Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Wasn’t About That… | 10/11/24

Episode Date: October 11, 2024

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A, what are we going to do with all the kios boxes What's going to happen with those? And I told you Don't return the DVDs Because nobody's going to remember those Those are yours You should have gone out that day

When they closed When those machines were still working And got your DVDs Well apparently, I guess they're still working I don't know, there's still they're still plugged into the walls and they're still standing. You still see them at stores

and companies now have gone to the courts and are asking to be able to get rid of them because Walgreens claims that they are paying $184,000 a month to power their 5,400 kiosks that are still plugged in

at their Walgreens stores. Are they? Okay. All right. All right. If you say so. Now, some of them, according to Redbox, were concreted in. I mean, they weigh a ton. Actually, they don't actually literally weigh a ton.

I think they weigh like 500 pounds. They weigh 900 pounds. I was going to say 500, but the story says 900. The one I took was 500. No, it didn't take any. But people have taken them. Some people, they say, have gone to the stores and said, hey, you know, those, other things, you guys are done, they don't do it anymore.

Can I have it? And the store is like, yeah, go ahead, get it out of here. So some people do have the Red Box kiosks in their home. I don't know. I guess it's just a memory, walked out memory lane, and they'll sell it to a movie company someday so it could be in the movies. And I use Redbox. I was a fan of Red Box at one time in my life.

But now there's 24,000 of them just sitting around. collecting dust. Those red Red box DVD rental machines and they're just draining power from the stores

they're hooked up to. That is awesome. And I guess some of them probably still have movies in them because at the end they didn't pay their employees so the employees

weren't refurbishing them and they had an army of electricians that would go around and make sure that everything was working properly because I mean

those are I realize that, you know, you just, I just put my card in and then it goes right there and we're good. It's, like, I get the movie, but it's hooked up to the internet. It's hooked up, the whole thing. I mean, there's, it's a machine.

You can quote me on that. It's a machine. And so, I mean, I don't know what you do with it at your house. And I don't know what good it would be. It would be fun to have if somebody, somebody wants to give it to me. I don't think you can get a beer. Your beer's not fitting through that DVD slot.

I mean, Yeah, you could modify the red box machine. Sure. Why don't you just get a, I don't know, a soda machine or a refrigerator. Modify the red box machine. Stop it. Anyway, if you want a red box machine, I would say that it, now's it dope. You go bang on the door at your local CVS or Walgreens that still has the red box sitting out front.

And you could say, hey, you need that thing out of here. I'll get it out of here for you. Really what you could do if you wanted is you could just get yourself a truck and start going to the stores and just go to the front desk and say, hey, I'm from Redbox and we're here to get this machine out of here.

And the manager will go, go ahead. Have them sign a sheet. Say, I'm here from Red Box. I just need you to sign this because I'm going to get this thing out of here. And you can just put it in a truck and take it out of there. I don't know what you'd do with it afterwards.

I got a semi-load of Red Boxes. I don't know why you're wearing. you'd sell them. I don't know if you can get your money back if you scrapped them. That's an idea. Or if you could take them apart and sell them for parts for other machines or refurbish it to deliver yourself a beer. No, you're not doing that, okay?

But you could. It's possible. So now's the time. You know anything else going on? Go ahead and go collect yourself a red box. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So Fisher Price Snuggish.

baby swings have been recalled for suffocation risk. There's over 2 million of these things. The Fisher Price Snugga baby swings. And they're cool. I mean, you get them, you put your baby in, you swing them back and forth. The kid goes to sleep and it plays and makes them fine and they're happy with it. But they've been recalled. So at least, and sadly, very sadly, at least five infants have reportedly died while

sleeping in Fisher Price Snug a baby swings. prompting the company and the consumer product safety commission to announce a recall of all 2 million of the products. Wow. Okay, so the swings are not safe for infant sleep. If the product is used for sleep or if betting material is added, the head rest and body support insert can increase the risk of suffocation. The snug of swings comes in 21 different models with names like, my little snugger kitty cradle.

I'm sorry, my little snug a kitty cradle and swing, Safari Dreams Cradle and Swing, Moonlight Meadow Swing, and Sweet Snugga Monkey Swing. So they feature a wide variety of themes and accessories. And of course you can see the full list if you're interested. And if you have a baby, believe me, you know the full list. So the swings range anywhere.

They're about 160 bucks each. So here's the thing. The company cares so much about you and your baby that we're not going to refund you any money. Okay. We love you and, man, they're not safe. And, you know, we're going to recall them, but we're not giving you your money back. In fact, we're not even going to replace with a safer one. Okay.

What you need to do is cut out the headrest and the body support insert before you use it again. And you can get a hold of us. We'll send you $25. All you have to do is fill out this form. We care about you and your child and the safety, but we're not giving you any money back. We're not doing that. You can take it apart.

And we'll send you a $25 check. And I bet you it says we will send you a $25 refund for doing so after you fill out a form. So I'd be interesting to see if the $25 is a $25 check, you know, just $25 check that I can put in my bank account, or if it's a $25 coupon for another Fisher Price product. It's $25. We're giving you $25.

Don't worry about it. But it is now illegal, apparently, to sell any snug a swing list. in today's announcement. But they also say the recall doesn't go far enough. Yeah, no kidding. Duh. Man, babies have lost their lives.

We're telling people that they shouldn't use it any of the... Well, they've got a list of it. I mean, that's not... I don't think that it's every... I should look at the actual stupid list. I think it is all of them. They come in the 21 different models. And, I mean, I mentioned a couple.

But, I mean, the 21 different models of the stuff. Snug a, you know, my little snug a kitty cradle and swing, a little snugga bunny swing, little snug a bear cradle and swing. My little snug a bear ballerina cradle and swing. Safari dreams cradle and swing. Moonlight Meadow swing. Sweet snug a puppy swing. Deluxe swing. Deluxe swing. Sweet snug a monkey swing. That's the one I want. Blooming flowers swing. Fawn Meadows deluxe swing. Pekaboo Fox swing. Dots and spots puppies swing. Snow leopard swing. Harth strong swing. Harth Stone swing. Baby raccoon swing, my little snug a bongy cradle and swing, my little sweetie deluxe cradle and swing, my little snug a monkey cradle and swing,

my little snug a puppy cradle and swing, and my little snug a bear cradle and swing. So it's not all of them, just those. Just those for Fisher Price. And so, listen, don't use them. Whatever you do, stop using them immediately. And go ahead and rip out that headset and the head rest. the body support and then you can go ahead, go back to use it again, you know, and then just fill out the form and we'll give you $25.

Wow. Holy cow. Be careful with them, though. Serious business now. Be careful. You don't want anything bad to happen to your baby. And we don't either at Fisher Price, but we're not giving you your money back. Speaking of Snuggababobbies, I see where Diddy's trial date has been set.

May 5th, May 5th. of Diddy's trial is supposed to happen. I'm sorry, Sean Diddy Combs, his sex trafficking case, May 5th. Now, the prosecutors have argued that we're keeping him in jail. He's there for, he's there. We don't care. We're keeping him in jail. His lawyers are saying, hey, we can't get a fair trial.

It was the prosecutors who released the video that showed him beating up the girl, his girlfriend in the hallway, which he apologized for. Remember, he just said, yeah, it was a shit. I mean, that was awesome. That's what kind of guy did he is. Yeah. Yeah, I'm sorry. You know.

That's awesome. Anyway, it's not awesome at all. It's terrible, seriously. But it's funny to me to think about how he reacted to it. So he's still in jail, and the trial is May 5th. There may be a hearing in December unless they decide against it. we'll see here's going to come

us as a surprise to you he has pleaded not guilty to racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges I know I know I thought for sure he would say yep I'm guilty yeah you know

what are you going to do so they say no he's abused women and he's had help from a network of associates and employees while silencing victims through blackmail and violence including kidnapping, arson and

physical beatings. So we'll see. He's going to remain in jail. They're going to revisit him getting out. They claim that they, he's like $50 million for his bail. And they're still like, no, we're not doing that. No. You're going to be a danger of the community.

And we're not releasing him from the Metropolitan Detention Center. We've heard all your stories about everything that's going out at the Metropolitan Center and how bad it is. but no. If we let them out, even with home detention and electronic monitoring, you're still going to be a threat to tamper with witnesses and obstruct the continuing investigation. Of course, you know, his attorneys are like, well, no.

We're not going to do that. No. So we'll see. I guess they're going to read. That's going to go to the second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. We'll see what happens on his. bail hearing. Incredible. They talked about how many devices they seized from him. They said 96 electronic devices were seized in the raids in March on Combs' residences in Miami and Los Angeles

and at an unspecified private airport in Florida. The prosecutor also said that another four devices were seized when Combs was arrested last month. Eight devices seized. Sears seized in Miami contained over 90 terabytes of information, which she labeled this prosecutor, extraordinary. And she explained, oh, okay. It'll be interesting to see if we ever get to see what's on that 90 terabytes of information. So, Diddy was there? It looks like he's worked through his withdrawals.

He was there in his beige jail jumpsuit, and he was more engaged than animated than ever before so maybe they you know slipped him a little something uh perk them up a little bit get them through the withdrawal symptoms so anyway we got may 5th uh for uh shan diddy combs trial to begin that that my friends will be a fun trial now what is the what are the odds what are the money makers saying and i don't have an answer for this but what are the money makers saying uh for him surviving there in uh in jail I mean, it's got to be less than 50-50, right? Got to be. Got to be, what, 80, 20, that he doesn't survive?

That's, you know, if you're putting money on it. Good luck. Good luck, Sean Diddy Combs. Good luck, because I want the trial to happen. I don't want anything bad to happen to you, even though, you know, I know you, you were just fucked off, but I don't want anything bad to happen to you. We speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice,

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It's dumped 18 inches of rain. This is the largest number I've seen 150 tornadoes. I don't know that that's true. I've seen counts between 17 and 30, and now today it's being reported 150 tornadoes. I don't know. A whole bunch of them. a whole crap load of tornadoes.

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4014 chugged into Fort Worth 133 foot long and 1.2 million pound black locomotive is on display and it's moving around and it's in Fort Worth now and I guess it leaves

on Sunday and it's doing its big heartland tour of America. The big boy heartland tour of America. It's incredible size. I've I've seen plenty of pictures. I didn't get out to it live. It was here a few years ago, and now it's back.

This time it's pissed. And you can go to the Union Pacific's website and see exactly where it is. And there were 25 big boys built during World War II. Only eight survived. And number 4014 is the only one in operation. Come on now. Now we're talking. Now we're talking.

It's the heartland tour of America. It's actually the heartland of America tour. So I mentioned the hurricane and Hurricane Milton, you know, making landfall category three. And they have confirmed, I think, a dozen people dead. And we still have, you know, over three million people without power. Well, hopefully that number will not rise, but I'm sure it probably will.

But the storm dumped up to 18 inches of rain in some areas. And this is the first story that I've seen, say, 150 tornadoes. Because we talked about not knowing how many there were. We knew that there were dozens, I guess. But I saw anywhere from 13 to 30. 150 is more than that. I'm not a mathematician, but 150 is more than that. So then I was reading about, you know,

the stupid lieutenant, Dan's story. We talked about it on Pat's show. He's just a crazy guy that lives on his boat. It's not his boat. Okay. So why don't you get him off of it then? And he's had arrest records all over Tampa Bay in different counties. And, you know, he's not a good guy.

He's the guy that is almost practically living on the streets. He's just sleeping in his boat. He stays on his boat. And he's whacked out of his mind. I don't know how he lost his leg. Who's in battle, Jeff? His name is Lieutenant Dan. Okay.

All right. You got it. But, so he's just whacked out of his mind. The point of that story, though, wasn't whether Dan was a criminal or whether the boat belonged to him. If it didn't belong to him, kick him off the boat then. Take the boat away. Give it back to whoever belongs to. But that's where he lives.

And, you know, you can say it doesn't belong to him, but he's on it. So the point was, is that the mayor of Tampa said that she was going to have him arrested, Baker acted. for his own good. How about no? How about no? The man wants to stay on the boat. He can stay on the boat. He said, it's in God hands.

I mean, he even used, who lived during the Great Flood? Noah and all the animals, they were on a boat. I'll be fine. So, good, go ahead. And then we had footage of him. We found out that they did come and check in on him.

They did not arrest him. They didn't back. He, I haven't seen an interview. with him since the hurricane. I'm sure it's out there. But he survived. There was video of the boat slamming up against the docks on the bridges. But, you know, he's alive. And so that's the whole point in the story.

Now everybody's trying to, he's a bad guy and a criminal. Yeah, okay. So that's not the point. The point is, the man wants to stay on his boat during the storm. The man should be able to stay on a boat during a storm. This America. Okay. I digress. Then the other story that I saw out of Tampa, and I didn't realize that they had this.

Tampa General Hospital is on a place called Davis Island. So it's in Tampa, but it's on a property of Davis Island. So it gets flooded a lot and it floods out along a lot and the roads leading up to Davis Island. Sometimes it's difficult to get to. But Tampa General Hospital has this thing called aqua fence. and it's watertight fences. They cost anywhere from $350 to $1,000 per linear foot.

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That's awesome. If I still live in Florida, aqua fence. Aquafense. I would be have that around my home. I want aqua fence. I want that to happen. So that's awesome. And it saved Tampa General.

You know, because Davis Island flooded, especially during Helene. They got it worse in Helene, I think, than they did Milton. But don't quote. me on that but I'm pretty sure that it was worse during Haleen than it was for Milton. But both times, they're saying that both times, Aquafense was used and it was awesome. Now they say that the company, you know, the aqua fence company, said that you could use it up to 60 times, up to 60 times. So you get, you can install 100 feet of aqua fence in 30 minutes,

and they're reusable, able to be deployed up to 60 times. So I wonder if that's their limit. That's part of their deal. We'll sell you our aqua fence. But if you use it like the 60 first time, that's on you. It's not on us, okay? But if you're looking to save your business or your house or whatever, man, I would say, this is an unpaid sponsor,

Aqua Fens would be the thing I would do, man. That sounds awesome. It looks cool. It looks cool. I just, you know, here look, I'll hold it up for you on the screen here. You can take a look at it. See what I'm talking about? I know.

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Lauren Bush. She's the granddaughter of former President George H.W. Bush. She married Ralph Loren's son. So congratulations to the new couple. She will now be known as Lauren Bush Lauren.

And that's kind of cool. Maybe it's Lauren, you know, Lauren Bush, Loren. I don't know if it depends on the pronunciation. But hey, congratulations. So our friends over at Amazon are seeking to dismiss a class action lawsuit

against them. Really, strained that they're seeking to dismiss this lawsuit that's against them. Apparently, the lawsuit alleges that Amazon misled prime video subscribers about charging them an extra fee in order to avoid watching ads on the service. Yeah, you did.

Anyway, they argue that, hey, you got what you bargained for. The platform introduced the ad tier supported tier with limited advertisements and switched all its users to the plan by default. Yeah, you did. And I had to pay more if I didn't want commercials. And I put my foot down. And then every time I get on a show and I start watching commercials, I'm like, just pay them the $2.99.

Just pay them the $2.99. You're already paying all this money. all these platforms, just pay them the $2.99. I just looked at our bill, and I normally don't do this because the wife pays it, and I don't want to know. Because if I know, then I'm going to just, I'm going to have to stop paying for them. I'm going to have to. I will, I have to.

And I looked at it's like the Hulu and the Peacock and the Paramount, the, what else? Netflix. And that's not even prime. No, Max is in the Hulu deal. Max is in the Hulu deal. Apple is part of the phone bill because that's a big It's free

You only pay $8 million for the phone But that's free We're throwing in your Apple Plus subscription And so I get that So then that doesn't count prime Because prime is everything It's still all one deal, right? Amazon Prime

Whatever we pay a year And that gets you the You know, I can have it delivered to my door Which I love or and I get their You know the Prime video So then you have Peacock then you have Paramount Plus and then you have

what was the other one Shoot Netflix Okay So then like Peacock I don't normally have But I got that because it's football season And they And my wife

I catch my wife watching it a lot too She didn't complain Because I said alright I'm gonna get Peacock Because there's a football game And it's different than last year Last year I got it for a month Because the two games I wanted to watch

Were in the month window So I got it like the day of of the game, which got me to the second game before I had to tell them to take a hike, which I did, but I got both games. Now, now they've got it on, you know, different times throughout the season with the new deal with the NFL, bastards. And so I said, fine, I'll just get peacock and so I can watch the games. And my wife is like, okay, that's fine.

And then I see her watching it all the time. So I'm like, oh, okay, that's why it's fine. and so then I have Paramount Plus which I got I mean they're giving me pretty good content for whatever the heck we pay for it with commercials which is kind of agonizing

but I'm okay with it oh the AMC Plus that I have I really love but that my son pays for that I'm not paying for that see what else I have what else did I mention yeah because Max comes comes in part of the Hulu deal

the Hulu Live and the ESPN plus. Now I don't get showtime. I just get Max. I'm not doing the showtime. Every once in a while, if I wait, if I wait like every six months, I could get a month free

or like two weeks free of showtime and then I can get caught up on my showtime shows. Then cancel. So I don't have to pay. But anyway, Amazon, you bastards. So anyway, they argue that the service has long included limited ads during live sporting events

and other content that it never promised. The Prime members or anyone else that Prime Video would be always or entirely ad free. It added that the class action suit falsely and fundamentally mischaracterizes the $299 fee as a price increase

for Prime Memberships. Okay, so we got it. The $299 is an increase for the prime memberships. It's an increase to, so I don't have to watch commercials inside my membership for Prime Video. Okay.

Why don't you just, you know, and I'm not sure why they're, why they're cutting, you know, being so specific on this other than I think what they want to do and they should have done already, really. I mean, Jeff could call me. I mean, you and I can work it out. Fly me out to your yacht and just fly me out to your yacht and I'll talk to you and you're soon to be wife and I'll tell her all the plastic surgery looks great. And then we can sit down and talk business.

So I want to say that instead of raising the price to prime, they should drop the price to prime and make prime video separate. So you have prime goods and services and prime video so that you have their movies and content separately. Financially, that might not be a good move for them because it's all one big pile now. But anyway, you know, call me, Jeff. You know what email me, chewing the fat of the blaze.com.

You can direct message me on X at Jeffrey JFR on X. You probably, I know you've got a Facebook page, you know, incognito. So you can Facebook me, Jeff Fisher Radio. Instagram too. Jeff Fisher Radio on Instagram. You can just DM me and just, and just DM me and say, hey, I know it says this name, but this is really Jeff Bezos. And just, you know, give me a snapshot of you and Lauren on the yacht.

and then I'll know it's you and then I'll reach back out and then you know really what you could do listen I'm happy to do a cameo for you Jeff you guys are out you know touring the world on the yacht with your other secondary yacht following you so you can have your helicopter and your boats and your toys and stuff so Lauren can still fly her helicopter and keep her license and she's so happy

and every you know she's got to fly the land ever so often to update the Botox anyway so you can just call me and she can have her fly in to get me and we'll come out and we'll talk or you can order a cameo. That's where I was at. Really, you can just order a cameo. I'd be happy to do a cameo for you and Lauren.

Happy birthday to you, Lauren. I'd love to do, oh, man. Do I want to do a birthday cameo for Lauren, soon to be Lauren Bezos? Man, happy birthday. I hope that your birthday present is, well, another cut, because that last cut along the face didn't quite do it, right?

Do you think she'd be happy with that? Probably not. you know i was thinking about the marriage between uh lorenne bush and uh ralph lorenne's son and i made the joke of her name as you know loren bush loren or you know loren bush loren depending on uh you know pronunciations but i was thinking that's a new line they could do now lorein loren that's her separate line you're welcome by the way uh you're welcome email me uh chewing the fat of theblaze.com where you call me. Reach out. I'm sure it's a better shot that Bezos has my phone number than Lauren

Bush. But either way, get a hold of me and just know that you're welcome. And you too, Ralph. All right, I know you haven't made enough money in your day. So you know, you're the Ralph Lauren, which I'm a fan of, by the way. The older, I will say this, though, just as a side note to Ralph Lauren. The socks that you used to make about 10 years ago are far better than the socks you make today. saying, I don't know what you did to them, got carried away, go back to the old style. They were much better.

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Dead at the age of 96. And I know what you're thinking. She's still alive? Yes, she was. She was until, well, until she wasn't. She was the widow of Senator Robert. F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in 1968, you know, the mother of junior, who was running for president of the United States of America.

Anyway, she had 11 kids, and that's why you see all those damn Kennedys on the steps of the White House and every building. Those 11 kids have been having kids on top of kids. and more Kennedy's here than you know what to do with. So she has passed away. She was a civil rights activist. Last survivor of Camelot. Yeah, I don't think there really was a Camelot.

But okay, if you say so, no problem. And, you know, her brother, she was once led by the country, was led by, you know, brother-in-law, John F. And it was just the whole damn Kennedy clan running things. And they still, you know, many of them, I guess, kind of think that they still do. Ethel Kennedy, dead at the age of 96. She apparently had a stroke while she was sleeping. That's interesting.

That's interesting. I guess it's possible. That's possible that she laid down at 96 and died. Absolutely. She was sleeping and had a stroke. And it's really that's the best way to go. when you think about dying that's the best way to go

lay down and go to sleep you don't wake up you leave your rest of the family comes in and goes hey it's time to oh oh oh don't put me on dry ice you know what I don't care I don't care if I'm dead I've always said I wanted to go to one of the body farms

but if you want to if you want to put me on dry ice for a couple weeks in the back room go ahead What do I care? I don't care. I mean, you just, I'm just going to blow it up some more. No matter how much dry ice, you're going to go, holy crap. Don't go back there.

You make a wrong nose. Wrong noise might explode. And then you're in real trouble. So, you don't want to do that. Anyway, rest in peace to Ethel Kennedy. Dead at the H.O. 96. Did you see where T.D. Bank has to pay $3 billion

in a settlement with the Justice Department? They apparently were laundering money. And they were proud of it. You know, most banks try to hide it. The other banks that aren't being fined right now are hiding it, by the way. And I believe that. I don't have any proof, so don't come at me. I don't have any proof of that.

I'm just saying they're hiding it. but TD Bank was not. So they are now going to pay a $3 billion settlement to U.S. authorities because of the institution's lax practices, which allowed significant money laundering over multiple years. The Canada-based TD Bank pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, which is the largest bank in U.S. history to do so. The TD Bank created an environment that allowed financial crime,

to flourish. This is what Attorney General Merrick Garland said. By making it services convenient for criminals, it became one. Oh, good line. Merrick. High-level executives were alerted to serious problems with the bank's anti-money laundering program, but failed to correct them as employees openly joked about how easy it seemed to be for criminals to launder money there. They're in the break room.

Yeah. I just took in another 100 million from El Pablo from down under. It's the 10th largest in the United States. The bank is the TD Bank, 10th largest in the United States. 10th? Okay. Its CEO said the company takes full responsibility and has been cooperating with the investigation.

Yeah, I bet. Listen, we won't throw your ass in jail. How about you give us $3 billion? Okay. It's been taking steps to fix the U.S. anti-money laundering program, including appointing a new leadership and adding hundreds of new specialists. Uh-huh. We know what the issues are. We are fixing them. As we move forward, we're ensuring that this never happens again. Uh-huh. And I'm 100% confident that we get to the other side and emerge even stronger. Uh-huh. So apparently, they allowed at least three different money laundering networks to move a total of six. $670 million through TD bank accounts over a period of several years. That does not sound like that much.

$670 million, three different money laundering networks for $670 million. That does not sound. I mean, obviously that's a lot of money to be and a lot of money to you. I get it. But for Pablo Escobar, $670 million, he was burying that much out back just to have them. So the wife could have.

have new jewelry. Okay. All right. So the institution became the bank of choice for multiple criminals and money laundering organizations. All right. From fentanyl and narcotics trafficking to terrorist financing and human trafficking. I feel like you can't prove that because they're just fine. If they could prove that, why would they bring them down? Td. Bank's chronic failures provided fertile ground for a host of illicit activity to penetrate our financial system. In one case, a man moved more than 470 million in drug proceeds and other illicit funds through TD Bank branches,

bribing employees with more than $57,000 in gift cards. He chose TD Bank because it had the most permissive policies. Once, more than once, depositing more than a million in cash in a single day, and then moving the funds out of the bank with checks or wire transfers, continued despite employees expressing concern

about what he was doing. I mean, I can't even get to, $10,000 out of the bank without them handcuffing me and throwing me up against the wall and asking me what I want it for and you can't have it now. You can get it in a week, maybe. And these banks are letting these guys deposit and then withdraw, move the money right away. I'm going to put it in a million today and then I'm going to move it and wire transfer it over here. Oh, here's a bag full of gift cards.

Give them to your family and friends. Oh, okay. All right. The gift cards are a good deal, though, because you just pay cash for them. And then it's just cash money. It's already washed. Already washed. Just a thought.

Not that I've thought about doing anything like that. But I'm just telling you that that's already done then. Buy the gift cards. Whatever store you go to, you know, has already, has taken your money and given you the gift cards. And now the gift cards are worth what they say, right? They're worth what you're saying. And the cash is gone. Cash is now in the system.

Goodbye. I would never I would never condone anything like that ever ever would I condone anything like that would I turn down a bag of gift cards no this episode is brought to you by Peloton

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lie? Our contestant today, Neil I'm going to say his name wrong. Gosh, darn it. It's in my head to say it wrong. Neil Voges. Is that right? That's correct. Okay. I'll talk to you at a minute. Stop talking to me.

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chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Neil Voges How are you, my friend? Welcome to What's the Lie? I'm doing great. That's great, Neil. Thanks for coming on. Appreciate it. What do you do? What are you doing today? Neil? What's going on? I'm just sitting on the back porch

I'm smoking a scar Yeah, is that what you normally do during the day On a Friday? You know, oh yeah Where's that back porch at, Neil? Crawford, Tennessee. I'm a fan. Oh, how are you doing in Crawford, Tennessee?

Anything from Helene, or are you good? Oh, no, we're, we're, it's in middle of Tennessee. It's midway between Nashville and Knoxville. Oh, yeah, you're on the other side. So you're fine. Yeah, no problem. All right. All right, fine.

Good. Glad to hear it. Glad to hear it. Glad to hear it. So, listen, are you ready to, you ready to take your shot? Sitting on the porch up there in the mountains of Tennessee, smoking your cigar? What are? Yes, I am.

All right. Four headlines. What's not real? What's the lie? Headline number one. Scientists recreate the head of this ancient nine-foot-long bug. Headline number two. A South Dakota lawyer has one goal.

Make the host of snacks taste better. Headline number three, Nintendo announces new game hardware on alarm clock. Headline number four, a California police department spent $153,000 on a cyber truck for school anti-drug events. Those are your four headlines. Headline number one, scientists recreate the head of this ancient nine-foot long. bug. Headline number two. A South Dakota lawyer has one goal. Make host of snacks taste better. Headline number three, Nintendo announced new game hardware, an alarm clock. Headline number four, a California police department spent $153,000 on a cyber truck for school anti-drug events.

Those are your four headlines. Neil, what is the lie? The only one I know is true is the cyber truck. So I'm going to give it with number one, the giant bughead. Oh, Neo, gosh, darn it. I wanted you to be right, too. I wanted to be able to come back to the mountains tomorrow, or next week. But whatever. Thanks for playing.

Thank you for listening to What's the Live. What's the Lie is a subsidiary of Chewing the Fat Enterprises. all information is probably accurate at the time of recording CTF WTL MMXXIV. So you want to take another shot? Maybe the lawyer. That would be right. That's correct.

Number two. But you're correct, but you know, you're wrong because that was your second guess. So I appreciate it, Neil. Thank you. Hey, what kind of cigar are you smoking? What are you smoking these days? It's a Perdomo cigar

I love those I grew up in Michigan By the way Nice where at Southwest Michigan St. Joseph St. Joseph Yeah yeah

Yeah You go a little bit north You get Calamazoo And Grand Rapids And Holland Michigan I know where you're talking about Okay I got the hand map right here

Okay All right I was born in Saginaw Right here All right I'm holding the map up right now Just look That's Sagina. Right there. All right. I got family members out there in Tuscola County.

Okay? Out there in the industrial city of the Thumb, Vassar, Michigan. And I also have family members down in Kalamazoo as well. So I know where you're talking about, Neil. All right. I appreciate it, Neil, very much. Thank you. Thanks for listening to the show, man.

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