Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Never Too Late… | 11/30/23

Episode Date: November 30, 2023

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The driver was inside paying for gas or getting his coffee. It was about 3.30 in the morning. And I was getting ready to do its morning deliveries. And the thief, you know, said, hey, it's unlocked and I'm taking it. How many times have you seen vehicles like that, say, at a convenience store, gas station and thought, you know, I'm just going to hop in and take off. I mean, that has to be a problem. He's not supposed to leave that thing open. It's 3.30 in the morning, I'm sure he's thinking everything's fine. He probably stops in there every day, and everything is fine. So it had a variety

of deliveries to be made, including their Christmas-themed classic donuts. So, and it's a female who did it. It's believed that she jumped into the van as the driver was inside. the service station and took off. So the police are searching for this woman who is described as being an Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander appearance. Boy, nothing says Australia like that. In her early 30s, with long black or brown hair, she was wearing dark clothing and carrying a white handbag.

The van, which was not sprinkled with tracking devices. huh and it kind of weird that it wouldn't have tracking devices on it but as of this story they have not found the van or the criminal who stole the donuts so good no not good it's bad bad you don't steal donuts but it had to be a difficult choice right I mean she was at the gas station it's 3 30

and there's the white van She may not even have known that the donuts were in it. She was just going to take the van. And then she got a lucky bonus with 10,000 donuts. So if you see, if you're in Australia, outside of Sydney, this took place in Carlingford, which is northwest of Sydney. And you see the white van with, you know, somebody selling Dale Domewereux. Donuts, those are, you know, get the deal and then, you know, don't turn her in.

I suppose, yes, you know what, you need to. That's the law. You need to turn her in. But go ahead and get the deal on the donuts first. But just to be clear, as well, it wasn't me. I know many people reached out to me saying, oh, good job. No, it wasn't me this time. Welcome.

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. You know, speaking of donut trucks being stolen. And I joke around about it because, you know, it's funny and, you know, chewing the fat and people stealing donut trucks. But it's really not that funny. We have Amazon trucks and FedEx trucks getting robbed all the time. And that's now happening to Krispy Kreme Donut trucks. I don't know, maybe, you know, a million dollar idea would be to start your security company and make sure you do ride-alongs. I mean, these companies have got to do something.

They can't just leave their trucks out there with merchandise open for the criminals to take them. Can they? I mean, we have geo-fencing going on for other crimes. We have contact tracing going on for, you know, other perceived crimes. Maybe we use some of that technology to help businesses save their products that are going to customers. You know, the customers that are the customers that are the, the public. I know we have, you know, programs from our government surveilling our phone records. We just, there's a big story just the other day about how phone records of millions of Americans who use AT&T phone network are having their phone calls monitored by the surveillance program called data analytical services, which has had coordination with federal and local law enforcement agencies.

man do I feel safer already. So the program uses a technique known as chain analysis. This goes after those who have been in direct contact with a criminal suspect and anyone else who had communications with them. Wow, that is, I mean, you want to talk about contact tracing. That's really what chain analysis is. I mean, we have our air marshals flying around. following people who were in the Washington, D.C. area around January 6th.

That's why the director was calling them January people, not January 6 people, because they're also following people who weren't there on January 6th, but they were there on, say, the 4th, the 5th, or the 7th. Just incredible. So, I mean, we need to rethink everything we're doing. I know. I know. I'll stop because we just need to rethink it.

That's all. I'm not saying anything else, but we just need to rethink everything we're doing. And as long as you're rethinking what you're doing, heads up, if you have a Google account that you haven't used, say if you have several Gmail accounts like someone I may know, you may want to log in and use it for a couple of times because Google is saying if you haven't used your account in at least two years, they're going to delete the accounts. so if you've used a Gmail account for a password or to get ads or whatever you've used it for let's say you have multiple Gmail accounts and you haven't checked them in a while you may want to log back in and check them because they're going to go ahead and get deleted from Google they said hey we want to protect your private information do you and prevent any unauthorized access to

account even if you're no longer using our services. So the Google accounts include everything from Gmail to docs to drive to photos, meaning all content sitting across an inactive user's Google suite is at risk of erasure. There are a few exceptions to the deletion move accounts with YouTube channels, those with remaining balances on gift cards, those used to purchase a digital item like a book or a movie and those that have published apps that are active on a platform like Google Play Store, the company won't delete those. The decision to delete accounts goes a step further than the older policy, which said you can have your content wiped from services. They just stopped using, but they wouldn't delete the accounts. Yeah, we're going to go ahead

and just delete those accounts now. Get rid of them. Oh, okay. Thank you. Over this past, Thanksgiving holiday. My wife had her grandchildren in town. And I found out that the middle grandchild has, well, I didn't find out. I knew that she had eczema really bad. But one of the things that's really helped her and made it so she doesn't have these bad breakouts anymore is Quinn Pittman's goat soap. That's right. QP. Goatsoap.com has helped my wife's middle granddaughter deal with the eczema that she has and it keeps her skin from breaking out. Now, will that work for everyone? I don't know.

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Different fragrances for Quinn Pittman's goat's soap. Look, if you want to eat Quinn's goat soap, you go ahead. But I'm not telling you to do that. Don't. Don't do that. But hey, I don't know. Maybe Quinn will be okay with it. You know, I really, I don't know that.

but he has all kinds of fragrances. You know, the, I don't know if he has any fall fragrances left, because we still technically are in fall with the pumpkin spice. And then we have Christmas, of course, the frankincense and myrrh coming up. But of the Florida-centric, wake-up citrus, orange blossom, honey oatmeal. And then the lavender of the love spell. So go to QPgoatsoap.com and get the fragrances and the products that you love. They have laundry soap.

They have the shampoo bars. It's awesome stuff. QPgoatsoap.com. Good idea for gifts and also a good idea to keep your skin soft, smooth, and luxurious. You know, the regular shampoo products, you know, they get you clean. But then they dry your skin out. And what do you have to do? Well, then you have to go buy that company's products to a soft.

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get that 10% off the total order, QP-Gote-Sope.com. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I see where the Sandy Hook families, who won nearly $1.5 billion in legal judgments against Alex Jones for calling the 2012 Connecticut school shooting a hoax. They've offered to settle that debt now for $85 million over 10 years.

Now, the offer was made in Alex's personal bankruptcy case in Houston last week. In illegal filing, lawyers for the family said they believed the proposal was a viable way to help resolve the bankruptcy reorganization cases for both Jones and his company free speech systems. So the attorneys continued to accuse InfoWor's host of failing to curb his personal spending and extravagant lifestyle, failing to preserve the value of his holdings, and refusing to sell assets and failing to produce certain financial documents. Now, the lawyers offered Jones two options, either liquidate his estate and give the proceeds to creditors, or pay them at least $8.5 million a year for 10 years, plus 50% of any income over.

over $9 million per year. Huh. So we'll see if that actually happens. In the personal case, Jones listed about $13 million in total assets in his most recent financial statements, including about $856,000 in various bank accounts. Under the bankruptcy case, Jones has been receiving a salary of $20,000 every two weeks. Okay. And this month, the court appointed restructuring officer upped Jones pay to about $57,700

biweekly, or, I mean, that works out to about, you know, over a million a year, saying he has been grossly underpaid for how vital he is to the media company. So I guess that was rejected. The $57,500, $57,700 every other. week was rejected by the bankruptcy judge saying that no, that's not right. We're not doing that. We'll see if he takes the deal. I don't know.

He probably will have to because otherwise he's going to have to sell everything and be done with everything. And he does not want to do that. So good luck to all parties. I was reading some music news. And, you know, of course, it's that time of year. so we're talking about the Spotify telling listeners

you know which what they listen to their top artist for the year was and I know that Taylor Swift is of course back she was Spotify's most played artist in 2023 uh really yeah although bad bunny held the spot for the last three years uh Taylor said uh-uh bad bunny uh to me okay and they're talking about this new thing that they have for on Spotify called Sound Town, which matches your listening taste to a

particular city, that kind of thing. I usually don't use Spotify. I use Amazon music and YouTube music, but I know all kinds of people use the Spotify. But in this article about music that I was reading, there's a story about Andy Mooney. Now, he is the CEO of Fender, but he's also the guy behind the Disney princess franchise and behind some of the great ideas for Nike. And it talks about what he did for Nike. Really an incredible story and what he's hoping to do with Fender guitars. He talked about what gave him the idea Nike to have limited edition stuff. He said he was working for Nike and he was successful enough to buy himself a

used Porsche 924. He was driving to the office and some guy pulled up alongside of him in a yellow limited edition Wolfsburg Porsche and I had to track down what the hell it was and it was a limited edition version of my car with different upholstery

and a $5,000 upcharge and I asked well I wonder that would work for shoes so I walked down the hallway and told the designer hey go pick the most exotic leathers you can think of and we'll put together a package and we'll make it

at a limited edition pair. We'll see what happens. So the first time they offered it, you know, $40 million. And then that just, you know, now it continues on forever. And that's just one of the, you know, great ideas that he came up with. Now he's talking, working for Fender. And he's talking about some of the studies that they have done for Fender. Well, they've got data coming back.

And, you know, everybody, when he first took over and the company had an opinion about who's buying our products. nobody had any data about it. So he went and got data. And he said five insights emerged, shaped almost everything we've done over the last five years. 45% of the guitars that they sell every year went to first-time player, much higher than what he thought. 50% of those first-time players were women. Then 90% of the first-time players abandoned the instrument in the first year, and if not the first 90 days.

But the 10% who don't abandon the instrument have a lifetime value of roughly $10,000. And he talked about now he's creating these music festivals. Well, not creating, but being a part of them. And because everyone loves live festivals and it's predominantly guitar-based music. So it seems like more people are seeing guitar-based music in larger numbers than ever before. So anyway, just a fascinating story on Andy Mooney, who is now running Fender guitars. And it's just fat, these guys are out there, man. And what seems like such a, such a duh idea now, it was a million-dollar idea years ago

and many millions of dollars idea years ago. Just a reminder, you can follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR. Speaking of X, you'll see where Elon Musk was doing an interview at this deal book summit. and he was being interviewed and it's a New York Times kind of thing and he was being interviewed and he started he called out Disney's Bob Iger

because he was asked about advertisers fleeing X in the wake of you know recent anti-Semitism scandals and and what he should do and then he said you know what don't advertise if someone was going to try to blackmail me with advertising blackmail me with money go F yourself

go F yourself Hey, hey, Bob, if you're in the audience. And he was referring to Bob Eiger at Disney, talking about, you know, boycotting X. Then I read, I see all these headlines about Disney. Iger says Disney will focus on entertaining and not messages. Uh-huh. Iger says the Marvels had little supervision,

and Disney has made too many sequels. They're facing activist investor pressure. Ads to board members. The terrible year is going to get worse. so I mean Disney is really struggling and now he's going to take on a battle with Elon Musk good luck because Elon is going to tell you

hey go F yourself okay you don't want to advertise with me go F yourself and we'll see who wins that battle but I have a feeling that it's going to be Elon and Elon even said in the full interview he talked about

how if X fails because of advertising boycotting, then, you know, it will fail. And he's willing to let that happen. I don't think he is. But he's just standing up to, you know, the big bullies who usually get their way because of money. And Elon doesn't need the big bully's money because he's his own big bully. So we'll see. We'll see. That's going to be fun. Just remember, though, go F yourself. And I know I didn't even use the real word. So it's good for me. But I will because that's

my favorite word. And again, you know, more people I hear using it more and more. So maybe it'll get freed up and it'll be okay. But the FU bit chewing the fat is coming very, very soon. So anyway, you can follow me on X at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. You can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com. That's the way that works. Email. on the internet 24 hours a day seven days a week chewing the fat at the blaze dot com and you can also order a cameo from me uh cameo at jeffy jfr uh just tell me whether you want me to be happy glad sad mad mean whatever you need uh and i'll be happy to do it uh that cost money though that's not

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Who died today? Who died today? day, Henry Kissinger. Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. Yes, he was born in 1923 in Germany. Henry Kissinger. He was, I don't know, hailed for his statesmanship. Some hated him.

Many disliked him. Didn't hate him. They disliked him. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for ending the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. So congratulations. And with sad news, I say that Henry Kissinger dead at the age of 100. I don't know that it was that. It doesn't say that. It says he died at his home in Connecticut.

So I guess he died of natural cause. at 100 years old. So rest in peace, Henry Kissinger, dead at the age of 100. Then we have Francis Sternhagen. Who died today? Francis Sternhagen. She's one of those actresses that you look at and you go,

oh yeah. Her. She was in cheers, sex in the city, the closer. I love the closer. She was 93. years of age. Now, according to her son, she died

from those ever-present natural causes at her home in New Rochelle, New York. So Francis Sternhagen dead at the age of 93. She had a huge body of work as an actress. She was great. She won a couple of Tony

awards. She was really good. I enjoyed her work very much. I will miss her work. No question. Francis Sternhagen, rest in peace, dead at the age of 93. Then we have a University of Minnesota Duluth football player,

Reed Ryan, dead at the age of 22. The senior defensive lineman. I'm pretty sure it couldn't be that. I know they haven't released any details on his death, and he was 22. So it could have been, you know, those ever-present natural causes. Because it doesn't say that it was that.

I know what you're thinking. And, you know, it doesn't say that in the story. It just, as a matter of fact, the story says that the cause of death has not been released. So it couldn't be that. Otherwise, they'd tell us. Right?

Right. So did you watch the Christmas I don't know, Rockefeller Center Christmas celebration that was on television last night? Yeah, me either. But I know it was hosted by Kelly Clarkson and

they had all these stars that were going to be there and they had some protests, of course. It's in New York and we're going to have protests, the agonizing protest for the Palestinians. It's just actually just really is agonizing that these people are too stupid to see. But anyway,

I digress. I know Cher was going to be there. And I saw an interview where Cher talked about being 77 years old and she was pissed. She is not happy about being 77. I don't blame her. I know she's got the hot new boyfriend that's, I don't know, 40 years younger than her, however many years younger than her. But her believe turns 25 this year. And she's talking to Harry Smith about it on the Today Show. And he said that well it's hard to believe

isn't it and she said it's not it's not that amazing okay it pisses me off in fact she said pisses me it pisses the F out of me you can't put that out

drawing laughter during the interview everybody laughed ah ha ha ha ha ha everything's real funny no she doesn't think it's funny at all uh hairy ass so you and age

you're not friends No, my mother didn't mind, but I do. I hate it. Now, the mom of Cher, who just died in December of last year at the age of 96, Georgia Holt, she was, I believe, in our Who Died Today segment back in December. She was 96. So when Harry said, well, you know, I know I struggled turning 70, Cher was like, yeah, I'd give anything to be 70 again. Age is all relative, man.

No kidding. Now, she's got her new album out, which she's hawking. She's out there hawking the 25th anniversary edition of Believe. And, you know, what a huge song was. I think she has a Christmas album out now. So she's still, you know, working and making money. And she's got to pay for that new boyfriend.

Somehow that new boyfriend's got to be able to be. taken care of. So we got to keep cranking out some material. I don't know how it went. I'm sure I'll go back and see some clips from the Christmas in Rockefeller Center because it was on peacock. So there'll be clips of it everywhere. I don't know that I care that much, but I'll try. I'll go back and see what it was like because Cher, man, you would talk about someone who was battled with three cuts to clown face. That is her. And she's starting to lose the battle. with three cuts to clown face. Another person is starting to lose the battle

with three cuts to clown face is Joan Collins. Joan Collins. Now, really, who knew she was still alive? Well, you know, I did. I knew she was still alive because she hasn't been in our Who died today segment.

Joan, who is 90 years old now. Of course, she's writing, she's out hawking her new memoir. That's why we get to hear from her. But at 90, she is still happy with her husband that she married in 2002, there is a 32-year-age gap with her fifth husband, Percy Gibson. So she's still happy as a little clam.

She said that, hey, it's just a number on that 32-year age gap. Now, in her behind the shoulder pads, tales I tell my friends in her new memoir. She said, it's never too late to find the love at any stage in your life. That's how we both feel. We're friends above anything else. And she said as a child, my mother always said I was doing five different things at once. I'd be doing crossword puzzle, making dollhouse and reading painting, trying to become a detective all at once. Life is a gift.

That's why they call it the present. It's a gift. Oh, thank you. so we have to read she talks about how she and Warren Beatty were together back in 1959 and then they were engaged

in 1960 and then they split up and she said breakups happen that could happen based on different things we were both too young too selfish too ambitious it just wasn't right I've had a lot of relationships

I've had a lot of marriages they don't last yeah I don't Oh, it is, Joan. Man, oh, man, oh, man. A lot of marriages, a lot of relationships, they just don't last. Luckily, you get older,

and I met the man who's the right person for me for the rest of my life. We've been together ever since, and we're very, very happily married. Breakups happen, though. It can happen just based on different things. What are you going to do? So she said that she was only 23,

struggling wannabe actor. potentially great career as a sex symbol ahead of him, Warren Beatty she's talking about, and that she got pregnant from Warren. Now, she's had a couple of kids from her second husband, Anthony Newley. Love Anthony Newley. And another child with her third husband, Ron Cass,

who, again, love Ron Cass. She said, motherhood has been wonderful, very close to my children. We talk all the time. I wouldn't have it any other way. way. But when she got pregnant from Warren, Warren said, yeah, you're going to have to get an abortion. Okay. We're, that can happen. Okay. We've got Hollywood careers. I know we're engaged, but I'm not a fan of shotgun weddings. That's what Joan said. You know, Warren didn't say that. Warren just said, yeah, we got careers and you need to get an abortion.

And so we got things to take care of. Okay. And we're two. young or too selfish, too ambitious. So she said she had the abortion. And there are no hard feelings. Warren's 86 now. And she said I wasn't ready for motherhood either. So she didn't think anything bad of it at all. So Joan Collins, still alive at the age of 90, with her husband.

You know, what is it? A 32-year age gap. But they've been together for quite a while now for 20 years. So Cher, her age gap for her lover, is four. 40 years. Oh, and there's new talk now that the family's a little wound up because Cher's looking to cut him in to the share of the share fortune. And the family is like, no. We want our cut too, Mom. Share your worth, I don't know, what is share worth? $400 million, maybe more. And she's going to give some of it to the new boyfriend.

Oh, go ahead. You kids, but the kids want it all. They're a little. pissed. So good luck, have fun. God bless. And look, it's just life. It's just a number. That's the way it goes, right? I mean, when you're young, ambitious, and you're selfish, look, you don't care about anyone else. And breakups happen. So just get over it, right? Right? 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. Gold tenders, no, but chicken tenders, yes, because those are groceries, and we deliver those too, along with your

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who the state of Michigan is trying to force and hire anti-Christian teachers. But the school is saying, how about no. Sacred Heart Academy is a religious school. I mean, it was founded by Polish immigrants

more than a century ago. And it's a parish run Academy, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Parish, supports providing children with a classical Catholic education and serves nearly 400 children from pre-K to 12th grade. The parents also joined the lawsuit. All have children attending Sacred Heart Academy. The end result of the laws like they're doing in Michigan is clear. The religious organizations will be forced to choose between their religious mission and

continuing to operate. So now it's all going between the court. why would someone anti-Christian want to work at a Catholic school? It's just incredible that we have to fight this. Go work someplace else. What is your problem? That's what should be. We shouldn't be bogging down the courts with any of this.

It should be, you know, go get a job somewhere else. You know, at a public school where you can spew your hatred, okay? Do it there. then I see in Holton Township which is a township in Muskegon County which is right here in Michigan if you're holding my hand

it's right there they are now creating militia groups to declare themselves a Second Amendment sanctuary so Governor Whitmer and her gun control laws are making people in Michigan

a little unhappy and they should have. Michigan, come on, what are we doing? Well, I mean, everyone had guns in Michigan when I was growing up. It was almost like Texas, it felt like, but I guess not anymore. So, according to this article, though,

which I found pretty surprising, 50 of Michigan's 83 counties have adopted resolutions declaring themselves Second Amendment sanctuaries or, at the very least, reaffirming their support for gun rights. And so then inside,

of those counties, townships have declared their Second Amendment sanctuaries, along with one city. It doesn't say what city? Sure, it's probably up in the thumb or over there on the west coast over there by Muskegon. According to all legal residents with primary residency within the township, who are 18 or older, capable of passing a federal firearms background check and desire to do so can become a member of the Holtan Township Militia, simply by indicating their intent on open media or to friends and or family or by letter. So what is happening in Michigan? I mean, the country is divided and now states are more divided than ever.

How did Whitmer become governor again? I don't know. Some would say that the fix was in. Not me, though. Not me. I love the story out of New York where we have a mobster, an 86-year-old mobster, I'm sorry, an alleged copo

in the Genovese crime family. Anthony Ramaramalo, 86. He is on trial now for two counts of extortion after allegedly being enlisted by a Queen's bookie to collect $86,000 gambling debt

owned by this restaurateur and his brothers Bruno Salamage. And so he went there and I was collecting a gambling debt. According to the courts. Now, he says, no, I wasn't collecting a gambling debt. I'm the victim.

He called me a washed up Italian with no balls. And so I punched him in the face. Now, you know, okay, so sure, I believe him. Make your case. but he is a, you know, an alleged former copo from the Genovese crime family. So it's going to be difficult to believe. Maybe not. Maybe they use that in their favor.

Maybe they say, yeah, he used to be in the Genevese crime family. He's not anymore. And the guy called him a washed up Italian with no balls. He got him punched in the face. It's not our fault that he owed some guy $86,000 in gambling debts. Sorry. Okay. Sorry about it.

Now the restaurateur, Selimajaja, S-E-L-I-M-A-J, described how Ramanello paid him a visit at his since-shuttered steakhouse and flew into a rage when he told him, look, I'm only going to, I can only pay part of the debt. I can play for my nephew,

but I'm not paying for my nephew's brother-in-law's money. And Ramanel said, I'd like to punch you. I said, you have no guts to punch me. A few seconds later, he punched me. So this 86-year-old guy, I want to punch you so bad. You have no guts to punch me.

Okay, I'll punch you. How are we in court with this? This is awesome. I love it. I don't know why we're still in court. Now, he filed a police report, but then retracted it within 24 hours because apparently he was told to be a bad idea if you go through with this complaint. Yeah, you think?

And so now they have this misunderstanding. Now, during cross-examination, they were read a transcript of a voicemail that Selimajal left for Romano, after getting hit, which he taunted and swore at the monster. Why don't you come suck my U.M. F. And I understand. He said, I don't remember leaving that message. Yeah, I don't remember that.

Oh, okay. Oh, that's awesome. I really, I don't know why we're going through a trial with this. It sounds silly. So we'll see what happens. It sounds like he's probably going to get off. My man, the 86-year-old, I mean, he was being confronted by this guy, although they'll, you know, say that he was out collecting money that he shouldn't have been collecting, you know, for the mob.

But it's a gambling debt. Pay your debts. Pay your debts and don't complain about it. Otherwise, I'm going to punch you in the face. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at the blaze.com slash podcasts.