Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - One of Twenty Three… | 3/5/24

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

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If you, like many people, are thinking, you know what sounds good for lunch is Trader Joe's steamed chicken soup dumplings. Yum, yum. Well, why don't you wait a couple of days? Because more than 61,000 pounds of Trader Joe's steamed chicken soup dumplings are being recalled. Yeah, it's possible contaminants. with hard plastic. Somebody, I guess,

dropped a permanent marker into the chicken soup dumplings at the Trader Joe manufacturing plant by CG Foods manufacturing. And, yeah, sorry. What are you going to do? Gosh, darn it.

I forgot to say something. And now people are saying, hey, there's pieces of hard plastic in my dumpling soup. I don't wish that on anyone. So, There have been no reports of adverse reactions or injuries. So if you're concerned and you may have the product in your freezers or your refrigerators,

don't consume them and return them to the place of purchase or just throw them away. But for sure, be on the lookout for hard pieces of permanent marker in your Trader Joe's steamed chicken soup. dumplings. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. Bedbugs in the news again. Yes, if you're not aware of what bedbugs are, they're small blood-sucking insects that infest homes and hotels. And we talked about them a few months ago when they were found in France and France is getting ready for the Olympics and they're trying to get rid of all the bedbugs before the onslaught of all the visitors coming for the Olympics. France is now blaming Russian disinformation for the bedbug panic. Yeah, it couldn't be that, I don't know, all your places of, of residences have bedbugs in them. Nope, that's

Russian disinformation. Okay. But if anything, would make you watch MSNBC. Now, I'm not a, I don't watch MSNBC very often. I play, you know, I watch the clips from time to time. Sometimes it shows up on a television in my home and I happen to catch a bit of a show here and there but I see now where the MSNBC's Manhattan headquarters

has been kind of shut down because of an infestation of bedbugs if anything would make me watch MSNBC that would be it. I would love to watch MSNBC

doing election coverage because if you're listening live today is the 5th of March 24 super Tuesday and they're going to be doing their election coverage tonight it would be awesome to have them doing election coverage and seeing bedbugs crawling on them is it just me i would love to see that now they're shuddering some of their studios out of an abundance of caution, of course. And so they were already borrowing unused local studios for some shows because space is tight for some reason. I don't know.

But they brought in exterminators and they're ready to treat the studio and all the green rooms and control rooms. That is awesome. I mean, it's not awesome because bedbugs are nasty and I don't really wish them on anyone and I don't want them in my life. I don't want them in my home. I don't want them in your home. But I do want them on MSNBC Studios just to say, oh, look, there's Rachel Maddow telling me election coverage.

What's that on her jacket? Is that a bed bug? Man, that makes me want to watch the shows desperately. It is a way to get the ratings up. Just watch the shows in hopes that you're going to see a guest or a host have a bedbug crawling on them during one of their reports. That would be awesome. I don't know that I'd want to go to theaters in New York either. A big surprise, but bedbugs are everywhere.

Hotels, bedbugs. We know that there were some bedbugs in Vegas. Health inspectors with Southern Nevada Health District said that bedbugs were seen at the Encore, Venetian Excalibur Hotel and Casino and Mirage. There were guest complaints that led to a bedbug sniffing dog, used at the encore where a live bedbug was found so I'm not a big fan of bedbugs I used to work with a guy who said he was a he was a bug man that a long time ago but he said whenever he goes to a hotel I think I've talked about this before I know I have how you go into a hotel and that you go into the hotel room and you strip down all the betting all the comforters all the

pillowcases everything and you look for bedbugs and then then you request fresh linen and fresh comforters and fresh pillows and pillowcases so that, you know, there's no chance of bedbugs infecting your stuff. You know, that's a really, it's kind of a pain to do, but it makes sense to do now. I'll tell you that. I don't want anything to do with bedbugs. I mean, we see now that they're saying due to global travel and inadequate pest control, bedbugs have made a strong comeback in 50 countries since the late 1990s.

Aw, isn't that special? It couldn't be because we have so many people, you know, traveling, I don't know, into this country illegally? No, no, that could be it. It's got to be due to travel and people coming from other countries, you know, on vacation. Like when you go to Vegas or you go to New York and, gosh darn it. Did I bring some bedbugs with me? Oh, shoot. I should have checked.

you should have checked. So be on the lookout when you're traveling around the country and the world because bedbugs are back. And this time, they're pissed. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too. That's the powerful backing of Amex. Conditions apply. Oh, did anyone hit the powerball? I forgot to check. Oh no, no one did hit the powerball. There hasn't been a winner. So the next powerball drawing is Wednesday, March 6th.

The jackpot is $485 million. The cash payout is $232.4 million on the powerball. And then, of course, mega millions, there hasn't been a winner in quite some time. That drawing is today, the fifth of March 2024, for $650 million jackpot. And the cash option is $308.6 million. So good luck to those of you that play Lotto.

And, man, I hope you win some of the bigger drawings because I am looking forward to hitting that jackpot. I see where Spotify has just been all over the news. So they claim that they generated $9 billion, or the music industry, generated $9 billion on Spotify. last year. And half of that total went to independent labels and artists of $4.5 billion. That's pretty cool. Streaming has leveled the playing field in many ways since it became the main platform for music a decade ago. And Spotify defines artists signed to a non-major label or self-releasing. Now account for half of that total for the first time, and that is huge. They have 236. million

of paying subscribers. They are the world's largest paid music streaming service with the U.S.

its biggest territory. Pretty incredible. Now, they're also in the news because Apple just got fined $1.95 billion

dollars from the European Commission because they claimed that Apple used its dominance to restrict music streaming competition. So it wasn't enough that Spotify was making all this money.

It wasn't enough for Spotify. And, you know, I agree. European regulators determined that Apple for at least a decade prevented music streaming services, i.e. Spotify, from telling iPhone users that they could get cheaper subscriptions outside of Apple's App Store, which resulted in users paying higher price. The fine is the third largest penalty ever levied by the EC against a company.

Well, you know, I'm kind of torn on this because if you wanted to see about getting something cheaper, shouldn't that be on you? I, you know, I guess not. Apple should have said, hey, buy our service or you could get something cheaper over here. So Apple called out Spotify, who this complaint started in 2019, which, you know, know, led to the investigation that led to the fine. It's the biggest beneficiary claiming that Sweden-based company is the one with the monopoly in the music streaming market and Apple plans to appeal the ban. Yeah, well, hello, when they are, when they're already talking about $236 million paying subscribers, which makes them the world's largest paid music streaming service.

Yeah. Oh, well, the U.S. is number one, not the EU. But Apple, you know, kind of has a point. It's just big money, fighting big money is all that it is. Everybody wants their cut. And the EU Digital Markets Act, which is a law aimed at ensuring that smaller companies, you know, like Spotify and Apple, can compete with Apple, meta, Google, and Microsoft. Yeah, I mean, are these smaller companies? Are they going to be able to compete?

I guess. I guess they need to make that happen. I don't know. It just doesn't seem fair, but life isn't fair, so I'll just stop and say, good, I'm glad. And if this helps the smaller companies compete against those bastards at Apple, meta, Google, Microsoft, and even Spotify, then good. Speaking to music, I see where your girl, Taylor Swift, is back in the news.

I don't know that she ever left. She continues to be a force globally. The two stories that are first and foremost in my timeline are she was being paid to show up and to do concerts in Singapore. They struck a deal with Taylor to only do shows in Singapore. And the deal is, hey, we'll give you $3 million a show. Wait, what? Yeah. Three million a show.

So, okay. Now that means that she is playing six shows in Singapore at 3 million a show. That's 18 million just to be exclusive to Singapore. So other Southeast Asia countries are a little bummed that they have to travel to Singapore to see Taylor Swift and her eras tour in Singapore. So that's just to play. Right? I mean, she's still. She's still getting money from the tickets. She's still getting money from all the merchandise sales. That's just, hey, you can't play anywhere else in Southeast Asia, but here. And here's an extra $18 million to do six shows. That's pretty hard to turn down. And then the other story, now, again, now, her, the Taylor Swift people, the team has not commented on what they're calling a convent.

Not a controversy. Hey, come to Singapore, play in Singapore. You can't play in any other countries in Southeast Asia. And we'll give you $3 million up front for each show. Okay, no problem. I'll be happy to do that. Then we have the story of Taylor Swift being related to the American poet Emily Dickinson. Apparently, according to Ancestry.com, the singer and Emily Dickinson are sixth cousins three times removed. I always love the, always my second cousin, two times removed. But that's not Taylor and Emily. They are sixth cousins three times removed. So removed means you and the cousin are one generation higher or lower. So three times removed means three generations apart. So the bloodline is there. And, you know, it's definitely the, they're both tortured poets. Are they?

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Now, we do have the Oscars coming up this weekend, and I was looking at some fun facts about. the Oscars that costs $56.9 million is the total cost of the ceremony. I don't know what all that includes

because they talk about it costing $24,000, almost $25,000 for the 50,000 square foot red carpet that they use. And then they talk about it's $10 million is what

the cost of the look for an A-list actress attending the Oscars. So it just depends. And you know, we're going to have Jimmy Kimmel again doing the fourth time as the host. That's his third consecutive time in five years and his fourth time as a host. Doesn't even have him come close to the most done by Bob Hope, who did it 19 times. Billy Crystal did it nine times. Johnny Carson did it five times.

And no solo host has done it more. Whoopi did it four times as well. but it's a good bet that among those hosts no one has seen as many of the nominated films. Oh, okay. So Jimmy says, oh, I've seen all the movies. I bet you they never saw them all. Yeah, okay. Whatever you say, Jimmy, we got you.

So the event is coming up this Sunday, March 10th, 2024. It starts earlier. It's at 7 p.m. Eastern. And it's the 96th Annual Academy Awards. Live, Coast to Goose. and they've got a full lineup of presenters. You're going to see, you know, Bad Bunny, Chris Hemsworth, The Rock, Michael Keaton, Regina King, Jennifer Lawrence,

Kate McGinnon, Rita Moreno, John Mulvaney, Catherine O'Hare, Octavia Spencer, Rami Yosef, and then we also have presenters. Michelle Ali, Nicholas Cage, Jamie Lake Curtis, Brendan Fraser, Jessica Lang, Matthew McConaughey, Loupty, Nehue, El Pacino, Michelle Foy. Pacino's going to while out there. to Seattle. Michelle Pfeiffer, Sam Rockwell, Zendaya, it'll be great. It'll just be a star-studded Oscars from the moment the lights come on. One of the things that's happening, though, that I love, is that they do not want the unwashed masses around the Oscars. So remember at the Grammys,

they had the pro-Palestinian protesters that showed up and they had to stop the red carpet event, and people were all wound up that protesters were there, yeah, that's not going to happen at the Oscars, okay? Because they are putting up a, what's being called a ring of steel. The surrounding area around Hollywood Boulevard is going to be blocked off with a chain-lick fence. And police, along with federal agencies,

are going to work together, and you have to be able to be somewhat washed person to get past the fence. If you're an unwashed masses, no, you're back over there. Yeah, you can protest, but you can protest over there. Not in here. In here? Yeah, no, we do not want you here.

The Dolby Theater here on Hollywood Boulevard, yeah, you're not getting in here, okay? That is awesome. We do not want the unwashed masses around. Yeah, we love you. And go see our movies, and it's important that you love us. just love us from over there.

Don't love us over here because we want to be over here with our people, okay? I mean, it's agonizing. I had a story in the fat pile for quite a while that I haven't gotten to and it just fits in with this where Leonardo Caprio, I guess,

was filming some movie in San Francisco and he made them get rid of all the homeless people and clean up the streets and get rid of it all while they were filming. And it's just, you know, I get it, I do. I understand. They want to, they've got the deal. We're filming in this area, in this park.

But every time we start filming, there's those people. We can see them in the camera shot. So clean them out. Cleaning out. You can come back when the filming is done. But no, we place signs on your tents that you got to pack up and leave. because we are filming here in Sacramento, and we want you unwashed masses away from us.

Okay? It's just amazing that if you are an unhoused person, we love you and we care about you just over there, not here. No, we can't do anything for you here. So when you're watching the red carpet at the Oscars, just remember the Ring of Steve. has the unwashed masses over there and the star-studded event will not have any of the unwashed masses coming close to them. Plus, if I'm busy taking home my Everybody Wins gift

bags from distinctive assets, I don't want the unwashed masses to see my gift bags. So the 28 expensive Everybody Wins bags are gifted to the nominees for Best director, best actress, best actor, best supporting actor, best supporting actress, as well as the three hosts of the evening. Regina Hall, Wanda Sykes, and Amy Schumer, and I'm sure Jimmy's got to get one, right? So Jimmy's got to have a bag. The lucky nominees, we get the $140,000 everybody wins bags.

They get to take home. 53 elaborate items in total. You get a $15,000 four-night stay, for two at a luxury resort and spa, $12,000 liposuction voucher. Who doesn't need one of those? A $25,000 worth of home renovations, of course. An assortment of a designer popcorn. Love that.

$1,200 life coaching session. And my favorite, much, much more. The most expensive item to make it into this year's gift bag was the $50,000 three-night's day in Scotland at the Turin Castle. which was inspired by Denzel Washington's best actor nomination for the tragedy of Mick Bath. So when I'm taking the swag bag home, I do not want the unwashed masses being around that. So, man, do I love the Oscars? Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what?

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and following that treatment, he continued to play with Blackberry Smoke on tour through December of last year. So, actually, he's an amazing man, and very sad that he lost his life. Britt Turner, dead at the age of 57. Also, for those of you, I don't know if it's completely gone, but it did briefly die today. Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, these all kind of died today. And so there was some kind of issue with them. But I believe that we have, we got out the paddles and we brought it back to life. So by the time you're listening to chewing the fat here, whenever that is, if there's

of you that aren't listening live, I'm sure that they're back to life. But they did die briefly today. I don't know if they saw a light or a light. if it just went black. But for many people, it just went dark. Okay, so who else died today? Who died today? I saw where Ronnie Stoneman,

Ronnie Stoneman, has passed away. She was 85. I did not know that she had died. She died a couple of weeks ago. Very sad. She is the first lady of the band. Jor, I'm sorry, was the first lady of Banjo. She was a big-time performer on He-Ha!

And I was forced to watch He-Ha! As a child! I loved He-Ha-ha. Some of their bits were hilarious. And I know that they were the Southern Fried version of Rowan and Martin's Laugh in. Yeah, I know. They used Brees. music and comedy to satirize country life, really?

Hosts Roy Clark and Buck Owens and fellow banjo player Grandpa Jones. Amazing that Loretta Stoneman, I'm sorry, Veronica Loretta Stoneman, was born in Washington and grew up in Carmody Hills section of Prince George's County. Now, she was the second youngest of 23. Three children. Holy crap. Would you look around and you see families with three kids, four kids, five kids? Stoneman's family spit on those families, okay?

23 kids. That's a big family. That's a big family. She was the second youngest. No way she was raised by her parents. She was raised by the older kids. Absolutely. So apparently she had a stroke and then she died from complications after the stroke.

Very sad. Ronnie Stoneman dead at the age of 85. Now, it's funny that I didn't see where Ronnie had died and she was, you know, part of the Grand Vildopery and, you know, big time Nashville. But it was seen about her death while I was looking at a story about a plane crash. in Nashville. And I was looking at the, you know, that just was reading the story about a plane crash in Nashville

and then I see a story about where she died. And I, just like this, the reason I was reading the story of Nashville. Okay, so there's a plane crash. It's very sad. It's shut down five people dead after this single-lane engine plane

crashes along in Nashville Interstate. And as I'm watching it, as I'm reading about it, I think to myself, I would be so pissed because in the story it talks about how the highway is still shut

down. Clean it up. Let's move on. We have traffic and places to go. Do you remember the footage last week of the semi-truck driver that's hanging off the bridge and they show the rescue worker coming hanging down and saving the driver or the semi-truck driver and the truck

is just hanging off the bridge? And it was dramatic and it was awesome. And they saved this guy's life and the truck is hanging off the bridge. The only thing I'm thinking of, and I know, I know it's just me, but the only thing I'm thinking of is that I would be so pissed, because you know they've got that entire bridge shut down, and you are stuck in traffic, and once you're in it, you're in it. And you can quote me on that, once you're in it, you're in it, and you're just stuck there, waiting to try to get off this stupid bridge, waiting to try to get off this interstate where there's a plane crash. And I know,

I got it. It's a horrific thing, and I'm very sad that it happened. But on the, you the other hand, man, I got to get places. Speaking of getting places, I see where American Airlines has announced a massive order for new planes. They want 260 new aircraft. They ordered some from Boeing, some from Airbus, and some from Embraer. They did not disclose the financial terms of the order, but the package includes 85 Boeing 737 max tens, which is a larger version of the max.

that has not been certified yet. It's years behind schedule. They have 277 on order. They remove the max 10 from its plans, at least temporarily. So, I mean, Boeing is still under, you know, under the watchful eye of everyone by the Federal Aviation Administration to fix problems in its manufacturing system since, you know, that panel blew off the old Alaska Airlines max 9 back in January.

And speaking of that, I see where some people, Passengers have sued Boeing for $1 billion over mid-flight panel blowout. Okay. I don't know, you know, I get suing Boeing over it. I don't know that it's worth a billion. I guess we're hoping to settle. So three Alaska airline passengers filed a lawsuit against the airline carrier and Boeing for a billion dollars over the mid-flight panel blowout incident that occurred earlier this year.

So, you remember in January, the flight from Oregon to California, forced to make an emergency landing, exit door panel blew out, and so, you know, people were a little scared. And rightfully so. And so the Jonathan W. Johnson, LLC, an aviation legal firm based in Atlanta, stated that three individuals on this terrifying flight recently lodged a lawsuit against the airline and both. The complaint filed by the law firm on behalf of Kyle Rinker, Amanda Strickland, and Kevin Quack, claimed the incident was an avoidable accident that put hundreds of innocent lives in danger. And because of that, we want a billion dollars. We don't care about the rest of the people on the flight. We want a billion dollars.

Okay. I mean, I think they already paid him off, right? They gave them some kind of deal, the people that were on the flight. Yeah, the original deal, I think they offered him like $1,500 to compensate for the heroin experience. But not only that, do they have these three people suing for a billion. There's also another class action lawsuit filed by passengers that claims that the blowout physically injured some passengers and emotionally traumatized most, if not all on board. Yeah, I don't disagree with this.

I mean, I would sue too. I'd be a big part of it. They, you know, look, the door. is designed to be held shut by four bolts and 12 stop fittings, which apparently were not put on correctly. So, yeah, somebody needs to pay something and a lot more than just $1,500 bucks. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here.

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Oh, man, am I looking forward to that chat? Now, I kind of like Brooks Shields. Katie Couric, agonizing. Megan is going to be agonizing. So a sociologist and DEI author, Nancy Wang A.N. Also joins Breaking Barriers, Shaping Narratives, how women lead on and off the screen at 1 p.m. on March 8th in honor of International Women's Day. And boy, was that going to be great, isn't it?

It is. I can't wait for Megan to come on and tell us about that. Now, I just found out, though, I did not know this, all right, that she doesn't. just, I guess we, I talked about it, I think, but she just signed a new deal with, Lamanda Media To launch a Lemonda L-E-M-O-N-A-D-A

However, L-E-M-A-A-A-L-M-A-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-A-M-ROTE-N-A-ROTE-N-A-RENT. As an actress on a hit show and then marrying a prince. Yeah, man, those labels held you back didn't they Meg? So we got that to look forward to. I can't wait for the clips of that. It will be wonderful.

And if you're looking, you know, thinking what should I be doing this weekend? Maybe head down to Austin and check out a little South by Southwest. It's going to be all kinds of speakers all weekend long. You're going to have Selena Gomez and Kirsten Dunst and Sidney Sweeney, who is on fire these days. Conan O'Brien, Daniel Shannon, Shannon, Damon, DeMaconne, Coleman, Coleman, DeMitt. Mingo. Wow. And of course, we'll get a Dell Technology CEO.

Michael Dell is supposed to speak, which is, you know, I mean, Dell is a big-time employer in Austin. And we're also going to have executive vice president of the European Commission and Commissioner for Competition. That's great. That's what I want to hear from in America is the European Commission. Ugh. I'm surprised that What's Your Face isn't going to be speaking at South.

by Southwest. You know, the oh, the chick, you know, the chick. She probably loves being called the chick. Jessica Stern, who is the State Department's special envoy

to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersect persons. This chick, Jessica Stern, who has boasted that she has the highest, she is the highest ranking lesbian woman.

She's paid an annual salary of over $180,000 and she's tasked with promoting the views of the left on sex and gender, lobbying foreign governments and assisting activist organization. She's gone to Australia, to Brazil, to South Africa, to Sweden. She's traveling the world to push transgender. and gender ideology. But it doesn't say that she's speaking at South by Southwest.

So... Oh, you know what? Maybe she's down in Haiti. Yeah, you know, Haiti has declared a state of emergency now. If you're thinking about going there on vacation or going there to visit, might want to wait. Gang leaders are now demanding

the resignation of their prime minister who... We don't know where he's at. He has been missing since he traveled to Kenya, so he may not even be in Haiti. So gangs control around 80% of the capital. Gang violence, I mean, has plagued Haiti for a long, long time. Twelve people have been killed.

3,700 inmates have escaped in this jailbreak. So things are looking great in Haiti. So if you want to spend a nice weekend in Port-au-Prince, now would be the time. Now would be the time. Maybe Jessica's Stern, you know, the State Department's special envoy to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex persons could head down to Haiti. Just to say, hey, guys, calm down. You need to be okay with transgenderism and gender ideology. You know, while you're overthrowing the government and killing people. Good times.

Good times. You know, speaking of good times, I don't understand why these dating apps are trying to shake their hookup reputation. That's what they are. They are hookup apps. That's what they, I know they're dating apps. That's right, I know. But I see where Bumble is laying off 30% of its staff.

Wow. Their quarter, their Q4 earnings report highlighted that, But, no, not really doing really well financially. Remember, they got rid of their old founder and CEO and brought in a new CEO, and they want to, you know, making cuts. They're trying to save the company all kinds of money, and they plan to relaunch the app with new safety and AI features. And they want to woo Gen Zers because they claim that in a new survey,

that 79% of college and grad students said they don't use dating apps. I believe them, don't you? Meanwhile, it said that they're in the same survey, 41% of users age 30 plus said they've paid for dating apps compared to just 22% of users under 30. So, I don't know. I don't know. Look, it's a hookup app.

That's what these apps do, Tinder, hinge, bumble. that's what they do. So now they're trying to reinvent themselves and say, oh no, we're a friendship app and we want people to get together and we want to invest in in-person meetups. Do you? Okay. All right.

All right, let's go. I'll leave you with the joke of the day. This one made me laugh for the last 24 hours, so I'll share it with you. A woman walks into the pharmacy and asks the pharmacist for some arsoning. and the pharmacist says, what for? And she says, I want to kill my husband. And he says, sorry, I can't do that.

She then reaches into her handbag and pulls out a photo of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife and hands it to him. And he says, oh, you didn't tell me you had a prescription. You know you laughed. You know you did. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.