Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Chat or Conversation?... | 8/13/24

Episode Date: August 13, 2024

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Yes. She was the food service director for Harvey School District 152 near Chicago. Now, she stole the wings from Jim. July 2020 to February 2022, according to all reports. I remember when they first arrested her and found out about this.

And she has now pled guilty, and she is sentenced to, again, nine years in prison. Now, the wings were ordered as part of a take-home meal scheme for students in the district, who were doing remote learning at the time,

but they say the food did not end up on the student's plate, and they say that she ordered more than 11,000 cases of chicken wings from the school district's food provider and picked up the order in a district cargo van. Okay. I remember doing this story when it first happened and I thought, okay, well, you know, when we go to court and we'll find out what happened to the chicken wings. Nope, we don't know. All they say is, yep, the theft was described as a massive fraud.

it was discovered during a mid-year audit. It was discovered because she had ordered chicken wings that contained bones, and they do not serve chicken wings with bones to students. So they said, hey, that's, I wonder why we're $300,000, $300,000 over budget, and we're only halfway through the school year. Oh, I guess, I guess that's why. Yeah. So the Cook County State Attorney's Office has said that she pleaded guilty,

and to theft and operating a criminal enterprise. But it doesn't say anywhere what happened to the wings. So I can only conclude that she was selling the wings back to the city. I mean, I don't know what else. I guess she could have been selling them to, you know, the gangsters on the street corner of the, you know, the chicken wing mafia out there, stores in Chicago, cooking chicken wings up at a cheaper price, making extra money.

Sure, that could have happened. There could have been several barbecue places in Chicago that she had worked out a deal with to make this money back. But it doesn't say. And it leads me to think that if because it doesn't say, she must have been selling it back to the city. And they don't want to admit it. But she's going to jail, 68 years old, Vera Lydell sentenced to nine years for stealing chicken, wings from the Harvey School District. Good. We've got criminals off the streets. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So we're all wrapped up with Tropical Storm Hurricane Debbie,

right? That's moved on. We don't have anywhere. I mean, I'm sure there's plenty of places along the East Coast that are still paying in the aftermath of Debbie, but that is long gone. I was looking at what's next in line as far as the tropical storms. We have tropical storm Ernesto out there in the Atlantic right now, but it looks like it's going to just veer off to the right as normal and head out into the Atlantic Ocean without making any landfall on the continental U.S. It looks like maybe there'll be some, I don't know, the British Virgin Isles and Puerto Rico and maybe a little bit of the Dominican

are going to feel some of the outskirt bands, the outer bands of Ernesto, but that's about it in the tropical storm area. Then we have earthquakes going on. We had earthquakes in Japan. We had earthquakes in Los Angeles yesterday with a 4.4. And I see reports from the crazy wacko global seismologists that are saying there's a 95% probability that Japan is going to get hit by a magnet. 9.7 earthquake or greater within the next two weeks.

So, I mean, we've got the 5.2s and the 7.1s and the 4.4 is either in California or Japan. But now they're saying, get ready for the big one. It's coming. It's coming. So just, you know, heads up on that. Plus, we have wildfires still burning across the globe, actually. We still have the park fire burning in California with. more than 429,000 acres burning.

They say that that's 39% contained. Okay. I mean, that's still not great, but it's getting better. Then we have the Greece fire, the Athens Greece fire, that has forced thousands to evacuate, including, you know, hospitals and monasteries. At least one person has died from the fire, which ignited Sunday, about 20 miles northeast of the capital. and remains largely uncontained.

They say that the fire is about 20 miles across, flames reaching 80 feet in height, strong winds and extreme heat, and of course combined with drought, with challenging terrain, have fueled the fire spread. Yeah, climate change and the challenging terrain. You can't have anything to do that because, hey, it's the hottest June and July ever in Greece.

And we've got 700 firefighters supported by Air, units and volunteers have been deployed to combat the blaze. Several EU countries have also offered assistance in tackling the fire. That's special. Thank you. I appreciate it. Are they helping us here in the U.S. for the park fire? Now we don't need their help? Okay, never mind then. Matter of fact, we don't want the EU's help. It's the same EU that issued their warning letter to Elon Musk for his interview

with Donald Trump trying to get that shut down or at least censored. yeah that wasn't going to happen i mean Elon even uh responded with a a tropic thunder meme it was just a slap in the face to the EU and uh great britain but last night was uh you know an amazing night on X between uh 747 and 1047 they had 73 million views uh there were four million posts about Elon Musk and president trump's conversation on X generating a total of 998 million views. So I would say that it went over pretty good. Now, it got started late because of a DDoS attack, according to Elon. Now, nobody on the left believes that.

They just believe that Elon is such an idiot. Such an idiot. This guy doesn't even know how to run a social media site. And that's so, you know, okay, fine. Now, if you are not aware of what a DDoS attack is, duh. All right. I'll let you know it's an attack. It's a common and disruptive type of cyber attack aimed at overwhelming a target's online service with excessive traffic.

So it just overwhelms the system, which is exactly what happened. And they worked their way around it and finally got it up and running. It was okay. I mean, it was all right. It was exactly what I expected it to be. And of course, you know, Kamala and her group issued a post on X, by the way, during the interview, saying that right now, Elon Musk is interviewing Donald Trump live on Twitter. We're not calling it X.

Why? That's the company's name. I thought you were big on company. Anyway, it's not enough that Musk has pledged to donate millions of dollars to help reelect Trump. He's using his purchase platform, one of the largest social media sites in the world, to spreads Trump's unhinged and hateful agenda to millions of users. I don't know what he said last night that was unhinged and hateful, but apparently they'll let us know at some other point in time.

And as far as his millions of dollars, I believe Elon said that he denied setting up that $45 or $40 million a month pack. But whatever, I don't want to bog you down with facts. And then we had all the reviews saying that a billionaire and a convicted felon sat down for an interview. You know, the one thing. that we're forgetting about this whole thing between Elon and Donald Trump is that Trump could still go to jail. Everybody's forgetting about that, but that's still looming over his head.

And this kind of rhetoric between the Great Britain and EU and our dingleberry is in charge in Washington, D.C., Trump could still go to jail. Now, do they have the guts to do that? I don't know. At one point I thought that they didn't have the guts to do that. But it certainly appears since the, what was the thing that happened that, oh, I know, the failed assassination attempt. Since that failed, they very well might throw this guy in jail.

And then the fun will ensue. Now, while I was waiting for, you know, they had all the glitches. We're waiting to hear the interview. Of course, it started late and you couldn't get in. And then some of us got in and just heard music. And they finally thought we were in, but then there was just music. So I finally locked into an Alex Jones feed that, you know, where they were going to air the Trump, Elon interview. And so they were babbling about stuff.

And then they started the interview. And then they started babbling in the middle of the interview, giving their thoughts during the interview. And I thought, I just want to hear the interview. So I found another feed through Trump's feed, I think, so I could just listen to the interview without Alex babbling on. But I will say that during the time that I was listening to Alex and his cohorts on Info Wars, they talked about how Trump had said that the sharpshooter that killed what's his face, Thomas Crooks, the 20-year-old, the attempted assassin,

how they killed him with the sharpshooter from, you know, the other building. And Alex Jones, the guy on one of the first. the guys that were speaking with Alex said that, no, they said it was the guys, you know, that were in the picture. And no, they didn't. Actually, we talked about that and how this guy was, he was shot from on the far side. So I would just, you know, advise Alex Jones and info words. Maybe you read the blaze. That's the only little thing that bugged me. That's it. The rest of it was fine. I'm trying to start a fight with Alex and his crew. I'm just saying that that particular fact, I thought that they would know and they didn't.

It's just kind of weird to me. Oh, and one more thing that kind of bugged me about the interview. Okay, so Elon kept pushing that it's a conversation. He wanted to have it a conversation. He called it a conversation. I want to call it a conversation. And Donald Trump kept calling it a chat, a chat, a chat. Get on the same page.

What is it? Is it a conversation or a chat? I can't. Just somebody point out to former President Trump that the guy who set it all up on his social media platform is calling it a conversation, not

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They can't believe that people have a growing, disconnect between how well the economy is doing and how people feel about their financial standing. They must be stupid. You don't know how your pocketbook is doing and how your money is being spent on nothing at a grocery store and you still walk out with, you know, you spend $100 at a grocery store and you walk out with a couple of bags. You don't know. That's not a recession. You're doing great. So don't believe what they tell you, okay? Everything is fine. Sure. A 23-story, 920,000 square foot office building in Midtown Manhattan just sold at a 97.5% discount in an online auction? Sure. The economy is fine. Don't worry about it. So somebody got this 23-story building in Manhattan for $8.5 million. That's a pretty good deal.

You know, another building that's sold that's kind of a strange sale. I feel like it's just kind of a slap in the face to Christians in America. A Catholic Church in Buffalo, New York, Saint and Church, the complex, was sold for $250,000. Now, it's been in disrepair, and the Catholic Church has not wanted to spend, I don't know, millions, if not tens of millions to keep the upkeep. on the church. And they've been trying to, first they said they were going to fix it up. And then they said, nope, you know what we're going to do? We're just going to sell it.

And then they said, we're going to demolish it. And now, you know what, we're just going to sell it. Well, they did sell it. They sold it to a group called Buffalo Crescent Holdings, which is affiliated with the downtown Islamic Center. So they're going to turn this Catholic church. church, at least that's what they claim, into a mosque. Isn't that wonderful? Isn't that wonderful? That is great. They couldn't find enough Catholics to buy this church and at least renovate it or at least buy it

so that it didn't get sold to the Muslims? No, we could not do that. Oh, okay. No problem. So they're just going to convert it into a mosque and you're going to be happy about it. And you better not anything bad about it. Okay. So it's not going to be demolished. It's going to be part of that. They also bought a church complex, which was right next door. So that was a rectory. And that had been converted into apartments. That was a separate transaction. So that's going to be used for worship within a year or two. So the downtown Islamic Center says it aims to provide a space for Muslims in the Buffalo area to attend prayers. That's wonderful. That's, that's That's good news, isn't it?

Isn't it? Yes. We don't want the church to be demolished. No, we don't want that. We do not want that. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Be sure to follow me on my social media sites at Jeffy JFR on X.

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the new animated Disney sequels in the works. So we've got Frozen 3. We've got Zootopia 2. We've got Incredibles 3. Toy Story 5 is coming out. And I'm actually kind of looking forward to Toy Story 5. We'll see if it actually is worth anything. But they claimed as they broke the news that the new film about the new film,

they said Woody and the gang will find their jobs to make kids. happy facing their toughest challenge yet electronics and the crowd all laughed at concept art of all the toys looking sadly at a kid gazing at a tablet under the bed covers. Yeah, that'll be hilarious, huh?

Probably will be. It'll be actually pretty funny. I hope so anyway. I see also Pixar unveiled hoppers a film about a human and a beaver you can write your own jokes who swap brains

featuring the voices of John Ham and Bobby Moynihan. There was a short clip that they aired that showed two female scientists telling a young woman, voiced by Piper Kurta, that they want to put her brain inside the beaver. Then there's the shot of a beaver running around. Oh, man. My idea of Hoppers and theirs are two completely different movies, and I'm just going to leave it there. And then I saw where Disney is, well, Disney Plus,

has made a deal with The Simpsons to release four exclusive episodes on Disney Plus this year. Wow. I wonder how that's going to work out. We shall see. Four never-before-seen episodes of The Simpsons are headed exclusively to Disney Plus this year, including a Christmas theme,

double episode. Additionally, the 18 episodes season 35 of the veteran animated comedy, which wrapped its run on Fox in May, is set to debut on the streamer in October. Disney announced this past weekend. The four exclusive Simpsons episodes for Disney Plus are titled The Past and the Furious, Yellow Planet, and Oh, Come on, All You Faithful. that's a double episode and then this October Disney Plus will also debut a new Hollywood I can't even say the word

this October they will debut a new Halloween themed Simpsons short These are all full-length Simpson episodes produced exclusively I can't even speak It's like this is the remnants of Dog Flu exclusively for Disney Plus I could say it

Plus I did not know this was coming out a movie called Saturday Night. It's coming out in October. It's how about the first season of Saturday Night Live with Belushi and the whole Saturday Night Live cast. And it's going to be, that was a different time, a different lifetime. They're going to make them look bad. And I don't like it. You know, I saw an interview with Lorraine Newman who said,

yeah, they used to tease me about how she came up with, in her car. comedy group and, you know, the, what was the name of the group, the groundlings. And they used to tease me. They're going to make it, they're going to make what was happening back then, you know, how terrible it was in today's times. And it's just, they better not do that. And I can feel it coming. It's going to be, it's going to be disappointing. And did you know that it's the 50th season of Saturday Night Live this year? 50th season of Saturday Night Live this year on. NBC. Wow. Wow. Think of that. All those years, and only a few of them were funny.

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in Scarface. I can't watch that movie. Man, oh man, I cannot watch that movie. And not because of the language, not because of the violence, but because they're doing so much cocaine in that movie. And all I want to do is, well, I want to do something with them. That's the only movie.

That movie just, wow. I can't watch it. I can't because all I, it's like, well, I just can't. But it was a great movie, and I watched it multiple times in my life, but I'm not watching it anymore because all it does is make me want to do the drug that Scarface is known for. Anyway, actor Angel Salazar dead at the age of 68.

Amazingly, no cause of death was listed. And so weird that I do a 68, a Hollywood actor, many things on the table still. working and he just passed away out of nowhere. So, I mean, it couldn't have been that because if it was that, they would have said something, right? They wouldn't have just said, no, we don't have any confirmation on the cause of death. They would have said what the confirmation was. Don't you think?

Yeah, of course so. Rest in peace, actor Angel Salazar dead at the age of 68. It's like the movies where everybody's smoking. You know, all I want to do is smoke, and it just drives me. crazy and I love the movies and I just I love them but all I want to do is smoke and the same with same with same with Scarface you know I see it and I just and I see how crazy it makes everybody but I just want to I won't be that person and sometimes there's shows where they're smoking cigarettes and we've talked about it before but I mean they look so good I just oh

All right, I have to stop now. I don't understand what makes people tick. And I know that we've talked, you know, we've covered this a lot on the show, what makes people tick, what makes people do what they do. But a Texas man is accused of booby-trapping public toilet seats with pressure-activated explosives. He injured three people. Now, no one died, fortunately for this person, because if someone, I mean, I'd be so angry. The first attack was reported July 20th at the wash tub car wash, which is about an hour and a half northwest of San Antonio.

A woman allegedly sat down on the toilet at the car wash, after which a small explosion occurred. The detective said the woman was injured but left the location before the police report was made. Weird. Why would you leave unless you were illegal, which is possible? Never mind. Female customer was reportedly very upset and left the location before the. report was made. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Uh-huh. Investigator discovered a small, readily available commercial fireworks that are designed to explode when pressure is applied. Uh, okay, six days later, two more

people were injured from booby-trapped toilets at a wash tub in San Antonio. A female employee and a young girl were victims of the explosives within minutes of each other. Investigators say they found the remains of the small fireworks. Now, they looked at, uh, they looked at the, uh, the video evidence at the wash tub car washes. And they caught a man on security, entering and leaving the unisex bathrooms, and then sitting in the lobby, waiting for someone to go in to use the bathroom.

And then after the explosives went off, he left. So this is 46-year-old Paul Moses Allenton, Paul Moses Alden of Hilatotes. I guess it's Helototes, H-E-L-O-T-E-S, Texas. He was charged with Arcex-E-L-E-S-E-E-S-T-S. He was charged with Arse-E-L-E-E-L-E-E-S-E-E-E-E-L-E-S-E-E-E-E-S, Texas. He was charged with arson, reckless, causing reckless damage, or bodily injury. I mean, he could be, that's attempted murder.

I'm sorry. Now, maybe they think that the explosives were not large enough to kill someone, but if that was my little kid in that bathroom, I would want a lot more than just, oh, or just reckless damage, bodily injury. No, it's going to have to be more than that, please. I don't know what where you get off on that, but stop getting off on that, okay? Speaking of crime in Texas, I see where the city of a Yuvaldi have released records related to the 2022 Rob Elementary School shooting, including police body camera footage, 911 calls,

and emergency communications in response to a media lawsuit. Yeah, let's find out. But what we've seen from that already is just horrific. That one special that I think, CNN put together, but it was just heartbreaking. And it just, I seriously, they all should just be given their papers and told to go find other work. I guess maybe they could go work for the Secret Service so they could break into a hair salon

and let the other Secret Service people use the bathroom. It's unbelievable to me. The Secret Service, first, you couldn't get a place to open up. You couldn't reach. It's the Secret Service. You couldn't get a place to open up for you. You had to cover up the video. There's footage of the Secret Service agent putting tape over the camera.

And then we find out that they picked the lock and they used the hair salon for their bathroom services because the vice president was in the area. Wait, what? Yeah. It's us. It's a Secret Service. We can do what we want. Wow. No, no, you can't.

Maybe in the new world order you can, but I don't think we're 100% into the new world order yet. Are we? Are we? Please tell me no. I didn't hear an answer. All right, so I know the Olympics are over, and thankfully the Olympics are over.

We can stop talking about them, I guess. But I can't wait to get the breakout of what it costs France to put on the Olympics, because it had to be astronomical. The security and just the logistics of everything had to be a nightmare. I know they were thanking the 45,000 volunteers. 45,000 volunteers.

I mean, that's, I was like they're not making anything. Now, maybe they got some tips. Maybe they worked on some tips. I don't know. I don't know if they were supposed to take tips. I don't know if they just got a T-shirt. I don't know if they were out just direct. My job is to direct traffic at this corner.

right here, that's all I do, and have fun, and there you go, and the Olympic Village is that way, and over there is a bar, I guess. I mean, 45,000 volunteers, wow, and we saw them all. We saw the volunteers, and I don't know if they were working or if they're volunteers, the people that were wiping down the cameras and, you know, sweeping the walks, and it was just incredible. The cost, it's got to be just astronomical, let alone the security. And then I see where, I mean, they're already breaking down Macron's state dinners. So we had a big state dinner with the Indian prime minister, Narendamode at the Louvre, which apparently cost $412,000.

And the state of France is like, hey, we need to maybe cut back on our expenditures a little bit. Now, that was in July of 2023, right? So they're already saying, hey, Emmanuel, why don't you? chill a little bit, babe. Well, then he brought in King Charles. I'm sorry, King Charles the third. And he put on a $475,000 euro dinner. It's that dollar, 445,000 euro for the king and guests in September. Okay, that's great. So now we're just getting the breakout now. Yeah, the guests were treated to blue lobster, crab, and an assortment of. of cheeses.

You can't have the king. And what's her face? Camilla. I guess according to King Chuck, we're supposed to call her queen. But no, I'm not calling her queen. I'm not calling her queen consort. I'm calling her Camilla. Anyway, the state dinner that they held,

I mean, Hugh Grant was there, Jagger was there. They had the blue lobster and the crows. like I said, the bruce poultry, the mushroom gratin. There were also courses of cheese, including French comtei and British Hilton Blue, and the dessert, they were served a rose macrum cookie composed of rose petal cream, raspberries, and leeches. Is it leeches or leeches? Whatever.

Just put it on my plate. I'm going to give them. I'm going to try it, okay? And so it was at the Palace of Versailles as part of King Charles' three-day state visit to France aimed at reinforcing a key alliance between the two countries. Yeah, you can't have a key alliance without a state dinner. I mean, that's just, you just can't. You just can't. You know, whenever you think to yourself, 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 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.

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and we've all talked about what a nightmare self-checkout is and now I will say I went to Costco the other day and there wasn't a fuss getting in I did there was no special special camera getting in and there was no checking if I was who I said I was on my card at the checkout now I know it was kind of busy and I just walked up to the self-checkout

and I took care of my business and got out of there with the lady just kind of looking to make sure that I you know she's doing her job they have them all set up at the self-checkout lines but she didn't ask she didn't ask nothing so i was okay i was i was you know pleasantly pleased that i could get in and out of costco without uh being asked to provide uh my my maiden name so uh and the self-checkout thing is really kind of a really kind of a thing that bugs me uh i know that it's it's convenient

sometimes but it also kind of bugs me and you know they say like my wife went into walmart the other day and they go to the self-checkout and then they check your receipts at the at the at the at the door on the way out and my wife is like hey are you just watched me go through the self-checkout i'm not you know goodbye have a nice day and so if they want you to use the self-checkout then don't treat us like criminals if they are going back to and we've heard rumors that they're going back to using uh you know cashiers well, they've already remodeled the front of all these stores to have all kinds of extra self-checkout machines. So you're down to what, three or four cashier lanes? So now you're backed up.

So you better figure out a way to let the customers not feel like criminals every time they come into the store. But I will say, I read this this weekend, and I think this is a good way for us to think about and for us to do. It's a letter signed by all of us. Dear Walmart and Target, Home Depot, and all other stores that have self-checkout. You're almost exclusively self-checkout now. Last time I was there, you had a lady stopping everyone at the exit checking receipts. Yeah. I didn't choose to participate in that nonsense, so I just skipped the exit line and left.

I heard her saying, sir, a sir, as I kept walking and raised the receipt above my head, leaving the store. You can either trust me to do self-checkout, or you can put your cashiers back in place like it used to be. I'm not interested in proving that I did your job for you. You want me to be a cashier with no training, then that's your problem, not mine. Don't audit me for a position you refuse to employ any longer. Signed all of us. Think about it. All right, let's get out of here. The joke of the day. I've got two jokes of the day that were emailed to Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. The only reason I'm doing, too, is because I said, you know,

we're going to try to end with the Olympics, have the Olympics be over. Yeah, the Paralympics are coming up. Anyway, so I wanted to get an Olympic joke in as well instead of an irregular joke. So you get two jokes today. I know. You're welcome. So the Olympic joke of the day for Mr. Shans, what's the sign, who emailed chewing the fat at the blaze. What's the signature move of a Chinese breakdown?

dancer. The egg roll. Boy, there was some terrible, terrible break dancing. I don't think they understood the, I don't think they understood the mission. Anyway, the joke of the day from Todd, who emailed chewing the fat at the blaze.com. A man and his wife are visiting the doctor for a checkup. Doc comes in and says, congratulations, you're pregnant. The husband confused, and he inquires, how can that be possible?

I had a vasectomy years ago. Doc turns to the husband and says, let me tell you a story. Man walks through the woods and encounters a cougar. Afraid and unarmed, he raises his fingers in the shape of a gun and yells, bang, and the cougar drops dead. The husband, puzzled, says, well, that is impossible. Someone else must have shot it.

Exactly. Someone else must have shot it. Exactly. What he's saying is, is that. Now you understand. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. It was the night before the gathering and all through the house. The host rapid cozy cashmere throw from Home Sense for their spouse,

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