Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Speculation of a Curse… | 12/12/24

Episode Date: December 12, 2024

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but hey, it's going to get better. But the big news is that Costco Bakery has changed its recipe to their muffins, and they've also changed how you get their muffins. I know. So they're getting rid of, for those of you that have Costco memberships or were even thinking about getting a Costco membership, and you thought the reason you wanted the Costco membership was because of the muffins. Well, you may want to rethink that. Costco is getting rid of its mix. and match 12 count muffins, two packs of six muffins for $999, replacing the deal with one pack of

eight muffins of the same flavor for $699. And that apparently is not the only change. They're smaller. They're about 70% of the size of the old one, which would make them 30% smaller. And while they're cheaper, they're also smaller. and the recipe has changed. So good luck to Costco because you put the chicken in a bag. You're making us walk through jump through hoops to go into your stores now with photo ID.

And now you have made your muffins smaller. You've limited our options on flavors. And you've changed the amount. of muffins that we get. I don't know. I don't know what's happening in the world, but I will say this does seem like it's unacceptable, but it will be accepted because Costco will just say,

hey, that's the way we do it now. Have a nice day. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. More layoffs at Boeing happening. They're laying off another third. 396 employees in Washington State as it makes adjustments to the company. They issued a state employment security department memo that said it's going to happen in different

locations and we're trying to get production of its strongest selling 737 max back on track. Boy, that's strike where more than 33,000 of you went on strike and you halted output. Yeah, that really hurt us. And we've also had some other, you know, bad news happen around the company. You know, bolts coming off. Doors flying open when planes are flying, that kind of thing. So we're trying to get our workforce levels to align with our financial reality and a more focused set of priorities.

Oh, okay. So you mean that new deal that? the union signed after their strike? You mean there's going to be less people making all that money and benefits? Yeah, because we're trying to make sure that we face financial reality and, you know, how more, we're going to be more focused on our priorities. Okay. Well, isn't that wonderful?

Then we see where Foot Locker is going to close more locations this. coming year in 2025. Now, I didn't realize that they had, and we talked a lot about different, different stores closing down, but apparently they'd already shut down dozens of locations around the country and those of you that, you know, frequent foot locker or work there are saying, yeah, no kidding, when they closed those down, well, they're going to shutter 400 more locations that are underperforming. Wow. So the stores that are going to close are 275 foot lockers across the country as well as 125 champs sports, which obviously Foot Locker also owns. And they're just trying to reset what's happening. Wow. Okay. So they're talking about that will leave them with 2,400 locations. Who knew that Foot Locker had 2400 locations world.

worldwide. So this is only like 10%. So sorry about it. If you're part of the 10%, you know, we're sorry. We're trying to just, you know, reset. But I mean, we've had Walgreens and TGI Fridays and CBS and GameStop and Pizza Hut, Boston Market, Best Buy, Appleby's, Walmart, Red Lobster, Pizza Hut, plenty of others have shuttered locations in this past year. Hopefully, the economy will turn around a little. or a lot and some of these locations can open back up or there'll be new locations for people to work at grocery stores are I've always been a reasonable place to work for the most part but they were trying to get the big merger together with Albertsons and Kroger a proposed

$25 billion merger and now that's been shut down the judge said yeah No, we're now that merger can't happen. Oh, okay. It's been two years that they've tried to combine each other into the largest supermarket in history. And no, now that's not going to happen. Well, now Albertsons is seeking a $600 million termination fee and additional damages for legal expenses

as well as lost shareholder value. Albertsons alleges Croger failed to make sufficient efforts to secure regulatory approval for the merger, including refusing to divest enough assets and ignoring regulators' feedback. Kroger said, no, that's not true. Albertsons isn't entitled to a termination fee because we fulfilled our end of the agreement. And the federal and state courts that halted the deal, sorry, we didn't do that. they all halted it saying they had concerns about reduced competition and higher consumer prices. Now there's still a third judgment pending in Colorado, but we'll see if that holds up.

I mean, the merger faced opposition from nine states attorney general and federal trade commissions. Oh, okay. Well, so right now there will be no merger of Albertsons and. Kroger. And you know, it's good because the other grocery chains, like, oh, let's say Safeway. Yeah, they're closing down in San Francisco. So, you know, they, and I believe Safeway is a grocery train that's under the Albertson's brand, if I remember right, but, you know, maybe not. Maybe this particular store in San Francisco is not under the Albertson's brand. But they're closing down the Safeway store in San Francisco saying,

that we're going to close it down. They let the San Francisco mayor know that we're notifying you that the company's intent to shut down one of its locations because of persistent theft and the safety issues. Oh, okay. Yeah, we're going to keep it open until the 1st of February and then we're shutting it down. We can't keep this going. our store, there's too much theft and our employees are not safe and customers, in fact, are not safe and their cars are being broken into, they're being assaulted,

and there's also loitering and illegal dumping going on from all the homeless people and the criminal activity that's going on around the stores. So we're going to go ahead and close this safe way in San Francisco. All right. So if you're used to, you know, shopping in San Francisco at the Safeway, get there before February 7th, because after that, it will just be an empty building. And I'm not sure whether this is going to be good or bad, but it's being reported that Walgreens is looking to sell to a private equity firm,

Sycamore Partners. So back in 2015, Walgreens was valued at $100 billion. Okay. Right now, they believe they say that the company is only worth about $7.5 billion. And, you know, they claim in this story,

Walgreens stock has suddenly sunk as its pharmacy and retail businesses deal with a host of issues. Yeah. And I mean, the good news about Sycamore is they're going to try to turn it around. Really? Because that's the same company

that bought Staples back in 2017. Do we see a lot of staples around anymore? I mean, I do not. Maybe there's a few. But Sycamore could start selling off parts of Walgreens. Just incredible. And you never know if your local Walgreens is going to be one of the ones that goes away. You don't know if there's going to be a natural disaster that happens.

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And he apparently was detained seven months ago after entering Syria without permission when he crossed the border from Lebanon. He had traveled from Europe to Lebanon for spiritual purposes and described himself to NBC News as a religious pilgrim. His experience in one of Syria's notorious prisons wasn't too bad, he said. Yeah, I was never beaten. The only really bad part was I couldn't go to the bathroom, but I wanted to. I was only a let out three times a day to go to the bathroom. Yeah, so what are you going to do? I was in prison.

Yeah, that's the way it goes. So he was found by these journalists walking barefoot outside the Capitol. and he was headed toward Jordan, I guess. And he said that he had a chance to speak with his family on the phone three weeks ago while in prison. Finally freed, he said he's having more difficulty now trying to find a place to sleep. Yeah, when you get out of prison, then you got to come up with your own accommodations. It's hard. Trying to find a place to sleep at night in the streets.

But people have been more willing to assist him. Oh, that's special. I'm feeling well. I've been fed and I've been watered, so I'm feeling well. Oh, okay. So earlier this year, authorities in Missouri and Budapest, odd pairing, put out missing persons report for a man named Pete Timmerman, whose Hungarian authorities identified as Travis Pete Timmerman.

The alert from the Missouri State Highway Patrol said Timmerman had vanished in Budapest on May 28. Budapest police said that he was last spotted at a church and had left for an unknown location. Yeah, he went to Lebanon and then Syria. Okay. So I guess we're trying to get this guy back. Why? He doesn't want to be here. He's a religious pilgrim.

So let him go and be a religious pilgrim. He said he had spent more than a half a year in the government prison when he was freed by rebel fighters with AK-47s on the first of this week as the Syrian dictator Bashir Assad's regime fell. My door would bust it down. It woke me up. I thought the guards were still there, so I thought the warfare could have been more active than it ended up being. Once we got out, there was no resistance. There was no real fighting.

So isn't that special? And no, I'm not Austin Tice. So I came here into Syria and got thrown into jail because I had crossed the border from Lebanon illegally. And it's okay, though, because I'm a religious pilgrim. Wow. Don't even, why, there's no reason that the state department needs to be helping this guy. He wants to be there and he wants to be his religious pilgrim.

Let him be. I mean, maybe he could go stay in a room at the Syrian president Bashir Assad's presidential palace that belongs to the people now. It was called the people's palace anyway. But the palace spans over 310,000 square feet. And up until this week sat within this heavily secured compound of 5.49 million square feet. It includes a private hospital and a Republican Guard headquarters. Okay, well, good luck with that. But the palace is beautiful, and you look at all these pictures.

All these people walking through the palace taking selfies. It's all, it's here now. It's mine. Okay. All right. I mean, he's living it up in Moscow now. And perhaps Timmerman can just, you know, go take over a room at the palace. and while he can be a religious pilgrim,

he could do so while, you know, just taking over a room at the old Syrian palace and say, yeah, this is mine now. This is where I'm living. And then everything will be fine, right? Right. All right, be sure to follow me on my social media at Jeffrey JFR on X,

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All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. So I was looking at the top searches for 2024 from Google. And they talked about, you know, that time of year again. So all the companies are, you know, releasing their annual numbers. And the year in search, rounding out the top trending queries entered into the search. the search engine of Google in 2024. So, you know, they range it from, you know, key news events, notable global elections,

the most popular songs, athletes, and unforgettable pop culture moments that people looked up worldwide. So U.S. election led news-specific searches worldwide. Queries about excessive heat. Uh-huh. And this year's Olympic Games followed. U.S. President-elect Donald Trump topped searches in Google's. people category this year. And by the way, Donald Trump, Time Magazine's

person of the year. Not a surprise for that, but, you know, just letting you know that he is Time Magazine's person of the year. Followed on the search engine by Catherine, Prince of Wales, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris,

an Algerian boxer, I mean, Califia, from the Olympics. Oh, yeah. Meanwhile, the late Liam Payne, Toby Keith, and O.J. Simpson, led search trends among notable individuals who died in 2024. In the world of entertainment, Disney and Pixar's Inside Out 2 was the top-ranking trending movie of the year.

I just saw that not too long ago, and it's okay. It's not as good as the first one, but it was good. And Netflix's Baby Raneer led the TV show trends, and Kendrick Lamar is not like us dominated song. trends. So, those are some of the Google top searches of 2024. They just announced that the

Oscars, the new ceremony in 2025, will stream live on Hulu for the first time. ABC released the key art for the 97th Academy Award ceremony. Aw, isn't that special? Now, they go on to the yap about how important the Hulu Oscars ceremony will be.

It's going to air on March 2nd, and it's going to come from the iconic Dolby Theater and Ovation Hollywood on Sunday, March 12th. And it's going to start at 7 p.m. Eastern, and it's a star-studded red carpet pre-show. We'll begin at 6.30. Oh, that's great. And the ceremony will be broadcast live to more than

200 territories worldwide. And there's the key art that they released for it. It says it's got Oscar prominently in the picture. And it's got the blurred out Oscars in the back. And then underneath it says Oscars. And the A has got the Oscar in the middle too. That's kind of cool.

And live Sunday March 2nd, ABC Hulu. That's what they call their key art. So that's good. There's a lot of big movies this year that are going to be a part of the Academy Award, so it will be fun. Don't forget Conan's going to host it. And then, of course, they go on to talk about

how the live television maestro Raj Kapoor will return as executive producer and showrunner, continuing his streak of helming high-profile events. He will be joined by executive producer Katie Mullen, another industry veteran, known for producing visual. stunning live events and Hamish Hamilton the director behind some of the most memorable live broadcast including of course Beyonce's Super Bowl halftime show so that'll be wonderful to catch the

Oscars live and you just don't want to miss it I'll at least I'll DVR it I didn't realize that this week if you're listening live today is Thursday the 12th of of December, 24, less than two weeks away from 2024's Christmas Day celebration, EA. But Yellowstone, the television show, is having its season finale this weekend. So if you haven't caught up, get to catching up. That's been really good, I will say, it's been really good. I've enjoyed the heck out of this season, even without Costner, but it's kind of been with Costner. You know, he's kind of, he's kind of there, but he's not. It's been with the

shadow, Costner. And so this is the finale of the series. Wow. So I guess Cole Houser and Kelly Riley have reportedly closed deals to be part of a spin-off series reprising their roles as husband and wife, Rip Wheeler, and Beth Dutton. Okay, so I guess Taylor Sheridan is working on the creative for the show. which could include others from the series that has captured fans since the first season, launched with Costner. So season five's final episode is going to air this Sunday. I don't know that they have a name for the new show or not,

but I guess the series is still going to focus on, you know, the Dutton family. Okay. You know, I'm a fan of that. I thought that McConaughey was going to be part of it, but maybe that's a different one because they talked about one of the shows being titled 2024. That's a Taylor's deal.

We're just going to name them years because they had 1883 and 1923, and I think they're working on 1944. Just incredible. So we'll see what happens, but there are definitely definitely more spinoffs and other shows coming from the Yellowstone universe after the finale this weekend. You know what else under the other show that has the finale this weekend is Blue Bloods on CBS?

Is that, I mean, that is amazing. 14 seasons of Blue Bloods. I mean, he really is. the chief of police in New York. Hello, Frank Reagan is the chief of police of New York. Maybe not in real life, but in kind of real life. That's just the way it is. But I see, I was hoping that it would be a two-hour season finale.

Nope, just an hour. It's going to be an hour and they're just getting rid of it. Okay. Kind of sad. I know they did a recap finale with all the family. show, I think last week or the week before. I have recorded that. I haven't watched it yet.

But because I wanted to catch, I watched the next to last episode from last week yesterday. But, man, I'm sad to, you know, this show has been on for so long. And we got to know the characters, you know, so well. Donnie Wahlberg and Bridget Moynihan. And, you know, of course. Hello, the grandpa Henry and Tom Selleck as Frank Reagan. And I just, you know, it's a good set.

It's one of those shows that it's always been on. So we just always watch it. Nope. Sorry. Let's go over. We're not going to do the show anymore. Have a nice day. All right.

So, I mean, they've been setting it up. I hope it doesn't look like they're ending it the way I thought they were going to end it. And I know that comes as a surprise. because they didn't consult me on how to end the show. And I wish they would have because I have some ideas. And they didn't consult me at all. All they had to do was just, you know, email me, chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I would have sent them a number.

We could have talked and we could have ended this thing right. So I'll let you know next week, you know, if it was done right or if they should have consulted me. The odds-on favorite of the answer to that question is they should have consulted me. 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,

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Cleveland All-Star, the Cleveland Indians, that is, not the Guardians. He was an all-star, and a curse namesake. He died at the age of 91. His trade led to a fan uproar and speculation of a curse. And he was part of it, I guess. The Guardians did release a statement saying they were deeply saddened by the loss of Rocky Calavito beloved by fans. Rocky spent eight of his 14 major league seasons with Cleveland. He represented the club in three All-Star games while finishing top five in MVP voting on three occasions.

But I will say that when you, you look at the date of his trade and what happened to the Indians at the time. I'm not calling him the Guardians or the Cleveland Indians. The curse could be there for sure. He was just before opening day, I believe. And then they traded him two days before opening day. day. The general manager, Frank Lane, shocked baseball and the city by trading Cavalito to the Tigers

in exchange for the reigning batting champion Harvey Coon, which, you know, I guess on paper seemed like a good thing. But the fans were not popular. And it became even less so when Coon was traded away after one season. And Calavito, who initially kind of struggled in Detroit, regained his all-star form and was hitting 45 homers and 30. 37 and 61 and 62 and he was one all-star and he led the American League in walks and RBIs. Anyway, between the first Cavalito trade in 1959 and in 1995, the team did not make the playoffs once.

So the curse could be there. Now, the cause of death was not announced, but he, I guess, recently battled pneumonia and he had various other health issues. So rest in peace to Rocky Calavito dead at the age of 91. You know, as long as we're talking about baseball. You know, we talked about Juan Soto signing his, you know, historic really deal with the New York Mets for $765 million, which some have said there are incentives in there that take it over $800 million. And he goes from the New York Yankees to the New York Mets.

and there's plenty of New York Yankee fans that are very unhappy with Juan Zodo. But I will say that what I was reading about why he made the change. So he was obviously in contractual talks between the Yankees and the Mets and they were trying to work out a deal.

And apparently the Yankees' final offer was $16 years, $760 million. and he didn't take it. He took the 15-year $765 million, so one year less and $5 million, with incentives that could take it up over $800 million. However, when it talks about, he probably would have stayed with the Yankees.

I mean, hello, it's the Yankees and not the Mets, and, you know, they would have, you could have been playing with the rest of the Yankees that he loved to play with. throughout the years. I mean, he and Aaron Judge could, you know, own the American League. Okay, so anyway, apparently,

he was unhappy with the way the Yankees had treated him and his people at the stadium. Okay? Apparently, his cook, his driver, and a family member, were disallowed in some of the areas of the stadium. They were in the stadium, but they weren't able to go to all the places they wanted to go to.

Security said, yeah, no, you're just a chef. You're not going over there. No, you're just a driver. No, you're just a family member. I don't care who you are. You're not going over there. So he got pissed about that. And then he got pissed at the Yankees

because he wanted his own suite. And they weren't, they weren't going to give him a suite. They said no to the suite. Man, that is a dumb move. That seems like being really short-sighted. Now, they claim that Aaron Judge pays for his own suite, and they never gave, what's his face, his own suite. Derek Jeter, he had to pay for his own suite.

But he, you know, Juan Soto did not want to pay for his own suite. And the Yankees are like, no, we're not giving you a suite. So guess who gave him a suite? Yeah, that's correct. The New York Mets. And guess who will get to go all over City Field when they want to? The chef, the driver, and whatever other family members shows up because they'll all be wandering the stadium and then show up in the suite.

So how bad do you want? Juan Soto now, New York Yankees. Well, not enough to give him a sweet. And I guess it's official. Bill Belichick, former head coach of the New England Patriots, former assistant coach of the New York Giants, six-time Super Bowl champion with the Patriots. And then he got a couple more Super Bowl championships

with the Giants as assistant coaches. He's now, I guess, taken the position of head coach of the North Carolina Tar Heard. University. I don't understand this move. I've seen, I've seen deals where it was a three to five year deal with North Carolina. I'm sure, you know, we'll get all the information as this day unfolds. But it's really amazing to me that Bill Belichick, I mean, he's a legendary NFL coach. He's 72. He's got a 24-year-old girlfriend. Good for him. She'll be the old late. idiot when they go to North Carolina. Anyway, and I just don't see why, I don't understand why he would do it. But, you know, if he's getting paid five or ten or more million dollars a year,

I guess you want the money. But that's a tough job, man. College football coaching is a tough, tough job. I mean, you've got a, you've got to, on top of, as you do in the NFL, you've got to, you know, have your staff and your scouting staff, but you've got the transfer portal and you're going to have to interview players.

You've got NIL. You've got recruiting. I mean, recruiting, that's never ending as a college football coach. You earn your money as a college football coach. So I really don't understand at the age of 72 and with him having just 14 wins to go in the NFL to set the all-time record and be ahead of, Don Shula and George Hallis as far as NFL history wins,

why he would want to go to college. I don't understand it. But he's doing it. So good luck. And we'll all be watching the North Carolina tar heels this year, at least, you know, for a while. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide, hustling for great deals on amazing gifts.

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that have their christmas lights up and they're all shiny and bright and it's just i just put you in the christmas spirit doesn't it and you get the tree up and the lights and it just gosh darn it just makes you feel good i see where uh this california deacon um man the deacon dave's house of the dove Christmas display in Livermore has 902,120 lights, just the 902,120 lights. And so he claims that every one of the lights is dedicated as a prayer for world peace.

And believe me, we need that, said Deacon Dave. Yeah, we do. And if each light is meant for world peace, I mean, you've been doing this now for, you know, 41 Christmases. I guess he missed one during COVID. Whatever. So it's got 41 Christmas displays. And, I mean, that's a lot of prayer for world peace.

And I missed the ABC show The Great Christmas Light Fight. But apparently he was featured on that. He has 44 Christmas trees in his house. Ha ha ha ha. I tell you. I think, well, we have, I mean, we don't have, we have more than one, I will say that. But we do not have 44. And we do not have, we don't have double digits in the house.

But I guess he gives private tours. And he has Christmas booths outside. And he said that there's a, there's a proposal bridge. And there have been 82 proposals. and a rare Renaissance Angels can be seen in the window and he said it's a private collection. Yeah, the studios was just outside of Rome and I'm told that's the largest collection outside of Washington, D.C.

Yeah, it's wonderful. Now look, it's free to come over and take a look and see the houses, see the lights and everything, but really donations are accepted. So, you know, it's free. You can come on over and take a look if you want, but I'm just letting you know donations are accepted

and they go to Santa's Secret Service which is in an organization at St. Michael's Church and Livermore so you can come over and take a look at the place but don't leave without giving a donation. Yeah, I don't know, no, it's free.

It's free. Just make sure you put some coin in the donation jar, okay? Those 920, I'm sorry, 902,000 120 lights They don't pay for themselves They don't pay for the donations Don't pay for the lights either Jeff

They go to the charity Sure they do That's what Deacon Dave said Hey And I believe Deacon Dave I got an email from Marcus Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com Marcus wrote a thank you note

And gave me a joke of the day so we'll see how that goes apparently i don't know if he wrote the joke of the day but this is what he sent and so he said in his email uh thank you for the update about the missing monkeys from the alpha genesis lab i live in south carolina and i have been vigilant hoping uh to cite a monkey uh okay well apparently he has not uh cited a monkey in south carolina so i don't know if that's good or bad he obviously is bummed out because he wants to wanted to he wanted to cite a monkey from the alpha genesis lab and that hasn't happened and he said here is a potential by the you're welcome marcus uh and here he said here's a potential joke of the day

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