Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Attempt to Disguise… | 2/20/25

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

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of Washington. Yes, the state, the great state of Washington here in the United States of America has now started a movement to remove George Washington his face from the state flag.

The name of the state is Washington. It's named after him. So it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. to get rid of his face from your state. But they claim that the official flag of the state of Washington shall be of dark silk green or bunting

and shall bear in its center or reproduction of the seal of the state of Washington embroidered, printed, painted, or stamped thereon. Flag was officially adopted in 1923. Washington State was named after George Washington, as I said, and it is the only state named after a president. There are state representatives now that said, yeah, you know, he's an important national figure in all. But he really has limited historical connection to the state itself.

Dear state representatives, Strom Peterson, Julia Reed, and Greg Nance, the state is literally named after the man. So that limited historical, connection to the state itself doesn't really work, does it? Be careful who you vote for. They may just win. You can quote me on that too. Be careful who you vote for.

They may just win. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So Delta Airlines is saying, hey, if you flew on our flight that crash landed in Toronto, we're going to give you $30,000. Now, there's no strings attached. Here's just $30,000 because we want to be there for you. I think that's a good thing.

I mean, I realize they did this with the miracle on the Hudson flight. They gave people, I think, $5,000 right off the bat with no strings attached. There were 80 people on board this particular flight. And so, you know, would you take it? Absolutely. You're going to take that $30,000. with no strings attached. Be sure that there are no strings attached, though,

because you're going to want to be able to hopefully get a little bit more in the future. But this will help out in the meantime. So good for the people that were on that crash-landed flight in Toronto. And then it's weird. It's a miracle that they are still alive. I was reading about they figured that, you know, the payout of the passengers could reach over, you know, two or three million dollars. Uh, yeah, so we'll see. We don't even know who was flying the plane as of

yet. There, that's everything is still under investigation. Uh-huh. But I'm still going to take the money. No problem. Uh, I'm happy to take that $30,000 right off the bat. And with the, uh, miracle on the Hudson flight, they paid all the medical bills and the hospitalizations and all the reimbursements. The $5,000 was just a starting point. So, yeah, you're absolutely. absolutely going to take the money. I know that a lot of people think it's, uh, has something to do with the FAA and the FAA really doesn't have anything to do with that. Airlines have to, uh, take care of their own actual safety. I know there are issues with the FAA, but, uh, it seems that, uh, we're trying to work through that as we speak. I saw where, speaking of the airlines, I saw where a Southwest

Airlines is a laying off employees. Wow, that's a, that's a big deal. They're laying off 15% of corporate jobs or about 1,750 people, a move that the CEO called unprecedented as the company scrambles to cut costs. So these are corporate jobs. They're not the workers. Oh, the corporate people work too, Jeff. Yes, I know. But they're not the guys out there flying the planes or loading your luggage.

I mean, it was less than a year ago. They made a new deal with the unions, I think, at Southwest, which was, you know, worth a lot of money. So they've got to find some way to recoup some of that money. Plus, I know that they just had a big settlement with some investment firm, right? They were fighting over board seats and they want to have airlines with more leg room. And so they have overnight flights, I think, reoccurring now. So they want to get rid of, you know, the duplicative efforts and have a lean organization structure. that drives clarity, pace, and urgency. Oh, okay.

That's good corporate speak for, yeah, we're sorry, but you're out of work now. And as far as the Delta flight is concerned, we don't have the exact cause of that crash yet. Well, I mean, we know that it hit the ground too hard and that looked like the right back wheels crushed in. And then it tilted to the right and obviously then broke off the wing and rolled over upside down. But we don't know exactly why. that was caused, and we'll find out. The investigations are all ongoing. We're finding out more about the helicopter crash in D.C. It seems to be there were communication issues and there were reading issues on the helicopter. It's all really, really convoluted to try to save face for everyone,

I think. But, you know, the crash was just horrific and we can't allow that to happen any longer, that's for sure. And, you know, another weird thing I see. You know, we talked about the blimp and the good year blimp celebrating its 100th anniversary and I talked about flying and I flew in the outback blimp which I don't know if they still have or not but I was able to fly over Tampa Bay in the outback bowl. I was the outback restaurant blimp, not the outback bowl blimp, but it's out flying over the first of the year when they have the outback bowl when it used to be the outback bowl in Tampa and I took my son.

It was fun and we flew all over Tampa Bay in the blimp. It's not like it's a you know a comfort. ride, but you're, you know, you fly and it's kind of cool to fly over slow over these municipalities. And, you know, whatever, that's fine. Goodyear has, I think, three blimps left. They've got the one in California

and Florida and Ohio, and it's cool to see them, you know, flying over in the airs and they cover the big sporting events and that kind of thing. But I see where Google co-founder Sergei Bryn, his airship company, is

trying to revive the passenger airship blimp travel? No? I'm not real sure why. No, but no. I mean, we had the big blow-up, of course. The Hindenburg, which, you know, after the Hindenburg blow up,

everybody was like, no, we're not flying blimps anymore. I mean, I guess you could say that it's probably a safe way to travel, just like airplanes or automobiles. But it just feels like, do you want to fly in a blimp to someplace? No, thanks. No, I'm good. And the skies are already full. We've got airplanes, we've got helicopters, we've got drones.

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So Ann and Lucy Dayton, who I don't think they have anything to do with the company, except they probably milk money from their dad's foundation who founded the country. company and built it to what it is today. They were pissed, and as members of the Dayton family, we were shocked and dismayed by Target's rollback of its racial equity action and change and supplier

diversity programs. This is the daughter's writings. And they said that this of our father and uncles transformed the family department store into a national retailer it is today. And it was based on a clear set of principles. They were excellent.

customers always write mantra and a commitment to well-being of their community. Oh, okay. And we were alarmed at how quickly the business community is given into the current administration's retaliatory threats. I feel like, I don't think they did. I feel like these companies are saying that they're getting rid of it, but they're not really. And to justify my thoughts on that, I find a story from the University of Michigan. Hail to the Victors in Ann Arbor, Michigan. they got rid of their DEI office.

But did they really? Because I don't think they did. They got rid of everything that said DEI. They got rid of everything that talked about diversity, equity, and inclusion. And they took down everything from the diversity office's main page on their website. And so you'd think, well, it's all over. It's done. Oh, is it really, though?

Because no. What they've done is they've renamed it to community culture. And they pretty much just copy and pasted everything into the community culture page, just removing the terms diversity or DEI. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, one of their retired professors of economics from their Flint campus, that's in Flint, Michigan, which is right here, a little bit north.

of Ann Arbor. He looked into it and said, yeah, no, it's the same plan, but it's just called community culture now. They employ all the same staff as the former diversity office. The title is just one official

that has changed from DEI Strategic Planning Co-lead to Strategic Planning Co-lead. So it's all the same thing. just without the DEI or diversity or inclusion included in their illustrations on the website. So it's not going away. We have to work a little bit harder to get rid of that and hope that people are actually being hired and being looked at for their own merit and not being given an upper hand because of diversity, equity, and inclusion.

I'm sorry, not because of community culture. I mean, you want to talk about someone that has gotten ahead in life because of community culture. We can talk about former vice president Kamala Harris. She is going to be given an award in a couple of days from the NAACP. It's their image awards are being presented on the 22nd of February, which is Saturday. And she is going to be given a chairman's award. Oh, that's so congratulations. The chairman award is given to people who excel in public service

and leverage their unique platforms to ignite and drive meaningful change. Yeah, I saw her speaking after a Broadway play, and she looked really drunk or she was actually had, she was under the influence of some kind of medication. Let's say it's alcohol. But there was something else that she was under the influence on. It was incredibly embarrassing. And I think all that you can think that she is not the president of the United States.

But according to the NACP, she is more than a leader. She is a force of change driven by an unwavering passion to shape a brighter, more equitable future. It is with a great honor that we present her with the Chairman's Award at this year's NAACP Image Awards. We're going to be celebrating her relentless dedication to justice, equality, and the better of our society. I could barf hearing that. But, you know, hey, congratulations to her. And she just signed a deal

with a talent, firm, creative artist agency, the CAA, which also signed former president, Joe Biden, to a similar deal two weeks ago. So she's living the life, living the dream. All she has to do is,

I don't know, stay sober, which looks like it's not happening. I mean, That talk after the Broadway play was just incredible. She was just drunk out of her mind. I should play it for you. All right, so she went to the Broadway play A Wonderful World, and I guess they had to let her speak afterward.

Doug was there with her. I guess he's her handler, making sure that he can drag her drunk ass back home. But here she is after the play. Ah, ha, ha, ha. And it cannot be defeated. When we think about these moments where we see things that are being taken, but also let's see it as, you know, nature of pours a vacuum.

So where there's a vacancy, then let's fill it. Right? And let's know that the reality is that the progress of our nation has always been about the expansion of rights, not the restriction of rights. We're seeing a U-turn right now. I know, we're not actually. those rights to be maintained, which means we have to be vigilant. And it's just the nature of it. I mean, look, I mean, it's this beautiful play and everything that we know he ended,

that he was suppressed, he had to suppress so much. But he knew and, you know, he took those risks. But we have to be clear all right. And it doesn't mean we don't see the beauty and everything. I just dug like, oh my gosh, I'm going to just drag her back to the car. But I believe we fight for something, not against them. Uh-huh. All right, okay, we better get going.

Thank you so much. Thank you. How is that? I'm leaving. Yeah, I'm going to get out of here because I got to go get a drink. I mean, just incredibly agonizing. And whatever she's doing,

alcohol or some kind of medication, get help. Kamala, get help. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Desperately. Congratulations to the movie Ni Zah Two. It's a Chinese blockbuster, an animated film, about a toothy child with fire powers.

It became the highest grossing animated movie ever this week, snagging the crown from Inside Out 2, which was the Pixar and Disney's 2024 box office winner. The three-week-old. film continues to smash records. Nizat 2 pulled in $1.7 billion globally, reported 80 million dollar budget since its January 29th release, making it China's highest grossing movie ever and the eighth highest grossing film of all time. Wow. Okay. So Mizat 2 unseated Inside Out 2 as the top performing animated film in about seven months, faster than any previous title

dethronement. Frozen held the record for six years. It's the first non-Hollywood film to crack the international box offices top ten, and the first non-English language movie in the top 10. Wow. The feature is

IMAX's highest-grossing China release, raking in $20 plus million more than Avengers Endgame. Okay. So China's overall box office is up 96% compared to the same time last year, according to variety. Its theaters are rebounding from an extended post-COVID slump, thanks to greater investment in domestic filmmaking, which allows China to shed its longtime reliance on American studios

for mainstream entertainment. Wow, Hollywood has got to be sweating bullets. More congratulations, I guess, are in order. Today's show with a lot of congratulations going on. Cynthia Irrivo, I think that's how you pronounce her name. She's a superstar and I still don't know how to pronounce her last name. E-R-I-V-O. I apologize because you are the Cynthia. Ur-A-V-O.

Irvio. Irvo. It's Ori-Vo. I got it. Anyway, she has been tapped to host the 2025 Tony Awards. Huh? How great is that? 2025 Tony Awards.

So we've got that to look forward to because that's coming up, I think, in June, right? Yeah, it's going to air live on June 8th on CBS and also stream on Paramount Plus. Nobody cares about these awards shows anymore, really. I mean, let's look at the BAFTA Awards that just took place last weekend. We found out the BAFTA Awards,

I think, took place on Friday, Friday night. And we had a clip of Mark Hamill where his pants fell down on stage. He was giving, he was speaking on stage at the BAFTA Awards. His pants fall down mid-speaking. And he handled it well, I thought. You know, he just kept, he powered through, pulled them up. And, you know, I made the joke on my ex account that, you know,

there's an invention called a belt. But the thing is, is that we didn't find out about that until, I don't know, three or four days later. because nobody watched it. So, I mean, it was just incredible. So, I mean, congratulations to Cynthia Arrivo. You'll be hosting the 2025 Tony Awards that do. I mean, do you care more about the BAFTA Awards or the Tony Awards?

I think we all know the answer to that. And she has caused a little firestorm herself as she has been cast as the lead in Jesus Christ superstar. Congratulations. She's she's going to be Jesus. That's fantastic. She's going to play Jesus Christ Superstar

and it will be performed at the Hollywood Bowl in California in August. So if you want to go see the opera that follows Jesus and his disciples during the last week of his life and have Cynthia Arrivo as Jesus have at it.

Have at it. Because a lot of people are a little upset about that. And it's kind of interesting that they're, you know, I get it. It's just, hey, we're just creating something that we thought was cute. But really, we're going to have her play Jesus? Okay. Would you be okay with her playing Mohammed?

I don't think so. Hey, I mentioned posting something on my ex account. You should follow me there. Jeffie JFR on X. You can follow me on my Facebook and Instagram accounts as well, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on my YouTube page, Chewing the Fat, with Jeff Fisher. You can order a cameo from me at any time on the cameo app at Jeffey JFR. That, of course, is not free.

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We'd love to talk business. Who died today? Who died today? Well, she didn't really die today or yesterday. She died on January 10th. But it doesn't matter because the segment is who died today. And we're going to tell you that she died. And she did.

Yassiniya Torres, 44. Rest in peace. Now, she was murdered. on January 10th in San Bernardino, California. Now, we believe that she was murdered in a robbery. So it was just an everyday murder. There's no reason to report that kind of stuff on who died today. We'd be here all day telling you who died today

if we started talking about every murder across the country. Anyway, we find out that five men have been arrested in connection to the execution of this wealthy businesswoman in San Bernardino, California. The investigators say the five. men have been arrested in the murder for hire plot where she was gunned down in broad daylight. It looked like a botched robbery in San Bernardino. But now the district attorney's office says, nope, that had been planned for a year. And they also, during the arrest, I uncovered $286,000 in cash where the men were arrested.

And so this, and then they arrested another guy, this Ronaldo Arrudes, who was working as a middleman between the husband. Sergio Rivellis and his business partner Juan Perez. They all pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Apparently, she had a lot of cash, and a hubby wanted her debt. It's not funny at all. It's like a TV movie. And they have video of the robbery,

which is where they got busted because they followed the car that the robbers used. They planned this for a year. We need to up the education of criminals. I'll tell you that. because if they planned this for a year and they got caught in a month after they pulled it off, yeah, that's an issue. But rest in peace to Yassinia Torres, 44, brutally gunned down in daylight because the hubby wanted her money.

Wow. And under the heading of Not Dead Yet, but close, electric vehicle startup Nikola, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Why? I wonder why. Well, that was a dramatic decrease in sales, a fraud scandal, and the incarceration of its founder. Oh, that had an issue? Yeah. Yeah, it sure did. He was, uh, it launched in 2015, the company made provinces to revolutionize the industry, remember, and developed long haul semi-trucks powered by hydrogen electricity, all kinds of enthusiasm from investors. And then the company was targeted in a short-seller report, alleging that the founder, Trevor Milton, had exaggerated claims about his business technology

and production. Huh. So he was ousted and later convicted of fraud in 2022 for misrepresenting Nicola to investors, including sharing a promo video of an electric truck rolling downhill. He received a four-year prison sentence, which he is now appealing. So the office, Automaker reported having $47 million in cash to fund its bankruptcy proceedings and provide limited service for trucks on the road. Okay, so it's probably going away. So if you're out there using the old Nicola trucks, you're in trouble. You know, this is just another example.

I don't know. I wasn't going to talk about this, but this is just another example of these CEOs and founders of companies going to jail, and we're hearing from them. We've got, we just heard for the first time from What's Her Face who's in jail. Elizabeth Holmes, the former CEO of Theranos, who did the same thing that this Nikolai guy did, the Nikola guy did. There's a trial ongoing right now, I believe it's already underway, of Charlie Javis, who had a big clash with these tech people.

And he believed that he was, now he's being a. accused of pushing the limits of the fake it till you make it mantra. So he's a former CEO of Frank, which is a college financial planning platform. He apparently there are four counts of fraud about the number of customers in her database. When she sold the company to J.P. Morgan, she sold it for $175 million. And now they're saying, oh, yeah, no, she what she said was wrong. We're pissed that we had to spend all this money. So now we're going to try her for it.

Incredible. Incredible. We also, you know, who else is running their fat face? Is, what's his face that shot the CEO from United Health Care, Luigi Maggione? Yeah, he was, he was, somebody talked to him in jail too. He's claiming that he was overwhelmed, overwhelmed by all the people that have written to share their stories and express their support. He's in jail at Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center.

Hey, that's where Did he is. And he said he was grateful for all the people writing him letters. And this support has transcended political, racial, and even class divisions as mail has flooded the MDC from across the country and around the globe. Oh, okay, everybody's all for them. Yeah, hey, we're for you. Thanks for killing that CEO. on the streets of New York.

Wow. Wow. And then one more person under our Not Dead Yet theme is Mitch McConnell, the senator from the great state of Kentucky or the Commonwealth of Kentucky or whatever they go by.

He has decided that he is not going to run for re-election next year. Oh, okay, well, that's great. I mean, he's only served seven terms in the Senate and he hates Donald Trump. He's been accident prone, frozen, had strokes in front of us, gone to rehab, fallen,

broken all kinds of limbs, but he's still going to remain in office. Mitch, go ahead and leave now. Okay, just leave. I know you don't want to give up the power that you have or let you think you have, which you really don't have anymore. But just leave. Just leave. We're done with you. We don't want anything more to do with you. You know, go, just go retire and be happy with the money that you made with your wife and her Chinese family and all the money that you made because making deals with China and in their shipping industry. Just go ahead, retire and live on that. Won't you, Mitch? It's hockey season and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream,

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A new study from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health, and man, do I love them. Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. They have uncovered significant geographic differences, New York, New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, as I said, among the five states with the highest rates of breast cancer in women under 40. The researchers said that they could, you know, this could refine efforts to identify groups at a higher risk for the disease. Oh, okay. Well, we do know that the incidence is increasing with women under 40, but we don't know why.

We're still struggling with the why. And we know that we've analyzed age-adjusted breast cancer incidence rates in women, age 25 to 39. our findings can more accurately inform whether exposures that vary and prevalence across the U.S. also contribute to breast cancer risk and younger women. Blah, blah, blah, blah. Look, the western region had the highest rate of increase from 2001 to 2020. The northeast had the highest absolute rate among women under 40 and saw a significant increase over time. The south was the only region where breast cancer cases under 40 didn't increase.

over the 29-year period. The overall incidence of early onset, breast cancer ranged from 28.6 per 100,000 to Wyoming in Wyoming and 41 cases per 100,000 in Connecticut. So the five states, I mentioned three of them, but Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Hawaii, and Connecticut were the highest states. Now, they're still trying to figure it out. They don't know what the underlying causes are, what the geographic differences are, what the geographic differences are why this is happening. They do go on to say, is it something in the water,

environmental factors, what is happening? They mention chemical exposures, which would be, you know, in the environmental chemical exposures, but they also, alcohol consumption, definitely. That's a well-established risk factor for breast cancer. Okay. So I guess studies suggest that women who have one drink a day face a 7 to 10% higher risk compared to non-drinkers, while those who consume 2 to 3 drinks daily have about 20% increased risk. I guess that holds true with what I know in my life. Two women in my life have had breast cancer. One was a non-drinker, and one was.

And it's a horrible disease. One survived. One did not from breast cancer specifically. So we'll see none of this is it something in the water. They don't know. None of the, they talk about how breast cancer deaths have declined thanks to improved treatments, but it still remains the second most common cause of cancer death among U.S. women in 2025. The American Cancer Society estimates that 316,950 new cases will be diagnosed in women with 42,170 expected to die from the disease.

And it is not fun. It is to get tested as soon as you can. they claim that you need to get tested, I think every other year after the age of 40, whatever. I would always make sure that you're being tested for it, whether it's professionally or you're giving yourself self-breast exams, whatever, because it's horrible, and I don't wish that on anyone. But nowhere in this study, oh, no, let me rephrase that. I didn't read the entire study.

Nowhere in this story about the study from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health Does it say anything about that? Right? Couldn't have anything to do with all of these young people who had that in their life. Yeah, because we're seeing, I believe we're seeing cancer rates increased dramatically, no matter what type of cancer it is. And could it have something to do with people taking that? Please put that in your studies.

I don't care what group is studying, especially those from Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. I love that school. All right, let's get out here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day. This joke comes from Jason, who emailed Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. And he says in his email,

I'm pretty sure that my last attempt at a joke of the day was terrible. So let me give it another shot. I don't know if I read Jason's joke or not. But if he thought it was terrible, I mean, okay. I mean, that's fine. But his joke submitted here today, a police officer pulled over a man in a truck. As the officer approached the truck, and while he was talking to the driver, he noticed a large amount of flies.

And the more time he stood there, he was constantly swatting away the flies. Finally, the officer asked the man if he knew where all the flies were coming from. And the man said, well, those are horse flies that you usually see around. a horse's ass. You can sell this to the joke because it's not real. This was never happened to a police officer where horse flies would fly around them. You know, the flies usually fly around to horse's ass.

Anyway, a stunned. The officer said, are you calling me a horse's ass? The man replied, no, sir, but you can't fool the flies. Man, that is such. so disrespectful to the blue line. Back to blue. Back to blue. It's just a joke. It's just a joke. But, you know, you really can't fool the flies, can you?

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