Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Tone It Down… | 2/20/24

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

What is that smell?... Chatbot gone wrong… [e-mail] Funeral in NYC St Patricks Cathedral / Mass of Reparation…   TRANSISTION: oc: tone it down… 9:40 ish   Best Zoo’s vote�� Tonka the elephant being moved… Email from Bob / new app… Email from Mike / rule follower… Lottery lawsuit and winners… A look at Lotto…   TRANSISTION: oc: my money 25:53 ish…   www.blazetv.com/jeffy Promo code: Jeffy… Who Died Today: Kagney Linn Karter 36 / Angela Chao 50 / Prahalad Gurjar 34… 988 Suicide and Crisis Hotline… Human Leg found… Navalny’s wife vows to continue…   TRANSISTION: oc never know 34:46 ish   Mutant Wolves in the CEZ… The WHO and Disease X… Joke of the Day… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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they've ever come across in their lives. Now, the Al-Qaeda ship has been anchored in Cape Cod for a couple of days. City officials in charge of water and sanitation said the ship was due to leave Monday night. So hopefully it's gone now. I don't know if the stench is gone. I don't know. It's heading to Iraq from Brazil, stopped off in Cape Town to get feed for the cattle. Okay.

Now, I guess the agents boarded the ship to, you know, of course, assess the condition of the ship and said it a statement, this smell is indicative of the awful conditions the animals endure, having already spent two and a half weeks on board with a buildup of feces and ammonia. Many people say it ruined their day. Many people that are working around the harbor closer to where the ship is docked say the smell was, overwhelming and I tend to know how they feel. I grew up in dairy country in Michigan

right here in the you know the Scola County Michigan and during the summertime holy cow that was good fresh country air smell from the dairy cows in the middle of the summer the cow patties

do create quite a stench so they were all stuck on this ship had to be just terrible. And I'm sure that all the PETA people and the NSPCA people do not want to have

live cattle exported by sea. But, you know, how's you going to move them? That's a long walk across the ocean from Brazil to Iraq. Just saying, welcome! Welcome to chewing the fat. Have you ever used those chatbots on websites?

You know, when you log on to the site and then the chatbot comes up, how may I help you? And you think that, oh, that's just a human sitting there on the other end of that website? Yeah, no, it's not. It's not. It's AI. And so, you know, they don't always get things right. Wait, what? I know.

It's a shock. So this story out of Canada in 2022, a couple years ago now, a guy by the name of Jacob, Moffat asked a chatbot for help, booking a last-minute flight to attend his grandmother's funeral. The chatbot told him to book the flight and request a refund within 90 days. However, Air Canada then denied his $450 refund, saying, yeah, bereavement abatement, you can't apply those retroactively. Well, he was like, but the chatbot told me that's what I had to do. Well, Air Canada initially said, well, I'll tell you what, we'll give you a $200 coupon, and we're going to, we'll update the chatbot. No?

So he took it to court. I guess, you know, Canada's civil tribunal. And the airline's arguments were, hey, the chatbot is a separate legal entity responsible for its own actions. We have nothing to do with it. Really? Because it's on your website. Yeah. And look, you know what?

You shouldn't have trusted the chatbot. You should have double-checked the info. So it was on me to know that your chatbot was wrong. Oh, okay. So one of the judges, the tribunal member, called the arguments remarkable, which I guess is Canadian for ridiculous. So they, you know, ruled in his favor. Now, after the ruling, the airline has now removed the chatbot services from its website. So does that mean that a robot lost his job to a human?

Probably not. probably just that company's chatbot has been fired and now they'll just be a new chatbot company for you to deal with when you have to deal with Air Canada or any other airlines. Just remember to double check the robot isn't always correct. And I know if you like me thought that was just a real person hanging out at the website offices waiting for me to log on to the website. And then they were going, hey, how can I help you? I know, it's not a human.

It's a robot. Weird. I told you yesterday, I went through the drive-thru this past weekend where I asked for a couple of items. And the voice on the other end of the drive-thru said, how many is a couple? And so I don't know if that was a human or a robot. If it was a robot, I'm teaching them. Hopefully now if someone goes through the line and says, hey, let me have a couple of those. The robot will go, that means two.

I don't know if that will work for the stupid human that doesn't know what a couple is. But for the chatbot, probably will work. Okay, full disclosure, I have run for Pope before, multiple times, actually. But I have run for Pope in the past. So when I do Catholic stories, I just want you to know that I believe that I could be Pope and I was not voted in. The white smoke blew and it wasn't for me. So there was a funeral of a renowned transgender activist in a, New York, held at the St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan last week.

The funeral was for Cecilia Gentile. The Mass has created a big scandal. Now, I would believe that today's Pope may tell the New York Roman Catholic Archdiocese to back off a little, but in a written statement, the Reverend Enrique Salvo, pastor of St. Patrick's, thanked those who share our outrage over the scandalous behavior at the funeral on Thursday. The cathedral only knew that family and friends were requesting a funeral mass for a Catholic and had no idea. Our welcome and prayer would be degraded in such sacrilegious and deceptive way. Okay. Videos of Detelli's funeral show an estimated audience of more than

a thousand, including transgender people and other friends and supporters, chanting her name, applauding, singing, and offering praise of her stature as a leading light in the city's LGBTQ community. I believe that they called her the mother of all whores in the church. And I know that Billy Porter, who's singing performance during the funeral, was characterized by the group as a mockery of our... Our Father Prayer. Now, the Archdiocese of New York has done a mass of reparation because the scandal occurred at America's

parish church, makes it worse and took place as Lent was beginning the annual 40-day struggle with the forces of sin and darkness. It's a potent reminder of how much we need prayer, reparation, repentance, grace and mercy to which this holy season invites us. that's salvo the pastor. The cardinal directive offered appropriate math of reparation.

So we'll see, I'll be interested to see if the Pope responds to this, because the Pope is welcoming to all, right? The Pope is welcoming to all, and we must give forgiveness to all. That doesn't mean we can be sacrilegious in our places of worship, though.

Does it? I mean, even in the documentary Highlander, The churches are sacred ground. There's no battles going on on sacred ground. So have we lost that? Our church is no longer sacred ground? I mean, it feels like we have. But in my heart, I believe that we have it.

Churches still are sacred ground. I mean, you can do whatever you want outside of being on sacred ground. Whatever you want is fine. Just when you're on sacred ground, tone it down. You can quote me on that. When you're on sacred ground, tone it down. And I know that Gentile's family denied that the church was deceived about the gathering. And they said the only thing is that the church's hypocrisy and anti-trans hatred.

Well, I will say, as the former sex worker who suffered addiction and was jailed, she founded the coin clinic short for Cecilia's occupational inclusion. network, a free health program for sex workers through the Call and Lord community health organization in New York. I will say that if the church knew that who this funeral was for, I mean, I would guess that they probably have a pretty good idea of what kind of funeral it's going to be. But I still stand by if it's on sacred ground. Tone it down.

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So the USA Today, they're readers' choice voting for the best zoo in America. The nominees are already out and you can vote for them. You have until Monday, March 4th at noon to pick. I think you can vote at least once a day for your favorite zoo, or maybe you want to vote for multiple zoos. But the winners will be announced March 15th. Now, I will say that I went through the list of nominees that you can vote for, and I'm a little disappointed that Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park is not on this list.

I don't know what the deal is. I don't know why USA Today hates Zoo Tampa at Lowry Park, but we need to change that. And if it's their hatred or if it's Zoo Tampa and Lowry Park has slipped up on their game a little bit, you know, let's pick it up. Both parties need to pick it up just a little bit. Let's get Zoo Tampa and Lowry Park back on this list. Because we have the Audubon Zoo at New Orleans, Louisiana.

Brevard Zoo in Melbourne, Florida. Central Park Zoo, New York City. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden in Cincinnati. Honolulu Zoo. We have the Living Desert Zoo in Garden State Park in Carlsbad, New Mexico. We have the Louisville Zoo. That would be in Louisville, Kentucky.

We have the Minnesota Zoo. Big surprise, Apple Valley, Minnesota. We have the North Carolina Zoo, Ashboro, North Carolina. We have the Oakland Zoo Conservation Society of California. Yep, you guessed it. That's in Oakland, California. Omaha's Henry Durely Zoo and Aquarium. That is a beautiful.

That may actually come in, number one. Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina, Kansas. St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, Missouri. San Antonio Zoo, San Antonio, Texas. San Diego Zoo. Seneca Park Zoo in Rochester, New York. Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, Zoo Boise, I know, you guessed it, Boise, Idaho, and Zoo Montana in Billings, Montana. Those are your nominees for the Best Zoo in America, the Reader's Choice Awards from USA Today.

Again, you have until March 4th to vote for your best zoo from USA Today's Reader's Choice. you can vote once a day through March 4th at noon eastern. Ten winners will be announced on Friday the 15th. So there's more awards to vote for, and you can check the leaderboard. Let's check the leaderboard. Yep. Omaha's Henry Dooley is doing Aquarium in Omaha, Nebraska, is number one. As of right now, on the leaderboard.

It does not say how many votes they got, though. Cincinnati, North Carolina, Honolulu, Shian, Brevard, San Diego, St. Louis, Audubon. Zoo Montana are the top 10 as of right now. So that's your current best zoo leaderboard. So good luck. Good luck to all. Speaking of zoos, I see where Zoo Knoxville, who I did remember saying out the best zoos in America,

they are moving their elephants. They are, I know, I'm bummed. They're moving them to an elephant sanctuary. Now, are they moving the Elephant Sanctuary? Is that still in Tennessee? Are they moving it to Florida? They're moving to Hohenwald.

This is a home to a community of aging elephants in an elephant's sanctuary in Middle Tennessee. So that's where the sanctuary is. Anyway, they have three elephants that they're shipping out and they're going to be done with elephants at the Zoo Knoxville. Very sad.

So apparently, Jana and Edie, or I guess it's Edie, Jana and Edie, E-D-I-E-E-D-I-E, have crates that, from other zoos. But Tonka, the 16,000-pound elephant, he's got to have a crate of his own. And there's not a box this size in the Western Hemisphere, according to the zoo. So I guess they're going to, you know, come up with this new box, I'm sorry, crate, to move the old elephants down the road and look for it in Tennessee in the coming months

as you have the tractor trailer hauling the elephants around and heading to the elephant sanctuary in Middle Tennessee. So now there's not going to be any more elephants at the zoo in Knoxville. And they're just going to use the elephant enclosure for white rhinos. So the elephants are getting pushed out. No more elephants to see at the zoo at Zoo Knoxville. Just white rhinos. I don't know if they are even going to have a sign.

So there are going to be a sign that says, Hey, this is where Tonka, Jana and Eddie used to live. Now we've shipped them off to a nursing home and they're just waiting to die. That's what they're doing at Zoo Knoxville. They're just shipping the old elephants off and they're not bringing in any new ones. So get over there if you want to see the elephants

before they get shipped off. to Elephant Nursing Home. Oh, I'm sorry, the sanctuary. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. All right, be sure to follow me on all the social media platforms. You can follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR. You can follow me on Instagram and Facebook.

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So everybody gets their cut. You order the cameo, and, you know, you tell Cameo whether you want me to be happy, glad, sad, mad, mean. And I do it. I'm their trained monkey, and then everybody is happy. That's the way that works. You can always email the show, chewing the fat at the blaze. dot com. I did get a couple of emails, one from Bob, who was commenting. I did a story on the lawsuit,

the class action lawsuit against Match Group that complains that Tinder, Hinge, and the league are addictive and harmful to mental health. And so they're trying to, you know, hold the tech company accountable for online addiction in court. We'll see how that works. out. However, Bob came up with a million dollar idea and emailed me about it. I probably shouldn't even say anything because it's too good of an idea and I should use it. But throwing it out there for you, the chewing the fat listener. Okay. Bob says, hey, love your show. Love you too, Bob. Thanks. And Bob claims to have not missed an episode in a long time. So I appreciate Bob for reaching out. Okay, so he has come up with an idea for a new dating app.

Maybe the match group could run with this and give Bob his cut, or you can reach out to me, always chewing the fat of the blaze.com. The dating app called Dirty Laundry. All right, just put it out. He wants to see what happens. Typical profile. He gives an example of what a profile might be on Dirty Laundry.

Hey, I'm 6'2, way 160. Boy, I don't. remember the last time I weighed 160 pounds. Anyway, probably like kindergarten. 6-2 weigh 160. He doesn't say that in the email. That's just me commenting. And was recently released from jail. I don't have a job and not

really wanting one. Kind of living in my 1970 GMC van. I've been told that I may have a drug and alcohol addiction. I really don't recall doing anything too bad. If you're interested in a good time and a scenic views of San Francisco alleys, I'm your man.

Also, I have some hookups with a couple of restaurants that give me leftover food. If this lifestyle is attractive to you, please downswipe and let the fun begin. I mean, that's a good idea. Now, Bob says he thinks it may work. He believes it may work. Getting the skeletons out in front.

Get them out there right now. And I think it's a good idea, too. So I probably shouldn't have said anything because it's a million-dollar idea. somebody's going to use it and we're not going to get to see a dime from it, Bob. But I love the idea of the dating app. Dirty

Laundry. And by the way, swiping down when you want the date. Absolutely love it. And the other email came from Mike and Mike was letting me know that he was following the rules of subscribership to chewing

the fat. One of the rules, one of the main rules, from if you're a subscriber to Chewing the Fat. If you're listening to this show right now and you're not a subscriber, well, you need to be and you're just a freeloader, okay? Everybody likes free stuff.

The podcast is free to listen to and subscribe to, but nobody likes a freeloader. So if you're just listening on a friend's platform, subscribe yourself, okay? So Mike was telling me that he was following the rules of subscribership. And the main rule of subscribership is that when someone asks,

you, hey, what are you listening to? As a subscriber to chewing the fat, you have to answer chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Now, I know you're going to be listening to other stuff. I get it. We all listen to multiple things. Every day, if not weekly, I get it. We all listen to a bunch of things. But when you have your headphones in and someone says, hey, what are you listening to? You have to answer chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. I don't care what you're listening to. your answer has to be chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher and Mike was saying that he was laughing out loud at work and a co-worker said, what are you listening to?

And he wants a pat on the back and lets me know that he is, of course, responding in the proper way chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. So thank you, Mike, for following the rules. We appreciate it. Jeez, okay, nothing's going to know. The chewing the fat police won't show up at your door this week. So we have another lottery lawsuit?

I guess I don't know that we have an outcome from this case. This was back in December, so a couple months ago, but it's another lawsuit with the Florida lottery. Apparently, the Florida lottery wants the state judge to dismiss the claim of negligent infliction of emotional distress from a lawsuit alleging a man was led to believe he'd won $15 million. So James Curry sued the lottery. alleging emotional distress from a mix-up and faulting the lottery for erasing surveillance video.

So I'm not sure why what the deal is with the video surveillance, but the lottery claims that this guy failed to scratch off the entirety of the scratch-off ticket. Now, he scratched it off, and apparently they posed with pictures with him, saying he'd won $15 million. And then they said, ooh, hey. No, look at that. You did not scratch off the entire ticket, which apparently would have turned to winning six into a losing six-five.

I mean, nobody caught that until after they took pictures with the guy? Okay. Well, so now he's claiming physical, you know, hey, we've got emotional distress. And the lottery says, hey, you can't have emotional distress without some kind of physical harm. And so we'll see what happens. with this case, but kind of weird that the lottery didn't catch it before they took pictures

with the guy, right? Congratulations, you won. And then, oh, yeah, no, we actually looked at the ticket now and it's wrong. Kind of weird. I know. I know, kind of weird. I mean, we see the scratch-off winners all the time. There's, I mean, there were stories, as I found this story, there were stories of lottery

winners winning $5 million on scratch-offs. you know, wins a million bucks from $50 on a scratch-off. So people are winning money from the scratch-offs. And you know what? You can't win if you don't play. Am I right? I know. I know.

The odds are not in your favor, but it's tough not to play. You know, we've got the mega-million's drawing. That happens tonight. If you're listening live, today is the 20th of February, 2024. That jackpot is four. $493 million, $231.1 million cash payout. Man, that would be a nice win.

And Powerball is Wednesday, tomorrow, the 21st of February, with a $348 million jackpot, $164.3 million cash payout. There's not been a winner in either of those in quite some time. So good luck. And if you have the winning ticket, man, make sure you document it. I mean, take pictures of the website with the numbers. Take pictures of your lotto ticket.

Put them all in a safe. And then contact whoever you need to contact before you go collect your money. Get all your ducks in a row before you go contact and get your money. And I mean all your ducks in a row. Even the little ducks. Little ducks, big ducks, all ducks in a row. before you walk over there. Yes, and I'm here to collect by money.

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They claimed this happened in Ohio. They claimed that even in her darkest days, she still showed up to the studio, always ready to learn, contribute better herself in whatever small way she could manage. I mean, she was in 320 adult films. I know she established her career in the mid-2000s. won two Avianne Awards, including one in the 2010 for Best New Starlet. And apart from pole fitness and performing both on camera and live as a dancer, Carter with a K was also an adult model. So I don't want anyone to commit suicide, but

I mean, there are some jokes in here, but I'm not going to do them. Rest in peace. Cagney Lynn Carter dead at the age of 36. Angela Chow, Angela Chow dead at the age of

50. The foremost group CEO, Angela Chow, sister-in-law, Descendant Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, pronounced dead after her car went into a pond at a private property located about 40 miles west of

Austin, Texas. Huh, isn't that interesting? She just drove into this pond? Okay. I guess it was an accident. There's no details on the accident at this time.

The Blanco County Sheriff's Office said, that responded to a possible water rescue on a private ranch. There's no report on who owned the ranch. And they arrived and they found the body of Angela Chow in the pond in her car. They got her out of there. They tried to resuscitate her for a long time. It was 40 or 50 minutes. And yeah, I'm sorry, 43 minutes.

And could not bring her back to life. so what did she do wrong she's the sister of a land child who is married to Mitch McConnell and so there's a lot of deep ties deep state ties for this for this lady so rest in peace but I'm looking forward to finding out how this accident happened to Angela Chow Rest in peace, dead at the age of 50. We continue on with who died today. Prahalad Gujar. Prahalad Gujar, age 34.

Rest in peace, dead. Prahalad went into a lion enclosure, and apparently he was trying to take a selfie, and the lion was having none of it. There was a, he climbed a wall and a chain. link fence of the Sira Venkaswara Zoo Logical Park in Tarupade, India, and jumped into the closure, despite warnings from a zoo employee. They were saying, hey, brahalla.

How about no? Don't do that, but he did. And then the animal was like, oh, he jumped into my cage. you shouldn't have done that. And the lion was like, I'm just going to go ahead and attack. And so he did. And they tried to save him,

but the animal dragged the man inside the enclosure. He was dead within 10 minutes. And so now the 12-year-old lion after that was put into his nighthouse. So he's supposed to suffer The lion's supposed to suffer because this dude jumped in to get a selfie, and the lion was just in the middle of his nightly smoke before he went to his nighttime Betty Bay.

And I was like, hey, I got a little extra snack tonight. Okay, let's do this. So don't be hurting the lion, man. I know. Listen, I believe we're in humans first. no question. However, there are times when humans are dumb. And Prahalad Agujar, 34, was kind of dumb. He should not have climbed over the wall and chain link fence at the Sivankaswara Zoological Park in Tairupadi, India. It is it Tarrapati? Ti-R-U-P-A-T-I-I-India. I'm sure it's beautiful this time of year. I just don't climb into the Lions. Okay, just don't do it. So rest and peace,

Prahalad Gujar, dead at the age of 34. Now, then in New York, we have a human leg that was found in the subways on the tracks of an uptown four train between 167th and 170th Street in the Bronx. They don't know where the leg came from. They don't know, obviously, who it belongs to. And thankfully, there were some minor service disruptions,

but not that much. We got the trains back running on time again. And so if you have any information about the leg that they found in the subway in New York, you know, give the police a call. Let them know. I know a guy. There's a guy walking around with one leg missing, or is a guy actually missing and we just didn't find the rest of his body? We don't know.

We don't know. But you can help out NYC and, you know, help with information. information, if you have any information on the leg that was found in the subway. Then I see where Julia Nelavani, she is the widow of Alexi Nelvani, and she has said that she's going to continue her husband's work. And she posted a video on social media. She says she wants to build a free Russia. She asked supporters to share with me the Russian.

rage, the fury, anger, hatred for those who dare to kill our future. She and other relatives say the morgue officials have blocked them from seeing Alexi's body and that the spokesperson said his body wouldn't be returned to the family for at least another two weeks and she's accused Putin of murdering her husband. So I would, this is just me thinking out loud that it's possible that she may have end up in a who died today's segment in the near future. But you never know. This episode is brought to you by Peloton.

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Mutant wolves roaming the Chernobyl exclusion zone, have developed cancer-resilient genomes that could hold the key to developing a cure for cancer in humans. Then let's get... to it. High radiation levels have plagued the Chernoble exclusion zone. Really? No kidding. So humans have abandoned the 1,000 square mile Chernobyl exclusion zone. I think they were forced to leave, but let's go ahead and call it abandoned. It allowed the wildlife to reclaim the area. In the 38 years since the worst

nuclear disaster in history, yeah. Despite exposure to cancer-causing radiation, the irradiated wolves appear to have developed protective mutations that make them resilient to cancer. Yeah, all you got to do is, you know, hang out in the exclusion zone and you're fine. So Kara Love is the evolutionary biologist and eco-toxologist. Love that. With Shane Campbell, Station's lab at Princeton University. Love them. They've been studying the mutant wolves in the Chernobyl exclusion zone for a day.

decade. In 2014, 11, our colleagues took blood samples of the wolves in Chernobyl to understand how the animals reacted to the cancer-causing radiation. Scientists also fitted the wolves with radio collars to track their locations and their radiation exposure.

We get real-time measurements of where they are and how much radiation they're exposed to. The research shows that wolves in the CEZ are exposed to upward of 11.2 millerum of radiation every single day, of their entire lives, over six times the legal limit for human workers.

So all you got to do is go into the CEZ without your little suit on and you're fine. You're never, you're not going to get cancer. The mutant wolves have altered immune systems similar to cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment. Genetic analysis suggests that parts of the wolf's genome have developed some resilience to cancer. Furthermore, there was a promising discovery that specific regions of the wolf genome appear to be resilient to increased cancer risk. So let's get to it. Let's get to it. Now, so last year, scientists at the University of South Carolina from the National Human Genome Research Institute,

and I love the National Human Genome Research Institute, I examined the DNA of 302 feral dogs. The study said the feral dogs living near Chernobyl power plant showed distinct genetic differences from dogs living 10 miles away from the disaster site. So in 2011, a study found that birds in the C.Z had smaller brains. So who cares? I mean, if the wolves or the dogs or the birds have smaller brains, sorry about it. We still need you and we need your genomes to help. us beat cancer so let's let's get on that okay uh yeah just headed to the C EZ and

you'll be fine I mean maybe we all just need to live in the C EZ I know that the World Health Organization who not the band the group director general has issued a new warning about the likelihood of disease X breaking out telling global world leaders it's a matter of not if a new pathogen and the pandemic will strike. Now, the Director General goes by his first name, Tedros. Yeah, because nobody can pronounce his last name. G-H-E-B-R-E-Y-E-S-U-S. Yeah, we're just going to call you Tedros, okay?

He told the attendees at the World Government Summit in Dubai that the warning of 2018 that a pandemic was likely to hit and he was proven right with the outbreak of the deadly coronavirus. Yeah, okay, so you were proven right, and we knew all this testing was going on, and the world is still ill-prepared for a new pandemic. And so he once again touted the urgent need for a global treaty to be agreed upon by May and dismissed suspicions

about the WHO power grab. It's not a power grab at all. No, silly! Are you kidding me? This is about the mission critical for humanity. This is about our safety. It's not about the World Health Organization trying to seize power. Oh, that is just silly.

You are silly. It is silly. It could be a virus that's caused by influenza, a new coronavirus, or a new pathogen, maybe from the CEEZ. He doesn't say that. That was from me. But the world is still not prepared for the pandemic. So what needs to happen?

as I needed to be able to take control and tell people what to do. And so it's not about a power grab, though, okay? This is just, disease X is a hypothetical placeholder for the virus that hasn't even formed yet. It might be 20 times dead near than COVID-19. We don't know. It's a serious international epidemic that could happen. So we need to be able to take that power and tell people, you know, what needs to. needs to what they could do and what they can't do.

But don't be silly. It's, it is not about a power grab. Oh, my gosh. Are you worried? No. This is something called mission critical for humanity. So why don't you just shut up? All right.

I'll give you the joke of the day. All right. So a little girl is getting tucked into bed and now she's saying her prayers. And dad tucks her in and listens outside the door. The little girl says, You know, God bless mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Grandma, bye-bye Grandpa. And the father said, hey, why did, I couldn't help it over here. He said, bye-bye, Grandpa.

And she said, I don't know, Daddy. They just felt like the thing to do. The next day, the grandpa died. So the dad just thought it was a coincidence. So a little while passed, and he was listening to her, say her prayers again. And she said, God bless Mommy and God bless Daddy and bye-bye Grandma. And the next day, Grandma died. So now he's thinking, oh, no, my daughter, you know, I guess he kind of sees things.

So he listens to her prayers again. And her prayers are, God bless mommy, and bye-bye, daddy. So he is sweating it. I mean, it's his time. So he gets up early and he goes to work early and he stays at the office and he jumps at every little sound. He just has to make it until midnight. He'll be fine. So he makes it until midnight, who takes a deep breath and drives home.

And he gets home. And the wife says, my gosh, I've never seen your work so late. What's wrong? And he goes, I've just had the worst day of my life. And she said, I know me too. You'll never guess what happened. The mailman dropped dead at the front door today. You know you laughed.

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