Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - More for Less… | 11/29/22

Episode Date: November 29, 2022

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Officials say a power outage at a purification. plant meant that the water pressure system was too low to ensure the water was free of bacteria and other contaminants so now it's up to all the residents to you know boil water so it also means that the school district was forced to shut down not sure why we needed to shut down the school send in bottled water don't drink out of the drinking fountain probably shouldn't be doing it anyway and you could still go to school but anyway they shut down the school and said boil your water for at least two minutes before drinking, brushing your teeth, washing your hands. They claim that they expect to have the notice lifted today.

Today is the 29th of November 2022. We shall see. I think that we still, does Flint still have drinking water? I thought the Flint thing was still ongoing. And it's been at least a half a dozen years in Flint, Michigan. where that was a pipe problem, the lead piping issue that was never fixed. So we'll see. Just be prepared.

Coming to a city near you very soon, be prepared to boil your own water. Build a fire, boil your water to drink, okay? To be safe. That might not be a bad thing to do anyway, but what do I know? Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. It's about time. It's about time. The World Health Organization, the who, announced it's now going to refer to monkeypox virus as M-Pox.

So, I mean, is it M-Pox formerly Monkey Pox virus, or is it just M-Pox? The result is from a six-month effort, which we talked about, to find a non-discriminatory alternative to avoid stigma. I guess the name Monkey Pox has to. to be phased out over the next year. Has to be phased out. I mean, just stop calling it that. I don't understand. It's just M-pox now.

We're still going to call it monkeypox, because that's what it is. But, okay, I mean, if you want to call it M-pox, fine. We'll call it M-pox. Okay? The change, of course, we saw 80,000 infections

earlier this year, 55 deaths across 110 countries. We just got done talking, I don't know, last week or the week before, about what happened to it. The numbers are still, you know, almost nothing, right? I mean, in the U.S., we're still under 30,000 cases with 14 deaths. And when you look at the global outbreak map, we have just over 81,000 total cases. So it's gone up very slow, so it's down to almost nothing. It will always be

around. It is an endemic disease now. So I know that. that the who has a broader, you know, I don't know, plan to rid themselves of naming diseases without referencing a group of people, animals, or locations. So we're just going to have to start, just like Starbucks, they're going to put, when you make your order, they're just going to say, okay, your order number 12. And no more names, no more, we're getting to know people. We don't care. we want you to be feel welcome so we're just going to give you a number and this is what we're

going to do with diseases too all right it's going to look like mpox but it's just going to be disease 110 in the world okay and so we know that uh it is like m pox or the disease formerly known as monkey pox but we can't call it that anymore so just know that these outbreaks now are just going to be numbered from the who and that's just what we're going to do I don't know, can we call it? I mean, it's just going to be M. Pox. That's going to be called, what do you call AIDS? Well, HIV, Jeff.

Okay. What about Ebola? Is it just, we live in very, very strange times. So just know, clearly, M-Pox is now the name for the disease, formally known as Monkey Pox. I feel better already. So now we have French scientists who are, you know, spreading fears of yet another pandemic after reviving a zombie virus

that had been trapped under a frozen lake in Russia for a record 50,000 years. Oh, okay. So this is, the situation would be much more disastrous. in the cases of plant, animal, or human diseases caused by the revival of an ancient unknown virus. This is what it reads in the viral study. Now, the study has not been peer reviewed, so it could be BS.

Okay. The new research was helmed by microbiologist Jean-Marie Alempic, who doesn't love Jean-Pie-L-Ly-Lyck from the French National Center for Scientific Rehabilmpic, from the French National Center for Scientific Research. According to the preliminary paper, global warming, of course,

is causing vast swaths of the permafrost, permanently frozen ground covering one quarter of the northern hemisphere, to irreversibly thaw. This has led the alarming effect of releasing organic manner frozen up to a million years, including potentially harmful pathogens. Well, I thought this was only like 50, thousand years ago. And they found some a few years ago in Siberia that was 30,000 years old.

So I guess now the new strain is one of 13 viruses that they outlined in the study, which possessed its own genome. So after studying the live cultures, scientists found that all the zombie viruses have the potential to be infectious and are therefore a health threat. They posthut that they could see more COVID-19-style pandemics in the future as ever-melting permafrost continues to release long-dormant viruses like the microbiable Captain America. Okay. So have we not seen, there's been several documentaries. One called, I don't know, the Walking Dead. The other was fortitude. Fortitude was more like the,

this particular zombie virus, right, with Dennis Quaid. They actually, the virus became alive and came back to infecting humans because of these mastodons that were showing up had been frozen for years and because of global warming, things were warming up and that they were, you know, they're still dead, but their germs and their viruses were mutating and getting into humans. Oh, did I spoil fortitude for you? I'm sorry. But those are documentaries that we're used to, right?

And it could definitely happen. Why mess with it? Okay, so these scientists are now messing with these viruses because we just, we have to know. I guess we have to know. We're scientists. And my name is Jean-Marie Alempic from the French National Center for Scientific Research. Now, there's also a co-author. uh jean michel cladry who

who who have to keep messing it why are we messing with these zombie viruses stop it I mean they're calling it the Pandora virus Yadoma

after of course the mythological character Pandora whose curiosity a letter to open a box of trouble hello don't open Pandora's box yeah we got it so

um this soil the oldest was 48,500 years old and so the other one as I mentioned that they found in Siberia was 30,000 years ago so how about we go hey look at that let's keep it frozen let's not mess with it I'd rather watch the documentaries and just enjoy the documentaries rather than I don't know messing with the viruses and saying you know we should see if we could work with them because we need to find out if we could develop a cure. But before we develop a cure, we're going to go ahead and release it because we have to

find out what these hibernating viruses can do. Ah, that's great. That's great. Isn't it? Yep, it is. You remember Sam Brinton? Sam Brinton, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Spain. fuel and waste disposition at the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy?

You remember Sam. He identifies as they, them, and his pronouns, and he likes to train other humans as dogs. And he's part of this weird... Not weird. I apologize. I don't want to use the word weird. He's part of these people who like to be... who like to be trained as dogs in their life. Not weird at all.

It's just a different lifestyle. So anyway, he was charged with stealing luggage at an airport at Minneapolis, St. Paul Airport, way back in September. All right, so isn't it interesting that we're just finding out about it now? So he's and he's now we find out that he's on leave from the Department of Energy's Office of Nuclear Energy where he was the secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition. He's been on leave for about a month. So they knew this was coming. They didn't talk about it.

They didn't make a big deal about it. They were just waiting for the news to break because the lady is, you know, they're going to court over this. And he could go to jail. I mean, you know, who knows what's going to happen. Is he going to be convicted and go to jail or prison for five years at a fine? Probably not. He will probably be fined and put on probation and, you know, everything will be okay. All right.

But he's charged with felony theft of a movable property without consent. Oh. Okay. So I know that he is, you know, one of this beautiful, non-binary official, but not anymore. He was placed on leave because of this. Now, he stole this luggage. Now, it's pretty fancy luggage. It's the Vera Bradley suitcases, which are $2,325.

Okay, it's a suitcase. Pretty hoity toity. And it happened at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport, as I said. Okay. Now, he originally said, uh, if I had taken the wrong bag, I'm happy to return it. But I don't have any clothes for another individual. Um, that was my clothes when I opened the bag. Was it? Was it, Sam? So then he called the police back a couple hours later after the first conversation and confessed to not being completely honest.

Oh, yeah. You know what? I accidentally grabbed the wrong bag of luggage at the care of it. at the carousal due to exhaustion. I was just so darn tired. I didn't realize that it wasn't my bag. Oh, really? Yeah.

So then they find out that they emptied the luggage and left the person's clothes inside the drawers at the hotel room. They just left the clothes that were in the luggage at the hotel room they stayed at. Oh, okay. Isn't that interesting? and we find out that we have footage of Sam. The story is so weird because they go on.

They keep saying they were later seen using. And it's not they, it's him. So he was just weird when they start using their pronouns to make everybody feel good in the articles. Anyway, so they, him, he, Sam. was later seen using the Vera Bradley suitcase on at least two occasions while traveling to Washington, D.C. So he loved it. That's he wanted it. It was beautiful.

And they have footage of him ripping the tags off or removing the ID tag at the airport. Surveillance video has that shown. So he was, he shouldn't have done it because, you know there's cameras everywhere, right? We talked about this at length on this show. Always assume you're being filmed, especially at an airport. And so if you're going to take the wrong luggage,

and I'm just, I'm here to help, okay? If you're going to take the wrong luggage, just take it and go, all right? Just take it and go. Do act like it's yours 100%? Don't look around. Don't, you know, none of it. Just take it and go.

And then, you know, once you get outside and in your car, you take the tags off, so nobody sees you take it. the tags off. So someone stops you prior to getting to your vehicle and says, hey, what are you doing with that luggage? You could say, oh, I thought that was mine. And then they look at the tags and it belongs to whoever and you say, oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. Here you go. Go ahead and take it. I'm so sorry. And you're done. You're good. You're over with. It was a mistake. But now you know that you knew it was wrong because you took the tags off right there or, you know, somewhere close to

where you took the suitcase. And, you know, you think, why? What do you do on? You're at an airport and you, I mean, you just, you are who you are. And you've got to realize that you just can't take things, right? That means that you, I'm sure he's done it before. 100% he's done this before. And this is just now he's got caught because, and it's more important that he got

caught because he works for the government right he isn't just part of the Trevor project and he isn't just another you know dog human dog trainer uh with the Trevor project project and wearing dresses and you know uh identifying as the they them he's part of the united states government and it's a matter i mean it's just so weird the whole thing is weird so i mean i mean i Is he going to go to jail? Probably not. Will I feel bad if he serves some time for this? Probably not.

Well, maybe. No, no. I'm torn. I don't want anyone to spend time in prison. And does he deserve time in prison for stealing a suitcase? I would say no. But he most definitely should have some probation and define and not be able to work for the United States government

any longer. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I told you it wouldn't be long, and it hasn't been very long. Kevin Spacey now signs on for a new deal, a new movie role after winning his $40 million lawsuit against Anthony Rapp for alleged sexual battery.

And so I know he's still faces further sexual assault charges in the UK, but he is in a new indie movie called Control. Yes, he's going to get back into it. I told you, there's no way he's too good. I know he's a dirtbag, but he's too, you know, his work is too good. And he's not, it's just his voice in the movie, okay? So he's going to, this is, you know, he's working his way back in. He's got there's nose in the tent, so to speak. He's part of, he's one of the bad guys in the movie, and that's his voice.

And the director and writer, Jean Thalise, said, you know, I took the controversy's rounding Spacey under consideration, but damn, as it concerned. Ultimately, it's an opportunity to work with one of the acting greats. And I've been a fan of the actor for a long time. So there you have it. he'll be back and good luck good luck god bless uh you knew it was going to happen you knew it wasn't going to be very long uh and he's back so i told you it was going to happen anyway you're welcome

you should have listened to me oh you did okay good hey today is good news for google and youtube well it's good news for all of us really uh google and youtube are announcing a 13.2 million grant to the international fact-checking network. They're going to launch a new global fact-checked fund to support 135 fact-checking organizations from 65 countries covering over 80 languages. So it's good news for you and me because, well, it's all of us, because whether you're they, them, he, she, or it, whatever you identify as, it's good news. news because more importantly, I now know that we have an international fact-checking network.

And there are 135 fact-checking organizations around the globe. So that is wonderful. I mean, that's what we need. That's what we need. You know we do, and so do I. Okay, so I'm reading this story. about a girl who claims that she's a 22-year-old server at a sports bar in Salt Lake City, Utah. Her name in the story is Caitlin Boss.

She thought it was a great waste of time at first. The tips were bad. Her base wage was $2.13 an hour. And then she tried putting her hair in pigtails to get higher tips from male customers. And it worked. So now we're supposed to feel weird about tipping better for a waitress that's, wearing pig tails. So she was looking up, you know, the hashtag pig tail theory and she realized that she was surprised by it, but people were getting bigger tips if they just put their hair in

pig tails. So she started doing it and started getting more tips. She also realized that if she was flirty and bubbly and wearing pig tails, they really like it. So she changed her whole attitude on serving. I guess I'm supposed to feel bad or weird because she said the pigtails make her feel weird. She said, I mean, I know everyone has their own fetishes and I don't want to judge them, but it still feels uncomfortable to me, especially when they make comments about it. Well, that's what you want. One guy told me, I kept, I reminded him of the Harley Quinn who, you know, famously wears pigtails. and he just kept telling me that and his buddies kept joking around with them and his buddies were making fun of him

and it was just creepy. Well, okay, so, but nothing happened. It was just restaurant banter, right? And she said, the men who like my pigtails and tip highest are in their late 40s and early 50s. Okay, well, good.

And she said she tries to talk to the women if they're with their wives or girlfriends so that they don't feel like I'm trying to flirt with hubby. She's had tips crossed off for less. money, she believes that it's because the woman said that's too much for her and, you know, wrote in more or wrote in less for her to make. It's just really strange. The whole time I'm reading this stupid article and I'm thinking, okay, well, I guess it makes sense. I mean, we tip waitresses

and waiters who do a good job and who look the part, right? And if we think that this girl looks the part, then we're going to, she's going to make a lot more money. But my whole time I'm reading is thinking, I should just start a restaurant, you know, pig tails and, call it pig tails and, and you just make the waitresses wear pig tails, all of them, every one of them wears pig tails. And it's just a, you know, a wing bar or a sandwich bar or whatever, you know, pig tails in shakes, pig tails and booze, pig tails in whatever you want to call it. You know what? I'm giving it to you for free today here on chewing the fat. You're well, Welcome. The million-dollar idea, go ahead and start the restaurant.

Pigtails and you choose whatever you think sounds best for your establishment. And you just make the waitresses and waiters wear pigtails. You could have waiters with long hair that wear pigtails. But I don't want to, we're not going to be, I mean, it's whatever you identify as is fine, but you need to wear pigtails. And that's just, that's the rule. That's the place that's the rule of the, of the establishment. Pigtails and whatever you want to add to the list.

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story where this award-winning travel blogger, who was based in Georgia, has spinal muscular astrophy, and he's used a wheelchair most of his life. He's traveled the world. Now he rides his wheelchair up the jet bridge to the airplane, and then they put him on this aisle chair, and they roll him to his seat. Okay. So, and then that's not bad for him. The aisle chair is uncomfortable for him,

but that's the deal, right? He rides his wheelchair up the jet bridge to the plane, gets on that, goes to his chair, goes to his airplane seat. Well, they landed, and his chair wasn't at the plane yet. So he was like, I'm not getting off the plane until my wheelchair arrives at the edge of the jet walk to the plane. And the flight attendant, I almost said stewardess, sorry, the flight attendant says, yeah, you know what? We're going to need you to get off the plane.

Just get on the aisle chair and we'll wheel you off and then whenever you're trained, whenever your chair comes, that's what happens. that's what happens. Well, he's like, no, I'm not going to get off the plane. I definitely wanted to get off the plane, but the flight attendant is like, you know, that you didn't want to leave the plane. No, I wanted to leave the plane, but I'm waiting for my wheelchair to come to the edge of the jet walk

where the plane is at, to deplane. I don't want to spend all this extra time in the aisle chair. It's uncomfortable, and I had risk of developing pressure sores. So I'll wait for my wheelchair to arrive. Okay? So the flight attendant is like, no, we have to get you off now, or I'll call the TSA and we'll get you off this aircraft with their guns and stuff. I know the law, and I'm the first wheelchair traveler to visit all seven continents,

he believes. I mean, that's what he calls himself. So then a very nice, helpful Atlanta airport employee arrives and says, hey, we've got your wheelchair at the door. Okay. And it's ready to go. And off he went. So my point is, is that right there is a perfect example of a flight attendant trying to wheel the power that doesn't know the rules, but wants this guy, you've got to, you've got to debor the plane. And that's just the way it is. And we want him to get the plan and he wouldn't do it he wouldn't do what we said no he was following the rules as part of this disabilities act and i'm trying to think what the heck it's called yeah here it is the uh air carrier access act and so now delta is saying hey we're sorry uh we're looking into it uh we of course you know

that doesn't reflect the high standard of care Delta people aspire to every day and so we're waiting for more apologies from Delta which he will get and it's just the flight attendant they can they got it all you do what we say when we say or we'll throw you off this plane

and even if you're handicapped even if you're handicapped we don't care we want you off this plane I'm sure that they wanted you know to get off the plane and they wanted to d board to i got it they were frustrated and you know you have to wait for the workers to get that wheelchair up to the you know up to the jet bridge by the plane and they have to go through the process and sometimes it takes a while and he's even admitted that however uh to be told that hey instead

of just sitting down and talking with him and saying well we'll wait till you know we get your chair here and we'll just kind of chit-chat or i'll make another phone call to find out hey what's up where's this man's wheelchair um you know we're going to threaten to throw him off the plane give me a break give me a break oh and speaking of airlines i see where frontier has now uh cut their service line their customer service line yeah it uh we're trying to cut costs uh the call center that you know it it would just cost too much money our customers don't need to speak to a real life person. You can get in touch with Frontier. You can start a live chat on the website, hit the company up on social media, or even message it up on WhatsApp. So, okay, I mean,

I want to be mad about this, but the more I read it, the more I think, yeah, you know, who is, who is calling the customer helpline? Is it something that needs to be provided? I guess, you know, but if you're, most of the time, people are complaining or asking about what's on their social media sites or you know going to the website and chatting there so I guess it's not that bad of a thing it just sounds bad right we're we don't use it anymore so and it's a you know a cost-cutting measure we're just going to cut the customer service line and so kind of weird kind of weird but don't just you know that if you're flying frontier whether you have your 799 all you can fly annual subscription place

or you're just ticked that it was delayed and you want to you have to rebook a flight don't call there's no line to call anymore okay use your social media app or go ahead and hit up that live chat on the website okay all right good speaking of all right good i see where jet blew uh pilots are a little outraged is the word they used after the airline hired a violent felon to fly planes even as it refuses to hire people who haven't taken the COVID vaccine. Citing safety. Two pilots told the Daily Wire that JetBlue had hired this John Perry's,

who served nine years in prison for breaking into the home of a judge and attacking his daughter as she left the shower. Perry's was released from prison in 2014 and is on felony probation until 2044. Apparently JetBlue won't hire on vaccinated pilots, but they will hire violent, convicted felons to fly their airplanes. Okay, I mean, that's a tough one. Should they be hiring people who haven't taken the COVID vaccine? Yes, yes, they should.

Should they be hiring felons? I mean, there's a shortage of pilots. And if the felon is, he's on probation, he needs a gig. If he hasn't done anything wrong, I mean, I feel like, yeah, you should be able to work. Right? I feel like you should be able to work. However. uh you know this it's a weird situation that we're in that they will hire this person but they won't

hire someone who hasn't had the COVID vaccine really really strange that was jet blue so we heard a little bit of Delta a little bit of frontier a little bit of jet blue today uh the other airlines I'm not leave alone today so fly the friendly skies will you and if you don't want to fly take a cruise ship I mean, what could happen? What could go wrong on a cruise ship? I mean, could you fall off? Sure, you could fall off. We had a passenger fall off not long ago in the Gulf of Mexico,

and they found him alive after 15 hours. So he fell off a carnival cruise ship. I guess he got into trouble for vaping in the wrong places or whatever on the cruise ship. And so then apparently they think he was drunk, and then he went overboard. So his sister, he was with his sister at a bar, went to a bathroom break, never came back. They reported him missing the next day, prompting the vessel to retrace its path towards New Orleans, and the U.S. Coast Guard started a search. I don't know how much this costs.

I don't know who pays for this, but, you know, I'm glad we rescued the man. Someone on a cargo ship alerted authorities after spotting the man, who was seen in a dramatic video being plucked from the ocean some 20 miles south of Louisiana's southwest pass and I guess he had signs of hypothermia shock and you know I don't know

the family was talking about him the day that he went missing and they talked about how he kept getting in trouble for vaping and non-designated smoke areas okay all right you're on a cruise ship and you're outside and you can't vape that's a problem that's a problem in my world

I know that seems so that's the world we live in now if you're walking outside on a cruise ship and there's open air and you can't have you can't vape I mean for sure you can't smoke

I mean holy cow don't even think about smoking a cigarette that will be they will throw it they'll just throw you off and they won't retrace their steps what happened to him I don't know somebody saw him smoking and then he's missing.

So good luck. God bless. I mean, I know now I saw there's a new study where smoking is down dramatically. Let's see. Rate has fallen from 35% to 12% in the past due decades. Young adults are more likely to smoke e-cigarettes, marijuana, than tobacco.

Okay. Smoking among young adults, maybe shifting from tobacco to e-cigarettes. Duh. You think so? So the percentage of U.S. adults who smoke cigarettes has reached a new low 11% this year. Much of the decline is tied to sharply lower smoking rates among young adults from 2001 to 2003, an average of 35% of U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 29 said they smoked cigarettes compared with the 12% this last time. Wow, cigarette smoking way down. However, let me be. me say this, even if you smoke cigarettes, if you're one of the 11% and you're one of the,

how many of a percentage of people that are smoking, that are vaping, you should be able to do so outside. There shouldn't be a question of you taking care of this outside. It doesn't make any sense to me. Why? Oh, no, there's a special vape area on a cruise ship. Okay. I want to go on a cruise so bad right now. I don't know about you, but that makes me want to go on a cruise. Oh, man. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ, built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence, while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress.

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on the show, like this one from Michael, who says, Hello, Jeffie. Spelled the wrong way, by the way, but I'll let that slide, Michael. As a follower of Jason Frank, since his days as the Green Ranger, through his years of martial arts tournaments in Tibet and other international areas, I feel like you are mocking the Green Ranger by saying it's morphing time, multiple times during who died today, without any Power Rangers theme you. And you continue to say transformers, when any Power Rangers fan knows, they're called Zords.

Okay, well, first of all, Michael, thanks for listening. Second, I would like to say that I didn't go back and listen to the Who Die Today segment when I talked about Jason Frank as the Green Ranger, and then turning into the White Ranger. I believe I did tell the story of the Green Ranger, and I did say that I had multiple Power Ranger characters, multiple zords. I wish I had them all now. Now, I may have screwed up and called them Transformers because, you know, Transformers are big in my house now and have been for a number of years. It was my oldest son, who was the Power Rangers fan. And, you know, I had all the characters and all the Zords, and I wish I had them to this day. But I can remember selling them at a yard sale

in the wagon. I remember I could see him. I could see him. I could see him. in my yard sale now in the back of a wagon and I remember I don't know who it was but I do remember one person coming up and going ooh power rangers and buying them. Very sad. Good for them. Congratulations.

But I will say this Michael. I was not mocking the Green Ranger. It is morphin time and that's when they turned into the Power Rangers and then they morphed into the Zords. I know the story okay? I got it. I know the story of the Green Ranger.

and then it was the White Ranger. Okay, I got it. And Jason really struggled. I read some more on Jason Frank. He was, you know, the family and the kids, and he really struggled, and it was sad that he took his own life. I mean, it's so sad when anyone takes their own life.

So I would just like you to know, Michael. I know that there are power rangers and that they were called Zords. And if I did call them Transformers, it was by mistake. And I do apologize for that. Because I feel like I do remember calling them Transformers when I was talking about Power Rangers.

But that was simply just a mistake. Okay? So back off me, Michael. And it's J-E-F-F-Y. Okay? J-E-F-F-Y. Okay? Thanks for the email.

And for those of you listening live today, as I said earlier, it is the 29th of November, 2020. It's Giving Tuesday. Did you buy anything on Black Friday? I know Black Friday said the sales topped $9 billion in new record. And then yesterday was Cyber Monday. They claimed Cyber Monday pulled in $11.3 billion in sales, according to Adobe Analytics,

which is 5.8% more than consumers spent the same day last year. I can tell you, I did not add to that. I think my wife, did added to the black friday deal although i don't think it was yeah she did because they went to they did go to one store on black friday uh that was it uh their leather workshop uh and they went to they went to the leather workshop a tandy leather and uh got some stuff on black friday so some of the fisher household went to black friday sales cyber monday uh nope didn't do that so uh anyway it's just it just did just spent any money because I feel like that we spent more money and got less. So you can't, I believe,

quote me on that. We spent more money and got less, received less product. I wonder why that is. I wonder why that is. Did I mention that our president, the president of the United States of America, Joe Biden. He gave the second largest oil company, Chevron, in the United States, that is, a six-month lease to pump oil in Venezuela. Huh. We're going to pump oil in Venezuela,

but we're not going to pump oil here in the United States of America. That really makes zero sense. So we're not, and sense. I mean, it makes zero sense. C-E-N-T-S and S-E-N-S-E. Okay, it makes zero. I don't understand it. It's just incredible.

Do we not? No, we must not. And I'll just stop because it just drives me insane to think about it. And I try not to talk about politics on the show because I want you to just have a little bit of fun. And I know the world revolves around politics in today's world. I get it. So I try to give you a little bit of a break from it.

But sometimes I just want to explode. And that's why I do Pat's show a couple times a week. And I do Mojo 5-0 once a week. I try to maybe work a little bit of politics in on that a little because, you know, chewing the fat is meant to, I don't know, make you smile. and when you think about how we're allowing our oil companies to drill for oil in other countries, in communist dictatorship countries, but we're not doing it here and our people are struggling,

which makes me get back to the point of all the money spent on Black Friday on Cyber Monday, and I feel like we spent a whole lot more and received a whole lot less. Maybe it's just me. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrance sets, our special selection has something for every style and price point. Visit our Holtz holiday shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com.