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Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Ep 533 | Hope and Money

Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher

Blaze Podcast Network

News, News Commentary, Daily News, Society & Culture

4.9 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2021

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Money. Elon is now number one… Powerball & MegaMillions is half a billion each… Yesterday / headlines and the storyline…* Katie Couric Bday and hosting Jeopardy for a week Subscribe to the Podcast… Subscribe to the YouTube Channel… Subscribe www.blazetv.com/jeffy Promo code jeffy Email to Chewingthefat@theblaze.com Emails from listeners… Kim and Kanye getting divorced… “Tiger” on HBO should be fun… Amazon buying planes Apple and Prepear working on settlement Discovery Plus up and running… Shanghai goes into lockdown Don’t lose hope…  Emails… Dominic / Tips and ideas… David / River Monsters… Hazel / meditation… New kids show from Danish Network… Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6

Hello and welcome to it. How in the world are you? Let's get started today by talking a little bit about money or the lack of it or the possibility to get some and how important it is in our lives. I don't think I have to tell you how important money is. Well I know I know it's not always about money isn't

0:39.6

it? Welcome touing the fat. All right, so we can start with saying congratulations to Elon Musk, who is now the richest person in the world.

1:00.6

I know, why is incredible growth. He's now worth 185 billion dollars. Now that is because his Tesla's stock price pushed him to be the richest person in the world.

1:21.0

Surpassing Mr. Bezos. I mean incredible right now as well surge over the past year

1:28.5

marks the fastest rise to the top of the rich list in history. I mean that's amazing right? I really is. I

1:39.3

mean he's now worth a hundred and eighty five billion dollars and I know look I'm not feeling too starry for Mr.

1:47.1

Bezos who's worth a hundred and eighty four billion dollars he'll be okay $84 billion.

1:54.3

He'll be okay, I'm pretty sure.

1:57.4

But Musk's turn around is like 18 months, right?

2:02.6

I mean, at the beginning of 2020, last year,

2:08.7

he was worth roughly $27 billion.

2:13.0

Which, you know, again, I'm not feeling sorry for him.

2:18.0

I'm just saying the rate of increase is incredible, and now he's worth you know 185 billion right I mean he

2:29.0

grew a hundred and fifty or sixty billion billion in a year, little over a year?

2:36.4

I mean, wow, and that didn't come from,

2:39.0

you know, selling those dump houses of his

2:41.9

in California, I'll tell you that. So I mean he passed

2:46.8

Warren Buffett in July becoming the seventh richest person then jumped ahead of Bill Gates as the second richest person and then now he's in front of Jeff

2:59.9

Bezos.

3:02.0

Just amazing and incredible and congratulations and let's go to space and you know does it mean anything to me? You know yeah, I guess he creates jobs which in turn creates other jobs so yeah I mean

3:16.1

it means a little something to everyone right that these guys have all this money

3:20.2

because they're creating other wealth that in turn hopefully trickles down to

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