Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Emotional Distress… | 1/23/25

Episode Date: January 23, 2025

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Elephants at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs Missy Kimba Lucky Lulu and Jambo are going to have to continue staying at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in Colorado Springs

because the high court in Colorado said yeah they they don't have a legal right to pursue their release and they're not human so where they have to stay where they're at so this group called the non-human rights project according to them they are a civil rights organization in the united states dedicated solely to securing rights for non-human animals the organization challenges an archaic, unjust legal status quo that views and treats all non-human animals as things with no rights.

Correct. Which is where my motto here on chewing the fat, humans first begins. They are definitely against my motto. That is for sure. The non-human rights project is leading the legal fight to secure fundamental rights for non-human animals. for non-human animals

through a state by state, country by country, long-term litigation plan. That needs to stop. We're just tying up the courts with this. This is insane. So the Colorado court said, no,

we know that these are majestic animals, but the legal question here boils down to whether an elephant is a person. The answer is no, okay? No. An elephant is not a person. elephants here do not have a standing to bring a habeas corpus claim. That's what the ruling said.

So the animal rights group is a little unhappy again because they lost another case. Remember they tried this in New York. And New York shot them down as well and said, no, you're not the elephant in New York. I forget the, what was the stupid elephant's name? It's not a stupid elephant, Jeff. It's an elephant in New York at the Bronx Zoo. Happy, they had a case brought between in New York. And New York said, no, elephants are not human.

Happy will have to stay at the zoo unless the zoo wants to let it go to some habitat where they can, you know, graze out his life at the elephant habitat. There's one big one in Florida, and we found out there's one big one in Tennessee as well. right and so they can go to one or the other ship them there to the the elephant nursing home and that's where they go so uh the group argued that these Colorado elephants born in the wild of Africa have shown signs of brain damage because the zoo is essentially a prison yeah we know we take care of it we go there they're a prison we get to go take a look at them that's humans first we take care of all the animals and uh they are known to roam

for miles a day. Actually, if you look at when they get tagged, it's like a giant circle that they travel in, it's like, what are we doing? They're not that smart. I know they never forget. That's because they just walk in a circle their entire life.

But they wanted animals released to one of the two accredited animal sanctuaries in the United States. Yeah, I think the one in Tennessee and the one in Florida are the two elephant nursing homes that they go to. It doesn't say that in this story, but I'm pretty sure that's where they go to.

So the Colorado's Root said A court said that no Elephants are not human Okay So I just this is just an abuse Of the court's time And money and energy

I know I don't know how much money The Non-Human Rights Project is raising But whatever it is This is a waste of money Now do I think that there's a possibility That they could do some good for animals Yeah I guess

Sure. But back off of our zoos. Back off of our zoos. No one supports zoos more than myself in this program Chewing the Fat. So how about you with the Non-Human Rights Project back off of our zoos. Okay. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat.

I know we still have some fires burning out west in California. And I'll break down the one fire that started yesterday. is breaking wide open today but I was reading a story about Maui and it's been 18 months since the Maui fire

and only three homes have been rebuilt. It's been 18 months and three homes have been rebuilt. That's an embarrassment. They were talking about how difficult it is with the

zoning and the new rules and property assessment and what a nightmare it has been in Hawaii. And it also talked about how Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has been in conversations with Hawaii about how best to go about the process. Well, whatever Hawaii is doing is wrong because they're not rebuilding. They've rebuilt three houses in 18 months. Seems like we could expedite that process a little bit. Just a little bit.

Just a little bit. Now, it's really strange how they talked about in Hawaii, they talked about in 1992, 2,000 homes were destroyed because of a hurricane. Those were rebuilt within a year. Now, think of that. They rebuilt Hawaii doesn't know what to do now because of permitting fees, long permitting lines, new application fees. new permit fees, new rules, new building rules, building regulations.

I mean, it's a nightmare. And so when you think about what's been damaged in California, is that ever going to get rebuilt? I mean, Palisades is gone, right? I mean, it's, and I know there's still some left, Jeff. What are you talking about? I know, I know that. But, I mean, the pictures, just like Maui,

Le Hina most specifically was gone I mean it's just wiped out and that fire is still burning the Palisades fire has been burning for 15 days they claim it 70% contained the Eaton fire has been burning for 15 days that started the same day as the Palisades

they say that's 95% contained then this huge fire that started today has gone Oh, don't, that's mean, that's mean, because now you're thinking about, I mean, if you, if you live in the vicinity of where the Hughes fire is, you're hearing. And I don't wish that at anyone. 10,000 acres have already burned from this fire that just started, just started. And that's 14% contained.

And it's, I mean, it's just going to devastate the area. Then there's the Sepulveda fire, S-E-P-U-L-E-D. 40 acres of burned. That's been burning for a day. Yeah, that's a big, don't big deal. And the clay fire has burned 39 acres. That's been burning for a day. That's 65% contained.

So it doesn't say how much has been contained for the Sepulveda fire. So maybe nothing there. Maybe Silveda is just burning. Just let it go. I mean, it's terrible. Terrible. And we still have the fire burning in Arizona. I'm looking at the Los Angeles Times fire map.

and they still have the X in Arizona, the Horton fire. 8,346 acres have burned in that fire. That's been burning for 38 days. Now, it says here 96% contained. I think yesterday it was 98%. I think it's getting bigger. I think it was 98% and then they said, oh, yeah.

No, it started up again. 96% contained. 96% contained. 96%. effort thing. Holy cow. But what a nightmare it's going to be. Because Hawaii, probably, if not worse than California, as far as permitting and fees and everything. So it's those California homes, are you moving back there? Are you going to try to rebuild? The real estate agents have said that people are looking to move in the surrounding area

looking for homes that aren't burned and they're looking to do that. But they've already put a price gouging thing on from the governor so the people that were trying to charge more rent around the area can't do it. I don't know that I agree with that.

You should be able to get what you get. It certainly didn't stop there from jacking up the worthiness of these properties in Palisades. Yeah. Yeah, a house that was, you know, 400,000 is now 3 million. And it certainly didn't stop them from doing that. But heaven forbid, somebody have a house to rent for more than what you think it's worth. Okay, all right, whatever, fine.

But are you ever going to move back there and rebuild? Companies are coming in to buy the property. So there are companies looking ahead to the future, but they're looking to buy it on the cheap. Right? And when you stay on the cheap, I mean, they would say, well, it was worth four million. million dollars and now uh this company came along and said they'll give me 300,000 cash and you sign it over to us. Are you doing that? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. And then do you still have to deal with the insurance? Does the company still deal with insurance or is it over?

Is the company just say, no, that's our property. We paid for it 300,000. When we can come in and and build, we will. I mean, and you get to move on. You don't have to put up with the fight anymore. You know, you've lost the money. You've lost everything. Everything has gone,

except for whatever you tossed in your car before you left. And now you're going to take the $300,000 and just get another place somewhere. I would advise that somewhere else be outside of the state of California. But, you know, you're going to, you're for sure. going to move. It's just, I do not, it's sad, it's sad. And if you want to help these people,

the best way to do it is go to mercury1.org. Mercury 1 has got people, boots on the ground helping people. We haven't forgotten the people in the Carolinas. I know FEMA has lengthened their state now and helped the people out that were in trouble. Huh,

when did that change? When did that change? Oh, I know. Three and a half days ago. When we inaugurated a new president. So, you know, those, but that place is still rebuilding. Another place is just, you know, the people want to live on their property. They want, they want to rebuild. I've lived there.

My family's lived there for 100 years. I want to live there. Don't tell me I can't rebuild along the river here. It's a 100 year flood. Okay. We'll live there for another 100 years until the next flood comes along. I mean, it's just, it's just strange. It's just really strange.

It's going to be a nightmare for all involved. and I don't wish that on anyone, but it is happening, that's for sure. I will say that, you know, with the storm, natural disaster in the Carolinas, which was from Hurricane Helene, the natural disasters in California was from the fires that started because of those darn Santa Ana winds.

Gosh darn it, they happen every year, and we just, we didn't know. We didn't know it was going to. to happen this year. They've only happened every year forever. But we didn't know it was going to happen this year. And so you never know when a natural disaster is going to affect you. And you want to be prepared. And you want your family to be prepared if there's some sort of illness

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and then they postponed it to the 19th, and then they said, no, no, what, we'll do it on the 23rd. And so I guess, I don't know if they snuck in around the fires to do it, but that's why they, oh, stop, I know, I get it. So they revealed the Academy nominations in all 23 categories were revealed today, and they announced them on all their,

platforms. So that's good. And we got all the, I mean, they started out with the supporting actors, supporting actress, animated short, costume design, live action short, makeup and hairstyling. I love that part of the Academy Awards. Score, adapted screenplay,

original screenplay. Actor, actress, animated feature, cinematography, directing, documentary feature, documentary short, editing, international feature, original song, best picture, production design, sound, visual effects. Okay, that's great. Do we know exactly when it's going to air now?

Yeah, they say the Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 2nd, beginning at 4 p.m. Pacific. Due to the wildfires, the show date will not change. That's what they said. So we don't care. We don't care. if we look outside the building and we have still having the Oscars. It will not.

We're not postponed to this thing. We're having it, okay? Okay. Good. Good. We're not going to cancel it. So I know there were rumors out there saying that it was going to be canceled, delayed. And no.

The Academy said no way the show day will not change. What about that? No, we don't care. We don't care. I mean, they might have to do it on a, I might have to do it on a cruise ship or, you know, some, we have to take it all to,

you know, we're not changing the day, but we're changing the venue and where it happens. But for sure, they're not changing the date. I don't care. I don't care. How much is burning?

We're not changing the day. Okay? We're just not doing it. So, best picture. Oh, God. Do we need to break these down? Yeah, we should. Amelia Perez on Netflix, of course.

All right, best picture. So now we have what? One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. Ten nominations for Best Picture. Wow. Okay. And Conclave is on this list. Let's see.

So, Enora, the brutalist, a complete unknown, Conclave, Dune Part Two, Amelia Perez, I'm still here, Nickel Boys, the substance, wicked. I don't see you're glad he's around here. That's a problem for me. But everybody loves, well, I don't want to, Conclave is going to win.

They all love Conclave, and it's just, I was so, it was so predictable. And I just, I mean, I love, I love the whole situation

that Conclave was about. It's just that what happened in it. Okay. Okay. We got it. We got it. you're progressive and we all love you for it okay we got it uh best director yeah yeah best actress best actors okay uh cynthia arbeil from wicked you

carlo sophia gascott emily prez mcicki madison anora dimmy more the substance uh oh that be dimmy might get it just for the feel good story of demi more getting it but then they'd be pissed at wicked didn't get it so she's going to get it and imagine length of her fingernails when she comes out to take the Oscar. Her fingernails are going to be longer than the Oscar itself. It's going to be quite a sight. The best supporting actress, let's see, Monica Barbaro and Colleenade Unknown,

Ariana Grande, wicked. Could be a wicked run. Philosophy Jones, the brutalist, Isabella Rosani, Conclave, and she was fine in it. She was great. Whatever. Zohieldana, Amelia Perez. Best supporting.

actor. You're a Borzov for anora. Karen Culkin, a real pain. Edward Dorton, a complete unknown. Guy Pearce, the brutalist. Jeremy Strong, the apprentice. Wow. Best original screenplay.

Do we ever get gladiator in any of these? Best Adapted Screenplay. Best International Feature. Best documentary feature. Best animated feature. Okay, it's best animated feature. flow inside out to memoir of a snail

man I love that one Wallace and Gromit vengeance most foul I bet you that's funny actually I've not seen that and the wild robot yeah best cinematography no gladiator

best costume design okay gladiators in this one complete on now on conclave they're going to throw best costume design as a here you got an Oscar for that. Get out of here. I mean, they didn't...

What a... Right. Best craft services. Gladiator 2. Get on up here. Billy. Billy, Jose and Hoseby. Come on up here. Thank you. We really appreciated the way you served our coffee.

Oh, okay. Let's see. Anything else from... Let's see. Best Production Design. Best Original Score. Best Original Song. best sound, best visual effects, Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes gets in that. I really enjoyed that movie except it pissed me off

the timeline of the bloodline. We covered that on the show. The bloodline really took me off. But I enjoyed the movie. I'll see. Best makeup and hairstyling. A good glad to hear of that one. Best documentary short. Death by Numbers.

I am ready, Warden. Oh, going to the death. Going to the electric chair. Incident. They don't do the electric chair anymore, Jeff. Okay, they get poison. Yeah, I got it. Instruments of a beating heart.

The only girl in the orchestra. Best animated short. Beautiful men in the shadow of the Cyprus. Magic candies wander to wonder. Yuck. Okay. Best live action short. I mean, there's a gladiator guy.

They threw them a bone one time, one thing. for costume, that's it. And what was the other one that they just threw a bone to that, uh, planet of the apes, right? Just one thing in there. Just threw them, wow. Okay.

All right, it's going to be a wicked conclave. I think Brutalist is in the front running there too, but, uh, is brutalist? Is brutalist? Is that true? I do have not seen Brutalist and I'm not sure. I just heard it by ear. It's really gay. And I thought, another gay movie?

the Oscars are just really gay. Oh, okay, yeah, never mind. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Okay, since we were just talking about the Academy Award nominations, I was, if you saw Willem Defoe walking down the street, would you know who he was? I mean, I was looking at this, there's a video under the guise of imagine interviewing Willem DeFoe,

and not knowing who he is. So there's this interviewer, and I don't know who it is. I didn't do my homework on the interviewer, but he's asking, doing man on the street interviews. He's just talking to whoever is walking down the street, okay? And it's Willem Defoe. So if you're doing man on the street interviews,

and I don't know, a guy that's been nominated for four Academy Awards, Golden Globe, screen actors, whatever, Mr. Actor, Ben and, you know, I haven't even looked at it. IMDB to know how many movies he's been in. We can find that out momentarily for you if you'd like. So at least 100. At least 100 on the IMDB page. Okay.

So the guys walk and then there's Willemdiffo because the heading of the post is imagine interviewing William Defoe and not knowing who he is. Okay. So Willem is walking down the street and Mr. Man on the street interviewer is asking questions. And you can obviously tell it's Willem Defoe. He's got a skull cap on. He's got his leather jacket on.

But you can tell his face is clear. There's nothing covering up his face. I love your outfit because he's got the scarf on. He's got the skull cap, which matches the scarf, leather jacket. He looks cool. Yeah, he's Willem Defoe. He's supposed to be a bum on the streets? Yeah.

So I love your outfit. What do you do for a living? I'm an actor. I'm an actor. Yeah, I mean, he's just, I'm walking the streets of New York. I think this is New York. He's walking the streets of a big city.

I don't know what city is. It's cold and it's a big city. I don't know, probably New York. What's your name? Do you mind sharing? Yeah, Willem. Willem? Got you.

What do you live who buy your job? Are you stupid? What do you make up by your job? It's always different. Nothing's ever the same. no days the same. Yeah, got you. For someone who's getting into your curve.

I will say this. Willem breaks my rule. You don't have to speak to him, Willem, but he's trying to be nice. The guy's got a microphone. He's Willem Defoe. He's probably thinking, you know, maybe he's trying to set him up for something

because he probably thinks he knows who I am. Right? He's setting me up with the, hey, I like your outfit. You know, what do you do for a living? Like, I'm Willan Defoe, you dofus. What do you think I do for a living? So he stopped. to talk to him. I'll give him that. He's trying to, you know, he's covering his grab.

But the guy obviously has no idea. That's true. Just, uh, enjoy. Enjoy. I don't think about that. I don't think about that. Where do you see us of five years from now? Any movies that we know about? What? What do you see it's of five years from now? I love Will. What? What? You know, I've been talks with, I don't know, a hundred different people for new movies.

I don't know where it'll be in five years. Okay. And then this lady, he laughs and another lady comes walking up. And he just says, ah, ha, ha, ha, and he says something to her. I'm not, I tried a million times to hear exactly what he says to her. But it's just an on the street kind of, I got to go. And then he's out of there. And then she, she gets interviewed by Homeboy for his man or woman on the street interviews.

But it just was incredible to me that you could be walking down the streets of New York and just not know who he is. I mean, you're doing a man. on the, man, you should know at least people. You can quote me on that. If you're going to do a man on the street interview, you should know at least people. And congratulations are in order to some people.

George Clinton, Mike Love, and Michael McDonald highlight the 2025 inductees into the songwriters Hall of Fame. And man, how cool is that? did they induct? Okay, it looks like they let in five this round. All right. So, and one didn't even make the headline that I read you.

The Doobie Brothers. Yeah. That was some of the iconic songs for, I don't know, 40 years. My gosh. You still, when you hear that today, I mean, that's Michael McDonald and, you know, hello.

So they have George Clinton. We mentioned George. He's still silent. as of today. Plus Ashley Gourley, man, when you think of songwriting, you think of Ashley Gourley. Wow, he was contributed to 80 number one hits and nearly 500 overall releases.

Wow. Ashley Gourley, you should think of Ashley Gourley when you think of songwriters. Wow. Okay, so Raising Kentucky, Gourley moved to Nashville built to pursue his dream and his hard work paid off, making him one of the most successful songwriters in country music today. Wow, that's no doubt.

80 number one hits, 500 overall releases. Yeah, he knows how the game works. Then you have Rodney Dark Child Jerkins. Love him, man. I think of songwriters. I think Rodney, before I think of Ashley Goreley, and I'm going to think of Ashley Gordy now, Gore Lee, before I think of Rodney, Dark Child Jerkins.

Rodney, for his work with pop superstars like Destiny's Child, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson. He is being inducted for his groundbreaking contributions to R&B and pop. He began his career at 15. Had hits, like, say my name. It's not right, but it's okay. Telephone, deja vu, the boy is mine. Celebrated his innovative production

and has become sought after figure in the music industry. So congratulations. You've well deserved. Tony McCauley, a British producer and songwriter. We let anybody in. And then Mike Love from the Beach Boys gets in. Congratulations to all going into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. And, you know, speaking of songwriters and, you know, musicians,

I see where singer Chris Brown has just filed a five $700 million defamation lawsuit against Warner Brothers, alleging he was falsely labeled a serial rapist and abuser in a 2024 docu-series. So that should be fun if we get any information at all. If Warner Brothers just doesn't say, Chris, here's a couple, you know, here's 20 million, go away. but uh

we'll see I mean one of the accusers identified as Jane Doe alleges he raped her in 2020 and of course see that has been denied

and they say that Chris says well his attorneys say that the case is about media putting their own profits over the truth oh I don't necessarily disagree with that but they said the network aired the documentary

uh... knowing that it was full of lies and deception and violating journalistic principles so he's suing Warner Brothers ample and the documentary's producers for the

alleged defamation libel and infliction of emotional distress through the claims made in the documentary and you know what to make that go away 500 million dollars and then that whole emotional distress thing

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Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Who died today? Who died today? Well, let's begin with Jean-Gregor Sagbo. Jean-Gregor Sagbo. Dead at the age of 65. And I know what you're thinking.

Jean-Gregor Sagbo. The Jean-Gregor Sagbo? The only... And first black politician from Russia? That, Jean-Griguez, Agbo? Thank you. You are correct. Congratulations.

I know, sad that he died at the age of 65. When he came to the Soviet Union in the early 80s to study economics, when you think of going to someplace to study economics, you think of going to Russia. And he did. And so he settled in the village of Zavadov. And then he said, hey, she's pretty hot. And so they got married and he decided to stay in Russia.

And now it says here that he is dead. It doesn't say how Jean-Grigoar Sagbo passed away at the age of only 65. So I don't know if he accidentally fell out of a window. The criminal. You know, you just don't know. I'm just asking questions. I don't know.

I don't know how he died. So rest of the KGB. Rest in peace to the first. only black politician in Russia, Jean-Grigor Sagbo, dead at the age of 65. Then we have Joyce Piven. Joyce Piven, very sad. She has passed away at the age of a 94.

Joyce had quite a year. Well, quite a life, actually, but it was the last year was really a good year for Joyce. The whole family stopped in. I saw where Jeremy posted, that's, you know, she wanted to, she was graceful until her last breath.

I was honored to share with her. I don't have enough space here to convey what her life meant to me and to all of her students. So, I thought, well, Jeremy, you're, Joyce Piven, yes?

And she started the, the Piven Theater Workshop in Evanston, Illinois and became teachers to John Cusack, Joan Cusack, Aidan Quinn, Adam McKay, Jeremy Piven,

and daughter Sherip Piven. So, I mean, she's kind of like the Kaminsky method from Netflix. I love that show with Michael Douglas. Now, they did three seasons

and that was it. He said he wasn't going to do anymore. But I loved the Kaminsky method. I mean, you have to go back and watch. I don't know if it's season two or season one where guys having the heart attack and the slowest waiter in the world

is running till the call 911, but he's not running. It's just a stupid, funny joke. Anyway, rest in peace. To Joyce Piven, born Joyce Goldstein, dead at the age of 94. I did not know this, but apparently a few years ago,

Japan allowed the testing of human-animal crossovers. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Human-animal hybrids, okay? No, no, no, no. And not because of bidders. We're not hanging out with the tigers today, trying to create a little tiger babies. No.

We weren't doing that. No. Although maybe that's part of the study. I don't know. Let's read further, shall we? It's been, so they, in 2019, Japan made headlines by approving, and they made headlines,

and I don't recall this, so they made headlines by approving groundbreaking experiments to create animal, human hybrids that could potentially be brought to term. So that wasn't, they were creating it. There wasn't any real big.

Is it going on? Yeah, that wasn't happen. No, that wasn't happening. So the hybrids, let's see, the Japanese government authorized stem cell research aimed at developing these hybrids with the ultimate goal of growing organs suitable for human transplantation.

Well, I mean, we're doing that here in the United States, too. We're letting pigs grow ears and feet and everything. A cute little pig. Is that a foot growing out of his side? Yeah, that's for Bill, down in January. Georgia. Leeds a new foot.

I mean, come on now. So, experiments involved in human embryos, Japan became the first to permit such hybrids to fully develop. Uh-huh. The decision has sparked ethical debates with some experts expressing concerns about human cells influencing the brain of the host animal. Yeah. Raising profound questions about implications of this research.

Yeah, I mean, now you're going to have, you know, you will have a little base. little baby, little baby female tiger, human, wrote it around. Oh yeah. Oh, yeah. And nobody wants that. Nobody wants that. No, nobody wants that.

And who knows how far along they are now. Holy cow. That was five years ago. And they say, oh, it made headlines. Did it though? I feel like now they're telling us that it made headlines. So it makes it appear like it was a big. deal and everybody knew about it.

But that really wasn't true. That was just the government going, yeah, go ahead and see if you can make me a tiger woman. And then, you know, now we're making tiger women, so we've got to announce it. Pretty soon, the head of Japan's going to be walking around. Oh, yeah, this is just my tiger woman. This is just my human animal hybrid. She's my wife now.

And that's always what we're doing in Japan now. Hey, we haven't had any, our birth rate is for crap. in Japan. And we need to start having some babies. And if it has to be with a tiger, human, hybrid, I'm in. So what do we do if we start teleportation? And you're teleporting, you know, the tiger woman.

And the teleportation, do they come together as it was before? Or does it come, they just rip apart and forever? Because I was just reading where the scientists are aiming to, to teleport an entire human. All right, due to this new quantum tech that they believe will make it possible. So, I mean, we've heard about it forever, right? And even, you know, the fly, stupid movies

where, you know, the, help me, help me. It's got the, you know, the, it's got the fly. And so I, according to this, from computing point of view, and that's the only view I like to have is the computing point of view. recent updates in quantum computing are providing the massive amounts of computational

computational power believed necessary to achieve teleportation. Okay, so let's do it. Let's do it. I mean, that needs to happen. That needs to happen. I want to be able to go into the phone booth, the teleportation phone booth,

and I want to push London and come out at the and I'm in London that's all I want and that's the noise I want to hear where are you going I'll be back tomorrow talk to you later

I'm talking about the size that you wanted to be the size of a phone booth to start off with what do you mean? All I'm saying is that if you're going to have a teleportation device you're assuming that it's like the size of a British phone booth Yeah Yeah

That's what I want I'm not assuming anything I just wanted to be that Oh no it would be cool I'm with you on that point That's my teleportation device Are you shaming my teleportation device I can't have my own teleportation device

Any way I want I want in on it That's the thing Jeffie Wow So we'll see if it actually happens But they believe that it's gonna happen Sooner than later I'm in on it

You know if you're talking about, I mean, you're talking about transforming all of ourselves from one place to another, and we've got to take them apart to make them travel, and then we've got to put them back together. And I mean, we've seen it on TV forever. You know, people, uh, jumper and we've got, uh, you know, beaming up, Scotty. We've seen it happen forever. But to rip apart your body and then put it back together against someplace. else. I don't even know

that's a feat. I don't know. I'm not a quantum teleportation expert, but I'm just telling you that's a feat. And if you forget your feet, then you're screwed. Right. I mean, if you show up in London from my

teleportation device here in the U.S. and it forgets to mix my foot right and I show up in London with I don't know, half my body or my entire body except for my foot. I, we lost your foot

in teleportation. We'll try to we'll try to find. If that's, if the airlines are doing it, that's what, yeah, we lost your hand in teleportation. As soon as we find it, as soon as we find it, you go to the booth, we'll teleport it back to you, no problem, don't worry about it. No problem. No, brook's worried about this in space balls. So if they

teleport you, now, if they, if you lose your hand, if the airlines lose your hand, do they just teleport you? Do they You have to go in the box and then... I've got to make a claim first. Or do you... Boom! To the airlines and then they teleport you back

with your hand and you're good. I mean, there's a lot of serious questions to be asked. 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,

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All right? So a California couple is suing JetBlue for a million dollars. Now, they allege that a large chunk of ice from one of the airlines airplanes crashed through the ceiling right over their bed. That's a good wake-up call. Having a big chunk of ice crashed through your ceiling. So according to court documents, Michael Reese and Leah Farani were sleeping in bed. They better be married. on January 1st of 2024.

It's been over a year. When a large block of ice came through the roof, the lawsuit claims a chunk of ice was the size of a watermelon and the couple could barely escape devastating physical injury. Okay, calm down. It was just a watermelon crashing through your ceiling. I'm sure you'll be fine.

But they're not. They're not. They've had to struggle. They've had serious issues because of this block of ice falling through their roof. Well, JetBlue's had a problem. JetBlue's had a problem, and that's how they know that it was JetBlue. They've had issues of other chunks of ice falling from their airlines.

And so I'm sure that at that same time in the airspace over their house, you know, was a JetBlue plane. so they have that. I'm sure they have. If I were them, I'd have that documentation. And so, you know, JetBlue has had this issue before where ICE has dropped on homes and people's yards and whatever. So this couple is asking for $360,000 of property damages, $40,000 in medical expenses, $300,000 in emotional distress. Yeah.

And $300,000 for pain, suffering, and, $3,000. inconvenience. Now, I go back to my first question. How has JetBlue not settled this case already? This should not have gone to the courts. This should not be in the news. I mean, people don't want to know that chunks of ice are dropping out to neighborhoods from JetBlue airline. Well, I pass by DFW International Airport every day, twice a day, at least twice a day. I'm in the flight path as I'm driving to and fro. They have planes rowed up in the sky over DFW coming to land into DFW.

They easily take off on the other side of where I drive. But most of the time, you know, barring wind, they come in from the one side. And they have at least two rows, two rows lined up, rowed up in each row. And they also have a third and a fourth one over on the other side where some of the FedEx and Amazon and UPS planes land over on the other side, then they taxi across.

Not that I'm aware of what they're doing at DFW, but I've driven past and been to that airport multiple times. I know what the hell is going on at that airport. Plus, I'm in a semi-flight path of another airport where I live, where my house is, and that airport has the Amazon planes. So the Amazon planes don't come to DFW, but the Alliance International has the Amazon planes. if a giant chunk of ice

falls through my roof uh yeah I just want you to know that if a giant chunk of ice falls through my roof probably going to ask for more than 360,000 worth of property damages 40,000 in medical expenses, 300,000 for emotional distress,

300,000 for pain, suffering, and inconvenience, probably probably going to for more than that because somebody's paying me something and if you want to settle out of court I'm not going to sign an NDA there's no way I can't not talk about it

that can't happen all right so if that drops an extra 100,000 off the deal okay because I can't not talk about it that's just insane although I could and this not that something like this has happened before but I could tell you a

story of a friend of mine who had a similar story. You know, we haven't. We haven't talked about bird flu in quite a while on this show anyway. You know, so I just want to let you know that a positive bird flu case is shut down poultry activities in Georgia. I know. I know. And by activities we mean exhibitions, shows, swaps, meats, meats, meats, meats, sales, and any road

crossings or anything that are uh have they have been suspended in the state until further notice also all commercial activities within a six mile radius of the case in elbert county northeast of atlanta so if you live in elbert county uh you already know or you should already know you should be aware that uh don't be choking any tickets don't be doing any of that okay in Elbert County. They're going to go undergo surveillance testing for two weeks. No humans have tested positive in the state, but we do know that there have been 67 human bird flu cases in the U.S. since April of 2024.

And according to the USDA, 128 commercial and backyard flux. Wow. 122 commercial and backyard flocks tested positive nationwide. in December, up from 62 in November. So it's starting to spread. And, you know, obviously, Elbert County doesn't want to spread outside of Elbert County. So keep your chickens to yourself. And that's what they do to them.

They're burning them. I know. They call the, just call it them, man. What do you do with you? Do you used to have chickens in that coop? Yeah, not anymore. Oh, there's dead. Which means that's why chicken prices are going up.

Egg prices are going up. It's just amazing. we need to do something. You can quote me on that. You can quote me on that. I know. If something is fire, then so be it. So be it.

Burn him. Burn him. But if you can't catch it. Like, see, if I, if you're, if there's one chicken in my coop has bird flu. All right. And I kill, I kill that chicken because I don't care.

But if I take another chicken and I cut the head off and I pluck it and I cut the head off and I pluck it. and I cook it. I can't catch a bird flu from that, right? I'm just asking. Asking for a friend. Because I would say that I would just continue to eat my own chickens. Just like, oh, that one.

Looks kind of sick. All right, we're done with that one. Let's check that one there. Nope, that one looks good. We're going to break the neck of that one. We're going to eat that one. Put that out. Jesus, that's how wildfires start.

Wow. Only you can prevent wildfires. All right, let's get out of here. I'll leave you with the joke of the day. I feel like I've told you this joke before, but this was emailed to the show, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. You can email me any time with your jokes of the day, and this was sent to me from Will.

And I feel like Will, I think I've done this before. So you may be copying it. I should go back and check before I do it, but I'm not going to because, well, that means work, and I'm not going to want to do that. I'm the one that I would have to do it. You can send me a joke of the day on X if you want at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio.

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Most cameos, I tell you a joke anyway. So there, I let you in a little inside secret. But Will sent me this joke, and I laughed, and I thought, yeah, that's funny. And I know I've heard it before, but I think maybe I've heard it before because I told you before. I don't know that. Okay. So we're just going with it. And if I told you this before, tough, all right?

Laugh again, okay? How do you tell the difference? No, don't. No, no, honey, no. How do you tell the difference? No, no, no, honey, no, not that either. No, just sit down. It's okay.

It's okay. No. We don't want to use the gun. We don't want to play with matches. Just sit there and relax, okay? How do you tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile? I don't know, Jeff. How do you tell the difference between an alligator and a crocodile?

Well, ask them if they will see you later or after a while. See, because the Gator would see you. Yeah, you get it. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrant Suts, our special selection has something for every style and price point.

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