Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Biohazards… | 9/5/23

Episode Date: September 5, 2023

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That's a new study. Many people take vitamins like vitamin C and E to improve their health. Yeah, that's what we were told. Now we're being told that, oh, that's dangerous. Yeah, it's a peer-reviewed study and published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. And man, do I love the Journal of Clinical Investigation. They found that vitamins can stimulate the growth of new blood vessels within cancer cells. These new vessels can aid the cancer in growing and spreading across the body.

Cancer tumors require oxygen supply and nutrient-rich blood to grow new blood vessels. The process is known as angiogenesis. Angiogenesis. Yeah, that's what I said. So now they're bad. So antioxidants usually work by utilizing unused oxygen from other cells, which reduces the amount of oxidative stress. Oxidative stress can damage DNA and cause increased risk of cancer.

So stop taking your voice. vitamin E and your vitamin C, okay? Because it can stabilize the Bach 1 protein, which can cause the spread of lung cancer. This can happen when excessive levels of antioxidants are introduced into a person's diet and when mutations occur in tumors activating the production of antioxidants. Researchers have discovered the role of the antioxidants while looking at lung cancer and organoids taken from patients. And the same observations took place on breast tissue, kidney tumors, and experiments on mice. So, many clinical trials have evaluated the efficacy of angiogenesis.

Yeah. And those inhibitors, but the results have not been as successful as anticipated. So, for those of you that are thinking that vitamin C and vitamin E are good for you, I don't know what to tell you. According to the Journal of Clinical Investigators, that may not be. be such a good idea. Wow. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Okay, we have a few stories today that are under the heading, poop in the news. I know, I know. This is the world we live in today. So Joe Montana, the legend,

Hall of Fame quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Joe Montana, who, I mean, he's awesome. And in fact, I had a brush with greatness with Joe Montana at Tampa International Airport once. So I was walking through there. And Joe passed me. And I went, holy crap, that's Joe Montana. Joe!

And he just turned around and gave me a quick wave and a smile. And that was my brush with greatness with Joe Montana. However, he, in the group of, homeowners are suing the city of San Francisco claiming that their homes were flooded with sewage back in December after a storm. Now I would say that is nasty. So these residents, and of course the story is these wealthy residents, yeah, nobody wants sewage in their homes. I don't care if they have money or not, okay? They believe that the infrastructure that led to sewage flooding of their houses could have been prevented by simply, I don't know, repairing and upgrading the wastewater facilities.

The part of the system that runs through their wealthy neighborhood is antiquated and has been neglected and inadequately maintained by the city and county of San Francisco. Huh, that's a surprise that a city like San Francisco would neglect their sewage. There's sewage infrastructure, but, you know, who knows? So as a result, the system routinely gets overwhelmed, overflows, and inundates properties and neighborhoods with untreated sewage and contaminated water, permeating the soils, walls, walls and floors and depositing highly contaminated and toxic fecal and other raw sewage matter in and around all these people's homes yeah i don't care if you live in a crappy neighborhood or a

rich neighborhood uh you are not for having uh sewage i'm sorry untreated sewage and contaminated water permeating the soils walls and floors uh in your neighborhood. No one wants that. So we'll see how that lawsuit pans out. Then we have the mayor of Casper, Wyoming, speaking about he's blaming the homeless population in his city. In Casper, Wyoming, they're saying that they destroyed a motel and left hundreds of pounds of human feces on the streets and the sidewalks. I'm not a fan. I know we talked, we've talked about homeless populations, a number of times, but I'm not a fan of human feces on the streets and sidewalks. Oh my gosh, it sounds a lot like San Francisco. You're the mayor. Do something about it. So Casper Mayor Bruce Nell said roughly 200

homeless people were residing at this hotel that has been shut down and they've created quite a mess. It's nothing like I've ever seen, said the mayor. It's third world country stuff happening in Casper, Wyoming. Well, then fix it. That's what he did. He and city staffers, and I bet it was more city staffers than he, had to clean up roughly 500 pounds

of human feces where a sizable portion of the homeless population and others stay in nearby parks or sleep in their cars. Desperate times have people doing desperate things and we're the ones left to deal with it according to the mayor.

In addition, to defecating on streets. They've also destroyed a vacant motel, which I mentioned earlier. Apparently there's this Econo Lodge that is shut down, has been boarded up, and people are just squatting in the Econo Lodge. Kind of can't blame them,

but it's shut down. There's no heat, no power, no working toilets. So the property, I guess, has been condemned and it's boarded up, but everyone is living there. I kind of don't blame them for that. so and then other homeless people are squatting and abandoned houses and buildings other buildings that lack running water and power so casper is no different than the major cities in across america that are dealing with homeless issues so the mayor is unhappy i guess he's fine with people you know living in these boarded up buildings he just didn't like to clean up all the poop and i really i guess i can't blame him then

then there was a Delta flight from Atlanta to Barcelona that was forced to turn back. Now, I would be, you know, first of all, you're flying from Atlanta to Barcelona. You're ready to go. You're on the plane. You're ready to go. The Delta Airbus A350 that got up in the air and we're headed to Barcelona. And then all of a sudden the pilot is like, yeah, we're going to go ahead and turn this thing around. Why did they want to turn it around?

Well, if you were on the flight, you were probably happy about it. and couldn't wait to get off. So a passenger on board, according to reports, suffered a bout of diarrhea that ran all the way through the plane. That is nasty.

So the flight had already departed and I was in the air and the pilot's like, yeah, we're turning this thing around. There's a passenger with diarrhea, all over the aircraft and it's now, you know, a biohazard. Nobody wants that. So I guess, you know, I guess the person had diarrhea and would, you know,

ran to the bathroom, which then leaked all over the plane. Oh, nasty. Now, they say that the plane went under a five-hour cleanup operation. I feel like it should have taken longer. I feel like maybe we don't use that plane for a while. We open it up, we air it out, we spray some lysol on that bad boy, and we hose it down. That would be what I would do.

So, oh, just nasty. So I don't know what to tell you. I mean, if you're on an airplane and you have, you know, diarrhea issues, do you just stay in your seat and say, you know, I can't help it? Or do you try to race? Your first thought is you've got to race to the bathroom, right? So then it's just dribbling down the aisle.

I'm sure people are trying to, you know, wish they had a mask, wish they had some kind of air freshener in the plane. It would be nasty. And I'm sure that everyone was happy that they turned this thing around. Get off of that plane. ASAP. Because, holy cow, I would have been probably puking. So that's probably helped in the mess as well.

It doesn't talk about that. in these stories, but I bet, like if someone is running down the aisle and has a diarrhea issue, I'm probably barfing. So that would mean that there's more things to clean up other than the diarrhea, which is just, you know, adding to the frustration, it's a domino effect. You have the diarrhea, you have the puke, then you have more puke. You might even have more diarrhea because people are like, oh my gosh, I can't help myself. so just nasty good move on the pilot of the delta flight yeah we're going to go ahead and turn this thing around because uh yeah and i'm not leaving the cockpit okay i'm going to let other people deal with that so that's not going to happen

have a cleaning crew and just some medical personnel at the gate when we come back to Atlanta ASAP all right let's go to the break room I need something cold to drink desperately. So technically, I guess summer is over, although fall isn't until, you know, the 23rd of September, 2023. So I know that a lot of people are still thinking that, hey, this is still summer, okay? We can still pretend that we're going on vacation. I can still be in my vacation state of mind. Okay.

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Yeah, that's right. Write it down. Buy-Rac-Rac-Con.com slash Jephy. So the lawsuits keep coming for our man, Elon. I know. He's, you know, Mr. Billionaire, so you feel sorry for him. And he's got astronauts coming back to Earth. And he's got rocket ships blasting off. So, you know, everybody's like, oh, poor Elon. But he fired about 6,000 employees when he bought Twitter, which is now, you know, X. And 2,200 of them are taking him to court over claims that he didn't provide the severance pay they are owed upon being cut loose. Now, he could be out of the $2,200 of them. And he could be out of the $2,200 of them. And he could be out. And he could be out of the court. And the hook for about 3.5 million in fees. 3.5 million. Elon spits at 3.5 million.

But it's a matter of above a point, damn it. And plus he could be on the hook for that, plus the total amount of unpaid severance, which, you know, who knows what that could be. So we'll see what the, uh, what happens with that lawsuit. But he could be on the hook for a few million dollars anyway for these other employees who probably the other four. 4,000 employees or 3,000 employees went to work for threads. So they're fine.

Right? I mean, they're not going to be part of the lawsuit. You can follow me on X, by the way, at Jeffrey JFR. You can follow me on Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio, and Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio as well. You can email the show anytime, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. This is going to be so cool.

Wednesday, if you're listening live, today is a Tuesday, the 5th of September, 2020. So on Wednesday, the 6th of September, 2020, 3, Bethesda Game Studios is going to release their new gaming universe, the first one in 25 years, called Starfield. And I don't know if you've seen the promos for Starfield. I've seen the promos the last couple years at their events. And it is really, really cool. The scope is incredible.

It's got over a thousand environments, three million words of dialogue. It's got each, you go to different planets, and you can create your own worlds and different planets. You create your own space travelers in these environments. It is really, really cool. And so if you don't think you've got lost into the game world before, when you sit down to get lost, in Starfield, it will be, you'll be there for a while.

You'll be there for a while. And you'll be traveling over thousands of environments. It is so cool. If you don't know, look it up, Starfield, it's called. And, I mean, it is just incredible. I am looking forward to it. I don't know if my son's going to get it or not.

I may have to talk them into just getting it so I can check it out. Because all the promos for it were just incredible. incredible. And I am, if you love traveling in space and want to be in this world, this game Starfield, and I don't even know it's a game, it's just an immersive world, uh, is going, supposed to be released on Wednesday. So we shall see. But I'm looking forward to it because even just the promos are really, really cool. So last week we talked about how Taylor Swift's era's tour concert film was going to be released in theaters, October, October 13th and AMC was going to act as the distributor.

Yay! Can't wait for that. Well, it's already set a record. The concert film has already earned $26 million in pre-sale tickets at AMC theaters. I mean, she can just do no wrong. It set a single-day ticket sale record for AMC beating the benchmark, previously held by Spider-Man No Way Home, which was $16.9 million. Pss, please.

That was less than three hours after ticket sales went on sale, according to the cinema chain. So congratulations to the Ares Tour. It broke the record for the biggest first-day ticket sales in 2023. So that's great. And congratulations to Taylor for doing that. And congratulations to all the people who, either couldn't afford to see the live show

or want to relive it again because you'll be able to do it on October 13th. And I see where my man, Danzel was number one at the box office, of course, in Equalizer 3. I think Barbie was number two. Barbie's still hanging in there, but Equalizer had like, I don't know,

almost 35 million domestically. And Barbie was still a little over 10 million for Barbie. Wow. credible. Barbie's already at over 600 million domestically. That's, of course, way over a billion internationally. So we'll see how Equalizer stands up in the next couple of weeks to come. I see where, you know, it's the first weekend of football. Well, I mean, I know we had week zero the weekend before, but this weekend was the first big weekend of college football. And then the NFL starts on Thursday of this week. And then, you know, continues.

on through the weekend. So we have, you know, college and NFL back. And it is so good, man. I really do love football season. But I am not a charter communication, a client or spectrum cable client. I see where Disney is in big dispute.

I figure they haven't taken care of by this past weekend, but nope. So they had a big blackout of ABC. Nobody cares about that. ESPN. And that's what they care about. And so all those, people that had, you know,

charter and Spectrum, you weren't able to watch any of the ESPN supports this weekend. I bet you they were pissed, because I would have been. And it only happened, it happened here, actually, when I was, for YouTube, had a fight with Disney at one point. I don't know, a year or two ago,

maybe it was three. I don't remember how long it was, but they blacked out ESPN and ABC for like a day or so. Might have been a couple of days. I was so so angry that I couldn't watch the football games. They finally worked out a deal. So hopefully they'll finally

work out a deal. Just like the writers and the actors, they've got to work out a deal too, right? They've been on strike for 127 days now. And the actors had joined the writers in July, and apparently there's no resolution in

sight. Pretty incredible that there's no resolution in sight. Hopefully that's not true. You know, this shutdown of the film and television industry. I mean, it's already cost, according to some experts, it's cost California $5 billion already for 127 days. Wow. This guy from the Milken Institute, Kevin Clouded, and I love Kevin Clouded from the Milken Institute, he told the financial times that other businesses that serve the industry, caters, rental companies, dry cleaners have taken a big hit from the work stoppage.

And that's already more than $2.1 billion than he believes the 2007 writer strike, which lasts a hundred days cost the state. So, I mean, they need to, something needs to happen quickly. Not only for content, but for jobs and workers and businesses. We need to, that needs to happen. So work it out, figure it out, do something. I want everybody to get what they want, but let's make this happen because we're coming to a point. where content is going to be very hard to come by on whatever platform you want to watch it on.

We've been pretty lucky to have new content break out during these last 127 days because of what was already in the can 127 days ago. But we're at the end of that very soon. So it's going to be like a dust bowl of new content very soon. And I have not a fan of Dust Bowls. Just want to go on record. You can quote me on that. I am not a fan of Dust Bulls. 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. So who died today? Who died today? Well, it wasn't today. It was a couple days ago. but Jimmy Buffett passed away at the age of 76. So he died on Saturday, I believe.

Maybe it might have been the Friday. And so come Monday, everything will be all right, except if you're Jimmy Buffett. Oh, no, I'm sorry. He'd been hospitalized for an unspecified illness. Apparently, he was, you know, dealing with some serious cancer the last couple of years. And just so the guy, you know,

everyone thought would live forever. Didn't. Very sad. But he's, I mean, he was a monster worth a lot of money. I know he never disclosed his finances with his Margaritaville Holdings LLC. But he had casinos. He had a casino in Vegas. He had a casino in Mississippi. He had a hotel in Pensacola Beach, Florida.

He has the cheeseburger in paradise restaurant chains, boat shoes. Oh, I mean, just a huge amount. of different items under the Margaritaville Holdings LLC for Jimmy Buffett. And so, I mean, he was definitely worth at least a billion dollars, maybe more. Huge, huge, huge, I mean, Parrothead and was just amazing. And so, you know, we've all, look, we've all been, now wasted away at Margaritaville. No question about that. And we've all sad and thought to ourselves.

You know, come Monday, it'll be all right. Come Monday. I'll be holding you tight. Except, no, not anymore for Jimmy Buffett. I know, I know. Rest in peace. Jimmy Buffett, dead at the age of 76. Then we have the Dreamweaver himself, Gary Wright, dead at the age of 80.

Holy cow, we are losing up left and right. Now, Gary, I guess, was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and dementia. So he's been struggling with that. Very sad. I do not wish that on anyone. I mean, okay, so I don't wish death on anyone, no matter what the death is. But I do not wish Parkinson's or dementia on anyone. It's not a sad, sad, sad disease.

And it was a long, you know, he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and not long. long after with dementia. And so then he was unable to perform. And the Dreamweaver is dead at the age of 80. And then I saw a report over the weekend that Steve Harwell, the singer to Smashmouth, had only days to live. Yes, that was correct. He only had a day to live after that report was issued

because Steve Harwell dead at the age of 56. The Smash Mouth lead singer passed away of live. liver failure at the age of 56. He was a big time drinker and he had serious drug and alcohol issues and he was in the final stages of liver failure. He died at his home in Boise, Idaho, surrounded by his family and friends and passed away peacefully and comfortably. Did he? Well, yes, he did because that's what they said. So I know everyone talked about the time he was on stage, hollering and at fans and everything. He was just out of his mind and he'd been drinking it on drugs and he was starting to you know his body was breaking down he was young still young ish and so

you know that's when he retired uh-huh and so i guess when you retire and you've got a drug and alcohol problem and you don't want to deal with that drug and alcohol problem other than just continuing with that drug and alcohol problem you end up with uh being in the final stages of liver failure a few years later so steve harwell dead at the age of 56. Then we have Bill Richardson. Bill Richardson. Let's get away from music for a while. I mean, holy cow. Jimmy Buffett, Steve Harwell, Gary Wright, all dead on the same weekend. Oh, man, okay, okay, we got it. So Bill Richardson, two-term Democratic governor of New Mexico

and a U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who dedicated his post-political career to working to free Americans detained overseas. He has, passed away at the age of 75. The Richardson Center for Global Engagement, which he founded and led, said that he died in his sleep at his home in Chatham, Massachusetts. Wait, what, he's a New Mexico guy?

He died in Massachusetts? Okay. Well, I didn't know the Richardson story. So he grew up in Massachusetts. Interesting. He was born in California. Grew up in Mexico City with a Mexican mother and an American father,

who was a U.S. bank executive. went to prep school in Massachusetts. And then he decided, when he decided to get working at Capitol Hill, said, hey, I want to run for political office. You know what? New Mexico sounds good. And it worked. So with my Hispanic roots, yeah, it's a good place. So he campaigned for Congress.

And, you know, then he was the governor. So good for him. You know, then they made a big deal out of him. Oh, that's right. He endorsed Obama instead of the Clintons. and he was friends with the Clintons. Oh, geez, that's right. So what did this guy?

It doesn't say what Bill died of. I'm sure it's not that, though. So he was, you know, he's 75. So I'm sure it has absolutely nothing to do with that. I know what you're thinking. I know what you're thinking. But it doesn't say that. So it can't be that, can it?

No. No, it cannot. Then that's who died today, by the way. Now we have a lady who. could have made it to who died today. Luckily, didn't. She just had her leg impaled by a beach umbrella. This needs to stop.

The dangers of beach umbrellas. We need to do something. Learn how to put your beach umbrellas into the sand, okay? Because you get a big wind and the umbrella dislodges. And then it's flying through the air. The next thing you know, you've got it sticking out of your leg and it's a traumatic injury and that's what happened so just be careful now this actually happened uh in orange beach so orange beach fire was dispatched for this and this is in alabama

i believe isn't that where orange beach is yes that's where this is in alabama so uh she's okay although you know she had a traumatic injury with the umbrella sticking out of her in the lower leg. Could have been, she's lucky, okay? Stabilize her, she's good to go. And so this, I mean, a year ago,

a woman died by being impaled by a beach umbrella in South Carolina. So it's not limited to Alabama. It's not limited to Florida. It's limited to wherever there's a beach and wherever there's a beach umbrella. So something needs to be done. Airboard beach umbrellas can be dangerous and deadly.

So make sure that your umbrella, is anchored correctly in the sand. Now, the Consumer Product Safety Commission has offered several tips for people to firmly get their umbrella into the sand. So you need to bury it back and forth until it's buried deep into the sand, tilting the umbrella into the wind to keep it from blowing away, anchoring the base of the pole with some form of anchor or weight and making sense. certain that the sand is packed well around the base. These are just some tips for you and beach

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All right. So, according to a new Pew Research Center survey, and I love Pew Research Center surveys. Two in ten Americans say the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world. Two and ten? That is unacceptable. Two and ten. I don't care.

I know we do stories all the time about the U.S. not being number one anymore. You know, I was filling in on WBAP yesterday, the afternoon show, and I did a story about Brazil. According right now, the U.S. once the corn capital of the world used to account for nearly 70% of the global exports of the golden crop, it's the second consecutive year that we are number two. Brazil is once again set to be top of the world as far as the largest corn exporter. Okay, so congratulations to Brazil. And, you know, that's, of course, because they, according to this story, the Brazilian supply has, has been instrumental in filling in market gaps left by the war in Ukraine, tensions between China and the U.S. and the country's share of the global exports.

But in 20 years ago, Brazil was only doing 6% of the world's corn exports. And today they're at 32% at number one. Why it makes one think, okay, well, the U.S. isn't number one there. But two and ten Americans say that the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world, even if we're number two at corn exports. we still stand above the rest of the world. Do we? Yes.

Yes, we do. According to this, about half, 52% say the U.S. is one of the greatest countries. One of the greatest countries? Holy cow. We are doomed. Along with others, along with others, obviously. While saying 27% say there are other countries that are better than the U.S. U.S.

Please ask them what other countries, because there are no other countries better than the U.S. I get other countries think they punch above their weight in the words of Barack Obama. But come on now. There's no better country than the U.S. And if you live here and believe that, move there, okay, move out of here. Jeff, that's what makes America so great, okay? People can say that we're not number one and still live here.

Yeah, I know. I know. And guess what? That's an issue. Okay. So according to this now, much of the recent change in attitudes has come from Republicans

and Republican-leaning independence. Uh-huh. Four years ago, 40% of the Republicans said the U.S. stands above all other nations compared with 31% today. That's a big drop. And the share of Republicans

saying other countries are better has nearly doubled from 9% to 17% Wow. Democrats and Democratic leaners have grown slightly more likely to say there are other countries that are better than the U.S. Yeah, no kidding. 31% in 2019 as compared to 36% today. Wow. So 36% of Democrats and Democratic leaners say other countries are better than the U.S.

Get out then! And for you 17% of Republicans or Republican-leaning independence or whatever the hell you call yourself, get out. I am two in ten Americans say the U.S. stands above all other countries in the world. Wow. That is amazing to me. We are in trouble. Only half by a small half. 52%.

Half is half, Jeff. Yeah, I know. 52% say the U.S. is one of the greatest countries. Yeah, okay. The U.S. is the greatest country. Now, it certainly has been struggling in the recent past. There's no question about that. But, come on now.

According to this, the share of adults saying the U.S. stands above all other countries dropped significantly in telephone surveys between 2000. 2011 and 2019. How do we even do telephone surveys anymore? I like, that's interesting to me because, I mean, I don't know anyone that has an actual, you know, like telephone in their home. Who do you call?

I'm not picking up the phone for a number that's unverified, and then I don't know. Anyway, while the decline in views of the United States global standing was concentrated among Democrats during these years. The decline over the past four years is concentrated among Republicans. Yeah, yeah, that's what it shows. Incredibly more than doubled, right?

We went from 19 to 17% almost doubled of people who say other countries are better. Wow. We are doomed. We are doomed. Yeah, pretty sure you can quote me on that. All right, I hope all you people stuck at the play out there in Black Rock City are getting out today. I know I found out that they did have the burn last night or they were supposed to have. the burn and people are still kind of stuck in the mud trying to get out of there

thousands of people are trying to get out of Black Rock City it's been a tough week for the for the burners or the rainers now and I hope they all get out safely and may the burning man be with you at all times no seriously seriously burn on my friend burn on stream and subscribe to more Blaze media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.