Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Check Your Status… | 3/15/23

Episode Date: March 15, 2023

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Welcome! Welcome to chewing the fat. So every city in America and possibly the world is now taking a look at their sister city agreements. You know, we all have, any city you live in has a sister city. And, you know, they make deals that have partnerships. And they try to establish some sort of relationship for the cities. And they build their cute little, their cute little parks with their trees from your sister city. and you go sit on a bench and you go,

oh, that's from our sister city in Japan. That's great. Well, Newark, New Jersey, decided that they were going to have a sister city arrangement with Kalisa. That's a city in the Hindu region, except that it's not. It's not real.

They wanted to build an international relationship, except that Colossa. What I say, Calisi? Now that's from Game of Thrones. It's Colossa. K-A-I-L-A-S-A. Colossa doesn't exist. So the USK,

not only not a country, it's run by a con man who's actually in hiding from India. So he's an Indian refugee. He was a Hindi. new priest, but following charges of rape and abduction,

he fled India and has remained in hiding since 2019. He also claimed that he was developing an airport for aliens in this land that doesn't exist, so makes sense. He has no official territory. I guess he purchased

some land off of Ecuador and was using that to establish his nation, but the Ecuadorian authorities have Sid said, no such land purchase ever happened. Okay. So I know that cities around America are now, we have sister cities right in there actually exist and we have our agreements with that.

And everything is fine right now. Because people in Newark are now like, well, didn't someone, I don't know, Google search it and say, is it a real country? Oh, yeah, it's fine. We need to do that. That's fine. Let's make that deal. That's fine.

Let's do that. It also is beautiful. He said it was beautiful. So that's going to be our sister city. And we're going to work things out. And we're going to do a partnership. And that's going to be beautiful. And it even got a ceremony to celebrate the partnership.

Holy cow. It does not look good for the city of Newark, New Jersey. They've got their photo there with their sister city. It's just wonderful. We're so happy. We want to establish an. international relationship with something that doesn't exist. But you made a deal with the self-siled godman.

That is awesome. You ever been to Newark, New Jersey? I have. Okay. I know a lot of people claim they don't listen to AM radio anymore. But it's nice to have in your car, isn't it? I mean, you've got your DVD player, your cassette deck, your AM FM radio. Oh, Jeff, I just have my Bluetooth and I hook it up to my phone.

Okay, all right. Good for you. But I see where now electric vehicle manufacturers are scrapping the AM radio from their cars. Now, you'd think in today's world that we would say, just make sure the cars have AM FM radio in them. But no. The manufacturers say, no, safety concerns. Safety concerns over an AM radio?

Uh, yeah. Uh, that's what they claim. They say that the newer EV models, uh, that the EVs interfere with AM frequencies, creating buzzing and signal fading. Um, Don't they have engineers?

I can kind of figure that out so that it doesn't happen? I mean, AM radio, while, again, a lot of people don't listen to it on a daily basis, according to emergency management officials, I mean, it's a critical safety tool. It's one of the primary ways that federal, state, and local officials communicate with the public during natural disasters and other emergencies. I don't worry about it. Never mind. You'll be fine. Okay.

Now, I know that, so they're concerned that people are going to be missing, you know, important safety alerts. Okay. I mean, you make the case that people could use their smartphones to turn into, tune into certain radio stations. But those signals aren't as reliable as AM radio during emergencies. So last fall, Ford said it would remember. move AM radio from the newer 2023 models of the F50. All right. Siding

AM radio frequencies. The frequencies involved in AM tend to be directly affected by the electromagnetic noise in the electric vehicle propulsion systems. We are so ready for these EVs.

We should scrap gasoline right now and just get rid of all gas-powered vehicles. Now FEMA claims that there are more than 75 stations they have equipped with backup communications and generators that allow them to continue

broadcasting information to the public amid an emergency. So should this continue, it's going to represent a big threat to local state and federal disaster response and relief efforts. Interesting. So if you're if you have one of those

local radio stations in your area, that that's who you turn to in an emergency emergency. Don't do it in your vehicle. Well, you can't do it in your vehicle because it's not even there for you to do. So sorry about it. I just have to tune into the FM station. Oh, you can't get it.

They're not giving you the information. They're still playing Adele. Oh, okay. Well, sorry, that's the way it goes. How about I use my phone do signal in? I can probably get into the AM station app and listen to what they're broadcasting. Oh, no. The cell.

signals down? Oh, darn it. Wait, I have to have a separate app to get into my local radio station and listen to them. Oh, no. I don't have time to do that now in the middle of a storm. Sorry, take care. Good luck. God bless. That's just, just amazing. Amazing times we live in. Amazing times. And speaking of the amazing times that we live in, how many of you have, you know, ring door cams for your house? And we see videos all the time. We watch videos. I don't. You know, we see strange videos. We see crime. We see it.

I mean, we've seen all kinds of great footage from ring door cams and other ring cameras around people's homes for security. But we find out now that the police are now getting warrants and sometimes without warrants getting footage from people's ring doorbell videos. So this story talks about a guy who had 20. one ring cameras in and around his home and business, picking up footage of, you know, around his business, around his home. And so the police said, they came to his house and they said, we're conducting a drug-related investigation on a neighbor. And they wanted videos of suspicious activity between 5 and 7 p.m. one night in October.

Now, right then, Larkin should have told him, I'll get a warrant. No, I'm not going to help you out. But he wanted to help the cops out. So he sent the clips of that time frame that he had to them, which had clips of a car that drove by his ring camera more than 12 times in that time frame. And he thought, you know, there you go. You got what you needed. Thank you.

Nope. They asked for more footage now from the entire day's worth of records. And a week later, Larkin received a notice from Ring itself. The company said it received a warrant signed by a local judge. and informed him he was obligated to send footage from more than 20 cameras whether or not Larkin was willing to share it himself. And that was all the cameras inside his home,

all of it. Now he said most, you know, fortunately, and I love this line in the story. It was fortunate that his indoor camera that was requested was unplugged at the time. Yeah, sorry. I always I'd love to help you out, but it was unplugged. What are you going to do? But I'm sure that if you didn't have it actually unplugged ring would be able to see the footage anyway.

But remember, now he talked about his living room and bedroom cameras were only activated when his home alarm system was on. So they weren't always active. So the only footage that you get is the footage when your alarm is active. He had a bunch of cameras around his home. And so if you anyway, it's really kind of frightening to think that, they're just coming for all the footage. And it's available. I mean, if you're not going to give it to them,

they'll get a warrant and go through Ring. Isn't interesting that Ring gets all your footage, too. I'm sure that's just signed off when you fire the camera up because you just want it to work. You sign, okay, no problem. Whatever they asked me to do, I'll do. That's fine. But in the end, you probably probably,

shouldn't have signed it, should you? Let's go to the break room. I need to, I need something cold to drink desperately. So Harvey Weinstein, serving 23-year sentence in New York, he has to complete that before starting a 16-year, L.A. incarceration. But the other cases where they couldn't reach a verdict in, the prosecution, I mean a state attorney said they're not going to retry those cases. So he was accused of sexual assault in relation to model Lauren Young in 2013 and the rape by Jennifer Seibel Newsom, wife of the governor of California. jurors could not reach a verdict in relation to both of their charges last year,

meaning that he would face the possibility of a retrial on both those incidents, but do. That's not going to happen. The L.A. said, no, we're not going to retry him. Look, the guy's got 23 years. He's filing appeals on that. He's got 16 years here. He's filing appeals on that.

He's in jail now. We're done. Okay? Have a nice day. Gloria was a little upset. She was pissed, deeply disappointed. I'm sorry, she wasn't pissed. She was deeply disappointed.

And she was unable to give a victim impact statement during the sentencing. Yeah, the one lady was in both cases, the one in New York and L.A. And then she wanted to give a victim statement. No, you did that on trial. So anyway, they were, you know, she had, it's our birthright to be safe, respected and not violated and it's our constitutional right to be heard

time is up victims will not be silenced anymore and you weren't you had your say only the jury couldn't believe you so we know that she's the one that claimed that

he trapped her in a bathroom in Beverly Hills groped her and then did his own business in front of her. Harvey liked doing that. There's a number of people that Harvey liked to take care of his own business in front of. Such a douchebag.

But he's in prison now so you don't have to worry about it. Okay? He starts doing that now. He's going to be in big trouble all over again. And kind of a victory, a small victory, for our man, Alec Baldwin. Andrea Reeb announced that she was

stepping down as a special prosecutor in the Rust case. So Reeb said she was stepping aside to prevent her role as a politician becoming a distraction, but insisted in her statement that she felt Baldwin was guilty. Well, yeah, that's why they wanted you gone, okay? They fought to get you removed. You're part of the New Mexico House of Representatives. And therefore, according to Baldwin's lawyers, they said that she's ineligible to continue as a special prosecutor. So instead of having the judge decide, she just stepped down.

Good. She said that it's become clear that the best way I can ensure justice is served in this case is to step down. So the prosecution can focus on the evidence and the facts, which clearly show, complete disregard for basic safety protocols that led to the death of Helena Hutchins. I will not allow questions about my serving as a legislator and prosecutor to cloud the real issue at hand. So, the legal question wasn't a close one, according to Alex attorneys. So we shall see, I mean, he's insisted, obviously, that the shooting was not. his fault because he trusted those on set in charge of the weapons. Well, yeah, we've been over that.

And it's so sad that Helena lost her life from that. And, you know, this trial, if it ever happens, I don't necessarily see this ever going to trial, but it certainly could. The first hearing before Judge Mary Marlowe had been scheduled for February 24th, and with Baldwin and Reed, set to appear virtually. So we'll see what happens with the scheduling now. We'll see what happens later for later dates and trial sets, but

it's kind of a win because they wanted her gone and that's what they got. The attorneys for Alec Baldwin. Moving on in our douchebag segment, Tiger Woods claimed that his jilted ex-girlfriend, Erica Herman, is not a sexual abuse victim in the $30 million lawsuit over his Florida mansion. He filed a motion for an order to compel arbitration over the matter.

Herman 38 alleged sexual abuse in a separate lawsuit to void the NDA. Tiger claimed that Erica is a jilted ex-girlfriend who has never accused him of sexual assault or sexual harassment. and she wants her right to live in his mansion. She sued the trust, Tiger's Trust. She claims that, because that trust controls the money. And she claims that she wants $30 million, that she tricked him into leaving. It's not your home, honey.

It's his. So good luck, God bless. I don't know what she's going to get out of it, but I'm sure she'll get something out of it. Just because that's the way it works. And I talked today on Pat Gray overtime about, and we aired the video of Michael Irvin yesterday. After I was done doing chewing,

Michael released the video of the Marriott deal in Arizona. And there's no audio, it's just video. And they released it's a five-minute video. And there's like maybe three minutes in there of the interaction, a couple of minutes, two and a half minutes of the interaction between Michael and this waitress at this bar, it certainly could go both ways as far as the making of her feeling uncomfortable. Okay.

So if you look at it on Michael's side, you're like, that's crazy, he's just talking to her. If you look at it from a female's perspective and, you know, you just kind of see what's going on, you can see where it's possible she was made to feel uncomfortable. fine. Okay, so either way, whatever, sorry, you were made to feel uncomfortable and that's going to shut down this guy. And she will say that it's not her, right? It's the NFL network and it's the Marriott for making this into a deal. She's the one that filed the report. I mean, I guess you say, well, if you work for Marriott and you go to the lost and found department or whatever department it was, that she had to make her complaint to, they have to act on it, right?

Now, what happens after that, I guess, is out of her control, which is why they're probably leaving her name out of it because it might not be just her. She's going to take a beating for it. It's just, it looks bad for someone, especially with video. He does not appear to have done anything wrong, anything.

Even if he's saying the worst things in the world to her. She did not, to me, in the video, looked like she wanted to get away. Or at least she didn't look like she wanted to get away now. She may have been uncomfortable and looking for an easy way to get rid of Michael and go back into the bar and just be done with it.

But she certainly wasn't made to feel uncomfortable enough to where she had to get out of there right then because there were plenty of avenues for her to take, whether it be back in the bar or off down to the lobby to the left or back down toward the lobby to the right, plenty of places to go to get rid of Michael with other people wandering around. And then when he's all done, you know, it's reported he would slap himself on the face

and told those guys about her being hot and get it together, Mike. And he admitted to being under the influence of alcohol. He walks down, takes a selfie. then walks back past the bar with the guy, and they head to the elevators both either way. It's just incredible to me that this case has gotten this far, and Michael Irvin was kicked out of the hotel and kicked off the air on the NFL network. Pretty sad. Pretty sad. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. What?

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that turns the vaginal area blue. There's no such disease. It's an internet host. Wait, what? I know. Don't look at me like that. I'm just telling you what medical news is today, okay? There's an article debunking the rumors about blue waffle disease

and highlights the importance of easily available, reliable, sexual health information. online. So people need to know about sexually transmitted infections and possible symptoms. But you also need to know that blue waffle disease that causes itching and irritation of the vaginal area and unusual discharge and also turning the vaginal area blue doesn't exist. There's no such thing. So we know that, you know, stuff happens online. Start getting that miss and disinformation, man.

And you don't know what to do. We know that information moves so quickly, especially fake evidence of things that happen, moves on the Internet so fast, where it's so hard to get truth and factual information out there. Is it, though? Is it really? I mean, we know, we just know that blue waffle disease isn't real, okay? It's a fake condition. So if you thought that there's a possibility that you had blue waffle disease, you don't.

There's no such thing. But according to the CDC, you still, Need to be checked for STIs, STDs, any kind of sexual, any kind of thing that's going on, whether it's odorous or unusual, itching and burning, swelling, anything that's going on. You need to get that checked out, okay? But just know, okay, I just want you to know that blue waffle disease is not real. Things that are real.

Ohio has sued Norfolk Southern to ensure the railroad pays for damage caused when its train containing hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine early February. I think that's pretty much a conclusion that had to happen, although they already said, the governor said Norfolk shook his hand

and said they would be there for the duration. So I don't know what more you want. Okay. The EPA has moved to get forever chemicals out of drinking water. The EPA has proposed regulations to limit the amount of six types of industrial chemicals allowed in the drinking water. The PIFs, the PFAS, as they are known, cause health problems, including cancer. Though many companies have begun phasing out the chemicals, a 2020 study found that 200 million Americans are exposed to piffis in tap water.

So that's good. That's good, right? Plus, I was looking at a story that talks about chemical accidents in America. All right? So right now they're telling me that they average one chemical accident in the United States every two days. Is that too much? Is that a lot? I don't know.

I just know that's what they say. And they list some of the accidents that have happened where, you know, people have been hospitalized and places have been evacuated. But, you know, people living in daily fear of an accident. And they've counted 10 rail-related chemical contamination events over the last two and a half years. including the derailment in East Palestine. So, I mean, I don't know what to tell you. There are close to 12,000 facilities across the nation that have on-site extremely hazardous chemicals

and amounts that could harm people, the environment, or property, if accidentally released. Okay, I mean, petroleum refineries, chemical manufacturers, cold storage facilities, fertilizer plants, water and wastewater treatment plants. What are we supposed to do without any of this stuff? We just hope that the facilities are safe, right? The EPA data shows that more than 1,650 accidents at these facilities in a 10-year span. So roughly 160 a year.

775 were reported from 2014 to 2020. Accident response evacuations impacted more than 56,000 people and 47,000 people were ordered a sheltered. Those are, you know, people that are impacted. I mean, it doesn't, that's a lot of, that's not really that many people, although if you're one of the 56,000 people, it's a lot of people. Accidents are particularly high for petroleum and coal manufacturing and chemical manufacturing facilities,

according to the EPA. The most accidents logged were in the great state of Texas. Yay! I mean, Texas is almost, I mean, there are three, what is that, about 375? I don't know like that. If you're looking to the chart, then you've got Louisiana at about 250. California is in, California coming in at about 140.

Illinois, looking at about 120. Iowa coming in at about 110. Ohio doesn't even have 100. Ohio's like maybe 90, something like that. So shut up with the thing. Then Arkansas, Florida, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. So they claim here, total annual costs are approximately $477 million, including costs related to injuries and death.

accidental releases remain a significant concern. So just be careful out there. I don't know what more. We just, we have to be safer. We have to make more rules and regulations and be safer out there because to, what is it, an accident every two days? Ooh. See, that doesn't sound good.

That doesn't sound good. I'm just going to go out on a limb and say, you can quote me on this. That doesn't sound good. One chemical accident. Every two days. Yeah. Yeah, you can definitely quote me on,

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And sometimes bad stuff happens, and yet it turns out good, and it makes me laugh. It must have been a long, long flight for Desmond Howard. You know, Desmond Howard, part of ESPN. He is NFL, former NFL. player, former Heisman trophy winner, 11 seasons in the NFL.

I mean, he's probably going to be in the Hall of Fame at some point. I don't think Desmond is there yet. But on a recent flight, he posted a video on Twitter saying, and he was sitting next to the guy

on the flight and they're in business class or first class, so there's only two seats on the side. And apparently this guy tried to get Desmond kicked. off the plane off the American airline flight and because he thought Desmond was sick

now I don't know if I mean to me Desmond sounds like he stuffed up a little bit but he said he was just clear in his throat I don't care about that he was wearing a mask and they're in first class and so just zip it sit down how you doing maybe you get to know him a little bit but

no so Desmond records this video because the guy tried to get Desmond removed from the from the flight. Good luck with that. Let me know how that worked out. Oh, wait. Desmond will let us know.

So I'm on this American Airlines flight. And before we took off, the supervisor comes up and she speaks to the guy sitting next to me. She said, you want to talk to me? He said, yeah, I think you should remove this gentleman from the plane because he's sick. I said, I'm sorry, you're a doctor? He says, well, you've been. coughing all over the place.

This is before we even took off right. I said, well, the plane, take another flight because I'm not leaving. Like about it. All I was doing was clearing my throat. So Carol, the supervisor,

she's looking, and guess what card he tried to play? He said, I'm sure if you check our status, my status is higher than his. Desmond, rolls the camera. and looks at this guy's sleeping.

So, I said, Carol, yeah, check our seats. And let me know whose status is the highest. And as you see, I'm still sitting on this plane. As a matter of fact, we're in the air right now. We're called Cassidy of him. Unbelievable. Awesome. All right, everybody.

You guys have a happy second. You too, Desmond. Thank you so much. That's awesome. I can see if the status, I think my status is higher than his. No, not really. And as long as we're

talking about airlines, I see where Boeing just notched a big order for 78 787 dream liners from two Saudi airlines. So at least

they're staying afloat for a little bit. I hope there aren't any close calls because we've had an uptick in airplane close calls, according to the FAA. And now the FAA or the NTSB, they're all going to be investigating these close calls, and it's time to have a safety summit. Yes, what do you do?

What do you do when you start seeing an uptick of planes getting too close to each other, especially on the ground? Well, you have a safety summit. So they're going to review all the systems and all the little intricacies of moving an airplane around on the ground. And let's have a safety summit because that will help the structure and the culture and the integration of safety efforts for everyone involved. So, you know, seriously, if it does, if it's going to mean that you're going to, to be safer, great.

I just don't know that that's going to be the case. You can always follow me on Twitter at Jeffie JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can follow me on

YouTube chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. You can order a cameo from me. That's not free at Jeffey JFR, but I'll be happy, glad, sad, whatever you'd like on cameo at Jeffy JFR. Today, if you're listening live, today is the 15th of March. And I see where today is the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar. So one of the emails, morning emails that I get reminded us that today was, you know,

the assassination day of Julius Caesar way back in 44 BC. That's from me, not them. But they went down a list of dates and you had to know who, was assassinated on those dates. It's kind of fascinating because I don't know that I for sure would not have known that before today, that today is the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar in 44 BC in Rome, Italy. Now, the first date is April 14th, 1865.

A little history lesson. A little history class today here on Chewing the Fat. famous assassinations and the dates they were on. April 14th, 1865. June 28th, 1914. December 8th, 1980. January 30th, 1948. June 30th, 1520.

So you probably should remember the 1948. For sure, the 1980. Probably should know the 1914, and you should absolutely know the 1865. So April 14th, 1865. Say it with me? Abraham Lincoln. Right. Good job.

June 28, 1914. So you ready? We'll say it together. Archduke Ferdinand. Right. Good job. You're doing great. Okay.

Ready to go? 8th, 1980. Ready? Say it with me. John Lennon. Very good. You're doing great at this. Okay. So January 30th, 1948. You ready? Say it with me. You ready? Mahatma Gandhi. Right. I forgot actually. He was assassinated. I should have, when I saw that date, I was like, who was 1948, January 3rd? Mahatma Gandhi. The assassinated? Who's going around killing Mahat and I'm going to get any. Anyway, number five, June 30th, 1520.

June 30th, 1520. You ready? Let's say it together. Montezuma. You are so good at this. You were fantastic. So Abraham Lincoln, April 14th, 1865. Archduke Ferdinand, June 28th, 1914.

John Lennon, December 8th, 1980, Mahatma Gandhi, January 30th, 1948, and Montezuma, June 30th, 1520. And of course, today is the anniversary of the assassination of Julius Caesar. So, you're welcome. You're welcome. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.