Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Still Plugged In… | 10/29/24

Episode Date: October 29, 2024

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I put it in, I believe it was under the Who Died Today segment, but it wasn't really dead yet, but it was definitely on life support. and the plug was being pulled. Well, apparently, that is not true. According to all reports, the last remaining store of the once, you know,

dominant blockbuster is not closing. Holy cow. I don't know why the rumor started. I don't know how it, well, it picked up on social media. Someone started it and then it went everywhere. But according to this,

there's no official news to support the claim. And so the store's official Facebook page for those that used Facebook under a blockbuster bend shows no evidence that the store is closing and there are no announcements. And the staff has not made any statements about ending operations. So life support is still plugged in. No one is pulling the plug on the final Bend Oregon blockbuster. you know sure they the company filed for bankruptcy way back in 2010 and all the corporate owned blockbusters were closed by 2014. The franchises slowly started to disappear.

It was founded. I did not know this in Dallas, Texas. And it was the place to be. Blockbuster was the company. So now there's one left in Bend, Oregon. And it is on life support. I mean, the plug is still plugged in. however. So excellent.

Sorry about you know saying that the plug was unplugged and that you were going to die at the end of this month October 2024 because apparently no one has told Blockbuster in Ben, Oregon that this is the case

and they are continuing to keep the plug plugged in. So if you want to visit Ben Oregon and you know have a trip down memory lane and just that's sense of nostalgia that comes with going to a blockbuster store, you're still going to be able to do that after the 31st of this month. According to this story, now, if the lights go out on the 31st,

then the original story was correct. But as of now, the life support system is still plugged in. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. I wish I was watching the Seattle Seahawks Buffalo Bills game this past Sunday, you know, the entire game. I did watch bits and pieces of it while the game was on, but I didn't watch all of it. And I wish I had watched and listened to all of it because I could have been offended live instead of just offended with this story. The announcers, Kevin Burckhardt and Tom Brady. Yes, the Tom Brady. And apparently he said something so egregious during this broadcast and I I I'm upset and I'm offended but had I heard it live I would have been even more upset and offended okay he was talking about uh Josh Allen the quarterback for the

Buffalo Bills and I mean Josh is a you know excellent quarterback in the NFL and he's had a great career so far but he's also you know a little wild that he is Josh Allen and does things, you know, sometimes you go, Josh, don't do that. But the Buffalo Bills love it and that's, he's their quarterback. So Brady was talking about Josh Allen and said that the two-time pro bowler played previously played like a spaz before he became more controlled under center. Sometimes he played like a spas, like a grade schooler on sugar high. But now he's controlled the chaos.

He's like a storm coming into town, and you don't want that storm coming into this town. That was the quote from Tom Brady during the broadcast. How dare he use the term spas? People are offended because he used the word spas. We need to calm down. America, seriously. The term spaz is a shortened form of the word spastic, which means clumsy, stupid, or losing physical

or emotional control. Yeah, that's what he was saying Josh was like, but now he's got it under control, and he's the storm you don't want coming into town. So that's the way it goes. It also, though, this is where people are pissed. It also could be used in some circumstances to describe. medical conditions. Oh no. Oh, no. Yeah. It's offensive to some as it is considered to be an ablest slur used for jokes and metaphors to dehumanize those with disabilities. I hope Tom doesn't

apologize. He probably will. He probably will because that's just the world we live in, because social media called him out. The spas comment was uncalled for. Was it okay? Calm down. It's highly offensive to people who have physical disabilities as well as to their loved ones. Okay.

I hope Tom apologizes by saying, shut up, okay? This is a sicken vocabulary. Come on now. Are we seriously? We're going to be upset over Tom Brady. using the word spas and describing how Josh Allen was the last few years, like a grade schooler on a sugar high.

But he has now got that under control, and he's like a storm coming into your town, because sometimes he played like a spas. How dare you, Tom Brady? Call say that Josh Allen had one time played like a spas. That word. is a word to describe medical conditions. If Tom Brady, using the word spas, or anyone, anyone using the word spas,

makes you feel like you are offended, get over it because you are the problem, not Tom Brady using the word, or anyone using the word. spas. Just amazing. We have more people being offended by things that really you shouldn't be offended by. And we're supposed to be, yep, that's okay. Cynthia Areval, the actress from the Wicked movie, was pissed over a fan poster because the original Wicked poster shows her full face. Now, the animated poster for Wicked, the Broadway play, shows the, um, hat over the face of the witch. But the movie version has her face wide open.

And she said that, hey, I looked straight down the barrel of that camera because that's, well, the way I wanted it. I'm a human. Okay, we got it. I look down the barrel of that camera because, okay, because we like to communicate with our eyes. Yes, I understand that, Cynthia, but it was just a fan poster to resemble the original Wicked Broadway poster. Doesn't matter to Cynthia.

Because it's the most offensive, she said. It's the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen. Equal to that awful AI of us fighting. Equal to people posing the question, is your blank green? None of this is funny. None of this is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us.

The original poster is an illustration. I'm a real-life human being. Okay, calm down, Cynthia. First of all, it's a great pick. It has nothing to do with degrading you. It's just trying to be a wicked poster. It's covering up the face of the white girl, too. Are you pissed for her?

No. It's just agonizing. And we are way too, I mean, this whole situation of being offended and horribly, things going horribly wrong over a couple of words or being called something is just out of control. And listen, you know, we all, I guess, you know, sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can never hurt me.

Ha! Ah, not in today's world. Not in today's world. And this wasn't even words for Synthi. It was because of a picture that resembled the original wicked poster that, that hid her face. The horror. With Amex Platinum,

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oh, well, we could do it less expensive than last year. Our ranges from $45 for four people. Well, that's not 10 people. And Walmart has $98 for $2. dozen people. Okay. Sam's Club, now offering new Thanksgiving meal for $100 for 10 people. It also comes fully pre-cooked. That's kind of sweet. Okay. Like that. I say, so now what's happening? What about Target? Have they come on board? Why, yes, yes, they have. Target is offering the least expensive Thanksgiving meal deal yet. Down from $25 last year, the grocery bundle,

of four, or four-four, includes a frozen turkey, which got a 20% price cut to just 79 cents a pound, potatoes, canned green beans, cream of mushroom soup, stove top stuffing mix, and jarred gravy. But that's only for four. So it's $20 this year for to feed four people at Target. You get a turkey, doesn't say how big the turkey is. And you get potatoes, canned green beans, crew mushroom soup, stove, top stuffing, and jarred gravy.

So the Aldi deal really is the best deal. I mean, I hate to break it to you, but let's see. Let's see. Target says we already have discounted so much this year because we're trying to show everyone with a tight wallet that runaway supermarket prices are tempering. Yeah. Grocery inflation clocked in at 1.3% in September.

about a point below overall inflation. Yeah, but it was already up, about really high. So you're not really, you're just coming down from the high. Anyway, I'm just saying. So now you got the Aldi deal, which I thought really was the best deal. Aldi, you get a butterball turkey with spices, gravy, rolls, macaroni and cheese, stuffing, and ingredients for cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potato casserole, green bean casserole, and pumpkin pie.

And the turkey is a 16-pound turkey, you know, as long as the availability is there. That's a good deal. 50 bucks for 10 people. Well, it's actually less than $50, right? It cost $47 for 10 people. That's $4.70 a person. That's pretty good.

That's giving you some pretty good merchandise. Now, you know, you do you, boo. but the Thanksgiving Day Food Wars are on and every place you go we'll be telling you they have the best deal ever And speaking of food It looks like McDonald's is gonna

You know fire up the old quarter pounders again It's gonna be back on the menu They've ruled out that there was anything to do With the beef patties So the quarter pounders are back on the menu I guess it was the slivered onions From the single supplier That was the likely

source of the contamination. So they're just going to sell the quarter pounder without the onions. Okay. Sure. Go ahead. So one person died, very sad. At least 75 others across 13 states were sickened. Federal health officials said a total of 22 people who had been hospitalized to develop

a dangerous kidney disease complication. Okay. I mean, McDonald's going to be paying out some cash for that. Now, they're going to blame it on this Taylor Farms and the onions, but McDonald's is still the prime target of that. If I got sick from a quarter-pounder and had to go to the hospital, and now I've got, you know, some kind of possible kidney disease, yeah, McDonald's is paying the bill for that.

Yes, they are. And they're without question, and I need a little bit more cash, too. So, anyway, the quarter-pounder is, back on the menu at McDonald's, or if it's not, it should be soon. Because, hey, it's not the burgers. It was the onions. And so we're back in business with the quarter-pounder. Just, you know, you're going to have to put your own onions on it.

All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cool to drink desperately. You know as well as I do any time in life that you have to make a big change. It's hard. And this is especially. true when you're planning to buy or sell a home. It's really complicated. It takes a lot of time and a lot of jumping through hoops. And of course, the stakes are just about as high as they have ever been getting in terms of financial decisions that you have to make. So obviously, you need a real estate agent to help you with all of this. But what you don't want is just some ordinary agent who does this on the side. You're going to want the best. And the real estate agents I trust is the best. Well, I should say, real estate agents I trust, pairs you with the best, with the top selling real estate agents in your area.

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just purchased a new dump, $35 million mansion in Beverly Hills. I should say, I just call it a pad, a new pad. It's not a dump yet. He, after he buys it, then he tries to fix it up and turns it into a dump. Because he started remodeling. Remember, he bought the Malibu place,

and he turned it into a, what was going to be a bomb shelter, but it was just looking hideous. And so he ended up selling that. He sold the Malibu Place to a guy that said he's going to fix it up and make it look just as beautiful as it was. He sold that for $21 million. I forget what he paid for the Malibu Place. I'm pretty sure it was more than $21 million.

See, that's the deal. Yeah, he paid $53 million. Oh, no, it was big. built for 53 million. He snagged it in 2021 for 57 million. Holy cow. And then he sold it for 21 million.

I mean, yay. That's a bad business idea. I mean, that's buying high and selling low. He should have gotten out touch with real estate agents. I trust it. Maybe he did this time. I don't know. Apparently, he bought this mansion under an LLC

and an off-market deal, of course. and he purchased it for, what did I say, $35 million. It's in Beverly Hills, California. And it has 11 bedrooms, 18 bathrooms, sits on about seven acres of land, features a resort-style pool with a waterfall, a second lap pool, a pool house, a tennis court, and, of course, an entertainment pavilion. You can't have a pool house and a tennis court

in a second lap pool without an entertainment pavilion. Duh. It's in the Beverly Park North neighborhood, 20,000 square foot property that Yeh just purchased. So I hope he keeps this nice. You know, congratulations to him for buying high and selling low and then buying high again. 35 million seems like a fair price in Beverly Hills for seven acres.

and a 20,000 square foot property, yeah, for 11 bedrooms, 18 bathrooms in Beverly Hills, with acreage for 35 million, that seems like a fair price. I mean, I don't know that he had help from real estate agents, I trust.com, but for what he got for his money, whew, sure seems like it. Congratulations to John Stewart. Apparently, he won't be leaving The Daily Show anytime soon. He just signed a new deal that he's going to host the daily show every Monday. Oh, John, I don't know how you're going to do it one day a week.

Every Monday through December of 2025. And he will also remain an executive producer on the show. So the news team correspondents will continue to split hosting duties throughout the remainder of the week. Among the current roster of rotating anchors are Desi Ladek, Ronnie Ching, Michael Costa, and Jordan Klepper. man, that makes me want to tune in. And he said that he's thoroughly enjoyed being back to work with this incredible team at the Daily Show. And he joked that he was hoping they'd allow him to do every other Monday.

But they wouldn't. So he's only going to have to do it every week, one day a week. I don't know if he'll be able to do it. Look, the ratings have been huge of when John is on because the list of people that do the show when he is not on, is like a list of no ones. No buddies, no ones. I guess they're funny, but all right, fine.

So, I mean, he hosted the show from 99 to 2015, and he was making, I don't know what he's paying, I don't know what they're paying him for the one day a week. Whatever it is, it's probably not enough because he's keeping that show alive. When he was doing the show every day, I mean, he was, I think he was making, I don't know, between 16 and 25 million.

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it was 38 pounds, but, you know, I'll go with 37 because, you know, it felt good. 37 pounds, because he was at a, he was at a fat clinic. And so he, apparently he lost some weight. So he was fatter than that when he went in. I mean, this cat was really fat and obese. And apparently he lived in the basement of a hospital for a long time and was just fed, you know, cookies and soup and by staff and patients. And at some point.

Somebody said, man, we should probably help this cat out because it's not moving anywhere. And so they moved it to a rehabilitation clinic. Yeah, you know, they'd send him to a fat farm. And the animal keepers and the vets put together a strict diet plan with lots of exercise and massage sessions. And he lost seven pounds. Yeah. Okay. So when he died, he was about 31 pounds.

Okay. So he was. That's what I mean. 38 pounds. He lost about seven pounds. He died at 31, so he was at 38, not 37. Anyway, maybe he had one foot off the scale or whatever. But Crum has passed away.

Thanks to the help of the animal keepers, we were trying to put him on a damn diet, and they made him lose weight, and then they killed him. So the fattest cat in the world was sent to a fat farm, and that killed him at the age of 12. So Crum, dead at the age of 12. Okay, speaking of animals, I have been, well, I've been neglecting a story that I should not have been neglected, so I wanted to apologize. There is a bat beauty contest. That's right, a bat beauty contest going on, thanks to the Bureau of Land Management.

And it's in commemoration of a bat week. So this has been bat week. And I didn't even realize it, so I want to apologize. They're celebrating Bat Week at the Bureau of Land Management by having a bat beauty contest. And they post photos of bats on their Facebook and Instagram account and ask you to vote for the best looking one. All the bats are part of the wild populations that live on land managed by the public agency and are photographed by wildlife technicians. So, I mean, let's go to the Facebook page of the BLM Bat Week, the Bureau of Land Management. and see what we've got. Bats are just nasty, though. Bats are, I'm sorry, they're not nasty.

They, according to the Bureau of Land Management, bats are an important species to healthy ecosystems. They're heroes of the night, pollinating fruits, eating pesky insects, and of course, more. And they've got a picture of all these bats hanging out. It's just, ooh. Okay, so they have a semifinals.

Congrats to the bats who have made it this far in our Bat Beauty Contest. We're so proud of you. Today we have Hoary Potter and the guano of fire versus honeybunches of myodas.

So they've named all these stupid bats stupid names instead of giving them numbers or whatever. That's kind of funny. You know, they have Robert Battenson. and Battler Swift.

So we'll see how it comes out. We will be paying attention to the Bat Beauty Contest. It goes through Halloween. So I guess we'll have a Victor Halloween. Horny Bat, Emma Busk, who took the photos. And congratulations to Emma Busk. And Emma Busk took pictures of both of them.

So congratulations to Emma for taking pictures of both of the semifinals, Harry Potter and Guano Fire and honey bunches of myodas. That's awesome.

So you can go there and vote at the Bat Beauty Contest and we'll have the champions at the end of the week of the Bat Beauty Contest. Oh, and someone who is on the

Who Died Today Watch list, Gerard de Pardot. The actor, he was supposed to go on trial for sexually assaulting two women on a film set. And they have postponed the trial now

because of health issues. Girard de Pardot is 75 years old. And according to his attorneys, he has heart troubles and diabetes related issues. And he is not well enough to attend the proceedings even though he was eager to appear

in court, was he? Okay. I mean, he's denied any wrongdoing and of using violence, coercion, surprise or threat in the alleged sexual assault that prosecutors say took place in 2021 on the set of this movie he was filming.

So he's kind of on the watch list. So is our man Harvey Weinstein. These two guys could go at any time. So he will see. We'll see what happens. But he is definitely on the Who Died Today watch list.

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So we know now Boeing has launched a $19 billion stock sale by issuing 90 million new shares. So they want to really try to sell off some stock to help them amid this strike that's ongoing with their machina strike. And they want to avoid a credit downgrade. Yeah, I'm sure that they do. So good luck with that. Volkswagen reportedly plans to shut down three factories in Germany. Lay off thousands and cut salaries by 10%. Wow.

Domestic closures would be the first in the 87-year history of Germany's largest employer. Holy cow. Things are not looking well at the old Volkswagen. So Volkswagen auto workers in Germany left their jobs for an hour. to protest the major restructuring announced by their employer. So they're restructuring the company because they can't afford you, but you're going to walk off the job to protest that they can't afford you. That never made any sense to me.

So the plan includes closing three German plans, layoff, mass layoffs, about 300,000. Wow. The company is currently negotiating new contracts with workers who have threatened to strike if a deal isn't reached by December. Volkswagen worked. Council had, okay, management is absolutely serious about all this. This is not saber-rattling in the collective bargaining round.

Okay. So they, everybody wants more money and better things no matter where you're at in the world. And yet the companies still can't pick. Keep going electric and keep changing things in our new world. And let us know how that works out because that same thing is happening to a lot of companies here in the U.S., including a lot of our automotive industry. So there's that. I mean, maybe they could just, you know, win the lottery.

I saw a story the other day where this guy in North Carolina, and good for him, the story is he found a $20 bill on the ground. And then he bought a lottery ticket, which won him a million dollars. He won a scratch-off. He said, yeah, I'm going to spend it on a scratch-off ticket. And the store didn't have his usual choice. So he went with the extreme cash ticket. And he won a million dollars. Congratulations.

him. And amazingly in this story, which cracks me up, because it doesn't crack me up. It's kind of sad, actually. So he won a million dollars, all right? Now, he decided to take the lump sum. I thought a scratch office were completely lump sum anyway, but apparently not.

So he opted for the lump sum of $600,000. So he won a million dollars, but he opted for the cash payout, which would be $600,000. After taxes, he ended up with $429,000. $4,000.

I mean, holy cow. $400, and not less than half? That's a problem. That's a problem. Anyway, he said he plans to retire on $429,000 and he's 56 years old. I don't think so. I think you better think again about that. I don't think that $429,000 is going to be, you're going to be able to retire on.

But sure, you go ahead. Good luck. God bless. because I was looking at, so I guess I haven't looked at the lot of in a while. So Powerball is now 39 million. The latest jackpot is 39 million. Cash value 18.6 million. Okay.

All right. That drawing is tomorrow. For those of you listening live, today is the 29th of October, 2024. So you get, tomorrow is 39 million from the Powerball. And then the Mega Million. is, I think the mega millions, I saw a sign that said that was up over like 200 million, right?

Yeah, 250 million. And that drawing is today. You could play the mega millions today for $250 million. The cash payout on that would be $115.5 million. You're not going to get all that, thanks to taxes and everything else,

but it'd be nice to end up with, I don't know, $70 million, $80 million. You could, retire on that i want to be clear about that you could retire on 70 or 80 million i don't think you could retire at the age of 56 on 429,0007 maybe you could i know living right eating right doing the right things uh you know investing right you could but he talked about how he was going to go on a trip and uh take everybody uh to the golden corral so you know maybe

Maybe you will be able to retire on $429,07. But I think that's going to be a squeeze. But that's just me. As long as we're talking about money, congratulations to Navidia. They are now the most valuable company in the world. Congratulations. On Friday, and they might be back under it now

because they keep going back and forth, they were worth $3.53 trillion. dollars, slightly above Apple's $3.52 trillion. So, Navidia and Apple have been going back and forth, and depending on, you know, the daily stock prices and what's happening, Apple may be back as the world's most valuable company as of the time you're hearing this podcast. But right now, let's just say congratulations to Navidia, as they are the, you know, most valuable company on the planet.

And even if they're number two, they're still one. well over $3 trillion, so, you know, times are pretty good over there at Navidia and Apple. And Microsoft, really, Microsoft is over $3 trillion now, too. Holy cow. I mean, these companies, man. Good for them. I mean, AI is just crushing it for Microsoft. And we'll see they may actually overtake the whole bunch of them.

But we'll see. I mean, you got Microsoft, Alphabet, meta, Amazon. We'll see. Who ends up being the most dominant. But for right now, Navidia and Apple are, you know, fighting it out for one and two. And Microsoft is coming up strong around the final turn. Is it the final turn? Nah, who knows?

Nah, it can't be the final turn, right? There's only a week left before the election. And then we're not going to know who won for probably a month afterward, right? It's just going to be a battle unless it's overwhelming. if it's overwhelming. One thing's for sure, and this is a fact. And one thing is for sure is that after the upcoming election, a week from now, things are going to be different.

I don't know what that means. I don't know how different it's going to be, but things are going to be different. And you could, you know, you can pretty much quote me on that. All right. Let's do, let's get out of here. Let's do the joke of the day sent from Irene at Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. Irene sent this joke in. and this is all her.

Well, I think Irene is a her. I don't want to jump to any conclusion. So I'll just say this is from Irene. I don't know if it's a she or a her. Most likely it's a her, but you just don't know these days. Anyway, I went to my pastor and asked him to pray for my hearing. Before I knew it, he placed his hands over my ears, called down the heavens to come down upon me,

to heal my affliction with all of his heart and soul. It was the most profound blessing I had ever experienced. Pulling his hands away from me, he asked if my hearing was okay. And I told him, I don't know. It's going to happen on Tuesday. See, because the hearing was, oh, you get it. Dream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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