Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 958 | Delicate Situation…

Episode Date: September 16, 2022

They’re Purple?... Ye and Gap breakup… Toy Hall of Fame candidates… Monopoly Champion from Italy… Don Lemon heads to Mornings… American Coup special on CNN… American Goo special on C...TF… NFL on Prime… Cardi B pleads guilty… Headlines: Adderall supply / Nonbinary runners / TikTok BeReal / Roger retires / LIV $50 million purse… Suns owner racist… WNBA dragging on… Drug Lord going on house arrest… Nitrogen Hypoxia for execution… Truckload of sex toys all over the road?... Interview with Sharkey on Burning Man… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy / Promo code jeffy… Email Chewingthefat@theblaze.com Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Joke of the Day… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:26 Genetically modified purple tomatoes. have been approved by U.S. regulators. After more than a decade of development, a nutritionally enhanced purple tomato has been deemed safe to grow by the United States Department of Agriculture. The tomatoes have been gene-edited to produce 10 times more antioxidants
Starting point is 00:00:49 than pre-existing varieties. Oh, okay. There was one report that, well, it was a stuff. actually published in nature biotechnology and who doesn't have their copy from 2008 of nature biotechnology sitting around that reported on a type of tomato that had been gene edited to produce high volumes of antioxidants called anthocyanidins. Yeah, like I said. So they're producing high volumes of...
Starting point is 00:01:24 Anthocyanidins. Yeah, thank you. I got it. My gosh. I got it. And so they're good for you. They're naturally found in plenty of foods, blueberries, red cabbage. They're responsible for the purple pigment in those foods and have been linked to a variety of health benefits, including reduced risk of heart disease and diabetes.
Starting point is 00:01:46 So, okay, according to this, be ready for purple tomatoes. now I am not a huge tomato guy although you know I mean I got it ketchup Heinz ketchup hello that's tomatoes but I you know tomatoes separately I'm not you know I was my family used to cut them up and eat them you know fresh from the garden and so once in a while a tomato like that looks good so I have some but I can guarantee now I shouldn't guarantee because I probably will have it at some point but it will be against my will. It will be against my will
Starting point is 00:02:30 to have a purple tomato. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Oh, boy. Sad news. The business partnership between Yay and Gap is over.
Starting point is 00:02:50 I know they broke up the Yeezy Gap partnership first announced in June of 2020, and never really looked real good anyway. Just three months after the announcement, Yee threatened to withhold the clothing line if Gap didn't give him a board seat. According to West, Gap breached its end of the agreement
Starting point is 00:03:11 by not opening branded Yeezy locations or selling enough Yeezy Gap merchandise in stores. Gap was required by the contract to open as many as five Yeezy stores by the end of 2023. But to date hasn't opened any. Now, to be fair, I'm going to stop for a moment.
Starting point is 00:03:30 They could still, there's still time, you know, to open up five stores, but logistically probably not. But the date, you know, West letter contends in a memo to employees, Gap said the company would be ending the partnership. Oh, okay, good deal. It wasn't all a disaster, though.
Starting point is 00:03:50 The Yeezy Gap hoodie made history, delivering Gap's record for most online sales of an item in a single day when it debuted. Boy, I remember that. A $200 Yeezy jacket was a big hit with 75% of its buyers being new to Gap. And, you know, I mean, it's yay. Hello. So remember a month or so ago on Instagram, Yay announced his intention to open Yeezy stores worldwide, starting in Atlanta. So just, you know, it's okay. I know that you're going to be sad that Yee and Gap are breaking up, but Yeezy stores.
Starting point is 00:04:43 And, you know, if you're in the Atlanta, Greater Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia area, you'll be able to go to the original first Yeezy store, which will open soon, I guess. I love end this story, too. My favorite, the headline is the business partnership between Kanye West and Gap. And I'm immediately in my head, I'm like, that's yay, okay?
Starting point is 00:05:12 Well, then it goes on to say in this story, he officially goes by yay yeah that's his name it's not conier west okay so get over it his name his name is yay i see we have the finalist for the toy hall of fame i'm sorry the national toy hall of fame we talk to them every year when they have the winners i did not talk to them prior to the finalists so we have the finalist, the 12 finalists. You have Briar Horses. You have
Starting point is 00:05:51 Katten. Is it Katan? C-A-T-A-N? I don't remember that toy. You have Light Bright. Oh, man. Masters of the Universe. Nerf toys.
Starting point is 00:06:04 Pignatas. Phase 10. Wow, man. I used to play that forever. Pound to puppies. Racco. a spirograph and the spinning top. So you can go to the website and vote
Starting point is 00:06:20 the National Toy Hall of Fame at the Strong Museum. It's awesome to take a look at their website. They founded the Hall of Fame back in 1998. 77 different toys have become Hall of Famers. About half are branded toys like the Radio Flyer Wagon, Lego, Rubik's Cube. Others are the beloved generic toys. and we've talked to them about that and what's in there. But don't forget that the potential Hall of Fame inductees,
Starting point is 00:06:49 they look for iconic status, enough longevity to be enjoyed by multiple different generations, a sense that the toy fosters learning, creativity, or discovery, and some kind of innovation in play or toy design. So I don't understand. I got to see what the Catan is. I don't remember playing Catan. Family stuck at home, tuned to a board game, Catan, sending sales skyrocketing. I do not remember playing this game at all.
Starting point is 00:07:23 Let's see, in 1963, 11, a gift would change. Life of board game, open the box, and sent the game in the hell like this. It was a game of Romans versus Carthagian. It was a tabletop game, wonderful painting of figures. We were rolling in a zone. Is that what the game is? I get... I mean, I would love this.
Starting point is 00:07:42 that game. Okay. I'm going to have to look into this and let you know. Because it looks like something I would like to play. The 1994 test version of the Settlers of Catan, before it was released a year later in Germany, the game was an instant hit. Catan has sold more than 32 million units,
Starting point is 00:08:08 one of the best-selling board games of all time. Wow, why have I not played this game? Well, congratulations to this game for becoming part of the toy Hall of Fame. Well, it's not part of the Toy Hall of Fame yet. I mean, you can still probably, you can go there to the Strong Museum and play it because all these toys they have up at the museum
Starting point is 00:08:32 and you can play with them. But it's not an actual Hall of Fame inductee. It's just a candidate to possibly be at Hall of Fame in Duck D. Okay, yeah. So don't get all wound up yet. Selections will be announced in November. Speaking of games, I was reading a story about this Italian guy
Starting point is 00:08:55 that is like the Monopoly champion. And he said he's been invited to play in games all over the world. Said he was treated like a king in Japan. When I arrived there, I felt like Cristiano Ronaldo, a soccer player for those of you who are. unaware of who Ronaldo is. I was taken to meals in a skyscraper restaurants with private chefs, played matches with former world champions.
Starting point is 00:09:22 I mean, that's amazing for Monopoly. I need to get in on that, because I can do some Monopoly now. It's a simple game, according to this champion. Niccolo Falcone. It's not chess. If I were to play Monopoly with you, I would probably win,
Starting point is 00:09:40 because I know the tricks, but in the world championship, everyone knows them. So fortune and luck are important. I won that tournament and the prize of $20,580, which is the face value of all the money and the bank in the game.
Starting point is 00:09:58 That's awesome. That's awesome. Congratulations. Congratulations. I would love to play you in Monopoly there. Nicole Falcone, the champion, world champion of monopoly. Let me end on some of that.
Starting point is 00:10:15 You don't want none of this, okay? You don't. Go directly to jail. Do not pass go. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Desperately. Oh, boy, a little shake up over at CNN.
Starting point is 00:10:38 They are trying to shake some things up over there. Don Lemon will end his prime. time show Don Lemon Tonight, which who doesn't miss an episode of Don Lemon tonight, and move to mornings later this year. Moving down to mornings? Wow. He's going to join Poppy Harlow
Starting point is 00:10:55 and Caitlin Collins on the reimagined morning show that will replace the long struggling new day. Now, I mean, what are they doing at night? I mean, they haven't replaced Cuomo yet because Cuomo prime time
Starting point is 00:11:10 has not been on since, you know, not been on since. since they gave Chris the boot. So we'll see, I guess, you know, John Berman and Brianna Keller, who I guess I might know who they are, if I saw them, will continue to anchor New Day
Starting point is 00:11:25 until the new program premieres, but we don't know what we're going to do with these people. We don't know what's happening, so they may end up getting the boot. I don't want these people to lose their jobs, but, you know, do something better than what you're doing. This is absolutely the idea. But you do have one thing to look forward to over there to CNN,
Starting point is 00:11:43 and I saw the promo this morning and I thought, oh my gosh, they will never let it go. This is a special hosted by Jake Tapper. It's going to air this Sunday night, the 18th of September, 22 at 9 p.m. Eastern. Today is the 16th of September, 2022, for those of you listening live. The special, it's a CNN special report.
Starting point is 00:12:13 American coup, the January 6th investigation. Oh, my gosh. American coup, the January 6th investigation. I mean, it probably went an Emmy for it, but I cannot take it. It's going to be agonizing. I think I'm going to come up with my own special here on Chewing the Fat and just call it American Goo, the Monkey Pox Investigation. What do you think?
Starting point is 00:12:41 Do you get a special out of that? Tonight, the nine, American goo. The Monkey Pox Investigation. American goo. The Pox investigation. American goo. The monkeypox investigation. Keep your goo to you.
Starting point is 00:13:13 So good luck. Good luck to CNN. You just do what you got to do. To get the Thursday night football game on Amazon Prime? I did. I caught some of it for sure. I know there were plenty of fans reporting buffering and bad quality during Amazon's game during the game. But that could be your internet.
Starting point is 00:13:36 It might not necessarily be on Amazon's end. I had a little bit of problem with the audio. You know, the ambient audio, the background audio, was too loud. And so the announcer's audio was not loud enough. And that's really agonizing to me when they get the mix wrong on that. For the most part, I thought it was okay. And I mean, Al Michaels and Kirk Herb Street are El Michaels and Kirk Herb Street. You can quote me on that.
Starting point is 00:14:04 I got to get past Kirk doing NFL because, you know, you hear him and do his analysis and you're thinking college football and it is not. It is NFL. there were a few other issues that I had you know with the app you know you've got to be able to you got to be able to minimize and be able to do other things while you're watching that and a lot of people were saying they couldn't do that on their phone I don't watch Amazon on my phone so we're going to have to check that out to see if that's actually true but for sure you're not changing the channel or anything because you have to get out of the app
Starting point is 00:14:44 and go to another app and then you know you wait for that app to load and then you're gonna you know get what you want to watch in between that and then you're gonna have to get out of that app and go back to Amazon Prime app so you're gonna need two televisions or you're gonna need to watch it on your phone and then use your TV or your other desktop computer for other things right while you're watching the game on Amazon Prime but you know then some people were talking about they didn't have it at their you know the gyms or whatever they were at so instead of putting it up on the big screen they were you know a lot of the people were watching it on their phones well i mean okay so put it up on the screen if the gym
Starting point is 00:15:25 doesn't have prime i mean i could mirror my phone to darn near any tv and just you know bring it up on the phone and then mirror it to that so you will be watching it on the on a bigger screen anyway i just uh you know it was interesting it was interesting i saw one great video of uh Bezos and the girlfriend or wife in the box with Roger Goodell. And they're watching the game there in Kansas City. And Roger is, I don't know what was going on because Roger did not look amused. And Jeff was talking and laughing. And then, What's her face?
Starting point is 00:16:00 Said something to him. And he was laughing and yucking it up. And Goodell was not having it. So I'm not sure what was happening. I don't, probably I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt. that what Roger was concerned about was something that Jeff wasn't paying attention to, so Jeff was busy yapping
Starting point is 00:16:21 and Roger was concerned about some other stuff. But it was very interesting to see that because Goodell was having none of whatever Jeff Bezos was dishing out at that time, man. I don't think it had anything to do with the broadcast, but you never know. I see where our girl, your girl, Cardi B, pleading guilty
Starting point is 00:16:44 in New York City at the courtroom in New York City she pled guilty she's going to get big time she's going to go down for 15 days of community service
Starting point is 00:16:56 thank you man that'll teach her she agreed to a conditional discharge just as her case was about to go to trial part of growing up maturing is being accountable for your actions
Starting point is 00:17:12 Oh, okay. Her real name, I didn't know this, Bell Callis Almanzar. Cardi B. Okay, she pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges stemming from the August 2018 fights. Ten other counts, including two felonies, were dismissed.
Starting point is 00:17:33 Two co-defendants also pleaded guilty. All right. According to the prosecutors, Cardi B and her entourage, were targeting employees of Angels strip club in Flushing Queens. Don't do that. Don't mess with the employees at Angels strip club at Flushing Queens. Okay.
Starting point is 00:17:52 It was over some personal dispute. Chairs, bottles, hookah pipes were thrown, as the group argued with the bartender. She and another employee had minor injuries. No one is above the law, says Queens District Attorney Melinda Katz. Boy, that's for sure. That's exactly right. pleading guilty today, Almanzar and two co-defendants have accepted responsibility for their actions. This office is satisfied with the resolutions, which include appropriate community service.
Starting point is 00:18:23 No one is above the law, Cardi, and we're going to prove it to you by giving you 15 whole days of community service. You got that? These moments don't define me, and they're not reflective of who I am, aren't they? I'm looking forward to moving past this situation with my family and friends and getting back to things I love the most, the music and my fans. I've made some bad decisions in my past that I'm not afraid to face and own up to. I just want to set a good example for my two children. Do you?
Starting point is 00:19:01 Maybe you spend a little bit less time at the old Angels strip club and flushing queens. Maybe not. Maybe not. Who am I? I'm sure it's a nice place. So do your 15 days of community service and know that no one is above the law. It's hockey season,
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Starting point is 00:20:45 so TikTok is taking up on that. I know Snapchat and Instagram have already launched front and back camera features, and Instagram is rumored to be working on its own time-based feature, but TikTok beat the competitors to the punch. Be Real onto its platform, so look for that for your Be Real. You'll receive a daily prompt to capture a 10-second video or a static photo to easily share what you're up to, front-end. back where you're at what's going on and uh it's the uh be real feature on tictock yeah
Starting point is 00:21:23 well kind of cool i mean they already know where you're at so you may as well let everyone else know as well yeah whatever i see where roger fetter is announcing his retirement at the age of 41 no he did not die, but Roger Federer is retiring from the game of tennis. I mean, the guy was is amazing. There's no question, 20 career grand slam titles. That's pretty good. I put some third behind Nadal and Djokovic. So, I mean, he's the real deal.
Starting point is 00:22:06 He's the real deal. So he's had surgeries. He's had several knee surgeries. And he's just, you know, You know, he's tired of playing, I'm sure. I mean, that's a grueling life. He was paid very well for that. But, you know, he's going to go ahead and call it quits.
Starting point is 00:22:23 Maybe you ought to get into golf. I see where the live golf season is ending in the team championships with a $50 million purse. No wonder the PGA is starting to sweat bullets. 12 four-man teams will compete for a, compete for a 16 million. $1,000 first place prize. The teams will be seated 1 through 12. Top 4 seats will receive a buy to the quarter finals. The other 8 will compete in qualifying rounds.
Starting point is 00:22:53 Where would you play something like that? Where would you play a $50 million purse with the live golf season, the Saudi Arabia live golf tournament, while you're going to play it at the Trump National Dural in Miami? Duh, at the end of October. So all the people, all are you people out there that hate Trump, go ahead, because he's bringing it on. I mean, he's obviously not personally doing it, but he'll say that it's personal for him just to get under everybody's skin. So look for it at the end of October, the 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th at the Trump National Dorell, Miami.
Starting point is 00:23:38 Wow. And speaking of sports, I see where the Phoenix Suns and the Phoenix Suns and, Mercury owner, Robert Sarver, has been suspended by the NBA for one year and fined $10 million after an NBA investigation found he had used the N-word five times, bullied employees, and created an unequal environment for female workers. Commissioner Adam Silver calls findings troubling. He was accused of demeaning female employees, making sexual jokes. He's worth about $850 million. So is $10 million going to hurt?
Starting point is 00:24:25 Anytime you've got to give up $10 million, it hurts. I'm just going to go on record and say that. Any time. I don't care how much money you have. Anytime you have to give up $10 million, it's going to hurt. Even if you're Adam Sarver, owner of the Phoenix Suns and Mercury. Mercury, they're not even in the double. NBA championships, are they?
Starting point is 00:24:46 No. The Connecticut Sun and the Las Vegas Aces are playing for the championship of the WNBA. Looks like the Las Vegas Aces are up two to one as we speak, and then they play again this weekend. So, man, they just dragged this WNBA championship out like ever before. I see where our president Joe Biden is meeting with Brittany Griner's. girlfriend, wife, woman, person, significant other. I'm sure, that'll go, girl, that'll go over great.
Starting point is 00:25:22 It'll go over great. Good, good. As long as we were talking about Joe Biden, they got me thinking about criminals. A veteran Mexican drug lord convicted of the murder of a U.S. undercover agent has been granted house arrest. I know, he's not feeling good. He's got deteriorating health. I know.
Starting point is 00:25:41 I guess he's blinded one eye. He's deaf and. one ear. But he was known as the boss of bosses. He was the founder of the Guadalajara cartel, been in prison since 1989, 76 years old now, boss of bosses. And he needs treatment. And it can't be given in prison because he has many diseases. They're doing this for this guy. And you're telling me, Harvey Weinstein can't get his teeth fixed outside of jail. Stop it. We're letting this guy out because he's, you know, blind and deaf and needs medical attention that they don't want to give him in prison. All right, fine. I know some of the
Starting point is 00:26:19 people involved are not very happy. He has served 33 years of his 40-year sentence. His worsening condition prompted the National Human Rights Commission to intercede in his case. That's nice of him. That's nice of him. The judge granted house arrest with a tracking device on the grounds that he is in danger of dying before completing his sentence. All right, good. I know they're upset about it. They're fighting the decision. He was the forefather of the Mexican drug cartels.
Starting point is 00:26:57 He was one of the first cartels to establish contacts with Colombian drug lords, working to transport cocaine from the South American country to the United States. I mean, we've got two big Mexican cartels right now, the Sinolaola. Senna Lolaul, the Sinaloa cartel. And the Jalisco, J-A-L-I-S-C-O, is it J-L-I-S-C-O. J-L-I-S-C-O. The J-L-L-S-C-O, New Generation Cartel. And they are, you know, behind the influx of fentanyl coming into the U.S.
Starting point is 00:27:31 You know, so they want him left behind bars. And I don't necessarily disagree. But they're letting him out. He's deaf and blind. you know, one ear and one eye. I don't know if they're opposite or the same side. I don't know. It doesn't say.
Starting point is 00:27:47 It just says that he's blind in one eye and death in one ear. So anyway, the boss of bosses is being let out. So, all right. Whatever. Surprising that he's not on death row, I mean, he's a murderer and a drug leader, drug cartel leader, but he's not. And so I might have been part of the, part of the deal only 40 years. I see where states are now trying to change what they use
Starting point is 00:28:18 for executions on death row, particularly Alabama and a few other states want to use nitrogen hypoxia. Oh, okay, because they're having problems getting the drugs needed for the lethal injection. and I know that remains, you know, a lot of the state's primary method for execution. No state has used nitrogen hypoxia to carry out a death sentence. Okay. I know that they, in Alabama, with Oklahoma and Mississippi, authorized the untested use of nitrogen gas to execute prisoners, but they haven't used it yet.
Starting point is 00:29:02 and nitrogen hypoxia, what that does is death would be caused by forcing the inmate to breathe only nitrogen, thereby depriving him or her of the oxygen needed to maintain bodily functions. I mean, you know, I'm kind of, I believe in the death penalty, so, you know, I say fine, whatever. I got no worries about cruel and unusual punishment for someone on death row. But, okay, according to this, nitrogen makes up 78% of the air inhaled by humans and is harmless when inhaled with oxygen. The theory behind the execution method is that changing the composition of the air to 100% nitrogen would cause the inmate to pass out and then die from lack of oxygen. Okay, give it a shot. Oh, bad choice of words. You know, give it a try.
Starting point is 00:29:59 Don't give it a shot. Only a few states are bringing back the firing squad. So give it a try. And we'll see how this nitrogen hypoxia works. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. What? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.
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Starting point is 00:31:33 But I did enjoy the traffic report helicopter news scene. eye on the sky was reporting and they asked him, you know, he's reporting out and he kind of sees and thinks that it's lubricant and sex toys. And they ask him, hey, what is it on the road? And he does not want to answer that question. Here at I-40 will probably be closed for quite some time. Jim Garporting live from Bob Males, Scott, who's nine, back to you.
Starting point is 00:32:00 Jim, can you tell what he's carrying there? What's all over the road? Jim? Jim. All right, that's a mess for. Sure. That's the latest. I-40 Eastbound.
Starting point is 00:32:15 Come on, Jim. You got to tell them. It's live. That's what you're up there for. Come on. Jim, can you tell us what that is out there on the highway? Jim? Jim?
Starting point is 00:32:28 Okay. Well, never mind. All right. Things are looking a little slippery out there, Jane. Back to you. Anyway. Looks like there's some big things in the road. that are getting slippery.
Starting point is 00:32:45 Back to you. All right, just stop. I had an opportunity. Those of you that, you know, listen to the show know that I do a Pat Grey on leash a couple times a week, and then when Pat goes on vacation or as busy, I do his overtime, which is strictly
Starting point is 00:32:59 behind the paywall on Blaze TV. And if you are not a subscriber to Blaze TV, go to BlazeTV. Go to BlazeTV.com slash Jeffie. And use the promo code, Jeffie, get you, I think, $10 off. and you can become a member and you becoming a member of Blaze TV
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Starting point is 00:33:31 so if you're listening to this and you're not a subscriber please become a subscriber remember that people like free stuff they don't like free loaders it's the helpful hint from chewing the fat But so I interviewed, I talked about Burning Man on the show and how I always kind of wanted to go, but then I'm kind of happy I didn't go. Well, I had an opportunity to talk to a guy who went to Burning Man today on overtime for Pat Gray.
Starting point is 00:33:56 And I talked to my man Sharkey. He's back from Burning Man, the event, Black Rock City. And also, if you watch the segment on Blaze TV, I have some videos and some pictures of some of the behind-the-scenes stuff that went on. there at Burning Man this year, 2022. Now, Sharkey was fascinating because he said he went, he said he went last year, which wasn't a sanctioned Burning Man event, because it was canceled a couple of years because of the pandemic.
Starting point is 00:34:27 Which, by the way, side note, the World Health Organization, their director general, said that the end is in sight for the pandemic. Oh, okay. The agency is more cautious about the number of new cases. It noted that some of the 28% drop there could be attributed to countries relaxing COVID testing and reporting guidelines in the last few months, but the pandemic is close to past tense. I got news for you, Director General of the Who, it is past tense here in the United States
Starting point is 00:35:01 of America. You go play your little game wherever you want there at the World Health Organization, but here in the U.S., it's over. You can call it whatever you want. It's over. Now back to Sharkey. and Burning Man. So I had a chance to interview him. If you want to hear the whole interview, you can hear it on Blaze TV. Please become a subscriber and listen to the overtime segment
Starting point is 00:35:24 on Pat Gray on Leash today with Sharkey. I will play one of my favorite responses from Sharkey when I asked him if he was going to go back. We talked about all his experiences and what happened and how he got in and now he got out and all the times of what happened during the event. But my favorite answer, I think, was the one I'll play for you here on Chewing the Fat. When I asked him, are you going to go back?
Starting point is 00:35:55 I will go back every single year until I die and then I will be buried in the plier. I love burning, man. Oh, my God. So I'll take that as a yes. Oh, sorry, yes. Are you going to find different ways to go and participate Or did it just like the way that this happened this year? I don't think it could ever happen the same way twice for anybody.
Starting point is 00:36:26 I think next year I'm going to try to participate in one of the big burns Because it does take a lot of participants. Right. Well, they also have the guys, right? They have the lamplighters at night that ride around and light up the lamps until you can, you know, to use the walkways, right?
Starting point is 00:36:43 That's right. They look so cool, too. I mean, that's the participation from Burning Man itself. So I'm glad you had a good time. Thank you. I appreciate it. I'm glad you made it out alive.
Starting point is 00:36:54 I'm glad I know you're still suffering from, you know, play a... And I hope you get clean and I hope you feel clean at some point. It means a lot. I know that it was a week of love and tears. and heat and dust, joy, safe journeys, safe journeys.
Starting point is 00:37:14 Charky, thank you very much, man. I appreciate it. I appreciate it very much. Thank you all so much for having me, honestly. Absolutely. I'm glad you had a good time, and I appreciate your insider look. And if you, you know, if you had, did you take any pictures at all? Any of your friends take any pictures, any of it?
Starting point is 00:37:32 Yeah. Other than what Burning Man has? We have about 400, 500 pictures. Okay, the good ones you need. to send to me chewing the fat at the blaze.com is the email address and you have my phone number you can text them to me i want some good ones and uh so i can uh enjoy it through your eyes okay all right thank you so much absolutely the eyes of a virgin that's correct sharky thank you very much i appreciate it burning man 2020 recap that's
Starting point is 00:38:04 awesome so thank you shirky i appreciate you uh coming on uh The Fat slash Pat Gray on Leash overtime. All right, I'll leave you with the joke of the day. Okay, it's going to be the joke of the weekend since, you know, if you're listening live, it is Friday the 16th, but, you know, whenever you listen to this, it's all you. A joke of the day, you can take it with you, use it if you want, and just know that it's a joke, okay? A couple asked their son, what do you, and I got this through an email, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com, so feel free to, uh, eerie the fat at the blaze.com.
Starting point is 00:38:37 so feel free to email me anytime you want, chewing the fat at the blaze.com or you can, you know, follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR, Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can cameo me at Jeffrey JFR. All the ways to get a hold of me. I appreciate it very much,
Starting point is 00:38:54 and I do read them. I get to him. So the joke of the day. A couple asked their young son what he wanted for Christmas. He said he wanted a watch. So they let him. So they let him.
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