Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 637 | What’s Good For The Goose

Episode Date: June 4, 2021

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Visit Ancestry.ca for more details. Terms apply. Coming to a country near you soon. A New Zealand-based company is already selling compressed air in tin cans with a mask. Now, the company claims the air is collected from some of the pristine regions of New Zealand. Huh? Now, they're selling it already in India and in China. They say that air quality is at hazardous levels, and people are needing fresh air.

So they're buying home pure air purifiers for, you know, the family at the house, but that's not outside. And that's where the cans come in. Yes, air in a can. you can now carry your own pure air nice you have fresh water in a bottle and air in a can now you i don't know not sure how many it's going to take for you to you know just breathe out of a can every day but according to them a nine liter the can of air lasts about 180 one second inhalations Hmm. So our regular breath is about three seconds.

So that means you're only going to get about 60 inhalations. And if you use it nonstop, I mean, that's not even going to last you 10 minutes. But hey, whatever. How much is clean, pristine air from New Zealand worth to you? Huh? That's what I thought. You can buy a pack of four. Now you're going to have to, it doesn't say what the American exchange is.

So I'm not real sure, but you can purchase four for 99.9 NZDs. Yay. And an RS 50 or an NZD won every minute of survival. So, man, you are looking good. Pure, fresh New Zealand air coming to a country near you very, very soon. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. All right, so I've got to lead with my mistake. You can stop emailing me. You can stop messaging me.

I've already been hollered at from my son. Maximus, you know Maximus. He joins myself and Jason Butchrell on Talking Walking Dead every week. He came down from upstairs yesterday afternoon saying, Dad, Dad, I'm listening to the show, and it's Logan Paul that fights Mayweather. It's not Jake. You keep calling him Jake. It's not Jake Paul. It's Logan Paul.

Okay, I got it. So, apparently, because I care so much, I was saying that it was Jake Paul fighting Mayweather when we talked about the Paul Mayweather fight or the Mayweather Paul fight yesterday on the show. So I'll just let me out front, lead with the mistakes. I apologize. It's Logan Paul. It's Mayweather versus Paul. And it's Logan Paul.

Not Jake Paul. Jake Paul is the one who got kicked out of the stadium after stealing Floyd's hat at their first press conference. And he was banned from the stadium. And now, of course, it was just a bit. So we're going to go ahead and allow him back into the stadium for Fight Night, which is this coming Sunday. But I apologize, okay?

It was my fault. I don't know what I was thinking. I was probably thinking, I don't really care which Paul brother it is. But, you know, I apologize. You have to get it right. So I understand. It's Logan Paul fighting Floyd Mayweather this weekend, not Jake.

There. All right. Out of the way. A new analysis of a Census Bureau survey found that the last two stimulus checks led to more than a 40% drop in food insecurity and financial instability among families. So that's good to know, huh? And over a 20% drop in anxiety and depression. Okay.

I mean, critics had argued the checks were wasteful and questioned whether they'd reached the people most in need. Now we know it helped. so good. Now, the study didn't address the effect on the U.S. deficit. We know what the effect on the U.S. deficit was, but I digress. And it didn't address whether it gave people less motivation to find a job. I think we know that as well. Yesterday, it said, Fortune 500 said that 41 women are leading the U.S.'s

largest companies. That's an all-time record. Well, congratulations to the 41 women who are now leading 41 of the Fortune 500 companies. Among the CEOs are Ros Brewer from Wash Walgreens Boots Alliance and Thessonda Brown Duckett from TIAA. The first time two black women are on the list simultaneously. Another name to know is Citigroup's Jane Frazier, the first woman to lead a major U.S. bank. And that's still not good enough, okay? Women still only hold 8.1% of CEO spots on the Fortune 500 list. So, get over it.

Okay, move aside, white man. Let the women in. And also, the Czech Republic has took up a proposal that would allow women to choose if they want over in their last names. In the country, women typically have their fathers or husband's surname with Ova tacked on. You know, like if your last name was, say, Novak, and it becomes Novakova. Novacova. But this practice has been deemed really, really sexist, and it is.

Oh, my gosh. So a former minister has now proposed ending the linguistic norm, and the country senate is going to take up the vote on the change. So we're not going to have any more of this sexist linguistic norm going on in the Czech Republic. Also, in California, Governor Gavin Newsom has put 41 counties under a state of emergency in an attempt to drastically limit water use. Some scientists say the region is facing the worst drought in sensual. The water levels of 1,500 plus reservoirs in California are 50% lower than normal at this time of the year.

Wow. That is per Jay Lund, the co-director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. And who doesn't love the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis? This means huge cuts to the water that farmers in the state use to produce over 25%. of the country's food supply. So, so much for that almond milk. I mean, California accounts for 80% of the U.S. almond supply. But because of shrinking water allocation,

some farmers are just bulldozing down the old thirsty almond trees. Officials are predicting the water level of Lake Oroville to hit, which is the lake of record for water, I'm told. is going to hit a record low in August. And if that happens, they would need to shut down a major hydroelectric power plant. Oh, that's it, though. We just shut it down. Oh, okay.

Which will put extra strain on the electrical grid. And that's the hottest part of the summer. Plus, California gets, I forget what the percentage is of power that they get from out of state. They don't even produce their own power. In April, California announced their driving. 146 of the 15 146 truckloads of 15 million plus salmon to the Pacific Ocean because the fish wouldn't be able to swim in the dangerously shallow warm waterways connecting the state's Central Valley to the ocean. That is so nice of California. Yeah, the water's getting too low. We're going to ship the salmon. throw them in the back of a truck, take them to the ocean.

Five of the six largest wildfires in modern California history happened last year. 30 people died because of it. If there's a drought going on now, you can count on more fires this year. Wow. And that will have more consequences to the agricultural community and wildlife preservation, tourism industries. That's it, though. That's it. So it's going to be a fun, fun time in California.

You can count on that. Wow. That's just a nightmare. That's amazing that they would shut down the hydroelectric power plant. Just shut it down? Yeah, we don't have enough water. I just shut it down. You know what? Shut it off. I can go, turn the lights off. You guys go home.

We'll call you back when we get a little bit of rain. Oh, okay. No problem. And we have some breaking news today on Fat Pile Friday here on Chewing the Fat. For those of you listening live on the 4th of June 2021, Mission Impossible 7 is delaying their shoot. Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible shut down until the fort, well, for 14 days. They have a production assistant who tested positive for COVID-19 and is going to self-isolate. They don't know how many people on the team tested positive,

but they have temporarily halted production due to the positive coronavirus positive test. Wow, just during the routine testing. Oh, you're positive. Shut it down. I mean, that's what Tom was all wound up about a few months ago back in December, right? I mean, that was the big... How many meters is that? when people are standing around a fucking computer

and hanging out around here. What are you doing? And it went on and on. But he was right. He was right. He was, you know, we were trying to keep people working. I mean, this has been a big time project for Tom. And he's really tried to keep everyone working during the pandemic.

And he had people wanting to go home because of the lockdowns in England. So some of the production crew are like, yeah, we don't want to work. We want to go back home, and we don't know that we're going to be able to get back in before they open it back up. I mean, and he's the one that's been paying in Norway, and then they were shooting in Italy, and I think Norway is where he rented cruise ships for the team to live on, so he would keep them isolated.

Just incredible. Anyway, the breaking news is Mission Impossible 7 shut down until at least June 14th with a positive COVID-19, Sorry, Tom Cruise. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Oh, yeah, there we go. So as long as we're in the break room,

we might as well remind you that, again, today, 6-4, 2021, for those of you listening live, it's National Donut Day. I know, right? It's a good thing to celebrate. I could tear up some donuts right now. I know that may come as a surprise, but, man, I could tear up some serious donuts.

So you could get from you flowers, chocolate-covered mini-donuts, $48. Wait, how much do I get for $48? originally $60 from your flowers chocolate covered mini donuts $48 original price $60. I mean

that's a good deal but it doesn't say how many I get Harry and David simply chocolate marshmallow donuts $43 okay what's going on Angel Food Bakery Vanilla Jumbo donut cake

$89 $1,800 baskets.com chocolate donut and cake pop bouquet. $50. Those look good, though. Oh, man, I bet you those are good. Stan's Donuts, gluten-less donuts, assortment. $59. We got to get in the donut business.

We got to get the donut business. All right, well, let's talk about something where we can get donuts like right now. So, Krispy Cream, Dunds. Duncan and Tim Hortons are all running donut discounts for customers. That's cool. DeJornio also created a limited edition pizza donut. I'm willing to give it a try. It doesn't sound that good, but you know what?

I'll try it. So at Krispy Cream, who just went public, we talked about that yesterday, anyone, or is going to go public, anyone can get one free donut of their choice. No purchase necessary. Wow. And if you've been vaccinated, you can also get a second glazed donut for free. So if you've been vaccinated, you get two donuts for free. For you unwashed, unvaccinated people.

One and get out. Then we have Duncan is giving away free donuts with the purchase of a beverage. Oh, come on. I got to buy something. This is going to give me a free donut. Tim Hortons is selling donuts to rewards members for only 50 cents with any purchase over 50 cents. And the deal lasts through June 15th. I mean, they're celebrating National Donut Day for a week.

That's sweet. I like that. So wherever you get your donuts, let me take a look at the picture of the donut pizza. Ooh, I don't know. Am I going to take, am I going to try it? Yes, do I not necessarily want it? Correct, I don't necessarily want it. But you can win it.

You can win one of the lucky few to try the dejornut. No purchase necessary. Must be 18 years of age or older in the U.S. and D.C. I like how they're separating D.C. now. Like, it's not really part of the United States. Okay. It needs to be a post state. Does it?

Okay, whatever. That's enough. I got you. But a little agonizing. Anyway, you can enter at DeJorneo. It's at DeJorneo. Probably, let's see the link here that has in their tweet. You can follow at DeJorneo.

Keep Life Delicious. Nestle, USA! Nice! Nestle. DeJorneo is part of the Nestle family. Nice. So you can enter, and they've got a long list of, you know, who can, what can happen for you to win, but it's possible that you're going to win the pizza donut or the de jor-nut. Jeez, ridiculous.

And you see in Florida, this is Florida. This is Florida. So a man was attacked by an iguana, and he is saying that he killed it due to the stand-your-ground law. Now, he's saying that because he wants to get out of animal cruelty charges. that could put him up behind bars for, I don't know, five years for killing an iguana.

Come on now. So he's accused of brutally plummeling, pumbling, I can't, a brutally pummeling, brutally pummeling an iguana to death. And he was just defending himself. That's what he claimed. So the stand-your-ground law, of course, allows people to use force if threatened. And there's no requirement to have to retreat. so he claimed he was in fear for his life

and against the three-foot iguana. The vicious animal got the best of the man, savagely bit his right arm. Wow, he received 22 staples for his injury and we're still going to charge him with animal cruelty. Come on, that's enough. Stop it. The animal had leaned forward with its mouth wide open

and showing its sharp teeth in a threatening manner. killing an iguana I thought you could do that in Florida but apparently oh you you can stab them you can punch him with a shovel but they can't suffer oh and this animal

suffered this defenseless animal at least 17 times he was kicked and caused him to death clearly clearly he tormented the animal which was found to have a lot lacerated liver, a broken pelvis, an internal bleeding. That may have happened with a shovel. I mean, okay, no, stop it.

This whole thing is just silly. I mean, if he was actually attacked from the iguana, which, I mean, he got, he was injured, according to the story, then the iguana should not have any rights. Boy, that's weird saying that, thinking that an iguana would have rights to. begin with, but okay. And we did the story on Pat this morning, and I found it fascinating. So there's

15 elephants that are in this Chinese city. They've roamed 300 miles across southern China in the longest movement recorded in the country by the animals researchers, and they are, according to the story, mystified. This herd of wild Asian elephants. are in southwestern China's Yunnan province. And they're just looking for better food. Maybe they've gotten lost. Well, maybe we point them in the right direction then. And we just say, go that way.

And we put a couple trucks behind them and hurt them down the road. So I don't understand. They've devoured truckloads of corn and pineapples. They've tried to divert them to other areas, and they've just continued along their way. and we don't know what's going to happen to them. We're just letting them move around. Wow.

So I know that they've captivated the world now, and they've captivated Chinese social media, but they've already caused over a million dollars worth of damage. Now, I don't know what all that damage is, but if they're starting to damage homes and vehicles and places of business, then it's time to do something. I really don't understand why we're just letting this happen.

And I said there's 15. This story says there's 16 elephants. Wow. And we can't do anything about it? No. If we can't do anything about these elephants, the world has gone mad. There's no doubt about that.

Now the picture from above here has, what, 24, six, seven, eight, nine. It shows nine of them, two little baby elephants. So the others are off somewhere else destroying someone else's property. So I say we, I mean, we talked about it this morning, but really, the Ringling Brothers and Barnum Bailey Circus people, they're doing nothing. Bring them in.

Let's hurt them up and move them out. Hurt them up and move them out. But to just let them wander around and destroy property, even though it's China and I barely care, we can't allow this to happen. Because if we're going to allow it to happen there, the next thing you know, it's going to be allowed here. And that's when I say, we all. all say,

how about no? Speaking of, how about no? You hear about the Jay Cutler, former NFL quarterback and his, well, ex-wife, or soon-to-be ex-wife,

and they're separated. Kristen Calvallari. She has a lifestyle company, Uncommon James. And they've been going through their divorce, and they've got I think that they have joint custody of their children.

They have three kids, eight, seven, and five, two boys and a daughter. And apparently now Jay wants half of her company. I would say what's good for the goose is good for the gander. If it was his company and if she wanted half in the divorce, no one would think anything of it. Now, she, you know, I don't know. You know, we'll see how it works out.

It could be, this could be just because he's mad at her or whatever. But she is like, how about no? It's not your company. I started it with my money and I did it with my funds. We'll see if that's actually true. And she also said that him wanting half of the company, Well, he thinks he owns half of the company. He does not.

And that is not in our non-existent pre-nup. So she is having none of it. You can keep saying to yourself that it's half yours, but it is not. And apparently during this custody agreement and there, you know, divorce announcement and everything, Cutler wanted to come and talk to the company. And he claims that he supported the business and he praised the cookbook and he praised her on Instagram.

Oh, that's so nice, Jay. That's so nice of you. But he wanted to talk to the company, speak to the employees and she was like, how about no? I am potentially creating a monster if I let him go in. So that is not going to happen. So we'll see what happens there.

I, you know, I want to be on her side and say, Jay. Come on now. I don't know how much money Jay is made over the years. It says here he's worth $30 million. Okay. I think that's okay. You know, you set up a couple of trust funds for the kids. You give a...

give a house to the wife and you both move on with your lives. What do you think? Oh man, I've already taken care of it for him. You're welcome. Disney Plus continues to lead the pack of the new streaming services. They just announced that they have reached 94.9 million subscribers. All righty then. Now they're talking about their revenue plunged 28%. from a year earlier levels, which you know, I guess people are paying less for it, maybe. The subscriber growth was at the high end

of the, Alan, yeah, no kidding. ESPN Plus is now at 12.1 million subscribers, nearly double the amount of a year ago. Hulu rose 30% to 39.4 million subscribers across its on-demand service and the Hulu Plus live TV bundle with 4 million subscribers to the live bundle,

Hulu is now the fifth largest pay TV operator in the U.S. Wow. So, I mean, that's, I'm just going to go out on a limb here and say 94.9 million subscribers for Disney is pretty darn good. That's just me, though. I'm just going out on a, going out on a limb. And we'll see. Etsy has acquired the thrifting app. Depop for $1.6 billion.

Wow. So for Etsy, according to this, the median seller is about 39. So depop's overwhelmingly Gen Z user base, more than 90% of its users are under 26. I'm going to have to start using Deepop, I think. It's like a secondhand shopping platform. I like it.

It's the thrift store of the web world. So more than 26 million users across 147 countries buy and sell apparel and accessories. Revenue, which mostly comes from the commission depop charges per sale, doubled last year to $70 million. Sales grew faster last year than its fashion resale rivals. poshmark and thread up while more than $650 million worth of goods traded hands on Deepop in 2020

congratulations. Amazon announced it's going to no longer include marijuana in its drug screening for some of its workers. Now, if you have a position that's regulated by the Department of Transportation, it's you know, you're still going to not be able to smoke that pot,

but they're going to treat marijuana like alcohol, we'll see how that turns out for them. Other employees, hospitality ventures, a management group that runs Marriott and Hilton hotels, have also dropped marijuana testing, so presumably they're going to attract hard-to-find staff. Okay. 7 million drug tests conducted for employers by Quest Diagnostics last year. 2.7% came back.

positive for marijuana, but the number has been rising slowly since 2016 as more states legalized recreational use. All right. We'll see. I got it. Everybody wants to be able to smoke pot. We'll see how it works out. Won't we? Yes, we will. Get ready also for the Surgeon Made in the Southwest stickers. Get this from January 2017 to January, January 2020, five states in the southwest, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, of course, Oklahoma, and Nevada, accounted for 30% of the job growth in manufacturing. Thank you. No kidding.

So, I mean, get ready for made in the Southwest stickers. It should already be on them. No problem. And this is the world that we live in now, for sure. a research compliance specialist. And I don't even know if this story is true. But, you know, it's in the headline list. Porta, Twit, T-W-I-D-T-C.

I don't even know if that's real. Twit. Her name is Twit? No. It makes this story not real. But according to this, she decided to quit her job after her employer asked her to come back to work for a six-minute meeting.

Companies that require workers to return to the office after one year of work from home might be at risk of losing them to more remote-friendly companies. That's what this is all about from Bloomberg. We want more people working from home and more businesses to start becoming remote-friendly companies. No way, that's a real story. Portia Twit. Yeah, okay. She quit her job because she didn't want to come back for a six-minute meeting. I doubt that very much. And we talked the other day about Twitter upping their game or so-called upping their game with Twitter blue. So right now only Australian and Canadian users can pay around $3 a month to access blue features,

like a 30-second grace period to undo or edit a tweet before it's posted, prioritized customer support, reader mode for easier viewing of threads, and color scheme customization for the app. Um, okay. I know everybody's been begging for the edit button. That would be nice. An edit button would be nice, but they are not giving you that. So you can get, uh, the Twitter's product team, I guess has given some new features,

or they're going to be giving new features launching, uh, of these new features sometime in the future. A virtual tip jar super follows for individual users to charge for subscription. voice-based direct messages and tweets, features that limit the spread of misinformation and prevent harassment. I hope that moves to the top of the list because Lord knows we don't want to spread misinformation and we don't want to have harassment.

We want to prevent that. So I better move to the stop, the top of the list. They're going to have stories, which I don't know what they're going to call it. In this particular story, they're calling it fleets. But I don't know what that they're going to call it, they call it, you know, twit stories. And spaces, which is a, I guess, a clubhouse competitor. So more good news coming out of our internet world right there.

You know, we talked the other day about the airline industry and how they are struggling with the passengers who are, you know, becoming unruly. And, you know, I kind of, I think I got a little bit. upset and I didn't really mean to get upset about it. Well, yes, I did because it's partly the airline's fault. But according to this now, American Airlines said it expects, or they expect, 47 of its top 50 corporate accounts to start traveling again this year. Okay, that sounds pretty good. I would like to see, okay, so 47 of the 50 corporate accounts, the top corporate accounts,

say they're going to start traveling again. That doesn't mean they're going to reach the levels they were at. I'm sorry. No. Hilton CEO said that Memorial Day weekend was the busy its hotels have been in the COVID era. 93% of the rooms were occupied. That's good news. And when you look around, I have not kidding to you. Now, there's one hotel that I don't know why I just happened to look at it when I drive into the studios. It's not far from the studios. And I remember during, you know, COVID driving by it. And I mean, nobody was there. You know what I mean? It just lights out.

And this morning, I drove by, and, you know, there's, that parking lot was maybe half full. But that's on a Friday, a Friday morning, you know, at 4.30 in the morning. So, I mean, we're back. America is back. Let's get this taken care of. And I see where United Airlines, as long as we're, speaking of the airlines, is buying 15 super-suffer.

Net Zero Carbon Jets from Boom Supersonic. Supposed to fly twice as fast as today's passenger jets. Okay, I'm good with that. Let's go. Get up in the air and get me there. And look, if they fly great, if their net zero carbon aircraft is on 100% sustainable aviation fuel, Okay, I'm okay with that. That's fine.

But I don't want to be screwed up. You know, if we could get this thing off the ground, we'd be twice as fast as everybody else, but we can't get it off. So that's the way it goes. Right now they're saying that a flight between Newark to Heathrow, taking three hours and 30 minutes instead of six hours and 30 minutes. All right, let's go.

It's supposed to roll out in 2025, first flight in 2026. Let's move up the pace a little bit. Let's get it here now. I like the sound of that. I mean, who doesn't fly back and forth from Newark to Heathrow? I mean, on a darn near weekly basis.

So, I mean, three hours and 30 minutes. And that really is huge for the Hollywood crowd because there's so many people who live in the United Kingdom that come here to work. or from here to there to work. So that's really big. I mean, that's a big chunk of your time

flying back and forth. So it takes you, you know, it take you back and forth what it takes now one way. That's pretty huge. I don't know if you know this, but time is the one thing you can't buy more of. Just let you know.

You can quote me on that. And I asked people to email me with their vaccine stories, whether they were going to get vaccinated or not, then why. One of them came from Leslie. She emailed Chewing the fat at the blaze.com, Chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

And she said that, you know, big fan, anti-vaxxer and anti-masker. I let myself get talked into the vaccine. I'm 5'3, 285 pounds, type 2 diabetes. Wife and daughters guilted me. In parentheses, Don't ask. As a listener, the J&J was my choice.

I know. I won and done, right? And plus she was saying not MRNA. She got it on May 4th, so it's been a month. And she's at zero symptoms or side effects. No tail, extra toes, or fingers. Not even a third eye. Wow.

Not even magnetic. Wow. You talk about getting ripped off. You did, my friend, you did. So she claims in the email that she's not selling me on it. She's just sharing her experience. So there you have. I mean, there's one person who got the vaccine against her, you know,

gut feeling, and it's fine, right? So, I don't know. Do you go with your gut or do you just kind of stick in the vaccine hesitant and wait for a little bit more information? I don't know. I really don't know what to tell you. You know, we have, we talked about now there's 52% of, at least 52% of the United States that is vaccinated. Hell, we've got so many vaccines.

We're giving it away to other countries now. How come we don't sell some of that? Let's make a little bit of money. We've spent quite a bit of money in the last few years. How about we sell a little bit of that? We have some extra vaccines here. Want some? Here.

We know your country is really needing it. we'll sell it to you. Okay? But, you know, we're just too darn nice for that. But apparently, we have a new study that claimed to have proof. The scientists created COVID-19 in the lab. How dare you talk about that? I know.

I know. But there's a big story. The study concludes the likelihood of it being the result of natural processes is very small. Okay. I guess. Then there was another study that showed where the Chinese military bioengineered rodents that they were using in gene editing technology known as CRISPR. And it was mentioned in an April 2020 study that the U.S. government virologist flagged

for National Security Council officials investigating the origin. of coronavirus. So what did they do? Yeah, they created mice with humanized lungs to test the infectiousness of various viruses. Huh. You don't think anything happened there, do you? When the NSC investigators worked backward

to establish a timeline for the study, they realized that the critters were created sometime during the summer of 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic. Oh, okay. Yeah, I mean, they made these so that they wanted to see how the mice successibility, I can't even say that word. I can't, what words can I, I don't even speak today, the susceptibility to the virus that causes COVID-19.

Oh, wait, what? Yeah. Yeah, so, you know, there's that. But those agencies and that information, dismissed. They didn't care. We don't want to see it. So I don't know what to tell you. If you want to get the vaccine, good luck, God bless.

If you don't want to get the vaccine, stand over there, would you? Because it's fine. It's all good, but you stay over there. It's ridiculous. So we've got so much space news. I've got a long list of space news to get to. I don't know what to get to first. I guess we can go to the government UFO report

that finds no evidence flying objects are aliens but does not rule out the possibility. Oh, really? Okay. Now, I would say from that that it's us. I want to believe that it's us. And those, while we're saying that, you know, they're not aliens, that means that they're, you know, products, objects, that we are creating.

And of course, the government said, well, we can't reach a definitive conclusion about what these unidentified flying objects are. Many remain a mystery. Oh. Okay. What about it being from us? Did you throw that in there?

Why? Yes. Yes, they did. They said it could not tie most of the more than 120 incidents over the last two decades to the U.S. military or other advanced government technology. But I guess it leaves the possibility open that those objects were. created by other countries like China and Russia, just not us. Okay, you know what? We believe you.

Do we? I mean, I've got so many space stories to get to. We can talk about the new propulsion system that they're working on. We've got to talk about that. We can talk about Amazon and they're whining to Congress, looking to get some more money. We can talk about Elon Musk. You know, let's talk about Elon Musk just for a second because he's, you know, Mr. Space now. But this really doesn't have to do with space.

It has to do with how he violated the SEC agreement. So he had a settlement with the SEC. They were the company Tesla was supposed to look over all his tweets before they were tweeted. Oh. Okay. No problem. So I guess that didn't happen. So for in the past two years, he has tweeted some things that were questionable from the SEC.

Two things. Wait, what? Yeah, two tweets from Elon in the past two years have run afoul of an agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Oh, no. Oh, no. They were supposed to approve certain post he makes on the social media site. Oh, no, what are you going to do?

Come on now. Really? Two tweets. Delete those Elon. That'll be it. Okay. No problem. We good now?

Thank you. Have a good day. Really? All I want to talk about is Gary Cooper. I know. No, look at me like that. Yeah, I'm talking about. Gary Cooper, the Hollywood actor.

I've been one of the greatest actors of all time. I read a story on Gary Cooper last night, and I am fascinated with this guy. He had a great life, and he pretty much took care of Hollywood biddeness with every Hollywood starlet and some other women, and they all loved him, and he threw most of them to the curb, and they still just loved him. So he had a 35-year career that started in the silent movies, and then in the classic Hollywood Golden Age. And he was known for playing the All-American Hero

and many of his cowboy roles, right? Particularly, I mean, the big one was High Noon. So he was born in Helena, Montana, the mean streets of Helena, Montana, hometown of Pat Gray, in 1901, who was the youngest, and his parents moved from England. And so he was first generation American. Now, he grew up on the cattle ranch, but the mom took him back to England for school

for three or four years until they officially moved 100% to America. So when he was in 1909, when he was 15, he was involved in a really bad car accident, which he apparently was lucky to survive. And so the accident left him scarred. It hurt his, he injured his hip. And the recommendation from the doctor was, yeah, you know,

you probably need to recuperate by horseback riding. Oh, okay. So he does, and it screws him up forever, right? So he always walked with that, you know, stiff, off-balanced walk, little limp, and he sat on the horses kind of sideways. But he had great horsemanship, and that's what he was. gave him the edge over other actors when he first started in movies in 1925. I mean, the guy before that, before 1925, before he started being, you know, like the stunt guy,

he spent a month in Chicago working as an artist and then came back to Montana and did editorial cartoons for the independent newspaper. I mean, he was kind of an artist. And then he went out to Hollywood and started doing stunt work, which he called tough and cruel. So to move beyond the dangerous stunt work, he paid for a screen test and hired casting director Dan Collins as his agent. She said, you know, why don't you change your name to Gary? I'm from Gary, Indiana, and Gary Cooper sounds really good. So why don't you just change that?

And he was like, yeah, you know, I kind of like that. Okay. So not long after that, his career in movies started. He began landing film roles in all these westerns and non-Westerns. roles incredible and because he grew up on a farm i mean on a ranch in montana he again outshone all these others and he had this you know dynamic personality and in fact the after the one movie the first movie in 1926 the all the all of the reviewers said he's a dynamic new personality and a future star. So, Goldwyn offers him a deal,

five-year contract with Paramount Pictures for $175 a week. And that's what he starts, you know, he starts making movies. And he gets romantically entangled with this Mexican firecracker, Lupe Vales, famed for her fiery

disposition, who once attacked Cooper with a knife, hurting him so bad he needed stitches, while filming in 1930 with Marlina D. who was in love with the coop. Velez shows up and insisted on accompanying the duo to the set every day, sitting in Cooper's lap to make sure Dietrich didn't try anything. And then at one time, she shoots at Cooper trying to get on a train in Chicago, but missed him.

So then he starts a love affair with Carol Lombard. and I mean that was just I mean he starts with that but the problem with that was is that Carol Lombard was already married to Clark Gable so that went over real good especially when everything

was all done and apparently Lombard told Gable yeah I really had a much better time with Cooper and apparently she told him you know Coop was

bigger as well. So Clark Gable and Gary Cooper weren't really the best of friends. So then after that, apparently he got depressed. So he lost 40 pounds and he was you know, he had fame and wealth and so he just didn't know what to do.

So he packs a bag and he sails to Algiers. And then he goes to Italy where he lives with this countess a married countess, an American-born eccentric Dorothy Caldwell Taylor, and she was married to some big Italian figure, which made her the Countess Dorothy DeFrasso. He takes a 10-week safari to Africa with her, then brings her back to Hollywood,

and it looks like they might even tie the knot. But no, no, no, no, not so fast. No, no, no. In 1936, Paramount Studios prepared Cooper for a new contract, that would raise his salary to $8,000 a week. But Cooper signed a contract with Samuel Goldwyn for six films in his many years with a guaranteed $150,000 a picture.

So he's pretty good. Now, Goldwyn and Cooper, they get into a lawsuit, right? Because they wanted to, you know, Paramount wanted the deal with him for $8,000 a week. So the judge, they go to court, and the judge says, you know what, both contracts will still give him time to honor the deals. I mean, he can work for both of you.

So they made him responsible for both contracts. But that turned him into the highest wage earner in the country. I mean, he was making almost $500,000 a year at the time. A lot of money. In 1939, hello, $482,000 a year? I mean, he's buying up Montana. So then he was offered at that point, leading, roll and gone with the wind.

Rep Butler, the one that Clark Gable ended up doing, and he turned it down, and he said, ah, that's going to be a flop. It's the biggest flop in history. I'm glad that it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face. Now, of course, you know, the exact

opposite happened, so no telling whether Cooper was bombed, or he was just, you know, whatever, I had your wife move on. So then he's back in the U.S. now. when he came back from Italy and Africa with the Countess, he was on fire, right? He signed the new deal, and he made all these movies,

and some of them were huge. Mr. Deeds goes to town, meet John Doe, Sergeant York. He was, you know, he knew what made his character great, and that was him being a hero, being an American hero, right? The great American hero. So that was the deal. And then he took on the role of Lou Gehrig, And it wasn't even because he liked baseball.

I didn't even care for it too much. He said that he met with Gering's wife after Lou died, and Eleanor told Cooper that if she could have anyone play her husband, it would be him. So he agreed. And he's got a close relationship with Ernest Hemingway. They were friends and got together. In fact, Cooper's rugged image was the inspiration for Hemingway's character of Robert Jordan.

for the novel for whom the bell tolls. Gary was married to New York debutante Veronica Rocky Belfth from 1933 until his death. Now, he had affairs with plenty of actresses, Patricia Neal, Grace Kelly, Lorraine Chanel, Giselle, Pascal, and it was remembered that he had a homosexual affair with the Long Life friend and actor Anderson Lawler. So, and then he had Claire a beau and Lupi Valaz as well.

You remember her, the Mexican firecracker. There's a story that she pulled down Cooper's pants, zipper. She had zipped him at a party, claiming I could smell her cologne. Oh, no, his cologne, actor Loller's cologne. Oh, that's where they get the, that's where they get the homosexual affair from. so she could smell Lawler's Cologne. Now, maybe Cooper just used Lawler's Cologne. I mean, it's possible.

And then he had an affair with Ingrid Bergman. Wow. I mean, this guy was on fire, man. And they all, in 1948, after working Fountainhead, he began an affair with Patricia Neal. This was a big one for him. She was just a 21 at the time. he was like 49

so and he was in love with her now this was a big affair that was kept discreet but eventually was you know part of Hollywood gossip according to this Cooper's wife confronted him are you you're sleeping with Patricia Neal yeah it's true

I you know it's true and I'm going to continue to see her so move on with your life okay just be my wife and go in the other room So apparently he thought he was in love with Neil and she was in love with him. And she got pregnant with his child. And when he found out, he wanted her to have an abortion. And Patricia said, no, that's not going to happen.

And so then they broke up and he went back to his wife. And then later, Patricia tried to reunite with him. And he was like, no, take a hike. So she ended up, I mean, in the end, she ended up. Leaving Hollywood, really. And his final love affair was with a costume designer, Irene Lenz. Now, Lenz claimed that the two had an affair, and that's why she took her own life a year after he died because she said she couldn't live without him.

Okay. No problem. And then he had another affair with his co-star, Grace Kelly that there was devastating news to Patricia Neal as well. So, I mean, my man. And it goes on to talk about him, you know, performing for the World War II veterans and how much that meant to him. He traveled all over the world. He did skits and he, you know, he met Douglas MacArthur and he shared the same sparse living conditions with the troops.

And he said it was, you know, the greatest emotional experience. of his life. And then he was part of the Hollywood Red Scare with the Communist Party. They've done FBI and CIA had reports on him, which were, you know, because he was in one of the movies he played. But he wasn't. He was everything but. And then his buddy Carl Foreman was subpoenaed by the House of the Un-American Activities

Committee for being a former member of the Comptivor. party and Gary was like, no, that's, that's not right. So he went before Congress and stood up for his buddy. And it was a big deal. And if it would have backfired, I mean, he's out, right? He's blacklisted. No, you're not going against Gary Cooper. So he and his friend, and neither of them were blacklisted.

Thank you. No, you're not messing with me. Okay. In fact, Cooper was way far from being a communist sympathizer. In the 40s, he founded the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals to uphold the American Way of Life and keep communist and fascist ideals

out of Hollywood movies. How'd that work out? How'd that work out? Because I try to remember, boy, what a big alliance that has become, right? The Motion Picture Alliance for the preservation of American ideas. to uphold the American way of life and keep communist and fascist ideals out of Hollywood. Wow.

Did that last a long time? Huh? Yeah. And then it talks about how he's such a big deal. And then in 1960, he underwent surgery for prostate cancer, later had a tumor removed from his intestine. Then just after Christmas, 1960, his wife, Veronica. received news that her husband's cancer had spread to his lungs and bones. He was dying.

Family decides not to tell him. They go on holiday to England and France. Gary goes hiking one last time with his friend Ernest Hemwingway. And then they come back to L.A. And the wife says, oh, by the way, you're really, really sick and you're going to be dying soon. And he died in May of 1961 at the age of 60 years of age. 60 years. I mean, just incredible life, Gary Cooper.

know, I know, I just, I've read the story and the guy is just incredible. Plus, he died at 60 years old. You know, all those Hollywood guys, Humphrey Bogart and all those guys, they all died in their 50s and 60s, and you'd think that they were so much older because they were, they looked so much older. But today's 50 is not the 50 of yesteryear. I'll tell you that. You can quote me on that. Today's 50 is not the 50 of yesteryear. All right, I've gone on and on about Gary Cooper. I know. I'm sorry.

Have a good weekend. Thanks for listening to Chewing the Fat. I mean, have a good rest of your day whenever you're listening to the show. But Gary Cooper was an amazing guy and had an amazing life and took care of a lot of Hollywood business. Oh, Sherry was an adulterer or so what. He paid for it in the end. He went before the Pope and the Pope for him. gave him and he became a Christian and ended up, you know,

becoming a Catholic in Hollywood and went to the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills Catholic Church and he was baptized again as an adult. So let it go. Let it go, okay? I guess that's the way to do it, though. Take care of some serious bidsness when you're young and then, you know, ask for forgiveness later. Isn't that the way it's supposed to work?

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