Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Shocking Twist… | 12/15/22

Episode Date: December 15, 2022

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The Burger King Chaking sandwich. I thought that was supposed to be a permanent thing. I guess not. I think it's gone. Chili's original chicken crispers. Oh, no. Now, apparently, there's a little delineation between them. So the original chicken crispers feature a tempera-like batter on them,

and they're different from the crispy chicken crisper's, which have a craggy and crunchy crust. The crispers are still on the menu, so it was just the ones called the original. chicken crisper's gone at chilies. I know. I know. Dry your eyes. Apparently the Duncan veggie egg white is now no longer on the menu. Very disappointing. Coca-Cola discontinued honest tea. I don't know. The big one was chaco taco taco. Yeah, very disappointing that the chaco taco went away. McDonald's Egg White Delight, the Egg White Delight McMuffin?

Oh, man. That started away. That was a number of years old. So apparently that has been discontinued. Wow. I know what I'm going to do. Yeah, the McRib. We mentioned the McRib gone.

Snackwells cookies. What? The fat-free snack wells? Oh, no. They're gone? I don't know that I do that. I was hooked on those for a while. I was hooked on those for a while.

The fat-free snack wells? I guess the website said, hey, the brand is now retired. It also encourages local customers to buy up skinny girl diet food products instead. And while we never got a clarification on why the company made this decision, the devil's food cake cookies are gone. Have a nice day. Wow, snack well. I was hooked on those devil's food snack well cookies for quite a while.

For quite a while. Some way, very sad. Rest in peace. Subway lost them. This should be out of Who Died Today segment. Subway's oven-roasted chicken breast. Oh, no. It's gone. Garn the luck. The only one I lost it so far, the Wendy's Big Bacon cheddar burger, gone? Oh, no. That's very sad.

So the cheddar bun and the use of two different kinds of cheeses on the burger itself. I guess it was supposed to be for a limited time, and it is now that limited time is over. So the only one that I'm really kind of sad about is the snack well cookies. I haven't had to been a long time, but I was hooked on them for quite some time. And knowing that they're now discontinued and gone makes me sad. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Well, as long as we're talking about food, I see where one of the biggest growing industries, I'm told, is selling foods that are outdated and short-dated items. Apparently, there's a place in Chicago that is opening continental sales, and that's what they sell.

It was outdated and short-dated items. People are switching to cheaper brands. That's just not enough. We need to get even cheaper bills because food prices are so high. So outdated foods are those past their expiration dates. while short-dated foods have a short window, usually about 30 days or less, with no expiration. Pretty interesting. Now, you know, you can always take a look at the common phrases, best if used by slash before.

That date indicates when a product will be the best flavor or quality. It's not the purchase or safety date. The sell-by date tells the stores how long to display the product for sale for inventory management. it's not a safety date. Use by date is the last date recommended for the use of the product while at peak quality, not a safety date. Freeze by date indicates when a product should be frozen to maintain peak quality. It's not a purchase or safety date.

Interesting. Now, I remember working at the grocery store, you know, a lot of times, and this is, I told you, when I worked in the dairy department, cheese would go mold. And how you make extra money at the grocery store and the dairy department? And I don't see it anymore. So I guess it's long gone. But you would just cut the mold off and re-wrap it and mark it down and sell it. And people, the old folks, the old folks back then, the old folks back then would just

buy the marked down cheese because it's still good. The cheese is still good. You've cut away the mold. I don't know. That's how they make cheese. I don't know if you know that. So we would sell that. When I worked in the produce department, we had markdown racks.

And at one point when I took over a couple of produce departments 100 years ago, they had, you know, they'd have three, four, five, six marked down racks back at the back by the produce door. And people weren't buying the fresh produce. They were just buying the marked down produce. And so I pulled it all off. That's how I made money in my produce department and made people angry. I just stopped selling markdown produce. And I said, no, you need to buy it from the rack.

There's no more markdown produce. And then you get people used to buying from the regular produce rack, the fresh produce, and then you can start wheeling out mark down items again, you know, like a rack a day of markdown products so that you make extra money for your departments, but they're not taking away from the sales on the fresh produce. But it's really strange that that's becoming a big thing again, right? And it's funny that that's becoming a big thing again. I don't know, with the prices of everything going through the roof.

I mean, according to this, 40% of 108 billion pounds of food is wasted in the United States each year. Okay. I feel like that's an inflated number, but it's possible that that's correct. So, according to refed, a nonprofit dedicated to ending food loss and waste,

okay, that's their numbers. The organization said half the food thrown out by stores is because they're worried they can't sell past its used by, best buy, or sell by dates. Yeah, that's actually true. And it's cheaper for the store, just to take the loss and throw it out. But instead of tossing these items, they're increasingly being bought by retailers, such as Continental sales, to sell a discount. So what the store is doing now is what we used to do in specific departments. They're taking the product. They're getting, I don't know if the companies are giving the money back or not to the stores, but then, you know, they sell the stores and make extra money

for the stores. I mean, that's pretty incredible and it's not that bad of a deal, right? So these people are, you know, they're saying, oh, traditionally, that's low-income people. Yeah, look around. We're all low-income people now, okay? I know you like to shop at Kroger and Albertsons and Publixie and Walmart, but according to this poll, uh, Wallet Hub, poll, 68% of Americans said they have felt the biggest impact on inflation in their monthly grocery expenses. Yeah, go shopping. Just walk, just walk the grocery store aisles. And you'll see that if a product is on the shelf, it's a lot more expensive. Now, even the product that's missing still has a price tag that's more expensive than what it was. Even last week at some point,

it's just a metal, just amazing. But according to, remember we talked about the one kitchen that, sells everything right they don't sell expired foods but they they use everything and like they would use overwrite bananas to make banana bread and then they would sell the banana bread right so that nothing is wasted so if you're one of the people and sometimes sometimes the food isn't as good you know you're used to fresh and crunchy and if you've reached a certain you know past the use-by or sell-by date and it's been in your pantry for a long time. It's why you need to rotate things in your pantry.

And, oh, man, I am so good at that. Not. My wife is very good at that. You need to rotate that stuff because it loses its crunchiness, right? It's still good. It's still food. And, you know, you'd feel bad. You don't want to throw it out.

You want to eat it. But it's not like the fresh stuff. But it's still good. So I guess, according to this, 80% of Americans prematurely discard food. And they claim here that it's due to confusion over date labels. I don't know about that. I think confusion over that doesn't look like it's good anymore.

I know it's supposed to pass the test, right? The safe test, which, hello, their spoilage is evident. Throw it out. Get rid of it. When in doubt, throw it out. That's a motto you could use for a lot of things. But customers, according to this, need to understand that dates applied to food are for quality and not for safety. So something to think about when you're taking a look at your pantry this year.

Or you're one of the people that are thinking about charging your family for Christmas dinner. Good luck keeping your family. I know they were talking about some families charging their loved ones like 20 bucks for the Christmas dinner. No thanks. If you need some help, you know, let me know what to bring. You know, I'll bring some jello, I'll bring some pudding, I'll buy you the potatoes, I'll bring the buns, I'll bring the dessert, whatever. I'm in, I'm in for that kind of thing.

That's what family's supposed to do. But if you're not really a family, if you're saying, well, we'd love to have you over for Christmas, but it's going to be 20, 25 bucks ahead. Food prices are really high and we've got to have the power on. and, you know, it's Christmas, and we bought some presents, so we're going to need to have you just throw 20 bucks into the pot. No, thanks. I don't know why that seems wrong.

Maybe it's not. Maybe it's the same as if I were to go out and purchase the items myself and bring it to the party. I just, I feel like that's a slap in the face. Maybe it's just me. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately. Congratulations are in order to Mariah Carey as her All I Want for Christmas is tops on the charts.

I know. All I want for Christmas is you, Mariah Carey. Welcome to CTF Christmas. Here's Mariah Carey. All I want for Christmas is you. The number one spot on the billboard, hot 100 songs chart. this week for the fourth year in a row. I love that song, and it's amazing how, you know,

we're in the smack dab in the Christmas season, and four years in a row, it's back on the charts at number one. Pick it up a pair to number one. Mariah Gary, all I want for Christmas is you. It was originally released in 1994. You know, and look, Christmas radio stations, Christmas music are so big. you don't even need that right you just download your christmas songs or listen to whatever streaming service

you have and you can make your own playlist so amazing that it's uh back at number one the hot 100 song list right now the hot 100 december 17th 2022 all i want for christmas is you mariah carey rocking around the christmas tree brenda lee jingle bell rock bobby helms a holly jolly christmas burrill lives wow Creepin, Metro Booman, The Weekend, and 21 Savage, anti-hero, Taylor Swift, Anaholi, Sam Smith, and Kim Petrus, superhero, heroes and villains, Metro Booman, Future, and Chris Brown. Last Christmas, Wham! And Rich Flex, Drake, and 21 Savage. And those are your top 10 for this week on the Billboard Hot 100.

Speaking of a Superman, I see where Henry Cavill has now been fired as Superman by the new DC bosses. So we just got the video on his Instagram not long ago saying, hey, I'm back. I've agreed I'm going to be Superman. No problem. Love you. He did it in his English accent. Well, he just posted a letter on his Instagram last night. For those of you listening live, it is Thursday, 12, 15, 2022.

on Wednesday, he posted on his Instagram, after being told by the studio to announce my return back in October prior to their hire, this news isn't the easiest, but that's life. The changing of the guard is something that happens. I respect that. James

and Peter have a universe to build. I wish them and all involved with the new universe, the best of luck, and the happiest of fortunes. I just had a meeting with James Gunn and Peter Safran, and it said, news everyone. I will after all

not be returning as Superman. Oh no. Oh no. So we gave Henry the boot? I don't know. I guess they have some other plan for Superman now, another timeline. And so

it's done with Henry. Have a nice day. According to them, we had a great meeting with Henry and we're big fans. And we talked about a number of exciting possibilities to work together in the future. Did you? Are you?

Is it? No, I don't think so. I guess Henry, we love you. I mean, I thought the Rock was fighting to get him to be Superman all over again. That was part of the deal, right? The Black Adam deal. We'll get Henry back as Superman.

Really weird. Really weird. So anyway, Henry Cavill, out as Superman. But there is a new show on TLC. I saw them post, promote it on their Twitter account TLC network

at TLC. Welcome to hashtag Milf Manor M-L-L-F-M-A-N-O-R. Eight hot moms leave home for the chance to find love with men half their age. But they're greeted with a shocking

twist. Premiering January 15th at 10 p.m. Eastern 9 p.m. Central on TLC. Now, first of all, let's, well, let's hear the,

let's hear the teaser first. Oh, yeah. My wife has given me some curveball. I think it's my time to find love. There's she goes. I was married for 14 years. I want to get a chance to do me a little. Nice tats.

The young men have much more energy. They think out of the box. Showing the hot young guys. Especially in the bedroom. Oh, yeah. this amazing, beautiful mansion here in Mexico. This is a perfect place to find love. Oh, yeah.

No, for business. You're about to embark on a dating experience like none other. Oh. I have an extremely high libido. Is that too much saying I have an extremely high libido? Should I just have said high libido? Uh, maybe she's almost cuts the clump face, man. Eight hot moms.

I'm just looking to have all. Eight younger men. It just got real. No matter. It just got real. Now, what could the shocking twist be? Could it be that the eight hot men are their sons? I don't know.

I could be wrong. Oh, Milf Manor. Now, if that were men, come on. Isn't that the date? What's the stupid show? I mean, there's a bunch of them, but, you know, The Bachelor and Love is Blind. There's a few that I see around.

But it just feels like if there were, you know, eight, seasoned men at Bidness Island. Uh, you know, with eight, I just, all right, I'll stop, business island. What am I, Jeffrey Epstein? No, look forward to Milf Manor on TLC, premiering January 15th. I just can't bring myself to, I finish Harry and Megan on Netflix. You know, I started it, and then I stopped it. I know they claim a record 81 million viewing hours, and it's,

debut week. Good for them. I mean, whatever, good for them. I just can't bring myself. I've started it and then I stop it because I get, you know, I'm like, oh, no, I don't know that I can sit through all of this. I mean, I dealt with it while it was going

on and now this is, you know, that's what makes it this so cool is it's their perspective, but their perspective is kind of BS. And so I know that, you know, they claim the people were happy to lie and protect William and his dad. Now they're talking about, you know, and the, the,

there was a report that they would comment. They were going to change their way they dealt with it there as the royals. But now people keep asking about the Harry and Megan and the Harry and Megan and they claim we're not commenting. They were not going to comment about that BS. So I'll get to it and we'll you know we'll dive back into it a little bit but it just kind of i don't know i don't know what the deal is i love the royal i love the whole thing the whole thing but i just every time i start to play it i'm like oh man i just can't so i'll try to get to it as soon as i can't okay back off me okay as i'm sure you're aware every year the librarian of congress names 25 motion pictures that are at least 10 years old and register as culturally, historically,

and aesthetically significant. And this year is no doing, no different. Films have become central to American's culture by helping tell our national story for more than 125 years. And they're proud to add 25 more films by a group of vibrant and diverse filmmakers to the national Film Registry as we preserve our cinematic heritage. That was Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress. We're grateful to the entire film community for collaborating with the Library of Congress to ensure these films are preserved for the future. What movies did we choose for the 2022 National Film Registry?

Marty Grau, Carnival, 1898. Man, you want to talk about a block? Cab Callaway, Home Movies, 1948 through 1951. Cyrano de Bergeac, 1950. Chorade, 1963. Scorpio Rising from 1963. Behind Every Good Man, 1967. Titty-cut Follies, 1967.

Mingus, 1968. Manzanar, 1791. Betty T. L.'s, Her Story. I think that's just spaced wrong. They actually, it's just Betty tells her story. 1972, they have a space between the T and the E-L-L-S-N-Tels. I'm sure that's just a typo. Superfly, 1972, classic Attica, 1974, classic Carrie, 1976.

Now we're getting into some classics. I mean, I know that Mardi Gras Carnival, 1898, is a classic, but it is, You know, we'll see. Anyway, Union Maids, 1976, Word is out, stories of our lives, 1977, Bush Mama, 1979, The Ballad of Giorgio Cortez, 1982, I-Deme Hoplitt, 1984,

who hasn't seen that one, hairspray, 1988, The Little Mermaid, 1989, Tongues on Tide, 1989, when Harry met Sally, 1989, House Party, 1990, Iron Man, 2008, and Pariah 2011.

Those are your selections for the 2022 National Film Registry at the Library of Congress. Congratulations. Congratulations. In particular, I mean, when you think of huge movies like Iron Man, you also think of Mardi Gras Carnival 1898. Duh.

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and contact Desjardin today. We'd love to talk, business. All right, well, who died today? Who died today? Ronnie Turner, son of Tina Turner, has passed away from colon cancer at the age of 62. Now, he had survived a previous cancer diagnosis

and was found struggling to breathe outside his Los Angeles home on Thursday, and they tried to give him CPR, and they ultimately failed, and he was pronounced dead at the scene. They've, you know, Tina's had some problems. Her other son killed himself, and then I know one of her son said that Tina had all but abandoned her kids after the move overseas, because she married Bach,

and she's got like some $68 million estate overlooking Lake Zurich, she's okay. She's okay. She's married to the German music producer Erwin Bach. So, I mean, Tina's doing okay. And she's doing okay on her own, let alone what hubby is pulling it down. But my favorite quote from Eich Jr., her adopted son,

said that, well, we're a strange. but she's all but abandon her kids when she moved overseas, although he later said, but were looked after financially. So she really didn't abandon. She just said, I don't want to talk to you and hear you. I'm just going to give you money and go away. So, Tina, if you're looking for a kid that you need to take care of, I'm here for you.

You can email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can direct message me on Instagram or Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. You know what? If you order a cameo from me at Jeffrey JFR, usually charge for you, Tina Turner, I won't charge. Okay, I promise to give you a free cameo

if Tina Turner needs looking for a new kid because I'm willing to be looked after financially. Okay. Anyway, Ronnie Turner dead at the age of 62. Stephen Twitch, Boss, the DJ from Ellen, the dancer. You remember from Ellen DeGeneres, dead at the age of 40. He has died by suicide. Very sad.

We've all been touched by suicide in one way or another, and it is not fun. You can quote me on that. You know, they show videos of Twitch dancing with his wife, that was like one of his last videos. It was their anniversary a few days before. I mean, depression knows no bounds. But very sad.

Stephen Twitch boss dead at the age of 40. If you are suffering from depression or feel like you need to talk to someone about suicide or you're contemplating it, you can call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. at 988. You can text Go to 741-741 to reach a trained

crisis counselor through crisis text line which is a global not-for-profit organization 24-7 free and confidential. So if you need help, get it. Okay, please.

Nobody wants to... The world is not going to be a better place with you not in it. and I know a lot of people feel that way, but it's not. It just is not going to be at a better place with you not in it

and you taking your own life. It's just very, very sad. Okay, so Stephen, I know that was Stephen Twitch. I already told you. He's dead at 40 years old. Also, Thomas Lodin Jr. has passed away,

and not only passed away, we put him to death by lethal injection. at the Mississippi State Penitentiary. He is dead at 58 years of age. He died at 6.12 p.m., according to the corrections commissioner, Burl Kane. The execution had no problems and went as expected. I'd like to express to the Gray family and anyone else I heard how deeply remorseful I am for everything I did. I know these mere words mean nothing and cannot erase the damage I did.

For the last 20 years, I've tried to do a good deed every single day to make up for the life I took from this world. If nothing else, I hope you get peace and closure. At the end, he said the words, I love you in Japanese, according to Deputy Commissioner Jaworski Mallet. Okay, so in June of 2000, loathen a Marine Corps recruiter kidnapped a 16-year-old waitress Lisa Gray and sexually assaulted her for hours in his car before killing her. Very, very sad. and we put him to death yesterday. As a matter of fact, for those listening live on the 14th of December, 2022, he was put to death.

Thomas Lodd Jr. dead at 58 years of age. His last meal, which I love hearing about their last meal for these executions, was fried pork chops, fried okra, a baked potato and biscuits, Okay. Dessert was peach cobbler with French vanilla ice cream and a Lipton sweet tea for a drink. And I don't know why that fascinates me so much. It just does. Because I don't know, I mean, if you spent, you know, 20 or 30 years on death row, would your last meal be fried pork chops, fried okra, baked sweet potato and biscuits? It's maybe. I mean, I don't know.

Peach Cobbler with French vanilla ice cream and Lipton Sweet Tea. Maybe, I guess. You know, I don't know. I feel like the answer for me would be no. But I know that, you know, they were trying to stop this execution, and they're trying to stop all executions. And the Mississippi was like, no, he's going down. So Thomas.

Loden Jr. dead at 58 years of age. We also have an update on the journalist Grant Wall who was in our Who Died to segment. I don't know. He's been in our who died today segment. And apparently, I want to say, for those of you that were trying to say that it had anything to do with the COVID vaccination like his brother did, or that it was possible foul play

because he stood up for gay rights, how about you shut your face? Okay? Because Wall's brother said that initially and publicly. And now he says, hey, hey, hey, nope, sorry. That's not the case.

Wait, what? You don't believe that? Yeah, no. An autopsy showed that an aneurysm in his heart was responsible for his death. So, shut your mouth. It had nothing to do with the COVID vaccines. Okay?

It had nothing to do with his standing up for gay rights in Qatar. Okay? All right. So shut your mouth. Now, he's still dead at the age of 48 years, and it's very sad. Rest in peace, Grand Wall. But it had nothing to do with the COVID vaccine or no sneaky little behind the scenes death

because of his standing out for gay rights. So back off. Oh, and the World Cup is going to happen. I told you. It was probably, you know, I would make a bet that it was going to be France versus Argentina. And that's exactly what it is. So this Sunday, the World Cup final will be played against France and Argentina. That's just huge.

When you see the news of the one Gary Linker, L-I-N-E-K-E-R-E-E-R-E-E-R. are commenting about how America is an extraordinarily racist country, they're talking to him. He's over in guitar. And he has talked about how the World Cup and specifically guitar is, you know, the corruption and all of that's going on. But he's being interviewed here on a show called The News Agents, which is tremendous. And I believe the lady that he is, that's interviewing him, is this Emily Matlis, M-A-I-T-L-I-S.

She's one of the news agents, and it's part of the global platform. They were over at the BBC for a long time. Anyway, they're talking to Gary about the World Cup. And in this interview, this Minute 40 interview, he mentions, we're off to America in four years. and of course we can't just be off the hook okay it can't be man we're glad to not have it in guitar well we're going to be in the Americas nope

we can't do that last time you were on you hadn't gone out there we were talking about your sense of Qatar hosting it and all the things all the questions that were really uncomfortable surrounding the Qatari beard

and the way the stadiums were built and they're at you to LGBT rights you've been out of there a month. I'm wondering if you've sort of changed or how you think it's gone? Well, it's just not about me. It's just, we pointed tracks out at the

beginning of time. Oh, okay. So, you know, lots of people that were killed doing the stadiums. Yes, they were. Yes, the stadiums are extraordinary. Most beautiful ones, probably I've had a seat. But. A great price.

So, you know, homophobia is an issue here. A dad. A little bit. of an issue here. Yeah. For me, it was always really more about the corruption side of it

because, as I said previously, pretty much every country, including our own, has got issues. We're off to America in four years' time with Canada and Mexico, but obviously America's extraordinary racist country. Obviously. So there's always issues, but it was more

the fact that we've just pointed out a few facts, and particularly the aspects of it being so corrupt that he said it was going to be in the summer, and then it was in the winter but yeah it's funny how that worked out so i don't think anything particularly changed no nothing has changed nothing has changed don't even worry about it nothing has changed listen everything is fine now i'm still a little angry that you know they killed a bunch of people and used slave labor if essentially slave labor to build these beautiful stadiums i'm still a little mad about that and the corruption behind having it

in katar uh you know that was that's still that's still an issue but uh hey we're off to the americas We're off to the Americas here and, well, it should be every four years, but it's actually three and a half years or less because we had to move the timeline of having the World Cup in Qatar because it was, they don't want to have it in the summer because it would be too damn hot. So they moved it to the winter, which then now keeps the World Cup coming to the Americas in the next three and a half years. Anyway, whatever. I digress. So they're off to see, off to America in four years' time. And America is obviously an extraordinarily racist country. Is it? Is it, though?

Is it? I know our president is out and about apologizing more for our racist history. And I cannot tell you how angry that makes me. Because we are not even close to being the racist country that we're portrayed as. and just we've been over it before. We've been over before, but I honestly, in my heart, believed that when Barack Obama was elected president of the United States of America, that was our chance to lead the world and show that we can come together as a nation. And instead, he decided that it was better to just divide the country. and it worked and it's continuing to work and it's very very sad but as the sports analysis

ex-footballer from the united kingdom uh gary linker said uh you know america is the extraordinarily racist country is it gary is it Mining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. So there's a couple of changes to some internet groups. So YouTube is rolling out automated content moderation bots to issue warnings, 24-hour bans for negative behavior by users in video comments.

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Okay. So according to them, I mean, most people are struggling multiple streaming subscriptions. 60% they said how they have at least four in a recent JD Power Survey. Streaming services for, oh yeah, we got way more than four. Still, it's hard out there for streamers. As last year, they spent exorbitant amounts of money on content to lure subscribers in. But with growth slowing this year, yeah, it's coming time that, you know, people are going to cut back because times are tough. So you're going to have to decide which streaming services are worth the money and which ones you use, right?

What they're worth. And I would like to be able to pick and choose. Like if there's a show, I would like to watch. a particular platform. Instead of having to, uh, you know, subscribe to the platform, I'd like to just be able to, you know,

download the show. But, uh, that's probably not going to happen anytime soon. And I see Elon got butt hurt again. Uh, he, um, the guy that, um, Elon Jet at Elon Jet had 500,000 followers. Uh, was created by college student Jack Sweeney. uh,

Musk said, uh, not long ago, that he would not ban the account. And as, as evidence of his commitment to free speech. Uh, but that went away.

Uh, because, uh, he got butt hurt. And he said, uh, he is, let's see,

what was his actual tweet on ElonJet? Any account? Doxing real-time location info of anyone will be suspended, as it's a physical safety violation. This includes posting links to sites with real-time location info. Posting locations someone traveled to on a slightly delayed basis isn't a safety problem, so it's okay. So, okay. he just

stopped it he just banned it because he's being he claimed he's being stalked his son is being stocked and it's a security risk well welcome to the world Elon I mean I know

look it's your deal it's your Twitter that's fine you get butt hurt and want to cancel somebody you go ahead it's your deal but it seems to me that it's kind of hypocritical

from you to I have it's a free speech we've got to let that stand. Oh, well, now he's attacking me, so I got mad and I'm going to cancel him. Okay, sure. I mean, you could do that. It's just not a good look.

Plus, what if I tweet a picture of someone on the street somewhere? Is that, if I see a celebrity on the street, we can't take a picture of that celebrity anymore and tweet it? I feel like I should be able to do that. I feel like that's a real thing. So what's happening? Elon, expect that to be commented on for a few days, and we'll see if Elon backtracks or not.

I bet he doesn't, though, because when Elon gets butt hurt, he stays butt hurt and it's tough to break him. You can quote me on that. When Elon gets butt hurt, he usually stays butt hurt, and it's tough to break him. I love getting your emails at chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can continue to send them to me like this one. This was sent an email from John.

It was a nice story, uplifting. This is the kind of email I like to receive. I thought you'd like to hear about the 110-year-old man who'd been smoking for a hundred years. Big tobacco found out about them. They heard about them and sent their top representative. to bring him to New York and get him on the morning news shows.

He found the old man one afternoon sitting on his front porch smoking a camel. He introduced himself and asked him if he'd seen television. He answered to the affirmative and the affirmative. So he asked him how he felt about New York City. He answered he would like to see the Big Apple someday. He then asked if he had ever been on a jetliner and he answered, No, but I'd like to take a trip someday. The rep said, I'll tell you what.

We go to the airport and fly you to New York and put you up in a four-star hotel. I'll pick you up at 7 a.m. tomorrow and take you to the morning TV stations and let you tell your story to America. And he immediately said no. And the rep disappointed and didn't know why, and he asked, but why? And the old man said, wouldn't be right. I don't stop coughing till noon. Obviously, that's a reference to my wishing I was still smoking. So, thank you.

Thank you. I appreciate it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.