Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Bruh! Agonizing… | 3/2/23

Episode Date: March 2, 2023

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But it's possible that you get dengue fever I know Two German tourists Have caught dengue fever During their holiday stay On the Spanish island of Ibiza So Be careful out there

The warning follows the confirmation of two cases of the disease in German tourists. It's, you know, in the island, during the incubation period, it got me thinking, wait, what is the incubation period of dengue fever? So many people experience no signs or symptoms of a dengue infection. When symptoms do occur, they may be mistaken for other illnesses, such as flu and usually begin four to ten days after you are bitten by an infected mosquito. Dengue fever causes high fever. Thank you. Maybe that's what they call it Dengue fever.

So apparently the people in Ibiza are saying, yeah, these German tourists got it, but they're blaming it on a Mexican tourist who had Dengue before they showed up at Abiza. So I see, I'm just saying be careful out there. It's possible that Dengue fever is out and about. And then we have our very own

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and I say our very own, here in the United States of America. They have issued a serious public health alert. Public health alert! Warning of a nationwide spike in an extensively

drug-resistant Shigalosis. It's a highly contagious Shigella bacterial infection, attacks the intestines and causes inflammatory. Ooh, sometimes bloody diarrhea. That does not sound good. You don't want to have none of the shigalosis.

Healthcare providers should understand the nuances of testing and managing infections, especially when treating patients from populations at increased risk of drug-resistant shigalosis. Young children. gay, bisexual, and other men who have sex with men, people experiencing homelessness, international travelers, and people living with HIV, kids younger than five years old, as well as those in daycare and educational settings, and travelers to places where water and food may be unsafe and sanitation is poor. So I think I'm probably safe right now against the shigalosis infection.

But it certainly sounds like with that laundry list of who is at risk, you have a pretty good risk of catching shigalosis. So if you think you might have shigalosis, see a medical professional immediately. the infection is considered XDR when it doesn't respond to antibiotics and typically used to treat Rithers as Rhythamiafine, syphalaxins, yeah, yeah, they give you regular antibiotics.

But it's difficult to treat because XDR chigalosis is resistant to all of the generally recommended antibiotics. So if you get it, man, stay at home, abstain from sex, wash your hands, do not prepare food for others, stay out of recreational water, including swimming. Wow. You know what I mean?

You don't do anything, man. The latest infection strain arrives as you get, it's a new stomach bug here in the U.S. Yay! Welcome! Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Remember when I used to do live shows from New York City? during the George Floyd protests. You remember, right, during the 2020 demonstrations,

I was there in New York City. We were doing live chewing the fat shows from the streets of New York City for BLM because Black Lives Matter. Yeah, you remember, right? So New York City is planning to compensate protesters from the 2020 demonstration following George Floyd's death

with $21,500 for each person. that was demonstrating in this new settlement. They've agreed to pay each member $21,500. Plus, if you were issued a desk appearance ticket, you're going to get another $2,500. So congratulations to all the people. The settlement is an estimated $4 to $6 million, reportedly around 300 people in attendance at the protest,

and roughly 90 have already settled with the city regarding alternative complaints. So I guess I'm a little late to the party. I should have signed down to this class action lawsuit if I wanted to make any money. That is unbelievable. That is unbelievable to me. It's so unbelievable.

Sorry, I'm not a part of the class action lawsuit. I mean, that may be one of the reasons that New York is losing millionaire residents. The story is cities like New York City and L.A. might be some of the wealthiest in America, but it's smaller cities that are becoming more and more appealing to millionaires. Yeah, buried in the story. Chicago and New York are losing these millionaires.

Yeah, duh. So congratulations. According to Henley and Partners' 2023 wealth report, and I was just diving in, I haven't had an opportunity to get into the, get into the, to crunch the numbers in the Henley and, Partners' 2023 Wealth Report.

But according to this, the top five fastest growing U.S. cities, four millionaires. Coming in at number five, Greenwich and Darien, Connecticut. Coming in at number four, Miami, Florida. Number three, Scottsdale, Arizona. Coming in at number two. Now, the number two fastest growing U.S. city for millionaires. West Palm Beach, Florida. And coming in at number one,

the number one fastest growing U.S. city for millionaires, Austin, Texas. So congratulations to Austin, Texas. Austin saw a millionaire growth rate of 102% from 2012 to 2022. Austin was home to 30,500 millionaires. 86 centa millionaires and nine billionaires. Okay.

Over the years, Austin has emerged as a tech hub. Companies like Amazon, Google, Meta, SpaceX, Texelah, have expanded their presence. So has Samsung. And invested a billion to build,

Apple has invested a billion to build a new campus. Yeah, it's growing. Every time I go down there, I mean, I'm in that neck of the woods. My son has a business in Austin. And in Austin proper. which I think I can't I probably shouldn't say that out loud so I would just say for right now he has his business in Austin proper and I think that every time I go down there not that I think I think something else and I can't tell you right now because I don't know that it can be announced right now every time I go down there there's new roads new buildings new apartment complexes new everything going up and I bet you those are owned by the 30,500 millionaires, 86 centimonaires, and nine billionaires in Austin, Texas,

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Go to Youth Switchmd.com slash Jeffie. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Congratulations to Delana Brand. And she is the new chief people officer for the company, Peloton. She is a former Twitter executive. Huh. So the fitness company, known for its bike and bike plus,

has brought in two former Twitter executives now in the recent weeks. And CEO, Barry McCarthy, said the hire completes the leadership team, that he's been working on for years. Delana Brand will be its new chief people officer. Oh, that's so special. I know they want to return to profitability and they want to transform the company. Yes.

So Peloton, Delana's edition, is the culmination of that strategy. Rounding out and completing the leadership team as we continue Pelotons. transformation and pivot to growth okay so she was the chief people and diversity officer at twitter oh she lost that from her title uh she's just the chief people officer now at twitter she was the chief people and diversity officer she of course resigned when elon took over okay uh all right fine and then uh they hired another twitter dingleberry too

over there at Peloton. Leslie Burland, the former chief marketing officer of Twitter. She took the same job at Peloton in mid-January. She also left the company soon after Musk took over.

Did she leave the company or did Elon kick him to the curb? I don't know. But of course we're concerned at Peloton that we want to boost morale and attract new hires. So good news. great for Peloton. Good luck. God bless. I'm sure that

you're going to have the, I hope they're excited to work there. I'm sure they're excited to have the gig. She's the new chief people officer. Not the people a diversity officer, just the chief people officer. And then Leslie, of course, is the chief marketing officer of Peloton, which she was doing over there at Twitter as well. So anyway, congratulations to both of those people.

I hope everything works out well. So this headline talks about an actor who said, I'm going to quit. I don't want to be in movies anymore. I just want to go travel around. Oh, okay, why? So the actor, Isaiah Washington, took to Twitter to announce that he would no longer appear

on the big or small screen. And you may remember Isaiah from Gray's Annapolis. anatomy. And if you see his face, you'll say, oh, yeah, that's him. He's one of those guys. Oh, yeah, that's him. He's been in a lot of stuff. But he's announced it's an early retirement. He said it's my decision to retire. It's with a heavy heart and a sense of relief. My acting career back, began in the early 90s, and I did Spike Lee films. And those have been following and witnessing my journey here on Twitter since 2011. All know I've fought the good fight, but it seems that haters, provocateurs, and the useful idiots have won,

adding that he had grown tired of the color construct that divides Americans rather than uniting them. He also added in a statement that he is no longer interested in politics or anything vitriolic, but he then referred to himself as Frederick Douglass Conservative, who simply wants to travel this great country before it falls into socialism and then communism. him. So good luck. I hope he has a nice camper to pull back, pull behind him and you can just pull in anywhere and pop that bad boy up and you're good to go. Then there's Megan Mangrum. Megan Mangrum moved to Dallas last summer to cover education as part of the Dallas Morning News Education Lab. And I, man, I am a huge fan of Dallas Morning News Education Lab. You can't pull me

away from the Dallas Morning News Education Lab. They do fine work. There's a lot of great news coming from the Dallas Morning News. But she had previously worked the education beat in Tennessee. She worked in the Chattanooga Times, and she's from Florida. And apparently she's a big hockey fan and, you know, Tampa Bay Lightning. Hello. So the Lightning were in town here in Dallas at the American Airlines Center, taking on the Dallas.

Dallas stars and she was going to go to the game. So she was running late for puck drop and she said she saw Mayor Eric Johnson, the mayor of Dallas, had criticized local media for, in his view, not fully reporting the good news about Dallas crime numbers dropping

for the second consecutive year. The mayor opined that reporters were interested only in the bad news. In a tweet that changed I mean, it changed her career, uh, she tweeted, bro

B-R-U-H National News is always going to chase the trend cultivate relationships with quality local news partnerships He was going after local media For their coverage of crime Yeah yeah yeah So

And I saw some of my colleagues responding to him And so I wanted to You know, I want to jump in On my way to the hockey game Well now Uh, her week, you know, obviously her workplace saw it. Three days after she sent it, she was fired for addressing the mayor as bra. Come on.

Come on. I mean, you can reprimander. Maybe you say, you know, have her do an apology tweet. Uh, you know, I certainly meant no disrespect, which I'm sure she didn't. Uh, mean, any disrespect. It was just a social media. Twitter bruh, which happens all the time. She claims, and I haven't looked at it, but I'll take this story's word for it,

that she uses the word bra throughout her Twitter feed. It's directed at all sorts of accounts, including those belonging to hockey fans and Oklahoma Department of Wildlife. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure that she uses it as a, you know, that's a Twitter, bro. Come on, come on, bro, what are you doing? And I know that she's a reporter and probably should be better, but, you know, it's Twitter and it's today's world. So get over the word, bro, you're okay. All right.

So apparently they think that she violated the social media policy, but no one has really said what policy she actually violated. Huh. That's kind of strange. So they think that it's possible that the mayor put some pressure on. You think? You think that the mayor did that? I mean, I guess we're trying to say that she wouldn't have used the term, bra. If the mayor wasn't black, stop it.

That's just ridiculous. And she even says it's a ridiculous. So she's now filed for a free. of Information Act, and she's going to go through, well, I'm sorry, it's called an open records request with the city of Dallas seeking any communication between her former employee and the mayor's office just to see if there were any strings attached. You know, and now they're saying that there's more to the story because there's a union fight going on with the Dallas News Corporation and the Dallas News Guild and the unfair labor

practice complaints. So there's a, you know, there's a whole underlying thing here between. and the paper and the union and the mayor and the reporter but the whole thing is based on a bro okay all right if i hope i hope it was not the mayor that put up a fight about this i'm sure it was someone horrified on his behalf how dare you how dare what did you mean calling the the black mayor bro is that a racial term a racial slam no it just meant Bro, what are you doing? So we'll see what comes of it, but good luck.

Good luck to Megam Mangrum. So maybe moving back to Florida, Tennessee soon. Know what I'm saying? Brough. Now, it looks like her tweet has been deleted. At least I don't see it in his timeline, but there's plenty of brough timelines since this story broke. Because that's what he was, that's what he was tweeting about, right? The national media has zero interest in them.

And so it doesn't feed into our worst tribal instincts or show a city devolving into violent crime, ridden chaos, the media will not cover it. And that's what she was saying, bro. Come on now. And so now there's plenty of, bro, bro. Bro. Now do homelessness, bro, brough. so and there's a tweet here from mayor adams on the same date that says bra have we met from his

twitter account that can't be if that if that's true and they're firing a reporter for calling for using brough and he's calling someone bro that is agonizing but hey what are you doing brough 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. Okay, so who died today? Who died today? Well, an unnamed, unaged person in Florida died after catching a brain-eating amoeba from Tappell.

water. This is a little disconcerting. All right. So the Florida person is dead after contracting the brain-eating infection, having come from tap water. The adult patient reportedly performed nasal rinsing daily with unboiled tap water, which is thought to be the source of the infection. So, I mean, we all do that. I don't know what, now I'm supposed to make sure that the water that I rinse my nostrils out with boiling water.

We do that in the shower. That's a little disconcerning. So this is the first case of the deadly infection this year. The first ever reported in the winter months. Yeah, it usually comes from people that were swimming in lakes and stuff, right? The case of

Naglia Flowerley, right? N-A-G-L-E-R-I-A-F-W-L-E-R-I. And it took place in Charlotte County, which is on the you know, west coast, southwest of Florida. I don't know, Charlotte County, Punta Gorda, I guess. It's not Fort Myers.

It's north of Ford Myers. So just be careful out there. The CDC provided no further information and deferred to the state health department. Yeah, because I don't think you're supposed to get this from tap water, okay? I feel like no. I know that Neglirio Fawrili,

a single-cell living organism that can live in fresh water is commonly called the brain-eating amoeba and the water contains amoeba can go up through the nose and cause the brain infection. But usually people get that swimming in lakes, right? I mean, apparently between 1962 and 2022, there were 157 confirmed cases in the nation, 37 of the cases tied to Florida.

But there's never been a case in New York, according to the CDC. Right, great. The Florida Department of Health advised people to not let water go up their noses while showering or washing their faces, and if they use a sinus rinse solution, only use distilled or sterile water. That is ridiculous. What do we spend all this money on water filtration systems for the state and the counties

and the cities when we can't use it for regular water or rinsing or not that's that's ridiculous something is something is off that there needs to be an investigation on that sorry about it but that needs to happen uh not all big for government investigations but that is agonizing so i mentioned a little bit of this on pat this morning i've been filling in for pat gray all week on pat gray unleashed uh you can subscribe to that show as well just like you subscribe to the this show Chewing the Fat on whatever platform warms the little cockles inside your heart, okay, if your heart has cockles. Thank you for that.

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to a one-hour daily screen time limit and one of the most aggressive moves yet by the social media company to prevent teens from endlessly scrolling. But this doesn't really, well, I'll go on. TikTok users will be able to turn off this default sitting, which will roll out in the coming weeks. the feature change could bolster the digital well-being of younger users by requiring them to opt out of stricter screen time limits

rather than clearing the higher bar of opting into them. Well, so now if the 60-minute limit is reached, users will be prompted to enter a passcode, requiring them to make an active decision to extend their time spent, swiping through videos on the app. If you're reaching that point of 60 minutes, and are you actually going to say, yeah, you know what?

I'm going to put it down now. No way. You're doing the pass code. You're going through there. So I know that they've faced scrutiny and all the social media companies have faced scrutiny for its impact on all users, let alone young users.

But the TikTok's head of trust and safety said the company consulted researchers and experts from the digital wellness lab at Boston's Children's Hospital when deciding the time limits to set for teen users. There's no collectively endorsed position on how much screen time is too much or even the impact of screen time more broadly.

We recognize that teens typically require extra support as they start to explore the online world independently. Oh? Now, if the teen decides to turn off this new default limit and spends more than 100 minutes on TikTok a day, They will be prompted to set a daily screen time limit for themselves. In the first month of testing, this approach increased the use of our screen time management tools by 234%. Well, yeah, they're using your tools.

That doesn't necessarily mean they're limiting themselves to time. He also announced updates to the app's family pairing feature, which allows a parent or caregiver to link their TikTok account to the teen's account and set controls. parents will be able to filter videos with words or hashtags they don't want to appear in their teens feed, set a custom daily screen time limit for their teen, and set a custom schedule to mute TikTok's notifications sent to their teen. Actually, I like the sound of that. That actually is pretty good.

The teens won't like it, obviously, but that's a pretty good idea. Now, that does mean that you, the parent, will have to get involved. I know, heaven forbid. other platforms including Instagram and Snapchat, Snapchat, Instagram and Snapchat, have similarly rolled out additional parental controls and features that encourage teens to take a break and set boundaries. So as long as they're getting prompts to take a break and set boundaries, you know, it's going to happen.

Oh, did you see where a painting, a painting by a Russian-born modern, It's called a, I'm sorry, a pioneering Russian-born modernist. Wassily Kandinsky. And I love the paintings from the pioneering Russian-born modernist, Wassily Kandinsky. I mean, you can't tear me away from his paintings. So one of his paintings just sold at Sotheby's in London for 44, Point nine million dollars.

Now, good for him or the owner, not good for him, he's long been gone. But it was painted in 1910, and it's one of the largest of an admired series of works edging toward abstraction that Kandinsky made while staying at an artist colony in Bavaria, Germany. After a 12-year legal wrangle, the canvas had recently been returned

by the Van Abbey Museum in Indohaven, Netherlands, to the heirs of prominent Berlin collectors, Johanna Margate Stern, Lipman, and Secret Samuel Stern. And so they obviously put it up for sale. And they got $44.9 million for congratulations. The Murnal with Church II painting. Now, my daughter paints and draws

and has been part of a lot of art, performances and my gosh if this painting is worth 44 million dollars plus 44 plus million dollars I have got to get my daughter's works hung in a museum because her work is worth at least that much this episode is brought to you by peloton a new era of fitness is here introducing the new peloton cross-training tread plus powered by peloton Peloton IQ built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go.

Explore the new Peloton Cross-training Treadplus at OnePeloton.ca. What kind of world are we living in when you can't even bring your girlfriend that's a mummy with you out in public? right so a man uh peruvian man Julio Cesar Abamejo a 26 year old man from Peru uh took his girlfriend an 800 year old mummy out in public and the police were called and said uh hey what's in your food delivery bag and it's his spiritual girlfriend named Juanita now he claims the mummy which is believed to be 600 800 years old has been in his possession since his father gave it to him and has been in his family for at least

30 years. He didn't say how dad came into possession of the corpse, just that dad gave it to him. Hey, here's a mummy. Do what you want with it. And I'll make it my girlfriend. What do you think? I'll call it Juanita. Okay.

You do that, Julio. You do that. So they, you know, he took it out. And he said, I take care. of it, you know, it's my spiritual girlfriend. So he brought the mummy to have drinks with friends at a park in Peru. And it was a deserted park. And on the lake of Titicaga.

And he reportedly wanted to show it to friends. And the police were alerted and they said, no, we're taking the mummy into custody. We're going to go ahead and label it a cultural asset. And they've promised to protect and preserve the heritage. Oh, one other thing. Did I mention that they went ahead and checked the mummy out and gave it a little bit of X-ray, and it's not a female, it's a male. And so it looks like Juanita is a male, not a female.

Now, in today's world, I kind of want to judge. I'm just saying, you know, you can have a girlfriend that's 4 foot 11 and died between 618, 100 years ago, and you can call it, and it can identify whatever you wanted to identify as, okay? Whatever you want. So, I mean, like I said, what is this world coming to when you can't even take your mummified girlfriend out to the park with you? Am I right?

Of course I am. And for those of you listening live, we had today is the second. of March 2023. We had a launch at Cape Canaveral from SpaceX.

They successfully launched four astronauts headed to the International Space Station that should dock with the space station sometime on Friday.

It was supposed to take off on Monday, but apparently there was a clogged filter in the engine ignition system. And man, do I hate

when my engine ignition system has a clogged filter. So the Falcon 9 rocket launched a little after midnight. It was a night launch. Those are so freaking cool to watch from Cape Canaveral or even if you're anywhere in Florida with a night launch. They look so freaking cool. And now there's four astronauts going up, a Stephen Bowen, a Warren Hoburg,

UAE Sultan Al-Niadi, and a Russian cosmonaut, Andre Fedraff, are all going up, which is really cool. I like the name Sultan, too. Pretty slick. I'm a big fan of the name Salton, I think. I think I would name a kid, Sultan. Anyway, they're off, and we had the launch this morning, and it was really, really cool to watch.

You know, we had a couple other space stories that I've had in the fat pile for a little while. We had the study that talked about how the astronaut had structural changes. affecting communication processing lasting up to eight months after returning home. Experts say analysis points to the unknown effects of long-term weightlessness for human development. Now, I didn't see where it said how long they had to be in space for. Perhaps I should have just opened up the story because it said that the human brain changes and adapts to weightlessness.

after being in space for six months. And it turns out to be lasting even after eight months back on Earth. So the people that are just going up into space for fun, and these guys going up into space for a week or two should be fine. But I'm sure we're moving on with those studies as well. And we got news from the head of NASA, Bill Nelson, former senator and astronaut from Florida, by the way. Kia has warned that we need to get to the moon again because we need to win this race because China,

if they get there first, they're going to claim their territory on the moon and win the space race. We've already been there, so why don't you back off? And then secondly, why don't we tell China, the moon is ours. We didn't sign your stupid treaty. It belongs to us. That's just the way it is. So I think we need to butch up a little bit with China and space And say you're doing your little space thing is cute

And you're building your own little space station That's cute But the moon That's our launching pad We're not going to fight you over it Just know it's ours Okay Okay, thanks for calling

Oh, before you hang up Just know that it's not just China It's any country The moon belongs to us Okay, we don't care what country you're from. So there you go. You can hang up now. Thanks a lot. Talk to you later. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.