Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 827 | There’s No Factual Basis

Episode Date: March 10, 2022

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Well, the EPA has said, you know what, go ahead. Yeah, we're going to approve that. No problem. Oh, really? Yes. The male mosquitoes developed by aquaq. C-Tec.

Codamed Ox 5034 OX Capital OX 5034 derived from Ais Egyptai Which is

I mean they're You know horrible They carry diseases Zika Dengai And yellow fever Scared yet And then so when these Mosquitoes mate

With the native females in the area When you have a little mosquito business going on They produce female larvae. So those simply just die off before reaching adulthood. Thus,

dooming the population. Oh, okay. Well, because according to this, only female mosquitoes bite and suck blood from humans. Huh. So they think

that these insects are not going to pose any danger to people. Okay. All right. Good. We're only going to release two billion mosquitoes. Now, to be fair, I don't know how many are going to be in Florida, and they also said, hey, let's release some in California, too. So congratulations to OxyTech. And I'm sure that you're proud of your milestone for the approval from the EPA. So that's good. That is good. that we're going to have these genetically modified mosquitoes

flying around and dooming the population of mosquitoes as a whole in Florida and California. And I got no problem with getting rid of mosquitoes. I don't think. I feel like it's going to end up biting us where mosquitoes don't normally bite unless you're not wearing pants. But for now, okay, you know, I guess we're all for it. let's make sure that we kill off all the mosquitoes. But if we kill off the real ones and then we have just the genetically modified mosquitoes left,

I seem to remember some documentary at some point talking about life will find a way. And so I kind of feel like the genetically modified mosquitoes are going to be a problem in the end. so you know what maybe that's just me welcome welcome to chewing the fat a quick search

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the genetically modified pigs to serve as heart donors for humans. And so not long ago, they just did a pig to human transplant, the world's first. Except that that really didn't, hasn't, well, I guess it, you know, they will claim. that it was a success. But, you know, who died? Who died today? Yeah, the first person to receive a genetically modified pig heart has died two months after the doctors at the University of Maryland first performed the experimental operation.

The patient, 57-year-old David Bennett. Yeah, remember that guy because he did not look 57? Yes, I remember talking to you about it. because he did not look 57. He looked 57 back in, you know, 1930, when you saw pictures from people in the Depression era that were 57 that looked ancient. That's the way he looked. Anyway, either way, he died after his condition began to deteriorate a few days ago.

And the exact cause of death has not been revealed. Uh-huh. It's unclear whether his body rejected the transplant. Uh-huh. But the physicians plan to evaluate Bennett and publish their findings, do they? But his death illustrates the challenges of animal-to-human transplants, known as xenotransplantation. I am a fan. Zeno-transplantation.

You can't stop me from talking about xenotransplantation. So, you know, I guess, you know, we want to lessen the reliance. on human organ transplants, and the donor had come from a one-year-old pig genetically altered to decrease the likelihood of rejection in his body. More than 100,000 Americans are on organ transplant lists, and 6,000 patients die each year while waiting. Wow.

And so, yes, and of course, the two-month-long survival post-transplant is a step forward. Yes, no kidding. I mean, in 1984, we had the infant that took the baboons heart, right, and lived 21 days. And, I mean, that was only in 1984. So, phew, man, think about how we've come, you know, since 1984.

It doesn't sound like we've come as far as we would expect to have come. Anyway, now there's a new startup group that called Inversion Space. that wants to transport goods, but really, you know, body organs from space. Wait, what? Yeah. The former SpaceX intern, and he's one of the co-founders, and this Austin Briggs told the New York Times that their goal is to create capsules, the size of several carry-on suitcases.

that can both store things in space and deliver them to points all over the globe at blistering speeds. Oh. Okay. Well, so these two 23-year-olds have secured $10 million in seed money to fund the venture. They've also joined the incubator Y Combinator lending the peculiar scheme and aura of credibility. They've joined the storied incubator Y Combinator. And if you don't know what that is, wow, okay, I'll tell you. It's funding for early stage startups.

So twice a year, I guess they invest hundreds of thousand dollars, half a million or whatever they want, into a number of startups. So I guess that gives them, that's what they're saying, gives them the credibility, since this place doesn't give money to just anybody, apparently. So what they want to do is have organs and have them, you know, orbiting the globe. And then if you need, I need a heart in Mogadishu, and they just, you know, type it in and down it comes. So if I get a lung that lands in my backyard, is it mine? Or do I have to call and say, hey, you guys screwed up with your delivery.

It wasn't supposed to go here. The lung was supposed to go down the road. So I'm guessing that's okay. I mean, whatever. I don't know that that can still be done, right? I mean, okay, I get it. We're growing pig hearts in Germany or piggy ears or whatever you want to grow your organ, whatever organ you want to grow.

Believe me, whatever organ you want to grow will be coming soon. And you put it on ice, I guess, and you shoot it up into space and it just flies. lies around until you need it. I don't think we can do that yet. I mean, Elon's shooting up satellites that's costing him a lot of money to have those rockets

go up for those satellites that are orbiting the globe, the Starlink satellites. And so maybe you latch onto that. Maybe each Starlink satellite is able to have a suitcase, a carry-on. That's what they're talking about. There you go. That's what you need to do.

Each Starlink satellite launched into space, gets to have a carry-on. And that carry-on can be a heart, it could be an ear, it can be whatever organ you think you're going to need. And then it's just,

as soon as the Starlink satellite sets free, so does the carry-on. Or the carry-on stays with the Starlink. And then, you know, we just lock into Starlink three, and that has the heart that was put in there on a certain date from a certain pig

get a certain time and we're going to drop it off into a Paris for the French president to get a new organ. Not going to happen? I don't know. I don't know. I love it, though. I love it. Look, if I can get stuff delivered to my house dropped from a drone, why can't I get a new lung or a new heart dropped from space when I need it?

Sure, there's airlines that fly around the globe and deliver that stuff fairly quickly. But if they could do it faster, that's what we need. Speaking to be delivered by a drone, too, I want to apologize to, well, to Amazon. And this is just a kind of a half apology because I talked about wanting to get a charger and I ordered same-day delivery and it didn't come. And I even paid extra money for that same-day delivery. And then they emailed and said, yeah, we're not going to make it. It's held up in this other city, and it's not going to make it the next day.

Well, it came the next day, not the same day. And I thought, well, you sons of guns took my extra money. It should have been here. They refunded it. They said, oh, yeah, there was a problem. Sorry about that, Amazon Prime member. We're going to give you your money back for that. So they didn't charge me the extra money that I paid for same day delivery.

But on the same token, they didn't deliver on the same day either. So let's go. I know Jeff is not the CEO anymore, but, you know, let's hop on it. All right, let's go. So did that sound like an apology? Eh, all right. I'm sorry for bashing you for charging me

for extra services that you didn't provide. And I guess thank you for refunding the money that you charged me. So, that's good enough. All right, let's go to the break room. need something cold to drink desperately. Oh. Oh, man, as long as we're in the break room, too.

I should, you know, write my postcard to Major League Baseball. Remember when you were America's pastime and now you're just history? I mean, they just delayed another until April, like four. I think they're, they've already deleted four. series, right, for the league. I mean, that's a lot of games. So they're into April already as postponed, and they keep saying they're going to come closer together.

I'm telling you, man, they do not see the writing on the wall. And I don't know what their deal is. I haven't looked into their contractual problems, but whatever it is, they better work it out because America will be done with you, man. And it'll be a long, long road back. So all that extra money you think you're getting is going to be gone. It's kind of a long postcard.

So I was kind of surprised that I see where FBI most wanted on the CBS. We talked about how Julian McMahon said he had enough. He wanted to get out of it. And so he was going to quit. And they were going to bring in Dylan McDermott to fill his part, who was on Law and Order organized crime already as the bad guy. So now he's going to be a good guy, an FBI, good guy. on FBI Most Wanted.

And so I was wondering, you know, okay, well, whatever, that's, you know, that's who they got. That's who they're going to do it. But I thought for sure that they wouldn't, and this is going to be a spoiler alert, if you have not seen the latest FBI Most Wanted. Julian McMahon,

Jess LeCroix on the show, was killed. And I couldn't believe they killed him off. I thought for sure he would go away. They were setting the whole thing up for him to go away with the new girlfriend wife. The daughter was off at school, at the horse school. So he could have just, you know, they could have made the show where, you know,

all these people died. There was a trail of bodies and maybe the kid dies in the arms at the end. And he decides he just can't do it anymore. He's going on, he's going away. They were going to Bali. And, you know, he leaves and he goes away. And we just, from that on, we hear he's not coming back. He can't do it anymore.

It was just too tough. take all these deaths and he was sick of see on the death and they're dying that way it leaves you the out he can come back right i mean three years from now he could there's jess lecroy again standing in the shadows like i'm back i you know whatever but they killed them off and it was very it was disappointing that they killed them off i was bummed uh i was bummed that they killed them off and they did it pretty good although it seemed like i mean we didn't let the daughter back on the show i mean apparently we're not paying her anymore she's gone all right he dies, we're not paying her anymore.

They went and knocked on her door, but she knows a part of the shit to tell her, but she didn't show up. So that's what you get. When dad decides to leave the show and we kill them off, you don't get any more paychecks either. Oh, okay. All right.

Well, that's good. So we'll see how the new FBI Most Wanted shows up with Dylan McDermott. And I like Dylan, but he's been the bad guy on Law and Order, crime now for this, you know, one or two seasons. Are we still? I think we're still in the season one of organized crime, but he's been the bad guy.

So he's going to do both, be the bad guy on NBC, be the good guy on CBS. That, my friends, is a good gig. So I remember that whenever there's new movies and new shows out, the actors or actresses have to go out and promote it. So they have some kind of story that ties into the world and then they can promote their show, right? We talked about what's the same? faced Donny Osmond yesterday and he ties in with the Dell. I see Renee Zellweger has the new show,

the thing about Pam, her new movie, and about a convicted killer Pam Hup out of Missouri. And she, you know, is telling the story that she had to take a lot of Benadryl while they were filming because of all the prosthetics that they had to put on her. She said it took, you know, three or four hours or more to put all the stuff on.

You had to wear fat. suit and you know whatever i guess they they had it she claimed that they whittled it down to under three hours by the end of filming well i'm a couple i'm torn here i'm torn here because uh you know i'm okay so she's acting like she's uh this killer pam hub why didn't we get a fat woman why are why didn't we get a we're fat shaming uh i mean i get that's why pam hup was never looked at in the beginning because of how she looked right that's the point of the thing about Sam or the thing about Pam. But Zellweger is not an overweight person.

And now they're doing that. I mean, if we have to have a gay person playing a gay person and a trans person and a white person playing a white person and a black person and we can't have, we have to have Indians playing Indians, I mean, why do we not have a fat person playing a fat person? What's the deal? I mean, I'm okay. I don't, I could give a flying crap.

It's supposed to be an actor and actresses. That's what you do as an actor or an actress or whatever you want to call yourself. That's what you do. You play the character. But if we're going to go down that road, why don't we hire a fat person to play the murderer Pam Hop? I'm just asking a question. Okay. Renee.

I mean, Kelly Clarkson could have played the role. Maybe. I don't know. I don't know if it's possible. I know Kelly isn't, you know. Renee Zellweger thin. But I see... Look, I'm 800 pounds.

I get it. No problem. I see where finally, Kelly has, the divorce from Brandon is finally done. It's over. Have a nice day. So it's done.

And this should actually be houses of the hoity tooty because, I mean, she has to pay Brandon. I mean, it's good to be Brandon Blackstock right now. And I know divorce. for no matter whoever is in it and the children and I get it. But Kelly has got to pay child support.

$45,601 for their two children monthly. So River Rose and Remington Alexander, 7 and 5, but they've got to suck for them. And additionally, the couple agreed to having a joint custody for their kids, although River and Remington will live at Clark's Los Angeles residents. Yeah, we're not living. No, Brandon, they're not living with you. Okay, that's not happening. That's awesome.

So the other stipulation of the agreement is that both kids will be vaccinated against COVID-19. There's seven and five as they will be traveling out of state to see their father at the former couple's Montana Ranch, where he's going to be living there for the time being, I bet. So both Clarkson, see, Clarkson gets both. of their Montana properties, Brandon will pay

Kelly 2,000 a month while he stays there until June. In addition to the one-time payment of 115... Wait, in addition to the one-time payment. So that was... The one-time payment was the $45,000? I thought that was monthly.

Oh, I missed. Holy cow. Sorry. The monthly child support payment, it got me. It's talking about $45,601 to Brandon for the kids. That's monthly. But just before that, in a little smaller letters, she has to pay him $1.3 million one-time payment.

It's good to be Brandon. Okay. So Brandon Blackstock gets $1.3 million, one-time payment. Plus, he gets the $45,601 a month for child support. All right. Then he's going to be staying at the ranch, which he has to pay $2,000 a month to her, which, I mean, come on, $2,000 a month for the ranch, please. But he's going to, you know, that's until June.

But addition to the $1.3 million, he has to pay spouse. Kelly's got to pay. Spousal Support 2 until 24. And that is $115,000 a month. So Brandon gets the one point, was it, 1.3 million one-time payment. Then he gets the 45 and the 115.

So he gets, you know, I bet you've got to be separate. checks too so they can follow the track the money instead of just writing him a check for what 160 170,000 a month 145, 56 160, 160,000 dollars a month on top of the 1.3 initial payout. Wow. That's, uh, I'm sorry, Kelly. I'm sorry, but apparently Kelly is, uh, okay and she's doing fine and everything's, you know, we're just happy to have it behind us.

And he's got to be out of the ranch by June. One of the odds. One of the odds Brandon can't be out of the ranch by June. So he's going to have to stay. Look, I'll continue to give you the two grand a month. You're only writing me a check for $160,000 a month. And so I can give you two back. And we're good.

And I'm going to give you that two out of the child support money, not the spouse will support money. Why don't you just let me live here for free? Okay? And you just continue to pay for the ranch. All right. All right. Good.

Now, what about vehicles? I didn't see anything in this story about the vehicles. Oh, here we go. The court docs also state that the singer is going to get, oh, good. Kelly keeps the pets. And Kelly's going to keep the Ford Bronco, the Ford 2, F-250, and the Porsche,

as well as the flight simulator. Yeah, Brandon can't have the flight simulator. That's not going to happen. Now, Blackstock is going to get, Brandon's going to get the cattle, livestock, stock dogs, and horses. But the ranch isn't his. So is he going to, and he can't afford the ranch on what she's paying him.

Multiple vehicles. He gets the Ford F350, the Ford F-250, an ATV, several cat snowmobiles. He's going to, oh, and he gets the golf simulator. a couple of watches. Yeah, you're not taking, you're not taking my Filippe watches. That's not happening.

And you got the flight simulator. I'm not giving up the golf simulator. I want to be out of the ranch. Come on, it's wintertime. And I got to be out of there, but I got to have the golf simulator. All right. But if he's not going to,

if the ranch isn't his, Kelly keeps the ranch. He gets the cattle. I mean, he's going to just have to sell him off, right? That's a good gig, man. that is a good gig what do you do for a living

I'm Kelly's ex yeah I got to you know well I can't see the kids I'm busy right now with my golf simulator but I will take that 45 grand a month

and child child support though okay all right thank you talk to you later Kelly how's the show coming by the way I know you got a couple shows

out of the line make sure you keep doing that because I don't want to lose the money but you have a new album coming out or something Kelly I got to go talk to you later With Amex platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex.

Conditions apply. So I had an email the other day to Chewing the Fat at Theblaze.com, which you can email me questions or comments or stories or whatever you like. I appreciate it. I try to get to them all. Even if I don't respond to them all, I do see them. Thank you so much, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. And someone asked me about Hank the tank, the bear, or bears, plural, out in Lake Tahoe, that has been, you know, ravaging houses, rampaging, yeah, he's been doing that too,

ravaging houses and stealing and scaring people and all that kind of stuff. Well, we know that there's multiple Hank the tanks, okay, and he's been seen, he's been spotted the last couple of weeks. but we haven't moved any bears out there at all. Well, then I see as I'm looking around for Hank the Tank stories, I see where an Italian brown bear was breaking into bakeries to feast on cookies. You may have seen the video that, you know, was viral. Well, that bear has been caught now and taken to a special reserve due to his, you know, bad behavior, the brown bear.

So, you know, they, heaven forbid, heaven forbid, that we kill him. I mean, I'm sorry, put them down. And so, you can't do that, Jeff. My gosh, what are you doing? And then I thought, you know what? That's right. I mean, I'm a fan.

No one loves zoos and animals more than me and more than this show. So I saw where the government is going to hire a grizzly bear conflict manager, and they were going to pay up to $103,000 a year for the right candidate. And I thought, doggone it, I could be the right candidate. for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and I could be a grizzly bear conflict manager. Who's a good little grizzly bear?

Come here. You are. Don't you bother those people over there and don't you go talking to those other bears. You take care of you. You be you. Okay, you go get your fish. Now,

the job description says that you should expect wild camping and multiple forms of transport, including foot, boat and air. Thank you. So you would live in Montana. I mean, you have to.

I keep up with the grizzly bears. So you would, you know, be the grizzly bear conflict manager. Wow, that's a cute thing. Now, you would live within 100 miles of either Missoula, Bozeman, or Calispell, Montana. That's here in the United States of America. So apparently you don't have to be in America. and they'll take anybody, you know, apply for the gig.

The candidate's going to split their time between camping and the field and an adequately lighted, heated and ventilated off us. Yeah, that's a little room over there, okay? It's adequate. That's where you work out of. They'll be expected to use a variety of transport to navigate often harsh terrain, including on foot, snowmobile, boats, and small aircraft. And they're going to also supervise a small team.

I don't know who that is. I don't know if you're going to have some part-timers working out of Missoula. that to help you out from time to time, but maybe. You're going to have to be ready to be bit by a lot of insects. You'll be praying for those genetically modified mosquitoes. Because according to the incumbent may be subject to large numbers of biting insects, uh-huh, and be required to work in close proximity to large animals such as bear and moose.

They may also need to carry a firearm, uh, you think, for protection. Now, I'm all excited. I'm thinking, man, I'm going to apply. You know, I know bear attacks remain relatively rare, but, you know,

hey, it could come with the job, and I get it. And they try to blame it on climate change. Uh-huh. And so, you know, it's a problem, all right? Well, then I see that March 8th, 2022, is the final day for applications. If you're listening live today, it is the 10th of March, 2022. I'm so angry right now. I missed the deadline to be the grizzly bear conflict manager in Montana.

Just when you think things are going good. So as long as we're talking about taking care of animals and out there, you know, I love them. I see where someone has taken a picture of a wolverine at the Yellowstone National Park. That's pretty rare. That's one of the rarest animals around these days are the Wolverines. So, I mean, they had one show up a year or so ago in, I think January of 2021, a little over a year ago, on one of the trail cams where it showed a wolverine. And that was the first time that it had seen a Wolverine be captured on the motion sensor trail cameras out by Mammoth Hot Springs. but this dad and his daughter were driving down a road and turned to curve and oh my gosh there he is the wolvering crossing the road

just out by himself and they're pretty they're loners anyway and except for when it's business time when they're looking for taking care of wolverine business you don't want to be around them okay you don't want to get between them and mama wolverine okay it's just not happening so uh they reside mostly in high altitude alpine and forest habitat. They weigh as much as 30 pounds. I'll tell you what, a Wolverine will kick your butt. All right, they eat, you know, small mammals and birds, and they eat in a little vegetation when they have to.

But they are capable, man. They are some nasty, you don't want to mess with a Wolverine, man. You do not want a Wolverine to square up on you at any point, okay? And I love it the story. They're mostly solitary, you know, except during breeding season. Like I said, Don't get it around them during business season, man. You don't want none of that.

Oh, maybe, you know, maybe you do if you're, you know, a hot Wolverine looking for a little daddy Wolverine love. But you don't want none of it as a human. You do not want none of that. But they're still around. So that's good news, right? We finally see another sighting of a Wolverine out there at Yellowstone. So they're not extinct yet. That's darn it.

And I know what you're thinking. Hey, Jeff, you know, you always talk about being from Michigan. Oh, you're going to do a wolverine story without talking about Michigan? No. You know what? No, I'm not. And I know everybody's famous for saying, we haven't seen there's no Wolverines in Michigan, just the University of Michigan's nickname.

That's what they call themselves. But there's no real Wolverines in Michigan. Well, yeah, there are. Okay? I know a few years ago, I guess it was, I mean, probably, probably a lot longer than a few. More like, you know, I don't know, 14, 15 years ago or something like that. They spotted a Wolverine in Michigan.

So they do exist in Michigan. So back off, okay. There are more weasels. Oh, they're a member of the Weasel family. There are more Wolverine member of the Weasel family in Michigan, not just from the university. So there. This episode is brought to you by Peloton.

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Remember the guy got fired for firing 900 employees. Well, I mean, 900 employees got fired over Zoom last year, and they got rid of the guy that did the firing. Well, now they have laid off more than one-third of its workforce, about 3,000 jobs, which is what the guy who got fired was saying. But he just did it the wrong way over Zoom. And we played his firing over Zoom. And I don't know how else he was supposed to do it. I was supposed to call.

I wonder if they called all 3,000 people personally. That's what they said. They said they were going to do that. But a few people, I guess, and I don't know how a few is, said that they, we found out that we were going to be laid off because we got severance package in our bank accounts prior to the official announcement. Oh, okay.

It's always good to know. I've told you the one job that I got fired from, I knew it was coming. And so I was coming in the back door. I was working a radio station, had multiple stations, and I was running one of them that I knew was going away soon.

And so I was just milking it for as long as I could. I'd come in, I'd do my work. I'd send a couple emails and I'd leave. And so I went into the mail room to pick up the mail. and the boss's secretary was in there and she was like oh jeffy what are you doing here so i do that was that was the end of the time and it wasn't long after that that uh you know hey uh boss wants to see you yeah have a nice day so i found out that day oh what are you doing here if you run into the boss's

secretary and the secretary says oh what are you doing here yeah that's the that's the last day you should have already been gone i see where uh Amazon has been flagged by the House Judiciary Committee for potential criminal obstruction of Congress. Oh, okay. Now, I, you know, what they're doing is they're, say, one of their people testified before Congress and said that the company doesn't use the data it collects on third-party merchants on its platform to compete with them. and it doesn't list its own products in customer search results before those of third parties. Now, those assertions have been contradicted by credible news reports and anyone with a brain. So I get it.

Now, there's probably a fine line in there that Amazon fights with. So, you know, I know that, you know, they have the practice of undercutting the businesses that sell on its platform. And apparently they've been making. knockoffs for similar products and boosting the presence of the knockoffs other than the third parties. So I guess, you know, they're saying, hey, we've changed a little bit of their explanations. I'm sure there's some kind of fine line that they walked, but they appear to be caught in the lie.

So we'll see what happens. The only thing that makes me a little weary of this is that this was from the Judiciary Committee. and that's led by Jerry Nadler from you know Jerry with the pants pulled up to his chest and, you know, a few pounds overweight. And he is, I know this is part of the Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust Subcommittee, but anything that he's involved in makes me personally question the entire thing. And more fallout from the Russian,

Ukrainian war of business and lockdowns of friends of friends of friends. Bayek, B-U-I-K, the instant delivery player, has furloughed all its workers. Yeah, they've had some cash flow challenges, according to the Russian founders. Er, yeah, you think? I mean, there's been some serious cash flow. What was the quote he said again? They've had some cash flow challenges. Yeah, there's been plenty of cash flow challenges.

In fact, I'm living through a little bit of those cash flow challenges right now. I understand. I know that, you know, look, we've got the boycott of Russian businesses. I mean, the Russian piano bar in Manhattan, they're claiming that it's owned by Russian and Ukrainian couple. And their business has fallen off 60% because of this. Oh, okay. The sign in the window says, stand by Ukraine, no war. And they're holding a fundraiser for Ukraine, but I don't know that it matters.

I don't know that it matters. And I know the one, remember the one French restaurant in Paris was having problems because they were thinking that the name was because of Putin. But it's really a mehsand de la Putin, P-O-U-T-I-N-E. A M-E-E-L-L-L-L-P-E-A-L-L-L-P-E. And it has nothing to do with Vlad. But, hey, it doesn't matter, okay? People think it does, so you're going down. And then we have the, you know, the Cardo-F Philharmonic Orchestra in Wales

scrapped works by the Russian composer Chikovsky, or Chikovsky, from its upcoming program, including it's going to conclude that performing them would be inappropriate at this time. Oh, okay. I thought the old Russian composer was dead. Correct me if I'm wrong. But do I hate Russia because you're playing Chikovsky? No.

I mean, the guy's been dead for, I don't know, at least 100 years. Okay. And I see where the performance of the 20-year-old Russian pianist, Alexander Amadefi, was postponed by the Vancouver Recital Society. And who doesn't love the Vancouver Recital Society? The organization's artistic director. who is fantastic. I love her.

She told the BBC that, not the BBC, the CBC, Canadian broadcasting, that while she feels badly, in fact, she feels very badly, not just badly, but very badly, for Malaviv. But she felt she had no choice,

but to pause the show after Putin invaded Ukraine. Yeah, it's not something I'm proud of, or excited about, but I had to. We just had to. We can't have a Ruski. playing the piano at the Vancouver Recital Society when this is going on. Sorry, that can't happen, okay?

All right. Now, the performer responded by saying every Russian will feel guilty for decades because of the terrible and bloody decision, but argued that people cannot be judged by their nationality. I'd like to just answer you with this, Alexander. want to bet? I mean, look around, Alexander. That's exactly what's happening.

People are being judged by their nationality. And I don't see an end to it soon. So good luck with that, Alexander. And let me know how things go with the Vancouver Recital Society because I'm with you. I agree with you. And I understand how difficult it is, especially when you're the one being judged.

when your nationality is the one being judged. But multiple nationalities are being judged around the world, and in particular here in the Western Hemisphere. So that's exactly what's happening. So let me know how that works out for you, because it doesn't look like it's going to end anytime soon. I'll tell you that. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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