Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 39 | Happy Birthday Maximus Fisher

Episode Date: February 27, 2019

Jeffy does today's news and wishes happy birthday to his youngest son Max Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to Chewing the Fat with yours truly Jeff Fisher. How in the world are you today? You look great. I have a question for you, though. Does being verified on social network, is it what it used to be? Is it? Because I am verified on Twitter and I'm verified on Facebook, but I'm not verified on Instagram, but looking around the landscape of things in today's world, I see.

A number of people that have blue check marks that make me question, is the verification process what it used to be? It's just a question I seem to be pondering today. Welcome to chewing the fat. Happy birthday. First, let me start with happy birthday to my son, Maximus, my youngest son, 17 years old. today. One more year. One more year. And it's pack them and hit the road. So happy birthday.

I remember when he was born, we were doing a radio show in Tampa with Glenn and Stu and myself. And we were still, we were, I think we may have still been doing the afternoon show, but we were doing the morning show for sure. we were doing the national show. And, you know, Amber had the baby at 6 o'clock in the morning. And I came to work. She was fine. The kid was fine. It's time to work.

Let's go. It's 9 o'clock Eastern. There's plenty of time. Left the hospital around 7, hung out for about an hour. Great. We got a new kid. I'm going to work. And I'd never forget turning the corner that morning.

And Glenn's like, what are you doing here? I'm like, I've come to work. We've got a show to do. and there's a bit somewhere out there in the Radio Sphere world where Stu pretends to be Amber calling me to come and pick her up and it was a funny bit ongoing for the whole show. It was really funny. I don't think my wife ever thought it was funny, but it was funny.

And so if you get an opportunity to find that out there in Radio Sphere might be worth listening to. and then again maybe not. So this story was yesterday in my in my fat pile and I didn't get to it. And I didn't get to it because I thought, oh, who cares? Right. I mean, it was in the fat pile. They talk about a guy buying $540 worth of Girl Scout cookies to help the girls get out of the cold.

And the story is he came up and he bought seven packs of cookies and he gave the girls 40 bucks and told him to keep the change. And then he came back a little bit later and said, okay, you know what? Pack up all your cookies. I'm going to take them all and get you girls out of the cold. And what they had with them cost him $540. Now, you know, the jokes to me are like, so the guy bought a whole table of Girl Scout cookies. So who hasn't done that before? I mean, yes, okay?

How come I don't get a story about me when I pay off the cookie table? So I thought, okay, and he took his pictures and they were all happy. You know, what a great guy and all this stuff, the Good Samaritan, got us out of the cold. and that's what Girl Scouts do. It's wonderful. Well, if you are, let's say, wanted by, I don't know, the federal authorities, you may not want to take your picture with Girl Scouts. Okay, so we've all agreed that Harvey Weinstein is this bad, evil guy, right?

He's this bad and he's lost his business. He lost his co-workers. He's lost just about everything. But he's not in jail, and he hasn't been convicted of anything, legally convicted of anything. He's been convicted out of court by thousands of people. And he fired his attorney because he didn't think his attorneys were doing him justice. And so he hired Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. Ronald S. Sullivan Jr. law professor at Harvard University.

He's a faculty dean at the Winthrop House, one of the college's 12 residential houses. He was the first black man to serve in that position. He also directs Harvard's Criminal Justice Institute and Trial Advocacy Workshop. He advised the campaign of Senator Barack Obama on criminal justice issues. He represented Michael Brown's family in their suit against the city of Ferguson, Missouri. And his work has led to the release of 6,000 wrongfully incarcerated people. He's the guy. He's the guy.

He's the progressive attorney of the world. Yeah, no. Because he decided to represent Harvey Weinstein, he's now on the bad list. And he's on the bad list because students don't feel safe. More than 50 students attended a protest demanded that he resign his position as dean over the alleged me-to failings. The Association of Black Harvard Women also wants them gone. What has been made especially clear is that you have failed us, they wrote in a letter. You have failed the black women in this community,

not only as one of the few black faculty deans on campus, but also as a community leader, someone who we respected and looked to for guidance. What? I mean, he himself hasn't been accused of anything. He's just representing Harvey Weinstein. That is absolutely amazing. The innocent until proven guilty.

Innocent until proven guilty. Not anymore. You can't even be the attorney of someone that's supposed to be guilty. That is agonizing. Good luck, though, Mr. Sullivan. Good luck. Because I don't know how you come out of this. Good luck.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need a drink. I need an ice cold Coca-Cola zero sugar. I'll tell you that. Oh my gosh. That is so good. While we're in the break room, I want to remind you to subscribe to chewing the fat. I appreciate you listening, but I really would appreciate you more if you subscribe.

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But first and foremost, let's subscribe to chewing the fat with yours truly. All right. A couple of headlines, as long as we're hanging out in the break room. 11-year-old boy lands a book deal. He's crocheting. He apparently did some crocheting

and some of his creations went viral. And so, hey, let's give him a book deal. Why not? Right? And it's tough for me to make fun of that because I want, you know, I'm willing to take a book deal for crocheting if that's, you know,

I hope he makes a ton of money. Also, another headline that I thought was, like, duh, new study. They got study money for this, study money for this. New parents face up to six years of sleep deprivation. Really? Thank you. I got study money for that. Just ask any parent in America, they'll tell you what you get to sleep deprivation.

On top of which, I found that I didn't get much sleep deprivation. because, well, I had a wife. Also, we have a headline that's completely fake news. I've been seeing this headline everywhere. I've been seeing the pictures, and it's absolutely fake. It's an impossible story to be real. There's a picture of a fat rat stuck in a sewer, and it talks about the nine-person rescue effort to get it out of the sewer.

It's trying to come up out of the sewer. it's stuck and they try they rescue this fat rat now a let's let's let's take the premise that it is true um why are we trying to say we are why are we spending time energy and money trying to save a rat i'm sorry pita i know this is where you and i get off the rails with each other but no rats are not worth saving sorry a rat coming out of the sewer is not worth saving We're not spending man hours. We're not spending wasting equipment. None of it.

It's gone. Have a nice day. Now, that's it, presuming that this is a real story. However, rats don't get stuck. That's what makes them rats. They don't get stuck. If their heads can get through something, their body can get through something. I don't care.

rats don't get stuck. This is not a real story. This is made up. You're going to find out. I promise you, you're going to find out this story is fake. Rats do not get stuck. That's what makes them rats. Period.

All right, let's talk a little bit of TV and a little bit of streaming videos. I found out this morning, a story I didn't know. I was chewing the fat on Pat Unleashed. And he brought up Netflix changing the ending to the notebook. And I thought, no. But then I look it up and it looks like it's real. I don't think they change it. I think they just cut it out.

Because the actual ending of the movie where they roll the credits and stuff is the birds flying over the lake. And, you know, where they went for their little boat ride and they're all in love out there. But it doesn't. Apparently, Netflix cut out the part where they die together. Spoiler alert, I know, for the notebook. That can't be. I cannot wait. I didn't bring it up on my phone. I didn't have time.

I was busy today and I didn't actually go and log into Netflix on my computer to see and see the notebook. I'm going to, if we're going to investigate this, because if that's true, what I don't understand. I completely don't understand if that's true. why do you change you put a movie up on your platform and then change the ending? What? It can't be.

It's got to be like it was edited or the movie was put in wrong or something. There's got to be some kind of excuse for that. Gotta be. Got to be. Now, there's also a new show coming out on Netflix from Ricky Jiveas afterlife.

I am so looking forward to this. It looks so good because he is going to be such a jerk. If you get a chance to watch the preview of afterlife, it's going to be really funny because he's going to be such a jerk. And that is me. I want

to play that. I'm so jealous of Ricky Jervais playing this part. And this is his deal with Netflix and his show. And good for him. I mean, I'm happy for him, but I am jealous of this part because this is a great, great part. I want to be that jerk. So bad.

I want to be that jerk, bad. Also, we have Game of Thrones. coming up in April, right? And we also know that we saw the Bud Light commercials during the Super Bowl with Game of Thrones. They're also in a deal with the makeup brand Urban Decay with Game of Thrones. This is their final season,

so they might as well milk it. Let's make the millions, right? And now we're looking forward to a special Oreo cookie package Game of Thrones themed packages. Nice. So are we going to look forward to, Maybe the Game of Thrones sitting off set, eating Oreos. You know, that's going to be the commercial.

They're waiting to shoot the dragon and, you know, they're eating Oreos. Could be. Or they dream up if we only had something to eat that had cream and chocolate on the outside that we could dip in milk. I've just come up with two great plans for you. You're welcome, Game of Thrones. You're welcome. All right, a couple of education stories.

This story, I don't know what to make of this story. I don't want to be happy for the kid or sad for the kid or I think it's stupid from the school district. But in Wyoming, a school district plans to reopen an isolated school to serve a single student entering kindergarten this fall. In Laramie, the Laramie boomerang, and who doesn't get the Laramie Boomerang reports that Cozy Hollow School is about 60 miles north of Laramie. It's a modular classroom. It's already there, but it hasn't been used in about a decade. It'll be the second one student school in the Albany County School District. They're only a few miles apart, but connecting roads are impassable much of the winter. So Wyoming law requires on-site education for isolated students when it's impossible to transport them to other schools.

So the district apparently tried live streaming. classes for isolated students, but I guess it didn't work well for the young kids or maybe we had streaming issues and they, you know, they need to get, you know, they need to get faster high speed internet. I don't know. Maybe they still have dial up out in the Laramie, Wyoming. I don't know. But apparently, so now you've got two schools isolated, right, two buildings isolated for opening up for one student in the school. That means you've got to have a teacher. So apparently it's going to cost about 150,000 to do both these kids. All right.

So it's going to cost you $75,000 a year to bring the one kid to one school and $75,000 to bring the other kid to the other school, you know, teachers, good stuff. What? There's got to be a better way. And plus, you're the kid? I mean, you're going to the school, which is, you know, the modular school, you know, a trailer out in the middle of nowhere. and that's your school and you're there all by yourself?

Weird. Really? Wyoming's got to do something about that. And maybe the kid's happy with it. I don't know. Maybe you live in Wyoming. You're happy with it. It's possible.

It's possible. And in North Carolina, as long as we're on school news, in North Carolina, they're changing or they're going to, they want to change how the school grades their students. Why was this not around when I was in school, you know, back in the early, 1700s. So it's always been

you need a score of 90 or above to get an A, right? A minus A plus A, whatever. But you've got to be in between 100 and a 90 to get the A. And, you know, 80 and 90 is the B, 70, you know, so on, down the line. Well, now

in North Carolina, and this might be true in many places around America already. I just don't, I'm not aware of it. 100 to 85 is now an A. 84 to 70 is a B, 69 to 55 is a C, 54 to 40 is a D. And you got to be below 40 to get an F. That's good living. That's good living in high school.

There's no doubt about that. You don't have to put much effort in to get a 40. If you care, you want to be out. But that's the dumbing down of America right there. But to get a 40%, to still get a passing grade, that's good living in school. Anyway, you'd pull that off, sleeping.

If you can't get a 40 in school without very little work at all, my friends, you do not deserve to be in school. That's the case. You do not deserve to be in school. All right, so how healthy are you? Are you healthy? You're ready to go?

Because I'm looking at the Bloomberg Healthiest Country Index. And, oh my gosh, it's an exciting index. So apparently 169 economies, according to the factors that contribute to overall health. This first was published a couple years ago, 2017, so now we've got a new one this year, 2019. And they've got the rankings for the healthiest country index. And where do you think the U.S. stands? Right on the top?

Because we're the biggest country. We're the healthiest. We're going to be some of the healthiest, right? Yeah, no. You would think that, but no. Not according to the Bloomberg healthiest country index. They evaluated health variables and risks ranging from those of behavioral, natural, environmental characteristics. The final index only included nations with at least a 0.3 million population and sufficient data.

169 World Health Organization states met the criteria to be included. So the United States of America coming in at 35. Yes, we're ranked at 35. We moved down in odds in 2017. We were 34 of the healthiest countries in the world. That's unbelievable. And if you move up the list, what's number 30? Cuba.

Cuba is healthier than us? I think not. I think not. Cuba is not held. I'm sorry, I do not believe that. I do not. I don't buy it. I don't buy it.

Let's move up the list. Let's see who else is above. 34 other countries are above us, and there's no way Cuba is better than us. The Czech Republic, I mean, I sold my condo in the Czech Republic a while ago, so I'm not sure how healthy they are now, but I can tell you they weren't that healthy in the past. South Korea, maybe, I guess. All right, let's do to the top 10. Top 10. Number 10, coming in at number 10.

Israel, Norway, Singapore, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Japan. Japan, countries, they're going to be dead in a hundred years. They're not even making babies, but they're healthy. Iceland. Number three. number two, Italy and number one, Spain as the healthiest

country in the world. Thanks to the Bloomberg Health Index. Isn't that great? And the United States of America coming in at number 35. That's amazing. Just amazing. Let's go.

Apparently when I'm recording, chewing the fat, I don't matter if we've got work to do. in the studio, we'll just come in. We just come in. We just set up, you know, there might be a time when we could, this is the only time we can set up a tripod and move cameras around. This is the only time we can unplug and plug in things under the, under the desk. Yeah, amazing, isn't it? We're checking equipment now. That's good. Thank you. Appreciate it. Seriously, take your time. There's no, it's just, just nothing but time for you guys.

Nothing but time. Come out in. Is there more? Is there more, because there's only two of you now. If there's more, we've got more stuff to move around or anything. Go ahead. Nothing but time for you. Nothing but time for you guys. That's all. We're just here for you. Just here for you.

Hey, it looks great. Thanks, man. You guys really know how to put up a tripod. Is that it? Thank you. I really don't know what the heck they were, they came in and out. They had to move. They had a camera set up here.

They looked like they were filming something. And then they decided, hey, it doesn't matter what's going on in the studio. We'll just come in and take it down. We don't need it. We'll just come and take it down. Oh, okay. No problem. That's fine.

Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it at all. It doesn't matter. It's your stupid show, too, of the fact, we don't care about you. That's where we're at. Good news coming from a child psychiatrist, though, because we've been struggling with the point of raising babies. And Dr. Anna Shearer.

Shire, S-H-I-E-R. She's a double-bored certified physician in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry. Double-born! That's huge. Now, we know that babies are defined as gender-neutral babies who aren't coerced one way or the other to behave the way stereotypes of their natural-born sexes might. Oh, I hate those. Man, I hate those. Well, Shia said that from her experience is important to avoid pushing children into

male-female stereotypes. I hate that. I hate that pushing them into male-female stereotypes. Now, unless you tell them, that's a boy or that's a girl part, they don't even know. I don't even know. So just get over your little self, okay? Children, we don't want our children to become pigeonholed, all right? So just get over your little story with that, okay?

Yeah. And I found this story interesting. I thought this had been around for a while. I saw it. I've been seeing it posted everywhere for the last, I don't know, week, week and a half, maybe two weeks. And I keep thinking, man, I've seen that before. I thought that was just making it. You know how stories get up on the interwebs on the Internet and Facebook and Twitter,

and then they make the rounds again. So like a year old story, especially on Facebook, it happens a lot. A story will start making the rounds. again and it's like that story is two years old but it you know it resurfaces ever so often that's what i thought this story was but apparently not i mean they're making a big deal out of this terry robinson uh out of spring texas um he posted his uh his uh where he's going to retire to uh on his facebook post it's got you know hundreds of thousands of uh of shares and people commenting and it's a fascinating thought about how how to retire so instead of moving into

a nursing home, he's planning on spending his retirement years at Holiday Inn. He listed the reasons in his Facebook post why he's going to spend his golden years at the hotel chain. Now, the average cost of a nursing home, he claims is $188 a day. Okay. If you have a long-term discount or a senior discount and you can get a room at Holiday Inn for under $60 a night. And breakfast is included there.

And some of the holidays have happy hours with some stuff in the afternoon. So according to his math, it's going to leave him about $128, $129 a day for lunch and dinner, you know, for extra cash. If you figure that you're going to, if you're going to, if you base it on $188 a day plan. So, and, you know, that means you can, you know, room service, laundry, gratuities, movies, the holidays have spas, swimming pools, workout rooms, lounges, washer and dryers if you want to do it yourself. He figures that if you tip the workers five bucks a day,

you'll have them scrambling to help you. I find that hard. I think you're going to have to tip a little bit more than five bucks. But, you know, we're going with your plan. And they treat you, you know, he's happy. He wants to be treated like a customer, not a patient. That's kind of a good point. You should be treated like a customer at the nursing homes instead of a patient as well.

And he makes a big deal about the staff will, you know, hey, if something goes wrong, they'll call you an ambulance or the undertaker. I mean, they'll take care of that for you, so you're good. And he talks about, tell your family, hey, come and visit me anytime. And, you know, stay a few days and many vacation. It's in another room. Could be probably another floor. And you still get to spend some time with them down in the lobby or at the pool side.

The grandkids can swim. It's great. plus with that little extra money, if you save a little bit of that extra money, you could travel. Right? I mean, holidays have over 1,100 locations around the globe. So you could be anywhere and travel and stay at the holiday end. So that's going to fluctuate a little bit of your pricing plan. But I like the idea.

And I like the thought of using Holiday Inn as your retirement plan and your retirement home instead of an actual retirement home. I like that a lot. So I could turn into my new plan. Although holiday ends, now what's that? Are they even two star? I mean, I,

man, you get two star below. You start, that's, that's almost, that's almost camping level. I'm not saying holiday ends are camping level, because so this got, the holiday ends, most of them have got to be at least two stars, right? I mean, you're not, I'm not going to retire. First of all, I'm never going to retire.

I know that already. That's an impossible feat for me. Retirement is not going to happen. But if I was going to, and I was going to use Terry Robinson's plan of using a hotel and his plan is using Holiday Inn, it would have to be, you know, two stars or above.

I can't. I mean, you get below two stars. You're camping. And I'm not, I don't even want to. a camp now, let alone when I'm retired. Ooh, that's not fun.