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Episode Date: September 4, 2025

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Is it the matcha, or am I this energized from scoring three Sephora holiday gift sets? Definitely the sets. Full size and minis bundled together? What a steal. And that packaging? So cute. It practically wraps itself. And I know I should be giving them away, but I'm keeping the Summer Fridays and Rare Beauty by Selena Gomez. I don't blame you. The best holiday beauty sets are only at Sephora. Gift sets from Summer Fridays, Rare Beauty, Way, and more are going fast.

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I love Danzo Washington I like his work I appreciate him very much as an actor and I'm a fan huge fan would love to meet him love to talk to him

I have not if you know if you know Mr. Washington tell him give me a call email me you know whatever I'm free for him anytime

But I just found out that, you know, he, we've been pronouncing his name wrong. Now, I believe that, uh, so, we're not changing it. Okay. It's Danzel Washington. All right. His real name is Danzel Hayes, Washington, Jr. But he says that we're supposed to pronounce his name Denzel. Denzel Hayes Washington Jr.

That's the way his mom said it to him. So his mom, Lenzis, Washington used to call him Denzel. Denzel. I'm not doing that, okay? You could say that on Jimmy Kimmel all you want, Denzel. But no, I'm not doing that. Hey, nobody got time for that? I know that you're busy promoting your new movie, the highest or lowest,

that I think is available on Prime tomorrow, which I'll have to catch it. No problem. there's some other new shows that are dropping this weekend on top of college football and NFL football. But I just want to be clear that according to this interview that he did on Jimmy Kimmel, we are supposed to pronounce it with a clipped E. So it's not Danzel, Washington.

It's Denzel, Washington. Denzel, Washington. I'm not doing that. It's Danzel. and that's the way it is. You can tell me that it's Denzel. You can say, no, that's not the way we pronounce it, but it is, okay?

You're 70 years old, you've been an actor for how many years now, I don't care what other jobs you've had, and your name is Denzel, Washington. Denzel, Washington, not Denzel. Are we clear? Okay, that's just the way it is. I'm sorry. And if he comes in, sits down, and talks to me,

I'm willing to talk to him about it face-to-face. but I'm not calling him Denzel. Sorry, just not going to happen. Welcome. Welcome to you too, Denzel. Welcome to chewing the fat.

Remember, you know, way back, I don't know, last year, when CEOs of companies would announce mass firings and then investors would just freak out, yeah, those days are gone. It's now cheaper to replace humans with AI.

Uh-huh. We've been talking about it for a long, long time. And now it's a point of pride with these companies and their CEOs and shareholders celebrate. So the latest example is a Salesforce CEO, Mark Benoff, telling the Logan Bartlett show,

and man, do I love the Logan Bartlett Show? It's the Logan Bartlett Show podcast about cutting 4,000 customer service jobs. And he said that AI is doing 50% of the work at Salesforce. So he slimmed down the company

as the slimmed down sales force beat revenue projections and they are, you know, doing pretty good. So let's see, there's no shortage of companies leveraging AI to remain profitable. Yeah, no kidding. Wells Fargo said, hey, we're trimming our workforce for 20 straight quarters.

So we need to, you know, buy some some of our stock. Bank of America, CEO Brian Moynihan, said, hey, we let go of 88,000 employees over the past 15 years. Wow.

Amazon, obviously their value has gone up, told staff that AI implementation could, and probably would lead to layoffs. Microsoft has cut 15,000 jobs in the past two months as the company pivots to AI and its stock is through the roof.

Oh, okay, great. Aconical Phillips said it would lay off up to 25% of its workforce by the end of the year as the oil company seeks, you know, cost reductions across the board. Uh-huh. So 34% of CEOs plan to enact layoffs in the next 12 months. This is the fifth straight quarter. That number has risen. Oh, okay.

So that's good to know, right? Because then when we get the news that talks about how the Bureau of Labor Statistics releases their job data, tracks hiring layoffs and quits. Employers surveyed reported 7.2 million job openings down from 7.4 million in June. But the key data points remain unchanged prior. Okay, so that's kind of weird. So the decline in help wanted signs points to a softening labor market. Well, yeah, they're all being run by AI and robots.

Hello, what do we think we're doing here? And they're whining that the Federal Reserve needs a rate cut. And the job market is frozen and it's difficult for anyone to get a job right now. Kind of is. There's a lot of ghost jobs available where companies say, yeah, we're hiring, but not really. and I'm pretty sure that many salaries have not risen at all. And those damn CEOs, though, running these companies, they're making more money.

And they're getting more stock benefits from the companies. So, yeah, plus many of those CEOs get fired for, you know, taking care of a little bit with Molly down the hall. I found it a little bit more from the, the Nestle guy I was kind of right it was an employee that called the company

tip line and they started an investigation I was reading more about the Nestle's little bit with the subordinate and so someone called a tip line the company tip line and they have a name for it

to speak up or speak out or something I've whatever their name of it is and if you adjust the letters it's called called NARC. But no, it's just the company tip line.

If you have good ideas to help the company out, you call that. But, so it called the tip line and then I guess they did kind of a mini-investigation and everybody denied it or whatever.

So then they called back again. They did another investigation. And this time they found out that, you know, the CEO and whatever his or her name was, was taking care of business on the side. And that called.

him his job. Anyway, I'm just saying I'm not sure if he's still getting a salary or if he just takes his stock bonuses and leaves, but it's over there at Nestle's. Anyway, I'm just saying that those damn CEOs are still making money. What about us working people? I will say, the time is coming quicker than anticipated where there's going to be a lot of people that aren't going to be able to find work. And I mean, I'm probably in that mode as well. and I don't know what to tell you. Should we have a basic minimum income? There's going to have to be a time

when we have a legitimate conversation about that and we should actually talk about it in real terms, how it is possible to do, what needs to happen to make it happen, and how much you would provide for every citizen, every of age working individual, from 18 to what's, the out age?

75? I don't know. I don't know. Again, this is the conversations we need to have. And we need to have, you know, if you do have a job, do you get the same amount as someone who doesn't have a job? Or do you, if you get a certain amount and then you get a job, is some of it taken away to make up for what you're making on your job?

Or does everyone just get the same amount no matter what? And then you do you. if you get a job or you go sell items that you have found and you make that cash in your pocket, then, you know, do you keep that or do you have to return that? It's going to be time for a serious conversation about that because there's going to be enough people out there without work that have to survive. What do you do with them? You just ship them out of town, send them outside the town's border and move on. with your life. Is that what you're doing?

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So you get a couple days. And we was looking at a chart yesterday. Remember we had the over $2 billion one, I think, I don't know, December, January back in. It was anyway, in the last, this will now be, it's still the third largest jackpot in the last five years. But by the time this drawing happens, the same. second one is like 1.74, 1.76 billion. So it'll be close, if not surpass the second largest by the time this drawing happened Saturday night.

And good luck. I saw where there was a winner from Texas in the $2 million winning class. So Michigan, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming, each had a two million. winner. And then there was a California has two Colorado, Florida, Georgia had two, Illinois, Maryland, Minnesota, Ohio, Pennsylvania

had, those are $1 million winners from this power ball drawing. So I still got a shot. I could have won $2 million. I could have won $2 million. It's possible. I did not look. I haven't checked my tickets and I don't want to know right now. I just want to believe that I

still have a shot at the $2 million. because I am I am leaving myself open to go ahead and accept the $770.3 million cash payout. No problem. I did get an email though from John who broke down payment on and sure, before I get to John's email just so you know, on Friday tomorrow, there's a mega million's drawing. That's for $336 million. please. I can barely look at it,

$136 million with $151.3 million cash payout. I don't even know why I mentioned it. So John sent me an email and he said that he's breaking it down for me. I'm guessing that John is some sort of fiduciary just the way his email broke down.

Maybe he's not. Maybe he just did this anyway. We'll see a Fisher reads this on chewing the fat. We'll see what an idiot he is. It's possible. I don't know. John sent it to chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I read it. I'm going to share it with you. I believe it has to be real.

It has to be real. So currently the prize is 1.3. Okay, so he's basing it on the drawing that just happened that they didn't have a winner. All right, so the payout is $660 million. If you take the annuity, you will get $43 million a year. Okay? That's not bad. All right.

You will then pay taxes on the payout or each year on the end. annuity amount. Both are large enough that you'll basically play the same tax rate for either. Fed max currently 37% plus any state income tax, which Texas does not have. But if you take the cash, you can invest it in an annuity, which are currently offering rates of about 7% or better. So after taxes, the cash payout will leave you with $416 million, which invested at 7% gives you $29 million a year. The annuity payout after taxes will leave you with $27 million a year. So taking the cash

and annuitizing it yourself will give you an extra $2 million a year. Wow. Okay. And he breaks it down. And so as a bonus and he sends me a joke of the day, which I'll share with you later at the end of the show. But he sent me

if you don't win the Powerball, here's another joke for joke of the day. Thank you, John. I appreciate it. And I will read it today. You'll be my joke of the day today. Okay, just thanks for your breakdown of the Powerball payout. Yeah, I want the money. I want to make them, I want to take the money. I want it to be mine.

I want to decide where, who gets the money. I want to decide how much the kids get now, how much the kids get at 35 or 40, how much my wife's grandkids get. I know I have a nice guy. I'm going to give my wife's grandkids some money. And how much I'm going to give to cursory fans. family members so that I don't have to hear it from them.

They're going to get some money and I'm going to go, this is it. What about your producers? This is it. This is what you get. I'm giving it to you. I love you. And I want you to be happy with what you got. But don't come back to me.

Don't come back to me in two years, three years crying that you're broke. You spend all the money. It's all gone. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. This is it. take your money go okay cursory friends co-workers that kind of thing here's a gift card i'll get you a gift card i promise i'll get you a gift card i'll give you a gift card and uh there you go get you

get out of here i'm not promising what uh i'm not promising what company the gift card is going to go to but i will i will get you a gift card if i remember but, you know, good luck. I'm hoping for that. I'm willing to do that right away, so I'm ready to take the money. I'm leaving myself open. Thank you, John.

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And really, you don't even have to go. You can stay home and enjoy it, or I guess you can go. But it's the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid. Yeah, yeah, the 40th anniversary of Farm Aid. So it's going to air on CNN. They're doing a live entertainment event on their weekend lineup. It's got to be better than whatever crappy hosts they were going to have on Saturday nights anyway because college football is on too, so good luck with that.

So at 7 p.m. to midnight on September 20th. CNN, it's going to be on CNN and CNN.com. So the lineup will include Willie Nelson. I've seen him before. Awesome. I love Willie, although he's getting a little long on the two. Neil Young. I don't think now, he doesn't do that anymore.

Willie doesn't smoke anymore. He does, I think he still does chewables with the William Nelson pot, whatever he calls his Willie Nelson pot. Willie Nelson, THC, sorry. But he doesn't smoke anymore because he's got lung issues from many years of smoking.

You know, never mind. I don't want to talk about smoking because I could fire up a cigarette. I saw a picture earlier today from someone who was smoking, and I thought, man, that looks. good. Some days, I tell you, some days they look good. Some days it looks terrible. Today is a day when someone smoking a cigarette looks good. I'm not going to, but sure looks good. So Neil Young is going

to be there. How good was that going to be? Neil Young. John Mellencamp, how good is that going to be? You want to talk about two people that hate America, but they're going to pretend like they care about the farmers? Okay. Dave Matthews and with Tim Reynolds and Margo Price, John Berman and Laura Coates will co-anchor the coverage from Huntington Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. Yay! And Bill Weir, Chief Climate Correspondent, will provide reporting from the festival.

So we'll be able to hear just how bad climate change has affected the farmers. So please, our 40th anniversary of Farm Aid. Look, it is a good thing that they do. I have not seen a breakdown of where all the Farm Aid money goes. According to this, they have raised, I don't know, $85 million since 1985. That seems a bit low. But I'm okay.

You know, good. If it's for the farmers, I'm all for it. No problem. It's just the nightmare that you're going to have to go through. through to listen to Neil Young and John Mellencamp. They're both just so nice and warm people. And they're going to be in home country, Minneapolis. It's damn near Canada where Neil Young. I'm surprised Neil is even going to come into the U.S. And then Mellencamp, they both hate America. They just hate America. And they're going to rant and rave about that. And CNN's just going to love it.

And Bill Weir, the climate correspondent, is going to talk about how terrible climate change is. and give money to farmers and farm aid. I mean, it's a good cause, but it's just agonizing people doing it. And, of course, it's in Minneapolis. Because that means, you know, who else is going to be there too? That means duffus Tim Walls will show up. And probably, what's her face? Alon Omar.

I mean, it's just agonizing. And no, don't be doing gunshots around that. He's a sitting governor and congressman. People were not sitting gunwigs. I'm not doing that. I just, holy cow, I just is going to be a nightmare. Will I tune in? Maybe when the football game goes on commercial.

I may have to, you know, switch over and see what's going on there at Farm Aid. That's about as good as you're going to get from me, okay? This is interesting. Newsmax is suing Fox News. alleging the network has illegally cornered the market on viewership among conservatives. Huh, that is interesting. And a lawsuit filed in Florida this week,

Newsmax attorneys argue Fox has long engaged an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market of for U.S. right-leaning pay TV news, resulting in suppression of competition in that market that harms consumers, competition, and of course, Newsmax. Fox leverages this market power to coerce distributors into not carrying or into marginalizing other right-leaning news channels, including Newsmax. In a statement to the hill, the Fox News spokesman pushed back on the suit saying Newsmax

cannot sue their way out of their own competitive failures in the marketplace to chase headlines simply because they can't attract viewers. I think they can't. And I've heard their ads that they're attracting viewers. Are they lying to me that they're not attracting viewers? I don't know. We'll see. We'll see what happens with this lawsuit.

It is interesting, though, that they might have to break down some of those cable TV deal numbers. And it may prove that Fox is, you know, you know, getting better deals. And that may change with these cable companies. But good luck with that. Good luck with actually making that happen. But power on.

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Marshals. We get the deals. You gift the good stuff. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Giorgio Armani. Giorgio Armani, dead at the age of 91. I mean, the guy is an icon, a legend.

A multi-billion dollar fashion empire. He owned restaurants and hotels. The guy was, I mean, he was, Georgio Omani, is Armani. Hello. I mean, he became, I mean, he was, he's been a fashion icon. He was supposed to show up for the latest fashion show, and he didn't. He was recovering from some illness.

Well, he didn't recover fully because now he's dead, but he was trying to recover from some illness. So remember when he was just a beginner, he and his partner sold, their story was that they sold a Volkswagen for like $10,000, and then they started their company selling clothes and making clothes. And, you know, there you go, there you go. I mean, he got bars and restaurants,

He owns the one basketball team there. And he's got restaurants from Milan to Tokyo and hotels in Dubai and Milan. I mean, it's Georgia Armani. So, but he got his big start. If you remember in, I mean, you've seen him in all kinds of movies. He's got, I mean, he gets credit in these movies because they're wearing Armani.

And, you know, you don't just wear Armani. You wear Armani. And so he got to. as big start when in 1980 with American Gigolo and Richard Gear Blondie called me

was a big hit from that movie I remember my grandfather telling me about that movie back in 1980 American Gigolo and what were the suits that Richard Gear was wearing as the American Gigolo? Armani and that just

launched the Hollywood craze over Armani and America really and the world So I mean he's got in over 200 films now and he's got his Rodeo drive you know walk of fame All of it and he's the he's the guy

And he's look he It's Armani You know you're wearing Armani That's the way it is Anyway rest and peace What a tremendous life And you know what a guy And I don't know he might have been a bad guy

I don't know I just know that he's Georgia Ormani So Georgio Rest in peace dead at the age of 91 Then we have

Rolling Ray Rolling Ray dead at the age of 28 one day before Rolling Ray's 29th birthday fans, friends, fellow creators across social media are mourning the loss of the bold, vibrant

personality who redefined what it meant to be seen heard online Rolling Ray dead at the age of 28. Don't look at me like you don't know who Rolling Ray is.

I'll tell you that right now. I will not have that. He wasn't just a meme. He wasn't just a reality TV character. He was a trailblazer. Especially for the black, disabled, and LGBTQ plus communities

who often go unseen in mainstream media. Do they? Do they go unseen? Okay. All right. If you say so. So he rose to fame through his appearances on reality TV,

and it was his unapologetic voice, fierce confidence, and viral catchphrases, like the iconic purr that captured the Internet's attention. Now you remember Roland Ray, right? Of course you do. A rest in peace to a Rolling Ray dead at the age of 70. I was going to say Rolling Ray was 78. He would have been happy to make it to 78.

He did not make it to 78. He made it to 28. Rest in peace to Roland Ray. Then we have Ray Mayhew. Ray Mayhew. You know him as the drummer from the 1980s band Sig Sig Sik Spucknik. You remember Sig Zyg Spucknik? Oh, yeah.

So it was great sadness that they announced his death. They didn't say the cause of death, but he was 60 years old. Seems pretty young. Maybe he had a hard life being on the road with Sig Sigg-Sig-Sputnik. You just don't know. But rest in peace to Ray Mayhew dead at the age of 60. Then, you know, yesterday, I've got to talk about it. I have to.

Yesterday I talked about the earthquake is in Afghanistan and how I didn't care. And, you know, I know I'm a bad person. Well, I started actually reading about it and what was going on. And, I mean, I started talking about how in Jalalabad, that it was like 3,000 people were injured and destroyed like 5,400 homes in this towns of Kumar province. And it was just terrible and talked about farmers who lost their family members. It's just, I do care.

I do care about what's going on. You know, I don't want these people, I don't want people to lose their family members or lose their homes in the destruction from these earthquakes. So I'm sorry that this happened to them. I still don't really care. I tried. I know I'm a terrible person.

I know that. I really did try. So I'm apologizing because I know that it's terrible. And it's sad and I don't want that to happen to anyone. I don't. I just can't bring myself to care. So I'm sorry. I am. I'm sorry, okay, I'm a bad person. I know I am. I know I am.

I just, I just, I know I'm dead inside. Don't look at me like that. I get it. I know I am. But I don't feel like I'm dead inside. I'm just dead inside, you know, for those over there, that place over there. Stop looking at me like that. Stop looking at me like that. Yeah, I can find Afghanistan. on a map. I know where it's at. It's right here. Let me hold my... This is Afghanistan right here. I gosh. Everybody knows where Afghanistan is. Wow. I mean, I'm not

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You remember Luigi Maggioni, the man who's been accused, you know, the one we saw on videotape actually shoot and kill the United Health Care CEO, the former United Healthcare CEO, Brian Thompson

on the street in New York City in December of 2020. Man, it seems like such a long time ago. December of 2024, it was like another lifetime ago. It's only nine months ago. It seems like forever. Anyway, he's pleaded not guilty.

to state and federal charges. He is currently being held without bail in the Brooklyn Detention Center. Yeah, he's in jail with Diddy. Oh, they're just hanging out. With Diddy. And my man, Harvey Weinstein. But anyway, I digress.

So apparently the online fast fashion retailer Sheen has now removed a listing for men's short-sleeved shirt after discovering that a third-party vendor, of course, it's never the, that's never the platform this third party vendor was using Luigi Mangione's

likeness to move the merchandise I mean he's a star now and he told people in that one interview stopped sending letters I don't know if he told them actually to stop it but he was talking about getting so many letters from people who are fans of his

and chicks that want to you know that dig him and yeah you want you always do you love a murderer really I'm sorry, an alleged murderer. You love an alleged murderer. But they were using his likeness to move merchandise. And so right now the product, those of you that are a little,

if you find yourself mad right now, how dare they? Don't worry about it. It's no longer active. It featured an image that appeared to show a man resembling Mangione, modeling a men's new spring, summer, short sleeve, blue, ditsy, floral white shirt. Holy cow. So it was a guess that the model was AI generated.

And so now the representative for Sheen said, I don't know how the image was created. But it was a third-party vendor. It wasn't us. And we got it removed immediately upon discovery. And we have stringent standards for all listings on our platform. And we are conducting a thorough investigation, strengthening our monitoring processes.

and we will take appropriate action against the vendor in line with our policies, okay? Okay. All right, that's great. No problem. No problem. When you see the picture, you know, it's very similar. It's very similar. So those damn third-party vendors, though, man, you can't.

Holy cow. They piss me off, those third-party vendors. Am I right? Yeah, you know I am. Boy, we are getting there. This study published in the nature machine intelligence. I love that nature machine intelligence, man. You cannot tear me away from that.

The study shows that the interface demonstrates a new level of performance in non-invasive brain computer interface or BCI systems. Okay. So they have developed a wearable, non-invasive brain computer interface system that utilizes artificial intelligence as a copilot. to help infer user intent and complete tasks by moving a robotic arm or a computer cursor. Wow. In honor of Rolling Ray, who passed away at the age of 28, who is, you know, unapologetic voice being a black, disabled, LGBTQ plus community in honor of Roland Ray.

This story is incredible. So this could lead to a range of technology that helps people with limited physical capabilities, such as those with paralysis or neurological conditions, and handle and move objects more easily and precisely. Incredible. The team developed custom algorithms to decode electrosanigraphy,

electroencephalography, EEG, a method of recording the brain's electrical activity, and extract signals that reflect movement and tensions. They paired the decoded signals with a camera-based artificial intelligence platform that interprets users' direction and intent in real time. The system allows individuals to complete tasks significantly faster than without AI assistance. Really? You had no kidding.

That's just unbelievable. That's incredible. No kidding. Now, I was thinking, you know, speaking of Rolling Ray, and you take to yourself, I look down on you for not knowing who Rolling Ray was, but really as a trailblazer TV character, black, disabled, LGBTQ plus community.

I mean, that is a small percentage of people on this planet. All right, so, and we were, one of the producers looked it up, okay, I did not do this. I don't have time. I'm busy reading, nature, machine intelligence, yeah, but you can't tear me away from that. So there's 30% of African-American black Americans

who identify as trans are disabled. So what's the percentage of African-American black people that identify as trans? less than 1%. So less than 1%, 30% of that identifies as trans. Identifies as handicapped.

So basically, I mean, Roland Ray was on his own. That was it. There was only, there may be one more somewhere that isn't as famous as Roland Ray. So, rest in peace to Roland Ray. All right, let's get out of here. I got the joke of the day from John,

who, if you remember, gave us the breakdown? of what we should do with our lotto money if we win it and how it breaks down as far as what you should take to cash payout or the 30-year annuity. Okay, so this comes from John. On his deathbed, an old Jew says to his wife, oh, we already started out bad, an old Jew right there. I mean, holy cow.

Oh, Sarah, when the shop burned down, you were right beside me. And the wife nodded, yes, I was, Moshe. He labored a bit and then said, when the Nazis drove us out of our beloved Deutschland, you were right beside me again. And the wife tears up I was, Moshi. And now you're at my deathbed, aren't you? I am, darling, my darling, Moshi.

And then the old Jew sighed and started to think you're bad luck. See, now you got it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcast. You know,