's a special thing. She ran into the character, took the photo and a video with him. And while just taking the photo, the character placed his hand on the shoulder of the girl while making the okay symbol, a photo provided by the family showed this. Now, the family claimed the character made the gesture for an extended period of time. He put his hand on her as if he was just doing it regularly. And as I was looking at the camera, he started to put the universal white supremacist's hate sign on her shoulder. Oh, man. Now, the girl's mother said, we just wanted to take them to see the minions and do something special for our family. And this person. This person ruined that special warm feeling. The lawsuit then claimed the girl attempted

to use the photo she took with the girl character as a school project, but was humiliated when she was told she could not use the photo because of the okay gesture flashed by the character. I, that I almost believe. I almost believe that is true, although it wouldn't surprise me that it was the parents who told her she couldn't use the picture for the report because of the okay gesture, not the school. But it wouldn't surprise me that it was the school who did something that dumb. Now, the other girl apparently had a similar experience. And it happened in February of 2019 when the OK symbol was flashed in a photo.

Now, Universal said the actor who july. dressed as grew was fired in October of 2019, did not disclose the name of the employee. Good. The okay hand gesture in most contexts is entirely innocuous and harmless, according to the ADL. Then what's your point? The source of its alleged defensiveness in some cases is a result of a hoax perpetrated by four Chan members that hoped that the media and liberals would overreact by condemning a common image as white supremacist. It seemed to work if that's true. Now, according to this, they've abandoned

the ironic or satiric intent behind the original trolling campaign, and now they're using the symbols as a sincere expression of white supremacy. Are they? Okay, are they? Now, the thing is, the families want more than, now, I would say that, how much would you ask? If you were a family, And this was this horrific to you and your children and your family, how much would you ask Universal for in your lawsuit? Me, I'm looking for at least 100 grand. At least 100 grand. Because Universal isn't going to pay you the 100 grand.

They're going to come back to you and say, here's 50,000. Zip it. Have a nice day. You know, that's what you're kind of hoping for. I'm sure that's what the attorneys are hoping for. Let's settle this thing, get our cut, get out. But according to this story, the families want more than $30,000 in damages because of mental anguish, loss of dignity, humiliation, embarrassment, and other kinds of emotional damages their daughters allegedly went through because of the photos.

Oh, okay. So it was so horrific that it's only going to take $30,000 to make you feel better. Come on now. That whole thing. This whole thing is just an unbelievable joke. It's not a joke to those kids, Jeff. Okay? Oh,