Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - If That’s What you Say… | 12/6/22

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

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And then I look, and no, Stephen Wright is not dead. That makes me happy. That's his birthday. He was born on this day in 1955. So happy birthday to Stephen Wright. It makes me happy to know that Stephen Wright is still on the planet. I love, I mean, his jokes, he has obviously so many, and he's so funny. Some of my favorites, you know, there's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.

I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours. He said, yes, but not an hour. a row. And yesterday, someone broke into my house and replaced everything with an exact duplicate. Think

about it. And of course, my all-time favorite from Stephen Wright, and I'm sure many people's all-time favorite, is everywhere, is in walking distance if you have the time. So Stephen Wright is not dead. This is

his birthday. Happy birthday to Stephen. And I'm thankful that you're still walking the planet. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So look who's headed to prison. It could be a new segment on Chewing the Fat. Look who's headed to prison.

Michael Avanani, a sentence to another 14 years in prison for fraud. He gets 14 years in prison for embezzling clients money, violating tax, laws on top of the five years of prison time for two prior criminal convictions. Remember Michael Avanit, I mean, he was Mr. Superstar when he was representing Stormy Daniels and her lawsuit against Donald Trump. How'd that lawsuit work out, by the way? So don't forget, he tried to extort Nike. He stole money from Stormy Daniels.

He also was supposed to pay $7 million in restitution to his vizement. victims. Good luck. He pled guilty to the wire fraud in tax offenses earlier this year. He misused settlement money from several of his clients. The one client, the paraplegic man, that story is absolutely amazing how he misused that guy's money.

He obstructed federal efforts to collect payroll taxes for his coffee business. So, 14 more years in prison for Michael Amanati. One more person who's headed to prison today. The man who shot Lady Gaga's dog, Walker, gets 21 years in prison. Right? Good. He pleaded no contest, James Howard Jackson, pleaded no contest to one count of attempted murder

as part of a violent robbery of the two singers French bulldogs. Oh, you know, the singer's two French bulldogs. the breed of the dog can be worth in thousands of dollars. He was one of three men involved in the heist that badly injured Dog Walker, Ryan Fisher. And remember the lady

who ended up turning in the dog, she was part of the theft and the shooting as well. So, good. Have a nice day. And yes, he was sentenced in person. Remember, they let him out of jail

by accident and it took him four months to finally hunt him down and recapture him which he did so 21 years for james howard jackson all right and we have an update in the oak mulgi case he's not in prison yet he's just in jail uh joseph lloyd kennedy the second 67 years old he was the person of interest in the Oak Mugge Killings case from the beginning. And so he's the scrapyard owner. He's now in jail, no bond. Remember, he was, he left, and then he was arrested in Florida because he had an outstanding probation warrant for his arrest in Oklahoma, and then he was driving a stolen vehicle in

Florida, and whatever other charges they had in Florida, they decided that they weren't going to charge him so they shipped him back to Oklahoma. He came back to Oklahoma just as a person of interest. No longer. He's now been arrested. Wow. Okay. So according to the investigators, he was the person that they had, he was more than a person of interest. I mean, they figured that he did the murders. And according to this, you know, he was, he's now been charged with murder and dismembering for people in October. It said, it took a while to charge Kennedy in the death of Mark and Billy Chastain,

Mike Sparks, and Alex Stevens, because the investigation was complicated. That's what they claimed. In the words of Ben Matlock, murder is a messy business. So investigators have claimed that they logged over 1,000 man hours on this investigation, and I say claimed,

I believe them. You know, there's no reason to doubt that they've logged in all these man hours on the investigation, according to Chief Joe Prentice, Okamalgi Police Department. Apparently, Kennedy drove to a girlfriend's house out of town and tried to give her son a bicycle. Investigators said that the bike actually belonged to one of the murder victims. Remember, they were last seen riding their bicycles. Police said six days after the murder, he went back to her house, told the woman he'd killed the victims, cut them up because he believed they were stealing from him. She reported that he was very agitated and told her he was leaving and she would never see him again. They said he also told the woman he'd killed the victims, cut them up because he believed they

were stealing from him. He told her they were all against him and he lost it and he just started shooting. She said he told her after he shot them that he cut him up. Oh, I mean, why wouldn't you? So all four victims had been cut at the waist. One of them was missing arms as well. Holy cow. They also found a pair of broken dentures, broken wagon, along with blood and other items in the lot next to the scrap yard. Remember, that was where they said a very violent act took place.

That wasn't his property. And they said that when he was arrested in Florida, one of his shoes had blood on it. Amazing. Got a new car, but he didn't get a new pair of shoes. They said one of the victims' cell phones pinged not only at Kennedy's scrapyard, but later at a gas station where Kennedy was on camera getting gas, and finally at another property owned by Kennedy.

Prosecutors said a lot of rumors have been swirling about this case. I know. I have been one of them swirling those rumors. And they said, we have to base it on facts and evidence alone. Got it. I understand. That's, but that's, you know, good for you. That's what you do.

sorry about the whole rumors thing. That's what we do. It's a case that needs to be tried in court of law and subject to the rules of evidence and not in the court of public opinion. I got it again. Back off me. It was just an idea coming from me. I just had to come up with something for this

because you gave us nothing, okay? They claim that he had no evidence, there was no evidence that he had any help committing the murders. He did it all himself. So Joseph Lloyd Kennedy the second, 67 years of age, is now in jail with no bond

and charged with murdering and dismembering the Okomology 4 in October. So we still have the, you know, the trial to go through because according to the prosecutors, you know, the case needs to be tried in a court of law and subject to the rules of evidence and now to the court of public opinion.

Yeah, we got to. it. Thank you. Back off me. Okay. Maybe if you'd have told us something earlier, we could have, you know, toned down the, the rumors and the other ideas of why this case was happening and what happened with this case. Because I really did. In the beginning, I thought he was on the run, because he thought he was going to get killed, too. Nope, not the case. I still claim that Oak Mugge is a meth, distribution hub for the United States. I still claim that. You're going to have to do some,

you're going to have to do some actual proven to get me off that, okay? Because I think this whole thing revolved around that. Are they telling us all? Okay, I guess. What were these guys? These guys were stealing. They were going off to hit a big lick

and they were going to steal from a scrap yard. I don't know. It feels like maybe that. That's not, we're not hearing everything. So I'll wait for the trial to see if we hear everything. Because until then, we have to just believe that what you're telling us is true. And okay, fine. We'll believe what you're telling us is true.

They're Okamoggi prosecutor. But we're still going to have rumors and public opinions because we, you know, you're claiming that this guy killed all four of these people by himself. and then ran away and told someone that he did it. And that's it. We're done because he thought they were stealing from his scrapyard. And they were off, remember, they were taking off that day to go do some kind of crime that was going to make them a lot of money.

From a scrapyard? Okay. All right. Fine. No problem. I'll believe it. for now. All right, let's go to the break room.

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come on now can we do better please no in the study people who consumed the most ultra-processed foods recorded a 28% faster rate of global cognitive decline and a 25% faster rate of executive function decline compared to those who ate at least the least amount of overly processed foods. Ultra-processed foods were defined in the study as industrial formulations of food substances, oils, fats, sugars, starch, and protein isolates that contain little or no whole foods and typically include flavorings, colorings, emulsifiers, and other cosmetic attitudes. Good news is, we don't eat any.

of that. Examples of ultra-processed foods include hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, French fries, sodas, cookies, cakes, candy, donuts, ice cream. Good thing, like I said, we don't need any of that. Now, the good news out of this is that the study

followed more than 10,000 Brazilians for up to 10 years, with an average age of the participants being 51. Now, this is Brazil, so it's not America. So are hot dogs, hamburgers, sausages, french fries, sodas, cookies, cakes, candy, donuts, and ice cream different in Brazil? I would like to answer that question. Yes. But no, not really.

Cognitive testing included immediate and delayed word recall, word recognition, and verbal fluency. This testing was performed at the beginning and the end of the study with participants answered questions regarding their diet. The study was presented Monday at the 2022 Alzheimer Association's International Conference in San Diego. You want to talk about a party. Now, there's a party. Not only was this published in the JAMA neurology,

but they were releasing and talking about it at the All-Sense. Heimers Association International Conference. Man, that is a party. So in Brazil, ultra-processed foods make up 25 to 30% of total calorie intake. They have McDonald's Burger King. They eat a lot of chocolate and white bread. It's not very different than us. I know.

It's not good. 58% of the calories consumed by United States citizens. 56.8% of the calories consumed by British citizens and 48% of the calories consumed by Canadians come from ultra-processed foods. It's not good. It's not good at all. You have to give it all up.

You know that? We're going to have to give it all up. It's already known that ultra-processed foods increase the risk, increase the risk of obesity, heart circulation problems, diabetes, cancer, a shorter lifespan. Now, now we have to avoid

those increased health risks. Now we have to encourage people whose diets consist of ultra-processed foods to also consume high-quality foods, fruits, vegetables, whole grains. I know. I got it. And they want us to prepare

all our meals from scratch. And people need to know. Now, this is according to, what's her face? What's her name in here? Natalie Goncate is the co-author, a researcher in the Department of Pathology at the University of South Palau Medical School.

She said that, or I'm guessing it's a she, sorry, just the researcher said, people need to know that they should cook more and prepare their own food from scratch. We say we don't have time, but it really doesn't take that much time. Okay. And it's worth it because, you're going to protect your heart and guard your brain from dementia or Alzheimer's disease.

That's the take-home message. Stop buying things that are super processed. Okay. There you go. That's good news. From the researcher, just stop buying things that are super processed. Okay?

All right then. Back off me. Now, that research was published. We have new research now that's in the beginning. stages. Okay, this has not been published yet, but scientists have developed a device they hope can diagnose cancer by listening to your bathroom sounds. Boy, does that sound good, huh? It works by using artificial intelligence to look for subtle changes in the noise made when someone goes number two, urinates or flageolates. Oh, good. So we can tell if you have cancer by your farts. That's awesome.

So researchers have built a database. Man, do you not want to be a researcher in this program? Researchers have built a database with hours of audio and video samples of excretions from healthy and unwell patients to establish a baseline and prime the machine learning algorithm. I mean, that's something you have to do, but I don't want to do it. Oh, man, that does not sound fun. I mean, listening, I guess, if you can get out of your mind what's actually happening,

but to be a part of it in real new, thank you. No. So one of the lead researchers from Georgia Tech University who helped make the device, we're trying to find a non-invased of way where people can get a notification on whether or not they should get checked out. like, hey, your urine is not flowing at the rate that it should. Your farts are not sounding the way they should. You should check it out. I don't even know if the story is real,

because I'm looking at the machine, the prototype of the sensor package that includes a microphone through which bathroom sounds could be recorded. Different sounds produced through urination, flashlands, solid defecation, and diarrhea are all influenced by the pathways in your body and can indicate something is wrong. It does not look like it's a real device.

I'm guessing that it is, I know. It just doesn't look like. It looks like a Mr. Microphone. I ain't good looking. We'll be back to picking up late. Japanese experts are using tiny worms to sniff out pancreatic tumors, which are notoriously deadly.

and hard to catch. I don't know if the worms come back out and say, yep, hey, man, I just had to crawl across a couple of tumors. You ought to get that checked out. I'm not sure how that works out, or if they put the worms inside of you, and then the worms crawl out,

and then we test the worms. I'm sure that's how it's done. But I prefer the idea of having the worms crawl out and lighting up a cigarette and saying, Yeah, hey, whoa, that was a tough one. I don't know while this person doesn't know that he's got pancreatic tumors all over because I had to crawl all over those things.

So if you want to avoid, you know, having tiny worms sniff out pancreatic tumors. Is it good if it works great? But you're able to get the prototype of the diarrhea detector. This can't be real. I'm sorry. no way this detector is real, the diarrhea detector. Okay.

So engineers have assembled a mechanical device equipped with pumps, nozzles, and tubes. When the machine was pumped with water, it was able to recreate sounds of farts, urination, and defecation. In order to teach the machine learning algorithm about the bodily sounds, it should look for. Researchers sifted through publicly available audio,

and video samples of excres. Yeah, I mean, I'm sure there's a bunch of them out there. Okay, well, hey, that's good news. This has not been published, though. This is just in the beginning stages of the old diarrhea detector device that can tell, hey, that fart sounds like you've got cancer. I mean, I don't know about sounding. I mean, we've all smelled some,

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After a short battle with cancer, the death was confirmed by her children on Monday evening. As, I mean, she was, look, they claimed this is what they said. Not that they claimed, this is what they said. As an iconic, as she was on screen, she was even more amazing mother and grandmother. Excellent. Very sad news that she passed away at 71. I just heard her, I don't remember when it was.

It wasn't that long ago. Anyway, it's just really, really sad. dad, Kirstie Alley, dead at the age of 71. She had an amazing career. She continued to work. And you look at the IMDB page. She was still working. I know, you know, she's been a while since she's had any big super hits.

I mean, she did the wrath of Khan, right? Star Trek in 82. And then Cheers started, I don't know, two or three years later, right, in 85 or something like that, somewhere in the 80s. So she was, you know, banking some cash. And Cheers was the big hit. I mean, for, she was in, hundreds of episodes from Cheers.

And then she was in, you know, look who's talking, dropped it gorgeous. And she was, you know, she continued to work. There was a lot of stuff working. In fact, they have one upcoming listed here

on the all IMDB page. That's in post production. And then she was in a TV movie. You can't take my daughter last year, a couple years ago. And anyway, she was, you know, she still worked and was doing episodes of TV sitcoms. And it was very sad.

Very sad. And then, you know, she became, you know, re-famousized. You can quote me on that. Re-famousized. When, you know, with her support of Trump as a Hollywood actress. We can't have that. So, Kirstie Alley, dead at the age of 71. Now, someone who just won't die.

Jonathan the tortoise Jonathan the tortoise celebrated his 190th birthday as he extends his run as the longest living land animal in the world I bet he doesn't eat processed food he lives on the island of St. Helena

in the South Atlantic St. Helena, St. Helena I got it, okay. He was a gift to the governor of the island in 1882. At the time, he was thought to have already be about 50 years old. Okay, so he's 48 inches long, same size as when he arrived on the island. His species of tortoise reaches full maturity by 50,

providing the best estimate for his age, even though some naturalists believe he could be even older. okay now they claim that this breed the s e y c h e l-l-e-s that's what i said say shells giant tortoise uh normally lives to be about uh you know

150 years old and so you know he's he is now officially the oldest There was a tortoise that lived, they thought was older than Jonathan. Madagascar tortoise, yeah, that was gifted to the Tonga royal family in 1777, who died in 1965 at the age of 188 years old. That's according to Smithsonian. but now Jonathan holding tough at 190

could be older I mean there's a few there's a couple other tortoises on the island hanging out with Jonathan there's Emma 54 year old female I don't know if her

and Jonathan still taking care of a little bit of this David the 54 year old male oh yeah and David uh that's taking care of a little business with Emma you can count on that

and Frederica Frederica is a 31 year old tortoise who they thought was a male and now they think now it's a female so I don't know it's either they don't know what the hell it is so I don't know

maybe David was taking care of a little business with Frederica or Frederick and now you know we don't know if tortoises can have gay relationships so I don't know why they thought it was a female and now they think it's a male.

And so we just don't know. But no matter what, Jonathan, the... Seychelles giant tortoise is 190 years old. At least. So thankfully, the king is okay. He was out shaking hands. Yeah, I'm talking about King Charles.

He was out wandering around meeting the people of London, trying to act like he's Mr. all America no way all England and uh you know so he's out shaking hands and saying hello to all these people now I believe

that someone threw an egg in his direction so they had to move him along now remember he got hit with an egg they got hit with an egg they got hit with an egg or eggs were thrown at him not long ago

and so eggs now are banned from being carried in public within 500 meters of the monarch. So they arrested some 20-year-old who apparently threw an egg in the direction of the king, but missed him. And now he's being questioned. So whatever you do, don't carry eggs when the king is going to be around, okay? I'm just trying to help is all.

Just trying to help. Also, you know, we talked earlier about the holidays and things are happening. gatherings are happening. Just be careful, okay? I see news stories every day now about families feuding and fighting over the holidays. There was a story about the alcohol-fueled family

game of monopoly that turned violent. Furniture was overthrown. Gunfire erupted. A man goes to jail on assault charge and a deadly weapon charge. Okay, it turned violent. They went outside, outside of their home after they flipped over

the table. tables because of the Monopoly game and started shooting. Gunshots were fired. Now they said that the gunshots were fired at her father, but it was down the street, so we don't think that he really wanted to shoot him. He was just pissed at the Monopoly game. So, you know, he just started shooting because he was angry.

Then I see a story about a Christmas party brawl between Grinch and a reindeer that leads to a razzed. This is a Christmas party. Grand Traverse County, Michigan. It's right there. If you look at, I'm holding on my hand, this is where, you know, Grand Travis County is up there by Traverse City

because Traverse City were police, Traverse City police were called to the Hotel Indigo. After a fight during a work Christmas party broke out, police said that a 30-year-old man dressed as a reindeer was defending himself against another. 30-year-old man dressed as Grinch. The Grinch was allegedly punching the reindeer.

The man dressed as the Grinch was arrested for assault. Others believe the argument was accelerated due to alcohol youth. Uh, you think? So if you're going to go to a Christmas party, relax, okay? You don't need to worry about, maybe the Grinch was pissed that the guy was dressed up as a reindeer when he's stealing the Grinch's thunder at the company Christmas party, I don't know. We just don't know. But take it easy out there, okay? At home with family and friends, or if you're on an airline, okay? Because I see where a niece

of former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was, and who doesn't love Chris Christie, was arrested recently after officials say she became unruly on a Spirit Airlines plane. Oh, now this happened before it had a chance to take off. Okay, so this happened on Thanksgiving Day. Flying on the Thanksgiving holiday is no fun to begin with. I've had to, I've been held over in cities on Thanksgiving Eve, and then you try to catch a flight on Thanksgiving, and it's just a nightmare. Anyway, just before 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving Day, Shannon Epstein, 25, the Needs,

of Chris Christie boarded the Spirit Airlines flight headed from New Orleans to New Orleans to New Jersey. Okay, so the plane left the gate. Before it could take off, Abstein allegedly began causing a scene, accusing a Latina family seated next to her of smuggling cocaine.

Okay, so I see this Latina family on the Spirit Airlines plane, they're smuggling cocaine. So airport officials said, oh, no, we're going to redirect the old plane back to the gate so she can be removed. However, she refused to cooperate with deputies tried to force her to deplane.

She was extremely combative. So then she started scuffling with deputies at the Louis Armstrong International Airport, Lewis Armstrong International, the L-A-I Airport, supposedly called several injuries. She bit one officer in the arm, broke the skin, she kicked another officer in the groin,

both, according to this report, were treated by paramedics. Oh, that's good. Now, there were allegations that she spat on officers as well. They ended up restraining her by handcuffing her to a wheelchair, which she then attempted to bite and hurl obscenities on them after she was handcuffed to the wheelchair. Now, she kept saying, now, according to this, she reportedly bragged that she was related to a friend of former president Donald Trump. I don't know if someone needs to explain to her. That's not a good thing to say in today's world. You know who I am?

I know a friend who is friends with Donald Trump. I'll help. So she was released from custody that same day after she paid a $10,750 bail. She's scheduled to appear in Jefferson Parish Court in late January, though most cases related to an airplane or airport incident are transferred to federal court. So we'll see what happens with this case. Now, Christy did not respond to any requirements. request for comment on this what's he going to say i mean it's his niece and she needs to learn to

shut the hell up i don't know who she thinks she is and she sees a latina family on an airline they're smuggling cocaine and then she fights with everyone there's a problem there's some other issue at hand okay and plus don't forget uh uh let's talk about uh i know a friend who knows Donald Trump. Okay. No, I'm sorry. She doesn't know a friend. She's related to a friend of former president of Donald Trump.

Yeah, that's Uncle Chris, who is Chris still a friend of President Donald Trump? That's another question. But I just find that awesome that she thought that that's a good thing to. I am related to a friend of the. former president Donald Trump. Talk about press with greatness, man. Holy God. Hey, remember if you order anything from shop.

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And you can always email the show Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. And I'd like to say, happy birthday again. I started the show saying Stephen Wright is not dead, thankfully. And he is still alive.

It's his birthday. That's why he was trending on Twitter this morning. Made me really nervous. I thought we lost Stephen Wright as well. No, we did not. So I'll just leave you with a couple of my favorite lines from Stephen Wright that I did

mention earlier. Stephen Wright, I intend to live forever. So far, so good. If it's a penny for your thoughts and you put in your two cents worth then someone somewhere is making a penny.

Think about it. Since it is his birthday and he was born on this day in 1955 I'll leave you with his birthday joke. I remember when a candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing happy birthday. Stephen Wright

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