Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Should Be Zero… | 6/12/23

Episode Date: June 12, 2023

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And then he was discharged from the hospital, and it took six months. of recovery to get him back to at least having some sense of normality in his life. What happened? Well, he was at a party, some family gathering, and some of his family members were fighting. He went to break up the fight, and one of the family members bit him on the leg. How many times does that happen in your life? You're at a party, a little family reunion, somebody starts to fight, you go to break it up, and cousin Joni bites you in the leg. Happens all the time.

So his leg was kind of story, sore. He couldn't walk. He went to the local emergency room, and they gave him a tetanus shot and an antibiotic treatment, and then it continued to be sore, continued to be very warm and very painful. So he went back to the emergency room, and they were like, oh, hey, yeah,

you have a flesh-eating infection. And so we're going to need to cut that out. And as usually is the case, they cut a big chunk out of his leg, and then they realized, oh, look, we didn't get at all. So they went back and had to grind out some more. It does not sound like fun. So the flesh-eating bacteria typically enters the body through breaks in the skin, such as cuts, burns, insect bites,

or in this guy's case, a human bite. Now, obviously, if left untreated, you're probably going to die. But fortunately, he went to the doctors pretty soon. Now, they claim they're not sure if it came from the bite or if the bacteria entered his body soon after the bite. But why haven't we investigated the relative? Like, as the relative going around biting people and giving people flesh-eating bacteria?

How about we do a little investigation of that? I don't want her... We need to, you know, rinse out her mouth. Maybe rinse out her body. Do something. I don't want her wander in the streets. Knowingly. I'm sure if you are, you know,

bite somebody and you give them flesh-eating bacteria, and you didn't know... You didn't know that you were... You had this capability. Well, I'll let you off the hook. But now we know. Now we know that this guy's relative could possibly be giving people flesh eating bacteria from a bite. Well, we need to do something about it.

Is that me? Am I the only one that thinks like that? Apparently so, because according to this article, he's fine now, a little bit of big scars, occasionally painful, and all the parties involved, including cousin Joan or Jenny or whatever the hell her name is, are very sorrowful. So it's all good. Don't worry about it.

Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. So there's a Cato Institute, 2023 Central Bank Digital Currency National Survey of 2,000 Americans. They asked respondents whether they favor or oppose the government installing surveillance cameras

in every household, to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and other illegal activity. How about no? No, I am not in favor of letting the government surveil my actions inside my home. Now, 75%, thankfully, 75% say no, they oppose that. However, it should be more. It should be more. 14% are in favor of it.

14% are in favor of letting the government install cameras inside your household to surveil you out of the goodness of safety. You know, we need to reduce domestic violence, abuse, and, you know, other illegal activity. We need to do that. Do we? 14% are in favor of that?

And 10% are, I don't know. I mean, don't you? Don't you? you. So, three in ten, young Americans, according to this survey, support government surveillance cameras in every household. Just because they say to reduce abuse and crime? No, thank you. No. 29% of 18 to 29-year-olds are for it. 20% of 30 to 44s, 6% of 45 to 50,000 to 50s, 6% of 45 to 54, 6% of 55 to 64, 5% of 65 plus. Now, that should be zero across the board.

Zero. And maybe I give you that it could be 6%, you know, across the board. But no. Anyone who is older than 29 years old and is in favor of letting the government surveil the inside of your home, no, no, thank you. You were raised wrong. And especially, I mean, now we have 29% of 18 to 29-year-olds agreeing with that. It won't be long.

It won't be long before we let that happen. Holy cow. And then they break it down by, you know, political party, race, gender, age, which we just covered ideology and also education. It's interesting that high school or less, 18% are in favor. Post-grad degree, 16%.

So almost the same. Now, I'm surprised, 18% of high school or less. Yeah, that's okay. That's okay. Put it in my house. And then you reach about the same amount of people as the post-grad degree.

Huh. That is interesting. And also, according to this, now, 33% of black Americans, agree. And 25% Hispanics

agree 11% of Asians agree 9% of whites agree for are in favor of government surveillance cameras in your home. Oh my gosh. Wow. How about no? Now obviously they were doing this survey because they were wanted to know about the central bank digital currencies and they wanted to find out whether the relationship between opinions on the government issuing a central bank digital bank digital currencies. And they wanted to find out whether the relationship between opinions on the government issuing a central bank digital. currency and government installing cameras in the homes. And it appears that they are correlated. More than half of those who support the central bank digital currencies also support in-home government surveillance cameras. So it's kind of interesting. If I'm running for office in today's world, I want somebody to run for office.

How about no? And I mean, just say no. How about no? Should we do this? No. Should we make this illegal? No. Just how about no? That's my campaign. That's the chewing the fat. Jeff Fisher campaign for office, if I were to run for any office, would be vote for me. How about no? Or we could turn that around with. How about no? Please vote for me. so much of our privacy already outside of our home. We have given up that privacy outside of our homes a long time ago. I mean, you just might plan on wherever you're at, whatever you're doing, there is going to be cameras that are going to record what you're doing.

We know that now. And it's all because, well, it's just this company or just this company. And some of it's government. And some of it's, and it's all for our safety. We got it. But now they want to surveil in our own private property, our own homes. No, thank you. No, thank you.

No, you can't have that. A man, you know, I know that we've come a long way from a man's home is his castle. And, you know, we've come a long way from that. But it still is. And as far as I know, and I, again, you know, I could be wrong. And I frequently am. This is still America, the United States. of America. And a man's home is his castle. And we do not have to, the son does not have to pay for the

sins of the father. And we just, it's no, we have some at some point, you have to take a stand. And I would, no, you're not putting cameras from the government in my home. No, thank you. Now, many of us have cameras in our home for security now. And we've done stories about how the government has come in, has a warrant and wants your footage because something illegal happened outside of your home that could have been filmed from your camera. We just did that story not long ago where the guy actually went out of his own volition and said, hey, I've got security footage of these are the people, you know, scanning the neighborhood. It could be the possible criminals that have been stealing in our neighborhood.

And then they came back and said, well, we want all your camera footage. well no you can have this camera footage from my front door or my side door or wherever the camera was facing that i have the footage of the possible possible suspects and you know that's that's another questionable story in my mind as it is but with our cell phones and our computers and our ring door cams i mean in cameras everywhere else we've given up the right to that privacy outside of our homes. I'm not giving up inside my home. No, the inside my home is me, myself, and I. Well, you know, sure, my family could be there, but it's really about me. And really, you know, you can make the case to me that we've given up that security and privacy inside our homes now as well. I mean,

everyone's taking pictures of themselves inside their home. And here's me in my living room and me in my family room and here's the kids doing this in the family room and out back i don't know it's a it's a fine line i know it is but i i do not want government surveillance cameras in my home for i don't care what kind of safety they're purporting to uh save us from the answer the answer is no i mean sure you can you know sneak into my laptop or my desktop or my cell phone but no i'm not going to allow it. I mean, they're just outright saying, well, we're just going to put it in now.

No, if you're going to, if you're going to surveil me inside my home, be a sneaky little devil. Use my phone and my laptop and my desktop. And everything it's okay. It's all. It's just, you know, use Alexa

to know what's going out of my home. All right? I mean, that's the joke that I have the Alexa a joke right in your home. That, uh, Alexa, where is my father? Your father is on a beach in Florida.

Ha, got you, Alexa. My dad is sitting right next to me here in the living room. That is your mother's husband. Your father is on a beach in Florida. All right. Let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink

desperately. So I was watching, I forced to watch actually, the Xbox Game Showcase yesterday, and, you know, during they showcased, I don't know, 27 games, 21 of which will be available for Xbox Game Pass and or PC Game Pass. But then they had a complete infomercial on Starfield, which is, you know, from Bethesda Game Studios. Now, I looked, I saw Starfield, I don't know, a year or more ago, and I thought that's really cool. But they delayed the launch of it because, I mean, it is pretty cool and amazing.

So they say now they're go for launch, 9-623, September 6, 2023. Starfield is go for launch. Starfield is freaking cool. That's just another multiple universe. universes in space where you're your own space person and you have your you can pick up your powers and your your ships I was just really really cool I just I think it's I was it was so cool to look at the solar system a year or more ago and they're still working on it because they claim well this is a starfield they claim is in the year 2330 okay so humanity has ventured

beyond our solar system, and this is their website speaking, or me speaking for their website, settling new planets, living in space-faring people, and you will join Constellation, the last group of space explorers seeking rare artifacts throughout the galaxy. So really, really cool. I don't know how many, I don't know how many planets are inside the group, the constellation, or you're part of Constellation.

but you continue to move on and go to different planets. You can see what's on each planet, what each planet offers. Really, really cool. I mean, you could spend, I could see where you could go into Starfield and be there forever. What happened to your dad?

Well, he's lost in Starfield. I'm not sure what planet he's on, but don't bother him because he's not coming back until he's done with that planet. And then maybe he won't come back at all. And they, you know, they showed all the other new games and everything, and they were fine. They were fine. And I, you know, a couple of them were like, oh.

But no, they're not, they're not Starfield. And wow, do I, I mean, they're already selling merchandise for it. It looks really, really cool. And I know that, you know, their deal of Starfield is that the creation is more like, what do they call it? Like cyberpunk or how they look. Yeah, cyberpunk.

I like that. I like that term cyberpunk because that's what you're in the future. But a lot of your stuff looks old and vintage from our world. And yet we're not in our world anymore. Really cool. Just whatever Bethesda and Xbox is doing with Starfield is awesome. And I can't wait for it if it ever comes out. because once you get immersed in it,

I don't know that you're coming back. I mean, they'd be happy about that? I don't know that I would. Congratulations. They pulled off the Tony Awards last night without any writers. They made such a big deal. The Toners did the epic night without any writers.

I don't know how they did it. Please welcome the winner of this category. I don't know how you do that without writers. but apparently they figured it out. So they, I don't know that they need someone to write, thank you. I really appreciate this.

So congratulations to all the winners of the, of the 2023 Tony Awards. I mean, it was also a huge historic, historic night as two people, Alex Newell and Jay Harrison G, G-H-E, became the first non-binary people to win Tonys for acting as the Broadway community. Seize the moment.

And of course, they seize the moment. Without Hollywood writers. Without a script. Are you kidding me? I mean, look, I'm on the writer's side. Make a deal. Let's get the writers back to work. But award shows, I mean, come on now.

Come on. This is where you come out and say, Hello, welcome to the 2023 Tony Awards. You tell your own little joke and then you get to the award show and the person comes up and says, thank you.

Just amazing. Congratulations also to Kimberly Akembo named the best musical winner of the 76th annual Tony Awards. The musical is about a 16-year-old girl with a rare genetic disease that makes her look 72. And had its world premiere off Broadway at the Atlantic Theater Company in 2021, directed by Jessica Stone.

The complete cast from the run continued on for the Broadway. Oh, that's so special. So congratulations to Kimberly Akimbo for winning the best musical for 2023. And the rest of the 2023 Tony Award. winners, congratulations. And I hope you were able to say thank you without, you know, worrying that you weren't saying it right, because there weren't any writers. It's really weird. Now, I'm pretty sure that Lynn Manuel Miranda was there. I only saw pictures of Aaron Rogers at the Tony Awards. Boy, you talk about somebody, I mean, what is he doing at the Tony Awards? I mean,

Aaron Rogers, I'm sure, you know, I like Aaron. And I know he's, and I know he's, He's embracing New York now that he's a member of the NFL team, the New York Jets. But you don't have to go to everything, Aaron. Apparently you do, though. Apparently you do. So I don't want to take that away. Good for Aaron for being there and look it out of place and yet enjoying himself at the Tonys. And I'm sure he'll tell you, what?

I love plays. Okay. Do you? Anyway, Lynn Manuel Miranda launched his new initiative aimed at at, guess what? Diversity among theater professionals on Broadway. Well, oh, and in theaters, of course. Across the country, yes.

Representation, inclusion, and support for employment, theater network. The Rise Network will create a database of diverse professionals working in various roles in the theater, hoping to make it easier for prospective employers, to hire applicants of color and make it easier for people of color to find work opportunities and make it harder for people who are that nasty white cisgendered person from finding work. We can't have that. We can't have that.

Not in today's world. That cannot happen. So good luck to the Rise Network from Lynn Mandwell Miranda. So I see Garth Brooks, my man. You know him, you love him. I was back in the news again. First story that I had was that he had, in this interview, he talked about reviving his alter ego, Chris Gaines.

He said there's five more albums in the works from Chris Gaines. Amazing that he's going to bring back Chris Gaines again. And he's already got five more albums ready to go for it. Pretty amazing. So good luck. see if that happens. He said that I don't know if it's because I'm 114 years old, but now everything takes three hours more than it took time to do

before. So the Gaines Project was a lot of time put in because it's not natural. You're acting on a record, but I wanted to do it. So good. I hope that's cool. I know he's back in the news again because everybody's saying that he is against the boycott of Bud Light? Well, I mean, he's kind of against it. What he's against is just saying I'm opening a bar. I'm going to sell all brands of beer.

I don't understand why that's such a controversial topic. I'm going to open a bar and I'm going to sell all the beer. Every different kind of beer. Amazing. He said in the interview, yes, I'm going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It's not our decision to make. one of the things is if you're led into this house love one another if you're an a-hole there are plenty of other places on lower broadway so he's opening a place in Nashville and he has no plans on boycotting he's opening a bar you want him to stop telling bud light in his bar just silly i don't understand we're going to beat up garth because he's going to not boycott a product i mean i thought that was our deal if you want to boycott something go ahead

if you don't want to boycott something, that's okay. Again, I go back to, this is still America, right? He didn't say that he was all for, I'm for every transgender. He's for everybody. I don't understand. This whole thing has got me really, really torn. So I'll just leave it at that. From what I read, he just said, hey, I'm going to sell.

all beers at my bar. And I want to have a place where you feel safe. I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another. Okay. And yes, we're going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. How is that terrible? But in today's world, it most definitely is.

So who died? who died today who died today with amex platinum four hundred dollars 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 Ted Kazinsky the Unabomber has now been put to rest or at least he's dead he died at the age of 81. According to sources, they have not identified

a cause yet, but apparently he died by suicide. Although I guess he had cancer, and so maybe, you know, they just let him die of cancer, instead of getting beat up in prison, like, you just let Ted have cancer and didn't treat him?

Yes, we did. He killed, he was the Unabomber, and so he died by suicide. I don't know. We'll see, but Ted Gazzinski dead. at the age of 81. I know a lot of people, you know, dry your eyes. I get it.

I know. He had, I mean, he had the nation questioning what was happening in our mail. That's for sure. Long-running, I mean, the mail bombings between 1978 and 1995. Three people were killed. 23 others were injured. Wow. I mean, he was a, he had.

masters and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Michigan. Hail to the victors. And was a tenured track professor at UC Berkeley before he just resigned, moved to his cabin in Montana. And he said the attacks were spurred by encroachment of construction near his cabin and motivated by the belief modern technology was destructive to the planet. Modern technology was destructive to the planet. That bastard. Who does he think he is?

At its peak, the investigation involved more than 150 full-time agents. The case broke open when the FBI allowed the publishing of his 35,000 word essay. And that, you know, that his brother realized who it was. And I watched the one documentary on it. And it was like a voicemail or something that they had of the Unabomber. And the way he said, water. If you're from Philadelphia and that area, it's water. my wife is you know that's a

her father it's water it's not water it's water water drives me crazy but he said it that way we wrote it that way I don't remember it's been so long since I've actually paid attention to the Unabomber but it doesn't matter now because he's dead

at the age of 81 also Silvio Berscoloni The media mogul former Italian Prime Minister has died He died at the age of 86 He was a billionaire He served as the prime minister of Italy

For over nine years And he later was convicted, later cleared Of charges of having sex With an underage nightclub dancer And one of his wild bummer Bunga Bunga parties. You son of a...

Oh, man. Why was I not invited to one of the Bunga Bunga parties? I now want to be a part of the Bunga Bunga parties. He was suffering from serious ailments, including COVID-19, which resulted in repeated hospitalizations beginning in 2020.

And then he was discharged from the hospital last month where he received six weeks of treatment for a lung infection linked to chronic leukemia. So, I mean, he was a pretty sick man for the last two or three years, which, you know, some could make the case that perhaps he shouldn't have had so many bunga bonga parties. But not me. Not me. No, sir.

You have as many bunga bunga parties as you want. Sylvio Mursle Lascone Dead at the age of 86 Okay, well, while not dead George Soros, the 92-year-old George Soros, apparently is all the rage now because he's

handing over the reins to his son, Alexander, and good, good, good, good, good. So apparently, Alexander is going to take the reins over from George. I keep calling him Alexander. His friends call him Alex. So Alex is going to take over the control of George's $25 billion empire. And he self-describes himself Center Left,

who grew up self-conscious about the family's wealth. Oh, did you? Gosh, darn it. I know. But you know what? we distribute 1.5 billion each year through the nonprofit and it also donates tens of millions of dollars to democratic groups and candidates through super PACs. Oh really? Yeah, you think? Yes, yes, they do. And he claims now that he's going to at least spend some more money on voting and abortion rights. So that's great. So

congratulations to Alex. She takes the reins over from George. I don't know if he's, George has a new girlfriend or not. I think he's still married to the same woman. I think he's been married to this chick since 2013. But in that time frame

between 2013 and now, the last 10 years, I'm sure that we've talked about George's girlfriends and the one girl was pissed because he had her place for her in Manhattan and then he wanted it back or he wasn't going to pay for it anymore.

I forget that whole case. But anyway, I'm sure that's over with now. Long over. I mean, he's just going to give the reins to little old Alex and everything's just going to be okay. And dad's going to go off with Tamiko. And they're just going to be happy little birds of a feather. And do we know if the Pope is out of the hospital yet?

I mean, he just had surgery. I know he had surgery to repair or remove the scar tissue from hernia. But it was a big deal. And the Pope, you know, he's not any of the spring chicken these days. I mean, who is? But he's like 86, 87, something like that. So these little surgeries add up on a human. Believe me.

So they say he's fine. I said he was joking after the surgery. You know, all that kind of stuff. He had adhesions removed. There was a maternal scarring on the intestine that had caused a partial blockage. so they went ahead and did the abdominal surgeries in the past so they put the little mesh prosthetic mesh in there

I've got someone in my household that's actually had that done for the hernias before I'm well aware of what happens with those surgeries but let's see he was supposed to be in the hospital for a few days after that surgery so is he out yet I bet he didn't do I don't think he did mask this weekend so hopefully the Pope is getting better

and we want nothing but I want nothing but good for the Pope. I say that as a person who would run for his chair if he were no longer available to be Pope, I would run for Pope again. But I have nothing but love for the Pope. Nothing but love for the Pope. I don't necessarily want him to be Pope,

but I got nothing but love for him. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ. Built for breakthroughs, with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence, while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go. Explore the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus at OnePeloton.ca.

All right, so we've got the, we've still got the NBA and the NHL championships still ongoing. Miami Heat taking on the Denver Nuggets in Denver game five tonight. For those of you listening live, today is the 12th of June, 2023. So Denver should be able to win the NBA championship tonight at home, game five against Miami. Although, you know, I don't know, we'll see. Miami's had a pretty good luck of things these days, but I don't think they're going to beat Denver. And Denver's at home, so they want to win it at home.

Let's go ahead and do it. Then we have the NHL Stanley Cup finals still going on. Vegas and Florida. That game is tomorrow night for another game. I'm sorry, game five of the Stanley Cup finals. And Vegas should be able to finish off the Florida Panthers tomorrow night. the 13th of June. However, you know, Florida's had a pretty good run of things this year, too.

So we'll see. I would venture to say that Denver is going to win tonight in the NBA, and Vegas is going to win tomorrow night in the NHL. Then we can wrap this whole thing up, shall we? Let's be done with it. And congratulations to Djokovic, who won the French Open, which makes him the most men's grand slam wins. with 23. He has the record

now. So now he can go away and he could be, the young ones can take over and Novak can go ahead and take it easy although I doubt he will, but he does hold the record now for the most men's grand slams at 23. Congratulations. I see where

Eiger Schwarzak won the Women's French Open for her fourth grand slam. So congratulations to Iga. Did you see where Connor McGregor, speaking of the NBA, the last game,

Connor McGregor came out for some promotion between quarters. He's promoting some, I don't know, pain relief spray. And good for him. It's this new product that he's,

you know, a part of and a spokesperson for. But he came out and the mascot for the Miami Heat showed up with a, you know, showed up. And Connor hit, smashed him twice in the face.

So, I mean, the mascot was wearing these oversized boxing gloves and a giant robe, you know, looking like he was a fighter, but that didn't matter. And Connor punched him a couple times, knocked him down once with one punch and then knocked him again. And then he tried to spray the mascot with the pain relief product. And so they dragged the mascot off the court.

Really funny. Not funny if you're the mascot. Now, apparently the mascot is fine. They say that he was tended to, and he was okay. He took some pain medication. Why? He had the pain relief spray right there. And he's resting at home now.

So the fans that booed Connor when he came out, they're booing him even more now for banging up the mascot but that was part of the deal I think that was just part of the deal and the mascot didn't expect Connor to actually punch him in the face it was awesome

it was awesome to see and I'm sure I was sure the mascot is just happy to be a part of it so then I see like I've been to a number of rodeos and I know now I live in Texas and I haven't been to rodeo in some time but I've been to many of them

and I have never seen what's called a steer scramble. Okay. So I'm watching this video from the Johnson County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo in Claiborne, Texas. Now, they bring all these women out into the arena, and they call it a steer scramble. Now, I'm told that it's supposed to be a calf, a small bull, but instead they brought out a full-grown bull. And so all these women are out in the arena and they're looking to not,

I guess, get knocked down by the steer or get knocked down by the steer. I don't know how you win the thing. But this bull is ramming into them. I mean, these women are getting hit. There are several of them that got hit hard, man. When you see the video, I mean, it could not be good.

It could not be good. Finally, after he charmed and he hit multiple women, out there, dinged him hard. And so they finally got him cornered in the arena and stopped it. Pretty amazing. I don't know what they were thinking. I don't know. If I'm one of those women and they brought out that full grown steer,

I'm like, no, thank you. I am not part of this. Take care. Get me out of here. But it's almost too late. Right? They're out there. They're thinking they could do it.

And that steer took care of, did some damage, man. It's not funny, but I'm laughing because it's funny. I mean, holy cow. These women are out there trying to be all big, bad, and brave. And you're up against the steer, man. He has taken a couple times they surrounded him, and they don't know which way he's going to go, and he just picks one out.

I'm going after you, and he gets her, man. It is not pretty. It's fun to watch because it's not me getting hit, or someone that I know getting hit by this steer. But it does not look like that's what was supposed to happen. at the steer scramble over there at the Johnson County Sheriff's Posse Rodeo in Claiborne, Texas.

Oh, did you see where Taylor Swift was in the middle of a song and she starts swallowing a bug or bugs as she's swinging? She had to stop mid-song and choked on a bug. I hope, it looks real. It looks like it really happened.

And she goes on to say that there's a bunch of bugs flying in the area. Perhaps this was in Chicago. Maybe they needed to, you know, spray some bug spray around at the outdoor concert. I don't know. Just me. But it was pretty fascinating to see Taylor, you know, choking on a bug.

I would say that it looks real, but it could be all just for show, too. You're on stage, you're Taylor Swift. You want to try to make yourself be more like the young girl up in the front that paid $8 billion to see you on your eras tour. And you want to just become a more homey. And what could be more homie than you choking on a bug in the middle of a song? So she did choke, or at least pretend to choke on a bug mid-song. I'm not saying it wasn't real.

I'm just saying that I questioned it just because, well, I do. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. You know,