Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Pinnacle of Culture… | 5/10/24

Episode Date: May 10, 2024

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Coming to a city near you soon. Well, possibly. Perrystead Derry, located in the old Kensington neighborhood in Philadelphia, has now opened a 24-hour cheese vending machine. It looks like an oversized phone booth or a guard shack that is just outside the dairy, and no cash accepted, and you go inside, and that's where the cheese vending machine is. That is awesome. 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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So they're offering a limited edition cheese Umbra, which is made in collaboration with Murrays in New York City. They don't even have a special cheese for this month. So that is awesome. When I first heard about the cheese vending machine in Philadelphia area, I thought, well, it won't be long until it gets smashed and the cheese will get stolen and we'll just shut down the vending machine. But it's right there by the dairy. I'm sure they have security. And it's 24-7.

So it should be awesome. And I want a dispensary somewhere in my neck of the woods so that I'm able to just pull in, you zip in, you zip out, and you leave. with a hunk of cheese. What's more American than that? Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. According to U.S. News and World Report,

Utah has earned the top spot of the best state. Ranked to the best state in the country. Yay! Congratulations to Utah. Now, according to U.S. News and World Report, this is the second year in a row. Utah has been

ranked the best state in the country. Now, they evaluate states based on their performance in health care, education, natural environment, opportunity, economy, infrastructure, fiscal stability, crime and corrections. And then the analysis encompasses thousands of data points across 71 metrics in eight categories to capture how the 50 states serve their residents. New Hampshire came in at number two, but it's a climbing because it was number six last year. So if you look at the top 10, you've got obviously Utah number one, New Hampshire, number two, Nebraska, number three, Minnesota, number four, Idaho, number five. Number six is Iowa. Number seven. Number seven, Vermont, number eight, Washington,

number nine, Florida, and number 10 in the 10 best states, according to U.S. News and World Report, Massachusetts. I don't disagree with a few of these states. I mean, Utah is beautiful. I could live in the state of Utah. New Hampshire, okay. Vermont's beautiful.

I don't know that I could actually live in the state, though. Vermont kind of reminds me of California-ish, but it's a beautiful state. So I've spent some time there. Idaho is gorgeous. Nebraska, ooh, hey, Florida, of course. I love Florida, and that's in the top ten.

I mean, Florida should be a lot higher than ninth. As far as I'm concerned, I could live in Florida again in a heartbeat. It would be those were states. But when you start looking at where other states were ranked, like Texas, the state that I'm living in now, is 29th. Michigan, the state that I was born in, is 42nd. Yeah.

Let's see, I've lived in New Jersey. That's 14th. Ooh, I don't know about that. I do not know about that. I have lived in Pennsylvania. That's 40th. Yeah. Spent a lot of time in the great state of Missouri.

That's 35th. Where's California ranked at? 37th? That should be a lot. lot lower, although it's beautiful. I mean, it's a beautiful state, no question, but I don't want to live there. What about Christy Nob's state? The great state of South Dakota, that's 11th on the list. That should be, I wonder what their nickname is. South Dakota's nickname is the Artesian State or the Blizzard State or the Coyote State, the land of

infinite variety, the Mount Rushmore State. I guess that was the that's the official nickname. And the former nickname was the Coyote State. Ugh. Okay. And according to this, it says they used to be called the Sunshine State. Stop it. That belongs to Florida. And on top of which, South Dakota's new nickname is the gravel pit state. That's just the way it is.

That should be on their license plate from now on. South Dakota, the gravel pit state. Boy, this list does not like the South, man. Arkansas, 47th, Louisiana, 50th, Mississippi, 48th, Alabama, 44th. Yeah, they don't mind Georgia at 18th, and Florida is number nine. Where's South Carolina, 41st? Yeah, Georgia and Florida get kind of a pass, but the rest of the South, sorry about it. Now, no matter where your state is ranked, here in the United States, every state is facing drug and medical supply shortages.

just like it was back during the pandemic. As of March of this year, there were more than 200 drug shortages, and I know I did a story here on Chewing the Fat that mentioned 300-plus drug shortages right now in the United States. And it's looking like it's going to get a whole lot worse before it gets any better.

Healthcare experts have pointed to shortages because of domestic production and the Drug Supply Chain Security Act says, hey, this is a trend we need to watch. Yeah, we're already seeing it. And you wouldn't want to think that things like this could happen here in wherever your state is ranked, but we've seen it, and it's going on for way too long now.

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well you know maybe but we also have the eurovision 24 grand final uh that airs on saturday at 3 p.m. It's fascinating to uh you know the second semi final aired uh yesterday Thursday afternoon and uh it's on peacock and you can also catch it on the Eurovision's YouTube channel and you can vote if you download the app or website you can vote on who you want to win. Some of the performances, I'll play. You know what? I promise I'll play the winning song or some of it anyway.

We'll see if we'll actually like it. On Mondays, chewing the fat, because it could be, it could be Serbia's Romanda. It could be Croatia's rim-dim, taggy dim. It could be Finland's no rules. There's just a few of the songs that are in the grand final for Eurovision, 2020. So I'm looking forward to that It's taking place in Malmo, Sweden, and it's the largest song competition in Europe.

It's organized by the European Broadcasting Union, and who doesn't love the EBU. And they are, you know, the head of the Eurovision 2024. I see where South by Southwest, now they still, I guess Austin is still the mothership for South by South. You know, they have it in March in Austin, and they still have our promotion for South by Southwest 2025 next year in Austin in March. But I just see a big announcement where South by Southwest is going to London in June.

And they claim that it's going to be an indispensable three-stop tour for the global creative community. So that means we're going to do South by Southwest in some. Asia Pacific region and then in Europe, right? So you have London. We had Sydney this year, I believe, or last year. So anyway, next year you're going to have in June, you're going to have South by Southwest in London. So they're all happy about bringing that to London.

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speaking of London, England, I was looking at a post from Lawrence Fox. Remember, he's the actor who played Hunter Biden. in my son Hunter. And he's an activist and he's from the UK. And he put out a post, I think this was last week, maybe a week or so ago.

And it was, it's only been five days. Wow, time is just flying by. And his post is pretty incredible about the UK. The mayor of London is a Muslim. The mayor of Birmingham is a Muslim. The mayor of Leeds is a Muslim.

The mayor of Blackburn is a Muslim. The mayor of Sheffield is a Muslim. The mayor of Oxford is a Muslim. The mayor of Luton is a Muslim. The mayor of Oldham is Muslim. The mayor of Rockdale, Rokdale, is Muslim. All of this was achieved by only 4 million Muslims out of 66 million people in England. Today there are over 3,000 mosques in England, over 130 Sharia courts.

There are more than 50 Sharia councils. 78% of Muslim women do not work, receive state support, plus free accommodation. 63% of Muslims do not work receive state support plus free housing. State supported Muslim families with an average of 6 to 8 children receive free accommodation. Now every school in the UK is required to teach lessons about Islam. So then I believe I saw a community check on this, although this when I bring up this post doesn't show the community notes check. But every one of those cities he mentioned,

I think there were two or three that the mayor is not Muslim, at least isn't Muslim now. And there are only about 2,000 mosques in England, not 3,000. But, you know, I don't know. So, okay, wow, you are way off. That's just what's going on in the UK these days. So is it coming to a country near you very soon? That is possible.

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living here and my wife says so do we have plans this weekend or on Sunday and I'm like for what that went over well I let you know that went over well so don't forget mother's day is this Sunday but I have to take her to the movies we might have to go see kingdom of the planet of the apes I love these movies I love war I love dawn I love rise Dawn is probably my favorite, although I have, you know, obviously I haven't seen the new one. Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes. So I'm looking forward to this a lot.

So I might have to go to the... I'm sure that my wife will consider, hey, want to go seek Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes? Happy Mother's Day. I'll go over. I'll go over just as well as why. What's going on? But,

I haven't going to have to get to the theaters to see this because I really do want to see it. Oh my gosh. I just looked. It's two hours and 25 minutes long. Holy cow. I mean, I just saw a survey that talked about 92 minutes being the ideal length for a movie. So only 2% of the respondents in this survey said they would be happy with a movie being over 2 hours and 30 minutes.

long. So this movie is under 230 at 225. But that means you're in the theater for two and a half, you know, maybe two hours and 40 minutes, possibly longer depending on

when you arrive and how long you know, you rolls the credits and you're there. So you better set some time aside. It better be worth it. You know what we missed was the crying babies contest in Japan. It is the strangest kind of thing. I mean, it's well worth it, really. They need to mic it up better. I was trying to find some good ones. The 700 babies took

part in this annual Crying Sumo contest in Hiroshima. And what they do is people bring their babies to this event and they get blessed by a traditional you know, happy coats and headbands. And then the people give their baby to a sumo wrestler. And there's two sumo wrestlers that bring it into the middle of the wrestling ring. And they, the sumos wrestlers have the babies and they shake them and bounce them around. And they tried to make the babies cry. And so this year, the first round, the babies didn't cry.

They were calm. They just, yeah, go ahead, shake me, whatever. and then they, if the babies don't cry, then they bring out the referee, whatever it is, stupid title is, he starts coming around screaming and hollering along with the shaking of the sumer wrestlers. Now, that doesn't happen.

Then they bring out, they all start shaking and hollering, and then they bring out a couple of people with, like, scary masks on. in the middle of the ring and then you can hear the baby start looking at the mask. The one baby looked like, yeah, whatever, all right,

I got this big, I'm in the arms of this big guy right here, you're not doing anything to me. And the other baby finally was like, okay, if I cry, maybe we'll get out of here. There come to big guns. There we go, he's upset. All right, so, just to really

be a fun event to be a part of, I guess. but just kind of a weird thing. And if we're going to celebrate it, this is a new world, okay? We need to mic these kids up. We need to mic the wrestlers up, although the wrestlers don't have a lot to hook a mic onto. And, you know, we need to hear these kids crying.

If you're going to turn them over to a stranger, the sum of a wrestler, to let the sum of wrestler shake the kid, and they treat it nicely. It's not like they're picking it up by its legs and shaking it upside down. They're actually holding it and, you know, just shaking it really, you know, extra hard. And, you know, I don't know what they're saying to it, something and whatever gibberish they speak in Japan.

And, you know, they're trying to get it to go on that. But they did if they don't cry. They bring in the guys with the ugly masks. And I like, I actually did like the one baby who looked at the first time I was like, yeah, so? You see who I'm sitting with? 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.

Okay, have you ever, I don't know, had a product in your shopping cart and you didn't want it and you had picked up that product out and over at the other side of the store? So you just put it on the shelf wherever you're at in the store. I don't personally do that, but that's because I spent. a number of years working in the grocery business. And it's annoying to me to see, you know, a loaf of bread in the, in the green bean section or a block of cheese sitting somewhere in the soup aisle. It just drives me insane. So, I mean, worst case, you just give it to an employee and they can put it back to where it

belongs. Or, you know, especially where you see it is up by the cash register. Well, in the old days when you didn't have to self-check out. But you do seal, see it from time to time. You just leave it in the magazine rack or with the candies. And you see, you know, a hunk of cheese or, you know, bread or whatever in with the candies. Come on now. Just give it to the cashier.

And they'll get it back. So I'm reading the story about this lady who had, I don't know, hundreds of thousands of views on her TikTok because she claimed that she found a package of hot dogs in her new comforter that she bought from Target. On her post, she says, Who the F put a pack of hot dogs in my GD comfortable? Am I comforter? And how did you get it in there? And then, you know, she's, you know,

hollering at Target for making this happen. And some of the comments are pretty funny, complimentary gift. No, don't eat it because how long are to be in there? And, okay, we got it. This is why we wash bedding before we use it because you never know. But this isn't that, right?

The comforters usually come in a hermetically sealed bag, or do they zip up? Some of them, now that I'm talking, thinking about it out loud, some of the comforter packages do have the little zipper plastic. So, man, there is a way that someone in the store could have put something in that package, you know, of the comforter. So if that's the case, then somebody was just doing it for, fun, right? They weren't, they didn't think, oh, I don't need this. And they were throwing it inside the comforter stay. If you could, if you had the zipper container, you could open it and slide it in there and then zip it back up so it would be in there for a long time. But if you're

going to do that, I mean, honestly, if you're going to do that, you should maybe slice the hot dog package open a little bit. Because then, now you're starting to end for a little while, after a little while, you're starting to get some funk going on. and employees are going to try to figure out where the heck that funk is coming from until they finally oh it's got to be this comforter and now i mean now you've ruined the comforter so it's just kind of funny that you had a pack of hot dogs in there without actually ruining the comforter with funk smell got it this one person posted on this lady's post that uh she used to work for target i mean who knows if that's actually true or not and who

knows if the story is actually true or not, but I find it kind of funny. She said when I worked at Target, someone opened up a pack of eight hot dogs and spread them around the store, and we were finding them for weeks, and it was kind of fun. That would be fun. You know, you're filling up the cereal aisle, and there's a hot dog in the back, kind of funny. Although some of these stores might say that that would cause, you know, maybe, I don't know, the rats would show up. There's open food in the stores. Not really a good health move, but kind of funny at the same time. So it's really weird that that would be.

I don't know that I would be mad. It's just a weird thing, especially if it's an unopened package. You know, you're going to wash the comforter anyway, right? And so you're probably not getting any funk smell with an unopened package of hot. dogs. But if it were me, you know, I'm just saying me. If I wanted to do a prank for something like that, you definitely have to just slice the hot dog package open a little bit, then slide it in there because you want that funk to start happening. Now, if it's a closed container without the little zipper bag, then now that's got to come from the factory then. That's got to come from somebody at the

factory. They roll up the comforter, slide the pack of hot dogs in and then, you know, wrap the comforter and then hope to hear about it. Right? It's kind of like a message in a bottle. You just put the package of hot dogs in the comforter and then now this lady at this Target store and it doesn't say what city. No, it doesn't say what city. It's just a kill a camdo on TikTok. And it looks like a package of Oscar Myers.

In the original post, she opens. up the comforter and there's just a pack of uh oscar meyer hot dogs could be the oscar myer cheese filled hot dogs because the package is upside down in this video but it doesn't say where so it might be just like a message in a bottle right i mean someone just sticks it in there although it's oscar mire i find it difficult to believe that the comforter made in where do you where do where do comforters come from uh maybe the uh vietnam panama Maybe they have Oscar Meyer hot dogs in Vietnam and Panama, and that's where they came from. And then they just laugh when they see the TikTok post of the package of hot dogs finally found in their comforter.

That's just me? Oh, okay, well, never mind. But we do have more hot dogs in the news. Hot dogs in the news. Did you see the 65-foot hot dog? that they erected in New York's Times Square. So these two Brooklyn artists have

placed a large piece of what they're calling contemporary art in Times Square. And they talk about how this particular, you know, that obviously Times Square is, you know, a pivotal crossroads to the world. And this modern

art can represent various aspects of modern culture from patriarchal undertones to the enduring implications of greed. Yeah, that's what a 65-foot hot dog in New York Times Square represents. So it's a giant hot dog in a bun with mustard on it. A little disappointed. He doesn't have ketchup on it. And then I think like once an hour. Oh no, once a day. Once a day at noon, hydraulic lifts lifts, lift raises the sculpture into the air. And then confetti.

shoots out of the top. I know. I know. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing. And nothing represents the enduring implications of greed, like a 65-foot hot dog, titled Hot Dog in the City, being raised up in the air

and having confetti shoot out the end. Am I right? Then we have more hot dogs in the news. Hot dog heavy today. Last, at City Field in New York, where the Mets play, they had dollar hot dog night. And so I think they have a limit of four hot dogs. You can't go in with, you know, 50 bucks and buy 50 hot dogs,

which is a little bit of a problem on my part, but I digress. So it's hot dog night at City Field. And so in the ninth inning, this fan starts having other fans throw hot dogs at him. hilarious and they had to remove him from the stadium they were pissed so they just in the sky he'd gone out uh gone out all night wearing a hot dog hat and a handwritten shirt that read bad day to be a glizzy he featured a running tab of hot dogs to beers consumed on his shirt and then he started having a fan revealed in the hot dogs thrown his way he started waving people to keep throwing hot dogs at him,

and the fans were throwing hot dogs at him down in... Hilarious! And the security did not like that at the stadium, so they had to remove him from the stadium. And now the fans are like, this guy's a legend at the stadium. He's on, they got a picture of him on the subway with his hat and his t-shirt after he was kicked out. And he's a local legend now.

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See app for details. I was reading some stories about the Tesla cyber truck, and one of the stories was about Nantucket, finally had a Tesla cyber truck show up, and of course they made fun of it. They talked about how it parked in some wrong space on Main Street, and people were posting photos of it on Instagram and X saying, you can't park there. You can't park your air friar there. And another called the truck,

my seven-year-old's car drawing, come to life. And then I guess it got stuck on the beach because you could drive out on the beach at one area, but you're supposed to, I guess, have your tires either deflated so that they don't get stuck in the sand. He didn't do it good enough, so he had to get help because he got stuck in the sand. So, you know, he was being made fun of for that. People thought it was AI-generated. It wasn't. And then I see a story about a guy who slashed his leg.

open with the door oh that looks like it hurt and he claimed in the story that his wife said you ought to go get stitches and him being the whipped husband did but the picture is pretty

it's a big gash in his leg and I'm sure the guy is like I'm fine I'm fine yeah no go get stitches but he said I parked on an incline I accidented the truck and I was closing the door and I clipped the corner of the door with my leg and I was clumsy

100% my fault. I still love the truck even though you're you know whipped it. You did what your wife did. And of course he said in his post that he did. Then I think my favorite Tesla cyber truck post is this guy who was showing off how

the trunk will open back up right? You put your you put if your fingers there uh it will open up because it senses the fingers there well then he i'll let him tell you here's his video in my last video everybody kept saying that when the tesel cyber truck was coming down on my finger that i pushed up to make it open up and sense my finger but that's just not true and to prove that wrong i'm going to put my finger completely flat against the cyber truck this time i'm not going to hover it i'll put it completely flat and see if it crushes my

finger because everybody is asking but first I'm going to test it out with this stick. Okay, we'll test it with the stick. Oh and it closes tight. It breaks the stick. I don't break like that but we'll find out. All right, so let's give this another shot. The sensor doesn't quite work that way, does it? And see what happens.

Ready? Ready, ready, ready? It's stuck, it's creed crushed by the truck and then he opened it back up. Oh my god. Yeah. You think? I don't know if you ever slammed your door or your finger into a car door, but it leaves a mark.

I can remember as a little kid, actually slamming my finger into the car door and, you know, standing there in the driveway of our farmhouse with my hand stuck in the door, it hurt. It hurt a lot. And then my dad came running out and opened up the door and, you know, hey, why is your hand stuck? and the door, stupid.

Honestly, I don't remember how the door slammed on my hand, but it hurt. And that's exactly what that guy did. So the sensor on the cyber truck trunk, I guess, if you're too close, I'm sure that's what it is.

So when he was hovering above it, it, it sensed it and hits it, and then goes back up. But if you're too close to when it locks, it's already, whether something's there or not, you know, like he's laying his finger flat on the edge, it's already close to shutting down. So it's not going to, it's that, that sensor is already shut off, right? It's not that sensitive.

I'm guessing that's the case. But good job, good job. You know, speaking of Elon, I see where they're just promoting NeroLink and Elon, saying that they passed 100 days since the first participant in their clinical trial received his Neurrelink implant and they posted the latest progress reports but then I didn't read

the progress reports from Neurrelink but I do see a story that talks about how part of the brain implant malfunctioned in the weeks following its first human procedure so it's been 100 days but in the first couple weeks

they had some issues and I know that people were pointing out that they talked about this human participant. His name is Nolan Arbaugh. And so we should not forget that this is the patient's name, a 29-year-old patient, Nolan Arbaugh. But a number of threads retracted from Arboros' brain,

and that's what Neurrelink said. Now, Neurrelink put in, let's see, the company's system, Link, records neural signals using 1,024 electrodes across 64, threads that are thinner than a human hair. So in January, they implanted the device in Nolan's, in his skull, and as part of the study to test its safety. Arboros said he used the BCI in March and Neurolink, and the surgery went well.

In weeks afterward, a number of threads have retracted from Arbaugh's brain. this meant there were fewer effective electrodes, which inhibited the company's ability to measure the link speed and accuracy. They did not disclose how many threads retracted from the tissue. The company did not immediately respond to any requests for comments. Well, I'm sure Elon will talk about it at some point. So it still seems to be going well, but not perfectly yet. But let's not forget also that the participant, you know, Noah Arbaugh,

is the first participant. Okay, let's get out of here. You can join me. Don't forget that I do a Saturday morning live with Brad Stags. That would be tomorrow, the 11th of May, 24, Saturday morning live. I believe the website is the real Saturday morning live.com, but you can catch it on my ex at Jeffrey JFR,

Saturday morning at 9 a.m. Central. You know, I was thinking about the crying baby party that they had, you know, the festival that they have in Japan. What we need to do it. Maybe it's something that I should put together as part of a chewing the fat fundraiser, chewing the fat, you know, festival. It is the laughing baby festival. I mean, I'm not crazy about crying babies, and it was a cute thing that they do in Japan. I get it, and you turn your kid over to a sumo wrestler. And ha, ha, ha.

But my favorite thing. One of my favorite things, it could be the favorite thing, is a baby who's laughing, if you've ever been around babies, and at some point, a healthy baby will be laughing at their parents' gestures, whatever it is. It might be a slap on the leg. It might be a drop of a spoon. It might be a look on their face or a yawn. But the baby just starts laughing at something silly and can't stop. every time the parent does it.

And then the baby will, when you stop doing it, the baby will stop and then kind of look at you like, oh, oh, and then you do it again and it cracks up again. One of my favorites is this post, and it's a mother feeding her baby. The baby's in a high chair. And the mother is sneezing. Now, it probably happened that the mother sneezed on purpose.

I mean, you know, a regular sneeze, not on purpose the first time. But then the baby just started cracking up. So as a good parent, any good parent will do, you fake sneeze again to get that laugh back. And that's what happens. And it's one of my favorite things ever. The mother's got a size are aching trying to feed the baby. You can't feed the baby. You just got to sneeze.

Now they stop and the baby's like, hey, hey. That is so good. We have to do that. We have to do that. We have to have a laughing baby festival, not a crying baby festival. We have to do something that will make us all smile and laugh and come together. I mean, sure, the babies will end up crying and everybody will be mad, but we can try, maybe.

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