Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 992 | It Seems Wrong…

Episode Date: November 2, 2022

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Starting point is 00:00:22 19 plus Ontario only. Please play responsibly. Concerned by your gambling or that if someone close, you call 186653300 or visit Commexontera.com. Blaze Radio Network And now Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher We've spent a lot of time on this show talking about what we would do if we won a big lottery jackpot
Starting point is 00:00:44 So then I see a story And you know of course the power ball is tonight For those of you listening live 11-2, 2020 at over a billion dollars But I see where there was a winner Of a Chinese lottery who won $29.9 million, which I'm not opposed to.
Starting point is 00:01:04 Anyway, the jackpot winner wore a mascot suit to claim his prize so nobody would know his identity. And the man identified only as Mr. Lay told newspapers, he was keeping his jackpot secret from his wife and child so they wouldn't become rich deadbeats. believe the quote the actual quote was i didn't tell my wife and child for fear they would be too complacent and would not work or work hard in the future uh good luck with that good luck with that welcome welcome to chewing the fat
Starting point is 00:01:58 I see where Facebook or meta after crossing a one trillion dollar market cap, remember it joined Apple and Microsoft Alphabet, Amazon
Starting point is 00:02:12 crossing that trillion dollar market cap. Yeah, not anymore. It's worth less than Home Depot and barely more than Pfizer and Coca-Cola right now. Tough times. Tough times.
Starting point is 00:02:26 For really all the big heavyweights in big tech. They've had this last quarter really put a dent in them. Facebook or meta, since that peak in September 21, when they were the trillion-dollar company, they've lost two-thirds of its value. Wow. We know that younger people are fleeing Facebook
Starting point is 00:02:56 and investors aren't confident in Zuckerberg. They are not confident at all that he can reinvent the company as a Metaverse platform. He's got too many people, too many ideas, too little urgency. So, okay, good luck. I hope everything works out for the Metaverse.
Starting point is 00:03:18 Google, alphabet, I mean, posted its slowest revenue growth since 2013, outside of it. of only one early pandemic quarter. YouTube ad sales fell in quarter three. So, I mean, even Sundar Pekai, the CEO, said, yeah, it's a tough time in the ad market. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:03:41 It sure enough is. And how about Microsoft? How about that? Well, they have a disappointing forecast as well. And their push to dominate in the Metaverse is also faltering. Oh, okay. So, I mean, everybody had record profits during COVID, but now not so much. Times are starting to hurt a little.
Starting point is 00:04:04 And we find out. I was really surprised by this. I don't know why I didn't realize this. You see a headline here or a headline there. Governments on every continent minus Antarctica have charged alphabet with antitrust or privacy law violations. and they've fined fines of billions of dollars. I mean, look, Google is it, right? We've talked about it on this show.
Starting point is 00:04:34 I mean, remember when you want to like Bing, but you can't because it's not Google? Nine out of every 10 searches on the Internet go through Google. Pretty incredible. Now, EU officials are looking into whether Google's anti-competitive practice have harmed app developers. India antitrust authorities have penalized Google for monopolizing its play store payment system and for abusing its dominance in the Android ecosystem. Japan, an investigation is determining whether Google has unfairly leveraged its dominance over the markets for phones, smart watches, and other wearables.
Starting point is 00:05:10 South Africa, a competition commission has made provisional recommendations for how Google could make its paid advertising search results more transparent. UK, again, Alphabet faces lawsuits. over anti-competitive digital advertising practices and overpricing app store purchases. And here in the U.S., a lawsuit alleges the company has monopolized the ad market and beat down competition by abusing its access to data. Huh. So how's that going? And then, you know, we've talked on this show about TikTok and how bad it is and what it does. and we can go through that at some point.
Starting point is 00:05:54 But I know now that a member of the Federal Communications Commission has called out the U.S. government to ban TikTok over concerns the app exposes private American data to Chinese interests. You think? The TikTok has now been downloaded more than 200 million times in the U.S. is owned by the Shanghai-based bite dance and has been in negotiations with the federal government over a security deal. Yeah, they claim they're going to keep it here, just the U.S. and not outside the, not back to China.
Starting point is 00:06:29 So Brendan Carr, one of the four current FCC commissioners, asked both Apple and Google to remove the app from their stores in June. Okay, so we know now that TikTok showed private, U.S. data was accessed numerous times from China. And so, I mean, FCC can't regulate TikTok directly, but, you know, it can sway Congress, I guess, to try to get it to be banned. I mean, that's what started the whole ban deal
Starting point is 00:07:00 when Donald Trump tried to ban it back in 2020 before it was the TikTok of today when it was just TikTok. I mean, we know that they were already, find for violating child privacy laws here in the United States and it turns out that this company reverse engineered TikTok to determine exactly what information was being sent to bite dance okay so the app collects everything about a user's phone it documents the phone's hardware specs and every app that's been downloaded it
Starting point is 00:07:41 It pings the phone's GPS location roughly every 30 seconds. That means TikTok tracks exactly where all its users are at all times. It also knows which Wi-Fi networks its users connect to. It documents the address of the router, as well as every other device connected to each network. It also has written software code to allow it to potentially download software to Android phones and then run that software without the user's knowledge or consent. The software could be anything. Malware or surveillance software.
Starting point is 00:08:14 Pretty sure that's not legal. But, you know, they're not doing that, according to Bleeding Hedges, Jeff Brown. Or at least they weren't at the time of this particular update on TikTok. But they were, the software was inside of TikTok. So don't worry about it. It's fine. Just produce the video. Okay.
Starting point is 00:08:38 And be concerned. that Elon Musk is owning Twitter. All right. All right then. Fine. Zip it. And follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR and Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. I don't have a TikTok as of yet.
Starting point is 00:08:57 Some members of my household do, although I put my foot down early on and then I've given up, just like you have. It's just, okay, fine. We want to be able to post it. the stuff on the platform so it would just give up okay fine you can request a cameo from me at jeffy jfr on cameo those cost money uh you i will be nice or be mean or be thankful or be any way you want that's what that's what cameo is uh so at jeffy jfr on cameo and of course you can Always email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com.
Starting point is 00:09:46 Now, if you're listening to this show, you know that it's free. The reason that it's free is because we have subscribers to Blaze TV. So you can become a subscriber to Blaze TV. Go to blazTV.com slash Jeffie and use the promo code, Jeffie, and that gets you a discount on a year's, uh, I think. That's what it is. You get a year's subscription to the Blaze TV for a cheaper price with the promo code Jeffie, BlazTV.com slash Jeffie.
Starting point is 00:10:20 All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. You see where Sharon Stone says that a younger man dumped her for refusing to get Botox. Okay, if you say so, Sharon, no problem. She said in an interview cover story for Vogue Arabia, she's 64 now, we've talked about sharing before, she said that she was in a relationship with a younger man who called it quits after she refused to get the wrinkle erasing injections. What? Yes.
Starting point is 00:11:09 She said her youthful beau asked if she used Botox. She said, it would probably be really good for your ego and mine if I did. I saw him one more time after that and then he wasn't interested in seeing me anymore. If you don't see me for more than that, you'll please find your way to the exit. I like the way that sounds Sharon, but I don't necessarily believe it. But okay, if you want everyone to think you had the younger bow and the hot guy, but he didn't just leave because he was tired of hearing you whine. It was all about the Botox.
Starting point is 00:11:54 Okay, all right, no problem. She did say that she used injectables in the past before giving them up for good. And she opened up about the painful history with the treatment. there were periods in the super fame, in the super fame, when I got Botox and filler and stuff. And then I had this massive stroke and a nine-day brain hemorrhage. Every time you talk about Sharon Stone, she wants to bring out the nine-day stroke and the nine-day brain hemorrhage.
Starting point is 00:12:35 I mean, she's actually, you know, and we all know that she's lucky to be alive. and I've had over 300 shots of Botox and filler to make the one side of my face come up again. So because of the massive stroke and the nine-day brain hemorrhage, I guess her face fell in. Maybe that was from the previous fill-in work, you know, during her time as what she called them
Starting point is 00:13:08 big fame I know super fame sorry sorry Sharon and so because of that they gave her over 300 shots of Botox and filler to you know make the face
Starting point is 00:13:26 come up again she said that the near death experience changed the concept of Botox from cute luxury to some kind of massive painful, neurological need. Okay.
Starting point is 00:13:43 She said these days she prefers to celebrate her age, and fans are responding. I bet they are. She's taking the quick bikini, the topless bikini shot, which, you know, I'm looking, no problem. I'm happy to see that. And she was in flight attendant
Starting point is 00:13:58 as the mom, she's been working, and life is just really good. But it's not super fame like it used to be. But, you know, if you believe that the younger beau left because you wouldn't get Botox, well, you go right on ahead and believe it. Okay? All right, good.
Starting point is 00:14:22 So, have you ever seen the painting, the Mandarin, M-O-N-D-R-A-N-N-P-A-N painting? It's been around for, I don't know, 75, 80 years. It's a famous painting by... abstract Dutch artist Pietmundurin. And it's, I don't know, it's the 1941 picture. It's a interlacing lattice of red, yellow, black, and blue adhesive tapes, titled New York City One. And it was first put on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art in 1945.
Starting point is 00:14:59 And it's hung at the art collection of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia in Dussledorf. since 1980. And the way the picture is currently hung, it shows the multicolored lines thickening at the bottom. You know, it kind of looks like one of those designer scarfs, you know, and, you know, not Ralph Lauren. You know what I'm talking about. the designer scarf, not Louis Vuitton,
Starting point is 00:15:41 Burberry. It looks like a burberry. Just, you know, off the top of my head. That's what I was thinking of is kind of a burberry scarf look. Anyway, right now we have a professional art, I don't know, curator. She started looking at the museum show, and she said, you know, that's upside down. You people have been hanging this thing up upside down for 75 years.
Starting point is 00:16:13 That is awesome. So she believes that the thickening of the grid should be at the top like a dark sky. And she pointed out to other curators and they were like, yeah, you know, I think you're right. Huh. So they don't know what happened. they there's a photograph of Mondrian Studio taken a few days after the artist's death
Starting point is 00:16:41 and published in American Lifestyle Magazine, town and country in June of 1944 edition. And it shows the same picture sitting on an easel the other way up. So they don't know if it changed in shipping, if that's what he wanted, if it was, if they just took it out of a box and said,
Starting point is 00:17:01 put it up like that. So the one thing that's a problem is it doesn't have the signature on it. So because he hadn't finished it. So now they're concerned that the adhesive tapes are already extremely loose and hanging by a thread. If we were to turn it upside down, it would just make it fall down and fall apart. we're just going to leave it the way it is. So the next time you look at a piece of art, that's just a good way to, a good rule of thumb,
Starting point is 00:17:40 you know, art is in the eye of the beholder. But when you look at something and go, you know, that just doesn't, I don't know, does that look right to you? And you don't know, I mean, if you look at it, the one picture they have of it, you know, how it is with what's supposed to be the top on the bottom, you would think, okay, well, that's the way it's supposed to be.
Starting point is 00:17:59 just so you know if you've enjoyed the Mondrian's work just know that you've been enjoying it upside down so you know we've talked a lot since Elon has taken over Twitter about how he's going to
Starting point is 00:18:18 change it and what is going to change and the possible changes that could happen and one of those changes were that he would charge for Twitter or charge to have to be verified that kind of thing or charge a subscription fee to actually use Twitter. Well, now today I'm just reading an article about how they're looking at charging for video. So when a creator composes a tweet with a video, the creator can enable the paywall once the video has been added to the tweet.
Starting point is 00:18:55 So the creator could then receive a sum of money, allegedly, up to like $10 from each user who pays for the video content, with Twitter also making an unspecified cut of that. So according to a mock-up of what the feature would look like, the paywalled content would be obscured with the lock icon and the message of you for a dollar or whatever the case is. And this is just one of the few overhauls.
Starting point is 00:19:22 So, I mean, they're talking about, well, they're concerning themselves with this because it would be mainly used to promote adult content, uh, rivaling, uh, porn hub and doesn't say it in the story about Patreon, right? And, uh, those have millions of users a month. And only fans, uh, more only fans than Patreon, but the same kind of thing where you charge for content. And so, uh, they're, they don't know. I was really surprised at the number that they had in here about porn on Twitter. 13% of all content on the site is pornographic. So, I mean, pornography is a thriving exchange on Twitter.
Starting point is 00:20:14 Believe me, I know. And some of it is, well, some of it is pornography. It's the way it is. I know that they've been concerned about advertisers. They, way back in, I don't know, a few months ago anyway, way back in a few months ago. I know that Dyson, Mazda, Forbes, and PBS kids all suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because they claimed that promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting for child pornography.
Starting point is 00:20:52 Is that true? I mean, I don't know if that's true or not, but they certainly believed it and pulled. And I guess some tweets included the keywords related to rape and teens, and they didn't want that promoted next to their product. You know, that's their call. I don't blame them at all.
Starting point is 00:21:10 So anyway, that's new news on Twitter that you start getting, you can put video up behind a paywall. So you could create your own content and charge for it, and Twitter would get, get a cut. That's a pretty good idea, actually. I'm not
Starting point is 00:21:26 necessarily opposed to that idea. So I know that Elon wants to make the platform the most accurate source of information on earth without regard to political affiliation. But if you pay me $10 a month, you can take a look at some porn shots too.
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Starting point is 00:22:29 So who died today? Who died today? First and foremost, Takeoff. Whose takeoff, you ask? Well, takeoff is one-third of the hip-hop trio, Mygos, who was shot and killed in Houston, Texas. He was 28 years of age.
Starting point is 00:22:49 The rapper was shot and killed at a bowling alley in downtown Houston, where he and his quavo and uncle and Mygos bandmate were playing dice at around 2.30 in the morning. and the crowd was approximately 40 or 50 people at the scene when the shooting took place there was a man with a gunshot wound to the head or neck he was pronounced dead at the scene two other people were shot and taken to the hospital police have confirmed that the investigation of course is
Starting point is 00:23:23 underway and they're examining a nearby surveillance video in an effort to determine what happened at the bowling alley So take off Dead At the age of 28 Who else? Who died today?
Starting point is 00:23:43 Julie Powell Food writer Blogger Known for her Julie and Julia You remember her Amy Adams portrayed the author
Starting point is 00:23:51 alongside Merrill Streep In the film about her quest To cook every recipe And the Mastering the Art of French Cooking in a year She passed away
Starting point is 00:24:01 at the age of 49. Wait, what? She was 49? Yes. She was 49 years old and she died of cardiac arrest in her home in Olive Bridge, New York. Huh.
Starting point is 00:24:18 So she was born in Texas, struggling, writer living in Long Island. She wrote the book that turned into a movie, and then she was born in Austin, Texas, actually. And her second and last book, Cleaving, the story of marriage, meat, and obsession. It was published in 2009,
Starting point is 00:24:48 when she was 49 years old and had cardiac arrest. Huh. I wonder what could have caused a 49-year-old, otherwise healthy female. to just die and have cardiac arrest at the age of 49. I don't know either. Don't look at me. Don't look at me.
Starting point is 00:25:12 I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, oh, you know what it is? Yeah, that's exactly what you're thinking. So I didn't say that. I'm just saying that it is awful strange that she just dropped over of cardiac arrest at the age of 49. Getting that a lot lately, it seems. People are just dropping over at a relatively young age.
Starting point is 00:25:36 And then there's no reason for it. We don't know why. It just happens. You can look at me like that all you want. I didn't say it. All right. I know what you're thinking, and I didn't say it. I did this on Pat Unleased this morning.
Starting point is 00:25:53 Of course, it's Wednesday, 112, so I do a chewing the fat on Pat Gray on Leashed program. And as I was sitting down to do chewing, I saw the list of the highest paid dead celebrities revealed by Forbes. And it was fascinating. The 13 highest paid dead celebrities, according to Forbes. All right. So number 13 is George Harrison, $12 million. George Harrison made $12 million last year.
Starting point is 00:26:23 John Lennon made $16 million. Juan Gabriel made $23 million. Juan Gabriel, the famous Mexican musician. composer. Charles Schultz, $24 million. Jeff Baccaro from Toto made $25 million. Dr. Seuss made $32 million.
Starting point is 00:26:48 Leonard Cohen made $55 million. Michael Jackson made $75 million. James Brown, the hardest working man or was the hardest working man in show business, 100 million dollars. Wow. Elvis Presley made 110 million dollars this year. Good. Good for the king.
Starting point is 00:27:14 David Bowie made $250 million. Wow. Kobe Bryant. Kobe Bryant made $400 million. dollars. Wow. And number one, highest paid dead celebrity, J.R. Tolkien made $500 million in the last year. Congratulations, I guess, for being dead and bringing in some cash. So I do want to thank all of you for sending me your ideas for the the oak mulggy theme music. I really appreciate it.
Starting point is 00:28:04 I've gotten all your emails at chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I also have one of my producers. Haley has sent a special folder that I have to listen to that has, let's see, in her words, she called it murderous jingles that may, work for the Oak Mulggy murder themes. So then I got to think of Keith
Starting point is 00:28:38 as I was reading about Oak Mugge and he was asking my theory on it and he said I was thinking maybe you could use the everybody's got their own theme music that they could possibly use and he says what about Bonanza?
Starting point is 00:28:53 What about that theme music? And so I'm thinking Bonanza. Wow. And then I saw I went to look for the Bonanza theme music, which got me into looking at how the Bonanza house, the house that was on the Ponderosa, which was the ranch on the television show Bonanza, just sold a year or so ago. And I feel like we talked about it, but I'm not sure.
Starting point is 00:29:19 It sold for $38 million. It's on Lake Tahoe. That's where Bonanza was filmed. I mean, Bonanza was a huge show. I mean, it ran for 14 seasons, 400. 31 episodes. Wow. From 1959 to
Starting point is 00:29:34 1973. NBC's longest running Western show. So, I mean, the place that they have, it's different than what was the Cartwright's family home on the Ponderosa, 24-acre
Starting point is 00:29:54 property, settled along the east shore of Lake Tahoe and Zephyr Cove. It has two homes built in 2004, combining for nine bedrooms, nine and a half baths across more than 18,000 square feet. It's got a gated motor court approaching the stone-clad mansion, formal living spaces, beam ceilings, hand-carred fireplaces, ornay chandeliers, picture windows in living, room, dining room, kitchen, take in the views of the water, wine cellar, craft room, movie theater, gym, two offices, and a spacious billiard, room with a wet bar under vaulted ceilings. Second-story deck hangs off the backside of the home overlooking a stretch of Sandy Beach
Starting point is 00:30:36 that leads to a private dock with a boat lift. I could live here. I'm ready to live there. It was originally listed for $59 million, and it just sold for $38, $39 million, which gets us to the possibility of the theme song from Bonanza. as the Oak Molligy theme. Oak Muggy. Murder.
Starting point is 00:31:25 Dismembered. Oak Moology. I don't think so. I don't know. I don't know. It's funny. It's definitely funny. I don't think it's going to work really, but I do kind of like it.
Starting point is 00:31:53 We'll see. A decision has to be made this week. I've put a deadline on the Okamoggi theme music. It has to happen this week. So it's coming. That's what she said. So a woman identified as a Republic Airways flight attendant, and I'm not real sure what Republic Airways is,
Starting point is 00:32:28 but okay, she was arrested at Reagan National Airport after authorities said she took a passenger's bracelet set. from the TSA checkpoint. Security spokesman said Rebecca Valley, 60 of Wesley Chapel, Florida, that's in Tampa Bay, just outside of Tampa, works for the regional carrier, and was charged with one count of grand larceny.
Starting point is 00:32:55 The owner of the jewelry reported that it was valued at $8,000. Well, was it? Was it $8,000? I'd like to have that rethought if I was, you know, Rebecca Valley from Wesley Chapel. I would say that wasn't worth $8,000.
Starting point is 00:33:11 That was only worth like $10. But apparently the victim said, she went through the TSA and said, hey, somebody took my jewelry. I don't have my jewelry. Somebody took my jewelry. I don't have my jewelry. So they went to the videotape.
Starting point is 00:33:30 Let's roll back the tape. And they examined the recordings and set a second track. traveler in a flight attendant's uniform, pick up the jewelry. And they found her in the airport. Hello, how you doing? Come with us, please. Oh, now, Republic Airways did not respond to the request for comment.
Starting point is 00:33:51 Oh, okay. It operates flights for American Eagle, Delta, Connection, and United Express. Okay. So, I guess people have stuff stolen at the security checkpoint all the time. Really? That is so weird. Are we really having person-on-person thievery at the checkpoint? I mean, okay. Maybe the TSA people should do their jobs, and they did do their job, actually. They helped out and got the passenger their necklace back, whether it was worth $8,000 or $8,000. It doesn't matter. It wasn't our girl from Wesley Chapel's property.
Starting point is 00:34:36 And according to the TSA, they want to make sure that you put your wallets or phones or jewelry in a carry-on bag, not a bin to help avoid the passenger on passenger theft. And you make your laptops, put a business card or some type of sticker, like a three-inch decal of a pink whale that I have on mine. Yeah, that's what I want to do. Walk around with a big pink whale decal on the back of my laptop. But you go ahead. I appreciate it. Just keep an eye out at the old TSA checkpoint, okay? I don't want any passenger on passenger crime going on.
Starting point is 00:35:15 And what's happening at the airport? I mean, stuff gets missing goes missing all the time at the airport. When you say all the time, Jeff, really all the time? Well, yeah, I see where a guy by the name of Earl Weber, E-R-R-R-O-L-W-E-B-B-B-B-B, B-E-R, tweeted at United and saying one of your employees at Anchorage Airport rummaged through my luggage and took some film equipment home with them. They inadvertently took my Apple air tag that I had hidden. Can you tell your employee who lives at 210 Clover Hollow Court to give my stuff back?
Starting point is 00:36:02 That is hilarious. is. Now, I mean, people get stuff stolen all the time, and it's a bad move on whoever lives at the old 210 Clover Hall of Court. Times are tough right there. And I know that people, I don't know, I'm getting someone's address is not the right play on that. Well, you know, okay, don't steal. I know that replies to that particular email talked about, we lost 60,000 to FedEx on two separate occasions. We mailed seven to a box. and in both cases we found that one box on marked containing laptops went missing. They are now hand carried and the packages are air tagged.
Starting point is 00:36:43 FedEx immediately responded to that, being tagged in that tweet, saying DM us and we can help you out with that. I say, hey, you caught a thief. I don't know that I would have printed the address to the world myself, but it's certainly, I get it. I certainly get it. And, you know, it's an opportunity. I love the air tags.
Starting point is 00:37:06 We talked about that already. How it stopped, you know, helped people find their things. And it's for safety, of course. And, you know, any of that kind of technology where you could use to keep track of your stuff so that if it does inadvertently get in the hands of someone else, you could say, hey, hey, you must have picked up that box of laptops by my mom. mistake because it's mine. So you mind?
Starting point is 00:37:37 And as long as we're talking about crime and Tampa, Florida, let's talk about the money laundering criminals in Tampa Bay. Virginia Garcia-Moretta and Hector Rodriguez-Mendez got 70 months and 63 months in federal prison for conspiring to commit money laundering. As part of their sentences, the court has also ordered. them to forfeit $21,567,939 the proceeds of the conspiracy. They pleaded guilty in June. Just incredible, according to documents, they led a Tampa-based money laundering
Starting point is 00:38:19 organization responsible for laundering more than 20 million in drug proceeds in more than 400 transactions. It's a lot of work for 20 million. During the operation, the couple received, have they not seen, Ozark. I mean, what are we doing? Anyway, during the operation, the couple received substantial amounts of drug proceeds
Starting point is 00:38:40 gave bundles of cash with purchase instructions to people that they recruited to purchase cashier's checks. The couple would then visit several banks in the same day to cash the checks to avoid suspicion. And so these cashier checks were then given to other businesses and people
Starting point is 00:38:56 involved in the conspiracy. And so then, ta-da, washed. So, according to the investigators, $21,567,939 was laundered during the conspiracy. The couple's share of the proceeds was only 3%. You better only take that too, because they will be coming to see you. So obviously the main motivation of these drug trafficking organizations is to profit at the expense of the safety and health of our citizens.
Starting point is 00:39:26 So the actions of these individuals assisted the drug traffickers, bringing this poison to our communities. said the DEA Miami Field Division Special Agent in Charge, D.N. L. Reuter. This successful collaboration between the DEA Miami Field Division and our federal partners highlights the importance of financial investigations in the fight against narcotics trafficking in Florida. All right. I mean, good for them. Those who launder drug proceeds are just as vile and as culpable
Starting point is 00:39:58 as the traffickers themselves, which is why today's sentence properly hold the defendant's responsible for their actions. Okay. Well, good, and I'm glad these people are off the streets. 21 million they're laundering out there. They should have taken some notes from Ozark, though. I mean, I feel like 400 transactions for 20 million. That's an awful lot.
Starting point is 00:40:25 Maybe it's just me. It could be just me. Hey, don't forget the World Series. still going on. The Phillies are up two games to one. They have two more games left in Philadelphia. It looks like they're going to win. Big time.
Starting point is 00:40:38 Okay. Big time. And a quick college football mention. I see the playoff rankings were announced. So until Saturday rolls around or the end of this weekend rolls around and some teams win and or lose, this is the playoff rankings of the top 10,
Starting point is 00:40:58 Tennessee, Ohio State, Georgia. Clemson, Michigan, Alabama, TCU, Oregon, Southern California, and LSU. I don't know how LSU snuck into the top 10, but they're there. So this weekend, Alabama and LSU play, the number 6 and number 10 team play. So that will drop one of those teams down for sure. And Georgia, Tennessee plays this weekend as well. Tennessee goes into Georgia. That will be a fun game to watch.
Starting point is 00:41:32 The LSU, Alabama game will be a fun game to watch. TCU looks great. They're undefeated. Michigan looked really, really good. Clemson, I know they're undefeated, but I just can't take Clemson. And that's just me. I know, it's just me.
Starting point is 00:41:48 Leave me alone. Get off me. And I see Texas is back at 5 and 3, but they're ranked 24th. So the Texas fans are happy about that. Syracuse is ranked. in the top 20. Penn State is back being ranked again. Kansas State who looked really good this year. So far are six and two. Wow. And Ole Miss with Lane Kiffin, 8 and 1 at number 11.
Starting point is 00:42:14 UCLA's in there. So there's some great teams in the top 25. We'll see how that works out as the college season progresses. We are smack dab. I mean, we have like three or four games left in the season. And then we're into, you know, time off before the bowl games. Just, Amazing. Amazing. So enjoy college football this weekend. And thanks for listening to Chewing the Fat. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.

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