Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - No Charge for Love…. | 5/23/34

Episode Date: May 23, 2024

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found microplastics to be present in all tissue samples. So this points to potential consequences on male fertility. Now, this published study was in the toxicological sciences, and man, you can't tear me away from the latest reports from the toxicological sciences. I love those. The new study tested 23 preserved testes from cadavers who were ages 16 to 88 at the time of their death. Then compared the levels of 12 different types of plastics in those testicles

with plastics found in 47 testes. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. The 23 preserved testes and they found plastics in 47, oh, 47 dog testes. Because I was going to say, 23 testes, that's 46 testicles, right? Unless, you know, a person had one. Anyway, but then they tested dogs, too, so they found it in 47 dog testes as well. The levels of microplastic shards and types of plastics in human testes

were three times greater than those found in dogs. Yes, it puts into perspective what we're putting in our own bodies. Doesn't it? The polyethylene, one of the most widely used plastics in the world, was the predominant type of polymer in both species, followed by PVC, polyvinyl chloride, another commonly used chemical, and that can contain chemical additives and heavy metals, including phatholates, P-H-T-H-A-L-T-E,

cadminum and lead. Now the phatholates called everywhere chemicals because they're so common are added to consumer products to make the plastic more flexible and harder to break. So now they're saying the impact on the younger generation might be more concerning given the proliferation of plastic pollution. But it was only 23 cadavers.

So they only found they only found levels in all 23 cadavers of the 23 preserved testes. So keep using those plastics. I'm all for it too. That's modern petro technology. I am all for it. But maybe I shouldn't be. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. Congratulations are in order to nine. women sports stars, they are going to get their own Barbie doll. Huh? Kind of cool. Who doesn't want their own Barbie doll? I know. Well, you know, of them.

Of them. So a tennis star Venus Williams is getting her Barbie doll, of course. And this is still part of Mattel's 65th anniversary. The impact of sports is fostering self-confidence, ambition, and empowerment among the next generation. Yes, the iconic doll made its debut in 1959. So gymnast Rebecca Andrade from Brazil. Alexa Moreno from Mexico. Soccer players Mary Fowler from Australia and Christine Sinclair from Canada.

French boxer Estelle Mosley. Italian swimmer. Frederica Pellegrini. the Spanish paratria athlete Susanna Rodriguez and Polish track and field runner Iwa Sabota are the other athletes other than Serena to get Barbie dolls in their likeness. We should do, I don't know, sports athletes

that people know. I know this will be of them. this will be of them clearly. It will be them 100% because Venus is not a, I mean Venus looks fine, but she's not Barbie doll look. She doesn't have the Barbie doll look.

She has the Venus Williams look. So, although, oh, this is, yeah, Venus. Yeah, so this is, Serena didn't even get one. Venus is getting, oh, what are we doing? Venus is more, oh, that's because Venus is closer to a Barbie doll than Serena. Wow, if I was

Serena, I would be pissed. Plus, what do we do? We don't have a Caitlin Clark Barbie doll yet? I thought this was America. But congratulations to all the women athletes that are getting Barbie dolls

because, man, do you deserve it? And it's been 65 years of greatness from Mattel and Barbie. Speaking of being not a Barbie doll representative, Jaylen Cheney, you know her as a plus size social media influencer. She is all wound up.

And, you know, she's been wound up, I don't know, for the past year or two because of seat belts and having to get an extra chair and having to, you know, squeeze through the center aisle of the airlines and she barely makes it through. And she's now traveling without her oxygen tank. So I guess she's not a, well, she isn't a plus size. she's just a plus size now, I guess, I don't know. But she's all wound up now at the airlines

because she asked for wheelchair assistance during a trip. And the plan was to have the worker roll the 27-year-old influencer through the airport. And I have called and asked for this before with my in-laws. They meet you at the airplane. And, you know, they help you to the wheelchair and then they wheel you to wherever you have to go, to your next flight or to whoever is meeting you at baggage claim,

whatever the case is. And so she said, I'm a plus-size wheelchair user, and she requested the assistance. Okay. And she said, when it came time for me to deplane, I saw an employee who would,

who would, she's assuming the employee would assist her with her wheelchair at the entry of the jet bridge. but as I approached and she realized that she'd be assisting me, not one of the smaller passengers, she just walked away with the wheelchair. That's not funny. That's not funny at all.

No. It's just a new. I mean, maybe you just say, I can't. I'm going to get somebody else. I got to go get Bill. Maybe I need to go get Fred.

He's able to push some bigger stuff, but I can't. But I love the whole, I mean, it's mean, horrible, horrible thing that happened. But just, oh, no, I'm not, no, I'm not pushing that. No, no, I am moving on. Now, apparently she had to walk, she had to walk, which was one of the longest jet bridges she's ever encountered. Was it? Okay.

All right. By the time she let me reach the wheelchair and sit down, my lips were white, my oxygen levels had dropped, and I almost fainted. Holy cow. If she fainted, she'd be in big trouble, man. That is awesome. Now, this woman just assumed I could walk and would rather me do that instead of her having to push someone plus size up the jet bridge.

All of the other attendants wheeled their passengers up the jet bridge, but my needs were disregarded. This is discrimination. No, this is someone that thought, no, I can't do that. I'm not doing that. So, I mean, I guess you probably should put it on there if you need assistance with a wheelchair. If you're a plus size, you should put on there. Hey, I'm a.

plus sizeer. You're going to need somebody with a little extra umph in their push. This jet bridge is 200 meters long. So there you go. The jet bridges are not that long. And good luck to Jaylen and I hope it works out for it.

And for the people who are at the airport and have to assist people getting off the planes in wheelchairs, thank you. Appreciate your work. I know you do it for tips as well. Whatever you're getting paid from the airline or the airport, plus you get tips for doing that.

But I love the fact that it was like, holy crap, man. No, I'm not doing that. And just move on. That's awesome. I mean, it's mean and terrible, and it should never happen. Boating for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what? Sounds like Ojo time.

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That was That was really good Need a beer? No, I'm fine No You need some whiskey or anything? No, no I'm fine I'm good

I don't need it because I've Smoking pot So I'm fine I mean marijuana So I mean The recreational weed thing recreational weed is

well it's almost everywhere there's some states that are still holding back on the old recreational weed thing but it won't be long they'll all cave in you can count on that speaking of smoking too i see where uh the biden administration uh they were planning on banning menthol cigarettes you bastards you racist sonsa you know that black people smoke menthol cigarettes

There's no white people that smoke menthol cigarettes. Well, actually, there are, but it is a racist thing. And because of civil rights groups' feedback, you know what? We're not going to do that anymore. We were abandoning those plans. Don't worry about it. You're fine. Smoke those menthol cigarettes to your heart's content from now on.

Now, I was looking at how many, the percentage of people, well, men, not women. women. I see in the world of statistics they have broken it down to men who smoke cigarettes. And in the United States, we're way down the list now. Where are we at? 28.4% of men smoke cigarettes in the United States of America. 28.4%. That's an amazing number, because at one time it was a lot more than that. Number one, though, the number, one country for smoking. I will say it. I still see. It's amazing to me since I stop smoking. I'm still, you know, I have a little nicotine in my body with some nicotine gum, which I know. I got to give it up. I almost was, I almost bought a thing of Zen the other day just to stick it in between

the old cheek and see, get a good of fresh nicotine buzz from the from the Zen. But I decided not to because I felt like, no, that'll just drive me to the cigarettes again because I'll be getting more nicotine in my body. But maybe not. Anyway, I still see people driving smoking. It's less often now than it was. But I mean, I've stopped smoking now for four years. Four or five years now.

And so, but I could still, I could still fire one out. Heartbeat, heartbeat. And I see, yesterday, I reminded me because I saw a guy stopped next to me at a red light and he's got his window open and he's got the cigarette in his hand. He's catching a smoke there at the red light. And I mean, everything in me

not to just roll down the window and go, bro, let me hit you up for one of them smokes. And as a smoker, that's an unwritten law. You have to give it to them. You have to. It's an unwritten law. You have to. So the number one,

country where men are smoking, Indonesia, 71.4%. 71.4% of men are smoking in Indonesia. 68.5% in Miramar. Bangladesh has 52.2%. So those are the top three countries. Now, China has less than 50%. 49.4, though. Egypt, 48.1.

Malaysia, 43.8. Turkey, 42.1. Sri Lanka, 41.4. India, 41.3. That's a lot of people, too, man. India's like the most populated country in the world now. Battling back and forth with China. And then we have Thailand, 41.3.

Russia, 40.8. Serbia, 40.5. Ukraine, 40%. Those are all the countries, 40% or above. So smoking is bad for you. Okay. And just remember, I saw a big sign at the story yesterday that said, uh, second hand smoke is bad for you too. So don't be doing that either.

Just stay away from those damn cigarettes, okay? Don't be smoking cigarettes. But go ahead and fire up that bong any old time because, oh, that was good. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Be sure to follow me on my social media accounts at Jeffie JFR on X. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio.

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All right. So you get a face with bags under the eyes. You get a fingerprint. You get a leafless tree. You get a root vegetable. You get a harp. You get a shovel. And you get just like a splatter. You know, just a splatter or a splute.

What they're calling it a splatter. I call it a splute. And those are coming very, very soon. These are part of Unicode 16th beta preview. Oh, they're not going to be released until July? What are we doing? It takes that long to release new emojis. Apple, pick up the pace.

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And thank you. I appreciate it. He sent me an email about Hot Wheels Collectors, Hot Wheels Trent Transformers Optimus Prime, $80. And I thought, you know, I think I've seen that before. I think my son has that because I mean, I'm sure he sent it to me because my son, who co-hosts Talking Walking Dead with myself and Jason Butchrell, is a Transformers expert, period. And his collection is, I was spent way too much money on those collectibles.

He will disagree with that. but I forwarded in the email saying, hey, don't you have this? Well, okay, so here's the deal. No, he doesn't have it. But the pre-orders of the $80 Optimus Prime is already sold. It's already sold out. He informed me of that.

And Hot Wheels is creating two hot wheels that are Optimus Prime. However, then he went out to explain to me that this is a big deal between Hasbro and Hot Wheels because normally they only allow the transformers of the Hot Wheels. Hot wheel to be one thing. You either get the car or you get the robot, but you don't make it transform. The Hot Wheels can't transform. So this is the first time, the $80 one is the first time that the Hot Wheels transformer Optimus Prime will transform from a hot wheel to the Optimus Prime.

And just so you know, I got the hit a little quick history lesson on this on the Hot Wheels and the and the Hasbro and Mattel a battle back and forth for the transformer robots. So thank you for the e-mail. I appreciate it, but yeah, he already knew. I am surprised that he did not have the pre-order in, though.

Maybe he did, it just didn't tell me because he looked and he said, yeah, the pre-orders already sold out. I feel like he should have a pre-order already in on that. because I'd be very bumped at him if he doesn't have the pre-order on that. You know what? I'm really disappointed in him now. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining

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dead at the age of 58. Now, it's very sad. Rest in peace, Charlie. But I don't know, you know, I would have held off until I had somebody else because he's the only one and who died today.

But he deserves it to be, he deserves to be all by himself because he's died after falling in the shower. Okay? Now, we don't know how long, he'd been laying there. According to this, he slipped and fell

in the shower while house sitting for friends in Brussels, Belgium. And according to his mother, he was just lying there, and the friends came home

and after about five days and found him. Or they came home five days ago and found him. So it doesn't say how long they were gone or how long he laid there in the shower so he might have slipped and fell

and then that was that was it you just let help I've fallen I can't get up we don't know how long that is so rest in peace Charlie Collins dead at the age of 58 yes Mr. Cruz

I just want to jump in here because me and you have a theory about falling and showers. When you're that old. He's 58. Fisher. That's not old. You fall.

You're dead. He's 58. My grandpa fell. Three years later, boom, dead. Didn't your mother-in-law also fall? Oh, it doesn't start bogging me down with facts about people falling. Did you? They obviously, yes, absolutely.

That happened when people fall. Yeah. Now falling in the shower. With old people fall. Yes. But he's, my grandpa. My grandpa fell in the shower. Oh, yeah, that's not good.

He didn't, he wasn't, you know, unknown hours on the ground. My grandma helped him, we took him, but that was. That's why he lived three years. Charlie could have survived another three years. That was a downfall. Yeah. Now, there's a theory. Actually, the theory that I believe now is from your father-in-law.

Okay. Oh, yes. Because, you know, people, old people fall all the time and they break their hips. And, you know, then when an elderly, person breaks their hip, usually not a good sign. No. It takes a long time to heal and it's bad for them and they end up, they end up passing away. I think there's something in their like bones.

So, but your father-in-law, he and I were talking once, and he was talking about his theory that people don't fall and break their hips. No. Their hip breaks and they fall. Yes. Now, I kind of lean into that. Yeah. Not on my hip, though.

But I kind of lean into that. Now, the difference is that Charlie fell in the shower. I don't think his hip broke. I think he slipped. He probably slipped. He begged his head. Think about it. If you fell in your shower.

Oh, yeah. And no one was there? Mine is plastic. How long would you lay there? But mine is plastic. So I don't think... What kind of? Is your...

Okay, hold up. No, no, no. I'm not going to be judged by Jeff Fisher. What kind of trailer park are you living in? Plastic shower. Like, you know, like a bottle plastic. But you know what the, you know exactly what I'm talking. Don't give me that stupid ass look because you know exactly what I'm talking about.

The shower. Everybody right now listen to the podcast. They're like, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's the plastic thing. So you tell me that you, your shower. Oh, first of all. Is a brick shower or tile. Oh, no, that's dangerous.

You do not want to fall there because that's what my grandpa was. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. But I don't want to fall in a fiberglass shower either. Fiberglass, thank you. I don't want to fall in that either. Yeah, but you're not going to, you will break something, but you're not going to lay there. Yeah, but I'm not, I'm not messing with the aesthetics of the bathroom with fiberglass.

This is why I know this is going to make, this is going to be a shocker for you, not really. But this is why I sit when I shower. Do you have a little chair in there? I don't. You need to get one. It doesn't fit because my wife wanted this stupid, Big ass bathtub with a stupid thing, like a little slide. It doesn't work.

You can still get one of those. Yeah, but the problem with that is it doesn't sit right. Trust me, I'm trying to. It doesn't fit right. But I sit in the shower just because of that. Do you not have a ledge on each side? I have a ledge on the right side. Not on both sides.

What do you think this is? The freaking, you know, where the hell you live? I'm just saying, I was thinking you could put a... Isn't that what they call your place? NHR? Yeah, that's what they call it. They call it NHR. No, they don't.

But it's okay. They do. They don't. They do. But you can put it like a board across it or something. So we have like a mat that you can sit so you don't fall, you know, like you don't slip and fall. But that doesn't help. No, it doesn't.

Look, I just need something comfortable. I just sit on the, on the shower. You don't get as clean, though, when you're sitting. You don't. That's what you have to get up. It's like taking a bath, right? Yeah. And like, I know I talked about this in the Pat Great Overtime.

I take once a month, I do the Clorox bath. Wait, what? When you hear for that? No. So remember the whole Hillary with the stupid garlic? Yeah, yeah, yeah, with her home remedies. Home remedies. Well, we're talking about what different, what other things you can do.

Well, I remember when I went to my doctor, because I had some rash, and she said, hey, you know, this will cure it in a week. I'm like, okay, thank you for the aloe. Got it. But then under recommendation sheet, this is what you should do. That way you don't have that rash again. That doesn't reoccur. There's recur once a month.

You should take a preventative bleach bath. Bleach batch. Now, it's not what I'm saying that you grab a whole gallon of bleach. What's the mix? What's the mix? It's actually, it's actual bleach. It's actual bleach. Now, it's not the Clorox bleach.

It's just the Walmart bleach, but it works. Okay. Generic bleach is fine. It's bleach at the end of the day. same company's taking it you know that's true you say so you know the generic stuff is the same as the Clorox

Yeah but it's the lower end That it's still Clorox I'm still the lower end though Whatever 99.9% of Yeah still the lower end Anyways you're gonna piss me off I'm not even end this damn story Anyways

So You grab two table I'm not two caps of the Clorox Well that's not very much Two Clarks Yeah it's two caps Two caps.

In a tub of water? I have half a tub, right? You know, for like... How many gallons is that? 20? Sure. Next time I'll count them. But...

Put them in a gallon at a time is what I want. I want to know exactly how many gallons. But it works. I haven't had the rash in two years. Okay. It works. Hey, bleach is a wonderful... A wonderful...

Cleans up crime seems like nothing. I don't recommend what the... If you remember what Trump said, you know, ingest bleach, I want to, you know, don't do that. No, don't do that. Yeah. Don't ingest bleach. Yeah, don't do that. But two caps, half a tub, it'll clean you up.

That seems like you need more because. But you're not, here's a problem. I just did some investigating and it's 80 gallons for half a tub now. I don't know what size your fiberglass tub that you have. There's no way my thing holds 80 gallons. All right. That feels like a lot of. I know.

It seems like a lot. That's a lot of water. That is a big tub. Yeah. So, okay, well, okay, let's say, let's say 40. 40 gallons. All right, we'll compromise. 40 gallons.

It seems like you should use more bleach than two cups. But you're not, okay, but here's the thing. Two caps. You're not doing it to disinfect your body, like how you would disinfect a table or something like that. What you need to do is put like, I don't know, a dozen cap holes in that water. I want to see, I want to see what happens. See, that's when you start sizzling and you, and you got. little boils going on and you're like, ooh, I feel like the witch of Wizard of

Lost. The rash is coming back. The rash is not coming back, but somehow I got boils and I'm boiling here. You do kind of smell for a little bit, just for a little bit of Clorox. Just, just like, it's like if you want to take a jump in a pool and they just put Clorox in the pool, you smell a little bit like that. Well, they don't put Chlorox in the, they put chlorine in the pool. And that's what you got out, the whole story, that I messed up on Chlorox in the pool. And that you have some kind of plastic tub that I am not. Is it like a one piece thing that was fitted in there or something?

Bro, this was, I had to replace it. We move in. Now check this out. This is what you need real estate agents at trust.com. You move in and the first night that we used the tub breaks. It cracked. It cracked. Yeah, because they had the one piece, those one pieces that they put in, right?

Those wall pieces. Yes. Then. They put those in a lot of trailers just like yours. Anyway, then we get a quote The guy says that has to be remade Like he was like who made this bathroom I don't know back in 2000

Well I just bought the place They made the tub Right That was the first thing they installed And they built the bathroom around it So it's a customized bathtub So they had to order it And it was a four piece

Each wall so one two three And the tub It was a nightmare It was $3,000 which was horrible for some fiberglass crap. Should have one with tile. Yeah, but then I'm dead like freaking... What's his name again?

Oh yeah, Charlie Collin. I don't want to die that. You could be laying there for days. For days. 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.

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the monkey made a baseline, a bee-line for the baseline. He made a baseline and a be-line for a bottle of whiskey. and after drinking some of the booze set off to wreak havoc in the village. So I guess he ran into people on the street. They were trying to get him out of the way. He bit five different individuals? Uh, no. Is that monkey out there running around crazy? Not anymore.

Sorry, somebody had to put him down. Sorry. Holy cow. So he then went into a couple of stores and took some more food and just started ramaging down the streets. Uh, no. Uh, Garrick, sorry. Uh, I know you need some snacks. I know you're a little drunk and you're feeling a little, a little heartbroken because daddy is marrying a new woman and you're going to have to share.

But you start biting people? We're going to have to put you. down. Now, fortunately for Garrick, what they did is they finally trapped him and he will now go to a zoo. They sent him off to a zoo. I know. I guess some villagers that didn't shoot him, offered him some sugar cookies and then they captured him and then now he's going to a nearby zoo because they claim that the owner is incapable of caring for the creature. What? The owner had just said about let him loose a little bit.

And then it was the monkey that went crazy. But whatever. I mean, no one supports zoos more than this show or me. So, you know, Garrick should be fine. But he's lucky to be alive. He's lucky that the citizens, man, because you start biting people on the streets. I don't care what little Russian town you're in. If you're in Jeff Fisher's town, you're going down.

See you later, Garrick. Rest in peace. And not only is my prediction coming true every day with the skies being dark from drones. And I started talking about drones, you know, darkening the skies with deliveries. But now we are getting stories where insurance companies are now flying drones over homeowners' homes. to check up on them. And they have, they're calling them inspections. And now all of a sudden the insurance companies are like, your policy is canceled.

Sorry. We captured aerial images and we're sorry. We're just, we're not insuring you anymore. Wait, what? Yeah. So I guess they're flying over people's homes with drones, manned planes, and high altitude balloons. What are they the Chinese?

Revealing issues like debris, drained pools, or moss on roofs. One resident who owned his home for 40 years said he was blindsided by the insurer's demand for expensive repairs, only to have his policy canceled

despite compliance. So he said, they told him to have repairs done, he did, and they still canceled them. The practice is growing drone inspections becoming commonplace. Okay, so I'm just giving you heads up. Be right, if you're a homeowner and you want to keep your homeowner's insurance,

just do what they say, because you will have to have your heads up looking for drones. That may not be a delivery drone. That might not be a Walmart drone flying over. That may be your homeowner's insurance drone flying over. Just amazing. Is your home, your castle? Is it? Is it where you're, there's, that's your privacy?

I don't think so. Good luck with that. I'll let you know. All right, here's the story and the, well, it's a good, it's a feel good story. And I got this sent to me and I read it and I'll read it to you. I'll share it with you and then I'll give you my thoughts on the story, okay? thoughts on the story. A farmer had some puppies he needed to sell. He painted a sign advertising the

four pups and set out nailing it to a post on the edge of his yard. As he was driving the last nail into the post, he felt a tug on his overalls and he looked down into the eyes of a little boy. Mr. I want to buy one of your puppies. Well, said the farmer as he rubbed the sweat off the back of his neck, these puppies come from fine parents and cost a good deal of money. The boy dropped his head for a moment and then reaching deep in his pocket, he pulled out a handful of change and held it up to the farmer. I've got 39 cents. Is that enough to take a look? Sure, said the farmer. And with that, he let out a whistle and here comes Dolly and out of the doghouse comes Dolly and down the ramp with their four little balls of fur. And the little boy pressed his face against the chain link

fence. His eyes danced with delight as the dogs made their way to the fence and the little boy noticed something else staring inside the dog house. Slowly, another little ball appeared. This one, noticeably smaller. Down the rampant slid. Then in somewhat

awkward manner, the little pup began hobbling toward the others, doing its best to catch up. I want that one, the little boy said, pointing to the runt. The farmer knelt down and said, son, You don't want that puppy.

He will never be able to run and play with you like these other dogs would. With that, the little boy stepped back from the fence and reached down and began rolling up one leg of his trousers. In doing so, he revealed a steel brace running down both sides of his leg, attaching itself to a specially made shoe. Looking back up at the farmer, he said, you see, sir, I don't run too well myself, and he will need someone who understands. With tears in his eyes, the farmer reached down. and picked up the little pup and holding it carefully, he handed to the little boy. How much? asked the little boy. No charge, answered the farmer.

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