Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep. 52 | What Do We Call Ourselves Again...?

Episode Date: December 3, 2018

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You're listening to Chewing the Fat on demand. Welcome to it. What is it? It's Chewing the Fat with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Happy Monday. How in the world are you? It's good to see you. You look great.

I know it's Monday and you had a long weekend. You didn't want to go out in the world today, but you look great. I mean that. You really do. Thanks for listening to Chewing the Fat. Be sure to subscribe and rate and review the podcast if you have an opportunity. if you're not sure what to say, just rate it 20 stars and review it best podcast ever. And we're good.

You can subscribe, rate and review. Then if you have an opportunity, share it with someone and say, hey, give this guy a listen. That'd be great. Thank you very much. Now, there are times. And I know that we are part of the Blaze Podcast Network, the new Blaze Media, the new integral workings of the blaze and CRTV and we're one big happy footprint but there are times when I want socialism or communism in the worst way right now and that's when I go to read a story on

the internet and they tell me I've reached my limit on a website and they want to charge me for it I realize that's capitalism I realize that they want to make money I got it but that's when I want socialism or communism. I want to be able to read that for free and just the government pays for it. That'd be fine. Right? Who's with me? Come on.

You know you are. So I was doing the Pat Gray morning show. Amazingly, this morning. And Pat's been sick. And, you know, I'm sure he got sick because he touched a touch, touch, screen pad somewhere over the weekend and got some plague. We talked about it on the news and why it matters on Friday about how filthy. And we talked about it in this podcast about how filthy some of those touchscreens are.

And, you know, that Friday afternoon, this past Friday, I went to Sam's Club. And just, you know, pick up a couple things. And, you know, I ran in. I'm on my way home. Of course, I get the, you know, the, hi, honey. Could you stop? I didn't get a chance. I mean you're going to say no.

So I stop into Sam's. And then I think, well, it's Friday. You know, the kids are home and people running around. We've got a busy weekend. I'll just grab a couple of pizzas. And so we don't have to worry about eating late. We just throw a couple of pizzas on. The kids will be fine.

It's a couple Sam's Club pizzas. At the Sam's Club I visit, and I'm sure it's like this all over America now. If not, it'll be coming to a Sam's Club, dear you soon. They have, if you want to purchase anything from their food court, you have to use a touchscreen to order everything. And I just got done watching this particular human use one of the touch screens that I didn't want to use it after her. So I went to another one, but you don't know who used that one last. I believe that we all need to, I'm going to start carrying. We all need to start carrying like, you know, our own.

pocket full of rubber gloves to put them on when we have to deal with the touch screen, whether it be there, whether it be a grocery store where you have to touch screen, where anywhere, gas station, all of it. Or maybe, and gas station will be the most

appropriate for the gloves because then you still have to touch the pump. And then just throw the glove away when you're done. Otherwise, you can start carrying, you know, the tablets and the new notes all have their handheld stencil, pencil, whatever you want to call it,

to touch the screens with, just have that with you at all times and only use that on the touch screens. And then make sure you disinfect that. Because you know you put that into your pocket and then, oh boy. Make sure you don't have anything else in your pocket. See, that's what I mean.

Germs like to linger around. You can quote me out of that too. That's a medical term for germs. They like to linger around. So I think I'm either going to have the pencil, you know, the stencil for the touchscreens and a pocket full of rubber gloves with me at all times just to put them on so I don't necessarily have to touch things.

And then I see this story, about 12% of American adults are metabolically healthy. Does that mean that 90, let me sit, 88% are, Not healthy? Yep. Researchers from the University of North Carolina's Gilling School of Global Public Health. And who doesn't believe everything that comes out of the University of North Carolina's Gilling School of Global Public Health, say that just 12% of the country's adult population

is considered metabolically healthy. Wow. That is not good. And trust me, when I tell you, I don't think I'm in that 12%. I know that. I know that. Now, they believe, according to these calculations, that one in eight Americans meet the standards of all five factors. Okay?

So they did this study, and they wanted to make sure see who was healthy, who wasn't healthy, who had good health and bad health, but the doctors wanted the metabolically healthy. So blood glucose, triglycerides, high-density lipoprotein, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, blood pressure, and waste circumference. Well, one of those, I'm doomed already. Go ahead, you can guess which one. Yep, you're right, waste circumference. Now, so we are, the study fills a gap. I mean, this is amazing. We are doomed, really.

I mean, really. And look, the research found that people, particularly women, who were more physically active, did not smoke and had a higher education, were more likely to meet all five factors. Well, whoopty-do for them? Based on the data, a few Americans are achieving metabolic health. But the most disturbing find was that the complete absence of optimal metabolic health in adults who had obese, obesity. Ooh. That's meant right for me.

The complete absence of optimal metabolic health in adults who had obesity. Less than a high school education. Well, I'm okay there. We're not physically active and we're current smokers. Our findings should spur renewed attention to population-based interventions and widely accessible strategies to promote healthier lifestyles. So they're coming after me. I mean you.

They're coming after you to get that metabolic health ready. Be ready. I'm telling you, you think that insurance company is telling you to wear that Fitbit watch for nothing? No way. They want everybody as close to metabolic health as possible, and if you're not there, you're not getting insurance. Or, you know, no problem. Yeah, we'll insure you for $8 billion a year. No problem.

Anyway, it's coming. I mean, you know all the phones track you, everything's tracking you. your Fitbit watches are tracking you. How many steps you take? What's your heart rate? What's your blood pressure? No need for the waist circumference, though. We can just see what that is.

And it's coming. And I say it. I mean, insurance companies are going to be taken that bull by the horn right now. And many of them already are. It's pretty strange. Now, we talk a lot about on this podcast about people's, experiences at airports. Okay? And look, there's, we hear stories all the time.

Good airline flight attendants, bad airline flight attendants, TSA stories, they wouldn't let this animal on, they want to let this animal on, people's, what are they, people's, um, comfort animals. What do they call them? What is, oh yeah. Emotional support animals. but this particular story is kind of agonizing and I hope this lady owns the airport afterward

I really do Olympia Warsaw flew into Chicago to attend a relative's funeral the 67-year-old made it to O'Hare family member Julian Cotilla can't say the same for her luggage she had to miss the first part of the funeral

because she had to get clothes Now, Warsaw has Parkinson's and diabetes. She is part of the 88% and has trouble walking. After the funeral, she was set to fly back to Detroit. And there you go. I walked with her all the way to her gate. I confirmed with the gate agent that the flight was on time. Everything was okay.

Yep, it's all fine. The gate agent said, we'll take good care of your mom. He leaves. The flight is canceled. Her son said the airline assigned a porter to take her back to the front, at which point they offered her a hotel room. However, they weren't willing to take her to the hotel. And she couldn't find her own transportation because she has trouble communicating.

The porter said, you know, my shift is over. I don't know how I can help you anymore. See you later. Let's her sit. Amazing. She found there was a random passenger that finally helped her out and got her phone call and got her together. And then her family waiting for her in Detroit realized that the flight had been canceled, wondering what the heck is going on. They said in addition to losing her bags, they lost track of her.

Eventually they got a hold of the airport security and they found her hours later. She was still in her wheelchair, dressed like she was. She hadn't left the wheelchair. And they just let her sit. There you go. We just let you sit. That's nice of them. That's nice of them.

All we wanted was someone to pause and say, you know what? Can we just make sure this human being is safe? And then we could all go home. Now, of course, American Airlines, you know, has apologized. And they've launched an investigation into what happened. But this is part of the problem is because, American in their apology press release, they said, we've launched an investigation into the porter involved who is not an airline employee.

Yeah. I know they work for the airport. They're like subcont. They don't work for the particular airport. They work for the airline. They work for the airport. And so the airline's not going to be able to do anything. And the airport's going to say, he's told when he's done, he's done.

I don't know the answer to this other than. Perhaps, I don't know, people being human to each other, people realizing that this lady is going to need my help, whether my shift is done or not. There's a good start. Let's just start with that one. Let's all be human and make sure that we help each other, even if our shift is done. It's a good rule of thumb. I don't know what to make of this story. The story, I'll read you to the headline.

Uber said to be negotiating a multi-million, I'm sorry, a multi-billion dollar takeover of scooter-sharing startup. Uber. I would question that deal. Uber, the premier name in ride hailing apps, wants to be known as the go-to destination for all on-demand transportation needs. I get that. efforts have naturally gravitated toward growing its share of the booming electric scooter rental business. Is it booming? Is there an actual scooter rental business booming?

I don't think so. You've been had. If I'm the school, you know what, Uber, I'm starting. I've got to start up a scooter business to pay me a billion. Oops, didn't work. There's bikes sharing companies all over America that have hoodwinked cities into thinking it's a good deal. And now they're finding out that they've got bikes all over the damn place. They don't have anybody to go get them.

There's been a bike. They've got it here in Irving, Texas. And Dallas has got them. And I see them all over. And you swipe your card into the back of it and you can ride the bike. And you can ride it until your card runs out, wherever they charge you, and they, you know, drop it back off at your, I guess you're supposed to drop it back off at, you know, the next bike stand.

Nobody ever does. Or, and I shouldn't say nobody. Most of the time, I'm guessing people do do it properly when they do it. But the problem is, is like if I want to try it and I say I swipe my card and it charges me two bucks for an hour or whatever they charge. And I ride for an hour and I'm like, oh, man, all right, I'm done. And I just leave my bike wherever it is.

I don't want to swipe my card again. I just leave it. And there it sits. There it sits. Getting knocked over, getting rust on it. Nobody's riding it. You got to pay somebody to go pick them up. Who's doing that?

That's a lot of wasted money. You see some of the major cities, and I know what they're thinking with the scooter, I'm sorry, I want to make sure that I have this correctly. The booming electric scooter rental business was just the end game of the booming bike ride sharing business a few years ago.

And they talked these cities into getting all these bikes, and now everybody walks by them going, you know, hey. No. I mean, I guess maybe if you put a trailer on the back of those scooters at the airport, maybe people will run them so they can pull their luggage up into the airport from the parking garage. That'd be a booming. Now, there's a million dollar idea for you.

You're welcome. Just the scooters pulling the little trailers of luggage. I don't get it. It seems like a waste of money to me. It really does. I get it maybe, you know, on a, there's places like Mackinac Island. There's one place that I can think of off the top of my head. Mackinac Island, Michigan.

I don't know if you ever been there, but they don't allow cars on the island. So it's just horses and bikes. Maybe you could talk the powers that be at a Mackinac Island or other places like Mackinac Island that don't allow cars to be a part of. the booming electric scooter rental business. But is it worth a multi-billion dollar deal? You know, maybe worldwide? Maybe China?

Maybe India? I don't know. It seems so not doable. That's my business input for Uber today. You're a You're a possible booming electric scooter rental business It just doesn't seem doable All right, let's have a quick chat about

Wild animals in neighborhoods Just for a second That's one of just the wild animals in your neighborhood We all have, we've all seen skunks In fact, I almost hit a skunk last week I don't know if I told you on this podcast or not Well, I think I did But you know, I mean it was right

I was so close to hit that skunk, I would have been doomed with my automobile. My Volkswagen bug, I would have had to sell it, get rid of it for nothing. I would have just have them tow it away for trash because you'd never get rid of that skunk smell. So we all have, you know, there's skunks around, and there's rabbits and rodents and then vermit. You know, there's possums and armadillos. Yesterday was the first day that I saw a fox in my backyard. I mean, I looked at there he was, or she, and just looking in the house in my backyard. And it was the weirdest thing seeing a fox in my backyard.

And then off he went, or she. And everybody is telling me that I should just be happy. They need a place to live too. They're not hurting anything. Well, yeah, they kind of do. They do spread rabies. I don't want my kids out back getting attacked by a fox or a coyote or any other kind of armament. And I have noticed that I haven't seen rabbits around lately.

And the fox did not look like he was going hungry. So I think the fox has been eating my rabbits. And he's probably eaten the armadillos and the possums. although I haven't seen any any remnants of that in my yard so wherever he's doing it is not in my yard

but I'm just a little concerned of I was cool to see the fox and look I don't want to kill the stupid thing I don't want to hurt it I'm just concerned with it being around because one fox, you know what they say.

They've said this forever. I don't know if you know this or not. This is an old saying. You see one fox? There's more to come. That's an old saying. Don't look at me like that. You never heard that saying before you've seen one fox.

There's more to come. That's a saying for the ages. All right, let's go over to the break room and get a drink. I am thirsty. And on our way, let me tell you about mercury1.org. If you missed the live and silent auctions at the recent M1 ball, that we're here right here at the Mercury Studios. Today, today is your lucky day.

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climate change, space junk, space exploration, deforestation, pollution, trash in impoverished cities. We just don't have the economic and business models nor willing people to solve these problems. This from Mindu, the executive director of Vertex Ventures, on Robot Reality Check. They create wealth and jobs. Okay. Japanese researchers successfully have developed a technology that can put someone, thoughts on a screen and say the same technology could eventually be used to watch and record our dreams.

I do not want my dreams recorded. No, I do not want my dreams recorded. However, do you remember the movie with Robert Williams in it? The final cut was the name of it. And where people had chips that recorded their life. and he was the guy that went in and edited the chips when you died. So you got the end of life movie. And it's kind of a cool look at, and it's a scary look at if you had something like that recording your life.

Most people find Monday morning so difficult they don't even smile until 1116 a.m. Researchers claim the top five ways to get over Monday depression. watching TV, having sex, online shopping, buying chocolate or makeup, and planning a trip. So good luck, meeting the Monday morning blues. Eating KFC, this is such a weird thing. Eating KFC, that would be formerly Kentucky Fried Chicken, is a Christmas tradition in Japan. And people sometimes order their buckets two months. in advance.

No word on whether it's regular or extra crispy. If you're going to eat KFC, you've got to go with the extra crispy, I would say. To look ahead a little bit of what's going on this week, Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies. I think that's how you, I really don't know how you pronounce his last name. I probably should know that. Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies in front of Congress. It might not go good. Fed releases its final beige book of the year,

and Fed Chair Jerome Powell gives an economic update to Congress. And the Grammy Award nominations are announced. That should be fun to go through. And also Wednesday is the funeral of George H.W. Bush. They are busy transporting him to Washington, D.C. today. And then he will lie in state. And they'll have the big funeral, you know, the all-off funeral on, on Wednesday.

And I know I saw where you know, Michelle Obama is canceling some book tours to go to the funeral. And it's fascinating to think about W. And his life. And I might give a brief,

just a brief off the top of my head. I was just thinking about this as I started talking about it. His funeral being on Wednesday. When I filled in for Pat this morning, someone tweeted about doing a retrospective on, well, they talked about they wanted to hear it.

hear me say the retrospective voice, George H.W. Bush, dead at 94. This has been retrospective. And so I might give you all day I've been thinking about little tidbits to do because in the retrospectives, you want to give their life, but you don't want to, it's giving their life is also giving not only the big stuff in their life, but some of the stuff that you might not remember in life that goes with the with the retrospective way and I also saw a story as long as we're in the break room and we'll head back in a little bit but I also saw a story today in the Wall Street Journal opinion page by Lance Morrow all right it was dated November 30th and the title of his opinion page is America is addicted to outrage

Is there a cure? Lance, yet we know we're addicted to outrage, and the cure is in the book by Glenn Beck, called Addicted to Outrage. In fact, he just got done doing a tour of live performances about addicted to no outrage. So way to jump on board, Lance. Good job.

News from the Pope, Vatican City. Men with deep-rooted homosexual tendencies should not be admitted to the Catholic clergy. Duh. But I thought that the whole point of being homosexual and gay is if he didn't act on it, then it wasn't a sin. So isn't it more appropriate that people who, whether gay or not, if you hear the calling to be a priest, it's important to know that as of now being a priest means your celibate. that brings you closer to God. That's the point.

If you believe what they believe, that is the point. So it doesn't matter what you identify as. Because once you become a priest, you're supposed to identify as, I don't know, a priest. It just drives me crazy. And also, we talked a little bit about Starbucks, finally, finally, finally figuring out how to block porn in their stores. Because it's such a difficult task.

There's been other companies that have figured it out a few years back, but they couldn't quite get it right. Starbucks didn't quite know how to do it. They're only a multi-billion dollar corporation. And so they figured it out that they're going to start the first of the year, and they're going to block porn from being able to be downloaded and viewed in their chain stores. Well, one company is so angry that they are banning Starbucks from their employees. And you know what?

I hope it works. I'm not big on boycotts, but UPorn is banning Starbucks from their offices. I don't know where their offices are. I don't know how many people they have working for them. I'm sure they have more than I think because it's a million if not billion dollar company

but they are so you're so pissed you've heard me you heard me right you porn is so bad that they are they're banning they're batting they're batting Starbucks

and that'll that'll teach them also the I remember the we talked a little bit about the sex doll brothel in Hong Kong that was letting customers try before they buy and I

I thought it was a pretty good idea. I mean, you're supposed to know how the product works before you buy it, right? Yeah, the police have shut it down. I know. I know. I didn't do it. Don't look at me. Look at it.

They charge customers an hourly rate so they could use some of the sex dolls in hopes that it would encourage them to buy it. And the police have said, yeah, no. We're not doing that. And we're arresting you and we're shutting you down. So much for that. And this story is one of the stories that just drives me insane. We talk about finding stuff in storage units, finding bags alongside of the road.

People have found lottery tickets scratched off the wrong ticket to win money. People have found stuff. This 4,000-year-old pot, a 4,000-year-old pot, okay? During the Bronze Age, what is now Afghanistan, a civilization made a ceramic pot. It's four-inch tall vessel, distinguished by the antelope painted across the side of it. And for years, it was used as a toothbrush holder because a guy bought it out of a trunk of a car for like two bucks. and then he was helping on load some museum pieces. And he looked at one of the museum pieces

and it looked a lot like his toothpick holder. And he said, hey, hey, that looks just like my toothpick or my toothbrush holder. Huh. I wonder if my toothbrush holder really is something. Yeah. Yeah, it is. antique piece. So he put it up for sale.

I'm guessing that he thought it was going to be, you know, worth, worth more than 80 grand. But he got 80,000 for it. That's a pretty good investment. Two bucks? Okay. No problem. Good to go.

I said 80,000. It might actually have been only 80 bucks. If it was 80 bucks, put the toothbrush back in it. Kid me? So earlier today, I'm a, sitting here in the Blaze Blaze Radio Studios, the Blaze podcast network studios.

And it's the Blaze Media, Blaze TV, Blaze Podcast Network, you know, whatever. The Blaze, the whole damn thing. The Blaze slash CRTV slash podcast slash TV. Stop what you're doing. What in the world are you doing?

It's all encompassing. It's a Sasquatch footprint of the Blaze CRTV. Hold on. Hold on. Let me explain all this. So right now, you and Jeffrey are the beginning of the blaze.com slash podcast with the SADM podcast. Podcasts. Then we are in the, oh, you can't send the, we are at Blaze Podcast Network. So right now we're listening to Blaze Podcast Network. So right now we're listening to Blaze Podcast Network. That V is going to throw me off. But I just want to be clear that I understood you properly, right? We are now broadcasting from Blaze Podcast Network Studios.

We are from that, yes. We're not at the Blaze Podcast Network. Which it should be. We are at Blaze Podcast Network. You should have left the V in there. I mean... Just get rid of the V. You can't.

I just did it. We are at Blaze Podcast Network. And just to be clear, although I was using the, I was the one who was the first to call this the podcast network. Thank you. Let's be clear about that. Let's straighten that up. So, all right, so this is the Blaze Media, Blaze TV, Blade Podcast Network, whenever we get them really mad here for just a second. This is the Blaze Media slash CRTV slash Blaze Podcast Network slash show.

Is that right? Don't just shake your head. They can't hear which way the rocks are moving. They don't know. That's an old saying my dad used to say, by the way. I can't know which way the rocks are moving if your head's just shaking. You got to speak up. Incredibly stupid.

That was good news today, though, big news for the for the Blaze and CRTV coming together. And we really do now have a Sasquatch footprint covering America. That's most important for you because now it's more people will know what you believe in, not less. And that is the most important thing. Anyway, earlier today, Chris and I are sitting in the, this is what started this whole stupid thing. We're sitting in the, Blay, we're sitting in Blaze Podcast Network Studios.

And we look up at the television and there's these four guys out. And they, I look at the television, I'm like, Chris goes, who are they? And I thought at first it was Zizi Top. Just a quick glass, I thought, oh, it's Zizi Top, but it's not because there's only one guy with a long white hair and white beard. It's the Oak Ridge Boys. All right. Now, Oak Ridge Boys at one time were really huge. And they were, what they're on talking about George W. Bush.

And I'm thinking, okay. Well, apparently there, that was his request that they sing Amazing Grace at his funeral. And they are doing that. And they talked about, they knew about it. They've got the, you know, they've got the, it's done. They're just going to, you know, show up and do the Amazing Grace at the funeral. And then they're leaving. And they said something in the interview.

like because they've got a friend that's flying them in to D.C. And then they're flying them right out to go do a show. And I'm thinking, shut up, Oak Ridge, boys. Don't make it seem like you don't have the money for a plane to fly in and out. You kidding me? Oak Ridge freaking boys. Been around since 1812. I mean, they, and so Chris asked me, were they big ones?

The only song I can think of from them really is I remember my grandfather singing Elvira to me. And so I looked them up with their awards and honors. All right, starting at 1978. Starting at 1978, top vocal group. And then it goes on from there. This is the Academy of Country Music Awards. 1978, top vocal group, 81, single of the year.

What single? Elvira! Country Music Association Award. Awards, 1978. It doesn't matter. Instrumental group of the year, vocal group of the year, single of the year, instrumental group of the year, Dove Awards, Grammy Awards, Grammy Awards. Let's see what they went with the Grammys.

The Grammys are going to be announced on Wednesday. Best Gospel Performance Other than Soul, talk about the good times. Best Gospel performance other than soul. Baptism of Jesse Taylor. That was in 71 and 74. That was before they went mainstream. They were just gospel. Wow.

Best country performance by Adieu. They're in the gospel music hall of fame and the country music hall of fame. So there you go. Oak Ridge Boys will be performing at the funeral. And I was just thinking about, we talked a little bit about Michelle Obama canceling some of our book tours. And, you know, I mentioned this morning, and it's fascinating to me that George H.W. Bush was really the last president of the United States. where half the country didn't hate him. That's pretty remarkable.

And that's pretty remarkable. And I know that he was a good man. He was a family man and he did so much for the country. I mean, he fought in the military. He did UN work. He did CIA work. He did vice presidential work. He did presidential work.

I mean, that's an amazing career. And he created some strong, siblings, or not siblings, children that created, you know, they were a president and a governor and another governor. Pretty remarkable. And he was past president George H.W. Bush. Stuck with the same woman, Barbara, for 73 years. George Herbert Walker Bush. dead at the age of 94.

This has been retrospective. Notice I didn't use any of the... I didn't use any butt-pinching jokes or anything. Too soon? Too soon.