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Episode Date: February 8, 2024

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We'd love to talk. Business. Blaze Radio Network And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. I did not realize that people don't have any idea what to do on Zoom calls. I mean, we've been doing it now for several years, right, since the pandemic. But a U-Gov survey of 1,000 U.S. adults show that there are many things that people are upset about that, you know, people should. shouldn't be doing on Zoom.

Zoom etiquette. Behavior Americans find unacceptable in virtual meetings. TV on in the background is the most unacceptable at 77%. Vaping, 76%, smoking, 75%, drinking alcohol, 74%. Music on in the background, 70%. Those are all above 70s of things that are unacceptable. Then you get into doing unrelated work. Wearing sunglasses.

Eating a meal. You're eating a meal? Wearing your pajamas. Having your child on your lap. That's 54% find that unacceptable. I really don't mind that as long as the, I mean, it's your kid. You're at home. Other people in the room.

Yeah, well, having a child in the room, 50%. So, and I have 31%. find that is acceptable in informal meetings, but if it's a formal meeting, no, sorry about having your kid in the room. I will say that, you know, eating a meal, wearing your pajamas, having your child on your lap, that kind of thing. That bodes well to what I told you to do, or what I, you know, at least ask people to do during the pandemic, was to get yourself a cardboard cutout of your face and put it on a stand and have that as your picture when you turn on the Zoom camera. That way you're behind it and you can do and wear whatever you want.

We've seen people having sex with themselves or with other people. We've seen naked people walking by. You'd be able to eat. You can do whatever you want behind the cardboard cutout on Zoom. Probably should have sold your face on a cutout with a. stand for Zoom calls because then you don't have to worry about it at all and when you just turn you just mute your mic and you do whatever you're going to do and when they say something that you need to respond to you turn on your mic and you answer the question you respond and but the

cutout remains as your face on the Zoom call so then you don't have to worry about anything that people find unacceptable or acceptable because your face is always perfect on a Zoom call. Welcome. Welcome to Towing the Fad. So our man, Kevin Spacey, back in the news, he has made a settlement with MRC, the production company behind House of Cards

to settle claims that he sexually harassed young male staffers on the show. He was dropped from the final season. We all know that in 2017. He was facing a $31 million judgment in the case after an arbitrator found that the allegations were credible and that MRC deserved to recoup its cost for scrapping the final season and starting over without him. Well, Kevin has agreed to pay $1 million over multiple years in installments equal to 10% of his

after-tax income. Oh, okay. But part of the deal is that now the corporation can try to recoup the bill. balance of his costs from the insurance company. So MRC sued Fireman's Fund and Lloyds of London on the theory that Spacey's absence from the show was covered by their cast insurance policies. That's insurance they buy to protect themselves in case a key actor becomes too sick to perform.

And so MRC noted that shortly after CNN and other outlets reported on Spacey's alleged misconduct, he checked himself into the meadows, a facility in Arizona. that provides treatment for sex addiction. The company has argued that qualifies as a sickness that triggers the policies. The judge has twice thrown out the MRC's insurance lawsuit in April of 2023 and then back in November. In November, the judge wrote, I don't think the contracts were meant to cover this sort of claim. Okay.

So the court left with the conclusion that these policies just do not insure against this particular risk, and that neither party was really contemplating coverage of this sort of thing at the time the policies were signed. But it's insurance. Anyway, I digress. So he didn't dismiss the case entirely. And so there's now another chance to amend the lawsuit. Well, part of the deal with the settlement, Casey, yeah, Casey, you may know him as Kevin. Some people call him Mr. Spacey.

Some people call him Kevin Spacey. I, from time to time, as a friend, call him. Casey. Anyway, he is agreed to testify in the insurance case to be examined by doctors for each side and to provide his medical records within 10 days. So now they've amended the lawsuit against firemen's and the new complaint alleges that Spacey has been treated for anxiety and depression and that he was therefore unavailable for production. So we'll see what happens if the insurance Fund will be on the hook for tens of millions of dollars. And of course, by accident, purely accident, firemen's lawyers informed the court that they had

inadvertently failed to redact confidential information from their recent filings. Gosh, darn it. So could you just make all the documents be sealed so nobody can see them? That would be great. Thank you. So in the end, that's a pretty good deal. for Kevin. She was going to be 36 million,

and now it's a million over the course of a multiple year installments, multiple year payment plan. I love that. Those of you living in Los Angeles have got to feel better because the Los Angeles City Council has passed a motion banning digital discrimination. Now, listen, I am not for discrimination in any way for anything, but this I didn't know actually existed

and I don't want to be for it if it exists. Now you're saying to yourself, digital discrimination. What is that? Well, that's when internet service providers inequitably deploy high-speed internet connections or disproportionately withhold the best deals for their services from racially or socioeconomically

marginalized neighborhoods. Those bastards. Now, I honestly, I do not believe that this actually happens, but I digress. So the legislation authored by Council Member Marquise Harris Dawson, love Marquise,

expanded the types of discrimination the city would investigate to include digital discrimination. Members of the public will be able to submit complaints alleging digital discrimination, which the city's civil human rights and equity department, love that department, will be required to collect demographic information about the people making complaints and report on any trends. Now, also, not only will the human rights and equity department, I'm sorry, civil human rights and equity department investigate, but the beautiful human rights and equity department investigate, but the

Bureau of Street Lighting is also tasked with delivering a report on what work the city has done to close the digital divide. Now, there's a problem. I did not know that Los Angeles had the Bureau of Street Lighting. That's probably a Bureau in many cities across America that I didn't know existed, but good for you for more bureaucracy in our government, because that's what we need. We need civil human rights and equity departments, and we need bureaus of street lighting. Man, that is good stuff.

So it's important for everyone to have broadband access. You know that for full participation in modern society. And no one should be charged based on their neighborhood. I agree with that. I do agree with that because I have a feeling that when you push comes to shove, there are going to be neighborhoods that pay a lot more. And I'm guessing it isn't in socio-economically marginalized neighborhoods. That's just a thought from me.

I'm guessing that people who live in non-racially or non-socio-economically marginalized neighborhoods are paying a lot more. Because I feel like I'm paying a lot more. And I know that, I mean, my trailer park is not part the racially or socioeconomically marginalized neighborhood, but I got to tell you. So according to them in Los Angeles, studies demonstrate that providers systematically offer worse service, slower, delivered over older technology to low-income

communities at the same price that they offered fast, reliable service to higher-income communities. Okay. So I'm sure that the report was not intentionally misleading at all. So I'm against it. I'm against digital discrimination 100%. So if I'm paying more than the racially socioeconomically marginalized neighborhoods, I want my bill cut because that too. is digital discrimination.

Pretty sure they don't see it that way, but I sure as heck do. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time. Play Ojo? Great idea.

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I know what you're thinking. Wait, didn't she make all this money? I know she did. But it's come to my attention that she is. is now down to one private jet. I know. I didn't know things were going that bad for her. So sad.

I guess she has to just travel in the same dumpy jet now, I guess. Man, I know she was getting, you know, she was getting beaten up over using so much carbon emission. traveling in her private jets. And her team said, it's okay. She pays for offsets. So don't worry about it.

Oh, okay. No problem. So I know that she's also in the news her jet now. I don't know which one now because they have the college student, that Jack Sweeney, who tracks flights of celebrities using public information. she tried to get that blocked by using the FAA's privacy ICAO aircraft address program known as PIA. And now she's sent a cease and desist order to Jack Sweeney to have her jets stop being tracked. And I just said plural.

I know to have her jet singular to stop being tracked. I know, the horror of it all. So Jack just uses public information and posted on his accounts. And Taylor's a little mad about that. I know Elon was upset about that too. Look, they all can be upset. Zuckerberg and Kardashian and Drake and Elon and Russian oligarchs. They all can be upset.

It's public information you're flying on your plane, okay? We got it. I would guess, Taylor, you're saying that it's a safety issue. Okay. I'm going to guess. I'm going to guess. You're probably going to be okay. Just because people know where you're flying.

I know that he does a, he may, he does a deal on X where Elon's flight information isn't posted for 24 hours until after 24 hours of the flight on X. on X, but on his other accounts, they're posted real time. So we'll see what happens with the, you know, with the Taylor issue. I know, look, it's a Taylor Swift world and we all just live in it. She now is claiming that there's going to be a swift effect during the Super Bowl. I hope she makes it back from Japan. Oh, my gosh. I mean, what would the Super Bowl be like if she couldn't arrive from Japan?

We need to be tracking her jet. We need to know where she's at. and if she's arrived in Vegas for the Super Bowl to see Travis play. We need to know that information. So apparently now the Super Bowl commercials are more female-focused

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But they've been playing for eight years. And they've been putting money into these numbers. Now, it says here that they've been playing... Oh, I see. They've been playing the permanent set of numbers since 2019. But they've been playing the Powerball as a group for eight years. Got it. Okay.

So congratulations to them for winning $1 million. And each of them taking home $24,000 after taxes. I'm sure they're probably going to have any pay taxes on money. that extra 24,000. Thank you, United States government. So we have the mega millions drawing tomorrow night. For those of you listening live, today is the 8th of February, 2004. So Friday, the ninth, that drawing is going to be for $394 million.

That's the jackpot with the cash payout being $188.5 million. Obviously, the Kentucky Group just hit the million. their ticket. And then Saturday is the Powerball drawing, which is now 248 million jackpot with 122.5 million cash payout. I'm sure, like there were, there was one winner of the Powerball last drawing for a million dollars. And I'm not sure Mega had a few winners that were not,

they had three, $1 million winners on the mega last drawing 23 for 10,000. So, I mean, people are making money. I mean, I've made, what was it, I think I've made $18 or $19

in the last month or so. So, yeah, those Kentucky teachers got nothing on me. Oh, they're not teachers. They're just workers. Those Kentucky school workers got nothing on me except for, you know, 23, $3,180-some

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dreams would have thought anyone would take on my case against Lucasfilm slash Disney. Still, I did respond back, and I think I qualify, and thousands of people agreed, but I did not expect anything. Then, she got an email from a lawyer who said that they were hired by X to look into the my story and many others. Turns out after sending them as much information as I could gather these past few months, now the lawyers and X will leave wholeheartedly in my case and are moving forward. So she was in this post, she was expressing her gratitude.

And a thank you to Elon and X for giving me an opportunity to bring my case to light. So we'll see what happens. I mean, she got in trouble, right, with the smear campaign. she was terminated from the Mandalorian and because they said she's not currently employed by Lucasfilm there's no plans for her to be in the future her social media post denigrating people based on their culture and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable

her posts were not based on cultural and religious identities you know denigrating those people but they got rid of her from the Mandalorian. It looked like she was becoming a big part of the Mandalorian campaign. So that's the mere campaign on her. Worked for a little while, anyway. She then started working for making some films with Daily Wire. And she posts what she's posted and she kept track of it all.

And her questions were about masks and lockdowns and forest vacations. vaccines and so you know subjects that should have been allowed to be publicly discussed but instead of being harassed or censored anyway you know I know Hollywood says

they support female representation and equal rights but do they do they anyway good luck to Gina I hope that everything works out thanks to Elon and X

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I'm a trained little monkey, all right? cameos like my pimp actually and I'm the working girl or something like that and you can always email the show Chewing the fat at the blaze.com Okay, this is and I'm turning it into a segment

but it's not really a segment but it could be. It's called What's Missing Today? What's Missing Today? Well, if you were in Alabama Walker County, Alabama, and you're wondering, hey, what happened to WJLX 101.5 FM? I don't hear them anymore.

Well, they've had a little issue. And according to station general manager Brett Elmo, who posted, this is going to get out eventually, so I might as well make it public before it does. I've heard of thieves in this area stealing anything, but this one takes the cake. This morning, my bush hog crew went down to a tower site we have behind Marjack to do an early cleanup of the property before we did some more work down

there. When he arrived, he called, notified me that, hey, not only as your building been ventilized, but the 200-foot tower, yeah, that's gone. They stole every piece of equipment out of the building, cut the guy wires to the tower, and somehow manage to down a 200-foot tower, and take it from the property. Now, he claims in his post, Jasper Police, as investigating, and hopefully they will find out who did it. It's a federal crime to tamper with federally licensed facility. I guess if you're found guilty,

you could spend 10 years in prison and face fines, which, you know, you obviously should make that happen. Unless you're any illegal alien, then you'll be fine. Anyway, I digress. So, I just find it fascinating that someone stole a radio tower and all the equipment inside. the transmitter building. How does that happen without

someone knowing? There's no alarm system. You don't have any kind of motion detector. You don't have a ring camera on the door out there in Walker County, Alabama. On top of that, I find it hard to believe that someone, somewhat, was listening to WJLX 101.5 FM, the sound of Walker County. and then it just went away

because the tower came down and nobody said, hey, what happened to the radio station I was listening to? One minute it's on and the next minute nothing happened. There might not even have been

there just might have been nothing. So nobody, no one called in. No one. We had to wait for the bushhog guy to show up. Amazing. And no one from the Jasper Police Department

originally who was investigating the case right now, saw anything. They didn't drive by and say, hey, you know, the Sheriff's Department, whatever, the State Police, the Jasper Police Department, somebody was driving by. I mean, it doesn't just happen in five minutes.

You don't take a 200-foot tower down and everything out of the transmitter building in a couple of minutes. That takes some time and some doing. It's just incredible to me. So if you happen to see somebody walking around with radio transmitter equipment or a 200-foot tower. It could be from WJLX 101.5 FM,

the sound of Walker County. Also in What's Missing Today? What's Missing Today? We're missing a surgically removed testicles that a transgender woman attempted to get them back, and they were thrown out by the old ex-boyfriend. Now, she was still wanting them back. A district judge said they both sued each other.

She sued for $6,500 in Small Claims Court, and then he countersued her back for $6,500. But Brianna Kingsley, 40, and her 37-year-old ex-William Wojahoski, Brianna, the transgender woman, she filed the handwritten Small Claims Petition in August and claiming that Wojahoski retained. possession of her surgically extracted testicles preserved in a mason jar kept in the fridge next to the eggs demanded immediate return

of my human remains specimens and damages of $6,500. Now, that's, you know, then he filed a counterclaim saying that he'd been humiliated by the coverage of the case. Now, she, at one point, prior to

this lawsuit, after the couple had broken up, tried to get them back. And Wojahoski secured a personal protection order against the transgender ex-lover Kingsley, which she violated a month later.

Okay. So after she got out of jail, she was escorted by a sheriff's deputy to retrieve her belongings from Wojahoski's home, which means she visited the house. And then she came about a month later trying to kick down the door. Now, the sheriff's department, said that they do that after these cases, they accompany the person back to the home,

back to the dwelling, wherever it is, so that the people can get their belongings back. At that time, she failed to retrieve the testicles from the refrigerator. I mean, it was so important to her. She had the opportunity, and she didn't. So now, after that, Wojaholski, the boyfriend, threw it away. He'd had enough of the testicles in the mason jar in his refrigerator. He said they were rotting in my fridge and it was disgusting. I've got food in there.

I wanted to eat. She didn't keep them in a biohazard container like she was supposed to. Oh, okay. So then the judge said, well, how did you come up with the dollar amount, the $6,500 figure? Because, you know, how did you come up? up with that and she but as to testicles how do you put a number

on it it's not like it was an hourly wage the uh trans person kingsley who uh had her little comfort dog with her during the hearing said that the surgery at henry ford hospital cost $20,000 and she just wanted to recoup some of the money uh they come

to find out though uh because she was disabled the state footed the bill for the surgery. Oh, okay. So we, the taxpayers, paid for her surgery, or his surgery, Brianna Kingsley, to get the testicles cut off and then in turn say that he is a sheet. According to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, a Medicaid program covers medically necessary gender affirmation confirming medical surgical and pharmacologic. Pharmacologic. Jake there, I said it right, treatments and procedures for beneficiaries clinically diagnosed with gender dysphoria. That is great. Medicaid, of course, is, what is that again? Oh, that's right. Government health insurance. That's right. So she kept interrupting the judge. The judge was pissed. And that's it. Now, this is what you get. This couple, Kingsley and Wojahoski said they met on a Facebook community in April of 2020. Wow. You know.

right there at the beginning of the pandemic. And by the fall of 2021, they moved into the Pontiac house Wojahoski had bought. And then this lovely couple, one of them decided, hey, I don't want to be a guy anymore. I'm a girl. And got them cut off. And hence, the fun began.

So, if you happen to run into a mason jar at the trash dump with, testicles in them, they may belong to Brianna Kingsley. Maybe you reach out and say, hey, Brianna, got what you're looking for. 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. Probably going to put this in what's missing today, the CNN Morning Show. It's not missing.

I mean, they just took it away for a while. It's been canceled. Have a nice day. CNN's new chief, Mark Thompson, sent a note to staffers saying, I wanted to let the whole CNN family know about changes. We informed our U.S. cable morning programming team earlier today, which will go into effect later this month. So it's still on.

It's not missing. It's just, how about you know it's coming to an end. We have decided to reshape how we approach mornings on domestic cable. First, we're expanding the show. currently known as early start by an hour so that in the future it will run from 5 to 7 a.m. under the CNN This Morning brand. It will be anchored as of now by Casey Hunt in D.C.

and will be produced in Atlanta. Second, we're moving our CNN News Central franchise with John Berman, Kate Boldman, and Sarah Snyder up to 7 a.m., and we'll run up until 10 a.m. Oh, the production team will continue to be based in Atlanta. and the move opened up program from 10 to 11. Jim Acosta, great news there.

I mean, who doesn't love Jim? We'll anchor CNN's newsroom at 10 a.m. and 11 a.m. We'll feature the Bulletin with Pamela Brown. Love that. Are we keeping Wolf Blitzer? We are. Okay. And we're going to anchor the 11 a.

So we're not really reshaping anything. We're just getting rid of the morning team. And they're not going to do it out of New York anymore. It's going to be done in Atlanta. So the morning show, other Poppy Harlow, I think her name is, and Phil Mattingly, they are, we're reshaping their roles at CNN. Okay. All right.

And so you, those of you that are working in New York, we're going to, you can reapply, if you'd like. You can reapply. No problem for your jobs in Atlanta. But, you know, you're going to have to come to Atlanta. but it's only 50 people. And so you just reapply. And good luck. God bless.

You know, he went on to say in this statement, I'm very aware that today's announcement means a great deal of uncertainty for many valued colleagues. I guess he has to say this, but these are the statements that really just kind of tick me off. Change and uncertainty are inevitable

and industry undergoing a revolution. But we must never underestimate the human consequences that come in their wake. So to everyone who has been involved, involved in the New York-based early start and CNN this morning. Thank you for your hard work and your total commitment to the show since it's launched. Mark. But hey, don't forget, if you still want a job, you can go ahead and reapply.

I mean, there's a whole lot of reshaping going on. I know that Snap laid off 10% of its staff. It's about 540 people, Snap's largest since 2022, ad revenue. the social media giant has slowed since Apple changed its privacy policy, making it harder for advertisers to access user data. Meta also suffered from changes but has rebounded after the company laid off thousands of workers as part of CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Year of Efficiency. We're reshaping.

We're reshaping our approach. And I'm sure that's what all these companies are doing is that they're reshaping their approach. Inc. is, of course, the parent company of Snapchat. They revealed that they're in a red, another quarter in the red. So since it has started, it has lost $10.8 billion. Holy cow. Yeah, you can't survive on that. I mean, you just can't.

10.8 billion? Who's footing that bill? Not me. Not you. Now, I guess they, according to the story, they talk about. about, and I did not know this existed, and I apologize, but I did not know that there was a Snapchat Plus. Of course, if you have something extra, anything has to be Snapchat Plus.

Now, that's the platform's premium tier in which users pay $3.99 a month. I guess you get exclusive features. And, I don't know. I don't know what all happens at Snapchat Plus. It must not be a lot. the service claims that they have 7 million paying subscribers. Wow. So, I mean, that's a lot.

Okay. If you say so, if you say so, you're still losing $10 billion? Wow. I mean, okay. No problem. I thought they were going to have smart glasses and spectacles, their drones. I guess that's not happening.

Maybe that's where they're losing their money, as they tried to have too many projects. Too many irons in the fire for the old Snapchat Plus. I mean, the tech industry, I mean, they've lost like 33,000 tech workers. And this year alone with Amazon and Microsoft and eBay and DocuSign and others reporting job cuts. It's not pretty right now for anyone. Trust me, I understand the frustration. and with who we have as our president,

it's only going to get better, right? I mean, some is getting better. YouTube said that they've Zoom past 8 million subscribers. I'm sorry, YouTube TV has Zoom past 8 million subscribers. I was one, and I left them. So now, you know, I don't know. They say that I'm not unhappy with Hulu Plus right now, with Hulu Live and everything that Hulu offers.

so, you know, I'm not unhappy that I left YouTube TV, but the prices for everything are continued to go up. Anyway, YouTube TV said they have more than 8 million subscribers, making it the fourth largest pay TV service. CEO Neil Mohan proudly announced this in the annual letter. It's a giant leap from 5 million back in 2022, pushing YouTube TV into the spotlight. I wonder what that could have been.

Oh, I know it was probably the NFL. No kidding. He explained, YouTube is leaning heavily into AI, promising new AI-powered features for creators in 2024. The platform has reportedly generated $70 billion in revenue for creators in the last three years, positioning them as the next generation studios. At the center of Mohan's ambitious vision is the transformation of the living room into the ultimate entertainment hub, heralding a new era for home viewing.

When I started at YouTube, people thought about content. from major studios and content from creators as entirely different. But today, as a stark divide, is gone. I don't know that it is. But, you know, I get where he's coming from. But, you know, they want to distinguish between YouTube TV and YouTube, but they're keeping it together for sure as one thing

as he talks about how they're, you know, moving it together as the platform. So, because, anyway, YouTube TV, you know, they're not missing. They're not missing. and they're doing pretty good. So good for them. Good for them.

There were a couple things when I had YouTube TV that I thought they should fix. Probably still do if I would go back to them. So, Neil, if you call me, yeah, let me know. You can DM me on any of my social media platforms,

and I'm happy to talk to you about some changes you need to do. You're obviously not doing everything correct. All right, let's get out of here. I'm going to leave you with the joke of the day. I want to be clear, this is not my joke. All right, I did not write this joke, but I've been laughing at it, with it, about it,

for a number of days, so I have to share it with you. But just so you know, it's not my joke, okay? As I gazed into her eyes, my knees got weak, and I could feel the butterflies in my stomach. I knew right then and there, I'd roofied the wrong glass. Completely wrong, and I'm glad that it's not my joke.

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