Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Turn It Off… | 10/12/23

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

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She seemingly vanished on July 13th after calling 911 and a family member to report seeing a child about three or four years old, only wearing a diaper walking along on Interstate 459. A family member reported hearing a scream and then only interstate noise. And then she disappeared.

And it sparked a massive search and widespread concern. And then two days later, she showed up alone at her parents' Hoover home and she was taken to the hospital for evaluation. She told police that she'd escaped the clutches of a man and a woman who abducted her. They determined she left her job and they have a whole timeline of, what happened to her and she bought some goods and then she went missing so and then she just showed back up and it was all BS. Okay. As she even told the detectives a male had orange hair with big bald spot on his back. She was able to escape the 18 wheeler and fled on foot, only to be captured again and to be put into a car. Just amazing. So, uh,

They later came out after she returned to say, yeah, that didn't happen. Sorry. Oh, okay. Well, police announced charges against her a couple weeks after that. And, you know, that's when she admitted that, yeah, it was fabricated. Sorry. You know, as we all know, actions have consequences. And that's why we are here today.

Yeah. No kidding. Well, she's now been found guilty. And she's been found guilty, and she pled, obviously, not guilty to the charges of false reporting to law enforcement authorities and falsely reporting an incident. Despite her plea, the judge found her guilty based on recommendation of state prosecutors. So the judge recommended one year in jail and $17,874. in restitution. He also recommended two other fines of $831 each.

And while she was in court, she appeared to be fidgety and kept her hands behind her back. I mean, you're in court for this. Of course, you're going to be a little fidgety. She explained that, well, it wasn't her. It was her attorney. They said that we're appealing the verdict. because they wanted to serve jail time. There's no need to having a trial here, knowing their position.

We've stipulated and appealed the case, and we're going to move on with this. We need to figure it out. There's no need for jail time. I feel like I kind of agree with it. There are other issues with Carly going on, and if they've agreed to pay the fines and the fees, then have her get some help. But is that help come from being in prison? I don't think so.

But I'm not the judge. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. So it is almost Halloween. I mean, if you're listening live, today is the 12th of October, 2023. Halloween is the 31st of October. That's a Tuesday this year.

And I was looking at a story from candy store.com. And they claim that a whopping 96% of people who celebrate Halloween will buy candy, spending an average of $31.93 each. Wow. Okay. So they have analysis that sales data for the past 15 years, and they've determined the top 10, Halloween candies are

Reese's cups M&Ms, hot tamales, Skittles, Sour Patch Kids, Starburst, Hershey's Kisses, candy corn, Hershey's mini bars,

and Snickers. I was a top ten according to the sales data for the last 15 years. all of those are all right really good I could maybe do without the hot tamales if I had to drop one

given a choice I don't know man given a choice I don't know my favorite Skittles is what one two three fourth on the list

I mean I'm a huge fan of Skittles but I'm a huge fan of all of these candies. And I'll even settle in to some hot tamales. I know that comes as a big surprise. But they have a list here of the top candies for each state in the United States of America. Skittles is number one in Alabama. Alaska is Twix, Arizona, Hershey's Kisses, Arkansas Butterfinger. I need to go through all these. Yeah. California M&M's, Colorado Milky Way, Connecticut, Alman, Joy. Delaware Sour Patch Kids, Florida Riesas Cups, Georgia Jolly Ranchers, Hawaii Hershey's Minibars, Idaho Snickers, Illinois Sour Patch Kids, Indiana Starburst, Iowa Rees Cubs, Kansas M&Ms, Kentucky Rees's Cubs, Louisiana Lemonheads, Maine Sour Patch Kids, Maryland Hershey's Kisses, Massachusetts Butterfinger, Michigan Starburst, Minnesota Hot Tamales, Mississippi Three Musketeers,

Missouri Almond Joy, Montana Twix. I can do some twicks now. Nebraska Sour Patch Kids. Nevada Hershey's Mini Bars. New Hampshire Rees Cubs. New Jersey Tutsi Pops. New Mexico Hot Tamales. New York Sour Patch Kids.

North Carolina M&Ms. North Dakota Hot Tomollies. Ohio Blow Pops. Oklahoma Skittles. Oregon M&Ms. Pennsylvania Hershey's mini bars. Rhode Island M&M. South Carolina Skittles.

South Dakota Starburst. Tennessee Tutsie pops. Texas Sour Patch Kids, Utah Candy Corn, Vermont M&M's, Virginia Butterfinger, Washington, D.C. M&M's, Washington, Tootsy Pops, West Virginia, Hershey's Minibars, Wisconsin Butterfinger, and Wyoming Rees's Cups. There you have it. So wherever state you're living in, those were your favorite candy. It says here also they actually did the full study of the top three candies for each state. And salt, Water Taffy was the runner-up choice in Nebraska, Tennessee, Washington, and Wyoming. Wow, that's interesting. And Oregon residents are most likely to hand out full-sized candy bars. That's kind of sweet.

I love that. And it's worth, you know, nothing because it's just your favorite candies or whatever you like. and so one of the one of the funnest things that happens in my house every year and it's going away now because you know

my kids are all too old now and they're bummed that they're too old but you know I've told you my trick for getting extra Halloween candy you know where you carry you carry an extra bag for your kids and so that when they go up to the homes and trick or treat

they show up with you know a low amount of candy. That way people feel bad that maybe they think you just got started and so they give you more. I know. I know. It's just a little, you don't say any of the kids still trick or treat just like they always do. But you know as a human when you look down and you're giving your candy out, unless you're doing, you know, I'm just giving you wine. Wine candy by for everybody no matter what, which is fine. You do what you want to do. But most of the time people will start doing it. And then I'll look down at the one that's almost empty and they'll go, oh, you don't. don't have anything and they throw in two or three more.

So you always end up getting more. So when it starts getting, you know, like half full, dump it back out again into the special carrying bag by the parents. So then when you're all done, that's more candy. And one of the funnest things that happens when you go home and you dump it all out on the bed or, you know, on the living room floor and you go through it all and break it up and trade it for, you know, those are my favorites. These are your favorites.

And it's so much fun. I'm going to miss that a lot. I may have to do that. I won't be able to share as much with my wife's grandkids, but that is a really fun time. I just read a joke. I usually give a joke of the day at the end of the show, but we're in Halloween talk as far as candy goes,

and trick-or-treating. And I had a joke show up the other day. It could be the joke of the day. It's a Halloween joke. And it goes something like this. It's a big guy joke, too. So, just letting you know. Last night, after I thought all the trick-or-treaters were gone,

a boy about 12 years old came to the door. He was dressed in all red. Instead of saying trick-or-treat, he goes, I'm your period. Sorry, I'm late. He got the rest of my candy, and he restored all my faith in this generation. All right, let's go to the break room.

I need something cold to drink desperately. All right, the final lotto update for a while now. Congratulations to the winner. We don't know who it is yet. Who won the $1.7 billion jackpot of the Powerball. It wasn't me. It was purchased in California. at the Midway Market and Liquor in Fraser Park, California.

That's about 70 miles north of L.A. So congratulations to whoever won the Powerball. Congratulations. Man, I'm happy that someone won. No, I am. I'm happy that someone won. I mean, to 756. $2.6 million cash payout.

That would be pretty sweet even in the great state of California. Two tickets sold in Arizona and Pennsylvania for a couple of million. And I think they had like six people win the $1 million drawing. 121 people won $50,000 and 24 tickets won $100,000. So, congratulations. Congratulations. California has been pretty lucky lately. I think that they've won the billion in July. They won the over $2 billion in November.

When I say California, some won the $1.8 billion in July. Some one won the $2.4 billion in November of last year. And now we have someone getting the $1.7. billion, all three from California. So congratulations to all who won. No, I mean that. Congratulations. Well, well, well, isn't it interesting?

Just the other day, we were talking about how desperate Disneyland was slashing children was slashing chickens. Yeah, they were killing chickens. Desperate Disneyland slashed children's ticket prices by more than 50% at children 3 to 9 were going to get there. It was going to cost 50% less to get into the park. Really interesting. Well, then today we get news that Disney World and Disneyland are raising prices for passes and the tickets. Huh. So prices at both Disney World and Disneyland are jumping effective immediately.

All day, park hopper access will resume beginning January 9th. Parking prices at both theme parks has also increased. So isn't that interesting? Because I thought the reason that we were slashing the kids prices is because they had reports of a slowdown. And believe me, they know the numbers. They were a slowdown of attendance. So I know that they said they planned on investing, you know, 60 billion into the parks over the next decade. And they're probably going to continue to invest in the cruise lines.

and who knows what else they're going to be investing money in. But I just find it interesting that, hey, we're going to go ahead and slash the prices on the kids because we love the kids, man. We are here for the kids. But a couple days later, yeah, we're going to go ahead and raise everybody's prices. We need to charge more. We're not making enough money. Oh, okay.

No, no, no problem. Good. I mean, isn't everything actually raising their prices now, no matter what product you're purchasing, isn't it expensive? I mean, I see where Chipotle, Chipotle, Chipotle, Chipotle, Chipotle, Chipotle, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, Chip, there you go. You say it however you want to say it. Okay, it's C-H-I-P-O-T-L-E.

You say it however you want to say it. They are increasing their prices as well. All that's special. I thought they just raised their prices. Oh, that was, I don't know, that was like a little over a year ago. My gosh, how are they even getting by now? So those prices are hiking up. They claim that they're raising their prices.

Does it give an amount? how much they're raising it because the year ago price wage our price increase was three to four percent so in october of last year it said prices were up about 13 percent compared to the year before man nothing says binomics like that that is for sure so it doesn't say exactly how much it just says we're hiking our prices oh that's good that's good don't worry about how much you just worry about we're hiking our prices okay all right well i mean it's a struggle i know that i see where 54% of shoppers now say they'll choose store brand groceries over name brand from now on and uh now according to this story uh you know a report by

the food industry association uh it's Not just about cost. Uh-huh. Okay. Only 26% of those surveyed said that the same of national brand groceries such as Charmintyde or Frito Lay. Okay. So, I mean, there are some national brands where you feel like, you know, I'm not, I'm not giving up that. I'll give up, I'll give up something else, but I don't want to give up that.

I mean, but we're at a breakpoint in America. there's no question about that because everything around us continues to be more expensive. And it doesn't seem to me, and I'm just chewing the fat chit-chatter here. That's me. It doesn't seem to me that it's going to reverse any time soon. It needs to desperately. But it doesn't seem that it's going to. And I haven't even talked about any of the stuff that's going on in Israel

because you're getting that everywhere else. I know you are. And you're getting it. We talk about it on Pat Unleashed on the days that I'm there. I'm filling in for Pat again tomorrow, you know, the 13th, Friday the 13th. So you get about it, you'll hear about, you know, Israel, Ukraine, you know, Taiwan, on what's happening around the world. I mean, this administration is getting us into world conflicts,

and we have to reverse course. We have to. Otherwise, we're doomed. That's why I don't talk about it on this show, because I want to try to uplift you a little bit. Hey, did I remind you how much everything cost these days? That's not uplifting enough? Oh, okay.

Never mind. I mean, we could talk about car prices that will be going through the roof because, I don't know, the UAW is still on strike. And they added another 9,000 workers to their strike from Ford's largest truck plant. They're escalating. I mean, UAW is escalating. They're trying to make a deal. I mean, we knew that they just did a tentative deal with the Canadian auto workers. So let's make a deal here in the U.S.

I mean, it's not going to end well for anyone if the strike continues on. I mean, holy cow. The automobiles, the automotive industry is going through a rough patch because they've got to deal with, and they've okayed it. They could have balked at the beginning, and they didn't because they wanted that government money, but they're, you know, converting and everything is going to be EVs.

Nobody, I mean, overall, the majority of people don't want EVs. We want a vehicle that we can put gasoline into, and then we can drive anywhere we want when we want it. Ha, that's a quaint little thing. You silly, old-school Americans thinking you can travel where you want when you want. You know what? You can travel where you want when you want, but you just can't do it in your vehicle because you can't afford it. Or there's no gasoline for it. Or there's no electricity for it.

But you still can. You absolutely could go where you want, when you want, any darn time you want. You go ahead. You go ahead. Okay. So we'll see. I mean, we're shutting down plans. Sean Fane, we talked about him the other day.

He is, you know, he's got to be, he's got to be living a dream in charge of it. He's the man in charge of the UAW. He knows he's shooting himself in the foot. They continue to ask. for more and more but they're not saving jobs in the long run with all of the reconstruction of these plants humans will get thrown to the wasteland and it I know did I I mentioned uplifting right okay so we won't talk about humans being thrown into the wasteland never mind I want everyone and

this is actually fact and true I personally want every on the planet to just get what they want. And I know that's impossible because you're never going to make everybody happy. You know, the Palestinians are not going to be happy with the Jews and the Ukrainians are not going to be happy with the Russians. And, you know, onward down the list. But I truly want everyone to get what they deserve. And that's the simple thing. Marshall's buyers travel far and wide,

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I'll be glad, sad, mad, mean. And, uh, I do it. That's the way it works. You can always email the show, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I get your emails. I see them. I really appreciate the ones that, you know, are sending kind words.

Those of you that aren't sending kind words, I don't appreciate those. But if you're sending kind words, I appreciate them. So thank you. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You know, we talked a little bit about, remember we had the national alert last week on the emergency alert system and uh it you know we were all concerned about uh you know hey if we shut it off do you're going to hear it and you know I had it had it seen what had you see in here what would happen and it went off early but it

didn't really go off early because they had given us a window it was kind of like the uh it was kind of like the the window for hurricanes you know you have the uh you know the uh the uh the uh the uh the cone of doom and they gave us, well, it's going to be between here and here, and everyone thought it was going to be right down the middle, and it wasn't, it was off to the left a little bit. So anyway, big surprise, something from this administration, you know, coming off to the left a little bit.

So anyway, and we had talked, I think, and I don't know if we talked about it here, where we talked about it, I just remember talking about it. I don't know if it was with you or with someone else, and I'm sorry about that, where if you have a phone that you used for someone, say you're doing, uh,

well, either a legal business with or, you know, you're having an affair. Uh, taking care of a little side business and you got an extra phone. So the, so that you,

put a little tiger woods. Everybody wants to have a little affair phone. I don't know. That way the, the wife or the husband can look at the regular phone. and see that it's fine. No problem. The last text was to me.

Oh, and she said, love you. But she's got the burner phone in the center console of her car. That's what she texts the boyfriend with. I don't know that that happens. Now, I'm guessing. And so when the alert went off, if you had it stashed in the, you know,

not in the center console, but you didn't have it off. And it was in, you know, maybe your address or drawer, or in a drawer in the bathroom, you know, and you could have been busted when the alarm went off. It's possible. Well, now we're finding out that apparently some illegal phones went off in prisons.

Now, you would expect I would. Had you said to me, hey, how many do you think are going to go off in a prison setting? I don't know the number of how many prisons there are in America. but I'm sure that there is a huge amount. In fact, a quick look takes a look at, in 2023, there were reported 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,11616 local jails, 1,3,3 juvenile correctional facilities, and 181 81 immigrant detention.

facilities. So that's, you know, more than 18. My point being is that if you were to ask me, hey, how many illegal cell phones are in this system? When the national emergency alert system goes off, how many are going to be heard? And they claim now that they confiscated two phones at Sing Sing Correctional Facility. And they also said they confiscated a phone or two in Florida at the FCII Coleman Lowe in Florida. They got two phones as well. So four, I would have been a lot more than that. Now, I guess this article tried to reach out to some other prisons

that I'm sure they were less than open with the reporters. Now, I will say this, that perhaps the prisoner were smart enough to shut the phone off so that cannot be detected, you know, if you're in prison. And I don't know this, but it would only make sense that if you're in prison

and you're using a cell phone, you're using the Wi-Fi. So you should be able, the prison should be able to tell the devices that are using the Wi-Fi at any given time. Right? So unless you have the OK-

from a particular guard or a particular person that's in charge of the Wi-Fi, you know, they're going to know. So I'm sure that when they're not in use, that you would have it turned off. So it's not going to be found anyway. There's also reports where some Amish men had some cell phone stashed.

You'd think, you know, you'd think that the Amish would know shut it off, wouldn't you? You'd think that you knew that, but no, no, no. Speaking of jail, I see where Sergio Brown, former NFL player, a fairly prominent NFL player, was arrested for killing his 73-year-old mother. Now, he went missing about a month ago. And I don't know if we mentioned it or not, but he was a person of interest when they found his mother, I think in the backyard, if I remember right,

buried behind her home. Well, they found her behind her suburban Chicago home. I don't know if she was actually buried or not. So then there was a report that there was a Sergio Brown citing in Mexico. and so now he was kind of re-enter the United States from Mexico and was arrested. He was arrested there in Southern California and he will be extradited to Illinois where he faces first degree murder charges. I don't know the whole story behind Sergio.

I don't know what's happening with Sergio. I heard some people talking about Sergio that had been. played with him that knew him during and after his NFL career and they all said that the last couple of years there was some kind of problem with Sergio so I don't know rest in peace to Sergio's mother Myrtle Brown who was found and now it says in this that she was found behind her Chicago home I don't know how far behind the home was because this story talks about her being found near a creek, which is 12 miles, now Maywood, which is 12 miles west of Chicago.

And then once they had found her, they couldn't find Sergio. And then the medical examiner ruled her death a homicide and that she had been injured during an assault. So then Sergio had posted some stuff on his Instagram about her death. And I don't know. We would just see what happens. So it's all got to go to court. It's all accusations now.

He was down in Mexico. He was staying in Sinaloa. Nothing like this time of year, Sinaloa is beautiful. Man, you can't. I was sad that I had to sell my timeshare in Sinaloa. But I did. I did. What are you going to do?

I couldn't get down there as often as I want. wanted. Anyway, so Sergio Brown has been arrested trying to re-enter the U.S., and he is being extradited back to the state of Illinois. This is an ongoing case, and it will be interesting to see what the outcome

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We've all had and have issues with the IRS. But I'm glad that I'm not Microsoft. Well, I mean, I'm kind of glad I'm not Microsoft. And one way I wish I was Microsoft, but on another hand, I'm glad I'm not Microsoft. Because the U.S. Internal Revenue Service has said, yeah, you know, you guys, you owe us $28.9 billion. Yeah, man, I know, I wish we probably should have said something.

But between the years of 2004 and 2013, yeah, that's $28.9 billion, you still owe us. Oh, okay. So the demand from the IRS is the result of a years-long audit by the IRS into Microsoft's past accounting practices. In particular, the agency took issue with how the company allocated profits among countries and jurisdictions. The IRS says Microsoft owes an additional $28.9 billion plus penalties and interest. It noted that the final does not include up to $10 billion in taxes Microsoft paid under the 2017 tax cuts-ed job act that could reduce the final bill. Now, big surprise here. Microsoft has said they're going to appeal the IRS request.

And that will probably take, I don't know, several more years. We believe Microsoft that we have always followed the IRS's rules and paid the taxes we owe in the U.S. and around the world. Since 2004, we have paid over $67 billion in taxes to the U.S. and Microsoft noted that the company believes its current allowances for income tax contingencies are adequate. So I'm glad the IRS isn't knocking at my door for $28.9 million. Seems like it, though. Does seem like it. I see where one of Microsoft's competitors, Google,

announced new AI search capabilities that will help healthcare workers pull up your medical history faster. Isn't that special? That's all for your safety. That's wonderful. At the same time, George R. Martin and other big-name authors

are suing open AI for alleging that AI chatbot, chat GPT, was trained using copyrighted works of popular authors. The second copyright infringement lawsuit filed against the AI company this month. The writers and the Authors Guild filed a federal lawsuit in New York, alleging the company copied authors' works without permission or consideration and use the content to train their language models for Chad GPD. The Guild said that the language models jeopardized fiction writer's ability to make a living,

arguing open AI could have instead opted to train their language models on public domain works or paid a licensing fee to use the copyrighted works. Well, I mean, yes, that probably could have happened. But in the end, that's what was the fight was with on the writers' strike. It's going to be a big-time fight probably with the actors and a lot more coming down the pike with these authors and big-time authors. I mean, George R. Martin's Game of Thrones. It's going to be worth a lot of money for, you know, if it's proven that that's what they actually did. And I'm sure that that's what they did.

So really what they're arguing is, you know what? it just happened too fast. You shouldn't have used our work without paying for it, and you could have used this stuff over here, and maybe you wouldn't have gotten as far along as fast, but at some point you would have. It's just really, we live in amazing times. We really do, because at one point,

we have AI helping us with our health, right? I mean, well, this isn't, it's helping health care workers, Uh-huh. Pull up your medical history faster. So the computer will be able to say, here's your records. So soon we'll have the computer saying, you don't need that.

You shouldn't be using that. And the nurse will maybe come in, maybe, and say, yeah. I mean, that was the whole premise behind the one TV show on Hulu. class of 09, right? It was about the FBI, and they created this system to detect criminals and to stop criminals. And so in the end, the judges and the other humans and the police who were still, you know,

technically, it's up to the human to make the case. But it wasn't because the robot, the AI system, was saying, hey, they're guilty. And so all the humans were like, yep, they're guilty. We're on that side. So, I mean, that's what's going to happen. I believe that. That's what was going to happen.

We're going to say, yeah, yeah, the humans still make the decision. But in the end, it's going to be, oh, no, you know, I don't want to make the decision. But the computer's always been right. So go ahead. That's what we're going to do. you're guilty and then and then that leads to corruption because the person in charge will be able to you know maybe manipulate who's guilty and who's not i'm not saying something like that would happen it would just appear to me that it could happen now yesterday i ended the show with it's all

about perspective i think i'm pretty clear that this uh is uh it's true no matter what it's all about perspective so i saw a post yesterday and i i don't know that uh it's kind of funny but i look at it in another way all right in the opposite way and i know this is just a joke okay i got it i got it i'm just taking it serious because i would think that this my kid was not stupid that's me i would you could quote me on that i would you could quote me on that i would think that my kid was not stupid. So the post is, this morning, my son said his ear hurt, and I said, on the inside or the outside. So he walks out the front door, comes back in and says both. Now, to me, that's funny. That shows some thinking on the kid's part. But in the post,

that said moments like this got me wondering if I'm saving too much money for college. No. Well, maybe you are because maybe your kid is too smart for college. But no, you're not. Because if my kid, if I said on the insider out and he walked outside and then came back in and said both, that's funny business right there.

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