Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Insufficient Data... | 7/14/23

Episode Date: July 14, 2023

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And so do you. Size, weight, and motor will be taken into account as councilors. Target dangerous, cumbersome vehicles. Yes, auto-becity. The Parasity Hall is going to impose higher parking fees on owners of SUVs in its battle to reduce pollution in the capital. Details of the charges have not been announced. Huh, they don't have any details yet.

Amazing. But we do know that size and weight of the vehicle and its. motor will be taken into consideration. But other than that, we don't know what we're going to charge you. We just know that we can't have your auto obesity around here anymore without charging you more. Sure, you could be obese and be wandering the city, which I'm sure, you know, there's less obese people in Paris than there are in, let's say, New York. I don't know that for sure. I'm just guessing. But we will not have this auto obesity. Okay. We know that SUV, in the city has increased by 60% over the last four years. I thought we were all in on this Paris Climate Accord.

I guess not. I guess we all aren't in on it, are we? No, no, we are not. 15% of the 1.15 million private vehicles parked in Paris every evening. 60% are SUVs. The deputy mayor has said that SUVs, SUVs are incongruous in an urban environment. There are no dirt paths, no mountain roads.

SUVs are absolutely useless in Paris. Yeah, that's why there's so many of them, because they're absolutely useless. Oh, my gosh. They're family vehicles. They're used for going away at weekends or on a holiday. We're pandering to a tiny minority of the very urban population

who have decided to make the SUV be the symbol of the battle against pollution. So be ready. That is definitely coming to a city near you soon. Welcome, because you don't want anything to do with auto obesity. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. According to reports,

the Labor Department's consumer price index was 3% higher last month than it was a year. prior, which is a massive decline from last June's 9.1%. And they have data that indicates inflation is persistent and above the Fed's 2% target. It is at the lowest level in more than two years as tightening from the Federal Reserve continues. Not all prices are down, though. According to the Wall Street Journal, bread, diet Coke, and frozen peas. are all on the increase.

White bread is 11.5% higher than it was over the past year. Carbonated drinks up 9.1%. And frozen vegetables have jumped 17.6%. And if you've tried to purchase those products, you know that that is the case. Now, I know they'll say,

well, you can get a TV, that's cheaper, and gas is cheaper. And airfares have dropped. It's still high, though. Still high. I know they've dropped. but they've dropped from their highest point. It just drives me insane. Then we have a story talking about how Americans are cutting back

on personal hygiene products. I would say I would like to go on record as saying, please don't do that. No, keep your deodorant, okay? Now, they say in this story that, say, Target is down like 7, over 7% from April to June compared to the same period last year, whereas Target and dollar general rose dollar general is up about the same amount target is down six

percent which means that people are going to the cheaper stores now walmart is up like i don't know three point four percent or something like that so people are still shopping at walmart but the prices are at walmart aren't as cheap as one would think although they try to do a pretty good job of that. But personal hygiene products, you know, toothpaste, laundry detergent, toilet paper, they're all down in the last year. That's not good. Maybe

you buy the personal hygiene product at Dollar General. Okay, fine. I'm good with that. Just don't give up on the deodorant, please. No, on behalf of me and my nose and my family, now there's one thing I do not like, and that is body odor. I can even take the overspraying of cologne and perfume, although kind of agonizing, but I will say that I would rather have that than body odor. And I don't mean the smell of deodorant or cologne or aftershave lotion or perfume on top of body odor. Oh no, no, thank you.

I do not like that. No, no, that smell is not good. And I know some people I got it. If you can't, you can't. I understand that. But please try. Just please try to have some kind of deodorant and be clean. That's all. Just be clean. You can quote me on that. Just be clean. I don't care if you shave. I know shaving cream is expensive.

And, you know, bars of soap or hand, you know, soft soap, whatever. It's fine if you can't do that. And maybe you cut out the skin lotions and the Vaseline and all the stuff that you use on your skin. Is that you're using Vaseline for your skin? Yes, that's what I'm using it for. I get cutting that out. But no, please, make yourself clean. Okay?

This is just, I'm begging you from chewing the fat and Jeff Fisher. Don't stop buying deodorant and using it and taking the shower. Don't stop using toilet paper unless you have, you know, an alternative that works better than, not using toilet paper please i know times are tough i got it i understand completely but please please you know my economic indicator is still holding true by the way and i believe that uh at times are getting a little bit tougher and you know we need to absolutely something needs to be done you can quote me on that too something needs to be done my economic indicator that's you mean the fat Jeff Fisher, economic indicator, is seeing cars broken down along the interstate.

And I've been seeing more cars broke down along the interstate. And why is that my economic indicator? Because I believe that people hold off getting their cars fixed because they don't have the money to get their cars fixed. So more cars break down. And then you're stuck with either spending a fortune and you can't barely drive by a repair shop without them charging you money for repairs. You know, you don't just pull in.

Nothing is, you know, $100. Nothing is pulling in and getting something taken care of for, you know, a couple hundred dollars. Everything. Everything. It appears to me. And my experience is I pull into a repair shop and it's automatically $1,200. I mean, that's the starting point. $1,200.

You get a new tire. Maybe you get a new tire. I wouldn't get you one tire for $400. Oh, okay. I do remember, sadly, I remember buying used tires forever when I didn't have any money. I don't think there's a place that sells them anymore. I don't think you can buy them anymore. If I had a crappy car and needed to keep changing tires, at one point I had a crappy car.

And, I mean, I just lived on used tires. I'd spend a couple bucks on used tires. I always had one in my trunk. I changed tires in so many different places in St. Petersburg, Florida, with the car that I had. I mean, I would just hop out, change the tire, and move on. Took me about 10 minutes tops. Hop out, change the tire, move on. On the way home, I stopped by the tire shop,

pick up another trade out, the one that's flat, and get another used tire. I did that for what seemed like an eternity on that Oldsmobile Delta 88 that I had. Had a size, I don't know, 400 engine in it. I'd love that car. Anyway, I made money on that car, by the way. bought that car for $80. I paid $80 for that car and I sold, I made $300 from the insurance company

and then it was towed away and, you know, I never got anything from it from that. But I, you know, you could make the case that I made money. I bought the car for $80 because the guy sold it to me when I was working and I didn't have a car. I was walking back and forth to work and he said, hey, I've got a car. Just, you know, you can, you know, you can buy it from me. And I didn't have any money. I mean, I was working and making a paycheck each week. And I said, you know, I can, I can afford it. I'll give you 20 bucks a week until I, and I forget how much he was going to sell it to me for. It was, I don't know, maybe $500 or something like that. And I said, you, I'll give you $20 a week. And I did. And I did that for a month. And I had paid him $80. And he, I paid him

the fourth time. And he was like, just come and get the car, Jeff. My wife wants it gone out of the driveway. So just come and get it. It's yours. Yeah, you don't have to pay me anymore either. It's just yours come and get it and I did I loved that car and then it was hit as it was parked in front of a friend of mine's house and by a drunken white man Sanford Oliver Pate and smashed the crap out of the back end of that car and I ruined the wheel on the front wheel anyway and I took it to the insurance company and the guy laughs at me and I was like what are you laughing at that's my car and he goes well we could you could drive it home and I send the tow truck to pick it up or you know and give you give you like $500 or I can write you a check

for $300 and you can drive this thing away from here right now I said go ahead and write that $300 check because I drove that car for at least another year with that big smashed in trunk and rear bumper I love that car all that to say please don't stop using deodorant okay and the economy, I mean, look, companies are closing down. We had the story of the oldest craft brewery in the United States is shutting down after 127 years anchor brewing in San Francisco. They're ceasing operations. Yeah, we're just liquidating.

We're shutting it down. Yeah, we had, we've been struggling for a variety of reasons, changing consumer habits, rising costs and lingering supply chain challenges. You know, another problem we have. was the Japanese beer company that bought the brand in 2017? Yeah, you know, they did some mismanagement things

and they didn't really understand the whole craft beer business in the United States. Then they tried to rebrand us and we just got away from who we were. And so instead of trying to get back to who we were, nah, we just shut it down. Oh, okay.

No problem. Don't worry about it. And then we have Farmers Insurance in Florida. They're pulling out. now they're not closing down i mean insurance is worth way too much money for that however they don't want to pay any more money to uh floridians and californians i guess uh the weather uh with climate change is too much for them and they're they're they're spending too much money on insurance and people um so we're just not going to insure people in florida and california anymore oh okay so people are just going to have to be without insurance i thought you had to have insurance well you

kind of do, but you just can't have farmers, because we're not going to insure you anymore in Florida and California. Okay, great. That is wonderful. I wonder who will insure us? Oh, it'll probably just be some government

insurance program. Huh? That'll be great. It always is. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So yesterday, we talked a little bit about the behind-closed-door meeting that the Secret Service had with some congressional outfit. The House Oversight Committee, I think, they said, yeah, you know what? We don't know who the baggie of cocaine belonged to.

And we're never going to find out. Darn the luck. Man, I wish we, the investigation, we just came up dry. So sorry, I wish we could find out whose it was, but due to lack of physical evidence, you know, we just can't know whose cocaine it was. Sure, there were cameras there. Sure, we have a list of people that came in and out of the White House, but we just can't. Look, we've conducted a methodical review of security systems and protocols,

including backwards examination that spanned several days. Prior to the discovery of the substance and developed an index of several hundred individuals who may have accessed the area where the substance was found. But nothing. There's nothing. What are you going to do? What are you going to do?

I mean, they issued a media release, the United States Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security. On the evening of July 2nd, officers found the U.S. Secret Service Uniform Division found an unknown substance inside the vest view leading to the lobby area of the West Executive Avenue enters to the White House. The substance was located inside a receptacle used to temporarily store electronic and personal devices prior to entering the West Wing. Following this discovery, safety closures were implemented.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Testing was conducted. Yeah, it was cocaine. The substance and packaging underwent further forensic testing. The substance was analyzed for its chemical composition. The packaging was subjected to advanced fingerprint and DNA analysis. Both of the analysis were conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Laboratory, given their expertise in this area and the independence from the investigation. Right. While awaiting the FBI's results, the Secret Service investigation into how this item entered the White House continued.

The investigation included, as I said, a methodical and, review of security systems and protocols. Then on July 12th, the Secret Service received the FBI's laboratory results, which did not develop late in fingerprints and insufficient DNA was present for the investigative comparisons. Yeah. Because, I mean, I know that this, they're, the FBI and their, uh, independence from this investigation and of course, their expertise.

in this area? I couldn't come up with anything. I mean, what about the cameras? Did we see somebody leaving something in that particular area? Well, there was no surveillance video footage found that provided investigative leads or any other means for investigators

to identify who may have deposited the found substance in this area. So, I mean, what are you going to do? We got to close up shop. It's over. We don't know who it belongs to. Come on. Does anyone

believe that anyone at all raise your hand if you believe that tell me why you believe that well it's the government and our president and they wouldn't lie about something like that okay all right you keep telling yourself that are are you kidding me come on we're reading we're reading license plates from space we are we've investigated people who walked in washington dc who live in and other countries that were there on January 6th. We know who was there, when they were there. We've actually tried them, but we can't find out who left something inside the White House.

They all should be fired. That is embarrassing. Just embarrassing. And let alone, it probably belongs to the son of the president of the United States. But even if it doesn't, you know, I guess I would be better suited if they said, yeah you know what it belonged to this person and she was there and she put her phone into the box where they store electronic and personal devices before they went into the west wing and she accidentally you know threw her cocaine in there instead of leaving it in her pocket i guess i would

believe that you know i'd be all right that's you know that's something but i mean if if if there's nothing then we have to believe that it belonged to hunt right if they if they found nothing or no one or there there's no one taking uh any fault for this crime of leaving an illegal substance in the white house nobody's nobody's being charged nothing we just have nothing it was just there was just uh it showed up but we don't know who it belongs to come on now i these all should be embarrassed the secret service should be they should quit because out of embarrassment It's just they should quit.

I don't want anybody to lose their jobs, but if you're part of the U.S. Secret Service uniform division and you can't find whose cocaine this was in the White House, you should just quit. You don't know how to do your job. And will we find out maybe someday down the road that they actually knew who it belonged to and didn't tell us? And so these other Secret Service officers

went along because they were told they had to go along to get along. Well, I mean, we'll see if anyone quits the Secret Service here on the next couple of weeks or the next month. And if that's the case, maybe those are the people that we need to talk to that would actually have information about this. But as of now, don't kid yourself, it's over, have a nice day. The Secret Service has closed its investigation into the cocaine discovered at the White House's West Wing.

The investigation did not turn up any DNA evidence, any fingerprint evidence. There's no surveillance video of a possible suspect, so it's closed. It's over. Just, it is literally, literally unbelievable. Okay. All right. I just, I'm continually amazed, and that is something that amazes me,

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I see, speaking of Twitter, I see where Elon is going to have another huge lawsuit against him. Former employees are alleging that they had federal labor laws violated by refusing to pay severance to this one particular employee and former colleagues that are entitled to. I thought he did actually pay some, severance and whatever, we'll see

it's a legal battle, $500 million lawsuit. It's got to be just hoping that Elon will settle. I, you know, I hope he doesn't, but the attorneys will probably say, hey, settle, and it'll be over. Like, what's her face

from Fox News? She sues and they settle and are happy with settling for $12 million. dollars. Elon, if you're looking for a way to spend 20, 30 million, it sent it to me, Jeff Fisher, I'm happy. You know what? I'm suing you now. I'm going to sue you now. The only way I won't sue you is if you pay $20 million. Isn't that extortion? No, no, that is not extortion. Extortion would be if I said, hey, Elon, I'm going to tell someone something about you unless you pay me $20 million. I'm going to.

just saying that I will sue you if you don't give me $20 million. Completely different. Duh. Also, I see where meta's new threads is now adding new features, the edit button, the following. I mean, they're just turning into Twitter. There's exactly what Twitter is. All the people that were working at Twitter are now working for threads, creating the whole same thing.

I mean, they have, you know, what, over 100. million on the platform now. So we'll see if it lasts. I don't know that it will. It seems, I don't know. It just doesn't seem like a good platform. But, you know, maybe it is. We'll see.

I don't know. I don't see Instagram users using threads. You know, it's a separate kind of thing in my head, but I could be completely wrong. And I saw where Zuckerberg was photographed with two UFC fighters. Mark looked pretty good. You know, he looked pretty good. Although he didn't look, you know, as ripped as the UFC fighters, you look pretty good for him.

I mean, he was showing off because Zuck called him a cuck. So just because you get your picture taken with two UFC fighters, that really doesn't change that. Sorry about it, Mark. 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. So one of the big things on the actors and the writers strike is about the use of artificial intelligence in the industry. I know Bill Gates, you know, I mean, I love them.

He believes that AI could be used to solve the problems. it has created around producing biased and incorrect information. Large language models are trained on a vast amount of data collected from the internet that is mirrored in bias and misinformation. I'm optimistic that over time, AI models can be taught to distinguish fact from fiction. It's the problem is that whose facts and whose fiction. That's why a lot of artificial intelligence developers are starting to receive a little backlash from almost every

direction based on the tactics they're using to train their respective products. And Google is facing a lawsuit that claims now it has been secretly stealing everything ever created and shared on the internet in order to develop its deep mind AI, open AI, which created chat GPT. And I mean, that was, I mean, that was a, they had a lawsuit against them earlier this year. I don't know how that worked out. But then I saw where, uh, the UN had a robot. forum a little while ago now.

Anyway, they robots spoke and they said that, hey, you know, we're not going to take jobs away from humans. That's funny. They're going to be providing assistance and support and will not be replacing any existing jobs. Really? Huh. That's weird.

because in the same story, it talks about how UN food aid deliveries by AI robots are going to begin next year. So that's good, right? Right. I mean, we've already had another city, Jackson, Wyoming, agreed in a closed vote last month to install 30 solar-powered license plate recognition cameras along their streets and traffic lights. I mean, we did that here in this neck of the woods,

and they've already shut it down. I mean, who hasn't paid a ticket from a traffic light camera? I was so pissed. Anyway, so the feeds into a, all the cameras go to a surveillance system, a centralized surveillance system, managed by a private company, flock safety. Okay.

So the town is the first. in the state of Wyoming. I mean, Wyoming has just has so many huge cities to install cameras in. So council members agreed to measure, you know, we're doing this with reluctance. Uh-huh.

So the one council member said, I don't like the particular arc of this particular part of history, but you know what, I'm going to go ahead and vote for it anyway. Oh, okay. So the cameras are part of the Falcon line, which sends instant alerts to law enforcement.

There are different models of the AI surveillance technology, each armed named after birds, Raven, an audio device for detecting sounds of crime such as gunshots, breaking glass, sawing metal and screeching tires, wing, which combs through thousands of hours of footage for specific vehicle identifiers for police, and Condor, which provides a live feed with zooming capabilities. The model names match the company name Flock Safety, which calls its AI-powered mass surveillance system, Talon. That's special.

So Talon has stirred up plenty of controversy for its similarities to the technology and science fiction and realities portrayed by TV dramas like a person of interest and Black Mirror. Well, you know what's funny is I just got done watching a show called Class of 09. It's a mini-series on Hulu. I think FX produced it.

It was pretty good. It was like eight or nine episodes, but the description on IMDB says FBI agents who graduated from Quantico in 2009 are reunited following the death of a mutual friend. That really doesn't explain the show. It was really fascinating. The show goes from a past, present, future, and the future is 2034, at least that's where it ends.

It ends in 2034. But they talk about the class of 09. So the past is 2009 and before, and then the present is obviously now. And then, of course, we're in the future. It ends in 2034. But what they're fighting about in the present and the future is this surveillance system that they have developed. And it's a crime-fighting surveillance system where everyone in the U.S. is a suspect. period. And so they're stopping crime

before it starts. They know who's going to get the crime. They go through and they figure that everyone is a suspect and then the computer whittles it down to the who it could quite possibly be. And then the human comes in and is able to say, oh yeah, it's probably that guy. Well, what happened was is that then they made it into where the humans were just agreeing with the computer. Yeah, the computer's right. And so in the end, I mean, it's a spoiler, so it's pretty new on Hulu, so

I mean, I usually don't care, but I'll give you a little break today. It's Friday, it's the 14th, so I'll give you a little break. I won't tell you how it ends. But I will say that it's more than just this class of 2009 reuniting following the death of a mutual friend. So, I mean, I do reunite following the death of a mutual friend,

but the show is more than that. I enjoyed the going to the past and the present and the future. Well worth a watch when you're thinking about nationwide AI mass surveillance. No matter what they call it. They could call it, flock safety can call it Talon or whatever bird they want to call it. They could do whatever they want. It's really, you know, I know the ACLU is, you know, that's Orwellian. Well, yeah, but it is for our safety.

So, you know, there's, we've got that going for us. And don't worry about it because they're not going to take jobs from humans. Oh, did I mention that Chippole is testing robots preparing their guacamole, because they robots can do it faster. And so usually it takes about 50 minutes for a batch of the Chipotle guacamole. But, and the work, the restaurant industry has been struggling with the shrinking workforce. So we can use robots, right? They're not going to take the table.

jobs of humans, though, but they will, and that's exactly what will happen. But, hey, it's all for safety and the betterment of society, right? It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice, yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no, but Chicken tenders, yes, because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your favorite restaurant food, alcohol and other everyday essentials. Order Uber Eats now. For alcohol, you must be legal drinking age. Please enjoy responsibly.

Product availability varies by region. See app for details. Wow, so Dick Vee, 84 years old now. He's a sports broadcaster if you don't know who Dick Vitel is. He's a sports broadcaster, been calling basketball, college basketball, NBA basketball for, you know, years. He lives down in Florida. I used to see him from time to time. Big Ray's fan. I used to see him at the trop. He has cancer again. The guy, this is the third time that he's had cancer. So he's got throat cancer, something with his, or I'm sorry, a vocal cord cancer that he's got, he's going to undergo six

weeks of radiation in lieu of surgery. If I could spit it out, six weeks of radiation in lieu of surgery. I mean, it's sad, but it's uplifting. He actually talked about that he received bad news, but when I realize it is minor to what some face daily, I will fight to recover.

His doctor, Dr. Zetels, I think, Z-E-I-T-E-L-S, acclaimed vocal cord surgeon, has informed me, Dick. My past issues on my vocal cords have returned to surgeries this summer. July 1st and July 11th, I said he's smacked that in the middle of it now.

Okay, so it looks like the surgeries were prior to giving the vocal cord cancer diagnosis. He talked about having the surgery back in June, almost a month ago, from now. If you're listening live, today is the 14th of July, 2023. But this latest post dated the 12th of July. He talked about getting the diagnosis. and so he's had melanoma and lymphoma, and he's saying that he kicked that, and now he's going to kick this.

And I certainly hope he does. I mean, nobody, I don't wish cancer on anyone, alone vocal cord cancer. I mean, that's the whole thing with Dicky V., especially when he was getting ready to have surgery on his throat anyway, because he said he had to go quiet, and there was no talking for a couple of weeks before the surgery, and then six to eight weeks,

after? Holy cow. And then he's got to get radiation. Man, I do not wish that on any one. But, I mean, back of December, he was diagnosed. You know, he was clear. So, okay. All right. I mean, Dickie, take care of yourself, bro.

Please. Who loves you, baby? That's one of his lines. I mean, at least he doesn't have Alzheimer's. Nobody wants that. I mean, well, I'd rather have cancer than Alzheimer's. I think I would. I mean, I do Alzheimer's, I don't want nothing to do with.

You can't quote me on that. So the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted traditional approval to a new Alzheimer drug, known by the brand name Lequembe. Lequembe. It's called Lecanamab, L-E-M-A-B. and its accelerated approval was issued earlier this year. It's a drug targeting the underlying disease process. Okay.

So, Lekembe is the first medication that's been shown to slow the progression of Alzheimer's disease, including declines in memory and thinking by targeting the disease's underlying biology. Okay. Good. I'm all for that. Now, of course, they always throw in there, oh, hey, we, it's always been untreatable.

We're just trying to advance through it. So, does that mean that they're just going to create drugs now that make you survive with it? Because we don't want to get rid of it. That is not worth a lot of money. What is worth a lot of money is the drug makers making drugs

to help you get through it. Huh. So not the way it usually works. Anyway, Lekembe. I guess it removes plaque that's already formed, but it also prevents plaque from forming. Researchers are already studying whether this type of drug could be used to actually prevent Alzheimer's in the future. Okay, that would be great. Plus, we have studies going on right now that talk about a kidney protein that gives your brain a boost. So I say, shoot me up.

You want some kidney protein? Yes. Yes, I do. Clotho. K-L-O-T-H-O. I know it's the ancient Greek goddess, got it of fate, by the way. But it's also an injection,

which is kidney protein. It's called Clotho. And it improves working memory. I've got to have that. In a study published in the journal nature aging. I love the journal Nature Aging and I can't wait for it to arrive in my

mailbox. Researchers at Yale and the University of California, San Francisco, found that a single injection of Clotho, I'm sorry, clotho protein led to modest improvements in cognitive function in older

monkeys and that the effects lasted for two weeks. So we now think that the protein represents a promising avenue for researching the rejuvenation of brain function in older adults. I say close don't me up, baby. It actually makes your hair grow long too. Okay, yeah, I get a haircut. We know that cognitive decline. We see it every day and someone that rules a country from aging is one of the most pressing biomedical concerns

without truly effective medicines. So this discovery was done by accident because previous work about Clotho boosts cognition in mice and it became important to test this in the brain like ours. So we wanted to move up to monkeys. Let's move up to humans too. Let's take a protein shot of Clotho.

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