Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 139 | Civic Honesty, Shock Bracelets & Sad News From Kim Kardashian

Episode Date: July 2, 2019

A new study conducted around the world found that when a wallet was left for a stranger to find, the reactions of a majority of people was surprising. Also, a new shock bracelet has come out that helps you get out of your bad habits, the only problem is that your friends can have access to it as well, which should end well for many. Also, Kim Kardashian has some sad news to share, at least that's what Jeffy thinks.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to make some extra money? Put some ransomware in a city and tell them to pay you in Bitcoin and pay you now or you'll shut down their system. I mean, there's been two cities now in Florida, Riviera Beach, Florida, paid $600,000. Lake City, Florida just paid out $460,000 worth of Bitcoin to hackers. I mean, that's a way to make some cash. Now, the Lake City people decided that the one official for the company, They're director of information technology. Yeah, he's no longer working for Lake City.

But so they're already, I mean, cities are going to shore it up now because both these cities in Florida decided that it was cheaper to pay the ransomware than to let them kill the system and then rebuild the system. Now you pay the ransomware and you've got to pay to, you know, pay to at least get it safe so it doesn't happen again. So pick your city. Make it fast. Do it now. I mean, just joking. I don't want you to really go after a city. Silly.

But if you'd like some city names, call me. Or you can email me at chewing the fat at the place.com or 888-9033. This story fascinates me. So an international team of researchers from the United States and Switzerland turned 17,303 lost wallet. containing varying amounts of money, turned them in to public and private institutions in 355 cities across 40 countries. The team's goal was to see just how honest people

who handled them would be when it came to returning the missing property to their owner. The results were pretty remarkable. Pretty remarkable. Now, think to yourself, if somebody turned in a wallet, what would you do with it? So they, the researchers conducted a large-scale field events. They turned in lost wallets.

All right. So wallets either contained no money, a small amount of money, $13.45 or larger, some of $94 and $15. Each wallet had a transparent face, revealing a grocery list, three business cards with a fictitious person's name, title, and an email address printed on them. I visited the 355 cities, like I said, in 40 countries. They typically targeted the five to eight largest cities in the country. So about 400 observations per country. The wallets will return to one of five societal institutions, banks, theaters, museums, or cultural establishments, post offices, hotels, police stations, courts of law, and other public offices. They'd walk into the building.

The research assistant would approach an employee at the counter and say, hey, I found this. and he'd sit the wallet down and they placed the wallet on the counter and pushed it over to the employee. Somebody must have lost it. I'm in a hurry. I have to go. Can you take care of it, please? And the researchers, and then they walked away. What do you suppose happen?

If that happened to you, would you think about it now? Would you deep pocket it? Would you return it? Would you take the money and return the money? take the money and return the wallet. The team found that nearly all the countries, the wallets with greater amounts of money, were more likely to be returned.

38 of 40 countries, the recipients overwhelmingly were more likely to report lost wallets with money than without. Overall, across the globe, 51% of those who were handed a wallet with a smaller amount of money report it, compared to only 40% of those that received no money. When the wallet contained a large sum of money, 72% returned it. I mean, that is pretty wild.

Not all wallets in the field experiment were returned. Do you think? Among other surprises were some of the places where people were not so honest. The wallets dropped off at the Vatican, at two anti-corruption bureaus, were among those that never made it back to their rightful owners. I mean, I'm sure the people at the Vatican were just busy. They were just busy, right?

And the people at the corruption bureaus, it's busy. Right? They're just busy. That's all. Now, they surveyed more than 2,500 people in the United Kingdom, United States and Poland to better understand, you know, honesty and matters. So they continued on with their study. The respondents were presented with a scenario that matched the field experience.

And similar to the field study, those in the survey said failing to return a wallet like stealing when more money was involved. Wow. That's amazing. So civic honesty would waver when the amount of money was higher. That's amazing. The experts had a bit more faith in the honesty of individuals. Both groups believed that there were more money in the wallet, the more attempting it would be to keep it. Yeah, no kidding.

I would say that, and this is, I would recommend this for anyone because it would be wrong. It would be completely wrong. The object is for somebody does that, comes up, throws a wallet. Hey, somebody lost this. I'm in a hurry. Take care of it. You obviously, there's a, said they had a clear face on it. So you had the email address.

There was information in there to return it. So you just return it. Oops. I found this on the street just returning it to you if there was money in it it was gone before I got there What are you going to shoot you over that

What? Why are you going to shoot people over that? So I got to talk about this Because really the object is to be nice Right? The object is that you return the wallet And of course you return the freaking wallet And what happens is it's karma man It comes back on you It for sure comes back on you.

I mean, I absolutely would think about it. I mean, that's what the study said too. The more money, the more you think about bad, it would be nice just to deep pocket it and move on. And you throw the wallet in the mailbox. If you just throw it in a postal service box, the postal service will deliver it. Or, you know, you mail it back to them or you send it to them or you email them, whatever. But that karma man, if you take the cash or take the wallet and throw away, don't do anything about it, it comes back on you. So, I mean, it also reverses that, right?

I mean, I've had a time when I left my checkbook up on the top of my car and drove off, went back home in a grocery store parking lot. And I get home and I'm bringing in the groceries and my wife goes, So how much were the groceries? I was like, I don't know, the usual receipts in there somewhere. And how'd you pay for it? I wrote a check. You think I paid for it?

I don't write checks anymore, by the way. This is about a thousand years ago when checks were still using checks. and she was like, well, you get the checkbook, I want to check it. Why didn't she just say, hey, you lost your checkbook,

but she wants to set me up is what it is. That's why she's the first wife. But then she says, oh, you don't have it, do you? Ah, ha,

you'll have it at the grocery store. A lady found it in the parking lot. And the lady turned it in to the store and then called, turned, gave it to the grocery store, walked it back into the grocery store, and called the number on the check

and said, hey, you dropped it. No, no, call the number on the check and shoot. What are you doing? Why are we shooting people? Taylor, what's wrong with you? I'm just saying what the world's really thinking right now. To shoot the lady or me? I don't know. I'm just hearing this.

So my point is, and there's no gunshot here, by the way, I don't hear any freaking gunshot for this. We're not shooting people over this. My point is, because karma comes back at you. That's my whole point. What goes around comes around, but it also works in the opposite way, right? If you've been nice, then you have people you lose your checkbook instead of taking a checkbook and writing checks all over America or, you know, deep pocketing your money, they turn it in. Because people, you realize how frustrating it is for you if you lost your wallet or your checkbook or something of importance. And you just figure it's gone, long gone.

And then you're fortunate enough to have a fellow human being call you or send it back and say, hey, I found this. And you would do that without a gunshot. I feel like I've talked about this. But maybe it was just only on social media because we had such a fun blasting it on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram, which you can follow me on at Jeff EJFR, Jeff Fisher Radio and Jeff Fisher Radio,

Facebook and Instagram at Jeffy JFR as Twitter. So Amazon is selling a bracelet that's going to give you an electric shock every time you commit a bad habit. Now, of course, what they're saying you use it for is, you know, if you have trouble controlling cravings for fast food, you're eating too much, it's time to consider this self-administered electric shock. So you download an app, you're going to have just a little, you want a reminder, right? You want to start training you're like Pavlov's dog.

You're just going to want to go, hey, yeah. You mean, like your cell phone. You put your cell phone on, vibrate, and call yourself. Wait, no, that's different. Anyway, the, so, I know you go, but what really do, you tell your friends to download the app, right? And they have access to your, to your electric shock bracelet, which is being considered digital guardians.

So you're sitting there and you're going, man, I'm going to eat that. Look at those French fries. And your friend goes, no, you're not. You told me you didn't want to eat that kind of fast food. Can we turn that up or something? I mean, you're, you're going to want people to hear it. It's going to be embarrassing, right? Because if it's embarrassing, you're, you're out in public.

Pass the gravy, please. I never mind, never mind. Stop it off. I don't want the gravy. I don't want the gravy. I'll just go outside and smoke a cigarette. Oh, never mind. I don't want a cigarette either.

I don't want a cigarette either. and everybody, I'll just sit here, I'm fine. Can I have a glass of water, please? Okay, thank you. Thank you, we're fine. No problem. You know, it's just kind of funny. Why would you want to do this?

Really? It's just dumb. I mean, I realize the fun of having things that vibrate. We just leave it at that. You can conjure up any images you want to conjure up and yourself, but I realize the fun of,

have things that vibrate, but it's never fun when it's, yeah, no, you don't want that. Waiting for the gunshot again. Taylor's here. Chris is gone. He's going to go. Gun crazy.

That's what's going to happen, right? You're going to be your digital guardian. Dude, you said it just zap you when you had a fries. You're not going to eat them. There. We're done. So, speaking of eating too much food, a new study published in the Society of Personality and Social Psychology Journal.

Who doesn't get the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Journal? I wait at the mailbox for that to come in. A quarter to a third of heterosexual women have gone on a date with a guy they weren't interested in just for a free meal. Ouch. Is it out? is it, how you think about that for just a second? I would venture to say that,

I know that I would venture to say that everyone, no, not everyone, but a great majority of people have gone, stopped by, let's say, stopped by your parents' house.

Hey, just thought I stopped by and say hi. Haven't seen you guys in a while. Oh, is it dinner time? Because you wanted food. Because you didn't have any money. you just stopped by and you thought, because you wanted to,

you stopped by grandma's house, you stopped by a friend's house because you didn't have any money and you wanted dinner. That's what these, that's what these chicks are doing, doing their foodie calls. I mean, two studies.

The first conducted with 820 women and the second with 327, asked participants if they'd ever engaged in a plate for play. 23% of the women copped to it in the first study, 33% in the second. And I just want to go on record as saying

that you'd, damn well, no. I don't care how hungry you are, ladies, heterosexual women. When you say yes to dinner, you know, something better be vibrate if it's the, it's enough. Jesus, I only need a couple of things vibrating. I don't need to answer the phone. I'm not talking about, Jesus, I didn't pay that much for dinner. You're not getting that many vibrators, okay?

You know, it goes on forever. It's been going on forever. I just read a story. I probably have it somewhere in the fat pile. But I just read a story about this old village that has been training sex for fish for like a thousand years. And it's this inside story. It was probably MPR, some national geographic story or something about this village that, you know, has been poor and they want to eat. And so these fishermen row in, I got a boat full of fish.

and if you want to eat some fish, you ain't lying. We'll take a little bit of fish business. Want to feed the family? I need a little bit of business. And that's what's been going on forever. And there's no vibrating going on there. All right.

Not in that village. He was happy to get some fish. In our health segment today, friendly reminder, that hospital insects harbor potentially harmful bacteria. Yay! Yay. Thank you.

Thank you very much. Thank you. No, no, no, no. Sit out. Sit out. That's fine. So a new study. I listen to like study Wednesday.

Today was Tuesday? Today is Tuesday, right? I'm so confused on what day it is. The hell day is this. You need to stop drinking. It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday. Yeah.

July 2nd, 2019. Okay. New study. New study Tuesday is what today is. Published this month in the Journal of Medical Entomology, again, I wait at the post office for this to come in. I don't even want to, I don't want to take the time for the post office to give it to the postal worker and have it delivered to my house. I want to pick it up at the post office. They analyzed 19,937 flying insects, including house flies, filth flies, such as blue bottles and green bottles and a variety of drain flies.

My God. From seven hospital sites in England. All right. So this is, this isn't America. Right. They found that nearly nine in ten of those tested were carrying potentially harmful bacteria. Okay, then. That's great.

And of course, the flies just stay right where, right there at the hospital. They don't fly around or stop by your house or anything or visit. they've got a picture of a fly. This has got to be some kind of drawing. That's not a, what a great picture if it's a picture. I've got to get my wife to start taking pictures of flies. This is a special blue bottle fly, green bottle fly, drained fly, filth fly. Yeah.

Yeah, you want those landing on your food while you're trying to eat your burger over the fourth. Think about that. When you're out there at the picnic table on the fourth, you're welcome. You're out there on the picnic table on the fourth. fourth be flies flying around and that burger you're about to bite into the blue bottle just landed on your fly or on your burger flies off he would not have left anything on there for you would he no just traces of your dog crap don't worry that's it that's it just trades me dog crap not any of the hospital harmful bacterias but your body will be able to do it because it's just one little

one little bitty fly you don't even worry about it your body's like move on but But if there's a bunch of flies flying, ever so often on trash day in my neighborhood, man. The flies, I don't know where the hell they come from. But they show up, man, in the neighborhood. This is garbage cans are rolled out to the, rolled out to the curb, and the flies are like, today is the day. What we need to get is like fly bracelets. So that when they start flying around your trash can, you give them a jolt.

There you go. Have a nice day, flies. I mean, I know they have the fly killers and the, You know, the fly jilters, the bug jilters that people hang up at their backyard. But you want to get, those are actually fun to just sit around every so often. Just, those are great. As long as they're flying into that thing, they're not flying into you, I'm good. You know, I've had several people send me this story.

And I'm trying to, I ought to say thank you. And I appreciate it. It means a lot to me that you're thinking of me and that you're sending me this story. and I mean that for the bottom of my heart and your my comment is always now you tell me

okay but it does seem to be a little over the top 43 year old man in Florida shows up to the hospital saying he had too much blow at home

he did too much cocaine I don't know that anyone has ever gone to the hospital for that on their own. But okay, we'll say that. Doctors thought they were looking for your average overdose, that they were surprised to discover that the patient had, in fact, been eating poisonous pufferfish liver in addition to snorting cocaine. And before long, had to hook him up to a ventilator and a dialysis machine,

as both his respiratory system and kidneys failed. Do not eat puffer fish. Good rule of thought. I don't care how high you are on cocaine. Don't do it. Dude. Dude. I have the munchy's so bad. We should eat some buffer fish, man. Let's eat some blowfish. Yeah, that's what we need. So I know in Japan they have the, you know, they prepare their blowfish delicacy. No. Uh, no. No, thank you. Don't want any. 50 people die in Japan each year

And that's supposed to be the stuff That's made properly I mean no thank you Have a nice day I find now I'm now the next thing They're going to be a study 50 people die every year

I'm eating hamburgers And eating hot dogs And eating french fries That's not the same thing Hamburgerers, hot dogs and french fries are good Okay Puffer fish

Blowfish are not good There's no point Why eat something that's no good and you have an opportunity to die. If you have an opportunity to die, you ought to be eating something that's good. It's really simple. All right, let's go to the break room.

I need a drink of Coca-Cola Zero Sugar desperately. Oh, my gosh. I wonder how many people actually believe that that's a Coke Zero Sugar. They should. They know that it's true. They've seen photos. They know it's true.

I don't lie about it. No way. We've had, we've had guests comment about it. I'll mess around with code. Don't be, don't be trying to fool people with your little trickeries. As long as we're in the break room, I don't want to do,

I mean, this is sad news, actually. We should probably, I mean, I could well up. Okay. Yeah, good, well, I could well up on the story because it's, it's sad. As of today, I'll try to get through this. As of today, Kim Kardashian West's new shapewear is going to be renamed.

She won't name it kimono. She took so much backlash. She took so much backlash over the name kimono. That she's got to pull the blood. She tweeted, My brands and products are built with inclusivity and diversity at their core. And after careful thought and consideration, which we didn't do before we actually named it in the beginning.

That was me, not her. I'll be launching my solution wear brand under a new name. I'll be in touch soon. Thank you for your understanding and support always. Tears. Tears for Kim Kardashian-Wed. Now, here's it. You'd think, this for a second.

You'd think that they would have at least done a focus group. Something overall. I mean, you know whatever Kardashian is hawking. It's going to be huge. I mean, she's, this just is. It's sad. It's a sad fact, but it just is.

And she'll post her little picture with her, which I'm looking at now, makes me want to wear one. The shape. And to me, name it kimono, who cares? So what? But the world was not happy, man. They did not like.

that at all. I mean, they said it's not a cultural meeting in Japan dating back centuries. So? Don't freaking buy it in Japan. The abiding culture for her brand

and prompting fears, she'd be able to prevent others from using the word kimono at all in the U.S. So? I can't, I can't. I can't take it's agonizing. But she caved. She caved. That's why it was

that's why it was so sad. Thank you. That's why I was so sad. Couldn't barely get through it. I hope she'll be okay. I don't know what the new line is going to be called. Maybe... Put your fat butt in this tight...

Nope, that won't work either. Maybe... She doesn't want me to name it. Let's be clear about that. I don't want any more sad music. My tears, I can't cry anymore. I cannot cry anymore for Kim. Sad, sad.

Can I cry anymore? Congratulations to Anderson Cooper, although it's not really a congratulations, because Gloria Vanderbilt left everything to Anderson. Almost everything to Anderson Cooper. It doesn't, I mean, that's good for him. But Gloria Van about left her midtown home to her eldest son, Leopold Stokowsky.

Stokowski, Stokowski, that's it. Right, S-D-O-K-O-W-S-G-G-I-S-Tikowski. And the rest of her estate goes to Anderson. So Leopold, you get to dump. You get to dump in Midtown, and Anderson gets everything else. The other middle son, Chris Stikowski, zip. Nothing. No, hey, that's not funny because she died.

But he didn't get anything. He will. He got nothing. He got nothing. The document filed Monday, Manhattan circuit court says Leopold will get to 210 shares for the late socialite fashion icon pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman Place.

I'm not quite sure what that means. He'll get 210, 210, 210 shares for the late socialite fashion icon pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman place. While all the rest of her property goes to Anderson. Huh. Did she not own the whole thing? I'm not quite sure what that means.

The co-op at 30 Beekman Place. So if we've got to figure that out, please hold. Please hold. We'll have to find out what this means. Thank you for listening to you. We really appreciate it. Your listenership is very important to us. We're attempting to answer a question

that you need answer even though it was us that couldn't answer it. Please hold. Okay, so, yeah, yeah, thanks for holding. I believe, all right, so here's the deal. This is where we're at with, she gave, Leopold, Leopold, Leopold, the eldest son,

gets 210 shares of the late social life fashion icon pad in a co-op at 30 Beekman Place. Okay, so, I'm guessing that he gets the apartment in the co-op and that she owned 210 shares of the entire building of 30 Beekman Place. So he gets that, which, okay, I guess that makes sense. And whatever else she has goes to Anderson. And then there you have it.

That's kind of sad, actually. Anderson probably could do without all of that and just wishes that, you know, mom was alive. But there you have it. I love the fact that the other kid is just here on. I got out of the family. You don't want to be with the family. You've been out of the family for years. Have a nice day.

And even, I mean, it's have a nice day to the point of when I pass away, you get nothing. I mean, nothing. Wow. Okay. How are you feeling now? Ouch. Right. Maybe not, though.

Maybe he was still estranged and still pissed and says, Screw it I'm going, I don't care. So how many of you watched The Loudest Voice Last night on Showtime? I mean, it was fascinating. I forgot that it was on

and then I just happened to catch it. It's about, you know, the Fox News and like seven episodes on Showtime and Russell Crowe is playing Roger Ales and how much of it is true and how much it is not is going to be it's going to be fascinating

to have the fallout from it. We've already got a little bit of fallout some people suing about the show and stuff. It's been fascinating to see Because when you watch it, it's really good. It's really good. I enjoyed it. And you, well, I never met Roger Ales.

We worked at Fox when we were with Glenn in New York and stuff. And I mean, I know a little bit about him and a little bit about how he, you know, did things and made Fox what it was. The teaser for this next episode showed the morning show talking to Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck joining us now. So it's probably going to be the racist. visit where everybody thought he called Obama a racist. It's probably going to be that visit. Josh McDermott plays Glenn.

The guy from Walking Dead plays Glenn. So it'll be interested to see how that goes. Russell Crow was great Roger Ayles. I mean, I just saw him, you know, I'm, I'm torn with Russell. Russell's one of those guys where he's just kind of a douche in real life, but I really like a lot of his work. I know it's a surprise. I like a lot of his work, so I watch it. But anyway, the loudest voice on Showtime.

Well, worth the watch. And I saw another story where Netflix is considering having a free line with ads. So it'd be kind of like the Hulu app. So you get Netflix. Would you be willing to get Netflix with ads for free? I don't know. It depends on how many ads there are. Well, I mean, it's free.

Shut up. watch what you get. Well, like, even a Hulu's not free on its own. It's like there's a package, the lowest package you pay a few dollars for and you still have ads. Yeah, you still have ads. Right, right, right, right. And then you pay the, you know, I, screw that. I want the no ads.

I don't want to watch the ads. But I would. You know, if I couldn't afford it or whatever, that's fine. Get rid of it all. Freaking care. I love television. Don't do that to me. Don't take them away.

I want to watch them, please. But if I had to, I would. Should have a nice day. Get out of here. Please don't make me do that. Please. All right. So I don't want to hear anymore about we're losing bees.

And we've got a shortage of bees. Now maybe we are with the honey bees and maybe that's a problem. And I'm sure it is if we are losing them. But I mean, every year we see, like we just saw footage of a cricket match being halted because of a swarm of bees over the whole thing. And that's in Europe. And now we get the story about the massive. Yellow Jacket Nests in Alabama.

The one is the size of a Volkswagen beetle. You look at a couple of the pictures on the back porches of these houses. What happened? Didn't anyone go out the back door for five years and say, hey, that looks like a beehive. I ought to knock that off my back porch and get rid of it before more than four bees show up. instead it's just the size of the porch and you don't want yellow jabby yellow jackets man

they start stinging you uh have a nice day and those big those big uh those big nests like that it's going to be more than a lot more than that boy I'm kidding it's going to be that times like 50 they're saying some of these nests have 15,000 yellow jails have 15,000 yellow jails Beckett's in them.

Ouch. You ain't lying. Ouch. Now, they're warning people in the Alabama cooperative extension system, which was, I mean, I get that every time it comes out. It's a primary outreach organization on behalf of Alabama A&M and Auburn University. I don't know, you know, it's Auburn University's Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology. I don't know why. Don't look at me like that.

I mean, if you're not, if you're not reading things that are published with the Alabama Cooperative Extension System, you're, silly. But, I'm confused at, like, okay, so it's in a car in a barn.

I kind of get that. You know, there's places where, you know, people who put stuff in barns and it just, Grandma lives there. She never goes out in the barn anymore. You just don't go back there. And so when you open it up, up, they have all kinds of, you know, different kind of animals and bees and insects and stuff.

I get that. But on a house, on a structure, you know, nobody went out the back door. Nobody's, the one picture is right now hanging off the back porch. What? He didn't even just look out the blinds once in a while and go, what the hell is that thing? You just let it go? I mean, maybe you deserve to be, no, you don't deserve to be stung, just easy. but don't try to get it down now.

Holy cow. If it's as big as a mattress or a chair or something with those yellow jackets, call the professionals. Now, put up a YouTube channel and post your GoPro video when they knock it down.

I want to see those yellow jackets flying everywhere, man. I want to see the beekeeper getting buzzed all day. Wait, what kind of beekeeper is you talking about? Yeah, you know that beekeeper that's getting buzzed all day.

I want to see those things come down. If you've seen the beekeeper, them bust open like that. I saw there's video of one that they that they broke up in a shed. That's amazing. And don't try to burn them. This is where people start burning their houses down and stuff because they try to burn these yellow jacket. Right? Because that would be me. I just burnt this sucker. Poor a little gasoline on that bad boy. And then they're going to start buzzing around because gasoline's going to screw them up. I mean, you don't want to come across the yellow. Those little yellow jack nests are nasty anyway. Just red, just redsing around.

regular size. You start looking at sizes that are size of the mattresses. You are in trouble, my friend. In trouble. And you don't want none of that.