Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - How’s That Happen!?... | 12/13/23

Episode Date: December 13, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:00 With Amex Platinum, you have access to over 1,400 airport lounges worldwide. So your experience before takeoff is a taste of what's to come. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Blaze Radio Network. And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Well, I guess congratulations is in order for the country of Miranmar. They have taken the lead over Afghanistan.
Starting point is 00:00:30 in creating the most heroin or poppy seeds in the world. So congratulations to Miran Mar. They estimate their opium production this year is going to rise 36% to over 1,000 tons. Far ahead. I mean, Afghanistan is what are you doing? They're only at 330 tons of opium. What is happening? So the poppy cultivation in Afghanistan dropped by 95% after the drug ban by the ruling Taliban last year.
Starting point is 00:01:11 Yeah. Okay. So 330 tons is 95%. I don't think so. But okay. All right. If you say so, if you say so, that puts Afghanistan far in front of Miranmar without the drug ban. So anyway, congratulations to Miran Mar for jumping ahead.
Starting point is 00:01:30 to number one, don't worry about that whole civil war conflict going on. No way. I mean, heroin production is making these people a lot of money. Well, at least you think they would. Maybe the farmers aren't making so much, but then they've got to ship it, so it's the shipping. I mean, I realize that. But, you know, everybody's making a pretty penny off of the opium. And not only are they having government issues, I mean, they have the military. apparently is the largest producer of the opium in Miranmar and of the powerful mafia families in Miramar who they brought them down because they built wealth from, you know, gambling and scam centers and narcotics. But the insurgent groups who rely on the sale of opium to fund their operations say, no, that's ours and not yours and we're taking you down. Okay, so how about you just back off?
Starting point is 00:02:32 Okay, so it sounds like fun in Miramar. Sounds like a great vacation spot. So if you have an opportunity to get an Airbnb in Miranmar, boy, wouldn't that be fun? Also, one of the things in this story that made me actually, I laughed out loud, I alo-wale. Opium is the key ingredient for the hard drug heroin. Uh, thank you. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat.
Starting point is 00:03:02 All right, so as long as we're, you know, talking about drugs, we might as well talk about Hunter Biden, who is, I guess, showing up in D.C. today to testify, I doubt he'll have anything to say. I'm surprised that they still made him show up, just, I guess, a sign of flexing because his trial or his case in California is going to, you know, conflict with all of what they're asking him about. So he can just say, I can't answer that. I've got an ongoing case. Sorry. Anyway, we'll see if anything comes to that. I doubt it.
Starting point is 00:03:39 But there was a breakdown. We talked about, you know, the breakdown of what Hunter spent between 2016 and 2019. And according to this breakdown by Colin Rugg at Colin Rugg on X, he spent quite a bit of money on hookers and drugs. He did spend some money on clothing and accessories and education. which I sure was some sort of sex thing. In health and pharmacy, again, drugs. In retail purchases, okay. So if you break this down, according to this list by Colin,
Starting point is 00:04:15 $683,000 plus in prostitutes, $397 plus $1,000 in clothing and accessories, which is weird because all his videos, he's naked. I'm not sure where he's wearing the clothes. $309,000, I know where he's wearing the clothes when he goes to milk people for their money. $309,277 in education, 237,000 plus in health and pharmacy, 236,000 plus in retail purchases, 214 plus almost $215,000 in food and restaurants,
Starting point is 00:04:48 203, almost $204,000 in insurance, 191,000, almost 192 in loans and mortgages, Uh-huh. 188,000, almost 189,000 in porn adult entertainment. Legal and accounting fees was only $147,56. Telephone and utilities, $118,440. This was between the three-year period of 2016 and 2019. He spent 71,000 in drug and alcohol rehab. Apparently, when you're spending hundreds of thousand dollars on drugs and hookers,
Starting point is 00:05:26 the rehab doesn't work. 53,000 for bank advisors. 58,000 almost, well, 50,000 almost 59,000 in credit card payments. You got to make the payments, keep the card working. $42,856 in home improvement. 39,000 in cleaning and child care. Okay. $24,445 in other entertainment.
Starting point is 00:05:51 Okay. $23,567 in recreation. All of these are all tied in. Now, the notable purchases, according to Colin, in this ex post, $140,000 for a 14-night bender in Las Vegas. Yeah, that's when he was using the Chinese credit card. That's been documented quite well. $69,000 to fix his teeth. That's a good deal.
Starting point is 00:06:22 Plus, dentists are criminals. You know that. So whatever it costs to fix his teeth. going to be more than what you or I would pay. So he paid $69,000 to fix his teeth. $12,000 at Larry Flint's Hustler Club. That's good. I mean, it's not that much, really.
Starting point is 00:06:36 And $1,000 on a sex cam site. That really isn't that much either. I mean, that's like peanuts. That's just logging in. So there's Hunter Biden, the son of our president, Joseph Robinette Biden. And he is the smartest man that our president knows. Huh. Well, isn't that interesting?
Starting point is 00:06:58 And you ask, Jeff, would you like to party with Hunter? You bet. Okay, so yesterday we talked about the switchblade, which is the road legal three-wheeled vehicle that can be converted into a flying aircraft within three minutes, according to this story. And it has two retractable wings and a tail that folds into the fuselage. And we broke it down,
Starting point is 00:07:20 and how much they claim that you can travel up to 195 miles and 190 miles an hour in the air, 13,000 feet above sea level. All this stuff. We covered all the details in yesterday's show, which you can listen to if you're listening live today is the 13th of December, 2023. Well, then I watch a video of the switchblade. We're not even that close.
Starting point is 00:07:44 They want to think like this was some great thing that this flew and it only flew a little bit. A, you can't, you can take off only from an airport. Unless you're really sneaky, it says in the video. Yeah, okay. Plus, the retractable wings, they've never shown that to work. Wait, what? Yeah, the conversion, they've not shown that to work. They just say that it does that.
Starting point is 00:08:11 But they show you photos of the vehicle when everything is folded in, and then they show you pictures of when everything is out. But they don't show this easy conversion that they're, they claim to have. So we are not even as close as what they claim. And plus with all the other rules and regulations that are going to have to come, which we covered, uh, which we've covered, uh, in other stories as well. Uh, don't get your hopes up. I'm sorry about getting your hopes up with the switchblade, uh, yesterday because we are not even that close. I know that everybody is all excited. The, uh, the Samsung sky. That is, that's what switch the switch blade is under. They have 14 years.
Starting point is 00:08:54 of design, rigorous testing, our first flight is a major milestone. Uh-huh. We can now move forward with producing thousands of switchblades to meet the mass of an enthusiastic demand. Again, I say, uh-huh, because it's going to have to work.
Starting point is 00:09:11 And then you're going to have to prove that you can actually do it and you have to be a pilot. I know they've got back orders, and I'm sure that some of the people that are buying it don't care if they have a pilot's license or not. They'll just fly it around. their, you know, 100,000 acres, which would be kind of cool, actually. But that having been said, this is not going mainstream for quite some time.
Starting point is 00:09:33 You know, as long as we're talking about flying, how in the world does this happen in today's world? The FBI is investigating an incident in which a Russian man flew from Europe to Los Angeles without a passport, visa, or even a plane ticket. How? How I ask. That's why they're investigating, Jeff. Oh, okay.
Starting point is 00:09:53 I don't understand it. So Sergei Vladimirovychovychava is charged or has a federal complaint against him being a stowaway on an aircraft. But he didn't stow away in the baggage container. He was inside the airline in the airplane with everyone else. So he landed in L.A. on November 4th on a Scandinavian Airlines flight from Copenhagen. and I love those flights. Man, you fly from Scandinavian Airlines from Copenhagen into LAX.
Starting point is 00:10:30 It's just a darn nice flight. So when he showed up at Los Angeles, at the customs checkpoint, he had no passport, no visa, was not listed as a passenger on the flight. He initially claimed, what did I do with that passport? I must have left it on the plane. Then they didn't find it.
Starting point is 00:10:46 They searched the plane. They searched his belongings and found Russian and Israeli identification cards. He's believed to be right. Russian. He said he had worked as an economist in Russia and was provided with the Russian translator during his interview. The flight crew noted unusual behavior during the flight. Yeah, like he didn't have a ticket. So he wandered around the plane and kept changing his seats. He also asked for two meals during meal service and at one point tried to eat some chocolate. I love this, that actually
Starting point is 00:11:16 belonged to the cabin crew. If I was walking by, let's say you know, you're passing by the old cabin there's some chocolate laying out. I may reach over and grab some too. Anyway, the next day, he was interviewed by the FBI and he claimed that he hadn't slept for days. He didn't understand what was happening. He didn't remember getting on the plane. He didn't know how he got through security without a ticket.
Starting point is 00:11:39 Huh. Isn't that interesting? Now, the flight crew members, don't they conduct head counts for their individual sections? Yeah, but that's only to ensure the plane was balanced for landing. take off, okay? That wasn't for, you know, the actual passenger count and that they were one person above the manifest. You can't expect them to know that before they take off. My gosh, this is Scandinavian Airlines. I don't know how it happens. I mean, you can barely drive by an airport without getting stopped with security, well, at least here in America. And I'm sure it's that way,
Starting point is 00:12:17 you know, in many airports around the world. And I don't know how you're traveling without a ticket, without a passport, without a visa, nothing. And you're wandering around getting dinner, stealing chocolate, and the flight crew is like, oh, that's a little strange. Oh, it's a little, that's a little bizarre. Yeah, just a little. Just a little. Anyway, we've got to find out, we have to keep an eye on what happens to Sergei Vladimvorovich
Starting point is 00:12:48 Agivogava. Something like that. O-C-H-I-G-A-V-A is his last name. The middle name is V-L-A-D-I-M-I-R-O-V-I-C-H. And I figured out Sergei all of my own, S-E-R-G-E-Y. I know. I'm good that way. All right, let's go to the break room.
Starting point is 00:13:11 I need something cold to drink desperately. So it's that time of year again. We've got to be reminded what Nostradamus has in for us. for the coming 2024 year. Did he get anything right in 2023 with some of his prophecies, the quatrains in his 942 poetic verses? I know he's been credited
Starting point is 00:13:46 before seeing the rise of Adolf and the assassination of John F. Kennedy, the September 11th attacks, COVID. Okay, we'll see. The quatrains are tough to translate, so I've watched a lot of shows of different translators, you know, translating the quatrains from the Lest prophetes. And we'll see.
Starting point is 00:14:11 Let's see if he, I don't know that he got anything right in 2023. I guess he did say, I don't know that there was actually a year to this, but he did say that the rising, his words, translated from the quat trains. the soaring cost of living affecting everything from food to fuel. Okay. He's claimed, so high will the bushel of wheat rise
Starting point is 00:14:38 that man will be eating his fellow man. We haven't reached that yet. But, you know, you make the case, he's pretty close. He talked about a climate catastrophe. The dry earth will grow more parched. And there will be great floods elsewhere, he warned. of a very great famine through pestilous wave. I mean, I guess, and that's how it sounds when you read the quatrains.
Starting point is 00:15:04 The latter phrase potentially referring to tsunamis destroying agriculture. Yeah, we know what he means. Thank you. And the climate events in 2020 fear, 2024 are what we fear. Oh, yeah, okay. All right. I guess he claimed there's going to be a confrontation with China in 2024. That actually could happen.
Starting point is 00:15:25 the quatrain opens with a vision of combat and naval battle with the red adversary will become pale with fear putting the great ocean in dread man this guy was fun to be around that's why he just went away he just went away off by himself and stayed in his room with his little candle burning in his ink well and he was just writing his quatrains and he had to put it in poetry so that they wouldn't arrest him because he can't, I guess you couldn't be a visionary during his day. So he said, okay, well, I'm just writing poetry. But he was really, you know, writing his visioning. So I guess, you know, we could be at war with Navy or with China, either, you know, on the land and naval on the ocean.
Starting point is 00:16:11 So, okay, all right. He claims that there's going to be a royal tumult in 2024. Now, Queen Elizabeth died. And the king, you know, as King Charles is there, but Nostradamus refers to someone he calls the King of Isles. Now they claim that that would be Harry, the King of Isles, who has had a controversial divorce and who is driven out by force. Okay, so that's King Charles, right?
Starting point is 00:16:43 He had the controversial divorce, and he's going to be driven out by force. He's going to be replaced. This is who he's going to be replaced with, which is Harry, one who will have no mark of a king. okay that's him i guess that's harry no mark of a king that's awesome now carry and then you know harry's going to have to leave uh... magin and that's definitely going to happen that was predicted in the chewing the fat quattrayins uh quite some time ago
Starting point is 00:17:11 that's coming very very soon apparently we're going to have a new new pope in twenty four that doesn't surprise me i mean pope francis is almost dead as it is he hasn't made to who died today yet but he is almost according to Nostradamus, through the death of the very old pontiff, a Roman of good age will be elected. Okay. And while the arrival of a younger, vigorous pope sounds like a good thing, Nostradamus goes on to say, the new leader will weaken his sea and that he will be pope for a long time. So the new pope is even going to be weaker than Pope Francis and be pope for a long time?
Starting point is 00:17:51 I mean, I've run for Pope before. Now, they changed the rules after I ran the first time, so it's more difficult for me to run. But I'm willing to run again, if needed, and wait for the white smoke to come out for me. So there's a few things that all Nostradamus believes is going to happen in 2024 from his quatrains. I'll tell you one thing that old Nostradamus didn't predict,
Starting point is 00:18:16 and that's that Doritos would come out with the Doritos-flavored alcoholic beverage. I don't think that was in any of the quatrains. Maybe I'm wrong. I haven't read all the quatra so it's possible that old Nostra predicted it. But the empirical ex Doritos is said to capture all the indulgent flavors of your favorite nacho cheese in liquid form. Yay! The spirit opens with umami and tangy aromas of nacho cheese moving to the deep. deeper corn, forward flavors of the chip to finish on a soft, on a soft salty note. Oh, okay. Now, Frito-Lay's website explains that the actual Doritos were used to extract the flavor of the chips to make the drink.
Starting point is 00:19:07 This is limited release. I think you've got to pre-order it. Limited edition models of Empirical X Doritos, Nacho Cheese Spirit, available next month for a suggested retail price of 65. What do I get for 65 bucks? Online and in select New York and California markets, pre-orders begin today at doritos.x. Dot, Empirical.com. Okay, so you can get your pre-orders in.
Starting point is 00:19:38 Actually, let's see what I get for 65 bucks. All right, so we go to the website, and they, of course, want to ask us all this questions. Select your region and currency. Are you of legal purchase to purchase alcohol? Yes. Are you okay with saying? Using cookies? Well, not really, but, you know, okay, whatever. And there we go. We drink it up. Okay, so it's a bottle. And they say, please, nach cheese responsibly. I can pre-order now. It's 65 bucks. How much is the bottle? What's in the bottle? Ooh, I got different ones here. The double gold. the uncategorized spirits that I can purchase. But this isn't the Frito, this isn't the Doritos, empirical Doritos, vacuum distilled Doritos,
Starting point is 00:20:32 nacho cheese. I mean, it's still available at the time of this recording. I almost want to buy one just to have it. The Empirical Doritos X empirical, for 750 milliliters bottle, $65 U.S.D. So if you love Doritos, now is your chance. And you know, the old gaming industry is,
Starting point is 00:20:57 there's a couple things happening in the gaming industry that's throwing them into a little disarray. The Electronic Entertainment Expo, better known as E3, is shutting down. The Software Association, I'm sorry, the Entertainment Software Association, held the all-virtual E3 in June of 2021. I bet that was canceled.
Starting point is 00:21:20 Well, no, they did that. And then they canceled it all together in 2022 and 2023 because they struggled to attract exhibitors. So it's game over for the old Electronic Entertainment Expo. I'm sorry, E3. So, okay, I see where they quoted Jeff Keely here, the founder of the Game Awards. You know, he's a funny, weird dude. I see him because I'm forced to watch the gaming awards in my house. and he said that he had attended the E3 since the first one.
Starting point is 00:21:55 And he said he was not participating in the Expo now because he believes in-person events don't serve gaming fans, developers or publishers, as well as online events can. That's interesting. So Jeff Keely, they don't serve gaming fans in person. That's interesting. So 2019 was the last time E3 was held in person. It drew, I don't know, over 66,000 attendees.
Starting point is 00:22:26 So, I mean, that's not terrible, I guess. I don't know what they're costing to make that happen. But they tried to form a partnership with Reed Pop, the production company. And that company puts on New York Comic-Con and Star Wars celebrations and stuff like that still didn't work out. So if you were looking forward to going to E3, 2020, which sounds, you know, sounds like it could have been fun. It's not going to happen because they cancel the whole thing and they're shutting the place down. Then we have just four days after the ugly launch of the day before's disastrous launch.
Starting point is 00:23:05 The studio closed. They claim that we miscalculated our capabilities. Oh, okay. That's great. We failed financially. We lack the funds to continue. and so all income received is being used to pay off debts to our partner. So not everybody's getting all their money back.
Starting point is 00:23:25 And sorry about it. We invested all our efforts, resources, and man hours into the development of the day before, which was our first huge game. We really wanted to release new patches to reveal the full potential of the game. But unfortunately, we don't have the funding to continue the work. So if you were part of the day before and you thought, man, what a disaster as launch that was.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Well, it was so bad that we go, we're going to shut it down. Why? Because we miscalculated our capabilities. That's what she said. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So, no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice?
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Starting point is 00:24:41 Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Who died today? Who died today? Very sad. Andre Brower. I loved Andre Brower. He has passed away at the age of 61.
Starting point is 00:24:57 you may remember him in Brooklyn 9-9. I remember watching him in Homicide Life on the Street. Just tremendous. He's been in a ton of stuff. When you go down his IMDB, you go, oh, yeah, I love that. I played in the miniseries Thief. He was in the movie Salt. I love that stupid movie.
Starting point is 00:25:22 And I was really, he's survived by his wife, who also appeared in, Homicide Life on the Street and his three children. He's born in Chicago. He graduated from Stanford University and then attended Juilliard School in the drama division. So he was kind of a smart guy. Andre Brower passed away at the age of 61. Very, very sad.
Starting point is 00:25:49 You could go on and on about, you know, just accolades this guy. It was just awesome. I just have, he will be missed. He will be missed. I mentioned that, you know, he's been married to his wife for 32 years. He's got his kids. He's got, they mentioned, they mentioned that his agent, his attorney, and as a publicist all been with him for 25 years. I mean, he's the guy.
Starting point is 00:26:10 And they ask that in lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the classical theater of Harlem where Brower served on the board. Very sad. Andre Brower, dead at the age of 61. Now, don't be looking at me like that. Like you think, oh, there you go. That's another one. No, they don't say that. What they say is he died after a brief illness.
Starting point is 00:26:36 Okay? So if it was what you're thinking, they would have said it. So don't look at me like that. Rest in peace. Andre Brower, dead at the age of 61 after a brief illness. Then we have Zahara. Yes, who died today? Zahara.
Starting point is 00:26:55 You know Zahara. She's a South African music icon. Yeah, yeah. She passed away at the age of 36. Now, don't look at me like that. It wasn't that. She died of liver complications. And she was known as a big-time drinker.
Starting point is 00:27:13 She talked about it. She talked about it a lot. And they put her in the hospital not too long ago. And the family asked to have her in your prayers. And so that, That's, you know, she succumbed to that with the liver disease, and that's because of, I don't know, the booze. And she said that, you know, look, she was awesome.
Starting point is 00:27:36 She used her platform to speak out about violence against women in South Africa. In one interview last year, she said her music was not for recognition, but to bring comfort to broken souls that need healing. Very, very, very sad. Zahara battled her own demons. for years, dead at the age of 36. Then we have a little girl.
Starting point is 00:28:02 It happened again. A six year again, I say it didn't happen again. This was a six-year-old girl who was sitting on the second floor terrace of her house with her grandfather. She fell off the roof to the ground below because she was chased by a troop of monkeys. Something has got to be done. Okay. This is the second time in a little. like a week that monkeys are chasing people off the roof.
Starting point is 00:28:29 This is sad. Kurti, K-I-R-T-I, was six years old. She was chatting with her grandfather on the house terrace, and others were working downstairs. All of a sudden, we heard her screaming for help. Before we could climb upstairs, we heard a loud thud and found her in a pool of blood.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Very, very, very sad. She tried to escape the monkeys and fell off the roof. I tell you what I'm not talking about maybe we shouldn't be arming six year olds I know but we talked about the 40 year old that got chased off her roof by monkeys she should have been armed
Starting point is 00:29:07 because as soon as you're out especially in India man if you're out in your terrace you need to be armed and you need to come out with maybe you just come out and as you're sitting down you cock the gun
Starting point is 00:29:21 and then you just sit down let them know you're there And then when you see one round the corner, you just, I mean, humans first. That's just the way it has to be. So rest in peace, Kirti, K-I-R-T-I at the age of six. Okay, and then one more. The, uh, who died today? A priest in Nebraska, very, very sad.
Starting point is 00:29:48 A Sioux City man has been arrested and charged with murder, uh, of this Nebraska priest and he was killed in his place of residence. Happened in Fort Calhoun, Nebraska in Washington County. Beautiful this time of year. It's a small town outside of Omaha. Police learned that an attempted break in around 5 a.m. at the St. John, the Baptist Church in Fort Calhoun. And then the police showed up and found Father Guxel, G-G-U-T-G-S-E-L, Father Stephen
Starting point is 00:30:23 Guxel. was injured from stabbing, and they arrested him to the hospital, and he did not survive. Very, very sad. And so they arrested him, and I guess the black male was still inside the rectory when the police showed up.
Starting point is 00:30:39 And so, okay, I guess the man charged his 43-year-old Cariel Williams of Sioux City, and he's charged with homicide and use of a weapon to commit a felony. Okay. So I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, hey, is that the same father Stephen Guxel
Starting point is 00:30:58 that pleaded guilty in 2007 to theft by deception for embezzling $127,000 from an area church? Yep, that's him. Is that the same one that was sentenced to probation in order to pay restitution? That's him. Is that the same father Gutsel
Starting point is 00:31:17 that was then reassigned to a different church? Yes, that's him. Wait, and I know some of you are probably saying, hey, is that the same guy, the the same Reverend Gutshell, whose brother is a Reverend Michael Gutsel who also pleaded guilty to theft charges in a separate incident in 2021?
Starting point is 00:31:37 Yes, you would be correct. It is the same guy. But the police say, and you're right in thinking that, I get it, but the police say that at this time, they do not believe that the death is related to his criminal history. So there. Rest in peace, Father Stephen Guckshell.
Starting point is 00:32:00 They don't have an age for the father. I'm guessing he's, you know, at least in his 50s, but they don't say his age. So rest in peace, Father Stephen Guxel. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.
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Starting point is 00:33:27 I see where, it got me thinking about this next story, the next couple of stories. I see a headline that talks about health insurance, giant Cigna, drops bid to acquire rival Humana. and they're going to buy back $10 billion worth of shares. Okay, well, good, good for them, good for them. But tied to this health insurance giant Cigna dropping their bid to acquire Humana is another story that talks about our government, held some briefings with major pharmacies, and we learned that each year,
Starting point is 00:34:03 law enforcement agencies secretly obtain the prescription records of thousands of Americans without a warrant. How about no? That's none of your business? I don't even like you being able to get a warrant for it, but okay, if you got a warrant, that's fine through a judge. I mean, there's hippo laws to worry about.
Starting point is 00:34:26 So in many cases, pharmacies are just handing over sensitive medical records. Yeah, don't worry about it. Whatever. Now, they're, I guess, supposed to tell customers when the government demands their data, but most of them don't.
Starting point is 00:34:42 I mean, did I forget to call, Betty? Gosh, darn it. So representatives from the five of the eight companies that the lawmakers spoke to said they require demands for pharmacy records to be reviewed by a legal professional before a response is sent. But they said, well, they don't require a warrant.
Starting point is 00:35:01 Yeah, I mean, sometimes we have to put up with a little subpoena, something like that, that's it. other companies Walgreens, Boots Alliance, Cigna, Optumarx, Walmart, and Amazon Pharmacy. Amazon does notify customers if law
Starting point is 00:35:18 enforcement sought out their medical records. But CVS, I'm sorry, CVS Health, right aid, and Kroger said that we just allow the pharmacy staff members to give
Starting point is 00:35:34 law enforcement officers the medical records of customers. Yeah, you know, prescription history. Wait, without a warrant. Yeah, we know, we want to help the law enforcement out. And the company's right aid, CBS Health, and Kroger, they do not have a policy in place that requires the staff to notify customers when they share the information. But big deal, because the other ones have their policy in place and they don't do it. So, and nobody, you know, sorry about it. Uh, whatever. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you know, those whole hippo laws and all that stuff. Never mind.
Starting point is 00:36:11 I don't worry about it. Now, of course, they all say, well, these processes are consistent with industry practices. Yeah, that's the problem. That is the problem in and of itself, isn't it? So we've got to do something, man. This is out of control. I guess, you know, for sure, they need to get a warrant. And that's the police just thinking.
Starting point is 00:36:36 just come in and do what they want. Yeah, we want to know. This is a drug history of somebody that we probably arrested, and we want to take a look at their drug history. You have anything on that? Yeah, here, let me print that up for you. This is what the pharmacies should say. These are the same pharmacies that complain,
Starting point is 00:36:53 they don't have enough help. They're whining. They're shutting down for lunches. They're closing the pharmacies on certain days now. They're having walk-offs around the country because they don't have enough help. These are the same pharmacies. Oh, it just gets so busy and I don't know what to do when we need help.
Starting point is 00:37:14 Oh, and I just have to fill so many prescriptions. The same pharmacies when the police officer comes and, yeah, just give them the information. Print it out for them. You got nothing else to do, right? You got nothing else to do. Just print out that information. Don't worry about needing a warrant. Don't worry about calling the customer.
Starting point is 00:37:31 Don't worry about any of that. Just print it out. Just give it to them. How about no? I know that they're supposed to be protecting us and we're supposed to back to blue. I got it. And all that, all that. All of it.
Starting point is 00:37:44 I got it. But you have to follow the law. And for them to just walk in. That's how TV shows do it all the time. We've talked about that. They make you look like a bad person on these police shows. If you don't let the police come into your house when they want to talk to you or don't want to check it out. You have a warrant?
Starting point is 00:38:03 They make the people who ask, do you have a warrant? Look like the bad. people. No. No, we're not the bad people. We're just the people who want you to follow the law. I want to help you. You know, but I don't want you to, I don't want to help you and then get myself in trouble. Okay. So how about you follow the law like the rest of us are supposed to do? Please. I don't know. Then you get back to hub about no. All right. So I'll leave you with something a little more fun. Okay.
Starting point is 00:38:37 This has been sent to me multiple times. And it's this guy, it's from back in October. It's from an Instagram account, S-T-R-Hunter. St.R. Hunter. And he is sitting at a restaurant counter, and he's talking to people, and he believes that he has cracked the code of a lifetime, it says, on the screen. And he's developed this triangle matrix on women and how you can tell what kind of woman you have.
Starting point is 00:39:09 And he has it written on a little, on a napkin, his matrix. And he's got a guy there filming it on his phone as he explains his code for women. Sane and single. Okay. She's sane. If she's hot and she's single, she's definitely not sane. Yeah, no doubt about that. And if she's sane and she's single.
Starting point is 00:40:08 but she's definitely not hot. Think about it. And they're all laughing, even the women are laughing, because you know why? Facts are facts. Am I right? Am I right?
Starting point is 00:40:19 Yeah, that's the triangle matrix of the women. So you have the three sides. You got hot, sane, single. Well, you get three points of the triangle. You get it. Hot, sane, single. And you can only pick two.
Starting point is 00:40:34 If you didn't understand it the first time, I'm glad to really explain it to you because I want to be sure you understand it. If you have hot and sane, then you're definitely not single. If you have sane and single, you're definitely not hot. And if you have hot and single,
Starting point is 00:40:52 you're definitely not sane. That's that guy's matrix, okay? I'm not saying I agree with it, although... Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Towards the night before the gathering and all through the house.
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