Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - We Knew Already… | 10/30/23

Episode Date: October 30, 2023

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Starting point is 00:00:36 So Goldie Hawn, you know her, you love her. She has described an experience of seeing, well, UFOs, aliens. And she was physically touched by alien beings in the 60s. She claimed on a show called Time to Walk, which is on Apple 4. Fitness Plus, don't miss an episode of Apple Fitness Plus, time to walk. That was a time when you know there were a lot of UFO sightings. And I was employed as a dancer. Uh-huh.
Starting point is 00:01:14 And all I could think of, I walked out on my apartment ledge, and I sat there, and I looked up at the sky, and I saw all these stars. And all I could think of was, how far does this go? How little are we? are we the only planet the whole wide universe that has life on it and that's when i well that's when i called out to the aliens i know you're out there i know we're not like to meet you one day and so did it happen well yes just not then they he did her call but it was months later. Apparently
Starting point is 00:02:09 four or five months later, whatever, you know, it wasn't then. She was visited by Alien. She asked a friend to take a nap in her car. They were at another dance job in West Covina, California. And I love, man, I thought
Starting point is 00:02:25 it is more beautiful than West Covina, California. And I said, hey, what do you think? Maybe I could take a nap in your car. Good kind of. I got tired. And so she did.
Starting point is 00:02:47 And that's when she got this high-pitched sound in her ear. And it was a high frequency. And I saw these three beings with triangular-shaped heads. They were silver in color. Slash for a mouth, tiny little nose, no ears. They were pointing at me, pointing at me in the car, as if they were disgusting me like I was a subject. And they were droning on it.
Starting point is 00:03:12 on and like many before it, I felt a scent of paralysis, and it was, I couldn't move. I knew I wanted to enjoy the experience, but I couldn't even burst out of the captivity. And so then she, you know, the aliens touched me, inducing some feeling of some type. I felt like it was the finger of God. Couldn't have been the finger of Billy, the work. No, this just stop. It was the most benevolent, loving feeling. This was powerful.
Starting point is 00:03:51 I was filled with light. We could never, ever lose our wonder. Goldie continued. It's just no fun. It's really an important aspect of being an adventurer where nothing is impossible. I know, Goldie. I feel you. Welcome.
Starting point is 00:04:20 Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Welcome. Welcome. How are you? Thanks for coming along for the ride today. Wow. Did I have just an incredible last three or four days? So I thought was down for The Count. That's why there was not a Friday show. I was not on Pat Unleashed. I wasn't on social media.
Starting point is 00:04:48 I mean, I barely emailed anyone, a couple of cameos. I had to postpone. that was unbelievable. So Wednesday, I started feeling kind of crappy. I don't know what it was, but my joints were really aching, and I didn't feel very good. And then Thursday, I woke up, I could barely get out of bed, barely get out.
Starting point is 00:05:13 And it was everything I had to come up here and do a hit on Mojo with Brad Staggs over there in a mojo in the morning. I did. Came up here where I, broadcast the show from home and I did the hit I had a t-shirt on I could I could barely move and uh and I did I did my Thursday show barely I mean it was everything I had I just kept feeling worse and worse and worse I could move every joint in my body and when I mean every joint I mean every joint in my body ached and my everything was swelling up I know how could you tell you were swelling up Jeff look at you I know
Starting point is 00:05:53 but I could. And so I was like, what is happening to me? This was Thursday. So then I realized, okay, well, maybe I started, is there anything new that I've done? I haven't eaten anything new. I didn't go out to any restaurants. I haven't taken anything new. Oh, wait.
Starting point is 00:06:12 Yes, I have. So then I figure, okay, well, so maybe this has interacted with the other medications that I'm on. And so I stopped taking it. and I it wasn't immediate but I did it took I mean I thought that's the only thing that it could be because I'm not I don't want to go to the hospital I don't want to go to the doctor because I'm me and so unless I'm going to get worse and worse and worse I'm not going to go to the hospital and so I said I will wait I'm going to stop taking these and we'll see if that is what the cause was so I had to ride out Friday because it was already you know the
Starting point is 00:06:51 Thursday I decided, okay, well, I'm not going to take that anymore. And I rode out Thursday into Friday. But as bad as it was, Thursday into Friday and almost all day, Friday, I could feel that it was not as bad as it was. So it took me all day, Friday and Saturday, those days to work out of the system. It's still actually still in my system, the interaction between what I was taking and what I do take. And, I mean, you know, so I mean, I'm back to the, you know, strong 50% that I am every day. But wow, that was just incredible. I could not figure it out.
Starting point is 00:07:41 So, you know, when they tell you to consult your physician before taking any new medications and all that kind of stuff, Yeah, you know, you probably should. I know, I know. Silly, silly, silly. I figured out on my own. I didn't need them. But, wow, I was just almost seriously down for the count. So all of you that reached out and wanted to know, hey, where are you at?
Starting point is 00:08:11 What's happening? I mean, I wasn't, I didn't do Pat. I didn't do my show. I just was, I didn't do any, I have my social media. stuff was that I normally do. I didn't happen. And so I appreciate all of the well wishes and thank you. But I'm just telling you, it was down for the count.
Starting point is 00:08:27 And it was because of a mixture of new medicine with old. And I realized that was the only change and that had to be the cause. And so you don't have to be a doctor to figure that one out. Duh. But, you know, probably would have been smart to figure it out before it actually happened. So maybe you do. Need to be a doctor. Okay, well, maybe you do.
Starting point is 00:08:53 But that's what happened. And so thank you for all of you that reached out. I appreciate it. So be sure to follow me on all the social media accounts at Jeffrey JFR on Twitter. X. Jeff Fisher Radio, Facebook and Instagram. YouTube is Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can follow me and order a cameo, which is not free at Jeffy JFR.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Just order a cameo and tell me what, you know, happy, say. glad, mad, mean, whatever you need, and I'll do the cameo for you, whatever the price structure is. That's the way that works. Everybody gets their cut. Or you can always email the show, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com.
Starting point is 00:09:37 So as I'm coming out of my, well, my Goldie Hawn fever dream this weekend yesterday, I'm reading about this new games, the Florida Man Games. They're going to take place in February, It sounds awesome. You can compete.
Starting point is 00:09:54 It looks really, really fun. There's going to be a weaponized pool noodle mud duel, evading a rest obstacle course, cash grab, catalytic converter to bikes at a handful of copper pipes race against time, beer belly, Florida, sumo reps. It's going to be awesome. So you can get tickets to it. It's going to take place in February. Like I said, it's in St. Augustine, Florida. of my favorite cities in America. St. Augustine is just beautiful. And so it should be a lot of fun.
Starting point is 00:10:25 I reached out to the founder and organizer of the Florida Man Games. He's going to come on this show on Wednesday. So if you're listening, be sure to be prepared for Wednesday 11-1. We have the founder and organizer of the Florida Man Games here on Chewing the Fat. I cannot wait. I want to know all about it. And I want to know what you have to do to win, how you can enter, how much it is. the whole kit and caboodle. So I'm looking forward to it, uh, to the Florida man games and we'll find out everything you want to know about it on Wednesday here on chewing the fat.
Starting point is 00:11:00 All right, let's, uh, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So it's almost Halloween. And of course, every year people get in trouble for their yard, uh, their yard displays. People have, uh,
Starting point is 00:11:21 things that, you know, They look dead and people freak out and call the police because they have displays. Oh, my gosh, that looks like a real man hanging from your roof around the other Halloween displays. Okay. All right, fine. So in Utah, apparently a man by the name of Christopher Fujison had set up decorations around a city sign. And that's where he, you know, where that first problem lies is that he should have done it around the city sign.
Starting point is 00:11:48 But he did it anyway. he had a skeleton figure dancing on a stripper pole with two other skeletons around as if seated at a strip joint. That is awesome. He only shouldn't have been on the city sign though because then the city got a little mad. People showed up, tried to take it down. And then the city posted, I guess, on their Facebook page. And if you're in a city, you're supposed to be a member of the city's Facebook page. So you absolutely see it.
Starting point is 00:12:16 It's just weird thinking to my part. with a person responsible for this display, you have until 9 p.m. tonight to take down your decorations, or they'll be removed by the city, and you will have to pick up your items at our public works building. Displays like this are not acceptable, as it is against city code to attach anything to a street sign. Well, okay, so, I mean, obviously, that's the problem.
Starting point is 00:12:40 However, if I just find it interesting that these city officials believe that everyone who lives in the city is a member of the Facebook page. Anyway, so Fujis, then moved the decorations to his front yard and added lights and music to it. That's what supportive neighbors started bringing their own embellishments for the display. That is awesome. So we just got more and more elaborate as time went by with the skeletons and the stripper and the poles
Starting point is 00:13:12 and standing around watching sitting around watching this. the stripper skeleton on the pole. Now, some of the comments on the Facebook page said, I guess teaching our children respect, decency, and manners has gone by the wayside. You know, if your kids understand, this is Christopher Fujison speaking here. If your kids understand what that is, maybe the problem is not the skeleton dancing on the pole. Yeah, maybe it's something else. And so it's just a Halloween display.
Starting point is 00:13:49 Holy cow. Now people are coming by to either look at it and be horrified. How could someone do something like this? Or they're coming by and leaving money in a tip jar. Making it rain for the skeleton stripper. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, anytime you can catch, you know,
Starting point is 00:14:14 bony around the pole, got to do it. I don't know. I don't know if I'm going to have the lights on or not. this year for the old trick-or-treaters. I love seeing the trick-or-treaters. I do. I love making them say trick-or-treat.
Starting point is 00:14:27 I hate the kids who just come up and open their bag and expect candy. No, you have to work for at least you have to say trick-or-treat. You don't say anything. If you just stand there with your hand holding the bag open, I'm not giving it to you. Sorry, I don't care if you're with your folks. Nothing.
Starting point is 00:14:44 Now, maybe, maybe I throw some candy in there if the dad or the mom looks up and says, trick-or-treat, you know, kind of speaks for the kid, maybe. But, man, if you don't say anything, if you just stand, come up to the door with your back, no, not giving any candy. Sorry, I don't care how old you are. I don't care. I'm not doing it.
Starting point is 00:15:01 You got to work for it a little bit. If you come up and do a back-flip and open the bag, I'll give you some candy instead of, but if you have to at least say trick-or-treat, you got to do something, do something, create something of good for it to get the candy. But now, you know, I'm looking at the prices of candy. Holy cow. So we've got 10% Last year they were 10% higher
Starting point is 00:15:23 than 2021. Now this year they're 14% higher than 2022. I mean, it's just amazing. And the prices are through the roof. And they're a lot smaller candy bars. I know. They look almost the same, but they're not. And I'm not talking about the fun-filled ones.
Starting point is 00:15:41 I mean, obviously, the fun-sized candy bars. Are they fun? Are they fun? That's a nice way to look at it, that they're a little fun-sized candies, but I don't know that that really is fun. Anyway, the prices through the roof on the candies. So if you were paying, you know, whatever you're, just like everything else in our life, what was what you received for $100 not long ago is not what you're receiving for $100 today. Wait, what?
Starting point is 00:16:15 Yes, I know. I know. Act with money was money. We used to get candy bars. I know. I'm sure a lot of people will buy, you know, a specific amount of candy and then we're not getting extra. You can call, remember we did the story about M&Ms. They'll deliver M&Ms.
Starting point is 00:16:34 What was Eminem's, Eminem's, right? Yeah. They'll deliver M&Ms to your house directly if you run out of candy. Okay, well, you know, if you can do that, great. And that's for the children, I know. But, you know, it's, candy is, you know, very expensive. so I don't feel bad if you bought candy and then just when you run out, you run out. I don't know that I feel bad that if you bought candy and you shut the lights off and you eat the candy yourself.
Starting point is 00:16:59 You know, I've talked about the years where it's fun to go through the candy with the kids, but my kids are grown now and, you know, they like to think that they like trick-or-treating, but really it's just not really. It's just dressing up in Halloween costumes, right? So when, you know, we're looking at the prices. and they're saying, oh, well, industry insiders, we might be stuck with these high prices for at least the middle of next year. Yeah, I think we could plan on being stuck with these high prices for quite some time.
Starting point is 00:17:30 So the first thing on the list of why prices are so high for candy. Floods and other climate issues. Oh, really? Yeah, all across West Africa. Man, Coco prices are going through the roof. And then India banned sugar exports and Thailand has seen its sugar production dwindle. Huh. The cost of labor, packaging, and other ingredients, like peanuts, have also increased.
Starting point is 00:17:59 So, yeah, all of that put together, your prices are going through the roof. You can always go back to candy corn, which, you know, is just going through the prices of that is going through the roof as well. And everybody wants to, you know, hate candy corn. Candy corn. There's no room in our lives to hate candy corn. Candy corn is fine. Everybody gets a little piece of candy corn. Okay? I mean, we're talking about, they're talking about $88.5 million in candy corn sales.
Starting point is 00:18:34 That's a pretty good day. That's a pretty good day for the old Brock's candy corns. Right? And even, you know, you get the generic brands, they are, well, they're okay. They're okay. They're not really as good as the Brocks, but they're okay. And you're like, okay, well, that's what you can afford? That's what you get.
Starting point is 00:18:53 Yeah. Yeah, so shut your face. Okay, that's what you get. And, of course, like I said, with my kids, it's about the costumes now. I don't know what the, you know, SAG after told their members. Don't be dressing up like any of the characters in Hollywood, the characters that you play. That would be wrong. We don't want to see.
Starting point is 00:19:10 Of course, the biggest characters this year will be Barbenheimer, but we can't do that. Your actors don't do that. Oh, okay, what do you get to go as? What are you this year? I'm a stick. Oh, wow. That's using some creativity, right? There you go. Nobody's dressed up like a stick better than you. Of course, I mean, when you look at the Halloween costumes that are number one, when you talk to places like I think this article that I read earlier was from Party City
Starting point is 00:19:48 but they have the Halloween themed shops everywhere and they're telling everybody Barbie is going to be number one this year for sure and other costumes you know Super Mario Brothers Spider Man Little Mermaid those are all going to be huge just like they always are and those
Starting point is 00:20:05 are the cheap ones and I mean I know they're not cheap the prices have gone through the roof on that stuff as well but I'm not just talking about, you know, for kids and stuff like that, what are the kids are dressing up as? Your little girl wants to be Barbie, she's going to be Barbie. Whether there's a strike or not sag after. Oh, we were just talking about our actresses and actors. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:20:26 Okay. I get you. No problem. We got it. No problem. You know what else? Today is, today is the 30th of October, 2023. All right, if you're listening live, 1338, 1938.
Starting point is 00:20:41 38. What was that 85 years ago? Orson Wells' War of the World's radio play is broadcast. Incredible. Orson was 23 years old at the time. Mercury Theater.
Starting point is 00:20:58 Huh. Mercury Theater. Where do we work? Oh yeah, Mercury Studios. I know. Glenn loves Orson Wells. He decided to update H.G. Wells' 19th century science fiction novel, The War of the world for National Radio. and he did it and it's been it was an iconic broadcast right the show began sunday october 30th at 8 p.m.
Starting point is 00:21:21 and the voice announced the columbia broadcasting system and its affiliated stations present orson wells and the mercury theater on the air in war of the worlds by hg wells and then everyone thought it was real and uh awesome awesome stuff that's that's back when radio is radio. I know. I know. 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. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Matthew Perry. Yes, Matthew Perry, the actor dead at the age of 54.
Starting point is 00:22:27 Found in his hot tub in Los Angeles, their pending autopsy results. We won't know that for quite some time now. Who knows how long it'll be? He was found Saturday in his apartment in his house, drowning in a hot tub from his home in Pacific Palisades area. He was 54. he was out playing pickleball.
Starting point is 00:22:55 His friend said that he had been, well, less than enthusiastically athletic on the pickleball court. And then he went home, told that he had a due person there that would go and get him. I don't know what he ordered, or they ordered a latte, or he ordered, went and ordered, hey, go get me some pastrami. I don't know what it was. they sent the due person off to do something and then he went into his hot tub and he died so everyone is thinking don't know this that it was a heart attack and that you know he slipped into the
Starting point is 00:23:37 hot tub and then drown so it was been drowning because of uh you know cardiac arrest we'll see could have been uh something else too i know you're looking at me like that they didn't say that didn't say that at all. In fact, they didn't even mention that. So stop looking at me like that. Okay? Just stop it. I saw him reading about him, you know, this morning. And I'm kind of liking him even more now. You know, I'd forgotten that he grew up in Canada and he grew up with the douche Justin Trudeau. I guess they remained friends or at least Justin pretended that they were friends. But apparently, according to the Wikipedia page of Matthew Perry, he's misbehaving by the age of 10, stole money, smoked, let his grade slip,
Starting point is 00:24:24 and beat up fellow student and future Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau. How can you not like this kid? All right? He began drinking at the age of 14. That seems a little old. Start drinking if you're on the drinking edge. I was looking at that. Everybody makes that sound like it's so young, but I believe I was a little younger.
Starting point is 00:24:48 I know. I'm not saying that it's good or, well, I should say that is bad. But it's, you know, I started, I remember being really, really drunk on alcohol before I was 14. And that's a, I got it. I got it. Then he was a tennis player and then he moved to L.A. Because his dad was an actor model. And so then, you know, he became a star.
Starting point is 00:25:13 And we started doing drugs and alcohol and went through rehab a million. it's about millions of dollars on rehab and drugs. So it's a good thing. His friend, Ion Sky, who was in, what movie was she in? I don't know, with him a long time ago. Yeah, the Jimmy Rood movie. She was in there with him. And I guess just a couple days ago, he had reached out to her, you know, as friends do.
Starting point is 00:25:40 You work with people and you think of someone as you're doing something and you text them and say, hey, just thinking to you, I was here. I was here scrubbing my toenail fungus and I thought, hey, remember on the movie set when you were scrubbing your toenail fungus and we all laughed? Yeah, well, I got toenail fungus now. So his text,
Starting point is 00:25:58 that's not what he said to I own, but I was just thinking that maybe that's something that you would text someone. He said, hi, Hope all as well. I was meditating. I meditate now. And in your eyes started playing and I instantly thought of you
Starting point is 00:26:13 and how beautiful you are. And she replied, I love that. X-O. And he said, I hope you're healthy and happy. She said, yes, I am both, I think. Good to hear from you. I only have nice memories with you. Oh, boy.
Starting point is 00:26:29 That's never good from coming from time. Me too. And that one afternoon, I was just sitting in my apartment, and there you were. Hello. Hello. That's a nice memory to have of someone. I'm just hanging out in my house all by myself. Well, apartment all by myself.
Starting point is 00:26:45 and then she shows up. Oh, yeah. Only nice memories. So Matthew Perry, very sad, dead at the age of 54. Then we have a Minnesota hockey player who is dead at the age of 29 after a freak accident during a game in the UK. Adam Johnson dead at the age of 29. Okay, so Adam Johnson died Saturday after what his team described as a freak accident and a major medical emergency. He was playing for the Nottingham Panthers in the UK Elite League when he and another player collided and the skate cut his neck.
Starting point is 00:27:32 The footage is amazing and it does not look deliberate, but, you know, other people are reading into it that it was. Oh, I played hockey forever and you don't do something like that. I watched the video, I bet you a hundred times. Well, a lot of, you know, probably wasn't a hundred times. It was at least a couple dozen times, at least. And I can't make out whether it's deliberate or not. It's the way the guy gets hit and hits another player, falls, brings his leg up, sweeps his leg around with his skate.
Starting point is 00:28:06 I feel like maybe it was deliberate to hurt the other person, but not to kill him. But that's hockey, man. Those guys are mean son of a gun. Do I think it was murder? No, stop it. And I don't know. Should he be fined and should the people want him out of hockey and then tried for murder and everything else under the sun?
Starting point is 00:28:29 It was an accident playing a game, a dangerous game. So, I don't know, we'll see. But rest in peace. Adam Johnson, dead at the age of 29. I was trying to figure out he's from Minnesota. I was trying to figure out why the story was
Starting point is 00:28:46 tributes from the Minnesota hockey world and that he was playing in the UK. But he's from Minnesota. So rest in peace, Adam Johnson, dead at the age of 29 and we'll see what happens
Starting point is 00:29:00 in the future with the opposing teams player Matt Petgrave who slashed his throat with his skate. Apparently he has a history of bad behavior. That's every hockey player. That's every
Starting point is 00:29:14 player that's ever played hockey. He has a history of bad behavior. That's why I don't think it was on purpose. I think it's possible that he thought he would, you know, skate him in the chest or something where the pads are and was up too high and cut his throat. I do not think it was on
Starting point is 00:29:31 purpose. But, hey, whatever. Rest in peace to Adam Johnson and then we'll find out what happens with the rest of you later. One more who died today. Who died today? Mike Pence.
Starting point is 00:29:49 Mike Pence's presidential campaign died today. I know Mike Pence did not die, but his presidential campaign did die. He announced that his campaign is officially suspended. I guess you can't, you just suspend it so you keep the money flow going. not really sure. I'm sure they have a great idea on how to keep the money in their back pocket. He showed up at the Republican Jewish Coalition Convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Starting point is 00:30:22 And he said, I came here to say, it's become clear to me. This is not my time. Mike, some of us came to that conclusion a lot sooner than you, my friend. He went on to say that after much prayer and deliberation, I have decided to suspend my campaign for president, effective. today. And so he went on, he blabbered on for a little while longer. So Mike Pence, 64, his presidential campaign, dead. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time.
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Starting point is 00:34:07 Check out the new Blaze, the Blaze.com, and become a member of theblaze. The Blaze.com. I think it's Blaze TV Plus, where you have Blaze TV and Blaze News. Because you can't have a new addition to a website without adding a plus. think that's a new law. I'm not positive about that. I just feel like it is. So, you know, you can become a member of Blaze TV Plus. Hey, so congratulations to Magic Johnson, the NBA Hall of Famer. I mean, I love Magic. I've watched Magic play basketball since he was in high school, man. He is the newest member to the billionaire club. He's not worth $1.2 billion.
Starting point is 00:34:54 I know. He's got several professional sports teams. He's got a life insurance, Equitrust, I believe is his life insurance company. And he now is worth $1.2 billion. So you got magic, you got Michael Jordan, you got Tiger Woods, you got LeBron James, I mean, you got Taylor Swift. You see where I love this yesterday. The Denver Broncos beat the Kansas City Chiefs in Denver. Wonderful. It was fun. I have no horse in the race. It didn't matter to me.
Starting point is 00:35:35 It was just fun to watch Denver beat Kansas City in Denver. It was also fun to see after the game as the Denver fans and the stadium ripped out Taylor Swift music and was dancing to Taylor Swift as the Kansas City Chiefs lost. And now they had to leave the field listening. to fans and the cheerleaders dancing to Taylor Swift. Awesome stuff right there. Awesome stuff. You see where my man, Elon Musk, owner of X, which you can follow me on at Jeffrey JFR, by the way. Formerly known as Twitter, he bought the company for $44 billion, right?
Starting point is 00:36:17 He bought X for $44 billion. How much is that worth now? they claim now that it's worth $16.9 billion. That's based on data from Fidelity. So I guess that's why we're having the big overhauls, and they're saying, well, with the overhauls and the platform's branded features consistent ad revenue declines, executive shakeups, 16.9 billion. That's still not bad.
Starting point is 00:36:49 I realize belief. you know, I realize that the math isn't mathed, but it is kind of in Elon's world. That's why, I mean, he's starting to charge for everything and things are starting to turn around, or at least it appears to be turning around. We'll see if that's actually the case. I mean, especially now that it's X
Starting point is 00:37:07 and he ripped away the iconic Twitter. I mean, Twitter is a national, worldwide, iconic symbol and name, and he just ripped off the band-aid of that, and is now calling it, I mean, people can barely call it X without saying formally Twitter. And so that one, that was a bold move from Elon. But he's the guy, right?
Starting point is 00:37:30 I mean, Magic Johnson just entered the billionaire status as $1.2 billion. Elon has about 250 of those 1.2s. So he's doing something right. He most definitely is doing something right. All right. All right. Let's wrap this thing up. I'll leave you with a couple of thoughts. for the day. Okay, a couple things to, you know,
Starting point is 00:37:52 maybe just, well, chew on a little bit. That's what we do here on chewing the fat. Okay, a recent study found people who take their coffee black are more likely to exhibit psychopathic traits. People who order a quad-shot, non-fat, vanilla soy, extra foam, light whip with caramel drizzle, are more likely to be their victims. Just something to think about, just something to think about,
Starting point is 00:38:20 like this. This one actually makes you made me, this morning, I was like, ooh, yeah, wow. I don't even want to actually think about this. So I thought I would share it. Since I don't want to think about it, I thought I would share it with you. 1980, the year 1980 to 2023. Oh my gosh, that's this year.
Starting point is 00:38:40 So from 1980 to 2023 is as far apart as 1980 and 1937. Okay? I know. I know. I didn't want to think about it either. 1980 to 2023 is the same and as far apart as 1980 to 1937. Incredible. I know. Look, I had to think about it. So do you. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew. with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to luxe beauty and fragrance sets,
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