Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - What Is That!?… | 9/15/23

Episode Date: September 15, 2023

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I haven't had any issues but if you are having issues using your Grindr app apparently the company enacted a strict two day per week in office requirement

oh the hell and so employees said yeah we're not doing that uh we're quitting so about 80 employees 45% of grinders 180 person workforce has now left the company due to the mandate yeah you can't make us come in two days a week okay we're this is unacceptable now they claim that they had to leave and are now fired because they tried to start a union okay uh we'll see how that works out for you. Now, Grindr offered a severance package for employees who could not or would not comply

with the relocation requirement. So apparently they said that, hey, you need to come to the office and you have two weeks to decide whether you would relocate to the hub office location. So not only are you going to have to come into work two days a week, you're going to have to move to the hub office location or we're going to terminate you. Wow. So 80 people, 80 employees out of the 180 person workforce said, no, we are not doing that. Have a nice day. So anyway, my whole point behind this and good luck.

I hope everybody gets what they want, including those of you using the Grindr app. But if you have an issue with the Grindr app, just know there's less people to grind. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. All right, this is why we don't need an HR department. This is where it's just common sense comes into play. All right, so a woman apparently has sparked this raging debate online when she posted her dilemma on mumsnet.com. I mean, I didn't go there today, but I normally go there at least, well, once or twice a day.

mumsnet.com. And she asked the question, am I being unreasonable? She wants to speak to her HR regarding a smelly colleague. So apparently there's a, you know, a colleague

who smells terrible. Has a bad body order. There's due to feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad. I don't think that was the problem. But it's possible.

You don't know. That might be the problem at home, which is why she's stinking at work. I mean, I don't know that, though. But this is what we don't need HR. This is where, you know, if you have someone who has a bad smell, I can't take body odor, by the way. Or bad breath. I don't know if you ever worked with anyone that's had really bad breath. Or body odor.

But you don't need HR. I know we're living in this world where you can't say anything to them, but you need to just take them aside, right, and say, bro, or Betty. It's Betty. I don't know her name. It was to say it's Betty. I'm sorry to all the Betty's out there that don't smell like doo-do and feces.

But, you know, we'll just call her Betty. And you say Betty. Okay, look, there's a real problem. problem with your stick. Betty, there's a real problem, okay? I don't know if you're not cleaning the house because of there was due to

feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it's stunk so bad. But it's really offensive. And you need to do something about it. Now, we need to find a way to hose you down every day before you come in. Maybe we could do that.

But you don't need the HR. You don't need to go to the bosses because then you start a whole thing and you don't want to start a whole thing. I freaking hate HR departments. I know that comes as a surprise. They hate me as well. But I just, you can't start a whole thing.

I mean, now maybe if you were to say, hey, Betty, I don't know what's going on. I think I see over here for a second. Just give here for a second. Betty, holy cow. You are extra smelly, today. Okay. And so something needs to happen. I don't know what's going on in your life. I don't know if your arms are too short and you can't reach. You need to find somebody that can wipe you. Maybe you need help at home. That someone cut off your water so you can't take a shower. Maybe we can find a hose for you outside of the building. But you got to do something because you are stinking up to join. And we cannot have this anymore. Now, I'm just telling you as a friend, okay?

I like you. And on behalf of your other coworkers, we all like you. But that smell, you need to stay upwind, okay? And since we're in a building, there is no upwind, honey. So find a way to take care of you. So that we all can get a lot. because that spray, the cologne that you're spraying over all the doo-do and feces ain't working. Okay, it makes it worse.

All right. And I don't want to say anything to you because I like you. You're a friend of mine. But something has to be done. So, and I know that a lot of the comments were like, fat people care about their hygiene as much as anyone else. I know that. And we're not saying you don't care about your hygiene.

what we're saying is you're not taking care of it. And I don't know what's going on. I don't know if you lost your power at the house, you don't have water. Again, maybe you were born with shorter arms and other people. Back up, let me take a look at you, see if those arms are short. I don't know. We just don't know what the problem is, but something needs to fix the problem. That's all.

That's all. Something needs to fix the problem. And I'm here for you. I'm here for you. Okay, Betty? we don't need an HR department okay what we need for you to do is hose down that's what we need to have happen okay now according to this unfortunately the body odor was overwhelming and makes me feel nauseous and she is morbidly obese i mean who among us isn't morbidly obese

okay i mean that's just that's part of life these days uh we have quite a few larger colleagues that work with us, but they never have an odor. I'm really struggling to get through my day without walking up to HR. No, walk up to her. Why can't just common sense? Walk up to her. The smell is like fecal matter. A period pad left in the sun and a wet mop.

That's all I could say, and I'm really and truly suffering. I heaved at lunch while eating. I mean, if it's that bad, maybe the boss gets involved, not HR, but maybe the boss comes in and says, Hey, Betty, I need to talk to you, but not in here, because you smell like...

There was due to feces thrown all over the walls, the floor, the ceiling, and it stunk so bad. I can't have you in here right now, but I need to talk to you a little bit. You really, the stench on you is overwhelming today. And so we can't have you here, okay? I don't know what needs to happen, but when you hose yourself down,

you get back to me. Okay, but for right now, who, uh, no, don't. No, you don't need to come in here and hand me anything. No, we're good. You need to just go and leave. And go that way, because I don't need you to come past me.

Okay. Oof. Just handle it. Be nice about it. Be nice about it. Don't go to HR, you winnie's. And this is what happens when no one says anything. Like, okay, so it's gotten this bad.

Prior to it getting this bad, when Betty came into working you the first day, and you thought, ooh, Betty, what? is happening with you. And that's what you thought to yourself. Whoa. What did you smell Betty today?

Betty did not smell good. And you let it go. And then, you know, months down the road, you're at this point where it's like, oh, you're heaving lunch at work because Betty stinks so bad. Had you done after a couple days of Betty coming into work and you're thinking to yourself, oh, what is happening with Betty? That's when you say to yourself, okay, we got. Betty, I need to talk to you over here for a second.

So this brings us a very interesting conversation because I've been trying to bring this up on the regular program called Pacra Unleash, right? Oh, and for those of you, I'm not about going to kick Bill of the Bill to Jeffie. I have this issue with a co-worker here, and it's not Jeffie. Like, seriously, this is like... I know it's not me.

It's not Jeffie, and it's not about smell. What is a protocol? Because this can open up a whole can't work. Sadly, I want to say that. we do have an HR department here now. And it's very, very sad. Very do. And he dressed us pretty nice every single day.

Yeah. Like the wardrobe alone is, stop, you distracted me. Okay. What is, and seriously, I've been thinking about this. I don't know how to dress it. All right. I'll help you. I'm here for you.

What's the protocol? And again, this is going to open up a kind of warrants because you have, you have this person at your work right now and he's probably sitting right next to you. What's the protocol about farting? Well, everyone, we just did the story yesterday about everyone. passes gas multiple times. I forget what the number was. But it's a lot.

It's a lot. All right. No. It was, that wasn't me. But everyone has, everyone does, right? Is that Keith?

That's something that's something everyone does. Is that Keith? Come here. Come here. Keith. Sit into this conversation. Oh, no. Turn Keith Mike on because I need him to,

to sit in this conversation. He's not, he's someone that's not going to confront anybody. No, okay, exactly. So I need both perspective. I need someone. They're confronting. I'm telling you, this is going to be a fascinating story.

Did we have Dunkin' Donuts today on the show or something? There's still something up there if you'd like. So here's Jeff, you just got on talking about fatty that smells. At work. Okay, well, I just got them talking about a story that the lady breaks down and come back. There you go. Yeah, just rewind, listen. No, but do you want you in here for this?

I want you in this. Okay, so this is the problem I'm going with. There's someone in here that farts. Oh, okay. While you're working. While I'm working, how do you handle that? And it's not like, okay, you know, you forgot. Do you hear it or you just smell it?

You smell it. And it's the ones that are silent but deadly. Okay, because I'll get it. The etiquette is, I go fart. Honestly, I go to the bathroom, let him out. Because that's the only way now someone did it. Wait, because otherwise you've dragged that. You drag it with you crubs out.

Yes. Right. It's evil, man. Yeah. You're going to drop your pants. You're going to have to. Okay. Thank you for saying that.

You have to drop your pants. You can't just fart. I'm going to be clear. You don't have to. No, you have to. Because if you're not, if you're farting in your pants, you're just taking that with you. I know. You're taking this milk with you.

Hold on. I know. So, so back to this. You have to drop your pants. You have to let the air out. So it doesn't capture inside your clothes. You have two layers, at least minimal. That's why you go into the bathroom.

Right. Two layers of clothing. Now today I'm only wearing one. But anyways, what do you do? Do you tell them, do you stop farting? I think you have to. You have to. This is what I was talking about with the Sticky Lady at work.

Yeah, but if you have to at some point, what's going to happen if you don't say anything, right? Now, so you don't say anything and Betty is farting at work since Betty was the one smelling in my story earlier. We'll say Betty is the one farting at work. Okay. So he's Betty. I'm going to talk to you over a second. Is this just one day or does Betty do this constantly? Well, in my story, in my story, is at least.

a minimum of once a day like i'm like bro like chill you gotta say so you got to say what do you say though what do you say do you pull him to the side and say hey let's have a conversation or do i should say dude like do you fart again are you okay maybe if maybe you start with that as a joke maybe you start with the joke like dude what is that you yeah i know it wasn't me see i feel like that will come much better from you from me it'll be oh he's been a dick about it. Well, no, I think if it's a repeat offender, you say something. It is a very, oh my gosh.

Okay, but if it happens once in a while. No, I get that. No, no, no. I get that. That's completely fine. But if he comes to a daily freaking bro, or are they trying to tell me a daily thing, you have to bring it up. So if it's every now and then, no, no, no.

Or else you're going to cause more problems. Exactly. No, but this is a daily occurrence. What happens is, then I get. In multiple locations. Not just, not just. Not just when you're sitting next to me when we're recording. It's not, okay, it's not just breaking wind.

I wonder who it could be. It's, it's, I won't even bring fish to work to warm up for leftovers because I don't want to - What is different though. I'm just saying that food order is different. That's true, but I'm saying you have that respect. Like you guys- You guys just talking about having respect to leave the room.

Well, that's the same thing with the food smell. It's like, look, I don't want it affecting other people. That's kind of common sense, though. It is kind of curf. But see, the food is common sense. I don't think a fart is. I don't think people don't know how to handle the fart as with the food. Because you would think the person that I freaking farted up a storm.

Oh, yeah, he dismal that one. Yeah, I did. Okay, okay. Well, how about this? You know, I think there is a case to be made for HR department. That was the case to be made for HR. I said earlier, we don't need HR. I think there's a case to be made.

Dude, this has been bugging me for at least two years. Why, who's been farting around you? I'll tell you after the break. Oh, no. I'll tell you, after the break, that's why I show. We could just go on. Isn't this a BS?

Holy cow, it is. It is. It absolutely is, yeah. Originally I said, and according to the, you know, with Betty Stinky, you mean, you got, as a co-worker friend, yeah. You, instead of, HR is agonizing. Don't make it a thing.

Well, is it a thing? It's farting enough to make it into a thing? If it's affecting other workers it is. BS? Oh, no, that's horrible. I'm sorry you had to live with that. I'm not. And we've got to take a break.

More after the sponsors. More coming up right around the corner. After the break room and I get a drink in me. I need one desperately. You know, yesterday I talked about the British these pubs were getting in on surge pricing, you know, event, I call it event pricing. They call it surge pricing. And they charge more for alcohol or beer at popular drinking times.

So no happy hour. The happy hour is when everybody shows up, we're charging more for drinks. Well, and they were saying that, you know, hey, it's just the way it has to be. It costs are high. And we want people, we want to make some money. and if you think you're unhappy now, you know, get over it. That's just the way it is. Well, then I see where AMC, remember AMC was going to do event pricing,

I'm sorry, surge pricing for their seats when it was primetime movies. Well, they have said now that, yeah, you know what? We tested out the surge pricing model, and we found that while it didn't affect revenue, it really annoyed people. Yeah. And no kidding. Maybe that's why it didn't affect revenue.

People are pissed. And I think it did affect revenue, actually. Lyft. Man, Lyft has been on the news daily now. They're working to remove their surge pricing feature because it can dampen demand. And writers hate it, said CEO, David Risher. Yeah.

We know what? We're not going to do that anymore. Okay. That is awesome. And remember, Ticketmaster does their, they don't call it dynamic pricing or event pricing. They call it dynamic pricing.

So companies are trying to always find new ways to make more money. But event pricing, surge pricing, dynamic pricing, whatever you want to call it. Okay, people go to, I mean, we're all pissed at people that have that price gout.

during storms. But if there's no storm, you can charge whatever you want. Yeah, no, thank you. Have a nice day. All right, so yesterday I asked about the MGM resorts and what was happening with them.

Well, we find out that the outages are still going on. They're into their, I think we're into their fifth or sixth day of their outages because they were hacked. Well, a ransomware attack that forced it to shoot. shut everything down. I guess they haven't paid yet because

according to all the videos, they're still inoperable on a lot of their machines and they're impacting locations from Vegas to New York. So pay the bill. MGM, I don't know what you're doing. Pay the hackers. Okay. So officials they have linked the hack

to a group known as Scattered Spider, a U.S. and UK-based collection. said to be made up of 19 to 22 year olds. The report suggests a fairly non-technical approach was used to gain system entry. Oh, that's good. Call them dumb.

Yeah, I was a non-technical approach. Yeah, we shut you down, bro. How about that for your non-technical approach? How about that? How about that? So the, I guess, hackers called the company, help desk and imitated an employee found on LinkedIn requesting assistance in accessing their employee account. And it worked. Okay. Now another group, and I don't know if it's the same

group or not. I don't know if it's the scattered spider group, but another group has now hacked Caesar's entertainment. A while, I don't know if it was a little while. ago and Cesar's ended up paying, you know, 15 million. So MGM needs to get out and that. Yeah, it was just a couple days before MGM. And so Cesar's paid out the 15 million. Here's your money. We want our systems back up and running.

And they got it. And they say, yeah, the fallout, it won't affect our bottom line. Yeah, we just paid the 15 million. Now, we have some of our men out looking for these. hackers and as soon as we find them there may be an issue you know but for right now it's not going to affect our bottom line and everything

is fine don't worry about it hey are you are you one of the hackers okay yeah we don't have to worry about that anymore so remember I don't know it was early on in 2020 in 2020 2020 you know one of those years

when the pandemic started and the Dutch music had this Van Gogh painting stolen. Remember there was footage of the robbery that showed a mass guy breaking into the museum using a sledgehammer, smashing through the two glass doors, and then leaving, he just left with the painting under his arm. The parsonage garden at Newon in Spring, one of Van Gogh's early works, painted in 1884. And it was part of this temporary exhibition, and then it was all shut down because of COVID.

but the art detective, I'm sorry, the Dutch art crimes detective, Arthur Brand had been investigating the theft of the painting, and now we've got it back because a tipster handed the work over to the detective at his home in an IKEA bag. Wait, what? Yep. delivered it to him encased in bubble wrap and tucked in an IKEA bag at the

home of the private Dutch art crimes detective. So we can all breathe easier. The Van Gog that was stolen in 2020 2020 is now back in the hands of the art crimes detective. I guess he's

going to turn it back into the museum. This is why we're hearing about the story. But, who, I feel better. I'll tell you that. At Desjardin, we speak business. We speak startup funding and comprehensive game plans. We've mastered made-to-measure growth and expansion advice,

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Who died today? Well, Edward whom? I can't even say the man's name. That's how sad I am right now. I can't even say his name. Edward H-U-M-E. Dead at the age of 87. Now, Edward was a TV show writer.

And he wrote shows like Streets of San Francisco. he wrote shows like Barnaby Jones and he wrote Canon Thank you He actually wrote I rest in peace Ed

He actually did write My favorite Canon episode I've got co-wrote it He actually did write My favorite canon episode Country Blues Tonight's episode Tonight's episode

Country Blues So rest in peace, Edward Hume, Hollywood writer and writer of, I mean, one of the best television shows, probably in American history. Canon! Tonight's episode, Country Blues.

Canon. Starring William Conrad. All right, that's fine, man. So rest in peace, Ed, at the age of 87. I will say that it says

that he died back in July and we're just finding out about it now and it doesn't say what he died of. Don't look at me like that. It's not because it was definitely wasn't that

because they would have said so. Right? Of course they would. So rest in peace. Then we have Brandon Hunter ex-N-Bee. player dead at the age of 42.

Ex-N-B-A player dead at the age of 42. Details surrounding this ex-N-BA player's death have not been released. So I most definitely couldn't have been that. I don't know why you're even thinking about it. Don't look at me like that like you did when I started, when I talked to you about Ed. Because it's not that at all.

So rest in peace, Brandon Hunter, dead at the age of 42. In a completely unrelated story, vaccine maker Moderna says that it's MNRNA-based MNRNRNA. Why can't I say the letters? The 2020-2020, so I get locked up on the numbers? I'm turning into Joe Biden. MRNA-based flu shot has successfully generated an immune response

against common influenza strains in clinical trials that's what it's supposed to do. I appreciate that. It's going to be made available next year. So, good news. Good news. All right, so I know we have What's the Lie coming up and I wanted to give you a joke for the week.

all right to take with you. This was just sent to me over email, which you can do as well, Chewing the fat at theblaze.com. I may not comment on all emails, but I do read them all. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. You can also follow me on Twitter at Jeffrey JFR.

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about me promoting their business as being a pimp too. They haven't said anything to me, but it might turn into an issue. Okay, so here's the joke for the weekend that you can take with you and just laugh. Oh, man, you can laugh until your stomach hurts. So a husband and wife were drive, just remember this came from Jason over email. So this is not me.

I didn't write this joke, okay? So a husband and wife were driving down the road and hit a skunk. He pulled over and the skunk was just injured. So he told his wife to hold him. the skunk in her lap while he drove to the vet and she said what about the smell and he said just hold its nose i didn't write it don't look at me like that with amex platinum four hundred dollars in annual credits for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug but your taste buds too that's the powerful backing of amex conditions apply

It's Friday So it's time for what's being called America's favorite game show What's the Lie? What's the Lie? Where contestants try to decipher the lie from four count them one, two, three, four headlines.

One of them is not true. Thus, that's where we get. What's the Lie? Our contestant today, someone who is returning loser. contestant on this game show. If you win, not only will you come back for another round, possibly, you will win a Talking Sense, Jeffie Blue Freshie.

For information, you can go to Talking Sense Facebook group and find the Freshie scent to design just for you. And if you or someone you love would like to be a contestant on What's the Lie? You can email Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com. Chris Cruz. Okay. Welcome to What's the Lie? Now you are returning contestant.

Loser contestant. But not a returning champion. No. And I just, by the way, I'm recording this on video. Okay. But I just want to. For documentation with the law? Yes.

Yes. Yes. Because if I win, I want to make sure that you knew that I won. But why are you screaming at me? I'm right here. I'm doing the game show. What are you talking about? You don't have to scream.

No, you have to. That's how you do game show. You do this every time when we and you are like doing something to go. That's my game show. We'll do it my way. Okay. Sorry. I apologize.

All right. You ready to play? Yeah. All right. Any headphones for this? For it. No, because you're freaking yelling in my face. Because you're effing yelling to my face.

Four headlines, one of them not real. Headline number one. Lauren Bobert escorted out of Beetlejuice musical after allegedly vaping recording on her phone. Headline number two, SEC files charges against NFT project Stoner Cats, starring Ashton Kucher and Miley Kunis. Headline number three, new AirPods Max will alert you when you need to clean wax out of your ears. Headline number four, Sony will repair aging Abo robot dogs to help them find their forever homes. Those are the four headlines. one of them is not real.

Headline number one, Lauren Bobid, escorted out of Beetlejuice musical after allegedly vaping, recording is on her phone. Headline number two, SEC files charges against NFT project Stoner Cats, starring Aston Coocher and Miley Kunis. Headline number three, new AirPods Max will alert you when you need to clean wax out of your ears. Headline number four, Sony will repair aging Abo robot dogs

to help them find their forever homes. Those are your four headlines. Chris Cruz, what is the lie? So do you change the details on the headline because I feel like the bober, one is a lie, but there's the truth all the way into the last sentence of that headline.

And I've seriously not paid that much attention to this game. So I don't know if there's like a, one of the headlines is not real i don't know that's how that's how the game works there's four headlines one of them not real she had kicked out enough for recording though it was kicked out because of the vaping and the situation with the pregnant woman and then her offering drinks and talking and singing out loud she looked pretty good too by the way oh i don't know that that's actually a real headline never mind okay i'll take bulbert for 100 problem oh no No, it's real.

It's a real headline. Yeah, but the end part, she did not get kidding. She didn't record. Yes, she did. No, she didn't. I'll call it. Where's the committee?

You know what? Thanks for listening and playing to What's the Lie? What's the Lie is a subsidiary of chewing to fat enterprises. All information is probably accurate at the time of recording. CTF, WTL, MN. XX I I I

Now we just got dug yesterday talking about the new iPhones Yes Did I mention once? No you didn't

But see here's the thing Here's the thing And oh thank you for People watching live There's a link below You can watch the recording that I did It was either The problem that caught me was

The lie You said on the Bulber headline It's not a lie She did not record the performance. Thanks for playing What's the Lie? Okay. She did record. There was a recording of her on her phone.

Yes. Documentate recording on her phone. Yes. Okay. Hold up. Recording on her phone. Makes it sound like she was recording on her phone. Yeah, she was.

She was not recording anything. Yes, she was in the story. She was recorded that she was on the telephone, but she was not recording the performance. We are never allowing a contestant that is lost before back on the stupid game. Why? Because there were two lies on this game? Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts. Unwrap holiday magic at Holt Renfrew with gifts that say I know you. From festive and cozy fashion to Lux Beauty and Fragrant Sets,

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