Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It's Already Happened... | 7/20/23

Episode Date: July 20, 2023

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I mean, threads is dead. After surpassing 100 million user signups in less than a week, user engagement on threads as slowed. Just a little. Threads daily active users fell from 49 million on July 7th, two days after its launch, to 23.6 million users. Wow. According to a report published this week by Web Traffic Analysis Analysis. firm similar web and I mean I just scour the report on web traffic analysis from similar web. The app's average usage time fell from 21 minutes to six minutes over the same time frame.

So from July 7th to last Friday, it went from 21 minutes to six minutes and it went from 49 million active users to 23.6 million users. Wow. Threads is deads. Now, of course, you can follow me on threads at Jeff Fisher Radio. Yeah, that's it.

Jeff Fisher Radio. But it's dead, so just follow me on Twitter at Jeffey, JFR. Welcome! And Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio as well. I might as well do all the socials, right? You can follow me on my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fischer. You can order a cameo from me at Jeffie JFR and Cameo. That's not free, but you can still order a cameo.

Just tell Cameo what you want from me, and I'll do it. That's how the app works. That's at Jeffie JFR. And you can always email the show Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. So there you have it. Threads is dead. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the fat.

It is a busy time for human feces, poo in America and around the world, actually. We'll start with human waste leaking from a semi-truck is to blame for several crashes along Connecticut Highway. Oh my gosh. So a semi-truck, around 10.30 on Monday night, received reports of a tractor trailer. leaking unknown substance later determined to be human waste. So it created slick conditions and caused several vehicles to spin out and crash into concrete barriers. And then think about it, you're going to have to get out. Oh, the smell had to be just horrific.

A motorcyclist was taken to a nearby hospital and treated for minor injuries after he spun out on account of these sloth. slippery roadway, yeah. Police identified the semi-suspected of leaking the hazardous waste, called the business name emblazoned on its side. H.I. Stone and son. The company then contacted the driver of the truck, later identified as this 34-year-old man. Investigators believe that he knew his tractor was releasing feces out of the pavement,

but continued to drive anyway. He exited the highway and pulled over. to wait for police on Route 8. That was after they contacted the company. So he was already all along the highway. Oh, my gosh. Just, I mean, I could almost up Chuck thinking about it. So he's been charged with a dozen counts,

including first-degree reckless endangerment, one count of reckless driving, one count of operating a vehicle without the proper load cover. You need to always tarp that load, especially if you are hauling human waste. Please tarp that load.

He's been now released on bail and he's scheduled to peer in court sometime at a later date. So just amazing that we have all this nastiness on the interstate. And that's, I mean, that's just in Connecticut, okay? Then, about a week or so ago,

we talked about the nastiness of beaches. Okay, and what's happening in beaches? Well, we found out now on the beaches of Ibiza, we temporarily closed them this summer. The water contamination was a concern. Really? Yeah. The Spain's famous Ibiza Island, everyone said, yeah, no, we're not going to the beach.

We've got the beach closed today. High levels of fecal matter in the water. Oh, no. No, thank you. The co-founded an amount of fecal matter that exceeded approved safety levels. And that happens to beaches all the time. That's what we were talking about last week about. They were concerned about more beaches, even on lakes and on the oceans that are coming up with unsafe levels.

I'm sorry, with a fecal matter that exceeds approved safety levels. Oh my gosh. And these cities and areas are, you know, they don't want to close down these beaches. And this is a tourist area. It's a famous European vacation hotspot. And no, you're not going to the beach today. There's too much poop in the water. You do not want to have the E. coli and infection from the contaminated waters.

No, thank you. So if you've been swimming and you. you think that possible issue with the water and you have symptoms you know stomach cramping diarrhea uh you do not want any of that and it also can cause uh fevers headaches and nausea you can get a bacteria infection so you don't want any of that then i see a video from a airplane British Airways flight from Pakistan to London and the video is showing

a guy walking along from one bathroom all the way along the walkway up to the other bathroom and on the floor is waste from the toilets and when you look at the toilets in the bathrooms they're overflowing and spewing stuff out of them holy cow

now British Airways is a pretty big airline. And I know it's coming from Pakistan. It's coming from Pakistan. So maybe they were a little lax on the maintenance. I don't know. I'm just saying that it seems like that's an issue. And to be flying in that, oh.

Oh. I mean, it makes things worse because of the smell and the sopiness. You're going to end up having other people, you know, barf, and they just can't handle it. I couldn't. I mean, I would be completely freaked out because you can't get off. You're in flight and you're having this nastiness.

Oh, my gosh. Now, let's move on to Las Vegas, shall we? A Delta flight on the tarmac. And since we're in the poo on the beaches and roadways and airplanes, we have the airplane on the tarmac at Harry Reid International. airport where they spent hours waiting on the tarmac with triple digit temperatures. They were out

there for over four hours. The inside temperature was at least 111 degrees. I mean, it is completely unacceptable. And when you're out there on the tarmac, just waiting, there's no AC, everything's turned down, and they're apologizing, oh, we're sorry for the delay. Are you? Are you, though? Because after a certain point, and the airlines are trying, I mean, The airport responded, Delta Airlines responded. Everybody's trying to take a little bit of heat off themselves. I get that. But, you know, I know that the airline said customers were accommodated on other flights

and received direct apologies and compensatory gestures. Did they? Was that enough? I'm sorry. No, I would not have accepted any compensatory gestures. No, we'll talk later. I don't know how long it would have taken for me to want to get off

Flight 555 that's been out on the tarmac for more than four hours but it certainly wouldn't have been four hours. I'm really surprised that someone more than, you know, multiple passengers didn't say, hey, we're getting off this thing. We're going to open the door and we're going to kick the shoot down

and we're going to get off this airplane. We're going to do it right now. I mean, we had the story yesterday too where the neighborhood outside of Chicago O'Hare Airport had one of the giant plane shoots the slides drop on the house so maybe this plane in Vegas didn't have the shoot.

I don't know. I don't know but that's too long. Now, getting to the issues at hand, people were sick. They had to call multiple firemen and departments. People had thrown up. People had fainted. Some people had soiled themselves. Some people passed out.

Others ended up just trying to use the oxygen mask that was provided by the airline there. Here's the deal. I said this earlier on Pat Gray on Leash this morning. If I'm on an airline and someone, and we're parked, we're parked. And someone next to me soils themselves, I'm out. I'm out. We're gone, have a nice day. Excuse me.

Flight attendant, airline waitress, sky waitress. Yeah, here's what's going to happen. I'm going to leave. So you can either arrest me and send me to jail where I'll have air conditioning and food. Or you can help me open this door and push down the slide if one is available and hasn't fallen off. And we're out of here because I'm not hanging out here anymore. It's too hot. We've been here too long

And I got this guy sitting next to me And he's got crap in his pants So time to go Okay All right, let's go to the break room I need something cold to drink Desperately So we'll see how much longer this strike last

With SAG After and the writer's strike I see where the Screen Actors Guild American Federation of Television and Radio artists, you know, you love them, Sag Aftera, released an FAQ, detailing how union and non-union creators can avoid

crossing the digital picket line. The guidelines explain that creators can fulfill any contracts that were agreed upon before the strike started and work on brand partnerships, but shouldn't take on any new Barbie makeup

tutorials at all. The Guild also advises creators not do hype any struck work, even if that, even if they promote it as a fan. So if a non-union influencer decides to make some extra cash posting, you know, Easter eggs of Oppenheimer, you could risk never being allowed to become a member of SAG after. Now, do the influencers care? Does the TikTok or care if they could never become a SAG after member? Well, maybe, maybe at some point. I mean, this is the first of its kind, kind of guidelines, right? I mean, the actors, I mean, they've walked out, I guess in 1980

was the last time that they walked out. And there wasn't a whole lot of influencers like we know of at that time. But the restrictions are definitely showing how the walkout is impacting incomes outside of Hollywood. And, you know, I mean, influencers play in it. They love using them to promote films and TV shows. not on this show though I mean I just do it on my own because I you know

I teased not watching TV anymore and I am I don't know that I'm genuinely considering it but I was when I mentioned it last week or first of this week or whatever I was actually considering it but then I saw where the

new show justified is coming out this week that's releasing this week Lioness as a new show that's coming out this week I've got to get through Bear Season 2

I've got to get through Joe Pickett The ending of Joe Pickett I thought there were only eight episodes But there's 10 So I've got a couple of weeks left of Joe Pickett And so there's plenty of shows out there That still need to be watched And movies that need to be watched

While the strike is ongoing It's going to be a long time though Man even if they were to solve the strike now be quite some time before that new content reaches us, right? Everybody's back to work and we're making deals and the shows that were, I've been paused, we'll get back to work, but new shows will take some time to be developed and then sold and then get to work. And then by the time it reaches us, it's going to be a long time.

So maybe in that time frame, I will think about giving up TV, but you just never. know. I also saw where they announced, and this is what's going to come, are the reality shows because they, you know, don't have to have writers, per se. But they just announced that the Golden Bachelor, remember I remember talking

to you about the Golden Bachelor, which is the spinoff from The Bachelor. The Bachelor has aired 60 seasons. 60 seasons of the Bachelor. Wow. So this new spinoff, obviously, is, you know, one for the Golden Years.

A hopeless, romantic is given a second chance of love and search for a partner with whom to share the sunset years of life. And they have picked one. His name is Jerry Turner, 71-year-old grandpa from Indiana. He does not look like a 71-year-old grandpa from Indiana. You didn't think they were going to pick the guy with the beard and missing two teeth from Nebraska, did you? No.

No, they did not. he's a pretty darn good looking 71 year old from Indiana and he lost his wife a few years ago and now with the support of his family he's ready to try to find love again and if we find out that he's not 71 well we just may have to storm the bachelor gates and as you're probably well aware

of course you are because I'm here I didn't win the Powerball last night. So there was a winner though. One winner in the Powerball drawing for a billion dollars and it goes to California. One winner in California. So if you're a listener to chewing in the fact, congratulations. There were three, two million dollar winners from Florida, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. And there were, I mean, multiple one million dollar winners, seven in California.

four in Connecticut and Florida three in Illinois Indiana Kentucky and Maine two in Maryland Missouri New Hampshire New Jersey have two New York has five Ohio and Texas has five New York has two and Wisconsin and West Virginia have four, $1 million winners. Ooh, I might be a million dollar winner. I could be one of the five in Texas. I might actually have to check my numbers now. That would be sweet. And then on Friday, so it's back to the Powerball is back to $20 million.

Please. And so I got to hope for the mega millions, which is Friday night. If you're listening live today is Thursday, the 20th, 2023. So the 21st of July, 2023, at 11 p.m. Eastern, the mega millions drawing happens for a $720 million prize. Cash option, $369.6 million. So we still got a shot at that, even if you didn't win anything from the Powerball. Yeah. And I mean, you could still, like we said, we had 36, $1 million.

winners. There was $195,000 winners. I mean, that's pretty good. If you won that, good for you. It had $5,396 $100 winners. If you power-plated it, it's $200. And here's the thing. I power-plated

it. So my million-dollar grand prize could be $2 million. I got to look at my numbers. I almost want to stop the show and just look at my numbers, but then I'll be bummed. Now I'll stop. Let me look. Of course not.

Okay, so then there was a $242,802, $7 winners, $14, if you powerplate it. $153,237 winners. Another $14, $1,054,000, $8 if you powerplate it. And another $2,4,265, $4.6. dollar powerball prize winners eight if you power plate it so yeah I mean some people want some money after 50,000 though the hundreds

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Now, according to David, his colleagues and himself believe that space tourism companies haven't adequately prepared for the consequences of people joining what we would call the Carmen Line Club. while NASA categorically insist that no humans have had sex in space, that could soon change with the space tourism. Professor Cullum claims that sex in space will happen within the next decade. Dear Professor and NASA, we have already had sex in space and has been documented on this program. God. Weightlessness. Oh Jesus. Carmeline. Thank you.

No description. This weightless. Oh my God. Oh, I'm telling you. Oh my goodness. Jenner's already done it. Hello. How many times have you.

I mean, I'm just proving NASA and David Cullen, professor of bioanalytical technology at Cranfield University, wrong here on chewing the fat. So I'll just have to maybe email them and let them know, hey, yo, already been done. Okay? I see where Tiger Woods ex-girlfriend dropped her lawsuit seeking $30 million in damages from the Gulf Star's estate for ousting her from his Florida mansion. Erica Herman dismissed the case

pending the result of her latest appeal of a judge's order to throw out a separate lawsuit she filed to nullify the non-disclosure agreement which the original judge said, no, we're not getting rid of the nondisclosure. You signed it, and that's what we're doing. But her appeal is still pending. So that's ongoing.

That's going to be amazing, because that's looking like it's going to go away. Tiger's not settling. Going to be done. And we have started closing arguments in the Kevin Spacey trial, which is incredible. I thought we were going to go another week, but it's been, I don't know, three or four weeks already. So the closing arguments in the Kevin Spacey trial have begun. We should get his attorneys with the closing arguments tomorrow. We're going to wrap this thing up.

It's going to go to the jury. So we may have to reach out to Phelam McLeer and talk to him after the closing arguments because I got to believe that Elton John testimony, while it wasn't specifically about one of the people in this case, it was like a side case. And that's my, that's my, that's my, uh, my legal analysis. But, uh, the prosecutor, I'm sorry, the barrister, uh, said that, uh, yeah, I was a little starstruck, uh, with Elton John there.

But, you know, don't just disregard that evidence. Uh, you know, they don't even worry about what they brought to the case. Oh. Oh, okay. I mean, because they brought to the case that, uh, the one guy, was lying about Kevin Spacey. It was just incredible. It's an incredible thing. So anyway, you can at those closing arguments. And if you haven't listened to the Kevin Spacey podcast,

the Kevin Spacey trial unfiltered, Kevin Spacey Podcast.com, you should get caught up and it's really, really good. Another case that is just fascinating to me, and I don't know why it is, but I had it sent to me and I wasn't aware of it, and then I'm reading about it, and I'm like, what is this case? So Carly Russell, Alabama woman, disappeared last week. She called 911 and said she saw a toddler walking on the interstate.

And then she showed up a couple of days later. And so the police are like, well, we were trying to find her. she made internet searches about paying for Amber alerts, how to take money from a register without getting caught, and she was searching about the movie Taken. The police also said that Russell told them she was forced into an 18-wheeler truck, taken to a home where a man and a woman told her to get undressed,

and then took photos of her. However, the police department in Hoover, that's about 10 miles south of Birmingham, have been investigating the disappearance of Russell, a 25-year-old nursing student who returned home after a couple days. They said that, you know, we can't even confirm that there was a child walking on the interstate. We don't know what happened in the 49 hours she was missing. incredible she said that when she showed up she had a small injury on her lip her head was hurting she told police that after she saw the young child walking on the interstate she was abducted taken by a male with orange hair and a woman she claimed he then forced her into a car and the

next thing she remembers is being in the trailer of an 18 wheeler she stated the male was with a female however she never saw the female only hearing the voice she managed to escape the next day somewhere in west hoover and made it home on foot the investigators have been unable to corroborate many of her claims if not any of her claims her mother said that when she arrived at home and we tried to hug her as best we could but I had to stand back because she was not in a good state so there's another poo story she was all nasty so I mean I'm not laughing because it's terrible don't laugh she there may be some kind of mental issue I don't know I just don't know. But all the police resources that are being used to try to find this lady who apparently

was abducted by a guy with orange hair and a lady we don't know what she looked like. Just incredible. The police chief said, I do think it's highly unusual on the day someone gets kidnapped that they're searching the internet, Googling the movie, taken about an abduction. I find that very strange. Well, I don't know about that, but okay, if you say so. Now, she called 911, remember, reporting seeing a toddler on the interstate, and she had also called a relative to report having seen the child, said she was going to help the child, and then the relative lost contact. However, the police did not get any other calls reporting the child on the interstate, which is you would think is normally weird. She said she got on the highway.

She'd gone to Target to buy some snacks. When police found her car, her cell phone was in it, a wig was in it, some other items were in it, but not the Target purchases. And then they have security video of her showing up walking down the street in her neighborhood when she came home 49 hours later. Just a complete, like I said, it's just a weird story. I don't understand it. You know, there's all kinds of time, money, and resources in trying to find this Carly Russell when she just up and disappeared and then just shows back up again.

So we'll see if there's any follow-up to what happened to Carly. But it is almost as if. And I'm just throwing this out there now as, you know, just thinking out loud. throwing this, it's almost as if she just wandered off in some sort of mental state and then came to and, you know, walked back home. And so she never was abducted. It's almost as if that's the case. But you just don't know, do you? Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrance Suts. Our special selection.

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I just, I mean, I just, I spend hours reading the monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. So our newly devised model stretches the galaxy formation time by several billion years, making the universe 26.7 billion years old. Not that pesky 13.7 billion. Those were previous estimates. Never mind those. Now, this is according to Rahandra Gupta, the adjunct professor of physics

and the Faculty of Science at the University of Ottawa. For years, astronomers and physicists have calculated the age of our universe by measuring the time elapsed since the Big Bang and by studying the oldest stars based on the red shift of light coming from distant galaxies. Now, in 2021, thanks to new technologies and advances in technology, the age of our universe was thus estimated at 13.797 billion years

using the Lambda CDM concordance model. I mean, I don't have to tell you that. Of course you knew about the Lambda CDM concordance model. However, many scientists have been puzzled, and I am along with these scientists, I'm puzzled by the existence of stars, like the Methuselah that appeared to be older than the estimated age of our universe and by the discovery of early galaxies in the advanced state of evolution made possible

of what we're seeing from James Webb Telescope. That's what puzzled me. So in addition to the Zewiki's tired light theory, and I don't have to go into detail about the tired light theory, Gupta introduces the idea of evolving couple, Coupling. Okay, so coupling constants are fundamental physical constants that govern the interactions between particles. I mean, duh.

So moreover, Goop to suggest that the traditional interpretation of the cosmological constant, which represents dark energy responsible for the accelerating expansion of the universe, needs revision. Instead, he proposes a constant that accounts for the evolution. evolution of the coupling constants, this modification in the cosmological model helps address the puzzle of small galaxy sizes observed in the early universe, allowing for more accurate observations. So the universe is 26.7 billion years old, not 13.7 as previously estimated. Duh.

And I know I've heard from many of you. about yesterday being National Hot Dog Day and I had my own little celebration. Everybody loves their hot dogs and I saw that we had people making videos about how much they loved hot dogs, but really

the best hot dogs in the world are Kogel hot dogs from Michigan. Duh. And so you can blab all your best hot dogs that you want that you've had in your lifetime, but Kogel hot dogs from Michigan are the best hot dogs.

on the planet. I will say there was a guy that used to have a hot dog stand in Manhattan when I worked in Manhattan right around the corner. He would show up at our office building, I don't know, a couple times a month. And he would show up in for a pretty cheap price. He was probably one of those renegade hot dog sellers without a license. But he would show up and for, I think it was a buck or two, you'd get a hot dog in a bag of chips. and they were darn good hot dogs.

I don't know what he was boiling in the water with the hot dogs. I don't know what kind of hot dogs he was boiling, but they were freaking good. That's all I know. I know they weren't coagles, but I will say that for the price and what they were made of and they were in Manhattan,

lunchtime on a street corner in Manhattan, with a hot dog and a bag of chips with some Heinz ketchup. I know a lot of people like mustard, but I'm a Heinz ketchup guy. I know that comes as a surprise. They were awesome. So, you know, go and celebrate National Hot Dog Day if you missed it yesterday.

No problem. I'm sorry. Okay, so I got two stories here. I got, I got, I got, I have two stories here that are from the internet. Aren't they all? Well, no. Most of them are, you know, news stories from the world. These two stories I saw through the internet.

Yes, yes, through the internet. and they're both stories where I went, believe it or not. I don't know. I'm going to tell you both stories, and you can figure out which one is true and which one is that they both may be lies. I don't know.

I just know I read them and I thought, okay, I don't know that these are true or not. But I like them. I like them, okay? So you've got this one in North Carolina. A local woman is the talk of the town after an outrageous claim that she recently made. Sierra Munson, 24 of Wilson, North Carolina, says that she was impregnated by Bigfoot while on a camping trip a few months ago. It's the only logical explanation, says Munson.

A longtime employee at Dairy Queen in Wilson County. My husband is sterile, so we thought we couldn't have kids. I'm pregnant. And the only way this could happen is if Sasquatch was the daddy. Sierra's husband is fully supporting his wife, even though her story does sound a bit far-fetched. She was on a camping trip with her girlfriends a while back, says Harold 53. She said that Bigfoot snuck into her tent and had his way with her. I believe my wife. We've been married for a long time. And she's never lied to me.

That's where I get the believe it or not. I'm not really sure whether I should believe that or not. Then I see a story about Keanu Reeves. And I read it and I thought, wow. I mean, even if this isn't true, it's a great made-up story, just like the last one was. Even if it's not true, it's a great made-up story. Keanu was born in Lebanon. His parents split when he was three, and he grew up with three.

different stepfathers. As a kid, he was diagnosed with dyslexia and dreamed of becoming a hockey player. He played goalie for a junior league team in Canada, but quit after breaking his leg to focus on acting. He lost his best friend to River Phoenix in 1993 due to an overdose. He got married in 1998, experienced a miscarriage with his daughter in 1999, and ultimately lost his wife as well due to a car accident, in 2001. In 2002, Keanu put the Matrix sequels on hold to care for his six sister. He sold his house to move nearer his sister, while also helping by cooking meals, cleaning her house, and preparing medication. He also donated 70% of the money he made from the Matrix to the leukemia research. In 2006, when he was filming the movie The Lake House, he overheard

the conversation of two costume assistants. One was crying as he was. would lose his house if he did not pay 20,000 on the same day. Keanu deposited the necessary amount in the bank account. I mean, incredible. In 2010, on his birthday, Keanu walked into a bakery and bought a brioche with a single candle, ate it in front of the bakery, and offered coffee to people who stopped to talk to him. To this day, Keanu has often seen wandering around New York City, riding the subway, and interacting with people. A certified legend. So believe it or not, I mean, stories that, if not true, they're pretty darn good. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.