Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Two out of a Billion… | 2/20/23

Episode Date: February 20, 2023

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a thousand pounds. Huh. And they said other data indicate that meteorites did reach the ground from this event. Huh. Now, we know that meteorites tend to hit the Earth's atmosphere at high speeds. We'll slow down and break into small pieces without any general risk to the public. But there are no current reports of injuries or property damage according to NASA and other officials. They said that, hey, this does, however, pose a reminder to increase the understanding and protection of Earth. Doesn't it, though? Isn't it interesting that it happened on Wednesday? And then we knew about it on Friday.

Now, I know the documentary, Armageddon, NASA is asked, we didn't see this coming, and the response is, it's a big ass guy. well, it still is. In fact, it's still the same big a-ass guy. But if you found a fragment from the meteorite, please don't try to sell it yourself or anything like that. Contact the Smithsonian Institution because these samples, as collected, will be studied and they enhance the understanding of the origin and evolution of our solar system

and our local natural space debris environment. I would like to say If I found one of these fragments It would be up on eBay today If the Smithsonian wants to bid on it, they can In other words, if you're in McCallon Let me know if you've got a piece of the rock It'd be interesting to see what happens

If you do put it up on eBay. Does the government come a knocking? Hello? We'd like our meteorite, please? For a certain price, no price. problem. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So those of you listening live, it is the 20th of February, 2023, and it is officially President's Day. So if you work for the government, you've got the day off, or you're a banker, you've got the day off. It was Washington's

day until 1970. We made it a big day in 1879. It was a federal holiday honoring the founding father, George Washington, who, you know, he just led the Continental Army to victory in the American Revolutionary War, presided over the Constitutional Convention in 1787, was the first U.S. President. But we want to make sure that we had it, you know, so on a Monday, so that we could have a three-day weekend for the federal workers, which is wonderful. But then in 1970, they said, hey, what about the other presidents? Don't they deserve something?

And they said, yeah, sure, why not? let's just make it President's Day. Okay? All right, good. So it's the third Monday in February, which can occur between the 15th or the 21st, and it is President's Day. So congratulations and happy, happy President's Day. A little other special news on Presidents. I was reading an article on all the animals that presidents have had.

I know they've had cats and they've had dogs and how they got dogs and, you know, Obama, the girls talked them into having, Bo, the Portuguese water dog. And, you know, they all had their dogs. But I didn't know that the wife of John Quincy Adams, the sixth president, had silkworms. Herbert Hoover, the 31st president, had a possum. And who doesn't have a pet possum?

I mean, back then and Herbert Hoover, Herbert Hoover days. Everybody got a pet possum, I guess. And Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president, had a raccoon named Rebecca that walked on a leash. In fact, there's a picture of Calvin's wife, Grace, holding the family pet raccoon at a White House event. Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th president, was famous for all his pets he had. His kids had snakes, dogs, cats, a badger, birds, guinea pigs. Okay. All right.

Apparently, at one point, Roosevelt's son got the measles, and his brother thought a visit from the family pony might cheer him up. So he brought the old pony into the White House and rode him up to the brother's room in an elevator. Well, who doesn't, I mean, hello, you want the little pony to make him happy. So this was actually the first service animal or emotional support animal ever. So congratulations to Quentin Roosevelt for helping out his brother Archie with the service animal, the pony they had at the White House. At one point, James Buchanan, the 15th president, received a herd of elephants from the King of Siam. That was now called Thailand.

The Sultan of Oman gave Martin Van Buren, the 8th president, a pair of tiger cubs. There, during World War I, Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president, kept a herd of sheep at the White House. That was his way of supporting the war. Many workers were overseas, so the sheep cut the lawn by eating the grass. The wool was auctioned to raise money for the American Red Cross. isn't that special. Maybe we should just open up a White House zoo. And all the money raised could go to support, I don't know, Ukraine.

Because we're told help for Ukraine is a never-ending promise. As long as it takes is what we're told. In fact, we were told by what's his face, Turtle, Mitch McConnell, he told an audience in Germany that Republican leaders support aid to Ukraine. Don't look at Twitter. Oh, okay. So believe him and not the people that are speaking on the social media platform, Twitter or other social media platform.

So we're all behind Ukraine. So anyway, we should just open a White House zoo and let that money go to Ukraine. This is just an idea that, you know, from me, to you. Happy President's Day. So on the surface, this story sounds, you know, sounds, I guess, as a male, it sounds good, a guess. The story is trophy husband, has three wives and stays home while they work. Like I said, on the surface, yeah, that sounds good. So the father of two calls himself a trophy husband, and he's married to three women, stays at home while they work. Nick Davis met his first wife at their university 15 years ago, met Jennifer nine years ago, and then

April said she's happy that there are other women in the house to help satisfy Nick's relationship wants and needs. Now, Jennifer met the couple when she was 19. April felt like she would be a great fit for the family, and it just became evident that she was a great person. There was a lot of high intellect. Uh-huh. And in that big brain of hers, and I knew that Nick, Nick would find her attractive. And so, yes, they're a thruple. They added 22-year-old Danielle to their family. Now, this particular happening happened on TLC's Seeking Sister Wife.

Now, I don't know if you're familiar with seeking sister wife, but it documents the lives of three very unique families who are all in various phases of seeking, dating, or transitioning a new sister wife into their lives. Now, it's had four seasons. The last season was last year in 2022. So I don't know if it's been re-upped for season five or not. Maybe it has.

But according to Nick, having three wives, knowing that we've all solidified our union and brought it together like we have, it's just unbelievable. I just feel like I'm living a dream come true. I honestly didn't ever think I could be this happy. I didn't think happiness like this existed until I found love like this.

Oh, yeah. So my, this is what I said on the surface, it sounds great, right? Three wives. What I really want really is, you know, I'm happy with one wife. I just want a couple of robots to clean the house and do the dishes and do the laundry. You know, and plus with the robots, holy cow. If you have three wives, that's, I mean, one, that's a lot of work. That's a lot of work.

And I'm at the point now where, you know, do I want that? Do I want that much work? Not really. But congratulations to Nick and the happiness that he and his three wives and two children have found. And man, do I wish them the best, the best life. And I know that it's just a dream come true. Is it though? Is it?

When I say two children, I mean, mean the one child is not even a child of one of the three wives. He is a child that is a teenage boy. It doesn't say how old he is, but it just says they have one child that Jennifer, the newest wife gave birth to Vera. Now the teenage son came from a previous relationship. So I don't know if that came between the 15 years ago and the first wife and the nine-year-old, the nine-year relationship with the second wife, or if that happened previously prior to the marriage of the first wife.

But anyway, so the one kid doesn't even have anything to do with any of these mothers. So it just keeps getting better. for seeking sister wife TV, doesn't it? Oh, man, oh man, oh man. I just wish them all happiness and joy, and I'm just glad that they're living their best life. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

So it looks like Zuck got a little fed up with Elon hogging all the social media headlines. line, so he announced a big update to his own online platforms. The meta CEO introduced a subscription service for Instagram and Facebook that will allow users to purchase blue badges that mark them as verified. I wonder where he got that idea from. I mean, we're already verified users, right, on these platforms, however, not paid, okay? So it's going to be known as meta-verivir.

verified, the service will launch in Australia and New Zealand this week and hit other countries soon. So similar to Twitter Blue, Meta verified the traditional concept of Blue Checkmark as a gift bestowed to notable people like politicians and celebs. Now it's open to anyone who's willing to pay. But there are differences between Twitters and Meta's plan is there. Meta is more expensive, costing $11.99 on the world. Web 1499 on mobile. Twitters cost $8 and $11, respectively. Yeah, we've covered that.

Meta will also require meta-verified users to confirm their identity using a government-issued ID, something Twitter doesn't require. So apparently for your 15 bucks with meta-verified, you're going to get a higher visibility and reach on the platforms. You're going to get increased access to customer support. Oh, okay. that's great so

I mean are they hurting that bad at Facebook that they're going to start charging for this I mean you know I'm verified on Twitter we've talked about that before

at Jeffrey JFR I'm verified on Facebook Jeff Fisher Radio and I'm not verified on Instagram Jeff Fisher Radio which hurts just a little I don't have a I'm not verified on Instagram

it hurts hurts me just a little but now I'm not going to pay for I'm sorry these these companies, sorry, Zuck and Elon, I love your social media accounts, but we just, we give you thousands of dollars worth of free advertising mentioning your social media platforms.

And now you want us to pay to have the honor of promoting us on your platform? No, thank you. No, thank you. Sorry about it. No, thank you. So, you know, good luck. If you want to become. verified on one of those platforms, go for it.

I hope you do. I hope I hope Zuck just makes more billions because he's laying off a few thousand people and things are going a little shaky over there at the Metaverse. So I'm a fan of the Metaverse. Let me in, Zuck. Let me in. If you want me to pay

to be verified on your platform, then let me into the Metaverse and let me do a show on Main Street in the Metaverse. Okay. All right, good. It's just a revenue decline and he's trying to find a way to make some more money. So good luck.

Good luck. God bless. I hope it works out for you. So the author, Roul Dahl Dahl, R-O-A-L-D-A-H-L. I mean, he's a huge author, fiction and drama, British writer, story collections. I mean, he's known for all kinds of, all kinds of books. and characters Augustus Gloopjeopalupas, Mrs. Twit, but good thing now is,

is that we are going to change some of his works with more inclusive language. Oh, isn't that good? We don't want to hear what the author actually wrote and what he felt at the time. No, no, no, no, no, no. So apparently, the Raoul Doll story company, which Netflix acquired in 2021,

how they have worked with sensitivity readers to review dolls, texts, and give them an update to his stories so that they can continue to be enjoyed by all today. I mean, they still could, actually. You could just say, this is the way he wrote it. Either enjoy it or don't. We have, we are falling off the cliff. The edits generally focus on removing potentially offensive language

related to gender, race, weight, mental health, violence. What's the story then? Come on. So Augustus Gloop from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is now enormous, not fat. That's why I said all along for years, I'm not, I'm athletically overweight. In a gender neutral revision, the upalupas are now described as small people rather than small men. gosh. In the witches, where 59 changes were reportedly made by publishers, a line was added to a paragraph that explains why the witches are mauled underneath their wigs. There are plenty of other

reasons why women might wear wigs, and there is certainly nothing wrong with that. So now we're adding. We're not only changing words, we're just adding thoughts. Oh my gosh. Because we want to be sure to have more inclusive language. Yeah, because, holy cow, we want to, we want to, we want to, we want people to continue to enjoy all of it today without, you know, without them getting, I don't know, offended, because we don't want anybody to be offended anymore. So we're going to change everything that, you know, is related to gender, race, weight, mental health, violence. What else is there?

Those are the stories. Oh, my gosh. Now, a lot of people are a little wound up about it, so I don't know if it's going to stay or not. We'll see. You know, I know that some other authors have said, you know, sure, Raul Dahl was no angel, but this is absurd censorship. So he's just a racist, misogynistic bastard, and we're going to change everything he wrote. Sure. And we can do that because we bought it all.

We sold that. We bought everything, so we can do whatever the hell we want with this works, okay? All right, Netflix, you go ahead. You do what you do, okay? because I don't want you to offend everyone. But when you come around saying, man, I can't believe we're not making any more money or people aren't watching our shows,

you remember this. You remember that you removed everything about the stories, gender, race, weight, mental health, and violence because you didn't want to offend or have anyone offended. It's just unbelievable to me that we're doing that. We have the days of, Oh, you're offended.

Sorry. Don't read his books. Don't watch the movies. Now, if you're, they can make the movies, and, you know, they can change because it's based on the novel. So they can change that around.

See how it works. See how it works. Okay. And I have a feeling that it may not work really well. But it might. So give it a shot. You know, change everything. but pretend like it's the same thing.

Isn't that what we're all doing anyway? We're changing everything and we're just pretending that it isn't changed. Oh, okay. All right, good. So good luck with that. Just incredible. But hey, let's party, shall we? I don't worry about that.

It's Marty Grau. Tomorrow, you know, I mean, Tuesday is Fat Tuesday. What? It can't be Fat Tuesday in New Orleans. It's got to be enormous. It can't be fat Tuesday. No, that will not stand anymore. So if you want to celebrate in New Orleans, you go ahead.

But how dare you call it Fat Tuesday? We can't have that anymore. Someone might get offended. I want it to be called enormous Tuesday from now on. And then we got carnival back in full force too. So plan on a party and crime and sex drugs and a rock. and roll down in Rio de Janeiro happening as well.

But this whole Mardi Gras Fat Tuesday thing has now got me a little ticked off. That better be enormous Tuesday. That better be a proclamation from the mayor of New Orleans very soon. We appreciate Mardi Gras and everything it's done in the past.

But this Fat Tuesday thing that's been going on all these years has to stop. From now on, It's going to be called enormous Tuesday. That's just dumb. Just dumb. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here.

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Congratulations to Ant-Man, Ant-Man and the Wasp Quantum Media, on track to earn about $118 million or more at the domestic box office over this weekend, a sign that the Marvel Cinematic Universe remains strong. Okay, this is, fifth phase.

Ant Man also extended to mind-blowing Marvel streak. Isn't mind-blowing, though, isn't really, I'm reading this article. Like, it's not mind-blowing, but it is a streak. It became the 31st consecutive MCU release to debut at number one at the box office. But it won't remain number one for long, because

this Friday, cocaine bear opens. So, cocaine bear... Just going to knock the old ant-man. right off the pedestal. Okay, just when Ant Man starts getting a little cocky, I don't think so. No thanks.

Take a back seat to cocaine bear. Okay? And did you see where, speaking of animals, you see where Flaka, the owl, that escaped from the Central Park Zoo? A couple weeks ago, we talked about it on the show.

They were out looking for it and trying to catch it. And now the zoo officials said, you know what? We're not even going to try. to catch it anymore it's free let it go it's fine it can eat on its own we don't care wait what yeah we don't care leave it alone i can't wait i'm sure that there's got to be an instagram account for flaco the owl right we have to check that out all right so i don't know if there's an actual

account for flaco but there's plenty of sightings uh tagging central park new york this particular Instagram post. Flacco Central Park Zoo escaped Eurasian Eagle Owl is still free and looking magnificent. So people are snapping pictures of

flaco all over in the New York Central Park. So as soon as something bad happens to the old owl, you can count on, why did the zoo not try to keep it safe? And the homeless people are going to be cooking flaco over an

open flame in Central Park in about a week. Just joking. I hope it doesn't happen, but it's going to happen. That's a chewing fat prediction right there, and I will tell you right now, within two weeks, within two weeks. So let's just go, I'll give you, you know what? I'll say a month since I'm a psych, I'm a psychic and I'm seeing things in the shadows. By the end of March, we will have a homeless person cooking flaco over an open flame in Central Park. That is a fat fact. Okay, so who died today?

Who died today? Well, we know Kelly Pickler's husband, Kyle Jacobs, passed away of an apparent suicide at the age of 49. He was found dead at his Nashville apartment. Apparently, they believe he was, well, it said here, he was, you know, yeah, he was 49.

They said that the police department were called as a, as a safety measure. They wanted a wellness check. So they got there and they couldn't open the door to the bedroom. And it looks like he was, you know, he had committed suicide. Very sad. 49. And he was very successful. I mean, looked like he had a happy marriage.

I mean, obviously we don't know. No one knows what goes on behind. closed doors. Ha, that would be a song. And so we'll see. I mean, he's got all these hit songs and he's, you know, got a successful wife. He's been married to Kelly Pickler for a while.

Have that long? I've been married for, okay, since 2011. They do not share any children. They got engaged in 2010. They've been dating since 2008. They were in love. Pickler said that it was a spiritual moment. And who got her start.

Remember, Pickler on American Idol. He said they would have gotten married that night had there been a preacher walking by. All right. So, I mean, good for that. However, make sure that if you or you know someone that's considering suicide, please contact the 988 suicide and crisis lifeline. I mean, we just had a story talking about teen girls that, how they're struggling.

And they're a wave of sadness, violence, and trauma. and they're reporting the CDC, if you, you know, if you believe what they tell you, they released a report showing that 57% of teenage girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021. Wow. That's the highest rate in a decade and almost twice what was reported by teenage boys. Additional findings about 30% of teen girls had seriously considered suicide up from 19% 10 years earlier. And 18% also reported that they experienced sexual violence. I mean, this is incredible.

So, I mean, if you know anyone or are considering suicide, don't, the earth is not a better place without you in it. Okay? Just know that. So dial 988 and try to get the help that you need, please. Whatever that help is. So Kyle Jacobs, husband to Kelly Pickler, Dan. at the age of 49. Also, who died today?

Richard Belser. Oh, man, that's not sad to hear that. You know, he was a comic, an author, an actor. He, you know, he played Detective John Munch on Homicide, Life on the Street, and Law and Order SVU and eight other shows. I mean, it was, and he was the same guy, John Munch. I mean, he, that, that character appeared in 10 series on five, networks since his debut in 1993.

So he did Homicide and SVU. And then he did appearances and crossovers rather than regular or reoccurring appearances. So his retirement in characters, 22nd season on television. He was a regular character on U.S. television longer than Marshall Matt Dillon, Frazier Crane of Cheers. Remember Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke? Hello. Both of whom were on television for 20 seasons.

He's only behind Mariska Haggerty's character, Olivia Benson. Yeah, she's still cranking out shows, too, man. Oof. He's all over the place for Law and Order. Munch's return to help his friends in the SVU 17th season episode, Fashionable Crimes, marked the 23rd season that the character had appeared on television in any capacity. So he was also an author. One of my favorite books, actually, it was a great book.

And I've got it around here somewhere. I'm going to try to find it. and read it again, was his UFOs, JFK, and Elvis. Conspiracies, you don't have to be crazy to believe. I love that book. Anyway, so Richard Bellsard died. Now, I will say that it's being reported. He died in France.

He died in Mosos, France, with his longtime friend. You take that however you want, but he died at his home in Beauxhall, France, southwest France, with writer Bill Schaft, who's a longtime friend of the actor. Okay. He said he had lots of health issues, and his last words were, fuck you, motherfucker. So, rest in peace. Richard Belzer, dead at the age of 78.

And I didn't mention it is President's Day. Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States. He's going to, he's entered into hospice care at his Plains, Georgia home. His health care has really deteriorated for quite some time. He is 98 years old. He's the longest living former U.S. I'm not really sure how that works out. So according to this, he's the longest living, former U.S. executive.

Okay. So the cause of Carter's current health issues, they didn't announce it. But he's had cancer and he's had hip surgery and he's been, you know, really struggling the last few years anyway. But he's still cranking along, man. Former peanut farmer still cranking along. And I know, look, I know that he was, you know, he was, you know, he was. Kind of a nightmare. Kind of a nightmare as a president.

He had a lot of problems as president of the United States. He wasn't, what's the world thing I'm looking for? He wasn't good as a president. But I will say this. Okay, I know he went to the U.S. Naval Academy. He was a military guy. And I know that he was kind of a nightmare or a nightmare as, president of the United States, but you never doubted his love of the United States of America.

And you do have those doubts in today's world. At least I do. I have my doubts. Many of our leaders that they do not have the love of this country first. And that's part of the problem, at least in my view. Then we got news, but, you know, Jimmy Carter is not dead yet. And we got Bruce Willis, who's not dead yet, but we're told that his diagnosis with frontotemporal dementia is getting worse. Very sad.

I mean, I love Bruce Willis. I mean, he retired, couldn't stop working because of his battle with the phasia. Now the family is saying, yeah, it's not good at all. So we're hearing some bad news about Bruce Willis. Then we got bad news about Tom Seismore, the actor who suffered a brain aneurysmure. at his LA home. He's hospitalized in critical condition. Now, okay, so I know everybody,

oh, there's another one. You know what I'm talking about. Yeah, you know, you know what I'm talking about. You people out there that are saying, there's another one. Well, Tom had quite a history with a number of substance issues. He's had DUIs and domestic violence.

and possession of control substance. He's been in great movies. Saved Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, natural boring killers. He's been in great movies, and I love a lot of his work, but he has had some problems. So this probably doesn't have anything to do

with what you think it does. But you never know it could, but he was just hanging out, according to his manager, he was just hanging out at his LA home around 2 a.m., and he suffered a brain aneurysm. lapsed into unconsciousness.

So very sad. Someone found Tom quickly called 911, and they responded and took him to the hospital, and he was listed in critical condition. So I'm not sure what kind of hanging out he was doing at 2 a.m. on a. Saturday, and I'm not sure who finds you at 2 a.m. if you're just hanging out at your L.A. home.

But someone did, and that's what happened to him. And then we had news that while in Mexico, celebrating his wife's 40th birthday, 73-year-old Richard Gere, was put in the hospital in Mexico. So I guess, according to them, it's just pneumonia. And so the wife has said they've all been sick. And you know what?

We've all been sick. Let's go to Mexico. And they did. And so he got sicker, and I threw him in the hospital. And, you know, they gave him some antibiotics. Get out of here, Richard. You'll be fine. So we'll see.

We'll see. I'm sure it had nothing to do with that. Stop it. 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. Okay, so when you hear that a human player has defeated a topped rank,

AI system at a board game, the board game Go. In a surprise reversal, remember back a few years ago, the AI beat the human and was a big deal. And so this Kellan Pellarine, an American player, who is one level below the top amateur ranking, beat the machine. Okay, well, when you think, okay, great, that's great. What? Not really. because she beat the machine because the flaw was identified by another AI.

Now, they claimed that she wasn't directly using the support of the computer during the game, but they went to another AI system and said, hey, what is the weakness of this AI that's playing Go? And the other AI said, hey, this is the weakness, use this. And they did, and they won. So it really wasn't a human beating an AI. I'd like to believe that too, but no, it wasn't. It was a human using AI to beat AI.

So I don't know that that really counts as a human win. But we'll take it. Well, as a human, we'll take it. Okay, so let's, I've got a few emails to discuss with you. You can always email the show, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Of course, you can always, you know, follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio.

The YouTube channel is Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can always order a cameo at Jeffey JFR. That's not free. But I'm happy to be happy, sad, mad, mean. whatever you want on cameo, you know, for the price that it takes to order a cameo at Jeffey J-F-R. Okay, so you can always email the show with questions, comments, concerns, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I got an email from Tanya, who, you know, last week we did the story on the safest cities in America, and I mentioned a city in Kansas that was the 16th safest city in America, and it's O-L-A-T-H-E.

And I probably pronounced it Olathe or Olathe, but according to Tanya, it's pronounced Olathe, Kansas. And she wanted to make sure that I knew that I was welcome. So thank you, Tanya. I appreciate it, okay? Olatha, Kansas is the 16th safest city in America. Tomorrow we'll have to talk about the dirtiest cities in America. So you know that, you know, if you live in one of the dirtyest cities. of cities in America.

Probably guessing you know, but maybe you don't. We'll go over that tomorrow. Then I got an email from Jesse who wanted to talk to me about the Mario Cart ride at Universal. And that's the, you know, we talked a little bit about Fat Guy Seeding and Fatty Park and have fat people having their own theme park

and how Mario Kart was not built for Fat Guy Seating. And so in this email, he said, I agree that they need to keep these ride safe, but for a ride like this, they could have made an exception. This is nothing more than your run-of-the-mill, slow-moving, dark ride, the kind you just sit back and chill. No crazy turns, no fast speeds, no loops, just a flat track. Here's the link to the ride. And he gave me a link to the ride. I understand people getting hurt or killed because of failed restraints, but even the gentlest of rides at Disney have had deaths because of human stupidity. Yeah. In fact, a lot of deaths

happen in the world because of human stupidity. The people mover has had a couple. It does not have restraints. All you do is sit and ride, but that's too much for some people who got out of the ride while it was in motion, and they were killed by being run over. I know.

I know. Jesse goes on to say that I understand the necessity of restraints on extreme rides and how they aren't fit for larger guests, but how is a parent supposed to enjoy the ride like Mario Kart with the family because of his dad? And what about the kid who needs an adult to ride?

These are all valid questions, Jesse. Questions I've asked in the past. I mean, some of these rides, if they're slow moving like this. Can't we just have restraint extenders? I mean, they made the argument that they couldn't go to fat guy seating because that would take away from the kids seating. And so we just need maybe a restraint extender, you know, like the seatbelt extenders. For some of these smaller rides, we should have a restraint extender. Don't you think, Disney?

I do. I agree. There should be fat guy seating. This is going to come as a surprise, but if you haven't listened to the show before, but I am all for Fat Guy Seating. Then I have this email from Randall and Vivy, and this both makes me happy and sad.

The subject line, What Have You Done? Good day, Jeffie. I believe my wife and I are your only fans in China. I kind of heard. It hurts right there. I mean, China has, I don't know, over a billion people. And I've got two people listening to the show.

Apparently, I need an ad campaign in China. But according to Randall and Vivi, please take heart that you are on the CCP's blacklist. Well, I don't know. Okay. I mean, that hurts. So we download your podcast subscription with a VPN. Oh, that's so special.

Thank you. I'm an Aussie, and my wife is Chinese. We enjoy listening to your podcast while we are sorting out breakfast, but something has occurred. Cued dramatic music. My wife speaks English very well and has begun saying, do you? Did he? Are you? And various of her own similar inventions all the time. It makes me laugh. Cheers, mate. Her friends are picking it up. you are a bona fide international cultural influencer nois keep chewing the fat all the best mate randall and vivvy oh thank you that means a lot i appreciate it uh i don't know how i get off the cp's blacklist well i do know how to get off the cp's blacklist and i don't want to do i mean i kind of do like if ccp were to say hey uh or i guess our government has taken to calling them the pcr now or the PRC, People's Republic of China, yeah, PRC. That's all I hear from these diggleberries now. We don't call them the CCP.

We're just calling them the PRC now. I guess that's the politically correct thing to call China. But if they were to come to me and say, hey, we are going to give you access to a billion people, and here's, I don't know, $5 million. Could I say no? or would I have to say yes and just start doing ads for China? Of course I would say no. Don't be silly.

Don't be silly. I'm an American, damn it. There's no way I would take $20 million and do commercials for China. That just wouldn't be right. No, no, it wouldn't. Randall and Vivie, thank you very much. Appreciate it. And just as I'm getting ready to say goodbye,

I see we have breaking news. Santa Fe prosecutors have dropped a key gun enhancement charge against Alec Baldwin. How long before the whole thing goes away. This is amazing. So the district attorney's office has dropped the gun enhancement charge against Alec. Which now means that even if he's convicted of the other charges brought against him, He may not even spend any time behind bars, which is just silly. Why are we even going through with this now?

Stop it. So the gun enhancement charge was tacked on to his involuntary manslaughter charges. That has been removed. That need, I mean, to do that, you have to require as a person who has used the gun to brandish a weapon, meaning the gun was displayed with intent to intimidate or injure a person, which is just silly to think that that's, what happened, which we talked about to begin with. And now they finally have, you know, they've dropped those tariffs. They just wanted the headlines.

And they got the headlines they wanted. And now, you know, the attorneys are going to go to work. This whole thing. I mean, I hate, no, let me, let me stop for a moment. I love the work, a lot of the work of Mr. Baldwin. But his personal views on many things are agonizing to me. And it makes me, makes it very different. for me to enjoy the work that he does.

But this right here is unbelievably silly to go after him like this on this accidental shooting of Helena Hutchins. And I, you know, I feel terrible for the Hutchins family and the children and all of that. It's just horrific. But to blame the shooting solely on Alec Baldwin. As an act that was a crime, a criminal offense, is a. just insane. And so, again, the charges have been dropped. The gun enhancement charges have been dropped against Mr. Baldwin.

So even if they continue on with this silly trial against Mr. Baldwin, there is very likely that he will not spend any time behind bars. So, I mean, why are we even having this case? continue on against Alec Baldwin. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.