Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Ep 997 | It Was a Mistake…

Episode Date: November 9, 2022

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Mexican officials also say that the number of American expats is almost certainly an undercount. Okay, I mean, for remote workers, I guess Mexico City is a beautiful place. I mean, Mexico City is a beautiful place, but I don't know that I would want to live there. Your dollar, according

to the Mexican officials, will go far. The climate is exquisite. The cafe culture is on point, and the culinary mecca has four of the best 50 bars in the world. So if you,

like many people are a little disappointed because of the way in a particular election turned out. You know, if you're listening live, today is the 9th of November 2022. Many elections still lay in the balance, but there are many that have already been called. And you're thinking, man, this does not look good. Well, you can always move to Mexico. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Winter is just around the corner, so congratulations to Minnesota DOT.

They have announced the winners of the 2022, Name a Snowplow Contest. Plowy McPloughface has eight new friends. In District 8, those of you that live in Minnesota know who you are in District 8, your snowplow is going to be called Betty Whiteout in District 7. your snow plow is going to be called Control Salt Delete Kind of cute District 4 is the big

Laplowski The Metro District is Plowosaurus Rex District 3 is Scoop Dog District 2 is Blizzard of Oz District 1 is

No More Mr. Ice Guy And District 6 is Edward Blizzard Hands So congratulations to the new names for snow plows in Minnesota. They received more than 22,000 name ideas, and they narrowed down the list and selected 50 finalists for the public to vote on. The 50 names were determined by considering how creative or unique the name was, whether it was understandable or identifiable to broad audiences,

and the frequency of submissions. So congratulations. There were the 50 finalists. They did a pretty good job. I like Control Salt and Elite. The 50 finalists for the names were Sir Plows a lot, Catch My Drift, Sled Zeppelin. I like that one.

Lord Caldermoat. Lord Coldermote. Lord Col. DeMort C 3P snow Let's see if there's any other worthwhile

Snowzilla Flake Superior Below Zero Hero Say it ain't snow We like that one Let's see Scooby Do and Scraper 2

Winter Warrior and no business like snow business the snow plow named de-iscer no no stop sweet child O'Brien Frosty's demise and the Hollywood Blizzard Avenger sweet Carol Brine and all about that snow

so really the top eight are really the best Betty Whiteout Control Salt Delete the big Laplowski, plowsaurus, Rex, scoop dog, Blizzard of Oz, no more Mr. Ice Guy,

and Edward Blizzard Hans. Congratulations to the Minnesota Department of Transportation. And the snow plows, of course. Look, I know times are tough, but how is it that this never happens to me? Because I go to restaurants from time to time. My wife loves Chinese food,

so, you know, from time to time, we have to get Chinese food. Okay. So now we find out that there was a Chinese restaurant who was serving noodles laced with opium poppy. Uh, hello. Ah, yes, please. I'd like an extra bowl to go. So, the Chinese noodle vendor in the northern Shai province

has been detained for 10 days after admitting, yeah, you know what, I added the powder. or eat out of the poppy plant. Yeah, I did. I wanted to keep the customers coming back. Oh, okay. I added it to the food to make it taste better, and I wanted to improve my business.

So there's that. They found out because they pulled a vehicle over driven by this 26-year-old man, and for whatever reason, the Chinese police tested him for drugs. And it was not long, after he had consumed a bowl of the noodles. And he was detained for 15 days on charges of drug abuse,

wasn't released until family members told police how they had eaten at the same restaurant and tested positive for the drug. So the paper said the risk of becoming a drug addict from the laced noodles, even if eaten continuously for a long period of time, was unlikely. Uh-huh. It added that lacing food with opium poppy was not uncommon. in China. Hello. Why is it uncommon in the U.S.? They had similar cases in 2010 and 2012? All right. I mean, we know that the poppy cultivation is, you know, getting more and more in Afghanistan.

That's their income. So, man, do I want that to happen in the United States of America? I mean, obviously, it's not going to, so stop looking to me like that. But if there were a restaurant that was putting opium poppy in their noodles for their soups, I'm in. I'm in. Speaking of China, I see where they really are cracking down on corruption. Uh-huh. But they just jailed a man for corruption. He admitted it after, I mean, yeah, I'm guilty.

Oh, before the judge. Yes, I'm sorry. Oh, please forgive me. And so he is sentenced to seven years and six months in jail, fined 500,000 one, which is about, I don't know, $69,000 in U.S. money. And they, he's been found guilty of corruption. He took money for anything as an officer of the government. And when they raided his house,

they found bags of frozen meat in his freezer, including chickens, ducks, and fish, stuffed with plastic wrapped gold bars and jewelry. They also uncovered stacks of debit and gift cards that he had buried under bamboo trees in his garden. Nice. He was taking cash. He was taking gold bars.

He was taking jewelry. He even had his wife taking money when he was in the hospital. She was exerting influence in his name and taking cash. Her brother had a printing mill which received complaints for pollution, and they went to the relevant authorities and said, no, you need to go ahead and wave these environmental penalties. And they did. And so he was just, you know, exerting his power.

over these business executives and his subordinates during the holidays. And then he retired. Well, the new, you know, our president of China, Maman Chi, President Xi Jinping, you know, campaigned against corruption. And he is, you know, ensnared more than 1.5 million party members over the years, including 1,100 cadres in this year alone. Now, this particular guy, he wanted to make a point of, because he was retired and he wanted to make a point that even if you're retired,

you're not going to escape punishment. So good luck. Good luck being, being on the take in China unless, of course, you're part of the Xi Jinping political party. And then you probably got a pretty good shot at doing whatever the hell you want to do. Oh, they did announce. Now, yesterday, I don't remember where we were. in the Powerball saga

because there wasn't a drawing and then there was a drawing and then there wasn't a winner and then we now have a winner in California one winner with the $2.40 billion dollars. So we don't know

who that person is in California but congratulations there was one winner. The other winner was Joe's service center. Joe sold the winner ticket. So he gets like a million bucks for selling the winning ticket. Nice. Nice. Now the cash payout is $997.6 million. Now obviously they could take the 299 years annuity payments and get the

$2 billion plus. But I feel like that you're going to go ahead and take the cash value payout at $997.6 million. I mean, that's before taxes, but that's still a pretty good payout. And then we can all be bummed. I was when I went in. And you look at Wednesday's, today's drawing of the Powerball is like $20 million.

And you're like, oh, man, $20 million. That's nothing. so if you want to wait you have to wait they'll hope nobody nobody wins the paltry sum of 20 million tonight all right let's go to the break room i need something cold to drink desperately so i guess congratulations are in order to shan diddy combs as he you know the hip-hop mogul and a businessman man, Sean Diddy Combs.

He is venturing into the world of cannabis. I know. Take that shocked look off your face. A rap, hip-hop mogul, Sean Diddy Combs, venturing into the world of cannabis? I know. I was just as surprised as you.

He's agreed to acquire the licensed cannabis operations in New York, Massachusetts, and Illinois from Cresco Labs and Columbia Care, in a deal worth up to 180. $85 million. The transaction marks Combs' first investment in cannabis. Uh-huh.

And we'll create the country's first minority-owned, vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis company. I like how that's worded. It's the first minority-owned vertically integrated multi-state cannabis company, as well as the world's largest black-owned cannabis company, according to a release from Combs and the companies. The transactions are. taking place because the two companies merged. Cresco Labs agreed to purchase Columbia Care

for $2 billion, and that means that they have to break up the cannabis. Because Cresco is one of the U.S.'s top cannabis producers, so they've got to divest assets in those limited licensed markets, such as New York. And Sean Diddy Combs said, hey, that's me. I'll give you $185 million and we'll make this, we'll make this investment the first minority-owned, vertically integrated, multi-state cannabis company, as well as the largest black-owned cannabis company. So congratulations to Sean Diddy Combs. I thought it was P. Diddy, though.

I thought it was Sean P. Diddy Combs. Man, I thought that was P.D.D. I kind of looked at it up so. Sean Love Combs. also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy, or Puffy? Okay. All right. So, Diddy is just one of the names.

They go, apparently now with this press release, that's what he goes by. It's just Diddy. But I like, I preferred P. Diddy. So congratulations to Sean Puff Daddy, P. Ditty, Ditty, or Puffy, Combs on his. his business dealings. And I don't know if I'm supposed to be happy or sad for Disney Plus. Disney's direct-to-consumer division, which also includes Hulu and ESPN Plus,

reported an operating loss of nearly $1.5 million. And that's doubling its loss from the same quarter a year earlier of $630 million. However, their subscribership is going through the roof. They added 12.1 million subscribers during the company's fiscal fourth quarter. So their total subscriptions are 164.2 million subscribers, and that includes, I guess, cheaper subscriptions in India. And that also, now, if you include Hulu and ESPN Plus, They've got over 235 million subscribers. So now I guess we're going to raise our price.

That's what we have to do. We've got to raise our monthly fee. Disney Plus by $3 to $11 a month, starting in December, while also introducing a version with commercials at the current rate of $8 a month. So everybody's raising their prices. I wonder why that is. Everybody's raising their prices. almost like there's something that overshadows everything.

You know, like, I don't know, what's the word I'm looking for? Oh, inflation? I'm sure. I'm sure that's not it at all. Oh, Mark Zuckerberg just cut 11,000 jobs over there at Facebook. Yeah. Zuck blamed for the meta layoffs. He told lieutenants that he personally was overly optimistic about the

growth and hired too many employees. Yeah. So Meta cut jobs are likely to be the worst of all the tech layoffs so far this year. Yeah. So I wonder if those people are going to sue Zuck like they like they're suing Elon. I don't know. I'm just saying that the job cuts are a common or have already come in Meta's world. Life isn't bad for everybody though. You get the Powerball winner and you've got Cole's CEO, Michelle Gass, who by the way, I, I would say Coles, you know, has not done well under Michelle, but, you know, what do I know? She is a stepping down. Yeah, I know.

She's leaving. She's leaving her CEO post at Coles and for a better job. At least I would assume that it's a better job. She's going to go ahead and work for Levi Strauss. She's going to become president of Levi Strauss. And according to gas, she's going to be promoted to see. CEO of Levi Strauss within the next 18 months. So come on over, leave Coles, we'll make your president, and you hang out and you learn

Levi's business a little bit, and we'll make you a CEO. Okay. All right, good. How's Coles doing? Well, they're going to use a board member, Thomas Kingsbury, as an interim CEO, and then they're going to find a new person who run Coles. I'm here for you, Coles. I've got some ideas.

I've got some plans that we, um, we've got some, um, can implement four-year stores that I would hope would help. And in fact, I would bet that they would help. And I will, and this is just me going on on a limb. I have not seen the contractual arrangements for Michelle, but I will say that I will become CEO of Coles after she steps down on December 2nd. And so the first of the year, you can let Kingsbury be the interim boss, you know, throughout December and sometime in January you can appoint me and I will work for cheaper than

Michelle Gas. I know, you're welcome. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Okay, some headlines that you need to know. I should probably just start doing a segment every day called the fat five. And just so you have like five headlines every day that, you know, you can take with you throughout the day. Now, of course you can take the entire show with you.

Hello, that's what it's all about. But, you know, specifically inside the show, maybe the, you know, the chewing the fat five. So we'll give you the fat five today. Today is Fat Five. Brittany Griner, the American basketball star, who's imprisoned in Russia, has been moved to a penal colony. Oh, that's not good.

Cornell University suspended frat parties and social events following allegations of drug-laced drinks and sexual assault at an off-campus location. And if there's anything we know in today's world, allegations are everything. Anheuser-Busch became the first Fortune 500 company to buy a major league pickleball team. Yay. Okay. Headline number four. Former FIFA president,

SEP Blatter, acknowledged, yeah, you know what, choosing the Gulf Nation of Guitar to host the World Cup. Yeah, that was a bad choice. You think, douche? Not only is it so hot at guitar

that the tournament had to be moved from the summer to the fall, it also the country has been accused of human rights violations, mistreatment of my group workers. Yeah. And I mean, hello. We read you the rules on an earlier show of chewing the fat about what you can and can't do in

Qatar during the World Cup. It's not going to be the party you think it is. I mean, their ambassador just said, I don't know, a guitar World Cup ambassador said homosexuality was damage in the mind. So yeah, former FIFA president. Sep Blatter. Yeah, choosing guitar was a bad choice. We are in the middle of fat five today. Headline number five. Remember the allegations against Alan Dershowitz that the woman claimed that she was coerced into having sex with him by the late billionaire Jeffrey Epstein? Yeah, you know, I may have made a mistake.

I'm just going to go ahead and retract my accusation. wait what yeah I was probably mistaken oh okay well we'll just let it go then never mind you can just accuse anyone and everybody believes it is just unbelievable so she retracts her uh it's been it's it's been a it's been a it's been a while now since she originally accused Alan and now it's like yeah You know what? I made a mistake. I may have been mistaken. Oh, okay. Thank you. Those are your five headlines that you can take with you today under the heading of Fat Five. Reminders that you can follow me on Twitter at Jeffie JFR. I am a blue checkmark verified Twitter account at Jeffey JFR. I know Elon was supposed to kick off this new plan. today where the verified followers would also have a gray checkmark underneath their name where you'd say your name and you have the blue checkmark and then you'd have your at and then you'd have the gray checkmark official so that would be you know your official and your

Twitter blue account that happened that they implemented that and then a couple hours later Elon was like, yeah, I just killed it. I don't like it. It's over. We're done with. Oh, okay. No problem. So he said that the blue check will be a great leveler.

And he's still planning on going ahead with the $8 a month fee for the verified account. It's $8 a month for the blue check mark. So I'm still questioning whether I'm going to pay the $8 a month or not, whether it's worth it to be verified or not. So we shall see. I feel like in the beginning it is, and I feel like it'll level itself out. I don't know if it will last long,

because what made the blue check mark special is that the blue check marks thought they were special, right? That was the deal. Plus, it was supposed to be a verification process, where that is you. right it's who the account says it is but all right i guess there was some fraud going on uh you know people were paying for the blue check look if i met twitter for a while there they said they weren't there was no way to get a hold of them and it was up to them they decided who got the blue checks

oh okay so if you didn't know anybody in twitter at twitter working outside of twitter as a as a contractor or whatever, then it was just luck of the draw. And then they said, or then for, then they, you were able to apply for it and ask for it. And then they took that away. Really weird how it all took place. But Elon is going to fix it all. I'm sure he just sold, you know, a few Tesla stocks, $4 billion.

I guess he needed some cash. And, you know, when you're, when you're the richest guy on the planet, you know what, I need a little cash today. let me sell some Tesla stock, $4 billion worth, and then I can go get lunch. All right, cool, no problem. At Jeffrey JFR. Did I mention Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio?

Yeah, Jeff Fisher Radio is a verified account on Facebook. The Instagram account, Jeff Fisher Radio, is not verified. I know, I know. Could be anybody. It could be anybody running that Instagram account. You know, it's not, but it could be. You see where the guy that killed 51 Muslim worshippers at mosques in Christchurch in 2019, I mean, it was, remember him?

You know, the worst mass shooting in New Zealand history, and the history of New Zealand, worst mass shooting. He has now filed an appeal against his life sentence. Oh, okay. So you want to be able to get out and walk around again? How about no? You're lucky we didn't kill you. Now, I know that this was the first time New Zealand court had sentenced a person to prison for the rest of their life.

Pretty interesting. He was considering appealing the verdict, adding his guilty plea was obtained under duress. Was it okay? The Australian National stormed the mosques, armed with military-style semi-automatics, indiscriminately shooting at Muslims gathered for Friday prayer, and live-streaming the killings, using... his head mounted camera. So he was sentenced in 2020 to jail for life without parole.

And let's see, without parole for the murder of 51 people and attempted murder of 40 others. Oh, okay, good. Now, it's being reported that he is appealing this because he stated in the appeal, according to NPR, that he is appealing because of unjust treatment while in custody. Oh, we're so sorry. You murdered 51 people and 40-some other people got injured, and you were found guilty, and you were sentenced to life in prison, but you are complaining about unjust treatment in jail.

we are so sorry. This might work in New Zealand. I mean, I hope that it wouldn't work here. It might, but I doubt it. I mean, it's a pretty horrific act that this guy did. So you're not getting too, you're not getting too many, too many sympathizers, right?

You killed 51 people. You shot, what did say? 40, others and who knows how badly they're injured. You know, just they're just a flesh wound, I'm sure. And so you got life in prison. You and so stay there. Good luck.

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So we won't know of some of the races. And I don't know that we'll know within three or four days. it may take a month or more. They're already backing off on, you know, that whole three or four day thing. So it got me thinking about mass extinction level events. I don't know why. But I did see where geobiologists have said that they have found Earth, what they believe,

to have found Earth's first known mass extinction event, 550 million years ago. So according to the post-doctoral associate Scott Evans, shows a major loss of diversity during the Ediacaran period, and it caused mass deaths of scores of species. Oh, okay, a new study from the Virginia Tech geobiologist traces the cause of the first known mass extinction of animals to decreased global oxygen availability.

That led to the loss of a majority of animals present near the end of the... Period. Some 550 million years ago. So then I got to thinking, well, what are the other mass extinction events? So I guess there were five, maybe six now, mass extinction events that have swept over our planet

from the Ordovician period to present day where we may be experiencing, yes, we may be experiencing a sixth math extinction event or perhaps even a seventh, right? So we had the end of the... Ordovician. We had a one-two punch according to this, according to this story about 443 million years ago.

Yeah, so this is the top five, but we're actually six, so we could be into the seventh of the one that they just found. Okay, so this one, coming in at number two, was in the first pulse of a double whammy ice sheets advanced, radically changing ocean currents and creating a harsh climate in the equatorial and mid-latitude regions. Many of the species that survived this first hit, adapted to their new world only just come to the second pulse which is a sudden melt another

climate shift and another ocean circulation switch up so there's that one then we have number two or number three uh 359 million to 380 million years ago it was the end of the Devonian. Period. So what happened there? Well, global catastrophe. For example, it consisted of a series of pulses and climate change over 20 million plus years that led to periodic and sudden drops in biodiversity, including the Hangenberg crisis,

which some researchers consider a separate mass extinction event. The change is possibly the result of significant volcanic activity in Siberia, reduced oxygen levels in the oceans and caused other environmental shifts. Huh. Huh. So coming in at number three, or number four, some 251 million years ago. Permian. Period.

Volcanic activity in Siberia is considered the main culprit for this mightiest of mass extinctions. Region-wide eruption spewed toxic gas and acidified the oceans, a disruption may have even shredded the ozone layer, allowing a deadly ultraviolet radiation. Oh. So apparently, a 2014 study suggested the apocalypse unfolded over a span of 50,000 years. Coming in at number four, or five, was the end of the triassic period. That was a couple hundred million, 200 million years ago.

Volcanoes were at it again, but this time, uh, it was. It was eruptions in a hot spot at the center of what would eventually be the Atlantic Ocean. Created another bout of climate calamity, and it played like an echo of the end of the paramed. Oh, all right. So then coming in at number five, or number six, now, it was the end of the Cretaceous, period. And that was about 65.5 million years ago. The cause of the end of the Cretaceous extinction remains debated. No one disputes that a chunk of space rock slammed into the planet near Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula at the time.

But researchers disagree on whether the asteroid strike caused or merely contributed to the die-off. Large-scale volcanic activity in Indians' deck and traps were all over. already underway before the impact and a science advances study published in February suggests both the asteroid hit and the deacon traps activity coincided with a general uptick in planet

wide volcanism whatever the catalyst was it appears a spike in carbon dioxide and a drop in ocean. Oxygen levels were followed by a rapid post-asteroid cooling. Oh. Okay. So now,

now are we in the sixth, I guess it would be the seventh extinction event, which would be, you know, happening right now. Okay. Across time and around the planet, extinctions of one or another individual species are always occurring. Duh, we know that, Mr. paleontologist and famed conservationist Richard Leakey. I know you warned about the activity that was causing the. sixth extinction, but we now know that it's possibly the seventh, and maybe even more than that, back in the 90s. So we shall see if we are actually in the seventh or beyond extinction level event, which would be Ellie. And if you remember the documentary Deep Impact, that's what they were using as the secret.

L-E-L-E. Plus, I know that the United Nations, I know we're a part of the COP-27, it's going on now, and I know that Secretary General Antonio Gatoris implored the world leaders at COP 27 in Egypt to put climate change first. Do not put climate change on the back burner. I know there's other pressing issues,

but we need a faster transition away from fossil fuels. We need cooperation between developed and developing economies and a global phase out of coal by 2040. You are out of your mind, UN Secretary, and you're out of your mind, President Biden, to get rid of coal when we don't have anything to take its freaking place. We're not, I don't want to go back to the cave days. I don't want to have an extinction level event brought on by you when there's no need to.

It's unbelievable. I got it. We're supposed to worry about climate change. I just gave you six or seven of the end of extinction level events. And hello, we all came back. We killed a lot of people. Well, that's what you're going to do. If you're going to eliminate coal and we're just going to make everything go dark and count out, well, we have wind.

Do we have windmills? Oh, okay. All right, we have windmills. That's great. That's great. The reason we got away from windmills in the past is because coal and fossil fuels worked better. And that helped develop the world, especially in the country that pays your bills, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez. It's just unbelievable.

It just drives me insane. You know what I need? And maybe you do too at this time. I just realized that maybe I can relax now with something that's just, well, unexpected. It was an unexpected joy to find out that Barbara Streisand, you remember Babs. Way back in November of 1962, she was 20 years old. And she was gigging at Bonsois. It was a club in the West Village.

And they recorded her at Bonsois back in 1962. It has just been released. Oh, my gosh. Maybe we'll just sit back and relax and not think about the end of the world or any extinction level event and listen to the musical genius that is Barbara Streisand. from 1962 enjoy stream and subscribe to more blaze media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts it was the night before the gathering and all through the house the host rapid

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