Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - What Is That Smell?... | 10/10/23

Episode Date: October 10, 2023

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Starting point is 00:01:31 So if it's worth your time to create something that's not real, as far as extraterrestrial life, you could win a $500 Amazon gift card from a ring. Now, again, like I said, you have to submit them before 11.59 p.m., November 3rd. You have to be a legal resident of the United States, 18 or older. You must own the ring device or have a shared user app. access. Videos can be maximum of one minute. Must be the entrance original work and cannot have previously been entered into a promotion
Starting point is 00:02:08 contest and or won an award or prize. Do not harm any extraterrestrial or other living creatures. Doing so will cause the video to be disqualified. And you also have to fill out a submission form, which is online at the Ring website. So good luck. I would love to see the actual extraterrestrial that shows up in your front yard I don't know if they fly in or they walk by I honestly I don't know I was looking at a study
Starting point is 00:02:40 from the national UFO reporting center and apparently there have been well they they break down UFO sightings in every state okay so they believe
Starting point is 00:02:58 that 78% of people they asked believe in the existence of life beyond our planet. A third believed aliens have abducted human beings in the past. One in six fear an alien invasion. And 37% think that scientists and U.S. officials have already made contact with them. That's according to a survey from study fines. Now, what I was referring to earlier from the National UFO Reporting Center, there have been 8,068 UFO sightings in Florida.
Starting point is 00:03:40 Wow! The first one in 1944. That makes Florida second only to California with 15,849 sightings. Florida, also the third most Air Force bases in the U.S., 56. after California with 123. Texas has 59, which also has a large number of UFO sightings. Oddly, Nevada,
Starting point is 00:04:06 home to the famous classified U.S. Air Force Base Area 51, is just 27th on the list. You know, I was thinking at one point in my life, my wife reminded me that we saw an extraterrestrial, a UFO sighting. It was an actual UFO sighting in Florida. It's not on the list.
Starting point is 00:04:26 They break down from 19, There's one in 67, and then it goes, which I was not in Florida at that time. And then there's one in the Gulf Breeze 6 from 87 to 88. I was in Florida at that time, but I did not see those. And then the next one talks about 2012. I was not in Florida in 2012. So sometime between 88 and 2010 is when my wife and I saw it. So my wife and I were together.
Starting point is 00:04:57 for since 2000. So somewhere between 2000 and 2010, we saw a UFO, and I think we saw a couple of them actually in about the same area. But it just, it happens. And then they're gone. The lights are in the sky and then they're gone. Is it alien life?
Starting point is 00:05:18 I don't know. It was just an unidentified flying object. That's all I know. So good luck with the ring cameras. go ahead and create your, you know, fake extraterrestrial life video for a $500 Amazon gift card, or you can hope that one actually does walk by the old front door and you will win a million dollars from ring. So good luck.
Starting point is 00:05:46 Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. The guest that wouldn't leave. And not really a guest. It started out as an Airbnb guest. is now dubbed the tenant from hell. So she's been squatting at this family's guest house overlooking the hills of L.A. in Brentwood. Beautiful.
Starting point is 00:06:13 And they can't get rid of her. So she rented a long-term stay at Sasha Javanovick's Brentwood guest home in September of 2021 for six months, at a rate of $105 a night with fees, bringing the total to $20,793, which isn't too bad. You're living in Brentwood, 105 a night, six months, 20,000. Okay. So her Airbnb stay ended April of 2022.
Starting point is 00:06:43 And then she won't leave. So now a judge has ruled that under the city's rent stabilization ordinance, Giovannovic has no legal reason to evict her under Los Angeles's recently. adopted just cause ordinance and would be required to pay her a relocation fee to evict her. Now, this story says she asked for $100,000 a relocation fee. I never hear that. She's turned down money that he offered her to get a hotel. And that was like $1,500 or whatever.
Starting point is 00:07:23 And now her attorneys argue that she should not pay rent. She should instead be paid back the $20,793 because the city never approved the guest house for occupancy and its shower was constructed without a permit. Wow. So now they're talking about he's renting out an illegal bootleg unit. Okay. All right. So she won't leave. And she's just staying there.
Starting point is 00:07:58 can't get rid of her. They're going to court. They claim that she complained her electronic blind. Stopped working. When Giovannovic went into the unit to repair them, he noticed water damage, signs of
Starting point is 00:08:14 mold, and claims that they were not there before Hirshhorn moved in. He should have taken some documentation photographs, some videos, so that you had actual proof. And he offered to pay her to stay at a hotel for five days while his contractor handled all the repairs.
Starting point is 00:08:30 No. Sorry about it, noting that many of his visiting doctors stay there. So he is some sort of a medical professional. I don't know. It looks like there's one picture of him. It looks like he's a dentist. So dentist, man. Don't get me started on dentist.
Starting point is 00:08:47 I'm on his side for this, but I'm not a big fan of dentist. So now she won't let him into the gas. house at all and the city's department of building safety which found two code violations at the unit that it was unapproved for occupancy and had an unpermitted shower okay so now the complaint went to the housing investigator alleging illegal eviction harassment and a refusal to pay her relocation fees so he has now sued her there's two different cases going on there's a damages complaint to recoup $58,000 in paid rent and appeal to the judge's decision to dismiss the eviction case. Okay.
Starting point is 00:09:35 Now, she has countersued accusing Giovanovick of 15 violations, including negligence, nuisance, intentional infliction of emotional distress, unlawful business practices, and a violation of the L.A. County COVID procedures. Because that was the original thing. She didn't want to leave because she didn't feel. safe being forced to vacate with a housing disability and high risk of COVID-19 complications. Now, she claims that he knew about the potential mold problem before she moved in, and that he harassed and intimidated her to leave the rental by doing unnecessary construction,
Starting point is 00:10:16 placing rotting bags of trash outside her door, shutting off her hot water, and unlawfully entering the unit. In these cases, so we're still going to court for all of this. And he claims, look, it's like a war. There's no bullets flying. But every time I open the door, I'm afraid she'll be leaving at the same time. Her door is a few free from my daughter's bedroom. We don't sleep well anymore.
Starting point is 00:10:43 Boy, if she's gone, it'd be hard-pressed not to just change the locks and lock it down and get a restraining order for her to be on the property. But with the lawsuits already ongoing, that's probably not the right move now. But be careful out there. Now, it wasn't Airbnb, but Airbnb has washed their hands of it because he let her stay longer.
Starting point is 00:11:11 I guess in the beginning, she said, hey, I'm going to stay for a little while longer. And he said, yeah, okay. Okay. So now it's no longer part of the Airbnb deal, right? I just really strange. Good luck. Good luck.
Starting point is 00:11:25 It's a beautiful house. a beautiful little guest house you're living in Brentwood for free? It's pretty sweet. And I'm guessing most people are on the side of the homeowner, right? You're the she's squatting, she won't leave, she, now we're at the point where you just want her to leave. Okay, I don't want any money.
Starting point is 00:11:41 I don't want anything just get out of my home. So good luck with that. But now, I don't know what side to take on this story. There's an elderly French couple who sold an apparently worthless African mask for $157.
Starting point is 00:12:00 Okay. Now they're suing the buyer who turned around and auctioned it off for $4.4 million. Wait, what? Yeah. They accused the local antique dealer of cheating them out of a fair price for what turned out to be
Starting point is 00:12:15 an extremely rare object. So the legal case is now making its way through France. I would bet they're going to sigh down the elderly couple because, you know, nobody, everybody, you ripped him off, but you sold it.
Starting point is 00:12:30 You went to him and said, hey, I've got this African mask. And so, you could have sold it in a garage sale. Instead, you went to the antiques dealer, and he said, yeah, I'll give you $157 for it. So the dealer believes, hey, I got lucky because I realized
Starting point is 00:12:52 after I bought it that it was worth, all this money and is being auctioned off now for 4.4 million people and the people are like WTF? That was my mask? Well, you should have known. You should have known. Now, when you look at the mask, I kind of think, I don't know that I would have thought it was worth $4 million, but I would have thought it was worth more than $157 for sure, because you don't see things like that. A lot. The mask itself is like, okay. It's a race. It's a race. fang mask used in rituals in an African secret society. The object was brought back from Gabon by the husband's grandfather, who had been a
Starting point is 00:13:36 colonel governor in Africa in the early 20th century. So the couple filed the lawsuit against the antique merchant because they felt they were taken advantage of. Appeals court in France agreed. Of course they did. I told you. They absolutely would agree. I was a dealer. It was well-founded.
Starting point is 00:13:56 That's the way it is. Now, I don't know. I'm torn. I really am torn. Now, if he did know, I guess at one point, and maybe this is after the people complained, the dealer was like, okay, I'll give you some more money. Here you go. Here's some more money. I feel like that's fair.
Starting point is 00:14:13 He tried to settle out of court. Hey, I'll give you some more money. Here you go. But they turned it down. The family said, no, no, no, no. you're not paying us $350,000. You sold it for $4.4 million. But you didn't know that,
Starting point is 00:14:29 and you could have sold it for that too. I'm really torn on this. If I'm an antiques dealer and someone comes into me and says, hey, what do you think of my African mask? I really don't know. I was going to sell it in the yard sale, but I thought I'd bring it here.
Starting point is 00:14:45 And you think to yourself, well, you know, it might be worth some money. But I don't know. I'm not an African mask. expert. And so I'll give you $157. And you say yes to the $157. That's not you, not him or her,
Starting point is 00:15:04 whoever the antiques dealer is. And so now when the antiques dealer says, you know, I ought to have this appraised and see what it's worth. And it's worth all this money. And we're going to put it up for auction and make a few billion. Now you want to come back and say,
Starting point is 00:15:19 well, you still, you owed me. You ripped me off. I'm really torn on that because that's on you. You shouldn't have sold it for $157. But I'm sure, I'm sure, in the end, that bastard antique dealer
Starting point is 00:15:33 will end up having to pay them $2 or $3 million. Agonizing. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Well, well, well, everybody looking to make a buck. So there was no jackpot winner on the Powerball.
Starting point is 00:16:02 So the next Powerball drawing is Wednesday night, the 11th of October, $1.73 billion, $756 million cash payout. There was a $2 million winner in Florida and $4,1 million winners in California, Indiana, Oregon, and Virginia, Now, the mega millions, of course, is tonight. That's, you know, 20 million. Holy cow. Talk about spitting on something. Oh, just incredible. So good luck.
Starting point is 00:16:38 I hope it all works out to you. I was looking at some of the, that makes this the second largest powerball jackpot. And I think the second largest jackpot ever between powerball and mega. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So the powerball jackpots, remember we had the 2.04 billion winning ticket in California of November. of last year. So this 1.73 billion is the current jackpot. So that's number two in history as far as the biggest powerball jackpots. Overall, though, you have the 2.4 in California is number one, and then
Starting point is 00:17:12 you'll have this 173. And then there was a 1 billion, 1.586 billion powerball in California. Then you get into the mega millions. 1.53, 135, 133, 1 3, 1 3,000. 3,000. 3.3.3. those are all megas and then a little over one a little over a billion in twenty three in uh july the one point eight and then the one point five mega in january of 21 and then you get down into seven hundred sixty eight million seven hundred and fifty eight million please spare me that okay that's the cash payout for the winning so good luck man good I wish I'm wishing some good luck on me too because that would be really really sweet and you can quote me on that. All right, today is the last day to vote for Fat Bear Week.
Starting point is 00:18:13 You know, they're in the finals 32 chunk versus 128 grazer. 128 grazer strong Kennedy. So is 32 chunk but I feel like 128 grazer is going to withdraw. this one and pull this one off when you're looking at the pictures of them. 32 chunk. Looks like, you know, there's going to be some hibernation time. But 128 Grazer is a strong candidate. Now, 128 Grazer beat out my main man, 747.
Starting point is 00:18:45 And so then it's been a strong candidate since he beat out 747 and is now in the finals against 32 chunk. So it's your day to get there. vote for Fat Bear Week in the finals, 32 chunk, or 128 Grazer. I personally am going to vote for 128 Grazer. But we'll see tomorrow who the actual champion is in the 2023 Fat Bear Week. So yesterday we talked about Walgreens pharmacies closing up. Apparently, pharmacies closed in Arizona, Washington, Massachusetts, and Oregon. I guess that's all that
Starting point is 00:19:28 were reported. They said that at least 500 stores were interested, but it was organized entirely over social media, so there's no centralized labor union like the WGA and the UAW. So we'll see. I mean, UAW
Starting point is 00:19:44 is back at strike, on strike again at the Mack truck plant. They went on strike. The United Auto Workers members at the Volvo Group owned Mack Trucks facility in three states went on strike. After rejecting a proposed five-year contract, the tentative deal was downvoted by 73% of the 4,000 workers in Florida, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. The deal would have included a 19% pay raise over five years, $3,500 ratification bonus,
Starting point is 00:20:15 and improved retirement and health benefits. That wasn't good enough. Wow. and the UAW president, Sean Fane, who's very busy these days because he's got the other strike going on, too, with the auto manufacturers. So, man, he's a busy man. He has said the two sides remain apart on issues such as wage increases, cost of living allowances, and work schedules. Now, this strike is not part of the original UAW strike against the big three. So General Motors Ford and Stalantis say the Mac deal fell apart because they were like,
Starting point is 00:20:58 hey, they looked like they're getting more than what our deal was going to get. So we're not going to rat. Have a nice day. We want to go on strike. Okay. So they have 30,000 workers are now striking across 22 states for the automakers. So, okay. And plus on top of the Mack truck going on strike.
Starting point is 00:21:19 All right. We'll see how that works. for everybody. And of course, you have the Writers Guild of America Strike. I guess that's now officially over. My gosh, is never going to end? Are we going to finally make the deal? Well, I guess it is now.
Starting point is 00:21:34 99% of union members voted to ratify the three-year deal and the group negotiators made with Hollywood studios. So thankfully, I guess that is officially over now. So now you just have the actors and the striking and they're soon
Starting point is 00:21:49 to strike against the gaming industry. too. So everybody is going to be striking and everybody wants to make more money and have better retirement plans and better medical. Yeah, me too. Me too. Then that's part of the problem. Everyone wants more. And I certainly understand it. But at some point, we have to realize that maybe more is too much, right? At some point, you've made too much money. No, that's not true. Okay, never mind. I thought everybody was just raising their prices and everybody's going to get paid more. Well, except for Disney.
Starting point is 00:22:26 Disney has now decided, you know, maybe we are charging a little bit too much to let kids into the park. So now, starting the 24th of October, 2023, you can get kid tickets, I'm sorry, child tickets and to go into Disneyland for $50 per child per day. Oh, okay. They're dry. That's more than half off because it was $104. And up. So now you can get it for 50 bucks.
Starting point is 00:22:57 Huh. Are our families down going to Disneyland? I thought everything was wonderful in Disney World. Disney Plus is everybody raising their prices? No. Okay. Hey, it's a limited time, though. It's a great value.
Starting point is 00:23:11 It's a limited time. Uh-huh. The deal provides significant savings compared to current children's ticket prices, which are $270. for a two-day pass? Holy cow. $340 for three days? So a three-day child pass is $150.
Starting point is 00:23:30 That's, I mean, comparatively speaking, that's not bad. That's still pretty high, but comparatively speaking, that's not bad. So the new deal, of course, has no blackout dates and will expire 13 days
Starting point is 00:23:42 after the first day of use. If multiple days are purchased, that means customers will have to use their multiple. multi-day tickets within a two-week window after the first visit. Now, that makes sense. So, okay, now the adult tickets are still going to be the same price, so don't get your hopes up. But I will bet you that for a limited time, those adult prices are going to go down to. That's just me. I don't know anything. I don't work for Disney. I'm just guessing.
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Starting point is 00:24:59 Michael Shiraleo, is that how he says? C-H-I-A-R-E-L-O, celebrity chef, former Food Network star, dead at the age of 61. Now, he died this weekend after being treated for an acute, allergic reaction that led to anaphylactic shock. But it never says in this story, what caused the allergic reaction? Was it an ant bite?
Starting point is 00:25:28 was it a spice that he was allergic to? If you're really allergic to something like that and you could go into anaphylactic shock, don't you have an EpiPen? It's really strange. It's very rare to me, I would think, that that's, you know, the anaphylactic shock, it seems to me that you have a pretty good chance
Starting point is 00:25:48 of surviving that with an EpiPen. But very sad. It's there. The family is trying to navigate this profound loss. No doubt about it. I mean, he thinks, guy served as a judge on Bravo's top chef and top chef masters
Starting point is 00:26:02 and next iron chef and he was a big time chef and so very sad and you know he had a passion for food and life. Yeah. Okay I know, I know he did. He also should have had a passion for an EpiPen but Michael Leiterrello
Starting point is 00:26:18 I think that's how you pronounce it. If it's wrong I apologize. Dead at the age of 61. So a funeral home, a green funeral home is under investigation for improper handling of remains. Now, the investigation centered around a building by the funeral home where local residents reported smelling foul stench. Do you know how bad 115 bodies would smell?
Starting point is 00:26:50 Well, these people, they know. So deputies were called to this building on an evening, and they were the deputies. were like, whoa, hey, probably need to get a search warrant and check this out, man, something has happening in that place. So they showed up the next morning. And you see body bags outside of the building.
Starting point is 00:27:12 It was cordoned off. There was more, you know, since it was open, now you're getting more odor in the neighborhood. Holy cow. One lady said, yeah, I could see the funeral home from my porch. I caught whiffs of
Starting point is 00:27:28 a putrid smell from time to time. I thought it was a dead animal. Nope. Just about 115 bodies. That's all. So now Colorado has green burials that are legal by state code requires that anybody not buried within 24 hours must be properly refrigerated. So what the green funeral is is the return to nature funeral home and provides burial of non-enbalmed bodies. in biodegradable caskets, shrouds, or nothing at all. We've talked about that. Now, the company also provides cremation services, and that's what they do, right? So apparently, you know, there's no embalming fluids,
Starting point is 00:28:12 no concrete vaults, as natural as possible. The company charges $1,895 for a natural burial. Okay. Started about six years ago. And so what happened? why are we just leaving bodies in the house next door to the funeral home? We'll find out from the investigation. But what I can't get over is do you realize how bad that had to have smell?
Starting point is 00:28:44 Oh, my gosh. There is not enough air fresheners in the world to surround that house. I guess maybe in Colorado when the winter gets cold, right? you freeze it up, you lose some of that smell. So you're okay during the winter, but not during the summer, baby. No, no, no. So if you want someone in your family, you know, green buried, make sure it's actually getting done.
Starting point is 00:29:12 Because we don't know if these bodies were supposed to have been buried and he just tossed them in the back house and took the money. Or if they, we don't know where the bodies came. We don't know where the bodies came from. So I'm looking forward to the end of the investigation to find out exactly where these bodies came from. Reminder that you can follow me on social media at Jeffie JFR on X. Instagram is Jeff Fisher Radio. Facebook is Jeff Fisher Radio.
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Starting point is 00:31:32 apparently, Frank Biden brother to our president, Joe Biden, uncle to our president's son, Hunter, has posted a photo on a gay porn site. Guys with iPhones.com. This was happened back in 2018, though. This is when Uncle Frank was, or brother Frank, was 64.
Starting point is 00:32:02 And he admitted it. He said, yeah, that pictures me. I didn't post it online anywhere, though. My phone must have been had. Oh, okay. Really? Yeah, it had to have been. So the photo was uploaded to Guys with iPhones.com when Frank was 64. He has a long-term female partner, Mindy. And so the picture is still alive on the site. He admitted that the picture was him. He didn't post it anywhere. His phone must have been hacked. Okay. Now, the picture is, I will say. Uncle Frank's got a pretty good bod at 64. Although the picture has him naked in front of a toilet, the toilet seat is open,
Starting point is 00:32:50 can't quite tell if it had been flushed or not. It would look to me. If I had to testify, I would say that it wasn't flushed, but I can't necessarily say that 100%. So it definitely runs in the family. You have to take selfies of your naked body. You have to.
Starting point is 00:33:15 You can't get through life without taking pictures of your naked body. Hey, look at me. He claims that it was just a pick that he was taking to give to Mindy his girlfriend. He didn't post it online. It must have been a picture that was between Mindy and me. All right. No problem, Frank. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:33:39 Appreciate it. Because all of us. Just snap naked pictures. of ourselves and send them. That's what we do, right? That's correct. That's what we do. Definitely what we do if we're a Biden.
Starting point is 00:33:50 Tell you that. Now, when Hunter's pictures first broke, I thought how long before we see a naked picture of our president, Joe Biden, whether it be a selfie or in a room with other humans? But now that the brother and uncle, Frank, has we have pictures of him
Starting point is 00:34:12 or a picture of him naked selfie I there has to be a Joe Biden picture out there I don't know maybe we would have seen it
Starting point is 00:34:21 already he should have been extra careful I guess no problem but it just seems like we will see it and will
Starting point is 00:34:29 it be real and you know that's another question I'm sure it isn't on guys with iPhones dot com but you never know.
Starting point is 00:34:40 Coming to a home near you, or a city near you, the Green Mountain Power Company in Vermont is saying, hey, you know, we're going to go ahead and install batteries in most of our customers' homes. Wait, what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure, listen, we're going to buy batteries, but we're going to bury some power lines
Starting point is 00:35:02 and strengthen overhead cables, but we want to buy everybody a battery. Now, when you think to yourself, what kind of battery? A, AAA, AAA, 9 volt? No, it's a battery. The size of a television, according to this story, I don't know if it's an 80-inch or a 30-inch, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:35:21 But they believe that they've had a lot of problems due to extreme weather. Of course, they say link to climate change. But they have had heart hit by extreme weather, and they have caused power outages and damaged some homes in other buildings. And they brought concerns to, the rising cost of electricity, so they're helping to improve the system, and apparently buying batteries for everyone is cheaper than, you know, fixing their system. Now, they claim they're still going to fix their system. They just want to put in batteries to help the grid out,
Starting point is 00:35:55 you know, in case you have an issue. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing. I don't know. Off the top of my head, it's not a bad thing. I will say, you know, maybe, make sure that we, you know, keep a line on the old coal-fired plants and make sure those continue to run. We need those natural gas power plants. We don't need more wind and solar farms. What we need is natural gas and coal, maybe nuclear if you want. But then you want to give me a battery too? Fine. Thank you. Put it right over there. I'm good. As you know, no one supports zoos more than myself and this show. Now, this is something that just happened here in the great state of Texas.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Baby horned lizards raised in North and East Texas zoos were released into the wild as ongoing efforts to restore the Texas species. Oh. So if I'm, if you're in Texas, you're out wandering around, don't be running over baby horn lizards. Because apparently this is an iconic Texas species, and we want to make sure that we have these little babies out and about. So the Texas horned lizard is currently designated as a threatened species in Texas. And I don't know what we would do without the Texas horned lizard, but they're going to make sure that we're not without them.
Starting point is 00:37:31 The horned lizard is marked by its characteristic head with multiple horns, brownish color, two rows of fours of. fringe scales along each side of the body. Yeah, it's kind of cool looking. It is a cool looking lizard, no problem. But do we need to, you know, good for the zoos. Thank you for the zoos for taking care of some
Starting point is 00:37:49 baby horn lizard business, making sure that there's plenty of baby horned lizards out there and we're setting them free. Go. And free and live your life as a baby horn lizard in Texas. So if you're out and about in the great state of Texas, be careful. Don't run over the old baby horned lizards because they're on the threatened species list in Texas.
Starting point is 00:38:14 And whatever you do, if you happen to run over one or two, don't tell anyone. You do not want the Texas horned lizard people coming down on you. I read this post yesterday and I thought, now that's a pretty good idea. That's something that most people could do. So if you're in a neighborhood and you don't want your neighbors to talk to you and you just want to be left alone, here's a good idea. The post reads, well, today my neighbors spoke to me. So I did what I had to do. I strapped a monitor on my ankle, went outside with my shirt on inside out, and argued with a pine tree.
Starting point is 00:38:57 That should hold them off for a while. So I think that's a pretty good idea. If you're someone who doesn't want the neighbors to bother you, there's a good idea. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.

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