Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 913 | Scam or Opportunity Taken?...

Episode Date: July 14, 2022

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Blaze Radio Network. And now, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. So a New Jersey man has found a load of cash, at least that's what it's being called, a load of cash underneath his house. He was making some renovations on his home, and he went digging around, of course. That's what you do when you're making renovations around your home. And he found what he thought was just trash. And he said, maybe I ought to take a look anyway before I throw it away. And it was cash.

It was a tightly rolled cigar-shaped wads of cash containing tens and $20 bills that said he found over $2,000. Now, at first, you're breaking the chewing the fat law by telling someone that you found cash. However, the only thing I can make of this is that it was 1934 conditioned money. So he said, oh, either somebody robbed a bank and bank. buried it there or somebody didn't trust the banks in 1934 during the height of the depression. Well, you should never say, you know, maybe somebody robbed a bank because now you're opening the door for someone to say, yeah, a bank was robbed and that's our money and it's not yours and we're here to take it from you.

Second, it probably was someone who didn't like banks and buried the money. I'm guessing that you tell people you found this money because if it's 1934, condition it may be worth more money because the money has changed since 1934 I'm sure a $20 bill is worth more than $20 if it's you know from 1934 they don't look like they're in mint condition so I'm sure he's not going to get you know top dollar for the money because they were all rolled up and buried underground but that's the only reason I can think you say something you never tell people when you find cash like this never and I don't know that I would tell people anyway.

I think I would just keep the cash. You know what? I can say that I wouldn't say a word. I would put the money in my little safe box, and then I would take it out to the money collectors and say, you know, my grandfather left me some money. My great-grandfather left me some money, and how much would you give me for these $10 bills that are from 1934?

How much? And just gradually sell them to collectors. You never tell people. I'm going to be fascinated to see what happens to this money because it wouldn't surprise me that, oh, you know, a bank was robbed a mile away from where that house was, and I bet it belonged to that bank, so you don't get to keep it. If that happens, it's your own fault. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. Well, it looks like season two is. not gonna happen I know season two of Depp heard I thought was gonna happen but no it's looking like we're not going to have a season two the judge heard the argument for the new trial because of the jury issue you know we had the jurist remember we talked about the jurist being the wrong person but so they you know filed their documents for a new trial and you know it was all fraudulent and the judge said there's no fraud. Remember I thought it said in the original story

that there was a birth date but according to this the summons the actual summons did not include a birth date. So does the son's name have anything distinguishing him from his dad like a junior or a second at the end whatever the judge said there was no fraud suggesting either the father or son could have shown up for jury service. Okay. What's more, the judge said that Amber's motion was sour grapes. She could have made it much earlier, but the only reason she's doing it now is that she lost the case. In other words, she sat on her hands so she gets no judicial relief.

She also argued the $10 million compensatory damage award that Johnny Depp received was excessive. And the judge said, you know what, Amber? No, it's not. so she can still appeal but the chances are not looking very good for her appeal or for season two of Depp heard okay the story i talked about on pat unleashed overtime today that i teased and i said i would do it here on chewing the fat today is the amazon story that where internal documents reveal how the company routinely measured workers' performance in a minute detail and admonished those who fell under slightly short of those expectations.

In a single year, ending April 2020, the company issued more than 13,000 so-called disciplines at one warehouse alone. Wow. I mean, just incredible. This one worker, Gerald Bryson, had hand-counted thousands of items in his warehouses inventory over three days when his manager showed him a supportive feedback document. You know, you know what, Gerald, you've made 22 errors. Including, you know, you were tallying products in that storage bin over there,

and you tallied 19. There were 20. So you aired like. six times within a year. If that happens, we get to fire you. Wait, what? Yeah, you can't do that. We're going to document that.

That's a problem. Wow. So, I mean, the facility has 5,300 employees, or did it at that time anyway. And so they are just busy writing up people left and right. really incredible, actually. I would, you know, it feels like they're, there's just me. It feels like they're doing it on purpose.

Really? Yeah. Yeah, it does. Now, Amazon told the judge that, hey, we'd like to meet the demands of the subpoena and provide the thousands of disciplinary notices. But, you know, it's an unduly, burdensome. There's so many. There's so many. We just can't get it to you in time. Oh, okay. Well, the judge was like, well, you know, you can turn some of it over. How about that? Okay. So some of the documented violations for which Amazon faulted employees being off task for six minutes resulting in a reprimand. Nice. All right. The warehouse worker received at 257 a.m. during the same shift. So, hey, you're off task for six minutes. If you're still getting the job done,

Doesn't matter if you're off task for six minutes? Is that going to the bathroom? I don't know. I don't know. I mean, I'm guessing Amazon gives you, it's time to take a break and you get to run to the bathroom for three minutes and come back. Meeting 94% of the company's productivity goal instead of 100%. For weeks, a worker at the same New Jersey warehouse, had surpassed expectations. But Amazon management warned him in October, and this was in 2017, about possible.

termination if he didn't improve his rate of scanning and verifying items, which dipped to 164 per hour below the target of 175. Oh yeah, here we go, exceeding break time. Yeah, exceeded break time by four minutes, you bastard. Although Amazon offers a five-minute walking grace period for breaks, the same New Jersey worker who was dinged for productivity also received a right up in March of 2017, telling him not to exceed the time limit. Yeah, so these are more, you know, this is like the old days when the guy wraps his arm

on your shoulder and go, you know, don't be taking so long coming back from break, but they're documented at all so they can fire you if they have to. Making four errors grabbing items, shoppers ordered in a single spring in 2019, during which a New York City warehouse worker picked more than 15,800 goods correctly for customers but four of those were wrong okay so i you know i don't know if you want to work for amazon or not i i i love amazon i'm a fan i'm a fan of the products being delivered to my home as fast as possible i'm a fan of hopefully building a drone delivery door on my ceiling so on my roof so the drone could just fly over and drop the products into my home i'm all ready for that but the

way they're treating employees does not seem well good you can quote me on that the way they're treating employees does not seem good and most employees feel it doesn't matter you know how much I work or how good I work you can't win yeah and you know that's why they've gone to the robots in their warehouses right robots don't take a break obviously unless they break down, but they stay on task at all times. And you only need, you need a lot less humans to oversee the robots. So that's what we're getting to, I guess. And sure, you want to join a union?

Absolutely, no problem. Go ahead and vote on that union. Oh, darn the luck. We're going to have to close down and just go to robots because, well, hey, we can't find anybody to work. And the people that do work aren't doing the job properly. So we're just going to go to robots. And we have, you know, that was the Starbucks thing where they're closing down because it's too dangerous.

Is it? I mean, I do believe that there's our dangerous areas that they're living in. The crime rate is probably, you know, through the roof. But it's a surprise that, were you guys thinking about starting a union too? Oh, darn. Well, we'll have to just, you know what? We're going to have to close. You can go work over at that store.

Those people over there, the other. They don't want a union. But, and it's safer over there, which is what it's all about. Your safety. Amazing. Amazing times. Amazing times. I don't know.

I want to like Amazon. I will say, I know one person who went to work for Amazon and didn't last long. And I haven't really, I haven't talked to him. The job he has now, he travels around the country so much. I haven't had a chance to actually sit down and talk to him. I just know that he went to work for Amazon. and I thought, oh, cool. You know, maybe you get my son to work there.

And then it wasn't very long. And then he quit and went and got this other job where he's traveling around the country. So I feel like he walked into Amazon and went, whoa, new. I don't know that I'm going to be able to stay on task every minute of every hour of every day. So I'm going to find a new gig. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. You know, when we broke down the Emmys earlier this week because they came out,

I was stuck on Selena Gomez, not getting a nod for only murders in the building. But as we broke it down on Pat's show the next day, we realized that Yellowstone got nothing. Really just incredible. They received zero Emmy nominations. Yellowstone, one of the biggest shows on television. these days. Got nothing. 1883 did receive

some nominations for cinematography and music, but, you know, nothing like in the best actor, best actress, best drama series categories. And neither did Mayor of Kingstown. So Paramount got snubbed big time at the Emmys. Not quite

sure why. Might be not quite woke enough for the American people. And remember, we talked about the Abbott Elementary being nominated. That was the only nominee from the four main networks in

major primetime Emmy categories. Wow. HBO Showtime, a little bit of Paramount and AMC had multiple nominations for shows. Yeah, well Paramount got the multiple nominations when you talk about getting them the best cinematography

and music. Okay, that's multiple nominations, but not. really succession was the most nominated program 20 25 nods pretty good Ted Lassau and White Lotus had 20 and I didn't see what in the printout that I had that Barack Obama good for him has got an Emmy nomination for his voiceover work in our great national parts that Netflix docu-series are great national parks voiced by Barack Obama wow I betcha that's I betcha that's great Right? Right.

So, yesterday, I don't know how I got to Don McLean's American Pie. I think somehow from Rudebaga's I got to Don't ask. I mean, just you can go back and listen to yesterday's show. It is, the show was, today is the 14th of July, 2022. So yesterday's show would have been the 13th of July, 2020. 22. If you go back and listen and see how I got to Don McLean's American Pie from Rue to Beggis. But I see where McLean is in the news.

He's got a new special coming out on Paramount TV. They're talking about the day the music died. The premieres on Paramount July 19th, just around the corner. It's a documentary wrapping up the 50th anniversary of American Pie. And they talk about how Don McLean now thinks. that, ooh, you know, we might be close to a civil war. I don't want one. You're going to have some form of civil war.

And it hasn't happened yet, and I pray to God, it doesn't. Okay. He used an example of his recent decision to pull out of the NRA meeting that was taking place after the Yvaldi massacre. And at the time, he said it would have been disrespectful and hurtful for him to go on with the performance. They're thinking, oh, if you go to an NRA thing, you're glad that kids got murdered. Well, no. He says, well, they're not. I would have said, well, no. But he talks about his comment about Donald Trump. Look, Donald Trump, he had the presidency, he had everything.

Character is destiny. What is his destiny? He threw it away because of things that he said. He and meanness that was unnecessary. But yet he did good things. Nobody gives him credit. I mean, hello. Joe Biden, now you've got an old man in the office who's a stalwart and a throwback. But is he doing the bidding of that group?

And that group is, by the way, he talks about the values have eroded in the decades since American Pie came out. And he pointed to, the political environment with music like Cardi B's Wop. We don't even say what those letters stand for. So if you don't know what Wop stands for,

the first word is wet. The A stands for ass. And the P stands for pussycat. pretty sure that's what it is so congratulations are in order to Tom Cruise and Top Gun as Maverick passes

600 million dollars at the domestic box office I mean I don't get a piece of that but congratulations to Tom and Paramount that makes Top Gun Paramount's biggest North American title

pretty huge it's a lot of money now according to this it ranks, that ranks in 12th in all-time North American ticket sales with 10th. There are the Incredibles 2, $608 million. And Star Wars, the last Jedi, $620 million. It got me thinking, well, what's number one? I mean, Avatar, I know they're re-releasing it, so if it's not number one, it will be again soon, probably.

And Avatar is fourth now. Look at this list, Star Wars. The Force Awakens. $936,662,625,000, $225. Wow. A billion adjusted for inflation. Avengers, Endgame, $858,373,000. Number two.

Number three, Spider-Man, No Way Home, 804,793,000. $477. Holy cow. Then you've got Avatar, $749 million. Black Panthers got $700 million. Avengers Infinity War, $678 million.

Nothing. Titanic, $600 million, just over $600 million. Wow. Jurassic World is, wait, Jurassic World is $652 million. I guess, I see,

adjusting. for inflation, they're saying that Titanic would be, well, Titanic would be number one, adjusted for inflation at over $1,270 million. Wow, that is huge. But adjusted for inflation, again, number 21 in the unadjusted would be Star Wars, just the regular original Star Wars, adjusted for inflation, they got a billion, $668,000. That's almost $2 billion. E.T. would be

$1,300 million adjusted for inflation, but you know, for real, it got $359 million. Wow. I mean, these movies are just raked in some serious cash. So congratulations to all of them.

Really. You know, I was looking where was finding Dory is 18th. Lion King, yeah, Lion King was 13th. I mean, that was so fun. I loved Lion King 2.5, and I know that's not even probably on this list at all. But Lion King 2.5 was so much better than Lion King, for me, if I was reviewing them. Wow, Transformers got 319 million. Still pretty good for Transformers, although they've spent a lot of money on that stupid movie.

Where are we at? Yeah, pretty good. Empire Strikes Back. Empire Striped Back, adjusted is almost a billion. So anyway, congratulations. It all started with congratulations to Top Gun, as it cracks $600 million domestically. Again, congratulations. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners,

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Penetrotive sexual activity without consent. No, it's not. Amorphophalus. Sexual activity without consent. consent. Remember, he has indicated, I am not guilty. I strenuously, strenuist, I have to speak today. I am strenuously denying these allegations. He didn't say anything to the press. He went before the judge and said, yeah, I am Kevin Spacey, yada, yada, yada, was born in 1959. That's me.

I plead not guilty. And can I go now? Yeah, okay. Good. Because I'm out. I got a Mercedes limo waiting for me out there. Let everybody photograph me as I'm leaving. I'll talk to you later. Okay. All right. Goodbye. I mean, I love Kevin Spacey's work so much. He's done such a great job.

And he, boy, he'd been. I mean, there is, there's no work for Kevin. I don't know that that's ever going to come back. him. We'll see. We shall see. But I don't know that there's ever going to be any work for Kevin anymore. He's just trying to hang on, not go to prison and save as much money as he can. We'll see. I mean, I love his work, but it's been kind of a known thing of what a kind of douchebag he is or at least was allegedly, right? Yeah. Okay. In Oklahoma, a man killed his friend while fishing because he thought the friend would feed him to Bigfoot.

Okay. The two men were, now this story is so weird because I thought this was, when I first saw the story, I thought, oh, they were out there, you know, taking care of a little business. And, you know, then one guy got pissed and said he was going to summon Bigfoot. But there's two Oklahoma men were noodling or fishing with their bare hands. Okay, so I guess noodling means that they were fishing with their bare hands. I don't know that I knew that that's what that was called, but okay, I'll give it to you. I always thought noodling was, you know, business. But what do I know?

I have to look that up. Okay, yeah, it's both. All right, so noodling, according to the dictionary, Well, it's also the action of improvising or playing casually on a musical instrument. Oh, I did not know that. And it's fishing for catfish using one's bare hands and is practiced primarily in the southern United States. No kidding. And the Urban Dictionary says it's business.

So we're both right. All right, fine. No problem. Anyway, they're out new delay. and the confrontation began because the one guy, Sanders, told authorities he struck his knight and strunged knight and the guy he was fishing with because they found the body the next day. Obviously he left him and then they, you know, they found him.

He intended to feed me to Sasquatch and Bigfoot. Oh, okay. He believed that he was trying to go. get away from him so that Sasquatch could eat me. Oh, okay. And I'm not going to let Jimmy get away. Larry punched Jimmy and struck Jimmy with a stick for an extended amount of time on the ground. And so Jimmy was not getting up anymore.

And Larry is now charged with murder for killing his partner because he didn't want his partner to leave him out there to get eaten. by Bigfoot. I mean, nobody wants to get eaten by Bigfoot, right? And we know that that's a big foot area there in Oklahoma. We've talked about the Indian reservations there and how there's Bigfoot hunting out there. So, I mean, it's possible Larry has a legitimate, a little legitimate argument, not to kill the guy, but to be concerned that, you know, Bigfoot may eat you while you're out there. and I see where in California an investigation by the police department

which is good for them the San Jose police found an underground bunker at a homeless encampment containing thousands of dollars of stolen items wow they look underground bunker contained about a hundred thousand dollars

worth of stolen goods pretty incredible they said the bunker was a It was equipped with electricity and they believed was plugged into somebody else's source No, it was plugged into the dirt San Jose Police Department. No kidding. It was plugged into some. Okay. Six people were arrested in the case, a variety of charges, caused concerns among local residents who expressed fears that more such bunkers could be spread throughout the city and their homes and businesses could be targeted in theft.

If they have $100,000 of merchandise down there already, your homes have already been targeted. And what a better place to do it than the homeless encampment because nobody wants to mess with the homeless encampment. No, we can't mess with that. That's where they live. We can't mess. It's sad that they're homeless.

We have to leave them alone. Oh, okay. All right. And they found some weapons down there. They have a picture of three rifles. Okay. I mean, all right. I'm worried about them.

I don't know. They could hurt somebody. Well, yes, that's true. But how about we live? look at the other, I don't know, $989,000 worth of merchandise that's in this bunker under a homeless encampment. Yeah, I bet there are. If I'm a criminal who's stealing things, that's a pretty good place to hide it underneath a homeless encampment. I don't know. Maybe that's just me. So if you park your car in the driveway or even really out in the open,

in a parking lot and you have a 2001 through if you have a Toyota Prius pretty much 2001 to 2001 uh 2011-2017 chrysler 200 a 1987 to 2019 Toyota camry 97 to 2020 Honda carmary 97 to 2020 Honda CRV a 2005-2020 Chevro one Chevrolet Equinox a 1999 to 2021 Chevrolet Silverado a 1990 to 2020 Ford E Conno Line E Series or a 2007 and 2017 Jeep Patriot, you may want to keep an eye on it because catalytic converter thefts are up. Huh, there's a surprise. We can't get products to fix cars, so now we're just going to steal parts off people's cars. They are talking catalytic converters are up 5,300% in Texas since 2019.

they're talking about Catillic Converter Theft is up in Florida and up around different cities across America. So I would be very careful if I had one of those automobiles.

You know, it's going to come, that's going to happen with other automobile parts as well. The one, my Volkswagen bug did I have, I was, I was thinking about buying another bug so that if I need parts, I could just use it as parts. You know, just find one that's a decent price and purchase it so that I could use that for parts. I know.

I don't want to do that either, but why not? I mean, we've got to start doing something if you can't get the parts to fix it. So just they give you some AAA Texas gives you some, some recommendations to perhaps prevent these thefts when possible park your vehicles in spots that are well, lit and close to building entrances. No, I'm going to park all the way in the back in the dark. If you own a high clearance vehicle, like a truck or

SUV, store it in a secure location. Okay. Have your converter welded into your car's frame. If a thief tries to get to your vehicle, it'll be harder for them to steal the converter. Yeah, make them do more damage to your car to get the part. That

doesn't seem like a smart move. Look for security devices to attach to your having something like a lock also makes that precious metal harder to steal. Can you get a lock for your catalytic converter? I don't know the answer to that. Look into buying a converter protection device that has been developed for the Prius and other vehicles targeted by thieves. Okay, so there, I mean, this is America and capitalism is wonderful and we've created

a converter protection device, but why don't we just start, I don't know, building them. Well, we can't build them that way because you can't find the cars anyway. So good. Good on the people that developed the converter protection device. Some would say a shotgun is a converter protection device. Not me, though. No way. Consider engraving your vehicle identification number on the catalytic converter.

This may help alert a scrap dealer that it was stolen and make it easier to find the owner. Yeah, you'd never be able to sell something with a VIN number on it, ever to a junkyard. I'm sorry, a scrap dealer. Calibrate your car's alarm to go off when it detects vibration. I thought that's what it was supposed to do. I thought that's what car alarms do as they go off when they detect vibration. Carry a good insurance policy. Most insurance companies cover replacement costs as a vehicle owner has the optional comprehensive coverage.

Yeah, carry good insurance. You can't find the parts. That's the point. Anyway, I hope you don't get your catalytic converter. Stolen. It's always important to keep your catalytic converter, you know, converting. Thank you for emailing the fat at the blaze.com. I appreciate it.

I got the one from Eric, who emailed me from Minnesota, saying things are getting bad. Camels are getting angry. And then he gives me a place to eat if I'm ever in Freeport, Minnesota. called Charlie's Cafe. You won't be able to drag me away from Charlie's Cafe if I'm ever in Freeport, Minnesota. I'm sure it's beautiful this time of year.

In Freeport, Minnesota, although the camels now are starting to go crazy in Freeport, Minnesota, a zoo worker had to be airlifted to a hospital after being, and it says in this story, bit by a camel. Yeah, the camel bit the guy's head and wouldn't let go.

So the one guy, Roger, is walking, I'm sorry, escorting the camel through an alleyway, and he's going to be, you know, they're just taking him to another facility. And the camel reaches down and bites him in the head and won't let go and then drags him like 15 feet before a second employee says, hey, hey, and gets a piece of board and sticks it between the camel on top of the guy's head. and so the camel, you know, let's go of this guy's head. The guy, Roger, runs off. I don't know what kind of teeth. If he still has, you know, camel molars in his skull, I don't know.

But then the camel turned on that guy and started running after Seth Wixen, who was trying to save Roger, who got away. The camel fortunately did not catch the second man. but the camel's gone mad. Now it doesn't say, you know, I guess they both are expected to survive their injuries, which is good.

We don't know the zoo is back to normal zoological operations. So I don't know if we've got that camel locked up and there's no more camel rides at the Freeport, Minnesota Zoo or if we're putting it down. Because in Jeff Fisher's, world. I don't care if you're at the zoo or not. And no one supports zoos more than this show chewing

the fact, clearly. That's, I mean, that's facts or facts. But when you go to the Hemker Park and Zoo, oh wow, that's one of the owners. Roger Blinker? Oh, no, it's Hemker. Sorry. Different. I saw Er. I thought it was the same thing. ER is on the end of a lot

of names, Jeff. Yeah, no, I know. So it's the Hemker Park and Zoo. All right. And I don't know if we're going to put the camel down. But anyway, as I was saying, in Jeff Fisher's world, a camel goes down. You're not biting humans' heads and just walking away. And then you're not chasing after another human as we're trying to get you to some

quarter of other building. And then you're going to start attacking? No, no. Animals do not attack humans. Not in Jeff Fisher's world. Sorry. Not going to happen. Then I got an email, that's probably why I'm not running the old Freeport, Minnesota Zoo.

Then I got an email from Dominic, who's a little pissed at me. And so I'll read it to you in Dominic's pissed voice. In your 712 news story about a cachet of arms, which is what I continue to call it, it's a C-A-C-H-E of arms. you repeatedly pronounced it cachet the pronunciation of the word is the is cash another pronunciation of cash is amorphalus i'm sorry i got you upset over that okay i got it uh c a c h h is pronounced cash okay I got it sorry I apologize I don't want to but I will I guess there

is a cachet which is a seal used to especially as a mark or of official approval that's cash but a cash is a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements or weapons. That's your definitions. So I'm sorry, okay? I apologize. Back off me. But hey, thanks for emailing chewing the fat

at the blaze.com. Then I was tagged in a tweet at Jeffie J-F-R with the hashtag Jeffie Scam. And it's called the S-I-Z-E-D, under the heading of Did You Know? Now, the website is, I guess,

thesized.com. I've never been there. So I'm not sure how great that website is. I will say going to thesized.com. I see where the six headlines in front of me right now, the 17th century was a truly terrible time to be a human. I agree. Hundreds of feet below Missouri sits a 1.4 billion pound store of government cheese.

good the time it rained meat on a clear day in Kentucky and people immediately ate it I may have to add that to tomorrow's show the island where 10% of the population can only see in black and white the massive benefits of renewable energy

to our planet's health, stop it Australia once had a six-foot demon ducks of doom and early humans stole their eggs. No, Humans took the eggs to survive. Humans take animals, things to survive. That's why we are the number one being on the planet.

So anyway, from this size.com, I was tagged in a tweet, a story from that website, and it says, did you know? And I got to believe that this story is true, although I find it difficult to believe, but I love the story. A man in China bought a first class, fully refundable plane ticket,

which gave him access to the airport, its VIP Lounge where high-rolling travelers can dine for free. That's a good gig. You're happy to get those tickets. The man rescheduled his first-class ticket 300 times in one year to enjoy free mills. So he just stayed there. He just stayed there and survived and lived large there at the VIP Lounge. That's good thinking.

When the airline figured out his scheme and confronted him, he says scheme, that was their deal. If you stay there, you get free food and drink. And, you know, you can, you know, take a nap in one of our chairs. That's what they offered in the VIP lounge. It's not a scam. I'm sorry, no. And so, you know, he just figured out that he could, you know, postpone leaving this room by, you know,

rescheduling his flight. So anyway, when the airline figured out his scheme, as they call it, and confronted him, he canceled the ticket and got a full refund. I want that to be true. That is a great, great idea. And I bet that they have found some way around not making this happen anymore, like the guy that was eating at the theme park at Six Flags by buying the yearly pass and getting his lunch and dinner at Six Flags every day for the yearly pass.

I bet that deal here with the VIP Lounge is no more. to be found. But you could still hope and dream and look for it. So when something like that presents itself, you always use it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.