Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - 7/29/17 Hour 2

Episode Date: July 29, 2017

- Hotel dirty sheet stories - Interview with "Monkey Selfie" Photographer David Slater - Pintrest talk - Jeffy hosts a cocktail party - Chicago paying insane salaries to city employees and contractors   Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRA Like Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadio Follow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Set it loose. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. 888-90-30-33-9. is the phone number. You follow me on Twitter at Jeff EMRA, Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. And it's another one? Oh, yeah, Instagram.

There's a Snapchat out there too somewhere. I never can remember my Snapchat. So just, you know, look for it. Snap funny pictures of yourself and send them to me. So at the end of last hour, I got tied up and I lost track of time. And I was talking about the Story Inside Edition did on the hotels. Now, Inside Edition went into these hotels, and they booked a room, and then they marked the sheets.

All right, and then they checked in the next night under different names to see if the sheets had been changed. Now, at each hotel with the first Inside Edition investigator checked into the room, they laid the large stencil on the bed sheets and sprayed the stencil. Now, they sprayed it with what they're calling the harmless, washable fluorescent paint with the words, I slept here that you could only see in the UV light. Now, of course, they came back and three of the nine, that is nine different hotels. Now, three of the nine,

three of the nine, didn't change the sheets. And of course, the managers all responded with, oh, we expect them to change every day. That's our policy. Get Mary down here. Get, ahead of housekeeping down here.

Okay? But that's not a good thing. Okay? Now, I was told a long time ago, and at the end of the story here on the Inside Edition story, the news story, they try to tell you, hey, when you first check in, ask maid service to bring you an extra set

of sheets, then change the mystery ones to the fresh ones. And this might sound crazy, but many people do it. Bring your own sheets from home. You know, I'm not bringing my own sheets from home. The point of going to the hotel is so that they provide that however, I was told a long time ago from a, from our bug man in Tampa, Florida, that bug and plant man, Florida gardening host,

that when he goes, when he travels, goes and checks into the hotel, goes up into the hotel room, rips all the sheets off the bed so that he can check for bed bugs and all the pillowcases off, everything rips them all off and tosses them out in the hallway, calls housekeeping and says he wants a brand new set of sheets and comforters and pillowcases for the beds brought up. So if he finds the bed bugs, he checks out. And if there's no bed bugs, then he has clean sheets and pillowcases.

I mean, that's the thing to do, right? That is the thing to do. And I know that, you know, people, now they're trying to, I guess if you're there, I don't mind it so much if I've checked into the place and I know they're clean. and it's been, you know, you're there for two or three days. You don't really, I don't necessarily like housekeeping in and out of the hotel room all the time. That's what they're there for.

But I like them there when I'm there. So they can do their duties when I'm there. So if you don't change them for a couple of days when they're clean to begin with, you know, I'm okay with that. And the whole use the towels again. like you use a towel at the house for a couple of times and then you wash it you know that's the whole point to go into the hotel you want a glass fresh clean towels what's the hotel experience and so here's a little Jeff Fisher tidbit for you

what you can do is you just kind of keep an eye when housekeeping is cleaning and so you know that way if you think they're going to charge you for extra towels or whatever when they go in the room and they're in the bathroom cleaning, you just go by the roller and deep pocket two or three extra towels for your room, head down to your room. And then you've got some extra towels for the room. And you can ask for them. I don't know a problem with that.

I mean, if you want to call housekeeping and say, bring me some extra towels, no problem. But sometimes the hotels are now that, you're going to use fresh towels extra. We provide four. If you're going to use extra, we're going to use extra. going to charge you for that. So if they're going to charge you for it, I mean, you might as well borrow some from the cleaning cruise cart, right? Right? In this story, though, it tells you this. Numerous studies reveal that homeowners should be washing their sheets once a week or so. and throw in that or so.

That or so means every three days or a week and a half two weeks. I'm wondering to be watching their seats once a week or so. Microbiologists and pathologists at New York University School of Medicine outlines what's hiding in your bed sheets. You have spores of fungi, bacteria, animal dander, pollen, soil, lint, finishing agents, or whatever the sheets are made from coloring material, all sort of excrements from the body, including sweat.

I'll tell you what. Stores across America, and especially here in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, you can be counting on seeing me sometime today I'll be purchasing new sheets and some new blankets because all of mine are gone have a nice day they'll be washed clean I want new sheets I want new blankets

I want new pillow I want it all I want it all because I usually don't think about it so it's okay you know I know we've been sick in the house so we've been washing the sheets and washing the pillowcases We've had the plague running through the house for the past couple of weeks. And so, you know, you're wiping down door knobs

and you're washing all the sheets and pillows and all that kind of stuff. But when you start thinking about the fungi, bacteria, pollen, soil, lint, coloring material, and excrement from the body, I mean, it's time for new sheets. That's all I'm saying. that's all I'm saying and I know that started with the bedbugs in South Carolina but I mean South Carolina

that place I stayed in I stayed in Columbia we were there for a conference a Amber Alert conference at the University of South Carolina and I was there with you know all these news people and so we were staying at some some hotel that they lined up for us and I'm not kidding you man like at two o'clock in the morning I'm laying there half asleep and I feel something crawl across my chest bro I am awake awake up what the hell was that and I moved the night table the chair the stool turned down the lights I hunted that son of a gun down okay and I'm telling you he was pretty

good size, but he wasn't bigger than my size 13. I still couldn't get back to sleep. Still couldn't get back to sleep. All right. So a couple weeks ago, I told you about a story out of the UK and here in the United States as well, as it reached across the pond, about the monkey selfie case. And PETA issuing their press release and how the photographer, David Slater, has been struggling since the case took place. Now, in 2015, people for the ethical treatment of animals,

who I'm beginning to have, PETA is becoming some of my worst people in my life, filed a suit against Mr. Slater on behalf of the monkey. it determined that it identified as it identified the six-year-old male claiming the animal was the rightful owner of David's picture. David Slater, photographer of monkey selfie, his picture joins us on the Jeff Fisher broadcast. Hello, David. How are you, sir? Hello, I'm very fine. Thank you. I appreciate you coming on today. So, David, this has been going on.

now for two, three years. You took the picture in what, 14, 2013, 2013, 2014? Well, I mean... It's longer ago than that. It hit the news in 2011. Wow.

It went viral that long ago. Wow. Now, before we get anywhere with finding out where the story is at and what's happened and what's happened, I just want to get your okay

right off the bat that I can use that for my Twitter profile. Of course you can. So, David, walk us through a little bit of what happened and what's been happening just over a picture that you had set up so that the monkeys could take pictures of themselves. Well, yeah, like you say, it was in 2015, almost two years ago now. I'd been battling, since 2011, actually, I've been battling for four years to try and get Wikipedia to take this image down off their website. I'd send them

take down requests, etc. Because once it's on Wikipedia, it's free for all the world to use as ever they wish. And the reason that they were given that they decided amongst themselves that they were going to put this picture up there for free for everyone was because the monkey pressed the button.

And because monkeys can't own copyright, it would be free for everybody. As far as I could, I could not get them to take it down. And obviously, sometimes in this period, an animal rights group and you say petter. Yeah.

Obviously churning this over in the head and saying, well, actually, if the monkey pressed the button, surely the monkey can have copyright. It's his copyright. It says copyright. And maybe we can get to get older this monkey. We'll go out to the rainforest or photograph this monkey. Identify the monkey from the photograph,

which they did with the aid of a primatologist. Did they identify the correct monkey? Well, that's another twist of the, this story. I insist not. So, you know, it's bizarre to begin with. They get this monkey, they get a big law firm that represents Petter. They're spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on this case. Just to get me in court on a, on a bigger agenda that they've always had, and that's to grant animals the same rights as humans. Amazing. All right, so, now let's jump forward to not too long ago we moved across to because pita issued their statement

talking about is pleased with the robust discussion of this historic case in which it's calling it is undisputed right and the proceeds they're saying of course the proceeds from the use of these photos should go to protect Naruto and his family but because of all this because of all this coverage, even with just the selfie picture, the people had really cut back on using the meat from the monkeys, had they not? I think they're certainly stubborn themselves

and I can do in the monkey population over there. They're a great disservice at the moment. Right, right. And I'm sure that, I mean, in the end, I'm sure that's all Peter cares about. So you, David, you've become, what, multi-millionaire over this picture? No, I feel as well I own multi-millions to attorneys and the help that I've had and

registrations trying to protect this copyright. It's taken a lot of stress and time just bringing over this. So, no, I'm the opposite of a millionaire. Wow. And so no one, and opposite of millionaire means that you're struggling over this one photograph thanks to well I don't want to say Peter and Wikipedia now because they Wikipedia was the one who started the well yeah they're they the people are really point the gun at the moment they started all this they still won't

back down they're forever updating the page on the monkey selfie page on Wikipedia never getting around facts I'm constantly trying to make people that the monkeys took my unattended camera ran off with it and took this picture all by itself which is patently untrue. So how did you get... Everybody seems to think, realized now, from the media, and people actually talk to me,

which is something Wikipedia haven't done, that I set the camera up on a tripod, you know, I said all the dials, all I got the monkey to do was press the button. But Wikipedia won't have any of it.

How long were you out there? I mean, was this the goal to get these monkeys to start taking pictures of themselves and the family and that kind of thing? Yeah, you know, after 15 years or so, I've been dedicated.

my photography career towards conservation. So it was a trip that I took for a month long. It was funded by myself. Nobody's employing me. It's the risk that photographer takes. Right. Hopefully you can do the conservation bit, and I like the plight of various animals,

and there's plenty of them in Sulawesi. And hopefully you'll generate an income that keeps you going. Right. It keeps me the job. Yeah. It was amazing how that works. But it only works if Wikipedia and Peter leave you alone. Yeah.

as soon as Wikipedia stole this and they actually made a big song and danced about it they gave press releases to the world's press over the two years mainly there's an old network of websites that support this agenda of diminishing copyright and making all content on the internet

free they were used in my image completely ruining my income so I was actually sort of getting very desperate about my career because of Wikipedia getting all the law team together which wasn't easy in the UK. Nothing's cheap.

And then on 2015, I get this extra bird and have a monkey coming along and suing me. So I'm already fighting one massive battle and then get landed on by this most bizarre battle you can probably ever think of. Okay, so now, the judges have pretty much ruled, right? There's no way for the monkey to acquire or hold money. There's no loss of reputation.

So, I mean, is it over? I don't think so you've got to remember people need to understand that in 2016 the monkey went to a federal court in San Francisco and the judge threw it out saying that monkeys can't sue right

the monkey appealed he didn't like that decision and went to the appeals court and there was three judges on the panel not this Wednesday gone the Wednesday before and they didn't give a verdict they're resting on it I don't know when they'll decide

whether the monkey gets the copyright or I do. They're resting on it. Interesting. Deliberating, yeah. And do they give you no time on when that deliberation may be done? No, my attorney is as clueless as everybody else. He just tells me it probably be the month that they're at the soonest, but maybe three or four months away still.

He doesn't know. Isn't that special? Isn't that special? So now what? David, what are you doing? I mean, I know you said you're struggling. Are you still working? You're still trying to set up, do some jobs and make some money,

or you left taking the government for some cash? Well, it's been really exhausting, just trying to keep my motivation to do photography anymore. And with the diminishing fees that you get from the images that I already have, many are libraries across the world. Yeah, I think photographers, like me are having to look for, for the ways to own a living. And one of the ways I'm looking at now is becoming a tennis coach. And as it's been reported in some of the media in the UK,

I am actually considering doing dog walking as well. Simply just to get my camera in my hand again and get out into the countryside. Right. I mean, why not? My interest again, yeah, why not? Instead of just sitting around crying about the monkey. So when we get news on what happens with the monkey, I'd love to talk to you, David.

because I'm sure everybody will get to know. I'm sure it will be in the media. My gosh. I'm so... I'm so... I'm so on your side. It's unbelievable. These people are disgusting,

fighting over a monkeys right like this. So, where... I mean, how much are the attorneys just holding all this for you, hoping that Pete is going to end up having to pay the deal? And you're just hoping that that happens? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, there's two lots of attorneys involved. There's my personal attorney, Andrew Dewey.

So, yes, he's fairly confident that he'll get his fees paid via Petter. Good. But there's no guarantee of that, apparently. No guarantee. It's down to the judge's discretion. And there's another law firm as well. That's the book publisher that I did a book called Wildlife Personalities. And they got them up in court for reproducing the photograph that Neutro claims it took.

Wow. That is almost unbelievable. I hope that your attorneys and you milk Peter, or every dime that joint has. It is a shame because obviously there are some things that me and Petter could have agreed on had they have talked to me in the first place. Yeah, you were doing it for the conservation of the animals. I was.

I know that's the massive irony of all of this. And yeah, this is why I think they really have to stand themselves in the foot. And I just hope they learned not to pull any of these stunts anymore. David Slater from the UK. Thank you very much, David. I appreciate your time. And I'd love to talk to you again when this all gets resolved one way or the other. I love too, too.

Thank you very much. Thanks, David. I appreciate it. Jeff Fisher Show, Blaze Radio Network. This is the Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network. I mean, I just said that. To help and try to provide information and try to provide let people know a warning shot that these monkeys needed to be taken care of and that they, we needed to help them.

And yet, no, it wasn't enough for Peter. We're going to bring down the man because the monkey needs to have the right for the pictures. Absolutely. Agonizing. Agonizing. So I'm looking through my Pinterest page. Yes, my Pinterest page. And I see that there are a big list of conversation starters.

And I think, do we need conversation starters? And so then I start looking through what they're telling us. me to stay for conversation starters and I think well there's got to be you know better lines than that right or maybe they're not lines or just things to say hello what if you're at a cocktail party you're wandering around and you've got to find ways to start conversations with people oh yeah we'll be doing that the next half hour because I'm here to help that's what the show is Show is, I mean, if anything, you think of the Jeff Fisher Radio show on the Blaze Radio Network, you think, man, that show helps me. I know. I know. You're welcome. And I'm going to continue that as the show progresses today. This is the Jeff Fisher Show. Only on the Blaze Radio Network.

The Jeff Fisher Show returns on the Blaze Radio Network. And I was going to do the conversation starters, but I can't find the conversation starters. So now I've just got to sit in the corner and sip wine. Wait, oh, maybe that's it. Hold on. Yes. Okay. It was on my Pinterest page.

Underneath, I got to see if you notice, you notice this was, I have some, I have my boards that you can pin on in your Pinterest. I don't know if you have a Pinterest page. But what you do is you create boards and then you. you pin the stories you like in whatever board it represents for you. And I have, you know, I've got, you know, the house, funny stuff. I only have one in my under funny. And it shows, it shows two birds. And it was under underneath the cartoon, the drawing, it says,

overeating, snacking, craving, or feeling too much hunger. and it shows two birds. It's got one light bird on the, on a limb, closest to the tree. And it says, how's your diet doing? And on the outer limb is a bird,

and the limb is bent way down because the bird is really fat. And the caption is F you. That's funny stuff. I don't care who you are. Anyway, the, then there's,

you know, I have house, and then I have, then I have, you know, then I have help, and I have shots, and I have great ideas.

and sport, and I have behind closed doors, which is a private. Oh, yeah. You can't see behind closed doors. Oh, yeah. Okay. That's one of my favorite pins. And, of course, that's where my 34 conversation starters were. But I also have, now these conversation starters are supposed to be, you know,

if you're trying to be out, you know, let's say you're out with your wife or your girlfriend or, you know, someone that you have a relationship with already. All right. And then there's also the conversation starters that are for when you're trying to, you know, take care of a little business at night.

Either one, though, I mean, when you're out at the, when you're out, You know, you're at a little party. I mean, if we're going to be at a party, don't we need some kind of music for the party? I mean, I've got to have, give me some, I don't know, some kind of cocktail drinking handy snack parties. Pigs in a blanket are table number three. It's a kind of, that's got a cocktail party at that. Beer in the ice tubs in the back.

Hey, where do you want to live when we retire? Oh, hey, come on. Yes, I'd like a little cracker with some of that nasty Pinawa. Okay, that's what I want. Where do you see yourself in five years, babe? Hey, you know, describe me in three words. These are all conversations started, you know, for the party. What are two things on your bucket list?

These are actually sad. What do you think the greatest strength of our relationship is? I love one of those. Those shrimps are dark. You know, what's your favorite family tradition? You describe your worst hairout. You're standing here trying to start a conversation. All right, this is, these are just for couples, though.

But see, I'm here to help. Now, those particular conversations starters are for you and the wife. You know, you're out and you haven't talked in a while. The kids have always bugged you. You finally got some clean sheets at the house. And you're talking to the wife. Hey, you know, I was wondering,

what are the two things on your bucket list, baby? I was wondering what your favorite childhood memory was. All right, that's enough of the relationship stuff. I want to talk about picking up, I want to be, you're out and about, and you're having, you're at the cocktail party. Let's give me some more music again. Let's start it again.

We're at the party. And you're not, this is, this is for those of you that aren't, you know, in a relationship. But you're looking for a little man's. Now I'm going to be singing this. Tell me all. What am I going to sing? I know the words to all of me. And I'll take all of me.

Classic. You're kidding me? This is a standard. Yes. I'll take it. I'll take some more of those pigs in the blanket over here, okay? I'm here single tonight, playing all of me. Hi, I really like your energy, so I had to come over and say hi.

Conversation starters, you know, for the romance. You're so beautiful. That one, just so you know. How do you describe my sentence? Take some more of that Benny Wah drink there in the glass. I can tell that for you cross the room. What's the most romantic thing? man is done for you.

I was so worried I wasn't going to have fun tonight. You'd hear you up. Hi. Do you think there's a difference between romance, love, sex? I would soar the sky up high, just you and me is existing in the world. Look so dull in front of you. You're the same guy that asked me, how's my scent? That's what they're saying to you for this stuff, okay?

Hi. I was wondering, what is your definition of intimacy? Go nowhere with that one, I'll guarantee you that. My definition of intimacy is you getting the hell away from you. You know, when I look at you, I can't see the world, but just you. Listening to the Jeff Fisher Show. The Blaze Radio Network. The Jeff Fisher Show on the Blaze Radio Network.

So how's your income doing? Making any cash? Everybody happy with what they're making for their salary? You think to yourself, you know what? I'm so tired of going to the bank every day and saying, hey, listen, is there a way that I can stop the money coming from into my account? Because I just, I'm tired of counting it. I'm tired of trying to remember what's in there.

Just if you could stop putting money into my account today, that'd be great. Any of you out there saying that? Raise your hand if you are. Nobody raising their hand. Well, you should move to Chicago and move to the state, great state of Illinois. Rahm Emanuel, Chicago now pays out more six-figure incomes than the state government. Truck drivers, tree trimmers, street-light repair workers earned six. Figures.

The city paid out $283 million in overtime to 1,000 employees pocketing more than 40 grand apiece. You should move to Chicago. But then there's, you know, the entire state as well. Illinois, 8,640 state of Illinois employees. One particular contractual worker at the newly created Department of Innovation and Technology makes $258,000. I'm sorry, $258,070. There are the barber and the teacher of barbering. those are at the state prisons.

They make more than 100 grand each. Laritha Coleman, a nurse at the Department of Corrections, made $254,000. I'm sorry, $254,781. 8,817 small-town city and village employees, including 84 municipal managers. out-earning the governor. The governor makes $180,000 at the great state of Illinois.

Lawrence Hillman, city manager for Glenview, makes $297,988. City manager for Graze Lake, $264,486. Lake Forest, $255,247. Libertyville, $254,428. Northbrook, $250,000, $248. Now, don't worry yourself, because Illinois is in great shape. Oh, wait, weren't we just doing the story about Illinois being broke and not being able to pay their bills?

And then there were some lottery winners that weren't getting their money? because, let's see, why are they, why are they not able to pay their bills? Some Illinois K through 12 schools are spiking salaries and padding pensions. 30,000 teachers and administrators earned $100,000 plus incomes. However, just 20,295 of those educators are currently employed. the other 9,305 are retired. That's a good gig. That's a really, really good gig.

I'm happy to be retired and pay me $100,000 a year. And I might be able to survive. I might be able to get by. There's some great jobs. And when you stop this, when it's mostly overtime, And you say, hey, we've got to cut all this overtime. We're not going to be able to do this. You're working for a salary.

That's it. It looks like we're going to be able to change those light bulbs in the city this week. Going to be awful dark. Not going to be able to get to those in my 40-hour work. I wish we could, though. Hey, be careful with no lights on here. You'll hit the potholes. I mean, doom.

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