Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 839 | Whataya Do with That!?...

Episode Date: March 28, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:37 How I wish this was me. So I was at McDonald's Drive-Thru this morning, and the lady behind me continuously hooted at me and flipped me off because I was taking too long to order. Once she ordered, I asked the cashier what her order was, so I paid for her food. I continued to the next window, and she leaned out of her window,
Starting point is 00:01:01 all crazy at me because the teller told her I paid for her food. She felt very embarrassed and avoided my through the rearview mirror eye contact. When I got to the last window to get my food, I showed the assistant both my receipts and took her food too. I paid for it. It's mine. Now she has to go around again and wait even longer. She's going to learn today. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. to chewing the fat. Welcome to it. We're going to have to.
Starting point is 00:01:42 I mean, we've got to talk about Elon, possibly starting another social media site. We've got to talk about the Oscars. Holy cow. There's a lot to cover on that. Man, this weekend was a Who Died Today plethora. So, I mean, I think we'd just start there. Who died today?
Starting point is 00:02:02 Or, you know, the last two or three days. I mean, we had Madeline Albright, I have former Secretary of State She passed away at 84 years of age And if you were wondering when you were driving around this weekend Why the flags were at half staff or half-mast It was because of her was supposed to happen all weekend I noticed I drove I live in you know obviously for if you don't know
Starting point is 00:02:26 I live in DFW and I drove to the greater Austin area This weekend and I drove a lot of Saturday morning and we drove by one, you know, car dealership, it's a, it's not a car dealership. It's a
Starting point is 00:02:45 RV dealership, SUVs, and I mean, RVs and campers, not SUVs. Those are on the other side of the road. Anyway, it doesn't matter. I'm not bugging you down with facts. But they have these giant flags. One of them was not Ukraine, by the way.
Starting point is 00:03:01 It's just the United States and the Texas flag. And they were flying at full mast. And then we drove down the road aways and there was, you know, the big car dealership flying at half mass. And I thought, wow, why are we flying flags at half mass? Oh, it must be for Madeline Albright. And yes, it was.
Starting point is 00:03:18 When I came back on Sunday afternoon late, that same RV dealership had them flying at half mass. So whoever put them up Saturday morning was like, I put the flags up. And then knew they got to come down. They're probably up 24-7 anyway. They all have lights on them, and they're up all the time. I know. You have to take them down if they don't have lights on them.
Starting point is 00:03:42 That's what you're supposed to do. That's flag etiquette. Okay, I know. So anyway, Madeline Albright, as our president, Joseph Robinette Biden calls her, that woman who died, yeah, Madeline Albright, she died at 84 years of age. She served as Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton from 1997. to 2001, and then she served as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from 1993 to 1997 prior to becoming Secretary of State.
Starting point is 00:04:16 Madeline Jena Corbell Albright, dead at the age of 84. And then we lost foo fighters, Taylor Hawkins. Incredible that he passed away, and he was down in Columbus. Columbia. And so Columbia is Attorney General, and if you're wondering how what was wrong, you're saying, oh, was he vaccinated? Yeah, I don't know if Taylor was vaccinated or not, but I do know that at the age of 50, he was found dead in his hotel room in Bogota. And they claim that they did a urine toxology test performed by officials there in Bogota, where marijuana, opioids, antidepressants, and benzodiazepes, and benzodiazepy,
Starting point is 00:05:03 along with about 10 other drugs were in his system. The cause of death was not announced. So you could, you know, take a guess. Apparently, he had chest pain Friday night, and they tried to resuscitate him in the hotel room, and no, they could not do it. So we'll find out more as the road goes down, as we, as the road goes down,
Starting point is 00:05:32 as we go down the road, one or the other. What actually killed Taylor? But that may have had something to do with it. But what do I know? Then we had a long-time NFL official, Wayne Mackie, who died unexpectedly Thursday night in Florida. He was 62 years of age. He worked for New York City's Department of Housing.
Starting point is 00:05:58 The whole thing is he worked for the Department of Housing, preservation and development. And then he was an official for college football, amateur basketball. He entered the NFL in 2007. And then he was, you know, the best of ever. He had 10-year on-field career. And then he worked for the NFL in the offices for, you know, overseeing official evaluations.
Starting point is 00:06:21 So, I mean, it was unexpected. And I wonder what could have had anything to do with Wayne's death. Weird. I don't know. It doesn't say. It just says, Huh. You know what?
Starting point is 00:06:34 Let's hang out in Florida for a little bit, shall we? Wayne was in Florida. How about this man from Tampa Bay, Florida, out there in Lithia? John Hopkins driving his car along County Road, 672. You know where that is. It's right out there. And it's still in Hillsborough County. And apparently, he hit an alligator, all right, on the highway.
Starting point is 00:06:59 So then his car went in the... ditch. All right. So, I mean, it happens a lot in Florida. Alligator in the road. You're coming out. You're not paying attention. You hit the alligator. And, you know, whatever. You freak out. And maybe you swerve off the side of the road. Well, people passing by saw the car in the ditch. They called 911. So the deputies got there. They also talk about John Hopkins was pronounced that at the scene. And also, there's a side note of the story. And the alligator also died in the incident. Yeah. one way or another, the alligator is dying.
Starting point is 00:07:32 If he gets hit by a car and he's still alive, we're putting you down. But you normally don't die because of it as well. So, you know, an investigation into the accident is ongoing. But John was 59 years old. So it is kind of unexpected that he would die after hitting the alligator. You know, rest in peace, John Hopkins. Not the hospital, but the man. Well, that's John's Hopkins, Jeff.
Starting point is 00:08:07 Not John. Yeah, I know. Thank you. We also had a young man pass away this weekend in Florida. And he, well, it was actually, you know, Thursday night. But it was sad. And it also goes to what I've talked about forever. is that, you know, fat guy seating.
Starting point is 00:08:32 A fat guy sitting on these rides, man. And it's difficult to believe that you can't fit in these rides, but you just can't. So this young man, Tyree Sampson, from Missouri, was visiting Orlando with his friends. And they went on this thrill ride, this icon park in Orlando that takes you up, I guess it's called a drop tower,
Starting point is 00:08:56 or, you know, the drop tower ride. or the, it's owned by the group that owns it. It's called Slingshot Group. I'm sure they have multiple rides around the world. This one is billed as the world's tallest free fall. 430 feet, it goes in the air, and it drops you 70 miles per hour. Now, you can see the one video is just horrific. It's been, I don't have, I don't think it's been, I think it's taken down now.
Starting point is 00:09:24 I don't think you can see it. You can see the blurry still shots, but, I watched the original video of a guy is filming three of his friends, not the kid. You see the kid down the way, down the row of seats, down the way. There's three people sitting, and then there's some seats open, and then you see the kid Tyree sitting with his other friends around, you know, just down the way. I don't know how many chairs are in between them. But you see how it's not fitting right.
Starting point is 00:09:52 If you're watching, if you look just at him, you can see how it's not fitting right, because it comes down over your shoulders. We've talked about it before. I can get in, I can get in, you wait for it to snap, but it doesn't snap. And you see when the girl, who was actually being filmed from her friend that was up close, is talking about how it doesn't have a seatbelt hook. It just comes down and snaps into place. It doesn't have the between the legs seatbelt hook, which is kind of weird.
Starting point is 00:10:17 They usually do. But, you know, and so the kid goes up, and I know exactly what happened, okay. it didn't click no one double checked it which is a big problem for the old slingshot group it didn't look like anyone double checked it especially I mean the guy that was right there in front
Starting point is 00:10:37 checking the three that we were mainly watching in the video was doing an okay job I mean he's just a young kid too working this ride doesn't give it any kind of excuse I'm just a young kid
Starting point is 00:10:52 I mean the bush gardens and town and Orlando and Disney. I mean, they have, the people that they have working there, the rules get followed, man. Like I told you, I've had the walk of fat guy shame before. It wouldn't click. You're not taking the ride.
Starting point is 00:11:11 Hold up, we've got a fat guy here. He won't fit. And they walk you off, man. You walk past everybody that's already clicked in. Like, let's go. How come I'm already clicked in? I've been on this ride long enough. Hurry up, fat man.
Starting point is 00:11:25 click in or walk off, but let's get this ride going. So it takes you up 400 and some feet, and then it drops you down, like 70, 75 miles an hour. And I mean, it's incredible. Now, the kid says, when the girl's asking, you can make this thing go 75, because they're, you know, they're just sitting there waiting for it to go up. And the guy says,
Starting point is 00:11:46 now there's not enough people on it tonight. So if it's a full ride, it drops down even faster. And it looks fun. It does look like a fun ride. you know, prior to this kid. So it doesn't close all the way. So it didn't appear to close all the way on this kid. Now, Tyree is a big kid.
Starting point is 00:12:06 He's like 14. He's 6.5. Nothing in the world stops this young man. Right? I mean, he's just a big, strong young kid. And there's no fear. Nothing scares him. I get it.
Starting point is 00:12:19 And so when the seat didn't snap, he's thinking to himself. I'm fine. I want to ride on this. I don't want to be fat guy shamed. I want to ride on this. And I can hold my arms around the bar brace that comes up over my shoulders. And I'll be fine.
Starting point is 00:12:36 I'll hold on. Because there's nothing that's ever been too, you know, too strong for him. He can do whatever he wants. I understand the thinking. I do. I get it. It doesn't work in this issue. And that's why you have people being, you know, saying, nope, it's not clicking.
Starting point is 00:12:52 You're not doing the ride. So at least. That's what it appeared to me. I don't think it was a problem where it clicked and then it unclicked. I think that it didn't click and he shouldn't have gone up. But, you know, I'm not part of the investigation. So it's possible that something did go awry with the mechanics, but I doubt it. And he just,
Starting point is 00:13:14 he just figured that he would be able to hang on. And he went up and it goes up and you see it go up and it comes down. And about halfway down, he falls off and slams into the concrete. and I mean, slams into the concrete. And the first report I saw, I talked about where he was taken to the hospital and he later passed away.
Starting point is 00:13:35 No, he was, he was passed away there on the ground. It was, there's no way. You know, there's no way survived. There's no way.
Starting point is 00:13:45 And, you know, people are screaming and they're trying to get on hooked and try to get to him and call, you know, call, and it was just sad all the way around. But I know exactly.
Starting point is 00:13:55 I know exactly what he was thinking. I do. He could hold on. Nothing in the world was ever going to stop him. He's this big strapping kid who's playing football. He's there with his friends. He can do anything. Nothing scares him. And this is why they have those rules, man.
Starting point is 00:14:15 Because you, no matter how big or how strong you are, you're going to fall out. You can't hold on. You just can't. You're dropping 400 feet at 70. miles an hour, man. I don't care how big as strong you are. You ain't hanging on to that.
Starting point is 00:14:30 I get, you know, it's just, it's just sad. It's just sad. And I don't know. Should I add one more to the Who Died Today list? Or have we done enough? Nah, we've done enough. Let's go to the break room. I gotta, I gotta get something to the drink.
Starting point is 00:14:43 I had enough of the dead. And that's not even talking about walking dead yet. Oh my gosh. Oh. Which, by the way, the new episode, of Talking Walking Dead is out. If you're a subscriber to this show, you know that already because it drops. If you're listening to this show and you're not a subscriber, uh, hello, what are you doing
Starting point is 00:15:13 with your life? Freeloading, nobody likes a freeloader. Okay? Just subscribe. It's available wherever you get your podcast. So 50 years, 50 years of the prices right. I'm sorry, well, the 50th anniversary of the price is right. And, uh, they're celebrating.
Starting point is 00:15:32 Yay. They announced the price is right, come on down to her. Or it should be, the price is right, come on down tour. And so that makes it the longest running game show in TV history. And it's going on tour. It already started this past Friday at Santa Monica Pier in California. So if you went to that, I would love to hear from you if you were out at the Santa Monica Pier showing of the come on down.
Starting point is 00:16:03 tour. But we're looking at stops there in Santa Monica. We're looking at Denver, Colorado, on April 1st, this coming Friday. Dallas, Texas, Thursday, April 7th. I might have to go to that. New Orleans, Louisiana, Friday, April 15th, Nashville, Tennessee, Friday, April 22nd, St. Louis, Missouri, Thursday, April 28th, Cleveland, Ohio, Friday, May 6th, and New York, Wednesday, May 18th. And there's no, they're saying, we don't know if Drew's going to be there or not. You're sure, he's,
Starting point is 00:16:39 he's previously expressed how close he keeps the show and fans to his heart. Does he? But he's been doing it since 2007. Drew, that's a good gig, man. Drew Carey, that's a good, good gig. He said, that's been my dream job.
Starting point is 00:16:56 Yeah, no kidding. I mean, come on. man that is a good gig he said that I really never thought my safe space would be on a sound stage wearing a mic cameras on me constantly and with millions of people watching but that's what the price is right is for me I love it no kidding that's a fun ride man that's a fun ride so if you have an opportunity to go out and say hello to the come on down tour those are the cities that are stopping by and maybe Drew will be there or maybe, maybe not.
Starting point is 00:17:32 Did you see there's an only fans star that just discovered something? Now, we talk about only fans often on this show because I'm a fan. I'm a fan of only fans. I love what, you know, if you want to do what you want to do, you, boo.
Starting point is 00:17:49 That's okay. All right, whatever. But this one only fans star discovered that her biggest user was her daddy and not just in the saying of you know, daddy, but her actual father. I mean, okay.
Starting point is 00:18:12 I guess okay. You know, whatever. So apparently she does request and does live shows and they're not, you know, they're, shall we say, a saucy content. That's not a crime.
Starting point is 00:18:37 It's just ick, right? So according to this girl, I love the line with, you know what's horrible. A lot of men do not touch their kids, but fantasize about it. No, they don't. No, no, they don't.
Starting point is 00:18:55 Sorry. They just don't. But she realized that her father was one of her biggest fans. And he, you know, obviously was a subscriber. And he also paid for the extra content. And she never knew that it was dad until, I mean, she's got over, she's got one clip now that she was talking about when she found out her dad's got,
Starting point is 00:19:19 you know, 16 million views. But, uh, it was just, you know, holy cow. It's so apparently,
Starting point is 00:19:27 he paid the monthly fee, plus he was paying money for the extra content. And he was, she was doing a live. And he was saying that he wanted her to do some other stuff. And she heard her mom in the background and realized, wait a minute, that's, is this my dad? That's my mom. And, uh, That is just a tad embarrassing, a tad sad.
Starting point is 00:20:07 Boy, what do you do with that? I mean, what do you do? You go home and, you know, what do you do? That's the question. What do you do with that? That may be the theme of the show. What do you do with that? I see where Elon asked a question on Twitter,
Starting point is 00:20:25 which I, you know, like. given the Twitter serves as the de facto public town square, failing to adhere to free speech principles fundamentally undermines democracy. What should be done? And then he asked if a new platform is needed. Yeah, Elon, it is. Why don't you just do it? And that's what everybody wants.
Starting point is 00:20:47 I want Elon to create a new free social media account. I mean, isn't that what Rumble, parlor, getter? What they all are saying they're doing? And we've got truth social out there from Trump, which, by the way, I'll go back over there and take a look at how it's all laying out. But boy, the beginning of that was not good at all. Parlor was really one of the first ones that was doing great until they got removed. They were doing so great that they got to get knocked down a peg or two. So they got moved from the app stores because the January 6th rioters used the platform to incite violence.
Starting point is 00:21:26 Did they? Did they? And then they were reinstated, but it was too late. So Parlor is still alive, but it's too late now. Rumble, I guess, is the place to be. Then you have Getter, which I'm, you know, I've got things on all those, but Twitter is the one, right? Twitter is the one that we all use. And whether we like it or not, I know all the other platforms are there and they're using.
Starting point is 00:21:52 And there's, you know, there's people that, you know, swear that I don't never using Twitter again. They're not for free speech. I know that. I get it. But it's still the platform that everyone uses. Facebook is not dead, but it feels like it is. Uh, Instagram for sure is not dead. But Facebook is definitely dead. Although they're, you know, they're going to have the meta world to maybe pull them out of the, the can. We'll see. Uh, you know, but I mean, they have Instagram. So they're still doing well with that. And that will hang on for a while. And then, of course, you have TikTok, which is just another social media account like the rest of them that, you know, although I know it's China, they're stealing all our information. I know, but we've
Starting point is 00:22:36 covered that. We've already given up on all of that. But they are more like turning into more like a YouTube, really, because same thing with YouTube, right? They, in the beginning, they didn't care. They wanted your content. And now they, you know, they only want certain types of content. and you have to follow the rules and the rules change all the time and you agreed to it so you can't be saying well they just changed the rules and we didn't know so and that's pretty much what the courts have said so and that's what tictock is doing now too they've they've started to you know started to pull in the range a little bit on the people or the content creators and it's kind of it's kind of agonizing so we'll see is elon going to do it i mean he's pissed that he has to uh he has to get his tweets approved before he can tweet him, right? They have to be scrutinized. And he doesn't like it.
Starting point is 00:23:31 And he's been fighting that again against the Securities and Exchange Commission. They have not taken it away yet. They're still making him do it. And so he's asking, this is just his way of punching back at them, saying, okay, we're going to keep this up because they just, we just talked about it.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Right? He asked, he asked them to take it away from him. and they said, no. Yes, he's D. The regulator urged the federal judge to allow his tweets to continue to be scrutinized, and they want him to still follow that. And so he's just throwing and punching them in the face a little bit by saying,
Starting point is 00:24:10 boom, yeah, okay, you're going to monitor me here? Well, I'll just come up with my own new platform then. Will he do it? I find that hard to believe. On the flip side, it's Elon, so he could do what he wants and probably will. Okay, so the Oscars, the 94th Academy Awards at the Highland Center, I'm sorry, the Dolby Theater at Hollywood and Highland Center in Hollywood. Regina Hall, Amy Schumer, Wanda Sykes. Yay!
Starting point is 00:25:01 Yes, because it was cheaper to get three women more than one man. Ha ha ha ha ha. Oh, gay, gay, gay. Yay. It's going to be shorter, too, because we've cut out eight categories. We're not even going to air those. It's going to be shorter, so it's only going to be over three hours long. Oh, okay, so you made it shorter.
Starting point is 00:25:24 Good, good, good. And, you know, you've got everybody trying to be a comedian. It sure it was funny that Amy Schumer and Wanda Sykes and they were all making jokes except it wasn't funny when Chris Rock was making a joke about Will Smith's wife Oh no
Starting point is 00:25:46 Because oh Will Smith walks up on stage And slaps Chris Rock And then says Don't put my wife's name In your eff mouth And we're supposed to love him And congratulations to Will Smith
Starting point is 00:25:58 By the way who won an Oscar for For uh Whatever the hell the name of his show was Oh, yeah, King Richard. The dad of the Williams sisters, Venus and Katrina, or whatever her name is. Serena, I know what her name was. I remember. Okay, so Chris Rock is joking on stage about G.I. Jane.
Starting point is 00:26:26 And because of Will Smith's wife having alopecia, I guess it's called, an autoimmune disease. that leads to hair laws or can lead to hair laws. He took offense to that. There's been a lot worse jokes. I'd like to, maybe we should go back. I'll give that to the two of the fat crew. And we'll go back and take a look at all the bad jokes that have been made.
Starting point is 00:26:49 Well, I don't know that I buy it. You know, I guess it was true and it was absolutely a slap. And he was, you know, at least acting that he was pissed. But was he really?
Starting point is 00:27:01 And are you really seriously? You go up and slap? Chris Rock over a joke? I mean, it feels like maybe he was angry at Chris Rock. Was Chris one of his wife's lovers in their open
Starting point is 00:27:15 relationship and he was just pissed about that? I don't know. It just was a weird thing and it overshadowed the whole Oscars and it overshadowed his moment as, you know, best actor, right? I mean, even he was up on stage
Starting point is 00:27:31 apologizing and I watched his I was watching Walking Dead. And so I missed the actual slap live. And then I went over to Dad and Will gets the best actor and he's up there. You know, like, what the hell is he talking about? And so then I, you know, I look, go back and I realize he's talking about the slap. No, no, that's one of your highest moment. That's when the devil will get you.
Starting point is 00:27:59 That's what Dee was just telling me. Was it, was it, Will? Okay. You got it. I mean, it's top, first of all, I'm fascinated to see the numbers. I can't wait to see the numbers for who was watching this thing because, well, it's going to, the numbers of people watching the show is not even going to come close to the numbers who are watching the slap scene.
Starting point is 00:28:25 That 45 to 55 seconds or whatever it was, that's going to be the most, watch thing ever for the for the Oscars. And so you know, Cota winning the best picture which is, you know, a big moment for Apple. I mean, wow. Totally college. Huge for Apple. Netflix is
Starting point is 00:28:47 probably pissed. They didn't get the one. You had entertaining, entertainment. And you'd consider this though. Just a little quick. And by the way, just a quick note, before I before you consider something else I was going to tell you, as I'm doing
Starting point is 00:29:02 my ADD moments through the Oscars. Did we boycott? Was the Oscars boycotted because Zelensky was supposed to speak? Sean Penn said he wanted people to boycott the Oscars unless Zelensky spoke. Did he speak at the Oscars? Was I supposed to boycott it? Darn it! I wish I'd only known.
Starting point is 00:29:22 I would have boycotted. But I don't think, I think they just had a moment of silence, right? They, Miley Kunis had a little moment of silence and that's all. That's what you get. So think of this, though, I'm sorry, consider this. Half of the 10 nominees for Best Picture were from a streaming service or premiered simultaneously in theaters and at the home. Well, I mean, that's kind of, that's a pandemic driven there.
Starting point is 00:29:49 But really, the streaming service, 10 nominees, half of them, five of them were, you know, from a streaming service, Hollywood, that's the new Hollywood. And they know it. And if you compare a list to the 10 highest grossing movies at the, U.S. box office in 2021. 10 movies that were nominated for Best Picture, they still didn't earn as much as Spider-Man Noel. So, just saying,
Starting point is 00:30:16 sometimes you don't get the Oscar, but the people go to see it anyway. Just say, but congratulations to all the winners. And, I mean, we could, sure, we could go down the last. list of all the winners and break them up and tell you who won. Billy Elish won her first Oscar for writing No Time to Die or her brother. Congratulations. You know, Jane Champion or Campion or whatever her name is from down from New Zealand,
Starting point is 00:30:50 Best Director Victory for Power of the Dog. Okay. All right. She got two years in a row? Oh, yeah, that's right, because she got no man land. No, oh, two women, two years in a row for women. winning best director. Yeah, so the way it goes.
Starting point is 00:31:07 Yeah, I guess those damn men. Yeah, because once you're her face, Catherine Bigelow won for the Hurt Locker, too. That was a long time ago now. Holy cow, the Hurt Locker. She was the first one. The first female. So congratulations, you know, to all of him.
Starting point is 00:31:24 Congratulations. Koda, Best Picture, as I said. Power of the Dog for Best Director. Best actress. Jessica Chastain, the eyes of Tammy Fay. Best actor, Will Smith, which was, you know, all these are overshadowed by
Starting point is 00:31:40 the Will's slap in the face. And is there going to be a lawsuit? I mean, can we just, is not that, can we just have a lawsuit now, right? I mean, hello. If, I thought you could just, lawsuits just happen, right? Chris doesn't have to file charges.
Starting point is 00:31:57 They can come after Will, right, for assault. I don't know. It doesn't be slapping. people, man. I guess we're all that's okay with it. We're just okay with somebody making a joke about your wife and you get to walk up on stage and slap them in the face and then say, don't put my wife's name in your effing mouth. Oh, okay. All right, Will, no problem. Should we wait to hear about it on her Facebook show, the red tablecloth or whatever the hell the name of the show is? Maybe we'll do that. But good news for Will, though. And I don't know if Chris Rock got any of the gift bag or not.
Starting point is 00:32:34 but there was a huge gift bag given to a few of the other Oscar nominees that was worth about 140,000. I'd like that gift bag, too. Please, that'd be nice. Okay. So for the 20th consecutive year, distinctive assets is distributed there. Everybody wins gift bags to select nominees. This year's bag valued it just over, oh, I said 140.
Starting point is 00:33:02 Gosh, darn it. Just over 137,000. A little cheap, scatty, okay? It includes items ranging from designer popcorn to a voucher for $12,000 worth of liposuction. I do want this. Distinctive assets founder Lash Fari, or is it Lash Ferry? I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:33:26 L-A-S-H-F-A-R-Y. He, you know, this is all part of his deal. they have their own reputation he calls he gets calls from about 25 to 30% of the nominees each year who want to make sure that we know where to get their bag
Starting point is 00:33:43 you know where to send the bag right? Most cases the nominees are in the L.A. area and so they're either delivered to the hotel room or they're delivered to their L.A. homes. He said he's mailing one to Olivia Coleman and maybe it's not a he,
Starting point is 00:34:00 maybe Lash Fari. as a female, so I apologize, or identifies as a sheep or whatever. I apologize. It's the last very distinctive assets. But he said, I'm mailing them. I did it again. But them, they, he, she, it said, I'm mailing them to Olivia Coleman and Judy Dench at their homes in the UK.
Starting point is 00:34:23 And Penelope Cruz wanted her ship to Madrid. It's incredibly expensive. So I try not to ship them if I don't have to, but I will for the Penelope cruises of the world. that's for sure. So a total of 28 people receive the Everybody Wins bag.
Starting point is 00:34:39 The five nominees for Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, will each receive the bag as well as the three hosts. Wanda Sykes, Amy Schumer, Regina Hall. So Chris Rock is out. He doesn't get one.
Starting point is 00:34:56 That's it. That's the way it goes. And they're going to have to pay taxes on it. So that's the way it goes. All right. Yeah, that's the way. goes, I know, sad, sad, sad, sad. Let's see what's in the bag, shall we? The bag also includes, okay, well, let's see, we'll go up to the top here. Let's see, the most expensive item in this
Starting point is 00:35:12 year's bag is a $50,000 three-night's day at Turin Castle in Scotland, inspired by Denzel Washington's best actor nomination for the tragedy of Macbeth. Guests who accept the offer will have full access to the 17th century castle, complete with butler service, and a bagpiper welcome when they arrive. The bags also include 52 other items and experiences. Here are the few highlights. A $12,000 celebrity arms liposuction
Starting point is 00:35:40 procedure from cosmetic surgeon Dr. Thomas Sue. The title of Lord or Lady of Glendco, along with a small plot of land in Scotland, anybody can get that. Big deal. I've even got that. So what? Okay, that's a
Starting point is 00:35:58 cheapy. 25,000, that's just add it onto the list. Anybody gets that. It's like a little, you get like an inch piece of land and you're a lord from there. All right. $25,000 worth of home renovations from Los Angeles based Mason construction. What's that new for you? A room, a tile or something, 25 grand in L.A. An assortment of flavor wrapped popcorn packages from O-pop-pop, or O-P-P-P-O-P-P.
Starting point is 00:36:29 Up to 10,000. worth of treatments and rejuvenation procedures from Dr. Constantine Vasukovic. I mean, you get the liposuction and that from Dr. Constan Vasukovic. You're looking good. A $15,000 four-night stay for two with the Golden Door luxury resort and spa in Escanico, California. A small batch tea gift set from the chai box. Is it the chai box? The C-H-A-I box?
Starting point is 00:37:03 I don't know. No, it's not a morpho-fellus. Stop it. You're not drinking that tea. The $12,000 life coaching section with expert Coyote Joseph. Man, does that sound good, doesn't it? And you had to pay taxes on it, don't forget. So, have fun and enjoy.
Starting point is 00:37:24 Was it worth a slap, Chris? Oh, Chris didn't get it. We got to talk to Lash. and see if Chris could get it after the slap because he deserves it now. It's the matcha or the three ensemble Ciceroa of Cephora of the FACET that I just niche that I'm energize
Starting point is 00:37:54 all the same. The format standard and mini-regrouped, what abem? And the embellage, too beau, who is practically pre to donate. And I know that I'd these summer Fridays
Starting point is 00:38:04 and Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez. I'm just the most ensemble, the Codesonsombedo of the Fett is at Shepora. Summer Fridays, Rare Beauty, Way, Cipora Collection, Part of Vite.
Starting point is 00:38:14 Procurry you Sforman, Standard and Mini, regrouped for a better quality price. In line on Cephora.
Starting point is 00:38:18 com, or in magazine. Okay, what is happening around the world? Well, at the same time that we have a
Starting point is 00:38:25 Georgia hospital, that's Georgia in the United States of America, Memorial Health University Medical Center in Savannah,
Starting point is 00:38:33 Georgia. They have reported that they were no longer any active cases of COVID-19 inside the
Starting point is 00:38:43 the hospital. Wow. That's pretty incredible. Zero active COVID cases. At the same time, we have places in China locking down. China, and they, I mean, we talked about it last week of one of the cities that they locked down. And now Shanghai started locking down. Wow. I mean, that's one of their biggest cities. And we just, I mean, 26 million people. And we're just going to lock it down. Wow. Okay. all right good luck god bless
Starting point is 00:39:16 and this story i'm a little i don't understand it why i thought we could still we could do this already google is saying they're going to add doctors appointments availability to your search so google will show you the next available appointment with a health care provider directly on search
Starting point is 00:39:37 okay the company is working with minute clinic at cbs and other unnamed appointment schedulers during an initial rollout, which I love those unnamed appointment schedulers, which will start in coming weeks. Product manager Jackie DeJess said that during a press briefing, it will initially only be available in English, you bastards. But you're just going to have to live with it.
Starting point is 00:40:04 If someone searches for a doctor or a health provider's office, they'll see what types of appointments are available and the date of the earliest appointment, a book button will direct them to a third-party site to make an appointment. That's where they're going to make their money. That's where you make your money. You become the biggest third-party site. And that's why those are unnamed appointment schedulers.
Starting point is 00:40:27 Okay. I got you. So if you're going to the San Francisco Minute Clinic, we'll show appointments, tab with options for TB test, vaccinations, skin condition, other types of appointments. people currently can't add advertise oh people can't currently add advertisements to that section
Starting point is 00:40:46 that will come though hey want to book an appointment with Minic Clinic yeah okay watch this ad first and there's no skip through button either and they're partnering with CVS as well I mean CVS has been in enough trouble as it is I'm not a big fan of CVS
Starting point is 00:41:04 but they're you know big company and I see where they're they got rid of a bunch of executives, and I say a bunch. A handful was the actual quote. In response to an internal investigation, how they mishandled sexual harassment allegations. Oh. Okay.
Starting point is 00:41:22 So an investigation that led to the executives ouster was reportedly triggered by anonymous complaints, alleging that a New Jersey, the New Jersey based regional store manager, harassed or inappropriately touched at least two. female employees. Oh, so it was anonymous, and it was just how they handled it. They didn't say that it actually happened. We do not tolerate behavior or actions that are harassing hostile abuse that were discriminatory. Yeah, we know. Neither does any company, okay? It doesn't happen. After a thorough investigation conducted with an outside independent firm, we quickly terminated the individual and others have since exited from the company for failing to treat allegations with the seriousness we
Starting point is 00:42:08 expect. So this anonymous report got people fired because they, the bosses were like, oh, geez, another anonymous report. Oh, okay. So the manager accused of harassment was in charge
Starting point is 00:42:24 of hundreds of CVS locations. Human Resources Executive and Executive in charge of the regional manager were let go due to their handling of the allegations. A third executive has left the company as well. Wow. So CEO, Karen Lynch became aware of the allegations after, and supervised the investigation, which concluded a few weeks ago.
Starting point is 00:42:48 Wow. So they, and they said now that they've, you know, beefed up their internal reporting mechanisms. So the deal was is that an anonymous person, I mean, the harassment actually could have actually happened. Let's just go on the theory that it did. But we have the allegations from an anonymous. source. Oh yeah, I wanted to be anonymous because I didn't want them to know who it was. Okay. But they, you know, didn't do the investigation right. And they should have. In today's world, you should have, man. That's, uh, that is not happening in today. Anyway, they're partnering
Starting point is 00:43:24 with Google on this, uh, new tool that you'll be able to make appointments using Google with the Minute Clinic. And, uh, they are working with Minnet Clinic at CVS and other unnamed appointment scheduleers. Oh, that's nice. Also, the Minute Clinic is part of CBS. Got it. Sorry. I misunderstood. I thought it was a separate thing. It's not. That's how I do not go to CB. Only, I mean, I swear,
Starting point is 00:43:49 I do not like CBS. I don't like the way the stores are built. I don't like the way they're laid out. I never like the way the pharmacy, pharmacicians. Yeah, that's right. That's what I call them, pharmacists. I don't like the way they work. I'm sure
Starting point is 00:44:06 they're nice people. If you're listening and you work for CVS, I'm sure you're a nice person, but you work for CVS. And you know who else is getting that way is Walgreens? Okay, so the Walgreens I usually go to, I really like the pharmacist
Starting point is 00:44:22 who's in charge, and I really like a couple of the workers that are there, okay? But going there for a long time now. Almost in the entire time since I've lived here in Texas, going to this one particular Walgreens. And they're starting to roll through employees now,
Starting point is 00:44:36 and they're new, and they're different, they don't care. It's not like, it's not the same as it was. You know, things change, and I don't like it. Okay. But, as the theme says for this program today, what do you do with that? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:44:52 Are we going to go to war? I don't know. Are they laying the groundwork for us to be involved in this damn European war? Sure feels like it. And remember last week, I don't know if I haven't mentioned it on Pat. I don't know that I mentioned it here. But the Selective Service tweeted out, In the event of a draft, our agency would partner with FEMA to provide opportunities to conscientious objectors to ensure our nation keeps moving forward.
Starting point is 00:45:19 Learn more about alternative services at, and they give a link. And then they give a definition of conscientious objectors. So are they laying the groundwork for a draft and for us to be in another world war? And they're letting people realize that there's way out. if you didn't want to be a part of the military. I don't know. I don't know. You'd do with that with what you want,
Starting point is 00:45:44 but it's just amazing. I saw another story where a Russian troops drive tank over commander. I don't know if that's true. You know, we've heard stories of soldiers wounding themselves and or killing themselves just to get out of battle, but we heard big stories about many soldiers
Starting point is 00:46:05 wounding themselves just so that they wouldn't be up fighting in Ukraine. And that's why so many generals and colonels are getting shot and killed, the Russian leaders, because they're on the front trying to save the soldiers who are, you know, injuring themselves. But this story talks about Colonel Yuri Medvedevid has suffered severe leg injuries in the attack. Russian soldiers drove a tank over one of their senior officers after the unit suffered a massive number of losses in Ukraine. Oh, okay. Severe leg injuries in the attack and because most of more than half the troops of his brigade were killed. Is that true?
Starting point is 00:46:53 I don't know. I barely, you know, believe that Nestle has pulled all their brands out of Russia. I barely believe that. All right? I barely believe that the chess grandmaster, the Russian grandmaster, Sergei Karzhakat, has been banned from competition for six months
Starting point is 00:47:14 because he supported the invasion of Ukraine. Because he supported the invasion of Ukraine. He plays chess. Who cares? Who cares if he was for Ukraine or against Ukraine? He plays chess. Okay? It's just, I don't know what to believe anymore.
Starting point is 00:47:33 I don't know what to believe anymore. I do know that, you know, we're seizing all the oligarch stuff. We're doing all that. We've shut down stuff. I saw where the CEO, Larry Fink, of Black Rock, told his shareholders in a letter that the Russian invasion of Ukraine has put an end to the globalization we have experienced over the last three decades. Has it. Has it, Larry. he predicted that the war in Ukraine will transform the global economic order established after the Cold War.
Starting point is 00:48:08 While the last three decades were defined by countries building trade links across the world, now they may start looking inward to shield their economies from supply chain disruptions and geopolitical conflicts. Yeah, that would be an America first plan which you didn't like and which nobody liked. They got rid of Trump. How about those mean tweets now? How you like in those mean tweets now? It's just incredible. And it hasn't done that at all.
Starting point is 00:48:37 The economic order is still in order. We're just able to shut off countries that we don't like and don't do what we want to do. And I say we. It's not we. If you think Joseph Robinette Biden is in charge, you are sadly mistaken. They're letting him sit at the table because he's the president of the United States. But that's about it. That's about it.
Starting point is 00:48:57 All right, I've gone, I can't talk about that anymore. I'm sorry. I apologize. I'll leave you with a joke, okay? I'll leave you with a joke, a pregnancy joke, a new baby joke, since I was in Austin with my wife's grandkids this weekend and, you know, seeing the new baby and, you know, they're all beautiful. It's just, my wife, you know, is happy to be with her grandkids. And I'll give you, I'll give you a pregnancy, new mom joke, okay? All right, I'll leave you with that today. You ready? All right. What kind of bees give milk? Boobies! Thank you. Good night.
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