Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Not Organic… | 1/4/24

Episode Date: January 4, 2024

Starbucks bring your own cup… Banished Words for 2024… LSSU history… Corn and Soy Fraud... Sexual Assault lawsuit allegations / Nigel Lythgoe from Paula Abdul and others… Florida woman off the... rails or her meds?... chewingthefat@theblaze.com Who Died Today: Tom Smothers 86 / Francoise Bornet 93… Wrong Flight… Kid beats Tetris… Hood Maps…   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:44 Like a DoorDash or Uber each You're not going to be able to do this You're going to be able to bring your own cup To Starbucks Yay And use your own cup Your own personal cup at Starbucks You just have to tell them on the app
Starting point is 00:00:59 under the customization button during the ordering process or just bring it into the store and say, hey, fill this one up and they give the mug to the barista in the pickup area where the drink is made and then give it back in a contactless vessel. I'm not sure what that contactless vessel is. Is it just rubber gloves on a barista?
Starting point is 00:01:24 Is it some tweezers? I don't know what the context. A robot maybe? but the contactless vessel will then give you your mug with coffee back. Now, you have to remember, you have to clean them before you bring them. Yeah, the baristas aren't going to rinse them out. And for those of you thinking, I'm going to bring an oil can in and fill up my oil can full of Starbucks coffee. That's my large coffee.
Starting point is 00:01:49 No, no, no, no, no. You can't do that. No cups larger than 40 ounces. But you can bring at least 40 ounces in for your large coffee. at Starbucks and I'm sure they're mad at me because they're not largest. I know, I know, I got it, but really, they are. Plus, you're going to get a 10-set discount and 25 stars on the change rewards program. So, hey, how cool is that, huh? Bring your own cup at Starbucks. They're also working on borrow-a-cup programs. They've apparently been working on that for a while.
Starting point is 00:02:24 I question the borrow a cup program, but they tested it in Seattle where you paid a like a dollar deposit and had to return the recyclable cup to a smart bin and you get your dollar back. And they've tested those programs in, well, in Seattle and Japan,
Starting point is 00:02:42 Singapore and the UK. I don't know how those are working out. I don't know that I want to use the recycled cup. I don't know that I trust the barista to clean it, but I guess you have to. So, but I don't have to worry about it now because I can bring my own cup. And I am looking forward to seeing what a contactless vessel is. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:03:03 Welcome to Chewing the Fath. Okay, here we go again. Lake Superior State University, I love Lake Superior State University, and Sue St. Marie, Michigan, which is in the Upper Peninsula. You know, if you, this is the lower peninsula, and the Upper Peninsula is up here. Sus-A-Marie is way up there. They have a tradition of listing the words that need to be banned from the previous year. Now, they received more than 2,000 suggestions from 20 different countries.
Starting point is 00:03:43 That's what they said. And the number one word this year that needs to be banned is hack. Hack. H-A-C-K. So don't use it anymore. All right, and needs to be banned. Since 1976, more than 1,000 everyday terms have been banished. Some of them more than once.
Starting point is 00:04:07 Last year, goat topped the list. Before that, it was, wait, what? It was just more than one word I might have. And no real surprise, COVID-19, banished in 2021. 2020 was jelly, was the top word to be. banished. Not the fruit's been spread, obviously, but the abbreviation of jealous, which we know still happens. Some people may have not got the message. That's all. So there are 10 words that have been banished this year that we're not supposed to use it. Okay. So hack obviously is number one. Coming in at
Starting point is 00:04:47 number two, impact, impact. I-M-P-A-C-T. Banished word. Can't use it anymore. At the end of the day, I guess these are just banished words, but banished, I mean, also, phrases, right? But it says banished words, so we've just moved down and how about you just shut up, Jeff, and read what they've banned, okay? At the end of the day is number three. Four is
Starting point is 00:05:10 Riz. Yeah, that Riz was a big one of the top words of the year. Slay, or phrases of the year. Number five, Slay, S-L-A-Y. Number six, iconic. Number seven, Cringe-worthy.
Starting point is 00:05:28 Number eight, obsessed. Number nine, side hustle. And number 10, wait for it. No, not the, that's what they, that's the phrase that the two or three words that needs to be banned. Wait for it. Not, you don't actually have to wait for it. So we can't use those anymore. They need to be banned completely.
Starting point is 00:05:54 Thanks to the university up there in Su-Sing. Marie, Michigan, the Lake Superior State University. So we just need to stop using the, what they call, cringe-worthy words, but cringe-worthy isn't part of the banished words? All right, all right, if you say so, no problem. Now, the university has a very scientific way of creating their list every year. Okay. They get suggestions.
Starting point is 00:06:26 As I said, they got over 2,000 suggestions from 20 different countries. And the English department decides which words will be banished. So, man, you want to talk about science. That is a scientific way to talk about banished words. So don't use them. Don't use them. I don't want to hear you. Not once use the word hack this year.
Starting point is 00:06:55 That you're going to see them. everywhere, obviously. But they are agonizing. The one that I see all the time that drives me crazy is side hustle. I will say that. When I see the list. Yeah, cringe-worthy. Number seven, thank you.
Starting point is 00:07:07 That's what I thought it was on the list. And they use it in their story. What do we? I thought they were banned. If you're banning phrases and words, you can't use them in the story. Sorry, that's the way it works. I thought. But apparently, once again, what do I know?
Starting point is 00:07:23 Well, nothing. Nothing is what I know. I will say I do know this. This is one way every year that the university, Lake Superior State University, in Sioux-St. Marie, Michigan, makes people aware that they exist. Because unless you don't see this banishment list every year, you have no idea that Lake Superior State University exists in Sioux-State. You don't want to, holy cow, that's up there. I mean, that's cold business up there.
Starting point is 00:07:53 Plus, the snow and, oh, man. I'm sure it's a fine university. Absolutely love Lake Superior State University. I had forgotten that its former name was the Michigan College of Mining and Technology. That's why I keep forgetting them. And then they went to Lake Superior State College of Michigan Technological University. And then they went to Lake Superior State College. So now we're at the Lake Superior State University.
Starting point is 00:08:30 The colors are blue and gold. So it's not maize and blue like the University of Michigan, but blue and gold. And their mottoes are Believe in Blue and redefining the classroom. Oh, that's special. And their nickname is the Lakers. Huh. So the Lake Superior State University Lakers, I'm sure they've got an excellent team support program,
Starting point is 00:08:59 and their mascot is Seymour the Seeduct and Foghorn the Sailor. Man, when you see. Seymour the Seeduct, it makes you want to see Foghorn the Sailor that much more. So there you have it with the Lake Superior State University. So fine, fine, fine, university. From Searchlight Pictures comes Rental Family, only in theaters November 21st.
Starting point is 00:09:48 Earning rave reviews at TIF, rental family is emotional, funny, and the feel-good movie of the year. Academy Award winner Brendan Fraser stars as a lonely American actor living in Tokyo who struggles to find purpose until he starts working for a Japanese rental family agent. Along the way, he forges some surprising human connections and discovers unexpected joys within his built-in family.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Experience rental family, only in theaters November 21st. So if you're an organic food customer, you probably haven't been eating organic food. Just saying. I see where a man in St. Paul, Minnesota, a 66-year-old man in St. Paul, Minnesota. James Clayton Wolf, a corn and a soybean farmer in beautiful Jeffers, Minnesota. He pleaded guilty to the scheme. He lost his organic certification back in 2020, but that did change his what they call scam. He went and purchased rail cars full of grain and then sold them as certified organic,
Starting point is 00:10:58 which they were not. So because he was getting more money for the organic soybeans and corn, he decided, hey, I'll just tell people it's organic and I'll get more money. The judge was unhappy. The judge said, I'm an organic food consumer myself, and I don't like being a victim of organic grain fraud.
Starting point is 00:11:26 So he and his, godson and his nephew, I think, were also found because they had signed insurance documents. They, you know, they got, I don't know, they got like supervised prohibition, probation and $100 hours of community service because they had signed some insurance documents. But James got three years. Now, the government was looking to throw them in jail for five years or prison for five years. So the judge was pissed, but she wasn't that pissed because she only gave them three years. so if you've been thinking that oh man that organic grain that i've been using the corn and the
Starting point is 00:12:04 soy yeah uh it's not it wasn't organic at all uh so because james clayton wolf was just buying regular corn and grain and selling it to the uh organic people now he's been doing this for a long time and uh there was a consolidation of some company that he purchased grain from or that he sold I think it was the consolidation of the company that he purchased the grain from but he would buy train cars of the corn of the soy and then sell them to a company in Pennsylvania as organic it's not funny I'm glad this man is behind bars okay I am so pissed right now that I could have been eating organic corn and soy.
Starting point is 00:13:03 No, let me rephrase that. I could have been thinking that I was eating organic corn and soy, but I wasn't. I mean, the horror. They took a bunch of stuff from his farm, too. This is where the forfeiture comes into play, right? So the judge made him, took over some land and some tractors. and some sports cars that he used the tainted funds to purchase
Starting point is 00:13:29 after he'd been found guilty, by the way, not before. And so the judge even said in her statement that she believed that he would return from prison and resume farming because he said in his statement
Starting point is 00:13:46 that he loved farming and he had sorrow and that he let the temptations to gain additional money overtake his good judgment. But then the judge said he's going to resume farming, but he's going to come back and he's not going to have the new pieces
Starting point is 00:14:01 of land or the tractors. He may have to go back to selling tainted. See, the thing is the corn and the soy weren't tainted. They just weren't organic. So that's all. I just love the whole idea
Starting point is 00:14:18 of, oh, these are organic. These are made with organic corn and grain. Uh, no, no they weren't. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So Nigel Lithgow. I don't know if you know who Nigel is, but he's a Brit who has produced and judged several competition shows in the U.S. and the UK.
Starting point is 00:14:53 Gladiators, American Idol, so you think you can dance. and he's been a choreography on several other projects, like, so you think you can dance. And I'll give him the credit, musical time machine and one more time. Love those. Man, can't get enough of those. But those, first, those, I mean, Gladiators, American Idol,
Starting point is 00:15:13 and so you think you can dance, were huge shows. Gladiators was on for, I don't know, seven or eight years, American Idol. Isn't that still going? Anyway, his American Idol was 2002 to 2014. That's when he was producer. and so you think you can dance that's probably still on as well
Starting point is 00:15:31 but his part of it was 2005 to 2014 too so for many years I mean he was doing both those shows making a lot of money Nigel is in trouble he's got a couple of few sexual assault allegations going up against him one of them from Paula Abdul
Starting point is 00:15:48 okay so Paula just filed a suit against Dilithgow on Friday this party you know that was prior to the deadline of California's sexual abuse and cover up accountability act. Now, she wanted to get this in. She stayed quiet for years, but she had to say something now, right?
Starting point is 00:16:08 She just had to do it. And she claims that Litts got assaulted her during the time that she worked for American Idol and so you think you could dance. Now, she didn't say anything because she was afraid to get fired and she wanted the job, which actually did.
Starting point is 00:16:26 did happen. She continued to have her job for many years and make a lot of money. Now, Nigel says that not only other claims false, they are deeply offensive to me and to everything I stand for. Paul's history of erratic behavior is well known. I can't pretend to understand exactly why she would file a lawsuit that she must know is untrue.
Starting point is 00:16:45 But I can promise I will fight this appalling smear with everything I have. Okay. So, we'll see. You know, he claims now he's going to fight back. And Paula said, hey, I signed a non-disclosure agreement as part of her employment on both shows. And that prevented me from publicly disclosing sensitive information. Not in today's world, Paula. Look around.
Starting point is 00:17:09 I mean, that hasn't stopped people for years now. But okay, if you, you know, that's what you say. No problem. So, and she was, and she also said that she feared to that he was going to retaliate against her. And that he would call her. He called her once and said, seven years in the statute of limitations had run out. He wanted to rub it in and taunt her with it.
Starting point is 00:17:32 That's what she said. I, you know, I'm just saying what Paula reported. Okay. Now, she said that the first sexual assault occurred while Abdul and Lishkao were on board on the road filming auditions for an earlier season of American Idol. Abdul says Liskow groped her in the elevator of their hotel after a day of filming and began shoving his tongue down her throat. She pushed him
Starting point is 00:18:00 away and ran to her hotel room when the elevator doors open. Okay. So she claimed in tears, I quickly called one of my representatives to inform them of the assault. But ultimately decided not to take action for fear that he would
Starting point is 00:18:16 have fired me from American Idol. Huh. Interesting. Which she was on for, I don't know, the first eight seasons. And then he was so horrible, that she decided to work for him again so you think you can dance. And that was around that time
Starting point is 00:18:32 that Lithgow forced himself on top of her during a dinner at his home and tried to kiss her. So let's stop for one moment. She already is claiming that she was assaulted once by this guy in the elevator.
Starting point is 00:18:47 He put his tongue down her throat and tried to wrap his arms around her and she had to push him away and run away. But a few years later, you know what, I'll have dinner with you at your home. No problem. So that's when he forced himself
Starting point is 00:19:02 on top of her during a dinner at his home and tried to kiss her. She said again, I pushed Lithgow and immediately left. Uh-huh. And she only worked for two seasons on that show. Oh, okay, only two seasons. All right, no problem.
Starting point is 00:19:18 We'll see. We'll see. You know, I'm just, some of it sounds a little fishy. Like, Paula doesn't need the money, right? She just doesn't need the money. So there's two other people now that have filed suits against Lithgow. And this is an assault on Jane Doe, which is Jane Doe KG, and another Jane Doe, K-N. And they say that they've suffered emotional distress, embarrassment, loss of self-esteem, and will to continue to incur expenses for medical and psychological treatment,
Starting point is 00:19:56 counseling and or therapy. Okay, stop it. What horrific thing did Nigel do to Jane Doe KG and Jane Doe KN?
Starting point is 00:20:16 Well, let's take a look, shall we? Once at his home, according to this, he made sexual advances to both of them. He attempted to kiss Jane Doe KG
Starting point is 00:20:31 pushing her body close to his I don't know how they're getting by in life I just don't know how they're surviving are you okay come on now I just stop
Starting point is 00:20:48 I know I know I know if it's true he's a douchebag or he's really nice just a douche he's just the guy looking for a little bit of this and you said no so have nothing else happened? I just, I can't.
Starting point is 00:21:03 I just, I can't. And then there's the crazy story out of Florida. I know, surprise. This is not a Florida man. This is the Florida woman story. She is Cynthia Ann Ray. She was arrested and charged with a count of aggravated stalking and one count of sending written threats.
Starting point is 00:21:22 Okay, you do not want to, well, I'm sorry, sending written threats to kill. So you do. don't. I know, she's in trouble. Cynthia's in trouble. Plus, she's crazy. We've all known Joni-tonies, and we've all known, you know, fatal attraction-ish women in real life. Haven't we?
Starting point is 00:21:41 No? That's just me? Oh, okay. So, anyway, she was all wound up at her ex-boyfriend, all right? And she said that she was going to kill him and his new girlfriend. Well, you know, unless they had sex with her and they had a thing. threesome. Wait, what? Yeah, that's what she said. That's what she said. Now, the boyfriend, the ex-boyfriend, he claimed that she's been harassing them and, you know, she slashed his tire, her driver's side tires on a new truck to his current girlfriend's vehicle. And after it, it was parked outside of his home. And then after he fixed the damage tires, she punctured the
Starting point is 00:22:24 tires a second time and then stayed outside the house while honking her horn. I mean, I don't know. It's not funny because it's crazy. And like I said, we've all had crazy neighbors and crazy, you know, Joni-Tonies in our life. He also claimed that she would show up at his house and multiple occasions, just show up. And he started receiving text telling him that she wanted to kill him and his current girlfriend, unless, you know, you had a threesome, unless we do a threesome.
Starting point is 00:22:57 And I want to do a threesome with you there. then I won't kill you. And he had other messages on his phone that he showed the police where Ray continued to say, that's the last night. I keep thinking that that's the guy. Cynthia and Ray.
Starting point is 00:23:16 Cynthia sent him that she was going to kill him and that she demanded that she wanted to see him. She didn't care. She was going to continue to harass him. So when they showed up to arrest him, to arrest Cynthia. She was inside a tent at her mother's property. So even her mother didn't want to live with her.
Starting point is 00:23:37 I'm just staying in a tent now. Oh, okay. So she's in jail now. And she goes before a judge, I don't know, in two or three weeks. But you could have that. You could have that going on. That's, I mean, holy cow, I don't know what you do other than, I guess you have to, well, you can't do that either.
Starting point is 00:24:03 So never mind. Just what a nightmare. What a nightmare. And I have been around Joni-Tonies and I have been around crazy neighbors that you can't do anything about because they don't really break the law but they yell and scream and they throw stuff and they drive by the house real slow. and I could just go, I mean, there was one lady that used to live across from my parents' house in Florida. And she was whacked out of her mind. But it didn't start that way. When she first moved in, she was nice.
Starting point is 00:24:41 And then I forget what happened. Something broke the court. Maybe she ran out of meds. I don't know. But it was off the deep end then. And I kept telling my folks, don't let her get to you, but she would get to me. And it's just, I don't know, you can't do what you're, what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking and you can't do that.
Starting point is 00:25:06 So it's good that at least this guy in Florida, you know, went through the authorities and got some help because what you're thinking, yeah, you can't do that. Although it does remind me of, you know, the old joke of, you know, I helped my neighbor bury a rolled up piece of carpet today. Her boyfriend would have helped her. but he's out of town. Think about it. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide, hustling for great deals on amazing gifts. So you don't have to.
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Starting point is 00:26:51 device or somebody else's subscription, uh, you're a freeloader. And to be honest, nobody likes you. Okay. Don't be that person. Don't be that person. Who died today? Who died today? Well, Tom Smothers. the Smothers brothers. Yeah, he had a brother. Remember? Dick? Yes, okay. So Tommy was the older brother and Dick was the younger brother. Dick actually is still alive. He was the one who announced that his brother Tom had passed away. Very sad. He had cancer. They were still going to tour. They were doing all kinds of stuff. And then he got cancer last year, or at least he announced that he had cancer last year.
Starting point is 00:27:34 and he passed away at his home with family and friends around him. Very sad. I was just watching a stupid bit from the Smothers Brothers. He used to, you know, I used to do comedy and music. And you can't find good, clean entertainment like that anymore. Right? I was watching an old Carson segment, and they were on with John. And so that's why I was watching the Smothers Brothers.
Starting point is 00:28:08 It was not part of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which I don't even, I actually don't know that I actually ever watch the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with my grandfather. But I do remember, you know, the Smothers Brothers. Anyway, Tommy Smothers. I guess they called him Tom. I'm calling him Tommy. He is, he's passed away at the age of 86.
Starting point is 00:28:32 Then we have Franco. Bourne. I think that's how you pronounce her name. Francois Borneé. F-R-A-N-C-O-I-S-E-B-R-N-E-E-T. Francois-B-R-N-E-T-W-R-N-E-T-W-E-V-E-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-V-E-W-E. Wait, who is Franco-Bern-Bernet? Well, do you remember the photo from Paris? The Kiss by the Hotel, by the Hotel DeVille.
Starting point is 00:29:03 It was taken back in 1950. It's a couple kissing. They were embracing on the street. It became this huge success in the 80s. It was taken in 1950 by a photographer Robert Doseno. And it was with her boyfriend, her and her boyfriend were the ones that were kissing. And when it became a big deal back in the 80s, a bunch of people stepped up and said, hey, that's us.
Starting point is 00:29:29 We owe us money. and Frank Claw was like, no, that's me. And that's my boyfriend. And oh, here by the way, is the original photo signed by the photographer. So why don't you all just shut up and stop lying, okay? And so she became famous. She was an actress for many years as well. And they were just out in the streets.
Starting point is 00:29:54 They were going to school. They were at an acting school, I think. And then they were taking pictures on the photographer said, hey, here's a couple of bucks. Why don't you guys, I love the way you guys look when you were kissing.
Starting point is 00:30:06 Go ahead and kiss and embrace. And I'm going to take some shots. And then, you know, here's a couple of bucks. And it was virtually just, you know, nowhere around. Then someone in a commercial agency that owned the photos was going through these old pictures
Starting point is 00:30:25 looking for, you know, looking for something. And they found it. It's one of the big, the classic photos for Paris ever. And she sold the original copy of the photo, I don't know, back in 2005 for like, I don't know, 150,000 euros or something like that. Which seems it's nothing. 2005, she put that on the market today. You're making more than 150,000 euros, I'll tell you that.
Starting point is 00:30:51 And so the whole thing, all the photographer, the boyfriend, her husband, and her all dead now. but the picture the photograph the kiss by the Hotel Deville lives on forever rest in peace
Starting point is 00:31:10 Francois okay I want to know how this happens I want to know how this happens all right so a 16 year old boy mistakenly boards a frontier airlines flight from Tampa
Starting point is 00:31:26 thinking he's going to Cleveland, but ended up in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Okay, so first of all, let's stop there for a moment. You get on the wrong plane. I don't know how you get on the wrong plane. I guess they don't look at your tickets. The flight attendants aren't doing their jobs. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:31:46 But you're on the wrong plane. They say, while you're sitting there, thank you for Flying Frontier. We're on our way to San Juan, Puerto Rico. as a 16 year old, don't you say, hey, I was supposed to be going to Cleveland? Guess we're not going to Cleveland, huh? I mean, that's what, don't you say something there at the gate? I guess not.
Starting point is 00:32:08 So then the flights were boarding, I guess, sequentially at the same gate, which seems a little strange, but okay. And he unintentionally boarded the San Juan bound floor, the flight. So he claims that he asked someone for help and no one checked his ticket and simply allowed him to board the wrong flight. Man, do I find that hard to believe. I don't know how you do it. I don't know how a buddy did it.
Starting point is 00:32:33 And I find it hard to believe that no one on these flights are helping this guy. So then, so he lands in San Juan, Puerto Rico and decides, hey, this is in Cleveland, I want to go back. So Frontier flies him back to Tampa
Starting point is 00:32:49 on the same aircraft and arranged for a flight to Cleveland the next day. And the airline obviously extended sincere apologies to the family for the error. Okay. Children, I think age 15
Starting point is 00:33:05 and older can fly alone, but I guess Frontier doesn't have a formal unaccompanied minor program with escorts, which is kind of strange because I thought they all did. Maybe they do only for younger children. But it says here in the story that they do not have that program.
Starting point is 00:33:21 I just find that strange. I don't know how it happens. Really weird. just me dealing with the airlines and airports and travel that seems like something that couldn't happen but
Starting point is 00:33:33 it did but it did and I from the very beginning the whole thing I don't know how you get on the plane and okay so
Starting point is 00:33:44 we're looking forward to getting you to San Juan Puerto Rico and you say nothing I had my headphones on John. Okay. Somebody asked me what I was listening to and I said chewing the fat and then I just thought we were going to Cleveland. Okay. All right. No problem. Have fun. But the airline took care of it and he's now in
Starting point is 00:34:07 Cleveland and probably wants to be back in Puerto Rico. Although that probably isn't true either. That's a tough times when you want to be in Cleveland instead of Puerto Rico. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrant Sets. Our special selection has something for every style and price point. Visit our Holtz Holiday Shop and store or online at Holtrenfrew.com. So congratulations are in order to Willis Gibson. Willis Gibson, a 13-year-old, who has become the first player to officially beat the
Starting point is 00:34:57 original Nintendo version of Tetris. Congratulations. Oh, actually, he goes by Blue. scuddy in the gaming world. And he made it to what gamers call a kill screen, a point where the Tetris code glitches crashing the game. That's a pretty big deal, because I didn't think you could do that. Honestly, I didn't think anybody could ever do that.
Starting point is 00:35:24 And even many people in the gaming industry didn't think you could do that because they even talk about how for years they were stuck in the 20s and the 30s levels because they did no techniques to get any further. Level 29 posed, I guess, this big roadblock. I never reached 29. The game controller couldn't respond. The blocks would fall too fast. You couldn't respond fast enough.
Starting point is 00:35:52 So then players found ways that they could reach level 30 using a technique called hyper-tapping. You could use that for many meanings, but what they're talking about is the game. So during the game, they hyper-tapped, and the player would rhythmically vibrate their fingers to move the game controller faster than the game's built-in speed. And that technique took players to levels 35 and beyond. And that, I'd only happen, I don't know, five or six years ago, something like that. I remember reading about that. I don't necessarily remember that it was called hyper-tapping.
Starting point is 00:36:29 But, okay, if you want to hyper-tap, so you can rhythmically vibrate your fingers. So the controller moves faster. I'm all about it. It's fine with me. So then they found out that the gamer started using a multi-finger technique. Just stop. Don't even, why are you looking at me like that? Don't.
Starting point is 00:36:51 I'm just telling you what they call it. So this multi-finger technique, this is not hyper-tapping. This micro or multi-finger technique originally used on arcade games. and they call it rolling, and it's a much speedier approach. And that helped one player reach level 95 a couple years ago. But he still stopped, right? They couldn't get to it.
Starting point is 00:37:19 So then we've got Willis, my man Willis, who is using hypertapping, finally hit the level and it reached the kill screen on level 157, 157. 157. So congratulations to, oh, I'm sorry. It's not. Man, I keep calling the kid his real name.
Starting point is 00:37:46 Willis Gibson, that's not his name. He goes by Blue Scuddy. Okay. So Blue Scuddy defeated Tetris on level 157 where it just glitched out and crashed. So congratulations. If you think it can't be done, you're wrong. But you're not going to get there simply. You're not going to get there by hypertapping.
Starting point is 00:38:09 It will help you get there if you hypertapping. But then you need to move to the multi-finger technique, which, who isn't a fan of the multi-finger technique? So I was shown this website the other day, and I can't stop looking at it now. And I can't go on around the country. It's called hoodmaps.com, h-o-o-d-m-a-ps.com. So if you want to have a little fun, you know, for, I don't know, a little bit of time, you can go to hoodmaps.com and type in your city. And then it has, they have, you know, they give you what's happening around your city. Like I typed in Dallas and it has overpriced condos from Compton to Portlandia, super sketch, danger zone, no-no zone, to be gentrified in 25 years.
Starting point is 00:38:56 I pay Dallas taxes way outside of Dallas. white liberals more white liberals it's really funny it's a bail bond boulevard and it'll take you around the cities and let you know where the hoods are
Starting point is 00:39:14 a little Mexico no one goes here really funny so you can go to hoodmaps dot com and then type in your city and you can find out you know where the super sketch and the danger zone no no zones are
Starting point is 00:39:29 And especially, I mean, if you're in any kind of trouble, you want to know where Bail Bond Boulevard is, don't you? Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. It's not just you. News is moving faster than ever. And I'm hoping that I can help you make sense of it all. My name is Jamie Plozzo and I host Canada's most popular daily news podcast. It's called Frontburner. We break down one story each day and talk to the reporter. the politicians and people at the heart of it. Our goal is to help you stay informed without feeling overwhelmed.
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