Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 852 | Misunderstood Gestures…

Episode Date: April 14, 2022

 An exploding corpse in space… Baby naming is a thing?... Cameo is coming… META’s cut almost half… Elon being sued and looking to buy… Amazon drone delivery may have some issues… JLo and Ben drinking coffee and smoking cigs… While out house hunting at ‘The Manor’ Al Pacino has moved on from last 40 yr old girlfriend… Cuba Gooding Jr. Guilty, forcible touching… GOT actor arrested… Crime: Bad babysitter or was it?... A Prince says no to Elon… Mask Mandate continues for a bit… Trucker gridlock at the Texas border… One product has same price for three decades…    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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So a corpse of an old sunspot exploded on Monday, this past Monday, the 11th of April, 2022, unleashing plasma towards Earth. The unexpected eruption of the dead sunspot called AR-2987. What a great name that is. Released loads of energy in the form of radiation, which resulted in a coronal mass ejection. This according to spaceweather.com. Sunspots are dark areas on the solar surface,

which contain strong magnetic fields that are constantly shifting. The CME is expected to reach Earth today. That is the 14th of April. 2022. The impact of the CME could trigger a G2 class or moderate geomagnetic storm. Oh, now a G1 class or minor geomagnetic storm is likely to impact Earth tomorrow, which is the 15th of April, 2022. This all according to spaceweather.com. Now, I will say, that if this happened and we

the geomagnetic storm you know, bombards the earth you may not be hearing this. So if you're hearing this, I'm guessing we survived. And I'm happy. I'm happy about that survival. What is a coronal mass ejection?

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and I wish I would have thought of it. It's not a scam. It's just a great idea. Expected parents are paying upwards of $1,500 to a professional baby nameer. She picks the perfect moniker for your child. Taylor Humphrey helped name more than 100 babies in 2020, raking in more than 150 grand.

People are paying this lady cash for naming their kids. I'm here for you. I'm here for you. Okay, I can do that. Email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Some panic parents are even turning over an eye-popping 10 grand so that Humphrey can help them settle on an impeccable name for their offspring. So you're going to get a better name by paying more. Okay. All right, good. No problem.

Hey, if you look at the most popular baby names, it's such a telltale sign of our culture values and our aspirations. I know. So what are your kids' names? Well, I don't have any kids. myself. I'm a passionate writer and storyteller who is adept at branding, marketing, and social media. Oh, good. So a little at Billy is good to go. That is awesome. Now, depending on how much you pay, you might just get a phone call. You never know. You could get a, you know, a genealogical investigation with the aim of unearthly. thing some old family names, and you can't do that yourself. Don't do that.

Have her do it. Heaven forbid you do that yourself. I mean, you don't have the time. Who has the time to think about what should I name my kid? Right? I know. So I get it. That's why she started, what's in a baby

name back in 2015 and apparently she's, you know, raking in the cash. Now she does offer some free advice for those of you that are you know, unwilling to pay her separately to come up with a name for your kid. She does offer free tips on TikTok. People said to her, hey, we're having our baby.

And we want, you know, what do you think? And so she might answer you on TikTok. You might get her services for free like this couple did. Congratulations on your third little boy who's on the way. Here are my top suggestions for a little brother to Emmett and Miller. I would say Emmett, Miller, and Grady, Wilson, Waylon, Fletcher, Langston, or Harvey. In the world of baby naming, we typically find that names become popular again after about 100 years. And sure enough, in 1922, both Emmett and Miller were used.

The names that I've suggested here, I'm kind of trying to evoke a Ritzie, art deco, Oh, 1920's revival. You can absolutely choose something that is more popular or more modern. Oh, so we can. Oh, that's so nice. And she goes on. I mean, what's good is that she's giving you advice and then, you know, you can blow her off and say, oh, no, Taylor, no, we don't like that.

Now, that's obviously the free advice from TikTok. I don't know what happens if you pay her a bunch of cash and she comes up with the name and you're like, oh, no, I am not going to name my kid that. Do you, you know, she just keeps the money. That's a good gig. That's a good gig. Baby namers. So, I mean, if you're looking for extra work, maybe you do that.

Get somebody to pay you some money to come up with some names. And then if they don't like it, tough. Go name them yourself. And it says it the story, you know, look, sometimes if you see a name like brave on my list and you think, who I'm not going to name my kid brave, but you might be worth putting on a maybe list

and maybe even as a thought for a middle name. Yeah, if you've spent 10 grand on what's in a baby name and she's given you a list and maybe she's given her a little extra, she's given you a little genealogical investigation and she comes back with, you should name your kid brave.

And you say, I don't want to name my kid brave. But maybe it's, you know, you've already spent 10 grand. Okay, so, you know, it's Billy Brave. Lance Brave from now on, okay? But, I mean, you have to go with one of the names she picks. You spend all that money. Otherwise, you're just out the bucks. Still, still, still, still, still.

A good gig for her. And you, if you could do it. Okay, let's walk over to the break room. And while we're walking over to the break room, yesterday, when we were, giving a little eulogy for Gilbert Godfrey and you know rest in peace Gilbert I was talking

about how he was you know doing cameos and you know people he was recording stuff for people from cameo and I was thinking that I should take his place and you know I'll be the guy that will call people

you know bad names and tell them that they should go places that other people won't tell them to go or I'll tell them how much you love them and you know that kind of stuff So I reached out to Cameo. It looks like I'm going to get that up and running soon. And so, you know, the old chewing the fat Jeff Fisher, Jeffie,

will have a Cameo channel here in the near future. And I'm looking forward to having a little fun with that, but I'll give you more information as the time goes. I just want you to know, I actually followed through on something as I was, you know, as I was walking out of the studio yesterday, I thought, oh, you know, I should probably reach out into cameo like I said I was going to do. And I did. All right, let's go to the break room.

We're here. I need something cool to drink desperately. Oh, so good. So, you know, I talked about starting a show inside the metaverse. And then I see a story that talks about meta, meta's cut, not mega, meta's cut of sales of digital goods on the VR platform, Horizon Worlds, will be as high as 47.5%. So they're going to take almost half of whatever sales you make inside the platform of Horizon World.

TikTok takes more than that. So, I mean, they're all getting their big cut. And still, I'm still kind of, you know, perusing the idea of trying to set up a radio show on Main Street somewhere in the Metaverse. We'll see if that actually ever, you know, takes place. And our man, Elon, I mean, he's being sued and he's looking to take over. I'm not sure what's up. What's going to happen? So he's being sued because he didn't announce when he bought the Twitter stock in time.

He's supposed to do it within 10 days. And apparently he did it. It appears like he announced it after the 10-day period. So he's being sued for that. He was supposed to file the disclosure by March 24th, 10 days after he reached. the ownership threshold, but he did not do that. He announced it on April 4th, which, you know, puts him, and they're going to try to sue him for that,

and they're saying that, you know, he made way too much money by postponing the time when he announced it, in which, you know, he was, I guess he bought additional shares, and so he'll just pay that off, I'm sure. But I see today, and if we haven't been hit by the, you know, the storm, from the son's corpse that exploded. Elon wants to now buy Twitter. All right.

So he bought all those shares. And then they said, hey, why don't you sit on the board? And he was like, you know what? Okay, I'll sit on the board. And then he thought, you don't know what? No, I don't want to sit on the board. Because you're going to make me have to say nice things about the company. And, you know, I want to be able to buy some more stock.

So I'm not going to sit on the board. Well, we find out that he put together a deal now. where he wants to just buy to Twitter. The private deal valued at $43 billion. Oh, wow. He said that he's the person who can unlock the extraordinary potential of a communication platform used daily by more than 200 million people. He said he'll pay 5420 a share in cash, 38% above the price.

Okay. So we'll see what happens. They said that they were the board was going to meet today. If so, if we haven't been hit by the storm from the sun, and you're still listening to this, we may have an actual answer by the end of today, the 14th of April, 2020, if Elon is going to take over Twitter.

So we'll see. I wouldn't say that, you know, the grass isn't. always greener, but it is possible that it could be a really good thing for Twitter. It wouldn't surprise me, though, if Elon takes over Twitter, if he buys it, then they'll revisit the, they'll being the government, will revisit the Section 230 that protects social media platforms from being liable if one of their users posts something illegal or controversial, so they can't be sued. I guarantee that that will happen. That is a chewing the fat fact.

Not really, but I'm telling you it's going to happen. And my Amazon drone delivery service has been pushed back after one of their drones caused a little brush fire. Sorry, didn't mean to crash and start a fire. So they want to get that Amazon Prime delivery service up and running with the drones. So that could be delivered at my home like within 30 minutes. Yes, that'd be great. I want it dropped off in my drone delivery drop-off box on my roof. Be awesome.

I want that to happen. So I guess five delivery drones crashed at Amazon's test site in Oregon and one causing the fire. So apparently the specific drone malfunctioned in mid-air leading to the motor shutting off. It then turned upside down and plummeted 160 feet to the ground, which sparked a fire that had to be put out by the local fire department. I mean, was it a huge wildfire? No, but it did turn into a brush fire. Nobody wants drones crashing in their neighborhoods.

I get it. So I guess, you know, they, according to insiders, they're taking unnecessary risks to get the program up and running. Oh, okay. I mean, they sent a goal of conducting 12,000 tests. this year. And by the end of February, they had completed a couple hundred. I've got to pick up the pace a little bit. And they have two testing locations. One in College Station, Texas, and one out in Lockford, California, plus in their testing grounds there

in Oregon. Alphabet, you know, Google's main company, the Google Wing kicked off its own drone testing program. Walmart and UPS are developing their own drone delivery systems. And we're having drone deliveries in DFW. There's one area that is already delivering some stuff by drones within a test period. So it's going to be running soon. And we'd be able to order something and then have it dropped off at the house. Let's go.

Although I don't want brush fires in my neighborhood caused by the drones. But I do want the products. And I mean, who's going to fly them? Who's going to be the pilots? Who's going to deliver? you have to be able to, you know, load them and set them. And it's good. It's a big deal.

There's no question. It's a big deal. If you need help, Jeff, you know, call me. I'm here for you. All right, you know what? You can just DM me at Jeff EJFR on Twitter or Jeff Fisher Radio on Facebook and Instagram. Just DM me and let me know.

And I'm here for you. No problem. Help you out. Let's get this thing rolling. Speaking of getting things rolling, I see where. at J-Lo and Ben are out house hunting since they pulled the plug on the $50 million deal they had on the house. And Ben might be looking to take that engagement ring back to get some cash because he was coming in under budget. We talked about that, how he spent the $10 million on the engagement ring, but he saved, you know, 15 or so on the house in Bel Air at coming in a $50 million.

Well, you know, that fell through. and is being reported that they're looking at the spelling manner. Now, I know that that's up for about $165 million. Maybe you can talk them down a little bit, but that's coming in over budget on the $50 million. There's no doubt about that. We're out looking at it. I mean, it's a beautiful play.

You talk about houses of the hoity tooty. Man, it sits on 4.6 acres. It's got 100 garage spaces. a bowling alley, a plush movie theater, a tennis court, a pool, a hair salon. I mean, it's got a whole lot more than that. This is an amazing structure. I mean, Aaron's spelling 14-bedroom property. It's referred to now as The Manor.

Okay. I mean, this is an awesome place if you've ever seen it. It is unbelievable. 27 full bathrooms. I mean, the guy talked about the bowling alley, the pool and jacuzzi. of course, combo, hello,

duh. And it was built over several years by Aaron Spelling. And I'm telling you, man, if they buy that place, there's plenty of room

for the whole family at the Manor. No question about it. It would be awesome. If they can come in under budget, it'd be great for Jaylo and Ben

to move into the Manor. And they went out house hunting. I saw, you see the picture. Oh my gosh. I mean Ben, get a driver. What are you doing, bro? They were out, I guess, house hunting, but they pulled into a Starbucks to get some coffee. And of course, the paparazzi is all around him. But Ben screwed up on the turn in the drive-through and hits the one sign that Starbucks has got up part of the drive-thru, not one that's, you know, into the ground, but it was just one of those standing, those freestanding signs they have out by the drive-thru. And he nails it with the corner of his car. He makes a bad turn. So he rolls down his window he and J-Lo are trying to order coffee and the paparazzi help him get the sign that was stuck in the wheel well on the tire away. And he has the window, he pulls the window down to thank him, I guess, or say something to him, like, you know, don't touch the car.

And then as he's rolling up his window again, you see him stick a cigarette in his mouth. Okay, even J-Lo just smoking cigarettes driving around L.A. Now, he's closing up the window, the driver's side window, to block, you know, the photos. and he opened up the moon roof up top. And, you know, you can't have the enclosed vehicle with that cigarette smoke. You might need to cut back on the smokes, Ben. If you're looking to buy the manor for, maybe you could offer them, I don't know, what, $125 mil cash and move in tomorrow, you know, if it passes inspection.

But you might have to give up the smokes, man. You might have to do that. with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to luxe beauty and fragrance sets. Our special selection has something for every style and price point. Visit our Holtz holiday shop

and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com. So my man, Al Pacino, you know him, you love him. Remember, I don't know, a couple years ago, not very long ago, during the pandemic, he had his girlfriend that was, I think, 40 then, and he's 81 now. So there was a 40-year age difference

between them. And she broke up with them. Remember, she said it's hard to be with the man so old. Oh, really? Yeah, I mean, I got to hurt. That's like a kick in the groin to Al, man. And she said, I had a fight with them. We broke up.

I really love him, of course. But, and I was happy to be part of his legacy. But, and I'm happy. I'm happy that the relationship happened between us. And I want to remain friends. But all he did was buy me flowers. You know, I guess that's, he didn't want to spend any money. You're not going to spend any money on me, Al.

I'm out, okay? Take care. And so Al devastated with the news. Hasn't been out in about in a year or so. Well, he was just seen out with his new girlfriend, 53 years younger. She's 28. Neur Al-Fala, 28, is now Al's girlfriend.

She comes from a wealthy, Kuwaiti American family. And they were out at some party for some celebration of a painter that's doing his exhibition. And so now this girl, she is looking for somebody to die is what's happening. She's now with Al Pacino. I don't know if she gets a cut from Al, but she dated Jagger before. She dated another billionaire philanthropist guy, Nicholas Bergeran. And she said that her old family friend, when she said, she said that her old family friend, when she She was seen out with Clint Eastwood.

They weren't dating. They were just friends. So, you know, she's living large with Al Pacino. You know him you love him. 81. Yeah, he was devastated. Devastated that the girl left him and saying that 40 years was too much of a difference. Yeah, okay.

Well, let's see what 53 years age difference makes. Ha, ha, ha, ha. These guys, man. I love them. You can't put an age I love. You just can't put an age on love. Cuba Gooding Jr. You know him, you love him.

Cuba Gooding Jr. He pleads guilty to forcible touching. Now, remember we talked about this? He got into trouble when he was at a nightclub in New York. And so the trial's been delayed for a couple years now because of the pandemic. And apparently a 29-year-old woman told police. that Gooding squeezed her breast without her consent

at the Magic Hour rooftop bar and lounge near Times Square. And after the incident, two more women came forward with accusations of inappropriate touching. One woman, who was a server, alleged that Gooding pinched her

buttocks at the nightclub in 2018. The horror! Another woman claimed that Gooding forcibly touched her inappropriately at a new at another New York nightclub. I don't know how these women are getting by. I mean, the guy touched her breast and I got it.

Don't look at me like that. No means no, me too. Don't touch other people unless they tell you it's okay. I got it. So he played guilty. And it's good to go, all right? So he's fine, all right? He previously pled not guilty to six other misdemeanor charges

and had denied all other accusations. And the allegations were trying to, you know, his lawyers were saying, it's misunderstood gestures. They're trying to, they're misunderstanding gestures and they're turning them into crime. Right.

Hey, come here a second. Let me feel your breast. It's a misunderstood gesture instead of a crime. I like the, I mean, that's good attorney in right there.

You can quote me on that. That's good attorney in right there. Your Honor. It's just commonplace. It's misunderstood gestures that are trying to be turned into crimes. That is awesome. So anyway, he pled guilty.

And now, as part of the plea deal, each survivor gets to provide a victim impact statement. Oh, yeah. When he touched my breast, I didn't know what I was going to do. All right. All right. So he pled guilty. and three different women

who has accused him in total. And he avoids jail time. He's got to continue his alcohol and behavior counseling, which he began in 2019 for six more months without any arrest. If he complies with that,

then the conviction will be reduced to a violation which is not a crime. So he pled guilty to one count of forcible touching in a criminal case. Okay. So, I guess we could still see some other lawsuits against this.

Some civil cases? I mean, it sounds like he was not a really good guy. I laugh about, I'm making a joke about misunderstood gestures. But back in 2013, he was accused of raping a woman. And that's more than, you know, forcible touching. He's denied all the allegations. And they are just accusations. So I get it.

You know, everybody, you have your chance in court. So he did plead guilty to that to forcible touching. And look, they're just misunderstood gestures. Who among us? And as long as we're talking about Hollywood possible dirt bags. Joseph Gott was in, it's actually Joseph Gatt, I guess. I was thinking of Game of Thrones because he was in G-O-G-O-G-O-T-T-T,

arrested for allegedly engaging in online, sexually explicit communication with a minor across state lines. So he was arrested. He's 50 years old now. He was arrested and he was released on $5,000. bail and it's an ongoing investigation. And so we'll see. I mean, he's been doing a lot of work.

I mean, he was in three or four episodes of Game of Thrones. And then he was in the Banshee, you know, might know him from Banshee TV series. He's been in, you know, a couple of, he's been, was in like Ray Donovan and true detective for an episode, which was, you know, that's just getting work, man. Getting out of those two big shows. And then now he's got a shows in post-production. He's got three shows. But Titanic 666, Black Adam, Liberty.

He's got another one that they just announced that's in pre-production. Liberty's in pre-production as well. He's been doing some voice work for video games on Star Wars. He got in the door there. I mean, he's been working. So he's a little bit, it could be in trouble. But, again, he denied the accusations. He said, I obviously want to address the absolutely horrifying and completely

untrue allegations recently leveled against me. He continued, they are 100% categorically wrong and reckless. I have confirmed errors and misleading information in today's press release, which I don't have in front of me, but man, I wish I did. I'm sure it says exactly what this says. I am fully cooperating with police and LAPD to get to the bottom of this. I look forward to clearing my good name. Thank you to all my friends and supporters who know that this is untrue and understand for legal reasons.

I cannot comment further on social media. So, okay, it's just an accusation. You're absolutely not guilty until proven guilty in a court of law. So, I mean, if you have been engaging in sexually explicit communication online, sexually explicit communication. I mean, hopefully you did know that it doesn't matter anymore. Whether you knew or not it was a minor, you shouldn't have been doing it, my friend. But he claims is innocent.

So good luck. God bless. Another criminal case I want to, I'm going to be interested to see the outcome of this. So a Florida woman, a Lake County woman, has been arrested by the sheriff's office, saying that she put the child, she was carrying. for in harm's way. All right. She was babysitting and she put the boy in the dryer and spun him around inside.

Is that a crime? I mean, I think if I was, you know, a kid and I'm a four-year-old kid and I can say I want to put me in the dryer and spin around and the babysitter doesn't? Okay, I don't know. So she's facing an aggravated child abuse charge, Amber Chapman 35. of Eustace. She's old enough to know better, actually. According to the arrest affidavit, the four-year-old child was brought to the hospital. And the boy repeatedly stated that Miss Amber put him in the dryer with towels and he spun around. Hey, what? Was he saying that it was a bad thing? Or was he just a four-year-old kid saying, he put me in the dryer with towels and I spun around? During the interview, the boy told investigators that Chapman put him in the dryer, closed the door. He went round and round. And then she opened the door. Well, yeah, just to see, hey, you okay? And then he closed it. Sput the boy again. It doesn't say that she asked if he was okay.

So I guess he had, you know, several bruises to his face back in the ears. Yeah, you're getting digged around in a dryer. That sounds like fun to me. But, you know, what, I'm not the kid in Florida. So she, they say it's they've got probable cause for child abuse. Okay. I just want to know. I want to follow this theory and see what actually.

happens because I want to know if the kid and she should absolutely know better, I got it. And there's no, no, we're not putting you in the dryer and spinning you around. But if you're a little four-year-old monster and I don't know that this kid is a four-year-old monster. And you're Amber Chapman of Eustace, Florida, and you just want to, you know, you just want to have a quick cigarette and the kid's bugging you. Yeah, I'll throw you in the dryer. I'll put some towels in, put you in there and spin you around for a little bit. It sounds like fun to me.

So I don't know. Let's see. Don't even look at me like that. Stop it. Hit pause on whatever you're listening to and hit play on your next adventure. This fall get double points on every qualified stay. Life's the trip. Make the most of it at Best Western.

Visit bestwestern.com for complete terms and conditions. Side note on Elon and Twitter, we know now that Prince Al-Waleed has, said that he says no to the offer of Elon buying Twitter. I don't know that he has enough power to do anything. He owns, he believes that Elon must offer of 5420 does not even come close to the intrinsic value, given its growth prospect. So hold out for more money. I don't know that he has enough power to.

We also know since we talked about it earlier that, you know, we talked about the board meeting. and they called it all hands-on-deck meeting today, too. So I don't know that Prince Al-Walid has enough power to overturn the purchase of Twitter to Elon. But we shall see. Hey, remember when 10 major airline execs and the union that represents flight attendants at Southwest Airlines sent letters to our president

telling him to tear off those masks. And remember the Association of Flight Attendants, the CWA, which represents 50,000 employees, said that flight attendants enforcing the mask mandates makes their job harder and more dangerous? Yeah, remember the 5,981 unruly passenger reports last year. We talked about many of them, and we realized that many of them were over masks.

Yeah, 72% were losing their heads over masks. Remember that? Yeah, well, so what? The CDC is extending the federal transportation mask mandate through May 3rd, two weeks. They only added it a couple more weeks. So we'll see. I feel like they're feeling the heat.

So, I mean, they want it lifted on planes, trains, and automobiles and buses. They want it remained there forever. because that's where they can get a grip on. And even now, the pressure is almost overwhelming. So instead of pulling the plug and saying, yeah, you make your own decisions, don't forget, this is America.

And you can make your own choices. If you feel safer wearing a mask, wear it. If you don't, don't. But it's okay. Either way, nope, can't do that. We're going to mandate it. And you know what we'll do is we'll just add a couple of weeks. and then it'll be fine.

We'll see. Maybe we'll just add a couple weeks after that too. But they cited, you know, they're covering their butts, they cited the number of cases due to the fast-spreading BA.2 Amacrom sub-variant for keeping the mandate around a little bit longer. Okay, well, I mean, the numbers are still pretty low, even though the BA.2 Amacron sub-variant

is, I guess, according to them, making 85% of the new cases in the U.S. Okay, so 85% of the new cases in the U.S. are the Amacron sub-variant, but I mean, the new cases are kind of down a little bit.

Although not in D.C. I mean, they're partying in D.C. and catching COVID all over the place. So, freight traffic slowed to a little bit of a trickle along the old logistics route there in Texas. It's not the Canadian

protest. of the vaccine mandates? Nope, it's not about the lockdowns in China. Nope, it's not about the ships stuck in the canal. Nope, it's not about the port log jams on the coast. Nope. Truck has been blockading crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border to protest of a ramped-up inspection program that Texas's Republican Governor Greg Abbott introduced this week. So extra inspections are part of the Abbott's Operation Loan Star, a multi-billion-dust. initiative intended to beef up border security and prevent cartels from smuggling contraband and people from Mexico into the U.S.

Yeah, and they are going to dramatically slow traffic. And what's also going to dramatically slow traffic is the blockading of the crossings. So you're kind of defeating your purpose, but whatever, that's fine. Wait times for commercial vehicles at one entry point. It doesn't say which one. Jump from 63 minutes to 320 minutes. That doesn't sound like fun if you're a trucker on a delivery route. At another, what typically would have been a 26-minute wait,

soared to a peak of 300 minutes. They're keeping it under 400 minutes? I mean, what do you want from them? When you go from an hour to four or five hours? Oh, shut up. What else have you got to do? Now, according to the truckers and the businesses, the traffic jam jeopardizes the flow of critical goods,

such as auto parts, tech components, and perishables across the border. Mexico provides about two-thirds of the produce sold by Texas, but the refrigeration units travels only have enough fuel to last six to seven days after which the contents will go bad. Well, they're not waiting in line for six to seven days, maybe with the blockade they are. 80% of the perishable fruit and veggies

haven't crossed the border since Friday. Ooh, that's not good. So we'll see. I know their business groups are, blasting the Mexican government and U.S. lawmakers. I wonder if it's the business groups or if it's the cartels that are blasting the governments. I'm just a thought. That's all.

I just wonder. I'm just wondering. Because the drugs are coming across the border in droves. And so they're going to have to find new ways. And guess what? I'm sure they will. We shall see. I mean, we're getting right.

ready for not only this problem at the border, but we're getting ready for more immigration or illegal immigration into the country. I mean, the CDC is looking to invoke Title 42, which is, you know, the old World War II era law during the start of the pandemic, which they used. They say that officials have raised concerns about the potential surge, yeah, it's going to be a surge in migrants when the policy officially is lifted on May 23rd. They're saying that 1.7 million migrant expulsions have occurred under the Title 42 since March of 2020. 53% of them, or 915,000 have been from Texas. So we need to make that happen.

And I actually have some good news, despite all this bad news stuff. Okay? Good news. Despite the rising costs of high fructose corn syrup and aluminum, a 23-ounce can of Arizona iced tea remains 99 cents. Ha! Yeah, think about that, would you? The same price is when it first hit shells 30 years ago.

Founder and chairman, Don Volta Gagio. told V-U-L-T-A-G-I-O. Don. Amorphophalis. Yeah. He told the L.A. Times that he's committed to 99 cents. Consumers don't need another price increase from a guy like me. I mean, okay, Don, you know, good, good for you.

I'd like to know where you're cutting some costs. Maybe the, you know, the type of aluminum you're using for your 23-ounce. can't. Maybe the high fructose corn syrup is made from something other. Maybe it's low fructose instead of high. I don't know, but good. I mean, that's good news. So on behalf of founder and chairman Don Voltajad. Amorphophalis. Yeah. You're welcome. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts. You may have heard of the sex cult nexium and the famous actor. who went to prison for her involvement, Alison Mack.

But she's never told her side of the story, until now. People assume that I'm like, this pervert. My name is Natalie Robamed, and in my new podcast, I talked to Allison to try to understand how she went from TV actor to cult member. How do you feel about having been involved in bringing sexual trauma at other people? I don't even know how to answer that question.

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