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Episode Date: October 2, 2024

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and they've been doing that for quite some time now, to grow their AI features better and better. You've been posting that goodbye meta, I'm sorry, goodbye meta AI, please note an attorney has advised us to put this on, failure to do so may result in legal consequences. As META is now a public entity, all members must post a similar statement. statement. If you do not post at least once, it will be assumed you are okay with them using

your information and photos. I do not give meta or anyone else permission to use any of my personal data, profile information or photos. And so I know I've been seeing that all over the Instagrammers and the Facebook posts. Hey, it doesn't do any good. It doesn't matter. Good luck. because Facebook said, yeah, that doesn't do anything. You can post that all you want, but it doesn't do anything. I mean, we've seen celebrities posting it, and they all have the, they want, they're mad. They're mad.

That, you know, AI is growing, and meta is using your content to help AI, generate more content. Without your say-so. Now, I agree. I'm with you 100%. You should own your own data. No question. But I mean, the Meta Connect conference that they just had, it was all AI as far as Zuckerberg

was concerned. So I guess you can make your accounts private. And that may help. But all the content prior to that, meta has been using anyway for, I don't know what. 10 years anyway. So you can post that post all you want, the no scraping post. No swiping.

No swiping. Go ahead. Doesn't mean a thing. Welcome. Facebook laughs. Meta laughs at your nose wiping post. They laugh. But you know why?

Because it doesn't matter. It doesn't do a thing. And Zuckerberg just goes back to his bunker in Hawaii and laughs to himself and he and his wife just donate millions of dollars to whoever they want to donate money to. But no swiping. Welcome.

Welcome to chewing the fat. So I talk a lot about companies, CEOs leaving, and I love talking about it because it talks about their benefit packages and what they get to walk out the door and all that kind of things. And the chief executive is what they get for their bonuses.

but I didn't realize, I mean, the CEO departures hit an all-time high. So the latest CEO turnover report, and I was digging into the CEO turnover report from a coaching firm Challenger Gray and Christmas. Man, I just can't get enough of the turnover, CEO turnover report from Challenger Gray and Christmas. Anyway, they found that 1,450 CEOs had announced their exits, at the end of August of this year. That's the highest year-to-day total on record is up 15% from 1261 departures last year,

which was another record. Several issues are converging, resulting in boards decisions too. We need new leadership. You need to go. Have a nice day. So the CEOs for nonprofits led the way at 311. Now, are they leaving because they can't make?

money or are they leaving because they're skimming off the top? I don't know. It doesn't say. Followed by tech 153, healthcare, 152. 4606 CEOs across all industries have stepped down from the top spot and into another sea level advisory or board roles while 361 left without giving a reason and another 33 retired. Yeah, that spot, that sea level advisory or board rules, roles, that's a good gig. Because now you don't have the responsibility of the CEO. Most people think the CEO doesn't do anything, but, you know, apparently they do.

And so now they just, they have to show up for board meetings. They get paid for that. And they still have the stock options. Yeah, they still have the stock options. It's, that's a good gig. If you can do it, you can take the CEO gig and then you realize, you know what? I don't want to do this anymore. I just be on the board.

You know what? In fact, I'll take that office over there and I'll just be an advisor to the company. Okay? Yeah, that's fine. And no, I don't want to give up the stock options. No, not doing that. No. So I just didn't realize that it was that much.

It's an awful lot. That's an awful lot. At the same time, we find out that I see, well, the other day we got news that Southwest Airlines plans to cut one-third of its flights to Atlanta because they have to slash costs. because of the stock price. Investors, especially activist investors, who come on the board, buy into the board and kick the CEOs off, which make changes, decided we need to make some more money. You guys are not making enough money.

So they're going to slash costs by cutting flights to Atlanta by one-third. So the Southwest flights will be a little bit fuller. You can count on that. Plus, now they're going to, reserved seating. There's no cattle call seating anymore. And I think you can still fly with your luggage for free. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.

Ah, I kill me. I kill me because you can cut on that going away very soon. Now we find out that CVS is laying off 3,000 workers as it considers a breakup. The healthcare giant is conducting a strategic review as its stock has fallen more than 20% this year. So I guess they're blaming the troubles on higher medical costs for its private Medicare business than anticipated.

So the strategic review could yield no major changes or it might lead to a break of the company, insurance and retail businesses. CVS has promised their investors $2 billion in cuts. So that means employees. employees taking a hike. They could probably save a whole bunch of money by cutting down on the length of their

receipts. That's just me. Thinking out loud. And what's coming next if the ports stay on strike is going to be a lot more than that. So I mean, that's going to be ugly, ugly, ugly if those longshoremen stay on strike much longer.

And it's been two days and people are already starting to freak out. So that needs to get taken care of. And it doesn't seem like the, what is it, the ILA, the International Longshoremen's Association, it doesn't seem like they're in a bargaining mood. Daggart, their head guy, he seems like the guy that you're going to give us everything we're asking for, and then we'll get back to work, or we're not going to go back to work.

He doesn't care about holding the American public you and me hostage. So that should be good. That should be good. Now, you know what? Never mind. Never mind. It'll be fine. You know, I saw a story yesterday, and the headline is, study shows home sellers' profits higher by using real estate agent. And I thought, duh. And also, it should say in there that home sellers' profits are going to be more

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I guess, and I was looking yesterday We talked about the fat bear That shut down Catmine National Park right the bear 469 right yeah bear 469 attacked and killed bear number 402 so they postponed the release of the bracket so I'm not sure if 469

was supposed to be in the bracket or if the bear that died was supposed to be in the bracket but either way they're not in the bracket okay so 469 is the badass bear he killed the other bear and we're not letting them in the bracket That's mean. So you can go to the Fat Bear Week website and you can vote in the bracket for the first round bracket,

909 Jr. up against 519. And a precursor looked was 909. It looks like 909 Jr.'s going to win that bracket. And then you have 903 up against 909. Ooh, that's a tough one. Let's take a look. I mean, 9-0, that's a tough one because 903 looks pretty fat right now, but 909 is hanging in there.

I think 909 will win that. So I'm going to predict the first bracket. We'll find out tomorrow. I'm going to predict 909 Jr. And 909. Oh, my gosh, it's a family affair. It's going to the first round of the bracket in Fat Bear Week. So I'm excited.

I'm excited for Fat Bear Week. Be sure to watch the videos, man, because the killing, the bear fight, was on video. People witnessed it. You can go there and watch them eat all the salmon and everything. It's so much fun. But, you know, sometimes, and this is my problem with it. So what I tell you what I do.

So let's say, let's pick a day, oh, Saturday. And you're watching college football because it's on all day. I do Saturday morning live with Brad. and then game day and then college football and then college football and then college football

and someone says hey do you want to know college football is on and so what I like then you could go to the YouTube page and go to Catmai National Park and bring that up on your phone so that when you're not switching from game to game which I do but if you want to say I'll just leave it here

Let's say it's Saturday night. You're just sticking on one game, which is rare, and you're still going to go to the other games. But you could just have the YouTube page up and the cameras up at Catmine National Park. And then, you know, just kind of keep an eye on what's happening with the Bears at Catmine National Park. You could do that.

One could do that and enjoy it that way, and then you can still, you know, not miss college football. Because I will say college football is awesome. And the NFL has been awesome, too. It really has. It's been a fun year so far. And I can't believe it. We're already, what, five or six games in?

It's just, time. Time is moving fast. Time is just moving too darn fast. That's all. I think this only thing that's keeping me grounded because we've got this stupid election going on, and I have to worry about that. I know.

I try not to bring it to the table here on chewing the fat, but, you know, we've got that going on. That's the only thing that's keeping me grounded is football. Now, of course, there's TV shows and movies to go and see, I know. We talk about that all the time. And there's, I mean, we got the Joker this weekend. We've talked about, you know, the other movies that are out, and we've got, you know, there's plenty of new shows ready to go.

And the fall schedule of the regular network shows are coming out. I watched, I was forced to watch the one. Oh, the stupid doctor. That's kind of the house psych guy. Not the mentalist. Anyway, my wife said, you want to watch it. You know, she had recorded it because of one of the new shows. And I watched it.

Eh. Eh, it's not house. It's definitely not house. And so I'm kind of like, eh, I mean, you know, you can waste the DVR space if you'd like and watch it for yourself. but I have other things to do. And so, you know, there may be, I don't know, college football to watch. But we've got new NCIS stuff coming out soon.

Walking Dead is out. I mean, we can go break down all the TV shows. I'll do that at another time because I can break down some really great shows that are on. And, of course, with the new Daryl Dixon Season 2, the Book of Carol, you get Talking Walking Dead every Monday right here under the chewing the fat lo. logo. So there's that because Jason Butchrell and my son Maximus, you know, host talking Walking Dead. And we, we discuss the ins and outs of Daryl, the book of Carol, and the Walking Dead universe. All right, let's go to the break room. I need something cold to drink

desperately. My wife sends me a picture of the unveiling of the actual league of their own uniform artifact that is being shown at the Heinz History Center. And I thought Heinz History Center. I mean, I know that I'm a Heinz ketchup police officer, well, with my badge, but I didn't know

that we had a Heinz History Center. Well, yes, we do. We, in fact, have a Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum and a Heinz History Center. So I reached out to their director at the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum and chief historian at the Heinz History Center because when my wife sent me the video of the unboxing of the baseball,

the real, you know, the girls' baseball league. And what do I think of as a league of their own, of course? And so I've been singing, were the members of the All-American in my head for two days now. So I reached out to Ann Madras. I said it wrong. It's not Madras, correct?

It's Madras. Yep, that's fine. That's right. No, no, see, now you're mad at me. It's Anne Madras. It's Anne Madras. She's the director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum. Didn't know it existed.

And chief historian at the Heinz History Center. Hello, we're fellow Heinz Brethren. I'm a Heinz-Catchep, police officer. I've deemed that on myself. But how's it going? And the uniform looks awesome. And my gosh, I'm so happy to know that this actually exists in the world. The History Center and the Sports Museum is, you know, open. It's right there in the heart of Pittsburgh. You know, the city, downtown Pittsburgh is beautiful. Thanks for joining me here on Chewing the Fat today. How's it going? It's great. I'm glad to talk to you about this. It's a fantastic story.

So where did this, did someone just find this uniform in a box somewhere and say, you know, we're going to send it over here to the museum? So here's the story. Betsy Yocum, and that was her uniform. She's one of the original 60 players in the All-American Girls Professional League, actually donated her memorabilia, the material that she saved from her time playing, to the Smithsonian. And we are a partner affiliate of the Smithsonian, and so when we were planning this exhibit,

they have two of those uniforms, but Betsy's has by far the better story. We said we've got to have this. It's rare, it's incredible, and it's such a great story of women athletes. We've got to have this for this exhibition. So this exhibition is, what, a woman's place? Is that what it's called?

Right. We've got an exhibit, on women's history here in Pittsburgh and Western Pennsylvania that's open through January 20th, and there's a whole section on sports called More Than Title IX. And this is the perfect story to tell because, of course, this league existed in the 40s. And it's very much a part of what's going on during World War II, where you have women moving into the workforce in large numbers, women as serving with the military in different roles that were unprecedented at the time,

six million women taking part of that. And you also have the formation of this league in 1943 that elevates women to professional athletes for more than a decade. Yeah, it was awesome. That was awesome. And, you know, of course, I mean, everyone's aware of it because of the movie. But, I mean, this is a real life thing. You know, I mean, the movie is based on real life, a real life happening.

Yeah, and that's the incredible thing. I mean, this league pretty much folded in 1954, started in 43, lasted until 54, and then really, you know, Major League Baseball had come back strong after the war. The minor leagues were full again, and television had started to carry Major League baseball games. And that kind of sounded the death knell for this league. But it really was an unusual and important story. Pretty much lost until Penny Marshall. did the movie. Yeah, and then everybody realized, hey, that's actually really special. That's kind of cool. Yeah. Yeah. And it's, for me, the most amazing thing is, you know, you were talking

about your wife seeing that video of us on creating this uniform from the Smithsonian. So that was the first time I actually saw the back of the uniform. And when I saw the back of the uniform, I realized Betsy Jocum played from 43 to 48. She only wore number seven, which is the number on this uniform the very first year. So not only is this incredibly rare, but it's from one of the first 60 women that played in the league. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. That's awesome. Now, I see in the one picture, is that an actual baseball card of her?

They reprinted the National Baseball Hall of Fame when they did the exhibit on this league. They did baseball cards for these women. there are some of the baseball cards that exist. I got it. Because I was going to say they weren't making baseball cards of these women. Were they? I don't remember that. No, not at the time. Yeah, I don't remember. Okay, so this thing you've got going on with the

look at women. It's always about women. Always about women, Anna, figures. Okay, fine. And deservedly so. A woman's place. Yeah, we got it. So what other items are really, really cool in this exhibition? Well, you might not realize Nelly Bly, the same journalist who went around the world and beat Phineas Fogg's fake journey around the world at Jules.

That bastard Finius Fogg. I'll tell you what. That guy. That guy. But she recreated his journey, and she's actually a Pittsburgh or Western Pennsylvania. Oh, nice. So she was working in New York at a time. Well, she went. When she wanted to do that, she went to her publisher, and she said, I want to go around the world. He said, you're not going to be able to do it. You'll have to have some. much luggage. Of course. How will you do it?

Well, she showed up, she said, came back two days later and said, you know what, if you don't want to support me, I'll go across town to your competitor. And boy, before you knew it, she was on the boat. And she carried this small little satchel there, great pictures of her on her journey around the world, like handbag size. That was her piece of luggage for the 72 days she spent on the journey. That's here in the gallery. Well, you don't get those days back anymore.

Women traveling with one just piece of luggage, but that's, you know, I digress. I don't know those. Those baggage fees are making us pack of all. Yes, I know. I understand. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But, you know, to have Nellie Bly's satchel that she carried around the world that she's famously known for, unbelievable. So that's here.

Yeah, no kidding. Mary Cassatt, the great impressionistic painter. She came from the north side of Pittsburgh, and we have a piece of her work in the exhibit. So just really incredible stuff from women that did unbelievable. had unbelievable success here and really changed the world. So the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum, is that all tied in with the Heinz History Center? I mean, is that just kind of one thing?

It is. I don't have to walk to like two or three different buildings, am I? Nope, it's in the same building we call them. It's big enough that we marketed as a museum. Okay. It's a two-floor exhibit that really talks about. the particular place that sports has in the history of Western Pennsylvania. And it's huge.

I mean, so many great stars, athletes have come out of Western Pennsylvania over the years. I mean, it's got to be remarkable. Yeah, I mean, six quarterbacks in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Dan Marito, Johnny Unitis, George Blanda, Jim Kelly, Joe Namath. I mean, people who change the sport of football all in Western Pennsylvania. You know, Steelers Super Bowl, champions.

So now how much they like talking about that in Dallas, a Steelers super. I was raised, listen, I was raised a Pittsburgh Steeler fan. So, you know, I'm well aware of, as Pat McAfee calls the Mienzers, I'm well aware of that. So, you know, that's why I was intrigued that I didn't know this place existed. And I... A great exhibit right now on Franco Harris that we put together for the anniversary of the Unacular reception. You know, everything from his high school jersey to his Super Bowl rings, to his Walter Payton, it was just the Man of the Year award, his rookie of the year award, and then all

his community work that he did after he retired from football. Yeah, because he fell in love with Pittsburgh, man. He fell in love with Pittsburgh and he stayed. A lot of those guys did. Joe Green stayed. Yes, they did. Steve Blass. Rocky Blyer, is there a better story about the military and football and Rocky Blyer's story. I think not. Yeah, so, you know, just great. It's just great stories, great people, and sports you don't expect that we have a connection to.

That's awesome. So is there a website that we can go and kind of peruse the museum other than actually being there? If you go to www. Hineshistorycenter.org, you'll find out all about the museum. And, of course, Heinz spelled like the ketchup, just like you said. Yeah.

So we've got an exhibit on the Heinz Company, which was founded here in 1869, and it's been making ketchup ever since. Oh, yeah, you think I'm joking about me being a Heinz police officer, but I'm holding the badge in my hand as I speak. Badge number 18, I'm a Heinz ketchup police officer. And that's the way this thing works. I mean, I'm not joking around, so I'm with you. I understand.

If you're going to grow up a Steelers fan, you're not putting anything on your Thank you. That's exactly what I'm talking about. So if I get up there in downtown Pittsburgh, which may happen because I've not been there in quite some time, you guys open every day, Monday through Friday, that kind of thing. I mean, the usual museum. Seven days a week, 10 to 5. We're open Saturday, Sunday. So if you come up for a game or you come up to visit the city, we're here.

That's awesome. every day. That's awesome. And thank you very much. I appreciate your time. And I hope everything keeps working great for the museum because I'd love to see some of your stuff. We, in fact, here in Dallas for the Blade Studios, we have Mercury 1 and the American Journey Experience. And we have our own museum here through Mercury 1. And, you know, I wouldn't mind seeing them, you know, maybe. you know what, just ship that uniform down here. I'll put it up here. I'll keep an eye on it for you.

No problem. Don't worry about it. It'll be fine. You clear it with the Smithsonian and we're good. You know what? They just text me saying it was fine. So I'll give you the address and it's fine. Thanks, Ann, I really appreciate it.

Oh, thanks for having me on. Absolutely. Ad Madras, director of the Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum and chief historian at the Heinz History Center. You know, and I joked around with her, but I really am. All day have been singing. We're the members of the All-American. We come from cities.

And here in war, we got Canadians. Irish ones and streets. We're all, we're one, we're one, we're all. We're all Americans. each girl's that you grab my head. Yeah, that's, uh-huh, uh-huh, this is the end of the movie. What's the scene from the end of the movie?

I'm like well up here for a second. Okay, all right, that's good. I mean, I love that stupid movie. I love, love that stupid movie. And now all I can do is sing the stupid song. And I appreciate Anne coming on and talking to us a little bit about the, about the Heinz History Center and the, Western Pennsylvania Sports Museum.

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Well, let's begin with John Amos. John Amos, dead at the age of 84. Very sad. I love this man. I loved his work. I mean, Mr. McDowell from coming to America. He's the guy. And then he was also the dad in good times.

ain't we lucky we got them I may be thin but I mean he had Jimmy what's his face was the son in good times Stick of dynamite J.J. Walker I mean he was the dad in that show

Good Times I mean Come on That's a classic TV show From back in I don't know 100 years ago And uh with JJ Walker I may be thin

But so is a stick of A dynamite Because you are talking to kid A dynamite No? Okay. Anyway, he was Mr. McDowell. We lost both dads from coming to America now. James Earl Drones and John Amos. Very sad. Very sad. So anyway, he has passed away. I did see where they wrote, and I don't know if this is the son or the daughter, Kelly Christopher, Casey Amos. His son, Los Angeles has his son, Kelly Christopher, Casey, I was released to. statement, yes, okay. That it was with heartfelt sadness. I share with you that my father has transitioned.

Okay, so is that some kind of, is that a religion I'm not aware of that doesn't say you didn't die, you just transitioned? Gotta be, right? He's got to be, it's got to be some kind of, you can email me chewing the fat at the blaze.com and let me know what that means. other than, I mean, I get it.

He transitioned. I got it. I got it. But nobody says that. You know, the majority of people, we lost our father. He passed away. We loved him. You know, John was, he was a great man.

You know, we are without words. They did say that. But, you know, it's heartbreaking. But they don't say that someone has transitioned. Because in today's world, if John transitioned, I mean, does that mean that he actually, he didn't die? He just became a woman? Is that what that means?

I... Okay. I'm not judging. I'm not judging. I'm just saying, okay. No, I'm pretty sure he's dead. Anyway, John Amos, dead at the age of 84. Very sad.

I mean, I loved his work. I mean, the guy was in so many things, and he was so talented. I just hate to see someone like that go. Then we have... My man, Frank Fritz. Frank Fritz from American Pickers. Now, who hadn't been forced to watch American Pickers in their life?

And he was at 58 years old, he died. Now, he suffered a stroke a couple years ago. And so I guess he's been struggling with that. It doesn't say what caused him to have the stroke. And I don't know if he was, you know, that. They don't say that. They didn't say that. So I'm sure if they, if they would have said, you know, if it was that,

they would have said something. But, I mean, it was in 300 episodes of the show. What a, I mean, that was just a fun show, American Pickers. And, you know, a lot of times they were, you felt like they were too nice. You know, no, no, you don't need to pay that much for that. You don't need to be that nice. And you feel like, okay, that's TV money. It's not their money, but they'll say it's their money.

Okay, but it's just. And once her face was in the show too. Yeah, Danielle Colby, the tattoo chick. She was awesome. She was awesome. Anyway, very sad. Frank Fritz dead at the age of 58. Well, then we have Gavin Creel.

Gavin Creel. Who died today? Gavin Creel. He's a Tony Grammy and Oliver winning stage actor. Dead at the age of 48. He had cancer. I believe he had, I believe it was actual brain cancer. I don't think, okay, so I apologize.

It may not have been brain cancer, but they say here that it was a metatastic, melanonic, peripheral nerve sheathed saracoma, which is rare and aggressive. I don't wish that on anyone. But he was diagnosed when, wow, just not very long ago. so did it have anything to do with that

nah they had something to do with that they would have said something right of course he was working on you know in Hollywood and on Broadway and making music so you know he would have had to have gotten that so

now it's not that rest of peace Gavin Creel dead at the age of 48 and we did find out we did find out what caused Pete Rose's death. Now, they didn't release it earlier,

but apparently the Clark County Coroner's Office, Rose died of hypertensive and atheroscleric cardiovascular disease, arthoscleric, right? Arso, you know, it was heart disease. And he also had a significant condition of diabetes. So kind of sad. That's how Pete died, 83. He was already in who died.

died today. So, you know, I'm not going to tell you that he died today because he did because he was in who died today yesterday. But we know now what killed him. And how are the people holding up in Atlanta? You know, we're talking about the storm. The storm is, you know, the recovery from Helene, especially in the Carolinas, has been, you know, in Georgia and Florida, it's going to take.

And the ones up in Northern North Carolina are going to be years recovery. I mean, whole towns are gone, just gone. Roads are gone. And it's going to take years to come back. If you'd like to help, Mercury 1 is on the ground, and they are doing, like they always do, helping. They will be there until the end. And they go to Mercury 1.org and donate 100% of your money

goes to helping the people of the disaster from Helene. I will say what I was talking about in Atlanta, though, was they still had that big chlorine plant fire this weekend and they evacuated people and they told some people to shelter in place. It was 25 miles southeast of downtown Atlanta. As far as I know, the shelter in place law is still in. Now, they're still locking people down. So don't breathe.

Don't breathe. If you're in Atlanta, Georgia, don't breathe. You know what, don't even open your eyes. Don't do that either. Don't even go out. Tape off the AC duck vents. Tape them off. Don't do anything.

Don't do anything because you don't know what's in the air. It's not even funny. I mean, we need to put a hazmat suit on just to go out. And then take it off and hose down. You're going to have to have the, like, the nuke power plant spray downs when you walk into hose off. and that's not funny and I don't even know why I'm joking around about it

so if you're in you're in shelter-in-place lockdown outside of Atlanta I mean my heart's with you because I wouldn't want to do that but if you dare go out don't breathe don't open your eyes don't look

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cameo app. And then you can email the show anytime chewing the fat at the blaze.com. Chewing the Fat at the Blaze.com. They just found the ghost ship of the Pacific. You may call it the USS Stewart, D.D. 224, off the California coast, ending an 82-year mystery. The 314-foot-long vessel was found in nearly 3,500 feet beneath the ocean surface. The Clemson-class destroyer was the only U.S. Navy destroyer captured by Japanese, forces during World War II. After the U.S. scuttled and abandoned it near Java Indonesia, which is beautiful this time of

year, by the way. In 1942, Japanese forces salvaged it and used it to escort naval convoys. After the war, the U.S. Navy recommissioned the ship and ultimately sank it during target practice in 1946. So the wreck is sitting upright and intact. It was located using advanced robotic sonar technology and underwater drones. So these underwater drones are torpedo-shaped drones. And now, I guess using this, they're able to survey 50 square miles of ocean floor in a day.

50 square miles of ocean floor in a day. Only about 26% of the ocean floor has been mapped. So I mean, yeah, okay, that's great. They found the ship and everything, but I'm really stuck on the... So they get 50 square miles a day with these drones. They have... They claim that they have 26% of the ocean floor has been mapped. So there's quite a ways to go.

Now, they claim... And let me rephrase that, too. I want to be sure I have this right. They claim that 26% of the ocean floor has been mapped in high definition. with goals to map the entire ocean floor by 2030. I don't think you're going to make it. I don't think you're going to make it. It's reported, what, 140 million square miles,

something like that, 135, between 135 and 140 million square miles, give or take climate change. So I don't think they're going to make it. I don't think we're going to map 100% of the ocean floor with these robotic sonar technology underwater drones doing 50 square miles a day. Probably not going to happen. Because, you know, when they do, they're mapping, and then they come along and they find something, then they stop.

And if you're going, if you're going to map, you've got to keep going. Just take notes. We've got to come back and look at that later, and they won't. They won't. They'll stop. So good luck, though. If you could make it, you can make it. No problem.

Good luck. Now, something is happening in. in the Arizona mountains that I don't know that I knew about. It's really cool. So it reappears this week. So around the third week of March and September, as the setting sun cast a shadow on the mountains, it resembles a crouching cougar in the mountains,

on the western face of the mountains. this crouching cougar. No, I'm not talking about the neighbor next door. Okay. Talking about the cougar, the animal. Okay. So, and it shows up for about 20 or 30 minutes. So at some point, at some point,

somebody was like, hey, I'm pretty sure last week I saw a cougar on that mountain. And they were like, no, dude, you don't know what you're talking about. I did, I did, let's go back. And so they sat a whole year, and twice of that year, March and September. I told you, I told you it looks like a cougar on the side of that mountain.

Now, for me, I know my wife, you know, as a photographer, would go sit out there and wait for that god-awful shadow to get to the perfect point and take the picture. It would just be, you know, it's great, and you see the time lapse and all of it. For me, I just have a lot of it. For me, I just have an Instagram picture in front of me here.

And I'm like, yeah, there it is. Looks just like a cougar, not the neighbor. All right, let's get out here. I'll leave you, this is kind of a joke of the day. I don't know if it should be more under joke of the day, real or not real. So I had this sent to me, which makes me think that, I don't know, it's not real. But I like it. I like it.

So it's from the city of Kenosia. And I love the city of Kenosha, man. You can't drag me away from Kenosha. So according to this, this was posted on their social media site, which leads me to believe that it's not real. Do you have a hole that needs to be filled? The city of Kenosha takes public safety very seriously, which is why we're excited to launch our new hashtag, show us your whole public safety initiative.

To participate, simply send us a picture of your hole, along with its location and the tagline, Come fill my hole. And we will dispatch our crews to service your hole in a prompt to professional manner. Your satisfaction is our priority. You can take that any way you want. I'm just saying it's good that the city of Kenosha is taking care of their citizens this way. because nobody likes holes in the streets

and the rockways. Nobody likes that. So make sure you hashtag show us your hole. And the city of Kenosha is going to dispatch crews to service your hole in a prompt and professional manner. So good for them.

Good for them. Again. Real or not real? I mean, you decide. Stream and subscribe to more Blaze Media content at theblaze.com slash podcasts.