Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 17 | Happy Birthday Jeffy :)

Episode Date: January 29, 2019

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Welcome to Chewing the Fat with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. I know today, January 29th, yes, it's my birthday. Thank you. Thank you. No, I'm not going to tell you my age. Just think of how old would you be if you didn't know how old you were. That's how old I am. All right, so more bad news from the FDA.

They're recalling peaches. plums, nectarines. All the peaches, plums, and nectarines sold at some Aldi stores, Walmart stores. Look out. They could contain a listeria. 1,727 cartons of fresh peaches. 1,207 cartons of fresh nectarines. 365 cartons of fresh plums because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria.

monocytogenes. So I want to be exact of what they could be contaminated with. So just let me say, Listeria. Monocidogens. That was pretty close. That was pretty darn close. Now, while no one has been reported as sick to date, the recall was issued following a routine sampling program by the packing house,

which found the finished products contained the bacteria, Listeria. monocydogens. The affected fruit was sold at several produce and grocery stores across the eastern U.S. and California, including Aldi, Costco, and Walmart. FDA says

fresh peaches, nectarines, and plums were distributed in Alabama, California, Georgia, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, and Virginia. Almost easier to say the states

that weren't affected. The peaches and nectarines are sold as a bulk retail produce item with the sticker PLU pound 4044-3035-4378 showing the county of origin of Chile. I'm telling you, I mean, we could be in trouble. And plus, with the polar vortex, vortex, vortex, vortex, vortex, vortex, vortex, happening. I mean, the plums, the nectarines, the peaches, they're going to be frozen to death anyway. Doesn't matter. But, you know, if you're keeping it warm in the house, luck. The polar vortex, vortex, vortex, vortex, coldest weather in decades, decades.

Now, nearly 200 million people are going to be impacted by the, polar vortex vortex now it's also part of the winter storm Jaden now that we've started naming weather storms weather channel

that storm is supposed to drop five to eight inches of snow which is nothing come on five to eight inches please but part of the polar vortex I mean you're talking about cold some locations in the Midwest

are going to be below zero continuously for 48 to 72 hours. The worst is yet to come. And this is the entire generation has gone by without experiencing this type of cold. And they're telling you to be careful, don't breathe. Don't breathe deeply if you go outside. Cover all parts of your skin. Temperatures can cause frostbite in mere minutes. I'm not making fun of this, by the way.

This is a serious business. It's a serious business. And if you remember during the day after tomorrow, which I love, by the way, I love that movie. Art Bell movie, by the way. That movie, I mean, Polar Vortex, we want to talk about that. I mean, remember, that has one of my favorite lines in a movie in it from a day after tomorrow. Wow. No, that's Volcano.

That's Anne Hays from Volcano. know. But the other, the line from the day after tomorrow, it's come. No, I think it's, it's here. Damn it, I got to remember which one it is. Now, it's here. I think it's, it's the, it's the scientist that he, he goes back to his base where they're getting all the, the beacons. And he, it's here. He knows, death. They're just going to sip tea and whiskey and die. And yeah, it's, it's here. I think that's right. I start it. Now I got to look it up. Look that up. Day after tomorrow with the,

it's here or it's coming. We've got to get the audio to that. All right. Now I can't remember the stupid what the guy said. It's either it's happening or it's here. And instead of spending, you know, an hour looking for the audio, I've got the movie at home.

So I'm just going to find the audio. We're going to play it for you tomorrow. I mean, it's the day after tomorrow. If that movie took a lot of heat, but I love that movie. And it also, look, it had made like 186 million here in the U.S., 544 million worldwide.

That's not a bad movie. That's not a bad movie at all. It's the art from the Art Bell book. It was Ian Holm was the actor that played the old scientist. Remember they met in India at the global warming climate science meeting and the vice president wouldn't listen. The climate global warming summit thing where they all met in India. yeah yeah they did and Jake I mean it was tremendous

Dennis Quaid Jake Gillenhall remember because they they end up surviving I worked right across the street Kitty Corner when we worked in New York up to the Manhattan Library and so it's fascinating to see how they survived in the Manhattan Library because I mean that's where I would go if the storm came and I was in New York right there because that's the only place you could survive you can barricade yourself in and start burning the books that didn't count and burn furniture that didn't count to keep warm

and don't let that fire go out because the ice age is on upon you. And dad will arrive soon. He's going to fall through and he's going to lose his friend at a mall that has a glass ceiling. But he's going to survive inside of Wendy's the day after tomorrow.

A tremendous movie. All right. All that from Polar Vortex. Just don't breathe outside, man. Do not breathe outside. up north because it's here. So today, the FBI is closing the investigation on the Las Vegas shooting. Amazing.

More than a year after the Bureau began digging into the slaughter of 58 people and wounding, according to this story, wounding scores of people. Yeah, it was more than scores of people. Okay. Stephen Paddock fired 1,100 rounds from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay. 58 people killed,

851 injured, 400 of them by gunfire. I mean, it was, I don't know, I don't recommend that happening to anywhere else in America or the world, to be honest. But the FBI is like,

eh, we're never going to learn anything else more. We don't know. We're done. It's over. And we also found out yesterday that someone, an anonymous donor, donated $62,500 to ensure that Las Vegas shooters guns are destroyed. What? Why?

Why do we want those guns destroyed? Why? I ask you. Can we get Glenn back to buy them? Because you know he'll buy them. Well, that's what they're saying. They don't know if they're going to sell it. or just destroy it all.

And I would venture to say that now this gives them an excuse to destroy them, right? Get those horrific guns off the streets. We don't want them hurting anyone else ever again. And we don't want to have the ever be reminded of this horrific incident. I would say that we need to be reminded of this horrific incident. And I would also say that I don't know that I buy the entire Stephen Paddock alone, the whole thing. I know there's conspiracy theories on top of conspiracy theories for the Las Vegas. shooting.

You won't be able to see those on YouTube for much longer because YouTube will ban them. They want to, you know, help your experience soon. So if you want to hear about them and see about them, go to YouTube and watch them while you still can. That'd be fine. You know, I was going through speaking of that. Speaking of that, just one moment. I was going through Facebook last night looking at some just Facebooking, just Facebooking. That's all.

And I click on a story. And, oh, I did a story. I did a story about spilling soup, all right? Because I spilled soup last night in my kitchen. I was talking on the phone. There was a pot of soup on the stove. And it spilled. I had chicken noodle soup over the whole damn kitchen.

And no one, I was home alone. I was home alone. I didn't have any kids to holler at to clean it up. I didn't have any wife to holler at to clean it up. I didn't have any sister-in-law to holler at and clean it up. I didn't have the old man. My father-in-law there had to holler at it. at and cleaning up. I had to do it all by myself.

And it was, I could have cried. Okay? I could have cried. But, so I did the story on Facebook. It was a joking story. You know, I, what was the post? So I posted so, am I the only one that's knocked over a pot of a soup from the stove to the front of the oven onto the kitchen floor and no one at home to clean it up by me? I am? Never mind then. It was just, you know, just stupid post.

now I and people were commenting get get a dog they were laughing at me all kinds of stuff which I thought I'm not a bad idea shouldn't have the dog here because I'm like when we did have my son's dog for a while I didn't have to clean stuff up like that good idea but so as I'm looking at these all of a sudden this pops up and I've never seen this on any of my post before most relevant is selected so some comments may have been filtered out dear Facebook I I'll do my own filtering, thank you. I want to see all of the posts. That's why I post things on your stupid social media account.

That ticks me off. That ticks me off. So don't worry about finding things on YouTube about conspiracy theories because they're going to take those away. And don't worry, Facebook is making sure that the most relevant is selected for you. And so the comments that they feel aren't relevant are. are filtered out. And Twitter is shadow banning you, so Twitter is making sure that some of the posts that they feel just aren't up to standards or that you want to see are getting filtered out so you don't have to see those. That's really nice of them.

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Where was I again? Oh yeah, Las Vegas shooting. Something's up with that. All right, so as we talked about yesterday, as heard on chewing the fat, and I don't want to, you know, Toot my own fat, but I'm just telling you that, uh, this was you heard it first right here. Okay.

Uh, El Chapo. Joaquin Archivaldo Cousman Loera. Will not testify at the trial. I told you. I told you that. Uh, the, the prosecutors rested their case, uh, after two months into the trial. And, uh, of course, the final government witness, uh, told you that. talked about was a DAA special agent.

Afterward, the defense lawyers asked to direct an acquittal for El Chapo. Joaquin Achivaldo-Gusman Loera. The judge denied the motion, ruling that the prosecutors had presented more than ample evidence to show Joaquin Achivaldo Guzman Loewera. ran a continuing criminal enterprise that smuggled tons of cocaine, heroin, and other drugs into the United States. Defense team members said they have tentative plans to call just two witnesses. They are federal investigators and Colombian brothers and former El Chapo associates who testified against the drug lord. So they're going to call them back.

Now, they said that they, El Chapo, Joaquin Achivaldo-Gusman Loera, has opted not to testify. It says here, he announced his decision in court on Monday because after they arrested their case, they talked to the judge. And El Chapo, Joaquin Achivaldo-Gusman-Louera,

said he talked to, I talked to my attorneys, listen to chewing the fat, I will not testify. I'm sorry? There's a quote from USA Today says, Your Honor, me and my attorneys talked about this after we listened to chewing the fat, I will not testify.

Now, when I look back at the story, it seems like chewing the fat has disappeared, but I saw it there. I was sure it was there. He said they counseled me and I agree with them. I know. I'm telling you, El Chapo, Joaquin Achivaldo

Guzman, Loera. You're lucky that you did, you listen to me because otherwise, I told you yesterday what would happen. Dunt. You saved your life. And I, actually,

I saved your life. I mean, I know you gave the Mexican guy a hundred million. I've already cut it down to 90. And so, I mean, I saved your life. You owe me. All right, 50 million. 50 million.

And I promise that I won't, if you don't want me to call you El Chapo and you'd rather have me call you, Joaquin Ashivaldo-Gusman Loera. I will call you that. But thank you. I'm telling you, I'm just tooting my own fat here. You heard it here first. A couple of great stories for the break room,

but let's go over the break room because I am thirsty. So good. So a story from 2008 is back in the news because of a, well, a YouTube channel. The doctor brought up the case again because it was originally published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology. And while I get the Journal of Clinical Microbiology, for some reason I missed this edition. And so I'm a little disappointed. to write the journal and say, you know, I want a refund. So a student in Belgium identified as AJ became sick after eating spaghetti and tomato

sauce that had been prepared five days earlier. All right. So he makes spaghetti and sauce leaves it out for five days. All right. It had been stored at room temperature for five days. Now, the 20-year-old. came home, popped it in the microwave, finally decided I'm going to have my spaghetti and sauce.

Now, he did put it in the microwave. You'd think that kills everything, right? I mean, as a 20-year-old, speaking on behalf of 20-year-olds, you think I put it in the microwave, I'm fine. Immediately after eating, he left home. So he had some sports activities to do, according to the story. He returned three minutes later because he had a headache.

He started to feel abdominal pain and feel good. He felt like he felt nauseous. He vomited profusely for several hours. At midnight, he had two episodes of water diarrhea. Don't forget, we're in the break room, so don't worry about it. We're fine. We're in the break room. He did not receive any medication and drank only water.

After midnight, he finally fell asleep. The next morning, 11 a.m. His parents are worried because he didn't get up. goes to his room. AJ, AJ, dead. Did you think it was going to be a happy story in the break room?

No. The post-mortem examination determined he had died at 4 a.m. And significant, be serious. I think I need the computer name for that. A known food poisoning organism

were found in samples of the leftover pasta. Yes, I was close. You know, significant B serious. Right. This is a known food poisoning organism.

Duh. And he was found in the samples of the leftover pasta. Now, typically, food poisoning just causes a little stomach inflammation, some nausea, some vomiting, maybe some diarrhea. It doesn't typically cause acute liver failure. I'm not laughing about acute liver failure. That's nothing funny about acute liver failure.

I'll tell you that. Caused by B. It's caused by B. Serious. So I'm not laughing at all about that. We can't find out which bacteria is causing the problem because culturing it would take days. And he doesn't have days because his liver quickly shutting down.

But he's not the typical food poisoning death. You think? Takes a YouTube channel from a doctor to tell us that. There's been other fatalities that been documented before, but it's so important. so important. This is why I'm telling you this in the break room. It's so important to be

wary of food left out without refrigeration or anything that smells odd you're welcome. Did you get this story from Keith? Because he saw my food being left over here

and he said he was going to trigger me but I didn't think it was going to be... I thought it was him, not you. So are you telling that I need to put my food back on the fridge? All I'm saying is that although we cannot incriminate be serious. As a direct and unique cause of death, you know, the present case illustrates the severity of the emetic and diarrheal syndromes

of the importance of adequate refrigeration of prepared food. So I need to put my beef stew back in the fridge. That's what the report said. So I'm just saying that, look, it's important to be wary of food left out without refrigeration or anything that smells odd. Now, I will say that some foods that people like, particularly in this building, even good, they smell odd. So I'm willing to throw the whole damn thing out.

Throw it all out. That's racist? How could not liking food be racist? He's saying like what people bring falafel. I bring my plantains. Are you saying this on the air? You're saying that in my ear, not on the air. You say it on the air.

Because it is not racist. I did say racist. Explain to it on the air as well. Why does it sound like you're not talking on the air? Oh, probably because my mic was not pointing to my face. Oh, maybe I'll be talk right into the microphone. That's how it works. broadcasting.

Not liking a particular food is not racist. I'm sorry. If it smells odd to me, I'm not eating it. Okay. What is a food that smells odd to you? I don't know. Oh, see? I don't know. I have to smell it. Falafel. What is that?

Hummus. Hummus. I don't have an answer. Some hummus I like, and my wife makes it and buys some of the one company's hummus. I see, but that's white hummus. I'm talking about like real hummus. See, you're the one making it racist. White hummus? I just, I'm just saying hummus.

It doesn't, it's not sold to me as, hey, want to buy some white hummus? Yes, I do, please. Don't give me the black hummus. Are you kidding me? No, I don't want that Mexican hummus. It doesn't sell like that. What are you talking about? I'm waiting for an answer and I don't have it.

So that means I'm right. Not liking odd food is not racist. I'm sorry. We all have, we all, all of us have what we consider odd foods that we don't like. That's not racist. I refuse to, I refuse that to be true. It's just not. It's just not true.

It's just not like bougie sauces and stuff. That's not racist. That's just, just, eh. What's a bougie sauce? It depends. Give me an example. I can't right now. Sosa. Is that boozy?

No, the boogie sauce is the hollandaise crap that they put on eggs and toast and stuff. Even Pat Gray loves it. That hollanda sauce. Oh, so you're racist for the French. If that makes me racist to the French, then I'm racist to the French. If liking hummus that's billed as white hummus makes me racist. And you know what? I'm racist.

But I refuse to believe that to be true. And yes, what did you say? It was the, what did you call it? The hummus? No, the bougie sauce. Salsa? Yeah, busi sauce. See?

Racist source Mexicans. Nasty. Nasty. No, because I've had white salsa before. Oh, now it's white salsa. Oh, okay. We're off this subject right now because it's going to get deeper and deeper into this racism battle, and I refuse to have this argument.

because it's not racist, not liking food. Everyone has their choices. And if I don't like a particular food because it has an odd smell, it may be because it could cause me to have B. Serious. Or that I just don't like it. All right, so you know, I love truckers. I mean, I have a special place in my heart for truckers.

And I was happy to see that Walmart is now hiring hundreds of truckers. drivers. And they're paying them, I mean, almost 90 grand a year. So there's a trucker shortage. And Walmart, according to this story, is up the ante. They're going to pay the salaries of 87,500 on average. They've hired more than 1,400 new drivers last year, and they are looking for a new batch of fresh drivers to keep it going.

That is fantastic. Now, the American Trucking Association, estimates there are 48,000 vacant trucking jobs. Wow. If you want to talk about looking forward to having self-driving semis, there's your story right there. Now, the drivers earn an extra cent per mile. They have a different way of paying you for your arrival times.

So it all works out to about 89 cents a mile, which works out to just under 90,000 a year. the average the median annual wage of most tractor trailer truck drivers across the U.S. just under 45,000. So, wow.

Walmart says it will pay employees. 10% of the truckers earn above 64,000 which is, I mean, Walmart says it's going to pay their employees. That works out to 87.5. I mean, that's almost double. Wow. You want to drive for Walmart.

Problem is, Here's the deal. Here's the one issue. They're pretty strict on you being a Walmart truck driver. And they've changed a little bit of their review status and how it goes on. So it's slashed wait times between the candidate's initial review and their mandatory driving assessment. They've cut that in half. And they've targeted one-on-one mentoring from veteran drivers to its new driver orientation practice.

All of this is a departure from the company's old system. Their old system was really difficult, one and done, and their test was so rigorous, only about 10% of the people who went through their test passed. Now they've downed it and upped their test a little bit, so 80% of the people are passing under the new trial process. So let's hope that they still are, you know, I still want good truck drivers on the road from Walmart. I don't want, you know, the drunk on the road driving, pulling Walmart trailers. But to become a Walmart driver, you still have to not only pass. the initial onboarding process and driving checks. You have to have 30 months of experience in the past three years and a clean safety record.

So you're going to have to be drug-free and you've got to be driving for 30 months. You've got to have 30 months experience. So get out of it. Man, I'd like to talk to some truckers about that, actually. I may have to do that. I'm filling in for Pat Gray next week. Oh, shh. I'm going to fill in for him during Pat Unleashed.

I'm going to have to get up really early. I forgot that the showtime was 7 Eastern. And boy, what an idiot I am. When I said, oh, yeah, sure, I'll fill him for you, Pat, no problem. What an idiot. Remember he does the morning show now, dummy? Oh, yeah, that's right. Boy, I can't do it.

Oh, too late. You already said yes. So maybe we have a trucker day on Pat on leased in the morning, and I talked to some truckers about what's going on out there on the road and how they're doing. because it's been a while since I've had a trucker day, and I like to honor them. I love truckers.

Anyway, there's an opportunity for you. Good news if you're looking for work. There's plenty of work. You know, if you come to Texas, unless you're from California, you can't come here. But if you come to Texas, just joking, California. Just joking. But really, though, it's closed.

And if you come here, you go down to the Permian Basin, working those oil fields, man, they'll hire. They're dying for workers. You can drive truck for them. There's another truck driving job down there in the Permian Basin. Now, again, you got to be, you know why they haven't such a hard time finding people? Because they got to be drug-free. That's amazing.

That's amazing. And you can call me a racist if you want. Because why they have to be drug-free is racist? That's almost as bad as being racist because I don't like the bougie sauce. Almost. But they're having a tough time, finding people for those jobs. It's absolutely fascinating. Anyway, it's my birthday.

I'm supposed to go home and have, I think, like broccoli cake or something today because of the heart attack. Am I invited? I had some news today that I didn't really expect. I, you know, I've been doing dental work. And having dental work done, getting caught up because, you know, there's been some time where you miss and you have some cavities and you miss some. and you miss some stuff. Let me clean.

Dental care. Good dental care. And so I was supposed to have another dental appointment this week. Am I invited to the party? And I call. And I say, hey, you know, I know we're supposed to have this dental work done on Thursday, but, you know, I had kind of a heart event a month ago. And she was like a heart event.

No, seriously. My invite to the party. And she goes, oh, that would be fine. We're just putting in fillings. She'll be fine. I said, okay, cool. I'll see you Thursday. And then I get a call back on my voicemail. I should actually just play the voicemail.

Jeff? Yeah. I got to talk him to the doctor after we talked to you. And the doctor said, we can't even touch you for six months because of all the medications you're on and the blood thinners you're on. Yeah, remember when they told you that if you cut yourself, you'd just bleed to death or a mosquito bit you, you'd have to carry the mosquito around on your arm or if you pulled it out, you'd die.

Yeah, we can't do any. I don't work on you. I'm not sure if I'm sad or happy about that news. Happy, but am I invited to your birthday party? So anyway, I'm going to go home, and I've got, you know, my kids got some kind of little birthday party plan for me. I guess they're happy to have me around still. And I guess we're having broccoli cake.

Can I come? Can I have, you know, sweet potato, maybe a little bit of steak. Ooh, steak. You know, steak and sweet potato. And I think I am going to have a cupcake. I'm going to break down and have a cupcake. Can I have a cupcake? Can I have a cupcake?

Can I come? I hope I hope everybody has a nice night and I'll think of you at my party. I know you can hear me. Am I invited to your party?