Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Just Ins and Outs… | 11/14/24

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

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Listeria contamination? Okay, what is happening? So, Ushang Food, Inc. And I love Yushang Food, Inc. of Spartanburg, South Carolina. They have recalled 4,589 pounds of the ready-to-eat products that might be contaminated with Listeria. So the items were shipped to retail locations nationwide and available for purchase online. The Ushang brand cooked chicken, the 20 ounce vacuum pack, the season pork hawk,

20 ounces, the Japanese chasu pork belly, 16 ounces vacuum pack. Yeah, I love those. Braised pork belly in brown sauce, 16 ounces, love those too. Uh, Yushang brand cooked pork hawk, the 1.4 pounds, the Chinese brand spicy chicken feet. I'm not a fan of those. The brazen seasoned whole chicken, 20 ounces, the braised beef shank, 16 ounces, and the seasoned pork tongues, 12 ounces.

So they might be contaminated with listeria and a serious infection that primarily affects older adults or persons with weakened immune systems. We keep saying this. It's Listeria. So if you or someone you love purchases Yushang food, you might want to take a look at it because 4,589 pounds of the Yuxang Food, Inc. Food has been recalled because of possible Listeria contamination, actually 4,589 pounds of the Yuxang brand products.

So I don't know what's happening. wash your hands. I move the restrooms or the outhouses farther away from the packaging department, from the food installation department. I don't know. Something has to be done. This Listeria issued recalls are beginning to get out of hand, just a little bit. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. And as long as we're in South Carolina, I mean, this, the food recall was from the Ushang Food Inc. of Spartanburg, South Carolina. Now, Yemisee, South Carolina is about three hours south, I guess, of Spartanburg. But we have eight monkeys unaccounted for, or at least they have not been captured from the 43 that escaped the Elphaginesis laboratory last week. So eight of them are still out and about. So if you live in Yemisee, or anywhere in that neck of the woods, make sure you keep your windows closed and your doors locked. And they're saying that they're going to be capturing them all.

And then don't fly drones around. They might scare them off. I thought that's what they were doing to find them with their heat-seeking drones, but I guess not. And they just have cages set up. I don't know if the cages are working or not. It sounds like the monkeys are just coming back to the Alpha Genesis laboratory fences. and being lippy to the other monkeys behind the fences, and then those monkeys get caught.

So maybe they're just using the monkeys inside the Genesis Alpha. What is it? Alpha Genesis laboratories. Maybe those monkeys are being used to say, hey, I dare you to come up to the feds, and then when they come up to the fence, and then when they come, they get trapped. So they've got some rats inside the monkey cages.

Is that possible? Plus, it doesn't say whether they know for sure that the eight are still out there. I mean, someone could have hurt one or more of the eight remaining from the 43, or a couple of them could have taken off and have gone away, so there's only six in the neighborhood. I don't know, it doesn't say. So we'll just assume that alpha genesis is, everything is fine. There's no health worries for the humans.

Just stay away from them if you see them and call us, and we'll wait for the other eight to be taken into custody. Okay. Sure. Whatever you say. And I don't recommend catching a monkey and eating it. You can take that from me. I don't recommend it.

Because we've, you know, the stories we had the last, I don't know, the last few months that, you know, the migrants in Ohio were eating cats and dogs and whatever they were eating. Well, then we get a story, which, you know, whatever, true or not, I don't, honestly, I don't care. Darn, they were getting rid of the extra cats in the neighborhood. Oh, well. But, and they weren't, I don't want to get into it, but I will say that I see that now in New York, they're advertising this one restaurant and it's supposed to be this delicacy where they're cooking guinea pigs. Okay. All right, come on.

I know that's some big delicacy in Ecuador, but no, not here in the United States. I guess if you're hungry enough, you'll eat a guinea. Pig. Okay. All right, you got me. They're at least two and a half pounds. They measure about 16 inches long from snout to the tips of their outstretched toes. The pet size guinea pigs are usually smaller than that. Yeah, okay. It's better than chicken according to the, and better than rabbit, according to manager Lucia Barrett, and claiming that the head is the best part. Oh. Okay, so the house, I'm sorry, the restaurant, La Casa del Cui, C-U-I, which I guess is the Ecuadorian word for guinea pig, which is called the house of guinea pig. They grill and serve the rodent

hole, essentially every part but the squeak. I'm not sure what they're considering as the squeak. The squeak, I thought, was the sound that they make. Oh, darn the luck. You mean they won't actually be squeaking when they serve it to me? No, they will not. Okay. Does that mean that the vocal box is cut? Or are they thinking of another body part? I'm not sure it just says everything but the squeak. Man, they do not look good either. They're selling like hotcakes, according to the manager. And the head is the best part. Okay. If you say so, no thank you. I don't want one. I don't even think, I mean, well, Heinz ketchup could make anything better. But that doesn't mean that it's going to be good.

You know what I'm saying? So you get served, it looks like rotissary chicken. Uh-huh. But it's a rodent is really what it is. Oh, okay. Yeah, I don't necessarily want one. The entire cooked carcass is then served mouth and all. I guess so they just cut out the, there's no squeak.

I'm guessing the squeak is the butt. but I don't know that because it looks like the whole damn thing is on the table. So it's in a bed of rice with potatoes and corn and a side of peanut butter sauce before being cut apart with heavy-duty scissors. It does a man, what a delicacy. Am I right? Guinea pig in New York, Casa Gay. Oh man, I do not want to cook guinea pig.

But we're, you know, we're living in great, great times. here in the United States of America. So if you're used to Ecuadorian food or you're from Ecuador and you think, man, there's just no place, I haven't had a good guinea pig in quite some time. Well, now you can get one in New York. And maybe those photos that we saw of people cooking, we're told that were cooking rats on the streets of New York, weren't rats at all. They were guinea pigs because you see the guinea pig on a spit.

Does it look better than a rat? Not really. Not really. But again, if you want to tear up some guinea pigs up night, you can head to the old Casa del Coy in New York. And it is CUI, so it's probably not coy. It's probably Cui. Casa del Coy.

Casadele Cui. So either way, you can head there and just to dive into those delicious guinea pigs. I mean, maybe they can start serving them at schools. I see where the luncheables from Kraft Heinz is now out for school lunches.

Wow, because they just talked about this new version of their re-engineered lunchables to comply with federal guidelines for the National School Lunch Program. And, you know, there were a lot of people that were opposition. Remember, we talked about all the people that said

were processed food and branded foods for meal programs and children's nutrition. Nutrition. What? and they wanted to offer, you know, luncheables. And so they changed their product a little bit. And then now that it's looking like RFK Jr. is going to be, you know, in charge of this America's health problem process program. He said that one of the first things he would do was get processed foods out of schools for children.

he wanted to improve the meals for school luncheables. Nothing like guinea pigs in the first school lunches. Am I right, Bob? Remember because they were pissed about the lunchebles saying that they clearly had elevated levels of sodium and they had that other thing in them, that cadmium or whatever, that thing that causes cancer, you know, that thing that causes cancer if you have enough of it, not what was in the luncheables, but it was still in the luncheables. apparently the lunchables got negative publicity and obviously things were put out there that were

misleading to the public and so they're they're making the meal kits not available to the schools anymore and I was going to pull the products from from school lunches so there you go now you can still send your kids I guess to school with luncheables if you want they're not telling you what you can and can't do there yet, but they're not going to be available to your kids at the, at the old cafeteria. You won't be able to get the Kraft Heinz lunchebles at school anymore. Bummer, I like them.

I like those little Kraft Heinz Lunchable kids. You need a little meat, a little cracker, a little cheese, and a snack. Hello, what more do you need out of life? You know, rather than a full giddy pig. That's what I want. And school lunch is guinea pig. Man, does that sound good.

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So continue to send them chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I appreciate it. I see where Spotify said that they're going to go all in on video podcasts to dethrone YouTube. Company said that it's going to start paying creators who hit certain engagement levels on their videos and will remove automated ad breaks in videos for premium subscribers. Okay, so good. So now you're going up against YouTube, you're going up against X. You're going up against Instagram, and you're going to go,

I mean, it's an all-out, it's an all-out war for, you know, who gets your social media accounts. I mean, X, I like X, and I have not used the Spotify thing, and I'm not sure I don't know all the good stuff I do like X. Although it's been a, you know, I mean, X's, people have been leaving X, a big time, the numbers on X looks like according to this, 115,000 users deleted their

X accounts the day after the election. Okay, well, have a nice day. The biggest exodus in a single day since Mux took over the company, according to similar web, which love them. Many seemed headed to Blue Sky. Remember Blue Sky? That was started by

the X Twitter, right? Jack. Jack started Blue Sky. And then I think he got out. of it but at blue sky so I went over there and I thought I had downloaded already because originally it was a trial run that I thought I downloaded it and then I that's right I downloaded it and I asked to be a trial member and they just ignored me so then I went to it this morning and looked at it and I didn't really look at it I just downloaded it and went into the platform and signed up for it so I do have blue sky I think it's at jeffey jf r I remember what I did this

morning at, you know, about 5.30. And so I'm on blue sky, but I really not because I haven't put anything on there yet. And I don't, I'm not following anyone. I just have an account at Jeffrey JFR on blue skies. We'll see. We'll see. It's just another social media site that I'm, you know, the world has to worry about. So that's going on as well. And I see where, my man, Alex Jones, today, Info Wars is apparently no more. I know. So, a, According to reports, now when you listen to Alex, I don't know, a couple days ago, he said that good people were supposed to be in the running for the auction of Info Wars. So I'm guessing that he had hopes that somebody or some people that were on his side were going to purchase Info Wars and then just say, you know, it's yours or sell it back to him, you know, for a dollar a year until the end of time, or whatever the case is. but it ended up that the onion, the satirical news company,

that, you know, I guess won the bankruptcy auction, but from all reports, it wasn't actually an auction. They just picked who they wanted. So it was the onion, and I guess some people from the Sandy Hook crowd was involved in the deal with the onion. I don't know. So I see that he's on his A-J-N. now Alex Jones Network not InfoWords so we'll see how that goes I don't know who offered

what and how much money doesn't say how much money it it sold for I mean the award for families was like what what 1.5 billion or something like that and they're collecting all this stop it this whole thing is just out of control I mean I am so sorry that these people had you know this horrific thing happened to them and their children but that's not that wasn't Alex Jones' fault we've been over this you know a thousand times and yet here we are courts coming in and shutting

down someone because they said something mean so I bet you if Spotify doesn't care I don't know that they'll be airing AJN on those Spotify streaming all in on video accounts but you never know because he might meet some of those

numbers that you need to meet but that doesn't matter he's Alex Jones and you can't You can't like Alex Jones because why again? Oh, yeah, that's right. He's Alex Jones. And what is the onion going to do with it? Apparently, they said in some interview that they plan to shudder InfoWars and rebuild

the website featuring well-known internet humor writers and content creators. Oh. Oh, okay. I guess, oh, I'm sorry, that wasn't the onion. That was a person with knowledge of the sale. Oh, okay. So, I mean, is this whole thing just? an onion story and they never they didn't buy info wars i don't know i just i mean you can't what are

they it's going to be the onion wars or info onion wars or info or well i mean stop it you couldn't come up with a website on your own before this because the baby's been kicking your butt uh there's no doubt about that on your satirical stories so maybe this is a way for them to try to get back to the back against the baby i don't see that happening in the near future, but good luck. Also, does this mean that they're done? Or are they just going to continue to come after Alex until he's, you know, dead? Because I know that this is supposed to,

with this bankruptcy and all these sales are supposed to go toward the money that these families were awarded, right? So is this done? Now that this has happened and we've shut down his internet and we've shut down, and when we shut down everything, are we done? Or are we just going to wait until he makes a couple more dollars? And then we're going to try to shut that down too because you don't want him to actually have a life.

And you want him to have him, well, you want to have him dead. You just don't know how to kill him. And this is how you're killing him. You're just personally liquidating him until his death. And that seems to be what you're doing. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So Disney has reached an agreement with their lawsuit.

I'm sorry, their class action suit, because there was a class action accusing it of rampant pay discrimination. Wait, what? Yeah. The company faced a class of roughly 9,000 workers who leveled the accusation of pay discrimination. So they settled this pay equity class action law. We don't know how much, though.

They said that we've reached a tentative agreement. We're currently working on finalizing the terms and the forms of a written settlement agreement. Lawyers for the plaintiffs and Disney wrote this joint statement, said we filed in September. They're expected to file a motion for approval of the settlement by the end of this week. The Los Angeles Superior Court, Judge Ilohu M. Burrell, It was tentatively scheduled to reconsider, not reconsider, but to consider the approval of the settlement. Whenever the judge gets around to it, I guess.

There's no date on that. So back in 2019, roughly 9,000 workers sued Disney for discrimination against female workers who say they were being paid less than their male counterparts for substantially similar work. It was brought by Loranda Rasmussen, a longtime product development manager at Walt Disney Studios, and Karen Moore,

who has spent more over two decades as a senior copyright administrator for Disney's Hollywood records. At the time, Disney, of course, denied allegations of pay bias across numerous corporate divisions in the class action seeking $300 million. So this has been going on for quite some time. And apparently, they honor some documents challenging arguments from Disney that it equitably paid women and men. Oh, interesting. So there was some paperwork out there that showed that maybe they didn't.

And they knew it. And they were attempting to do it on purpose. That's why we settled. No fault is being given. But here's a couple hundred million dollars and take care. We'll see. We'll see how much it costs Disney to get out of this one. But they already know how much it's going to cost them because they've already come to a settlement agreement.

It just hasn't been okay. by the judge. And I will say this. I was really bummed this morning when I saw the headline, Billy Bob Thornton addresses Donald Trump appointing Elon Musk an advisory role. And I thought, oh, no, Billy. I love Billy Bob Thornton. He's not going to get involved in this whole Donald Trump thing is. He's not going to tell me that what a terrible person we are for liking Donald Trump. Are we? Well, you know, you have the new landman coming out, Taylor Sheridan's new show, Landman, which starts this weekend. as a matter of fact.

And I think they're dropping, we talked about it, they're going to drop two episodes this week and then one episode a week after that. There's 10 episodes. That'd be kind of cool. I'm glad that they're doing that. I wish they would drop the whole thing,

but they're not. Demi Moore, Billy Bob Thornton, Allie Larder, John Ham, Landman. And it's about the, it came from the doc, from the podcast, documentary Boomtown. And Taylor, you know, they turned this into a show, Landman on Paramount Plus.

And I thought, oh no, Billy, Billy, Come on, I like you. Come on, I like your work. Don't spoil it for me. The Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker said that, hey, it's a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in a world of oil rigs set in the proverbial boom towns of West Texas.

And he goes on to talk about, you know, the setting and what the show sets up. But then he goes on to say, look, oh, they talk about it in the story that he's played U.S. President. Vince in 2003 film Al Love Actually. He loves working with Demi and that

Mr. Muck's appointment doesn't matter because his new drama is not really a politicized show. Amen! They tried to get him into a corner and he wouldn't go there. I think Peter, this is Billy Bob Thornton. I think people should watch it with no agenda

because we used to watch things with no agenda. Amen. Well, Billy Bob is 69 already. It's just time waits for no one. This is a story that shows what happened. It's not pro or con.

It's just the ins and outs, ups and downs, the good, the bad, and the ugly of working within a business like this. It's a very intense and dangerous business, and it's about how it affects the people who work in it. And so we're just opening a window to show people stuff. It's not really a political show necessarily. Amen. Billy Bob Thornt makes me like you even more.

And I will be watching Landman, no question. All right, a couple other news headlines you need to be aware of. I see where Waymo has now, I'm sorry, Google's Waymo, Alphabet's Waymo, has said that it is making its driverless robotaxies available to the general public in Los Angeles. And they claim to have logged a million autonomous miles per week so far. So there you go. The driverless robo taxis are going to. to be wandering around L.A. as we speak. And Amazon has launched a competitor to Timo and

Sheen, S-H-E-I-N. I guess that's another Chinese retailer. So Amazon has created Hall as the ultra-discount storefront, offers a variety of products, including apparel, home goods, electronics, and more, priced at $20 or less. The mobile-only store is Amazon's response to Sheen and TeamU and TikTok shop, which offer cheap goods shipped directly from China and have eaten away at its market share. But selling an iPhone case for 179 comes with its compromises. Amazon Hall says items will take one to two weeks to be delivered, and shipping fees will be charged for orders under $25. Wow. Okay.

So they're just in a battle for to get your money on your phone buying goods. And so if you're buying goods from TikTok or T-M-U or Sheen, Sheen, S-H-E-I-N, now you have Amazon Hall. And Grubhub is coming back, I guess, to the United States. It's been, remember sold to that Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway, and they're going to sell Grubhub to billionaire entrepreneur Mark Lour's restaurant startup, wonder, in a deal worth 600, to $50 million.

Oh, okay. So you'd be able to get Grubhub through Wonder. Originally started as a caravan of sprinter vans that provided made-to-order meals to New Jersey. Suburbanites, Wonder pivoted to brick-and-mortar locations. These virtual food halls offer takeout and delivery and feature extensive menus inspired by celebrity chefs such as Jose Andres and the Bobby Flay.

Some locations can serve up to 500 dishes from pasta ala vodka to fried chicken sandwiches. The logistics is the secret sauce. The food is prepared in a central facility and then shipped to the location where they speed-cooked the semi-prepped dishes using only hot water bath, a rapid cook oven and a friar.

Laura said the company has spent $60 million as of March snapping up IP-infused offerings. Wow. Hundreds more of developing more food preparation systems. Grubhub and his delivery drivers are another piece to the puzzle for wonder to achieve. its goal of becoming the super app of meal time in the next five years.

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very sad. He died peacefully in his sleep, according to family and friends in England. Timothy West dead at the age of 90. Speaking of British acting, just AMC Networks, I didn't put this in the news headlines. I should have. AMC Networks has acquired full ownership of BBC America. For only $42 million, they're going to take complete operational control of BBC America. So AMC networks taking full acquisition of BBC America. Wow. You know, because I had forgotten way back in 2014, you know, 100 years ago,

AMC bought 49.9% stake in BBC America. So they own, obviously, you know, less than half, but almost half of BBC America. And then they said, yeah, you know what? We're just going to buy it all. Okay. Okay. So really, let's see, they purchased the deal with BBC worldwide for 49.9% was 200 million.

And so now they bought the other half for 42 million. So not quite as much as the first half. No, it was not. But they own BBC America now. So it should be fascinating to see what programming changes come to BBC America now, now that A&ROWs, now that A&C. MC Networks owns the whole darn thing. Since we're brushing up against Who Die Today, this is Who's Not Dead Yet?

I know, it's sad. But actor Dave Collier, who played Uncle Joey on Full House, he's been diagnosed with stage three non-Hodgans lymphoma. I don't want to wish that on anyone. I don't. Apparently, it's going pretty well, though,

as well as, I guess, stage three non-Hodgkins lymphoma could go. He said he was diagnosed a few weeks ago, five weeks ago. He's had three surgeries already. Kimo lost a little bit of hair. Wow. He said he first had a cold and experienced slight swelling in his groin area. So if you are experiencing a slight swelling going on in your groin area, yeah, you might want to double check that. It rapidly grew to a size of a golf ball within five days and doctors decided to do scans and biopsies. And he you know, found out that, uh, they checked his bone marrow and they found out that it hadn't spread.

So they're hoping that this, you know, which I guess makes your, uh, recovery rate go up, I don't know, 90% if it hasn't already started to spread. So he should be in remission. I, you know, hope that's the case. But he had talked earlier a couple years ago, I remember hearing a story about, uh, Uncle Joey and his drinking issue. And he said that he was, uh, he was, uh, uh, he was, uh, He loved the booze. But it didn't love me back, according to Mr. Cotier. And he was happy that he was sober when his father died, his brother died, and Bob Sagat died. And so he was happy that he was able to get in touch with the rawness of those feelings.

Yeah, there's nothing like the rawness of those feelings. So when you don't have booze to help you out, right? Dave Caudier. So anyway, good luck, good luck. And I know that you are not dead yet with your stage three, nine. Hodgkin's lymphoma. I do not wish that on anyone. As long as we're talking about health issues, one of the things that may be a problem for you is if you're spending too much time on the toilet. According to experts, you shouldn't overstay your time on the toilet. People should spend an average of

five to ten minutes on the John. This is according to Dr. Ferra Mazur, an assistant professor of medicine and director of inflammatory bowel disease center. And I am a fan of the inflammatory bowel disease center at the Stony Brook Medicine on Long Island, New York. Dr. Farrah Monsour is, of course, the assistant professor of medicine and director of the inflammatory bowel disease center at Stony Brook Medicine on Long Island and New York. He said, it's a problem if you stay longer.

So you need to not sit on the toilet for more than 10. 10 minutes. The oval-shaped toilet seat compresses the buttocks and becomes, it's just bad for you. Okay. And so the force-straining can also increase pressure to allow hemorrhoids to build. And it goes into quite some detail over what can happen if you spend too much time on the toilet. Now, he talks about how you should spend your time on the toilet, which is you should bring phone or books or anything to spend extra time in there. You should go in there and make it in and out. Take care of your business and get out.

And that's what you should do. So you don't want to spend all that time, you know, on the phone. Or, you know, writing a letter. Who writes letters anymore? Who texting, emailing, or reading a book. Ha! Reading a book. Yeah, just don't bring your phone in with you.

Okay? you want to bring you'll get out of there and then you can do that so he advised quitting after 10 minutes instead walk around a bit and if you're having an issue that you know with constipation and just you want to be in and out of there okay don't be spending so much time on the toilet seats good for your health and uh you know according to this the american cancer society said that they reported an increase in colorectal cancer rates among people under the age of 15. since the mid-1990s. Be interested to see the increase after 2020.

The nonprofit estimated there would be a 106,590 new cases of colon cancer and 46,220 new cases of rectal cancer this year. So he says that he's never recalled more ever young people talking to him about hemorrhoids and constipation. Yeah, if you hear that, then we've got to find out that it could be diagnosed. with rectal cancer. So don't spend so much time on the toilet is a good health advice. From Dr. Farah Manzoor, the assistant professor of medicine and director of the inflammatory bowel disease center at Stony Brook Medicine on Long Island, New York. With MX Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel buck,

but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Wow, just the other day I was talking about John Gruden and how I loved his stuff that he's been doing online and he was working on his ex-account, his YouTube pages, and he had his fired coaches place that everybody was to go to. The fired football coaches association, right?

Yeah, yeah, the FFCA. So I don't know if that's still ongoing, if we're still going to have the fired football coaches association still ongoing, but it was announced that he has now signed a multi-year deal with Barstool Sports. So he's going to be providing content for Barstool Sports. That sounds like fun. Sounds like something John Gruden can have some fun with, and Barstool Sports will be able to have some fun with.

I'm surprised some other platforms didn't reach out and make that happen. And I don't know what that means. to his coaching career because we were in talks about him coming back to coaching and getting back into the ring of honor in Tampa. And, you know, he's starting to rebuild his legacy. So we'll see what happens. But for sure, we know that he is providing content for the fired FF, fired football coaches association. Yeah, the FFCA. And he's also going to be providing content for, you know, several years at least contractually.

speaking to bar stool sports. So we look forward to that from John Gruden. Oh, and today is Red Cup Day at Starbucks. I know they're going with free promo for me, but it is a Red Cup Day. I've seen a couple of Red Cups in my house. I don't know if they're still using them. I don't know what the deal is. But on Red Cup Day, which is today, you get rewards customers who order

select holiday beverages, hot or iced with a free limited edition red holiday cup. How sweet is that, huh? You get to drink your coffee out of a red, is a holiday cup. Now I will say that there's, you know, available while supplies last, the cup is reusable. It's made with 95% recycled material. And if you use it again, you get a discount and you get more points on your Starbucks

reward for using your custom cup again. So, and I guess you have to order special beverages to get the red cup, which I know. I've seen one or two and this come through the door of my house. There's a couple people that live in my house that love Starbucks coffee. And, you know, when they're out and about. I mean, we have obviously just give me some folders and I'm good to go. But it's Red Cup Day. Just FYI.

Just FYI. It's Red Cup Day. So I was looking at the new Fortune magazine, Fortune website, 2024, most powerful people in business. Most powerful people in business. And who do you think is number one? I'll give you three guesses, and the first two don't count. Yeah, it's correct.

Elon Musk is the number one most powerful person in business, according to Fortune. And then Jensen Huang, Jensen Huang is number two. He is from Navidia. And then Sataya Nadell from Microsoft, Warren Buffett, Jamie Diamond, you, Tim Cook, the usual Mark Zuckerberg,

Sam Altman, the usual suspects. Mary Barra is coming in 9th. And Mary is CEO of General Motors. How's that working out? Because I feel like that's not working out well with Mary at the helm. But again, that is just me. I am not a most powerful person in business.

And, of course, number 10 is Sundar Pichai, the head of Alphabet Google. Bezos is 11th, but he stepped down. He's not the CEO of Amazon anymore. I mean, he's just like, I don't know, the head chief do person at Amazon, but he's not 11th. That's the most powerful person in business.

He cannot like that. Gates is all the way down to 22nd. Wow, that divorce kicked the crap out of Bill Gates, man. He has gone way down. Wow. 22nd on the most powerful, people in business and Bill Gates is 22nd. Bob Iger

47th. Well, yeah, that's because he's not at the helm of Disney anymore, but he's still there. I mean, you see Bob Iger, he could do some good being friends with Bob Iger. Bob, email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com, but we can get together. You know, like that's going to happen. And Bloomberg has gone all the way down to 91. Wow, Michael Blumer. He's still worth, you know, a fortune, but his strength as a business mogul has gone way down on the fortune. Most powerful people in business list.

All right, let's get out of here. I'll look at you with the joke of the day, and I can't remember if I've done this joke on the air or not, because I did this joke with my daughter the other day because we were talking about how to spell Mississippi. And, you know, everybody, I remember how to spell Mississippi. as from an old book, I don't know how I was 100 years ago,

I read a book on Abraham Lincoln. And Abraham Lincoln, uh, remembered to spell Mississippi, M I, Cricket Letter, Cricket Letter, Cricket Letter, I. Cricket letter, crooked letter, I humpback, humpback.

And that's how I've always remembered to spell it, uh, forever. And so I was talking to my daughter about that. And then this joke came up and I thought, okay, well, you know, it's funny. It was at the time. So, uh, what do you call a hippie's wife? I don't know.

No, Jeff, what do you call a hippie's wife? Mississippi. See? Am I? Cricket letter. Cricket letter. I. Humpback. I.

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