Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Smells Like What?... | 4/23/24

Episode Date: April 23, 2024

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Starting point is 00:00:44 Alec Baldwin Is out getting coffee And I don't know if this person Followed him in there Or if this person was in there When he arrived, we just have the short clip The social media clip but he's just in there buying coffee
Starting point is 00:01:02 and he gets accosted by this person and he handles it you know fairly well until well he doesn't now he's on the phone and then this person
Starting point is 00:01:16 starts filming and yelling one time free palestine just a moment the trial is in July so we're working of that but I digress
Starting point is 00:01:40 You're putting innocent people in jail, Alec Baldwin. Okay, so the old time that she's saying his name, we don't need to fire the guns for that, because that's only when I say it. That's the rule of the show. Since the horrific shooting on the Russ set in New Mexico, and that will hold true at least through the trial that begins July 9th, I believe, is the trial date.
Starting point is 00:02:08 Anyway, we're 18 seconds into this 51-second video. Okay, so now he's opening the door to the place. He hasn't gotten any coffee. He hasn't gotten anything that he purchased, but he's opening the door to the establishment. And it looks like, I don't know, he's not leaving. He's going to ask her to leave. Just get out.
Starting point is 00:02:30 And then he asked the attendant at the shop to call the police. And, you know, let's just get her out of here. Just say free Palestine one time. Get out. One time. One time. One time, Alex. You don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:45 You don't need to criminal. Okay, so she says that to the worker of the coffee shop. Just amazing. And he's just leaning up against the door saying, get out, get out. Come on, I. One time. Not going to say it. Now he's coming back in.
Starting point is 00:03:08 He's real. Scientism. Please say it. Okay, then he looks at the guy. Did he do one quick flavor? Boom. And then he smashes her in. It looks like in the face.
Starting point is 00:03:20 but it's not in the face, he just slams the phone. Now, I will say, I want to be, you know, against Alec Baldwin as much or more than the next guy. But this is agonizing. And I, you know, he, I don't, look, I'm not promoting slapping these people in the face, knocking their phone out of their hand. But, oh my gosh, shut up. And I don't blame him at all. So I'm sure we'll see what happens because of this. If it was just him slapping the phone out of her hand,
Starting point is 00:03:58 not much is going to come of it. I guess it could be, you know, minor assault. But if he actually punched her in the face, I mean, I'm all for it, but people will not be for it. And it will not be good for dear old Alec. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fath. So happy Shakespeare Day.
Starting point is 00:04:26 If you're listening live, today is the 23rd of April, 2024, and it is Shakespeare Day. So if you want to walk around talking like Shakespeare, go ahead. I guess you can do that any day, really. But today is the day that you can do it and actually celebrate. My favorite line from a Shakespeare writing is from Hamlet. Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I. So whatever your favorite is, you can go ahead and walk around and do that today. Have fun.
Starting point is 00:05:00 Have fun. So I see a story today talking about the number of serial churners, you know, what they're calling cost-savvy customers who hop between streaming services apparently is on the rise. Yeah, no kidding. everybody wants to raise their prices for their subscription fees and so apparently Americans are putting the cancel streaming subscription reminders in their calendar. Yeah, welcome. So they say here in this story with research from a firm named Antenna and I, man, do I love them.
Starting point is 00:05:42 Nearly 30 million subscribers canceled three or more streaming subscriptions in the last two years. I would be in that group of people. These customers accounted for 40% of all new subscriptions and cancellations in 20203. So that doesn't mean that we're gone for good.
Starting point is 00:06:00 A third resubscribe to the service they canceled within six months. I would probably be in that window too, although I have to think about that for a second. However, the companies are, you know, they're a little hurt. They're a little butt hurt. Well, here's the deal.
Starting point is 00:06:15 When a platform gives you something that you really want to watch, then I'll subscribe. And then I watch it and then I watch whatever you else you have on your platform. And then I'm going to cancel. You know, I don't have anything else I want to watch right now. I'm going away. And I'll come back when you give me some more content that I really care about. So now they're calling us, you know, serial churners and transient subscribers.
Starting point is 00:06:43 So streaming services are, you know, they are saying that, well, we're scrambling to a Yeah, what they're doing is they're scrambling to, well, get more money out of you and me. They're having the joint sports venture from Disney, Fox, and Warner Brothers. And then we're going to have, you know, we're just the bundling. You know, we're going to have platforms using like Well, Peacock gave away their, you know, subscription price, half price for a year when they were doing the NFL playoffs. And I'm sure that worked well. for a month to Peacock for that and got to you know both games that were played on
Starting point is 00:07:23 peacock for the NFL and then I went away have a nice day and so Netflix I guess boasts a much lower cancellation rate than any other platform they're creating a lot of new content as well although they're getting as bad as some of the other platforms so we'll see and it doesn't hasn't really been beneficial to be a long-term customer of Netflix as of late. So we'll see how that goes. But they also announced that they're going to stop reporting quarterly subscriber numbers
Starting point is 00:07:56 citing engagement as a better metric for success. So they don't want to report people canceling and resubscribing. They're tired of it. But when you hear all these companies start to bundle their product so that you have to subscribe to all of them or nothing, That's what we're going to get.
Starting point is 00:08:18 That's what we're going to get. So thank them for that. Thank them for that. And I see where the Oscars, the Film Academy, is updating their rules and campaign protocols, announcing changes and just some changes to special awards as well. As per usual, the films will have to be released during the 2024 calendar year to be eligible.
Starting point is 00:08:44 But according to this, the means by which they must be released will change slightly from recent years as the pandemic continues to subside yet kind of a drive-in theaters will no longer be a means of qualification for Oscar eligibility oh no oh no what are we going to do I mean that's a slap in the face of the drive-in theaters instead films can only qualify by screening for one week in a brick-and-mortar theater in Los Angeles County, New York City, the Bay Area,
Starting point is 00:09:21 which I'm guessing is San Francisco and not Tampa Bay. Anyway, Chicago, Atlanta, and they added the new Dallas-Ford Worth Metroplex. They would say in the story, oh, we don't know why that got added to the mix. Because
Starting point is 00:09:38 it's DFW, that's why. So to be eligible, in order you have to have to be eligible for Best Picture Expanded Theatrical Run of seven days consecutive or non-consecutive in 10 of the top 1050 U.S. markets
Starting point is 00:09:55 No later than 45 days after the initial release for late-in-the-year films with the expansions after January 10th distributors must submit release plans to the Academy for verification release plans for late-in-the-year films must include a planned expanded theatrical run as described above
Starting point is 00:10:12 to be completed, no, later than January 24th. Non-U.S. territory releases can count towards two of the ten markets. Qualifying non-U.S. markets include the top 10-15 international theatrical markets plus the home territory for the film. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:28 So that's one of the changes there. And then they're talking about how writers must show their work to be considered for the best adapted screenplay or best original screenplay. Writers are now going to be required to furnish a final shooting script.
Starting point is 00:10:42 okay so we don't trust you i mean you're telling us you wrote it but yeah we're gonna we're gonna need to know and then they've changed some way that you're gonna have to get the irving g thalberg memorial award oh no uh man i i hope that uh i hope that works out okay also they've made some changes for you to get the jean herschalt humanitarian award so man that's Good. And what about the Gordon E. Stoyer Award? Yeah, we've changed that a little bit, too. And the John A. Bonner Award? Yeah, we've changed a little bit of that, too. So, I mean, if you want to get an Oscar and you want that, then, you know, follow the rules. And they've given the due dates of when you have to have everything turned in. And so there's going to be some people out there, they're going to be telling you, hey, we thought we got it in on time. And we released it in a drive-in theater. in Dallas-Fort Worth. No, sorry, doesn't count. With Amex Platinum,
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Starting point is 00:14:24 Well, I would hope so. We found out earlier this year that Joanne Fabric stores were declaring bankruptcy, although, you know, in the 99-cent stores, you know, on and on we go. But today, we find out that, you know, the store Express that you see at the malls? I don't even know that there's malls anymore, to be honest. The headline talked about, oh, you might not see this store when you go in for your Cineabon. Now, do they even have cinnabuns at the mall? I mean, is there a mall?
Starting point is 00:14:55 I mean, synabonds you can get at other locations around the globe, not just at their locations in the mall. I know that's where they used to be. I just feel like, you know, there's not too many malls left. Anyway, Express, I know, also owns Bonnebos and Up West, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and it's slimming. It's in-person presence. I like that.
Starting point is 00:15:22 I like the way they worded that. They went ahead and slimmed its in-person presence. So they're closing right now today, 95 of the 500 or so. I guess they have more than 500 here in the U.S. now. Express locations. They're closing all the 10 up-west stores. And they're going to continue to sell online, as usual, of course, because all they're doing is slimming their in-person presence.
Starting point is 00:15:51 And they're looking to sell it to some investment group, WHP Global. Claims here they had $1.2 billion in debt, 1.3 billion in assets as of March 2nd. They were operating on million-dollar losses for the last two years. Revenue is down. Huh. Interesting.
Starting point is 00:16:14 Now, they blame it on the work-from-home customers throughout the pandemic. And the people aren't going to. to the office anymore. And, you know, when you go by our stores, you don't see really anything special. You just see clothes. And nobody wants to buy just clothes. So we'll see. We'll see what happens.
Starting point is 00:16:34 But if you are an express customer, which there are a lot less of these days, you know, you're going to be bummed. I feel like it's one of those stores that you maybe purchase something around Christmas for your niece. or your boyfriend's girlfriend or, I mean, you're buying something for your boyfriend's girlfriend. Now, that's a good relationship right there.
Starting point is 00:17:04 You're either buying something for your boyfriend's girlfriend, which would be you, or you're buying something for your boyfriend's other girlfriend. And that maybe you would go shopping at Express. I mean, that's why they're not doing well. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I see thanks to Taylor Swift and her new album,
Starting point is 00:17:35 the tortured Pollitts Department, the term Fortnite, people were searching for it 868% more in America the day that the album was released. Incredible, because that's her collaboration, with Post Malone titled Fort Knight
Starting point is 00:17:56 F-O-R-T-N-I-G-H-T. Now, you know, the album, I mean, 300 million streams on Spotify, the single with Post-B-Belone, Fortnite,
Starting point is 00:18:09 is the platform's most streamed song in a single day. And, you know, the 31-song album sold 1.4 million copies in traditional album sales. Wow.
Starting point is 00:18:21 that's, you know, just incredible. But she's also educating America and the world by having them search for what the meaning of a word is, Fortnite. Now, I always thought that Fortnite was, you know, a month, a month-ish. That's just what I always thought. Now, then I started, so then I went ahead and, you know, said, was there a difference between Fort, F-O-R-T,
Starting point is 00:18:51 Night, N-I-G-H-T, or Fortnite, F-O-R-T-N-I-T-E. Because it wasn't a few years ago, Gaga asked the same question. What's Fortnite? And so she, you know, that was, that was, actual, went viral on at least one or two platforms about what's going on because she was talking about the video game. So according to this, a fortnight. night F-O-R-T
Starting point is 00:19:23 and I-G-H-T is a period of two weeks that is 14 days and nights oh wow the number 14 is right
Starting point is 00:19:32 there Jeff and another way to gloss how long two weeks is though see I always thought it was it was a month
Starting point is 00:19:40 but okay I'll give you know 14 days so half a month according to you know middle English from the old
Starting point is 00:19:47 English all right you got it but what about fort night F-O-R-T, N-I-G-H-T, or N-I-T-E. So I guess it's, it comes from a time long, long ago when warriors huddled them before fires at night
Starting point is 00:20:08 within forts built out of tall wooden pikes. Okay, all right. So I guess it's only two weeks, unless we go back to, you know, Middle Earth, and that it could mean anything. So I'm still going with a Fortnite. You know, if you hear me say, it's about a Fortnite, I'm thinking it's a month.
Starting point is 00:20:31 I don't care what it says. I can believe what I want to believe, okay? And then I saw another chart about Taylor's new album, where she swears a whole lot in this whole set, okay? and it's really gone up a lot in the past, in her past performances. I know, I know. But I'm just saying that according to this, the F word is used a whole lot in this whole thing.
Starting point is 00:21:06 Hell, damn, whore, dickhead, all used, all used, and used a lot. in this new helpful helping from Taylor. So be ready. Be ready. She's been hanging around with the What's His Face Travis for a little while. So those words are going to come naturally. I am not the word police. And I, you know, I know we heard word beeped earlier in this podcast, but if it were up to me,
Starting point is 00:21:38 I just let it fly. And it is kind of up to me. And sometimes I do let it fly. But it just feels like I shouldn't let it fly. part of the Blaze family and it's okay it's all right, it's fine. I got, we'll just beep it
Starting point is 00:21:52 and know that, you know, the F word is going to be beeped on this show. I know, I know. Don't look at me like that. I get it. You can still follow me on X at Jeffey JFR. You can follow me on Facebook
Starting point is 00:22:07 and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on YouTube, chewing the fat with Jeff Fisher. You can email the show anytime. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. And I suppose while I'm doing this, I might as well tell you, you can order a cameo from me as well.
Starting point is 00:22:24 It's not free, but just go to the Cameo app and at Jeffie JFR. I'm happy to do a cameo for you. Just tell me what you want. Happy, glad, sad, mad, or mad or mean, whatever. Whatever you need, I'll do.
Starting point is 00:22:36 That's the way cameo works. And so, did you see where Australia wants to throw Elon Musk, speaking of X, in jail. At least one Aussie senator wants that to happen. Australian Senator
Starting point is 00:22:53 Jackie Lambie calls for the imprisonment of Elon Musk for allowing free speech on X. Elon Musk has no social conscience or conscience whatsoever. I don't know whatever Elon Musk is on.
Starting point is 00:23:11 It says that that's okay to continue to air that is absolutely disgusting behavior. And quite frankly, the bloc should be jailed. And the sooner that we can bring rules in or do something about this sort of this sort of game playing with our social media, the better off we're going to be. But quite frankly, the power that that man has, because of that platform that he's on, it's got to stop. It has absolutely got to stop. Right. I hate it when people aren't telling whatever they want to tell on social media.
Starting point is 00:23:41 It just isn't right. And it needs to be shut down. And the person who only only the company as in charge of the company needs to be shut down as well here's an idea uh aussy senator bite me okay bite elan bite anything you want to bite do whatever you want to do in australia how about how about you make whatever little laws you want and your people can decide whether they want to use x or not it has nothing to do with the platform okay let the people people decide, but we can't have that. We cannot have that. Can we? Can we, little lossy senator? No, no, no, no, no, because you know best. Well, it sounds familiar, though, doesn't it? It sounds like it's being said somewhere else as well.
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Starting point is 00:25:25 And I know, you thought, China. I know, but 110,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in Guangdong, which is normally beautiful, but not these days. So heavy rain has caused massive flooding in China's most populous province. Four people have died so far, 10 have gone missing, which, I mean, if you're evacuating 110,000 people, and I think in this neck of the woods, a Guangdong is home to 127 million people. So we've got this massive flooding going on, and we've only lost four people and ten have gone missing. I mean, that's a pretty good percentage. I don't want anybody to go missing or die, but, you know, that's a pretty low number.
Starting point is 00:26:10 So large swaths of land inundated by floods and they're rescuing people in lifeboats. Several major rivers have burst their banks. And, you know, they claim in this story, we're closely monitoring dangerously high water levels. Yeah, no kidding. So it's a once in a hundred year flood happening right now in Guantan. It's much of Guantan, and I don't have to tell you this, is in part of the low-lying Pearl River Delta, which is prone to floods due to the rise in sea levels and storm surges.
Starting point is 00:26:44 What? It has nothing to do with climate change? Huh, that's weird. So people have lost power. They're getting their power back. They're evacuating all these people. They've got thousands in shelters, tens of thousands of people. people in shelters. Flights have been delayed, canceled, and schools have been ordered to shut down.
Starting point is 00:27:03 Dozens of homes have collapsed or been severely damaged. They claim that direct economic loss will be about 140.6 million won. We have no idea how much. We do, actually. It says 19.8 million. That doesn't sound like that much. 20 million. I know 20 million is.
Starting point is 00:27:26 lot of money. I'd be happy to have an extra 20 million right now. But if you're losing $20 million in direct economic laws, again, I feel like that's not that bad. But, you know, you don't want to lose any money at all. So they're looking to, they were supposed to have, uh, the waters breach even higher and it hasn't yet. So we know that in Beijing, they had the heaviest rainfall they've ever had, well, not that they ever had, that they've had since 140 years ago. So we got that going for us. And then we still have all the flooding going on in Saudi and the United Arab Emirates. I get it.
Starting point is 00:28:13 So the airline, Emirates, you know, with the cloud seating, that wasn't cloud seeding. Uh-huh. So things apparently are starting to get back to normal. but since Emirates, the airline company, had major problems because it's got 30,000 pieces of luggage that need to be returned to customers. So, okay, CEO said, look, we apologize to those passengers whose plans were disrupted. And we've got a task force that we've assembled to deal with the plethora of left behind luggage.
Starting point is 00:28:52 We had to cancel hundreds of flights due to the flooding and the historic rainfall in Dubai. But we don't know what happened, but we've got all this luggage now. And hopefully you remember that we have your luggage because we're going to try to find you. We've created a task force to deal with this. So can we just check my air tag and know that I'm over there? My stuff is over there? Can we do that? I don't know.
Starting point is 00:29:20 It doesn't. It feels like 30,000. pieces of luggage is going to take a little bit of time to return. You know, speaking of China, I see where everybody making fun of the new Chinese city of Nanjing train station. There's a photograph of it, or it's a design of it, a rendering of what it's supposed to look like. And many people believe that it looks like a sanitary pad, and it kind of does. But it's this giant train station. So I'm not sure, you know,
Starting point is 00:29:55 every, no one, if you fly over it, it's going to look like the sanitary pad. But once you're in it, it's probably this beautiful train station. But apparently it's supposed to look like a plum blossom. And so when you look at it and you think that it looks like a giant sanitary pad, that's on you because it's a plum blossom.
Starting point is 00:30:18 Okay. So why don't you just shut up about it? all right it's a giant train station and it doesn't look like a giant maxy bed it looks like a plum blossom okay all right fine you know i see speaking of trains i mean china's you know got it pretty much down but uh and so do we really do we now that i think about it but i see where we actually broke ground construction on the high speed rail line connecting la and Vegas began yesterday. Then we have a Brightline West,
Starting point is 00:30:57 a subsidiary of the company behind the Brightline Miami-Orlando Rail Link, undertaking the $12 billion project, hoping to launch service in time for the LA Olympics in 2028, build as America's first true high-speed passenger rail system. Dash between L.A. Metro area and Vegas in just over two hours, compared with a four-hour minimum traffic troubled drive.
Starting point is 00:31:25 Yeah, I know. I saw another story that talked about how, you know, trains are up to 80% cheaper than planes for domestic travel. Right. So I could get to Vegas in how long in an airplane from L.A.? And it's going to be a little over two hours on a train, or I can drive it in four hours. Okay, all right, that's fine.
Starting point is 00:31:50 So it was supposed to carry at least 11 million passengers on the 218 mile journey with 25 trains each way daily. Yeah, we'll see if that actually happens. They claim that it's going to reach 186 miles an hour. Locomotives will be the fastest in the country outspeeding the Amtrak Acela, which maxes out of just over 150 miles an hour. And that, you know, accelerates on parts of the Northeast corridor, but it doesn't happen very often. and so then we're talking I heard a story on the local news today here in DFW
Starting point is 00:32:23 that they're claiming that we're going to have the high-speed rail from Dallas to Houston that should start to be under construction in 10 years right yeah that's going to happen I know we all want to have these great trains and gosh darn it, we want to be like Europe and we want to be like Europe
Starting point is 00:32:47 And we want to be like Japan who has high-speed rail networks to cover much of their territory. We've got to be like that. And we've got to have these rail projects and we've got to make this happen. How about we just make sure the planes are flying right?
Starting point is 00:33:03 Okay. I've got another story on drones too. Oh my gosh. I've got a couple more stories I'll do it tomorrow on drones. If you think the skies are not going to be black with drones, you are mistaken. And you might as well, you know, you might as well take a train because, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:33:21 maybe the drones are going to crash into the planes. I don't know. You know, at least airplanes from the airport will be higher up so you can look down and see, oh, it looks dark down there. Yeah, those are drones because there's going to be police drones. There's going to be delivery drones. And then there's going to be personal drones. And then we talked about the taxi cab drones.
Starting point is 00:33:42 But I looked into this company, WISC, they're ready to go. They've already got it out. there and it looks like they're flying their drones the taxi drones they are streamlining their in-person presence as well because you're gonna have some guy behind the computer that will be a robot soon that is gonna be helping maintain where your taxi drone takes you but I don't know that I trust it I just don't know maybe I should but I don't know that I do it's hockey season and you can get Anything you need delivered with Uber Eats.
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Starting point is 00:35:17 Isn't that the Dutch? Anyway, the series of blank yellow and red billboards in the Netherlands don't even carry the McDonald's Golden Arch's logo, which is kind of weird. What it does is it smells like fries. So as you approach the billboards, you get within five meters, and you're greeted with the aroma of McDonald's French fries coming from inside the billboard. How sweet is that?
Starting point is 00:35:46 So they put the billboards within 650 feet of some of its restaurants. So, you're going to be walking by these billboards, and man, that smells like McDonald's fries. I got to get me some of that. And you'll head to that McDonald's list within 650 feet of the smell that you're smelling. So I guess maybe they're going to do that with the Krispy Cream Donuts as well. And you'd just be walking by a billboard and smell fresh, warm, crispy cream donuts.
Starting point is 00:36:22 Oh, yeah. You're just going to walk into the store. and I need some Kris-cream donuts now. So we'll see. We'll see what I have. Let's see if it works.
Starting point is 00:36:33 I love the idea. You know, it's just the fries. We'll see if it moves on to maybe, you know, you're going to smell the burger. Does it smell? Now the fries are distinct. I mean, the fries are what brings you in.
Starting point is 00:36:45 Right? Right. Well, I'll say, though, after a while, I mean, I lived above a bagel shop for a while in my life. and you know in the beginning it smells so good and they're making fresh bagels every day and after about a month you've had just about enough of bagels being bageled every day below you it's a part of your life but you're not really hungry for a bagel after a certain amount of time
Starting point is 00:37:23 So I feel like if you're walking by this billboard every day, it's like, okay, enough with the French fry smell. So I mentioned earlier, it's just a Shakespeare day. So I'm excited about Shakespeare Day. Now, I, you know, been thinking my favorite, I told you, was the Hamlet line. Oh, what a rogue and peasant slave am I. But there's plenty to be had from Shakespeare. The fault, dear Brutus, is not. in our stars, but in ourselves that we are
Starting point is 00:37:56 underlings. Uneasy lies, the head that wears the crown. The lady doth protest too much, methinks. What's past is prologue. Thank you. Uh, what's in a name that which we call a rose by any other would smell as sweet.
Starting point is 00:38:26 Okay. And it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing. But there's a website, classic Shakespeare line, but there's a website that I found
Starting point is 00:38:42 English to Shakespearean translations. So you can type anything in and it will create a Shakespearean sentence to do it. So let's do welcome to chewing the fat.
Starting point is 00:39:00 Welcometh to chewing the bacon fed. That's really not that good. I'm so tired. I'm so not restful. Okay, what about, come here, you good-looking thing, Hugh. Comeeth, You're the valorous looking thing thee.
Starting point is 00:39:25 All right. All right. Thanks for listening. I mean, grant you mercy for listening. Just smile and be nice. Smileeth and be yes nice. It's kind of bad. It's kind of bad.
Starting point is 00:39:49 All right. One last one. Safe travels. Safe travels. Yeah, it's the same thing. Shakespeare's doesn't know what to make of that. It's just, hey, have safe travels. All right, that's enough.
Starting point is 00:40:04 Shakespeare partying day is over, at least here on Chewing the Fat. Thou be well and go forth. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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