Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 84 | Falsely Accused, Where Are The Men, & New Words In The Dictionary

Episode Date: April 24, 2019

A woman spent 7 days in jail for a crime she didn't even commit and guess what the cops did about it? Nothing! Jeffy also had some words to say to BlazeTV's Steve Deace as he missed his show yesterday due to heart problems. Lastly, over 600 words were added to the Merriam Webster Dictionary and Jeffy looks at the words that you need to know about.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Remember, I don't know, about a month ago, when you felt lucky and you went and bought Powerball tickets because the Powerball was $768.4 million, you weren't lucky. But one guy was Manuel Franco, 24, from New Berlin, Wisconsin. He said, I felt lucky. So I bought $10 worth of Powerball tickets. one of the tickets, of course, was worth $768.4 million. Amazing. Congratulations.

I know he's going to take the cash payout, which gets him down to $477 million. And then let's not forget about, you know, those state and federal taxes. Everybody wants their cut. So they're going to wire transfer into his account. $326 million. That would not be hard to take. I want you all just to take a second. Imagine your checking account.

Whatever's in there now. So imagine your checking account. Manuel said he was trying to get his checking account up to $1,000 before he hit the lotto. And think of it what it would look like after the power ball. wire transferred $326 million in there. Looks pretty damn good. I mean, congratulations, Danielle. Congratulations, I'm glad you won.

Glad you won. Good for you. Congratulations. So I saw this story last night. It's been gnawing at me since last night. Almost like just a little, I don't know, like a little possum in the bedroom. Just gnawing at you all night long. So the story is a lady.

in Ohio, Ashley Foster, gets arrested. And she was under, you know what? She was the wrong person. She had the same name. But the address was wrong. So the warrant was right except for the address. So really the warrant was, I don't know, wrong. Did that stop the police?

Nope. drug her out of her car in a parking lot. She had two children with her. Didn't matter. One was like really young. Nope, you're not going to change the diaper. Nope, you're not going to feed it. You're under arrest.

You're under arrest. But it's not me. I'm not the person. You have the wrong person. I know it says everything is right, except for my address. Nope, we're arresting you for trafficking heroin. You're under arrest.

Let's go. Okay, well, what about my kids? Yep. They'll come and get them. So she was in jail for seven days. Two different jails. In fact, let her tell you what happened. No one could tell me anything.

Every single officer I talked to said the warrant is not ours. The case is not ours. I can't tell you anything. Move to Brown County just two days ago. The Brown County officer said, it's not my case. I can't tell you anything, but we're going to take you to our jail. Seven days, seven nights. Amazing. In jail before I could finally know why I was even there.

Unbelievable. So, I mean, she's in jail for seven days, seven nights, not even knowing really what's going on, where she's going, what the Warren was from. everybody telling her, not my job. Not my job. Sorry. So they caught up with her.

This news report happened to catch up with her right at the, I mean, she would just let out of jail. She was in her yard. She was at her house, or at least she was at a home. But she had just been let out of jail. And they let her out of jail. And they just said, she finally met with the captain. And the captain was like, yeah, you know. what you're the wrong person.

Thanks for your time. Take care. I don't even think she got to take care. I mean, it's amazing. Aberdeen chief, David Benjamin, confirmed to me he interviewed Ashley this morning. He just said, thank you for your time. He left. Did he apologize?

No. What are you going to do now? I'm going to go get my kids back. Yeah, she breaks down and starts crying because she's going to go. She hasn't even had a chance to get her kids back. when she did this interview. Now, she got her kids back, but she lost her job

because she didn't show up for work. Nobody didn't even know where she was for seven days. They, the people who took her children, the child protective services, they didn't just give her her kids back. No, she had to be interviewed to see if she was a fit mother after she'd been arrested.

she was arrested falsely it was wrong the police department even said that they had sent her prints during the procedure to the FBI to confirm her identity

her prints were returned negative you know why she'd never been arrested okay I know mistakes happen 100% I know mistakes happen

and I get it It just seems like perhaps we should go, when a mistake happens, perhaps we should go out of our way to make up for that mistake. Maybe the police chief goes to her job. Maybe the police chief, I don't know, goes to child protective services with her and says she was falsely arrested. We made a mistake. Give her her kids back.

Goes to her job, lets them know. she was falsely arrested. It was our mistake. Is there anything we can do? At least try. Instead of the... Thanks for your time. Uh, no.

Something a little extra would be nice. Chief? So I know that she's in the process of talking to an attorney and I'm sure there's many knocking on her door now. Uh, I want the town, the council. the county, the sheriff's department, all named Ashley Foster now. I want people to be a living in Ashley Foster, Ohio. And I want the police chief to bend the knee.

Another police department here in Florida, though, helping out Mr. Jim's Pizza. Mr. Jim's Pizza had to close. I had to shut down. I don't know if you were a fan of Mr. Jim's Pizza here in the Metroplex. They had to shut her down because some employees were putting

mirror lax on pizzas. It's not funny. It's not funny at all. I don't even know why you're laughing. All right? But the, I don't know if you ever been to Springtown, Texas, which is,

I mean, this time of year, beautiful. Right there. I mean, the story says it's in Wise in Parker counties. Is half of Springtown in Wise and half of it in Parker County? I don't have to look at it. the map now for that look that up see if it is springtown texas see if it's in half the counties i don't know

why they're saying it's in both counties so that's got to be the case so anyway a resident uh told the police uh no uh they're putting uh laxative um on the food and uh so they shut it down now they were joking around with other employees now is it should they be doing that no no they should not but they had to shut it down was at least three employees um the they gave it to another employee that I employee unknowingly ate. Yeah, I got it. Okay. And so no laxatives were put on any pizzas that were sold to the public.

Of course, they had to shut it down. But it's back open now and just to prove that it's okay. The police department of Springtown. I don't know whether it was the Wise County or the Parker County side. They're both in Wise and Parker County, Springtown. Oh, there you go. All right. So it's right there.

The county line is right there. So I don't know. Maybe both counties sheriff showed up, but they're eating at, at Mr. Jim saying, hey, it's fine. Don't worry about it. Man, do I. It'd be a shame if somebody actually put laxative on those police officers pieces, wouldn't it? Like maybe Wise County did it to Parker County's sheriff's, but I'll show those bastards.

It's like a rivalry in super troopers. That would be a real shame. I would hate to see that. You know, for those of you that listen to Steve Dase here on the Blaze Network, you know, you can download his podcast wherever, you know, Blaze TV, whatever, whatever you were problems. So apparently he was off yesterday And I don't want anything bad to happen to Steve And I like Steve I know Steve

But apparently he Had little heart palpitations or something And he went to the hospital And he said started You know, he was worried He brought his wife He almost stopped working And he went to some urgent care building

And then the doc said Oh if you were my kid I would go do some more tests So he did Off to the hospital he goes And he spent the night there He got all these tests and this little stress test and he's talking about all his blood tests that he took.

And now it's like nothing was wrong. He thinks that it was just that he was, you know, hyped up on his green tea caffeine. Okay. You know, I feel sorry for you, Steve, but why don't you settle down with your little new motto of, hey, if you think it's a problem, get it taken care of?

Why don't you be a man? All right? Be a man like the rest of us. Wait until you actually have the heart attack to call somebody. All right. I was, I did that.

Not you. I didn't wait around all my chest kind of hurts. I'm going to go have a check. No. Be a man. Wait until you actually have the heart attack before you go to the hospital and worry about it then. Damn you for being preventative.

Man, I can't take it. What happened? Where are the men? That's what I want to know. Are the Men? So my Saturday podcast last week, I interviewed Tom Cooling, who is an attorney, and he represents companies and individuals. And he's focused on facial recognition technology. And I see a story again today.

You can go back and download that wherever you get your podcast, wherever they're available. In fact, you should be a subscriber of chewing the fat. And if you subscribed, you would get the boop every day when it uploads. It gets sometime late in the afternoon. 5.30 Central, 6.30 Eastern, I think, is when it drops. But on Saturdays, I usually try to have an extra show for you to listen to listen. I listen to Tom. We talked to Tom this weekend about facial recognition and where we're headed with that.

And, you know, one of the future and what could possibly. Possibly go wrong, because nothing can go wrong with that. Right? I mean, it's a perfect, perfect technology. Except that a New York student has now sued Apple for a billion dollars. Good luck getting that, by the way. But he said that the company's facial recognition software falsely linked him to a series of thefts from Apple stores. So this young kid said he was arrested at his home in New York in November and charged with stealing from an Apple store.

The arrest warrant included a photo that didn't even look like him. And he said one of the thefts he was charged with in Boston took place on a day in June. He was attending a prom in Manhattan. So he said he lost his learner's permit. This is where the story gets a little convoluted. He said he lost his learner's permit. Someone could have stolen him and using that for their identification. But Apple uses, according to him, the photos and facial, facial.

recognition in their stores. Apple on Tuesday said, we don't use facial recognition in our stores. We don't know what you're talking about. We don't know how that happened. We just happened to get that picture from our cameras. We didn't use any technology to figure out it was you. So good luck, getting that billion dollars from Apple.

And I'm probably, if he starts blaming, if he starts calling them out for facial recognition, and they're already denying it, I don't think he's going to get a settlement either. Apple's going to want to fight it, and they got a lot of money, which sucks. If you go after Apple, you better be right because you're hoping for that settlement, right? I'm going to sue you for a billion dollars, and you want Apple to go, oh, let's just make this go away. We don't want to put up with this lawsuit for 10 years and spend all this money.

Here's a million go away. if they're fighting you because of the facial recognition they can fight you for 10 years they've got the money do you I don't think so but it does prove that we're already involved in cases of people being falsely identified for crimes because of facial recognition

or presumed facial recognition so that road is going to be a long and busy road. And it just might affect you. I hope not. But it probably will. We're going to get an execution in Texas, too, tonight. Going down tonight.

I'm excited. I am. I can't wait because I'm a big fan of, I think Texas, too, we did this. We've done this story. I think Texas is now one of the states that don't give the people who are being executed their last meal. You just get whatever everybody else is getting. bastards.

What happened to the good old days? Some states still give you, you know, you're still able to, you know, get what you want. Do you want fried clams and some root beer float? Fine. Not anymore. You just get what everybody else is getting. I want pizza from Springtown, Texas. Right.

With the Miralax. Don't worry. A little bit later on this evening, you'll be getting, you'll be having, you'll be having what Miralax does for you. No problem with the little help from the state of Texas. So, John William King 44 is, you know, going to,

well, he's not even getting the juice. He's getting injected with fluids. Oh, see, we're not even getting any. He's just and then he's going down. But he is, remember, he was convicted for the death of James Bird Jr., who was, you know,

Now he's, you know, one of the most horrific racial deaths, I mean, hate crimes in Jasper, Texas, back in 1998. So he's the, this guy is believed to be the ringleader, and he tried to get out of it and had all his appeals a denied. One of the other men involved in the dragging was Lawrence Brewer, Lawrence Russell Brewer. We've already put him down in 2011. and Sean Allen Barry, the third participant, he was just sentenced to life. So he's still obviously serving his time, so James Bird Jr.

Can rest a little bit easier now because number two is going down tonight in the state of Texas. Sad that it won't be... It'll just be... but it will be something. Executions are in now, though. We talked a little bit earlier this week about North Korea,

back to giving public executions now in town square. Saudi Arabia just put 37 people down by beheading them. What is going on in the world, man? These 37 people convicted on terrorism charges in Saudi Arabia. Arabia got the death penalty. And it was a mass execution, beheaded. I don't know.

I mean, it's there. You know what? They're their own country. You've got to say, okay, I guess. You got to be okay with that. But the one kid was arrested because he was going to go to

some democracy rally during the Arab Spring. Because he had already been accepted to come to college here in the U.S. And he was going to go to some democracy rally during the Arab Spring. And they were like, hey, no, that's a crime. Is that worth beheading? Not if you want to go to the Perot Museum on Friday night, my friends.

It isn't worth beheading. I'll tell you that. Science, fact, or science fiction. 21 and up gets to explore how the sci-fi gadgets of the past have informed technology today at Social Science Science fiction Friday night at the Perrault Museum. So if you're in this neck of the woods, the Metroplex, and have an inkling for science fact or science fiction, you can go to the Perot Museum of Nature and Science Friday night 7 to 11 p.m. And of course, if you're an adult, you can learn about key poisons from Game of Thrones with

a medical toxologist. That would be fun, actually. I might have to go to that. You can discover advances in artificial intelligence, dive into CRISPR. They're going to demo autonomous cars with the UT Dallas Cars Project. They're going to shrink objects with the shrink ray science. No, thank you. I'd like to go the opposite way, please, with the, you know, what are we shrinking? That's my question. Wait, that's my question.

What are we shrinking? Because, you know, I don't even want to know the answer to that. Plus, you can put your mark on the pro-leggo. wall and of course that's the art of the brick which is the temporary exhibition so Friday night at the Peril Museum it must be an adult for this it sounds like it sounds like a lot of fun I actually want to I want to see the medical toxologist and tell me the poisons that are being used in Game of Thrones and then I will ask the question what are we shrinking and of course you're going to be able to wet your whistle with the Wolfgang Pucks

signature cocktail. Close encounters of the third lime. Oh, that's funny. Or you can grab a deliciously frozen and carbonate snack. Music is going to be provided by DJ Light Bright and Radio DJ.

So Friday night, you can be there for the music provided by DJ Light Bright and Radio DJs at the Perot Museum of Science. Yeah. Sounds like a lot of fun, actually, the Pro Museum of Nature and Science. Friday night, 7 to 11 p.m. Social science or science fiction.

So you might as well go to Perotmuseum.org and get your tickets right now. Perotmuseum.org. It's supported by Highland Capital Management, Tequila Herodura, and Parkplace dealerships. See you Friday night at Perot Museum. Perotmuseum.org. I let's go to the break room. I need a drink anyway. And I seriously need a drink of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar.

I see where Coca-Cola is now launching their new Coke coffee. Said to be the perfect mid-afternoon fix that perfect mid-afternoon slump with Coke coffee. I mean, in the old days. You know, back in the day, Coke and coffee used to work. Different. Different Coke, really. Anyway, good luck for them. Back in, they try, they have the Coca-Cola Plus in Australia,

but now Coke coffee expected to hit shelves in more than 25 markets worldwide by the end of this year. Good luck. I mean, they're trying to get, trying to there fight against the energy drinks, right? Coke coffee will be new and, uh, And on the shelves, 25 markets by the end of this year. Another thing that's hitting the shelves, Sugarfina, is making the first ever coffee-infused, caffeinated gummy bears. Man, or is that looking for a lawsuit?

Good luck. Good luck. Because, you know, you're going to have kids and old people just downing caffeine, gummy bears and being all freaked out. because we've already had, you know, the people that down the loads of the sugar-free gummy bears that have the Miralax made with Miralax, and people you have too many of the sugar-free gummy bears and you're doing Jim's Pizza stories with it.

So now you're going to have people running around. I just ate a bag of those gummy bears. That's all like I normally do. Never mind that it. It's all caffeine. That's all. For those of you that are listening to Chewing the Fat and you're a subscriber to the podcast and your podcast listener, I find it amazing. And, you know, the member of the Blaze TV, you know, you subscribe to Blaze TV.

Thank you very much if you do that. I know that another company, Luminary, is now doing their $8 a month subscription for exclusive podcasts. Good luck. I mean, most podcasts like this one are free. You're welcome. I mean, I fought and fought to make this podcast free. I did. I mean, I went out of my way.

They said, no, Jeff, no, we want to charge people. It's just that good. We want to charge people for this podcast. I was, no, no, I won't have it. It's a free podcast. I want people just to go to Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher and subscribe and get it for free. That's what I want.

and they finally gave in. They gave in. They said, okay, fine, here you go. We'll find another way to make money off of it. All right. Sell some ads. You see how that's going. I mean, you hear ads all over this thing.

So, they are everywhere. I have to stop them from adding so many commercials to this podcast. So good luck to Luminary with their, now there's another way for you to get, exclusive content. I mean, there's so many free podcasts out there with information. I don't know. Good luck.

And congratulations. We know that CVS, who agonizing, banned all tobacco sales in 2014. Now we have a dozen states or so. And 450 cities have raised the minimum age to buy tobacco to 21. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Turtle McConnell said, that he's going to introduce legislation to make federal purchasing age 21. Yay!

And now Walgreens says it's going to raise the age of buying tobacco products to 21. At least they're not going to cancel sales like CVS. That's too much money for them to lose to stop selling tobacco products. But they're going to make, you have to be 21 to buy it.

They've been in, Walgreens has been so much trouble because they've been caught selling to minors a bunch of times. They've been fine selling to minors. selling to minors all this time. But they've started their campaign now. If you buy tobacco products at Walgreens, at least here in Texas, they slide your ID.

Everybody gets carded for tobacco. So, you know, I don't know why they're making such a big deal out of the 21, but I guess they're trying to appease everyone. So I guess, you know, they're saying that the number one cause of preventable death, cigarettes. And right aid claims that over 80% of adult smokers had their first cigarette before. four turning 18 that I believe I mean I was like

I don't know 11 12 I mean when I was my kids age I was already I was already smoking my heart out man and I've been smoking my heart out it took about 80 years before I actually had a heart attack but

it did finally happen almost 95% started smoking before hitting 21 yeah absolutely the FDA is breathing down everybody's nags drugstores are moving to keep the camels away from the young babies. Yeah, well, that's the author of the story. But it's going to be 21 everywhere very, very soon.

You can still go to war. You can still fight for us, but you're not going to be able to have a beer or smoke a cigarette. It's kind of ridiculous. Kind of. People are getting mad again at how much CEOs are making. I know they're all wound up about Reed Hastings from Netflix. whatever Reed Hastings makes, it's worth it.

Pay him the money. He took home almost $302 million last year. That's not a bad year. Not a bad year at all. Last year, 2017, he took home $179 million. I mean, how did he live? How did he live? That's why he got up to $302 in 2018.

He just couldn't do it. You can't make ends meet at $179 million. clear. I mean, it only made in the highest paid CEO in the S&P 500, and that was $179 million. So $302 million. Good luck. God bless. And they're pissed at Iger from Disney for making, you know, $65 million. And he's cashed out a bunch. He's made more than that because he cashes out his stock options, which is what Hastings is doing as well. Right. I mean, his salary is, maybe, I don't know, 17 million or 15 million or whatever, whatever it is. It doesn't matter.

But, I mean, when you start talking about anywhere under 20 million, forget about it. But it's the stock options that they're cashing out that, you know, is making him the hundreds of millions of dollars. And Abigail Disney, who get over yourself, Abigail, the activist filmmaker, she likes to go by the air to the Disney Empire has, described the Disney CEO's compensation as insane. She's worried about, he could have given a 15% raise to everyone who works at Disneyland and still walked away with 10 million. Yes, he could have.

But would it make a difference to what Disney made? No. When the guys sweeping up trash at Disney and God bless them and bless their heart for doing it. And I understand how tough. a job it is and you're walking around you know disney world in florida sweeping up trash and picking up ice cream that little billy dropped and making sure everything is clean it's a tough job but you knew what you were getting paid when you did it it just just drives me crazy and we also found out that

the uh masayasi son i don't know i mean it's not my son but he's masayasi son uh he lost a hundred and $30 million on Bitcoin. So remember when we all thought Bitcoin was going to reach the edge of the earth and we were all going to invest in Bitcoin and get rich. We all put money on Bitcoin because we had people telling us that it was going to be this great thing. And by the end of the year, the end of last year, we were going to make all this money. and we didn't, he bought into that as well.

And he thought it was going to be a big thing too. So look, he's a billionaire. And $130 million is like, nothing. And throw that, give that to somebody. But nobody likes to lose $130 million. Congratulations to Wing. That's the alphabet Google's drone division. They're becoming the first company to receive an FAA air carrier certification.

They're going to be able to start to commercial service in Virginia later this year. Why is this not happening in Texas, specifically in DFW? Why am I not getting drone deliveries at my home now? I've already said I'll put in the drone delivery shoot in the roof, but I've got a nice big backyard. I'll paint a giant X. I want the drone to fly over, drop my package and be done.

So when I order something, yes, do you want it drone delivered in five minutes? Yes. And have it picked up in my backyard. I want that now. They're having it in Virginia. What? No, thank you.

No, thank you. Good news from a Miriam Webster Dictionary. They've added some new words, like 640 new words to the dictionary. And you're going to be happy with some of the words that have been added. Like swole and buzzy. I mean, swole, if you're like me, you're familiar with that. The workout in the gym and you're just hanging out in the gym all the time. You get swall.

I mean, that's clear that that happens. Now, some of these words I find they're more like slang words is all. Really? I mean, that's all they're doing. I know that there are words that are supposed to be, what do they call them? They're supposed to reach critical mass, right? So they look for, according to the editor at large for Miriam Webster's Dictionary, they look newspapers magazines academic journals books movies television scripts until the words

reach what they call critical mass which is that means that they're looking for you know slang terms but they're going to turn them into actual words like um what if i told you the meaning to a word that they added um someone regarded or treated or treated as unique or special and someone who is overly sensitive. What word would you pick? You would be wrong. The word is snowflake. Let's say the final moments or minutes of a game in which one side has an insurmountable lead.

Nope. It's called garbage time. All right. You try to guess this one. All right. I'll let you know if you got it right. A form of venture capitalism in which a. aggressive methods are used to buy a distressed business with the intention of selling it at a profit.

No, silly. It's called vulture capitalism. Duh. All right. So here's one that I mentioned earlier. All right. We know about Swole. Here's one that I mentioned earlier. See if you can remember which one it was. Causing or characterized by a lot of speculative or excited talk or attention. Right. You got one. One of them right, Buzzy. So, you know, that's only 636 more words to go that were added to the Merriam Dictionary. And we're not going to go through them all because Snowflake, garbage time, vulture, capitalism, buzzy, and swole are enough. Although I didn't do swall. So since we added swall, that's 635 more words we have to go through.

But who's counting? All right. Warning, warning, warning, something is going on. I mean, I don't know what's happening, but be on the lookout, okay? The kissing bug, the kissing bug is now starting to attack this year. Be on the lookout. We just had a report of a little girl getting bit on the face by the kissing bug. And it happened in her room.

I mean, she's just laying in her bedroom watching TV and a kissing bug came on. I kind of hurt. I shouldn't have hit myself so hard in the face. Now, the family lived in an older single family home near a heavily wooded area, according to the CDC report. Right. There was an air conditioner in the window of the girl's bedroom, and they hadn't traveled anywhere outside the local area.

So the bug just kind of zipped around the AC unit, I guess. Okay. In September, the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention warned that the deadly bloodsuckers were on the move up from Central and South America and had been reported in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. Yeah, that's quite a ways up from Central and South America. Quite a ways up. Amazing. And now we've got this girl from Kent County getting bitten in the face from the kissing bug. Uh, we are, if you're in the lower half of the United States, be ready and be on the lookout, man.

I do not like the idea of the deadly chagas kissing bug, man. It's the silent danger. Here's what happens. You'll be happy to, you'll be happy to hear this. Uh, while it's on you. It's sucking your blood. And then it defecates. The feces is a parasite, which finds a home in your tissue, muscles, heart, and leads to a chagas disease.

The disease can be fatal, though the chances of contracting it are low. Not if they're already biting people now. If a person contracts the disease, symptoms typically include severe redness, itching, swelling, welts and hives. It can be spread from mother to baby by bloodstream. transfusion and during organ transplants. Most people only experience minor systems, but some less than half, really, may develop the following. Irregular heartbeats that can cause sudden death. Maybe that's wrong with Steve Days.

Maybe you got bitten by a kissing bug. I mean, maybe he has chuggis. Somebody needs to alert him, possibly. An enlarged heart that doesn't pump blood well. Problems with digestion and bowel movements. An increased chance of having a stress. stroke. Yes, the CDC estimates that approximately 300,000 persons with this disease live in the United States. Most are infected with, you know, parasite tea. I don't want to be infected with that,

and I don't want them to come. They come from South America. I'm absolutely sure, though, that none of these bugs are getting brought here from. immigrants sneaking into the country illegally. That is not happening. No way. I won't hear of it. I won't hear of the reason that the kissing bug is attacking people in our northeastern states and they live in central and South America, but they're in our central northeastern states

attacking people already. Not the lower half, but the northeast couldn't be because we're transferring people sneaking into this country across the border to those parts of the country. Right? Right. In other news, New York City is the first city of the United States.

The first city in the United States. Congratulations. I mean that. Congratulations. Am I the only one clapping or? Okay, thank you. Thank you. Jeez. New York City is number one.

Wow, I didn't want to be the only one. Thank you. They have now, they're the first city to eliminate processed meats. Again, thank you. Am I the,

am I the clapping for that? Mayor Bill de Blasio approved the $14 billion dollar green new deal. The plan will cut purchases of red meat by 50% in the city-controlled facilities such as hospitals,

schools, and correctional fertility. Has there been a lot of hot dog eating at hospitals? I find that hard to believe. The commitment builds off the Meatless Mondays campaign that was adopted by the NYC schools in 2017. So New York City is not only getting rid of processed meats, but they are battling climate change. Thank you.

Thank you. No, they're bad. Thank you. Thank you. That's what I'm saying. Don't leave me hanging. I'm not, I can't be the only one that's. excited about that.

Can't be. And Nicholas Cage, we talked about Nicholas getting married after, you know, for four days and then wanting a divorce. After he sobered up, he realized, what the hell did I do? I just want a divorce. And the first report's where everything was going to be fine. Yeah, we're just going to get an adalment and we'll be fine. And then apparently where Nick screwed up was he got drunk again and called. the wife and said, no, let's say, you know, I really like you.

Let's get back together. I'm sorry. And so now she still wants a divorce, but she wants spousal support. Nick, there may be, that might be an issue of why you don't have any money and you're struggling and you've had to work in all those movies that you didn't want to work in because you needed the money. Could be one of the reasons why. That's all.

That's all I'm saying. That's all I'm saying. And one of the stories you heard here on chewing the fat and nowhere else was that dinosaur fossils were up for sale on eBay. And there was one particular baby T-Rex was being sold for $2.9 million. Or that's the asking price of the baby T-Rex. But there's all kinds of fossils for sale on eBay, dinosaur fossils, which is really cool. I kind of went down that wormhole this weekend a little bit of seeing some foxes. because I think it would be cool to own one.

And I think it would be really cool to own the baby T-Rex. If you've got 2.9 million that she'd like to load me. I put an offer in of $10. I don't think I'm getting it. But now everybody's arguing they don't want eBay to allow dinosaur fossils sold on eBay. Private fossil collections, deprived scientists and the public, of the chance to learn. Okay.

Here's what I have to say about that. And this might come to a surprise to you, but all of you saying that private fossil collections deprived scientists and the public of a chance to learn, shut up, this is America. And we've got museums everywhere, books and online everywhere of these fossils. And these fossils have been studied.

The guy is just pulling him out now because he needs a little cash. And he's saying, I've given out, you know, you've used them for free for all this time. Now, how about you buy them from me? So there you have it, Mr. Scientist. Why did you go get your own? And then you can study those instead of living off everybody else at the university. Mr. Scientist. And you know, Mr. Scientist, if he had the baby tea record,

I needed some cash, maybe T-Rex would be up for sale. No question about it. All right, I got a surprise for you. I was going to leave it at that and end the podcast there. In fact, play the ending music. All right, so I'm doing a little experiment here. I'm doing my own scientific test here for chewing the fat.

Those of you that are listening to the podcast right now, if you're the first person to email me at Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com, email me, email address, Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. The first person to email me at that address wins whatever you choose from shop. com. You can have a chewing the fat t-shirt. I shouldn't say whatever. Whatever you want from the chewing the fat material on shop.

not the blaze.com. You get a t-shirt, you get a hat, you get a mug. The mugs are, I love my coffee mug chewing the fat, and I like the t-shirt too. But, but there's your chance. Free prize from me to you.

First one to email me. Wins it.