Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 725 | Doesn’t Seem New…

Episode Date: October 7, 2021

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and you've got a place on the East Coast, and you've got a place, oh, I don't know, in a state like the Montana. And you're never out on the West Coast, and you're just tired of having the house out there and you want to get rid of it. You're tired of that dump. You would be just like Justin Timberlake and Jessica Beale.

They've got a place in Hollywood Hills that's worth about $35 million. And they're just never there. You know, they've still got the place on the East Coast in New York, but they're spending most of their time in Montana. So let's just get rid of the Hollywood Hills dump, okay? I mean, it's on a cul-de-sac. It's only 13,000 square feet.

It's got seven bedrooms, a screening room, a gym, a guest house, a tennis court, and what's described as a massive pool. It wants a part of it anyway, belong to Errol Flynn, probably the garage part of it. I don't know if that had anything to do with the refurbishing. But I am in love with people who are just tired of having too many places to live. Maybe they could buy the private lake. It's the largest private lake in Texas, and it's up for sale. It's more than 2,400 acres to recreational lake, and it's said to be, this has got to be the sales pitch, one of the most unique rural land assets in the country.

It's got 21 miles of undeveloped and elevated shoreline. It offers opportunities for entertainment, residential, commercial, or investment development. It's located in the town of Fairfield in Freestone County. Fairfield Lake is just east of Interstate 45 and centrally located between Dallas, Houston, and Austin. That's actually a prime location. The lake is estimated to be 50 feet at its deepest point. I'm guessing no one has actually checked. I mean, it's estimated?

Okay, it's estimated, yeah, it's probably 50 feet. We don't know. It's got fishing, water skiing, boating activities, and swimming, of course. Mature hardwood forest. with an array of wildlife, including white-tailed deer, armadillos, river otters, beavers, squirrels, foxes, bobcats, songbirds, and bald eagles. Lakewater with a thriving trophy bass population, as well as catfish, bluegill, and sunfish. Ten acres of wetland ecosystems, eight-plus miles of highway-grade blacktop,

two-lane roads and bridges, three concrete boat ramps with truck and trailer parking, combination of underground and above ground power throughout the property, 4,350-foot earth-filled dam with low hazard classification from the Texas Commission of Environmental Quality. How much would you pay for that? Well, I'll tell you what. I can get you into this Fairfield Lake for $110,550,000. That's only, what, 22,000 an acre?

so maybe if you offer, I don't know what, $100 million cash, cash will get you into the lake, okay? But I wish I had your money so that I could purchase this lake because that would be fun to rename it. You'd probably have to go through all kinds of stuff, but it's the Chewing the Fat Lake in Texas.

Huh? I like it. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So, you know, I've talked about going to DFW International Airport and how, I don't know, it's frustrating. It makes me angry when I go there because they charge me to just drive on the property. It drives me insane. So when you get on the property, if you are dropping someone off, okay, no matter what, you get charged. Now, I have a toll pass, which didn't work the last couple of times. So I take a, you have to take a ticket and then, you know,

then you got to pay on your way out. The toll tags are, you know, ding, arm goes up, you go in. And then when you come out, the toll tag goes up, ding, and they take it out of your account. Now, if you're on the property, less than eight minutes, they charge you $4. So apparently there's people that use the airport to get, to cut across, to cut through. I mean, it's, the DFW is this huge airport.

I mean, the actual property that it's on, I've told you before, is bigger than the island of Manhattan. So people use it as a cut through. And so if you're on the property between eight minutes and 30 minutes, it's only two bucks. Okay, so if you drive on and you are dropping someone off or, you know, picking someone up, you can drive on and drive around the terminals, pick them up or drop them off, and drive back out. And it's between that eight and 30 minute mark. It's only $2. And then if it's 30 minutes to two hours, it's three bucks, according to the last report that I saw.

So the cut through rate is $4. So if some people, I guess I'm told if they're using it as a cut through, just slow down. Do a quick terminal run and then make sure it's eight minutes so you, you know, you save two bucks. All right. And with gas prices through the roof, I don't know if that works to your advantage or not. You know, that's up to you to figure that math out. So what got me thinking about this, and I know it's true at every airport, right? They charge you to park, they charge you to go and pick people up.

But most airports, at least when I was in, I don't remember Newark. I don't remember how Newark worked, but all the big international airports. When I was in Tampa, Tampa has a drive-through. All right. So if you are picking someone up or dropping someone off, there's no charge. All right, you drive through and drive out. All right. If you're going, then they have a, I think it's a 30.

minute window where you can go in and park short-term parking, and then if it's between 30 minutes and an hour, then it's only a couple of bucks or whatever it is. So you can go and pick someone out of or drop them off, walk them to the gate, and then get out of there, and it's only two bucks. It's not free. Well, DFW, you can't even, you know, you almost can't drive by the airport without them charging you. Well, there was a story that I read about a couple that got charged. you know, over $2,000 bucks for just driving onto the airport a couple times.

But you read the story. And what happened was is his wife, or, you know, the automobile, drove to the airport in early July to drop one of their friends off at the airport. She gets in line, the toll tag works. Boop, arm goes up, she goes in,

drops her friends off, comes back through. The toll tag opens up and she leaves. Okay? So now, three months later, hubby takes the wife to the airport and going into the airport, the toll tag doesn't work. And so he grabs a ticket out of the arm. And, you know, so the arm goes up. He's going to pay on his way out, right?

And so he drops his wife off and then goes to the window or goes to the gate to get out. And he's just about ready to stick his ticket in to pay. And the arm goes up. So he drives through. and then his wife gets a note about their bank account that just said they were charged $2,088 for being at the airport. The NTTA, the people in charge of the account for the airport parking and the airport gates, charge them $2,088. That would really suck. You can quote me on that.

That is for sure. nobody wants to look at the bank account and see a $2,088 come out when you're planning on it being a couple of bucks, right? I mean, you're not prepared to pay that money at that time. So then he finds, he calls and finds out what the heck is going on. So apparently, when the wife left the last time, it didn't read. She got out, but it didn't register with the NTA. So they believe that the car was there for three months. I mean, it costs $2,000 over $2,000 to park your car at the airport for two months.

Wow. Okay. Or maybe I guess it was three months. Sorry. Okay. That makes it better. Not really. But, okay, I'm with you.

So then, I mean, obviously, they call and say, you, you, you, you, you, what's going on? What's happening? I have the receipts. I'm telling you. right now. And if they hadn't gone back, think of that. If they had gone back, I mean, the next time it would have been, you know, depending on how many, if it's $2,000 for three months, I mean, it cost you over $8,000 to park at

the airport for a year. Come on now. That's a little steep. Just a little steep. But they got a hold of NTA and they said, oh, we're sorry. I mean, we're working with our vendor to prevent similar mistakes. from this happening again. It's rare to have an overcharge of this magnitude.

Is it? Okay. No problem. And of course, they said, you know, what happens is usually, you know, these companies like this will take the money out of your account quick, right? I mean, that was fast, right there. Boom. I mean, minutes.

And you're already tagged for the $2,08 out of your account. It takes a while for that money to get returned, right? Even if they say, yeah, we've returned it. Because they did say, we sincerely. regret what happened. And we reimbursed the full amount charged the same day the matter was brought to our attention. That doesn't mean it went back into their account. That means they just reimbursed the full account. So it takes a while. And even the guy said, look, I was able to, he said I was able to get rent. And, you know, I made it and it was okay, but I feel bad for people who weren't in my

situation. Uh, yeah, no kidding. Here's a good situation to be. How about DFW? I mean, they're making, in one story when they raised the cut-through amount there was a story where they decided that hey too many people are using the airport just as a cut-through

so they were doing it in under eight minutes and so they raised that price to the four bucks for the cut-through people. They claimed that it was going to increase their profits a couple of million dollars

year. That's if all the people continued to go through the airport and pay the $4 instead of the two, right? So, I mean, they're making a lot of money from these gates at the airport. And I'm not, I'm sure that this is happening at other places around the country. And it's damned, I mean, it's a criminal. It's criminal that I'm dropping someone off at an airport and I have to pay to drop someone off at a building that's paying to travel somewhere. It's just insane. I mean, and that's expensive, right? I remember parking my car in the garage in New Jersey,

Trent in New Jersey, beautiful Trent, New Jersey, at the train station. And that garage, I was trying to remember how much of a monthly fee it was, but you paid a monthly fee. and I mean, obviously, you could pull up and pay and go and park and, you know, whatever. And I don't recall what they would charge you for a day. But most of the people you would buy a monthly pass to park there because you were going there, you know, at least five days, sometimes six or seven days a week.

So you wanted to be able to park there monthly and not have to worry about, you know, paying that daily rate. And, I mean, I don't remember what it was. I remember the train pass for New Jersey train. transit was three or $400 a month. And so I want to, I think the parking garage was probably close to that as well. And then there was a toll road you had to pass because I lived in Pennsylvania, not New Jersey.

There was a toll road I had to pass going into New Jersey, which charged me more money too. I mean, they get you coming and going. You can quote me on that, man. They get you coming and going. But we ought to have a movement. that you should be able to go into an airport for free to drop someone off or pick someone up within 10 minutes.

All right. Say 10 minutes. And I'll even give DFW their 8 minute window of cutting through. But 8 minutes is cutting it pretty close. But 10 minutes. If I drive in, and like I said, Tampa International has the access road where you drive in and you pick someone up or drop someone off and you use that same access road to get out of the airport

for free, right? So you're in and out. There's other ways that they do it with short-term parking, which you pay for, but it's not as much as long-term, obviously, but they have access in and out of the airport for free. That seems like the fair thing to do. and it seems like most airports, if not all, should be that way. But then again, that would be fair, right?

And we all know that life isn't fair, is it? No, no, it's not, Jeff. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Oh, my gosh. That sounded like it was going to taste pretty freaking good. And it did. All right.

I see where we've released When Sex and the City franchise is going to be back to HBO Max. That's coming in December. The new and just like that season, the next chapter of Sex and the City.

Incredible that that show is coming back. Just amazing. And, you know, am I going to be forced to watch it? Probably. Yeah. You know, of course, this is to follow their, you know, reality of life and friendship in the, in their 50s. And the 60, Sex and the City Star, What's your face? Kim Contrell is not coming back.

But the rest of them are coming back. Plus, I see where, you know, Willie Garson is mentioned in the story as well. And he just passed away. So it'll be interesting to see how they handle that. I also saw where HBO promoted the new Game of Thrones prequel, House of the Dragon. Looks like we're at the watch. I don't know. We'll see.

We'll see. I don't know. It's supposed to launch in 2022, but they already have the, they already have the, you know, the teaser with the voiceover from Matt Smith's Prince Damon Targaryen. HBO. Dark shots.

200 years. Gods. A dynasty reigned. Five. Think about it. House of the Dragon. It looks pretty good. We'll see.

You don't mean, HBO's got enough money to pull it off. It would be awesome. Plus, plus, speaking of HBO coming out and like 10 days, Succession starts up again. I am really excited for Succession,

man. Season 2 was awesome. If you have not watched Succession, you have time to go back and stream seasons one and two, because season three is happening on the starting beginning on the 17th of October. If you're listening live today, it is the 7th of October 2021.

So, you know, you have plenty of time to stream succession, and it is well worth it. I feel like HBO needs to be a sponsor of chewing the fat, those three shows, and there's plenty more on HBO to watch. But without a sponsorship, I'm hesitant to go down the HBO.

Max list. Okay, I see where the Russians have beaten Tom Cruise to the punch as far as going to the space station and filming for a movie. Yesterday, the Russians launched to the International Space Station

on a Soya spacecraft. The astronaut and the film director and the actress who are going up there for 12 days to film scenes for the challenge. And I see the picture of cosmonaut

Anton Chakamov, film director Clem Schenegelangol, and actress Yulia Purissalt, who actually looks, you know, Eastern blockish. We'll just leave it at that. However, the one

thing that stands out in this picture, and I'll hold it up so you can see, there you see. In fact, when I promo the show today, on Twitter at Jeffey JFR, Instagram and Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. One of the pictures that I post will be this picture

of the cosmonauts. And I know just the look of the space suits that they're in. They look used. It looks like they bought them at a yard sale where spacesuits were for sale.

I know it's just me being a space suit elitist. I got it. But they just look used. And I'm sure it's fine. I'm sure it's fine. They blast it off from Kastakistan or wherever the hell the Russians blast off at.

And they're, you know, the film crew is going to be up there. They're filming the movie. Everybody's going to be involved in it. We did have the rumors that Cruz was supposed to go up to the space station on the SpaceX Dragon someday. But nothing has been confirmed about that. So we'll see. I know that there. working on filming and lighting and everybody's going to be a part of it okay great but i'm just

saying the i'm sure i'm sure that the suits are not used and they're not dirty but they just look that way and it drives me insane that's all that's all i'm saying that's all i'm saying okay i see where what guineth paltrow uh my girl your girl you're from Goop, her great company. She has just launched a new, what's being called a DTF female sexual desire booster. I mean, I don't know if it's as good as the chewing the fat business booster, which I should actually start marketing. I probably shouldn't say that out loud on the show.

But DTF supports women's sexual desire, arousal, and mood. It's a dietary supplement. It looks like it comes under the Goop Wellness tag with 60 capsules. I don't know how much it cost. Did it say how much a 60 capsule bottle costs from Goop? The branded three ingredient product cost $50 to $55. It's vegan, gluten-free, and will be released online at goop.com.

this coming month. So it might be up there already. Let's check it out. I mean, the website is fascinating to see. She is hawking a lot of stuff on this website. Man, a lot of clothes. It looks great. She has shop, beauty, food and home, style, travel, wellness,

In Goop Health. I wonder if that's where it's under Ingoop Health. See what's under Ingoop Health. Doesn't look like we have anything there. Wellness. Let's check out wellness. What's there? There it is.

Yes. The DTF, our supplemented, it's a more at women, sexual desire, arousal, and mood. It's up there, baby. Let's click on it. See what we've got going on here for the supplement. You can shop now.

$55, $50 with subscription. Oh, that is so nice. You become a subscriber. You get a deal. Man, I am turning into a goop fan. Looks like there's a nice. number of other things for sale here that can help with your sexual arousal mood setters. I don't know if we could still get her cow.

Can we still get the candle? Let's see, the mood benefits of saffron. Saffron and how to get more of it. I don't know if that's some kind of, I'm not sure. Oh, that's just the saffron. I don't think we can get her orgasm candle anymore, can we? Let's see if we can. orgasm

candle. It smells like my orgasm candle. Yes, it's still available on the website for $75. So, man, you can take the supplement and you can get the candle that you need to burn within sight. Keep away from things that catch fire. It's a candle? I don't understand the disclaimer. burn candle within sight, keep away from things that catch fire.

Okay, thank you for that. But it's titled, This Smells Like My Orgasm. Under the heading, Bougie Pafume. Okay, I want my cut of this. Speaking of getting a cut, I had an email sent to me with the headline from the New York Times. Okay, so this was an email sent to me. sent to Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com, which you are more than welcome to send an email

anytime you want. But this person, Bill, sent me an email saying that the Times, the New York Times, ripped you off. I'm surprised that the canon theme did play when I tried to click on the story. And I don't necessarily disagree.

But their headline from the New York Times is the varsity blues trial, what we learned about college admissions. You know, listen, I realized that it was, you know, a government thing that was entitled varsity blues, but the whole operation, and they didn't steal it completely because, you know, mine is Operation Varsity Blues.

And so it is a surprise, though, as Bill said, that when you click on the headline varsity blues trial, you don't get Operation Varsity Blues. Oh, yeah. I mean, I just had to give you the full title just to get the canon theme. Operation Varsity Blues. Tonight's episode, Things We've Learned.

I'm a fan. There's still plenty going on with the stupid Varsity Blues case, which is just absolutely agonizing. And it's been a while since we've had an update. I may have to give you a full update on what's actually happy because court cases are still taking place and people are still making deals

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no matter how much money you have. But when you have millions or billions, it's even tougher, really. And so now I see where seven, in 10 millionaires hesitant to leave large inheritance. Over half have

lazy children concerns. Well, yeah. So the Motley Fool surveyed 2,000 American adults with net worths over a million dollars, which I'm sure you listening are one of the 2000. 76%

of the high net worth individuals planned to leave inheritances as many as 6,000. 68% plan to have money accessible only after heirs meet specific conditions. So, for example, a shark tank entrepreneur, Kevin O'Leary, Mr. Wonderful, designed to trust that skips his adult children and will support his grandchildren until they graduate from college. Huh. Okay. According to this, high net worth individuals can obviously structure their inheritance to mitigate concerns about a large inheritance. being mismanaged or leading their children to become lazy.

You know, so right now they're talking about boomers aging and holding $30 to $40 trillion worth of assets. So they, you know, there's quite a few individuals that are approaching inheritances. Yeah. And so these large inheritance, 57% believe that their heirs would not be prepared to manage a large inheritance. 56% believe that assets would be better used elsewhere, such as for charity. 56% also believe that leaving too much could cause beneficiaries to be lazy. Almost two-thirds of respondents have considered a generation skipping inheritance, which would pass assets to obviously the grantor's grandchildren or anyone, you know, at least 37.5 years or younger.

And those can all be set up in true. trusts and all. It really, you know, of course their outlook on life is going to be different because they weren't raised like you. You went out and earned the money. And maybe you didn't. Maybe you had it given to you too. And you still think you're better than everybody else.

Who knows? I, you know, speaking of struggles for billionaires, I see where John Paulson, Mr. Hedge Fund King, he's worth, I think, $4.7 billion, not sure where he's at. on the top 400, the Forbes 400, which we will get to momentarily. The new list was just put out. But Paulson, how embarrassing for his wife, who apparently didn't know that he was having an affair and, you know, out hot and bothered with this influencer who is pretty young and pretty hot. So her name is Alina Diamidia. And she's been having an affair with, she's 33 years old.

I mean, getting a little long in the tooth. Now she had to make some, she had to, you know, get some business done. So apparently page six ran a story of him, you know, filing for divorce in Suffolk County in New York. And that's the first that the wife had heard about it. Wow. I mean, that's really, that's a kick in the gut, man. If that's true. Now, she claims it is. She claims she didn't know anything about it. And this, you know, she learned about it by reading about it in page six. It was humiliating. It was unseemly speed of taking a girlfriend and filing for divorce so quickly after a good summer. I mean, apparently they had a great summer in the Hamptons. And then they jetted off to Austria for the Salzburg Music Festival, which they were there for a couple of. a couple of days, and then a month later, he files for divorce. He's 65 now.

Now, apparently, when they were in Austria, what's her face, the girlfriend was there, too, and the wife didn't know it. She was post, the girlfriend was posting pictures about being there and talking about him. He was not. And the wife is a little wound up. So I would venture to say, and this is just me, I don't know. I don't know. But they've been married for a long time.

They've got a couple of kids. he's worth $4.7 billion. Just a thought, he will not be worth $4.7 billion at the end of this divorce. You can pretty much count on that. The billionaire list. Donald Trump falls off the Forbes 400 list for the first time in 25 years.

So all you anti-Trump people, you can be happy. All right, he's off the list. He's still a billionaire, but he's not on the Forbes 400. So that hurts. That hurts if you're down there. Trump, but, you know, he'll get it back. No problem. And speaking of divorce, I see where Melinda Gates is on the list, of course, but she's not as high as she should be. She's at 158 of the 400 list with $6.3 billion. Now, Gates is at his lowest rank in 30 years, but he is still worth

$134 billion, according to this list. he should be worth a lot less than that. Come on now. I mean, he should be down in the $100 billion list. He should be in the top 10 still. $100 billion would make him still in the top 10, but there's no way he should have that extra $34. That extra $34 should be Melendez.

I mean, I know that $6 and $7 billion is still pretty good life, but it's not as good as $34 billion life. I'll tell you that, or $40 billion life. So number one on the list, Jeff Bezos, at this time, with, I think he has $201 billion, which seems to be a pretty good penny. Yeah, it is, by the way. Elon, number two, with $190.90.5 billion. Zuckerberg, number three, with 134. billion and that puts him in front of Gates.

Well, Zuckerberg has 134.5. Bill Gates has 134. And like I said, I'm a little disappointed that he's that high still. Belinda should have taken him for a few more billion dollars. Knocked him down a couple of pegs more. Larry Page from Google has $123 billion. Number five. Sergei Bryn from Google, $118.5 billion.

Larry Ellison, Software King, $117.3 billion. Buffett, number 8 at 102 billion. Steve Balmer, Microsoft, $96.5 billion. And number 10, coming in at number 10, Michael Bloomberg at $70 billion. Michael Bloomberg is 79 years old. Buffett is 91, so that money, I mean, those guys aren't from. I see, you know who's on this list. I mean, the Walton family is all over this list.

If the old man was alive, he would be, he and Jeff Bezos, would be knocking it out. And I believe old man, Walton would be in front. Because all these Walton's, I mean, here in, look at this, number 11, number 12, and number 13, okay, are all Walton's. 67.6, 67.9, 68.8. It's not bad. And that's, you know, like I said, 11, 12, and 13. and then McKenzie Scott is number 15 at 58.5.

See what I'm saying? That's what divorce gets you. Gates needs to step up. McKenzie should reach out and say, Melinda, you know, I can appreciate your $6 billion, but you need to pick up the pace a little bit. We need you a little bit higher on the list. But there are a bunch of Walton's all over this list, man.

They are far and away, the leading family on this. I see where Eric Schmidt from Google, who I actually, I like Eric Smith. That guy is, he is a genius, man. He's only worth, and I say only $23.9 billion. And I say Eric is a genius. I mean, anybody on this list obviously has done something right and is smart enough to, you know, get into the billionaire list. So I'm guessing that they are pretty smart human beings. No doubt about that.

Jack Dorsey from Twitter, $14.9 billion. He's 53rd. I see where Twitter just sold its Mopub mobile advertising network to game developer and ad tech company App Lovin for $1.05 billion in cash. Wow. Twitter said the sale is in line with its stated goal of reaching $7.5 billion in revenue by the end of 2023. And they purchased this MoPub for $350 million in 2013.

So they made a little bit of extra cash on the sale on top of whatever they made using the Mopub mobile advertising plan. So I don't know if that moves jack up the list quickly. But he's still at 5030. with only $14.9 billion. I don't know how he gets by with just Twitter and Square making his fortune. Just incredible.

Bubba Kathy from Chick-fil-A, breaking in, he's on the 200. He's in the 200 of the 400 list with $5.5 billion. And let's scroll down here to number 400, shall we? So this list from Forbes here stops at 389.

And the bottom of the list is $2.9 billion, which is tied. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, tied with $2.9 billion. That's enough. Okay. And then there's a bunch of people tied for $3 billion as well. Wow. So people, you know, at $3 billion and $2.9 billion, you're at the bottom.

in the list. Anybody below 2.9 million? We're not mentioning you in this story. Sorry. Okay. We'll call it the Forbes 400, but that's not what it is. Okay. That's the Form 389 and 389 is just people tied at 2.9 billion. Oh, man, I don't know how they do it. I don't know how they get by on 2.9 billion. It would be a struggle for, I mean, I know it would be a struggle for you. For me, I don't know, I don't know how I'd get by on $2.9 billion. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. It's just $39.99, how could I resist? This luxurious will throw for my sister. This gold watch for my partner?

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And then you can delve into it more if you want to. Like rapid at home COVID tests are about to become much more widely available. According to the FDA, we'll see. Apparently, the manufacturer plans to produce more than 100 million tests per month. And this number apparently is going to rise to 200 million a month by February. so it's not going away. Hopefully, I don't know who is going, if they're going to count.

You know, if you test positive at home, are you still going to have to pay for that test from the medical community? I don't know. We know now, and what a surprise, that China was ordering those PCR tests back in May of 2019. So it appears that they knew

that they had a coronavirus problem in May of 2019, which actually bodes well to what we knew early about people getting sick and mid to the late 2019s, 2019s, yeah, the mid to late months of 2019 because people were getting sick and we talked about it when they were getting sick. It wasn't the flu. They didn't know how to treat it, but they gave you, you know, said treat it like the flu would go home, but people were not getting better, and it wasn't testing positive for the flu. Huh.

I wonder if that was probably coronavirus. I mean, that's what the doctors believed, but nobody would believe them at the time. We have Cuba beginning to export COVID-19 vaccines. Man, there's nothing I want more than a vaccine from Cuba. And I guess that's a three-dose, Abdelah vaccine. It's going, that's what Cuba has. Now they're sending it to Vietnam and Venezuela. Man, does that sound like something I want for sure?

Do I want to put that inside of me? Kyrie Irving from the NBA is saying that, hey, he's going to lose millions because of the salary reduction for unvaccinated players. Okay. You know, at one point you want to say, well, you know, maybe that's what you get. But on the other hand, it's kind of ridiculous. I mean, that was the deal with, what's her face? Sage from ESPN, who is, I mean, now we know Sage Steele.

She has been pulled from the air, and she bent the knee. She said on a podcast that she did not want to get the vaccine, but that Disney, ABC, was forcing her to get it. she loved her job and that she did not, you know, want to get the vaccine, but she got it to keep her job. Well, that wasn't enough. That wasn't enough. And she apologized. She said, I know my recent comments created controversy for the company, and I apologize. We're in the midst of an extremely challenging time that impacts all of us, and it's more critical than ever that we communicate constructively and thoughtfully.

Yeah, but that's not what happened. And you bent the knee. Just never bend the knee. Never bend the knee because it's never, never enough. Just amazing. We have Seattle Police Department employees are quitting and getting fired because they haven't submitted proof of vaccination. Hundreds of Michigan health care workers are quitting over a vaccine.

mandates. Top COVID experts, according to this, are privately urging Biden and the Biden administration to scale back booster campaign. Yeah. That's not going to happen. Los Angeles City Council Greenlights vaccine passport. That's good. It's going to require everyone age 12 and over to be fully vaccinated before entering bars,

gyms, restaurants, or other indoor facilities. And that will be everyone soon because Pfizer just asked the U.S. government to allow COVID-19 vaccine to children under 12. And while that hasn't been okayed yet, I'm sure it will be. The unity of this country and the world is coming together like everyone. once, isn't it? Man, the divide just keeps getting bigger. I mean, we have video of clashes in Amsterdam amid the anti-restriction protests in Europe.

They're organized under the slogan together for the Netherlands as they protest the proof of vaccination, recent recovery or a negative test that are mandatory for entering public venues. We know Sweden has suspended the use of Moderna in people under 30. Finland stopped the use of Moderna in people under 30.

Denmark stopped the use of Moderna in people under 18. Norway is recommending those aged under 18 to get Pfizer instead of Moderna. They also say men aged under 30 should consider getting Pfizer. And we also know that Sweden removed practically all remaining restrictions. So I guess life is back. to normal. Right.

After one week, though, new COVID infections fell 16% according to the numbers. I mean, we know right now that more Americans have died this year, 2021, from COVID-19, than all of 2020.

I know it's just a stat and all numbers can, you know, work whatever they way they want, but that's the deal, right? We know that, George Clooney, I was speaking of stars, and I should have brought him in with the movies, that we know that Clooney has slammed the unvaxed stars, and he's not alone in slamming the unvaxed stars. The only thing is, Clooney compared getting the jab and wearing a mask to

fighting the Nazis. Come on, George. I really thought you were smarter than that. He said, it's stupid, because every generation in our country for more than a lifetime has been asked to sacrifice something for the safety of their fellow man. Get shot, fight Nazis. Oh, oh, okay. All right. And while this isn't a Vax story, it is a divide story, we know now that the new Dave Chappelle special on Netflix,

critics are calling to cancel the Dave Chappelle Netflix special for ridiculing trans people. I would say good luck with that. Good luck with that because that's not going to happen. That is not going to happen. Dave will say it's a joke and move on with your life. So the divide just keeps getting bigger. But the one thing that's bringing us all together is gas prices.

I mean, who doesn't love gas prices? I mean, right now, the average price of gas in the U.S. is $3. and 22 cents a gallon. That's the most expensive price. It's been since at least October of 2014. In California, you know, obviously they're paying more than $5 a gallon. So don't worry about it.

The crude prices are at their highest level in seven years. OPEC said, nah, we're not going to ramp it up. We asked OPEC, Joe Biden went to them and, you know, got down and bented knee and they said,

yeah, no, we're not going to do that. So now everything will be okay, though, because we're just going to open up our strategic petroleum reserve that will add a new supply to the market. So that'll be fine here in the U.S. And in Europe, while gas prices in Europe skyrocketed and the price of crude went way up, it was taken care of, though, because Vladimir Putin said, oh, don't worry about it. I'll provide more gas to Europe and then everything will be fine. we can all come together. We're all going to pay the same price for gasoline.

Oh, man. Brings us all together, doesn't it? Yes, it does. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.