Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Woefully Inadequate!?... | 12/13/22

Episode Date: December 13, 2022

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they, them, no longer a Department of Energy employee. Remember him? It was just a couple of weeks ago when the news broke that he stole a woman's suitcase from the Minneapolis airport back in September. And they tried to reach out to him and he was on leave at the time. Huh. Okay. Well, now, and I said this cannot be the first time. And there you go. It comes up that, yes, he did it before, at least one time before, in Las Vegas at the beautiful Harry Reid International Airport. He is seen on video, making off with a $320 bag from Las Vegas. And the bag contained. more than $3,500 worth of jewelry clothing makeup. Okay, so that's what he was hoping for in Minneapolis and didn't get, right? In Minneapolis, he took the suitcase, the Vera Bradley suitcase, and he was hoping for a lot more items in it, and the items were, you know,

with the Vera Bradley suitcase and the items inside was a little over $2,000. The time at Harry Reid, he got lucky and got a $320 bag, which is about the Vera Bradley price for suitcases. But it contained jewelry and makeup, and he was all happy about that. And so he's definitely going to do that again if he hadn't done it already. I mean, I don't necessarily want to spend the time scouring,

gowering surveillance video from airports, but his travel schedule was public at the time as he was working as, you know, in our Department of Energy, as the deputy assistant secretary for spent fuel and waste disposition at the DOE's Office of Nuclear Energy. So, I mean, that's a good gig, and it's a long business card. But he is no longer employed there.

So big surprise. And Sam could face prison time. Well, at least jail time. According to Minnesota theft, he could get five years in prison. and for the theft up to 10 years jail time for the Las Vegas heist. So good luck, Sam. I mean, they, them, hope everything works out for you. Hope that luggage was worth it.

And for you, internet sleuths, I would try to get a hold of his schedule, and then you could try to back up and get the footage from the airports that he traveled in around the time frame within that window of his travel time. And I would almost bet that it has happened at least two other times, at least. But, you know, two is enough, I guess, right? Because you're stealing other people's property and you're doing it at an airport. Duh. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. Isn't it interesting? that Sam Bankman Freed, Fried, Fried, Fried, Fried, SBF, was arrested in the Bahamas yesterday. This coming a day before he said, I don't think I'll be arrested. Uh-huh. He was doing a Twitter space

and said, I don't think I'll be arrested, and that he was arrested. So the Attorney General for the Bahamas announced that the former CEO of FTX had been arrested in the island nation. American authorities explained that it came at their request the U.S. criminal charges against SBF won't be on sealed until sometime today, but according to New York Times, they will include wire fraud, wire fraud conspiracy, securities fraud,

securities fraud conspiracy, and money laundering. What's interesting is that he was supposed to testify, albeit over Zoom, to Congress today. Huh. So he gets arrested and he won't be able to testify. Weird how that happens. Weird. I would, uh, make sure that he is looked after. Looked after carefully. Now, I know that, you know, the alleged fraud comes from the collapse of the SBF crypto empire. I mean, it was worth $32 billion, like a month ago. And then, nope, gone.

Poof, poof. I mean, this guy was hailed as this hero, and now he's hailed as the new Bernie Madoff. Wow. I mean, fall from grace happened fast for the FTX King SBF. And we'll see what happens to all the celebrities that promoted it. I mean, they were actually just promoting the product and they were, you know, doing commercials for a company that they thought was good. So we'll see what comes of that. Because on the NFT side, not the crypto side, but the NFT side,

I know that Jimmy Fallon, Madonna, Serena Williams, and a bunch of other celebs are part of a class action lawsuit, claiming they conspired to promote Bored Ape NFTs at inflated prices while taking hidden payoffs. So it wasn't just a commercial for money, according to the class action lawsuit. The celebrities promoting Bored Ape Yacht Club, non-fungible tokens, the NFTs, at increased prices without disclosing their financial stakes or personal interests, thereby misleading investors and violating both state and federal laws. The suit details how celebrity promoters allegedly engaged in unlawful, unfair, and deceptive practices played a significant and lucrative role in a conspiracy engineered by Hollywood elites. Wait, what? The NFTs weren't a good deal? Come on now.

So, according to the blockchain startup company behind B-A-Y-C-N-F-Ts, the Board Ape Yacht Club NFTs, along with various executives and celebrities, the crypto payments startup Moon Pay was also named along with the defendants. The suit claims that Yuga Labs conspired with highly connected Hollywood talent agents, agent Guy Ushery and Moonpay to promote and sell a suite of digital assets. So I guess that they made a deal and they wanted to leverage the network of the A-list, musicians, athletes, and celebrities to misleadingly promote and sell the financial products. That's going to be tough to prove.

I mean, if they have actual proof that that happened, okay, we'll see. You know, these get people were doing commercials for the these companies and something that they believed in at the time. They did a commercial for it and the company was the one that was not disclosing all their their risks. So, I mean, good luck. Again, from chewing the fat. Good luck.

God bless. Oh, and I failed to mention that Orion capsule, NASA's Orion capsule, came back to Earth after successfully completing a 25-day mission around the moon. It re-entered Earth's atmosphere at Neum. nearly 25,000 miles an hour, 32 times the speed of sound, while sweating through outside temperatures of about 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. That seems a little warm. But the two sets of parachute helped slow it down to a gentle 20 mile an hour

when it splashed down into the Pacific Ocean, and we saw it land in a splash down in the ocean. We are now, you know, the stakes are huge for this Orion, to happen. I mean, that needs to happen, right? And so, you know, we, they're going to attempt to land humans on the moon again, two flights away, right? So we have the next flight, which will happen. That will just have humans on it and not land. And then, uh, the next one will land on the moon, which would probably happen in 2025 or 2026. Um, Orion actually just a little, you know, FYI. Orion splashed down 50 years to the day that astronauts last landed on the moon. So, that's kind of a, you know, just an FYI.

Now, also, before Orion splash down, a SpaceX rocket blasted off carrying a lunar lander made by Japanese company, Ispace. If the Icepace vehicle makes a successful landing, it'll be the first time a private company accomplished the feat. to date only the U.S., China, and Russia have successfully completed what's called soft landings on the moon. Now, Ice Space was formed in order to compete in the Google Lunar XPRIZ competition, but its ambitions have ballooned since then. Now it's aiming to create an economically viable ecosystem around the moon. Okay, but this historic landing isn't going to happen for a long time. Orion took five days to reach the moon.

Ice space mission, a guess is taking the long road. I'm not sure they're taking the back roads or the access roads and having to stop at all the stop signs and the red lights because that's not supposed to land until April of 2023. So I'm not sure. I mean, somebody made the wrong turn already? I'm not sure. Anyway, so we have.

that to look forward to. And there's a lot happening in space. I mean, NASA has awarded a Texas company, I don't know, $57, $60 million for a lunar construction system. The White House said they planned, you know, living on the moon and mining its resources. Okay, do we know the moon actually has resources? I don't know. I mean, Elon wants to use the moon as a launching point to Mars.

So, I mean, we do need to have some kind of construction system. on the moon so that is coming you know speaking of helmets and what's happening i saw uh an ad for the dyson's zone air purifying headphones and they have headphones and then around the front has an air purifying breathing system for you to wear and would you wear that i don't know it's like a thousand i'm sorry nine hundred and forty nine dollars and you know it looks like if you ever watched batman It looks like kind of a bane face mask. But, you know, I get it. You know, you want to breathe, you know, fresh air.

And if you're traveling might work, okay. It'd be better. I probably would venture to say that this is better than just wearing a stupid cloth mask over your face. But, you know, having said that, you know, I don't know that I would actually wear one. And I don't know that they have a headphone face mask for the breathing system. for a fact guy head, but I don't know that. Now, my question is, is that I've said for years, years, that we need to just wear helmets.

Wear helmets, just like the NASA helmets or just think of a motorcycle helmet, all right, with the glass, with the, with the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, computer screen, and you can access any information you want on that screen. That's your phone. You can talk. to people with your helmet on. You can access information on your screen. Plus, you can look through and look at live things that are happening in your face right now.

I just, I feel like that's the wave. I'm willing to do it. I feel like when we see pictures of aliens, this is just me. Welcome to coast-to-coast AM. I feel like when we see pictures of aliens with like one eye, that's like us in the future with wearing a helmet with just, you know, one face guard in front of us. So I'm willing to wear the helmet, to be honest. I want that to be my phone.

I can access videos, information, email, all of it right there. I don't have to carry anything. Well, you have to carry a helmet. But I don't have to carry anything. I just wear my helmet. And, you know, that's all of it, everything, just in the helmet. And the helmet would be cheap, probably only, I don't know, $20, $30 million. I get you a good one for $10 million.

You really to do that now? Okay, good. I mean, I don't know how much it would cost to mass produce something like that. An awful lot, for sure. But just trying to think ahead a little bit. That's all. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

So, Jennifer Lawrence, has broken, I guess she was silent after being, you know, destroyed. After she said this in an interview that was released from Variety, as she was doing an interview with, what's her face, Viola Davis, with sit down, as they call it, with Actors on Actors series. And she had this to say, I remember when I was doing Hundred Games,

nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie, Because it wouldn't work. We were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead. But boys cannot identify with a female lead. Oh, absolutely. And it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every single one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies, to keep certain people in the same positions that they've always been in. Yes, that they've always been in. I know, Jen.

I mean, let's just sit back and think about that for a little bit. You know, we talked about who, you know, Linda Hamilton, Uma Thurman, Charlie's Angels. There were plenty of other females prior to Hunger Games. Well, Jen had to react because people said, hey, Dufus, what the hell are you talking about? Now, she claims now that, hey, wait a second, that's certainly not what I meant to say at all. Well, that is what you said. I know that I'm not the only woman who has ever led and actually.

film. Oh, really? I mean, that's kind of what you imply. What I meant to emphasize was how good it feels referring to the outdated belief that women are not suited to star in action movies. And I meant that with Viola to blow past these old myths that you hear about, about the chatter that you would hear around that kind of thing. But it was my blunder. And it came out wrong. I had nerves talking to a living legend. Did you, Jed? Did you? Okay.

All right. I guess all is forgiven then. No problem. You know what? We forgive you for being an idiot. No problem. I see where, speaking of actresses, Emily Blunt was doing a

podcast interview called Smartless podcast. I love smartless podcast. I've never heard it. So I don't know if it's any good or not, but she did an interview for a smartless podcast. And she's 39 now. And she was recalling her Hollywood co-star delivering some tough love on the set of the 2014 action flick edge of tomorrow. That was okay.

I mean, it was worth the watch, Tom Cruise. It was okay. Now, the headline makes it seem worse than how she explains it. The headline is, Emily Blunt says Tom Crowe's told her to stop being. such a pussy on the film set. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm not supposed to say that word. And so you think, oh my gosh, Tom, what a douche. What are you doing?

But when you hear the story, he really didn't say it like that. All right, she goes on to explain that when you hear the word tactical, you think, that sounds nice and cozy. There was nothing cozy about the suits they were wearing. It was 85 pounds. It was so heavy. The first time I put it on, I started to cry. and Tom didn't know what to do.

So she said that Tom just stood there and looked at her for a little while, didn't know what to do. And then he just, he said, it's not being such a pussy. He's just telling her, come on, let's go, let's get it done. He wasn't trying to be mean. about it. He didn't know what to do. He was just being nice. She said,

but in a good way. He just stared at me for a long time, not knowing what to do. Come on. Stop being such a pussy, okay? And that got her, you know, to laugh. And they did the movie and she made whatever huge amount of money that she made

for the movie. So, I mean, the headlines are trying to make Tom look out to be a bad guy when actually he was just trying to get this woman. to do her job. And in a nice way, stop being so much of a poohy. Oh, we've got Avatar,

Avatar 2, the way of waters. Finally here, hits the theaters on Friday. Maybe even late Thursday night if you can get tickets, man, how excited are you? So the runtime is only three hours and ten minutes. That's not bad.

According to James Cameron, Mr. We have to get rid of testosterone. it's only the duration of an NFL game and it's necessary because there are more characters to service oh okay so we'll see how the way of water hashtag avatar the way of water does i'm sure i mean obviously it's going to be number one

but we'll see if it's going to actually have some kind of some kind of base for reaching the numbers that they certainly hope it does i know the one actor uh joel david more he was asked about the movie and he said you don't need to watch the first avatar to understand wait what yeah they're good on their own but he said hey hey hey you know you absolutely should see the first one but who hasn't seen the first avatar don't put your hand up like i haven't jeff i've never seen that movie you know you have even if you caught a little bit of it uh on tv at some movie channel not one of the pay-per-views

but just regular TV airing Avatar with commercials. You know you've watched it. I like watching it. I like putting it out. It's a good movie to put on and not have to really watch because there's some really good scenes in it, but you don't have to watch the whole thing, and it's a long movie.

I like that. So I don't know that I'm going to see Avatar 2 at the theater. I really, poof. Man, I'm questioning my ability to sit through the way of water for three hours and 10 minutes. That's a tough thought for me. I don't know. And we have a Sunday.

I mean, look, we got Yellowstone in the rounds. We're a smack dab in the middle of the Yellowstone season. We've got Tulsa King, which has been really fun to watch on Paramount Plus. And starting Sunday, the premiere of 1923 with Harrison Ford and Helen Moran. It's going to be awesome. I'm so looking forward to that. So that begins this weekend, too. So we've got a lot of NFL.

football, and we've got 1923 on Paramount Plus. So, and you can go see Avatar 2 if you have time in there. I don't know if you're allowed to watch NFL football and then go see Avatar 2, or if you should see Avatar 2, and then you probably won't want to watch NFL football because, like James Cameron says, a testosterone is a toxin. So. And if you're listening live today is the 13th. of December 2022.

So the premiere of 1923 will be on the 18th of December. So depending on when you're listening to the show, you should be listening to it every day, to be honest. If you're listening right now and you're not a subscriber, what are you doing with your life? It's free to subscribe to chewing the fat. You should subscribe on whatever platform warms the little innards of your soul. And then if that platform allows you to rate and review,

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You can follow me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio. And Twitter is at Jeffie JFR. And oh my gosh, do we have some Twitter news? I know that Twitter Blue is finally rolling out. Is that a done deal now, I guess? we've started that now, it's $8 a month. I've purchased on the web or $11 a month if bought through Apple's App Store.

I guess you're going to be able to add a verification checkmark to your profile, gain access to other features. We'll see if it works out. I am still a blue checkmark at Jeffie JFR. I want to see how it goes before I actually decide if I'm going to drop the old $8 a month for the blue checkmark. Is it worth it? You know, maybe it is. Maybe it is. I don't know. Elon's the, you know, Elon's the enemy number one of the world, criminal number one of the world right now.

I mean, he's closed the company's safety and trust counsel. They're pissed about that. He's having a yard sale. Well, not really a yard sale, more of an auction. The auction is going to begin on January 17th. And it's going to last. over 24 hours, according to the auction facilitator site Heritage Global Partners. They're going to be auctioning off hundreds of items from its San Francisco headquarters to the public, including a high-powered espresso machine, a statue of its logo, stationary bikes, the six-foot sculpture of the at symbol, a decorated with the plants, and of course, a three-foot bird sculpture of the Twitter logo.

That might be cool to have at some point. where the hell you'd put it. But, you know, office supplies, chairs, desk, computers. I do need some computers. I could use a new laptop. Maybe, maybe even a couple. So there's a meat and cheese slicer, an industrial vegetable dryer, an industrial-sized oven, perfect for pizzas.

So, I mean, he's trying to make a little cash back with a yard sale. He claims he's losing $4 million a day. So anyway, you got to love Elon Musk, even if you hate him. You got to love him. He's public enemy number one, that's for sure. Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time.

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I feel like I may have mentioned her before, but I don't want to miss her. She's dead at the age of 96, Scher's mother. Georgia Holt, dead at 96. She tweeted this weekend that Mom is gone. She's, I mean, Cher is 76, so you knew Mom, mom was 20 when she had Cher, and I guess that's mom's claim to fame was having Cher. Anyway, Georgia Holt, rest and peace, dead at the age of 96.

June Blair, dead at the age of 90. June Blair was married to David Nelson from 61 to 75, but she was in the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Playboy playmate in her day. I know. Think about it. She was a beloved mom. She passed away at her home in Sherman Oaks, California of natural causes.

So June Blair, dead at the age of nine. Carl Kleinsmith. And when you think to yourself, Carl Kleinsmith, yeah, a writer on the Dick Van Dyke Show and MASH died at 85 years of age. So he also created

First and Ten, the HBO football comedy. He worked with the Dick Van Dyke show, as I said, at Mash. So Carl Klineschmidt dead. At the age, I want to give him his,

before, I finish him off here. I mean, he also wrote for, you know, the Doris Day show, Gomer Pyle, and the courtship of Eddie's father and Love American style. He was a working fool. Welcome Back, Cotter, uh, the love boat. I mean, he was, uh, he was a working fool. He wrote, uh, Middle Age Crazy starring Bruce Dern and Ann Margaret, Kiss Shot, starring Whoopi Goldberg. So, I mean, he was a busy man. He did some, he did some great writing, uh, for television. Clutchman dead at the age of 85. Hawaii's last princess dies at the age of 96 with her wife 69 by her side.

She inherited the princess inherited the sugar plantation from her dad, which was worth, I don't know, $200 or $300 million. She bred race horses. And she, you know, did a lot of. of things for the native Hawaiian people since she was called the last Hawaiian princess. Abigail Kenanoki, Kalkali, Kowana Kau, I'm sure that's exactly how she pronounced it.

uh amigail k-i-n-o-i-k-a-u-l----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 69. They tried to say that she was out of her mind and she came back and said, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I'm not out of my mind. I want my money to go to her and we'll take care of the rest of the Hawaiian. I'll donate all this other stuff to Hawaii. Okay, cool. All right, good. Also, sad news. I give full all of these are sad news actually in our Who Died Today segment. Mississippi State head football coach Mike Leach dead at the age of 61. Yes, there were reports of his. death prematurely. And I don't know that it was actually premature. I just think that it hadn't been officially announced yet. Some people knew. Some people didn't. So it was never official.

So the people that were reporting his death, they were saying, no, he's not dead yet. Nobody's never said he's dead. He just suffered a massive heart attack and he's in the hospital. He's in serious condition. Well, he passed away last night, for those of you listening live, today is Tuesday, the 13th of 2022. He passed away Monday night at the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson. following complications from a heart condition.

He reportedly suffered a massive heart attack when it was airlifted to the hospital. He was suffering from... He had pneumonia most of the season. He said he was battling pneumonia most of the season. Huh. Huh. That's weird that he would be battling an illness

as a 61-year-old head coach in college football. Huh. During the, you know, during the COVID stuff. Anyway, Mike was always a, you know, a highlight. real himself. As far as I had coach, I know he got in trouble at Texas Tech.

I've seen him coach a couple of times. He was coaching in Texas Tech when my son was playing at Missouri and we played Texas Tech during that time. He got in trouble with Craig James with some disciplinary stuff. And so he got fired and then they ran him off. And then he ended up coming back to coaching

because he's a great coach. And then he was ended up at Mississippi State in 2020. Anyway, Mike Leach. dead at the age of 61. Also, one more death in Who Died Today. This just what came down. Stuart Margolin, best known for his Emmy-winning role in the Rockford Files. He was Angel in the Rockford Files, dead at the age of 82, from natural causes, of course.

I mean, he may have actually been in the shows written by Carl Kleinschmidt because he was in, Love American Style, Mary Tyler Morris Show, Partridge Family, he appeared in those shows. So those shows may have been written by Carl Kline Schmidt, who was also in our Who Die Today segment. But Stuart, you may remember him also in the film Death Wish with Charles Bronson, the first Death Wish, because Margarland plays the developer

who gives Bronson a tour of a gun range and later gives him a gun, which starts Charles down the death. death wish road. So, and he was great as Angel. And he was just a, he was just a really good character actor. And he was, you know, fun to watch on the screen. So very sad, Stuart Margulam, dead at the age of 82. Who, felt like I was writing the obituary page in the old newspapers. My grandfather always used to say, I, you got to check the obituaries every day to make sure I'm not in there. No kidding.

That's a heck of a list today. And who died today? 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. All right. What is happening around the globe and in the United States of America? we have the Supreme Court rejecting a bid by major tobacco companies to block a statewide ban on flavored tobacco products

that was voted in by Californians last month. The companies, including Newportmaker RJ Reynolds, told the court that menthol cigarettes account for around one-third of the state's cigarette sales and argued that a ban ran afoul of federal law. The ban is scheduled to take effect next week, making California the second state to outlaw such products. Wow. I mean, you want to talk about just trying to create a black market for goods. That is, you want to make some money. You can start smuggling in menthol cigarettes to California. Just incredible. It's incredible.

We have the World Cup happening. Oh, my gosh. The World Cup final is going to be held on Sunday. Another thing we can look forward to this weekend. But we'll see who actually ends up in the finals. We have Morocco taking. on France tomorrow. And today,

Tuesday the 13th, we have Croatia taking on Argentina with the Lainó Messe. So it's probably a good bet that it's going to be Argentina and France in the finals. But the way this World Cup

has played out, you just never know. Croatia is on quite a hot streak. I don't know that they can beat Argentina, but you know, we'll see. and could Morocco beat France? I don't think so. So I'm pretty sure I'd be willing to bet.

I would be willing to bet. If I were to put money on the World Cup, who was going to play on the final on Sunday, it would be France versus Argentina. But, you know, don't use me as an excuse. I mean, Brazil was supposed to beat Croatia too, and then Croatia beats Brazil on penalty kicks. Give me a break.

Just incredible. Did you see where, The Keystone Pipeline leaked more than 14,000 barrels of oil in Kansas last week, almost enough to fill a swimming pool. Ooh. So according to the AP, it's the largest spill in the pipeline's history. It's not the only one. Counting this, the pipeline has leaked more crude onto U.S. land than any other pipeline since 2010.

Nearly 26,000 barrels total. Okay, so 14,000 is the size of a pool. pool. So 26,000 is what? Less than two pools. So it really, while they try to make it sound like a lot, it doesn't, it's not really a lot. Uh, and it's still, they it's still, we need that pipeline. Uh, TC. Energy will be able to get it back up and running again after shutting it down when the spill started. So what caused the leak is the question. Is it sabotage or, you know, just repairs? But really, when you break it down as the amount of oil that goes, through that pipeline. 26,000 barrels have leaked since 2010 in 12 years. I feel like that pipeline's working just fine. No, I don't want any land to have oil on it. No, it shouldn't have any leaks.

I know, I got it. But I just feel like that's really not that bad. That is the cost of doing business. Hugh bastard. I know, I know, I know. Oil killing some sort of bugs on the land. in Kansas is the cost of doing business. That's just the way I think.

And I'm not an oil man. Well, I guess I kind of am at heart. And I see where our lawmakers are leaders in Washington, D.C. You know, the grand poobaz of this country, they face a deadline by Friday, a Friday deadline, to avoid a partial government shutdown. Let's all bow our heads for just a moment and hope and pray that that government shutdown happens.

Ready? Okay. thank you oh my gosh nothing barely gets shut down everything is everybody considers themselves essential workers and those who are still under the non-essential government services

they all end up just getting paid when the government reopens so it's just do it just happens to be a funding lapse so I have no problem with the government shut down I mean let's shut it down and get a budget on these people In fact, let's just shut it down. What do you say?

Let's just shut it down. Okay. I see also earlier, Apple, last week, I think, two women sued the company over its air tags. Apple markets the quarter-sized smart devices as a super easy way to track personal items. Keys, purses, wallets, you put the Apple Air tag in, and you can know exactly. where it is at all time. But according to a lawsuit, the devices become the weapon of choice for stalkers and abusers. Oh no. One plaintiff says her ex tracked her location by placing an air tag on her car. How is this Apple's fault? How? Okay, so another alleges her former partner

tracked her by putting the device in their child's backpack. While Apple called air tags stalker proof when they first launched it later acknowledged reports about actors using them for malicious and criminal purposes. Yeah. I mean, that's going to happen with any product. So in February, the company added

safeguards to the devices, like alerting people if an air tag is following them, but the lawsuit calls them woefully inadequate and says the benefits of air tags do not outweigh the risk. Boy, I would disagree with that. I know. I know I get that there are bad actors and nobody wants to be stalked and you shouldn't be stalked and you shouldn't be abused. I know that.

But my gosh, it's not Apple's fault that someone is using a product they made to stalk you. I'm just, I just don't see how, I mean, maybe in today's world it is. Maybe, you know, what the heck do I know about today's world anymore? because every time I think, that can't happen, it does. So maybe we just live with, we do that, okay? Maybe we just do that. That's our new motto here on chewing the fat.

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