Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Underrepresented… | 12/17/24

Episode Date: December 17, 2024

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Existing social narratives paint single women as lonely, unfulfilled, and they portray single men as desirable and content. You know that as well as I do. That's the, you know, that's the existing societal narratives. But according to a new study, published in Social Social, psychological and personality science. And man, you cannot tear me away from social, psychological, and personality science. Their swimsuit edition is just, wow, it's over the roof. Anyway, or over the moon. Somewhere, it's beautiful is what it is.

So they have found that single women report greater overall well-being than single men. women were found to have stronger social support systems, higher financial independence, and less reliance on romantic relationships for satisfaction. So there, there, your existing societal narrative is wrong. Ha, that figures, that figures. We're just single men, losers. Single women?

Outstanding. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So I'm reading this story about this lady, Helen Hatzel. Helen Hatzel. I don't know if she was a single woman or not. It's possible. She is believed to be the woman that created this.

The Mind Creates Reality. And apparently she read The Power of. positive thinking by Norman Vincent Peel. And she was fascinated by one idea. Thoughts create outcomes. So she decided to put it to the test. And she entered a slogan contest for a local brand. Her process, she visualized herself winning, felt the joy, heard her name called.

Weeks later, she got the call. She had won. One win wasn't enough for a dear old Helen. She wanted proof that the method worked. She entered another contest and another. From 1950 to 1970, Helen won over 1,000 prizes. Incredible. So they're saying she's not just lucky.

She had the system. And she wrote a book called The Name It and Claim It Game It Game. And she revealed how she won every contest. So this is the spec program. It's what she is what she called it. Select it. Project it. Expect it.

Collect it. Okay. Thanks, Ellen, for the spec program. So select it. Be crystal clear about what you want. She didn't enter contest randomly. She chose one she truly desired to win. And she believed that the universe responds to clarity.

Project it. See your success. vividly in your mind. She would imagine hearing her name called, holding the prize in her hands, experiencing the emotions of winning. Expect it. This is where she claimed most people fail.

Helen believed you had to expect your success, not hope for it. Doubt blocks manifestation. And that certainly opens the door. And she believes that then you can move on to collect it. Helen always took action. She wrote the slogans, sent the entries, the work. The universe rewards action, not daydreaming. So I just was, I don't know what was

making me think about Helen and how her spec program, select it, project it, expect it, expect it, collect it. Okay. As a side note, a mega millions, a lotto is $740 million. tonight as a matter of fact if you're listening live today is the 17th of December 2024 with a 342.9 million dollar cash payout so I just want to say that select it that would be the mega millions at 740 million dollars jackpot project it congratulations Jeff Fisher you have just won 740 million dollars expect it

I will be looking that I won tomorrow and collect it yes I will be knocking at the lot of door tomorrow morning with Helen's spec program

and the mega millions at $740 million jackpot tonight now if I don't quite select it and the spec program doesn't quite work for me tonight I guess I could play the, no, no, I'm not doing that.

No, my gosh. No, that's, please. No, no, no, no. You could dial 9-98 if you're having suicidal thoughts. No, no, I'm having spec thoughts. I'm thinking maybe I didn't do it right. Maybe I didn't select it or projected enough. And I'll continue on with the Powerball, which is tomorrow night,

the 18th of December, which is 69 million. I mean, barely enough to play. But it is enough for me to think that I could, you know, select it, project it, expect it, and then collect it. I mean, as long as I'm projecting it, I might as well project it that, you know, you follow me on my social media at Jeffrey JFR on X,

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And one, well, not holiday, but it's still a joke of the day. Presented as, I don't think it's too long. You can't use it as a joke of the day. But you know what? I'm going to. so that's just me well selecting it and then I'm projecting it

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They have filed an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court seeking to delay the law that would ban the video sharing platform nationwide. That's if they don't divest from its Chinese parent company by dance. So the application asked the court to put the genuine. 19th divest or ban deadline on hold until the justices resolve TikTok's First Amendment claims on their normal docket. The act is going to shudder TikTok if that goes into effect. And there's going to be a lot of people upset. There'll be a lot of people upset. There's no doubt about that. So we'll see. I know they went down and gravel to Trump down at Mar-a-Lago.

And he was the one who said he was going to ban him in the first. first place. So we'll see if that actually holds any water. I guess the Supreme Court application will go to Chief Justice John Roberts, who handles emergency appeals arising from the D.C. Circuit. Roberts could act on the application alone or refer it to the full court for a vote. I don't see Roberts acting on that alone, so he knows how that will look. But we We'll see. They want the high court to act by January 6th. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

It's cute. Two weeks ahead of the potential ban. So we'll see if that act. For right now, TikTok goes away on the 19th of January. So at the same time that we're banning TikTok, Timu was the Apple App Store's most down. downloaded free app this year. Timo, is that a Chinese shopping app?

Oh my gosh, yes it is. Yes, it is. It's funny how that happens. So we're going to go ahead and ban TikTok, but we're going to allow Timu to keep hawking their wares here in the U.S. So that's what you get. So there's that. Rounding out the top 20.

Let's see. Let's see the top, let's see. Telegram Snapchat. Snapchat. Cash app, Spotify, Max, McDonald's, Amazon. ChatGPT ranked fourth most downloaded app in the U.S. App Store. Where are we at? ChatGBT.

Okay, so TikTok dropped to third. Oh, interesting. So Timo is number one. Ha! Then TikTok moved to number three behind threads. Stop it. Stop it. I'm sorry.

No, that's a fabricated number. That's what the Instagram numbers are tied into that. They made everybody go to threads, and then they threatened that you couldn't get rid of your threads without getting rid of Instagram. So, like, I still have a threads account, but I don't ever use it. I haven't opened it up in forever.

I can't tell you. I'm sorry, no. People are not downloading threads. Sorry. I don't believe it. I don't believe it. You know what? I choose.

My truth is not to believe that. But so we have Timo number one and TikTok number three. I feel like in the end, TikTok probably isn't going anywhere. But it still could. It still could. You know, so I'm reading this story about a Yale University study, and I'm not sure when they did this study. but they were studying monkeys, these capuchin monkeys,

and they were trained to use tokens as currency to exchange for food. During the experiment, an incident occurred where a monkey exchanged a token with another monkey in return for some business. Yes. So now they're saying, hey, hey, this behavior suggests that monkeys not only understood the concept of currency, but also applied it to social interactions, including transitional sex. Okay, so I don't know that I believe that. I think that they realized, you know,

that if I give Millie the Monkey this token, then Millie the Monkey is going to give me a business. Oh, yeah. Hello. I am, why don't you lift that back tail up? Yeah, slide on over here. Okay. because I got a little monkey bidness

to go on with you, okay? So, you know, it's possible. You know, it's possible. I mean, I've always wanted, I don't know if I could do a monkey pet. You know, I'm not, I always swore we wouldn't have a dog and now we've got a dog. And so, I mean, I was fine.

My daughter, you always said you didn't want a dog and now you love it. What are we supposed to do? Treat it like crap, what is in the house? I don't know that I, I don't know that I want a monkey as a pet. I mean, that's a, they take up, they take up some energy, right? I mean, you come, you come walking in with a monkey on your shoulder. They're, they're taking up the energy of the room.

Right. And most of the time, you know, the people who have monkeys all say, well, monkeys are good until they're not. Right. So, you know, you walk around, you're changing the monkey's diaper and you and here are friends and maybe you give him a gold coin and he goes next door to take care of a little Millie Binna is the afternoon. Oh yeah, I'll be back in a couple hours. But then, you know, at some point, the monkey is like,

you know what? I'm in charge now. You are not in charge of me. And then what do you do? I mean, you just have to grab it by his tail and throw it or what I mean? I guess maybe, right? Maybe you train him right. When you hear that, when you hear you straighten your ass up.

Because the last monkey we had, around here. When he heard, uh, he didn't stop. And so I had to put him down. And in fact, you've been walking over him. And he's right there. I haven't moved him because I want you to be aware of what happens when you get a little, a little loud with me. Okay. You know, there's still there's still monkeys missing in South Carolina. There's still at least four monkeys in the wild in South Carolina. I, I don't know if they're gone now. If someone is hiding them or if you know if they're still on the outskirts of that alpha genesis lab where they're just tossing peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out there when they're eating them

and they're trying to get them to come into the cage and they're saying no we're just going to smoke our cigarettes and eat our sandwiches outside of the gate here and not come back there's no reports there's nothing we don't know they just stopped giving us reports because they got pissed about the bad reports on their testing and stuff so they stopped giving updates but as far as we know. There's at least four monkeys still on the loose in South Carolina, and there's still one of the emos running around. The two Thelma and Louise's, one of them, I'm not sure which Thelma or Louise got caught. And so there's the other one. I'm not sure which one Thelma or Louise is still running around. And remember because the other emu they caught and they said they

got it peacefully, but there was some buckshot in the neck of the emo. So somebody fired at it. So maybe that's someone who fired at the emu they caught, fired at the other emo and dropped him. Yeah. I mean, it's possible. Emoes are mean, man. Don't mess with those bad boys. I mean, maybe you turn your monkey on an emu.

But maybe the monkey don't even mess with the emo. The monkey's like, nah. You know, I'll just ride on the back here to have the emo try to peck him as he's running around and it's out of his back. Yeah, I'd pay to see that. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

So it is the Christmas season, and speaking to animals, I see where there's a North Texas church, a North Texas Baptist church. I may have to stop by and see their Christmas show. I mean, they've got actual camels, flying angels. I want to see their Christmas show. show. It's Prestonwood Baptist Church located in Plano,

Texas, and that's DFW area. I'm sure there's plenty of churches around doing live camels and live animals for their Christmas celebration and their pageantry. And people, you know,

it was quite a spectacle. It's a charity. The church is like, hey, it's a ticketed event. It's meant to arouse holiday cheer while simultaneously with production value, celebrating the birth and life of Jesus Christ. So why don't you get over it, okay? Yes, we have the camels,

and we have flying angels and Santa Claus and flying Santa Claus with reindeer coming over the audience, and that's just what we do. Okay, it's a celebratory event. So it's what? That's what it's called? And it's called the... Bap to Dome.

This is where this performance is at Prestonwood, the Bapto Dome. Are you telling me this on the air or in my ear? I'm on air now. I want to tell you to see. So growing up here in the 90s, when Preston Wood, I lived in Richardson, which is just below Plano. I had a friend that went to that church and we called it the Baptodome because it is massive. I know there's a lot of mega churches now, but this one was like the AT&T stadium of it. Day.

Of his day. Okay. Yeah, so we just called it the Baptitome. All right. And it's still, it's still there, still available. This is what they're doing. The Prestonwood Baptist Church. This is their event.

Yeah. That's awesome. I'm sure it went up in production value since the 90s, but. Well, I mean, I'm sure the camels used back then are dead. Rest in peace to the camels of the 90s. But, I mean, they've got Santa and a sleigh flying over the crowd and flying angels. So you've actually been to the, to the Prestonwood event, the Christmas holiday event. event? I have not. And now I kind of want to go now. Okay. Okay. So you, I've been to the, I've been to the church,

which was enough for me. Okay. So, Wesley, you've been to the church. Yes. You're not, but you're aware of the mega church Christmas spectacular. It doesn't surprise me. With the camels, the wise men, the elves and the Angels, the Angels, the Angels, ooh, I wonder if they use little kids or real midgets or short people or more real little people. Like Wizard of Oz. I'm so a little lollipopkins. So there you go. I'm just letting people know that you go and see this event at Preston.

That is not a paid sponsor from chewing the fat. But I just found it fascinating that that now we know that they're putting this performance together in the Baptodome. Bapto Dome. Who doesn't love the righteous gym cells, baby.

Staying in the Christmas spirit. We have the big to-do with James Patterson, the author. He gives 600 booksellers at these small bookstores all across America, $500 as a Christmas bonus. Each person at these bookstores. He said that he's done this for years. And he said that through his publisher, Little Brown and Company, I'm happy to be able to

acknowledge all these little booksellers, these private booksellers, for their hard work this holiday season. So staffers at Thank You Books in Birmingham, Alabama, San Francisco City Lights books, and the Nook in Cedars Falls, Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa are among the 600 booksellers receiving $500. Now, I'm guessed he's been giving awarding independent store employees since 2015. So I guess you apply to his nonprofit, and then he looks them over and says, okay, this year we're picking this one and this one. And so in 2015, the National Book Foundation presented him an honorary National Book Award,

and he is saying, along with his gifts of booksellers, he wants to recognize and reward all the value role booksellers play in the industry. Oh, that's special, James. We appreciate you. and I'd appreciate it if that's all you talked about. Give me your books. I love your books. And then after that, stop talking.

Don't do any more interviews with Bill Clinton. Don't do any of that. I know you and he are buds. And, you know, you have all kinds of fun. But let's not do that. Okay? It's between you and me. All right?

Just stick with writing your books. Because your books are pretty good. You've done fairly well. You know how to do it. But I don't want to hear anything else from you. Okay. to be over with that. So if you're an independent bookseller, you can apply.

I'm guessing you just go to a James Patterson website or the, what is that the Little Browning Company is his publisher, and they probably, you have to probably enter for your chance to win. That's what you have to do. And so you can put your name in, And then they choose. And so good.

Oh man, he just launched a true crime series on Fox Nation, too. This guy is not quitting, man. Good for, anyway. Just reading about James Patterson here as I clicked on the link, which I thought was his website, which is not. Anyway, thanks to James and for doing that for independent booksellers. I'm a huge fan of bookstores.

And it's nice that he actually is paying a little bit of respect to these independent bookstores. I did not get my Christmas card. from Prince Harry and Megan Markle yet in the mail. I'm hoping that it comes today. I see where they sent out the new card, which is just beautiful. I mean, you just, you don't see a card like that every day

from the Prince and Megan. And it's, you know, it's Megan and the Prince together. And then the kids do make a little, do the kids make a full? Oh, yeah, the kids do make a full? they make a full thing with the dogs in the driveway. And then Megan is hugging some school kid. And then Prince Harry and Megan are laughing with the,

it looks like with the African people. And then there's Prince and Harry of Prince and Megan walking down some road laughing again with the African people. And then here's Harry holding someone's hand, looking like in a makeshift hospital room with the African people. and then here's Megan and Harry hugging each other with some guy behind them. I don't know if he's with the African people or not.

He doesn't look like it, but I don't know. I don't know. You just don't know. So, man, it says on behalf of the office of Prince Harry and Megan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex. What? Yeah, it's their office. It's the office of Sussex. artswell productions and

Archwell Foundation. So it's on behalf of the office of Prince Harry and Megan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, Archwell Productions, and Archwell Foundations. Then you have the pictures of Harry and Megan with the kids and the African people

and one guy that I don't know if he's an African people or not. They say wish you a very happy holiday season and a joyful new year. I expect to, I expect mine to be coming very, very soon. So I expect, I'll continue to expect that. There's not a chance that I get one of these Christmas cards,

but, you know, I would accept it. You know why I haven't gotten the, I mean, they're struggling over there at the Postal Service. I've always wanted to be Postmaster General or on the board of governors. For a long time, I wanted to be Postmaster General. Then I found out that the Board of Governors is what rules, they are above the postmaster general so you want to sit on the board of governors

but I see where Trump said that he's considering trying to privatize the U.S. Postal Service okay he said that you know I mean fully privatizing it would take

an act of I don't know Congress but if they overhaul the U.S.PS call me. I've got plans I can help you. I can help you. I can help you. My gosh, I mean, how many times I've offered to help? I've got ideas on

how to make money for you, things to do, things to eliminate. I'm all about it. And I'm there. I'll be happy to take the title of the board of governor or if you want to give me the lowly title of Postmaster General under the board

of governors, fine. That's fine. I'll put it on my business card. But, you know, I mean, Amazon uses them for the last mile of deliveries. There's plenty of there are plenty of companies that use the United States Postal Service. Now, they just got done talking about how the postal services, electric mail trucks are way behind schedule.

So one way for me to help you save money is that we're going to stop that order right now. Okay. You guys are way behind? Yeah, never mind. Never mind. We're not paying you any more money. It's over. Okay, we're done.

Have a nice day. We're going to, I don't mind the new model look, but they're going to need to put a gas tank in that bad boy, okay? We're not going to plug it in. We're not going to stick around and plug it in. We need to have cell towers on every postal service lot, making us giving us money to the, to the, that's, I can't give you all my ideas, okay?

I got to stop right there because I can't give you all my ideas. But we're having drone deliveries that are now being, set up to deliver things all around the country and neighborhoods. That needs to be in a partnership with the United States Postal Service. We could use, I don't know, our mailboxes and let the drones sit on those until they deliver. And the drones could charge themselves on those. They've got, by the one postal building next by my house, they've got like 8 billion of those blue mailboxes that they don't use anymore.

They're just collecting rust. stack them up that's where the drone that's what the drones sit on i mean i'm here for i'm here for ideas okay that's what i'm here for and uh i can turn this thing around just uh you know email me chewyy the fat at the blaze dot com with amex platinum four hundred dollars 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 Who died today? Who died today?

Well, let's begin with Jill Jacobson. Yes, Jill Jacobson. And if you don't know Jill Jacobson, look at her photograph and you'll go, oh yeah, her. She was in the Star Trek franchise and also Falcon Crest. Jill Jacobson, after a long illness.

So I'm sure it had nothing to do with that. Okay, don't even look at me, don't even think about that. She was 70 years old. So a Texas native and dead, the age of 70, Jill Jacobson. Then we have Dick Van Arsdale, Dick Van Arsdale. And when you say to yourself, who? Dick Van Arsdale.

He spent 12 years in the NBA. He was, and then he got. He ended up, he got drafted by the Knicks. And then when they started expanding the NBA, he ended up with the Phoenix Sons. And he earned the nickname, Original Son. So Dick Van Arsdale, 12 years in the NBA, original son for the Phoenix Sons,

dead at the age of 81. Now, Dick's cause of death was not mentioned. They did not give Dick's cause of death in any of the releases about his death. So he was 81, right? Is that what I said? Rest in peace to Dick Van Arsdale. So at 81, it could have been that. It could have been.

It could have been that he was 81. You just don't know. Rest in peace, Dick Van Arsdale. I mean it. Don't look at me like that. You know, on a serious note, as if, you know, Dick Van Arstale and what's her face? Jill Jacobson isn't, wasn't serious. I'm sure the family took it serious. We had a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, yesterday, and it was a young teenage girl who did the shooting.

And six were injured. Two people were killed. Another six were injured. Two students are in critical condition with life-threatening industries. or life-threatening injuries. And I just found it weird that I still, and this is what's wrong with America. Okay, me.

That's what's wrong with America. People like me. Because when I heard that there was a school shooting, you automatically think of a guy. I know the Nashville shooter was trans. I get it. But this one, there's no evidence that this girl was trans. And she was just, you know, had some real mental issues.

And I just find it fascinating that now we're, I mean, good, young girls shooting up schools, just terrible. And she hated her parents and she, you know, there's, there's, I read some of what was reported to be her manifesto. And she just wanted to kill people. She thought the world was, you know, and she originally, and the manifesto that I read, whether, if it's real, this is what I read. If it's not real, sorry. I mean, I read it. I read it. So, you know what?

I'm choosing to believe my truth that it's real now. Okay. But she talked about how she was going to commit suicide, but then she thought that she would take other people with her instead of just killing herself. Just really sad. Really, really sad. And so, I mean, if you're, I don't even know if dialing 988,

which is the 24-hour. hotline would help, but you should sure try it if you have any kind of thoughts like this because, man, it's just, it's not the, it's not, I'm going to go out on a limb here. It's not the right choice, okay? And that is not the right choice. And then I see where one in 20 Canadian deaths were through assisted suicide last year. Oh, good news. Good news for Canada.

Congratulations. Yeah, no, I mean that. I'm proud of you. So a total of 15,3,343 people died through Canada's medical assistance in dying program. And what a fine program that is. And so that means assistive suicide deaths made of about 4.7% of Canada's 326,571 total deaths last year. More women seeking elective government assisted suicide than men. Okay.

I don't know what that means, but I could write some jokes on it. And I won't, though. I won't because we're talking about people, you know, euthanizing themselves or having the government help them euthanize themselves in Canada. There's just nothing funny about that. Is there?

I think there is. You know, it sounds like the workers at the Amazon warehouses are a little injury prone. I mean, I'm not sure what's going on. this but i was looking at uh this senate report uh found that uh amazon had manipulated injury data to make its warehouse appear safer well not only were there's making a warehouse appear safer uh apparently they i mean we're looking at uh the analysis of the company's data showed that amazon warehouse has recorded 30 percent more injuries than the industry average in 2020

And its workers were nearly twice as likely to be injured than in other warehouses. What's happening? Why are we hiring these injury-prone people at Amazon? Now, the reports linking worker industries to injuries to speed and productivity, quotas, which Amazon said they do not enforce. So those, we don't, we have quotas, but we don't. enforce them. Uh-huh. Okay. All right. Sure. Sure. You got it. And so obviously, all the Amazon workers are now, we're not injury prone. We're working hard and they're trying

to kill us and we're trying to meet quotas and we're hurting ourselves trying to make these quotas. I got it. Okay. I got it. But I just, you know, if I'm Amazon, if I'm Amazon, and I look at that report, I think. Man, we got to find some people that are not injury prone. What's that? They already found them? Yeah, they're called robots, Jeff. Oh, oh, yeah.

That's the whole point. That's the whole point. We had robots and it's displacing human workforce. And we can't have that, but we already have it. So, I mean, I don't know if there, are these Amazon workers getting run over by robots? Maybe that's the problem.

Get out of the way. Stack the box. It's faster. I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying, this is what I'm... Just be safe.

Just be safe out there in the Amazon warehouses. Be safe. Keep your head on a swivel because the robot's got the same thing going on with their head on a swivel. See, in there. Getting the work done. You got what I mean.

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too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol, and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly. Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Did you know that Hot Wheels, Hot Wheels, okay, the collectible cars, best-selling toy in the world? best-selling toy in the world.

This is according to market research firm Sircana. I'm sure they're not sponsored by Hot Wheels. Anyway, they're just letting you know. There's a research facility. That's all. They're just letting you know. Their popularity shows no signs of hitting the brakes. 56 years after their induction.

Who hasn't had Hot Wheels in their life? I mean, we used to have the loop to loop and the long race. The one house I lived in when we were a little kid, when we were little kids, had a long space between the kitchen and the living room. You know, there was a dining room, but it was this wide open space. Man, that was a hot wheel track, man. We built up.

We used to have put chairs in the middle so the track would go off and come down, have the curve. If you had two curves, you tried to curve them both, but then you'd crash, so you had to set it up right. I mean, everybody's played with Hot Wheels, right? For sure.

I don't need to jump in on here, but what's your favorite hot wheels car? That's a good question. I don't know. I don't know. I honestly I don't. I spend so long. I see there's hot wheels in my home sitting on the shelf.

Like I'll walk by and go, oh yeah, there's a little hot wheel there. It's a little, it's the transformer hot wheels. You know, now they have the transformer hot wheels and the Batmobile hot wheels. Back then, you know, you were happy, ooh, I got the convertible. And, you know, that kind of hot. They didn't have the specific hot wheels. Back in 1812, when they were first made and I was playing with them, They didn't have those.

Okay. So it's been 56 years. 56 years of Hot Wheels? Wow. Okay. You say so. So they are grown annually to $1.43 billion of sales in Hot Wheels. I mean, you see them everywhere.

Grocery stores are selling them. All the big stores are selling them. I'm sure you could probably get them on Amazon if you could figure out an employee that could box them up fast enough to ship them to you without getting hurt. I know, I'm sorry. Okay, it was just a joke. I know you're working hard. And I appreciate it. I will say this.

I do appreciate it. I don't care if it's a robot or a human. When I order something from Amazon and it's free shipping and it gets to my house in 24 hours, thank you. I appreciate it. And every time it happens, I think to myself, this America. I love it. This is America.

So if you're flying drones for Amazon, delivering. for Amazon, running away from robots at the warehouse for Amazon, whatever you're doing for Amazon, thank you. I appreciate it. I do. I don't care what anybody else says. Because those people that are saying, you people aren't working hard enough and aren't

meeting your quotas and you're getting hurt too easy, damn those people. Okay, damn them, because you are. Gosh darn it. You're good enough. And if you're not, there's always Walmart. Or you can move to Los Angeles. I mean, Los Angeles Council just voted a pass a $30 minimum wage for hotel and airport workers,

along with an additional health care benefit, starting at 835 an hour for employees of businesses that do not provide health insurance. So you could do that. You could do that. And sure, that's never, I mean, look, sure. That probably won't happen. Sure.

But if it does, you know, there's only going to be a few people that are going to have those jobs. So get out there and get there. that job now because they already did with raising the minimum wage in California. How's that working out? How's that working out? There are more employees working at the fast food joints? No, there are not.

There are not more employees working on the fast food joint. Are the delivery people still making? No, no, they are not. Oh, okay. So are they using robots? Some places are, yes. What are the other places doing, just not doing anything? That's correct.

They're making the people that are working there for the, minimum wage, do more work. Huh. Just like people talked about. It's so weird how that happened. But you can get out there and give it a shot. And, you know, if you start working for this, in Los Angeles, at an L.A. hotel and airport workers, you're going to start, the ordinance requires the wage to jump to $25 an hour

of February 1st, 2025, with steady increases to $30 an hour by July 1st. 2028. That's not very many steady increases. I mean, holy cow, for three years to get to five bucks. Okay. Time for the 28th Summer Olympics hosted in Los Angeles. So for the next three years, you'd be working to make it some money because they want to shine and be ready for the Olympics. I forgot about the Olympics coming to L.A. Now's a good time.

They will find a way to pay you for the next three years because they want the place glistening for the Olympics. But as soon as those Olympics are over, man, it'll be a ghost town at those hotels. I was making $30 an hour. The stories will all be. I was making $30 an hour for the last two years. And now nothing. I've been laid off.

Yeah. Sorry. That's the way it goes. And that's what's going to happen. So get out there now and get your money made now as we speak. All right. So let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the...

Oh, I got to do the joke of the day sent to me from... Uh, Grandpa Bill. Grandpa Bill sent this to me over email, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. And, uh, he started out with, this might be a little long for joke of the day, but it's kind of funny. Okay. Well, you know what? We'll be the judge of that, Grandpa Bill. Okay.

Uh, so Mrs. Ravioli comes to visit her son, Anthony for dinner. He lives with a female roommate, Maria. During the course of the meal, his mother couldn't help but notice how pretty Anthony's roommate is. Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between Anthony and his roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, Anthony volunteered, I know you must be thinking, but I assure you, Maria and I are just roommates. About a week later, Maria came to Anthony, saying,

ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the silver sugar bowl. You don't suppose she took it, do you? Well, I doubt it, but I'll tell you. email or just to be sure, so he sat down and wrote an email, Dear Mama, I'm not saying that you did take the sugar bowl from my house, and I'm not saying that you did not take it. But the fact remains that it's been missing ever since you were here for dinner, your loving son, Anthony. Several days later, Anthony received a response email

from his mama. And the response email read, Dear Son, I'm not saying that you do sleep with Maria, and I'm not saying that you do not sleep with her. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the sugar bowl by now. The moral of the story, according to Grandpa Bill, is never bullshit of your mama. Because, see, the mom, I know you understand what the joke was. You got it.

They left it. They were sleeping together. In today's world, that's an old joke, though, because in today's world, who cares? If your son is living with the female, he'd damn well better be doing and taking care of a little business going on, okay? That's what's happening.

You're not living with me, I'm not sharing a room with you because we're friends. Right, and there might not even be any music playing, but there's still some business going on. Is that mean? Is that chauvinistic? Yeah, it probably is.

Okay, so just pretend I didn't. say it. All right, let's do a Christmas joke and then we'll get out of here. What Christmas joke should I do today? What Christmas joke should I do today? Let's see. Do the funny one. That's a good

one. Yeah. Okay. Why our Christmas tree is so bad at sewing? I don't know, Jeff. Why our Christmas tree is so bad at sewing? Because they always drop their needles. Oh, that's funny. This one I was going to save to the end of the week

because I think I'm going to do chewing through Thursday this week and then we'll be off for the Christmas holiday because we're off. Pat shows done. I think Glenn goes to the end of the week. I'm going to go till Thursday maybe. I barely get through that. But, you know, Pat and I are doing off the record today

the 17th of December, which you can catch any time after that as a subscriber to Blaze TV. So what did Santa say at the start of the race? I don't know. What did he say, Jeff? What did Santa say at the start of the race? Ready, set, ho, ho, ho. You know you laughed.

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