Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 788 | It Wasn't That Long Ago...

Episode Date: January 19, 2022

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She got in when she tweeted About the Metaverse Saying that in the near future Every person will have a parallel digital identity Avatars, Crypto Wallets, digital goods Will be the norm

Are you planning for this? And she took a meeting for that which I completely disagree with. I think that she's right in asking that question. It's a good question. I know the funny response is, blink toys if Mark Zuckerberg is holding you hostage, but I mean, it's a good question in today's world.

Now she has Instagrammed something that she's taking a beating for. I don't know why we're beating up on Reese Witherspoon, but we are. She Instagrammed a post that's, said, let's talk about habits. Are there any that have improved your daily life? Here are some I'm working towards. Now, she's, means she's not doing them.

She's just working towards being able to do them. Start the day with a glass of water. Get 10 minutes of outdoor light. At Huberman Lab recommends morning light. Three, spend 30 to 60 minutes reading daily without distraction. Okay, I mean, it's just Reese, be at Reese, and these are some habits that I'm working toward to, you know, enhance my life.

We all want to do that. We want a better way to enhance our lives, right? I know we do. And, you know, we're supposed to start each day with that big glass of water. That's better for you than coffee. Get that water, get that rehydration going. And then we need to get that outdoor light. that's good advice during this coronavirus days.

Get outside. And 30 to 60 minutes reading daily without distraction. Tough to pull off. I mean, without distraction. And for me, I read way more than that online and stories. But a undistracted, right? Undistracted? Yeah.

A time not being distracted for reading about. book 60 minutes a day. That's a tough one to pull off. But she took a beating for asking those questions, too. And one of the funny responses was from the celebrity chef, Food Network star, Ena Garten. Is that her name? Ena Garten?

Ina Garten. She's a huge star. I know really who exactly who she is. She replied to that going, my formula is easier to follow. One, drink more large cosmos. Two, stay up late watching addictive streaming series. Three, stay in bed in the morning playing Sudoko

instead of reading a good book. Four, spend more time safely with people you love. In a pandemic, I do what I can. I can probably pull that for me. you off better. But it's not a bad thing. I'm not sure why we hate Rees Witherspoon so much, but we do. Welcome.

I don't. I don't. I mean, I love Rees. But you, it sounds like you don't like her. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fats. So I can't get over the 40 youth that started their hunger strike advocating for the Senate to pass. the freedom to vote the John R. Lewis Act.

It's a combination of voting bills. And of course, it's being argued that without this bill, voter suppression. Oh, okay. But we're so for this bill that we have gotten together and we're going to have a hunger strike. We believe in it so much. Except a few have already dropped out. Yeah, we were going to have to go without food. for more than a day or so?

They haven't just passed the bill because we were striking out front? Oh, no. And I'm getting hungry. The three activists already and probably more when you, by the time you hear this, have dropped out.

They said, the co-founder said, oh, the feeling is numb. The headaches and the trouble sleeping. I haven't wavered, but it's really hard. I hope it doesn't get much worse than this. I don't know how much longer I could go on for.

She's the co-founder. I mean, you got to go with it. If you're going to go, I don't believe that there's anything or anyone. I mean, that's a, I don't think there's anything or anyone that I would ever think to myself, I can go on a hunger strike

to get them or that person to do what I want them to do. Why would you go on a hunger strike? We hear about it all the time, and frequently we hear about it. Prisoners going on hunger strike for better care. And now we've got these 40 youth, well, only 37 now, going on a hunger strike to try to change the minds

of Congress to vote on the John R. Lewis Act. I mean, they're pulling out all the stops. They've got Nick Saban from the University of Alabama. They've got NBA Hall of Famers. They've got all kinds of people that have written a letter to support the federal overhaul of the U.S. elections to, according to this report, secure our democracy. I can't believe it

But they want Congress to exercise Its constitutional responsibility To enact laws that set national standards For the conduct of federal elections And for decisions that determine election outcomes Oh, I don't I'm pretty sure that Nick Saban Isn't going on a hunger strike

Yeah, I'll sign the letter I'm sure I'm all for securing our democracy and everything But I'm still going to eat Okay, I'm not going on a hunger strike. We're pulling out all the stops. I'll tell you, Joe Manchin and cinema are unwavering. And I hope that they can remain that way. But it's going to be very, very hard.

Especially if people start dropping like flies, if they just start dying from the hunger strike out front, that might change somebody's mind. Maybe these protesters need to be aware of that. Look, if you die, you might get them to change the bill. So, okay, starve on, brother, starve on. Did you order your free COVID-19 test? Well, I know it's not free.

I get it. It's your tax dollars at work from the government. I got it. But you can order them up and running. The website's up and running. COVID-tests.gov. And it was supposed to start today, for those of you listening live,

the 19th of January, 2020. But they started it a little earlier. yesterday and it's up and running. I ordered mine this morning. They're expected to ship within 12 days, so I should get it sometime, I don't know, three or four months. I know what they're expecting. I just, I don't know that it's actually going to happen. All right. I have my tracking number from the United States Postal Service, but they said that they've already got 420 million tests ready to go and they expect a billion that they're going to ship out. All right. no problem.

I know that Biden wants you to be able to go get masks too for free. And again, I know for free. I get it. But the Postal Service has got 7,000 temporary workers working to label and package the test kits at 43 existing facilities. Wow. Okay. That's great. The kits could be mailed to as many as 160 million U.S. addresses.

All right. Let's go. let's go. It was pretty easy. You know, you just put in your name and address. And there you go. You're done. Send.

You're supposed to get four in the mail. So if you want your free at home tests, do it now at COVID tests. I see where the postal service also unveiling new stamps for 2020. You know, I've wanted to run the post office for a long time. And I know this is a common. red throughout chewing the fat, but I believe that I could run the United States Postal Service so much better. I mean, it's a losing opportunity for a lot of people, and I think that I could turn this thing around. And one of the ways that you could turn this around, perhaps, is maybe not

coming up with new stamps and paying for new stamps. How about we get a couple of stamps? Maybe I don't know. I, you know, top of the, I am willing to negotiate at the roundtable. of how many stamps we need. And then that's it. Those are the stamps you get. We keep raising the price, but we're still getting everybody new stamps. Okay.

I mean, do we need the African Daisy? Do we need flags on barns? Do we need floral geometry? Do we need mariachi stamp honoring the mariachi music? I would say no to that. Do we need the... Monument Valley stamp? Do we need the Palace of Fine Arts stamp?

Do we need the Shell Silverstein stamp? No, we don't. I mean, for those of you, I'm sorry if you don't know who Shell Silverstein is. I mean, I did. I knew that Shell is one of last century's most prolific children's authors and artists. And the stamp honors his book, The Gift, Living Tree, which was first published in 1964. I mean, I was embarrassed that I didn't know.

So, you know, now I wanted to share with you that that's who Shell was. I would have said a she too, but apparently, Shell is not a she. Shell is a he since the stamp is honoring his book. But do we need all those? I would say no. I would say no. and I'm sticking to my guns. Ooh, I've got to find a new phrase.

You can't say stick it to your guns. I'm sticking to my belief that if I were going to run a campaign, my campaign in today's world would be vote for me. How about no? Vote. How about no? Jeff Fisher approved this message. That's, you know, that's my campaign slogan.

How about no? All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So good. I don't think Reese has one of those every morning. All right, so what do you do if you're the Grammy Awards and you have postponed your awards in Los Angeles at the, what the heck were they going to be?

They were going to be at the crypto.com arena. That's right. And that's been postponed. it where do you go? Hey, you know what? We like a California, but we're going to Vegas. And that's where the Grammy Award should be anyway. I know they all live in L.A.

and think that that's the place to be, but do. We're moving it to Vegas on April 3rd. That's right. Trevor's still going to show up, apparently. Trevor Nowe is still going to show up as the host of the Grammys. I'm sorry, the master of ceremonies at the Grammys. but it's going to be in Vegas and not in L.A.

All right. Have a nice day. Take care. I mean, they're looking to find a way to make some money, right? I mean, last year, it was postponed,

and then they had the, I don't know, the toned down show, which was really, I don't know, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, yeah, not good.

Those are two words. But, so they lost, you know, the Grammys generates a lot of money, and they got a lot of TV money. A lot of people want to see them. I do too. But, you know, if it's going to be toned down, you're going to be doing agonizing old interviews and old clips through the whole thing. No, thank you. And we've got

John Batiste and Justin Bieber and Doja Cat and her, Billy Eilers and Olivia Rodriguez. I want to see them. Let's go. Bring them out. So instead of worrying about whether they can show up at crypto.com arena, let's go ahead and move it to Vegas. All right, Vegas says, yeah, come on. We got it for you, baby. We're here for you. And you know what? We'll just, the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Yep, we're fine. Don't worry. We got you. You don't have to worry about

COVID or any of that stuff here. Oh, and YouTube. Oh, no. I know. Suzanne Daniels, the global head of original content, yes, she resigned. She's been there for six years already.

Wow. She's turning a lot of cash done a lot of big things for YouTube and she's out now have a nice day so apparently the youtube chief business officer robert kensel k y ncl will be uh you know taking over i guess and uh he's i guess i don't know if he or he's just speaking off and saying yeah we're going to go ahead and retreat from original programming and focus on creator driven initiatives such as creator shorts fund the black voices fund and live shopping programs oh okay so we're the whole original content is going to go away yeah we're we're gonna go back to user generated content that's that's who we are wait what about the shows you've already got contracts for well we're

going to continue those maybe uh if you are working on those shows uh yeah you should expect to hear from us directly. Oh, okay. What about, you know, what about the programs that were under the Black Voices and the kids' funds? Well, we're still going to do those. Don't be silly.

We're not going to get rid of those shows. But if you work on anything else, yeah, you're gone. Have a nice day. Oh, all right. I guess. Thanks. And we have, I cannot go this program without mentioning who died today.

Fashion icon, black fashion icon, Andre Leon Talley, dead at the age of 73. Throughout decades of long fashion career, he's a pioneer who paved the way for black designers, models, and editors in the fashion industry. He held positions at Women's Wear Daily, the New York Times. He was, you probably know him as American,

Vogue's first black creative director, and later as the magazine's first editor at large, working side by side with Anna Wintour, and he also, the British Vogue's first black editor-in-chief, Edward Innenville, thanked Talley for paving the way and said, without you, there would be no me. no word on exactly how or what caused his death, but he, you know, 73, dead. So, sad news on that fashion icon. You also may remember there's a documentary by director Kate Novak titled The Gospel According to Andre.

Way back in 2017, I mean, he got famous because he was like the fashion, I don't know. He was the fashion guy for the Obama. They're advisor, their fashion advisor to the Obamas. And you remember because he really dresses in really, uh, Mummoos by Jeffey look. A lot of times you'd see him, he was always had his big, I don't know, what you call him.

Robs, jackets, more of a more of a moo-mooh by Jeffie look. Not quite a Mummoos by Jeffie look, but definitely close. And that's how we became, you know, you know, fashion buds, Andre Leon Talley, and me. Andre, rest in peace, at the age of 73.

Did you also see, speaking of, who died today? Okay, so he didn't die. But Louis Anderson is in the hospital dealing with cancer. I know.

It sucks. So the 68-year-old, now, 68-year-old Louis Anderson, wow. So he's resting comfortably, according to his people, his representatives, in his bed in Las Vegas, diagnosed with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, which I guess is potentially curable, but it's reportedly aggressive. And I'm guessing when they say it's reportedly curable, that means, yeah, one guy a few years ago when I had, you know, he's reportedly. lived, but everybody else gone. Very sad. This is why Norm

McDonald didn't tell anybody that he had cancer. Because now whatever Louis does, whatever happens, it's all going to be about the cancer. I mean, remember, he had lost, he started losing weight and that happens a lot, you know, when you're not trying to lose weight and you lose weight. And if you're a fat guy, you're happy with it in the beginning. You're like, yes. All right, finally, something is working. And then you kind of go, well, I'm not really trying to lose weight and the weight is still coming off.

Maybe there's something wrong. Maybe there's a problem. And so that happens a lot with, you know, overweight people. It was that in the beginning, they feel good about losing the weight. So they don't really think anything is wrong. And then by the time it's figured out, ooh, man, that shouldn't be losing this much weight. You know, it's almost too late. I mean, he joked about, I love Louis Anderson and his jokes.

He joked the big joke on 2020 on Conan was the intermittent fasting. He said, one minute I'm eating, the next minute I'm not, then I'm eating again. That way I'm only eating for 30 minutes out of 60, which is half. He's trying to get down to 40, 20. I'm not eating the 40 and I'm not eating for 40 and eating for 20. man, that's a wonderful thing, the intermittent fasting. Right, and my favorite line was him, was he would come out on stage in the very beginning

in the early days of Louis when he was, you know, doing the stand-up act, he would come out and just stand in the middle of the stage with the mic, the mic, stand, or the mic in front of him, and he would just stand there and look at the crowd and go, don't worry, I won't be long, I'm between meals. That's funny stuff. Anyway, prayers to Louis Anderson,

who we now know is, dealing with cancer and struggling and at 68 years of age, you know, I hope he gets through it. I hope it does. I hope it's curable. But if he's in the hospital and he's been dealing with it now for more than a year and he's battling and we're now announcing it, that is not good. That is not good. Sad.

So get well soon, Louis Anderson. We all want that to happen. You know, I've been watching 1883. We've talked about it a little bit on the show. 1883, it's on Paramount Plus. It's a, what's his face? Taylor Sheridan's show. And I'm really enjoying the episodes,

but I'm reminded of, you know, it's not that long ago. It feels like it was so long ago. But we all have great grandparents. some of us listening to the show may be great, great grandparents who were alive then. And, you know, many of our grandparents

were, you know, although born in the early 1900s, didn't start out with, you know, running water and a toilet in the house. And, I mean, my kids, I can remember my grandparents'

house having one bathroom and being happy with that. I mean, my kids don't know a house that has one bathroom. What are we slumming it? I mean, I know. I mean, it's terrible. Anyway, so I'm watching 1883 and they're, you know, they're struggling and how the change in the country is happening.

And I don't know that I could have done it, A. I mean, we could walk, we could talk a lot about whether you could have lived that life. But that was your life then, so you're living in it. although in 1883, things were moving along pretty fast. This was the last of the pioneers going out from the east to the west. And a lot of that land in Oregon and California and Wyoming and the Dakotas were already getting modernized. So now these people are traveling. They've come to Texas, Fort Worth,

and now they're going to travel to Oregon. I know the Wayne 1 family, the Dutton family, we know doesn't end up in Oregon. They end up in Montana. So I'm not sure when that split is going to happen. But how people are treated and how they're dying off and how life, how hard life was. And how hard life was now on the frontier.

Because in the cities, life was pretty good for 1883. There was still a lot of violence and a lot of bad people. But there were some people. rules and laws and regulations and you could you know life was not bad in fact in one of the episodes the one the wife miss dutton uh she uh talks about how she had heard about a hotel in new york where the water gets pumped right to your room and what a cool thing that would be right and so that was in 1883 so i just the times man you know we joke around about even before then i mean even before any any kind of

any kind of human interaction when it was wild you know you would come to the river and say you know I'm good on this side I don't want to cross I'll wait for you know I'll wait for the interstate

to build a bridge before I cross it I mean it's pretty amazing how the how these people travel and got to places and how difficult it was and life was a lot different than what we have now. And we look at 1883 like it was just so long ago and it really wasn't. It really wasn't that long ago.

We've come a long way on the human scale of things. We've come a long way. And yet we've reverted to this ugly place that we were in right now, Jeff. No, I know. I know. But it's pretty incredible. If you haven't had a chance to watch it, you should watch it. I just, I find it amazing that you would do it. Right.

I mean, this guy had a fought in the Civil War and then he created a life with the family. And, you know, and then his dream was to get out there and we're going to go settle the West and find a place that's beautiful and get out of this hell hole that is, I think they were coming. from Tennessee and and then, you know, we're going to go north until I find something that speaks to me. But the struggle of getting there is pretty incredible. And you had to be a tough son of a gun to get through

male and female. And I don't know that I'm that tough. I think I'm in the city. Trying to, you know, maybe dealing cards at a bar, pipping out some hooks. Maybe just, you know, I don't know, maybe just sitting on a street corner begging for money. But that would be better. That would be better than driving a wagon through the West, man.

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Because, you know, I tested, and I'm not sick, I just haven't tested negative. And that's more on me. I know those of you that emailed me at Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com saying, is it really a policy of the blaze? You can't go to work until you have a negative? test or am I just using it as an excuse? Well, look, I, I, they have not told me I could not come in. You know, they have their policies.

And if I read the email, I could tell you the policies, but I haven't read the policy emails. But, you know, this email, they talk about beginning, my understanding from the beginning has been the five to seven days after symptoms start, you aren't contagious anymore even though you still test positive. Well, that is true. But they also talk about how if you, you know, with the new standards,

you could go five days. And if you're fine, you don't have any symptoms. And you test negative, then you can go out about your business, right? But if you've come in contact, so after I tested positive and, you know, I had a, I don't know how many days in there, then my wife tested positive and got sick.

So that now lengthens the window, right? So I'm fine. I just haven't been, I haven't tested negative. I, No Place has the quick test. We joked around about the, you know,

able to order, you know, four free ones from the government. But, uh, I've purchased home test when I've found them. And I have a couple left in the drawer. And I just,

I don't, I'll probably take one today because I was, I was threatened. Uh, you better take one. I'm quick. I don't want to test positive again. I just,

don't. My test positive. He's so bad. Because, I mean, look, I realize right now hospitalizations have dipped for the first time since mid-December. Right? So, I mean, models are, I love this, though. They still want to scare you.

Oh, sure. Hospitalizations have dipped for the first time. We currently have nearly 149,000 patients. But those models suggest that between 50,000 and 300,000 Americans may die from the disease by March. Yeah, we all might drown from flooding too.

There might be a volcano go off and we could all die too, but it probably isn't going to happen. Okay? That's probably not going to happen. And I wonder how long before people actually start saying, you know what, we were kind of wrong. I mean, I know we had the big Rasmussen poll that talked about how they want to lock people up. And they claim the one poll talked about 48% of Democratic voters think federal and state governments should be able to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media, television, radio,

or in online or digital publications. How about no? Only 27% of all voters, including just 14% of Republicans and 18% of unaffiliated voters favor criminal punishment of vaccine critics. That's even too much. That's way too much.

All of it. It should be zero. Wow. You can't be a critic. This is America. Still, I get to be a critic if I want to be. Okay? 45% of Democrats would favor governments requiring or temporarily,

requiring citizens to temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. No? How about no? We're just going to lock people up if you refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine. vaccine. Look, that's fine, but we're going to lock you up. No, come to think of it, we're not going to lock you up. We're just requiring you temporarily until you finally come around and get the vaccine to live in this designated facility. Okay, no problem. They said that 29% of Democrats

would, I'm sorry, Democratic voters, would support. temporarily removing parents' custody of their children if parents refuse to take the COVID-19 vaccine. That's more than twice the level of support of the rest of the electorate. Yeah. And that should be, that should be zero again as well. But that is amazing that those people are out there. I mean, I get believing in the mandates for government workers and large companies. Do I think it's Ridiculous? Yes. But, you know, I get it. I got it.

I got it. Right. Did your company do what you want? But, I mean, they can't even get half the people to be okay with that. All right. According to this survey, black voters, 63% were okay with that. But 45% of whites, oh, 55% of Hispanics were for it too. So more than half of Hispanics and more than half of blacks are okay with the mandates for government workers.

employees of large companies. Huh. That's interesting. And of course, the other minorities was only 32%. But that's still way too many. Way too many people. Now, don't forget, that's 55% of the Democratic voters in this poll, right? And the poll surveyed 1,016 U.S. likely voters,

conducted January 5th, 2022 by the Heartland Institute and Rasmussen polls. I'm sorry, Rasmussen reports. And so, okay. A thousand people, I mean, I believe your polls. I get it. You're pretty good, Rasmussen,

and it's probably a pretty decent poll. But that's a small number. Still, though. Still, it should be zero. you're going to lock people up because they won't get the vaccine? I go back to my campaign slogan. How about no? And we have that to worry about.

And then we still have the trucker issue between Canada and the U.S. So now regulations have gone, they're up and running this past weekend that require drivers to be vaccinated in order to be allowed to cross into Canada. And a reciprocal mandate is going to go live on the 22nd. of this month, 2022. So those same requirements for driving, crossing into the U.S., about 10% of the 120,000 Canadian truckers who cross the border may not be able to work those routes because they haven't been vaccinated.

That's according to Trucking Alliance. Now, if you think tensions are bad now, wait until you figure out what's expected for freight crossing the border now. lead time flexibility hello shippers and buyers are going to have to identify any shipments that might be impacted

it's going to be an issue so we need to definitely do something about that I saw some pictures already of truckers striking along the border and blocking the roads to try to prove their point

but good luck I know that they've had some clarifications on which truckers are exempt from COVID-19 shot or test mandate, which we can get into. I mean, it's a long, detailed thing. But I don't think that those clarifications are going to matter at the border,

right? They matter inside the U.S. But at the border, Canada is like, if you're not vaccinated, you're not crossing the border. Oh, okay. Well, I've got a truckload of ketchup. Heinz ketchup that I want to bring into the country. I mean, I would be okay with that being turned around.

Just bring it back into the U.S. We'll get it. No problem. Well, that's going to be a problem. So you think items are going to be tough to find on the shelves? I mean, what do we get from Canada? Syrup, for sure. Expects syrup shortages, right?

I mean, we already, we talked a little bit about the amount of syrup that comes into the country. But, I mean, I'm sure that the Canadians are going to be, unhappy with being unable to get goods that are shipped into their country from the United States that are no longer being shipped into their country because the driver of

the truck isn't vaccinated. What good does that do? How does that serve a purpose? Because the driver of a truck is not vaccinated. How does that have anything to do? They could go

untouched and untouched and unbreathed upon by other humans in Canada, drop their load and move on. Yes, yes, and that's what they probably want to do to begin with. I want to deliver these goods into Canada and get out. I want to drop my load and leave. That's pretty much the chain of custody for goods in Canada. I want to drop my load and leave. aboard Air Canada.

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The antitrust division is all looking into it. But, I mean, that's a, it probably will happen, right? I mean, in today's world, it's probably going to happen. But I was looking at some other companies last night that have, you know, what they've purchased and how much money they've spent and hasn't been a good deal. You know, Netflix bought the Ronald doll story company for 700 million. I don't know.

Was that worth it to them? Maybe. Apple bought beats for $3 billion. I would say that was a good deal for Apple to buy beats for $3 billion. Meta bought WhatsApp for $19 billion. I don't know if that was worth it, but it certainly was to them. Disney bought, we're getting into the 70 billions now.

I mean, remember Disney bought 21st Century Fox for $71.3 billion. I would say that that probably was a good deal. Yes, I would say I would agree that that was probably a pretty good deal. And then I guess the biggest acquisition, I guess the biggest acquisition for Amazon, it was for Whole Foods at $13.7 billion. I don't know if that that was a good deal or not. I guess maybe in the long run it will be because, I mean, you can get stuff delivered right to your house if that works out better, you know, food-wise, good. I ordered something from Amazon the other day.

It came the same day. I am in love with Amazon. Thank you. We ordered a product. I ordered a new Roku for the one TV in the living room because the TV. now I love the television, but it no longer gets updates from Samsung. So I can't get some apps, some new apps on it, because it doesn't update. So I just run the new Roku through it.

And I get all the new apps through that, okay? The new Roku, 5G or whatever the heck it is. But we, I was like, let's just get it. All right. We'll just get it. We'll be done with it. I'm sick of hearing about it. and,

Amber's like, well, I can be here today. It'll be here in a couple hours. That's the America I want to live in. You weren't getting that in 1883. Okay. That wasn't happening.

That happens in today's world, my friends. Today's world. I mean, Roku's on fire. I'm a fan. I'm a fan. They're trying to start their own,

you know, Roku channel, which I have watched in the past. They started it. They launched it a couple years ago. They want to compete with, you know, other streaming platforms. They're now going to, they just are going to release,

and I didn't realize this, that they're going to release the Al Yankovic story as its first original biopic. I know it's biopic. Stop it. But we'll see. Daniel Radcliffe is playing Weird Al in the biopic. Okay, cool. I guess that'll be okay.

I mean, weird Alice is that a great life and he's done some great things. I didn't know this, but Yankevick is only one of five artists with a top 40 hit in each of the four decades from the 80s through the 2010s. right? I know. It's like, really? Yeah, okay. Okay. So, only five artists have had a top 40 hit in each of the four decades, 1980s, 1980s, 2000s, 2010s. Okay, so we know it's weird Al is one of them. All right? Michael Jackson. All right. Okay, Michael. Madonna? Wow, Madonna is. in that. She is out of control. Kenny G. I can't bring myself to watch one of the

platforms Prime or Netflix has a Kenny G thing and I just I can't. I want to, I want to, but I just can't. Kenny, I appreciate you bro, but I just I can't. And

coming in. Number five. This was a no order and I have no idea what their hits were which we could easily find out. You too. So Weird Al, you two, not you, but you too. Kenny G. Madonna and Michael Jackson. All are the five artists who have had a top 40 hit in each of the four decades from the 80s to the 2010s. That's pretty impressive. Pretty darn impressive. And one last thing, it looks like I guess we are going to be involved in the Olympics. I can't believe that we're going to allow our athletes to go to Beijing for these Olympics,

but it looks like we are. And I still can't get over that we're reporting that cybersecurity firms are saying, hey, those athletes need to use burner phones. I don't want to avoid to get snooped on. They're going to get snooped on. I don't understand. A, I'm sure they've all got TikTok. So they're getting snooped on anyway here in the U.S., clearly.

and Facebook and Instagram and Twitter and all other social media accounts. Plus, they're going to be in this closed loop in China once they get there, right? They got to travel together. They got to stay together. They can't go outside of the area. That's it. And there will be, you know, guards. And if they break security, they go into some kind of quarantine.

Quarantine. We're calling that, you know, we're calling your, you know, the re-education camp, quarantine. But if you're inside that window, then they're going to be able to know what transmissions are being transmitted. I just, I don't understand. It's still, you're still there. You're still going to get snooped on. So, you know, you know what? It's a good idea anyway. Just use burner phones. That could be one of my campaign issues as well. How about no? and just use burner phones. Yes, hello, I'm Jeff Fisher.

Vote for me. Use burner phones. I mean, that's what a homeboy from Louisiana, the guy that's running from a U.S. Senate, he's all for smoking pot. He wants you to vote for him because he thinks that marijuana drugs and laws are outdated, right?

He said in his tweet, I hope this ad works to not. not only destigmatize the use of marijuana, but also forces a new conversation that creates the pathway to legalize this beneficial drug and forgive those who were arrested due to outdated ideology. Gary Chambers for U.S. Senate in Louisiana. Every 37 seconds, someone is arrested for possession of marijuana. Since 2010, state and local police have arrested an estimated 7.3 million Americans for violating marijuana laws. He's just smoking a blonde.

Of all drug arrests. Black people are four times more likely to be arrested for marijuana laws than white people. States waste $3.7 billion in forcing marijuana laws every year. Most of the people police are arresting aren't dealers, but rather people with small amounts of pipe, just like me. I'm Gary Chambers, and I'm running for the U.S. Senate, and I approve this message. Thank you. All right. So good luck, Gary.

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