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Blaze Radio Network. And now, Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher. Congratulations to Doyle Archer. Doyle Archer, the oldest truck driver in the world. 90-year-old holder of the Guinness World Record for the oldest truck driver. He is quoted as saying the word retire is not in his vocabulary. He's worked for one company in Kansas for the past 20 years, which means he started there when he was 70.

He's been driving for almost 60 years, racking up approximately 5.5 million miles behind the wheel. I do not plan on retiring anytime soon, as long as my health holds up. I will keep driving. I do not have the word retire in my vocabulary. The great-grandfather, of 26 said his career has taken him all across the country.

Yeah, no kidding. And with 26 great grandkids, hello, he's also doing a little truck and business. Anything you can haul in a truck, I've hauled it. So congratulations to Mr. Doyle Archer, who is now the oldest trucker on the planet, according to Guinness World Records. I mean, that is awesome. And no one supports truckers more than this show and myself. So I just keep on trucking.

You guys are the lifeblood you guys and girls and gals, men and women, whatever you identify as. The most important thing you identify as is a truck driver. And you are the lifeblood of this country. And I know that. And I've made that perfectly clear. So y'all be safe out there, including Doyle Archer, who is now the

oldest truck driver in the world. Welcome. Welcome to chewing the fat. I mean, as long as we're talking about records, we might as well say congratulations to 55-year-old Amy Applehans

Goobser. I think that's how you pronounce her last name. G-U-B-S-E-R. If I'm wrong, I apologize. She became the first swimmer to complete the nearly 30-mile swim from San Francisco to the Farrellan Islands, enduring 17 hours in shark-infested waters.

Goobster, a grandmother and nurse coordinator at the UCSF Benoff Children's Hospital. I love them. Set off at 3.25 a.m. from beneath the Golden Gate Bridge, braving cold temperatures and challenging tides. I don't know why someone would want to do this. Despite the perilous journey, which involved battling strong currents and icy waters,

She managed to reach her destination. Her achievement is notable as she is the first to swim from the mainland to the Feralin Islands, a route considered tougher due to opposing tides and winds and also full of sharks. Apparently, she trained rigorously for years, participating in other cold water challenges, including a swim from Ireland to Scotland. Again, why? Following marathon swimming rules, and you have to be a firm follower of the marathon swimming rules. She was accompanied by a support boat and a team of support swimmers who joined her at

intervals after the 15 mile mark. So congratulations to Amy Appelhans Goobser, who became the first swimmer to complete that 30-mile swim. Again, congratulations. I don't know why, but hey, congratulations for doing it. Although I was reading about her, and she's kind of fascinating. She talked about how she started extreme open water swims 10 years ago when her youngest child graduated high school.

She said she knew, hey, it was time for me to do something for myself, and I found open water swimming. Really fascinating. It talked about how dangerous the swim actually was that this particular swim, they were tracking her, and they found,

eaten, half-eaten seals floating around. That could be you. That could be you. As the sharks were like, hey, that was a fresh body for me to eat. But there did not happen. She had plenty of jellyfish stings and sea lions and seals would show up. Hey, what are you doing in our waters? This is ours, okay?

But they did not attack her. So, really fascinating and good for her. I know. I don't understand it. I would not do it. But congratulations to her. And as with so many records in today's world, it's a record, but it isn't a record. Like, you know, the original article says that she became the first swimmer to complete the nearly 30-mile swim from San Francisco to the Faroe Islands. Well, that's true. So that is true. However, she's not the first person to swim that. distance or in those waters okay she's the first person to do it from the Golden Gate Bridge to the tiny Farallon Islands others have done it from the islands to San Francisco oh okay so how many people have done that I think it's only well six total and she, I'm counting her, and she's the only one that's done it from the Golden Gate Bridge to the islands.

The other five have done it from the islands to the Golden Gate Bridge. So it has been done before. Now, you know what? I'm not feeling like she's so awesome. Only six other people on the planet have done it. Yeah, yeah, but she's the only one that did it in that direction. Okay. Now, according to the Marathon Swimmers Federation, and I love them, the MSF, the Ferraland Islands are the toughest 13 swims in the world due to the cold water, strong tides, unstable weather, and of course, sharks, the great white sharks.

So, congratulations again. I thought you were the only one. thou, you weren't. It kind of takes away from it a little, doesn't it? Okay, I saw the story and I had it emailed to me a couple of times. Thank you for emailing it to me, Chewing the Fat at theblaze.com.

The average U.S. car age hits record high, surging to 12.6 years. Consumers are holding onto their cars. The average age of vehicles in operation continues to creep up. It's now 21st. 12.6 years.

The reason people were sending me the story is because this leans into the chewing-the-fat Jeff Fisher Economic Indicator, which is broken down cars on the side of the road. I don't know that this necessarily plays into that, but, you know, they're saying, you know, the older of the car, the more it's going to break down. My economic indicator believes that people neglect, no matter the age of the vehicle, neglect upkeep on the cars because they can't afford it.

And so then it breaks down and there it sits along the side of the road and they either get it fixed or not. But because they can't afford the upkeep, you see the cars breaking down on the side of the roads. In any event,

the average age of cars in the U.S. roads has reached a record high of 12.6 years. The number of cars aged 1 to 5 years has decreased while the total number of vehicles rose by 2 million. EV adoption topped 1 million in 2020,

but still way slower than the automakers expected and they're feeling that crunch right now. So the increase as attributed, according to this story, is the continued impact of the pandemic, higher new car prices, and consumer reluctance to switch to EVs. You think so? You think the cost is an attributing factor?

Yeah, no kidding. This is the seventh straight year that the age of the average car has risen. In addition, the average age of vehicles getting older, only 35% of cars in operation fall between one and five-year-old category with 88 million vehicles recorded. That's a drop of about 2 million from the year before. There you have it. So, cars are hitting, people are holding onto their automobiles,

no question, because they don't want the EVs. And they're also, when you see more cars along the side of the road, that is my economic indicator that things are getting a lot worse because people are not paying for upkeep on their cars, regular maintenance. They're waiting for it to completely break down because they just can't afford it. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits for travel and dining

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are reportedly wreaking havoc on a tight-knit British village and according to this story it's altering the way life in the quiet community has been in the past. So residents in Snit his ham

a village in the English county of Norfolk so their lives have been made hell after the birds sworn the area. The feral chickens have reportedly ruined gardens kept residents up at night, among other nuisances. Huh. So to make matters worse, curious tourists, I mean, if you haven't gotten rid of the problem, you might as well lean into it and start owning the problem. And now you have tourists coming, show you to look at the feral chickens and have them go crazy in your village. And they,

apparently are leaving the chicken's food, which has then attracted rats, because the chickens, you know, don't eat all the food or they eat most of the food or whatever. According to one person, now they're a real pain in the butt. If they come into your garden, they dig everything up. It's not just food for the chickens.

It's every bit of, oh, they find that brings rats. There was, what was it? Someone left the other week. quart of pink prawns. The rats are quite sizable around here and they breed like hell. I have to wear earplugs to sleep at night because of the constant crowing. Okay. So now they just want someone to come in and help them fix the problem.

Well, here's an idea for you, okay? Residents of Snetus Ham, S-N-E-T-T-I-S-H-A-M village in the county of Norfolk. there in the UK perhaps you should just sneak out and hear the chickens oh there you are

and maybe you do that once a night for a week and the other chickens will get the message and if they don't you just keep doing it until you're down to nothing or if you don't have a weapon and you're afraid to fire a gun in the UK maybe you just go out and catch them and trap them and make them

disappear one at a time just a quiet little one at a time dead chicken and you either eat it or you bury it whatever you want to do with it but you don't say anything to anybody you just start thinning the herd know what i'm saying and then you don't have to worry about that and you don't have to worry about anyone coming in to you know oh let's the government take care of it no no no no know. And you need to do that with the rats as well. Just a little at a time and get rid of them. Here, little rat or chicken. Here, little rat or chicken. There you are. I mean, take some personal responsibility. I know that one resident said, oh, someone came and moved them. I'd buy them a big beer. Take a little personal responsibility resident there of the

Schnettingham Village. Take care of it yourself. How about that? And just one at a time you just thin the herd. They're not a herd, Jeff. They're a flock.

Okay. Then one at a time, you thin the flock. It's just that easy. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink. Desperically. Be sure to follow me on my social media account.

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So this show originates in the DFW area, the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex. So people around here are going a little crazy. We have the Dallas Mavericks, our NBA team, headed to game five of the NBA Conference Championships against the Minnesota Timberwolves. They are up three to one. Should have won the other night at home and been done with it, but they didn't. And so they go back to Minnesota tonight.

Boston Celtics, they swept the Indiana Pacers for an O to win the Eastern Conference Finals, so they advanced to the NBA Finals. So Boston will either take on Minnesota or Dallas. Hopefully, they will take on the Dallas Mavericks. And then in the NHL, the Dallas Stars, our hockey team, are in the semifinals as well. So they're tied with Edmonton 2-2 to go to the finals. and up against Florida, the Panthers,

up against the New York Rangers, and that series is tied to two to go to the championship in the hockey as well. So, I mean, people around here are all excited. The stars and the Mavericks are headed close to the championships

and wondering, oh, I wonder if the Dallas Cowboys will ever get that far again. Huh, no one really knows, do they? You know, as long as I'm talking about sports, do you see where Major League Baseball officially updated its statistics leaderboard yesterday to include 2,300 qualifying men who played in the Negro leagues between 1920 and 1948. So the integration incorporates findings from a three-year research process initiated after MLB first recognized the Negro League as major leagues in December of 2020.

But they couldn't stop there. We had to look at all the news reports and box scores and stories that people told. that document as much as they can and now they've updated and reshaped the longstanding leaderboards with legendary power hitter and Hall of Fame catcher Josh Gibson now recognized as the all-time leader

in career batting average with 372 passing Ty Cobb the lifetime numbers from MLB players reflecting their time in the Negro leagues were also recognized, including those of Jackie Robinson, William Age and the National Page. Okay, well those three players

went to Major League Baseball they have some records of their own in Major League Baseball. I don't know that I get it. I know what they're trying to do. But it just feels like no. You know, the games were different. The leagues were different. We didn't have, you know, I know they set these records and we have the documentation

or believed to have the correct documentation. But the leagues and everything else about it was different than what was Major League Baseball. Now, should they be recognized? Absolutely. We should be recognized and talked about and be a part of our history. But should they be in the record books going ahead of Major League Baseball players? I find that difficult to take. But they didn't ask me. Oh, and yesterday we talked about Scotty Sheffler and they were having the big going before the judge and the court

and if I told you to follow me on my social media accounts and if you did you know that the charges were dropped against Scotty Sheffler including the felony assault of the police officer at three misdemeanors he was arrested way back and way back

the 17th of this month and I listened to the video of him, the interaction with Scotty and another police officer that hadn't heard before. It's fascinating to me. But his attorney,

after the charges were dropped during his press conference, was confronted about that. And I love his answer. Steve, I have to ask you, though, the statements that Scotty made after the arrest don't seem to fully align with what you're saying right now.

He admits that he got impatient and went too far. No, here's what happens, is he is being interrogated after the most stressful situation of his life. Right. And they also is actually asking him leading questions and trying to get him to agree with them. Okay. And that's why you don't talk to the police because they are going to try to put words in your mouth. Thank you. That's exactly what they did.

But that was after he was writing his Miranda rights. He didn't have to speak. He didn't have to speak. But again, he asked to talk. to the officer. He wanted to explain to him what happened. However, they are trying to get him to confess to something that he didn't do. And the video evidence shows he didn't do it.

Amen. Amen. So it's over. And Scottie Shephler is cleared of anything wrongdoing. The three misdemeanors are gone and the felony assault charge is gone. That's what they wanted to just have it go away. Then we have news about Harvey Weinstein. You know him, you love him.

He may face a new indictment. Remember, the New York Appeals Court overturned his 2020 rape conviction last month. And he still has to be in prison from the L.A. convictions. But they said that, we're retrying this. We're not letting Harvey Weinstein do. He cannot have, not be in jail in New York. Whether or while he's in jail in L.A. So they claim now,

that they may have more accusers to testify in the Weinstein retrial. Oh, okay. Well, it kind of was the problem last time when you brought people in that really didn't have anything to do with the case. So, all right, it'll be fascinating to see how they retry this case. But Harvey's still in jail, and he's not getting out before he dies. So this is just people wanting to, I don't know, continue to get a paycheck, I guess, and show how evil Harvey is. We got it.

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Well, we're getting through the list, finally. This week has been a long week on who died today. Let's begin with Richard Emma Sherman. Richard M. Sherman, two-time Oscar winner and half of the Sherman Brothers songwriting duo, and who can forget the Sherman songwriting duo, dies and is dead at the age of 95. His work included original songs for Disney's Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty, bang, bang. So, rest in peace, Richard M. Sherman. dead at the age of 95.

According to Cedars Sinai, he died due to age-related illness. So it couldn't be that. Nothing to do with that. Don't even think about it. Then we have Albert Ruddy. Albert Ruddy, R-U-D-D-Y, two-time Oscar-winning film producer,

known for The Godfather and the Million Dollar Baby, dies at 94. He also co-created Hogan's heroes, teamed up with Burt Reynolds on the longest yard in cannonball run movies. He co-created

many things and worked, obviously, as I said, worked on the Godfather and a million-dollar baby. So, rest in peace, Al Roddy, dead at the age of 94. He died at the UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles,

and he died. following a brief illness. So, I mean, it couldn't have been that or they would have said something. Okay, then we have Henry Earl. Henry Earl is, I guess, I don't know that this is a Guinness World Record or not, but he was known as the most arrested man.

Very sad that Henry Earl has passed away. he was 74. He apparently he spent the last several years of his life at a nursing home in Owenton, Kentucky, which is about right there, about 50 miles outside of Lexington. And that's where he racked up most of his arrest was in Lexington.

It doesn't give a cause of death, so no cause of death listed. From the nursing home, Henry Earl again was 74. He was known as, the world's most arrested man. Earl was regularly collared for public order crimes, fueled by alcohol and booked into the Fayette County Detention Center in Lexington.

When they stopped counting, Earl had spent 6,000 days in county lockup for offenses like public intoxication and disorderly conduct. Violent crimes did not appear on Earl's rap sheet. Yeah, he was not a violent man. He was just a drug addict and a drunk who needed other people's stuff to survive. That's all. I don't know why they stopped counting.

Let's go ahead and continue to count. So he would usually spend several days behind bars, you know, and then they'd set him free again. That's all. I don't worry about it. And he spent a lot of time in jail. But he stopped being arrested after 2017 public intoxication. that's I bet when they shipped him to the nursing home and he probably wasn't a well man then

but he lasted another seven years after they shipped him off to the nursing home so maybe he just continued to get drunk at the old nursing home anyway rest in peace to Henry Earl known as the world's most arrested man dead at the age of 74 all right then we have

well it's kind of a happy and a sad story all wrapped up in one aren't they all? So a flamingo who was described as having been unlucky in love has laid her first egg

at a nature reserve at the age of 70. Okay, so now you're thinking, wait, flamingos can live till they're 70. Most of them live about 40 years old. Gertrude's been hanging on

for a long time. I guess Gertrude's hanging on. She wasn't going to go until she had a little flamengo business. and it didn't matter. Sure she was, she had a good personality, but the other flamingos just didn't want anything to do with Gertrude until now. So there are more than 65 flamingos at this particular reserve.

And finally, finally Gertrude, finally one of the flamingos said, okay, Gertrude, get over here. I get over here. I got something for you. And that's what happened. So Gertrude has laid an egg at the age of 70, and she is just as happy as a little, well, flamengo. And apparently, though, this is where the sad news comes in,

because that right there, that whole part of it is really, you know, good news for everyone involved. Apparently, the egg is not fertile or viable. So now the people at the park are just saying, well, we're just letting her sit on it and take care of her egg because pretty soon all the other all the other flamingos are going to have little flamingolets or whatever the hell they're called and they're going to the eggs are going to hatch and Gertrude is going to be sitting on her egg and that egg is dead.

Not funny. It's not funny at all. But why are we teasing Gertrude? That's just mean. We're just being mean to Gertrude now. We're going to let her mess around with this egg thinking she's going to have a little, a little flamingolette. I don't know what they call it.

Is a flaminglet? Flaminglets? Flamingos, and whatever they are. A little baby flamingos. And she's not going to have one. Everyone else is going to have one. Now everyone's going to be laughing at her again. Look at Gertie.

She can't even have a kid. And sure, maybe she had an egg, but of course the egg is dead. Why don't you just leave, Gertrude? You've been hanging around. here too long. So hopefully it was more than a fling that got her this agate.

Maybe the other flamengo who took care of a little Gertrude business will give her a little bit of love and say, Gertie, come here, baby. It's okay. I don't foresee that happening. But it's possible. Then we have the family in South Dakota, you know, the gravel pit state,

infected there had a big family reunion in the gravel pit state. And the family got together and they were all happy and they had a family they don't know there were nine family members there from 12 to 62 and they gathered outside the gravel gravel pit and the one homeowner had recently returned from Canada and had an American black bear all cut up ready to eat from the freezer oh they should have cooked it better because six members were infected with brain worms a condition

called trichinella Trichinellosis. That's what I said. Trichinellosis. Yeah, I got it. Tricholosis. Nice of her to show up ever so often, isn't it? Thank you. Yeah, yeah, no, no, thank you. Thank you. Anyway, this trichinelosis is a rarely reported here in the U.S., and it changed, in fact, as a result of changes in pork production practices from historical gnomes.

The cases reported in recent years are attributed to consumption of meat from wild game. So the CDC recently released its findings of its investigation from the larval brain infection. So nine members of the family gathered at the relatives' home and six of them got real sick. So the Saskatchewan hunting outfitter recommended that he freeze the meat to kill the parasite.

He did for 45 days. Ooh, not so fast, my friend. Because the parasites in the bear meat, frozen or not, they still are there unless they are cooked dead. So the internal temperature of the meat has to be 165 degrees because the trichinella species

is freeze resistant. Yeah, it predominates the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. Oh, okay. So especially if you consume game meat harvested from northern latitudes, yeah, you need to cook that bad boy really well and 165 degrees in there. So he froze it for 45 days. So what?

Not long enough. Doesn't matter. You have to cook it. The family told the CDC that grilling the bare meat kebabs was challenging because it was so dark and the cook couldn't tell if it was done. When they bit into it they realized it was undercooked and put it back on the grill. Ooh, too late.

So one of the family members was hospitalized with fever, severe muscle pain, swelling around the eyes. That does not sound like fun. This was his second hospital stay and fourth doctor visited 17 days. He told the medical staff about eating the bear meat and that's when the doctors

discovered the parasitic round worm in his body. It took all that time for him to figure out that it was from the bear meat? And there's a, hey, you know, I don't know. I guess it could have been the bear me we had 17 days ago.

That's why I feel like I got something crawling around inside of me. Oh, is that that parasitic roundworm? Yes, yes, it is. So the rest of the family spread across Minnesota, Arizona, and the gravel pit state, South Dakota. Found that six of them were infected, as I said.

Two of them said they only ate the vegetables that were cooked along with. with the meat, but according to this, scientists were not surprised. I guess even just touching it. The old parasitics crawl onto the veggies as well. So cook that meat, and make sure if you're going to have bear meat with the family, make sure that that thing is cooked. It's the matcha or the three ensemble Cado Cephora of the fates that I just

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North Korea has sent balloons over, you know, in the airspace into South Korea. We find out that the balloons were filled with garbage and animal excrement. And so I don't know if people are getting hit with them.

I don't know what's happening with them. I guess this is an answer to the balloon barrage sent by South Korea to North Korea carrying anti-regime leaflets and k-pop music so north korea's a little pissed uh my man kimmy is a little wound-up that you would send over a leaflets with anti-regime leaflets and k-pop music is probably more pissed about the k-pop music and so now he's loaded up balloons with trash and poop and sent them off to south korea And now South Korea, oh, that's violating international law and seriously threaten the safety of our citizens. Well, is it though, you know, you're the one that started it, sending your little balloons with K-pop music.

And now he's just answering the call. I mean, I'm not a big fan. I don't want to, I don't want to wake up with a balloon landing in my yard full of trash and animal poop either. But maybe you shouldn't have started it. And here you go, here's an idea. Have the military shoot them as they're flying across the border. Huh? What do you think? No, I don't need a gunshot.

I'm just telling you, maybe the military should do that. Just a thought. Instead of on the border going, oh, look, those are beautiful colored balloons, aren't they? I think I'll just let it land on my face. Oh, was that trash and animal poop? I've got to be really mad now. You know, maybe we do a little preemptive strike, but again, what do I? know. Oh, and keep your fingers crossed.

The agency, NASA, and Boeing are hoping to get that rocket launched on Saturday, June 1st, the beginning of hurricane season and Pride Month. Although I don't think it's called Pride Month anymore, right?

I think everyone just calls it Pride. So, Saturday is also my daughter's birthday, come to think of it. For the first crude flight of a Boeing Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of the agency's commercial crew program. They just can't get it

going. You know what? They stopped it I think on the 7th of this month and then they found other little things wrong with it and never could get a reschedule up. So now NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Sunni Williams will be the first to launch aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft

and ULA's Atlas of E rocket from the space launch complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. So if they don't make it, Saturday at 12, 25 p.m., they could maybe do it on Sunday. And if they don't make it Sunday, well, maybe we could do it on Wednesday. You know what?

If we can't do it on Wednesday, you know what? Maybe we can do it on Thursday. So maybe they'll get the launch in this week. We just don't know. Now, if they get the launch off, then it's going to dock at the space station and be there for about a week. And then it's going to come back and parachute an airbag-assisted landing in the southwestern United.

States. So I'd be fun to watch that land. Hopefully it lands in the desert where there's no housing. I'll be fine, Jeff. Don't worry about it. It's only made by Boeing. Okay then. Well, I'll quit worrying about it. Oh, and things are going well

in Azerbaijan. Apparently, the Armenian capital of Yoravan, the people are protesting and getting thrown in jail and they're all wound up and they've been wound up for quite a while now.

The Armenia's prime minister said, yeah, you know what? Go ahead, Azerbaijan. You can have those villages, those border villages. They're all yours. Yeah, go ahead. Take them.

They're all yours. You know what? We're sick of fighting you. And I just take the cities. I'm sorry, the villages. And they're all yours. Now, amazingly, there are people that are unhappy with that. I know.

Go figure. when the prime minister just hands over border villages to the other country. Yeah, you know, and they're all yours. And go ahead, quickly define your borders too, because we don't want any more uprising. I'm just sick of talking about it. So go ahead and take them. And so a little, a little uprising happening in the capital.

And those border villages as well are a little unhappy. So keep your. Keep your head out of swivel if you happen to be traveling to Azerbaijan or Armenia because, you know, it may run into a few problems. I mean, where can you go? I can't go to Ukraine. I can't go to Russia. I can't go to the Middle East.

I can't go, well, I guess I could go to South Korea, but, you know, keep your heads up. You don't want to have a poop balloon. 99 crab balloons landing on your head in South Korea. And in South Korea, coming from North Korea, I guess I just have to stay here in the States. And you know what? That's a good idea. My stepdad always said,

see what's here in the United States. It's beautiful before you start traveling around the world. But there's some places, you know, I'd like to visit. And now I can't because they're flying poop balloons overhead. So it makes me kind of sad. And also, here's a little joke and thought for the day. I'll leave you with this today, okay? And I had this sent to me and I thought, that's fascinating because, well, it's true.

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