Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Not That Way… | 10/31/23

Episode Date: October 31, 2023

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uh, holy cow, lead poisoning. I know. children in North Carolina were found to have high levels of lead in their blood linked to the products. So if you give your kids Wanabana, which is based in Coral Gables, Florida, don't. Okay? They've been recalled. They're sold normally at Sam's Club, Dollar Tree, and on Amazon. Remember, lead is toxic to people of all ages, but could be especially harmful to children. most children have no obvious symptoms. So it's important that the kids who are exposed get tested to check levels of lead in their blood.

Short-term exposure to lead can result in symptoms that include headache, abdominal pain, vomiting, anemia. So, man, I mean, heavy metals like lead can get into food products from the soil, air, water, industrial processes. lead exposure can seriously harm children's health. I shouldn't be laughing because it couldn't and seriously harm children's health causing some damage to the brain and nervous system and slowed growth and development. I feel like that's the where kids were eating paint, right? The lead paint.

I feel like I don't know that Wanabana does that. It reaches that level, but maybe it does. So don't do it. Don't feed your kids. Wanah Banna, Apple, Cinnamon, Fruit. purie pouches. It's not good. You don't want lead poisoning.

And if your kid doesn't even look sick, but he's had, he or she has had Wanabana, Apple Cinnamon, fruit puree pouch, you might want to get them tested because they don't know. They don't know how sick they could be. Also, the FDA is warning consumers not to purchase and to immediately stop using 26,

over-the-counter eye-drop products. I feel like we talked about this before, but this is new. They say that due to the potential risk of eye infection that could result in partial vision loss or blindness, at least, you know, you can burn your eyes out with this stuff. Patients who have signs or symptoms of an eye infection after using these eye-drop products

should talk to their health care provider and seek medical care immediately. Yeah, no kidding. CVS Health, Leader, Cardinal Health, Rugby, which is Cardinal Health, Rydide, those are closing up, so don't even worry about Rydide. Target, up and up, Velocity Pharma. Yeah, so these products are intended to be sterile. They're part of the Othelmic.

Is that right? Amorphophalis. No, it's not that. It's... Othalmic. Yeah, that's what I said. Ophalmic. I feel like that's what I said.

Anyway, these products oppose a potential heightened risk of harm, because the The drugs applied in your eyes. They bypass some of the body's natural defenses. Yeah, you're dripping them right into your eyes. So, don't use them. Be very careful what your eye dropping in your eyes. Remember back in the day when you didn't care about what you were just dropping into your eyes, vizine, clear eyes, whatever. And, you know, the instructions are one drop, and you're just squeezing half a bottle into your eyes.

getting the red out. That wasn't you? No, that was just me. Oh, okay, never mind. Welcome. Be careful. Be careful which eye drops your picking. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. So there's a restaurant in Georgia that's taken a little heat. The restaurant is the Toka Riverside Restaurant, T-O-C-O-A-Riverside Restaurant. And it has an adult surcharge for adults unable to parent with three dollar insignias on the menu. And so I guess it's, and that means $50, or they tell you that it means $50. A Florida mom who visited the restaurant with their family and four other families, she said, I remember thinking, no way, this is real.

And there's a picture of the menu from their website, and it has, you know, all the prices of everything and what they sell. And it looks like a beautiful restaurant. It's right there, the Toko Riverside Restaurant. It's on a river. It's in Georgia. It's a little northeast of Atlanta. It's beautiful.

I mean, Georgia is a beautiful state, the northern part of Georgia. When you start getting into the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. But I just has a side note where the restaurant, there's a picture of the restaurant there on the deck overlooking the river. Right across the river on the other side of the river is there's another house. and it's just, I don't know if it's a vacation home. It very well may be a rental and Airbnb on the river, but it's right across from the restaurant.

And that would just stink. You show up there and you want to go out in the morning in your underwear. It's a beautiful day of Georgia, a little coffee, have your morning cigarette, listen to the river, trickle by, and there's a restaurant right across on the other side. But you can't even come out of your house and your, underwear anymore. What has happened to America? Okay. So anyway, this mom gets, she went through, this Florida mom went there with four other families. So they have 11 kids at this restaurant, ranging from three to eight. She said, I remember thinking how well behaved they were during

their meal. Now that is an educated guess. That's a mom saying, boy, these kids were well-behaved, because kids from 3 to 8 can still be hellraisers and be well-behaved at the same time. That's just the way kids are. So when the owner approached their table after dessert, he pointed to the menu where it mentions the surcharge. At first, I thought he was going to compliment us and be like, but you won't be charged because your kids were so well-behaved. That was not the case.

The owner said, the bill's going to have an additional 50 bucks. your kids were being too loud. Some of the adults had taken the kids outside after the meal, and the owner was still angry that the kids were running around outside. She said the kids were quiet the whole time. He got in her face and told her they belonged in Burger King and not at his restaurant. Obviously, I guess they've had this policy for years, and the cook said,

We just want to live in the woods and cook, do you? I mean, it's obvious they just don't want kids at the restaurant. They should just say that. This restaurant is for adults only, but they don't want to do that because they want the business. You know, they need the business up there. People driving through, passing through, living and staying in the Airbnbs and the houses and the rental houses up there. That's the way people make their money.

So they want to, you know, put on their BS. You know, you got to keep your kids being well-behaved in my restaurant. So, you know, this restaurant has taken the heat for that. It's clear they hate kids. So just tell people, don't bring your kids in here. We don't want children at the Toka Riverside Restaurant. There's restaurants out there. Don't have kids.

It's for adults only. I get it. So, I just, it's so strange to me how people hate children. They just hate them. It's just amazing. And it's a pretty nice restaurant. It looks fine. It looks like an everyday restaurant that you'd come in.

I mean, the prices are, I don't know, not extraordinary in today's world. You look down here at their Angus hamburger, hand-form chard-boreld with all the fixing. Fifteen bucks, extra buck for cheese. And you get a choice of French fries, coleslaw, or cheesy grits. So, I mean, that's a reasonable price in today's world, I guess, at a restaurant. A couple of bucks, two and a half bucks for a soda. I don't know if they have free refills, though. this place might be charging you for refills too and it says at the bottom gratuity 18% may be added to

parties over six which i'm sure it was this lady had a family you know four families together uh with 18% may be added to parties over six separate checks birthday menu okay so they're just charging you the 18% no matter what adult surcharge for adults unable to parent uh share charge three dollars not sure oh i see so if you order something and then share it with your companion. They're going to charge you an extra three bucks. Be respectful to staff, property and self. No respect, no service.

No store food permitted in dining area. There is a cash discount, however. Price listed on the menu. It is? I didn't see the price listed on the menu for the special cash payout. And then they have their special Wi-Fi at the Tocco River guest password silly beans. It's just cute. I did not see the special

cash price payout, though, on the menu, which it says that it's on here. So, you lied to me is what you did. You lied to me here. So anyway, just say it on the menu. Just tell people out front. No kids.

As an adult only joint, we hate kids. Welcome to Toka. That's probably not how you pronounce it either. It's spelled T-O-C-O-A. So it's to coca, to cocoa, to cocoa, welcome to Toccoa. Well, well, well, I see where the UAW's big strike against the big three finally ends. The Auto Workers Union reached a tentative deal with General Motors.

The last holdout after fellow Detroit car companies, Ford and Stalantis, reached tentative agreements with the UAW, ending the six-week strike. GM said it was costing it $200 million a week, although the 10,000. deal has got to be ratified by union members, so good luck with that. And the proposed a four-year contract. Looks like big wins for the UAW, which got its members the biggest wage increases in decades. Yeah, sure did. And we'll see if the union ratifies it. And then on the other hand, we get news that GM and I'm sure the other automakers are saying, yeah, you know, man, we're glad to work out this deal with UAW, but we're going to have to open some new plants in, you know, not the U.S.

Maybe Mexico, maybe Canada. You know, you know what sounds good? Maybe we make them in India. Maybe we go to China. Somewhere where we don't have to pay workers $8 billion a year. So I get it. You made your deal, UAW. You made your bed.

So now you have to lay in it. Good luck. I'm with you. I'm with you. But I think you need to understand the lay of the land, too. And I don't know that they do. Oh, wow. I see where the Smithsonian needs our help.

The Smithsonian, American. Women's History Museum is asking the public to submit stories online about the women in their lives for an upcoming digital exhibition. I've got some stories. I don't know that they want to put them in the display. Contributors are invited to share stories about women from their family, community, or past that inspired them to think differently. Wow, there are so many jokes with that. The exhibition is set to be unveiled online during Women's History Month in 2024. The forthcoming Smithsonian American Women's History Museum is asking the public to submit stories about women to help craft a new digital exhibition scheduled to launch next year. Interested contributors can share stories on the museum's website about a woman from their family, community, or past,

that have inspired them to think different. I know. It's like I had my great-grandmother inspired my mom to wear oven mitts because when she tried to get stuff out of the oven without oven mitts, she'd burn her hands. I wonder if that'll be in the exhibition. No, pretty probably not. Now, this is going to be completely online because they don't have a physical location yet. However, Congress did pass legislation allowing the creation of a National Women's History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino is part of the Smithsonian. Smithsonian's institution. Oh, great, in 2020. So the Smithsonian estimates that it will take at least 10 years before physical buildings will be open to the public. Until then, we'll just have to wait for, you know, things to show up online. And according to the interim director of the museum, Melanie Adams, they're excited to see what stories people will uncover.

Yeah, I know. Me too. Me too. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So if you're listening live, today is the 31st of October, 2023. It's Halloween, and that means that every website starts off with, hey, what do you get when you mix sugar, corn syrup, confectioners, glaze, salt, dextro,

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is getting an overhaul. I know. The Sesame Street show is now going under some major renovations. They want to overhaul for its 56th season, which will do. debut in 2025.

So they're getting an overhaul. They're just tired of the way things were. They're dropping the magazine

style format of the children's show in favor of a longer narrative-driven style. I thought that's

what they were doing anyway. There's been a long time since I've seen Sesame Street, but I

thought that's what they were doing anyway is their longer narrative-driven style. Paired with

a new animated series, Tales from one, two, three. Man, oh man, I can't wait for that to happen. And of course, Steve Youngwood, the CEO of Sesame Workshop and an interview with Hollywood Reporter, said that with any change, you have

evolutions, and then you have things that are slightly bigger steps, and we'll be, we're still staying core to who we are. We felt like this was a moment to step back and think bigger about how we evolve. So we need to drop that whole magazine style. format that's long used in favor of two longer more narrative-driven segments, which will be paired with the new tales from one, two three, featured two 11-minute story segments with new animated series sandwiched in between them. It's a way to give us an opportunity to dive further into the narrative. Yeah, that's part of the problem. There are Kay Wilson Stallings, the executive VP and chief creative development and production officer for Sesame Workshop, calling the changes a

reimagining of the show. And adding, that the longer segments will allow for more dynamic and sophisticated stories. Okay. It could, for example, oh good, we've got an example, allow for both an A story and a B story, and the A story focusing on a core character and what they're going through, and the B story adding in a little bit more levity and a lot more character moments. See, they're talking about the A story as being. their top story with the B story

you know kind of woven in there I'm talking about the A story should be I don't know about the letter A and the letter B but no that's not what they mean at all so in 2016 when the show

went from an hour to 30 minutes wow I didn't even realize that I do remember them talking about this but I spent so long so I've seen Sesame Street It kept the magazine-style format, even as it made the program shorter with a street scene leading into a letter or number of the day segment. Yeah. Followed by an Elmo's World animated segment.

Okay. There'll be a signature song in every episode. All good. And for the new animated series, Tales from One, Two, Three, that's the first time we'll give viewers an opportunity to go inside One, Two, Three, Sesame Street, which is probably the most famous apartment building in the world. Is it the most famous apartment building in the world? One, two, three, Sesame Street. Okay. And there, beyond the stoop, I bet you it's going to be so diverse.

Inside the apartment building of Sesame Street, one, two, three. You won't be able to stand it. So congratulations to Sesame Street on the revamp of their show. The 56th season that's going to be debuting in 2025. It's taking them until 2025 to redo this show. That's a little bit of a little bit of a show. an issue in and of itself. Isn't it interesting?

That earlier this week, we had stories about how companies are starting to roll out technology that would enable devices like smartphones and cameras to insert information about how, when, where a piece of content originated into the images they create, designed to make it easier for people to confirm if imagery is real or AI generated. And so according to this, it's the most foolproof, scalable and secure way to differ between real and fake images. Okay. I mean, we have to believe Qualcomm, right?

Yeah, of course. That yesterday, as I mentioned, touched on earlier, President Biden issued an executive order on AI and said that it's the first of its kind federal action aiming to regulate an industry that's been mostly left to its own devices. Man, if I want, I'm so happy that there's going to be more government. regulation, I can barely sit in my seat. The biggest consequence, the developers of future advanced AI models will have to submit safety test results to prove that they are not a public threat. Oh, good. That's what I want. I want the government to tell me what's a public threat. That's good. That's good. That's good.

So the different parts of the government that will have a role in ensuring the tech doesn't cause too much of a ruckus. the National Institute of Standards and Technology will set benchmarks for safety testing, which the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Energy will use to evaluate risk to national security and infrastructure. The Department of Commerce will issue directions for watermarking AI-made content, so you could know that if, you know, let's say Harry and Megan have a divorce announcement that we will know if that's a deep fake. Believe me, that won't be a deep fake, because that's coming and that's been predicted on chewing the fat.

The Department of Labor and the National Economic Council will study ways to mitigate the effects of AI on jobs. The Department of Justice will get extra training and tech assistance to investigate cases of AI algorithmic bias. Landlords, federal benefits programs, and government contractors will receive guidance to ensure that they're using AI equitably. Oh man, that sounds great. Doesn't it? It does. That sounds great. You won't be able to do anything without, I mean, you can't anyway.

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Who died today? Actor Richard Moll, Richard Moll, who played bailiff Nostradamus Bull Shannon in the original Nightcourt sitcom has died. He was 80 years old. And rest in peace, thank you to, I got several emails. at Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com reminding me, hey, this broke over the weekend. We know you were sick.

You weren't feeling well. Maybe you missed it. And I did. So thank you for emailing the fat at theblaze.com. Richard Moll, Bullshend, the original nightcourt sitcom, has passed away at the age of 80. I was reading about him. And it lived a fascinating life.

He died at his home in Big Bear Lake. I don't know if you ever been to Big Bear Lake, but it is gorgeous. And I loved being up there, Big Bear Lake. I was there for a couple of days earlier in my life. And that was beautiful. I've absolutely understand why people want to live there. So no cause of death was given.

I don't know. It'll look at me like that. It could have been. They're not saying that. So I don't know why you're looking at me like that. But, you know, they didn't say. It talked about how, you know, he's got to, you know, he's six, eight. and he had the shaved hat.

You know, you know what he looked like. He was awesome. And, you know, he got into acting. He was a graduate of UC Berkeley and a history and psychology major. And he worked as a probation officer and as a head of stock in the hosiery department of a San Francisco store. I thought, that was a fun gig. And then he ended up saying, I can't work at this hosury department forever. And took up acting.

And moved to Hollywood in 1960. that he was in, you know, commercials and films, because he had the look, right? And he said when he went to trial for night court, he had just shaved his head for another role. And when he walked in, they were like, oh, that's the look. That's the look.

You'll continue to shave your head for the roll, right? And he said, are you kidding? I was shaving my legs for this role. So that's, you know, ended up how he got the thing. And then it talked about how he got a lot of voice work on animated shows. He was the voice. of Harvey Dent, Two-Face,

on the Adventures of Batman and Robin. And so he had a lot of roles. It was cool. I'm very sad that he is dead. He was a good guy, at least, you know, from what all the reports are that he was a good man. Now, he was married to Susan Moll, the stepdaughter of legendary TV comedian Milton Burl.

Who does her remember Milton Burl? I love that, though. They were divorced because it says in the story, They remained friends after their divorce. Did they? Did they, though, that they remained friends after their divorce? That's what it says.

Okay. So he has some kids and stepkids and everything. I mean, he had a pretty good life, Richard Moll, dead at the age of 80. Then we have an unnamed man, 22-year-old man in Colorado, who is a strange story. He was found in the bathroom of a theme park,

and the park, this Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park, they found the dead body before the business was scheduled to open this weekend. Huh. He was carrying a rifle, a handgun, fake grenades, pipe bombs, both real and fake. Police say the guns were either ghost guns or homemade, and then he wore patches that made him appear to be a member of law enforcement. He entered the park illegally after employees had left.

He had written a note that read, I am not a killer. I just wanted to get into the caves. Well, come back with the place is open, bro. So anyway, the Grand Junction Bomb Squad searched the theme park in a slow and methodical manner. That's the park saying, let's pick up the pace, man.

I know we appreciate it, but I got customers. And so you guys are taking way too long. We want everybody to be safe. But I want to charge them into the gate, too. Okay? They found some explosives in his vehicle. And so they almost

seem very highly likely he intended to use those against the community and he chose not to and so they're investigating this death as a suicide still ongoing the investigation yeah yeah yeah and they'll go on he had all kinds of weapons and ammunition and explosive devices so uh you know a good safe day at the glenwood caverns adventure park and so it's a good rule of thumb for people that want want to think about killing a bunch of people at whatever kind of event. Start with yourself. Yeah. Start with yourself.

Now, the rest of you that are just actually just considering starting with yourself, dial 988. That's the suicide and prevention lifeline. And it's available 24-7 because we don't want you to end your life. We just want the people who are going to kill a bunch of other people and theirs. 9-98 probably disagrees with that. But that's the way. I feel. You know, this seems like

we're getting a little robbed from the police department. And it's in California. So there's a, and they're calling it a luxury home. It is not a luxury home. Okay. It's a house that was a meth lab is selling now for $1.55

million. That's way too much for this house. I'm sorry. No. It's been confiscated by the police and now they want $1.55 million. And they're saying, a house down the street just sold for $1.7.25 million. So this is a good price tag. It makes it a good value. Does it? Does it though? Because it's being sold as is. Right? As is. Funny. What would as is mean in this instant? Well, huh. It's a 2,700 square feet of living space. Okay. Great location, easy access to the freeway.

It might appeal to anyone needing an easy commute into Silicon Valley with Apple's Kerpetino campus, just 20-minute drive at Google's Mountain View home less than half an hour away. It's a quiet neighborhood, good school catchment area, and has a backyard planted with orange and apple and lemon trees. There are three and a half bathrooms, a swimming pool, a luxury spa, a garage parking for one car, solar panels, and air conditioning, throughout. It's a beautiful patio for entertaining. And it also was a good place to cook up addictive illegal drugs. It's on a 6,000 square foot lot. And it also has the inactive meth lab and meth contamination. So you get it as is. But you're going to have to, you know how much work that's going to have to do to get rid of that god awful meth contamination? That's a lot of work.

And I feel like maybe even a million dollars is too much. But, uh, I'm a lot of, but, uh, I'm a lot of I will give you a million dollars. It's California. I mean, obviously, that's way too much money for that size of house. But you can get so much more in Texas. But it's already all the work you'd have to do to, it's a fixer upper. We've got to get rid of that meth smell. Yeah, okay.

Yeah, $1.55 million. That's it. Yeah, okay. All right, where do I sign? It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with. with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rank on Uber Eats. But iced tea, ice cream, or just plain old ice? Yes, we deliver those. Goaltenders, no, but chicken tenders, yes. Because those are groceries, and we deliver those

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Okay. So, I mean, that's just being jerks, right? The judge said that the delivery of more than three tons was done maliciously and in bad faith. Absolutely. And that the defendant of welding company now must pay more for its act. Yeah, you shouldn't piss off the judge with that kind of crap. The welding company and its owner, John Frank, were sued by a custom fabrication company. a fired-up fabrication LLC, which said it worked as a subcontractor for JMF enterprises and did not

get paid in full. The companies agreed to the settlement and mediation, and the agreement did not specify the form of payment. So a month went by one day after the payment deadline. So they missed the deadline, obviously on purpose. And the Friday night, a day after the deadline, They attempted to make a nighttime delivery to fired up fabrications, but company officials rejected it because they first thought it was a forklift being delivered. Nope, the forklift was delivering the money. Then the following Monday, an attempt was made to deliver a heavy metal container of coins that required the forklift to move it. And it was physically impossible to deliver. I wouldn't even go on the elevator.

It was too heavy for the elevator, for the freight elevator. to deliver the coins. Plus, they weren't all boxed up. They just unboxed them and threw them in this metal case. In this giant metal box. That's funny, but it's not funny. It's funny. It's not funny.

In the order, when you see the headlines about not legal tender, coins are legal tender. Yeah, the judge said the coins are legal tender, but paying such a large settlement in coins would reduce the settlement because of the time and expense required to accept it. And he said photographs show that the coins had also been removed from neatly organized boxes and dumped loosely and randomly into a metal container. So it's not nice to fool with mother nature, the judge.

So they submitted an application. Now he's going to pay even more money than he would have had to in the beginning of the settlement. So that's really, it's kind of funny, but not really. The company and the judge were not happy and they told them to fix the issue. Kind of funny, though. That's a lot of coins. You can quote me on that.

Whoa, that's a lot of coins. When my son, my youngest son, was really little and we do this and he used to get so mad about this, but we were driving, cutting through a parking lot, a Sam's Club parking lot. And it was, you know, it was a place where there's a Sam's Club, and then there's a big Walmart right next door. I mean, this big, spacious parking lots joined together. And it was, you know, the stores were closed. And there were these just rows of shopping carts.

There was at least, I don't know, I don't know how many. It was a lot of shopping carts. And my son was really little, and he was looking out the window. And we were all in the car going someplace. And he just, you know, just was like, whoa, that's a lot of cards. And that line has seen. stuck with, we, he used to get so bad because we'd see something and just go, whoa, that's a lot of cards.

It was, though. He wasn't lying. But I just, every time I say something like, whoa, that's a lot of coins. Can't help but think about the, whoa, that's a lot of cards. Okay. Remember that sugar, corn syrup, confectioners glaze, salt, dectros, gelatin, sesame oil, artificial flavor, honey, yellow 6, yellow 5, and red 3 are not the ingredients of bug-based protein.

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