Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Assuming Stability… 10/24/24

Episode Date: October 24, 2024

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Because those are the cities therein and probably are getting the most calls for rats. Chicago unhappy with the crown. They're spokesmen for the streets and sanitation department. We're skeptical about the city's rankings. There's just no way that Orkin can measure or rank rat infestation. Actually, they kind of can. That's what they do. They can kind of tell, well, you know, we don't get any calls from this city about rats.

We get a lot of calls from this city about rats. That makes them the ratiest city. Now, the Department of Streets and Sanitation also released a statement. Not sure if this was from Mimi or the boss of the Streets and Sanitation Department, but they said Chicago is dedicated to keeping Chicago clean and healthy, and we continue to proactively address rodent abatement as a free service to residents through the Bureau of Rodent Control. Isn't that nice of them?

Chicago's doing that for free. There's no taxes or anything involved that the city catches. I mean, they spend a ton of money with their sanitation department. In fact, they have allocated millions of dollars to its Bureau of Rodin Control. I don't know if that's under the streets and sanitation department or if that's a separate department, but they do have a Bureau of Road and Control. makes one think that the city is pretty ratty when they have a Bureau of Road Control. So that's just it.

They're spending millions of dollars every year on mitigation and abatement of rats. Now, again, congratulations to Chicago for being the top city for the 10th year in a row. In fact, I believe the last 17 years, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York, have all battled for the top three. Chicago, obviously, ranking number one in 10 of those 17 years. Then you have San Francisco, Washington. It doesn't say Washington, D.C., that's what they mean. Denver, Philadelphia, Detroit, Baltimore, Cleveland.

Those are your top 10 radius cities, according to Orkin. And then when you get down to, you'd think cities like Boston, yeah, they're 12th. Atlanta, 16th. Pittsburgh, 21st. Dallas. 22nd. I'd like to hear that. I live in the DFW, the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, not in Dallas proper, but I think the rats can stay over there. Houston, Honolulu, surprising to me, is 29th.

And Grand Rapids, Michigan is 27th on the list. So those are just some of the cities and the top 10 of the radiest cities in America. I loved hearing about the type of rats that are in Chicago. they're called Norway rats and according this is according to the Road Control Bureau the Norway rat originated in Asia you know hundreds of years ago

and has an average lifespan of six to 12 months Norway rats prefer to live in burrows in the ground they are excellent climbers and swimmers though and most active at night they have very hard teeth can chew through wood and plaster or any other material that is softer than their teeth they can crawl through

holes the size of a quarter, tread water for three days, and land unharmed after a five-story fall. You're not killing these things off easy. It's going to take a little bit of work. They prefer fresh food. Isn't that special? I mean, don't we all? But they will eat a variety of things, including pet food, dog feces, garbage, plants.

And if none of the above are available, you know what? we'll just eat ourselves. I mean, not themselves. They'll just eat another rat, another Norway rat. Although, I've seen rats trying to gnaw their legs off to get away from glue traps. So they will chew through themselves to get free. Life will find a way. Congratulations to Chicago for the 10th consecutive year as America's radiest city.

Welcome to Chewing the Fat. Yesterday, I asked whether the Boeing union workers were going to sign on to the new deal put before them. And the answer to that is no. The Boeing machinists voted against the revised labor deal proposed by the company. So the strike has been extended and it's already lasted over a month, right? It's halted most plane productions. Nearly two-thirds of the union members. members said no to the new contract, which included a 35% wage increase over four years and more

contributions to retirement plans. Big setback to the new CEO who said, I mean, his comments were ending the strike is key to the turnaround plan. Yeah, they have already admitted that they've lost $6.1 billion the last quarter, that's the biggest quarterly loss since 2020. I mean, other companies like Spirit Aerosystems are all. already furlowing workers, hundreds of workers, because of the Boeing ongoing strike. It was reported last week that Boeing is exploring asset sales in a bid to boost its fragile finances. I would say that's closer to being true today than it was even back then. Now, they're looking to sell any kind of assets to have some kind of money

and continue to be alive in the airplane business. So, and now, you know, we had, we've had airplane issues. We've had spaceship issues. We've had satellite issues. Maybe the Boeing workers should think about, you know what, maybe we just need to go back to work and focus on doing the job and making the company better before we start asking for a whole bunch more money and a lot more days off. But, you know, whatever, you, you do you.

But I'm guessing it's not going to be long before Boeing just says, We're done. Have a nice day. Then where are the striking workers at? Well, they're without a job. And maybe that's a good thing. Maybe a new company will start up and be the new Boeing. I don't know. Boeing's a pretty strong and powerful company.

Are they too big to fail? We'll see. Speaking of airlines, I see where, I know I'm not talking about American Airlines receiving that $50 million fine over mishandling disabled passengers and wheelchairs. Good job, American Airlines. No, I'm not talking about America and airlines trying to figure out quicker ways to board their planes and they're testing a new boarding plan at several airports around America to see if they

can get people to board planes quicker and more efficiently. No, I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about air taxis and other vertical takeoff vehicles. So now the Federal Aviation Administration says that they have published their final regulations book. Oh, that's great. What we need is more government regulations, but, you know, they do have to oversee this. So the FAA says these power lift vehicles will be the first completely new category of aircraft since helicopters were introduced in 1940. These aircraft will be used for a variety of services, including air taxis, cargo delivery, and rescue and retrieval operations. The final rules

published today contain guidelines for, which was yesterday, for pilot training, as well as operational requirements regarding minimum, safe, altitudes, and visibility. I have not seen a copy of their new rules. I've got to read this rulebook, and I'll let you know, because I know they've been busy trying to get this posted so that we can get this going. Same with the drone delivery plans that are okay. I mean, there's a whole bunch of new rules that are in effect for that as well. Our airs are going to be, the skies are going to be black over.

major cities in America because they're going to have so many so many vehicles flying over doing stuff there's got to be a way to keep them sorted and uh i don't know that i want to be uh the air traffic controller that does it but i'm thankful for them it's not going to be easy because you're going to have drones flying at a certain altitude you're going to have these air taxis and delivery vertical takeoff vehicles at certain altitudes. You're going to have the airlines at certain altitudes coming in and leaving the airports. So the sky's pretty difficult. And then, you know, we want to have, be able to have, you know, people themselves privately owned

flying around with their flying cars and flying vehicles. So that's why I've settled along with you. They're just going to make, if you have a car that can fly, at some point in your life. You'll be able to use that outside of the major metropolitan areas. I don't think there's going to be a way that they're going to allow major metropolitan areas to have all of this on top of their international airports coming and going and having drone deliveries and having air taxis, although that's similar to people having their own private vehicles.

But with the air taxis, you control what areas they go in. It's going to be, I don't want to say it's a nice. But yeah, that's what it's going to be. It's going to be a nightmare. And that doesn't even count the helicopters that are being used for rescue and retrieval services. I guess is that separate from the vertical takeoff air taxis that they're going to be using for rescue and retrieval operations?

They're going to have to have a way in and out. And people's personal helicopters that take them all over. It's really, it is going to be a nightmare. But if they need help, they could go ahead and. Email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Happy to help them out. It's hockey season, and you can get anything you need delivered with Uber Eats.

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including defrauding the U.S. Department of Defense and bribing a Guitary official. Huh. Now, they get billions of dollars. from the government anyway for their contract. So yeah, you know what? We probably did overlook some charge. We'll pay $950 million. Yeah, that whole bribing thing.

Don't worry about that, though. That's fine. Then I see where Apple and Goldman Sachs has agreed to pay $89 million. And I say agreed. This story says ordered. so you know you take it whatever you want by the consumer financial protection bureau and i love the consumer financial protection bureau apparently apple and goldman sacks failed to address thousands of consumer disputes of apple card transactions huh interesting and i'm sure it had

nothing to do with that fine but i see where apple is cutting production of vision pro due to slow sales. Yeah, I mean, their Vision Pro VR headset is like $3,500. Yeah. And so they're going to just kind of halt assembly of new ones. The information said that, yeah, you know what? We've got parts for 500 to 600,000 headsets produced so far. That's probably enough to meet demand.

Because Tim Cook, Apple CEO. said in an interview that people weren't exactly lining up for the old the old apple VR headset so oh well I guess they're gonna they're gonna try to release a more affordable VR headset sometime in 2026 but you know you can still get the meta quest for like 500 bucks I'm sorry the MetaQuest three if you want the VR face computer. So, I mean, why not get that for 500 bucks

and instead of the Apple 3,500 Vision Pro? I don't know. I don't know the differences. I haven't anyone explained to me yeah, but you need the Vision Pro because of this. I feel like that's probably not the case,

which is why the sales are slow. Instagram has just rolled out a new feature that allows users to share what are essentially digital business cards. That's cute. And Instagram and threads have banned accounts used to track celebrity jets across its platforms, including amazingly enough, those of Mark Zuckerberg.

Huh. Who's in charge of Instagram and threads? Oh yeah, Mark Zuckerberg. And Elon Musk, citing the risk of physical harm. Yeah, they get pissed when my man puts up where their planes have gone. Now, I thought they were a day behind at least now, right, to track the celebrity jets. So he can't do it a day of or real time, but he can't do it the day after. Just give me a break, Mark.

They'll be banning him. But that's what they do. They don't like something. They ban it. It's a private company, Jeff. He could do what he wants. I know. I know.

And Google said it will block ads about the presidential election. election after November 5th. And that's, of course, is to prevent the spread of misinformation. Yeah, you don't want that. Not after the election. You don't want a candidate prematurely declaring their victory. No, we can't have that. We need to not have you speak at all.

Okay? So we're just going to block the ads about the presidential election after November 5th. That's special. That's special coming from Google. They are obviously thinking about you. You are the most important. important thing to Google. Uh-huh.

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All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately. Wow. The Los Angeles Dodgers sluggers show hey, Otani, also a pitcher, who will be in the World Series, which begins

Friday night against the New York Yankees. He had a 50th home run baseball that was up for auction. It sold at auction for $4,392 million, including a buyer's premium. Well, I mean, that shatters the record paid for a baseball or any sports ball for that. The previous high price was Mark McGuire's record-breaking 70th home run ball from the 1998 major league season. Wow, which was owned by creator Todd McFerling. He paid $3 million for it in early 1999.

So Atani is the only player in baseball history to hit 50 home runs and steal 50 bases in a season. And he reached the milestone on September 19th when the Dodger Star hit his second of three homers against the Marlins. So it's pretty cool. I don't know if you get a base with that. It would be kind of cool to put the ball on the base that he, the 50th. steel base, whatever it was, second or third base, or home plate, whatever base he stole, I don't know which one it was. So you have the 50 and the 50.

That'd be kind of cool. But, wow, $4 million, over $4 million for a baseball. Congratulations. Congratulations. Wow, that's awesome, too, because the owner of the ball has not been decided yet. They've got litigation now playing out in Florida to see who actually owned the ball. So all the owners, or all the people who claim that their owners said, yeah, let's go ahead and

auction it off. And we've agreed to convey any and all of their ownership interest in the 50-50 ball to the winner of the auction so that the winner of the auction has full assurance that they're going to get the 50-50 ball. So 4.4 million paid for the Otani ball will go into an account until the ownership lawsuit is resolved. Holy cow. I wonder how long this will keep going because there's an 18-year-old Max Mattis who filed a civil lawsuit in late September claiming he had possession of the ball and asking for temporary injunction to halt the auction. The judge said no, I did not grant the

injunction. Instead, he scheduled a hearing for October 10th, which was then canceled because they agreed to the auction and saying that they would no problem because they said originally they wanted to keep the baseball as a, you know, memorabilia. But then they decided, eh, you know, we could probably sell it. Because originally they said it was only going to get about $2 million. Ha! Got, you know, a little over $4 million. So maybe these two guys can work out a deal now where after court costs and attorney fees,

they walk away with, you know, a million apiece or something like that. And they're not going to get that now because they've wasted all this time in court with attorneys. So now they're going to have to fight. now they're going to put to probably dig their heels in and want to, you know, and I own it, no, I own it, no, I own it, no I own it, until finally there's no agreement to be made and somebody's going to have to decide who owns the ball. And then everybody will get their money except for the one guy who doesn't get to say he has the ball.

And he gets nothing. Good luck, good luck, good luck, good luck to all parties. involved. Yesterday we talked about Harvey Weinstein having cancer now, and apparently the Harvey Weinstein retrial has been moved until next year. Yeah, no kidding. We're going to start trying to get that retrial going of Harvey this year in Manhattan. That's not going to start until next year.

And so I would venture to say that now, you know, the attorneys are just saying, hey, we need to hire private investigators and we're going to look into these new allegations against Harvey, and he's absolutely said he was not guilty. So Judge Curtis Farber granted a prosecution request to consolidate both cases and agreed to push back the trial start date, which had been tentatively scheduled for November 12th. So they now are going to have a pretrial hearing for January 29th. And that's a pretrial hearing. That's not even, you know, that's there to set a date for trial.

and we'll see if Harvey lives that long because I have a feeling that probably isn't going to happen. I want him to, but it probably isn't going to happen. Oh, and speaking of trials about dirtbags, Roman Polansky, his trial for rape of a minor in 1973, which was supposed to take place in Los Angeles next year. No more. No more. We don't need that anymore.

That case has been settled. Yeah, both parties have it mutually satisfied and has now been formally dismissed. So Gloria Allred, my gosh, she is in every one of these damn cases. She confirmed that the settlement claims were agreed to. So I don't know, she makes more money off of this, too. But Rome Polanski is not going to trial,

and it's finally off his plate for the... And then he was found innocent or... not guilty. He was certainly acquitted of all charges of in the Paris French magazine case, because they tried to say that he assaulted this lady when she was 16 years old in 2019, I think. I don't remember exactly when that was supposed to have happened. But anyway, he said it was a heinous lie, and then that he was acquitted of all those charges. So, I don't know, it was pull Flansky ever going to be, I don't know he's been a fugitive in the United States or from the United States since 1978.

So, I mean, he wouldn't even be able to attend the trial in person if that trial had taken place. He would have to appear in a live video feed. So are they going to let him back in? You know, Hollywood is trying their damnedest to let Roman back into the U.S. So we'll see if that actually takes place. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credit. for travel and dining means you not only satisfy your travel bug, but your taste buds too.

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and she became the first woman's professional skateboarder, public ambassador for the sport, and she generated all kinds of backlash from parents and elected officials concerned about safety. She was on the cover of Life magazine doing a handstand on her skateboard. She said after the national championships, she began doing handstands at Macy's and Montgomery Ward and other department stores around the country, making $250 a month, while promoting a line of hobby skateboards released by the California. the juice company Vita Packet. She said she began doing handstands

on a diving board when she was 12 and she adapted the trick to a skateboard while training at the rink in Pasadena going all the way around the rink without touching down. So she was, and that was at the time when skateboards were being reclassified as sporting goods instead of toys

and she would give demonstrations all over the country and she was on, as I said, the cover of life and she did TV shows, What's My Line? She was on The Night Show. with Johnny Carson and the Mike Douglas show. And she was on the cover of a skateboarder magazine.

I mean, she was part of the counterculture for quite some time. And then she got married and had kids and got a divorce and, you know, lived a life out in the desert. And she said she never, she never encountered any issues from the guys around her. She was just like the life of the party. And she would just push her way in. And that's the way it worked. And she was a skateboarder, and she was, you know, the way, that's the way it is. And so she then started with her daughter, her daughter, Haley Villa, started their own

skateboard and apparel company, Original Betty. And they would occasionally ride with her daughter, or her handstand days were behind her. And she was still, she wasn't doing handstands anymore. And her 60s, what are we doing? Well, rest in peace, Patty McGee, the original skateboarder. man she was she was a monster of her time and she was skateboarding at a time when i mean it was a stone age uh no helmets pads uh the boards were nothing like they are now so rest in peace to patty mcgee dead at the age of 79 and this whole story did not give a cause of death so i don't know what it was

i don't know what it was could it have been that they didn't say it so And so that's where we're at. Then we have Chuck Coleman, Chuck Coleman, dead at the age of 61. He is a Top Gun, Maverick Flight Instructor, and he died with his boots on. He was in a plane crash. So, I mean, he's got, he went the way he loved.

He worked, uh, there's plenty of people who worked with him, uh, at the aerobotics flight instructor for Top Gun. Averick paid tribute on social media, remembering him for his experience, kindness and curiosity, and he emphasized Coleman's critical role in the film's preparation and expressed gratitude for their time together, calling him a friend and an ally. Chuck Coleman, he was at an Air and Space Expo in New Mexico, this Los Cruces Air and Space Expo. Oh, yeah, and there was some sort of incident that caused him to pass away in a plane crash. So rest in peace to the Top Gun Maverick Flight instructor, Chuck Coles.

Bowman dead the age of 61. Then we have this man, retired Air Force veteran Otis Adams Jr. He died back in May. And he died, I guess they assumed it was from the Boershead Liverwurst. Because he died in the Tampa area and it was after he ate Boershead. However, Otis Adams Jr., dead at the age of 79. they filed a criminal complaint in the 12th Judicial Circuit in Sarasota County, Florida, because the wife bought the tainted meat at a public's grocery store,

but it wasn't liverwurst. Okay, so remember Boris had recalled like 7 million pounds of ready to eat meats and cheeses, and after dozens of people fell ill, and at least 10 people died of one of this guy. But remember, the first outbreak was, blamed on liverwurst made at this I love the I love the story it was the liverwurst made at a roach infested plant in Jarrett Virginia okay I mean I guess this place

was cited for dozens of health and safety violations in the past year so they thought that he had passed away because of the liverwurst but he never ate liverwurst he was a good man he knew liverwurst was nasty and would never eat it his wife purchased boar's head tavern ham and Boershead yellow American cheese at the Publix for her husband. And two weeks later, she bought some more Boershead Tavernham for her husband

at the same public's location. And then he started to get sick and experienced weakness, diarrhea, fatigue, and fever. And finally passing away. He developed meningitis and sepsis. I mean, sad. And apparently, it was as untimely death as it was, it was painful. and so the firm Morgan and Morgan. A good old Florida firm, Morgan and Morgan.

They are now suing and they should for a wrongful death. We'll see what happens. I'm sure Borershead will come through with some kind of settlement. Florida-based, they announced that it would stop making and selling Liverwurst and shuttered the Virginia factory. I mean, I'm not opposed to Liverwurst never being made or sold. again in the world. Liverwurst is nasty. So if you're eating liverwurst, bless your heart, but no, no thank you. Then there's this lawsuit that's taking place in France, which I did not know

was taking place, but it is horrific. So this Giselle Pelicot, or Pelicote, P-E-L-I-C-O-T, She's a 71-year-old French victim of mass rape. She testified in court against her former husband, Dominique, who admitted to sexually assaulting and facilitating dozens of men to assault her for over a decade. Now, she opted for the public trial, which usually, you know, victims don't want to be public about it, but she wanted to shed light on the sexual consent in France. According to the trial and her testimony, 50 men between the ages of 26 and 74 are accused of raping Giselle between 2011 and 2020. In incidents, her husband coordinated online.

Dominic, who was married to Giselle for 50 years, admitted to placing drugs in her food to facilitate the assaults. Over 20,000 labeled images and videos discovered on his devices, showed the incidents. The defendants each face up to 20 years in prison. Good. Good. 20 years is not long enough, especially for the husband.

Over a dozen marches in support of Zizal have taken place in France during the weekend. Yeah. I guess they've likened this to the Me Too movement, but I don't know that it's anything like the Me Too movement. Come on now. I guess maybe if you think, about Harvey and you know what started everything with him

but this guy was just a dirtbag drugging his wife and then hiring people to rape her and filming at all? I mean, come on this guy should be hung in Town Square. Bring back Town Square for this guy. At Desjardin, we speak business.

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that we don't know if it was attacked, or maybe it was hacked, and if it was hacked into the satellite system, that is actually being attacked. I mean, I've got a list of stuff here. Don't forget we have this top secret X37B space plane that we were told was going to execute a never-before-seen maneuver that would hopefully let it evade detection by hostile nations.

Oh, okay. Well, that's good. And then I have a story that talks about how Chinese researchers claim to have found a way to detect the stealth aircraft using SpaceX's Starlink satellites. So according to a report from the South China Morning Post and whether that's true or not, the team conducted an experiment with the DJI Phantom 4 Pro drone. Love those. Simulating a stealth aircraft by using a ground-based radar system. system, they successfully detected the drone thanks to radiation emitted by a star-length satellite flying over the Philippines. This method could be groundbreaking as stealth aircraft are designed to evade

radar detection by reflecting electromagnetic waves differently. However, the researchers claim that their detection system is unaffected by the targets' three-dimensional shape and surface material, potentially giving Chinese military an advantage in tracking hard-to-detect targets, Looting, stealth, jets. Huh. Interesting. Isn't it? And then we have stories about Chinese hackers

are hacked into government mandated wiretapping systems. We have internet archives shutting down, being shut down by hackers. We have all water departments being hacked. I mean, they claim, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a problem.

We were hacked. But it's all good. Don't you worry about it. We are fine. It was, yeah, we were hacked and, you know, yeah, we, we know we found

170,000 U.S. water systems and people were, you know, probably, we fixed. It's only 14 million people experience a cyber attack. That's all. I don't worry about it. I mean, it's not out of the realm of possibility that this satellite that

exploded, they say, could have been attacked or hacked and made to explode, and it could be just a test. I mean, it wasn't that long ago. How long ago did we, I don't even know that we talked about it. The story is not that old about mystery drones swarming the U.S. military base for 17 days. And the Pentagon is like, oh, we don't know. There were reports of this identify unidentified aircraft, have been flying over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia and along the shoreline, but we don't know.

So we're stumped. do do do do do I mean what what are we doing? Is it aliens? Is it UFOs? Is it the Chinese coming on board using new stealth technology? As they use new technology to detect our stealth technology,

do they have new technology? I don't know. Is it part of the new 36-37B spaceplane project? You know, you just don't know, but we get this, I don't know. I don't know. We just don't know. Oh, we're just stumped. Okay, well, how about becoming unstumped?

Because I don't like the idea of our military or government, for that matter, but we all know that's an issue in and of itself being stumped. So let's keep the military unstumped, shall we? And at the same time, we've got Elon telling us, you know what, we're going to go to Mars. We're going to be on Mars. I'm going to have a population of a million people on Mars in just, I don't know, 30 years. He claims that by 20505, or 2054, you know what, let's give him an extra year, 25, that we're going to have a million people on Mars. Okay, all right, fine.

I don't know that I believe it, but good. Now, he also puts in his disclaimer, assuming global stability. Uh-huh. and also it relies on significant advancements in SpaceX Starship technology, which he believes he's going to enable. So he wants to keep going. He wants to have that affordable transportation of people and equipment to Mars. So it's going to depend on harnessing Martian resources,

like producing oxygen and fuel from the atmosphere, marking a crucial step towards making humanity a multi-planetary species. Yeah, but it's a big step because we're going to lose a lot of people. So by 2054, we're going to have a million people on Mars, assuming global stability. And by that time, how many people will we have lost on Mars just setting it up? Because we've got to get to the moon. We've got to get parts and everything that we need on the moon and then go to Mars. And then once you're on Mars, those people have to create a viable community.

before we even come back to the moon. So we can keep sending all the people you want there, but you're not coming back until we've created a viable community. And you're going to need rules and laws. We've covered this before, too. You're going to need rules and laws on that other planet. It's just not going to be a utopian world that Elon wants, although maybe it will be.

You know what? Maybe it will be. Maybe it will be, you know, assuming global stability and all. I know maybe we will be maybe you know who knows am I am I the richest guy on the planet no I am not and Elon is so he can go ahead and dream all he wants all right let's go with let's get the joke of the day

and get on out of here so this joke of the day I may have actually done this joke before I don't remember but I made me laugh last night and I thought okay well then I'm gonna I'm gonna I'm gonna tell it again whether whether I did it before or not, okay? So the joke is, I was drinking whiskey,

and the bartender screamed, does anybody know CPR? And I yelled, I know the entire alphabet. And we all laughed and laughed, you know, except for this one guy. See what I mean?

It just makes me laugh. Dream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.