Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Alive but Dead… | 2/3/25

Episode Date: February 3, 2025

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So it's been a couple of months since we have had an update on the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center. And they now have claimed at the end of last week that they have recovered all of the 43 escaped monkeys. Finally, I guess they teased them all into coming back into their cages. Now, Pida is, well, they want some answers. Do you? Do you want some answers, Pita? They released a statement last week saying they doubt all monkeys who escaped Alpha Genesis in Yemise, South Carolina, were recaptured, like the lab says. PETA is demanding proof of life of the recaptured monkeys, including the release of the records identifying the monkeys and the evidence the animals correspond to the. that paperwork. They go on to say, since the monkeys who were allegedly recaptured should never be

used for any scientific studies, their exposure to wildlife and other unknowns would compromise experimental results. Pita again asks the National Institutes of Health to release the animals. We have funding from a generous donor and an accredited sanctuary that will welcome them. Peter goes on to excuse Alpha Genesis of having a history of lying. and obfuscating to be believed and is still under federal investigation for the horrific deaths of 18 monkeys after a diesel heater malfunction, as well as for multiple allegations of abuse and neglect. So that's PETA. They want a response from Alpha Genesis. Well, Alpha Genesis responded.

The CEO of Alpha Genesis, Greg Westergard, who now I am a huge fan of, posted a response on the Alpha Genesis Facebook page. All of the animals have been safely recovered and are in excellent health. I would like to thank the town of Yemisee and all the fine people of Beaufort and Hampton counties for their generous assistance and continued support. It was truly a team and community effort. As for PETA, they can go F themselves. even if this isn't real and I hope it is

I looked, it's on their Facebook page, so I have to believe that the story is true. And it was signed by the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center CEO, Dr. Greg Westergard, I love it. So you keep demanding, Pita, all you want. But in the world, from the CEO of Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center, you can go F yourself.

Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Depending on whether you like winter or not, yesterday the 2nd of February 2025, which makes today, if you're listening live, the 3rd of February 2025, it was a bad day for you because it's a Groundhog Day. and they have their big Groundhog Day celebration,

and Paxatani Phil comes out and predicts whether there's going to be six more weeks of winter or not, and whether he sees his shadow or not. And they do their Ponsetani-Fill Groundhog Day thing that's been going on since, I don't know, before time has started. Up there in Ponsetani, Pennsylvania. And I think it's the Elks Club that gets together, and they have their, you know, gathering for the Groundhog Day celebration,

which took place yesterday. And here is the proclamation. Now on this February 2nd, Punksitani Phil, the seer of seers, the prognosticator of all prognosticators, was awakened from his wintry nap at dawn on gobbler's knob. Right. Phil, look to the skies, then speaking in groundhoggies directed the president to the proper scroll which reads

oh here we go what a way to start a sunday fun day ha ha ha ha ha make it here one day to this place barely big enough to contain you oh see this sweet punk satanee pennsylvania well i couldn't have written that one Oh, no. We're all here with the elements combined. Where Mother Nature meets Father time. Oh, no. To hear the truth are those gray skies?

Only I know you can't trust AI. Oh. Oh. It's Groundhog Day. And maybe life is on a loop. But I miss my borough. I miss my coop. Oh, no.

That means. Headed back down. There's a shadow up here. Get ready for... Oh, no. Oh, no, no. That's the declaration up there. And Paxentani and Gobbler's Knob's six more weeks of winter.

Man, could not have seen that coming. You know, it's just a big party in Pennsylvania. And, you know, people show up to party. And it's kind of a cute little thing that they still, you know, go to the groundhog to predict the weather. And it probably would have faded into nothingness if it wasn't for the movie, right? Groundhog Day. The movie just shot it into everyone's knowledge that, oh man, we got a gobbler's knob and it's Groundhog Day.

So, I mean, that's saved the Pung Satani Phil. I definitely saved that. The movie was, you know, and still is. I mean, Bill Murray is doing new commercials for Jeep covering his Groundhog Day movie. It's just incredible. But I was looking at, and we're still believing in what the Groundhog says, but I was looking at some predictions from some presumably, you know, smart people back in 1925 of what they envisioned 2025 would look like. Oh, really? Okay.

So, like, the future looked ugly to Albert E. Wiggum, an American psychologist. According to his calculations, homely, dull people were having more children than beautiful, intelligent people. If we keep progressing in the wrong direction, as we have been doing, American beauty, is bound to decline, and there won't be a good-looking girl to be found 100 years from now. Was he? Was he wrong? Of course he was. Apparently, he also believed that, thanks to science, people would live to be 150 years old.

We're getting there. Not quite as fast as they thought. But Sir Ronald Ross, a British doctor who received a 1902 Nobel Prize in medicine for his studies on malaria, told a London audience that life expectancy would continue to increase because of scientific advances. Thank you. And so he figured that, everyone. one would live to a 150 years old. English writer, H.G. Wells, the author of, you know, the time machine, War of the Worlds,

the Invisible Man. He had a look ahead, 2025 in 1925, speaking at a dinner at the hotel, Cecil in London, which, man, those dinners were something to talk about, weren't they? He predicted that global power would rest with confederations of people instead of independent countries. in a hundred years there will be numerous nations, but only three great masses of people, the United States of America, the United States of Europe, and China. Oh, okay.

The Irish physicist and chemist E.E. Fonnier de Abl. expected a utopian society for those lucky to be alive in 2025. In his 1925 book, quote, the dimens. Some glimpses of the future. The earth will be under one government and one language will be written and understood or even spoken all over the globe. There will still be different races and perhaps allied nations, but travel and commerce will be free and unfettered and calamities will be alleviated and dangers met by the united forces of all mankind. Oh, okay, how's that working out. The advances of medicine and surgery will have been such that most of the ailments and limitations

of old age will have been eliminated. I'd like to see that come to life. Life is going to be prolonged at its maximum efficiency until death comes like sunset and is met without pain and without reluctance. Uh-huh. New fabrics will no doubt be invented combining the warmth of fur with the softness and flexibility of silk and the strength of linen. Yeah, we've come to that, no problem. A dress will be light so that half a dozen changes of costumes can be carried in a handbag and will be so designed that each change will involve no more inconvenience than does the removal of a raincoat. Ha! There's a fashion icon. No problem. British scientist Archibald M. Lowe expected the 21st century to offer television machines.

Got that. Breakfast tubes. Kind of got that. Be a microwave maybe. Automatic sleep beds. Got that. Wireless banking. Got that. Moving sidewalks? Not enough of a move. And one piece suits made of artificial felt. He goes on to say waking up on time, a very useful service, will be the radio alarm clock.

Wow. Okay, signals will be sent out at frequent intervals on different wavelengths, say between 6 and 10 a.m. every morning and setting the alarm clock to catch the signal at the desired time will avoid any risk of oversleeping House and public clocks and even watches will be synchronized by signals sent several times daily. And we shall then know the right time instead of finding a variation of minutes all over a small city. I mean, cell phone time and a world clock time pretty much gives you that.

Women in science, women are owning to their accelerated development, will compete on equal terms with men in all branches of scientific research, resulting in faster progressive developments for health, comfort, and speed of thought in life, many of the new discoveries of the future will doubtless be entirely due to the sex at present referred to as fair, a term that will scorn in days of real equality. The air traveler will walk into a comfortable and well-appointed waiting room in the center of the city. An elevator will take him to the roof where he will step direct into a roomy and really comfortable airplane cabin.

Ah, if we could only have that. There'll be no bumping over a hilly aerodrome, but the machine mounted on a turntable will be a shot off into the air by catapults and travel through space at over 300 miles an hour. I mean, we're getting there. We're kind of getting there, but we're not there yet, that's for sure. Professor Lowell J. Reed,

and it continues. It continues. All these people making predictions from 1925 to what it was going to be like 100 years from this. then, which is today. The Johns Hopkins University instructor, Professor Lowell J. Reed, said that the United States would face a food shortage

in 100 years. Oh, okay. Who predicted that the U.S. population would reach 200 million by 2025. Aha! We're at about 350 million? We're not there yet, Jeff. We're almost at 350 million. Okay.

In 1925, it was only 115 million. Reed said the nation would, have to find new sources of food to feed all of those mouths. Yeah, no kidding. This new food supply must either be found in the tropics or provided by processes for making artificial food from organic substances, which I mean, we're trying to do, but the latter would not be practical unless the cost of chemical processes were rendered much cheaper than they are present. And, you know, they are, but they're not. You can quote me on that. And it continues on this divine from Dr. A.R. Wentz, a professor at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,

said a substitute for sleep would be found. Its chief ingredient would probably be acid sodium phosphate. I don't. It must have been an investor in the acid sodium phosphate business. Chemistry would be used to produce synthetic foods, making them chiefly out of nitrogen from the atmosphere. People would use a pocket-sized apparatus for communications to see and hear each other without being in the same room. I got that one. There would be world peace, a common world currency, and universal free trade. Man, everybody wants that one world government, don't they? The weekly Scotsman, a newspaper published in Edinburgh, made these prophecies.

The books of AD 2025 will probably be printed on nickel leaves, so light and thin that the single volume will contain 30,000 pages, and the pages will be more flexible and durable than paper. I guess, you know, if you have a bendable cell phone, that could cover that. work of the house will be reduced to a negligible quantity by 100 electrical devices. All right. Well, we got one. We've had a robot coming. I have my doobot showing up soon. It's like opening the door, removing a meal to cleaning the boots and the automatic cooking of a six-course dinner. I'm a fan of that, but that needs to show up. In the world of manufacture, the change will be just as revolutionary, where we have today a score of machines one will survive, according to

Mr. Thomas Edison. He said that, Century Hence, we shall put cloth, thread, buttons, and so on into the end of a machine, and from the other end-draw suits, complete to the last stitch, and ready, folded for delivery. I've got that to look forward to.

That hasn't really happened, but I'm looking for that. And then, it doesn't say who predicted this? There should be... Oh, yeah, this is... I don't know if this is Sophie Irene Lowe, President. of the Child Welfare Committee of America. She believed there would be no pauper child in this country and no able-bodied child

should be anywhere except in his home. I don't disagree with that, but she's incorrect in her prediction. The children are future citizens need and are entitled to not charity but a chance, which they have here in the United States there, Sophia. Then they have a list of what they call knee-slappers from 1925, House-drawn vehicles are fast disappearing from our streets, but jackass-driven automobiles will be with us 100 years from now. Yeah, no kidding.

The daily and hourly progress of madness and folly and wickedness will be at least make a fine narrative in history, but probably the people of the future will have so many follies of their own, they will not care greatly for hours in 2025. That's a fact. Now a scientist declares there will be nothing to laugh about 100 years hence. We suppose that means 100 years from now there will be no, bow-legged girls and short skirts or skinny shanked men and golf dogs.

Just remember, there's not going to be anything to laugh at. So you can't be laughing at things in 2025. And they are now celebrating the 100th anniversary of the inventions of the detachable collar. Judging from the popularity of divorce 100 years from now, they will be celebrating the invention of the detachable marriage yoke. Yeah, and we are. All right, let's, there's all kinds. I was just fascinated by this article of predictions from 1925 and what they saw for 2025.

There's plenty more, and we'll get to that as this week on chewing the fat progresses, but I just found those particularly interesting. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. A new era of fitness is here. Introducing the new Peloton Cross Training Tread Plus, powered by Peloton IQ, built for breakthroughs with personalized workout plans, real-time insights, and endless ways to move. Lift with confidence, while Peloton IQ counts reps, corrects form, and tracks your progress. Let yourself run, lift, flow, and go.

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If you can decipher the 5,300-year-old Indus, Valley script. Now, we talked a little bit about this on my Saturday show, Saturday morning live, that I do on Saturdays with Brad Staggs over there from the, at whatever show he does every day. I think it's called The Daily Mojo. I never can remember. Anyway, and he does it every morning with Ron Phillips, and that's their show.

And they were both on Saturday morning live this weekend because Brad was in Nashville and Ron. Who knows? what they were doing but anyway they joined me on the set of saturday morning live and it's a tremendous set too and i want to oh ah ah i see where the microphone that picked up on this video you can see it on my ex at jeffy jfr was using the computer mic not my yeti mike and i'm surprised that neither one of them said something to me really kind of agonizing because even when i don't have the yeti switched on to the computer i'm still talking into it so

So that's what I'm hearing. I can't hear what it sounds like on the other end, whether it's the Yeti mic or it's the computer mic. Anyway, it's my fault. I should have checked the settings, and I didn't, so I apologize. Anyway, Brad believes that he has figured it out. He's deciphered it. Now there's like 4,000 inscriptions,

and it occurs mostly on seals, pottery, and tablets. Most of the inscriptions are short, between five and six symbols. The longest known inscription can, contains 34 symbols. The fact that the script is short, combined with the absence of longer inscriptions or bilingual artifacts, like the famous Rosetta Stone,

has proven yet to be an obstacle for researchers. So the script of the Indus first came to international attention in 1875 when an Indus sealed discovered by the British archaeologist Sir Alexander Cunningham, who doesn't love him. And since then, a variety of hypotheses have been proposed, attributing the script to the Dravdian language, early Brami and early Indo-Aryan language and even Samarian but none has gained

universal acceptance so as I'm looking at these and they show pictures of six of them and it looks like you have the picture and the mold of the picture or the tile that it's on and Brad figured it out starts at the bottom right-hand corner it looks like an owl and so I guess that would be who and then you can see this giant sword, but it's in the shape of a T. And then there's two eyes and what would be a C and an L. It believes

that who tickles and then there's the donkey or the ass. So who tickles my ass? So we want our million dollars, that's what I'm saying. Saturday Morning Live deserves our million dollars from the government of Tamil Nadu. And you could just, you know,

send it to my PayPal. At Jeffey CTF on my PayPal. And I'm willing to accept the million dollar reward. I'll share it with Brad. I promise. When I post on my ex today that the show is up and ready to be downloaded, the picture that I will use outside of my chewing the fat pick will be the tile that we deciphered on Saturday. So that you'll know what the tile is I'm talking about.

And we want our million dollars. Pretty simple. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. It will be interesting to see the numbers on who watched the Grammys last night. Everything panned out, I guess, the way everyone expected it to. Beyonce, while winning, also announced that she's going to have a big concert. The Cowboy Carter Tour will launch later this year.

Yay! And I saw where my boy Shibuzi and, you know, the bar song Tipsy, didn't win anything. The guy was on the charts for like 800 days. I don't know. It was like 800 years. It was a long time. He set all kinds of records for being on the charts, which means people were listening to a stupid song. And he wins nothing.

Okay. All right. No problem. You got it. Congratulations. My favorite, I think, Grammy was for the best audiobook narration. and storytelling recording. So the nominees were George Clinton

and your ass will follow. Dally Parton, behind the seams in my life in Rhinestones. A last Sunday in the plains, a centennial celebration, Jimmy Carter. And my name is Barbara, Barbara Streisand. The winner was a Jimmy Carter. Last Sundays in the plains,

a centennial celebration. Boy, I bet you that is good. That makes me want to run right out and listen to Jimmy Carter tell me about last Sunday on the Plains, the Centennial Celebration. I mean, it was a pity vote for that. The guy just died. I mean, congratulations, but come on now. And they all, of course, will babbled on about how they,

everyone is, no one is illegal, and every, every person is a real person. Ugh, okay, we got it. But actually, there are people who are illegal. and that's why we're going to go ahead and ask them to leave the country. So if your people that are cleaning your house or, you know, taking care of your yard work are not legal, they're going to have to go. They're not going to, Tom Holmes is not going to come after him right now,

but he is going to, he is going to show up and they're going to have to leave. And that's just the way it is. So many protests around the country too. Amazing that all these protests are waving the Mexican flag. Go there then. But I will say we found out really why they don't want to go there, right? I mean, Pat Graham Least, we found out who just got back from the great country of Mexico on a vacation, talked about how they have no plumbing and they can't flush toilet paper and they can't,

there's no water. I mean, fix your infrastructure. Go back to your home country and fix your infrastructure so that you don't need to come here. That's all we want. And if you want to come here, then fine. come here the right way. It's just incredible to me. I don't understand that. Anyway, back to the Grammys.

As they wind on about everyone is a person. We know. We know that. Thank you. They raised money for the, you know, the fire, the victims of the fires and the firefighters. Great. Love that. A couple of my favorite parts on the red carpet. Will Smith's son showed up wearing a house on his head. I'm not quite sure what that represented. I missed something along the way, but it was funny, and it looked great.

And listen, I am all for fashion. So if you think that's fashion and you look great with that house on your head, that's awesome. Good for you. And then Kanye showed up, and he wasn't even invited, I'm told. But we all should do this. He just showed up for the red carpet. He brought the wife. She had some big mink animal coat on, probably fake because otherwise Peter would be pissed.

And then, you know, she took it off and she was completely. completely naked. Well, she did have some sort of dress on, but it was see-through. And she loves showing off that body. And I know a lot of people think that that's just Kanye humiliating her. I don't know that I see it that way, but I mean, I can definitely see how some people could see it that way. But they walked the red carpet. He showed her off and then they left. That's what we all need to do. Just dress up, show up on the red carpet, get your picture taken, and then leave. That's awesome. All right, let's talk a couple of shows.

I see where people are all wound up that Netflix is going to have a reboot of Little House on the Prairie. So they greenlit a reboot of Little House on the Prairie. And people are wound up. They don't want to ruin Little House on the Prairie. And heaven forbid. Heaven forbid we put a different spin on Little House on the Prairie. I know. I know. And it's it.

They talk about, you know, who bought the rights and who sold the rights and what's going on. And so they sold, apparently, they sold the TV rights back in 74. That's what started the NBC drama. And then they just sold the rights for a reboot in 2020 to Paramount TV studios and anonymous content. And so everybody's, you know, look, some people looking forward to it. some people, don't ruin Little House on the Prairie. That's what Netflix is going to do. They're going to reboot it and ruin it.

If they make necklitz like American Prime Evil, I'm in. I'm all in. I know that they're talking about how the reboot will be following Charles and his wife, Caroline, and their daughters, Laura and Mary, as they leave Wisconsin to settle in Independence. Kansas. And so that's Little House on the Prairie. That's the first season. And that's what we have to look forward to.

If they make it like American Prime Evil, Little House on the Prairie Prime Evil. I'm in. I am in. That's what everybody's wound up about. Don't change it. They're worried about it being woke or whatever. I'm not there.

I say make it like primeval. Let's go. Yeah. Little House primeval. and that's really what like 1883 that's what that was about really that was a little house on the little house primeval i'm all for that let's get that just like that and i don't know that Netflix is going to do that but i'll be interested to see it and i hope that they i hope that they make it right boarding for flight 246 to toronto is delayed 50 minutes oh what sounds like ojo time play ojo great idea feel the fun with all the latest slots in live casino games and with no wagering requirements. What you win is yours to keep groovy.

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whose credits included Baskets, Smilf, and the L-word, Generation Q. She has passed away at the age of 41. Very sad. They said that she died from the progression of triple negative metastatic breast cancer. Wow. I do not recommend. that for anyone. That's, that's for sure. But it's, uh, couldn't have been, uh, brought on, uh, and, you know, made to speed up from that. Could it have been? Uh, nobody says that. Uh, but it certainly could have been, uh, had something to do with that, but we'll never know. Uh, but she was busy still working and it's very sad. Alice Ozorky dead at the age of 41. Rest in peace. Then we have Patty Smith. Patty Smith.

yes, Patty Smith. I was finally speaking out because she collapsed on stage. For those of you that don't know, Patty Smith, she is just, you know, one of the awesome singers in the world. Some of her stuff is really bad, too.

Who was the other one that just died last week? That, holy crap, was bad. Oh, yeah, Mary Ann Faithful. Yeah, she was 78 as well. Wow, okay. So Patty Smith apparently collapsed on stage and she was in Brazil, I guess, performing and receiving some award. She was, she was, she collapsed on stage before being rushed off in a wheelchair during

a presentation. And so that, I guess she was, she was just there performing. It wasn't getting an award. But she has now said, hey, hey, I'm fine. I felt a little ill in the aftermath of a migraine, which resulted in dizziness. And that's fine. And that's fine. And that's, That's why I returned to the stage in the wheelchair. Man, man, that's what you want to see. I mentioned this show was great to begin with, but even better when she rolled back out in the wheelchair. So they canceled the second show, though.

She had two shows scheduled in Brazil. Wow, Patty Smith's still out there kicking it, doing her thing. Good for her. Good for her. I'm sorry that she collapsed on stage. And she looks great for 78 and even better in that wheelchair. you. I don't wish that on anyone either. But she's still alive. And Mary Unfaithful is not. So keep kicking, Patty, because you got to be out there performing Gloria for the 8 millionth time. Okay. So I told you, I mentioned two people that we lost that are still alive, but they're dead. Last week, Jim Acosta,

you know, took off away from CNN. He's still alive but dead. And then, Then on Friday, we got the news that Chuck Todd is going to leave NBC. I mean, they already gave him the boot from Meet the Press. And now he's saying, yeah, I'm going to leave NBC. It's been, you know, 20 years. It says that he's still going to continue to do his podcast, I guess. And I don't know that that's a separate podcast for him. I guess it must be because they are claiming that he's out at NBC.

So that can't be an NBC project, the Chuck Todd podcast. so he's still alive but dead. In a memo to his colleagues, Chuck said that the news media has much work to do in winning back the trust of consumers, and I'm convinced the best place to start is from the bottom up with entrepreneurship. Well, look who's starting to pay attention, Chuck.

The national media can't win trust back without having a robust partner locally and trying to game algorithm is no way to inform and report. People are craving community, and that's something national media or the major social media companies can't do as well as local media. Reporting is a key to winning back public support. If you do this job seeking popularity or to simply be an activist, you're doing this job

incorrectly. I can't disagree with that, Chuck. Yeah, and he said that he's going to continue to do his podcast. He told his colleagues that Friday was his last day. He'll continue doing his podcast and said he's considering new projects but offered no details. Weird. Okay. Well, good luck, Chuck, because you're still alive, but right now.

Not by much. I mean, maybe he could go work for Costco. Maybe we can all go work for Costco. They said that they're going to pay over $30 an hour for most store workers. And then they, and this is incremental pay raises. I think we talked about this last week. But they also, we were waiting for the strike because the Teamsters were supposed to shut them down at midnight on Friday. Well, they reached an agreement.

And the Teamsters believed that it was their doing that Costco raised the prices, raised the pay scale for the non-union workers. But the 18,000 Costco employees that are Teamsters are about 8 to 10% of the companies, U.S. workers and they came to a deal hours before the deadline. Oh, interesting. Now, the terms were not made available of what the deal is. It's a tentative agreement. They've obviously got to take it to their workers and vote on it, but because the workers had already overwhelmingly voted to strike if a new three-year contract agreement wasn't reached. And so now this is a tentative agreement. So they will see if they got everything they expected to get. And if they did, then they're not going to strike.

And if they didn't, maybe they'll continue to strike. Huh. But I would be ready. Just a side note, I would be ready for your Costco membership price to go up. With Amex Platinum, $400 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. So we've had a lot of airline stories in the news, really terrible airline stories. A couple of big crashes and the people losing their lives. Really sad. But I see where Frontier Airlines now has decided, you know what?

We want to buy Spirit Airlines again. Sure, we tried that a few years ago. Hey, JetBlue deal failed and all that stuff. but we want to buy Spirit and we want Spirit to be part of our deal. I would say, you know, we first, let's get a deal on our air traffic controllers. Okay?

And they're going to say, that's not the airlines problem. It kind of is. I think we should have a concerted effort from everyone to get our level of gameplay at the air traffic controllers back up to speed. I was just looking at some numbers. of the 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States, 313 air traffic control facilities in the United States,

285 are staffed below levels recommended by the FAA and the union that represents air traffic controllers. Okay. At 73 of the facilities, which include traffic control towers, the workforce is understaffed by at least 25 per se. percent. Wow. Two facilities on Long Island that handle 1.2 million flights in and out of Newark, LaGuardia and JFK airports, which got to be a nightmare. They have nearly 40 percent of positions unfilled. Wow. Now, according to this, there's no quick fix. As they say, they could take more than four years to train a new air traffic controller at some locations, training at Ronald Reagan, Washington National Airport where the passenger plane and helicopter crashed last week requires almost 16 months

to complete. But I was just, I heard a story about how they have, they've gone, you know, to the universities and they've recruited people that they will believe are going to be, you know, ready for air traffic, to be air traffic controllers and get done with your college and move right in. They can start the training early. But because of, and this is, this is the problem, and because of, you know, because of, you know, DEI, a lot of these were put to the side because they did meet the diversity, equity, and inclusion boxes that needed to be filled from previous administration. So I say this is where we get

to the merit-based. Let's, if you're a good enough person, I don't care what you look like. I don't care how tall you are. I don't care how fat you are. Well, maybe I do on the air traffic control tower. But I don't care about any of that. If you are the right person for the job, you should get the job, period. And it is definitely needed. So we need a concerted effort from everyone involved to keep our air traffic safe for everyone. All right, let's get out of here today.

Oh, I know I wanted to tell you, I know we have a lot of people who own dogs and animals that listen to the show. Blue Ridge beef is recalling 5,700 pounds of dog food due to salmonella. I know. So if you, I mean, the natural raw pet foods brand is recalling certain lots of its two pound log natural mix. After samples of the product were found to be contaminated. So heads up on your dog food. If you feed your dog Blue Ridge beef, 5,700 pounds of it is being recalled. And I did not know this, but I guess it makes sense, that if you have the product,

make sure that you get rid of the product or return it at the place of purchase or dispose of it, obviously, but make sure that children, pets, and wildlife cannot access it. And additionally, government agencies urges customers to not feed the recalled product to any animals, wash and sanitize pet food bowls, cups and storage containers, wash and sanitize hands thoroughly after handling recalled food. Now, symptoms of salmonella in pets can include diarrhea, fever, vomiting, and lack of energy, which I'm sure if your dog has it, you're going to know it. And other symptoms include decreased appetite and abdominal pain.

It's possible for pets to be carriers and pass the infection to other pets or people, even if they're not showing symptoms. Wait, what? Yeah. So you can get it. If your dog has got it. So if you are feeling like you have a fever, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, you may have gotten it from the dog licking you. That's not funny at all.

So just, you know, be careful out there if you feed your dog Blue Ridge beef, dog food. Check out the recall numbers because you don't want none of that for you or the dog. All right, let's get out of here. Joke of the day, sent to Chewing thefat at theblaze.com. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com is the email address you all can use. If you want to be a contestant on what's the lie, if you'd like to, you know, submit a joke that you've been working on, you can do that. Or if you just want to comment, I see them all, good and bad.

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