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I wipe with leaves to save money. That's not me. Okay. That is Robin Greenfield, 36, who claims to be an environmental activist, and he has been wiping with leaves instead of toilet paper for a decade now. And I guess things are going well. He said he has no plans to stop.

That's great. He said he began his journey, quitting toilet paper, by first using leftover napkins and tissues. Oh, that's so special. But about five years ago, he realized that the leaf of a blue spur flower was perhaps an even better substitute due to its size and shape. So he started using it as his permanent solution. All consumption of toilet paper fuels deforestation and massive usage of fossil fuels in transportation. I, now personally, I would just like to be clear.

I don't care. We're planting new trees. So we're growing new trees for new toilet paper. And guess what? the earth will create more fossil fuels for that transportation. So I don't care. I was also looking at the blue spur flower, which I guess can be grown in your backyard. You could have toilet paper right there.

It can be your wipe for the rest of your life. I'm going to need more than one plant. Okay. I see the plant and it appears that I'm going to need more than one plant. And it's going to have to be grown. for a while because I'm going to need bigger leaves. So, I mean, you can do that if you, if you want to, if you think you're making a difference by using the blue spur flower leaf for

your toilet paper while you go right ahead. I'm not going to join you. Okay? All right, good. I know everyone wants us to go back to Caveman Days, but no, thank you. I do not want to do that. I will say that I could use a bidet. I would be willing to use a bidet.

That gets rid of the toilet paper usage. And I don't have a bidet right now. Very disappointingly, I've always wanted one. I know that you can get the attachments. And I've told by one person I know who has purchased this certain type of bidet attachment that it works great. Although I would rather have separate the toilet and then the bidet being a separate entity but you know we'll see but i'm willing to do that which gets rid of the toilet paper usage however

i'm sure that uh my man robin the environmental activist would be against that because of the water usage so not sure what's going to happen there robin oh i know i'm going to continue using toilet paper sorry welcome welcome to chewing the fat so where's the best place to live in America. I see where U.S. News and World Reports has given us the rankings, and they used the happiness index and housing affordability index and health care quality index, retiree taxes index, desirability index, job market index, as they go through and rate all these different areas and cities. And they come up with the best places to live in the U.S. in 2023 and 2024. And so they analyzed the 150 most populous

metro areas to find the best places to live. Now, shall we start at number one or start at number 10? I know. Let's start at number 10, shall we? Number 12, actually, is Boise, Idaho. And I love Boise. I fell in love with Boise when we went there a few years ago. And I can see how that would become a desirable place to live because I could live there, although it gets kind of cold there. Most of these places, like number 11 is Madison, Wisconsin. No, thank you. I'm not moving there.

But, you know, I'm sure it's a fine place to live. Coming in at number 10 is Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fayetteville, Arkansas. Number 10 in the best places to live. Number nine, Colorado Springs. Colorado. Number nine. Colorado Springs, Colorado. Number eight, Charlotte, North Carolina. Number eight. I could live in North Carolina. I loved Asheville, although we just did a story. I think we did it. We talked about it. I know I read about it how Asheville has gone downhill with the defund the police movement.

And so crime and homelessness and, you know, the city's well-being is not good right now. So we need to turn that around to move to Asheville, North Carolina. I could have a long time ago when I visited there. I thought about moving there, actually. Number seven, Portland, Maine, Portland, Maine. It certainly isn't Portland, Oregon. But Portland, Maine is number seven on the best places to live.

Coming in at number six, which I could be a fan of, Naples, Florida. It's on the west coast of Florida. I am a fan of the west coast of Florida, living in Tampa Bay for many years. Number five is Sarasota, Florida, which is just up a little bit north of Naples and south of Tampa. But it's still in the same neck of the woods. Really beautiful. No question about it. A big fan of that area and could live there at any moment.

Number four is Boulder, Colorado. Wow. Two in Florida. Two in Colorado in the top 10. Nice. Okay, so Boulder, Colorado coming in at number four. Number three, another North Carolina city. So two of North Carolina as well, Raleigh, Durham, North Carolina.

Now, that is, you know, Raleigh Durham and Chapel Hill. It's beautiful. It's a sprawling place, although it's not in the mountains. You know, you still have the great smoky mountains off to the west of Raleigh, Durham. But, you know, it's a beautiful place. Huntsville, Alabama, coming in at number two. So Alabama gets a couple of places, too. Nice.

Okay. Fayetteville. No, wait, that's Huntsville, Alabama and Fayetteville, Arkansas. Sorry. Not the same state. Sorry. So Arkansas and Alabama, only one city. Sorry, sorry to disappoint you.

Another state that comes in with a couple of cities. We had Madison, Wisconsin, and the number one. best place to live in the United States of America. According to real estate, us news.com, the U.S. News and World Report, Green Bay, Wisconsin. Green Bay, Wisconsin. So we had a couple in Wisconsin, a couple of North Carolina, a couple in Florida,

and a couple in Colorado. So those are your top 10 cities. actually 12. Oh yeah, well Madison was 11. So it wasn't in the top 10. No, there you go. So sorry, Wisconsin. You only had actually one in the top 10.

So close and close. You're coming in there. So Florida, North Carolina and Colorado have two cities in the top 10 of the best places to live in the U.S. in 2023. As long as we're on lists, I see where Social Security has put out their top 20, 22 baby names of those, you know, names that are applying for Social Security numbers. And so they have the top 10 male and female baby names. I don't know how they're separating male and female anymore.

I didn't know that was a thing. But apparently it still is. Those bastards still disseminating between male and female. How do they know? How do they know what these children identify as? Apparently they do, though. It's what's on the birth certificate. It's what's being applied for on the Social Security card.

So the male name, the top 10, Theodore, we're going to go 10 to 1. Theodore, Benjamin, Lucas, Henry, William, Elijah, James, Oliver, Noah, and Liam, coming in at number one for the top 10 baby names of 2022. And it's for the female. And they have colored here in this story. They have blue for male, pink for female. My God, I thought we were past that. But no, we are not.

How dare they separate male and females, boys and girls, and then pink and blue. How dare they? But we're doing it. So it's the way it is. The top 10 female names, 10 to 1. Luna. Evelyn

Mia Now it's probably Some people probably pronounce that Maya It's M-I-A But I named my daughter Maya M-Y-A So M-I-A to me is Mia Number seven is Ava

Number six is Isabella Number five is Sophia Amelia Charlotte Emma And the number one female name Olivia. It's fascinating to me.

So if you named your kids any of those names, you are, you're on the list. You've made the list. I was looking through. It's fascinating this website from the Social Security. They give you the decade names, it's state names, popularity of names.

It's just fascinated. You can go through and see, you know, where your name stood in the year you were born. I went, let's see if I can put mine in. there. All right. So let's see.

Name, Jeffrey. And the year is 1900 and later. I believe I was a male. So 1900 and later. It only goes back to 1941. What? It only goes back to 1941. Wow.

So I don't know where my name ranked when I was born. That's kind of disappointing. A lot of Jeffries from 50, looks like, we're coming in on about 55 all the way through 70. A lot of Jeffries and then, you know, tapered up and then I started to taper back down after 1970. And maybe 73, 74 or something like that. Then it started tapering down.

But it only goes back to 1941. What the heck. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. We can breathe easy. Yesterday we talked about the Tony's broadcast being canceled. Well, it appears that the Tony's broadcast entity have found a path forward as producers meet with the WGA requests.

So it looks like that the Tony Awards will happen. I guess they have to alter the upcoming awards to conform with requests made by the Writers Guild of America. I'm not sure what those requests are, but apparently they will not picket the show. So, I mean, that was the big deal with What's Her Face, Arianna DeBose as the host, she didn't want to cross the picket line. I know that it's difficult for her to say congratulations

to the winning play without a writer on hand. But we don't know what's going to happen. So anyway, it may still happen. I mean, I don't know. I hope that the writer's strike is over by the 11th of June, I think, is when it was supposed to air live. but we'll see. We'll see.

It's not 100% now, but I think we can breathe a little bit easier that the Tony Awards that were scheduled to take place at the United Palace at New York's Washington Heights was slated for 8 p.m.

and air live on CBS as well as the streaming service Paramount Plus. It looks like it still may happen. It's not completely over with yet. Hoo! Who! Man, do I feel better because it's going to be a

it's going to be another one of those shows that well probably should have watched but not going to I'm going to watch the clips just let me just put the clips up on Instagram or Twitter or whatever for you know at Tony's

and I'll watch those and I'll congratulate and I'll like the ones that win okay that's my that's my Tony award contribution for viewership let's put it up on social media And I'll like the post. And speaking of liking posts, you can like my post as well.

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and they're expected to fetch between $6 and $10 million each and probably go for more than that. But they've not been seen in public since they were last auctioned off at Christie's nearly 200 years ago. Pretty incredible. These two portraits, and their small portraits depict relatives of Rembrandt, Jean Wilmans van der Blum and Jeppegen Kettles who were an elderly

couple according to the news release from Christie's a couple portrayed in the works came from a prominent family in the Netherlands their son married the daughter of Rembrandt's uncle

and they had a son and he's believed to train with Rembrandt and an artist whatever so they remained in the family until 1760 and then they were auctioned off and they circulated through several different private

collections until a man named James Murray auctioned them at Christie's in 1824. It doesn't say what he got for them in 1824, though. I wish it said what they sold for in 1824. Interesting that it doesn't say that in the story. Or any of the stories that I've read about these two paintings. So they were signed and dated 1635. They're under eight inches tall, and, you know, I told you who they depict. So they're probably going to go for, I would bet more than $10 million,

but they're looking at, they're saying, well, we're probably going to get, you know, six, a little between $6 and $10 million. Uh-huh. I would say that it's going to go for a lot more than that. So you'll be able to see them. They're going to be a part of the showcase, the portraits at New York, in June and in Amsterdam at the end of June, and then they're going to go on view at Christie's London

as part of the classic week pre-sale exhibit, and then they're going to be placed on auction the last day of the show in July. So good luck to whoever buys these portraits, but the fascinating that they showed up now, yeah, you know what, let's sell them. I wish we knew what we got for them back in 1824, though. That would that interest me,

and why that isn't in any of the stories, I don't know. Oh, we need to congratulate Pesong Nawa Sherpa, who reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 26th time. Congratulations to this Sherpa guide, matching the record set by fellow Nepalese guide for the most ascents of the world's highest peak. So they're tied. They're coming.

They're tied at 26. You got Pasang Dawa Sherpa. was Sherpa and Kamirida who have done 26 successful trips to the summit of Mount Everest

congratulations to both of them they had the delay the season was kind of delayed a little bit because three Sherpa climbers

who you know are not as good as these two fell into a deep crevas on the some of one I thought the whole mountain was treacherous

but apparently it's just their a treacherous section of the mountain. And they have not been able to find them yet. So we didn't even know if these Sherpas are still alive, sad. But it doesn't matter because these two shippers are duking it out for the most trips to the summit. I'm guessing they both work for the Imagine Nepal Treks, which is a beautiful, their fine expedition organizer company. And this year also marks the 70th anniversary of the first ascent,

I mean, that is documented, of Mount Everest in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa Guide, Tenzing Norgay. So, congratulations, and good luck. We'll see who, I guess, I'm told that Kamirita, who Pasang Dawa Sherpa Tide, is going to go out. up again this year, which would make it 27. So I hope nothing bad happens to Kamirita, because, uh, you know, the first person we would look at would be Pesong Dawa Sherpa. That's just me. Uh, you know, Sherpa Wars, that could happen. And with the writers strike on, I mean, we may get that.

We just may send a couple of cameramen up there and just have, uh, Sherpa Wars. Tell me you wouldn't watch. That's what I thought. That's what I thought. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So a startup called a telly plans to give away 500,000 free 4K TVs this year.

now there is a catch and I still may be okay with it I may have to apply for this the catch is you have a second screen that constantly shows you ads so this guy posing who made a bunch of money when Viacom bought Bluto TV and he made I don't know three or four hundred million and he's been working on this startup venture that he thinks is going to be a much bigger deal all right telly T LLY comes out of, you know, he's been in two years in development. He wants to ship out thousands and eventually millions of these free 4K HD TVs, which would cost more than a thousand at retail.

Okay, well, that's, you know, that's what he says, you know, whatever. It's a 55-inch main screen TV, regular TV panel, three HDMI inputs, and an over-the-air tuner plus an integrated soundbar. The telit TVs don't actually run on streaming apps that let you have. access services like, don't run any streaming apps that let you access services like Netflix, Prime Video, or Disney Plus. Instead, they're

bundled with a free Chromecast with Google TV adapter. What's new and different, the unit has a 9 inch second screen affixed to the bottom of the set, which is real estate, which will tell you will use

for displaying news, sports scores, weather, or stocks, or even letting users play video games and critically telly's second screen features a dedicated space on the right-hand side that will display advertising ads you can't skip past and ads that stay on the screen the whole time you're watching TV and even when you're not so they're giving away the device completely free the business will be entirely supported by advertising and affiliate revenue I don't know sounds like something I might want to try just just so that we could talk about it

I know that we've talked about how commercials are annoying, and they are what they pay the bills, and I do like them, and they're created for a reason. I mean, you've got to sell product, and that's how you make your money. And we've talked about Paramount Plus, how they're a new plan when you pause it. If you pause more than 10 seconds, then another ad comes up, whoever created that is a genius and should have be making, I hope, is worth a lot of money today because that was a great idea. But according to this, you know, Talley's TV, makes them far more valuable than traditional video advertising.

We're not just running 15 second pre-rolls. Okay. And some of the ideas that he has would place real-time sports bets on the screen. Or, say, order a pizza from Pizza Hut. I like that a lot. And, of course, Tully would take a cut of each transaction. Well, yeah, that's how they're going to make their money. So the reservation system is up at freeteli.com.

I'm seriously thinking about, reserving a spot. Promising to start shipping the first 5,000 free TVs to qualifying U.S. consumers this summer. That's their out. Qualifying. I hope I qualify. When you sign up through the company's app, Tully will ask for a specific

demographic, TV viewing and lifestyle info, which the company will use to target addressable ads to individual households. TVs also have a built-in sensor that can detect the number of people who are watching in any particular time. He emphasized that all of Tully's features

comply with privacy regulations. Uh-huh. So you're just inviting them into your home. You know that right. I mean, you're doing that with your phone now and even most of your televisions now. You're doing that anyway. So I don't know why that shouldn't frighten you,

but they're just putting it out there. They're saying, yeah, we're there. Okay. And we're, of course, complying with all the privacy regulations. Are you? Are you, though? I'd like to, I wonder what those privacy regulations are. Well, we'll promise.

not to watch. Oh, okay. How many times you said that in your life? No, I promise not to watch. Anyway, their bet is they're trying to generate a return on the major upfront investment. Yeah, no kidding. And getting its ad-enabled TVs in front of U.S. consumers. It's not clear how long it might take telly to recoup the sun cost for free TVs. I mean, he's given $500,000 away. So, I mean, what, there are $1,000 TVs, right? So you're looking at what, you know, a couple of bucks. It was a couple of bucks. But he's already got that money. So what?

I mean, shipping, shipping, so what? A million bucks? A million dollars, say, for shipping and handling of each one and everything. And all, you know, whatever.

Plus the website. I mean, it seems like it wouldn't be long for him to win his money back. But we still see. You can, let's see, is also working, telly is also working with, connected TV ad company,

Emma and Tunisell brands for the ideas. Yeah, I've got some ideas for you too, Tele TV. Maybe, Mr. Posen, you can reach out to me. Email me towing the fat of theblaze.com or I can just probably go to free Tele.com and fill stuff out and maybe you and I can hook up

because I've got some ideas for you. But I think that's a good idea. I don't necessarily like the... Yeah, we comply with all the privacy see. Okay. And I'm glad that you're at least putting that out there. I get it. But I just, you know, it's a good idea. I like the, I like the sound of this idea. Free TV and free and we'll see what the deal is as far as getting apps and viewing what I want to view on that particular, on the telly TV. And if you want to run ads down at the bottom, you go ahead. You know, go ahead. I've learned to, you know, I've had children,

and you just put them in the back seat, and they make noises and play with games, and scream and holler and sing, and you just drive down the road. So, I mean, go ahead. Put your hat up on that little nine-inch screen, and I'll just watch what I'm watching. As we're talking about television in Hollywood,

I see where there's a big push now to move Hollywood to Texas. Yeah, I just saw it. Dennis Quaid Hawking, Texas for Hollywood. They put out a promo with some stars in it saying, hey, we're all for Texas. And they're trying to get Texas to give the film industry some tax leeway to shoot their films in Texas. I mean, that's what Georgia has done. That's what Louisiana has done.

And Texas used to be a huge movie industry. heck the studios that Blaze TV is in made films there for Paramount for years that was the studio itself and so they want to they want to move Hollywood and to Texas is that going to happen I don't know people are tired of California though for sure now they haven't shot films in California forever they still shoot you know game shows and I think they shoot some of the of the network shows there whatever some of those shows are I mean we can go down the list of them. There's a huge list of other shows that got canceled too this year,

and other shows that got the go-ahead. But anyway, and I was happy about some of those shows that got the go-head. I saw where my man, Will Trent, I got a second season. Good. Happy about that. I enjoyed that first season of Will Trent. Anyway, so they're looking for tax credits, and they want to move Hollywood to Texas.

I will say, makes a great point that we have a lot of of people here and we need crew members and that creates jobs you know carpenters painters hotel workers that helps the economy no question i mean it's a good it's a good sell uh to start filming movies in a state and give them uh tax breaks to go on and i will say that he makes a great point dennis quaid about the californian gold rush he said uh it's like a the california gold rush a few people did strike it rich but the people who really made me money were the shopkeepers and people selling shovels and spades and stuff like that who were doing other things besides mining for gold and that's kind of what happened here yes i like that i mean

that's a good analogy dennis and uh let's i say let's do it let's get movies back to being made in texas 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 rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no. But chicken tenders, yes.

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it looks like U.S. officials are considering a ban on chocolate milk in elementary school and middle school cafeterias. Stop it. Are you kidding me? Okay. I mean, let's just spoil the kids at school and ruin life as they know it. I mean, it's got too much sugar content. So, it could be the source of childhood obesity.

Yeah, so could not letting them go outside and play and run around. That could be part of it too. How about we do that first? But again, you know, what do I know? I say that no to the get rid of the chocolate milk. If you're going to be feeding the kids and they want to get at the cafeteria, how about you let them have chocolate milk? That's just, oh, you can't have that.

It's too, you know what? You like it too much. Sorry about it, kid. Here's some food with less salt, and here's some more food with less sugar. And whether you like it or not, tough. That's what you get, okay? I know that we want a product with the nine essential nutrients in it. I get it.

But this is what you get. But we don't like it. Tough, okay? Tough. This is what you got. So live with it, you punk little brat. No. No, I say.

no, don't ruin everything. Stop ruining everything. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service. Stop it. Let the kids have chocolate milk, please. All right, so let's go from the USDA over to the USFDA, the Food and Drug Administration. They recently approved Vost, V-O-W-S-T. It's the first oral body. Biologic drug for fecal microbiota that is shown in clinical trials to be as effective as fecal microbiota transplants given rectally. So biologic drugs are derived from blood, proteins, bacteria, and other living organisms. Yeah. Yeah, we've okay.

We've approved it. Sure. Hey, this is a pill. Yeah, it's got poop in it. Go ahead. Fine. This is the one that works. Okay.

So Vos, just take your four capsules and three days and gosh darn it. It's good. Now, the donated human fecal matter for these pills is screened for transmissible

pathogens before it's manufactured. So we're fine. So why don't you shut your face? Okay? Now, there is. is sure there's a possibility that the donor stool used in the pill could be infected with infectious pathogens as well as food allergens sure you could have some potential for adverse reactions but hey so what shut up and take your poop pill okay oh my gosh in other news

The FDA, let's just stick with the FDA for a little bit, shall we? They have relaxed a blood donation guidelines for men who have sex with men. Gay and bisexual men in monogamous relationships can donate blood in the U.S. without abstaining from sex under a federal policy finalized Thursday by health regulators. The FDA guidelines ease decades-old restrictions designed to protect the blood supply from HIV. The agency announced plans for the change in January and said this week the new approach could now be implemented by the blood banks. So instead of all potential donors, regardless of sexual orientation, sex or gender, will be screened with a new questionnaire that evaluates their

individual risks for HIV based on sexual behavior, recent partners, and other factors. Potential donors who report having anal sex with new partners in the last three months will be barred from giving until a later date well I mean I guess this makes sense I guess it does it's it's you know why not we've come a long way since oh my gosh if you're gay you have HIV and you have AIDS now it's not no no no that's not the way it works so I mean this is kind of good and I'm sure that we're running low on blood around the country I haven't talked to a blood bank official in quite some time.

But every now and then I see stories that talk about the availability of blood dwindling, and we need people to donate blood. And so, I mean, this will definitely, at least in their eyes, up the donations to the blood banks, which in the long run is good, right? All right, a couple of headlines to get you through the day and a joke of the day before we wrap it up for today. We have the NBA conference final teams locked in. We have the NBA conference finals are ready to rock and roll.

We have the Denver Nuggets taking on the Los Angeles Lakers, the Miami Heat, and the Boston Celtics. So two of those four teams will go to the championship. One of them will be the NBA championship. And then we have the NHL last couple of games before the championships with the Dallas Stars and the Vegas, right, the Vegas Knights, I think, and the Florida Panthers against the Carolina hurricanes, right, for the NHL. So that is still ongoing, just until you know, we still got NBA and NHL playoffs happening.

Plus, I would be remiss if I didn't mention that a report by special counsel, John Durham, found that the FBI should not have launched a full investigation into the connections between former President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia during the 2016 election. Uh, really? Thanks. The report said the FBI used raw, unanalyzed, and uncorroborated intelligence. Huh. used all that to justify an investigation that shouldn't have happened. So that's your government at work for you. So I'll leave you with the joke of the day, just to get out of here on a good note. You know, all right?

So a man walks into his bedroom and sees his wife packing a suitcase. He asks, what are you doing? She replies, I'm off to New York. I read that prostitutes there get paid $400 for doing what I do for free. Later on her way out, the wife walks into the bedroom and sees her husband backing his suitcase. Where are you going? She asked. I'm coming with you. I want to see how you live on $800 a year. It's just a joke. It's just a joke. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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