Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - It’s Worth It… | 1/30/25

Episode Date: January 30, 2025

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and that's our deal. And now, today, we find out which we knew about was this treaty that Woodrow Wilson signed. Okay, we're talking about treaties back in 1917 that when we bought the Virgin Islands and we said, yeah, okay, we're going to buy the Virgin Islands. Here's 25 million. And yeah, you can keep Greenland. And now they're saying they're essentially. saying, well, the United Kingdom has first dibs.

That's not written anywhere. They just said it. And we're supposed to believe it's true. Oh, okay. And so they're getting concerned that Trump is going, we're just going to take it. We're just going to take it. We're not going to buy it.

You're not going to say, hey, geez, do you think we can stay here? We're just going to take it. And they are getting concerned. They have set out, they did a story from this Tom Huyem, who is 83 now. He served as Denmark's last minister for the autonomous territory of Greenland, from 1982 to 1987, afterwards the position was discontinued. He wrote a book about it. He considers Trump's interests very positive and very constructive for its defense.

Greenland has rare earth minerals. or uranium and may prove strategic for global shipping rounds as Arctic ice melts with climate change. Okay, calm down, Tom. Even though Danish officials have said Greenland is not for sale. Yeah, we're not buying it.

Okay? We made the deal. Some lunatic president, Woodrow Wilson, signed a deal so that we could buy the Virgin Islands, which I don't know why he did that. And he said, yeah, you can keep Greenland. And then we'll decide now that we can take it.

So if you're in Greenland, get ready. Because I believe Trump is just going to say, you know what? Greenland is now a territory of the United States. Do something about it. Now what? It's coming. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat.

So tragic news of a helicopter and a plane crash in the the skies of Washington, D.C. last night. If you're listing live, today is the 30th of January, 2025. So this happened on the 29th of January, 2025. And we know that it was a flight 532 and against a bombardier CRJ 700 regional jet operating flying from Wichita, Kansas, and collided with the,

military chopper while approaching runway 33 at washington airport so it was about 848 last night now we'll get more information as the day goes by it is the rescue mission has turned into a recovery mission and they're busy pulling bodies tragically out of the potomac and probably uh will continue to do so uh you know throughout the day so we'll have updates and new information coming But just as I sat down here to bring you chewing the fat today, defense secretary Pete Hedgesoff sat down and sent this out in, well, I saw it in video form on X from the Department of Defense. And he's giving an update real time on what he knows and what happened.

I mean, that's incredible. That's incredible. But I also wanted to give an update on the tragedy that happened last night here in Washington. Washington, D.C. and provide a little bit more information as we are actively working to investigate and understand what occurred and why. At about 848 last night, a UH-60 assigned to the U.S. Army Aviation Brigade in the Military District of Washington. Fort Belvoir, Virginia collided tragically with a civilian airliner. The unit involved, the Army unit involved with Bravo Company 12th Aviation Battalion at Fort Belvoir. It was an annual proficiency training flight.

And when we look at the crew and we're not all can have been notified, so we're going to withhold ranks and names at this point. We do know on our side who was involved. It was a fairly experienced crew and it was doing a required annual night evaluation. They did have night. vision goggles. The 12th Aviation Battalion, as of now, is granted a 48-hour operational pause on contingency missions as what happened is reviewed.

I'm sure that standard protocol. An investigative team from our aviation safety center was deployed last night. It already is in Washington, D.C. to investigate what's going on. We anticipate that the investigation will quickly be able to determine whether the aircraft was in the corridor and at the right altitude at the time of it. the incident. As I mentioned, next of kin notifications are ongoing. It's a tragedy, a horrible loss of life for those 64 souls on that civilian airliner. And of course, the three soldiers in that Black Hawk, they're in our prayers, their families and their communities. As people are

notified, I can't imagine. And I know it's gone from a rescue mission to a recovery mission. and we're with all the first responders that are moving actively too. So at the Defense Department, our thoughts and prayers go out. We are actively investigating to find out what happened and why, and as we get updates, you will have them. Awesome. I mean, just incredible. This is real time from our Secretary of Defense.

Pretty, pretty amazing. So, anyway, very sad. And we were getting footage and we're getting audio from the FAA. and so we'll have, you know, we have all kinds of people thinking that it's, that it happened on purpose, that this was no accident. So we'll see. You know, we get all kinds of talk about the incompetence of the FAA, or I should say past incompetences of the FAA, because we have a, you know, a new man in charge and we'll see how

that works out. So we'll be getting information in, I'm sure. the coming days and have this investigation transpires. So I'll let you know, and of course the news is out there. But I wanted to let you know where we were at as of this recording of chewing the fat today. As long as I'm in Washington, well, I might as well tell you that former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez was sentenced yesterday afternoon to 11 years in prison

on bribery fraud and extortion charges in federal court. He was convicted in July when the jury found that he's 71 now on all 16 counts of taking payments in gold bars and cash to influence the New Jersey criminal investigations and provide intel to Egyptian officials. The case ended the former head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee political career after three terms. Yeah, it was over. Even though he tried to blame his wife and say, yeah, it's her fault. She did it. And wouldn't you know it? She's got cancer now.

So, man, does it suck to be her, huh? What a dirt bag. And the wife is, her trial has been postponed at least until March as she is, has ongoing cancer treatments. So the two other co-conspiracers that were tried alongside Menendez were convicted on all the counts as well. and they were fined, you know, a bunch of money and sent to prison for, you know, a decade as well. So there's another businessman that was involved as well, and his sentencing comes in April. And I don't know why. Maybe the judge was busy.

Man, I can't send you to prison yet. I've got a couple of lunch dates to get to. So, anyway, former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez. We're safer now that this dirt bag is off the streets. It would be interesting to know exactly, and I haven't read every piece of paper from the trial, but exactly what he was, you know, providing the Egyptian officials with.

You know, give me a gold bar. You know, we're working on, I work on the Intelligence Committee, we're working on something that affects Egypt. And I just want to let you guys know, I'd be fascinated to know what particular information he was providing Egyptian officials. But whatever it was,

he shouldn't have been doing it, no question. I just, what constitutes you get in their gold bar? And many of them. And he had cash in suit coat pockets and stuff. I mean, that's not illegal, but how he got it was and is. Boarding for Flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes.

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They determined that the trial judge had erred by allowing women to testify about allegations that weren't part of the case, which is what we were saying all along. Why are these people testifying? But the judge let it go ahead. And he was sentenced to 23 years. Now, he's still guilty from Los Angeles. This is why he's still in prison. He's being held at Rikers Island prison.

And he doesn't think, Harvey, Harvey does not think he's going to live until April. Wow. He's 72 now. And he begged the judge to get him an early trial case. Okay. So he believed, I mean, he's got all kinds of health issues. he was in court in a wheelchair and he wanted the date

pushed to an earlier date because he believes he wants to clear his name. Good luck with that, Harvey. But he said, I won't be here for April. I can't wait for tomorrow. I can't hold on anymore.

I'm holding it on because I want justice. I want this to be over with. So the judge said, hey, I've got another trial scheduled. I'll do my best to accommodate, you know, a date. a week earlier if all parties agree but uh you know we got i got to keep it where it's at uh because i've got another case and he denied the motion to dismiss the new indictment yeah i don't know that i don't know that the judge farber could do that and he also said uh and harvey went on to say that

uh yeah i just want to you know clear my name oh okay i mean he's really sick now he aside from all the other things wrong with him he has been diagnosed with chronic myloid leukemia. And a lot of, I know many people are like, oh, poor thing. Poor Harvey, is he suffering? We'll see what happens with the case, though. We'll see what happens with the case.

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And he almost didn't get a chance to see it because he doesn't have streaming services. so he said, I've seen severance on DVDs that Apple was good enough to send me. He says, I don't have technology. I only have a satellite dish on my house.

Well, that's kind of technology, Christopher. Anyway, I don't have a cell phone. I've never emailed or what do you call it? Twittered. He said it was never a problem. I just decided to live like that. I've never had, you know, I just

I just ask somebody and once in a while when I need to use a phone. I just ask if I can borrow one. Here comes Chris. I'm going to want to use the phone again. Gosh, darn it. His frustration with technology calls them to leave stage acting

after he noticed audiences were distracted by their phones during the performance. And this was back in 2010. He said they would answer the phone if it rang and then people were videotaping the performance and I thought that's it I'm over I can't do it anymore but he's still you know been making movies and making shows which he loves to do and uh he said I'm just indifferent towards modern technology and so and that that's what he you know emphasized in

severance as well which he loved working on the show because he's worked with all these people knowing all these people you know for the last 30 40 years he also I also said one of the reasons that he liked to work with Stiller, Severance's director. They have a no phone policy on set, which is perfect for him. No phones anywhere near the eye shot of the actors at all. My least favorite thing to see is a dolly grip hunched down while an actor is acting their brains out and he's scrolling or whatever. It drives me crazy. As a director, you want to protect the environment for the actors.

Wow. So he just refused to take up modern technology. they say in the story about Tom Selick made a similar confession admitting that he's never sent an email and he wrote his entire autobiography by hand. I did not think Tom Selick was that stupid, but I guess he is. I like Tom. I like Tom. But come on, bro. Come on. And speaking of technology, I was just reading about this startup company and I think it's in Russia. So it's a Russian startup company. So damn it, I can't like it. But I do. It's unveiled plans to deploy swarms of small light-reflecting satellites to create massive advertisements in space.

That's kind of cool. Now, you know, we talked about the satellites that they want to do reflectors, right? So you could log into their app and it will shine a light on you wherever you're at on the planet. That's kind of, in my eyes, I feel like that's, you know, almost the same kind of technology, but you'll just look up and there'll be an ad, you know, just like Coca-Cola in the state. sky. That's kind of cool. I like it. Similar to, you know, sky typing, but positioned in low Earth orbit. Instead of atmosphere, these ads would only be visible at night and could be seen from nearly anywhere on Earth. Let's look up in the sky. Listen to chewing the fat. I like that

a lot. And I'm sure it'll be very affordable. You know, guys like Johnny Depp will be able to afford it. Did you see where Disney reportedly? again, this is just being reported. They offered Johnny Depp money and an apology letter to come back to play Jack Sparrow. I know. Now, he said, remember during his Amber Heard trial in that time frame somewhere,

that he wouldn't return to Disney for $300 million. Okay, if that's what you say, Johnny. But Captain Jack Sparrow may be calling for Johnny Depp because, reportedly, Disney extended a 200,000, $249 million deal, plus an apology letter, hoping to bring back the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise.

So is the letter... So if he wouldn't do it for $300 million, would he do it for $301 million? And so they offered him $2409 million. Does that mean the letter is worth $52 million to put it over a $300 million mark? I don't know. I'm just...

Johnny Depp may be back. Because $249 million? Man, that is... that is tough to turn down. I don't care if you're Johnny Depp or not. He lives a lifestyle where that $249 million is going to come in handy. And it's just a thought for me. We don't know if he's coming back.

There are reports about him being around one of the sets. And I don't know if he was real or not. So, but do I think that Johnny Depp will come back for $249 million? I think that he'll come back for $300 million and make a joke out of saying I wouldn't come back. I said I wouldn't come back for $300 million, and he'll say that the letter is worth so much to put it over $300 million, and I'm coming back for more than $300 million,

and that's the way he'll frame it. I could be wrong. And good news for Dolly Parton. Yeah, her great musical, Dolly, an original musical, supposed to open up on Broadway next year, I thought. They gave a 2026 date on Broadway. But it's going to open up in Nashville, this summer

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See out for details. Who died today? Who died today? First, let me say rest in peace to all the souls that died in the air crash last night. Rest in peace, I believe there were 67 souls who passed away. And we just, you know, it's very sad that this plane crash happened, helicopter crash happened. You know, we don't have all the evidence yet of what exactly happened. And we'll find that out in the coming days and weeks.

But very sad that we lost 67 lives. I believe it's the, I saw, I think it's the worst air crash. What was the number of the worst? Airplane crash tragedy in 15 years in the U.S. or something like that. So, I mean, it's very sad. And we'll get to the bottom of it. But rest and peace to all those souls. But we're going to begin with a temple.

student. 18-year-old Temple University student has died after falling from a light pole while celebrating the Philadelphia Eagles NFC championship win. Dude. Tyler Sabapathy, S-A-B-A-P-A-T-H-Y, was among the fans celebrating on the streets of Philadelphia. After the Eagles beat the Washington Commanders 55 to 23, video shows him holding onto a street pole then slipping and falling flat on his back hitting his head on the concrete sidewalk. He was hospitalized with brain injury and pronounced dead two days later. Wow, very sad. Rest in peace to the 18-year-old Temple University student.

I guess he was a gymnast. Had a bunch of medals. And he was studying to be an exercise and sports science major at Temple's College of Public Health. So rest and peace. Here's the deal. don't climb the light poles. Okay, don't do it. And they're looking to see

if Philadelphia actually greased the light poles, which they're famous for doing. But if they greased the light poles, that he probably wouldn't have been able to climb it no matter what kind of gymnast he was. It's possible, though. But does that make the city at fault? I don't know.

It's really his fault for climbing the street pole and then slipping off. But it's sad nonetheless. So rest and peace to Tyler. or sabapathy, 18 years of age. Someone, if you are a Philadelphia fan and you want Philadelphia to beat, I was thinking about this last night.

I know, sad. If you are a Philadelphia fan and you want to beat Kansas City in the Super Bowl, you need to find a Kansas City fan and have them come to Philadelphia and dress Rocky, the Rocky statue, in Kansas City gear. Because that's always bad luck. Washington fans did that, lost. Every time an opposing team comes to Philadelphia and they mess with the Rocky statue,

putting their own team's stuff on it, it's bad luck for your team. You can't do that. You can't mess with Rocky in Philadelphia. So that's what we need to hope for, for Philadelphia to be Kansas City. You need to get a Kansas City fan or fans, and you need to have them dress Rocky in Kansas City gear.

so that it turns into bad luck against Kansas City. And so we'll see if that actually. And you might, who knows? You may have to actually have the team playing in Philadelphia at the time and brings bad luck. I'm not sure the whole curse hits you. But you can try it. Go ahead, try it.

Then we have Carter Meccadosh. Carter Meccadosh dead at the age of 28. He had joined. the bank here in Dallas in September of 23. It was an investment firm, a boutique investment firm, which I believe they believe, as this brutal work culture at these investment firms, come into light.

So this boutique investment firm, Jeffries, this young man, 28 years old, died over the weekend here in Dallas. He did not die at work. He died away from work. So we don't know. We don't know the cause of death yet. I'm sure it had nothing to do with that, or they would have said something.

Am I right? Of course I am. So we'll see. They claim that he worked at a couple of different places and that the work was grinding. They work, you know, 100-hour work weeks because he's worked for, you know, Goldman Sachs in the past.

And he graduated from Seton Hall and with a degree in final. finance, and so they believe other people that are working at the other investment firms believe that it's the firm's working culture. It's gotten out of hand, and they're claiming the bank is horrible right now. I don't know if they're, you know, that's all of them. That's all the investment bankers are just driving the investment bankers themselves to death, literally to death. So we'll see if anything comes of it.

We have first to find out what actually kills. killed Carter McIntosh, who passed away at the age of 28, rest in peace. Then we have William E. Lichtenberg. William E. Lichtenberg. And you're going to say, the William E. Lichtenberg? Yes, the William E. Lichtenberg. Dead at the age of 102. He was, I know I don't have to tell you, but he was the eminent presidential historian.

and Ken Burns consultant. So this guy's partly responsible for the Ken Burns eight days documentaries that he's been producing. So Mr. Luttenberg, the prize-winning historian, widely admired for his authoritative writings

on the U.S. presidency and the reigning scholar on Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal, dead at the age of 102. They cited no specific cause of death. he was 1002 rest in peace what's interesting is that when you when you pass away and you're over 100 and nobody is what's the cause of death he was over 100 yeah so it could be any number of

things that could have killed william e luktenberg but nobody cares because he was over 100 it's kind of sad the guy lived an amazing life though and he was still writing he was writing a new book as uh you know at the time of his death just amazing he just continued to work and i was reading actually a story about his life. And he's lived an amazing life. He's pretty liberal. You know, he taught at Smith College, Harvard University, Columbia University, before settling in at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,

the former president of the American Historical Association and the Organization of American historians. He held such statute that he contributed to later editions of the growth of the American Republic, which is, you know, standard college textbook. and historians studied under him. It was just, you know, he lived an amazing life, and he was fascinated by politics at the age of 12, so he raised money tutoring neighborhood kids

to fund a nine-hour bus ride to Washington, where he would recall his wide-eyed tour of the White House and the brand-new marble palace of the U.S. Supreme Court. This was, he was a postal clerk's son, born in New York City in 1922. So he lived an amazing life. Would we let a 12-year-old tutor other kids in the neighborhood in today's world? I think the answer to that is no.

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Last night, I saw a story that made me think, this is why I kill spiders. There's no reason for them to be on the planet. I guess there's plenty of reason to have them on the planet. There's no reason not to kill them when you see them. Okay. When you see them, kill them. Spiders consume an estimated 400 to 800 million tons of prey annually,

surpassing the combined weight of the globe, human population, which is approximately 287 million tons. More or less. A lot of people might have lied. So probably 300 million tons. That's quite sure. Everybody's telling the truth about what they weigh. But okay, we'll give you the 287 million.

But this means that theoretically, spiders could consume all humans within a year. However, in reality, spiders primarily feed on insects and play a crucial role in controlling pest populations, a benefiting ecosystem. See, this is why you don't kill them. They're pointing it out. I had to human agriculture. But I got it. They, you know, they primarily feed on insects and play a crucial role in controlling pest

control. Got it. And good for them. But some spiders are way too big to be kept around. Sorry about it. We've got 300 million tons of human bondage. And we can't, we can't stand it. So, you know, they're going to survive.

there's no way we can kill the ball so every person just do your part keep them in check let them know we mean business humans first just let them know you want other spiders to know ooh no those those things right there yeah they step on you they smash you

they let you go no we can't we can't attack them we can't do that because they believe in themselves first spiders not a real huge fan of spiders I'm just don't know.

Okay, and this story is incredible to me. Pat Riley, legend, Pat Riley. I mean, he was a basketball coach. He now is the general manager of the Miami Heat president. I'm sorry, whoa, he's not the general manager. He's above the general manager. The president of the Miami Heat. And he's owned multiple trademarks of the term three Pete.

And he's owned it since. the 90s. So he's made a fortune off of the phrase three Pete. Riley's company, Riles & Company, Inc. Currently owns at least six live trademarks for shirts, jackets, and more. Okay, for three Pete. He's a former, you know, he heard the phrase three Pete going back when he was with the Lakers, the Los Angeles Lakers.

because the Lakers did it, and then he was the coach of the Chicago Bulls, and the Bulls did it. And so he decided that I'm going to get that trademarked, the phrase three-peat. Now, legend has it according to the way they tell the story, is that the Lakers guard, Byron Scott, was the first to utter the term three-peat.

And then Pat Riley said, that's a good line. that's a good word. I'm going to trademark that word. And, you know, I mean, the Lakers went on to three-peat in 88, 89 season as they began, you know, to quest for their third straight NBA title.

But Raleigh, Pat Raleigh, definitely was the smart one and had it trademarked. So shirts, jackets, hats, jewelry, mugs, posters, trading cards, energy drinks, and bumper stickers, all are trading.

marked three Pete so he gets money for it. That is a genius and he's just made, I'm sure he's made a small fortune from the word three Pete. I mean, you look at it according to the National Retail Federation estimates that football fans are expected to spend around $18.6 billion on this year's Super Bowl alone. So that means $2.6 billion of it would go towards team apparel. according to ESPN, anyone who used the three-peat trademark was expected to pay a 5% royalty fee. And so Pat is just bringing in some cash on the phrase three-peat. Amazing. So when you hear a good line, a good word, a good something, it's a good idea.

You ought to maybe think to yourself, you know, I should probably have that trademarked. And then people would have to just give me money every time they use. use it. I like it. Okay. I'll do the joke of the day. Get out of here. This one I laughed out loud as I read it this morning. It was emailed to me

at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com and it was from Nate. So thank you, Nate. Very funny. And it's under the heading of why men don't write advice columns. Why men don't write advice columns. Dear Walter,

I hope you can help me here. The other day, I set off for work leaving my husband in the house watching the TV as usual. I hadn't driven more than a mile down the road when the engine conked out and the car shuddered to a halt. I walked back home to get my husband's help. When I got home, I couldn't believe my eyes. He was in our bedroom with the neighbor's daughter. I am 32. My husband is 34 and the neighbor's daughter is 22.

We've been married for 10 years. When I confronted him, he broke down and admitted that they'd been having an affair for the past six months. I told him to stop or I would leave him. He was sacked from his job six months ago, and he says that he's been feeling increasingly depressed and worthless. I love him very much. But ever since I gave him the ultimatum,

he's become increasingly distant. He won't go to counseling, and I'm afraid I can't get through to him anymore. Can you please help, sincerely Sheila? Okay. Now, remember this is under the heading of why men shouldn't, uh, don't, shouldn't and don't, write advice. columns. Dear Sheila, a car stalling after being driven a short distance can be caused by a variety

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