Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Unequal Society… | 1/15/24

Episode Date: January 15, 2024

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according to a, I don't know, a keynote address at the CES 2024, Sam's Club owned by Walmart, of course. So that's planning to stop employees checking receipts at the door. Instead, we're turning to artificial intelligence and computer vision technology. The technology is currently being run as part of a pilot program across 10 Sam's Club warehouse locations, nine of which are in the DFW Metroplex and one in Joplin, Missouri, which is beautiful this time of year. Now, customers would shop as normal, but instead of stopping at the door to show a receipt to an employee, cameras at the store's exits take a picture of what's in the shopper's cart to confirm purchases. Now, according to Megan Crozier, the chief merchant of Sam's Club U.S., said,

we care about every second a member spends with us. So eliminating even a few seconds it takes to scan a receipt at the exit door is well worth it. And then they gave a demonstration of the technology. And it's like going through a TSA scanner and you just roll right through it. And the cameras take pictures from the top, the bottom, and the sides. I don't know that it takes from the bottom. It takes from the top and the sides. And then off you go.

I have a couple of questions. What happens when you inadvertently forget to scan something at checkout? And it does happen that people, you know, and I say inadvertently, I know that there's going to be people trying to scam Sam's Club and not scan items. I get it. But for the most part, you know, you inadvertently, you forget to scan something. What happens when you do? Does the AI computer technology start good? going off and you have alarms and bells and whistles going off.

And pretty soon the Sam's Club SWAT team drops down from the ceiling and wonders, Hey, what are you doing with that extra Connie's cheese? And your hands up, don't shoot. I don't know. I'm just asking. It doesn't say what happens with something like that takes place. I mean, do they just have one person on the other side of the scanner? And so if the alarm bells go off,

you hear and then someone comes over and checks to see what the issue is what happens if they get it wrong what happens if they you know what happens if the alarm bells go off and you're on the other side of the scanner and the alarm bells are going off and then you hear and you get scared so you continue to walk and then i'm sure that's not going to happen right of course so it's fine just be ready for the new technology in all stores very, very soon. They say they're going to roll out this technology in all their 600 warehouse clubs by the end of the year. And they're the first retailer to deploy the technology at the exit and at scale. So we'll see.

We shall see. I would recommend that as soon as those alarms and the bells start going off, just duck. welcome. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fats. Speaking to warehouse clubs, though, I don't know how long it will take Costco to start using the technology that Sam's Club is using, but they are going to change the way customers go into their store. So remember, Costco has the deal now where they have, you have to make sure that you're the right card holder, and that's it. And so you have to have your picture on the back of the card. And if you don't have your picture on the back of the card, you better have your ID or you can't purchase products once you're in our store.

And that's just a big deal. Now, I will say that in today's world, if you have your picture on the back of the card and it looks different, I would just say, yeah, that's before I transition. And they're not going to say anything to you. Okay. Now, most of the time at Costco, they just kind of look. I don't know that they actually care. This is a mandate from on high.

So I don't know that they actually care. they just kind of look, yep, you've got an ID, we're good. But, you know, it could be wrong. Now they're talking about at Costco, they're going to have a machine, a scanner at the befront of the store that you would go in and scan your cart and make sure that it's you that is coming into their store. What is happening? I mean, that is unbelievable.

Costco. what is going on with your membership thing? It can't be that bad. There cannot be that many people using someone else's card. And it might be your wife, your girlfriend, your neighbor that needs to run in and get a product from Costco, but they don't want to get the membership. So they come in and they buy the product. Yes, I understand you're losing money from that person not getting a membership,

but you're also gaining the money from the product. that they're purchasing. I don't understand what the deal is. Now, I do kind of understand the checking out process, but the coming into the store process is just incredible to me. So be ready for that at Costco when

you go in to scan your card. Not only, you know, you usually just have to hold it up. Yep, I'm a member, you're in. No, you have to scan it on there, a little scanner, and prove that you're who you say you are, or we're not going to allow you in. So,

that's that's fun right good news though for those of you that are still going to go to Costco and say they're going to be open today for those of you listening live today is the 15th of january 2024 and it's m lk day and they're going to be open so you can go ahead and shop there pretty sure target walmart croaker they're all going to be open uh so some of the things that uh happen on m lk day uh national parks you get free admission on any uh national holiday. Nice. I'm asking you get into a national park today. Nothing like going to a national park with it's negative 20 degrees.

Postal service, the United States Postal Service, not delivering mail today. So sorry about it. Get over it. My guests, FedEx will be open. FedEx Express and FedEx Ground will be operated on modified service. I'm sure that's what they all will say that they're operating on modified service on MLK Day. of course government agencies, non-essential government services,

the DMV, the library, city offices, those are going to be closed. I don't know how we'll get by. The banks are all closed. NASDAQ, New York Stock Exchange won't be trading. Again, I don't know how we'll get by. You can probably still, and I say probably you can still bank online.

So it'll be okay. You'll be able to do your banking. And with the weather, the way it is. I'm pretty sure the MLK Day parades are going to be postponed in most cities. 75% or something like that of the United States of America is under a freeze warning. Yeah, we're not parading during the freeze warning. Sorry. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats. Well, almost, almost anything. So no, you can't get a nice rink on Uber Eats.

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Anytime. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. I see where YouTube is now going to provide short instructional videos from medical experts for health emergencies. That's great. That's great. So just look for that. Look for YouTube providing the short instructional videos for medical experts on health emergencies so that when you are having a healthy emergency hopefully someone will be able to log

onto youtube quick enough and be able to view the short instructional video and then save your life is there a doctor in the house no but i've got a youtube short instructional video okay all right look even if it saves one life right right right How about those NFL games this weekend, huh? How about them? We had the Green Bay Dallas game. Green Bay punched Dallas right in the mouth from the very beginning. I mean, it was incredible, sad if you're a Dallas fan.

Really, really good if you're a Green Bay fan. Detroit snuck by and beat the L.A. Rams for their first playoff victory in, I don't know, a thousand years. We won 24 to 23. Congratulations to them. That Kansas City game against Miami in Kansas City was just incredible to watch. It was so cold. I don't think it was the coldest ever, but it was one of the coldest ever. And we got to see a professional football helmet crack when getting hit in the middle of the game.

And since it was Patrick Mahomes, we didn't have to stop the gameplay or anything. We would just let him run off the field and change helmets and run back onto the field, just like you're not supposed to do. But hey, it's Patrick Mahomes and the Kansas City Chiefs, so we're okay with it. And then we had Houston beating the Cleveland Browns. C.J. Stroud, the quarterback for the Houston Texans, crushed.

He is so good. And then one game was postponed. The Buffalo game was postponed until this afternoon, for those of you listening live on the 15th of January, 2024. The Pittsburgh Buffalo game. That game is going to happen this afternoon. And then the Monday night game is, Philadelphia Eagles taking out the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Tampa.

I was funny, we had six games this weekend and three of them under domes. Duh. That's why every NFL stadium should be made under a dome. If you're building a new stadium, it should be a dome. I get it. We're going to grandfather in all the stadiums that don't, you know, that are already built, they're already playing in. But if you're going to do any remodeling, anything at all,

I don't care if you're putting in new bathrooms, any new construction, you have to put a roof on. Those are by rules as an NFL commissioner. You're not the NFL commissioner, Jeff. Oh, okay. Yeah. They postponed that Buffalo game because of the wind and the snow. I thought that they wanted to play in those conditions.

That's why they're building a new stadium without a roof. But it's about the fans, Jeff, and the safety of the fans arriving and traveling in such a bad storm. Yeah, I don't want people to make their own personal decisions. I don't. I want the government to decide. that. The NFL decided that in partnership with the governor of New York. And the way we decided that

it's best if we just postpone the game. You know, until Monday. What it's still going to be cold and windy and it's going to be terrible outside, but we made everybody feel better. Okay. All right, fine. Whatever. Whatever. And I see today

news broke that Disney and the NFL are in talks that would give the league, you know, the national Football League and give them a stake in ESPN. Huh. That would be interesting. That would put the NFL media under Disney.

Okay. So Walt Disney Company and the National Football League are set to be in earnest talks. According to two familiar people, not just talks, but earnest talks. That could have the league take a stake in the ESPN while putting its NFL media unit, which is the sports body has been trying to monetize in better fashion under the media companies control. Such a move would further align Disney with the NFL. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we'll see.

We'll see. I mean, the rights now, you've got NFL network, Red Zone. All right. ESPN. We'll see how that works out. We shall see how that works out. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

All right, let's take a look at a quick look at the loto. We got the mega millions, no one won, $208 million, $101.5 million cash payout. That drawing is tomorrow, the 16th of January, 2024. And then there's a big drawing tonight on the Powerball. No one has won in quite a while. 88 million is the jackpot, 43.5 million cash payout. And again, that drawing is tonight. So good luck. Hope you win. Although, I mean, I really hope that it's me, but I hope that you win.

No, I mean that. Did you see where there's this Austrian pharmaceuticals eras, Marlene Engelhorn, who says she won the birth lottery. And she wants to set up Citizens Group to redistribute $27 million of her fortune after her government scrapped her and inheritance taxes. That is so sweet. She's so nice. Now, she wants to give away the $27 million, $27.4 million of her inheritance from her grandmother. She's the descendant of a Friedrich Englehorn, the founder of the pharmaceutical firm BASF. Her grandmother, Trotty, I believe that's how you pronounce it, T-R-A-U-D-L-T-R-A-L-Troddle or Trotty Engelhorn, Vichato, died. D. in September of 2022. All right. She wants, this is Engelhorn, Marlene,

wants to be taxed on her inheritance and believes it's unfair and would like to see inheritance tax reintroduced with higher taxes for the wealthy. Here's an idea,

Marlene, just pay the money. Just give the money to the government. How about you not tax us? I know this is in Europe so it doesn't affect you, but it does because

whatever happens over there reaches us more sooner now than later for sure. Now, when you save yourself, 27.4 million, yeah, well, really, her entire inheritance, yeah, was $4.2 million. I mean, she spits on $27.4 million. Now, she is said she's already committed to distributing 90% of her inheritance.

Not all of it. She still likes to live pretty well, but we're not going to keep it all. and she wants the wealthy to be heavily taxed. She is the co-founder of Tax Me Now, a group of wealthy people in Germany who are campaigning for greater taxes on their earnings. Stop it. Just give the money to the government. Why do you want to hurt other people?

It's just amazing to me. Stop. Just give the money away. Don't take it away from other people. She sent out 10,000 invitations to randomly selected Austrian citizens. citizens, 16 and older, asking them to take part in an initiative named the Good Council of Redistribution. Isn't that nice? And that nice? You can still register if you're an Austrian. 50 participants will be chosen, along with 15 substitutes in case of dropouts. The participants

will take place in meetings held in Salzburg from March to June, collaborating with academics and civil society organizations. She wants to see wealth redistributed even in the absence of effective political action and hopes to assemble a diverse council representing a variety of age groups, social classes, and backgrounds. Oh, that's great. Now, the dream scenario, she said, is, I get taxed. I'm an unequal society. I'm sorry, I'm a product of an unequal society. Otherwise, I couldn't be born into multi-millions. Oh, geez, it's just agonizing to me. Now, the good news is this $27.4 million is like a, uh, That was like a class action lawsuit.

So the meetings will be inclusive, providing expenses for child care and travel costs of $1,300 for each attended weekend. She says she will fully entrust her assets to the chosen 50 individuals. I don't know how much she's giving away of the 27.4. I don't know if she's going to break it down. And that's what I was looking for. So it doesn't look like there's any special, specific amount given away. but she is agonizing. She can do whatever she wants with her money,

but stop trying to get the rest of us taxed. And I'm not even in her ballpark. I mean, she is way over there, and I am way down here. I know my place in civil society, but stop trying to tax the rest of us. What say you, Marlene? Hello, my name is Malina Englehorn.

Yeah, we know. I am from Austria. Yeah, we know that too. I was born into a rich family and will one day inherit a fortune for which I never had to work. Millionaires should not get to decide whether or not they contribute in a just way to the societies they live in and without which they would never have become millionaires. Social justice is in everyone's best interest. Wealth taxes are the least we can do to take responsibility. Tax us.

Oh, oh. That is just amazing. We live in incredible times. We do. We live in incredible times. Now, as I mentioned, we do have playoff games and NFL playoff games today. Two, one this afternoon and one tonight. And we also have the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards that are going to be happening tonight.

Good luck with anyone watching that. Holy cow. Now, they had the 24 Critics' Choice Awards last night with Oppenheimer and Barbie, you know,

obviously in the spotlight. Paul Giamatti clinched the best actor for the holdovers. Emma Stone won best actress for poor things. Barbie's the box office, Darling. Oppenheimer led the film distributors

with eight wins. Netflix. Beef. I have to watch that. This week, this week, the playoffs, without playoffs, this week, Beef. HBO Succession and FX the Bear bag top series honors.

And Culkin and Snook from Succession won along with Jeremy Allen White from the bear scored big in the acting category. So we have that. They're going to make a run for most of them anyway. But we have the Emmy Awards tonight. Those of you that are watching the football

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Okay. Who died today? Who died today? Let's start with Joyce Randolph. You knew her as Trixie Norton. Now, the classic sitcom The Honeymooners. She died in New York City at the age of 99. They say that she died of natural causes.

Rest in peace, Joyce Randolph. Jackie Gleeson noticed her in a commercial. And that's when he cast her in the Honeymooners way back in 1951, because they did this thing called The Cavalcade of Stars and the Jackie Gleason show. And then it ran as a stand-alone sitcom for, I don't know, a year, really. They, maybe two years. They produced 39 episodes of the Honeymooners, and it's run forever since then. So rest in peace, Joyce Randolph,

who played Trixie Norton in the classic sitcom The Honeymooners. Then we have Alex Mooser. Alex Mooser, I think that's how you pronounce his name. M-U-S-S-E-R. Dead in his Del Mar home, he was 50 years old. You will know him from all my children. The soap star's fiancé page press confirmed the news, said, she posted a bunch of pictures.

of him and she said rest in peace my love i will never stop loving you uh my heart is so broken uh they did not disclose details of the cause of death so it is either that what you're thinking of or it's uh you know possible suicide or drug overdose but uh they didn't reveal the details of the death of alex mocer dead at the age of 50 rest in peace Then we have Bill Hayes, another soap opera star. Bill Hayes has passed away. You know him. He starred as Doug Williams for, I don't know how many years.

I bet, I think it was like 50 years on days of our lives. He was 98. Yeah, he was the longest running character on the show, or at least one of the longest running characters on the show, appearing in more than 2,000 episodes, over 53. years. Wow. I mean, he started his role as a lounge singer on the TV show, which wasn't a stretch for him because that's how he got his start. He was, I guess, a really good singer. I mean,

we heard him sing in the show years and years ago. And he was featured in the ABC television series Disneyland, the song The Ballad of Davy Crockett, which Top the Billboard charts at 95. I mean, it's been covered by artists, including Mary Wilson, Tim Curry, and it is the ballad of Davy Crockett, sung by Bill Hayes. Dave, NSE, the Green Estate,

the Reddy in the woods, so's a new ever tree, and killed Tim Mbarre when he was only three. Think about it. So Bill Hayes, dead at the age of 98. I will say, they did not say what the cause of death was. Now, I know he's 98, so it probably was natural causes, or was it? Either way, rest in peace, Bill Hayes. Okay, so on Friday, Friday afternoon, I did a little show with Keith Malinac and Brad Staggs on Keith's YouTube channel at the mic. We was just, you know, rehashing some old stories. But during that broadcast, I brought up the fact that a worm develops, you know, because you can cut it

in half and it just develops its own head and wanders off. And I couldn't find the story during the broadcast. I was so angry. I had it in my show prep. And I just couldn't find it immediately, of course, of course. Right after we were done broadcasting, I found the story. And the story is talking the headline is, worm's rear end develops its own head, wanders off, to mate. The butt even grows its own eyes, antennae, and brain. You can't kill this thing. So, okay.

That's a hell of a worm. That is a hell of a worm. So some do it horizontally, some do it vertically, some do it sexually and some do it asexually. Then there are some organisms that would rather grow a butt but develops into an autonomous

appendage equipped with its own antennae, eyes, and brain. The appendage will detach from the main body and swim away, carrying gonads that will merge with those from other disembodied rear ends and give rise to a new generation. So not only will life find a way, but so will bidness. Business will find a way. And it doesn't matter what kind of, what kind of animal or thing you are. This particular worm, known as, the Japanese green sillid worm.

It reproduces by the process known as Stalinization. And I guess its real name is Megasilis Neponica. Megasilis Neponica. Otherwise known as the Japanese green silid worm.

And it reproduces by the process known as Stalin is a. So that is great. It's good to know. We have that roaming around on the planet, isn't it? Boarding for flight 246 to Toronto is delayed 50 minutes. Ugh, what?

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She was the first to abdicate the throne in the nearly 900 years of the kingdom. A thousand-year-old monarchy in Europe. She stepped down. So congratulations to Frederick, king of Denmark, and it's Frederick X. He probably prefers Frederick the 10th king of Denmark, but I prefer Frederick X. King of Denmark. Then you thought things were going good, right? You got a new king in Denmark.

Everything is fine. Well, not so fast. I see where only 700, get this, this is pretty, this is actually pretty amazing. 700 new IT jobs were created in the U.S. in 2023. Only 700 IT jobs. Tech companies apparently made a New Year's resolution to slim down.

Yeah, well, I mean, they only created new job, new tech jobs, 700 of them in 20203. Okay. I mean, we found out already that 46 tech companies have laid off 7,500 employees per layoffs tracker. I love them. Google confirmed it's axing about 1,000 employees. They're going to AI. Amazon, cutting hundreds of people working at Audible, Twitch, MGM studios, and Prime videos.

We've talked about that. Discord, the messaging app with IPO, Ambitions, slash 17% of its staff. Apple, which avoided the mass scale layoffs in 2023, shutting down a 121-person team working on AI in San Diego. Interesting. Citigroup said it's going to slash its global workforce by 10%. That's only 20,000 employees, though.

Don't worry, but it's only 20,000 people. That's it. So Black Rock, planning on laying off 600 workers. And that's only about 3% of their total workforce. So I guess tech companies cut nearly 263,000 jobs after acknowledging that the supercharged growth they experienced during the pandemic, mainly was a COVID low interest rate anonymily. I can't say that. Low interest rate anomaly. Why can't I say that word?

My nose is plugged up. It's cold out. Let me see if I could. COVID low interest rate anonymity. There you go. I can actually say it. And tech employees whose teams just got gutted are probably wondering whether this reckoning has yet to run its course.

I don't know. I mean, they created 700 new IT jobs in the U.S. That's not very many. That is not very many. So I know that we've got a new gig in Denmark, but if you're working in IT, wow, you times, look, it's tough for everybody. It's called something. What is it called again?

That's called. Oh, yeah, that's right. It's called Bidemex. But I digress. Yeah, we don't need to get into that. We can talk about NASA and Lockheed Martin, officially unveiling the agency's X-59 quiet supersonic aircraft. The experimental aircraft could represent the next phase in evolution of commercial air travel.

According to the recent release, it suggested that the new aircraft can travel faster than the speed. of sound, reaching a maximum speed of 925 miles per hour. It's a major accomplishment made possible only through the hard work and ingenuity from NASA and the entire X-59 team. My question is, are the bolts tightened? The lug nuts good? And with NASA, I mean, can it fly on a cloudy day? All right, I know, I know.

I'll stop making fun of... No, I won't. The X-59 has been in development at Lockheed Martin. Skunk Works for years. Man, am I a fan of Lockheed Martin Skunkworts? I can't speak. Skunk works. Lockheed Martin,

skunk works. My nose is so stuffed up today with this cold weather. I just why don't it change the AC filters in your house, Jeff? I have. I have. So they received a $248 million grant

from NASA in 2008. which ignited development on the project. The large grant was part of NASA's aim to take larger steps in aviation, including size, speed, and efficiency. Anytime anyone takes larger steps in any kind of work, they want the size to be bigger, and they want the efficiency and speed to be better, don't they? Yeah, even in air flight.

Anyway, so I was looking at a picture of the X-59. The first flight is coming soon. A couple things. It does not look like it has Fat Guy seating, and it does not look like it's ready for commercial travel. We need a plane that holds about, I don't know, 100 people and can travel across the ocean fast. Now, if that means traveling at 925 miles per hour faster than the speed of sound, so be it. But I'm okay with 800 miles an hour, you know, less than the speed of sound, and just get us around the globe a whole lot faster. But we do have something to look forward to, at least, from a Lockheed Martin.

skunk works. The X-59 is looking like it may may have been built and ready to go. The cockpit is located almost halfway down the length of the aircraft.

So it's really, I mean, it's a weird look. And it looks like the cockpit is on the end of a windmill blade. You know, you've ever seen a long windmill blade on a train or the back of a semi or semis being you know traveling to the wind farms how big they are that's what it looks like

it looks like they stuck a cockpit on the end of one of the uh blades for a windmill from the giant windmill but we'll see it does not look like it's ready for commercial flight sorry not to me but hey i am not a part of skunk works so we'll just we'll just leave it at that and hope that it's actually true all right let's get out of here today I'll give you the joke of the day. This was a sent to me from Todd. Emailed Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com with the joke of the day. And he wanted me to be sure to tell you, it's not his joke.

Okay. I don't know why he doesn't want to take credit for it. I guess with plagiarism up all over the world, we're supposed to say, hey, this isn't mine. Okay? So if this is plagiarized, it's fine because I said it wasn't mine. I'm just repeating what isn't mine. This is an email joke from Todd for joke of the day. A young ventriloquist was touring the clubs,

and one night he was doing a show in a small town. With his dummy on his knee, he started going through his usual dumb blonde jokes. When a blonde woman in the fourth row stands on her chair and starts shouting, I've heard enough of your stupid blonde jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype women that way? What does the color of a person's hair

have to do with her worth as a human being? It's guys like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community and from reaching our full potential as a person. Because you and your kind continue to perpetuate discrimination against not only blonde, but women in general and all in the name of humor. Well, the embarrassed ventriloquist started to apologize. But the blonde yelled out, you stay out of this, mister. I'm talking to that little brat in your knee. You know, you know you laughed. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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