Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Watch It Burn… | 2/13/24

Episode Date: February 13, 2024

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as blood gushed out of his mouth and nose. That does not sound like a fun flight. In fact, I don't know why the plane took off at all. The unidentified 63-year-old German man was seen boarding the Airbus A380 in Bangkok shortly before midnight, visibly sick with cold sweats and breathing much too quickly. At first, his wife claimed they had to rush to catch a flight, so that's why he's not feeling well. Don't worry about it.

But one of the fellow passengers, Karen Misfelder, a nursing specialist from the University Hospital in Zurich, said that, but after watching him for a few moments, I informed the flight attendant, maybe he needs to be examined by a doctor. Okay, so a young Polish man answered the call. I don't know if he was a doctor. Apparently he just said, you know, I'm a doctor.

And he said, how are you feeling? I felt his pulse. He said he was okay. We need a doctor. Yeah, I'm a doctor. him out. But after watching the man after a few minutes, they gave him some tea, but he had already spit blood into the bag that his wife held out for him. Oh no. Now, soon after that, blood started spilling out of his mouth and nose. It was absolute horror. Everyone was screaming. Yeah, no kidding.

I don't even know how the plane took off or why the plane took off. So about a half hour afterward, flight attendants tried to perform CPR, which didn't work, and it was hopeless. So they claimed that the man lost leaders of blood, some of which splattered the walls of the plane. Oh, no. Then he finally went still, and the captain announced, Yeah, we lost him. He's dead. And it was dead quiet on board.

get it it was dead quiet on board the staff then carried the man's body into the galley of the plane as the plane turned and headed back to thailand i would not have carried that guy uh he lays right there he stays where he lays i'm not touching him and everybody can walk around him or go out the back when we land but stay away from him so then they landed and the passenger said we had to wait two hours without any guides from the airline before they were finally booked on another flight to Germany with a stopover in Hong Kong. I still have the question of why this plane took off at all. This man was looking that bad and feeling that bad and split up into a bag with blood, and then we just took off. Yeah, don't worry about it.

We got a sick guy up here, but it will be fine. Just take off. Oh, okay. Now, there's no mention. how long it took to clean the plane. If the plane is still being used, do we have a check on all the other passengers to see if any of them are sick from this guy's blood,

the leaders of blood that were spit everywhere and on the plane's walls? No, we don't have any... I guess we'll find out if we have contact tracing on the passengers. We have all their names. you know, where they were headed. So maybe we do have that information. But I would say that this plane,

I know we have a lot of problems with airplanes these days, with nuts and bolts and doors opening. Maybe we just pull this Lufthansa Airbus A380 off to the side at the airport and burn it. There she goes. Yep, too bad. What a shame. Welcome.

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Speaking of burning things, scientists have found four black eggs that they brought to the surface in the oceanic abyss, from the oceanic abyss. Inside the eggs, they encountered a worm creature. They didn't know existed. What are we doing? What are we doing? During a robotic exploration of the ocean's abysipalegic zone, scientists discovered never before seen jet black eggs attached to a rock so instead of saying hey why we just go ahead and leave that there no we can't do that

so we know that these eggs belong to a flat worm an animal usually associated with more shallow waters but these were previously unknown to science Yeah, the scientist was like, yeah, we weren't sure what they were. And look, I was controlling the remote vehicle, and I opt, you know what, let's take them back. Let's take them back and take a look at them.

Okay, let's bring them up to top side and take a look at them. Oh, okay. So now we realized, once we got them top side, that the eggs were, in fact, cocoons containing a handful of flat worms. I'd never seen flatworm cocoons, said one scientist, and I didn't know what cocoons looked like. I thought they were, you know, something different, but, uh, you know, who knew? So under the stereo microscope, I cut one of them and a milky liquid-like thing leaked from it. Have we not seen the end of this movie already? I know.

And so after blowing the milky thing, I found fragile white bodies in the shell and first realized that it was the cocoon of play helmets. No, thank you. Okay? This, you want to talk about what needs to be done here? Wherever these flat worms are and their milky substance. How about we burn it?

Yeah, there she goes. The old lab. Sorry, wish we probably should have tested it, I don't know, in a submarine below the ocean's surface so that if the white milky substance leaks out, at least we can, you know, blow up the submarine and it's not loose here above ground. If there was ever a time where you needed a personalized emergency kit that contains five essential antibiotics, that treat the most common and deadly bacterial infections, now would be the time. And that would be the Jace case, which you can get at Jacemedical.com.

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According to, it's not funny. It is not funny at all. Destruction of property. According to Waymo, the self-driving car was navigating through Chinatown at about 9 p.m. when it was suddenly surrounded by a crowd. Members of the crowd defaced the vehicle and threw a firecracker inside, which then set it up. fire. There were no injuries and the reported that the cause of the fire was currently under

investigation. Yeah, it was someone who threw a firecracker or some other burning object into the car and then it started to burn. Now everybody just sat back and watched it burn. That's awesome. I mean, what are you going to do? They said that nobody did anything. What are you going to do. The car was surrounded by a group of people and it started on fire. Once it started on fire, what are you going to do? Nothing is what you're going to do. You're going to sit back and watch it burn. And that's exactly what they did. Now remember a few days ago, the Waymo self-driving car hit a bicyclist in San Francisco. I think that was a strange incident too. It was dragged, dragged the pedestrian, that whole incident. Those are, you know, the cars were actually doing

what they were supposed to do. And we got into that. We talked about that on earlier shows. The person who got hit by the autonomous vehicle was hit because someone else, a human driver, hit the person. The person flew in front of

the autonomous cruise vehicle, and the cruise vehicle tried to stop, and that's what dragged the human. The car did what it was supposed to do. That wasn't the car's fault. But I digress. This is more about burning of the car in Chinatown.

So just burn it all down. That's where we're at. That's sad, but that is where we're at. Apparently, during the hold-up, someone in a white hoodie jumped down the hood of the car and broke the windshield. The crowd was shocked and people started paying attention to what was happening and gathering around the car. Someone else jumped down the hood, and a group of people started clapping and encouraging the

behavior, yeah, no doubt. And then once it started to burn, yeah, we're just going to let it burn. Just let it burn. I don't think the new safety chief, I'm sorry, chief safety officer at General Motors could have stopped this particular vehicle from burning. Cruise, the troubled General Motors autonomous vehicle unit, unit has just hired the veteran automotive and technology company safety official for the critical position of chief safety officer Steve Kenner.

He's held top safety positions at multiple companies over nearly four decades. So congratulations to him. And I hope that everything works out at General Motors. He seems to seemingly can't hold a job. He was a president, vice president of Codiac, a self-driving truck company. He also held leadership positions at Apple, Uber, and Aurora. Those are companies that Aurora makes hardware and software for autonomous trucks. And he started his career as an engineer at General Motors.

And then he worked as a safety director for Ford. So good luck to Steve Kenner, but, man, can you hold down a job? And speaking of holding down jobs, I see where Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash drivers are going to go on strike. Right? They're going to go on strike tomorrow, which is Valentine's Day. And they're going on strike because they are seeking fair pay. That's it. I mean, this is what they're going on strike for.

Seeking fair pay. Isn't that what everyone goes on strike for? So this is the first since Uber and Lyft went public in 2019. Drivers will pick it outside airports and Uber offices. Oh, okay. I thought that Lyft said they were going to pay the difference if drivers made less than 70% of what riders paid. after external fees.

Yeah, we don't care. It's not good enough. It's never enough. I mean, Liv said, we're constantly working to improve the driver experience. Are you? Are you?

So the drivers are considered independent contractors. I mean, isn't everyone these days? And they've accused the platforms of taking disproportionately high amounts as commissions. Yeah, well, I would be shocked if that isn't true.

So the Justice, for app workers coalition. I mean, I need to look into the justice for app workers coalition. Representing about 130,000 drivers and delivery workers, said its drivers would not provide rides to and from airports between 11 a.m. and 1 p.m. in 10 U.S. cities. That's only a couple hours. What are we doing? By not paying our drivers a livable wage,

drivers are barely able to afford the bare necessities. I know, but I thought this was a side job. This is what we're doing, right? This is supposed to be a side job. So more and more people are using this as full-time platforms and they want to increase their pay. The algorithmic pricing say drivers have seen an incredible decrease into their pay. That is probably true.

I'm almost on their side. but they need to strike for more than a couple hours. Make it hurt a little. You could quote me on that. Make it hurt a little. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Sad news or good news.

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the Monty Python star, and the story is like, he's continued to work at the age of 80, and he claims, yeah, I'm still working because I need the money, okay? A series of his posts on X, and in this story, can we stop? This is, it's long enough.

All right, it's been long enough. formerly Twitter. We don't need to say that anymore. Just stop it. Posts on X. You can talk about tweets on X. You can talk about posts on X, but you don't need to say formally Twitter.

Stop it. This article is from the Guardian. Stop it. You don't need to do that anymore. So anyway, he goes in on his post. I don't know why people always assume we're loaded. Python is a disaster. Spamelot made.

money 20 years ago. I have to work for my living. Not easy at this age. Oh, okay. So he created the medieval musical Spam a lot, which earned all kinds of awards. He also appeared in Shrek the third of 2007, Monty Python Live, alongside some of the troop in 2014. Based on much of the last decade in Los Angeles, Idle also thanked his followers for the kind words and encouragement means a great deal to me. He also seemed surprised by the downturn in their fortunes after the success of Monty Python. We own everything we ever made in Python. I never dreamed that at this age, the income streams would tail off so disastrously. When asked of a Netflix documentary would help, he said, F documentaries.

And the streaming company. So I'm guessing talks did not go well with Netflix. I also said, I'm fine. I'm engaged in writing. it's the thing I do and like the most. Creating a new show, something that feels so completely normal, been doing it since 1963. I've learned a lot, but then I've had some great mentors.

In September of 2022, he survived pancreatic cancer, which is really incredible. People do not survive that. He received a rare early diagnosis. Okay. So that's pretty incredible. People normally do not survive that. And he appeared on the celebrity singing show, The Masked Singer.

He said he appeared alongside Graham Chapman, the Faulty Tower star John Cleese, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. They founded the comedy true back in 69. Yeah, Chapman is dead, and so is Jones. In 2013, Monty Python and the Holy Grill won high court royalty fight with the comedy team. Yeah, so they got money from that. He also talked about how he had to sell his haul. home last year because apparently he could not afford it to live there anymore. I hope, I hope that he got the most for his money when he sold his home. And by that, I mean, he should have used

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Real estate agents I trust. I mean, really, really the name says it all, doesn't it? Real estate agents I trust. Go to real estate agents I trust.com. Real estate agents I trust.com. So it looks like Roger Goodell was right when he predicted 200 million viewers for the Super Bowl. According to Nielsen, more than 200 million viewers tuned in for at least part of the game across all networks. That's up 10% from last year's 184 million.

Now, they ranked the audience at 123.4 million viewers on CBS, Nickelodeon Univision, and Digital platforms, including NFL Plus, which is up 7% from last year's audience of 115.1 million on Fox. So there was a number of people watching the game. In fact, they claim now it's the second most watched TV program in history. The first place, I guess, was the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing? Sure, if you say so. If you want me to believe more people watch the moon landing than watch the Super Bowl, okay, sure.

All right, I believe you. No problem. Now, they claim, you know, this was because of the swifties. So that's very possible that it could be because of the swifties. But, man, the NFL is on fire. No, I don't need to hear the fire sound effect. I don't want to burn the NFL. But we are using fire as a theme.

for today's broadcast, that's for sure. Then I see where movies, theaters took a beating this weekend, right? Super Bowl weekend, taking in only $40 million. Woo! That's the lowest, lowest box office for a Super Bowl weekend

in more than 30 years, not counting the pandemic year because most cinemas were closed. So, No one went to the theaters. Maybe that's because there's, I don't know, no movies to watch. I guess Argyle won the weekend at $6.5 million. And I really don't know about Argyle.

I guess it's a big budget. Argyle place number one. So, honestly, I don't know anything. about Argyle. It's Matthew Vaughn's big budget film and it has 28.1 million so far

domestic total. It's Apple original films and distribution partner Universal. Oh yeah, I did. I have seen the trailers for this. The spy action comedy film directed and produced by Matthew Vaughn, as I said.

The film features an ensemble cast that includes Bryce Deli Dallas Howard, Sam Rockwell, Brian Cranston, Catherine O'Hare, Henry Cavill, Sophia Butella, Duolipa, Arriana, Dubos,

John Cena, Samuel O'Jackson. Wow, it's a monster cast. The plot centers on a reclusive author who is drawn into the world of spies and espionage after she realizes that a new spy

novel, she is writing, mirrors real world events. So, it must not be that good. Sorry. Let me know when I can watch it for free or just partially free since it'll be on a platform that I pay for already. Let me know when I can watch it there. This episode is brought to you by Peloton.

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listeners. So Bob Edwards, dead at the age of 76, no cause of death was shared. So it wouldn't be that. It couldn't be that. Otherwise, they would have said it. Right? Right. I mean, according to family and friends, he died peacefully with his daughters and his wife and his side. So couldn't be that. Otherwise, they would have said it in their statement, right? Right. Listen, he understood the intimate and distinctly personal connection with audiences that distinguishes audio journalism from other mediums.

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There's one thing that may make us live longer. Doomsday seaweed farm. A recent study, found that the resilient seaweed could be a viable food source for humans should, you know, nuclear war cause a sudden reduction in sunlight wrecking most of other forms of agriculture. I will say this. I was forced to eat seaweed in my life. My first wife, you know, enjoyed it and said, you know, it was good for you. and we had to eat seaweed, so I ate seaweed. And I disagree completely with it.

It tastes good. It may be good for you. You know, it might be a way to survive. I'm guessing, you know, if we're under the cloud of the nukes. Okay. You know what? I'm hungry. Go ahead and give me some seaweed.

But these people are all looking for money. to create a doomsday seaweed farm. So good luck to the seaweed farm agricultural community. I want nothing but the best for you. Then I see where this guy in the United Kingdom, a British bodybuilder, said that his way of feeling better and stronger and faster, isn't anything other than eating a daily brick of butter.

Oh, nice. Now this I could do. I think I might be able to pull this off. I'd rather have this than seaweed. Okay? So he's got an aggressive eating plan. This 28-year-old man, Jonathan Griffiths, the Dorset England man,

puts down one and a half pounds of meat, half a liter of raw milk, four ounces of cheese, and four eggs a day. My first meal of the day is weigh raw milk and cheese. He is 241 pounds, 6 foot 1.

I'm quite a heavy chap. I need a lot of food. He dodges fruits and vegetables like they're the plague. Notice that the carnivore diet on YouTube 2020 and never looked back. Now, a lot of experts,

here's what they're saying. Oh, they've worn against the regime. Oh, no, really? Yeah. Uh, it's, you shouldn't be doing that for yourself. Oh, okay. Now, apparently, uh, this man, uh, Griffith's, uh, under, endured a rugby induced spinal injury. And he had surgery for it. And he claimed that after the spine fusion procedure in 2020, his special eating habits are helping him through the recovery. I have less pain and stiffness in my neck. I'm able to move more freely and comfortably. my performance is better. Anyone experiencing any health issues should have started this diet yesterday.

Okay. Then he said that this special diet also helps ward off cravings. And I used to feel guilty and sluggish after a chocolate bar. Not anymore, though. I enjoy a butter bite snack by melting down a brick of butter and freezing it. He'll eat it later. Ooh, and he pretends it's chocolate. That's what we need to do.

We're pretending bricks of cheese are chocolate. Man, does that sound good. Doesn't it? Come on now. You melt down the butter and then freeze it and then just pretend it's chocolate. Doesn't get much better than that. Does it?

No. No, it doesn't. And then you've got the one and a half pounds of meat and half a liter of raw milk and cheese and eggs. Hey now, that's the way to start your day. In fact, that may be his daily motto. Hey, now, this is the way to start the day. Speaking of the UK, I see where they have done a study.

They did analysis of around 1,500 blood proteins and identified biomarkers that can be used to predict the risk of developing dementia up to 15 years before diagnosis. Now, these findings were reported in nature aging, and I'm a huge fan of nature aging. I haven't received my latest copy yet, but there are steps toward a tool that scientists have been in search up for decades, blood tests that can detect Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia at a very early pre-symptomatic stage. Researchers screened blood samples for more than 50,000 healthy adults in the UK, Biobank, 1,4707,000. of whom developed dementia in a 14-year period. They found that high blood levels of four proteins,

the GFAP, the NEFL, the GDF-1-5, and the LTBP-2 were strongly associated with dementia. So I say boo to the GFAP, N-EFL, GDF-F-1-5, and the L-TBP-2. Studies are required if they are to intervene with disease modifying therapies at the very earliest stages. And, duh. So according to the WHO, the World Health Organization, not the band,

more than 55 million people worldwide currently live with dementia. So if they can, I mean, if they can find something that would, you know, if they say, ooh, you've got a high level of GFAP. Now, they didn't say here. Okay, so for some participants who develop dementia, blood levels of these proteins, were outside normal ranges more than 10 years before the symptom onset. Okay, so, but they didn't say, like, if I have a normal range of GFAP, but an abnormal range of NEFL or GDF-1-5 or L-TBP-2, do I have to have abnormal ranges

in all of those or one of those? That's what I mean, Ellen, that's what they're studying, Jeff. Okay, well, good luck with that, because I want them to solve that. problem because we want dementia diagnosis and we want it now. That's my motto. We want dementia diagnosis and we want it now. When I got a great deal on a great gift at winners, I started wondering, could I get fabulous gifts for everyone on my list? Like this designer fragrance for my daughter. It's just $39.99. How could I resist? This luxurious will throw for my sister. This gold watch for my partner? A wooden puzzle for my niece?

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to announce something. Tiger Woods is going to announce something. Did you see his cryptic tweet? Yes, about his new, it's probably going to be about his new apparel brand. Well, it was. He announced it yesterday. he announced that he is going to partner with Taylor Made, and it's going to be Sunday Red with the tiger logo.

It looks like infused bones of a tiger. Really cool looking, actually, logo. Sunday Red. No word on what amount of money this is going to bring to all of them. But what a great deal for him, Sunday Red. Great ad from the website. And it's going to be coming in May of this year. year Sunday Red. So look for Sunday Red apparel and that Tiger logo wherever sports apparel

and golfing apparel is sold because it is going to be everywhere starting in May. And it'll probably be everywhere before then. Really cool looking logo though. I like it a lot. I mean, it's going to be worth it. It's going to be worth a lot. I know, you know, they cut the, they cut the Nike deal and now he's made his big deal with Taylor Made. And, and, And the Tiger Woods brand, Sunday Red. He had the announcement he had mannequins outfitted with the brands, you know, hoodies, polos, outerwear and hats. It's going to be huge.

And I wish I was part of it, but I'm not. Tiger, are you going to have fat guy sizes? Probably not. Sunday Red will probably not have fat guy sizes. So you'll be stuck with wearing the hat. and you'll like it, okay? And, you know, I got an email from Robert. You can email the show anytime, chewing the fat at the blaze.com, chewing the fat at the blaze.com.

You can reach out on social media too. I'm on X at Jeffrey JFR. Facebook and Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. You can follow me on my YouTube channel, Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. You can even follow me and or order a cameo from me at Jeffie JFR on cameo. That, of course, is not free, but it is a way to, to make things happen because cameo is my pimp.

I digress. I got an email from Robert and he is commenting about the story that I did about Hercl Durkling and bed rotting. And I said in the story that I really wasn't a fan of bed rotting. So his email is,

are you insinuating that a man whose goal was to appear on my 800-pound life and be craned out of the house is not a fan of bed-rotting asking for a friend oh so Robert wasn't asking he was asking for a friend so I Robert thank you for asking for your friend I appreciate it yeah okay so here's the deal I did at one point have a goal of being craned out of my home I thought that that was a

legitimate goal and I don't have that goal anymore I did in fact you know the 800 pound life man I don't know that I ever actually seriously thought about being on my 100 upon life. It really is just an amazing show. I haven't watched it in a while. I watch it from time to time, you know, to feel better about myself. Now, bed rotting is a different thing. Now, I guess I am a fan

of, you know, maybe chair rotting, tiltback chair rotting. Just not bed rotting. You know, you lay down in bed and your shoulders hurt and your back hurts and your neck hurts and your knees hurt. But if you're in the tilt... So I'm a fan of tiltback chair

rotting. Just tell your friend that. Tell your friend, I'm not a fan of bed rotting, but I am a fan of chair rotting. Oh, it is, it's Fat Tuesday, right? Yes, we're celebrating the final day before Christian fasting and religious observance period of Lent begins.

So it's the culmination of carnival season, which begins on January 6th, which is the 12th day after Christmas, and ends the day before Ash Wednesday. So Fat Tuesday going on right now in New Orleans, Louisiana. They'll be partying down there all day long.

We'll see. I guess New Orleans is, you know, New Orleans, you think of Fat Tuesday, you think of New Orleans, but Mobile, Alabama, claims to have hosted the first Mardi Gras. Okay, calm down, Mobile. Calm down.

So New Orleans, Mardi Gras focused, yeah, social clubs, known as cruise. Yeah, that's the way those parties work. And it is the culminate carnival season. And there's going to be parades and floats. And it's Fat Tuesday. So you've got to just eat as much as possible.

I was looking at some of the made-up holidays. This is not made up at all. Don't think of yourself, wait. Fat Tuesday and Mardi Gras are made up. No, they are not. but there are plenty of made-up holidays from television shows like Festivus and Best Friends Day and Chrismica and Merlin Pean and Federation Day and Trash giving.

Trash giving from Sesame Street, Federation Day. Go ahead and take a guess. Star Trek, that's right. Merlin Pean, 30 Rock. The OC had Chrismaca and Best Friends Day. SpongeBob Square Pants and Festivus,

best known from Seinfeld. So those are your made-up holidays. But that is not Mardi Gras. Marty Grau is not a made-up holiday. This is the final day today. We are one of the Christians

fasting and religious observance when Lent begins. And that's exactly what all those partiers and New Orleans. That's what they're thinking of. Right? Right. Stream and subscribe

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