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Episode Date: December 14, 2022

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Women who smoke are more likely to use menthol cigarettes, 44% than men who smoke, which is only 35%. Hispanic adults, you know, they, by race, non-Hispanic white adults, 13.3%, non-Hispanic black adults, 14.4%. Hispanic adults, 8%. And non-Hispanic Asian adults, so weird how they break everything down, 8%. Now, an overwhelming percentage of African-American black people smoke menthol cigarettes compared with 30% of white smokers. So when you start banning menthol cigarettes, you're attacking minorities. And that to me is a problem. I don't think it's a problem for anyone else, apparently.

but it's just another way that we want to divide the country even more. I know that New Zealand just passed a law that states that if you were born on or after January 1st, 2009, you can no longer buy cigarettes in New Zealand. Wait, what? Yes. It isn't just a lifetime ban on youth smoking. It's intended to eventually, wipe out tobacco smoking in New Zealand altogether.

And I guess smoking is not so popular in New Zealand anyway. More adults vape than smoke cigarettes as of last month, according to the government. So they'll be coming for your vape pens very, very soon. So if you still smoke and you still enjoy a cigarette and man, I wish I did. I know stop. I'm glad I don't smoke anymore. I haven't smoked for, I don't know, however long it's been three, four years.

I still chew some nicotine gum, which I'm now told is terrible as well. But no more cigarettes. I have not smoked at all. And I do miss them. We've talked about that before, man. There are times when I just want to fire one up. I've stopped at a red light.

I've talked about it before. But if I've stopped at a red light, And I look to the left of me and somebody's smoking. And I look to the right of me and somebody's smoking. I mean, there I am stuck in the middle without a cigarette again. And I know it's terrible. There are times when I see people smoking and I'm like, oh, what are you doing? But there are other times when I see people smoking.

And I'm like, oh, that looks so good. So I will just say that perhaps you need to smoke them while you got them. Welcome. Welcome. Welcome to Chewing the Fats. I see where amateur astronomers have been challenged to spot an asteroid for Christmas. The asteroid 2015 RN35, what a great name, about the size of, I don't know, the great pyramid of Giza. It's safely going to pass Earth on Thursday, is it? So tomorrow, if you're listening live, today is.

the 14th of December, 2022, so the 15th Thursday of December is when it's going to pass. So I don't know, it's not Christmas yet. I know we're in the Christmas season, but anyway, we're calling it the Christmas

asteroid. So they're hoping that amateur astronomers will be able to, you know, look at it and point it out. They claim that at 312 a.m., the asteroid 2015 RN35 will come its closest to our planet, passing within around 400 and 30,000 miles, which is just

under the distance to the moon and back. So they want to challenge, uh, challenge you to check out the Christmas asteroid. And they keep saying, hey, you should use the asteroid toolkit. Oh, okay. Cause why? Well, little is known about the asteroid. And we want you to help us out. Okay. Now, it will be visible between the day of its close approach, which is tomorrow, until Monday, December 19th, 2020.

It has a visual magnitude of around 14, similar to that of Pluto, meaning it should only be viewable with telescopes that are 30 centimeters, which is the 11.8 inches and larger. So it isn't well known. we don't know what it's made of, or precisely how big it is, or if it's spinning on its axis, or even know its orbit particularly well. But don't worry about it. We know it's going to miss the planet. So shut up, okay? We're interested, and we want you to, you know, look at it and tell us about this near-Earth object

for our studies, please. So then I got me thinking, well, what is the near-Earth object toolkit? So here you go. Here's your Near Earth Object Toolkit. The NEO Toolkit, a new set of astronomical tools designed by the NEO Coordination Center of ESA's Planetary Defense Office. It's currently composed of four complementary tools, each one focused on a specific goal. With these tools, users will be able to obtain high accuracy, precisely locating asteroids and their orbits in the night sky or the solar system or simulating the close approach

of those objects that may come closest to earth. So number one, you need an orbit visualization tool. So you need a telescope. Okay. Number two, fly-by visualization tool. So that produces high-precision simulations of near-Earth objects in their close approach to Earth. You need a sky chart display tool, which will locate the path in the sky, followed by your objects of interest as observed from any coordinates in the world. And you need an observation planning tool that will calculate observational conditions and precise ephemorides. Yeah, that's what I said.

Ephemorities. That's what I said. Stop saying it. Okay. So you'll be precise with the Ephemerities. And for those of you wondering, what does that even mean?

Well, it's a book of planetary positions that lists where the planets will be in the zodiac in the past, present, or future. In the past, it was used by astrologers in order to calculate birth charts by hand.

But these days, it's mainly useful for studying planetary transits and cycles. So there you have it. Your N-E-O-JARDS. toolkit. Good luck. Oh, as long as we're in space, when the rover perseverance landed on Mars, it was equipped with the first working microphone on the planet's surface. Scientists have used it to make the first ever audio recording of an extraterrestrial whirlwind. Nice. So the microphone is

not on continuously. It records for about three minutes every couple of days. Getting the world when recording was lucky, though not necessarily unexpected, according to the scientists. In the Gisero Crater, where Perseverance landed, the team has observed evidence of nearly 100 dust devils, tiny tornadoes of dust and grit since the rovers landed. This is the first time that the microphone was on when one passed over the rover. You'd think that maybe they were looking and go, hey, is that a dust devil? why don't you turn on the microphone. But no, no, no, no.

The sound recording of the dust devil taken together with air pressure readings and time lapse photography help scientists understand the Martian atmosphere and weather. That, wow, right? Wow. Makes me want to go to Mars.

Right, Elon? Let's hear the sound of a Martian dust devil again. See if it, you know, enhances your need to go to Mars or want for that matter. Here we go. I feel like Anne Hache in the movie Volcano.

Wow. Now how bad do you want to go to Mars? I know. Me too. Especially after what, from what the Pope said. The Pope, when you go to Mass, don't you want to be uplifted a little bit? I do.

You go to church. You want to be uplifted. That's what you're going for. The Pope has warned of omens of even greater destruction and desolation. That's awesome. Thank you, Pope. You're happening. You're making me happy.

So he was speaking at a mass and he offered a harrowing vision of the future, saying he has seen signs of an evening. even darker time ahead for humanity. Yay! He has a dire vision. Omens. Oh, that's great. Now, the Mass was commemorating the feast of our lady Guadalupe, which fell on Monday. It commemorates the appearance of the Virgin Mary to a young man, St. Juan Diego in 1531 in Mexico City. A day is a national holiday in Mexico. But don't worry about, you know, we've got wars, we've got Russian conflict in Ukraine, we've got rising cost of living, poverty, famine, an international energy crisis.

Don't worry about all that because the Pope said he has a vision that things will get worse. That's great. It is homily. The pontiff said, it is a bitter time, filled with the rumbling of war, growing in just famine, poverty, and suffering. But at this bleak and disconcerting time, there are omens of even greater destruction and desolation. Oh, okay.

Really uplifting so far. He added that at Christmas, God's divine love and his coming down to us tell us that this too is a propitious time of salvation in which the Lord, through the Virgin Mother, continues to give us his son. He urged the Vatican congregation to get involved with each other without delay, to go out to meet our brothers and sisters who have been forgotten and discarded by our consumerist and indifferent societies. Yeah, all you people that are working making money, you know, for the consumerist,

indifferent society that he speaks of, go out and help the homeless people, would you? Go out and help the migrants, because you are people who have been working. for the consumerist and indifferent societies. Man, I love uplifting masses. And that's what you go to church for, is to be uplifted and praise the Lord, don't you? But instead, you get, look, there are omens of even greater destruction and desolation.

He did offer to help you out, though, go out and help some of those people that have been discarded, you consumerist, an indifferent society member? Thanks, Pope. Appreciate it. Take care. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink desperately.

So, congratulations to Adam Sandler. Yes, Adam Sandler, 56 years old now. He is poised to receive one of the country's top. comedy awards in front of a Washington crowd, he will be the 24th winner of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. That's what the Kennedy Center announced. The award from the D.C. Performing Arts Institution recognizes individuals who have had an impact on American society in ways similar to the distinguished 19th century novelist and essayist Samuel Clemens. See what they did there? Because he's best known as Mark Twain.

Adam has entertained audiences for over three decades with his films, music, and his tenure as a fan-favored cast member on Saturday Night Live. Kennedy's Senator-President Deborah Rutter said in a statement announcing this election. Adam has created characters that have made us laugh, cry, and cry from laughing. That's actually, I mean, we have laughed pretty hard at a lot of his movies. Past recipients of the Mark Twain Prize include John Stewart. Dave Chappelle, Julia Louise Dreyfus, David Letterman, Bill Murray, and Jay Leno. I love this, among others.

I guess we couldn't name all 24. I mean, there's been some great winners. Richard Pryor was there. Jonathan Winters. Carl Reiner, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Newhart, Lily Tomlin, Lauren Michaels, Steve Martin, Neil Simon, Billy Crystal, George Carlin, Bill Cosby, maybe that's why they didn't want to name them all, Tina Faye, Will Farrell, Ellen DeGeneres,

Carol Burnett, J. Lenno, Eddie Murphy, Bill Murray, David Letterman, Julia Louise Dreyfus, Dave Chappelle, John Stewart, and now Adam Sandler. Congratulations to Adam and all the others for the Mark Twain. What's the full title of the award? Yeah, you get the Mark Twain Award. Here you go. Get out.

They'll go make us laugh for a little while. It's the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Okay, congratulations. Wow, as long as we're congratulating people, let's congratulate Michael Jordan. The NBA's most valuable player trophy is now named after Michael Jordan. The new Michael Jordan trophy was one of six renamed trophies unveiled by the NBA on Tuesday. Oh, wow. Okay.

They changed the game. the whole thing up. Jordan won five MVP awards in his story career. Karim Abdul-Jabbar with six. Oh, wow. Why isn't the Karim Abdul-Jabbar Award? Huh. I mean, either one of those, but I mean, Michael.

Hello. Michael. That's weird. That's interesting. That they didn't give it to Karim Abdul. Anyway, our new collection of trophies celebrate some of the greatest and most impactful players in the history of the NBA. That's Adam Silver, the NBA.

Commissioner. Yeah, yeah, whatever. Go talk to China. As we recognize the league's top performers each season, we pay tribute to the legends who embody these prestigious awards. Okay. So we have the creation of the Jerry West Trophy for the player considered the most clutch of the season. The Clutch Player of the Year award. All right. Well, that's the Jerry West trophy. Hakeem Elijah won trophy for defensive player of the year. Wilt Chamberlain trophy for rookie of the year, John Havlicek trophy for sixth man of the year, and George McCann Trophy for the most improved player of the year. Well, congratulations. They thought they were going to name it after Kobe Bryant, but nope. And let's see, the NBA Social Justice Award is named after Abdul Ebar.

There you go. You can't let Kareem go. Man, no way. And you've got Bill Russell and Kobe. What are we doing with those guys? We'll have to come up with some award for them. Anyway, congratulations to all those guys, including Michael for the NBA MVP trophy of the year,

the Michael Jordan Trophy. So yesterday we talked about Twitter having a big yard sale going on. You can go back and listen to the show. show. We talked about Elon having a yard sale. You know, drumming up some cash. You got a little walking around money. So he's selling some things from the Twitter headquarters. Well, now we know why. I thought maybe he just needs a little walking around cash. But apparently Twitter has not paid rent for its San Francisco headquarters or its other global offices in recent weeks. Oh. And it says here, as it tries to trim costs. Well, I mean, you still have to pay rent for the spaces. So I

guess he's maybe waiting to get kicked out of some of the other places, or he's going to move and just pay what he has to, not sure. And maybe he has paid rent. And they're just, you know, he is public enemy number one. So anything that we can write bad about Elon Musk, we'll write bad about Elon Musk. So we'll see what's come of that. And maybe we have to wait until after the yard sale, first part of January, for him to pay rent, because he was hoping for a little walking around money, but he's probably not going to get enough walking around money if he has to take that yard sale money and pay the rent. But you never, never know. Remember, you can always follow me on Twitter at Jeffy JFR, Facebook and Instagram, Jeff Fisher Radio. You can always email the

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That's just the way life is. Okay? All right, good. Also, oh, sad news. Sad news from HBO Max. world and the nevers are being removed from hbo max wait what yeah apparently the shows have been canceled and hboh max is going to go ahead and pull them get them out of here now the nevers i don't even think they did the last half of their first season i watched a few of the first episodes of the nevers

and it was okay uh you know i can understand why that show didn't make the cut but uh it was you know It was okay. Westworld was a huge show for them, although I think they lost their way, maybe the last couple of seasons. But they're going to pull the plug, take them down from HBO Max. They're guessing that perhaps, you know,

they're going to go to a streaming platform with ads, go to another free streaming platform with ads. Who knows? But if you wanted to watch Westworld and or the Nevers on HBO Max, they're going away soon. so it says here the show is leaving

the streaming service just over a month after it was canceled so maybe they're already pulled I don't know it doesn't say it says has been canceled

and will be removed from the streaming platform before oh that was the nevers yeah okay so they're pulling the plug and there's no telling when so if you go to HBO Max

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Huh. According to this, the pandemic has exasperated an already short supply of specially bred canines that detect explosives. Huh. So humans have relied on dogs for centuries, and they're great, and they can detect all kinds of things from drugs and bodies and diseases. But I guess over the last few years, we've faced a shortage of canines trained to sniff out bombs. and it's an issue that got a lot worse during the pandemic. So the executive director of Penn Vet Working Dog Center at the University of Pennsylvania, and man, do I love the Penn Vet Working Dog Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

Cindy Otto has been warning of this shortage since at least 2016. She's been screaming it from the mountain tops. So she believes that, you know, she said we rely heavily on procurement of dogs from other countries. Now, I would like to just stop there for a moment and say, why? But, okay. She testified before Homeland Security Committee six years ago, saying by outsourcing our national security requirements, we give up control of the type of dogs, the health of the dogs, and the early training of the dogs. We are also at risk for supply interruption due to politics, disaster, or disease. This was in 2016. What happened? I don't know.

Politics, disaster, or disease in there. Huh. Now, the federal government employs 5,159 dogs as of February 2022. And it performs tasks that range from detective explosives on trains to sniffing out disease. 7% of these dogs come from the United States. That is amazing. And the rest are mostly imported from Europe. Those numbers are from the American Kennel Club.

When the pandemic hit, dogs were a hard-defined commodity. Yeah, because dogs just disappeared, right? They didn't go anywhere. I'm so stupid. Okay, so I know that, you know, the canine nose is the best technology. This is a promo for, you know, dogs and how good they are. But I got it. That's what we're using them for, right?

So, you know, with the global crisis, that really put a cringe on how they do it. Estimates put the dog nose anywhere from 10 to 100. 100,000 times more sensitive than humans. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I got it. They're great. I know. That's all, I'm all for it.

I got no problem with that. So, um, dogs are not the only animals with a superior sense of smell. Okay, then. We could use other animals. Let's see who we have. We have jackals. I don't know that we want to use jackals. We can use rats.

I mean, we do to use rats to find some bombs already. And elephants. that would be awesome that would be awesome to have an elephant smell and luggage at the airport but probably not going to happen it would just be fun to see so according to the

Transportation Security Administration a passenger screening dog and handler can cost about $46,000. Okay, I guess that's just for training or whatever. I mean, you're not paying the person to be with the dog just $46,000 a year, are you? That seems a little low. One solution experts proposed to deal with the shortage is to increase the number

of trained dogs bred in the U.S. programs. You think? I mean, I think we're way behind the A-Bull in this. Why are we even saying, you know, we should. should train more dogs bread in the U.S. We should already be doing that. That is just ridiculous that we're not doing that. And then they talk about this Auburn dog at Auburn University is working towards making that a reality by, you know, training dogs bread here in the U.S.

We'll get to it. What are we doing? Oh, there's not yet a roadmap to complete a solution to domestic sourcing for detection dogs. Well, make one. You call, you know what? Email me. Chewing the fat at the blaze.com. And I'll help you lay out a roadmap on how to get trained dogs bred in the U.S. I mean, come on now.

Really agonizing. Now, really, all I want is to have, all I want is to have drug sniffing elephants at the airport. That's all I want. Okay, so what is going on in Manitowoc, Wisconsin? It's right across the water. This is Michigan. At Manitowoc, Wisconsin is right across there.

Across Lake Michigan, right there. Anyway, what is happening in Manitowoc? All right? So we have a couple of stories out of Manitowoc. And you don't normally get big news happening from Manitowoc. But here you go. So a school had to close down because they discovered dozens of yellow sack spiders. A middle school is back open now, thankfully, wow.

after the discovery of dozens of these yellow sack spiders. Now, a couple people got bit. Yeah, hello. Hello, if my kid comes home with a bite from a yellow sack spider, we're thinking about burning that school down to the ground. That's all I'm saying. But they didn't burn it down. They shut it down and they sent in the spider killers

and they apparently killed them. I don't know. It doesn't kill. kill you. You know, you become itchy and swollen, unless, of course, you're allergic, which, thankfully, these teacher and a student were not. They apparently needed medical attention for swelling, itching, and pain. Did they?

But yes, that's what it says. All right. Fine. So, Yellow Sacks spiders, again, are not lethal. Just painful. But they called in the Valley Pest Control. I don't know if Valley Pest Control is right there and down. town manna to walk or not, but it's one of their big pest control companies, probably has the

contract with the school system. It says, uh, hey, we went in to eradicate the spiders and the crew killed close to 30 spiders in this school. We don't even know where they came from. They just showed up. Now, they like to stay in, you know, warm places. So the rooms that they showed up in were near the library. So that's the only thing they know. So they figured, you know, I guess they're figuring that they were in the books. and then they would spread out looking for things to eat and attacking people from the library. So, I mean, there's a movie for you. If you want to make a movie, Yellow Sacks Spiders in Manitowoc.

One more story out of Manitowoc, which started my question, what is going on in Manitowoc, okay? So an 18-year-old is charged with intentionally running down geese. What is happening in Manitowoc, okay? The teen is accused of drugs. driving into a flock of geese outside of church. Last August he's charged with felony

mistreatment of animals. Okay, stop it. This is just silly. All right. So two witnesses told police they saw a pickup truck accelerated into the parking lot of Faith Evangelical Church. If you're in Manitowoc, you know where that is.

And head for a flock of Canadian geese, which were, you know, obviously in the parking lot. Witnesses said the truck hit the flock, drove in circles then left. Okay. Now, it had been okay. Apparently they found a dead Canadian goose. Now, do they know that he killed it? Maybe, I guess they can prove that. I don't know. They police officer reviewed the surveillance video from the church and the pickups path of travel demonstrated the driver was intentionally driving where the most geese were present.

And the entirety of the incident lasted 17 seconds, suggesting the sole purpose of entering the parking lot was to target. the geese. No, the sole purpose of entering the parking lot was to spin through the geese and have them all fly up around the truck. What do you? It's not rocket science. It's geese science. So they hunted down the truck and the lady that owned it said her son drives it. And he said, yeah, I just got new bag tires. I was trying to drift. And I was just messing around. I was trying to scare the flock away. I didn't intend to kill a goose. He should have never said that. But that was the deal, right?

I mean, it was just an accident to kill the stupid goose. And there's a parking lot full of them. One down doesn't hurt anything. Sorry. Sorry about it, Peter. But one down doesn't mean anything, okay? Come on now. Now, he's pleaded not guilty to the charges against him of mistreatment of animals,

causing death and misdreamment. Disorderly Conduct and bail jumping? What? Online court records show he was out on bail for a domestic abuse-related disorderly conduct charge filed in 2021. His kid's only 18 years old. What is happening in Manitowoc? My gosh, this city has gone down.

If he's found guilty for the charge of animal mistreatment causing death, three and a half years in prison, $10,000 fine. So the court said, hey, you've got until December 16th, which is just a couple of days away, to work out an offer. And then the court day just said in January. So they're trying to work out a deal. We'll see if they work out some kind of deal in this.

I hope they do. I mean, you know, he needs to go to jail for killing a goose? No. Plus, they're mean. Do they deserve to be? be killed by a truck? No. What did he mean to kill it by swimming through the church parking lot? No. But, you know, come on. It's just a one little old goose. I know. You can hate me for it.

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at OnePeloton.ca. When's the last time you listen to AM Radio? I mean, I listen, I can tell you that I listen to AM radio when I'm in my car. I listen to AM and FM. I know that I have both, my car. I have an AM and FM radio in my car. And I also have a CD player in my car, which I never use. And I'll tell you why I never use my CD player in my car, because when I purchased this car

used, in the DVD player, or the CD player was a CD. It doesn't come out. It's some Spanish language CD. I'll listen to it ever so often. But I'm like, hey, I wonder what's, oh yeah, that's right, that's still in there. And it just won't come out. And I'm not taking it out. I don't know. I'm not listening to CDs anyway. Listen to my phone or AM FM radio.

And so I, you know, AM, I've spent a lot of my years on AM radio. I love AM radio. And I guess apparently electric cars and AM radio don't mix. So EV manufacturers are booting AM radio from their vehicles, citing electromagnetic interference that causes pesky noise. noise and static. So Tesla, Volvo, Porsche, Audi, some Volkswagen EVs already come without AM radio. Drivers of Ford's 2023 F-150 Lightning Electric pickup, which I believe just won an award. Yes, it is Motor Trends Truck of the Year. Congratulations. It's going to have to make do without

ideologically charged hot takes from their favorite talk. show host on the morning commute. That's BS. I don't even like the way that's written. That pisses me off. Because AM radio... The hate for AM radio, man. Technological solutions to make EVs and AM radio compatible do exist,

but car manufacturers might not bother to accommodate a minority of radio listeners. Just 20% of U.S. radio audiences listen to AM radio, and they tend to be older. Oh, that hurts. If the trend continues, news, growing EV adoption might spell the end of AM radio.

They've been saying that for a long time. They've been saying that for a long, long time. And they're really going after it now that Rush Limbaugh is gone. I mean, he's been, he's passed away now for, is he two years already? Oof. So many AM stations are reliant on rush hour listeners. And while FM waves are more resistant to electromagnetic interference, switching could be too costly for many radio stations, especially.

those that serve a niche audience. Well, I mean, many AM radio stations are simulcasts of their FM mothership these days anyway. So I don't know what to tell you. I know that, you know, there's plenty of people that, you know, believe that those cars should be, have AM radios. I mean, some of the newer cars were, they were talking about building without radios in them at all. and they were like people still live people still listen to the radio

they may not they may listen to a.m. radio less than they do FM radio but people still do listen to the radio just incredible I mean I will say though I was very disappointed in my AM radio and FM radio dials this weekend

when I couldn't find a football game I wanted to listen to I forget what game it was gosh darn it We had to go running around, and I wanted to listen to the broadcast of the football game while I was driving in my car. And there was not an AM station or an FM station carrying this game. What is happening to programming on the radio? Oh, Jeff, just look on your phone and find it on the app, and then you can listen to it that way. Well, it's funny you say that, because all I did was bring up YouTube TV on my phone

and just listen to the television broadcast. But that's not what I wanted to do. That's not what I wanted to do. I wanted to listen to the radio broadcast. Okay? So back off me. And this whole thing with electric cars and radios, we need to do something because this electric car thing is not going to,

I mean, they're just ramming it down our throats. And I fear, I fear that soon we're going to realize what a mistake that really is. And when we do, it may just be too late. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.