Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep. 6 | Road Rage with Jeffy, #FatBearWeek, & Stolen Legos

Episode Date: October 8, 2018

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The Blaze Radio Network On Demand. How in the world are you? Welcome to Chewing the Fat. That's right. Chewing the fat with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Thank you so much for coming along for the ride today. And I don't know if you worked at it this weekend or if you just threw it together today, but you look fantastic.

What you're, I mean, you look tremendous. And hopefully you're going to look that good by Friday, but today, I mean, you look good. So I'm driving into work today. And in this new area, I've taken a new way to work a couple of times just to see if it's worthwhile. And you have to go through two roundabouts, you know, the circles in the road. We don't want to put in stoplights. We think traffic will flow easier with the roundabouts. And you know what?

Overall, that's probably true. It's not too bad. But for the first time this morning, as you come up to the roundabout and you're the person, you know, every little access point has a yield sign. So if someone's already making the circle, you just yield and they go, right? It's very simple. So I pull up and as I'm pulling up to the, to my yield sign, I see a little white van making his way.

And instead of going straight, he makes the little continues to make the turn around the roundabout. But then as soon as he gets close to me, he stops and lays on the horn. What are you doing? and he's just laying on the horse like waiting for me, wondering, thinking I'm going to go. And I'm stopped. The yield sign.

And I, that is when I have my, what I like to call silent road rage moment. Okay? Because I am a great silent road rager. And by that, I mean, I road rage in my car so bad.

If you were to record it, I would probably be arrested. All right, because I know you're not going to do that. No, you are not. Go. What are you thinking? And some days you're invisible.

So other cars just pull over it and just pull up front of you. Oh, I'm invisible. I throw my hands up. Oh, I'm invisible now. You can't even see me. That's right. Just go ahead. Just pull out in front.

It doesn't matter. It's okay. And so apparently the new thing now is what makes it okay is if they throw the hand up so you can see it in between the seats. So, oh, just go ahead. Pull out in front of me. Sorry, well, I'm invisible now. I'm scre. Go ahead.

I don't count. And I get the hand up in between the seats. Like, oh, I'm sorry, I see you now. And so that makes it, oh, okay. Oh, okay, go ahead. It's okay now. It's okay that you cut me off and almost hit me. That's fine.

It's okay, because you threw your hand up and told me you finally saw me. So it's okay. Shut up. And the whole horn-hawking thing. Stop it. I mean, I am, he's laying, just laying on the horn. Now, I could have laid on my horn back at him. But it was more fun to give him the finger and holler,

F you! Go! And there's no way, I will sit there. You can have 8,000 cars behind me. I will sit there until that car goes. He can say I was trying to cut him off. He can do whatever he wants. I'm not moving.

Because he thinks it's me. No. No, my friend. No, it's not. Okay. That's how my Monday morning started. Welcome to it. Not a hothead like you.

What are you talking about? No, no. What are you talking about? Did you get road raged? No. What happened? No, I'm a good driver. And I obey the law.

Oh, yeah, okay. Right, right. And so, no, it's not an issue for me. Okay, good. All right. So, but if you were to say, let's say you pulled out in front of, to someone and you almost hit them and like they were invisible. Right.

And then you all of a sudden realized, oh my gosh, there's a car behind me and you just put your hand up in between the scenes like, oh, I saw you, sorry. Does that make it okay? Yeah. No. That makes it fine. No, it does not. You know what I hate?

You know what I hate about this Dallas-Fort Worth area? I think you're going to tell me. This pisses me off so much is when you're at a stoplight, right? You're in the left-hand turning link. Yes. and the light comes on, so it's green now. And in every other city in the freaking free world, you pull into the intersection.

And to make the left. To take the left. And you wait for traffic, you find an opening, you turn left. You don't sit at the intersection. You pull into it. Amen.

They don't do that here. No, they do not. It drives me out of my mind. No, they do not. I want to smash into the back of them every time they do it. You and me both. And push them. out into the intersection.

Because that costs at least two or three cars making the turn. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. So it backs up traffic even worse. It's stupid and it pisses me off. Absolutely. I've said my... Hey, uh, just come in whenever you want.

It's fine. Don't worry about it. I mean, no problem. All right. This is another show going on. Don't worry about it. I mean, thanks, Pat. Pat Graham, Pat on Leash.

Did you know that it is Fat Bear Week 2018. I know what you're thinking. I didn't either. It started on Thursday. Tomorrow. Tomorrow, all right?

We're going to get the champion of Fat Bear Week. All right? Now, it is from the... All right, now I know you're going to... You all can beat me up on this, all right? But it's the Catmow National Park

the Catmai National Park and Preserve King Salmon, Alaska. All right now, Cat M-A-I. I mean, can we name it like Bill or something? Really, cat my, come on now. All right. Maybe the Alaska National Park and Preserve. What do you think?

Maybe. Just a thought. You know, just a thought. Maybe, I don't know, the bear. National Park and Preserve. Anyway, all right, so it's Fat Bear Week. I don't want to get too sidetracked on the name of the park. They can name it whatever the hell they want.

It's their park. Oh, wait, it's the country's park. That means it's my park. So the annual madness is a competition now in its fourth year. It's commonly seen bears on the bear cam. All right, you can go to their Facebook page and check out the bear cams. They've got them underwater. They've got them all around.

It's head-to-head mass. You can go to the Catmai National Park and Preserves Facebook page. And you can click on all the bear cams and watch them eat salmon. And there's a reason why the salmon is there. Mother Nature is at work. You can see these bears getting amazingly big. They are ready to go lay down and not eat for a while. And just, I don't know what they call that.

What do they call? Oh, I know hibernation. Anyway, then they call that me in the wintertime watching football is what they call that. Now, now, I am in love with the brackets. All right. Now, I'm really bummed that I haven't, I didn't start on Thursday and start rooting for different bears and start screaming through the bear cams. Like, let's go! I'm rooting for bears.

Now, you look at the brackets. All right, so it started out, you had, these are the bears that are going up against each other, okay? 151 Walker, 409 bed nose, 854 divot, 503, 503, 5.0. not good enough for a name. 812, not good enough for a name. 32 chunk, 719, not good enough for a name. 435's Cubs. Now those two, I believe, are twins.

So you got two of those together, all right? The twins battling it out against each other, against the rest of them. I mean, they've already got an advantage. It's really not fair. And then it goes to, then it went to 480 Otis, 409 bed nose. Then it went to 435 Holly, 854-divet, 8-54-divet,

856 not good enough for a name 32 chunk 747 still not good enough for a name 719 still not good enough for a name now had I been watching I had to give them names and I apologize I apologize it's my my fault all right now I'm going to start watching this this afternoon because now we're coming up to the end okay and we've got we had 409 bed nose and 854 divot 409 bed noses in the finals All right. The next bracket for Fat Bear Week, 32 chunk, and 747. Not good enough for a name. We have to get, I mean, what can't we call it?

747 airliner, airplane, something, four-legged plane, something. Oh, why are we not sponsoring these bears? 747 American Airline Bear. 747 United Airline blade. Come on. Now, 747 Spirit. Oh, no, no, the bear couldn't fit in the spirit seat, so they can't, they can't sponsor it. That would be illegal.

So we'll find out, we'll find out tonight, later on, or early tomorrow morning, who 409 bed knows goes up against. All right? So it goes up against 409 bed nose, fat bear week, goes up against 32 chunk or 747, not good enough for a name. Then we find out the winner tomorrow. Fat Tuesday of Fat Bear Week. I am in love with this deal. We have to remember to talk to these people next year with the beginning of Fat Bear Week so we can see the bears who come to the river,

and it's the river in the park. They're just chomping all the salmon. They're getting fatter and fatter every day. We have to watch this. We have to watch the videos. We have to talk to the Cat Mai National Park and Preserve guy that sets up the cameras. We've got to be a part of Fat Bear Week. I mean, no question.

Now, I don't want to be the guy setting up the cameras around the bears. I don't want to be that guy. I don't want to be the guy putting it under the water that's probably ice cold that only the bears can handle standing in with the fish. I don't want to be that guy. But I love the guy that does it. Good for him. Oh, wait, Jeff, it could be a girl too.

Okay, I love the person that does it. Now, I don't know. I'll let you know who I'm rooting for. It's either 409 bed nose. 32 chunk or 747 not good enough for a name. It's one of those. Maybe that's his name. Maybe we just call 747 not good enough for a name.

That's his name. In fact, that's what we're calling them. I'm writing it down on my bracket right now. And see, next year, we can have a chewing the fat. Hello, a chewing the fat bracket contest for Fat Bear Week. We have to contact the National Park Service for this. want to be a big sponsor of Fat Bear Week on chewing the fat. It is sponsored by Saki salmon.

I didn't see that in the story. So at least they have some kind of sponsor. Good for them. Right? We have to. I mean, if I have to go to Cat Mine National Park and announce the grand prize winner, and we can do interviews, we can do it all. 409 Bendoes.

How do you feel? 32 Chunk. how are you feeling and the winner 747 not good enough for a name how are you ooh okay back down on all fours easy easy big boy easy go sleep congratulations

you later congratulations live from cat by National Park and Preserve third caller gets a brand new can of what's it what's it called again yeah brand new sacchia salmon what is the name of it

yeah a can of salmon you know the big the big can salmon people. Do you ever have like salmon patties from a can when you were a kid? Yeah. My mom used to have to make, made us these,

it was salmon patty night. You know, I don't know what night. It was Thursdays was spaghetti. Friday was pizza. So salmon patty night must have been Tuesday or something. It was agonizing. And then Monday,

oh, yeah, that's right. Because Monday was Franco-American spaghetti and cut up hot dogs. So Tuesday had to be salmon patties. And, you know, she tried to put little chunks of, onion in it and everything.

No, thank you. I don't mind salmon, but not the salmon patties. So it is 747? Oh, if you go to the cams, as we speak, I know you're going to download this podcast and 747, not good enough for a name, is already going to be gone. But he's on the cam right now. How cool is that? I mean, you can go back and look for it later, look for him later, because we are now rooting

for 747, not good enough for a name. That has to win. Has to win. Fat Bear Week. Tomorrow. If you are rooting for anyone other than 747, not good enough for a name to win Fat Bear Week up against 409 Bednows. You are no friend of Fat Bear Week. All right.

So remember, you can follow me, you know, just write the social media down or put them in your head so you don't forget them. Okay. Twitter at Jeff E.MRA. Facebook, Jeff Fisher Radio. Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. Now, you can hashtag it anything you want, chewing the fat, you know, chewing, hey, Jimmy, or especially for the next couple days, we can hashtag it Fat Bear Tuesday. Hashtag Fat Bear Tuesday.

And you can go there. I want you to look at the brackets. And I want you to take a look at the bears online streaming and take a look because we are now rooting for 747, not good enough for a name. That's what we want to win. Okay? Fat Bear Tuesday. And if 747 not good enough for a name does not win Fat Bear Tuesday, the fix was in. Okay?

Let's just keep that in mind. And we will make a trip to the national park. There will be protests. Or not. You know, it's an awful long way to go to Alaska and protest a sleeping bear. But, you know, we could be mad. Okay, we could be bad. you know all right

I don't know about you but if you're as thirsty as I am let's go to the break room get a drink from the water cooler yeah I didn't want any water there's seriously nothing better than a cold one all right so some headlines for you at the in the break room the US Department of Homeland Security stood behind tech firms and their denial of Bloomberg Business Week's report that Chinese spies

had infiltrated their supply chains. Hmm, interesting. Yep, we're not, we're going to stand behind you because we don't want people to know that that actually happened. But they're saying that it didn't. Amazon has fired an employee, an employee who shared some customers' email addresses with an outside seller on the platform.

Nice. Trying to make a little couple extra bucks on the side. Bezos says, no. That's not the way we do business. Get out. China's central bank implemented a new policy that will cut the amount of most bank, are required to hold as reserves in an effort to spur growth. They're going to try that, and it's not going to work.

Mattress firm, largest mattress seller in the U.S. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. They have 3,500 stores. Who knew? And they're closing 700 of them right now. I mean, that's amazing. Those 700, and you can count on more, because I know they're talking about, you know, we're closing seven, and that will implement some of ours. I'm telling you, you'll be lucky to have 1,000 by the end of it.

Christmas, you'd be lucky to have them. Now's the time. If you wanted to get a good deal on mattresses for Christmas, for the holidays, for next year, you go to a mattress room. They're going to give it to you for nothing. Actually, call my wife.

Box office record alert. The two strong showings and new releases, Venom and a Star is born, pushed movie ticket sales, to an October record. 174.5 million for the weekend. Wow. October record.

Now, the thing I found amazing was that I was looking at the list of top movies and the nun is still like number 10. And it's made like $139 million. It cost them $22 million to make. That god-awful movie? I mean, why aren't they going to make more movies like that? If you can spend, if I could spend $22 million, you know, I just write a check. And they tell you, you know, in a year and a half,

you're going to make 140 million you would write that check every day every day as long as you could eat until the year and a half was up but my luck I'd write that check for 22 million and the year and a half from now oh yeah we can't finish the movie

we need more money and we're just going to shut it down so good luck God bless that would be my luck but it didn't happen to the nun so good for them something Trump the ex-Trump aide, Hope Hicks. Remember seeing her mug all over TV all the time? She is going to join Fox as Communications Chief.

Right? I know. She's going to join officers, communications officer for the corporate parent of Fox News. Not really sure what that means. That means we just want somebody connected to Trump working for us. So you can be our communication. director and you know what we'll make you you can be the communication director for the corporate parent of fox news so if the corporate parent has some press release you can do that one

we'll give you an office in new york and uh it's back over there and here's a phone number decorated how you like and just make sure when i call for your communications update every day you're in the office and then after that I don't care. That's a good gig. I mean, Hope that's a really good gig for you. The Banski art was fantastic. I don't know if you saw this, but Banski, you know, the world famous artist

and nobody knows who he is and he's famous for doing all kinds of freaky art stuff. He had a painting go up for sale at Sotheby's, and he has always said that this painting he installed, and it released a video of him installing this shredder inside the frame of this painting so that if it was ever auctioned off it would shred the painting

so they auctioned off for $1.4 million and they're busy they're all in the auction room and all of a sudden somebody and it's on camera so I'm guessing that probably Baski was the one filming with his phone because nobody knows who he is or she

and all of a sudden you see the painting starts going through the shredder It was fantastic. Now, everybody was all freaked out. They're already saying it's worth more money now. I mean, it made it worth more money. That's the basket that got shredded. Because it didn't go all the way through.

It just shredded it to the frame. Yeah. So, I mean, that's a better piece of art, in my opinion, to that god-awful girl with a balloon. Hell, my daughter makes better pictures than that. Just follow me on Instagram. I post some of her drawings. No question about that.

Right. Some of the pictures, you know, some of the artists that, I know art is all subjective. I get it. It is. It's all subjective. It's like fashion. And you know me in fashion. I am fashion. But it's all subjective. Some people may say that I'm not fashion. What do they know? But so when he does something like that, he, I mean, he has to know, right? You have to know you're making it worth more money. That's what he's doing it. for. He gets the coverage. You get to see the god-offel painting that sold for $1.4 million because it was a Banski, and now it's worth more because it's the Banski that got shredded, right? I mean, that's a piece of art. It's a fantastic idea. And I lived in Michigan for, you know, the first few dozen years of my life.

And I wish this would have happened to me. A Michigan man, curious about a rock he'd used for decades as a doorstop. you know the farmer I bought the place from told me he found this back in the 30s when it hit the earth and he said it was a meteorite I didn't believe him I just been using it to open my door so he takes it in and has it checked that's worth about a hundred grand it's a meteorite now he's got all kinds of museums wanting it saying hey it's a great is the biggest piece uh I wonder how much you know he's trying to get some money for it is it's worth it they're calling it worth about a hundred grand So you're going to get $100 grand for it?

Maybe. You know, maybe. He said if whatever money he gets, he'll donate some of the money to the university. But this is a quote from the farm owner. I'm done using it as a doorstop. Let's get a buyer. Hello. That, my friends, is America.

Did you know that we now have a new Supreme Court justice? Did you know that? And he's going to have, you know, he starts work tomorrow on the Supreme Court. He walks in, he says, hey, how you doing? Yep, I'm in. How you doing? You know why he walks starts tomorrow?

Because it's Fat Bear Week. Fat Bear Week. Fat Tuesday. It's not Fat Tuesday. That's New Orleans. It's Fat Bear Week Tuesday, right? Is that a problem that's all I want to talk about now is Fat Bear Week? Fat Bear Week.

Bear can. No, no, no. What's the? Fat Bear Tuesday. Hashtag Fat Bear Tuesday. And that's when Kavanaugh starts to work at the Supreme Court. That's all the politics you're getting out of me. Because I could go off and we could talk for hours on politics, but why?

It's Monday. Coming off the weekend. You already had to be back to work today. Some of you, most people work today, even though it was, you know, Columbus Day. Did you even know it was Columbus Day? Really? No. I didn't either.

That's how much we celebrate that day anymore. I mean, it's amazing. Amazing. And yet, we still are looking forward to Fat Bear Tuesday, because that's tomorrow. I mean, Brett Kavanaugh can do all the Supreme Court and he wants to do. It's Fat Bear Tuesday. This is kind of a nice story. Strangers are all stepping up to help YouTube or rebuild his Lego collection.

Apparently thieves made off with thousands of dollars worth of Lego sets and destroyed years of his hard work. Now, that's kind of bad. I feel, you know, I get it. I got it. The YouTuber who goes by Republic Attack, right? That's how you say it? Republic Attack? Not that he and I are.

I mean, Republic Attack and I are. Tight. He's known for his intricate videos of elaborate Star Wars Lego. sets. Of course he is. I mean, that's all, on the weekends, we don't have anything to do. I want to watch this guy put his Lego sets together. He's got 12,000 subscribers. Amazing.

Amazing. He's got 14-year collection of all these Legos. And, you know, look, we've all got collections of stuff. I've got, I had, I've had, I've had, I've had, I've had, uh, Power Rangers. I had the entire Power Ranger collection. Oh my gosh. I had the Zords and they all fit together. gather and everything and you know it's worth you know it's worth so much money now I sold it

in the yard sale out of a wagon and whoever bought it from me has got them and I just hopefully you know got insurance on them now because they're worth so much we've got baseball cards I've got you know I've got a box of baseball cards that I know are worth a bunch of money and I'm so lazy I can't bring myself to go through them like yeah they're in there and I know there I mean we used to we used to collect them forever and And my son now has got, I don't want to tell people. Okay, so my son lives in the trailer next to me in the trailer park. He doesn't actually live in the same trailer as I do.

Because in his trailer, he's got about a million dollars worth of Transformers. I mean, I've got Transformers on top of Transformers. We've got them all over the place. He is actually a transformer expert. I know he joins me on my Talking Walking Dead podcast, which, by the way, the latest edition is up talking Walking Dead with Jason Buttrill and Maximus Fisher, my youngest son. But he is technically and explicitly a Transformers expert.

I took him to one Transformer con or I talked about one bot con. And he's walking around talking to these guys that's got their booths. And I mean, he is blowing most of these guys away. It was fantastic to watch him in action with these guys. yes he's that much of a geek don't look at me like that it's okay my favorite part of the whole bodcon was he standing there looking at this big class case

and they're looking at the whatever it was and this other kid comes up and starts telling his dad about what it is and he's completely wrong and Max is like no what this actually is is this and the kid goes yeah yeah thank you that's fantastic so anyway

Republic attack you know got his Legos stolen and destroyed and he posted a thing on Reddit saying you know how sad it was and how bad it was and he was leaving and he was leaving

he didn't know what to do and he got more than like 80,000 up votes on Reddit for the Redders who quickly began to offer help and they created a GoFundMe page now they collected he's been collecting for 14 years he said probably about 18,000

worth of Legos. And the GoFundMe page right now, as we speak, has got a little over $18,000 in it. I mean, that's great, right? I mean, look, that is fantastic, right? I mean, this guy had bad things happen and people got together to help him out. I mean, that is really, really nice. And that really is what America is about. And he, his words, thank you very much, everybody.

this sentence is so poor in terms of words for the feeling I have right now, I don't know how to express my gratitude for your kind words and gestures. I mean, if, that's fantastic. That's all I'm going to say. And that's, I agree with him. Thank you to everyone that helped him out, because that right there is America. And I've got, you know, look, I've got some Lego sets that if he needs some,

call me. I'll give you a deal. I've got one set that's worth about $18,300. I don't know what you've got in your GoFundMe? What's he got in his GoFundMe? 18,350, so it's not the whole thing. You can get my set and still have a couple bucks left over for dinner. So you're good.

All right, I know I did this story on Pat Unleashed during my Chewing the Fat Segment I do on his show every day, second hour, bottom of the hour, 1230 Eastern. Right, 1230 Central? 130, 1.30 Eastern, 1230 Central. Right, there's time zones. One goes here. What time it is in Alaska for Fat Bear Week, by the way? It's only three hours? Only California?

I thought Alaska was farther away than that. I'm being told that it's three hours difference and that there's one little spot that's four hours. That's the communist one. That's real far away. It's over by the commies. but so that's not bad it seems like it should be it seems like it should be a farther time zone anyway

so it just I love this story because the University Colorado State University the Rams wrote an article about 10 ways to make your social media channels more inclusive so the guy that wrote this story

Frank Camp wrote this story for live science. And I am in love with this guy. And if this is all him, bless his heart. Because he talks about, while many of the guidelines where the university-wide social media accounts are standard or inoffensive,

the first three are golden examples of PC culture run amok. Use inclusive pronouns. They, them, theirs, students, Rams, everyone. Use yellow emojis when addressing a diverse audience. The caption for this post reads, Sunsetting equals it's officially the weekend in Ram country.

Avoid gender emojis when possible. Instead, use one of the variations of the yellow smiley faces or object emojis. Now, a good way to respond to that for me would be, Shut up. Just shut up. Stop it. Stop it. But according to live science, he covers this.

In a way that I love, and a way that I think, you would love as well, or at least the way we think in our silent road rage inside our cars. We say it inside our cars. And then when we actually get outside of the car, we're like, yeah, whatever. Okay, it's fine. Which is why we're in the state we're in. Rams are male bighorn sheep that often settle arguments with fights that include ramming their heads into others. I'm certain there are individuals on campus for whom the ram is a representation of toxic masculinity, the patriarchy, and heteronormativity. Calling someone a ram could be perceived as an act of violence.

Using only yellow emojis is basically a slap in the face of representation. A lack of emoji diversity could have a severe and negative impact on. the mental state of minority students. Winner winner chicken dinner is a vile caption that not only excludes vegans and vegetarians from the student body, but one which reminds them of the violence their animal brothers and sisters have to endure on a daily basis. Additionally, using the word winner implies there is a loser and therefore a lesser-than terminology that is less othering would be preferred. Now what I really should have done is went Okay, go ahead, you're fine

You put your hand up, you're fine, go ahead I just want to be the road rager And just everything's fine I know you are not going to pull into that lane It's my lane, I've been in this lane for five minutes It's going slow, just let me get by You're not going, go ahead Go ahead

I'm not going to hit you with my car Just go ahead and get in I hate this drive All right. Thanks for listening to Chewing the Fat with yours truly, Jeff Fisher. Remember, subscribe, rate, review. What's the next line? Say it with me. Share. Thank you. Now, we have been getting some reviews in that have been following, well, they've been doing what I asked. And I really appreciate it. Now, what I've asked is that when you rate, now you can rate it whatever you want. I'm not telling you what you have to do,

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