Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 1 | Elon Musk is Out, Naughty Cruise, New Crime Stats

Episode Date: October 1, 2018

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand Hello, welcome to it. This is Chewing the Fat with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Thank you so much for joining us on the broadcast or the podcast or the fat cast or whatever you want to call. Look, it's just going to be a quick ride. I'm going to be with you every afternoon. I want you to be able to listen, you know, as you drive home, as you just get home, you're hanging out.

I don't want to make it long and laborious, but there's so much. stories that we just don't have an opportunity to get to during the day or stories that are kind of cool but nobody's really going to talk about. Welcome to it. The main stories that kind of fascinate me right off the top today are the story about the cafe where no cash is needed. It's up by Brown University in Rhode Island and no college ID means no caffeine. It's a regular coffee shop, machines, baristas, dispense caffeine, customers hammering away on their own. They're laptops, but no, you don't have to pay anything as long as you give them your information. That's right.

They turn away customers. If you're not a college student, faculty members, if you have a faculty card, you can get in and pay. But students, no, we just want your personal information. You get free coffee and all you have to do is give them your name, phone number, email addresses, majors. All of that. Also, they have to provide date of birth, professional interests, entering all the information in an online forum. And by doing so, the students also open up themselves to receiving a...

Here's the sweet little catch. Information from corporate sponsors who pay the cafe to reach its clientele through logos, apps, digital advertisements, on-screen in stores, and mobile devices, sign, surveys, and even baristas. Yes. They also have specially trained staff members, the baristas, who give student additional information about sponsors. Hello, here's your coffee.

Let me tell you about this product. I mean, okay, if that's where we're at. I mean, that's kind of, look, the students, the students were quoted as saying, oh, you have all that information anyway. Don't worry about it. And look, some of the students are saying, look, all you got to do is go, look,

If you go to LinkedIn, Google, any of the sites, you can get all that information already. It's all there. Anything you need is already there. So why should I worry about it? I want my free coffee. You can have my information. No problem. Don't worry about it.

And really, that's kind of where we're at, right? I mean, we say okay to a lot of things on different apps throughout our life and throughout our day that, look, you just want to use the app. I know I'm saying okay to you getting into all my pictures. I know I'm saying okay to you seeing all the stuff that I do on Facebook and Twitter and Instagram and Snapchat. I know that I'm saying okay to that and I don't really want to say okay to that. But I just want to, I would just want to take a picture. That's all. I just want you to take a picture and I want to be able to edit it.

Oh, okay. Well, then that's fine then. Don't worry about it. Just let us take all your information. And okay, that's what they're doing. And most people are okay with that. But it does lead me back, too. Eight years ago now, right?

Eight years ago now, 2010, Eric Schmidt, then the head of Google, suggested that young people would be entitled to change their identity to escape their misspent youth, which is now recorded in excruciating detail on social networking sites. He said, I don't believe society understands what happens when everything is available, knowable, and recorded by everyone all the time. He said he believed that every young person will one day be allowed to change their name to distance themselves from embarrassing photographs and material stored on their friends' social media sites. I mean, that is amazing. And we're already eight years along from then. Using profiles of its customers and tracking their locations through their smartphones,

It'll be able to provide live updates on their surroundings and inform them of tasks they need to do. Mr. Smith said we're trying to figure out what the future of search is. One idea is that more and more searches are done on your behalf without you needing to type. I actually think most people don't want Google to answer their questions. They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next. Wow. I mean, he suggested, for an example, which we're already doing, you know, we want, we remind users what groceries they needed to buy when passing a shop, what's online. I mean, it is fascinating.

That was eight years ago. All right. So we're already there. Right? We're already there. And so when you talk about what the Internet is doing for us, I mean, Eric had just said a little bit ago. that he thinks that the internets are going to split into two now because of our dealings with China and other countries

who may want to limit freedoms. He said, look, you think of China as, oh, yeah, they're good with the internet. You're missing the point. Globalization means that they get to play two. I think you're going to see fantastic leadership in products and services from China. There's a real danger that along with those products and services, services comes a different leadership regime from the government with censorship controls. And look, he already said, he talked about how China is going to lap us and be so far ahead

in the AI game if we don't step up our game. And he talked about, this is fascinating. I don't think people know about this. The Belt and Road Initiative, which involves 60, 60, 70 countries. that has an infrastructure like China that will create freedom with, you know, not really freedom. I like how they use. That's freedom, but it's limited. Well, no, there's a difference.

If it's freedom and it can't be limited. But it is. Now, the Belt and Road Initiative is China's infrastructure project to link itself with countries across Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. with railways and shipping lanes. And they've got that instituted. And you'll just be able to use the internet that the Belt and Road Initiative, the BRI, will limit your freedom.

Ah, the future. Freedom, but not really. Freedom, but not really. You know, another couple stories that fascinate me is what people do to survive. And this is just, you know, I just want to start off today with a couple of stories that fascinate me today. We talked last week during the Pat Gray-on-Lease program

on my chewing the fat one per day. This is the chewing fat, you know, extra fatness. We talked about the Indonesian teenager that survived 49 days adrift at sea. It always amazes me what people will do to survive. This 19-year-old who worked as a lampkeeper on a... a floating fish trap, was out at sea, and then a storm came by, and it unlocked its mooring, and it took off, and it's floating around the sea, and he's lost. And he's only got enough food for a couple of days.

And a couple of times he was out there, and he saw ships, and he couldn't get their attention, and they passed him by, and he was out there for 49 days. Now, he caught fish. On his little hut, he broke off wood and started fires to burn the fish, to cook the fish. And he limited his salt intake from the seawater by drinking the water through his sweatshirt, you know, through his clothes. Absolutely amazing. And he also said that he was about to give up at one point. And he remembered that his parents had told him that, uh,

in times of distress, you should pray. And he had a Bible on the little hut, and he said, I did. And, you know, after, it worked. You know, after 49 days, it worked. But it kept him sane, right? It kept him sane. And he survived.

And that's what brings me to this guy who's making sausage in his garage in North Dakota. And who doesn't, I mean, I guess if you're living in North Dakota, you're making sausage, right? You just are. But he's making sausage in his garage. And he's got the grinder.

And it's off. And he's got a chunk of meat in the grinder that he's going to get out and push down through there. And as he puts his left hand into this grinder, he steps on the, he has a foot pedal that turns it on and off. And he steps on the foot pedal. And it grinds on. up his hand. Okay, so what I'm saying is what it takes to people to survive, all right? So now this guy, 69 year old guy, he's got his hand stuck in the grinder, all right?

And he says to it, he knows, he knows, look, he's got, he takes his foot off the grinder and he says, I knew I was in trouble. He reaches for a knife and he realizes that his hand is cut up and it's jumped into the into the bone, but all there's muscle and tendons and stuff sticking into this grinder. He can't pull it out. He doesn't want to turn the grinder back on. So he takes a knife

and he cuts his arm off. He cuts it off. Cut the muscles off. So that he has he's unconnected to his original hand and the grinder. Now he thanks the, you know, the paramedics and stuff for saving him because

you know, again, he called someone or he, did call 9-1-1. It wasn't clear on who called 911. I mean, I guess you can still call 911 with one hand. Anyway, the, and so he's holding it and he, you know, pressing down on it because he knew that if he, if he had left it in there and tried to call for help, he would just plead to death, right? So he cut it off and, you know, then he covered it up and they came and, you know, obviously, Ternicott kept it, you know, kept it down. So he's, you know, he's fine. He's going to be retrofitted. He's going to be fitted with a, you know, with a fake hand. and it'll be fine and he's happy

and he said he was like, I live through now I'm gonna live through this and I just find it fascinating that how many times have you thought about when you're trying to get something out of the dishwasher or out of the garbage disposal what happens if it turns on? Right?

What? And this guy's got his hand in the meat grinder making sausage and realizes that he's stuck. And if he just sits there and waits for somebody to try to rescue him, he's dead. He's going to bleed to death. So he cuts it off. Ooh.

Still alive, though. High five. Oh, the other one. As we take a walk over to the water cooler, you know, in the break room to take a little drink. Let me tell you about Mercury Real Estate Services selling your home. Is it simple? Of course it is. Just put a for-sale sign up and magically a buyer stops by and pays your top dollar for it.

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So if you need to sell, buy, get moving today. Real estate agents, I trust.com. Real estate agents, I trust.com. All right, we're at the water cooler. I'm thirsty. You know what it's like standing around in the break room thinking to yourself, man, I don't really want, I don't have anything to say to these people. Everybody's up in arms about, I'm at Kavanaugh.

And you're working and you're trying to be, you know, you're working. and you're trying to be, you know, a little closet, let's call you a closet conservative, you're not out of the closet yet. All right? You want to be out of the closet, but you want a job too. And you know, in the break room,

you don't want to start a fight. You still want to be kind of, well, kind of friendly to the people, even though you don't really like their politics. And if they're talking about Brett Kavanaugh, and what a horrible person he is, you can just say, yeah, I know, but you know what I was thinking is that I saw a poll online

this weekend and it asked the question. It asked me if your 16 year old daughter needed to get a ride home at night alone, who would you want to give her a ride? Brett Kavanaugh, Joe Biden, Anthony Weiner, or Bill Clinton.

I think we all know the answer to that one and that will at least start a little conversation that will make it a little ease or it'll just shut them up because they know that that, ooh, that's a good point. All right. Nobody wants Bill picking up the kid.

Nobody wants some selfie with Anthony. Nobody wants creepy Joe. I mean, have you seen the, I mean, of course there's the Joe Biden meme going around now where he's back behind Ford at the hearings, doing his little shoulder rub with the kiss on the back of the neck. Joe Biden is so good. Of course, I mean, guess what? I realize it's not real. It's okay.

I looked at it and went, ha, ha, ha, ha, that's funny, but it's not real. I get it. It's okay. Or if you're at the break room, you're standing around and you're talking, you're getting a drink of water, you're drinking a cup of coffee, you're waiting for somebody to heat up their hot pocket, and you're thinking, man, only 85 days until Christmas. Ooh, I mean, think of that. 85 days until Christmas.

It's a little frightening. And it also means that I'm going to have to start putting up Christmas decorations soon. I mean, my wife was ready to put them up at, I don't know, 352 days until Christmas. Let's just not take them down. I like them up. So I compromise. I took down the big stuff and there's still been little stuff all around the house all year. And I don't know if I'm going to win the battle of taking them down this year.

So I'm just got my, I think my wife is just going to turn into the, they're the ones with the Christmas Or It's up all year kind of people. I don't know if I want to be those people yet. A little frightening for me. I'm not real sure if I want to be those people yet. And if you want to remember today, today, the actual airing of this podcast, October 1st is the one-year anniversary, sad celebration

of the Las Vegas shooting. And wow, I mean, you just think a year ago and we wanted to know so much about what happened and why he did it. And we still don't know any of that. I mean, we know that 58 people were shot to death at the music festival. We know that 851 people were injured. 422 of them with gunshot wounds. All right? We know that Paddock was the only,

the shooter was the only person dead at Mandalay Bay, and he shot himself. He chickened out, gutless. But we don't know why, and really good. I'm not sad that he did that. Although I would like to know why. And we found out nothing. The only arrest has been the one gun dealer, right, that was selling illegal firearms,

to him, to Paddock and to other customers. I mean, really strange, we don't know very much at all. At least we don't know as much as I think we should. Really, really strange. And yet, when you think about it, it's only been a year. So if you go that, if you look at it that way, maybe we'll find out more. but the only investigation left really is I think there's an FBI,

a minor FBI investigation still pending, but Las Vegas has completely, they've wrapped theirs up. We're never going to know why. Here's the numbers. Have a nice day. We're done. I mean, amazing.

All right, so another thing that you can talk about tomorrow if you didn't talk about it today, and you probably didn't because most people didn't hear about it this weekend because, you know, if you're like most people, you watch football. You watch Netflix You watch Tulu

You had shows to stream You had shows to watch You had things to do Right You had yard work to manage And And canalops to water And stuff like that

On the weekend, right? And yard bugs to kill Man, we got these Some kind of worms or something That's attacking my lawn It is not fun All right And I am not a yard guy

I don't want to be a yard guy I don't want these worms around all I want to do is go out of my yard and not see these worms. But that's where I'm at. So Elon Musk is relinquishing his chairman of the board job for Tesla. He's still going to be CEO. And he's going to have to pay the SEC a minor $20 million. I mean $20 million, right?

He brushes a billionaire. He brushes $20 million off. but 20 million, I don't care who you are. That takes a bite. That takes a bite. I mean, he might actually have to, you know, I'm talking crazy here. He may actually have to eat at home for a week or two.

I don't know that for sure. I mean, he might, you know, he might say, okay, you know, I'm not going to, you know, I'm not going to pay for everybody's meal tonight. Or it's just me. Something like that. He's going to have to tighten the belt. a little bit somewhere. But think about this.

The tweet that got him in trouble, am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured. That's where he was in trouble. That was a lie. It wasn't secured. And, you know, you can't, that's kind of like saying, hey, buy stock, sell stock.

I'm doing this. I'm doing that. That's supposed to be doing that as chairman of the board and CEO of the company. And the SEC was not very happy. So they slapped him on the hand and said, Elon, what are you doing? Pay us $20 million. Pay us $20 million.

Can I get out of here? And right, it is only for three years. I mean, it was, I really think that, I think that was just a, they had, they felt like they had to do something. And so they made it look like they actually did something. But, and Elon said, okay, I'll give you some money. Let me alone. I'm tired anyway.

I'm smoking pot on other people's podcasts. I just want to be left alone for a while. The chairman of the board, that's a tough job. Is it Elon? Oh, yeah, we've got to meet a couple times a year. It's tough. And actually, you know, I'm not a bad idea, really. In Elon, I know you're stressed.

And I mean this, from the bottom of heart, I know you're stressed. You've got SpaceX. You're dealing with that other lawsuit that guys messing with you over there from the cave rescue. You got Tesla giving you a hard time. You got car, you got deadlines. You're messing up on some different deadlines at your factory. I know times are tough. So this will ease the pain a little bit.

You gave the SEC 20 million, and you're going to relinquish that chairman of the board job. Look, if you want to stop by chewing the fat and smoke a little dope and calm down and relax a little bit, I'm here for you. I'm here for you. I promise you, Elon. Whatever kind of pot Rogan had, I'll find better. I'll find better. And I won't treat it with it. anything, but it'll still be good.

I promise you, okay? Are you going to do a say yes, man? Chewing the fat at the blaze.com, just email me. Email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I'm here for you, all right? In fact, if you don't want to, you know, I know Rogan had that nasty old, big old blunt passing around. No, Elon, you and me, buddy.

I know, Elon. I love the new, Justin. I know you've cut down on the colors and everything. That kind of sucks now, huh? Turn it into Ford cars and just black. I know. It's okay. Don't worry about it. Here, take a hit.

So if you want to stop by, I'm here for you, baby. I'm here. Chewing the fat at theblaze.com. Email me, let me know when you're going to be by. Comes right to my phone. I'll see it right away. I'm here for you. But that had to have been the most expensive tweet in history.

His tweet, I'm considering taking Tesla private for $420. Funding secured. $20 million he paid for that tweet. 63 characters, $317,460 per keystroke. That, my friend, is an expensive tweet. Now, let's talk crime a little bit. And, you know, nobody likes crime.

I mean, unless you're the criminal, right? Nobody likes crime unless you're the criminal. This particular study has me amazed. Clearance rates for crime in America. Okay? Let's start at the bottom. All right. Let's start at the bottom.

Burglary. Only 13.5% of burglaries are closed. I mean, that is amazing. Right? Only 13.7% of motor vehicle theft is solved. Larsony theft, 19.2% is solved. Over 80%. walking free.

Robbery, 29.7% solved. A little over 70%. They're walking free. This is kind of sad. The rape, the rape is 34.5% is solved.

That is very sad. Aggravated assault, 53.3%. is solved. Still, 46, almost 47%, you're walking free. And this one has me amazed. Murder. 61.6% of murders are solved. Almost 40% of murders are not solved. If I decide to murder someone, I never would. I have a 40% chance of walking away, Scott Free. Now, most people don't commit a crime thinking they're going to get caught anyway, right? I mean, you don't, you never commit a crime.

That's why I think, you know, I'm okay with deterrence, death penalty, all that kind of stuff. But really, nobody is not, if I'm going to kill someone, I'm not thinking I would kill you, except I'm going to get the death penalty if I kill you and get caught. Nobody thinks that. They just don't. I guess maybe in the short term they do you know maybe you think about I don't know I'd like to see some deeper numbers on that

because the deterrent I think isn't quite right but I have a 40% chance of murdering someone and walking away just walking the streets scot-free that's a little frightening it's a little frightening and if you're in Baltimore congratulations

Baltimore. You had the worst homicide rate among the nation's 50 largest cities last year and the second highest violent crime rate overall, according to new data from the FBI. Congratulations. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Detroit had the highest overall violent crime rate of 2017, ranked number two in homicides. Memphis, Tennessee, 28 homicides. These are per 100,000 people, by the way.

I'm sorry, I didn't make that clear. So they're ranked Detroit number two, but they had 40 murders per 100,000 people. Not good. Philadelphia, Chicago, Milwaukee, these big cities all are the top of the list every year. Detroit and Baltimore battle back and forth for that number one slot. I've got an idea for you. If you live, say, in Baltimore and you say to yourself, you know, I'd like to sell my home and get out of Baltimore and maybe move to

Texas. Well, what you need to do is go to Mercury Real Estate Services, okay? Real estate agents, I trust.com. Real estate agents, I trust.com. We've got the best agents, over a thousand towns. Just call them and say, I want to get out of Baltimore. I want to get out of Detroit.

And they'll help you. you. They will help you. Real Estateagents.I trust.com. Hello? Yeah, I want to get out of Baltimore. Real estate agents I trust.com. Let's talk a little fashion and sex. We can't end the show without fashion and sex. I mean, let's be honest. I've, people have called me for years fashion. I am fashion. I know fashion. I speak fashion lingo. I am fashion. And at one point, uh, thanks to, uh, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. Thanks for listening, by the way. We will have an opportunity for you to participate in the purchase of a product.

Mo Mo Moos by Jeffie. This product has been in the works for quite some time. It's been being developed. My daughter, it has not been 10 years. It has not, don't look at me like that. I'm serious. It has not been 10 years. It's only been a while.

Anyway, it has not been 10 years. So stop looking at me like that and stop thinking about, well, why don't you just get him all fat man because it takes a lot of work but i'm telling you moos by jeffy is coming and also mummoos by geoffie with special artwork from maya is coming you're paying more for that trust me but that's on the way anyway i i digress this particular story drives me insane people are all wound up about the five hundred and thirty dollar distressed sneaker all right so the italian brand uh makes these sneakers and they put tape on them and they've got them worn down and they're low cut and they make them look like they're you know that's the fact the distressed fashion is what they're calling it

all right and people are oh my gosh how could you make a shoe like that uh fetusizing poverty pointing out the cruel irony and people being able to afford such expensive sneakers while so many others are forced to wear their own until they fall apart without being able to think as a fashion statement all right stop it All right. I got it. There's all kinds of homeless people. I know the numbers.

In fact, the numbers in this story, I don't necessarily, I'd like to know if they're actually true or not. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, and that's what it says in this story, so I'll believe it, but I'm going to double check. 43.1 million Americans lived in poverty in 2016. 43 million Americans lived in poverty. Okay, I, and maybe I buy that number. But those are not people living on the streets. All right. So I'm going to have to dig into that a little bit.

I think that number is deceiving. But because, I mean, I make poverty wages. Let's be clear. Well, I'm just like you. You and me are, I may even be worse. But they consider it poverty. But it's not really poverty. Like when you go see the doctor, for example, when you go see the doctor, the doctor says,

who, you are now, you now are obese. But you're not really obese. you know you are but you're not you know the feeling you know what i mean you know what i'm talking about because you are you are according to their numbers but really you know you're not obese anyway these same people complaining about this sneaker all right drives me crazy because these same people are the same people walking around with jeans with holes in them They have the jeans all cut up They have the running shorts all cut up

They have whatever Spandex they wear with holes all cut up That's a homeless issue too Little Missy Sorry to disappoint you Okay, the people walking around Oh that's a fashion statement Those are just like brand new jeans

Uh huh The guy with tape around his shoes The guy that has duct tape shoes Has holes in his pants too Okay so don't Please, don't. Just spend the $530 for this sneakers and move on. Okay?

Come on now. All right. That's my fashion story. Let's move on to sex, shall we? It's important. This story, we've heard the stories of the drug-fueled party cruises. And, you know, there was one not long ago that got way out of hand, according to a number of people. Well, there's a couple.

Rob and Tess Haniford, they create cruises. They create sex cruises. All right. Naughty, they started in 1999. So they've been doing this for a while now. All right? They started with the Naughty and Naughton's trip, which I kind of like back in 1999.

And now they're having the sex party cruise out of L.A. and you leave a couple days from now, so you still have time. This podcast is recorded October 1st, 2018. All right, October 3rd is off time. You know what I mean? And so, it's launch time. You know what I'm saying?

Either way. And so you want to get out there and have fun. I'm telling you, the X-rated trip dubbed the naughty cruise. Hundreds of couples from all over the world, so there's still room. Those cruise ships, they don't have. It's not like they have a yacht. They're going to cruise ship, right?

How'd you like to get on that with Grandma and Grandpa and realize you're on the wrong cruise? Ooh, look at that one. We should get off. Oh, we shouldn't. Anyway, the cruise... All right, so it's organized by the Rob and Tess Hanford. 2,000 passenger L.A. cruise versus settle in 2004.

It's organized. Now it's going to... Look, this is a lot of sex on our ships, according to Bob. I know that may come of a surprise to you, but they're most definitely as we certainly do get swingers on board and many of them are looking for

other potential partners. But our cruisers, hear me out, hear me out. I want to hear what Bob has to say here. Our cruises get people excited and couples tell me all the time how our couples cruises have rekindled their passion and that they had more sex on our cruise than with their partner than they've had in months.

So it's a love cruise is all it is. It's bringing couples back together. And do I want to go on this cruise? All right. So they've got all kinds of classes. It's an educational cruise. Oh, look at me. It's educational.

All right. They have besides plenty of playrooms that are considered kinky. They also have dungeons, dark rooms, rooms for the ladies, the ever-changing lineup of the, of the medrooms, and for those looking for something different. We picked some great dungeon masters in my... We pick some great dungeon masters, too, on this cruise.

Look, we're not just throwing higly-pigley onto this cruise. We're not just bringing people in for nothing. All right? We're going to Ensenada with Mexico and then back to L.A. And it's going to be... We have massage classes, group sessions, and it's just trying to bring couples back together again. The naughty cruise.

Still have a couple days. Still have a couple of days to get out the naughty cruise. And good luck and have fun on the naughty cruise because, you know, we might have to try to talk to them. I want to know how they hooked that up if that's, if they have to end up going into international waters or if it's just you sign the consent form on the cruise and it's all yours. Either way, the naughty cruise,

might end up being just a little too naughty.