Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Finally!... | 3/19/25

Episode Date: March 19, 2025

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It's about time. This is what's held me back from climbing Mount Everest. I've wanted to forever, but, you know, it's too expensive. And then you've got to carry all that stuff up the mountain. And it's just, whew, man, I just doesn't want to do it. Well, now I can, because they're going to start using drones. to help the climbers on Mount Everest. So drones can carry up to 35 pounds in high altitudes.

They're able to make the treasurer's trip up to base camp one, which is typically a seven-hour trek 15 minutes. Okay. Now they're going to transport oxygen cylinders and hot meals, but they're also going to pick up some of the trash. People have been whining about all the trash that everybody leaves along their way. And it's also going to help the Sherpas.

so the Sherpas, who normally haul everything up the mountain and lead you up the mountain that's going to help the Sherpas know the way and carry stuff up for them. So even the Sherpas are getting a good deal out of this. Now the drones, I know, I know they should get an applause. Well, they're drones made in China and they're only about 70,000 apiece. But that's okay. No problem. The price tag, I don't even think about it.

Let me think about the price tag because it's going to make climbing Everest cheaper and safer in the long run. And so, and it will help the Sherpas as well. So now's the time. If you, like me, have always wanted to hike up Mount Everest, I can honestly say,

I have never wanted to do that. But I mean, I lied in the beginning of this. I lied a couple minutes ago because I never really wanted to climb Mount Everest. But I understand the people who want to and get that adrenaline rush of climbing Mount Everest. Now you can, and it's going to be that much easier for you to climb it with the assistance of drones. When you come up with a drone that could just pick me up and then just take me to the top of Mount Everest, and then I look around, and then the drone could pick me up and drop me back off.

Now, now you're talking. Some people may say, those are already invented, Jeff. They're called helicopters. Yeah, no, they're too loud. They're too big. They're too noisy. No, I just want the, I just want the drone. Just a quick little, vv, up the mountain.

And I'm good, look, the first, said base one, camp one, takes you 15 minutes. So, all right, I'm good with, I'm good with 30 minutes, round trip. V-up, up the top, look around, back down. 30 minutes. Make it happen. Welcome.

What's that? There's a weight limit on the drones? Yeah, I know. I know. That's what I'm saying. Invent one that will do it. Okay? And it's going to be more than 35 pounds.

Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So we're told that things are turning around. Egg prices are down. Gas prices are down. And I want to believe that to be so. Now, I saw the latest U.S. consumer sentiment index. was the lowest level since 2022.

It dropped to 57.9, marking a 10.5% decline from February, because people are still a little concerned. We've got banks closing, health care firms, closing hospitals, and we have, although the one bank is closing, only closing 38 branches.

That's it. So if you bank for it with T, D Bank. Just make sure you're, make sure you're gonna, you've got your branch is going to, you might have to go to a new branch. TD Bank.

TD Bank. And I think they're like the third or fourth largest bank, right? TD Bank. Because they were the ones that got in trouble with the money laundering scheme. All they had, they had, they had big time.

I mean, they got fined billions of dollars for it because they revealed that, uh, there were employees helping out the narcotics trafficking with money laundering and so they were fine anyway they're closing some branches

I'm sure it has nothing to do with I'm sure they're not related at all then we have prospect medical holdings which owned and operated 16 acute care and behavioral hospitals in California, Connecticut Pennsylvania and Rhode Island they're filing for bankruptcy

Don't worry about it. And then the parent company of six landmark hospital specialty hospital facilities filed, say that 10 times. The parent company of six laundromat hospital specialty hospital facilities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That's all, though. They have facilities in Florida, Georgia, and Missouri. Then we have the American Physician Partners LLC. They filed for Chapter 11.

another physician service provider, Envision Healthcare Corporation. Yeah, they filed for Chapter 11, although that was way back in 2023. Who can even remember that far? And then finally, the physician-led staffing firm, NES Health Services PC, love them. They filed for Chapter 7,

and they're closing about 35 hospitals in the United States. So there's that. That leads one to believe that perhaps the computers, the consumer index is right. People are, you know, maybe have their head down a little bit. Because then we just found out that Forever 21, Forever 21 closing. They ran out of money. I know.

It's sad. It's sad. So they filed for bankruptcy, right? And then I think they got bought out. And yeah, they bought the company. So they, they. They claim stiff competition between Timu and Sheen. I think that's what they call it from China.

Negatively impacted Forever 21's business. Oh, okay. So that came from the company's co-chief restructuring officer. If you have a co-chief restructuring officer, that's an issue. So then the CEO, Jamie Salter, of the company that bought Forever 21 after, the first bankruptcy said as probably the biggest mistake I've made. It was only 400 million. I don't worry about it.

Nothing. So no more Forever 21. I know. Dry your eyes. I know. Forever 21 is one of those stores that you see in a strip mall and you go, oh yeah, they have a Forever 21 and then you go to the store next door. Or, oh yeah, they have a Forever 21 and you keep driving into the next mall over.

It's just, I don't, I think I actually have been in a Forever. 21 once. So then we have Party City, big lots, Joanne Fabrics, gone, right? I mean, they're just closing them down. It's a

graveyard. I should have put this on who died today. They're buried out there. I mean, holy cow. So then we find out that some companies are still, we're at a, you know, a point of no return and they're closing down. We know Dollar General is struggling.

Dollar General. I mean, the head of Dollar General said that hey, people only have enough money for basic essentials. That's because that's why we had a disappointing Q4 earnings report. Okay. Demand apparently is slowing a target lows

foot locker. All right. Apparel spending is down. All right, that's according to Coles. Delta. the jet blue American Airlines and Southwest lowered their first quarter sales forecast this week. Yeah, well, I mean, hello. And then Southwest said they were going to start charging for luggage at the end of May. I see where Frontier now says, yeah, we'll give you a free bag.

You can't fly with us. We'll give you a free bag. Oh, okay. All right, fine. So we got a little, maybe that'll create some airline wars. I'm good with that, no problem. So we have all that. And then we have companies like Pepsi.

buying Poppy, the drink brand Poppy. Now, Pepsi only spent $2 billion on that. So, I mean, that's almost nothing for Poppy. Yeah, we'll take it. We'll bring it into our umbrella, no problem. Now, yesterday I saw, my favorite purchase, I think, of the week is yesterday I saw a headline. I didn't mention it. It says that Google, parent company, Alphabet, is in talks to buy this cybersecurity firm, WIS, for $30 billion.

dollars now they had another deal that they were going to put together with whiz that fell through i remember seeing that i don't know how long ago that was but that fell apart so then today we see the headline yep they're buying it google is acquiring whiz 432 billion dollars so whiz held out for a couple more days got two billion dollars i know and for sure i mean we need a bigger cash register because according to this story, it is an all-cash deal. $32 billion. All-cash.

I'll tell you what, can we make it 31.5 and send, you know, half over it to me? You can just put it in my PayPal, Jeffey, CTF. Just PayPal it to me, Google, Alphabet, Whiz, whoever I'm fine no problem

I am fine with that so they held out for a little bit longer and they got an extra $2 billion that's a pretty darn good deal and speaking of all the the healthcare shakeups I see where Pfizer sold its stake

of this British healthcare group Halion maker of brands including Advil Censodine and of course more. So Pfizer is no longer has a stake in that company. So there's a lot of changes happening in businesses all over the world for sure here in America and

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Yeah, Sonny Williams, Butch, Wilmore, back on planet Earth. Along with, you know, sure, Nick Hague and other astronaut and some Russian cosmonaut, Alexander Givenoff, was on the flight with them. They came along for the ride, too. No problem. Don't worry about it. But But Butch and Sonny, who went up there on the Boeing Starliner, were there for supposed to go up to for a quick week for a three hour tour

and then it ended up to be you know nine months later because the weather started getting rough and they spent 286 days in space and they orbited the earth 4,576 times and they put on 121 million miles so before splash down or touchdown

or splash down or return to Earth. awesome so they're finally back and they made it back sleep it was it was fun to watch they landed a pot of dolphins surrounded the capsule kind of cool we saw them get out of the capsule they looked okay you know it was okay as you can look I mean they've been in space for 286 days I think the longest the longest person in space was this Russian guy I should actually know that but he's he was up there for three I don't think he made 400 days. But then astronaut Kelly was in space for a year.

437. So he did make 400. Yeah, okay, so it was 437. What a week they didn't make 500. Okay, that's what, right. I mean, stop it. So I think one, what's his face? The one Kelly twin, not the, not the senator, but his twin brother,

was up there for a year. So 286 days is not the longest, but it's a long time, a long time to be in space. And it does a lot to your body. And you can tell me whatever, you know, why they were there. We know why they were there. There was technical issues. They came home in the same capsule that's been up there since September. They sent it up in September.

They were supposed to hop on it and come back in a, you know, short period of time. Then it was delayed for some technical issue. There was some kind of, shoot what was it I can't remember what they what they said was an issue a hydraulic issue but uh and that isn't that oh it's the hydraulics it's and don't worry about it's the hydraulics we got to look into that so um so then and then we find out that they didn't come back because NASA didn't have the money they kept delaying it Biden said don't do it and that's what Elon said so you know is that true I mean, they were up there.

They were still up there. Nobody sent him back until Donald Trump said, Elon, let's go get him. So he sent another rocket up with new astronauts to replace these astronauts that are leaving, which was supposed to have happened back in, I don't know. I think the original delayed date was, well, they were up there September. They went up in September and then it was supposed to happen right after that in October.

Then it was delayed until, they said March. So I don't know that anything got sped up any faster than what they had already planned on. Because this flight, the rescue flight was delayed a little bit. Anyway, yeah, anyway, they're back. They're back on Earth, most importantly, and that's great. I heard an interview today with a former astronaut. I'm going to try to get him on the show.

Clayton Anderson, Astro Clay, he goes by. He's been an astronaut. he's been at the ISS. In fact, in his interview, he talked about when he came back to Earth, he was still in the shuttle. But he talked about his time on space, in space and what it does to your body. And the process of getting back to your own self

takes forever. And he said he didn't spend 206 days in space the last time. Took him about three and a half weeks to get back to where he could walk and move and felt good about it, lift some weights, get your body back in shape. So he's thinking that it's going to take them six to eight weeks to get back. Plus, one of the things he talked about that nobody talks about is the bone density.

And he talked about how it took about two years for him to get back the strength in his bones that were before he left Earth. And he said that a couple of astronauts have done regular things, like one guy jumped off a stage, a short stage to get a computer and broke a hip. One astronaut was riding a bike and slid in a puddle and crashed, broke a hip. I mean, within the rehab time period of coming back to Earth, you know what I mean? It was within, I think, that two-year period. So it's fascinating.

He talked about what they eat. how they shower, how they bathe. Really fascinating. I cannot wait. I'm going to reach out to talk to Astro Clay on chewing the fat. I'll give him the whole episode if he wants. I don't care. It's awesome.

What he talked about was fascinating to me. And I didn't, none of the interview that I heard this morning talked about his belief in our travel to Mars and space travel and set up future colonies. and that kind of thing. So I'm sure he has some opinions on that. Love.

I love to talk to him about that. Clay, I know you're a listener to Chewing the Fat. I know you are. You're teaching class, I think, out there at Iowa State. And then you're the head of some stuff. You're Nebraska's only astronaut. My gosh, my stepdad from Broken Bow, Nebraska, the Far Western end.

I have Nebraska in my blood well. I have Nebraska. You know, if you look on the map, he's from right here, the Far Western. This is Nebraska. All right. He's out there. You know where Broke.

If you're from Nebraska, you know where Broken Bow is. Hello. When you've been walking north from Broken Bow, you can walk for months and not see another human being. That's a fact. Anyway, Clay,

you need to come on the show for me. Now, Clay, you can reach out to me. Just email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can do that. In fact, you, anyone can. That's the way it works. It's an internet email. Chewing the fat at the blaze.

You can email me if you want to become a contestant on what's the lie. You can email me if you want to be, you know, post your joke of the day. Hopefully, you know, I read them all. Some of them. But some of them work and those make the show. You can email me questions or comments. I prefer the nice comments, but go ahead and send me your mean comments too, whatever. And that's chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

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but I don't know what it is. It might be Jeffrey JFR. I don't remember. You know, I changed fun. I got a threads account, and I set it up, and I don't think I ever wrote down what my password was or anything.

And then I got a new phone. And when my new phone updated, it kicked me out of my threads account, so I had to log, back in? I don't know what that login is. So if you have reached out to me on threads, I apologize. Someday, someday I'll work up enough energy to get back into threads. I'm not promising anything. And then you can go to my YouTube channel Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can order a cameo from me at any time at Jeffie JFR on Cameo on the Cameo app. That of course is not free,

but it's worth every doggone penny. You know, speaking of X, yesterday, I thought to myself, you know, I'm going to comment on this guy's ex post, this tweet. And I probably shouldn't have. We just got the JFK files, so I was in a good mood. SpaceX had landed.

I'm back, I'm sorry, splash down. We just got the JFK files. and then I see this ex post from this guy, Thomas Peters, I have no idea who he is. It says on his bio that he's, well, in fact, let's read Thomas Peter's bio, shall we? Let's do it.

I don't know that I can anymore because, well, he blocked me. And he blocked me pretty fast. And I thought, you, look at him. I thought, come on. Are you going to be that mean? It's going to be that mean.

Okay, here we go. There's Thomas showing me that he blocked me. Okay, he's the founder, undersea energy writer. Third Lyft 3 startup, rapid dual day trader, contrarian triathlete, open water, edu, edu, edu education, USC and HBS. Okay. Orange County, California. Okay, so I should have known right from there.

If I read that, his name is his at Thomas O. Peters. At Thomas O. Peters is his X handle. And he's got like 20,000 followers. He follows like six or seven thousand people. So he's trying to gain followers by following a bunch of people. It's an idea that other people have had. so he had posted Scott Kelly,

Senator Mark Kelly's twin That's the twin that was State in Space for about a year And I used to follow up on Instagram Just because he was posting all the time About being in space, awesome So his brother And he went to space

They sent the twins up because they sent Scott up And they wanted to see the difference between The time frame of when Scott was in space And Mark was here on Earth. So you got the body different. and they were twins. So it's almost, it was, you know, close to the same body, which was fascinating. I don't know that anybody's actually, I'm sure there's an interview out there somewhere,

but I'd be interested to know some of the differences. Anyway, Senator Markelly, he will never talk to us here at The Blaze anyway. There's no way that ever happens. But he was just on, according to Thomas, he was just on Fox News claiming the astronauts had a vessel up there since September and had a ride home the entire time. Biden was president for four months after keeping them there, which is worse. And I thought, okay, I mean, yeah, that's what we talked about when it happened. We didn't blame it.

Musk blamed it on Biden. I never blame it on Biden, but we did blame it on NASA for keeping them up there, saying that they weren't stuck there. Of course they weren't. No, they weren't stuck there. Oh, okay, because I bet you they thought they were. Anyway, so I was like, okay, I can't let this go. I was in too good a mood.

JFK files splashed down. So I quote tweeted him, and if you follow me on X, you know that. I quote tweeted, quote Xed him, quote X posted him. Tell me you don't listen to the news without telling me you don't listen to the news, which I thought, that's funny a lot. Then I continued. That may have, if I had to stop there, he might not have blocked me. Then I said, they came back to Earth in the capsule that was there since September.

NASA insists that the pair has not been stranded this whole time, but instead that they were intentionally kept hanging for technical and budgetary reasons. I didn't think that was that bad. I mean, he was just saying, I was just telling him that, hey, pay attention to the news. He blocked me. He blocked me. so darn the luck I won't be able to see I didn't follow him anyway I just was just in my feed somehow

I don't even remember it's probably a recommended post or something from X thank you get me blocked X it's all your fault all right let's go to the break room I need something cold to drink desperately okay this has not happened to me yet but if it does I'm gonna be pissed uh Roku users

and I use Roku uh on a couple of televisions of my house. I like it. The product is fine. You know, you turn it on and Roku it. Up comes all the apps that you have available to you. And some apps you don't have available to you, but they're all there, and I love it.

And it's a good app. Well, now, apparently, they've started testing ads that autoplay before the home screen even appears. I will be so pissed. I may have to shoot my television. now I don't know I mean they have to make some money I know they have to make money I know I got it they have to make money

and they have ads that come up on the home screen you know they have ads come on the home screen I'm sure don't they have a deal with who's doing their deals don't they have a deal with all the apps that they show up on Roku that they can run Roku commercials on I don't know

there's got to be a way to do it without me having to watch the commercial. Because now, I mean, they got you. Right? I mean, actually, I mean, they should be charging a lot of money. Because you're bought in, no matter what the commercial is, because at least for now. And if they start doing it all the time, once you turn Roku on,

then you're going to move on with your life and do something else. Oh, yeah, I want to watch something on my Roku. Turn it on, go do something else. Come back. Now you've missed the ads. Right, so you know, you just, the apps are there. I'm not telling people to do that. That would be wrong.

I'm telling you watch the ads. But in the beginning, I hope they're charging big money. Because I'm sitting down, turning out the TV, and I got to sit through a commercial before I get to be able to get to my app. Oh, my gosh. That is maddening. Again, it hasn't happened yet, so, you know, it's possible. That could happen.

Speaking of Roku, though, in TV shows, and we talked yesterday about the shows I'm watching, I see where Tulsa King has been renewed for a season three, although they got a new showrunner, so we'll see what makes the difference. But season two was great, and season one was awesome, too. So, I mean, that was good,

and Salone is awesome in it. It's just really good show if you have an opportunity to watch it. Kanye West, I'm sorry, yay. I don't mean to be dead naming the man, but the story says Kanye West, So the story is dead naming him right off the bat, which I'm a little pissed right now. But he apparently is looking for some people to be in his next video.

And he wants to make sure that you will be okay wearing swastikas. And let's see, it goes on to say that it's an open casting call for volunteers. so that leads one to believe that he ain't paying you now you're not getting any money ah ha ha ha uh uh uh yay is putting together

a huligan choir intended to give the sound of the song carnival off his recent album vultures okay all right uh he added that the choir

would be all males and that no fat people should have All right, now I'm pissed. Because I was going to. I was going to and now, no. Now I can't. That ticks me up. I'm going to, I'm going to apply anyway.

Just to see what he says. Among the parameters, volunteers must have the skin complexion of Sean Combs and darker or shaved heads or must be willing to shave head if approved. Okay, so I am a no across the board for this video 100%. perhaps even more Amosan the Katskyl emphasizes that all prospective choir members must be comfortable wearing swastikers

well yeah I mean okay I mean he was selling swastika t-shirts that got shut down until you know Shopify shut it down why I mean okay people are just will make their own at home anyway

so he's not paying you he wants you to look a certain way no fat people he wants you to be dark-complected, semi-dark-complectic. Don't be too black. Can't be too black. Can't be one of those African blacks.

You got to be a, you got to be an American black. That's got a little white in you. Anyway, and then you got to be bald and you got to be willing to wear a swastika. So that's it. That's it, though.

And you too could be in a yay video. And who doesn't want that? Okay. so what is going on at concerts? What's happening? I see Journey had to stop a concert in Houston because of an electrical fire. Everybody was making a big deal out of, oh, you're the fans just saying don't stop believing after they couldn't sing anymore

because of the electrical fire. Oh, okay. Then in Chicago at a disturbed concert, they had the banners from the Chicago Bulls Championship banners. started burning up because of their pyro show so the bulls are like oh yeah we're taking them down

they were damaged during the concert sorry about that we'll get them back we'll get them back next year maybe but I mean how long does it take to make a banner we can't wait until next year well next season's almost over I guess yeah but I'm pretty sure

I'm pretty sure Michael could get it done hello come on now Michael calls your company I need the banners up, you're getting them up, right? I'm not worried about Scotty Pippen. Not worried about any of the other players. I'm just talking about Michael. Michael calls, you're getting it done.

But it concerns me because then I see where they're working on this new fire and rain stage musical from James Taylor's music, which will be, oh my gosh, so good. I mean, I had that stupid. Fire and Rain song in my head for the last couple weeks. And this is going to make it again, because I'm going to be thinking about this story again. And it's going to be in my head.

I'm just going to wake up. I'll wake up from a nap or I'll wake up in the morning and I get up and I start walking to the bathroom from the bedroom and I, in my head. Just yesterday morning. She'll have me know you were gone. Ah! And then that's it.

That's it. It's gone. It's there. It's there for the rest of the day. Oh, I thought I'd see you one more time again. I was there, it's wherever. Anyway, who doesn't want to see the musical on stage of fire and rain? Be careful, though, because things are burning up at concerts all over the country.

And, man, it would be fitting if the fire and rain musical would burn up. I don't want that to happen, but be a shame. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea. Feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy.

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he was, the young blood, they were the 60s anthem, get together. Incredible. Anyway, Come on people now, smile on your brother. Hold on Justin Colin Young. Come on. He was 83 though. Anyway, rest in peace. It doesn't say in this story what killed him. And of course I'm fascinated by

what kills you. But, yes. And so he's dead. It doesn't matter what killed him. It killed him, whatever it was. So rest in peace to Jesse Colin Young.

dead at the age of 83. Then we have the story where Jeremy Boring, the CEO, co-CEO of the Daily Wire, steps down. Just step down. Okay. So I guess that, I don't know if that means that that Shapiro is the CEO now.

Or if they're going to bring in another co-CEO to the Daily Wire. but I know that he's been all he's been wanting to do is make movies so I think that's what and I have no idea I have no idea why he stepped down at the Daily Wire. I would guess that he wants to just make movies

and he can't do that if he still has the day to day to worry about with the Daily Wire because they were making movies and doing stuff at the Daily Wire and so that could still be done by Jeremy only he can just focus on that. He doesn't have to focus on the daily rundown of the daily wire.

I would just guess that to be the case. And in fact, this story talks about how he's going to focus on creative project. That's exactly what he's doing. Yes. I'm still going to be around. He's still going to be seeing me. Are you? Are you?

I'll still be coming in daily. Okay. All right. All right. We'll see about that. We'll see if that actually happens. But for now, we know that the Daily Wire co-CEO, Jeremy Boring, step down. All right, so I have a question.

Will robots end slavery? Will robots end slavery? Because I think if you have a slave, well, slavery is no more, Jeff. I know. That's what you say. but a UN judge one time Columbia University Human Rights Fellow

has just been found guilty of slavery. That's correct. United Nations judge convicted of trafficking a young woman to the United Kingdom and forcing her to work as a slave. That's funny at all. But if you have a robot,

I mean, you can't beat it up, you can't slap it around, but you can't make it do your slavery duties. Ugandan judge Lydia Mugabe 49, exploited and abused the victim.

Prosecutor said forcing her to work as an unpaid maid and a caregiver while barring her from seeking other employment. A jury found Mugambe guilty of multiple offenses, including facilitating illegal immigration,

forced labor, and witness intimidation. So, even when the trial started. Yeah, you say anything. I'm going to slap you silly. Mugambe was a fellow housed within Columbia University's Institute

for the Study of Human Rights. Love them. Whose fellows work with address some aspect of a history of gross human rights violations in a society. Huh. What would that be? Would that be slavery? Look, I'm not a professor,

so I don't know. That would just be dumb of me to think of that. the Mugabe became a judge in the UN International Residual Mechanic. Oh my gosh. Okay, so wait a minute. This actually is the thing. It's a UN International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals. She's a judge for the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals.

Stop it. All right. So her home in Oxfordshire. According to the independent of Montgomery was studying for a law PhD at Oxford. Oh, she doesn't even have a stop. She doesn't have a doctorate in law. No wonder she needed a slave. Oh, what a loser.

She denied the charges, of course. And she always treated the young woman with love, care, and patience. Uh-huh. Sure. No problem. I believe you. The jury didn't. but I believe you.

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We'd love to talk, business. Drama is brewing. I know. And sure, we've got March Madness. Well, this early games started last night, but, you know, March Madness, the buy-in game started. And we get the actual games to start on Thursday.

So March Madness is underway. We have baseball underway playing in Japan. We talked a little bit about that, and Shohei drawing crowds, and so were some of the other Japanese players drawn big crowds in Japan. and then the regular season starts next week. But this was kind of a soft launch for MLB 2025 in Japan.

And we still have the NBA, right? The NBA is still going on. Hockey, still strong. Everybody, the NFL, sad that football is no more. Sad. Sad. Sad that football is no more. Holy cow.

I mean, college and the National Football League I miss. I do very much. Now, and the golf is heating up, right? As much as golf can heat up. But we have now a tennis issue. I know. Just when you think there's no one, nobody can complain wrong. Somebody complained.

So the Professional Tennis Players Association, the PTPA, love them, co-founded by Jochovic and Vasek, and they're backed by Bill Ackman. They have sued a group of the sports governing bodies over working conditions. Man, do I hate those pro tennis working conditions? Have I said it once? I've said it a... The lawsuit, which also names 12 pro players as plaintiffs,

claims athletes are stuck in a rigged game, alleging that the bodies engage in monopolisic practices that put players' financial and physical health at risk. Some grievances aired by players in the 163-page suit include allegations of, and I have not read the entire 163-page suit, so I apologize. So, yeah, I got JFK to do.

I mean, back off me, all right, I can't. I got JFK, I got splashed down to the astronauts, I can't be on the tennis thing, okay? I'll get there. Longer tournament, this is what they, you're charging, this is what their allegations are. Longer tournaments and inconsistent

scheduling, which make some pros play at all hours of the night. You can't have that. You can't be expected to play at all hours if you're a pro. I've got to schedule. Excessive anti-doping checks. I hate it when they check me. Okay? They're excessive.

All right? I've got to be able to find a rhythm to cheat. Wait, no. I mean, you're checking me too much. minuscule prize payouts compared to other high-profile sports. Okay. The governing bodies also allegedly have an iron

grip on players image rights. That's an issue. Which prevents them from making money with sponsorships. That is an issue. Everyone should own their own rights. Everyone should own their own rights. Mandatory participation

rules and tournaments changing the type of balls they use, which the suit alleges can lead to more injuries. How many times? How many times have I said, I can't use that tennis ball playing tennis? It causes injuries. I mean, so many times. So many times. There's a long time I've played tennis. I know that comes as a surprise. I love playing tennis, though. I did love playing tennis, although I didn't love it enough to know that I can't use those balls because I'll get injured. I do know. I do know that sometimes it becomes an issue to change the type of balls.

So the lawsuit is the biggest push by top players to literally change the game. It's not the only country club sport looking for a pay bomb. Oh, wait, what? Three years ago, the game of golf was splintered when the Saudi Arabia, yeah, live, courted top players with wads of cash, yeah, with golf. But there's no live tennis league. Good luck with that. And good luck.

You know, I hope it works out for them. I don't know that people care enough to get all wound up about it because, you know, Novak has made quite a bit of money. How much money is Novak made? I bet you he's made a, at least a come 100 million.

Yeah, okay, I apologize. It wasn't 200 million. It was 186 million. All right, so pretty close. Now, this is tennis money. You know, Rafael Nadel, 134 million, almost 135. Federer, 130 million.

Andy Murray. Loser, 64 million. Maybe that's what they're talking about. And then you start breaking, getting down to 50 million, 45 million, 30 million. And these guys suck. The 30, let's go to the 39th player in the world, made 18 million.

That's pretty good. That's pretty darn good. So my point to this would be, this is tennis earnings. This is not sponsorship money and name image and like this money. So if they don't have control over that, that is an issue with the tennis lords,

the tennis gods. So, you know, some of this has got to come to fruition. We'll see what happens with the lawsuit. But the claim they are stuck in a rigged game. That's interesting. That's an interesting word. a wording stuck in a rigged game, alleging that the bodies engage in the monoplistic practices,

right, monopolistic, monopolisic, say it with me, practices that put players financial and physical health at risk. Wow. And then, and then they make them change tennis balls.

And that causes injuries as well. So, that can't, that can't stand. Four! I always wanted to be alignment. Now they have the computers doing it. But I've talked about it.

I always wanted to be a line judge. Always. I would have given a, well, I'd have given a bad tennis ball to the U.S. Open to be out. and just stand there on the line. The line judge. So good.

And sometimes you don't have to say anything. You just put your arm down. And the person playing tennis will look at you as the line judge. It's out. It's out, bro. You don't look at me. It's out.

Eight. Four. they look back out now you got then you gotta start coming up with you know you gotta

out you don't have to say the whole word you just gonna out it'd be awesome that'd be awesome the crowd the crowd is quiet

or cheering and you're oh they're so pissed at you right then awesome they're so mad at you because they thought it was in they turned around

just shake your head just shake your head don't don't come at me bro it's out that was awesome all right let's get out of here I'll leave you with the joke of the day this comes

this's been with me for quite a while it's been in my pile of joke of the day possibilities for quite a while and I am sorry it's collected dust let me get the slave out I mean the robot out and dust off the joke of the day because I don't have slaves

I'm not a UN judge I'm just a lowly human being who wants a robot bad so I just was just going with this one. I told the

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