Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - All About Choices… | 11/2/23

Episode Date: November 2, 2023

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So there are Starbucks there. However, local business owners said that national chains like Starbucks and Walmart coming to Taos, yeah, no, we don't want you. It's not Taos, it's Taos, right? It's Taos, New Mexico. Taoise is in Michigan right here on my hand, Taos in Michigan. Anyway, so Starbucks tried to have a standalone store, and it accidentally burned down. Well, the whole thing.

The first time, the whole thing didn't burn down. It was just one of the walls on the building. Because I think someone saw the fire and called too soon. So it only got the north-facing wall of the building. This time around, the whole thing burned down. It was, the blaze was just found after midnight. The building was completely engulfed. So this time around, people,

saw the fire just stood there till it was done and then they called and said, hey, I think that Starbucks is on fire. Okay, so now we've brought in the state fire marshal's office

as well as the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco and firearms and explosives. They're just getting bigger and bigger. The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, firearms, and explosives. not just the ATF. It's the ATF and E now. So this, you know,

town does not want the standalone Starbucks. Now, not too long ago, a coalition of small business owners, grocery store workers, environmental lawyers, mounted a campaign opposing plans to build a Walmart super center in Touse. They don't want that.

And to prove their point, one of the Walmarts, a couple hundred miles away, now I don't think it had anything to do with it. honestly, but it's just in the story. I know, retail location in Clovis, it's about 250 miles away. And make that sound like it's right around the corner.

I knew a Walmart was burned and had extensive fire damage. Okay. Well, so I mean, that could be completely, completely separate from Taos. But, you know, they throw it in the story anyway. Now, they claim also here that, the company that was building the Starbucks was for this heart construction, the Elbuquerque-based company that was hired by the building's owner,

wasn't paying their workers. So they're trying to say that it was them that burned the building down because they couldn't pay their workers and they were just, they were tired of it. And so they burned the building down to stop the whole campaign. But as of right now, if you want to go to Starbucks and Tows, You're going to have to go to the one at Albertsons or the Smith's grocery store because there's not a standalone Starbucks, and there may never be one.

Because if I'm Starbucks, I might start thinking twice about trying to build a standalone Starbucks because you never know. That thing just might go up in flames completely on accident. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So I'm looking at this story from the Hollywood reporter about CEO perks. and I know they're trying to make it seem like a bad thing about what the CEOs spend on their perks. Like, is security for these CEOs perks?

I guess so. I mean, it's a perk of the job, but it's a needed perk of the job, right? Sundar, from Alphabet, pays $5.9 million a year on security. Bezos only pays $1.6 million. Netflix, Ted Sarandos, pays $1.4 million. Iger spends $180,000. Tim Cook only spends $591,000. Daniel Eck from Spotify, $181,000.

And David Zazlov, from Warner Brothers, spends $50,000. That's not bad. But then you have Zuck. I mean, Zuck is spending $25 million a year in security costs. That's quite a bit. Because every time you see him out and about, he's being surrounded by at least two, and usually more than two security people. And I'm sure there it's a 24-7 thing. And security isn't cheap.

And if you have threats on your life and your family, you want them to be safe. So I get it. And I don't know that it's necessarily a perk. And then they talk about travel costs, exclusive air travel. Of course, Zuckerberg is number one. He's spending $2.3 million a year on travel. Netflix, Hastings, and Sarandos are spending... Hastings is spending a million a year,

and Sarandos is spending $336,000 a year. Andy Jassy from Amazon is spending almost a million a year in travel. Zazlov from Warner Brothers, another $826,000. Tim Cook is spending $76767,000. I look at these, see, Chapic and Iger, even before his return, this number is before his return, it has only spent like 50,000 on travel, and Chafik was spending 283,000. I'm sure Igers has gone way up now that he's back at the helm. Now, I see these guys, and I mean, they make it seem like it's such a bad thing,

but these people have to travel, and they've got deals to be made around the world, and you can't be flying, you know, jet blue. I mean, I just, I just don't think that's big of a deal. I guess it's a, you know, the companies pay for it. Well, I mean, they're running the company. They should be. I know that some of them have their cable paid for and their, you know, their internet paid for.

And okay, and they try to make an area manual received $225,000 in business management in tax advisory services well good for him i wish i could uh that'd be awesome i should have worked that into my deal wait you have a deal jeff no oh okay so don't worry about trying to work into something you don't have all right never mind but i'm just saying that i those are stuff that of course you're going to do that i just don't it's it's so strange to me how they try to make them sound so bad and hey look these people are you know living uh above They're not worrying about how much the chicken is at the grocery store. I guarantee you that.

And that's enough to make you mad. You know what? I do. I'm very mad at them. Who do they think they are? A federal jury in Missouri found that the National Association of Realtors, which represents more than 1.5 million agents in the U.S. is liable for the massive sum after they concluded the trade group conspired to artificially

inflate commissions. on home sales and that massive sum is almost $1.8 billion. And that's just the start. I guess the Justice Department is looking into the industry's entire brokerage commission structure. And it's all going to be appealed. And I was trying to figure out what's going to come of this. And all these National Association of Realtors, Home Services of America,

Keller Williams, they're all this class action antitrust lawsuit. was brought by home sellers in several Midwestern states. Are they going to get any money for this? Who knows? It sounds good that they had this $1.7, what was the final? Total $1.78 billion in damages. And so, you know, are they going to see a dime? They're going to get a check for $1.32.

And it's all going to go under appeal. And so much of this talks about how some of the things that they wanted to be brought forth in court. They weren't allowed to. And so this will all be appealed. So any of you homeowners in the class action that are looking forward to getting your $1.32 check from the $1.78 billion fine.

Good luck. And they may have even received some money. I see where remax and anywhere real estate settled before the trial for 140. $40 million. That's not $1.78 billion. So the people may have already gotten a check for like 50 cents from the first settlement as remax and anywhere real estate settled.

And plus, you know what? Now that the federal government is getting involved, that irks me. That means they want to get their hands into more stuff. And I don't like that. I don't know what to go out on a limb. I am not for that. And I know they're trying to say that, they've had a stranglehold on real estate commissions for far too long.

But we don't need the federal government stepping in on this. And plus, now you're going to look at buyers having to face even more obstacles in trying to buy a home and going through the steps. And so it's just, it's turning into a nightmare. But hey, like I said, good luck. Did you know that the liver is the hardest working organ in your body? I know. I did not know that either. I was doing Pat Gray's show the other day, and he said, the liver is the hardest working organ in your body, and I thought, I don't know that I actually knew that.

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So, sag after strike is that still going on i mean we're at like at 111 days now or something like that they claim they're at the bargaining table they're wheeling and dealing uh dealing with the a i issues uh-huh and uh they're gonna you know they've returned to the bargaining table and i don't know you know they i don't know what happened last night i don't know if we're still you know slapping around ideas or if they're pissed at each other but apparently they're you know at least still talking so it isn't completely shut down but it's still on going. They're still on strike. They better do something because people want new content and they want new

content soon. And pretty soon it's going to be people that are going to be scabs coming in and they're not going to be happy about that. I'll tell you that. But I'm willing to say that I'll be a scab for a TV show. I know. I hate to break the union line. But what are you going to do? You can call me. Just email me, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. and let me know the role you need and uh i'll be happy to do it for you i'll break the line i'll scab the line yeah that's going to happen chewing the fat at the blaze dot com is the email address congratulations to disney by the way i don't know if this is i feel like this is a bad thing they have closed a deal to buy the entire hulu they had a they were part owners in hulu

but now they are going to just own it all for 8.6.6.1 a billion dollars for the 33% stake in the streamer. Okay. They take full control of Hulu. Okay. I guess it's okay. I mean, I've got Hulu live now and I've got the Hulu, you know, I use Hulu products. I like how they do things. Don't screw it up. Don't screw it up. I had YouTube TV for a while and they priced themselves out of my out of my house so i went to hulu lot and hulu live is starting to do the same thing and especially now that disney's taken over i feel like i feel like they're going to do the same thing and just price me right out of the ballpark because i see where apple is hiking their prices apple tv plus and apple news plus you got netflix and disney they're all right everybody wants more

everybody wants more more more more more more more more so we'll see if it See if it works out. I don't know. I don't know. You can quote me on that. I don't know. Hey, remember Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes that were on GMA3? I guess that was a really, really big show.

Good Morning America, 3. And T.J. and Amy were the co-stars, and they had a hot fling. They were all about each other, baby. They were taking care of some serious GMA-3 business. There was no doubt about that. And so then they got the boot. Maybe they were suspended. I think they're completely gone now.

And they were still together. They were still pictures of them together. So they were still hot and heavy. They are still hot and heavy. Well, because they're still hot and heavy and they don't have a TV show. I thought for sure Amy would like end up in, you know, Arkansas doing the news somewhere, doing news in Little Rock. But nope, she's too big for that.

He's too big for that now. And I figured TJ would be, you know, in Southern California somewhere, you know, doing the news. But no, they're together still. And they're going to launch a podcast. I know. I know. Nobody has a podcast. IHartMedia podcast.

Amy and T.J. It's going to premiere December 5th. And that's when you want to premiere a podcast is when everybody's, you know, getting ready to go on holiday break. But that's what they're doing. And it's going to be a hashtag. silent no more that was their post on Instagram with those two in a loving embrace and so it's going to be a great podcast can't wait for it and it's going to be they're going to answer everything silent no more so apparently they're going to answer all questions and talk about everything

you want to know they were both married and now they're divorced and so I guess they're I guess they're going to, according to this, okay, they're going to host and produce their podcast, and both of them will also collaborate on a full slate of upcoming programming for I-Heart podcasts. Wow. I-Heart. Okay. All right.

Again, good luck with that. And maybe this is where I got, I don't know why I got Little Rock from, because I see in this story they talk about their back on. Instagram and they each have posted photos enjoying a University of Arkansas Razorbacks football game. So she very well may be in Little Rock doing the news very soon. Oh no. You know, I don't know if this is sad news or not. It could be.

Yay, formerly Kanye West, is now just living in an apartment without security, doesn't have a chef, doesn't have a nanny. The horrors of living in everyday regular life. So, I don't know, I guess during the latest episode of the Kardashians, darn it, I missed it. Kim revealed that Ye has a simpler new lifestyle without any of those nasty luxury trappings. You know, that we still have and I still have, but he doesn't have it. Okay. So now that they're divorced, I mean, Kim kept the dump there in Calabasso that was only

worth like 60 million. And so we'll see how that goes. She talked about the kid going to stay with dad and she comes home and says, we don't have an apartment. I can't believe we don't have an apartment.

I want to be like dad. Do you? Do you want to be like dad? I think, I think, I like, nah. I like once you start realizing, you know, the trappings are kind of nice. I get driven everywhere. I have security. I live in this giant mansion.

I pretty much do what I want. And then I have to go hang out with dad in his apartment and his new wife, Bianca. I guess they're hot and heavy. They're all still in love. So I don't know what's happening with Yay. I don't know how much money

he has left. Everybody tried to cut ties with them after he started Bad Mouth and Jews. And, you know, high-fiving Adolf. And I don't blame him. Now, apparently, there for a while

that he was sharing an apartment in West Hollywood and that was 20 grand a month so if he if he's still living there if that's still an apartment there's still a pool a rooftop cafe

private cinema valet a bar and a lounge area and 24 hour concier service but that's not personal right that's where everyone in the building so I can understand why you know North wants It's not so... I hate all this big stuff.

Easy. Take it easy there, North. Everything will be okay. And his house... He bought the house across the street for him, I thought. That's what was reported. I mean, maybe that's gone now, too. Apparently, in Malibu, the Malibu house,

that he was remodeling, he just walked away from that. So I guess that's just left there to rot. I don't know what's happened. I thought he bought the place, like right across the street from Kim and the kids, so he could stay there. I guess maybe the new wife didn't want any of that.

Like, we're not living across the street from them. Okay, that's not going to happen. We'll live in the Hollywood apartment here where I have a little privacy. I don't have, you know, regular security or, you know, a nanny or a chef. But we've got all this, got all the amenities here in this gated hotel. Not really a hotel. It's apartments. I know, but it's more like hotel living.

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I mean, guy was a legend. Definitely a legend. Now, he was hospitalized with an illness. Doesn't say what it was, so don't look at me like that. He's been in poor health for several years. So how about you stop looking to me like that? Okay, it doesn't say that. The family announced that he had passed away in the hospital.

I will say that I was looking at some classic speeches from Bob Natham. He used to throw chairs and everything. He was a legend. One of his speeches that he was giving on leadership, and he talked about the coaching the Olympic Dream Team and how he went about coaching guys like Michael Jordan and his three-minute piece on Michael Jordan. and the Dream Team is awesome.

But you, I'm flexible leader if you're going to be an effective leader. I walked into the locker room after the first half of our game was Spain in 1984 for the gold medal. We're ahead by 29 points. We've played basketball as well as the game can be played. Awesome. Has played 12 minutes, points in 12 minutes. In my opinion, there's nobody that's ever played anything. The exception of Jack Nicholas and Babe Ruth.

No kidding. Just the best there ever was. The scoreboard, and I'm a great believer in the best three minutes of the game for us has got to be the first three minutes in the second half. But what the hell am I going to say? Hey, we got to get better. We're 29 points ahead. We've got to win by 59.

Darn right, they do. I'm going to get on Jordan's ass a little bit. If he's upset with Jordan, how's he feel about me? Plains, 11 rebounds, nine assists, and I have the stat sheet in my hand, and I walk over in front of Jordan, and I look down at him and I say, Mike, when the hell are you going to set a screen?

We got screening to get you. I've seen you set a screen yet. The only way I've done so far, God damn. You need to scream, Mike. In the world. But he looked up at me, and he grins a little bit, and he says, coach, You said I was the quickest player you'd ever been around.

I said, Mike, what the hell has that got to do with you screened? Coach, I think I'm setting them quicker than you can see them out there. Cool enough to look at Jordan and say, then God damn it, slow him down a little bit so I can see it. Think about it. It's just a legend. A legend. Bob Knight, dead at the age of 83. also we have

Lawrence Fawcette Lawrence Fawcette F-A-U-C-E I apologize if that's not how you pronounced your last name Lawrence dead at the age of 58 he is the second patient to receive a pig

heart transplant and now he has passed away he lived six weeks two weeks less than the first recipient he received a heart from a Gene-edited pig on September 20th after his own heart began to fail. He was not a candidate for a human heart transplant because his medical condition was so severe.

The Navy veteran father of two seemed to be recovering well from the transplant at the University of Maryland Center, progressing in physical therapy, playing cards with his wife Anna, and then his body started showing signs of rejecting the new organ, and he passed away. Very sad. So we're getting to. there using pig parts, but not quite. So Lawrence Fossett, the pig heart, not holding, dead at the age of 58. Held a little bit, only six weeks.

And so, anyway, very sad. Lawrence Fossett, 58 dead. Rest in peace. Then we have a study that talks about infant mortality rates in the United States increasing last year for the first time until. decades. Don't look at me like that. It doesn't say that. It says that the report was published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Vital Statistics. I love them. Researchers looked at birth infant death data collected through the National Vital Statistics System. Provisional data showed that there were 5.6 infant deaths per 1,000 live births in 2022, which is 3% higher than the rate of 5.44. per 1,000 live births in 2021. Now, the rates have been declining over the past several years,

so this marks the first year-to-year increase in more than 20 years. Huh. I don't know. It doesn't say that. I know what you're thinking, but it doesn't say that. I know. I know, but it doesn't say that. Now, there's this doctor, Dr. Tracy Wilkinson,

an associate professor of pediatrics at Indiana University. Oh, wow. Same university that... I'm not coach that. Anyway, the School of Medicine there. And she's an expert on women's access to reproductive health care. Now, she has nothing to do with this study at all. But she's an expert on women's access to reproductive health care.

Now, she claimed that she's not surprised by the findings. And she says there's a couple of reasons for the increase in infant mortality rates. I wonder what they could be if she's an expert in women's access to reproductive health care. Let's see. Number one is maternity care deserts. Yeah, there are maternity care deserts everywhere in the United States of America. You know how many hospitals are on every street corner in America? According to her, there's a lack or absence of maternity care, which, by the way, according to her, limits the ability to care for infants properly. Number two, I wonder what this could be. Second is limiting access to abortion.

Huh. So limiting access to killing babies has something to do with the death of babies. Okay. I don't know, Doc. I don't know. I'm going to have to maybe disagree with you. But, you know, you're the expert. Not me.

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baseball World Series last night over the Arizona Diamondbacks. It was exciting. Zero, zero going into the six or seventh inning. It was a battle, a pitcher's battle for the first six or seven innings. And then the Rangers won five to nothing. And they won the World Series four games to one. So it was awesome. I was fun to watch.

I was happy. I was kind of rooting for the Rangers after the Phillies got kicked out by the Diamondbacks. I was kind of rooting for the Rangers. and the, Corey Seeger was named the World Series MVP. So congratulations. He was just,

Corey Seger, get this for the Rangers, became the third player behind Sandy Kofax and Reggie Jackson to be awarded the honor twice. Seeger won the honor in 2020 with the Los Angeles Dodgers. And the manager is the first manager

to win a World Series with three different teams. So kind of exciting for the Texas Rangers fans. not a big Texas Rangers fan, and I've talked about baseball. I love playing baseball. I love playing baseball. And I, you know, I just don't watch it enough. I'd rather watch football. I enjoyed and had fun playing football. I loved it. But I didn't love it as much as I loved playing baseball. Baseball is such a great game to play. Anyway, congratulations to the Texas Rangers.

See where the Colorado football team, you know, Dion Sanders, prime times team, got robbed at the Rose Bowl. They were playing UCLA last weekend. And it was a crazy game to watch, actually. And there were some calls during that game that were just absolutely agonizing. You know, there's calls in a lot of games that are absolutely agonizing. But I digress, and I won't get into that right now. But I see where they got robbed, their locker room was robbed during the game. And they were playing at the Rose Bowl.

And so now Dian's like the NCAA and the Rose Bowl need to repay the players thousands of dollars after they were robbed of jewelry, cash and other valuable items during the game. Yeah, no kidding. Where's the security at the Rose Bowl? How are people getting into the locker room and stealing their stuff without getting caught? Come on now. And I realize, you know what? It's California.

So who knows? I mean, it's California. So it's not a surprise that people are getting robbed. but it is a surprise that we're getting robbed in a locker room underneath the stadium of a game going on. There's security everywhere, and yet it happened, I would say, and I am not an expert, but I would say that it's an inside job. I know, I know, just call me crazy.

I mean, I could talk about college football for a long time. So my Missouri Tigers are ranked 12th in the college playoff polls and a 14th in the AP. And they play Georgia, the University of Georgia this weekend, between the hedges in Georgia, in Athens. So, man, I do not think they could beat Georgia,

but I would love to see it happen. They are 7 and 1, Georgia's I'm defeated, and obviously number 2 in the playoff rankings, number 1 in the AP poll. And they're a tough wagon, man. They are a tough wagon. But I just feel like Missouri could do, if there's a team out there that could do it,

Missouri could do it. it. So let's make it happen. I don't think it's going to happen, no, but just keep your fingers crossed and enjoy the game. You know what I'm saying? Okay. Okay, did you see where they're going to start renaming birds? I remember talking about this. When they first started talking about this, I don't know, a couple of years ago, and I thought, what a joke, what are we doing? They're birds. If you find new species of birds, then name them whatever you want to name them now. But if you've already named the stupid bird, leave the stupid name alone. So birds like Anna's hummingbird,

Gamble's Quail, Lewis's Woodpecker, Bewick's Wren, Bullock's Oriole, and of course my favorite, more, are going to be changed. The American Orenthological

Society. Ornithological. Yeah, that's what I said. Ornithological. Yeah, that's I got it. That's what I said. That society has vowed to change the English names

of all bird species currently named after people, along with any other bird names, deemed offensive or exclusionary. Colleen Handel, the society's president and a research wildlife biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Alaska, we want these names to be powerful in a really good way. Names have power. And power can be for the good or it can be for the bad. Oh, thank you.

Thank you, Colleen. we appreciate it. Now this, Colleen only has the power to change the English names. So they want to also affect the world and Latin America birds.

So we're looking to get with all the oranthologists in Latin America. We want to change their names as well. It's just stop it. Okay, stop it. And all started back in like 2000 when we changed

the ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha. The duck that is now called the long-tailed duck got its name changed because concerns that its previous name was derogatory to Native Americans. They originally called it the old squaw duck. Come on, that's a good duck name. Old squaw duck, but no, nobody liked it. So now it's just the long-tailed duck.

So don't do it, okay? It's just now I guess we changed. We've already changed one bird's name. Well, we changed the old squaw duck named a long-tailed duck. That was, you know, 23 years ago. And now we've changed the Confederate, the General John P. McGowan Prairie Bird.

That is now called the thick-billed long spur. Yeah, because you don't want any Confederate general having his name on a prairie bird. I mean, isn't he the one that founded it? I don't know. I don't know. It just, we are, we need to change all our traditions and all our history and we are doing that and it's just it's just a

bird name find a new bird name the bird whatever you want okay but i'm still look it's still old the squad duck to me okay all right i'll leave you with this it's a thought for the day it's a process that you can go about your life and live a better life okay if bohemium rhapsody starts playing and the person you're with does not just start singing along and at least attempt the different voices, you really just need to leave them alone. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life. It's all about the choices we make. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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