Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Fat chance… | 8/2/24

Episode Date: August 2, 2024

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may not be the greatest idea Wait What? Yes We heard from I remember three or four years ago was a big talk about universal Basic Income because

the one presidential candidate Andrew Yang said his idea was to give everyone a thousand dollars universal base income to fight poverty and offset job displacement. Well, the University of Toronto and a professor named Eva Vivalte, and I am a huge fan of Eva Vivalt, shared the results of a three-year randomized controlled trial conducted by herself and four other researchers on the impact of providing low-income individuals with an unconditional $1,000 per month. and the results appear to link UBI, universal basis income, to a reduction in labor force productivity.

Uh, really? You think? Yeah, no kidding. Now, the thing is, is that they claim that, um, according to this, the total household income fell more than 20 cents for every dollar received. So it doesn't, you know, they say that they, uh, on a most basic level, the incentive structure created. by UBI encourages recipients to work less. Well, yeah, but it also would encourage those,

the other people who have drive to go out and earn more, would give them the ability to say, hey, I know I've got this so I can go out and create more because I don't have to worry about this. And that's what's going to happen. Of course you're going to have, you know, a whole bunch of people saying, oh, I don't have to do anything. I've got my $1,000.

I'm good. As long as I can survive. I'm my thousand dollars. I'm good. See, the thing is, and I've talked about this before about the universal basic income, okay? The Jeff Fisher Planck. If you do that,

you need to disregard all the other government handouts. Okay, so everybody says we can't afford it. I would say, and again, I'm not, you know, I am not an economist. I'm just, you know, chewing the fat host

with ideas. And my idea would be that if you were to give people universal basic income, hey, you're going to get this amount, here you go every month. But if you get food stamps and wickjacks and whatever else you get from help from the government, that goes away. Have a nice day. So it would actually, you know, balance out in my thinking process. I don't have the numbers in front of me.

But that's never going to happen. You're never going to talk people that are already getting all these benefits to give it up because they're going to get something else. That's never going to happen, ever. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Congratulations to the South Pasadena Police Department. They have become the first police department in the United States to transatlantic. entirely to electric vehicles,

replacing its gas-powered fleet with 20 Teslas. The switch addresses traditional concerns about range and charging reliability, bolstered by new EV chargers and a solar-powered backup system. The mayor, Evelyn Z-N-E-I-M-E-R, and a police chief Brian Solinsky highlighted the initiative's benefits, including enhanced safety, environmental stewardship, significant cost savings on fuel and maintenance, projecting $4,000 annual savings per vehicle. So they got 20 new vehicles. Okay. Well, I hope it works out well for them.

We'll be interesting to see if they actually do have savings. And they're going to charge at City Hall. Does City Hall get a discount on their electricity to charge the vehicles? And what happens if I'm out on patrol and the charge is low? Better come back. Car number four, you need to come back. You're looking a little low on the charge. Looking a little low on the charge. But we have a crime to investigate.

You have to bring the car back to charge. We'll send out another vehicle as soon as it's charged. I mean, that's going to be interesting to see how that actually works out. but and I think we all know how it's going to work out to be honest with you because what happens when we have a power outage and there is no way to charge. Oh solar, that's right. They have the solar backup. So you'd be fine. Don't worry about it. You'll be fine. That's going to be, that will be fine. That will be interesting.

Now, I mean, the Teslas are fast, so the chases will be fine as long as they stay in range of the charge. The chases will be fine. They'll be on top because the Tesla's, if you've driven them, I mean, they move, man. They do some distance. They're fun. But I don't see how they're saving money on the charges either, especially in California with the power costs in California.

That does not seem right. But we'll see. Keep an eye on it. Because right now we're proud and we're pushing it and we're happy for South Pasadena because, man, we want them to, what's the word? them to have environmental stewardship because that's what's most important for our police department is to have that environmental stewardship. Now on the other side of the country down in Florida,

a St. Petersburg, actually it wasn't, it's in St. Petersburg, but they were pulled over by a Florida highway patrolman. Now as far as I know, the Florida Highway Patrol still run automobiles with petroleum. I know. It's crazy, but that's the way it is. So they get pulled over. The Florida Highway Patrol. What's he doing in St. Petersburg? Go out on the interstate. Maybe that's where he was at. It was actually on the interstate that goes through St. Petersburg. But anyway, he pulls a car over for a busted tail light. Okay. No, it wasn't a bust. I'm sorry. It was not a busted tail blight. It was not wearing a seat belt. I got to remember the story now because the guy wasn't was it wasn't so presumably not

wearing a seat belt. So they pull the car over. Okay. So the officer, sorry, the trooper, allegedly saw the passenger, this Lauren Riley 41 rummaging around the passenger side floor. And that's when the trooper said that, uh, they spotted a small, burnt piece of tinfoil. Okay. So that meant that, hey, that gave me right to search your car. That's another whole other issue with me, but okay, you got it. So then they asked her to step out of the car, and that's when they searched her purse. I mean, okay, go stop for a second.

I got it, but no, you know, you're not searching my purse for that. But I guess since you saw paraphernalia, what's presumed to be paraphernalia, you can search everything in the car. Okay, I get it. So then he was looking through her purse, searching through her purse, he found a Ziploc bag that said bag of drugs on it.

That's a good rule of thumb. Don't put that on your Ziploc bag. I know that those Ziplocs give you a little place to write on it so you know what you have in the freezer. you know, hamburger, ground beef, whatever you put in the freezer, you can write on the, you can write on the zip lock bags.

Don't put bag of drugs on there. That's just a helpful hint from me. So inside the pouch was allegedly 3.25 grams of cocaine, 1.75 grams of crack, 1 gram of personal meth. That's all personal use. That's not a lot.

That's all personal use. Also, they were carrying a stash of pharmaceuticals. Okay. They had 4.5 pills of anti-anxiety drug El prophesolome. They had 1.5

opioid pills and two pills of dexidramophonamine, which is a stimulant used for ADHD. That's all personal use. That's not stash. Well, I guess it is your stash, personal stash. But that's just personal use.

The drug paraphernalia, I guess they found a metal spoon, a syringe, and four glass pipes that were also inside the bag. So now Riley, the passenger, is charged with drug and paraphernalia possession. She has since been released from Pinellas County Jail. The driver, who was not named, was arrested for having an open container of alcohol in the car. I thought you pulled him over for not wearing a seatbelt. Was that true? Did you let him off the hook?

for that particular case or did you just make it up Trooper from Florida I know I'm torn on this story really bad I'm torn because I want to be you know look don't put bag of drugs on your Ziploc bag in your purse

okay that's just dumb however how we got to the bag of drugs is the issue and I would I've got to find out what happens to her because I want to know about why he was pulled over for the seatbelt violation and not charged for the seatbelt violation.

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alleging that Musk reneged on a $1.5 million annual deal for a content partnership. Lemon claims that Musk agreed to the deal verbally without a formal contract, and that ex-executives used his involvement to boost advertising sales. Before breaching and canceling the partnership. Yeah, Don, the advertising sales were tremendous with you coming over there. Stop it. The lawsuit also mentions Lemon's contentious interview with Musk, which reportedly led to the deal cancellation.

Yeah. Lemon is seeking damages for breach of contract, fraud, and other claims. He wants $35 million. Good luck, Don. I tell you this right now. I would bet that Elon Musk would set $35 million on fire before he paid you $35 million. In fact, Elon, what I'd like to do is offer myself. What you need to do is give me $35 million.

And I don't even worry about the blue check. mark after that. And then you can tell Don Lemon, hey, I gave the fat man $35 million before I'll give you $35 million. Let's make that happen, okay? What's that? Hello, Elon, are you there? Hello? No, he's not. All right, let's go to the break room then. I need something cold to drink desperately. You may want to dry your eyes after the story because it's kind of sad. Norah O'Donnell is going to leave the anchor chair for CBS evening news. I know. I'm sad too.

Well, she's not leaving it right now. She can't bring herself. She can't tear herself away from the anchor desk right now. She's going to leave after the 2024 presidential election. And she said, yeah, I've, I'm just, I've had enough. Well, yeah, because you've run the network into the ground, CBS News. they've had all kinds of trouble I mean they've gotten rid of the CBS News

president they brought in the new person and the new person remember we did the story talked about slashing costs and the old the CBS news lady who got the job and then got fired again and I apologize for now remembering her name

the reason she got fired is because the head of CBS said hey stop using and sending network reporters all over the country for Nora O'Donnell and stop doing that use local reporters

and save us some money she refused to do that and the head of CBS is finally like you know what you're fired and that's a good but now and I bet that she was doing that because of Nora because Nora was like no we need our network reporters on that

well have a nice day so it's done after the election she is gone I mean the ratings have tanked with her at the anchor seat. They've plummeted, I don't know, 25% way behind ABC and NBC. And what's his face at ABC is bed number one beating my man, Lester Holt, which hurts, hurts.

So Adonnell, who's 50 now, ooh, starting to get a little long on the tooth over there at the news desk. She apparently is going to have a new role. So she's just leaving the anchor desk. and she's going to have a new role that will focus on bigger interviews. Yeah, you can't get those big interviews as the CBS News anchor.

Can't do that. So she's going to be reporting for other shows like, of course, a CBI. I mean 60 minutes. Of course. It says other shows including. So she's out. She's out.

She's out. Have a nice day. And they're going to throw her a bone for a couple of interviews on 60 minutes, and then they'll say, ooh, we're paying her way too much money. The contract is up. Have a nice day.

So, I mean, maybe she'll get a gig on X. See, the thing is, is that anybody can get a gig on X. See, Don, you could still be doing your show on X. You can still do it. And in fact, I think you are. I don't know. I don't follow Don Lemon.

I wouldn't follow Nora O'Donnell, to be honest with you. But I think, I mean, she could still do a show there. That's how it works. Huh. That's weird how that works. You don't necessarily have to get a contract through X to do a show.

You can just do it. And then if you get the audience, then you make money. Weird how that happens. I see where Disneyland workers had voted to ratify a new contract that include wage hikes, which is going to avert a potential strike, that would shut down the theme park, the California theme park, at a standstill.

And then after that, I see where Disney's cutting 140 jobs from the television division. They claim no teams are being eliminated, but National Geographic, locally on television stations, free form, as well as the network's marketing and publicity teams, will primarily be affected by the cuts. So there's more common. Disney is making some cuts now.

Yeah, we ratified the deal with the workers at Disneyland. There's going to be a lot less workers. Sorry. Yep, you're going to, that's like the minimum wage. Yep, we can pay you a million dollars an hour. Nobody's going to have a job. But you're making a million dollars an hour if you had a job. I mean, it's just silly.

It's just silly. Intel is cutting 15,000 jobs. They posted a $1.6 billion loss. didn't they just get like, I don't know, billions of dollars from the United States government? My gosh, yes, they did. Oh, look at that. I mean, Biden celebrated agreement with Intel.

Gave him like, I don't know, $8 billion and then gave them another $11 billion in loans. I mean, they just had billions of dollars. Amazing how that money is just poof. Poof. Yeah, we can't survive. We were losing money And we're going to have to cut jobs

Goodbye, have a nice day But those billions that you gave us You know, a few months ago Thank you Appreciate it And I've got it buried out back And I've got my new place set up But yeah, we can't

We've got to cut Shoo, sorry Just can't seem to get that together Wish we could Okay, we have to talk About Tori Spelling And when you say we do Yes, yes we do.

So apparently she does a podcast called Miss Small Case M-I-S-S-P-E-L-I-N-G, right? I mean, that's her last name. Miss Spelling, that's her podcast. And she was interviewing or having a conversation with William Shatner. Now, I'm a fan of William Shatner. I love him.

I mean, the man's gone to space. He's done business in space. so I mean I love them okay no problem I mean so it made a lot of money from Aaron's from Torrey's dad Aaron

T.J. Hooker was part of the spelling you know the Aaron spelling TV mogul madness I mean Aaron made billions of dollars what happened to all the money for Tori because she's hurting right I don't remember what happened to the

to the spelling inheritance, but I don't know if she's burned through it because she, you know, got used to a lifestyle that was pretty good. And now she's, you know, really struggling to make money. And maybe she's spent it on plastic surgery. I don't know, because, whoa, the picture that they used for the promo for her and William Shatner, uh, Tori, honey, you need to stop with the cuts. Okay. The, the cuts with the clown face are there. All right, baby. I know. know you've already gone.

I know you've gone too far and really you're at clown face, but just stop. If you stop now, you'll maybe, if you stop now, you'll just be clown. You won't be clown face, okay?

One more, you're going to have to go to the full clown face. Stop now and you're just, well, clown. Tori the clown. So, they're talking,

they end up talking about sex, of course. And, uh, oh yeah. She was definitely talking about that. And she talked about how she was enjoying sex and how she said the sex acts didn't cause her to have orgasms.

And she said, I wasn't enjoying sex. Then Shatner said, asked her to estimate how many times she would have an orgasm if she had sex 10 times. then they debated types of orgasms and what different parts of the anatomy do what can cause you to have an orgasm. And she said to what? Am I masturbating? And it goes, I have not heard this interview.

I will, though. I will listen to these two dangleberries talking about their sex lives because it's going to make me, it's going to make me laugh. She talked about, you know, she's got her husband and she's got three, kids. She's got four kids. Wow. Liam is 17, Stella 16,

Haiti, 12. Five, right? One, two, three, four, five. She's got a 17 year old, a 16 year old, Haiti is 12 year old, Finn, 11 year old, and a seven year old beau. Wow. Okay. Maybe that's why she's talking about, you know, I'm going to have to start an only fan to pay for college for these kids. Okay, so you're a few years too late for your only fans, Tori, but give it a shot. Give it a shot. Call it Cloud Face.

That could be your only fans. Just call it clown face. And then whatever happens, happens. You're good. You're good. But she talked about having, I mean, we're adults here, right?

We're adults here. Are we adults? We're not? You got the kids listening? All right. I'll be nice. I'll be nice. But she talked about what she used to do to prepare for sex from the rear.

And then, you know what? I was simply, just listen to the podcast, misspelling with William Shatner. Because, that's awesome. It's just these both are dinkles. And William Shatner asked. hear about what OnlyFans is. Bill, I was a fan of you until then. And you're what, 93

now or whatever? And I know, I know you're 93, so now's the time to talk to Bill too, because he'll talk about people and things that happen that he shouldn't be talking about now at 93, which is what's happening. I got to, we need to reach out. I'd love to talk to him. But he

talked about what OnlyFans was. And so, Tori, I guess, broke it down to what, Only fans was for a bill. And that's when they started talking about anal. And so, no, no, no, no, we're listening. We're listening because, man, do I want, would I subscribe to Clown Face? Well, no more than a month.

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Pioneering 90s artist DJ Randall, known as the godfather of Breakbeat, has tragically died at the age of 54. No further details about the cause of death. So, nah, couldn't have been that. If it was that, they would have said something. Don't even look at me. So DJ Randall, the drum and the bass DJ, full name Randall rose to prominence in the 90s alongside British DJ partners, Fabio and Groove Ryder,

for revolutionizing Jungle. after developing his own strand of breakbeat hardcore. I don't have to tell you this. He became a familiar voice on radio stations such as Rave FM and Rinse FM. Duh. So, rest in peace, to DJ Randall, the godfather of breakbeat, dead, we don't know how he died, at the age of 54. I mean, I just heard a little bit of history of the jungle set.

from DJ Randall. Is that his name? I got to say it right. Yeah, DJ Randall. And I just heard a little bit of his history of the jungle. Yeah. And I mean, The Godfather of Breakbeat.

Whoa. Okay. I know. I mean, makes me want to do X and just put on some light bands and dance around. Just spend the number.

with my bag of drugs and just dance around. Oh, yeah. Actually, I can turn it off because actually that's making me want to do that, and I don't want to do that right now. How about that football game last night, huh? The NFL, the Houston, Texans, and the Chicago Bears. How about that game? Was that it that it didn't end?

They ended it in the third quarter? Yeah, it was raining. The NFL can't play in the rain anymore. stop it. Plus, there's all two-fold from that story, okay? So it's preseason, it's a Hall of Fame game, it's fine, it doesn't mean anything, and, you know, why play in weather when you can get injured worse or catch a cold, whatever, you know, there's no point in it.

And it was really storming, so it's easy to make fun of it, but, you know, whatever. However, let me say this. And I know it's the Hall of Fame game, so it's up in Canton, Ohio, and I don't expect to have, you know, the Canton. people footing the bill for, you know, a billion dollar dome stadium. But it does lean into my plan

of doming every stadium. It makes no sense to play the national football league outside. Unless you're in a climate, that it can take it. Because I can't take the... Miami went to Kansas City last year,

freezing cold. That's an unfair advantage. Sorry, it just is. I know that people, no, that's football. And that's the way it is. Then they should win and then Kansas City can go down to Miami. I know. I get it.

I understand. But my point is, the games are worth too much to be affected by the weather. It shouldn't happen. It just shouldn't. I'm sorry. I know that old school was the weather and it was important. Welcome to 2024. It's not.

Let's not do that. that there's, it's worth too much money. But what do I know? Don't even get me started on Buffalo because they're building a brand new stadium that isn't domed. I don't understand. How the NFL could allow that? I don't understand.

It makes zero. Oh, they're going to have tarps that come over three quarters of the stands so that at least it'll be a little bit. better. Stop it. TARPs, really? Are you serious? Again, you got me, don't. Don't. Don't even mention Buffalo. Stop it. I don't even know why you mentioned it.

All right, so speaking of sports, I see where the new venue, V-E-N-U, the streaming joint venture, backed by Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers Discovery, and built around the sports offerings of all three companies supposed to launch sometime in the fall before football season. They better hop to it. They're claiming that the initial price tag will be $42.99 a month. And the service

is supposed to have all of the sports offerings that these companies offer. They claim that you're going to have access to linear sports networks, including ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC network, ACC

network, ESPN News, ABC, Fox, FS1, FS2, Big Ten Network, TNT, TBS, TBS, True TV, as well as ESPN Plus. I mean, if that's true for $42.99, I mean, I get ESPN Plus with my Hulu package, so I might have to revisit how much that cost me.

But that's pretty good. That would be well worth it. But there's, apparently, there's other lawsuits going on so surrounding this. And so we'll see. if that actually takes place because it's uh that seems like a pretty good deal i just feel like uh and they the wording of the subscribership for a year was a little concerning like we're ready to jack the price up very soon um because customers will be guaranteed the initial monthly rate for a year from the

time of sign up with an ability to cancel at any time so sign up and if you're you you have the ability to cancel any time. If you don't sign up for a year, then you're going to get jacked. They're going to start raising the prices. And then if you sign up for a year, it's going to be, well, yeah, we'll give it to you for a year, $42.99 now. But next year, it's going to be $8,000 and hope you enjoy it.

I mean, I don't know. We'll see. We'll see if they actually pull it off. Okay, well, we have, what, eight or nine days left of the Olympics. and we better pick up the pace. I mean, we're leading the medal count as the time of this recording on the 2nd of August,

2024, we have 41 total medals. But we only have nine golds. And China has 13 golds. That cannot stand. We cannot make that happen. And we're tied with Great Britain in golds.

And then we have Japan, Australia, and France all have eight goals. that cannot stand. We've got some other events coming up. I know that we have at least, well, men's and women's basketball should be pretty much a

gimmy for gold, so there's two more. That's 11. And we've got some other events that should be golds, right? So, you know, we should be okay. But no way. I mean, we're leading the medal. Okay, good, we should be. But we should be leading in the golds, too.

Last year, the last Olympics, we won the metal counts and I think we won the golds by one or something okay fine whatever just get to it get to it and then we've got the closing ceremonies it's coming up but the closing ceremonies now you know they're going to be

readjusting the closing ceremonies from how the backlash from the opening ceremonies right so I'm told I didn't have an inside source I read this on the internet that they are preparing for the handover, right?

So Paris hands it over to Los Angeles. It's going to the next Olympics, next time we're Olympics in Los Angeles. So on August 11th, they're having this, their closing ceremony. And I guess plans are underway for Tom Cruise to make a major appearance.

He's already been there. We've seen him at the opening ceremonies. We've seen him at a couple of events. And so I guess there's going to be some big event, where the Olympic flag is handed over to the 2028 host city, which is Los Angeles. The mayor Karen Bass

from Los Angeles is supposed to receive the flag from the Paris mayor and I guess it's going to be a major Hollywood production. And that's exactly what Dr. Jill Biden said in her. It was so fabulous, the open ceremonies. They were so fabulous. I didn't know how we were going to outdo them.

But we have Hollywood. Right? That's what she was saying, but we have Hollywood. Will they use the top gun stuff? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Tom didn't call me.

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What's the Lie? Our contestant today, returning champion, three-time winner, Leslie McLeod. If he wins, he does not get to come back. for another time. Four times in your out. So today is his final day. Win or lose? No more Leslie McLeod.

So Les is going to have to dry his eyes. But if he wins, you'll get another Talking Sense, Jeffrey Blue Freshie. And for more information, you can go to the Talking Sense Facebook group and find the Freshie scent and design just for you. Also, if you or someone you love, would like to be a contestant on What's the Lie?

Email Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. Mr. Leslie McLeod, Welcome back to What's the Lie? How are you, sir? Oh, I'm doing awesome. So you are busy driving and talking to me, aren't you? I can hear from the background, you're busy working? Yes, sir.

So whatever way you leaned right then, don't lean. Don't do that. Okay, I got you. How's this? It's good. Don't lean that way. Don't do it. Okay.

All right, I know you're working, so that's fine. It's fine. You're out there on the road. just, you know, keep both hands on the wheel and don't touch the lady behind you like that. Just don't do it. But also, and also, just a reminder, and I'm not

saying if this happened, I'm just reminding you, no cheating. No searching on the internet. No, during the second reading, I'm not accusing you of anything. I'm just reminding you that those are the rules, okay? All right. So you're ready to go?

Yes, sir? All right. One last time for Leslie McLeod. One of them not real. What's the lie? Headline number one. New Jersey man on an American Airlines flight attempted to have sex with a flight attendant. Headline number two. Why just one venue at the Paris Olympics is allowed to have bees in the walls. Headline number three, 9 to 5 remake focuses on Gen Z versus boomers in the workplace.

Headline number four, how the sole white guy on Team Japan. Olympic basketball team made the cut. Those are your four headlines. Headline number one, New Jersey man on an American Airlines flight attempted to have sacks with a flight attendant. Headline number two, why just one venue at the Paris Olympics is allowed to have bees in the walls. Headline number three, nine to five remake focuses on Gen Z versus boomers in the workplace. Headline number four, how the sole white guy on Team's Olympic basketball team made the cut. Those are your four headlines. Leslie, what is the lie?

I have to go to number four. Number four? My heart be still after three championships in a row. Oh, Leslie, man, I wanted you to win the fourth time, too. I did. Very up. I can come back, though, right? Broke my heart.

Yeah, no. Oh, man. Man, I wish that could happen, but no, you can't. So, I mean, I... Oh, well, it was. It was a good run. Yeah, it was.

It was a great run. And, you know, appreciate it. So, you know, three out of four, ain't bad. Thanks for listening to What's the Lie. What's the Lie is a subsidiary of Chewing the Bad Enterprises.

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