Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 35 | Fat Pile Friday - Social Media Numbers

Episode Date: February 22, 2019

On this Fat Pile Friday Jeffy talks about social media numbers and Jussie Smollett.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Fat Pile Friday edition. Thanks for coming along for the ride today. I just want to start out today with reminding you of what we've said many times on this podcast. Mother Nature is a wonderful thing. Some things, animals, bugs, humans, you live until you die. And then something else replaces you. And there are plenty of animals that we have thought, oh my gosh, those animals are extinct. We've got to stop it. We've got to help. These animals are going to be extinct. We've got to do something to keep them alive.

Well, what if it's their time to be extinct? What if it's their time to be extinct? But not be extinct, but we're going to blame climate change on enormous species of bee. And I mean, if you look at the video, this bee is a gai-modo bee. I do not want to get stung by this bee. Once thought to be extinct, oh my gosh, it's alive. We've found it alive in Indonesia. Amazing, a giant bee, which I'm telling you.

That's a monster. I hope the guys on YouTube that get stung by all the bugs that sting. I hope they need to go to Indonesia and get stung by this Jemoto B. I mean, it's a big one. They live in mounds of termites. Because they, you know, this can't be hanging Jemoto beehives from a tree, man. Let the termites build their mound and we'll dig in. That's where we live.

But amazing. We thought it was extinct. Nope. Alive. Amazing story out of New York. So a family gets a call and says, hey, your brother had a drug overdose. He's in the hospital. It doesn't look good.

They go to the hospital. They walk in. The sister. looks at the man laying in the bed and says, that doesn't really look like my brother. And the hospital says, oh, yeah, he's just bloated. That's him. It's just bloated.

He doesn't look quite right. That's him. He's in a drug overdose. The tube in his throat. And we think he's brain dead. You know, he's laying there. It's your brother. Okay.

So they sit with him for a month. finally after a month he is brain dead he's still hasn't woken up he's just been in this coma she decides i'm pulling the plug we've got to pull the plug on my brother now the family has come kids have come sisters have come brothers have come they're crying they're ready to they pull the plug on the guy and we're going to he's going to pass away they pull the plug and he dies he dies they sent him him down to the morgue. The coroner's office says, you know, this isn't the guy you said it was. This is another guy. So they pulled the plug on someone that wasn't even related to them.

Amazing. So he goes into the house. He, apparently, this is what happened now. July 15th, Freddie Clarence Williams was admitted to the hospital unconscious brain damage following the drug overdose. The hospital looked at its records, saw that a Frederick Williams had been treated here before, called the family. No, it was the wrong, Fred Williams. And you should have gone with your gut. The sister should have gone with her gut because the original thought when she walked in the room was, hey, that's not my brother. But they talked her into it. And so now they are suing the hospital for unspecified compensation for severe inspecified compensation for severe.

emotional harm. They don't know, they haven't told, uh, uh, they're not sure exactly who this other person is and they haven't alerted that if it was, if it, who it was, who the family was to the other person. But her brother, who they thought was, they pulled the plug on, was in jail. The reason he never showed up for the month is because he's in jail. He's been in jail for a month. Amazing. So now, and at first, they go to the courtroom and they say, bro, we thought we killed you. We pulled the plug on you.

We were dead and he's pissed. He's like, you pulled the plug on me? You didn't give me a chance? You were brain dead. We didn't know. All right. So he's forgiven them for pulling the plug on him, even though they didn't pull the plug on him because he wasn't him.

Amazing. They did the hospital. That's the hospital's fault. I'm sorry. If it's the wrong Frederick Williams, that's the hospital's fault. And the sister really should have gone with her gut. I say, always go with your gut. Always.

I know it's hard sometimes to go with your gut and you fight it, but you need to do that at all times. When she first walked in and said, that's not my brother. No, she should have, they all tried to convince her, and they did convince her. She should have said, no, I know that's not my brother. should have went for it. And that's going with your gut. How many, we've all done things that we've said, oh, I knew that was wrong.

I knew I should have done that. I should have did this instead of this. We, we all done that. You gaffed to listen to your gut. Listen to your heart. Whatever you want to call it. But you got to listen to yourself. You don't listen to yourself. Who the hell else you listen to? Oh yeah, your wife. Never mind. Another story drives me crazy today in the Fat Pile Friday. an Idaho teen to make it a big deal out of this Idaho teenager. He made $35,000 in four days. All right. Good for him.

Good for him. How did he make the $35,000 in four days? He charged $750 an hour to plow during the early February snowstorms in Seattle. Okay. Good for him. Right? I mean, supply and debauchy. man. The 18-year-old said he owns a landscaping company, a snow plowing company,

and after visiting mom in Seattle for a birthday, he thought, hey, I brought along my plowing equipment, and we had the big vortex snow. I'm going to start snowing. He said, and he started just charging people, $750 an hour. And people paid it. He said, they didn't seem to mind. They were just glad to have the snow gone. You're damn right they did. And by comparison, you know, usually snow removal is about $110 or $30 an hour. I mean, it's expensive, but not $750 an hour. All right. Now, I say, no, personally, I'm good with it.

I don't care. But let's turn that around a little bit. I have fought for years on this price gouging stuff. When there's a storm, when somebody sells a bottle of water for more than a dollar $1.25. That's price gouging. Isn't this price gouging? There's a huge snowfall and these people are going to be snowed in. And then so he comes up and says, well, I can do it for you, but $750 an hour.

I know, maybe the guy that charges $110 an hour will be here in another week or so. I know they're all backed up. I'm here now. That's the same thing. Now, I'm all four. I'm against the price gouging thing. Oh, absolutely. If you're in the middle of a storm,

a hurricane is coming, and I have two cases of water. I should be able to sell those bottled water for $100 a bottle. Amen. Thank you. I have two cases of, they're mine. I'm going to save half a case for me. Would you like some?

Sure. I'll tell you what. For you, 20 bucks a bottle. I know, look, you've got four people in the car. You're trying to get out of town. You're thirsty. 20 bucks a bottle. Tell you what.

Tell you what, I give you a five for 90 bucks. I'll give you a deal. You'd go to jail for that. Yes, you can. Absolutely go to jail for the price gouging of the snow plowing. You don't go to jail for the price gouging of event pricing at concerts and any stadium event. Parking.

All of it. It's all price gouging. You say there's a hurricane coming. You have to sell water. You have to give the water away. You have to lose money. That's agonizing. This kid should be in jail.

Price gouging. Those people should be snowed in right now, waiting for the cheap snowplow to come. You know, I'm right. And breaking news today on Fat Plyle Friday. Breaking news. Robert Kraft, owner of the New England Patriots, who my son actually got a paycheck.

Several, by the way. And thank you, Robert. appreciate it for that. He's been charged with two counts of soliciting prostitution. And you read the story. And it's like a big deal. Now he says no. He says no.

Of course he's going to say no, Jeffrey. Now, he was charged with paying for sexual services at the Orchids of Asia Day Spa in Jupiter, Florida. Where else you're supposed to do? What else are you supposed to do in there? Get a massage? Those of us that stopped at Orchids of Asia Day Spa. you just stop in and Jupiter. I mean, are you going to have the happy ending or what?

Thank you. Now, they shut down 10 of these spas in Florida over a seven-month investigation because they found women in sexual servitude according to all the arrest records. Now, Kraft was one of 25 people arrested as part of the investigation. He doesn't have anything to do with that. He doesn't have anything to do with the sexual servitude part. He doesn't have anything to do with the sex slaves. Apparently, these women were forced to live in the spa and were prevented from leaving. And many of these women came from China.

Now, and the spa's owner, Hu Zhang, was charged with 26 counts of procuring prostitution. Now, Robert Kraft is 77 years old. His wife died in 2011 at age 68. he's been dating at least been thought to have been dating this actress model 39-year-old Ricky Lander and Ricky just had a kid too a couple years ago and Robert said not mine too new not paying for that sorry that's the way it goes but he was arrested they're making a big deal out of Robert Kraft being arrested for soliciting prostitution so be ready to see that everywhere this weekend.

But he had nothing to do according to this. Now, maybe more news will break. But according to this, he had nothing to do with any of the sexual servitude stuff at the Orchid's Asia Day Spa in Jupiter. I mean, he may have stopped. He's denying it. But he may have stopped in to Jupiter.

Man, I need a massage desperately. And he's a 77-year-old man. he's coming out, you know, he's got a lot of, a lot of, he's busy, got a lot of work to do, stop in for a massage, and Hung Chow says, hey, happy ending. I mean, what's he supposed to do? No. And maybe he wasn't even asked, right? Maybe he stopped in for a massage and the next thing you know, happy ending.

I mean, how many times does that happen in your life? I mean, I can't count the times. So you're going to be prepared to see that everywhere, everywhere this weekend. Guaranteed. They're going to try to, I mean, he's been the New England Patriots, massages, all of it. Be prepared for that. That'll be everywhere. I say, Robert, you're 77.

Good for you, bro. Good for you. You stopped in at the orchids. I can't say orchids. It's orchids of Asia Day Spa. I mean, they've closed them down in Florida. might be a new business opportunity for some people. You know,

or open the orchids of Asia Night Spa. And good luck, God bless. 77, though. No doubt, 77. But he's not there yet, though. Billionaire. Oh, he's not there. Robert's not even close to that.

He's not there yet. He's only worth like six or seven billion. And 77. No, he's not even close to the age of no return. Yeah, not even close. He's not the first time he went to the spa. No. Stop it.

His wife died in 2011. Oh, come on, man. Leave the poor man alone. And he's been dating. Leave the rich man alone. His wife died in 2011. He's dated this one younger. Yeah.

She's 39, though. Ooh, that's a good age. For a 77 year old, though. 39, that's prime. That's good. And so he's been dating her. She claims, you know, she had a kid. He says it wasn't hers.

I haven't heard any of the infighting on that. So maybe it wasn't. But, uh, And even if it wasn't, so, I mean, even it was. So he just doesn't want to give, look, I'm dating you. You're a hot model, but I'm not footing the bill for the kid. All right, no, no, no, no, no. Not going to happen.

So good luck, Robert getting through this, pal. And now he gets through it, right? He gets through it strong because he just says it. He either says, look, yeah, I stopped in and I had a massage. He pays the fine. He moves on. I didn't have a happy ending. I stopped in and got a massage at the Orchids of Asia Day.

spa and that's it. Have a nice day. So more breaking news. Jesse Smollett, Smollett, Jussie, whatever. Juicy mullet. Yeah, okay. You know, he's all kinds of trouble now,

and he claims his innocence. You have to. Claimed his innocence. You have to claim innocent. Now, he went before the cast of Empire after he was released on his $100,000 bond. He only paid 10 grand. and it went there and he said he wasn't, you know me, I'm innocent of all of this.

And believe me and really it's not me. Okay, well, the police have a overwhelming amount of evidence. But I'll give you the innocent until proven guilty. I got you. We got to go to court. That's America. We believe in that. No problem.

It's just that from all the evidence that we've already seen, you're guilty. So I was a I thought maybe Empire They've been they've been behind him 100% And good for them I want my company to send behind their They've been behind him 100% So I was thinking

Well maybe instead of getting rid of him They get him on the shows So now people are interested in the show Let's bring at least let's make a little money off of the thing Before he goes to jail And you know get rid of him But according to this news from the This is our breaking news part of the show

is that he has been removed. His character's been removed from the season's final two episodes. Wow. So, I mean, while they're standing behind, hey, Jesse, we believe you. Okay, really, we do. But, dude, we're not going to have you in the episodes, okay? And by the way, don't be telling people that you're on Empire anymore. You can say a former actor on Empire.

you can say man you love to work with us but right now you don't associate yourself with us TNT the TV channel had a show with him an episode because I guess he's a singer yeah he's been a singer and an actor for a bunch of years

so TNT had a show that we're going to air an episode with him singing mop, want more removed Oh nice I mean not nice not nice but it is nice. Hey, you want a publicity. You got it.

Yeah, I found it fascinating that this, now this, you know, according to what we know. The police. According to what we know, he did this for his own fame and fortune. And really more fortune than anything, right? He was mad that he wasn't making, he wanted more money. I sent a letter with cut out numbers and letters in it and said that it was a hate letter to me, and they wouldn't give me a raise.

Is that how you get a race? I guess so. I guess so. I hope so because I put one in the mail room and addressed a Glenn here yesterday. I did too. Now here there's two. I used Cosmopolitan magazine. Probably shouldn't have, but.

So good luck, Jess. You know, good luck. I wish you the best. I hope that in court you prove your innocence, but. It's looking tough. It does look tough. And they better not let you off with a little slap on the wrist and a fine either. Because you could have started actual, it's good that actual race riots and other violence didn't come of your faults through.

I'll tell you that. It's really good of that. Ridiculous. All right. So I'm reading a story last night about kids online. And the story is not necessarily about kids online, but how parents are posting the lives of their children online since they're little kids. And as kids start getting older, they start like, oh, mom, don't put that online. It'll look good there.

And now they start realizing that their online presence is already there. They may not have a Facebook page. They may not have Instagram. They may not have Twitter. But their online presence is already there because of their parents, right? Their social media profiles are already there. And some of the kids are becoming really, really, really conscious about this. and it's, you know, it's kind of strange that they're upset about it, right?

Because students or kids are like, ooh, I don't like that or I like that. I don't want that. I want this. And they want to be more involved in their social media presence. Well, some legislatures are now getting involved in three years ago, three or four years ago, Europe's highest court ruled that internet providers must give users the right to be forgotten. Under the rule of European citizens can petition to have their past, damaging information, including crimes committed as a minor, hidden from Google search results.

In France, strict privacy laws means kids can sue their own parents for publishing intimate or private details of their lives without consent. In the United States, however, teens and tweens aren't offered such protections. You know why they're not? Because the kids belong to us. And until they're 18, they do what we say. and if I want to post your stupid picture on my stupid Facebook page, I will, you little brat. Now that having been said.

There are some parents that are realizing the issues with that. But remember, well, you know, you may want to consider that. There are times when you don't want to post things online. I know there are plenty of people that don't want to post their kids online. And our own, I mean, Dana Lash has been diligent about that because of actual threats, Jussie. speaking of people going through life with actual threats on their livelihood and their family. So she doesn't post any pictures of her kids online.

And good, bless her heart because she wants to. And so does Chris. Because they're proud of their kids like every other parent posting pictures of their stupid kids online. They're proud of them. But they can't because of these threats. But let's remember back, oh, what is it, 2000? 2010 now, right? Maybe something like that.

Eric Schmidt from Google talked about the private lives of young people are so well documented on the Internet. Now they're going to want to change their names when they reach adulthood just to change it all. Eric was way ahead. I mean, he saw it coming big time. And in the same interview, that's one of my favorite interviews that Eric gave. In the same interview, they were asked, one idea. that more researchers are done on your behalf without needing your type.

And he said, 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. And where are we now? Hello, Google Home.

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So I'm looking through some, as long as we're in the break room, I'm looking through some numbers on internet and social media sites that are fascinating to me. I just, I love these stupid numbers. Like the number of monthly active users that sites have, Pinterest, 250 million. LinkedIn, 303 million. Twitter, 321 million active users. monthly. Reddit 330 million. Instagram, a billion. Messenger, 1.3 billion. WhatsApp, 1.5 billion. YouTube, 1.9 billion. Active monthly users. Facebook. 2.3 billion people.

Active users. Well, we don't know if they're people. Active users. Amazing. Now there's 7.7 billion people in the world. 5.1 billion mobile users. 4.2 billion internet users. 3.4 billion active social media users. And 3.2 billion active mobile social users. You know all those people that you see at the red light?

if you stop at a red light today I want you to stop when you start the first red light you stop at just stop look to your left look at 10 o'clock look at noon look at 1 o'clock look at 3 o'clock you can even look in your rearview mirror

guaranteed what is that 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 all right that's 6 cars I promise you at least 3 and probably 4 or 5 will be looking at their phones. It is

amazing. Fascinating. If you stop next to me, I'll be looking at my phone. And if you're in drive time, it's everybody because everybody's even like whatever, you're just slowing down and you're in traffic. You know you have to wait. You know you have to wait at least two, three lights to get through some of these big intersections. So

you are just searching. Right. You just search it. And so what? If a car moves ahead, two lengths, I mean, big deal, right? If you're reading a Twitter, reading a tweet and then you look up and go, oh, and then you've got to move forward. Okay.

Yeah. You're not stopping anything. Right. Now, I find this one more set of numbers before we leave the break room. I'll drink a Coke Zero. Seriously. I don't know that there's anything better on the planet right now. It's cold.

Coca-Cola, zero sugar. Okay, so the time it took to reach 50 million users. All right. The airlines took 64 years to reach 50 million. users. Cars, 62 years to reach 50 million users. Radio, 38 years, 50 million users. TV, 22 years to reach 50 million users. ATMs, 18 years to reach 50 million. YouTube, four years to reach 50 million users. Facebook. Three years to reach 50 million users. Twitter?

Two years for 50 million years. And you can guarantee that there's a couple other apps, a couple other sites out there now that, we did it in a month. I mean, that's where we're at. No question. All right, so this is a little concerning. A cyber security.

expert has warned that the sex robots could be hacked and then cause harm and even kill people. So you might want to think twice about your Bluetooth robot. That could be a problem. They've warned the risks of the internet-connected robots. They're already worried about the weaponized robots. countries are fighting each other all over about we can't make robots weapons they don't be handling robots all over the place but uh we know that hackers can hack into a robot or a robotic device and have full control of the arms legs and other attached tools now that tools don't look

at me like those those kind of tools i'm talking about knives and other other devices that they can be wielding. Now, the robots, I mean, they're good size, they're full-sized robots. I don't know if you've seen some of the newer versions. I have. They're beautiful.

Now, they've already discovered security flaws with the Bluetooth-enabled sex toys. They already revealed one problem with one of the Bluetooth enabled sex toys that was the vulnerable

it was the I don't want to say I want to make this a family-friendly show most of the time so I want to try to say that this was a a plug a plug that could be the Bluetooth could be hacked now you know where plugs go

right in the socket and so if you're the one that's not in control of that plug look out Could be a problem. So just be prepared. All right, that's a, it's a problem. It's a problem.

And we've got to be able to, you know, make sure that your robot, whether it's used for house cleaning, whether it's used for go run to the grocery store for you, or whether it's used for other things that you have, you don't want it to be able to be hacked and be used for nasty, filthy things like wielding devices that could hurt you. Another story on Fat Pile Friday, a 20-year-old bride, catching all kinds of heat because she posted on the vegan-only Facebook group that she was being sent a whole guilt trip for

disinviting her family from the wedding for being omnivores. Oh, no. you eat meat you can't come to my wedding we don't want to host murderers at our wedding which is supposed to be one of the happiest days of our lives and she all she met her mother she meant some of her cousins

and they were all supposed to be part of the bridal party nope not anymore have a nice day now she originally invited some non-vegan guests but they had to agree that they were going to you know, it was okay that they were going to be part of the vegan wedding. And most people, I would say, are going to agree with that, right? Most people are, hey, we're having a vegan wedding.

Sure, whatever. I could do that for a day, fine, or maybe a couple hours. Then I'm going to go get a big fat steak. But that apparently is what they're afraid of. So she did a follow-up post in the Vegan Revolution Facebook group, who doesn't belong to that. And she said, I couldn't have that. I couldn't have the weight of having people that still kill animals at my wedding or on my conscience.

All right, let's be clear. You don't need to associate yourself with this person. If this person is this way, bless your heart. Have a nice day. You know what? Stephanie or whatever your stupid name is, I love you. But don't call me. And the next time, you know what?

I tell you what, come over this weekend. We're having burgers and sausages. And I'm going to cook up some special cow tongue just for you. You happy? You don't want any of you. Go eat you, go do your little vegan life, have fun. I didn't want to come to your stupid wedding anyway. Okay?

Weddings. Oh, I mean, I had to be at Chris's wedding. Weddings are great. Weddings are great to be fun. I was no part about that. Speaking of weddings, though, you know, and baby showers and all this, see, that's the thing. The thing is, with weddings, showers, and you got baby showers, you got weddings, you got, you got pre-wedding parties and post-wedding parties. Everybody wants a freaking gift.

But Megan Markle is having her baby shower party going on. And, of course, you know, it's not just Megan hanging out with a few of the ordinary folk. she's hanging out with emal cluny serena williams abigail spencer gale king they're all showing up to her i mean that's just a that's a hollywood who's who

for her baby shower okay but apparently she's giving away a present she's giving away the away carry-on suitcases as a present for just showing up that's nice you know most people give away i don't know maybe a coffee mug

with some coffee mug with maybe some, you know, mint chocolate chips in it. Maybe some Hershey kisses. Megan's given away, you know, $200, a couple hundred dollars. I think he probably, you know, really $225 for a carry-on piece of luggage. It looks nice. Have you ever seen the away carry-on? I mean, Megan, if you bought extra, somebody doesn't show up, let's say Serena doesn't show up.

She's busy. I'll take it. Send it to me. I'm on your side. I love the Royals. and I'll be happy to I'll post it online, I'll post pictures, I'll do it all for you.

And you know, you know, if they're getting this promo, if away carry-on is getting this promo that Megan Markle is given away these carry-on pieces of luggage with retails for 225.

Giving away these, and there's pictures of it being arriving at the hotel where the party's going to be, she didn't pay for it. Not a chance. Away with, you know, why don't you just give these away at your party? We'll provide them for you.

And you'll look great and we'll provide it for you, okay? Um, okay. No problem. All right, thanks for listening to Fat Pile Friday. Yeah, I know. But I've got the DMV stories are coming up. Recording that this afternoon. Later on Friday afternoon, we're going to post that tomorrow.

So be ready for some DMV stories. Maybe there's one call. maybe there's two I don't know maybe nobody will call maybe it'll just be me sitting here going so if you get the podcast tomorrow then you see it come through

you get the boop on Saturday and it's like two minutes long you know I didn't get a call because it's just me for two minutes going hey welcome to DMV story Saturday for two minutes and then that's the podcast so hopefully it'll be longer than that

so just see how long it is tomorrow when you get the boop when you get the alert, okay? See you.